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Why isn't Microsoft ever transparent about the cost of their devices before release dates? In my opinion their product announcements would have much more attention and excitement if they gave a date and a price. But most of the time it's just, oh look there gonna release something sometime soon for some price. One can't even decide if it's in their budget.
Was it this one?

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/truth-wont-admit-dr...
Pro Tip: if I have to dig through eight paragraphs of fluff to find out what the fuck your product is, then you REALLY need to rethink the description of your product.

In particular, it was not at all clear what was meant by a "programming platform". Until I finally stumbled onto the description below, I thought it was just another web-based IDE.

> What is the Unison platform? At a high level, it consists of three components:

> * The Unison language: a powerful, typed, purely functional underlying programming language

> * The Unison editor: a rich, in-browser semantic editor for editing programs

> * The Unison node: the backend implementation of the Unison language, its typechecker, and the API used by the Unison editor and other remote nodes in the network

> The collection of Unison nodes (the Unison web) form a network platform in which data and functions may be trivially exchanged, with a minimum of friction.
Not sure I'd consider randomly shutting down Sublime Text a good prank - Sublime Text seems quite capable of doing that all on its own. Making the computer speak was way better.
It's a science article.
You can credit this at least in part to advertising that plays on decades of that Americans-as-rugged-individualists sentiment. Like we're all just cowboys, ready to ride off into the hills and watch out for ourselves.

Prepper supply companies see big dollar signs in reinforcing that; "don't rely on your neighbors, don't look to local governments to organize for you, watch out only for yourself! Oh, and buy a bunch of stuff to make sure you'll survive!!"

For decades now we've been hit with this marketing propaganda, and it divides us politically, makes some people waste a ton of money on prepper supplies, all of which (as usual) enriches business interests big and small.

Obviously, both looking at it historically and just plain thinking about it, we all have to work together (excepting those rare few who really live totally off the grid, in the middle of nowhere) to get civilization back in order.
I'd argue Apache license here. Making mailpile AGPL will limit your contributors, limit the distribution of your product, and limit the people willing to commit to it. Because of the restrictions the AGPL places on software, I wouldn't use it for personal projects, and definitely wouldn't use it for any commercial projects. Putting mailpile as AGPL would just make me look at other webmail clients like horde; the compliance costs are just too high for a webmail client.
I actually don't like the way they've defined lead link in Holacracy. It does feel too manager-like because they have the ability to create roles or remove people from roles.

We had this as a stepping stone at GrantTree, in our previous implementation of holarchy (note: that's not the same as holacracy, it's just one subset of holacracy that deals with how to organise work without organising people) but since then, we got rid of that managerial aspect (and also of the word "lead", which is needlessly managerial).

The links at GrantTree now do just one thing: they represent the circle they're a link of in the meetings of the supercircle.

This is just one role among many for the person, and it has absolutely zero managerial authority. It's an administrative and communications role. We're still in the early days of it, but the intention is that the person in that role will be rotated out every 3 months or so, to make sure the role doesn't turn into a manager role inadvertently (but at the moment there's no sign that it will).
Zappos doesn't; it's a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amazon. They could all just be subordinate to Jeff Bezos.
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Maybe it was the enforcement mechanism (the chemical need basically) that made sure that sufficient breaks were taken? I notice the smokers at work have 2-3 breaks throughout the day every day while the non-smokers basically don't have any breaks. Maybe because they're worried they'll look like they're slacking off while the smokers don't care, they have a physical need to attend to?
Your suggestion is like arguing that we needn't worry about food production because we could have Star Trek replicators.

I would very much like to live in your utopia, but until then we have to handle the reality:

http://np.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_believ...

I would love to know your thoughts on how to deal with our current situation.
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That is the way I do it also. I have used Lucene and Solr a lot in the past, but I now find Postgres text search to be more than adequate for my needs and it does make software development and deployment simpler.
They are not supposed to be in any order.
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> Perhaps 70% of developer time is spent dealing with parsing, serialization, and persistence. Values are encoded to and from JSON, to and from various binary formats, and to and from various persistent data stores… over and over again.

This is not my experience at all. I've spent maybe an hour or two in the last few months on parsing, serialization, and persistence. For the work I do, these are all solved problems.

> Another 25% is spent on explicit networking. We don’t merely specify that a value must be sent from one node to another, we also specify how in exhaustive detail.

Honestly I'm not sure what the author means by this. If I have a value others might want to know about, I just trigger an event. There is no "exhaustive detail' going on. (Plus events are easy to grep).

>Somewhere in between all this plumbing code is a tiny amount of interesting, pure computation, which takes up the remaining 5% of developer time. And there’s very little reuse of that 5% across applications, because every app is wrapped in a different 95% of cruft and the useful logic is often difficult to separate!

Boiler plate code used to be an issue, but the languages I still use have ways around it. (macros, first class functions, extending, etc). We build modules and libraries and controls, all reusable code that lets me spend most of my time being bored in meetings.
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> it sounds like you some-what 'ported' bundler to dart...

