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I agree with everything you say BUT when first starting out I see no harm in starting with lower prices. You need to build up confidence in yourself and your product at the very beginning.

Then, after you're all tested and things are working well, then raise prices (maybe after 2-4 weeks in).

Does it really matter about having high prices for those first few customers? No, they get a reward for taking a risk on you!

I know because I did exactly what you said, and I can tell you your point #2 "It's easy to lower prices" is not quite right.

It really sucks to lower prices. Here's what that looks like:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/nugget.one/academy/nugget-down.png

Conversely, it's easy to raise prices and grandfather the first few customers that took a risk on you.
Yeah I always laugh when people talk about "the West". Globalization is far, so far away. Truth be told there was more unity in the world when dynastic royal families ruled the world- not democratic nation states.
If you never run JavaScript, don't use an IP traceable to you, then you're probably safe from tracking. But GDPR applies offline too, so your insurance company can't increase your bill because you drink too much coffee and have a loyalty card, without you being able to trace that link.
Please, nobody who isn't a cryptographer (to be clear: I'm not one either) should be arbitrarily inventing schemes of combining cryptographic primitives and hoping they're secure in production use cases.

We'd often be wrong in such hopes, regardless of how good the underlying primitives are.

We should listen to the experts in that regard, and preferably use higher-level libraries written by the experts when performing common crypto operations. This stuff is easy to get wrong.
Is a Laptop or Desktop Better for Programming?
wait, they can't search through forks or collate identical results and they are going into natural language processing?
What I've learned about writing viral blog posts for the tech community
It's even worse. Copyright Directive is technically bound by copyrighted content, which can grow indefinitely even without the company doing anything!

E.g. imagine a company like Snap, say that they have a constant number of users and users post a constant number of snaps per day.

Therefore the amount of content posted/stored on the site doesn't grow, but you still need to be able to keep scaling the system, as the amount of copyrighted content that you should be able to potentially recognize continues growing!
For years people busted me to get my driver's license. I finally gave up and did it. I went from eww to meh to cool to meh again. It's really not in my blood, I feel bad every time I use it without having cargo in the trunk. Even some groceries .. I'd better have a backpack.
I'm not aware of a widespread belief that school shootings are more common now than they were in the 90s. That said, just because the rate isn't increasing, is that a compelling argument for not addressing school shootings? If your house burned down once this year, but it burned down 3 times in 1998, I think you're still having too many house fires. How is that an argument that there's no need to buy a smoke alarm, and maybe re-examine your lifestyle to understand why you're experiencing such an unusually high number of fires?
Even with DST at about 60° North latitude we wake up in darkness during winter. But having sunsets after 10PM in summer is really nice.
Also take a refugee and a homeless person from third world who starves regularly to balance things out. Would they, as they look out of the window, find their struggles irrelevant after looking at the beauty of the bright blue blob as it rotates gracefully about itself while also majestically traversing around the source of life as if paying obeisance to it, as seen against a stark black background filled with infinite bright dots that don't twinkle anymore, or would they be heartbroken that rich people around the world are splurging on such self congratulatory endeavors while millions of people like them could have had a sliver of dignity added to their existence had these patrons of futuristic science and tech expanded their horizons by getting real and looked inwards instead and brought some twinkle in their eyes, or would they feel something else completely unexpected? Lets find out. No really, lets find out that as well.
I'll preface this with saying that I own two cars and in general like cars. However, I think personal motorized transportation along with industrialized animal farming are for me among the two biggest evils that arose in the last century. Cities in North America are entirely architected for the presence and convenience of cars. The mortality arising from pollution and accidents is staggering. The alienation and isolation of people as well. The cities and suburbs stretch so far out that you rarely get to see your friends unless you specifically organize something well ahead of time. Pedestrian zones with small shops are replaced with massive shopping malls.

I've always imagined a modern city with no cars, but I never knew that anyone actually had the balls to make this a reality. Kudos to this Spanish city! You can try to argue that the specifics of this city make it more amenable to being car-free, but I think that if there was enough desire, it would work anywhere. Just think if everyone paid their monthly car loan/lease into the public transportation system how incredibly functional it could be.
Right. I'm not asking about changing rules. I'm asking about the burden of keeping the current daylight savings rules. The person I was responding to said "not having to change clocks is nice". I live in a daylight savings region and I already don't change any clocks.
Human dignity is an ideal with remarkably shallow roots
Love it, this is the kind of GUI tooling that we need for Web development.
Being able to drive places feels much more like freedom to me than having to walk everywhere. As a kid I literally never walked into the road because I knew it was dangerous, so maybe that's just a problem of communicating the risk properly.
A strict subset of HTML+CSS doesn't give 100% of the benefits of AMP and apparently at Google the perfect is the enemy of the good so they're going all or nothing on performance. Standardization of AMP is underway in the form of Feature Policy, Web Packaging, iframe promotion, Performance Timeline, and Paint Timing but it's going to take years. https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/standardizing-lesso...
iTunes had one-click to buy IIRC. Making that process as smooth as it was on Napster was a stepping stone for Apple to dominate media before they were able to launch iPhone.
> a negative light on ordnance being voluntarily removed from waterways?

