skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startup Lesson #10: Now at last A way to measure product/ market fit
I'd love to see a patent lawyers view of this case. On the face it looks insane to expect retailers to individually weigh patent claims and somehow force suppliers into licensing agreements with third parties.
Grant Thompson, in Memoriam
Your conjecture is not factual, but rather represents beliefs that are not held by an overwhelming majority in the United States.
Yikes. Not the kind of thing I'd go repeating there, friend. Your entitlement is showing.
Your assumptions:
- The cleaners must be women
- The cleaners must have a quality of life so low they've never used a desktop
- The cleaners aren't you and are therefore ignorant in some way

Plus, if they really do meet that second qualification, disparaging them for it only makes you look even worse.

I would encourage you to seek out somebody who does meet those qualifications. You might learn something.
AAPL seems to have hit its peak in the device market, and can only grow revenues at this point by effectively raising prices on existing customers (that’s what the services category amounts to). This strategy can only take them so far.
I agree that there are many companies that ignore this correlation, but I'm not convinced those companies are making the most rational choice.

If Burger King significantly increased the salary of their workers or otherwise found ways to improve their morale, would it benefit Burger King in the long run? I tend to suspect so, but it would be hard to prove.

The burger joints known for taking care of their people are also usually seen as being pretty good burger places, and that may be causal, but it also may be that they're just slightly "upscale" of the other burger places and also spend more on the ingredients.
Falcons vs. Broncos Live Stream
https://www.reddit.com/r/hofnflstreamxx/comments/cjxsng/how_to_watch_broncos_vs_falcons_in_hall_of_fame/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hofnflstreamxx/
https://www.reddit.com/r/hofnflstreamxx/comments/cjxtl0/matchthreadfalcons_vs_broncos_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hofnflstreamxx/comments/cjxtl5/streamsthreadbroncos_vs_falcons_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/hofnflstreamxx/comments/cjxtll/nflthreadhall_of_fame_live_reddit_nfl_game_2019/
Killing a carrier isn't like a video game where you see a carrier on screen and issue a launch command. Killing a carrier involves a chain of events; break anyone of the links and the carrier is safe.

First you have to locate the carrier. Easy to do in peacetime, in war time much more difficult. If you want to kill it with a ballistic missile, you need to locate it within a few square kilometers. This means either a radar location, or a satellite overhead.

Radar is problematic because it has to deal with the curvature of the earth. This is typically solved by using airborne radar. Well, carriers and their airgroups are very well versed in both detecting this surveillance and killing it. Either with aircraft, with SAMs, or with cruise missiles that target that airfields of the surveillance (ISR) aircraft.

So say that you somehow manage to get a location fix on a carrier battle group. Now you have to prep your missiles for launch which takes time. Let's say 30-60 min. The carrier can steam at over 30 knots, so now your targeting data is out of date. Again, not like push button warfare. Your ballistic missile now has to find the carrier in a roughly 1000 sq mile area. Fine, missiles are relatively cheap. So you just target each square mile with a missile and hope its internal radar can pick out the CVN.

So you launch 1000 missiles, and just like in Battleship, one of your missiles manages to be in the right spot. Now it has to deal with the SAMs protecting the CVN. Aegis is pretty good these days, so you've got to make it past them. That'll be tough. Then you have to make it past the ESSM missiles, as well as the ECM jamming suite of every ship in the carrier group. Fine, you have robust electronics.

BOOM! You've hit. But it turns out that your radar on the warhead was small, with insufficient processing power to discriminate between a carrier (especially with all the jamming going on) and an escort ship. You've sunk an LCS, or a refueler (they're big and have a big radar image), or maybe even an Arleigh Burke DDG or Tico cruiser. Sucks for those crewmates, but that's their job. Protect the carrier.

And what has this failed attack cost you? Well, ballistic missiles are cheap compared to a CVN, but not that cheap. Say $5M a piece since it makes the math easier (though the DF-21 and DF-26 will cost much much more). 1000 missiles is $5B, plus the cost of all the ISR assets used to locate the CVN.

