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Sometimes I wonder about what exactly is the line when it comes to listening to customers or looking at your competitors, for ideas?

As the Hiten Shah puts it he got ideas or Hiten Bombs by watching competitors, investors, advisers and some which he thought of himself. And he also notes later in the article, they saw Mixpanel doing mobile apps, they saw the freemium option etc. So, the feature generation process was correct.

What went wrong was Kissmetric's estimation of the success of different ideas. They decided to pass on building mobile apps or giving freemium because they thought it would cost them too much. The question is - What kind of intuition was at play to make those decisions? IMO there aren't many ways to intuitively know when something will work or not.
The butterfly switch Macbook Pro keyboards prove it isn't just a perceived regression.

I get the appeal of the Apple Universe: It Just Works, everything is crafted, etc. The problem with that idea is that it's been eroded from two directions: Apple's own incompetence at making hardware and software which Just Works, and everyone else catching up to Apple at lower price points and, as I said before, while offering more meaningful choice than Apple has since the days of the Apple II.

I remember when I needed ndiswrapper to use WiFi on a laptop under Linux. I remember when I needed a bizarre Frankenstein pseudo-FTP setup to access NTFS partitions on Linux. I remember when USB didn't exist and you needed device drivers for every single thing. Those days are gone. Macs not having to deal with those things is no longer a competitive advantage.

These days, Macs are only really special in that they tie you to the Apple universe. I'm not interested in being tied to a corporation like that.
Are they all indivudally sexist or do the management actively push it down?

In case of a management problem you may have a chance of turning each person to turn the tide?

Everybody always knows stuff doesn't work optimal but does not have the guts to change it. That's why we need strong women.
It's always struck me that the story about 'men keeping women off the workplace; rampant sexism' etc . never truly captured the whole story. Sure feminism itself has historically played handmaiden to forces who wanted to see lower wages and higher consumerism, but somehow there is not even an acknowledgement of this today.

The talking points always assume that fundamental human tasks like raising a family is infinitely more despicable than working as a drone in a corporation. I'm amused that the powers that be push the story that doing what is often a pointless chore, often for mere survival in contemporary times, is somehow 'more fulfilling' than the above.

This is not entirely surprising, since family has essentially become nationalized, while state is being privatised. Orwell's world will probably come into existence due more to reasons that far more insipid and glacial in its accumulation, than those 'big bang' events like terrorism. The latter no doubt are setting up crucial infrastructure for these, but the social aspect is has a much larger time constant.
A few centimetres of unshielded wires are typically enough to receive some of the strongest signals on the amateur radio bands.

If you are using such a short and therefore highly inefficient antenna, both the noise and the desired signal decrease significantly, but the signal may still stay above the noise floor.

The statement in the article that the antenna tuner doesn't do much on receive is not correct.

On a related note, radio hams were previously successful in establishing transcontinental contacts in Morse code using all kind of unusual antennas, including bed springs :-)
Yeah, I would have liked to see them commit to a comprehensive post-mortem in the Q&A.
If there are no other people who can maintain that stack, maybe (firing is too extreme, I’d just ban the Clojure code in the production)

Writing initial version of the code is only a small part of it. Maintaining and enhancing it is much harder.

What is the company going to do if the new endpoint went down and the author is on vacation?
Confession I didn't watch the video with sound so. But it might be the Mid Atlantic Accent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent
There is an increase, but it is delayed and diminished.

The city budget is not 100% salary. The city may buy water, textbooks, fire engines, fencing, sod, bleachers, asphalt, diesel, and so many other things.

Rent and mortgage payments don't immediately change for all existing workers. The bubble may turn in to a crash, meaning that these workers never face higher housing costs. Workers will normally be spending about 15% to 45% of their income on housing, meaning that most of their costs are unaffected by a housing bubble. Workers buy so many other things: food, computers, gasoline, cars, etc.

So if housing goes up by 50% now, next year the workers might need an extra 20% to maintain lifestyle, and that might mean the city budget needs to go up by 10% next year or the year after. If housing crashes, it could be less.
"All of this also contributes to lower social mobility. The ability for someone to climb up from the lowest 'rung' of an organisation was a rare but treasured part of corporations."

I was looking for temp jobs recently, and I went to an interview for a mailroom job. I thought of the cliche of the mailroom employee who works their way up to CEO, and when I got to the interview, you guessed it - I wasn't interviewing with the company I thought I was, but a contracted provider of services in the same building. So, no CEO potential.

I also used to work for a division of a Fortune 500 company and noticed that the janitors were, again, outsourced and not employees of the company.

