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Ask HN: How do you handle product decision chaos?
Ask HN: How do you handle product decision chaos?

I've been working on a few apps for a few years, where I really try to create something new. One common problem I've had starts with an idea, evaluating it and finding it's not the right fit for the product. We throw it out and we start a new. But as the product evolves, some of those ideas start to make more sense. But we've either forgotten about the idea or the reason we disregarded it in the first place.

This has been a bit problematic as it tends to sometimes weed out good ideas that we're surrounded by bad ideas. Worse if you flip flop between ideas (but from my experience, it means something else is the issue). Admittedly, I haven't tried cataloging every idea we've had, and maybe we should. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has fallen down this pit hole.

How have you handled product decision chaos?
Were 30% of people really buying Windows XP machines last year? I think they meant "usage share" rather than "market share".
How does this solve anything? Instead of registering france.com, I'll register the hash of "France". Adding a level of indirection hasn't provided any benefits.

People can already register domains like "food-in-chicago.com" or "for-sale-baby-clothes.com".

Your contrived example about "Google" meaning "China" in Chinese, is irrelevant. The .CN registrar can enforce whatever rules they want. The US .COM registrar can have its own rules. There's no issue there.
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It should be (relatively) easy to find out which process has occurred here

The fact that the article mentions that cathodic protection was not installed on the ship strongly indicates, to me (based on prior US Navy experience), that it was galvanic corrosion. It looks to me like someone signed off on eliminating cathodic protection to save money and didn't realize the technical implications.

Not that that exonerates the manufacturer: cathodic protection is not just a special thing for military ships, even small boats need it if they have metal props (because the props are generally a dissimilar metal from the prop shafts, so without cathodic protection the props just dissolve away over time). So the manufacturer should have waved a red flag about removing it.
The Snowdens -- fyi

http://www.snowden-warfield.com/

More recently --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FQ_CfWIVXA

It is perhaps the most famous picture of World War II. Then Captain;
now Marine General Larry Snowden is the oldest surviving officer from
the Pacific's fiercest battle.

"Second half of my platoon, I'm already over that ridge," said Snowden.

The Flag hasn’t been raised yet in this picture, when it was; Snowden
says it wasn’t as romantic then as it is now.

"I've read many accounts that says, when the flag went up the troops
all over the island stood up and cheered. No way. Not where I was, you
stood up you were a dead marine."

At 92, Snowden fought in three wars, he was wounded twice.

At Iwo Jima he held dying marines in his arms.

"I had a son just a year and half old, back in the states. And I had
the momentary flash about what it would mean to me if somebody was
telling me that my son is dead. I went to Los Angeles to..."

General Snowden still keeps a hectic travel schedule, speaking on
freedom and veterans. He say you can’t have one without the other.

"Veterans are what brought us to freedom. Veterans are the ones who
keep us free. Veterans are still fighting over seas, in people they
don't know, in lands they don't know."

As America celebrates its independence with bar B cues, picnics, and
fireworks, Snowden's wish is that parents share the reason America is
free with their children.

"You do what you want to do. The high cost of freedom is just that, a
very high cost."

Larry Snowden, one of the reasons we are celebrating our freedom.

Snowden served in the military for 37 years. After leaving the
military he served as trade negotiator with Japan.
Hidden service URLs are intrinsic to the security of connecting to them. That's why they're complicated. By adding a second resolution step, you introduce a lot of security issues. How is a user assured that "bla:wikileaks" is the "real" wikileaks, for whatever value of "real" you choose?
I agree, I was hoping there would some high level insight into implementation, rather than the generic "tech news". Something like highscalability etc...
Just as pricey on that scale:

http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2012/10/huge-ddg-100...

The other two ships of this class will have steel deckhouses.
Some people don't remember RealNames and other keyword systems, and thus must reinvent them to realise it's a bad idea?
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The Linux desktop will come when Microsoft loses its leverage over hardware manufacturers and they start to preinstall linux and stop putting up barriers to adoption (e.g. remove windows -> lose warranty).

It's already better than the windows desktop (xubuntu anyway, not unity, however). The barriers to uptake are no longer technical and haven't been for some years. It's all market + legal now.
I think you're underestimating who's a "feminist" and who's not. It's not just a small cluster of women who say "all men are bad"; it's (finally) gaining the same sort of widespread acceptance that gay rights are. And there are quite a few indie developers who were either rejecting invitations or being on the fence about attending PAX even before this most recent "we regret taking the shirts down" thing.

