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Ask HN: Seeking General Marketing Feedback
Our product is a platform (called 100) for local information via Wifi. If a user sees a Wifi SSID that starts with 100-, she knows 100.here will get him to the business's page (menu, about us, recipes, hair styles....)

Our website - http://100-xyz.com

Our product has a wide range of uses. We looked at restaurants, bars, households and specialty stores.

We have strong interest from a live translation startup that will use our hardware. Its probably a niche application.

Looking at the broader market, we are focusing on restaurants as our target group.

Talk to a few restaurants, understand their problems well and tweak the product so they love it.

We've already talked and installed our system in a few.

Among all our features (menu, ordering system..) the thing that restaurants find most appealing is stealing customers ie. customers in neighboring businesses see their web content and are customers on the next visit.

On most new smartphones, the restaurant page will pop up on wifi connection (for internet log in). On some it wont. Additionally, the pop will disappear after log in. This is a problem that our product faces.

We prepared small cards with two simple steps to get to the restaurant web page. However, we found restaurant staff was reluctant to hand these out.

Second problem: logs show that people are landing on the web page without the need for any prompts. However, the restaurant staff has no way of knowing this.

We came up with an idea. Create SSID with an offer eg: 100-Johns_Bistro_Coupon. Users get to the site, find the coupon and take a screen shot and on their next visit show it to get a discount or something free. This way, the staff also knows its been effective and the users are also likely to spread the word, because its beneficial to them.

We are about to do implement this idea. Any suggestions, comments or other things we could try?
I'm not sure I understand the comment.

I've used dual parity RAID systems for over a decade now and they work superbly when rebuilding even during a drive failure. (aka in 'degraded' mode). I typically run them in 22 drive sets because that is how many drives fit on a single NetApp drive shelf.
How much would something like this cost Amazon?
Variety and regional specialty are good! This article seems to be complaining that things grow well in one place and not another place. Breed your own apples then!

There aren't any apples besides honeycrisp that I know I like for eating out of hand. The market wants better produce all around and most things you find these days were bred for qualities that are good for the supply chain instead of the taste and health of the consumer.

If the apples everybody likes don't grow well in your climate, fund research into finding new varieties that do.

There's no "curse". The best things will not suit everybody's tastes or needs. In fact it's a pretty good indicator that you're doing something right if some people really don't like it.
its singles day everywhere! this week!
That's the point. How does technology solve that incentive problem?
Some languages help with misspellings by not just saying “‘foobra’ is not a function”, but also “but ‘foobar’ is. Did you mean to write that?”.

I guess you could also require the edit distance between identifiers to be at least X, but I expect that to be wildly impopular, if only because its effect on identifiers in libraries.
As always winning factors play key roles: contraception (especially condoms/pills) and education. Contraception protects women from unwanted pregnancies and education forces them to choose career instead of staying at home with children. You can't get both high fertility rate and high education level.
We have updated the post and added a section to match this use case. You can find it under the subsection "Protecting TCP (non-HTTP) Services"
Centralization of data aside, playing non-devils advocate:

> The only people on facebook are boomers arguing about politics. Dating is all about exclusivity and compartmentalization. Nobody wants to date in the same place they get happy birthday messages from their grandma.

The Facebook you see is very different from the Facebook I see (which is the point I guess).

> Nobody wants to see their friend of friends on a dating site. Tinder tried this already and it bombed. The current meta for dating apps is to exclude anyone in your contacts or friendlists.

I think it depends on what we mean by "dating" and who we're talking about.

Dudes on Tinder and Grindr (hookups), sure, that could be awkward. I know people who opt for other apps because they're not trying to get laid, but rather want to find someone who they can form an actual meaningful connection with. In this case friend of friends are great. As OP mentioned, safety is also worth considering and something disproportionately worrying women: meeting people integrated in your near social graph keeps you safe both physically and emotionally.
Imagine two recipes. The first has 9 steps. But the second has just 5. Both taste about the same. Less is more value because time is valuable.
The issue about declining fertility rates in my mind is sustainability. Does fertility rate keep decreasing simply because there are now even less people as time goes on?
The minimum payout is fixed by law. Of course this create the incentive to increase costs rather than reduce them, given that their margins are capped.
Sony Shows Off Its Vision of the Robotic Kitchen in New Promo Video
How about international visitors? Since they don’t pay taxes to help maintain the park should they have to pay a higher entrance fee?
Nice way to kill a conversation and any hope of building something better.