Now if hypersonic missiles start to take off (pun intended) and become deployable weapon systems, it will make things more difficult. But that's still in the future.
I've started bringing popcorn to work in the mornings. Kills the cravings and basically empty food.
I guess the joke wasn’t clear enough:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/a...
The iPhone was clearly not functionally distinct from a Mac laptop.

There was nothing an iPhone could do that a Mac couldn’t do better, except for fit in your pocket.
Pretty much every significant DoD acquisition has been like this: late and over-budget. Incidentally, those are features of almost every major software project I'm aware of as well.

Obviously that's not a good pattern, and the DoD should certainly improve its procurement process, but it's not the existential crisis it's made out to be in the media sometimes. The contractors keep working, and the system eventually is in a working state.
And amazon barely makes any profit, so its not clear that their business actually does scale, if they didn’t have AWS.
Ok then it you have caps remapped to ctrl, remap ctrl to escape.

There are many valid criticisms of the touch bar macs, losing one key in particular is pretty low on the list.
Check out Karabiner Elements (https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/).

You can create a rule to change caps lock to control if pressed with other keys, else escape if pressed alone.

I have no affiliation with it, just ran into this issue myself and it solved it for me.
Can we also replace “next”/“prev” buttons with “newer”/“older”?

I always get confused by the 2nd page.
I'd love that. I have an Android phone and already pay for iCloud storage for Apple Photos even though using it with an Android Phone adds considerably friction to the process. I'll be getting rid of my Nest Camera in favour of one that supports HomeKit Secure Video next time my Nest Aware account comes up for renewal.

An approach I'd like for iMessage is to make it free for anyone, but only functional if at least one member of a conversation has an iPhone or paid iCloud subscription.
I don't want to have a main control dial or equivalent menu. It could be in the wrong position at power-on when I am in a hurry. I want the camera to always be fully auto at power-on, and I don't want to have to touch a main control dial to go into manual mode. Moving the settings should be enough.

Aside from focus, there are 4 user settings (ISO,shutter,exposure,aperture) to control 3 physical settings (ISO,shutter,aperture). It is thus overspecified. On power-on, the camera should control all of that. As soon as I have changed 3 user settings, the 4th is also determined and there is nothing left for automatic control.

If I change less than 3 user settings, the camera should automatically adjust the remaining settings. If I change 3 user settings, then the camera is in manual mode and the 4th user setting is determined by the other 3. If I then change a 4th user setting, there is a conflict which might be resolved by using the most recently adjusted 3 user settings.

Going back to auto mode is rare enough that it can be done by flipping the power switch twice, off then on. A menu item is also fine for this, but not needed.
In that case I'd be flying over Apache AH-64s (three at a time) instead of a tank with no supporting equipment, fuel or ammo.
Amazon makes a very small amount of profit for its sales. If they were forced to split out AWS, they would make no profit. Also a fact. That is a pretty scary place to be.
That's a bit spun too, though. Revenue is up just .93%. Net income is down 12.7%. And they beat the estimates because the estimates were expecting bad news, as the overall trend has been stagnant for about two years.

Those just aren't good numbers for a company that, over the past decade, has been literally the most profitable in history. They aren't "bad" numbers, but for Apple they're sort of a disaster. The iPhone gravy train is running out of steam, basically.
YouTube should make an “auto-play videos” setting that's global and persistent
Amazon is not just moving goods, they have AWS as well and that scales very well.
Cynical and correct observation, which I know will get downvoted because it goes against the mantra of this website:

Being able to read whatsapp would help us catch many more stupid bad guys.

Smart bad guys will always be able to get away with it. That doesn't mean we should stop trying to catch stupid bad guys.
Well, Object.freeze in plain JS can help too.