Also worth noting is this isn't the only situation where Krahulik has shown off his ability to place his foot firmly in his mouth-- there's also things like his peculiar stance on transgender people[1], which is why people have such a hard time taking him at face value when he apologizes.

[1]http://thefullbrightcompany.com/2013/06/21/why-we-are-not-sh...
All MacBook Airs have had that layout.
The language doesn't support loops; in terms of flow control, you get if statements and that's it. So probably not much of interest.
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It sounded pretty sincere to me. He's not the type to say things he doesn't mean, nor the type to apologize just because of public pressure.

He was being a bully, and I think better of him now that he recognized it.
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Sacrificial anodes are a type of cathodic protection system (the simplest and most common type). They're not a substitute for it.

Anyway, you can't do "ongoing maintenance" to substitute for cathodic protection. Galvanic corrosion is going to happen continuously as long as the ship is in the water; the only question is what corrodes, the protection system (the sacrificial anodes, in the simplest case) or the hull and other parts of the ship. If there's no protection system, what does that leave to corrode?
Interesting. Do you do remote? (I do C++, C, Javascript, Python, SQL, ARM assembly and microcontrollers.)
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That's a ridiculously short simplification of his comments on transgender terminology and his ignorance thereof. If people are going to criticize Mike for not engaging long enough to dispel his ignorance, they could at least honestly engage with what he was actually saying in the first place.

This thread is going stupid places quickly. I might just flag it and get it over faster.
I can't reproduce what you say so I assume that you have disabled the password lock of Mac OS and because of the speed of your macbook it seems as if it doesn't go to sleep and then come back even though it does. When I do what you say I get confronted with the lock screen after things like music stopping and the mac going to sleep for a split second.
Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA
Tired of all the gender banter lately? Me too. Especially when every press outlet says we (female tech founders) are as rare as a mythical creature. So how about getting them answers straight from the source (female tech founders). If you belong to this group do a quick intro about yourself before answering questions. If you don't and want to learn more about the HN female tech entrepreneurs, feel free to ask as a reply.

My turn:

Name: Diana

Startup: http://DoerHub.com (dogfooding: http://www.doerhub.com/for/doerhub )

Role: Founder, wrote every non-open-source line of code (Rails, JS, D3, Neo4j, Node.js, MongoDB) on the site in a grad school dorm room.

In tech since: 1998 (Age 13). Haven't stopped since.

How did you start?: Started in rural Bulgaria and parents couldn't afford a computer so I volunteered at internet cafes to learn HTML and JS online after hours, then did graphics in flash, then Action Script, evolved to writing data mashups, custom JS libraries, rich visualizations for CNN during elections, CMS front-end architecture, full-stack web products from there.

Why did I start: had a pen-pal girl from Sweden who was a year older than me and had built her own website. Once I realized I can learn for free and the world could see my work I was addicted (lived in a censored country for a while so that mattered).

Proof of cred: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dianazink and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/SearchProcessor.js and http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/js/3.0/search/customSrchProcessor.js used by CNN, NBA, and some other sites.

Has your gender made any of this hard?: I'm not muscular, so building online stuff is actually easier on me than the "reputable" jobs my grandfather said I should do instead.

Ask away.
Erlang's type system with binary data-type is pretty awesome.

Example: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/erlang-programming/s39IQlk-d...

I wished more programming languages had baked in support for bitfields, bit arrays and endian conversion, because building interoperable, efficient binary clients without icky code generation is currently a PITA.
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The concept just covers hash-n-slash but you also touched a very different concept of p2p content delivery.

But talking about hash-n-slash why it is bad. Just like domains have the issue of being kidnapped so would be the keywords. For example with the hash-n-slash you would never know where you will end up being when you search for "france". By giving search engine the liberty to direct me to a site I lose the ability to manually choose france.com when some SEO guy has made sure that #://france would lead of francegiggly.com

Same goes with every other keyword, we already have a keyword battle on search engines and it would be better limiting that battle to search engines only. If we push that to browser itself it would be just be chaotic and misleading to people who don't really understand domain authority.

Imagine this being done for pushing phishing website when trying to go to your bank's login page. I get it most bookmark it but many don't and new account holders?

Its just a proof of concept and in reality it has many constraints, the search engine and domain world isn't that broken yet that we need an alternate solution.

