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To me, this is a different thing. I think most founders would say things that don't scale are hacks that let them go faster, but cause extra work on the back-end or a higher unit cost. The upshot is speed to revenue or product-market fit, and if you don't find that then you don't need to waste time building the thing. And these subsidies can go away eventually with product improvement.

The Mayo story seems like something else. While you might learn something by buying the product in retail once or twice, buying in bulk to simulate demand isn't an acceleration to learning something. It's this thought that if only people could find my product, or have an easy way to buy it, it will sell. But once you stop buying, the effect goes away. It reminds me more of a dilemma that larger companies talk about: juicing this quarter's earnings at the expense of next year's.
Work out what your values are. Clearly you value money but if you only valued that then you wouldn’t be writing this post on HN.

Do you value good people? Do you value working on your own ideas? Work out all your values and what makes you happy.

Once you have that list work out how you can bring those values into your life as much as possible.

That might mean quitting your job. It might mean transferring to another team.

Be proactive with your life. Don’t just hunker down and bear it. You should be making the most of your time here.
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We built a network of agrodealers that we use to check people out. It's scaling pretty effectively now.
All this spotlight on VS Code and no mention of Sublime Text? I view Sublime Text (even though there is a license fee) as more emacs like than VS Code. I side with others to say its no where near Emacs because Emacs is Emacs. My most cherished Sublime Text plugins began as an Emacs extension (xiki). So I would say Emacs is important to the ecosystem but there's no way Product X will be an Emacs of the 21st century.
> If you're right and no one will bother to listen to these concerns then you shouldn't have to say anything at all, just let it be ignored. If you have a specific better way of communicating these concerns then do that.

I agree with your general concern, but I'm not sure I accept this part.

At the moment, a lot of smart, tech-savvy people channel a lot of energy into fighting this sort of thing directly. They look for weaknesses in the systems, analyze potential abuses, go to town hall meetings and Senate hearings. If that's ultimately a doomed delaying tactic, it doesn't mean the entire problem is unsolvable - but it also doesn't mean the people who think it's hopeless have a better answer on hand.

I think there's room to say "fighting this directly isn't going to work, so let's use the time we're buying to look for a better answer". It could perhaps be said with more positivity or focus on the 'elsewhere', but the lack of a proposal doesn't mean the criticism is invalid.

(Of course, we should also directly ask if the pessimism is warranted. The crypto wars never ended, but for all the fatalism over that issue we're in a far better position today than "RSA is a munition, install this Clipper chip". I worry that the common axis is not "activism wins" but "containment fails", which argues crypto and surveillance will both spread. But I think it's an open question.)
You are looking at human readable and annotated code, not what is compiled for the computer to run. Imagine finding bugs by looking at binary. DNA is more complex than 1 or 0, it could be ATCG. There are 3.2 billion nucleotides in the human genome, and we are still a long way from understanding the nuances of the DNA 'programming language.'
I know that I probably fail at this, but I try to actively not buy brands I notice ads for and instead always go for the brands that are unknown (or less known) to me. The advertisers probably still trick me, but I try. I don't care one iota about what my choice of brand/product signals to other people (why would I? I don't care about anyone elses opinion about me in the first place).
This might be apocryphal, but I heard that Facebook started as a PHP website and ended up having an enormous amount of C code propping it up while still having all the UI logic in PHP for a long time.

OTOH, if this is true, maybe it did scale, in terms of performance at a certain architectural cost, and maybe more importantly in terms of their ability to hire as a very young (in every sense) startup.
I think this will be an essential skill for all "future adults" and I agree with the premise of the article. The real challenge is the elderly. My 79 year old Mom has found her way to Facebook but has zero skills to deal with the chumbucket that Facebook has become. Teaching her to check something like snopes is like trying to stop a hurricane by closing your shutters. She fundamentally believes whatever her "friends" share.
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How is it different from when Time Warner media business and Time Warner Cable (ISP) were the same company?
It does work even without deception, which makes it all the weirder. It's covered in the article.
We've started an analytics service [1] focused on the operational aspects of automating analytics for life sciences.

We've got good chops in both biotech/life sciences and software development ..and the default urge is to build a fully automated system and tools.

however, what we're doing instead, is focusing on customer development at the front end - the "customer onboarding" process. This is involves a bunch of human interaction to understand exactly how customers are approaching their data and experimental processes - it feels a lot like consulting on the front end and definitely doesn't "scale".