Voluntarily being removed by amateurs without safety equipment.

And in deep enough water, an explosive is effectively neutralized anyway.
> a long list of opinions of the importance of credentials

Those haven't been addressed. I think calling them "opinions" is a big stretch; it's a reliable statement of fact that humanity very often relies on the credentials of the speaker, including their training and experience, for evaluating information they communicate.

> What I don't see is any opinion on why the particular arguments are not enough.

It's up to the person making the claims to establish them. We can't spend our time refuting everything anyone says. In fact, making claims in order to force others to refute them is a well-known propaganda technique for creating dysfunction, in part because refuting takes far more time than just making claims. (This article is not propaganda, in case anyone thinks I'm implying that.)

The arguments made by the author are expert judgments; there's little to address by other means.

> it seems that you suggest that we should only discuss articles written by people with credentials on a topic

Personally, I want to spend my time on the best knowledge I can find. Life is short. Identifying quality information depends frequently on credentials; I think that's uncontroversial.

You keep taking things to an extreme - "only" - and to be clear, those are your words and not mine. Somewhere else I also made that explicit. EDIT: Here it is, copied from another subthread to keep everything in one place:

Of course, let's not make this binary, one or the other [merits or credentials]. Everyone uses both to varying degrees, and other signals too (if the post used bad English, for example, many would doubt the author's credibility).

In this case, I lean more heavily on expertise because the content is a product of expertise - rules of thumb. If they wrote 'I can create cold fusion in a teacup', I'd lean heavily on the merits - can they do it or not?
The US manipulates the currency market in other, more powerful and more fundamental ways, by controlling the global currency.

You do not need to hold foreign reserves, you do not need to pay exchange commissions, you are not blocked to do business with third parties by having capital flows stopped ...
>We drew a circle on the map showing the longest distance I was willing to commute (on a bike), and bought on the circle.

Walkscore makes it easy to figure this out but I don't know if Redfin or Zillow have this too

https://walk.sc/2xuy0vk
Meanwhile human-driven cars have driven billions. The only question is can we make them (humans) work in situations that are hard?

In other words, "it works until it doesn't" is tautologically true, but useless precisely for that reason.
I agree, but "winter tires" are quite different from "snow tires".

Moreover, I was implicitly assuming that the stopping would be on snow, and not packed snow but, say, just snow as it fell although maybe a minute ago to several days ago.

For stopping on wet or slushy streets or just, say, 1-2 inches of snow, then, sure, "winter tires" not only help stopping but likely are better than snow tires.

But when my driveway has 8" of fresh snow, to get out I need snow tires, tire chains, or a tractor to pull me out. Then in stopping, say, from 30 MPH in such snow, nothing helps much except tire chains and there are questions about those.

Again, what is good about snow tires is that the big bumps on the tread let the tire, when it is spinning trying to drive the car, dig into the snow, kick it backwards out of the way, and let the rubber meet the road. For that, the aggressive tread, with the bumps, is essential. But the bumps work because the tire is spinning and digging, and that action won't work for stopping unless, say, going forward with, somehow, the drive wheels spinning in reverse.

The advantages of "winter tires" are how the tread cuts through water and thin layers of snow and has softer rubber with a better coefficient of friction when the rubber does meet the road.
Awesome, I'll check them out.
Basically whenever you are using a sword that isn't some ritualized combat.

If you are using it in a battle and your sword breaks after the first exchange, what then?

Here is an hour long documentary answering your question: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-secrets-viking-sword/
The author's strange interpretation of the motivations behind the GDPR makes me ask if he never spend any thought on the preceding data privacy directives and national privacy laws of EU members. It's a rather small update, not big paradigm change and the GDPR is rather in the same spirit like the privacy laws of the 90s and 80s.
One of the techniques used to develop skill at meditation is to bring perception of your breathing to your conscious mind. So early on when learning to meditate you might be asked to focus on and "note" each breath as something that is happening in your body. It's a way to practice paying attention to the unconscious processes of your body and eventually your mind.

I can see how something like this might be an aid to learning how to do that. For what it's worth, you can actually hear yourself breathe in a quiet enough room, and you can certainly sense your own breathing as a "drawing in" even if you can't hear it.