Romania's institutions are corrupt and dysfunctional, there isn't much more to say than that. It would be nice for the EU to lean in, but it's unlikely to do so, given the rise of anti-EU populism. Those journalists need help.
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A top quality down filled jacket.

Had always cheaped out on winter jackets until last year. Paid three times what I normally would spend. Worth every damn cent. Toasty warm in -25C winter. Super light weight, yet snug.
I'm working in biomedical research, and wholeheartedly agree. I have a Bioengineering degree and can't define Bioengineering.
We will need those emp guns they had on the Nebuchadnezzar hovercraft.
By which metrics?
I went to a great conference back in the beginning of 2000 at Ars Electronica, if you haven't gone I would highly recommend it, it's been around since the late 70es and is where art, technology and academia meets.

Anyway in 2003 I was there the talk was about Code as language.

Many interesting talks and debates that year. I think many of the talks are video-recorded.

https://ars.electronica.art/aeblog/en/2014/11/04/code-die-sp...
If you keep posting unsubstantive flamewar-style comments we'll ban the account. Please just post something thoughtful and informative that we can learn from instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>they are less sweet, not as crunchy and much more dense then a Honeycrisp

Exactly. That is why Pink Lady > Honeycrisp
Please see the comment I linked about Spectre specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18280156

I actually think our approach to Spectre -- focusing on preventing the observation of the side channel, rather than blocking speculation -- is likely to be more robust against Spectre variants that haven't been revealed yet. Case in point, we developed some of our core mitigations before we knew about Spectre at all.

Spectre affects containers and VMs too.
Also, we will be in the SF area in Dec and Jan. We are looking for restaurants that would agree to be our guinea pigs. We will do all the work (creating the web pages, menu...) for free.
>> wet weather that makes organic growing impossible

What what what?
what is sex with 2d anime girls?

Legal. The others are not (and harmful, although biologists have argued about bestiality). Its unfortunate but people are free individuals. Even in Japan citizens are not particularly concerned about what is good for the nation. Can't force people to have babies. Which is probably a good thing. Nobody wants to be an unwanted child.
Happy Tildes user here. I believe Deimorz has some stated plans on how it will pay for itself (non-profit, donations, etc) but here's the thing:

I used to ask myself that question, then I realized it doesn't matter. Communities come and go. Slashdot used to be good. Reddit used to be good. That they're not anymore doesn't matter.

It sucks to up and leave a community once in a while, but it's not like you lose everything you did there. Social apps are intrinsically focused on the short term (past & future). It's okay to change which websites you visit once in a while.

I highly recommend Tildes. I enjoy my time there. It's pretty quiet and has very high signal, very low noise. If one day it has to be shut down because the bills can't be paid, that will suck… but there will be others.
It is what is not happening that is the problem. A bit harder to prove but not researching antibiotics is one case that is widely discussed. A google search on "why aren't drug companies researching antibiotic drugs" brings up lots of articles spanning decades. This Business Insider [1] article is quite recent.

Here is a quote from that article:

"The costs to develop a new antibiotic drug are no less expensive compared to development of drugs for other therapeutic areas, yet the commercial potential and return on investment for companies developing new antibiotics are significantly lower than drugs to treat chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease," said Gary Disbrow, deputy director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, which sits within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/major-pharmaceutical-compani...
Radical optimism: considering the future of immunotherapy
Such things should be funded by government, standing budgets not linked to visitor numbers. User fees encourage parks to be run as businesses. They incentive constant growth in favor of human use above wilderness.

Go to a few Canadian parks. See what wilderness actually looks like. There is no ranger or fence between you and the bears. Rangers are there to protect nature from humans, not make wild areas more accessible for tourists.
What is this.... Every single one of my followers are active real people lol.
No, this is not some conspiracy theory by a few anecdotal players. This is a quite well-documented phenomenon well-known to small business owners across a wide variety of industries. I understand that the instinct is "There's no way a big company could be doing something so obviously unethical and get away with it". But just do your own research, there's articles detailing sales calls that literally offer to remove bad reviews. Only Yelp has algorithmic control over what reviews get put into "not recommended", and one of the "coincidences" that happen after these calls is that 5 star reviews start disappearing. And do you think it is a coincidence that those positive reviews get restored after a business pays for advertising services?