Over time, we'll start creating very specific tools that help a) make onboarding quicker and easier for the customer and b) reduce the onboarding burden on us - the key is to only do this when we have clear understanding of the required features and the ROI for developing them.

Current customer feedback is very interesting it ranges from: "analytics still requires a lot of high-touch expert consulting" to "feature _______ is a simple feature that customers need right now ..make it, and that will lead to other feature insights and customer use."

...would love to hear any advice / thoughts ..we're in the struggle :)

[1] Yukon Data Solutions https://yukondata.integralappsystems.services/t1/
We trust our financial system and it already has decades of fraud detection. Our voting system should be through something similar with all history, fraud detection, voter verification and more.

Our current voting system is already rife with fraud with little remedy and recounts are difficult, we need to expect fraud and move to a digital system that does have fraud detection in it similar to our financial system. This system can track all your votes and have a paper trail, you can opt out if you want and deliver it in person.

Our current system is such a patchwork of systems it it security by obscurity and broken, recounts are difficult and if we moved to a common system that has records for every vote in every state in a consistent format, then research could detect anomalies and fraud as well.

Digital records that are as secure as financial records, and tracked, are easier to find fraud and recount, no security by obscurity. Noone would trust banks that keep paper records and aren't verifiable anymore today, voting shouldn't be that way either.

We all use the financial systems, credit systems, and trust them. Even with their problems people trust that the amount they have and what they use is recorded correctly in terms of financial data. We should expect the system to be hacked and have fraud detection to match it just like in the financial system. Until we do move to digital voting with fraud detection then our elections will be secure only by obscurity, and lots of games being played with no recourse and lack of trust in possible fraudulent counts and recounts.
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Had to get 3/4 through the article to find the tl;dr

>modern day tactics used to set black farmers up to fail – such as the ones on display in the Pigford case – are the residue of Jim Crow.

Granted that anyone familiar with US history could have guessed as much. Looking back it's obvious that the federal government shouldn't have stopped reconstruction until blacks were on comparable economic footing to whites. Leaving them as an underclass dependent on the higher classes (whites) for the ability to make a living gave rise to Jim Crow and enabled the institutional racism that has perpetuated to this day.
VSCode definitely has macros :) I don't think there's much that notepad++ has but VSC doesn't
It's at least equally, if not more, accurate to say “you need only look to history for examples to see the ultimate outcome of limiting franchise, whether de jure or de facto, to a group that views themselves as the right kind of people to rule over everyone else. It leads either to tyranny or total societal collapse, and usually both in one order or the other.” So, I don't agree with the notion that only the “right people” should participate in their government.
Normal businesses don't have similar weekly events, but no, people don't really mind the sound of bells once a week. Business owners are free to build spires if they want: it's rarely considered a good idea. Similarly, every city and town with a church has had the option to ban spires and bells. When you find me the town that has done that, I will believe that more persons than yourself find these things to be detrimental.
> But here’s the thing: he has no idea why vertebroplasty works. So a few years ago, he decided to test it against a placebo. Kallmes found that pretending to perform vertebroplasty – making it seem like he was injecting a needle into the spine but without the cement – had similar effects. About 40 percent of both groups experienced immediate relief from pain after the surgery. He published his results in the New England Journal of Medicine.

How did he manage not to be sued into oblivion?
tl;dr: Tragedy of the commons.
My ideal voting system would be similar to this but without the actual voting part. Just take a sample of your population until you're some agreed-upon percentage confident you know the preference breakdown of your population and just go with that.

If you're going to randomly sample ballots just randomly sample voters and skip the line.
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They cut cursive handwriting a long time ago.
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>>consciously ignored by the Bush administration and the intelligence services prior to the event and then

No doubt someone is screaming that yesterday an attack was going to go on in X country.

And "consciously" is a very loaded word.
> There's a good reason for this: indexing into a UTF8 string takes O(n) time

Here's the thing: You simply don't do that, ever. It's a meaningless operation. Most you would do is iterate over a string.
A history and civics course could actually go into how none of those things were new, even from the founding of the Republic.
> "Don't violate the law over our network" is not an unreasonable expectation, and "we will shut off service to people that violate the law using our network" is not an unreasonable penalty.

