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This post reminds me of a running line of thought that's been going on in my head for quite some time: "Single Purpose Devices."

The main disadvantage of most computing devices is that they offer too many options; making them mentally unwieldy. A "single purpose device" is created to support just one purpose. The Kindle is perhaps the most famous example; it practically created an industry. Sure, it can do more than just present books, but everything is designed to support reading.

Ideally, there would be a "computer", where every aspect of it was designed to teach computer programming.

I often fantasize about a device designed solely for producing new writing. It would have a nice screen, and a nice keyboard, but only a very very limited web-browser, and would sync with Google Docs, Office, or something similar, so that you can do the more advanced stuff elsewhere.

Such devices are about empowering the user to go down a specific path; one they choose as soon as they start interacting with the device.

Kindle -> Reading

Typewriter -> Writing

Hammer -> Hitting things

"Power to Basic" -> Learning to program
I don't know of any government that's not mismanaged. Some are just worse than others.
Whomever said "Money can't buy you happiness", never owned a Pomeranian :)
Because it keeps us from slipping into the endless reducible hole of nihilism.
Thank you for showing that. Most people don't understand these things.

My son was a waiter and did very well for himself while in school. Far better than working in my fast food restaurant when he was younger and I paid more than minimum wage.

Given the choice, I had several staff quit on me because they got a waitressing job and getting tips to make more money was the reason. I had several waitresses tell me that was the reason they would not work for me.

My son always tips 20% or more, no matter the service, because he was a waiter once. I tell him he's foolish as I tip 15% for good service and adjust up/down accordingly.
I think there's a misunderstanding of the way YC Continuity works. YC Continuity isn't a program like YC with an acceptance process.
Puppy videos give us joy. But joy is more fleeting and short-lived than happiness. An analogy could be broke vs poor.
If a .iso is provided, I can't see why flashing a custom "Helm iso" is any different from flashing the default "Raspberry Pi iso", and there are a lot of people who can flash the raspbian -- there have been 5 - 10 million raspberry pi's sold so far. So, I think there are a lot of people who can use the Raspberry Pi.
What you call rights are fine as long as you pay for it. Your rights stop at other peoples property.
The median for all borrowers was $17,000 in 2017; the median for bachelors was $25,000. (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/24/5-facts-abou...)

"Relatively few with student loan debt have six-figure balances. Only 7% of current borrowers have at least $100,000 in outstanding debt, which corresponds to 1% of the adult population. Balances of $100,000 or more are most common among postgraduate degree holders. Of those with a postgraduate degree and outstanding debt, 23% reported owing $100,000 or more."
I don't see how you get those numbers.

From the article, 19 / 1900 YC startups are above $1B, or 1% (not 0.2%). Many of the 1900 are young, so the fraction of any cohort that will eventually reach $1B is more than that.

The chance of having picked exactly AirBnB or Stripe from among YC startups is 2/1900, or 0.11% (not 0.002%). More companies out of that 1900 are likely to achieve similar valuations in the future.

The payoff ratio for angel investing is much higher than the 30:1 that Roulette pays. On the order of 1000:1 is typical ($10M cap safe - $20B IPO with 50% dilution on the way.)
> any loans you end up taking in this position will have highly favorable terms subsidized by the us government.

Except for the fact that they are almost completely non-dischargeable, you mean.
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That's a horrible idea. Books are still extremely valuable for providing information in a distraction free medium. Books should not be underrated.
I think the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg is really good: tractionbook.com
Good. I truly wish you the best. Some folks do great. Looking back on my 5 decades more dont.
Up to a point, yeah.

However, if it impacts them negatively in any way (i.e. They overpromised) you will find that respect doesn't help.
I think your post is really good

But what is happiness then?
Indeed. The usual layman example is that a string has two dimensions when you're close enough to it that it resembles a cylinder, but only one when you zoom out far enough that it becomes a line.
Why do Google webapps use so many iframes (and web workers)?
Poking around Google with a browser dev console open, I noticed that Google apps like Gmail use almost 10 unique JavaScript contexts, iframes and webworkers. Facebook doesn't even have one. In fact I couldn't find another major website with more than 1 or 2 (Amazon has 2). So each tab of each google webapp is allocating 10 jsvms and up to 10 DOMs. That seems excessive. What's going on? Why do Google's webapps need so many top-level jsvms compared to their competitors?
This is well-put. A lot of the issue with "learning new things" is that you're not learning new things, just old things that have been repackaged. Those new things are almost always poorly documented.
Where exactly are these unwritten tipping laws written? I've been living in US for the last one year and I feel that the entire tipping culture is a social custom that you are expected to adhere by. I was told that I should always tip at least a $1 per drink at a bar or cafe and I've been doing that but I notice that people go for "No Tip" on these iPads.