Something I don't see you mention, though, is that governments are taking advantage of outsourcing too. I am in fact working for a state government at the moment as a temp. I'm basically doing the same thing as an employee would, but without the civil service protections. There may or may not be opportunities as a result.
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How you can see system call from malware? how do you get it and what is it look's like?
Paper cups are hot to hold too - I don't think 0.5mm of paper is a particularly great insulator, at least in my experience. A 100% biodegradable and easily removable (not glued) cardboard sleeve would do the trick like it does with a paper cup I reckon.
I don't see how any of your comment is relevant to any of mine, which was a pushback against the GP comment's recommendation to focus on local cost/benefit and feign ignorance of externalities
All are exceptions that prove the rule.
Farms tend to be lived on. When a farm is lost, it's not just the family business going, but the longtime family home and maybe recreation area.

I'd think it's more emotionally negative than the closure of the family mine, steel mill, or other such businesses where (typically) you don't have generations of children growing up on-site, playing around, and developing fond childhood memories. It's not just the dangerous workplaces that will have a reduced family connection when compared to a farm. Generations of kids probably won't spend as much time in the family medical clinic, law office, bank, design firm, etc. as they would on the family farm.

Maybe this is closer to the emotional negativity of losing a farm: after clientele dwindles, the multigenerational family restaurant with an upstairs flat has to be sold off. The family must move away, and now the space is an Applebee's.
Land leasing is mostly just an indirect form of tax which distorts government incentives and the economy

- Governments are incentivized to promote development above all else, which means that unsavory tactics like unfair compensation of rural farmers is rampant.

- At the same time, governments are incentivized to prop up property prices. The housing price to income ratio is a multiple of those even in Western cities, making it unaffordable for most citizens. And the central government cannot deflate a plainly obvious property bubble threatening the economy, because then developers won't make land-lease payments and the local governments will default en masse.
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It is. In this case however I suppose the resistive component of the custard plays a significant role in the match and therefore power dissipation (but not radiation). The main components acting as an antenna here are indeed the wires.
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The problem here is not understanding your database not about making a system in an unsupported and probably undeployable thing to prove how clever you are...
Google entered a "mature and settled" search market in 1998. Just do it
CS:APP is hands down THE book that every person interested in the low-level stuff in computer systems should own. But heads up, anyone who is considering to buy the book - please get the North American Edition, NOT the global edition.

I made the mistake of getting the Global edition, because of its considerably less cost, and because I couldn't afford the North American one - it was only after that I checked out the book site, where the authors mention that the global edition is chock full of errors [0].

I don't blame the authors, nor even the people who were responsible for 'the generation of a different set of practice and homework problems'. I can get printing the book in B&W, reducing paper quality, and publishing as a paperback to cut costs, but it's baffling why the publishers compromise on the actual quality of the content itself.

Amazon is full of similar 'PSAs' about not buying the global edition [1].

[0] http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/errata.html

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Systems-Programmers-Perspect...
This will unwind the stack, executing destructors. Which is the last thing that you want to do in a scenario where conditions that were supposed to be invariants are broken. If your invariants don't hold, you don't really know what's going on - think of it as high-level undefined behavior. The faster you stop executing code within the security boundary (usually process), the better. This is exactly why assert() calls abort(), and why you should do so as well as soon as you've logged enough data to diagnose the issue.
Are you saying that all the people working on this this stuff are either idiots or liars? My impression is that there are a ton of problems but they believe they can be solved.
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Ugly yes, over engineering? no it's what you would have done in PHP in the 90's. Doing the URL thing would need more work (hello .htaccess). Anyway...

Good points: It is semantically correct and self documenting. There is no resource called 300 nested under a resource called 200 so lets not pretend there is. The query string seems perfect for the job of providing size parameters. You can then extend this interface to take other factors you want to affect the image, and keep it backwards compatible. Function over form.
why is this getting downvoted? it's a legit reason.
You're right, of course. But a progressive income-based fine would generate even more revenue and wouldn't disproportionately affect those with lower income.
It depends on your ambitions. If you want to be a stinking rich billionaire, ok fine. Good luck!!

If instead you want to have some fun and maybe get more money back than you put in, that's a different world.

I'm increasingly persuaded that unless you go to dinner parties with say Sequoia capital people, it's better to start small, get the principles working right and then build on it.
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"For example, there is no fine for murder, the penalty is death, or life in prison, because we really are out to maximize deterrence there."

It depends on the state. In Missouri, 2nd degree murder has a minimum of 10 years.
Piracy is also fueled by availability. As long as licensing agreements prohibit a uniform release schedule for movies and TV series Worldwide people will try to pirate.

