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Thanks a lot!

Yea, we'll look into how users are synergizing Ryeboard with different products and see how we can make that process smoother :)
Ask HN: How do you get good bug reports from internal dogfooding?
At the various companies that I have worked developing consumer mobile apps, it has been a struggle getting the extended team to report bugs in a usable manner (both quantity and quality). Almost always the majority of reports are given by walking over to a dev or slacking them.

Any tools or process that has worked for you to gather good bug reports -- making it easy both for the reporter, and for the devs?
1- This is boldly assuming they're trying to bring in immigrants. They likely will, but they're also not nearly as concerned about getting those people visas because if you can't get a visa, they can just select from other elite candidates who can.
2- There's also plenty of bad things about Bangalore, like the fact that the infrastructure isn't nearly as established as NYC.
3- NYC offers immediate proximity to one of the nerve centers of global commerce. There are hundreds of major multinationals based there, and that proximity is valuable.
4- The US has the 3rd largest population behind China/India, so it's not like they're lacking in bodies to fill roles. The size of the population and the size of the economy aren't the same thing (India's GDP is currently 1/10th of the US's, despite having more humans living there).
It's more like the kid giving you 2 options:
- Unspiked lemonade for $.25 - Spiked lemonade for free
Companies are free to sell what they want, for the amount they want. At least there's more than one option here.

Thst kid would be arrested, because it’s plain to see from a legal and moral perspective that it’s wrong. Besides, it’s not like that at all.

What it is like is a radio station threatening to cut off service to people who switch channels or turn down volume during ads. This is a problem with the business model, and using TOS tricks to try and twist people’s arm. If they want to be sub only then by all means, but if they want to use an ad model as well then they incur some risks with that. I’m also not clear that it stops with the “free” service only.

Personally I don’t use Spotify, because I like to own my music, and I trust in their business model’s longevity about as much as I believe in fairies. When companies have to threaten their customers to make a business model work, the model is already fucked beyond repair. Advertising on the internet isn’t compatible with the existence and proliferation of ad blockers, and I bristle when a company makes a move to try and undermine autonomy to shore that model up. Moreover if Spotify does it as people accept it, other companies will try to follow suit.
Ads in their current manifestation are inseparably connected to both the surveillance practices and the security-busting delivery of potential malware to user devices. Google and others could put a stop to both of these, but there is zero possibility they will do so.

Ads themselves are .. not innocent, but not in-and-of-themselves evil. I rather like turn of the century advertising because it's mostly statements about products and their advantages. It wasn't until the Bernays/Freud era that ads switched from trying to persuade you as to the product's merits to trying to manipulate the consumer by essentially selling an identity. That practice is comparably dark.
I use fundraise.com, iirc the fund was for some apartment buildings in Brooklyn
She shouldn't be forced to give it up. But she also shouldn't be praised for holding onto it.
I pay for Spotify, and I’m about ready to drop it.

Offline play is the primary feature I pay for, and it’s SUCKS!!!

They simply DONT allow you to search an index of the songs that are saved to the device.

The major bug is, a song is generally only found via the index you saved it in.

Ie: if you save a song in a playlist, you can’t find it by searching for the artist.

If you save 3 albums by an artist, but not the artist, you try and view the artist, nothing appears.

On top of that, Spotify is the slowest flakiest app regarding internet connection. It regularly says “offline” or “can’t connect” when every other app works just fine.

On top of that, twice while upgrading the app it has deleted my ENTIRE saved library.
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Just had to replace a Kindle. They sell one version now, with ads, and you can turn them off permanently by making a one-time payment though your Amazon account. They also offer it as a check box during checkout.
I was being sarcastic near the end. That seems to be what the higher ups think. I definitely think there needs to be lots of redundancy, as someone who has been the recipient of a bunch of dumped on extra responsibility with little knowledge transfer as people have left.
There's a blind developer giving a talk on Visual Studio accessibility here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc - and you can hear examples of him using text to speech starting at about 0m 45s but he doesn't say how fast.
Do we really need to read a book a week ? I mean just reading a book once wont really help much. Isnt it better to read less but read those books deeply ?
Both of those things can be correct. They can both contribute towards the housing squeeze.
I honestly think that the Oldenburg model (yes, he had good reasons that are no longer relevant) is going the way of the dodo. These companies are fighting a losing battle. They've already lost to pre-print on arXiv.

The future of making money from journals could potentially lie with curation: "these are the papers you need to read this month" with links to open-access papers. Indexing and search that exploits that curation also comes to mind: "these are the papers you should read while researching your problem."