So if most people are choosing "No Tip", where did this unwritten rules of tipping go. If I should be concerned of living wage, why is there no consumer pressure on business owners to make these changes? If people keep on complying with this unwritten culture of tipping, most people will always be in a dilemma when they are expected to tip.
The UK may be one of the most potentially confusing places. Some places where a waiter takes your order include "optional" service charges and others don't. And, of the ones that don't, some prompt you to add a tip on the PoS terminal and others don't.
Similar story with the tech consultancy I work for. IBM tried to pitch the WU API to us during the summer for a large-ish project for a major client of ours. Thank god we ended up going with Dark Sky instead or that could've been quite a few man hours down the drain, not to mention us looking bad to the client.
That seems part of a larger pattern.

The excellent book _Sundown Towns_ [1] pointed out something I had never noticed. People from suburbs and exurbs expect without question to be able to use big-city facilities. E.g., parks, libraries, and all manner of for- and non-profit organizations. But suburbs and exurbs often either restrict facilities to residents (as with parks) or don't have them at all (as with drug treatment centers, halfway houses, homeless support, hospitals).

That worked well enough for the suburbanites in the early decades of suburbanization; well-off people moved out of town and stopped paying for the central facilities. But as those communities become less homogeneous over the generations, they too started needing drug treatment, homeless support, etc. Except that the residents are very used to low taxes, so city managers don't have the money to fix things.

I get the desire for low taxes; who doesn't like as low a price as possible? But there's a toxic combination of penny-wise, pound-foolish thinking and pure IGMFY out there that seems so misguided to me. I don't have kids myself, but I still believe strongly in making things better for the next generation and the one after that.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-Americ...
If you hit the gym too close to bedtime, that's not super surprising. It also may take time for your body to adapt to the workouts. I hope this isn't stopping you from strength training at all — from what I've read, it's almost a non-negotiable dimension of health and wellbeing.
The hardest thing for me to learn was the million unique aspects of our product that we spent years creating, while they did make the user happy with our product once they were a customer, were not influencers in the sales process.

That's why our Founder/Developers couldn't sell for shit.

But a salesperson could. Because it was blue. Fucking blue.
If picking up my own plate/drink and wiping the table down after myself was an option, I would take it every time. I frequently drive to pick up the pizza/takeout I order in order to avoid tipping. In fact, many "fast casual" restaurants operate this way: at Panera Bread, you place an order at the front, get your drink cup, and receive a buzzing tile to notify you when the order is ready. Places like this have no reason to include tips.
I don't understand why Essential suicided itself by immediately putting itself up for sale. Such a lost opportunity
(Disclosure/Disclaimer: I don't have perfect pitch nor do I aspire to acquire it. I am, however, fascinated that some people do have perfect pitch.)

Rick Beato provides a lot of (too much) context before explaining "Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitch". [0] (Timecode link to Beato's point.)

Beato's video was featured on MetaFilter a couple of months ago. [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/816VLQNdPMM?t=364

[1] https://www.metafilter.com/175853/Why-Adults-Cant-Develop-Pe...
Any idea when the mega65 is going to be released?
Tipping makes it very difficult to stick to a budget. This was a big problem for me when I was a student. I wanted to limit every meal to $10. Since neither tips nor taxes are included in the prices at restaurants it became infeasible to eat out. Ended up cooking most of the food at home.
No, there's no reason to take the benchmarks game with even a pinch of salt!

The benchmarks game website shows what it says it shows --

"Which programs are faster? Will your toy benchmark program be faster if you write it in a different programming language? It depends how you write it!"
But then they can easily exfiltrate, which would allow it to happen programmatically and in mass.
The differentiator is not clear enough. If you're up against massive entities who can produce on the cheap, the value prop in consumerland has to be obvious and poignant, i.e. it should be easy to create a narrative that 'this phone is the best for X' and a lot of people want X. It can be aspirational or functional or both or whatever but it has to pop.
No, Title of the article was in capital letters. It was flagged, I edited but now i see again it is with cap letters and cannot edit it :-(
And it would dismantle the sexist construct that allows attractive women to claim disproportionately higher wages than men.
I owned two Domino's pizzas for 15 years. I paid every cent in credit card tips to the employee, and never passed along the transaction fees. There were routinely thousands in tips weekly and I never even thought of keeping any of it. I started at the store answering the phones and did years of delivering. I understand tip money is the difference between eating and going hungry.
That's true, but the article as a whole still felt weirdly credulous to me. The reminders that this is a complete flight of fancy work out to like one or two clauses in a 1400-word article that devotes a lot of room to detailing his theory and repeatedly pointing out that it could theoretically be proven true someday.

