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I was reading an article recently about managing small business growth. Not tech or startup related, just a good old fashioned blog post from an accountant who said hey you've started a business and it's growing, here are some things to consider. (I've lost the link unfortunately.)

One point this guy made was that a lot of businesses develop additional overheads and need a lot of cash to grow after they reach around $1M in annual sales. Going from $1M->$10M is a big step which is hard to self-fund, there is some risk involved, and the owner's mindset needs to change.

I couldn't help but think, hey a consistent annual $1M in sales is quite an achievement by itself. If you own most or all of the equity in that company, financially you're doing far better than most people (OK, maybe less true if you run in certain Bay Area circles). This is a perspective you won't hear from VCs, but if you hit that milestone, who says you have to go higher?

Maybe it's OK for a founder to just stop at some point, especially if they don't enjoy what they're doing or they've been under-investing in other areas of their life.
I would love a Little Snitch for iOS.
It would be smarter for NYPD cops to start posting fake DUI checkpoints on Waze all over the city.
If any Waze users were thinking they could DUI safely, this will persuade them otherwise.
It's best to go about web development like this:

Languages to learn:
1. HTML
2. CSS
3. JavaScript (ES2018)
4. Rust
5. WebAssembly (Rust + WebAssembly)

Frameworks to learn after all of that:
1. Flexbox
2. Bootstrap
3. jQuery
4. React/React Native
5. Electron

Hopefully this helps :)
The Science section is full of pop-sci headlines

I wish. My Google News page is full of bullshit clickbait along the lines of "NASA WARNS 2 METEORS HEADING FOR EARTH, 1 WILL HIT YOUR HOUSE."

Seriously, Google, this is an embarrassment to your entire company. Either put some competent people on News, or shut it down.
> And also there's a big ethical question here if you create an excemption for small business, because you create a two class workforce where parents in small companies lack what is arguably a very fundamental right.

The way I see this, the fundamental right here is to have paid parental leave in general, not a right to have it at any particular workplace specifically. Thus, so long as those who need it can get a job that offers it, I don't see any pragmatic reason to require all businesses to do so. So long as it's clear in advance - so people who e.g. don't plan on having children can go seek employment with small businesses. It's not an insignificant part of the population, so why remove an option for them?
The small towns I know, its your aunt who runs the store which shut, and its your cousin who used to run the garage who is now nickel-and-diming. Neither of them are working for tips in a restaurant.
Saying that they may publish something is not saying that they will.
There is a company that does this with trademark renewals. Really sleazy.
I am NOT defending television or radio as a news source. Far from it. I am very aware of its creation by PR and ad agencies. Not only did I work in the TV and radio business for 10 years but my nephew's fiance is a producer for a large TV station. I think she's great so I bite my tongue.
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I don't see anyway blimps ever return for passenger travel. Too slow and too inefficient. For luxury travel with beds and showers and fine dining, trains would be far more practical.
Please don't share my email with Amazon without my express consent
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For wireless carriers it’s all about the last mile. You can only get a certain amount of data within a certain amount of spectrum. Yeah I know I’m butchering the explanation. It’s been over 20 years since I studied it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
Theres quite a bit of nuance between the #MeToo settlement agreements and coercion that you seem to be misunderstanding/glossing over: https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/if-amis-jeff-bezos-sh...
They don't have to. It's only because the alternative is to invest in CDN, which some don't want to do. Real Internet video providers do that however (Youtube, Netflix and so on).

Either way, it doesn't mean they aren't competing. Legacy TV business hates Internet video, even though they know well, they are finished and either they'll go bust or they need to switch to Internet video themselves.
One issue is that reddit is not just one big social space. In addition to the front page and the main subreddits, it made up of many different small, but often quite active communities. People who used to form interest groups on various forums, random fan websites and blogs have moved to interest based subreddits instead. A lot of these communities wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for reddit making it so easy to create a subreddit on any topic possible.

While everyone on Digg or MySpace could easily move to reddit or facebook, it is much harder for a subreddit centered around say gardening, astrophotography, headphones or a tv show to just jump to a new website. I do hope that these communities won't be lost when reddit does end up losing its charm and popularity.
It only needs to be “something of value”... often money, but I think most reasonable people can see the potential value of the requested statement from Jeff Bezos.

Now if AMI wanted you or I to say those statements I’m not sure how valuable they’d be.
I took German back in high school but I don't really remember anything about it. How can you read if you don't at least have an idea of what each word or phrase means? I'm a native born English speaker, and I occasionally have to look up English words if I have no idea what they're supposed to mean. It's one thing if it's an obvious random word for a gadget such as doohickey. I can't imagine reading a foreign language and surmising what a word means without a definition.
You can't really have a "prediction model" that does not make predictions.