The biggest problem that open-access is going to cause is volume. Although, that been said, that's an existing problem (though far less pronounced) in the Oldenburg model due to bad science.
NoVa makes a lot of sense for the large US government markets Amazon is pursuing.
Capability + intent is what counts in this case. They intend to deploy countermeasures targeting a minuscule percentage of people, but every user will probably feel the consequences. This, plus the fact that they are willing to serve JS from third parties, is a dangerous mix. It's not what you would expect from a music player app.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114135 and marked it off-topic.
Intercom is a good tool for support, but we have run into a lot of bugs using deeper features.

Their support is great, they allways get back to you.

We started using intercom for all outgoing communications especially email campaigns and ran into reporting bugs, built in templates not showing on outlook, events being not usable in mails ect.

You can only create a company via the API, which by the way loves to duplicate your contacts from time to time.

As a support tool, it is great our users are used to using the bubble to chat to us but we have moved the our mailing and crm elsewhere.

I think about intercom being very useful if you sell a low value product to a lot of clients, so large user base at $5 each.
How do you know that this is not due to government interface, I read somewhere that the non-subsided plastic surgery industry saw less increase in prices for consumers. Bear in mind that waiting times in socialist countries are way longer and also if you don't agree with the treatment that has been decided for there is nowhere to go. If you are looking towards the Swedish model for an example keep in mind that the direction there has been increased privatization.
Jeff's letters to shareholders are pretty good. Here's a recent one: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518...

Because of its audience and goals it's necessarily less technical and more essay-like than a typical s-team memo. For obvious reasons, I can't link to any of those.

An example that's close and is in the public domain is Jacobsen's TCP slow start paper: https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf. He's advocating a specific change in the TCP protocol and marshalls evidence beautifully to make his argument.
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Hey look over there, that guy is doing it too!
> My rule: no index, no sale.

With e-books though, why do you even need an index when you can just search?
I completely agree--having inherited a few applications worth of .NET code in which the last (younger, right out of college) developer named all the variables for things from Norse Mythologies.

I also inherited a bunch of circa-2005 ColdFusion with aptly named variables in CamelCase which are much easier to understand.

varUsersTableID > pointer*Freya any day of the week.
> I would rather say that it seems likely science in the strict sense cannot either support or refute the existence of consciousness. It's essentially a philosophical question.

Agreed, but I'd make the following change: however, whatever consciousness is, science can safely assume most healthy humans have it, and can make educated guesses (and experiments) to explore whether insects have it.
1:1 scale model of Berlin in Cities: Skylines [video]
> I tune C++ compilers, just like I tune Java compilers, in both cases I can decide to do it during AOT compilation or at a later moment

How many customers run self-compiled, say mysql binaries? Or mongodb? An tiny minority.
Now how many tune cassandra or hadoop jvms? A big chunk.

You can use niche cases to make a point (fintech is almost the textbook definition of a niche software use case), however what you say is plain wrong most of the time.

Also, I've managed thousands of c++ and thousands of java processes. I'd take c++ ones over java any day.
This is a very easy problem. If you feel this strongly stop buying their products. If you don't do that clearly you don't feel strongly enough. Blaming them when they do the right thing is just going to discourage them to do so in the future
Broadly speaking, that is because we're approaching something like a carrying capacity, estimated to be somewhere around 10B.

If we increase land use efficiency dramatically, that effectively raises the carrying capacity and population growth can continue much longer
A friend once complained that most docs don't have code examples, or if they do have them, they're incomplete or have variables like "foo" and "bar" that give no indication of real-world usage.

Despite being a programmer for 20 years, I've found the C# library NodaTime to be very frustrating for the same reason.
What is the name of this credit union?
Out of line with previous deals. Look at what wasn't offered to Google when they bought/built their office
Not sure you can conclude that most can’t afford the ad free version from what’s publicly known.

They still sell both versions, presumably if only very very few people bought the ad free version then they would have stopped selling it.
I'm not aware of homeowners insurance that has a separate deductible for personal electronic devices. People typically have a deductible of $1000 or more for their homeowners claims. Also, if you ever make a claim, your rates will go up and you will be unable to switch carriers for about 5 years as no one will insure you if you had a recent claim.
It is us that's the problem. We keep using these services.

Your groceries getting worse remind me that I used to enjoy Blue Diamond almonds. I'd get them at the local Walgreens. Then Walgreens decided to replace them with their own "Nice" brand. They were crap. Not even remotely the same quality, first bag was barely cheweble, and of course not the same flavors. They did the same with Q-Tips, replacing them for "Nice" cotton swabs. Again, complete crap, cotton falls off, not as thick, sticks break easily.

