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> EDIT: The funny thing is that I predict that this HN thread will lead hundreds of folks to tell stories of confirmation bias.

Good reply, but why rush to label potential replies as confirmation bias? That simply makes your reply more subjectively problematic. For all we know, the causation is really there. We just have no idea, for the exact reasons you've posted. It's ok to throw potential causes around.

The leverage point in a reply like yours is in getting people to interpret those replies with more clarity, which should not be confused with getting people to label a bunch of personal anecdotes as confirmation bias.
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At the beginning, a huge part of leads came to us through the partner websites (tools we integrate with). Now there is more organic traffic. Someone mentioned us somewhere, referred to a friend.

The most important thing is to achieve the Aha! moment as quickly as possible. When you client realize the profit from using your tool. Integrations in our case. New lead register an account in Everhour, finishes quick onboarding wizard and can immediately see the timer button and other controls in his/her Asana, Trello, Basecamp or GitHub interface. It takes maximum 5 minutes.

Cold emails doesn't work well for us. Or maybe we aren't doing it well. Anyways, we try not to bomb our clients with tons of emails. Today it's annoying. If you need a hand, we have a chat window or we offer a free one-on-one demo.
How come in 2018 we can't get a reliable CallerID. Surely this is something that could be simply regulated.

Perhaps there should be a few types of CallerID - verified, physical and nominated. Eg a company calls you with a verified ID (like TLS), a local number from a single line is physically authenticated and anything else is just a best guess. That way we can filter more reliably.
I've known about hyperfiddle for a while, but I never really "got" it. I finally get it, this is https://glitch.com but with a hosted database and can be used for real web apps in production, thanks to datomic's use of data for schema migrations instead of imperative sql style migrations and datomic's support for "time travel".

It's definitely a huge leap forward for productivity, seeing as you can throw away git, your text editor, bash/ansible/puppet/docker/k8s for deploys since you're editing things live on datomic cloud, but it's a hard sell, even to a huge clojure fan like me, I'm just so used to the status quo.
the R A Montgomery books were good, I particularly liked the Trio series, about a fractured America during a future civil war.
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It could be cortisol. I've been researching the effects of this hormone and it's kind of crazy. It's the hormone that regulates stress, fat deposits, memory and a lot of other things.
Despite programming for many years and using VS Code for about 6 months, I've still never used snippets even once. I should give them a shot.
I don't see any link to apply for your Winter/Spring/Summer Internship positions.
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I remember when people were laughed at thought of as cooks and quacks if they claimed voting machines were easily hack-able.
That's fine if you have the time and inclination and you need very specific features that existing game engines wouldn't have, but at some level it can just be technological masturbation. For the most part, you're just going to be re-implementing things that already exist in much more robust forms in the major engines that have had the benefit of dedicated teams and a solid user base sussing out the edge cases (like render pipelines with shader support, physics engines, collision detection, etc. ). Chances are, to build a game engine, you're going to have to research the features and architecture of an existing one anyway to know what you even need to make. Building a game engine and building a game have very little to do with each other, and having skill in one does not necessarily imply skill in the other. If you're an indie dev in a small team (or a team of one) your first priority should be validating your game mechanics. Gameplay is where you have the most chance of innovating; you're only limited by your creativity.
Why not apply that logic to digital devices?

They did, at least according to the article. But it's a low hurdle, and cops quickly figure out the script to bypass restrictions like that.

It's no different than the mishandling of trained drug sniffing dogs so that they alert at the handler's command, rather than at drugs/bombs/money/whatever. Countless cars are stripped at border crossing and the side of the road because a cop didn't like someone's attitude.
In this context, you are correct.

There are contexts where checklists are used where the workers are low-skilled and lack autonomy (e.g. low-level customer support roles).

I think many people rankle at the idea of their job consisting entirely of checking off items in a list (other people seem to be fine with it).
What do I have to do to get my iPhone to only allow calls from my contact list, without using DND 24x7. Something has to happen for this setting to come out. Will it take enough spam calls to a CEO of a major company to come out with it?
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"when you have dinner with the Knuths you talk more about quilting and printing Lutheran bibles than programming"

This made me laugh for some reason. I guess everyone needs their hobbies.
Depends on the school. If it is a nationally ranked school then it is very likely that on-premise and online versions are the same. You would have to research this for each school.
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>I just wish they would make that kind of setup (macOS VMs on non-Apple hardware) legal for other developers.