Their research into the causes and contributing factors of genocide seems very worthwhile, but it's not prediction.

In the same way, understanding and monitoring plate tectonics is valuable and worthwhile, but its that is something very different than earthquake prediction.
It's a really effective and accurate argument with good Brier score when it's deployed against marketing woo, which is all that "AI" is.

I'm happy to place a long bet at whatever odds you like for whatever specific prediction you care to make if you want to put your money where your mouth is. Auger, "long now" whatever -I'm good for it.
Have you considered putting a tarp on it? Or spraying it with something flavored with something monkeys don't like the taste of?
Less power means less to go wrong. Automatic checks can also be deeper in a simpler system.

Your point is valid though, the power seems to end up being needed, sometimes, in some parts, in some cases. Escaping to a full language when needed seems to retain the benefits of both worlds.
Join your local makerspace. If you don't have a local makerspace, start one.
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Tipping is bad for everyone, but Americans love it.
> First, they removed Facebook from Internet Accounts in settings, then they blocked Facebook's enterprise certificate and now this.

Just to make it clearer, the removal of Facebook in the accounts was not about Facebook alone (though it may have been the cause for the decision). Integrations with Twitter, Vimeo, etc., were also removed together.

Facebook’s enterprise certificate was revoked because it violated Apple’s policy by using it to distribute applications to users who’re not “internal” and not employees/contractors. That the app in question was also sleazy (as Facebook usually seems to be) was a coincidence in this case. But it’s also true that that app wouldn’t have passed the App Store review process had it been submitted there.
It shouldn't just be Germany to do this, every country should do so.
They don't need to compete for the wire for this to be a problem, they just need to compete for the viewer, which they do.
I imagine that even perfectly sober people are interested in skipping these checkpoints, and so a checkpoint on Waze, whether real or not, causes enough traffic diversion that fake checkpoints will just make traffic even more of a mess, which seems unlikely to be a politically popular decision.
Murder's more dangerous, too, but that doesn't mean they can set up a "let's see if you have a dead body in your trunk" checkpoint.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't come with "unless it's super crime-y" exceptions.
Do you use https://github.com/Tencent/libco or https://byuu.org/library/libco/ ?
You're really calling a user who joined in 2008 with 12k karma a troll? I think it's nonsense that parent's opinion against Bezos was flagged, instead of the erudite references to Batman and The Wire in these comments.
Thanks for taking the time to write this! I've gotten a ton of good tips from a few of you. I will push through my fears and just go later this year.

Luxor just sounds like a magical place. Yeah, the pyramids are something I want to see but I have a feeling it will be like Old Faithful at Yellowstone but much less regulation. Either way, I can't skip it because they are among the most important things ever built by human hands.

Any book recommendations or documentaries? I love Egyptology, always have.
Let's be real. He earned much more than half.
I think the problem here is that in some lines of work, it's generally understood that the worker only makes tips (waiters, bartenders -- any base pay is negligible), in other lines of work it's generally understood that the tip is a nice but non-required "extra" that nobody should be depending on (barista, Uber driver), and in yet further cases it's a "required" extra (taxi driver, hairdresser, massage therapist).

And while pre-Internet delivery was previously understood to be only tips (e.g. in NYC, the person delivering your Chinese food is paid solely by your tips, not by the restaurant, effectively just like a waiter)...

...we haven't societally established what the right expectation is for dot-com delivery people. Because it's such a new thing, most consumers probably assume they're paid a fair wage and tips are either a non-required bonus (like Uber) or a required bonus (like hairdressers). Yet the companies seem to be treating tips as the entire salary (like waiters, bartenders, and restaurant deliveries).

Of course there's zero logic to any of this, only custom. And the insane confusion around it is just another argument for getting rid of the damned practice of tipping in the first place, everywhere.
Much discussion already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109474

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19110002
Also, has Google newspaper archive closed? That was such a benefit to humanity, but I can't find it anymore.
Care to support this with your example of something you done?
Define "easy" - if you start out just eyeballing it, then spam blogs will steal historical content from reputable news sites to try to slip through the process. So then you have to start checking for plagiarism/copied content, and from there it becomes an arms race. Not so easy after all.
I agree current automation can't handle unforeseen events, but I think it can flag them as they start.

Where I work we use a hybrid system that must be pretty common — instrument, establish patterns, watch for anomalies (automatically) and alert humans when they happen.
Random but sorta relevant:
In the video game Morrowind, there's a king who wears the best ring in the game - it provides constant life and stamina regeneration. The only way to take it is to kill him. But you better be prepared to fight a room full of very powerful guards. You better be prepared when you go at him.
There are many companies that do this with trademark renewals. The same orgs usually “help” with registering international trademarks too.
> So, if you are being billed per kWh for wind or solar power, that's fleecing the customer then?