More or less. Most of pub's code is devoted to stuff that's specific to Dart, but it's underlying "philosophy" is Bundler's model.

> what's your impression of how difficult it would be extend a tool like this to work for many languages?

This comes up a lot, but my hunch is that we're unlikely to see a successful language-agnostic package manager. The package manager has to be written in some language, and users of language X generally don't want to be told that they have to install language Y before they can download packages for X.

Also, most of the code for a package manager is fiddly details related to the specific language in question. Thinks like how files are organized, running tests, etc. The amount of code you could share is actually pretty small.
I agree with you, but when we are discussing "price", we are not discussing it as a function of profile. We are discussing it as a function of raw skill. If two people (one experienced and one in-experienced) were asked for a proposal on the same specs, the experienced one would demand a much higher rate, even if the final output would be the exact same. Using the word "underpriced" from the lens of competency makes sense. Your ability to gain trust/respect from a client? Different story..
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Thanks for explaining. After I posted I read the methods and that became clear, but the explanation of confounding is definitely helpful.

Willett says in his book, "When the first reports appeared linking moderate alcohol consumption with lower rates of heart disease, many doctors and scientists thought that some other habit shared by drinkers, not the drinking accounted for the benefit. Today the evidence strongly points to alcohol itself."

Unfortunately I don't have the copy of the book with me to check, and that study was the only one I could find by searching the book through Amazon. I would be interested to see what other evidence he points to.
This seems like a great platform for spam, so if it's to succeed long-term there will need to be good antispam tools. Seems like a cool development, though, and I hope it works out.
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After you've done that, please explain in one sentence with fewer than 20 words how a determinant is a measure of fullness-of-span in n-dimensional space. I know that it is, but I've never understood the intuition.
To clarify, I think what you mean is services being centralized around the user, as opposed to what other commentors seem to be interpreting which is users centralized around services (the current state of the web).
Alright, I made an honest attempt to read through all of it but I still have a fuzzy understanding of what you are trying to achieve with this project. I understand our current development tools might not be the best, but if I understand this right you are essentially making a framework into a language with an editor with said language? I don't see that moving away from the model we have now, simply moving things lower in the stack. Maybe Im just not understanding.
Yes, I generalized my thoughts and what patio11 said about quitting consulting :)
How does this differ from other next-generation web platforms like Opa?

http://opalang.org/

Also, why does this need to re-use the name of a next-generation file synchronization tool?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
Given the recent PCI Discussion.

As opposed to Stripe.js where the credit card inputs in a custom designed form live on the merchant's DOM, Braintree just set it up so that it replaces each field with an iframe (that also allows for custom styling), so that the credit card info gets entered directly to Braintree despite it looking like your own page.

Awesome Braintree!
I can't find it; I guess we'll have to wait?
http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/AlcoholAndHealth.html cites 188 sources generally in favor of moderate drinking.
>It was unclear what his intentions were.

"a tenure-based package to leave the company"

People who have been longer with company are also more likely to be older than average employee. So I think he wanted to get rid of "old" people who would "slow down" company and be unfit for its "new and vigorous" culture?
> The dealership industry is an outdated, parasitic system that has nothing to offer Tesla. It is little more than a middleman which saps away profit that could be going to Tesla itself.

Ordinarily, middlemen are great. Small farmers can get away with selling at Farmer's markets, but Supermarkets drive an enormous volume of sales. Likewise, Walmart, Target, Fred Meyer's, etc. are all generally pretty good to their suppliers and customers.

The big difference when it comes to cars it that customers actively hate car dealerships. I don't know of a single person who is even ambivalent towards the process of buying a car.

If Tesla could take that part of the car buying process and make it great, it would be an enormous competitive advantage. Dealerships and the other car manufacturers know this and are terrified that it might work.
What I got from this is that if salary correlates positively with stackoverflow rep, I just need to answer more stackoverflow questions and I'll have that raise in no time
Because future technologies will be used for immoral causes, we should not build technologies? I disagree with your heavy-handed Neo-Luddism.
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Doesn't seem that way to me at all.
Discover card has gone back and forth on this. They had a tool on their site to give you a throwaway CC #. I used it for almost all online purchases. It went away for a short time, then came back. Now it looks like it is gone for good. I quit using their card since that was the only reason I had to use it over others.

Now if they'd only stop sending me "checks" in the mail that are tied to my account... I'm just waiting for those to be spent by someone else.
Ok. Having reread the entire thing twice (just for you) i can positively say that i stand by my "no." The phrase "reduce subconscious bias" appears multiple times with no explanation as to how that may actually work.

