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> "dog bites man" isn't news but "man bites dog" is.

That would imply that "jocks have sex" isn't news but "nerds have sex" is. Heh.

But there were also news about jocks having sex... so perhaps the rule governing the sexual harassment coverage in news is instead: "sex sells".

Writing stories about sexual harassment, especially colorful stories with lots of details, is simply a way to write about sex (and for the readers to read about sex) with plausible deniability. "No, I am NOT writing/reading these juicy stories as a form of porn; how dare you suggest that?! We are fighters against patriarchy, and we need to know every technical detail about how this agent of patriarchy misbehaved."
It totaly depends on how important you think a device is.

I bought a $100 Motorola and plan to keep it until the battery isn't charging anymore.
So if I can keep it for 5 years I think $20 per year is reasonable.

Comparing this to the iPhone it will save me $980 a year. That's a nice holiday with my family...
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I only do cashback. I currently get anywhere from 1.5 to 5% off of anything I buy via cash back. I don't think about it until I go to pay my credit card bill, then I just use the points to take the balance down the 5%
I actually hate the fact that in USA you can only shop for groceries in a supermarket that is 5 miles away.

Problem with that is that if you happen to run out of milk,or salt, etc., you have to plan the whole trip, instead just quickly coming downstairs and buying it in the grocery store that is in the same building as your apartment.

Another problem is that instead of buying fresh bread everyday in your local bakery you have to buy this packaged, loaded with chemical conservants shit that supermarkets sell.

Grocery store within walking distance should be considered a human right :)
I'd say that even if your answer is completely wrong, at least you can document WHY it was wrong. And maybe someone can open up a new vein of inquiry that branches off yours.

It reminds me of a sci-fi story where people who decided that they were tired of being emulated retired to a virtual mine where they try to discover new mathematical proofs.

They didn't have to do it, since it served no real purpose. But it opened up new avenues of knowledge.
Strawman. S/he was comparing starting a global conglomerate in web with starting a global conglomerate in TV.
I actually used to work on this team, it’s much more technically interesting than you would expect. Lots of opportunities to work on exciting problems in the financial industry with a vibe that feels close to a tech company. Also pretty great work-life balance.
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I didn't know about the PlusCal option until I saw Hillel's book and it clicked with me instantly. Might be the damage done by programming.

Objectively, PlusCal is a higher level language. So it should be easier than TLA+ right? More specifically, look at https://pastebin.com/cwZaApmH. The top half is PlusCal and bottom half (after \* BEGIN TRANSLATION) is the translated TLA+ code. PlusCal reads more like pseudocode. Maybe with some more training/effort the TLA+ would be obvious as well.
This reminds me acutely of Jobs' criticism of Apple during the the Sculley/Spindler years: that the company got incredibly greedy and extracted as much value from its customers as possible, without fully delivering on that value.
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Mineral processing is one of the most resource intensive processes known to man. The amount of water and equipment required for communition alone is nuts, and facilitating that process, along with many others, in space will remain infeasible for close to a century - at least. Never mind the transportation of the asteroids, or the post ore-sorting manufacturing that would supposedly take place in space.
I think you mean "proDUCT manager" – a project manager usually focuses on schedule, balance of work, bottlenecks, and maintaining (but not defining) priorities.

It's pretty common for an engineering manager to do project management, and to some degree it's necessary: people management and priority management are closely related.
Sure, but if these big companies with lots of money to spend did not exist, there would be no one to buy the smaller ones.
I suspect that implementing OpenGL ontop of Vulkan is the way of the future.
My response was to the statement that the “cheap seats” are very low margin or money losers.

The airline and first class ticket buyers needs the economy passengers just as much as vice versa.

With the existence of economy-only planes and lack of 1st-class only planes, I’d argue that the “cheap seats” are what makes aviation viable, rather than being a money-loser.
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What's up with them no longer reporting units going forward?

Did anyone catch on the call whether they will still report revenue and ASP by product? If so, can't we get units by taking revenue/ASP?

If not... holy cow, they just became a whole lot more opaque. Revenue by product line seems extremely important in making an investment decision.
UK gun deaths per 100,000 per year - 0.06

US gun deaths per 100,000 per year - 4.62

Intentional Homicide Rate per 100,000 per year.

UK - 1.2

US - 5.35

Fatal Shootings involving police officers (not adjusted for population so lets be kind and multiply 3 by 8..).

UK (2015/2016 latest year I could find) - 3

US 2015 - 1052.

I'll take heavy gun control (guns are legal here, they are just controlled - If I wanted a license I could apply for one - requirement is legitimate reason (member of a shooting club qualifies) and no criminal background, 700,000 people have the license to own a gun with more than 1.5 million guns in private hands) thanks.

Sure we have a high burglary rate but that isn't to do with guns, it's do with more than a decade of destroying police budgets.