To this article's credit, though, it is more measured than others. Just as a whole it seems weird to me how much attention such a seemingly insignificant hypothesis is getting.
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>Perhaps focus on rapport at the start of your interviews?

I don't think that is the issue. I was looking for an entry level position at the time, it's a CROWED field, and the handful of places where I and another much younger classmate both interviewed where I could compare included at least one, often more phone interviews. If I wasn't getting along well with them I don't expect they would have brought me in. Most of the phone calls and interpersonal in person interviews went great IMO.

To be clear I have no idea what their idea of "culture fit" actually was.

I've since started asking, nobody has been able to answer without first looking confused and humming and hawing a while. Most of the answers were usually surprisingly generic and such about "openness", "fun" and such, I suspect a few were made up on the spot. Amusing ;)
I suspect this is the primary reason. This happened before the internet too -- articles never include full references to their public sources -- not because a reader could just switch to reading the source (you couldn't before the internet) but because they want to maintain their power over the reader as their authoritative source of information and make sure they come back. The world is full of people looking for gates they can lock, monopolies they can secure (natural or otherwise), regulations they can capture, and gardens they can build walls around; journalism isn't exempt.
It's designed to be watched at 1.5x speed

then it sounds like normal speech.
Ask HN: Is there a catalog of working blockchain-based products?
Do you know any resource that ignores the buzz around the blockchain and collects information on those rare but real working products?
Fairly sure you just described a honey pot. It's often times fake petitions and email groups, but this is a common tactic among anti-fascists (and fascists too for that matter). Removing the element of anonymity of your opponent is a hugely powerful weapon.
"I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow"

Ironically, when I am sleep deprived I am more accident prone and more likely to get hit by a bus.

But what's almost certain, if I sleep less than 7 hours for more than 1 week, I will catch a cold. My immune system doesn't work as well without sufficient sleep.
A fair number of places have engineers do ops. It's bad in the long run for many reasons, but rarely do I see people ask about it at interview-time.
The Art of Strategy[1] is a good layperson level game theory book that will put you in the right mindset. It's not about fundraising at all, but that doesn't matter -- it's the mindset that's important IMO.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Strategy-Theorists-Success-Busine...
What you've described is a state crime, a federal crime, and a violation of several different state and federal labor laws. Easily a dime worth of prison time, plus criminal fines, plus civil penalties, plus having to pay out the stolen tips to your employees with treble damages for the intentional tort you've comitted.

Not really worth it. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but the calculus is so bad that it's extremely rare to happen at scale. Especially if there's a digital trail run by a third party...
If one side is "Golden-Hued", the other side takes for granted what they learned along the way to get to the current state.

We abstract away the concept of memory addresses and pointers in some languages. Great! Until your program segfaults and now because you don't understand how memory addresses or layout work you can't tell what part of your code is causing the problem nor why it is a problem at all. Is the problem even in your code or one of the dozen module packages you imported because you were told to(they will explain the modules in a later chapter)? Why your object instance disappears between calls in an app because you didn't access it quickly enough or the 'right' way and the GC reaped it. WTF even is a garbage collector and why do we need it(again, they will cover that in a later chapter)

Modern computers are like airplanes. Why would you make a piloting student learn on an old, purely mechanical Cessna prop plane instead of a modern Gulfstream? The Gultstream is way safer, way faster and way harder to crash after all.
Au contraire, that's my point - it is legal in the state of Washington, by the vote and actions of the people. Likewise, by the vote and actions of the people of British Columbia it is legal. But, to a political body 2000 miles away it is not. And, because they have a representative who stands in a little box separating those two groups who have voted and acted, it is somehow made illegal should he or she wish to harass someone crossing that invisible line. It's ripe for a Kafka novel really.
>This is a huge leap. Who said their entire argument is based on winning vs losing? Losing can be fun, it's not the same thing.

I think this is a key difference of opinion we have here.

I enjoy the challenge of trying to beat people in games, and failure obviously gives it that challenge. That being said, there's a point where there's a big enough skill difference that it is practically impossible to win against another player. This is what I'm mostly arguing here. I see the management of cheaters as the same problem as the management of overly skilled players being matched against those who aren't. Go look at some pro CSGO players for example, their performance is sometimes almost indistinguishable from cheating.

> Being beaten by a hacker with super-human reaction speed and is completely unkillable is experience ruining.