If I am not living in the US and want to watch a hulu series I have zero choice but to pirate it or use a shady vpn.
This reads like a thinly veilled advertisement for mapbox's map tiles services.
How does liability work in these cases? If you had a security breach due to this security incident, would it be Docker’s liability or yours? It’s probably in the terms and conditions, but I would think it’s your liability since you can host your own registries and it’s your responsibility to act on Docker’s warnings (and I would think users expect and demand abundance of caution). But what happens if Docker mischecked and sent you a false negative on being compromised? And what happens if a full post-mortem is released detailing gaps in security best practices between what’s Docker does and what you could do yourself?

This may well be a moot point; I think if you really wanted to be sure of what you were including in your code you would pull down tarballs and validate checksums for all dependencies before building on a secure network.
And Dropbox is rsync, we know already
This.
HBO doesnt have enogh to justify keeping them on all thr time, but once a year ill get it for 2 months to catch up. Then its to another, etc.
You think that's cool, check out this antenna made from a jet of seawater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIZUhu21sQ
It would still evaluate the condition in both cases, unless it can guarantee that the condition is a pure function with no observable side effects.
> GeoCities lost everything.

Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.
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Ask HN: How would you build a Excel file uploader with inline preview?
I like the file uploader of Dataiku DSS[1] wich allows you to upload Excel/csv files and edit them in the previewer befor commoting them in the db. My question is this: is there any Js open-source library like that one with inline preview and editing of spreadsheets? If it doesn't exist, I would like to have an idea how I could build one with available tools.

[1]: https://www.dataiku.com/dss/editions/
"The reason we have rules is that breaking the rules has costs to society. When the value of breaking the rule is worth more to you than the cost to society,"

What if the harm to society of a rich person breaking a law is more than the harm of a poor person breaking that law? The positive actions a person does may be magnified by wealth; why wouldn't the negative actions be?
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The golden age to be really was around 2009 when I was able to buy pretty much every show I wanted for download on Amazon or iTunes and pay for just that. Now with Netflix and Amazon prime etc. we just traded one form of bundling for another.

The only advantage is that I can rotate between some streaming services (e.g last month Netflix, now HBO bc GoT, then Showtime for Billions..)
If you're in the same process as the code that had its invariant fail, how can you ensure that your process is in a safe state afterwards? A failed invariant, by definition, means that you're in uncharted territory - any anticipated failures are (assuming proper design) reported via the usual error mechanisms.
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I was told early in my career that you can't sell something unless you have competitors. it's not universally true I expect but many potential customers operate from the mindset that a) if you have no competitors, it's not a real thing and b) there's no hurry for them to look into it.
I've found Docker's communication about this incident to be pretty poor.

1. The email they sent out didn't specify whether your account was included in the 5% of compromised users, or whether you had linked GitHub or BitBucket accounts that they unlinked. The only way to know seems to be if you still have a linked GH/BB account then you're (probably?) ok.

2. They mention you should "check security logs to see if any unexpected actions have taken place" and linked to GH/BB security audit log pages, but I don't believe that's sufficient, you also need to check for rogue commits.

3. They haven't said when the breach occurred, so there's no way of knowing how far back to look. They "discovered" it on Thursday, and say it was a "brief period", but that's meaningless.

4. They downplayed it as "brief", "non-financial user data", and "less than 5%" of users. I care more about the integrity of source code and builds than any financial information I might have given to Docker.

I can sometimes forgive companies for breaches like this, if they own up to it and do an excellent job of communicating what happened, how, when, what the impact and mitigations are, both internally and for their customers. That was not the case here.

EDIT: they discovered the breach Thursday, but still haven't given a timeframe for when it may have first occurred.
Well, i would have assumed that part of the price was mo opolistic behaviors by cable.
Some coffee shops in Korea now enforce this rule. If you are staying in the coffee shop to drink your coffee, you are given porcelain cups. If you ask for a disposable cup, you are told that you may not drink your coffee in the coffee shop, there may be some legal reason for it.
Cheap food means farmers lose. Someone is being sent to the economic butchers block so the rest can have cheap food.

And why should food be cheap that farmers have to spend more than it takes to buy the food?

Regardless it’s moot as commodity crops in the USA is mostly (over)grown for feed or ethanol. It’s a disaster because the cost to environment and water is never taken into account.

And then there is california with its 45 billion dollar Ag income of speciality crops. Most of it is fruits and nuts going to export. 38-39 billion is production costs(at minimum wage rates). The actual food we eat is coming from South America and Mexico. It’s cheap because we are importing our food and not because we overproduce food crops.
"Scientist". "Architect". "Engineer". Even "Developer".

