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> They don't use BS "corporate speak"

I don't know: "penetrate organisations", "sales enablement", "widen our lead flow to lower cost per acq. long-term". I'm not sure I'd call that plain language.

You might say 'but I know what they all mean, they're not BS', but then a MBA might say that he knows what 'synergies of optimizing user solution metric analysis' and it's not BS to him.

One person's rational and precise technical language is another person's BS corporate speak.

Not saying it's not a good slideshow - sorry! I mean 'deck'!
How is this related to the Chinese owner of a theatre chain? They are hurting themselves with lost ticket sales. Are you linking the theatre owner to the hacking incident?
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> You are over-interpreting the Dunning-Krueger paper.

Almost certainly true, as I've never read the actual paper; I've encountered the concept and phenomena in the wild. I take your word for it. If you have a better term for what I am describing, I will be happy to learn it.

Their research seems to lack introspection and fundamental rigor. Did you get a different impression than that, from the essay? My contention (if mimesis was my thesis) is that it is research insofar as it carries out the activity of research, but that it carries out that activity without being truly informed by the material of the research; process disassociated from content. However, it was a question, not an assertion; I've no opinion.
I've done the Coca-Cola vs Pepsi blind taste test. I could tell the difference. I've also seen other people fail the test when they swore they could tell the difference.

The fact is some people can tell the difference and some people can't. Part of it is training if you devote some time to learning the differences in taste then you will gain some skill. I drink both of those colas roughly about the same amount so I've become acquainted with the taste differences.

Part of it is genetics some people just have more sensitive palates than other. I do in general have a more sensitive nose than many of the others I know so that may be part of it as well.

I would wager though that the majority of the population have neither trained nor have the sensitivity to tell the difference between a lot of things.
It gets two points deducted for the plague of the unnecessary introductory So.
Violating US law by attacking a US company would certainly be seen as an act of aggression.
Would it be incorrect to say this was the only slide that mattered from their deck? http://i.imgur.com/4nKuGx1.png

EDIT: Oh, someone already pointed this out downthread a few minutes ago. Whoops.
I changed it on the blog too! :)
That's not corporate speak - that's very precise language in different domains. For example, anyone in sales knows exactly what that means.
Free + a socially mandated tip.
I still am not sure why to choose Mixpanel over their competitors though. I use Flurry and Google Analytics right now, and (as noted in their slides), they are free. What does Mixpanel bring that they don't?

If you say real time, then I'm not sure the 15 minutes it takes GA to add new data is really worth it. I have 20+ million data points a month but the percentage of my profits that Mixpanel would cost for that is crazy.

Also, Parse is now letting you track analytics real time completely for free in unlimited numbers.
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Yes but executing at a high pace for 2, 3, or 4 more years dramatically changes one's opinion of the company and its opportunity to reach scale. If you've grown MRR from $10k to $100k, that still doesn't answer the "will it scale" question. If you've grown MRR from $500k to $5M, totally different story. Good work keeping up momentum!
There is a part 2: http://www.frankmcsherry.org/columnarization/serialization/r...
If you honestly believe that all you have to do is stand up a bunch of instances of Mongo/Cassandra/whatever and you instantly get acceptable HA, then you need to read the [Jepsen series](https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen)
It is a epic history based on a novel philosophy. The philosophy defines "right/good" values based on objective observation of reality, and then concludes that the top value for a being with reason is it's own life. So good/right things are those things that enhance your life and the things you value (your family, your love, your principles). One top principle is to "respect others reason and will, do not start aggression or go against the will of another reasoning being"
Many reasons but the one the our customers value the most: retroactive funnels instead of forward looking funnels which drive people crazy in GA.
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“a large company” and their affiliates, business partners, anyone who acquires them, anyone who hacks them, and anyone who bribes or blackmails an employee to get access to the data.

(And, of course, the NSA. And their partners, employees, etc.)
The Typhoon restaurant (http://typhoon.biz/) serves insects. They have a whole insect section on their menu. I tried the Taiwanese crickets once. They were quite tasty: crunchy and nutty. I highly recommend giving it a whirl if you're in Santa Monica.
Few (if any) taxi drivers are medallion owners. Drivers pay lease fees to access medallions and the vehicles to which they're attached.
Or... they could just follow the laws and regulations that were put in place for the safety and protection of riders.
So they are influencing American pop culture by pulling the movie? They could have decided not to carry the movie months ago when it was first being pitched for distribution. And I believe one of the leaked Sony emails show that a China distributor decided not to carry the movie. So there was ample opportunity to exert influence ahead of the movie's release.
My thoughts exactly. It is not like this umbrella is going to be enhanced by integrating the tech. You aren't going to "deploy" the umbrella from your phone. Simple add-on tags (which are already trying to take off) would suffice for a lot of things.
I know it's not a magic bullet but it's something. That said, I strongly suggest donating to the EFF directly as well (or better yet on a repeating schedule as it lets them plan better).
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> My belief is in India, often times, the "face" (as the Chinese use the term, to save face) of a rapist may often be considered more worthy of protection than the woman.