Monopolies playing judges and prosecutors is very unreasonable. They shouldn't be able to cut off customers by themselves at all, even non-paying.
It's state-by-state, usually. The curriculum in GA and NV (both states I went to High School in) in the 90s required a US history course and a civics course. In NV it was "US Government", a senior course (typically). In GA it was, in my district, just "Civics" and was one semester, sharing the year with a baby Economics course (which was really more personal finance than economics).

School districts have some leeway to add additional courses, or to alter the typical order of them. For instance, that civics course in GA could've been a one year senior level course in a neighboring district. But the civics course was required across the state at the time.
No, you're wrong about Pytorch. If your custom op is a combination of existing ops, you don't need to define a custom backward pass. This is true for any DL framework with autodiff. For more details, look at this answer [1].

Regarding more verbose Pytorch code for the update step, compare:

In Tensorflow:

loss = tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(labels=y, logits=output_logits)

optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(learning_rate=learning_rate).minimize(loss)

sess.run(optimizer)

In PyTorch:

optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(model.parameters(), lr=learning_rate)

loss = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()(output, label)

optimizer.zero_grad()

loss.backward()

optimizer.step()

In my opinion, PyTorch makes the parameter update process a lot easier to understand, control, and modify (if needed). For example what if you want to modify gradients right before the weight update? In PyTorch I'd do it right here in my code after the loss.backward() statement, while in TF I'd have to modify the optimizer code. Which option would you prefer?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44428784/when-is-a-pytor...
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This is so US-centric question :)

Stripe is not a thing in most of the countries on this planet.
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Don't sign any NDA you don't have to.

Fuck that and fuck the people hurting workers with them.
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As a developer, I'd rather have strongly typed HTML than a template string.
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You haven't actually said anything I disagree with, even though I'm in the castle. "Retreat" sounds a little harsh. I would say "Comfortably ensconced". Even if an AI nails down the behavioral/functional aspects of a biological brain, that doesn't necessarily mean that the qualia have come along for the ride.

Does it matter if they have? That seems to be the real question.

Allow me to propose a thought experiment: I'm a traveller from the future, where the notion of 'qualia' is understood and engineered (maybe using techniques we would somewhat recognize today, maybe not). I present you with a machine that has a single red button. When the button is pressed, there is no observable behavior, except that 10,000 AI's are instantly created and subjected to extreme agony until the button is pressed again. What are your thoughts on pressing this button?
Really amazed that someone found it fit to write a whole book about the humble potentiometer!
We should cut all standardized tests whose makers cannot show a causal link between success in life and increased tests scores on their exam. That should free up at least six years of time to learn civics, history, and geography.
Did you switch units from wh to w?
To counter some off the off-the-cuff comments here:

These researchers (specifically molecular biologist Kathryn Hall) seem to have found a link between an enzyme called COMT and response to placebo treatments. That is, people with a genetic pre-disposition for lower COMT-production will respond less to placebo effects and MORE to actual drugs whereas for people with higher COMT-levels the opposite holds true.

I think this is a fascinating finding and does a lot to do away with hand-waving explanations of the placebo-effect as 'it's all psychology' (just look in the comments here).

Unfortunately the article ends with a kind of esoteric tone of one of the researchers, in that he believes it would be unfortunate if we did away with the rituals and warmth and caring involved in more esoteric practices completely. I don't really get that: If we figured out why the placebo effect works and we can very effectively treat patients depending on their genetic pre-disposition that's awesome!
You can go for the other paradigm, however, which is more like hand-building each one, but could be thought of as a high-quality prototype meant for sale. It's much more expensive per unit, but you learn every time, and hey no tooling cost! Boosted Boards is the best example I can think of.
just out of curiosity, which projects do you consider "pretty" ( instead of "ugly" ) and "easy to use" ( instead of "hard to use" ) ?
I'm pretty sure I couldn't tell the difference due to never drinking soda. But then it is unlikely that I would even ever order one.
“Poaching” implies theft.

Are you saying researchers belong to their university? Or are you saying once someone is a researcher they are no longer allowed to move to industry?

Also in my experience a lot of researchers are grad students, who move to industry on completion of their degree - does getting a job after graduating mean you were “poached”?
Which is kind of what I was thinking. As soon as you start teaching kids not to be swayed by "agenda-driven sources," what happens when they start realizing that their textbooks and their teachers are also "agenda-driven sources"?

Which is why this proposal will never fly.
The law in America is enforced by the courts, not by private corporations.
It could be that chat system in the bottom right? Maybe it makes a notification sound?
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2. We stored Services, Channels, Locals, & Plans.