> Object.freeze([1,2,3]).push(4)
TypeError: can't define array index property past the end of an array with non-writable length (firefox)
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot add property 3, object is not extensible (chrome)

Of course, it will only blow up at runtime. But better than not blowing up at all, creating heisenbugs and such.

I often find myself writing classes where the last step of a constructor is to Object.freeze (or at least Object.seal) itself.
>Does US dominance guarantee a better outcome for the people in those places?

That's not the right question. This is the right question:

Does US dominance guarantee a better outcome for the people in the US?
> I'm not convinced those companies are making the most rational choice

Neither am I - they're just making the common choice.
I love that they have problems you can solve as well at the end of (almost) every chapter.

This IS a lot of math (1,962 pages) and it’s missing a preface/introduction which would have been helpful to understand if I need to go linear or if a la carte is okay. At the moment I’d assume each major section is independent.

Awesome find! Wonder how It’s used. (One of) the author(s) seems pretty prolific too - http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/
> And if you don't have plans to provide that sort of thing you'll be missing out on most of the market

Realistically, we're not going to have all those things at launch, but we will have them later.

I don't think you're correct to say that it's not possible to get revenue without supporting every single thing that a customer might possibly need.

The people who are good matches for using Dark are people who don't mind that they're missing, including companies who are willing to pay. When we add them later, the people who needed those can start using it.
Are you familiar with the men's rights movement? The term or concept of "men's rights" could certainly be discussed in a neutral, non-crazy way. But the actual movement as it exists today and the logic that commonly defines it is absolutely as detached from reality as any of those other cult-like ideologies.
... and I heard in India they just poop right on the curb!
Really good point. I'm amazed we don't hear this argument more, and also the related one that we always used to have an anonymous payment system (cash) so why is a digital equivalent unthinkable?
Their goal is not to make a profit or they would be
> Why does this family do this?

Why did Mozart write music? What would Mozart have done if he lived in the city of the deaf?

I mean they've written a lot of stuff on their web site about their motivations — they saw that electronics were the wave of the future, they wanted to make Mexico technologically independent and limit the damage of the neoliberal economic model, they wanted to preserve the Zapotec culture from obliteration, and so on — but I think basically it's that they like doing it, in the way Mozart liked music. I'm sympathetic to those other motivations but I don't think they would have been sufficient to maintain their progress in the face of the opposition they've faced from the Mexican government, which continues to adhere to the obsolete "progress is big factories" model mixed with the simply traitorous "progress is installing Microsoft software" model. (They've written about this stuff on their website too.)

As far as I can tell, they make a living by building some industrial control hardware and teaching electronics classes. Maybe a member of the family will comment and offer more detail.
> There is no incentive for their bosses to walk an extra mile to keep them happ, especially when pressing them a bit more yields an extra bit of performance, so they mostly aren't happy about their jobs

That's the theory - but I don't see the distinction you listed ever proven. People do it because it's the easiest thing, that doesn't make it the best thing. I can just as easily theorycraft that happy employees improve production ACROSS THE BOARD, with lasting and compounding results. The studies that argue this never make the distinction you've listed.
Looks great. Is this embeddable (editor) in other SaaS applications? This can open new opportunities.
Ah, I understand what you mean. Well, if you know variable X is a proxy for Y, but Y is a lot longer to measure than X, then I guess it makes sense to optimize X knowing that it will increase Y (if you are sure X will bring Y).
The linked article omits one of the more interesting details, which is that the suit is being funded by a Longford Capital, a private investment company that specializes in funding commercial lawsuits. Usually, third parties are silent about their participation in such suits, but in this case Longford has publicly announced their backing: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190730005899/en/Lon...