Bah!

All borrowed titles that try to make what we do sound more important to those who really do those things.

Coder. Programmer. You're either encoding logic or data into something a computer program can use. Even if all you do is draw fancy diagrams.

Off-topic whining. Downvote to oblivion.
Isn't this still true? What shows can you not buy on Amazon or iTunes?
Of course one would not burn pB in a tokamak. So, that number is not relevant, although it is always trotted out to justify not diverting money from tokamak.

Practical pB designs rely on colliding beams as in the LHC, or other plasma-dynamic schemes that engage the materials in their own confinement.
Can it tune fish fingers, too?
Additionally, Github, Salesforce, Uber and Facebook all entered into spaces with existing competitors.
Sounds kind of like Loop[0]. You get metal containers that you send back when you want a refill, and they sanitize them for you. They seem to be planning to stock more than just food, like mouthwash/hair products.

[0] https://loopstore.com
> But that can't happen as long as the entire fucking world sees a different experience and different point of view as a threat to their precious status quo that must be shot down before it has any hope of taking root.

And now I invite you to try to understand my feelings. If you want it not to be "the whole fucking world" to shoot someone down simply because they have a different experience and different point of view, it's really got to start somewhere. You might keep in mind that my initial interaction in the conversation was an offer to try to understand your point of view.
I assume you mean PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) :)

A PEP has a lot more to consider than a standalone, third-party projects. They also need to support most (of not all) usages of Python, which is extremely involved. E.g. zip import might be a problem, from the top of my head.

It is always worth considering proposing a PEP, of course. But don’t expect people to have interests in proposing, or (if they do propose) the proposal to get anywhere without significant efforts (and compromises).
And now Bolt (formely Taxify) is getting competition from Yandex.Taxi. The Russian equivalent of Uber.

It's a race to the bottom. But customers benefit, which is nice.
The reason that the intruder didn't get access to any of Docker's financial systems is that they use Netsuite for all of that fun stuff: This screams to me (at least) that the intruder probably had access to more than what they are discussing.
The standard american diet looks a lot like an eating disorder; source: because I said so. /s (well, I guess I'm only half joking)

Real talk: eating on average around one meal a day has been really good for me. Swapping some fat and carb intake with (nutritious) sources of protein has not only made me less hungry, and helped me lose weight, it also just feels.. better.

The main downside is that if everybody did this, the world would be in even worse shape than it is today, so... really just crossing my fingers for some near-future lab meats. That'll be the day!

Also, might I just add, in the same fashion that the author considers it pretty tacky for the aforementioned dudebros (although that's kind of a cop out boogeyman, imo..) to mock teenage girls for wanting to improve themselves, the author seems to have no problem just medicalizing the way he eats as some kind of mental-origin disorder, and that the only appropriate therapy is to eat a little bit from every aisle in the supermarket.

I mean, c'mon, give me a break, there are known health benefits to intermittent fasting and known harms caused by eating many extremely common foods or pervasive ingredients, even in so-called moderation.
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Little in this article meshes with my experience living in large Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Specifically, I have not observed the social problems mentioned "crime, ... social segregation, and destroyed community and neighborhood life". I believe a good description of the average large, Chinese city experience is: lots of cars and people but mixed development with plenty of shops, schools, markets, eating locations, parks, and public transport in easy walking distance. To me, the article comes across as an opinion piece - it was all bigger than the author would have preferred.
IANAL.

Typically Docker would only be held liable if misconduct can be proven. Incompetence is typically not enough (which is why e.g. Equifax is not liable for the damages following their hack).

I do think these laws need to tighten up for security-related incidents, but right now, it is what it is.
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A genuine question - can’t you buy a stack of plastic bags and just bring some of them with you?

When they introduced the ban on plastic bags in my country, it was more a ban on supermarkets selling them alongside your normal purchase, but you still can buy a stack of a few hundred in speciality shops, and just use that.

And if you forget to bring your own you can always buy the pristine reusable ones at a small cost.

At least here thats how a lot of people protested the ban for a few years - just brought they’re own plastic bags.

Maybe they are banned outright? No way to “smuggle in” a stack or something?
This is quite a nuanced subject. It's something I've had a chance to think long and hard about and discuss with many founders.

I wrote a lesson about it in the Nugget Startup Academy but it's behind a paywall. Here's a screen shot of that lesson. Apologies about the format and hope it helps your thinking on the subject:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ufpfrcarg7v5f3/competition.png?dl...
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