Figures from wikipedia/UN.

Oh and the one that amuses me in a black way, guns kill their owners (suicide) at a higher rate than they do anyone else in the US.

Also in the interests of clarity,

UK suicide rate 7.6 per 100,000
US suicide rate 21.8 per 100,000

with academic research showing that easy availability of firearms increases suicide rate.

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.3044...
I distinctly remember when I became aware of NNTP, the new protocol that allowed Usenet to be distributed almost in real-time, using TCP/IP instead of UUCP. Electronic mail, file transfers, and remote terminals already existed using various other protocols, but seeing Usenet over the Internet made me realize that something new and exciting was about to happen (and a few years later that turned out to be Tim Berners-Lee).
Very true. The comment that started this branch just derailed the conversation by mocking apple developers/users, but if phrased as the first part of your statement, could have been useful discourse.
This is so true. You can be a customer for over a decade but you still need to continually phone and threaten to change providers in order to get the same deal they offer people who switch every 6 months.

I used to work at shaw on the data team, so I'm aware the problem is perverse incentives for selling to new clients over existing, but the cost of win-backs is so high (re-signing a previous subscriber) that you can usually streamline the affair by just asking for customer retention right at the start. The generally offer you the best deal they can right away because the goal now is to keep the subscriber in any form.

Still a massive pain in the butt.
Ok, so say someone wanted to rob you. Of course, now everyone has a gun. This would stop a lot of people from robbing you, but for others they might just shoot or stab you first. I guess crime is down, but stabbing and shootings are up.
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Because Wireguard requires compiling either a custom kernel or a kernel module, Wireguard isn't available on all platforms, configuration of Wireguard for advanced configurations means needing knowledge of how to script network configuration on your client platform versus more advanced ipsec clients have configuration knobs for many more use cases and Wireguard has characteristics that don't make it a good of a fit for some use cases especially ones that involve dynamic routing.
>I think that people have an (almost) unalienable power, very strong, and pretty underused.

>It's the power of walking away.

Sure, although it seems the power of collective social pressures is far stronger. So while that might work for some people, it won't for most.
I'm pretty sure if I gave 20 concurrent AirBnB renters non-exclusive use of my house, they'd be pretty pissed off.
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> I actually hate the fact that in USA you can only shop for groceries in a supermarket that is 5 miles away.

Even in most suburban areas (much less urban; rural areasmay have his problem but it's kind of the nature of the beast) this is far from true, even before considering the availability of grocery delivery services.

> Another problem is that instead of buying fresh bread everyday in your local bakery you have to buy this packaged, loaded with chemical conservants shit that supermarkets sell.

In most (again, non-rural) places where you have a long drive to the grocery store, you'll also have a long daily commute to work and a fresh bakery (dedicated or attached to a grocery store) with very little deviation from the commute route, so it's quite possible to buy bakery-fresh bread every day if you want.
> what alternatives would you suggest

There are many well tested solutions but they all carry different trade offs.

E.g.

- Have a zero tolerance policy on relationships between colleagues. This works well in smaller to mid-size companies.

Or,

- When you receive a complaint move the accuser and accused into different teams.

Etc.
Hi Phil. OP here.

Sorry for not providing any context. I have been working on my startup, Ziraf for over 6 months now. We're trying to solve fake food reviews problem by getting foodies, chefs and writers to review restaurants (https://zirafapp.com)

We're trying to market the product to students and tourists, but we have not found any product-market fit yet. We face the problem everytime we travel abroad, however, we're not sure whether people actually care about the problem.

I would like to hear from successful founders who found product-market fit before. How did you measure whether there is big enough market for your product?

Here is the link to the app:
https://tinyurl.com/zirafapp

PS: I did another Ask HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212201) a while back about being solo technical co-founder before. Sorted that out, we worked closer now and I raised my equities.
Exactly what I was feeling in my gut... but then what is the overwhelming advantage over rust that as far as I know is designed specifically for this kind of problems but is much easier to reason about, at least coming from standard programming?
I'm still working (happily) from my maxed out 2012 11" Air. I put a new battery in it earlier this year and upgraded the SSD last year. You can definitely get longevity out of the laptops. My work undulates between email, text editors, Perl, C#, and whatever I do while SSH'ed into servers. None of that requires much in the way of CPU. Maybe if I was an iOS developer or did some other creative work I'd have a different opinion.

The new Air may be enough for me to upgrade (mostly for the Retina Display), but that's mostly because I can rather than because I need to.
Though I have seen airlines start offering 0 miles or a fraction of miles on the cheapest seats unless you pay more.
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> One of the issues coming up to speed in the past was grappling with TLA+. PlusCal just makes it easier.