As much as its difficult to get relevant domain names its still not impossible to settle for something similar to what you wanted.
I'm not so sure this exonerates the contractor. Yes, someone on the Navy side certainly screwed up; but the contractor should have raised a red flag if they were technically competent. (If this should ever come to court, I have no doubt the government's lawyers will be able to point out multiple clauses in the contract that require the contractor to bring to the government's attention any technical issue that could impact the ship's performance.)
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IMO both Colorado's right-leaning and left-leaning populations have had a libertarian bent for a long time -- from the "leave us alone" ranchers of Idalia to the "let us be" hippies of Nederland.
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I'm looking for sardonic sense of humor,
I'm sure Robert Khoo has been begging him to do something like this, but that doesn't make it any less sincere.
> firefighters are a problem now?

To some extent, yes.

The number of fires that need responding to is down significantly (almost 2x over the last 3 decades). Over the same time, number of firefighters is _not_ down significantly; in fact it's up by a factor of 1.4 or so. So now they're partially a solution looking for a problem (e.g. doing medical emergency first response using fire trucks, which is just daft).

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/07/fir... has some graphs, links to data, etc that you may want to look at.

This is not even entirely a US-specific problem; Toronto is having similar issues; see http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/08/06/toronto_paramedic...
Fortunately, it is open source. Sending a pull request later this evening when I fix this.
Indeed. Also, about "haters":

It'd be nice if the tech startup community looked like the OP imagines it, with innovative companies boldly challenging ingrained assumptions and disrupting conventional wisdom with forward-thinking solutions to hard problems worth solving.

I think a lot of the "hating" is directed at the latest pump-and-dump social plugin or other VC-funded sausage party. The lack of mood emoticons on Twitter is not a problem worth solving, and failure to see its utility is not for a paucity of vision or ambition.
When did you start doing remote, and what made you change your mind? (After the first CtF I got a nice handwritten note saying that I seemed a good fit for Stripe. I would have applied, but at the time you said you don't do remote.)

Looking forward to the next CtF, though!
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..and my company's proxy server doesn't like it "Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Malicious Sources/Malnets"
https://prism-break.org/en/subcategories/web-social-networks...
Sorry for the typos... That was a pretty long comment to tap on my phone.
Yes. I signed up in-app today (with a fake phone number) and that's a direct quote from the app.

No idea on the downvotes. I guess because, like I said, telling users you hash the phone numbers doesn't matter if you're using them to search for an unhashed userid. But they're implying to users that their phone numbers are secure because they're hashed, when it really doesn't matter.
In no shape or form is the vaunted editorial page of The New York Times going to be let itself used as the president's trial balloon. You've got to be kidding me.
A Google account can optionally have G+ enabled or disabled. It's not a requirement.
The economist who helped Walt Disney's theme park dream become what it is today[1] said that the most important thing he learned through it all was the profound difference between a "no, because" person and a "yes, if" person.

If you ask many people an audacious "Can we do X?" their response is usually along the lines of "No, because [valid reasons]". They're not wrong, but the basic attitude is to shoot down what doesn't seem to fit with one's own view of the world. These are "no, because" people, and big companies are often full of them.

Much rarer and infinitely more valuable, especially for an entrepreneur, is the person who hears "Can we do X?" and responds, "Yes, if... [possible solutions]". Their response is one of problem-solving instead of confrontation, seeking to find a synthesis of the new perspective and their own. It seems like a small thing, but it is a very significant shift in mindset. Thinking like a "yes, if" person can unlock so much potential.

A friend of mine, one of the most talented and knowledgeable game programmers around, could easily have shot down many of the ambitious ideas that came his way. Instead, he greeted them with enthusiasm, often saying, "It's software! We can do anything!" Wouldn't you like to set out to do amazing things with that person on your team?

[1] - https://d23.com/harrison-price/
Does anyone know what the correlation is between the rapidly decreasing WinXP market share and the size of the large botnet pools?
Introduction to the book looks promising. I've shortlisted a few books to look at.