This is in no way restricted to India. Google any rape story involving a promising high school or college athlete in America. Watch how the community steps into formation to defend the kids' futures.
Yes that's exactly my point. To some people 'synergies of optimizing user solution metric analysis' sounds like BS, but I'm sure to the people who use it it's actually very precise language with a specific meaning. And to them 'penetrate organisations' probably sounds like corporate BS.
While this is a good conference with amazing women speakers, let it also be noted that this means that Y Combinator means the continue being the gatekeeper of who is allowed in Tech and control the narrative by which entry and participation is allowed. With white men being on top, this is a frightening prospect.
Link for those interested: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/change.html?ie=UTF8&ref_...
Recently-reported rapes by traditional taxi drivers that haven't been on the front page of HN:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/12/11/cab...

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/tourist_says_cab...

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Cab-Driver-Arrested-for-S...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844528/Taxi-driver-...
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As a (Mechanical) engineer, I would respond by saying you turn a bolt with a plastic wrench just like any other wrench, providing the moment of torsion provided by the person turning the wrench does not exceed the shear strength of the wrench material.
pmarca: if you're reading this, feel free to chime in ;)
Marketer here.

What exactly is wrong with data and insights from a variety of sources that might include Moz, Optimizely, etc? These are marketing technology companies and have a unique bird's-eye perspective of raw data across numerous companies. Further, people like Rand Fishkin know their shit. You might disagree with it, but I guarantee if you had a conversation with him and voiced your arguments, he'd be able to cite plenty of data to back up his claims and have an honest debate about it.

Marketers who take what they read as gospel concern me, and I fully agree with that. People need to do their due diligence and figure out how things apply to their business. They should also read broader respected industry news sources (ie. searchengineland, searchenginejournal, etc.), and be active in communities of people tackling similar challenges with similar experience to trade notes.

I agree with the other comments though on the fact that building a great product isn't necessarily marketing. Informing great product design through solid market research could come from marketing, but that is very different than physically building a product. The "build it and they will come" fallacy is a dangerous one. Communicating that you have a product is the act of marketing. Even placing it on a website with content is marketing because you may get organic search traffic, or referral traffic if people link to you, etc.
I live in Quebec and technically I don't have nationalized healthcare but rather health insurance. It doesn't change the fact that I don have to pay anything out of pocket at any hospital I go to here.

An itemized and detailed claim will be made on my behalf to the insurance agency to get everything paid.

From a user pov it makes no difference how the system works.
We use Setmore: http://www.setmore.com/.

Very happy with it and the developers are responsive to issues (even from free users like me).

I found many customers were booking appointments without figuring out the equivalent time in their timezone, missing their scheduled appointment because of the confusion.

The devs added a new hover feature to make it clear what their local time is for available slots.

We use the subdomain. Iframe integration is also available (not amazing on mobile).
> Muskiet generally approaches airline offices and not former flight attendants, because, he says, most stewardesses from Europe and other places around the world don’t own their uniforms, so when they resign or retire, they have to return it to the airline. When an airline gets a new stewardess look, they generally keep their old uniforms in storage, sometimes for years. In the United States, however, flight attendants often pay for their uniforms, and then they’re allowed to keep them when they’re done.

What an excellent deal for the flight attendant!
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Substitute \bbold\b for ^bold$ -- a potentially introduced extra space in the class name (string) should not matter.
Your original comment was questioning why a 24% VAT is considered to be outstandingly high. It's the highest rate of VAT in the EU, and broadly speaking taxes in the EU are already higher than in nations of equivalent technological and economic development. So, it's not an unreasonable feeling that a 24% VAT rate is high.

That 30% tax burden for the US is from the same wikipedia page as the European tax burdens. I am assuming that the methodologies used to arrive at the figures are broadly comparable.
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I personally don't like what they've been doing to their web portals (massive graphics, tabloid-style coverage, etc.) but that stuff isn't that important in the long run. They've been doing a lot of right things in mobile with a great weather app and news digest app that I use daily and have been reviewed very well by users. If you told me two years ago I would be spending time with Yahoo-powered apps on my phone multiple times I day I would have laughed.
It depends : in France I have 32 days but a week is 6 days (don't ask me why) so I Have just a bit more than 5 weeks.
Yup, exactly. As someone with loved ones in Cambridge who use Uber constantly, and is therefore extremely distressed by rapists prowling their neighborhoods... thank god for Uber.