I think this has both pros and cons. PlusCal, being essentially a formal pseudo-code, is much more familiar to programmers than TLA+, and familiarity can greatly assist learning. The downside is that TLA+ is much simpler -- though far less familiar -- than PlusCal (or any programming or programming-like formalism), as it shares the complexities of code (although programmers are used to ignoring them), and at some point if you work with PlusCal you will have to learn and understand it and go through the necessary process of "unlearning" code and thinking in simpler terms. Some may find it easier to start with that and see why any code is more complicated than you may think; after that, learning PlusCal comes for free once you see the translation to TLA+.

Personally, I find writing specifications in PlusCal less convenient and less clear than writing them in TLA+, unless you must reason at the code level (like in the case of low-level concurrent algorithms, where interleaving of particular instructions is crucial). PlusCal, however, has the advantage of being more communicable to those unfamiliar with TLA+, as it reads like pseudo-code.

> something in the flavor of "Specs to Code"

If a programmer can turn an informal specification (or even a set of requirements to code) then transforming formal ones, which are more precise, shouldn't be an issue. But on a theoretical level, once you become more comfortable and experienced with TLA+ you'll see that the notion of specs to code is a special case of a very general and powerful concept called refinement, which forms the very core of TLA -- the Temporal Logic of Actions -- the logic at the heart of TLA+. In fact, in TLA, the ordinary logical expression A ⇒ B, i.e. A implies B, means A refines or implements B (and conversely, B abstracts A).
"I feel like there are also nearly equivalent succinct arguments for how terrible government services are for certain groups of people (particularly poor people and minorities)."

Is that argument coming from the poor and the minorities, or from you?
> it just infeasible economically to give everyone good service

Sounds like their problem, not mine. I've experienced, again and again, needlessly obnoxious, abusive behavior from airline employees. Would it be economically infeasible for them to be polite and professional? As someone pointed out, Southwest provides pretty good service.
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Google controls what 3 billion people see when they search for things -- what information they are exposed to. This is more control than any government of any sovereign nation in the history of humanity (more than the top 3 governments today combined) has ever had.

And please note that there are well-known processes by governments are held accountable by countries' constitutions and courts. A user of Google has no such recourse.

I don't think it's unreasonable that a company with impact larger than any single government in the history of humanity (yes, even larger than the EU) should have more than a little accountability. (Honestly, I think the Google board of directors should be elected at this point -- just like we elect leaders of governments -- but I know that's going to be a contentious view.)
It's very much a "sexual
harassment sucks for them, but that solution could affect me, a guy!" mentality

Fuck you got mine transposed
To make the best out of a bad situation, you could perhaps use this to your advantage in the following way: If you are about to call support for some reason, spend a couple of minutes browsing competitor sites first and then make the call. The queuing system should then prioritize your call because they think you are considering leaving them for someone else.
> When you receive a complaint move the accuser and accused into different teams.

That's a very good way to be found liable for both later harassment by the accused and, if you move the accuser, for retaliation; and also a PR nightmare when it is discovered to have been your policy or even a common practice to move accused wrongdoers without follow-up (just ask the Catholic Church.)
You keep asserting, sans proof, that individuals evolve. Unfortunately for you, the experts disagree[0-2]. Evolution is something that happens to a population, not an individual.

> I highly doubt our teeth will change at all because people don't die from lack of a certain tooth.

Yes, I made this point. But that was not true when humans evolved into our current form, right around when the rest of us evolved. Until relatively recently, humans did die from dental cavities, and we haven't changed significantly in 1,000 years, so the point stands.

> nor is it anecdotal that vegetarians have better dental hygiene.

Which would be a good point if I was trying to claim that. I said they had worse health, which is diet and behavior related.

The big one for me is K2. There is only one vegan source of K2, natto, all other sources are either animal or meat based. K2 is critical for a lot of things, including tooth cells.

Vegans and vegetarians are showing higher rates of tooth decay (not cavities, I misread) than the rest of the population[3]. Doesn't really matter how much they're brushing, it's diet driven.

> Again, individuals do evolve

[Citation needed]

> which is not the same as suddenly getting new distinct physical features half way through your life

You're right that meaningful mutations might be at the protein level, but you're not going to start synthesizing brand new proteins either.

0. http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/l...

1. https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/misconceptions_faq...

2. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/53371/what-is-me...

3. https://www.deltadentalwa.com/blog/entry/2018/07/vegan-diet-...
While this may be true, it can still be helpful to have an FAQ, context, or other way that interested parties can understand applicability.

I fully appreciate shorthand/jargon are ways to communicate complex ideas swiftly. Yet, taking time to provide some form of entry point for the uninitiated shows a disciplined approach that often translates to other areas of the project.
They could just make salaries transparent. That would fix the issue really quickly, people usually don't like being underpaid.
You don’t have to buy new. I just bought a second hand 7 plus for around £350, and it’s excellent.

It’s a couple of generations old now, but it’s in immaculate condition with a good battery and will easily last me a couple of years unless I do something stupid.
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