Seriously....would love to be able to install MacOS as a VM on ESXi on a Dell Power Edge, or HP Proliant.
Coming from ex-Yugoslavia - it was not forbidden to OWN a computer - no one cared about it, it was forbidden to import computer costing more than some arbitrary sum, in order to protect domestic 'industry'. In Yugoslavia that amount was LOWER than price of ZX Spectrum, hence need for people to smuggle computers.
Many people go to law school for reasons other than working in BigLaw wasting their lives away in an office. For example, a great number of lawyers (and budding law school students) work for (or want to work for) for smaller firms, or in-house at companies, or at non-profits, and go home in the evenings to their friends and families.

But yes, if you plan to go to law school solely because you want to make money, it's not worth it unless you go to a top school or graduate at the literal top of your class.
Not sure where "here" is, but everybody working the polls in California is paid, and there are a lot of us, so it isn't "cheaper" because of that. See my comment below.
> He can afford the fines and does not care.

Perhaps that's not a problem per se. If the fines are equal to or greater than the Pigouvian tax you would put on this naughty behavior, then moving from a fine to a hard ban (however that is done) is a net negative move.

The real problem here is extreme inequality.
All of the meltdown/spectre mitigations will be added by un up to date kernel even without the BIOS doing it, during the normal boot up process.

If untrusted code can patch the kernel after that, then it's already ten kinds of game over. Also, if this attacker can patch the kernel, then it can patch firmware, as they run at the same security context.
Thank you for that link. Very insightful! I want to continue to grow my business, but I like the low-touch aspect of my business as it currently is. I don't really want that to change but I also don't want to hinder possible growth channels. I'd also prefer not to hire (I like being solo) and at most, I would bring on a sales consultant.

I guess I'm more looking for a way to communicate the fact that we don't do sales, but still continue discussions with those larger clients over email or live chat.

But I'm stumped on the necessary messaging to accomplish that.
In my opinion, this law enforces sexism and encourages adding token board members. I am not a lawyer, but I believe it would be trivial to game this system.
I wonder sometimes if policies like these are monumental cases of the XY Problem in action.

For example, the government/border agency decides that travellers must give up their phones and account passwords. In fact, other governments/agencies see this as leading by example and tag along for the ride.

The justification we hear is 'national security' and, since the first thing we were aware of was the solution itself, we treat it as viable without much scrutiny and proceed to fill in the blanks about what 'national security' means to us: is it terrorism? drug trafficking? illegal immigration? some other hot button topic?

It begs the question and the frustrating thing is; we know the real answer: governments just love authority and surveillance. Yet still, how about some other questions...

What is a better solution to preventing terrorists from hijacking your plane? It would make sense to address the circumstances that actively encourage terrorism, no? That's foreign policy.

Drugs crossing the border? How about checking for the physical presence of them as opposed to forcing people to incriminate themselves for recreational drug usage?

Illegal immigration? That means a lot of things to a lot of people and, if my experience in Canada is anywhere near representative, it might actually be more successful if it wasn't so strict.

In no case does getting unrestricted access to your social media accounts, your collection of nude selfies, entire history of messages going back years, etc. actually aim to tackle the real problems. All the reasoning does is save the government the job of justifying its pathological obsession with your private life.
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I wouldn't even use it for Open Directory anymore. At this point I would just migrate the accounts to Jumpcloud and ditch the server entirely.
I think you're overestimating the complexity of your average medical problem :). Medical situations that require Dr. House are the exception, not the rule.
I don't really understand how you can measure popularity without doing a census-like survey, reaching out to every developer possible in a coordinated effort.

Awhile back, I took a statistics class that explained how polling everyone by calling everyone with a phone landline resulted in a misrepresented sample.

The reason: not everyone has a phone landline. And those with phone landlines had a tendency to belong to specific demographics.

So...if you survey everyone using Github, and not every developer uses Github, are you not prone to the same fallacy?
Likely with most organizations built around donating funds to pre-existing efforts, the lack of accountability would come from the NGO/Government Organization itself, who (for better or worse in terms of enforcement) often have regulations in regards of spending donated funds in terms of documentation and accounting.
Rule of law.
I think the principle that he is looking at is like this, someone please correct me if something is factually incorrect:

He didn't buy the beach, you can't own beach in CA afterall, but the beach truly is inaccessible by any means other than through the private property which he does own. The previous owners of the property allowed people to enter the private property on their way to the public property, and had done so for so long that people have never had to think about it, but the new owner doesn't feel he is obligated to do that, so the loss shocked a lot of people who have been using the private access road. Their supporters feel that because the previous owners allowed it, that the future owner should be obligated in some way to allow it as well. Khosla disagrees.
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I hate questions like this, so will self flagellate, but am baffled by a response from Twitter support.