I'm a tall, professional male with a law degree who's never intoxicated or high. Even then, I've had many cabs do shady stuff in NYC and even I couldn't recall who drove me, if the driver's license (if displayed at all) matched the driver's physical description, or even what make and model the cab itself was -- much less critically important information like the license plate or the driver's name.

For rapists, the ability to lock a woman in a car and drive her anywhere you choose has always been a singular advantage to driving a cab. I wouldn't expect a traumatized victim to be able to remember the car or driver's details, or even where she was taken. Thankfully, Uber now records all that for you. It's a powerful deterrent to rapists who otherwise would enjoy the freedom to kidnap at will.

If this article can be used in service of any particular statement, it's that there are truly awful people in the world who perhaps should be locked away much longer than they are now. I know this opinion is at odds with the general sentiment that prison sentences are too long already, but I'm not particularly eager for Alejandro Done to get out and continue preying on women.
...which is why, even though it's stupid, it makes a difference in your favor if you dress up to go to traffic court. Sometimes they care, sometimes they don't, but it's not usually worth the extra risk if you already own a suit, or even a dress shirt and khakis.
So the world should ignore an oppressive and violent regime? The world should ignore a government who threatens pretty much everyone who disagrees with them on an almost daily basis? A country which antagonizes it's neighbors via its military and nuclear missile testing?

You're either mad with hate of the US or just legitimately out of your mind.
>>…any discussion about the benchmark game degenerates into…<<

Given the comments you have already made, that seems to be a self fulfilling prophesy.
I suspect that when I tip online for pizza it automatically gets bumped to the lowest priority of all of the driver's deliveries. He already has my money, and prioritizing all of the cash-tip orders over mine gives more potential for earning tips.

Of course, my sample size is too small to say anything conclusive. After it felt like I was noticing a pattern a couple of times I just switched back to tipping cash.
>If a store is close to your commute route, for example, the delivery costs will probably never be low enough to match with that.

I think it's not if it is "close," but if it's "convenient" to your commute route -- in terms of location and/or commuting method. If I am in NYC and I need to get off the subway, walk a half block, get the item, and then walk back and get not he subway; I might not want to do it, depending on the item. If I'm somewhere where I'm driving my commute, I might not think twice of driving five minutes out of my way and I can pick up almost anything. If I'm riding my bike to commute, I might easily be able to stop, but I might not be able to carry it.
I like that you talk about the mindset early on. Explaining mindset should be discussed early in just about any topic. Very well done.
Purchaser inputs details in online form, tax is applied by location, purchaser buys thing. What am I missing here?
That sounds nuts, but it's nothing like how the system works in the UK. As a small business you complete your VAT return and pay your balance at the end of each quarter. A large business (turnover > £2M) will make payments on account more frequently so they don't get to keep hold of the VAT that has been paid to them as long.
True, but in some places taxi drivers are vetted or have background check to some degree before being allowed to operate. The question is are Uber's practices too lax in this regard?
I couldn't find it mentioned in the time.com article or the original source, btu was this an UberX vehicle or an UberTaxi, etc?

I can definitely see this sort of thing happening with UberX, less so with UberTaxi (certainly no less likely than a regular taxi in this case).
But don't medallion owners also hire drivers? Not all of them care about their employer's reputation.

Thus, surely some negligible——but still tangible——fraction of cab drivers, working for Uber or not, will at some point rape a customer no matter what but with Uber the chances to collect evidence and identify the driver after the fact is probably much better, making it likely for the abusing driver to be prosecuted. This in turn creates a deterrent. With a regular cab, unless the customer can identify the car s/he doesn't really know who the driver is. Further, all the bad driver needs to do is to cover the cab number and become practically anonymous.
Very fair point. Perhaps my example wasn't the best of "fluff" -- but my point is still that the language of this deck is still (relatively) plain and to the point, and that should be a common goal.

In general, I've found that people use Fluff Language generally out of insecurity. They either hope they're going to sound more sophisticated or hope to mask the relative lack of substance.

It happens a lot in pitch decks but it's even more prevalent in the non-business world (See: Almost every cop ever..."We pursued the perpetrator inasmuch as our pursuit could be ascertained until we had determined...")
I frequently find I have dozens of tabs open at any given time. Usually because I want to watch some video, or read some article. Unfortunately I don't have time to look at the tab right now. It usually stays open for a few days (because I forget it's open because I can't see it) until eventually I just end up closing the tab because I realize I'll never get around to reading it.