Yelp has been involved in class acton lawsuits for this behavior no fewer than three times, and while they deny everything the court ruling astoundlingly claimed that this behavior isn't illegal or extortionary:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Yelp-can-give-paying-cli...
Occam's Razor tells me it's because they are being painted as capable of subverting seemingly larger-than-life systems and institutions. I imagine it's an ego boost to a lot of these tech CEOs.
> Online dating is already safer than (for example) meeting some random person at a bar or party, assuming you first meet the person in public which is an obvious thing to do.

This is not necessarily true. I've been harassed by people who I've talked to online who have never even progressed to the meeting stage (we talk a little bit, I determine I'm not interested, a meeting never happens). They'll create fake accounts, message from their friends' accounts, etc. because some people don't know how to take no for an answer. People are a lot more willing to harass behind anonymity than to stalk people in person, because the bar and the resulting consequences are so much lower. Plus it's a lot easier to screen people in person than it is to assess potentially fake profiles.

That being said, I don't think that Facebook dating is the answer to this.
It doesn't even necessarily have to be a matter of preference- in general, throughout life you'll most likely meet more people of your own socioeconomic group, and less people of other groups. From there, simple probability predicts assortative pairing.
What if I remember something about you?
But the region is still habitable is it not?
An aeropress. Decent coffee almost as quick and easy as instant coffee.
It has to do with the person running the social media account. You need more wishing for death memes and less just vomiting out links.
I suspect that's not the characterization most people would apply to Prof. Knuth.
I can't really imagine setting up a date with someone on the social network used by my parents and theirs.
OpenAI launches reinforcement learning training to prepare for AGI
Gmail somehow knows. Every time I click a link, it asks to open in Safari or for me to install Chrome. I check the never ask prompt, but it always asks.
>There aren't any apples besides honeycrisp that I know I like for eating out of hand.

Really? I can think of a few just off the top of my head, ambrosia, gala, pink lady, spartan, fuji. I'm not really even that into apples.
Just thought about this: could you ask the companies in your list how/why they ended up with these landing pages? What where the alternatives and smaller variations they tried? Tried for how long (or are they still optimizing)? Did they A/B test between alternatives and options? What did they measure, or tried to optimze for? What was their sample size, the outcome and their decisions? What was “best or better” for them, specifically?

That could be a very interesting follow-up to your analysis, also by providing data that sometimes “best” is an opinion or hunch, sometimes a choice or preference, sometimes a measurable result. Cheers!
Huh. I always thought non-justified text existed because people are lazy; I absolutely consider fully justified text to be easier to read, not harder. Non-justified text is distracting.
> There's no mystery to how prior civilizations hit collapse events when I read comments like this.

You're making my case for me. I'm sure there was some doom sayer in ancient Rome who predicted the world could never support more than 10 million people tops. Yet here we are at 7.7 billion and counting.

> In the year 2018, you'd think people would be more focused on higher pursuits [...]

You've clearly got some other agenda that you're trying to argue against. Feel free to try and tell everyone how they should live, but I'm not really interested. I was responding to claims of "overpopulation".

> Until there's not or nature throws you a cyclical curve ball. See history for what the results are.

Again, you're making my case for me. Sure plagues happened... I wouldn't be surprised if in 2200 some historian will look at the archives of messages like this and snicker you thought 7.7 billion was a lot. It also wouldn't shock me if once all the third world countries have birth control and health care that we find a natural equilibrium at 20-50 billion.
I never like Facebook or Instagram posts, and I see hundreds a month. I don’t think it’s uncommon to have read-only users. HN supposedly has a high percentage that never comment.
Words... speak... hard.
You're right. That's an oversimplification. GDPR requires a "lawful justification" to collect the information. The six justifications all speak to consent or fulfilling legal obligations (government investigation, court order, contract performance, etc). Consent is a critical component of GDPR, though, as evidenced by the hundreds of GDPR consent emails that swarmed our inboxes in May.
That and cost plus contracts. Does not really motivate companies to high efficiencies.
I'm American and have mixed feelings on this. National Parks can definitely be massive operations during the summer months so I understand charging a fee. But it also removes this public good from the poor and I think that's wrong. Maybe the park system provides free/cheap passes via welfare programs.