But even worse, almost no one except me cared. If people cared it wouldn't last because people would stop buying the crap brand and Walgreen would get the message but most people don't care

This came up with my roommate who basically always bought the cheapest spaghetti sauce. When I asked her if why that one she said effectively "any spaghetti sauce is the same as another so I just always get the cheapest" to which I was shocked. They aren't remotely similar to my taste buds and also now understanding why everything gets worse, because most people apparently are fine with anything or can't tell the difference or don't find the differences important.

It's the same for FB. Most of my friends are unlikely to ever leave. Whether it's because it doesn't bother them or because they don't think about it or because they just take it all for granted, it seems to be a combination of all of those which effectively means FB gets no signal to make things better.

Heck, as another example the complaints are loud here about the MacbookPro's keyboard/touchbar/weight etc but sales are higher than ever which means the complainers are not remotely a signal to change things.
I'd be more worried about people hiring based on such strange judgements of character.

I wouldn't. Over the decades I've seen many people hire, and later regret hiring, people who demonstrated poor character.

In a more public sense, remember the Bush-Clinton election where the full version of the fabled "It's the economy, stupid" slogan was "Character doesn't matter; it's the economy, stupid." And we see what happened when someone of poor character got power and an intern.
Can amazon reconsider the Crystal City site too?
I'm not sure this has anything to do with adblockers. It could just be that they generate class names which is common in modern frontend build chains, wrap things in a lot of divs because they compose the styles in some kind of design system and have some kind of <span>S</span> hack to let UI text wrap at syllables.
This seems to be a common solution. I don't think it's realistic and is entirely too optimistic about the information processing capacity of individuals in society at large.

At the end of the day it's too much information for people to understand, handle and sift through to be a tractable solution.

What would end up happening is basically what we have now, consent and data decision-rights end up being proxied by third party organizations, and they attempt to segment the market and find defaults. It would just come right back around to what we have, only with different technology.

Instead, you could legislate advertising to be very restrictive. I think the less systems of paid influence that exist in the world the better, so I wouldn't cry for the demise of the advertising industry.

The tech industry needs to find a new revenue source anyway, might as well just go ahead and force the issue.
Kelly sizing is optimal long term, but is highly volatile. A common practice is to size by a fraction of Kelly, to reduce variance and since risk of ruin increases fast after 1.0 * Kelly. It also allows room for error in the probability predictions, to avoid going over 1.0 * Kelly by accident.

I try not to worry about stdev and focus on the soundness of my process, but in practice I have money split into higher-risk where I try to be clever, and low-risk failsafe investments to raise the floor of the worst case scenario.
If your gut is speaking to you in such a way you should feed it a healthy lunch.
Ten Year Challenge: How Popular iOS Apps Have Changed
I do this. It works, but there are some shortcomings.

You have to install the Spotify App on your PC. Adding new songs has been incredibly flaky for me (not recognizing that I've put new songs in the folder, Windows 10). The artists and albums don't show up in the "Artists" or "Albums" part of my Spotify library.
But NYC cares about tax revenue just like you or I care about income. In one move, HQ2 will bring NYC/NY State a very attractive amount of tax revenue. It is the most logical thing for city officials, who constantly want more funding, to do what exactly what will bring more funding the quickest.
Would you have an article or the name of the company. It seems like it could be a good read!
Is AviSynth still a thing? It seems like there hasn't been much active development for several years. But it doesn't look like there are any alternatives either for things like this is either.
Nobody said it is. It's your choice to use the service.
I think I should use /s in here in future.
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> it bothers me that there are such large institutions that can arbitrarily "bless" random people like a deity or something.

Do you mean like how some people are born into rich families and some into poor families? (I kid :))

> I also can't help but look at this cynically as a largely self-interested PR grab by Apple that is not a real sacrifice on their part.

It may be but so what? They could have done nothing, but they didn't. Good on them for doing this.
The thought experiment isn't science, I never claimed it was. Science is for studying physical things in the real world. The thought experiment in question is for studying the scientificness of a claim. The scientificness of a claim is not a physical object in the real world.

Traditional science (rolling balls down inclines, etc.) would all remain perfectly valid even if I'm the only conscious being and the whole world is in my mind. Science experiments still suggest laws to explain how that world in my mind works. (Note, I'm not advocating solipsism, I'm merely refuting your claim that solipsism is inconsistent with science.)
I'd say the ads are still deceptive even if they weren't created with that intention. It doesn't need to be sneaky, but if it's unsolicited then the consumer didn't opt for their attention to be steered toward it.

edit: removed example as it distracts from the point.
Yup, a negative income tax is a much better policy avenue to deal with this. It's much better to subsidize people doing things of varying degrees of productivity in an otherwise open employment market, than to discourage work entirely.

Work is how you learn and often have some kind of basic dignity and meaning, not to mention how you eventually move up to better positions.