At any time other than a load emergency, yes. The ideal pricing mechanism for a 100% renewable grid would be to pay a flat rate based on your service size (100 amp, 200 amp, etc.) and then get paid by the grid for dropping your load when the grid is overloaded. That would give the power company the incentive to prevent overloads by providing adequate capacity.

> Also, for coal, the coal per kWh costs about 3 cents, you pay at least three times that for electricity, usually more--is that also fleecing the customer?

That price doesn't include externalities. It can make sense to use pricing to discourage usage of resources with otherwise unpriced negative externalities.

> What do you mean by "meaningful"? I mean, either they have a marginal cost, or they don't right?

Network equipment may use more electricity when forwarding packets than not. But when this is in the amount of pennies per TB of data, the accounting overhead of keeping track of it would exceed the measured dollar amount.
I’m curious: why open source at all in this particular business model at this particular stage?
I’m a Dasher, and we can’t even see tips per order we complete, only how much we got in tips and how much we got from DoorDash during a session of deliveries.
Very nice. My current method is limited to looking at various sites like http://akizukidenshi.com/catalog/default.aspx (I live in Tokyo). It's nice to visit their Akihabara store too: http://akizukidenshi.com/catalog/contents2/akiba.aspx It's interesting to compare listings, e.g. for part 2SC945L-K-T92-K: http://akizukidenshi.com/catalog/g/gI-11428/ and https://www.findchips.com/detail/2SC945L-K-T92-K/4317462-Uni...
Just an FYI, the comment you replied to didn't imply that the government do the publishing.

There are several initiatives to tag evidence to plates and locations so that people can watch out for bad and dangerous drivers.

Eg, https://baddrivers.com/
Apple News is broken in a crazier way, you need to own an iOS device to see it. I mean, what the hell?
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Not early on in the pregnancy. Also, the life of someone already born is worth more than the potential life which isn't. If the pregnancy is expected to cause death of another life, then abortion is the lesser evil.
It depends on the location since prices are different everywhere you go.
Tipping culture should die, and 7 states thus far have banned the mistreatment of servers via reducing their wage due to earned tips. Amazon knew this practice was against the spirit of the law in its home state, and it likely would result in penalties if Working Washington or similar chooses to take them to court over this fraudulent practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
Only analysis that matters in the end is the judge's. That's why when you're operating with something like that hanging over your head, you should keep your nose clean.

You wouldn't believe the number of people who sidestep trouble with a deal like that, and then go right out and burn it up like idiots. I just don't get it?
Seats are arranged by the carrier, not the AirBus itself. Seat pitch in Singapore Airlines and Emirates is quite comfy
Abso-freaking-lutly. The permitted range for the CG (longitudinally) — denoted as "% of MAC", for Mean Aerodynamic Chord — is quite narrow, and you prefer to stay away from the "edges" of that range whenever possible.

The distribution of pax and baggage are chosen so as ensure its within the range. IOW, they don't book Row 1 then 2 then 3, etc, — sold seats are sprinkled across the aircraft as it's filled.

I've been told when the flight attendants are moving forward and back with the beverage service you can watch the trim wheel turn as the autopilot maintains correct AOA.
It varies by hospital and insurance. One of my visits to ER was $1300. Once I moved to the next town over a couple months later, the other two ER visits to a different hospital were $650 each.

BUT, that $1300 really caught me by surprise because about five years ago I had gone to the same hospital, for the same thing, and let myself be admitted to stay overnight for more tests, and that only cost me $450 ($150 copay and $300 for a doctor that visited during that).

And yeah, that's one reason why I hesitate to go to ER now. Having to pay about $4000 for a few ER visits and a few extra tests afterwards that all came back negative was not my idea of a fun way to spend money that summer (fun fact, I also had to pay $4000 in car repairs that same summer. It was a fun summer).
I can't remember the Tory Brexiteer that signed it off, but it is essentially the Wirral, as in Merseyside, not Wales as we know it. Sadly I am out of touch with politics these days to have the recall of what went on as it was a while ago when I paid attention to these things. There was a fiddle there though and it wasn't way back in the 1970's.
You can delete the related items from your account history or clear it altogether. It won't recommend them anymore and you can then mark the stories you are not interested in.
Yeah but why Medium? Surely he could throw up a static site in an S3 bucket...
Yet restaurants do quite well in the seven states that ban this shady practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage_in_the_United_Stat...
I think that an underrated factor in the dynamic range compression is the way we listen to music. I'm not sure if it's accurate to say that the average quality of listening devices (that is, speakers/headphones) has decreased, but certainly it has become more common to hear music through bad earbuds, tinny smartphone speakers, or laptops simply because those devices are so prevalent.