Separately, if you haven't tried filament LED bulbs, you should. They are a wonderfully simple design: stack lots of small LED's in string so that they can be run at full wall voltage. The lack of a voltage converter means that there are fewer parts to fail, and the long string of LED's makes heat dissipation a lot easier. I find them better than all the alternatives.
The article is not about judging a belief right or wrong on any scientific basis, it's about the phenomenon of people sidelining logic in exchange for inclusion.
> Another hypothesis that equally well explains the data

As noted in other comments, this DID check for causation and found employee happiness led the benefits, not the other way around.
I'm amazed that an article about a tracking loophole being closed is posted on HN and the top comment is "is this not anti-competitive". This is not Google subverting advertiser networks for their benefit this is Google fixing a flaw in Incognito mode that has been lazily applied to prevent users from working around article limits.

The browser is an agent of the user, don't expect it to reliably hold information that determines what content they have rights to on your server.
Sure. There is a subtle difference between "things that make employees happier also improve business performance" and "making employees happier improves business performance", but in both cases you generally want to do things that make employees happy if you want business success (you just might want to be a bit more selective about which happiness-boosting things).
...or you don’t dig your fuel out of the ground but rather extract it from the atmosphere. Methalox rockets use CH4 + 2O2 -> 2H2O + CO2

The carbon and oxygen needed can be extracted from the atmosphere; the rocket only needs to bring the hydrogen - just 1/12th of required fuel mass.
Same! I used it for years. I loved the idea of having different desktops on each face of the cube. Compiz was so good.
You are entitled to your opinion. Don't thrust it onto others.
Generally the New York Times fact-checks and corrects itself—but all newspapers spin stories for more clicks or interest. “Everything’s going okay at Apple” isn’t going to move advertisement dollars, the metric by which all news media ultimately value stories. Having worked at a newspaper or two myself, it’s inescapable. That said it’s also worth pointing out the New York Times has endorsed Republicans before... just not recently. I suppose it’s also worth noting the Republican Party wasn’t always this way, either. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_electio...
choice /T 1 /D Y

Standard Windows NT command to sleep 1 second. This is actually intended to let the user select an option Yes/No and default after 1 second without answer.
That article kind of mixes up AT&T releases - we'd ported V7 and System 3 to the Lisa (base and bounds MMU like the original PDP-11 the ports came from), and the 68451 and Sun-style MMUs by mid '84, SVR (System 5 Release 1) didn't exist yet. SVR2 was a full paging release from AT&T (competing with BSD 4.2 by then).

The '451 is more functional than his power of 2 design (because it offers multiple powers of 2 that you can cobble together into arbitrary regions) - the 'throwaway instructions' he mentions is indeed what we used for stack extensions - you do a 'tstb offset(%sp)' in every subroutine entry where 'offset' is the extent of the stack the subroutine will use, the results of the instruction aren't used and the fault can be detected - by recognizing the instruction at the fault pc offset and returning to the address following it
Sites may be liable for helping Facebook track your web browsing, rules EU court
Both Rich and middle class white people are taught to complain to authority figures to get their way.

I need to see data based on the same environment and economic situation to believe that line. Rich is rich. Frankly, saying "white people are taught to complain to authority figures" is a gross generalization and untrue with specific groups in this country. Many whites are taught to respect authority figures and not question them.

Oh, and poor people don't assume they don't understand the system. They assume that they understand it all too well and it just isn't interested in their success and that crosses racial lines rather painfully.
If I recall the issue in question, the only way it would be vulnerable to anything was... if someone already had another malicious app installed on their phone. Which is to say, you could get infected by already being infected, which is... not much of a vulnerability.
The thing is they had... nothing.

They weren't anywhere near what they claimed, and used competitors equipment to fake their own results at times.

They had gone nowhere, made no progress.

They couldn't provide the results with their own machines any better than anyone else, let alone with the tiny amounts of blood they claimed.
Have you tried Microsoft HoloLens, Virtual Desktop, or BigScreen? It was obvious to me after using them for 30-60 minutes that this is the future of desktops.
I'd say they haven't succeeded yet - and the signs aren't great. They needed to produce a knockout offering with the EOS R and RP I think - they were so far behind that unless they did, they would struggle to build market share. I don't know how many more chances the market will give them to get it right, sadly.
It's interesting BBC noticed so called four great sorceries of Asia (亚洲四大邪术). Applying digital makeup to someone to the point that his or her mama couldn't recognize the person is certainly one of them.
> Amazon? Yes AWS is definitely successful and innovative, but the other half of Amazon?