I was given two 'options' and requested on that would have seen a username changed - however I am now in an endless loop of support replies that are not reading what is being said.

The question is are there any humans there, and if so, is there a better route available that anyone knows?

Thanks!

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>>You have to very careful getting an MBA outside of finance or consulting.

I would add here that if you intend to break into or continue on in the consumer packaged goods field (e.g. traditional brand manager career trajectory at P&G, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Colgate, Pepsi/Coke, L'Oréal, Nestlé, etc.[1]) then an MBA is still basically mandatory for career growth.

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Yes, it's the programmer's salary here. Of course this is not the starting point, it's a senior level salary, but this is not the upper limit.
I remember reading a while ago that every $1 that goes into IRS to fund tax fraud cases yielded $1.2 in return. When that's the case, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be well-funded.
I've heard for major things like the OS, they have standard server racks that I'm guessing have an equivalent of hackintosh to enable building macos / ios with it.

Departments themselves use adhoc apple hardware.
This is great. Extensions have long been a weak point in the web security model, since many extensions currently require what is essentially the web equivalent of root privileges (UXSS) in order to function. It's good to see Google finally doing something to try to remedy this.
Nothing beats a good plot twist. ;-) But if I can vote for it, it's not much of a surprise, isn't it?
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Then I think it has nothing to do with being “Smart”.

I could say the same thing about business people - they have no idea how to write a compiler.

I’m simply alluding to your statement that refers to “smart people” and their lack of business knowledge.
Why not link to the book Virolution?

Why keep spamming nytimes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15416932
Good point but obviously the technology would still be a problem earlier in the process, and it would still be an equally bad analogy at that stage.
This is why I don't answer the phone unless it's a contact. Everyone else can leave a message.
> More information available also mean law enforcement can be more effective.

Whether that's a good thing depends on which laws are being enforced. Better hope what you're doing now isn't made retroactively illegal, especially if it's now publicly documented forever.
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> Thus, if you ever say, "I don't think anyone ..." it will be understood by a large segment of the viewership here to mean, "I don't think any American ..."

People on HN or anywhere else on the internet should not assume everyone else is American. Obvious hint: they're on the internet.

> it's probably wise to specify where you're from before making broad comments.

No. If someone has a different experience, it's better to ask where they're from. I can afford the downvotes for a little bit of priciple.
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What a straw man. "Men should not be punished for the perceived crimes of their ancestors" is not in any way an argument against the general concept of taxation.

But if it helps you ignore the argument, feel free to write it off as "we must discriminate against men because if we didn't, we'd find ourselves getting rid of tax".
I'd also argue that those are bad changes, but I know where you're coming from.
Anecdotal, but most employers I've seen have a clause in the handbook about not taking their devices with you during international travel.
Its more like leasing a room knowing it was Dexters kill room. That said I'll go no further justifying US pot laws. But the failure is in the severity assigned to the "crime", everything that follows is rational if you accept the premise that it truly is akin to murder.
>doing the right thing for the folks who did invest in macOS as a server.

The "right thing" at this point would be to help you clients move to something else (jumpcloud? AD, etc.) instead of continually putting out a diminished version of your product.
We all make mistakes, so I'm hesitant to ever say they should have known better. But...

> Even technology experts are getting taken in by some of the more recent schemes (or very nearly).

Rule number one about phone scams, which I've seen repeated numerously so "technology experts" should know this ... _always_ verify and call the number back. I was under the impression that was common knowledge?

The scams iterated in this article, no matter how complex, would all have been prevented by that simple and pervasive rule.

> “People I’ve talked to about this say there’s no way they’d fall for that, but when someone from a trustworthy number calls, says they’re from your small town bank, and sounds incredibly professional, you’d fall for it, too,” Haughey said.

When someone from a trustworthy number calls, says they're from your small town bank, and sounds incredibly professional, you follow the exact same rule. Hang up. Verify the number. Call back.

Again, even the best of us make mistakes, so I'm not trying to be critical of the victims here. I'm just surprised is all.
Aside from a some high profile / high demand games.... was this really solving a problem? I don't recall ever having problems getting my hands on a cartridge.

Obviously there are some supply chain savings and such but at least as far as availability I'm not sure this solved much.
Could someone confirm if dav1d uses hardware acceleration to decode?
We (Nomorobo) have a bunch of recordings of this type of scam. They're scary.

https://nomorobo.com/lookup/844-386-9815
Retool tryretool.com seems like it'd do the job
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