In these settings, music with lots of dynamic range may legitimately not sound as good. Due to the quality of reproduction, the low-loudness parts are hard to perceive.

For me, there are certainly songs that I enjoy listening to on good headphones in a quiet room that don't have anywhere near the impact when played on laptop speakers.
In addition to the archiving challenge, just the fact that PDFs are the de facto standard in distributing datasheets makes it very challenging to build knowledge bases like FindChips since it is so unfriendly to parse. There is a huge amount of data variety in these documents in terms of structure, formatting, and language.
Boom and others are trying to re-enter the supersonic space with smaller jets.

The main problem with Concorde was that it couldn't fill up seats at the ticket prices being charged, and transatlantic subsonic flights were both more comfortable at the equivalent ticket price, and at the flying time sweet spot of 6-8 hours, which is long enough to just sleep and wake up in the morning.

Had SSTs come of age in the '80s and had a range closer to 6000nm, then they probably would've taken off for transpacific flights. 6000nm from HNL gets you to pretty much all of East Asia, Singapore, and the entirety of North America.
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Jeff has tremendous resources, but a measly blog post is his counter-punch? He really is screwed.
> he would be contributing 448m.

Maybe he could pull off a buy & kill of the whole NI.
The probably optimized by some stupid stat that makes it look better on their report to show clickbait garbage
Lol, I did. Was split on whether it was facetious, but its a good opportunity to highlight who else is offering 2 day shipping :P
A pencil and rubber band is a great trick that I use all the time. Simply band the pencil so it is positioned at the centre of the condenser diaphragm does a good job of reducing plosives.
> But let's not forget there's a good reason why data centres full of computer servers are often built inside icy mountains or under oceans. Electronics get hot.

Gell-Mann amnesia effect applies here. This is pretty bad reporting.
I'm not very fond of helm's seemingly imperative approach, though. Am I mistaken about that?
"Driving to work is free, if you ignore the cost of the car, the fuel and the roads."
Several friends and I recently noticed the red navigation bar indicating screen recording for a couple seconds after closing instagram. At the time I wrote it off as nothing, but now I wonder if even apps that big are doing similar things.
In the Clojure world we use EDN (extensible data notation) which is a subset of Clojure. https://github.com/edn-format/edn

You can extend it, convert it to JSON if necessary, and it is easy to read.
I don't really care about this story. I don't feel compelled to care as it is not like other warehouse fires, e.g. the Asos one where you wondered about people and their jobs. When it is just robots and when you know the customers will just place their orders with one of the other click and pick outfits, e.g. Waitrose, Sainsbury's or whatever there isn't that requirement to give a damn.

In retail there are thieves who don't care about stealing from big companies like how they might care about stealing from small businesses as there is an assumption everything is insured. I am sure Ocado have insurance and I don't care too much about the shareholders of the insurance companies as I am sure they have their losses 'insured'.

File under 'expensive mistake' rather than 'human tragedy'.
But even then, "load" doesn't work well for all workloads. http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-08-08/linux-load-avera...

The number of switching tasks may be very high for a number of reasons, including a very large number of threads which do very small chunk of work each and yield.
I feel like I've seen this in 'Mr Robot' or similar.
The organic search results have also been tweaked over the years to put a greater emphasis on domain "authority." Google SERPs are a very different animal than they were 5 or 10 years ago -- back then there was a greater emphasis on keyword relevancy. Nowadays, you get stuff that doesn't match your search very well, but it comes from a domain that is popular, old, has lots of links, and maybe has a little bit of secret Google blessing because it's a big brand...

People commonly lament that the Web has changed, it's dominated by big brands, it's not weird anymore, etc. I think this is a big part. Google has made these changes in an effort to address some legitimate problems around spam, black/gray hat SEO etc. But they likely have some less user-centric incentives as well ($$$) and either way, Google SERPs have become more boring and less relevant.

There might be an opportunity for disruption emerging because of this. Google knows its search engine isn't very good anymore! That is why they're increasingly trying to pitch their service as a recommendation engine with special AI sauce, not an index of the Web. But frankly as this article demonstrates, what Google wants to recommend comes from a smaller sandbox and often is not the most interesting stuff out there.

If someone can come up with a distribution mechanism which solves the problem of helping the user discover All The Content minus the spammers, scammers and fake news, they will be able to deliver more relevant information than search or social media can today. Google being large actually gives them an in-built disadvantage here because no matter what algorithm they develop, it's going to be everyone's first priority to reverse engineer and game.