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-The-Habit-Being-Yourself/dp/1...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Habit-What-Business/dp/14000...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Ma...

http://www.amazon.com/Switch-Change-Things-When-Hard/dp/0385...

http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates...
Mostly because you're stating SF as a location for dev roles :) - I guess I was wrong. Thanks for clearing that up. Interesting...
Why should the client know git or anything else if you are the one who has to setup the blog for him/her? Or are you working with clients only who know html, css, ftp etc so they can do the work themself just being lazy and paying you instead?
It's possible the line workers would have never thought of this solution without having the inconvenience there to motivate them to. You could try to introduce a bonus to the worker who comes up with the most cost-effective and reliable idea though. It is probably very unlikely management staff would do that, since the engineering team has been "stretched thin" already and they didn't want to consult them.
You never answered the question.
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The elements effecting the taste of a Whiskey are mind-bogglingly complex, e.g. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_aLgTRQjmM&t=10m21s
I think he was speaking rhetorically, as in his being good questions to consider for writing good content. Nevertheless, I will update the website. If you're really that interested in my answer to his question I can post it here as well.
It's a TL;WR (too long; won't read) if you put it at the top.
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Why is this phenomenon limited to dogs?

Why has this never been noticed previously?

Also, why have I never observed this behavior with my dogs?

And to the comedian who replied as well: dogshit and bullshit are not the same thing.
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Yes, it seems normal to me, unless it happens regularly.

I am now 32 years old. I have been in a police stop when driving my car only twice (and one of those was a mistake, I thought they wanted me to stop, but they actually meant another car).

I have never been controlled or ID checked by the police in any way when not travelling by car. Exceptions are border controls, of course. And private entities wishing to check my age: discos, liquor stores and so on.

On another note: I'm really tired about all this attitude we get from Americans regarding Nazi symbols and free speech. Maybe take a minute to contemplate why we have those laws?

"Because of Holocaust" is correct, but not what I'm getting at. We have those, because Americans (together with the other Allied Powers) forced us to after the war.

Unfortunately Americans have this tendency to think that their system is the very best and can't imagine why anyone could or should have another system, despite the fact that everywhere they were involved in nation-building they actively promoted other systems.
Is your comment sarcasm?
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>All you've done is add an additional third party that can view and log what you're doing.

You forgot the part where it's protecting against trashy ISPs like the one in this article.
I was wondering too. There is a nice answer at SO that expands on what dcherman said: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9107367
There was a Chinese company call 3721. They did a similar thing about 10 year ago. They were acquired by Yahoo. Yahoo 3721 was closed about 5 years ago.
>> The Winapi (aka Win32) is the only commonly used API that regularly requires something other than UTF-8 (the Windows Unicode APIs use UTF-16 – not UCS-2 as indicated in the Spolsky article).

> Why has Microsoft still not fixed this?

Is there a way they can fix it without breaking backward compatibility?
I'm young, so excuse my naiveté, but I can't remember another time (in my lifetime) that the gov't & press have been in such a standoff with a stark contrast of opinion.

It seems news these days is mostly feeding people's opinions back to them ("here's what you had to say on twitter") and taking pot shots at the other sides of the spectrum on lots of surface level points that quite frankly - neither side is going to shift anytime soon.

That said, if nothing else, it seems the quality of news post-snowden has picked up a little & it seems the press is finally starting to do their job in informing the public rather than just appeasing it (or maybe I'm just paying attention more).
Agreed, I don't mind a little humor with my technical presentations but this was unbearable.
Not sure when it changes, but the usual explanation (by Americans themselves) of this US-only remote thing is that they afraid of dealing with the people who are not easily suable.
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Would this be an in-house position or is remote also an option?
Why do you keep posting this? It's irrelevant because the idea isn't to hide what site you're visiting, it's to prevent the ISP from modifying the DNS responses. Signing DNS responses would be helpful if that was actually enforced anywhere.

DNSCrypt is a perfectly fine solution for this threat model.
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Let's also remember that there is valid criticism of startups and how they operate their business.

If a startup founder is an asshole, let's not excuse the behavior because they are building something worthwhile.

If a startup makes a mistake due to lack of concern about its users (i.e. Snapchat and their security hole), they should be criticized.

All told, I'm all about "can do" culture, but let's not use it as an excuse for boorish behavior or bad business practices.
Wow, I got way more responses to this than I thought I would. As well, this solves my problem!

Once again the old internet wisdom of "you can only get help by disguising your question as whining" is proved true: http://bash.org/?152037
My thinking was: how do they single you out?

But I guess it was speaking English without an awful accent. :-)
For a second I thought this was going to be about hardware startups, or perhaps about some of the other goods and services that aren't websites.
Interesting. It seems like something that could and should be packaged into a simple JavaScript to reduce chatter and synchronous calls in the JavaScript pipeline rather than having a blocking server call. (So that it can be distributed and cached without upstream requirements)