Doesn't Fortnite immediately let you enter a new match? How likely are you to encounter new cheaters long enough for the experience to get tedious? Why is suing cheaters a more fair solution to the problem of reducing this probability vs figuring out how to ban the specific cheats that have the largest userbase? Banning cheats in general is hard problem. Banning specific cheats is often not (barring crazy shit like the cheat running at hypervisor level).
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We can also require that of private businesses that get tax payer money.
I'm not a fan of tipping either, but because the convention is clear and essentially universal, the waiter has a completely reasonable expectation that you will tip unless there is a problem.

If you go into the situation intending from the beginning not to follow this convention but receiving the benefits of it, then you are not acting in good faith. You are, through nonverbal communication, misleading the waiter.

Consent should matter when two parties enter into a transaction, and it should be informed consent. If you think what you're doing right now meets that standard, then next time try telling the waiter at the beginning that there will be no tip, and see if it makes a difference.
Why aren't you running your own business, maybe as a consultant? You shouldn't be selling your services but your knowledge.
Pfizer is a bio-tech company.

Bank of America has ~1/3 the valuation : employee ratio.

Allstate is worth ~1/4 as much while having more employees.
Lubos is interesting to read at times - even brilliantly enlightening at times. But keep in mind that he's an unapologetic ultra-conservative and climate change denier, as well as an occasional troll, in addition to being a reputable string physicist. He expresses stronger views than he probably should on no shortage of topics.
> The economist Robert Frank, hardly an unqualified enthusiast of money, essentially acknowledges as much when he writes:
“...becoming more productive is a good thing, if only
because it gives us more options. It enables us to earn more
and buy more if we choose to, but
it also enables us to earn the same amount by working fewer
hours, or to spend more on environmental cleanup. Other
things being equal, the more productive a society is, the
greater is each citizen’s ability to pursue his vision of the
good life.”

And, yet, here we are, more productive than we've ever been as a species, still slogging through 8 hour days 5 days a week, 260 days a year (give or take, if we're lucky). When do we get to sit back and say, "cool, I think we're done."
Article author here, though I'm a few days late to the party. Thank you for the kind words :)
amazon (no ref): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143108271

in case anyone has the same issues I did finding it.
Yeah - costs are absolutely rising out of control, and I think the loan situation is a massive part of the problem. If your demand is fixed and people can forget about the costs until you've already been paid, why not raise prices? But I heard the same complaints back then from many of my peers, all that I know of are still in debt, and many got financial aid and misspent it. There's definitely a chronic and widespread problem of people not confronting the costs / benefits and deciding to seriously invest hard work and critical thinking into avoiding debt. If people can't do it at $2000 / semester in a very low-cost town, attending most major universities is just not even an option I'd recommend my kids even consider.
It’s federal law: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm

Maybe it was different when you were in college?
OK, we've taken sadness out of the title above.
I'm not sure that's a relevant point to make in the context of this article, because there's widespread disagreement (leaning toward "no") on whether tipping for that muffin is required in the sense that a tip for dining-with-table-service is. A guaranteed 20% for a coffee shop muffin at the counter is definitely not expected.

Or were you just intending a pre-emptive general critique of the three people who might use this story to advocate tipping 0% for table service? I think that might merit waiting for the one thread it happens in.
There are also restaurants in the US where the tip is optional or mandatory depending on the party size. If you and 2 other friends go to a restaurant, tipping is optional and you can decide the percentage. If you and 5 other friends go to a restaurant, tipping is mandatory and fixed at ~20%. And people wonder why I am asocial.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Ayn Rand is philosophically meaningless
They're repeating the quasi-conspiracy theory that the reason climate scientists raise the issue of climate change is greed - they want more research money, so they can make more fake research, so they can get more money, because science is such a lucrative profession... sigh.

There's nothing more prestigious in science than being the one who proves the conventional wisdom of the scientific community is wrong. That's how you get your name in the history books. But this is lost on those who think of everything in terms of money.
While this is good in the sense that 99% of dashboards are worthless drek and anything that helps that is good, the examples given here are surprisingly poor. Even a cursory reading of the book they themselves recommend (Stephen Few's "Information Dashboard Design") would know this.

In fact, it appears the author may not have even read Few's book because they fail to mention some fundamental points about dashboard design that need to be understood if the design isn't going to just be a form of simple data analysis tool.

Overall, if you're interested in dashboard design, I'd give this course a miss and just read Stephen Few's book on the subject.
Why this isn't a bigger issue than sex discrimination boggles my mind.
> It can be used to show some level of maturity and intelligence.

In what measurable way? I'd argue that more intelligent person finds a way to learn something without it costing them.
Pride. Wishful thinking. Belief in magic. Pick any three.
You can indirectly measure it's mass, charge, and angular momentum.