3. We wrote a basic Python script that exported the data in structured JSON files to be used by our CMS.
If you could re-vote as many times as you’d like, then this would largely destroy coercion since the coercer would have to control you or your device during the rest of the voting period. That alone would significantly reduce this risk. For more complex scenarios, you could allow the user to enter his/her PIN backwards which would mean “silently ignore this vote.”
Separating the two bits like this lets you have your cake and eat it too; it allows for a causal explanation between a person's (comprising both their physical and non-physical) state, and their actions, but that total state (and therefore, responsibility) can't be completely reasoned about in the reality that we exist in. They appear indistinguishable from the 'uncertain decisions' you mention in your first post, but are (in the whole picture) simultaneously causal/responsibility-inducing, and completely inaccessible to some Laplace's Demon.

It's why this kind of system usually is accompanied by a whole meta-set of of punishments and rewards as well. Since there's no way to perfectly reason and judge in our system, we have to hope that someone who has access to the higher system will provide the correct judgement, being able to see the total picture of responsibility.

It's also completely untestable, for the very reasons it 'works' as an explanation at all!
References to 150-year copyrights is (deliberate or not) pure obfuscation. We're talking about downloading the latest box office hits†, not century-old texts bound by unjust extensions to copyright.

† Edit: in most but obviously not all cases
Reversion to the mean is not the placebo effect. The placebo effect is what you're calling the "actual" placebo effect, and in many cases produces objectively measurable results, which is why they need to account for it in drug trials: you compare both the drug and the placebo to the control group and see if the drug exceeds the placebo. As far as I know, practically every such drug trial validates that the placebo effect is real.
That last one will do nicely: it's an overt antagonistic action. Do you have a better word for actions which subvert your reason?
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TL;DR The app stores are messy to deal with and come with many restrictions that shouldn't be there, considering they're completely Apple's solutions, and Apple could do a whole lot more within its control (but has not been doing so far after all these years). Conversely, the only reason the App Store on iOS and tvOS are used is because there's no other way to distribute the apps to a large base of customers (at least for non-jailbroken devices).

Why many apps don't use the Mac App Store:

1. It's primarily because software distribution on the Mac had different mechanisms maintained by developers for decades (or from before the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store came to be). Many old time customers are used to buying direct from developers and having a way to have a direct contact with the developer. For example, AgileBits (maker of 1Password) had to go back to retaining its own sale/distribution mechanisms after declaring that it's going MAS only because of long standing customer backlash (and probably acknowledging that it was anyway forced to maintain this for its Windows app at that time).

2. The App Store on iOS is deficient in many ways, when you consider that it doesn't allow (easily implemented) trials, upgrades, etc., that many users from the PC/Mac computers side are used to. The Mac App Store is even worse than that. Read this mess about free trials on the App Store (iOS) from a few months ago (June 2018), written by developer Daniel Jalkut of MarsEdit fame. [1]

3. The sandboxing restrictions that just don't work for several apps, means it's too much of a hassle to change (or cripple) one's app just so it can be distributed by/through Apple.

4. The 30% cut that Apple takes is probably a lot higher for developers who already have had a system in place for a long time. But some newer developers have moved to the Mac App Store as the only means of distribution (Pixelmator is a popular and notable example that went MAS only and has stayed that way).

5. For developers who care more about customer relations, Apple's country restricted stores and the lack of portability mean that a user who moves from one country to another would usually have to go through some confusing ways of updating apps bought from a previous country. As for subscriptions and in-app purchases, those cannot even be transferred, AFAIK. Even now, subscriptions cannot even be canceled before they expire (you'd have to contact Apple for that and try to work it out). The app stores are completely Apple owned and controlled, but yet they don't have any easy solution for people who travel or move to another country (or to other countries) either temporarily or permanently.

[1]: https://bitsplitting.org/2018/06/06/ersatz-free-trials/
Thank you for sharing. All the best for your treatment. :)
I remember one of my teachers senior year of high school showed us a bit for Bowling from Columbine, and then demonstrated how clips from completely different NRA events had been cut between to make it sound like something was said right after Columbine which, had, in fact, been said at an entirely different time in an entirely different place. There's a few articles online about the other tricks Moore used in the documentary.

But yeah, I'd say the one time in school I was educated on how biased media can be misleading was as a senior in high school, and I definitely think it should be earlier than that.