I find "read it later" solutions less appealing because they're a big bucket where I put my anything that's mildly interesting. It's also an entirely separate section of the browser (or a whole other app) whereas this plugin leverages existing workflows.

I'm sure everyone is different but if I could snooze a bunch of tabs until the weekend or until I start my commute home, that'd be pretty cool.
Exactly. Rapes have been occurring in taxis for a long time, the only difference is Uber provides more accountability as you have a complete record of the transaction (gps location, personal information of the driver, etc) digitally stored. What these stories should focus on is how quickly these situations get resolved given the wealth of information provided by Uber (as opposed to a taxi cab) and how quickly that will act as a deterrent.
Looks really useful! Kind of a mitigator for those bookmarks you make to read later but never do.

Good work!
I don't have sources, but I do think it depends a lot on culture. For example, in Europe (WARNING: sweeping generalizations ahead) the northern countries do not have lower taxation rates than the southern ones, but shadow economies are smaller.

Part of that is that many people in the north consider a welfare state (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state) worth paying higher taxes for. "I'm a happy taxpayer" is not an unheard of statement, and said without a grain of irony.

Another part is that it is harder to evade taxes in a culture where people are more honest. If the typical accountant complains if you have money you cannot account for, and cannot be bribed, it is more of a hassle to find one that complies with you (conversely, if your accountant suggests ways to evade taxes, more people will be inclined to do it)

Historically, many consider that culture to be the result of Protestantism. Many Protestants consider democratic government to be the will of god (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_culture#Government). That makes any form of revolt against government a sin.
If you didn't know Daniel Hannan is a /very/ partisan politician, who is incredibly anti-European.
Touche. I can't see how that statement is loaded, though, or why enjoying a good life is something people would object to, but I'll count myself as odd man out here, since you obviously got it.
Should software-makers be held liable for the Sony hack?
He was a crook
I am surprised this is the first incident. Uber is an excellent way for the criminial circuit to get cheap hits. Not only sexual abuse but also theft, abduction and extortion. Step in the car, lock the doors and put a mobile signal distortion device in the back and boom you can take your passenger anywhere you want.
I run a small software development shop, registered in Switzerland. We sell installable software in productized form. We also employ a local accounting firm to handle our accounting and advise on taxation matters. At the moment the state of affairs is such that we do NOT need to charge or to report VAT on any sales unless it's a sale to a Swiss customer. I had them double-check this and I also got a second opinion from another company. Not Swiss = No VAT, period. So, this -

a Swiss supplier must charge the VAT rate of the EU
Member State where EU consumers are domiciled or the
services are used and enjoyed

doesn't correlate with reality on my end. I can only guess that the discrepancy is due to this being specific to -

Telecommunications and broadcasting companies, as
well as providers of electronic services to consumers

and not to installable software vendors.
Not without cause. The recent UVA scandal, the semi-recent duke lacrosse scandal, and the unconscionable number of rape convicts being exonerated and released on account of dna evidence being tested with modern methods all point to the need for defense of the accused.

It's almost as if accused rapists, like other accused criminals, should be innocent until proven guilty.
So far despite the decent specs the Microsoft Band is disappointing to pretty much everyone I've spoken to who bought one. Now that I know how the data storage functions additional disappointment abounds. This is clearly no exception to equating the MS Band as the windows 8 of smartwatches. I am fanatically thrilled I couldnt find one when I wanted to buy one.
Yes, and I say this as an American who does still love his country, faults and all. Judge away, we have much to improve upon. Now do I have your permission to judge one of three most violent and rotten regimes in the world?

Comparing the US to NK is still ajoke though.
I'm happy to see other countries are advancing their space capability, and hope this trend continues.
Yes. But at least its not as bad as the US where each city seems to have its own VAT rate...
Investment return is always a problem. Pension funds don't magically create money!
Saying "I don't want to deal with this issue" is also different from saying "I am acting in concert with you, we are part if a hive-mind that speaks with a single voice, and 0 dissent," which is what you originally implied (and held up the treatment of Snowden as 'proof' of).
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I just posted an actual marked-up page, but with only two companies. I'll be posting more Real Soon Now, however at the moment I am not feeling so good, so I need to spend some time doing something other than hunting for Careers pages.

But have faith, I'll dig up lots of companies for you.

I have some friends in SF, if it would help for me to introduce you to them. Two of them are coders, one is a website project management consultant. That is, if you need a website, he'll get it done for you, but he hires other people to do the actual work.
Does placing advertising on web property count as a digital good?
The same way making a copy of something is theft.
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