I think meditation is a useful tool for slowing down your thinking and reducing the influence of your irrational self on your rational self when you're trying to think about situations which make you anxious.
They're just complaining because it's EU and not US. American DMCA law is much worse than GDPR, predates it by like 2 decades, and basically the whole world is subjected to some of it (because US companies are global monopolies).
The underlying crypto is not really "fine". For instance, compare the PGP MDC construction to a modern authenticated cryptosystem.
As a general principle I agree though I would go a step further and encourage more humility when a particular concept evokes a visceral emotional response. That could be a sign that it the product of the times you yourself are living in.

I take issue with Nietzsche's skepticism and derision of democracy but I'm willing to entertain his arguments and perspective. Carl Jung put forth a theory in his Psychological Types that Nietzsche's particular views on democracy were a reaction to his particular historical circumstances which makes sense to me.
I would really like to see legal places where people could seek this treatment. With suicide rates going up, it seems like clearly the compassionate thing to do.

But that said, I don't understand the desire for others to control what people put into their own bodies in the first place.
Is music composition difficult? Are most five-year-olds asked or encouraged to write music? Is this something that most adults have attempted and failed to do? Do you think that you could write a piece of music if you had time and inclination?

I'm asking honestly, because I'm pretty sure that I'm not having a typical life experience. Personally, I don't really bother to listen to music, because music is never further away than wanting to hear a melody. It's something to do on the bus, or when my mind is otherwise unoccupied. One starts with a note or a scale, finds a 'lick' in it, develops it into a theme or refrain, introduces a counterpoint or noodles around through the keys a bit, and eventually we work around to a restatement or finale (or get bored or forgetful in the middle). I suspect that this is easier for me than others, but I don't think that I'm any kind of musical genius. I'm at least hoping that creating music is more of a normal part of the human condition than not, at any rate.
This might just be me, but does anyone else feel that GitHub's code search has other points that could be improved first?

My biggest gripe is that the other results show in seems to be totally random. For example, if I have a Java class called A and I search "class A" in code search, the actual A.java doesn't tend to show up anywhere near the front. I just tried this in a repo and the actual A.java file was on the last page of results when I searched "class A". The vast majority of the results before it didn't even have the words "class" and "A" next to each other, which A.java does...

Maybe I'm doing something wrong (I'd welcome any input on how to use code search correctly!), but it just feels like they're jumping the gun on trying to make their code search more advanced when the basic functionality doesn't work that well.
How about the Second Amendment ;)
Yeah I feel like this is more "sticking it to the average person who could never afford this" than "the man"

Steve Jobs' personality had a large role in pushing his success, but it's also the type of personality of someone who just wants to be different because they think being different is superior (and yes: sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't). If he were a kid in the 90s he'd be ~~ tYpInG aLl hIs ImS lIkE tHiS ~~
IMO Google's previous moves to derank search results of pages with poor load times is a reasonable way to do it. Social sites could apply similar leverage, not promoting content as much if they know it loads slowly.

Beyond that, I wonder if in browser "This page is loading slowly" wall of shame messages could work, styled similarly to the "This page tried to open four popup windows" alerts.

Users don't have any visibility into page size or javascript load beyond how sluggish it feels, but both of these impact your user experience and battery life, so I'd love to see browsers do more to expose poorly performing sites. Browsers setting a benchmark for "This is unacceptably crappy" would let users know they should expect better.

The hard part of that would be differentiating sites that use tons of resources for bullshit reasons from sites that are actually doing something.
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I don't know for sure, but I think a lot of people who work professionally on messaging security would argue that NSA very much wants you to use PGP rather than a modern messaging cryptosystem.
It's a horrible band-aid that hurts the functionality and reputation of RSS and shouldn't be encouraged by supporting the site setting a bad example. If they want to play the pointless cat-and-mouse game with the "thieves", fine, but crippling RSS in the process is not cool. They will just scrape the site instead and the RSS feed will be worse off for no gain.
>> The aspect I would have called out is the fact that they're citing a trend inversion with less than a year's of data. this could be a season effect, natural volatility, any number of other things, and this single trendline is not a hugely confidence-building piece of evidence on its own.

I must be lost, what trend inversion are they citing with less than a years data?
hahahah thanks for the laugh
The most successful companies are those with a minority of power users who evangelize them at every turn. Apple only became the behemoth it its because of the steadfast dedication of its most loyal customers.
AFAIK, Bing runs an AMP cache as well.

There's no such thing as a "personal AMP cache provider", as the AMP cache used is mostly tied to "where you came from". Google Search will always use Google's AMP cache, which is why the "you could always run your own AMP cache" concept is silly.