This is essentially what the Earned Income Tax Credit is, and what should be expanded rather than something that would dis-incentivize working at all.
You're stretching the definition of laymen here - often people with plenty of expertise, such as GP's, don't have access to the latest research, or have to make do with the access of interns. For examples, see https://whoneedsaccess.org
For me it's the opposite: for example, I had watched countless videos on "disruption" but did not fully grasp it until I read The Innovator's Dilemma. The same holds true for theory of constraints vs reading The Goal, Robert Cialdini's works on influence, Richard Dawkin's views etc. In all cases, I thought I understood the material before reading the original source, and in every time the books blew me away.

Perhaps there is a dimension about how rigorous the thinking is behind the book. I struggle to imagine a YouTube video that could effectively and convincingly unpack ideas from The Intelligent Investor, The Sovereign Individual, Sapiens, etc. Other topics like "How to get rich with x" or pop-sci covered by the likes of Kurzgesagt are simplistic enough for a video essay, but those are seldom worth consuming regardless of medium.
16th-century model-book showing how to create various tools
That's a good point -- I wish we could see Sparklines-like histograms of reviews.

On a related note, for binary (good/bad) reviews, we can the temper the results by assuming a beta(1,1)-distributed prior and then updating [1]. The expectation (which can thought of as an "adjusted average rating") ends up being:

E[x] = (good + 1)/(good + bad + 2)

This adjusts for situations where the number of reviews is small, in which a good average rating can be misleading.

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/09/27/bayesian-amazon/
It may be a malware vector, but if it's tied to the service, you should not use the service and demand the ads be fixed before you will remove the ad blocker.

In other words you use the service when you are satisfied with it's cost, instead of using the service and then negotiating the transaction posthoc.
The rule reminds me of the hiring mentality of "it's worse to make a bad hire than to filter out a good hire."

There are so many books available to me that I do use Goodreads ratings as one heuristic for choosing what to read. It would take a lot for me to read a 2 star book (like a very strong recommendation from someone I trust), not because I am sure it wouldn't be worth my time, but because there are plenty of more highly rated books that are more likely to be worth it.

The author even qualifies the rule: "Unfortunately, Goodreads ratings are often not unbiased.."
There is a basic misunderstanding here. A basic income is unconditional. The Finnish study was not basic income because it was not unconditional. It was instead an experiment to find out if giving specifically unemployed people money would help them find a job.

It sounds like perfectly ordinary social security from my perspective in Norway, perhaps with some of the requirements relaxed.

If people want to find out if basic income works it has to be given to a representative slice of the population. This has been done several times in North America (once in Canada, and twice in the US), as far as I can tell it was successful.
Yes. That's the argument for "with" type constructs.
Stealing is taking property with the intention of permanently depriving the rightful owner of said property.

One cannot steal data by not watching ads because you can't deprive the owner of said data. Misusing a word to evoke an emotional response is intellectually dishonest and manipulative. Entitled is another overused manipulative term.

I am in fact entitled to decide what runs on my computer and spotify is entitled to decide who accesses theirs. If spotify closes accounts for not watching ads and I choose to block ads literally nobody is in the wrong. We are both exercising our respective rights.

At that point it becomes a discussion on what is prudent.

If you arne't in the habit of reading 5-10 pages of legalese when you walk into random stores I wonder why you believe people will read 5-10 pages of legalese before reading the dozens of sites they visit. People care about the terms and conditions exactly when they are informed of being in breach of them and only to the extent that being in breach of them effects their life.

In this case it seems incredibly likely that said users who aren't customers in the first place even if some of them watch ads will just watch free music on youtube.

On net spotify will save money on bandwidth which is incredibly cheap to start with, gain a modicum of new subscribers, and shrink their supply of free users that are their primary source of paid users.

Presumably they are in the best position to figure out if this is worth it and we shall all see.
Not if he wants his arm to stay together!
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I wonder what motivated the article's author to redact the scammer's email address.
We're all entirely dependent one things outside our control, and it's a worldview that's romanticized to the point of silliness to say anything else.

As for the land grant you're talking about, that's a huge, huge give-away right there; and, I'd note, in your hypothetical, you already inverted the sequence of events (be given land => you keep it, work hard => you get $250k).

All UBI does is recognize that, given how technological progress puts people out of jobs, we'd better find alternatives to distributing resources than what we do now, because we're going to end up with a lot of heads on spikes if we don't.
In other news:

Vegetarianism did not lead an increase in animal population.

Policing did not lead to an increase civic engagement.

Prophylactics did not lead to an increase in birth rates.

...I wonder what other goals I could retroactively apply to social programs to show how they failed to achieve things they were never meant to address.