I'm more concerned that many state parks charge up to $15/day usage fee. A fee just to enter and hike or play around a lake. I think that's very wrong. Simple fun in the outdoors ought to cheap recreation option - the cost to get there and whatever food you want to bring. It is gross that we fund these great places through taxes, then only those you can easily pay again can use them.
Another reason why this is not an apples-to-apples comparison is that most people don't run their VMs at 100% utilization. In fact, I'd wager the vast majority sit at single-digit percentages on average. Linode will still charge you for the full CPU, of course.
Nice, why the choice of go ?
Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on Mars
You play to the strengths of the part and the interests of the target market. People willing to pay the price premium for ThreadRipper are interested in throughput, not latency.
Personally, I'm a big fan of Fujis. And nothing beats a good Red Delicious if it's fresh. I know that Red Delicious is reputed to be the White Zinfandel of the apple world, but I like 'em, and I don't care what the apple snobs have to say about it. (Or the wine snobs either, for that matter.)
Zbigniew didn't mention a second stage, true. My scheme does. I thought the fact that I'd added to the original idea was made clear, but perhaps not, or not early enough - so I could disambiguate "the idea" even in this sentence and have done so now. Thanks for pointing to where you ran into difficulties.
At least it isn’t killing people in other countries.
I didn’t mean to suggest that normal people buy followers or that real bubbles of Twitter users exist. My point was that it’s easy to think Twitter use is much more common than it is when you’re in certain cities/cultures.
The US Air Force is working on general artificial intelligence
I never thought about the concept of programming in symbols that you've never before seen. That's rather fascinating. The human brain is incredible.
I got a brand new mac with a T2 chip this week from my work. The first thing I did was do all the updates, including a security update for the OS, which required a restart. During the restart it was giving errors, so it was not able to boot properly. It would just give the error message and you could only restart again, just to have the same thing happen. A colleague more familiar with macs, brought up a menu, where you could choose which drive to boot from, which eventually fixed the problem, since it booted from the hard disk. In my case this menu had only the internal ssd, since I did not have anything else connected. I would guess that if I had an external hard drive it would show up as well.

Also on the documentation of the T2 chip, Apple strongly recommends to use file vault, because if you do not, the ssd even though it is encrypted by default, gets decrypted [1] upon being mounted.

To sum up, I guess it is possible to boot from whatever device you want.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208344
I prefer the quantum decoherence perspective where being 'observed' basically means interacting with a macroscopic object in a way that's similar to the notion of reaching 'thermodynamic equilibrium' in statistical physics.
Didn't Facebook apps used to include dating apps that would use your social graph?
They do, but their interface to the computer does not. Screen readers are inherently linear while a screen show two dimensions at once. Indentation is the primary way this happens in practice.

(I suppose it would not be impossible for a programming language to have 3d layout projected onto the 2d screen, but I'm not aware of any mainstream languages that do this. Significant whitespace is fairly common of course and nonsignificant indentation is more common still)
No the government uprooted them. No one plans on having a meltdown.
> That is, what's currently being passed off as an immigration issue - in the USA, and Europe (e.g., Germany) - is ultimately an economic growth issue. With "native" births flat (or less), growth has to come from somewhere.

What the article is pointing out is that "somewhere" is not going to be able to sustainably make population donations anymore, as those countries industrialize too and their fertility rates fall as well -- which is already happening.

We may need to start looking at policies to get the domestic fertility rate back to the population replacement rate: Free childcare, more generous dependent child tax deductions, etc.
The founder of Vine announced the name of his new looping video app
I think an observer is a quantum process interacting with another quantum process. Photons are fundamentally different from particles with mass - and they interact differently. Two photons interact like waves at the surface of an ocean - amplitudes and phases changing, for instance. But photons interact with particles with mass by either being absorbed and, later, re-emitted by the other particle or being completely absorbed and altering the particle with mass' state in some way (speed/momentum).

I remember reading somewhere about a geometry which described photons' existences as fundamentally different from particles with mass. Particles with mass have lifelines that change over the course of time. Particles without mass, such as photons, don't experience time and never change themselves. Photons etch out a straight line in this geometry from fixed points to other fixed points. The fixed points represent particles with mass. (something like that)
A.I. teaches Minecraft players about architecture