IIRC, based on their latest report it's the other 30% (by revenue). Amazon is basically a cloud computing provider with a web store.
"Money isn’t a magical cure all."

Yes it is. Workout. Dress well. Eat right. Learn things. Time to do so.

Also, I called out $400,000 a year, not $2000.
The only difference between targeted computerized spying and bulk computerized spying is a for() loop.
MacOS supports remapping caps lock to escape. No hacks needed!
I’m confused. Why was the Google disclaimer necessary?
I don’t disagree with that, but I don’t think the market cares about that.. w/r/t Apple.

I wish they weren’t targeting the masses so completely. iPhones shouldn’t have the absolute worst charging tech in the box.
I know a lot of folks who are technical (and non-technical) and it was a big enough struggle to get them using Signal. I definitely see the advantages of Wire and not being tied to a phone number but I just don't know anyone using it. It's odd because some of those folks are using Keybase chat though... they just bulk at installing yet another messaging app (regardless of features).
They don’t need to use force to extract it. All they would have to do is pass a law that said that courts would no longer enforce the limited monopoly. If you can’t sue for copyright violation then it would no longer be property.
Shenanigans with Hash Tables
Would the else branch trigger on a falsy value, or on an exception? It's a bit confusing, as it looks like it would handle exceptions on the else branch, even though we know we have to wrap await in try/catch for that.

Other than saving a few characters (the variable name), I don't see any benefit of this, while it makes code harder to read.

Too bad the `with` [0] keyword has been reserved for crap, it sounds nice (not for this, but maybe for something else).

>> and also requires you to start renaming variables (ie. row1, row2...) due them going over their intended scope

Variable shadowing [1] is a really bad practice that makes it hard for people to collaborate and keep the code sane. Bad habits are not a reason for language changes.

[0] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing
You can start with true working hours per week. Simple honest rules - checking email at home counts, being paged counts double (because I can happen anytime, so you need to be alert), eating lunch does not. Transit time counts. Divide by 5 - that's your average daily load due to work. You get more than 9 - that's too much, I hope your compensation is superb (i.e. well above average).
>The military got the best and brightest during WWII because the US was fighting Nazis ... and a foreign enemy who had attacked us on our own soil. For Vietnam, they had to draft because few believed in the cause and what they got where those too powerless to escape the draft ...

WWII also had a draft, as did WWI and the Civil War. More people (as a percentage) volunteered for Vietnam than did WWII. That surprised me when I heard it. Americans were pretty gung-ho about enlisting in Vietnam and didn't really sour on it until later in the war. It was during the communism scare, so people fully bought into the Domino Theory at the time. Russia went nuclear, North Korea invaded South, the Iron Curtain went up, Cuban Missle Crisis, McCarthy, Sputnik, and a lot of chest thumping made it a pretty scary time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2x491p/volun...

I think your general point is valid. It's better to enlist when the country isn't at war, and that hasn't been for what, going on 18 years now? Enlistees nor draftees typically don't decide what features a warship has though.
> For some reason NYT seems immune to this criticism though.

Not from where I've been sitting: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aycombinator.com+NYT+b...

You could argue NYT took a while to get called out, but not that they aren't getting called out.
Great upsight. This could totally be a Neal Stephenson character.
The USA was colonized by the British but is no longer ruled by it.
If you ever find yourself in Mountain View on a Saturday around 11AM, I highly recommend taking in the IBM 1401 demo that happens at the Computer History Museum: singlehandedly one of the coolest things I’ve experienced. Having the opportunity to not only see the machines in action, but to speak with the engineers who originally used them in their work was such a treat.
Because caps lock is already remapped to ctrl. :p
> Ballots, surely.

Well, one of the four boxes, anyway.