The goal of AMP is functionally to allow your search engine to preload the content from search results, at it's own origin. So any AMP-enabled search engine would need to run it's own AMP cache and serve the site out of their AMP cache. AMP doesn't realistically speed up web browsing in any other context (it adds plenty of it's own JavaScript).
The automatic bundling in Inbox - trips, purchases, finance, etc - is a killer feature for me. I tried going back to gmail and immediately missed it. I'll keep using Inbox until they take it out back, just like Reader.
55555 is already a palindrome, try something else
SV tech company which has pretty great work life balance but flatlined stock. PM me if you want more details.
Dijkstra is right and so were you once.

0 or 1 based arrays is not a fundamental issue. It's more like little endian vs little endian. It's marginally better if everyone settles for one indexing.

In a good high level language and programming style you rarely need to think in indexes. In a low level language 0-indexing is better.
Before they completely ruined the UI, it used to be possible to compare languages on Debian's language benchmark shootout page. But now I can only find Lua, and can't even compare it to Lisp.
Malicious startup idea: a company whose business model is driving rent-seeking real estate speculators into financial ruin. The company would buy residential real estate in a low cost of living area, followed by setting up offices there and paying its employees a high salary to do absolutely nothing. When rent-seekers inevitably drive up housing prices to as high as wages will tolerate, the company sells its real estate holdings in that location and moves somewhere else.
This is fantastic, I’m going to choose something that would make a nice large print to frame for a wall in my house.

A trend on home improvement shows is to print out old patent drawings and hang them as decoration. It always seemed so off putting necause most people never bothered to choose based on work that was intesterimg or meaningful to them, or even know what the patent was about.

For me this feels the opposite, so many personal connections...The subject matter, respect for his talent and contributions, the person, and in huge part the inspiration of being to achieve in the face of long odds and adversity.
"Internet tech giants including Google and Facebook could be made to monitor, filter and block internet uploads under amendments..."

Should read.

"Countless companies that do not have the resources of Google and Facebook could be made to monitor..."
This Toronto Tech Startup just changed the way you handle money
Assertions, pre and post conditions,invariants, strong typing, lots of self checking features, design by contract.
Features to make it easier to write correct programs.
I hope he does this not because he’s a good person but just because I want Tesla to succeed and I don’t want his stupidity to ruin its chances.
Using deep learning to count the line at Shake Shack
Hi, camera designer here. There are few issues in this article.

"The other explanation I can think of is that this almost certainly isn’t Apple’s own sensor." - Correct, it's a Sony sensor. Apple has been using Sony sensors since they dumped Omnivision back in the iPhone 4 days.

"Why isn’t Apple touting this larger sensor?" Maybe because the sensor got smaller in the previous iphones (1/2.5") compared to the iPhones before that (1/2.3"). I guess they've gone back to 1/2.3" now?

" Android handset makers can’t just buy a “neural engine” chip and stick it in a phone. "
Yes, you absolutely can. [1] This chip is in all the DJI drones, also in the "google clips" camera. OK, it's not an A12, but it is exactly the kind of thing that Gruber is describing - it's a neural image processing chip.

[1] https://www.movidius.com/myriad2
>So tired of smug upstarts like you.

Yes, no one likes smugness... I'm not the GP if you hadn't noticed, but honestly; don't be that guy.
I would suggest making this an additional permission you ask for when the user has actually seen the product and wants to use this feature.
Fines should follow the money if they can't resolve on the party directly responsible. Advertisers can buy insurance and insurance companies can vet domains.
I agree and disagree. I agree that there's not necessarily a harm to having "beta pricing" or waiting to work out your price structure until you've found some product/market fit. But I was largely responding to the "Coming soon -- business $34.90/mo" plan -- I think by the time they're ready for a business plan, they're ready to start charging "real" prices. I also think you have to be cautious with "beta pricing" because it can distort your view of the market -- the cohort who will pay $10/mo is usually drastically different than the cohort who will pay $100/mo, and it's easy to mistake the former for an indication that you've got a market fit, when you might find that the market is much different when you're charging what you actually need to grow and turn a profit.
This might also be useful knowledge to the currently non-voting renters who one day hope to enter the market. It's about half-and-half own vs rent for the Bay Area as a whole, but SF and Oakland are majority renter. Vote now to increase housing stock, and you might soon be able to buy in at a reasonable price!
I don't really like driving and I actually do less of the drive for an hour at the end of the day for some evening activity than I used to.

But I do like being able to get away for weekends, go to national parks and wilderness areas on vacation, etc. (And I like living in at least the semi-country which wouldn't be possible without a car.)