This is a classic case of top down initiative. The leaders can say whatever they want; it is the foot soldiers that implement policy. As long as there is an entrenched, aged constabulary educating the new recruits, the inherent biases of thugs with badges will continue.
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Ask HN: Should I branch off my startup's technology into a separate company?
My two co-founders and I own a profitable home services company that runs on a proprietary technology platform that I've built. Over the past two years, I've put the majority of work into the startup, with most of the effort dedicated towards building and maintaining the platform. However, over the course of the past year, my two co-founders have begun to take a backseat in the operation of the business. We've had many late night conversations about this but it doesn't appear to resolve any of my concerns. It's been extremely demotivating for me while I still continue to invest the same chunk of effort into building out the platform. Sometimes, features and fixes are delayed simply because of the occasional resent I carry.
However, I have a proposal that I'd like to bring to the table--branching off the technology into a separate company and licensing it to the home services company to use for free. I feel this would greatly motivate me again to work on the platform--it's a win-win situation in my eyes. If this were to happen, there is still software development needed on the home services company to interface with the platform. What are your thoughts on this? Should I give equity to my co-founders within this new company? We did hire a short-term contractor to work on the platform which never surpassed $5,000.00. The rest of the work was done solely by me. Interested to hear some feedback on this since this has been brewing in my head for awhile!
Wikipedia has Zappos down as being acquired by Amazon in 2009
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Before I quit my job to start consulting, I read all of (every... single... one) Patrick McKenzie's blog posts and podcasts. That gave me the knowledge that there is a market for results-oriented, bullshit-free consultants, and that clients in that market are willing to pay for results.

So when I quit and self-declared myself a consultant, I went straight to charging premium weekly and monthly rates, as Patrick and others have recommended.

It wasn't $30k/week, and it still took many months to stop feeling like a fraud, but two years later I'm earning a living by working with extremely interesting and successful clients. I altogether skipped the dreaded "cheap freelancer living week-to-week" stage, and I give a lot of credit to Patrick's articles for that.
Can you point specifically to the cases of "proven optimism"?
If I were making those caskets, I'd just put a one-way release valve on it.

I think it's interesting that reactions can produce so much pressure, given that all the components "fit" into the space prior.
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Arguably, you can invest some of your time in your own portfolio projects that demonstrate the particular skills and value you want to promote. It's not an exact science, and harder in some industries than others, but not impossible, and it's something that too many folks (me included) tend to gloss over or ignore.

Keeping a relevant industry-related blog won't necessarily convince every single client, but it's one of those things that can swing someone's mind to committing to you when there's not a lot of other obvious signals.
Mr Spinney did a Reddit AMA yesterday too: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/356sal/hi_reddit_im_c...

The top question/reply in that thread (I doubt it will be replaced, but it's the reply that starts "This is a very sad story, but it's real.") has made me randomly tear up every so often for the past day.
Clearbit's person lookup API might be a suitable alternative for a number of cases: https://clearbit.com/docs
There are articles on how Valve has "hidden management" cliques though [1]. I'm not sure if this was ever addressed by Valve itself.

[1] http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hi...
Deciding memory layout is a sub-task of designing cache-oblivious algorithms. Cache-oblivious algorithms optimize the number of memory transfers. I found this very interesting http://erikdemaine.org/papers/BRICS2002/paper.pdf
A housefly lives for a day and with exponential growth it could take just a couple of days, so it is plausible.
well another way to look at it is that there is already a fundamentalist organizational religion that most people adhere to, they're just unaware of being part of one already
In addition to much of what has been mentioned, I find Core 77 to be a very interesting newsletter:

http://www.core77.com/ - industrial design
Meanwhile, you shun antidepressants, and stimulants (Adderall, Ritalin, etc.). Just because alcohol has been discovered 10000 years ago, doesn't mean it's better than modern pharma. It's the same thing with coffee and cigarettes...
I don't know anything about your situation, but it really depends on what else is going on in your life. If you work a full day (or a little longer) go to the gym or participate in a hobby after work, drive home, cook and eat dinner, watch some TV (or whatever) and go to bed, there's not really time in there for more than 2 or 3 drinks unless you are really pushing yourself.
If your routine involves going to happy hour with friends, eating out, taking Uber home, having a nightcap then yeah, you could easily do more than that without really trying.
The statistical studies have been used to suggest that drinking 6 drinks a day is healthier than drinking nothing, even when you account for people who don't drink because of long term health conditions.
Do any of these services give you any insight into what variable drove the decision? I get that they can tell you the target variable (e.g. these people are likely to buy), but can they tell me that the age and gender fields had a higher correlation than income or education?
Not everywhere in the US. Some places are full of mostly crap jobs.
Dealers will need a cut of the profit and due to the laws in the books, once they start using dealers, they cannot forgo them in the future. I think it should be the choice of the manufacturer whether to use dealers or not.
I'm not really surprised.

The attitude of Reddit is to silence opposing view points and political opinions in the name of "civil" conversations.

I post once-in-awhile to /politics and the mods will constantly warn me for merely posting opposing political view points and tell me I need to be "civil".

This is of course after I get a stream of nasty, bullying, and down-right violent responses to anything that doesn't 100% support the status quo (these of course are not banned or removed). It's scary to think that anyone with this attitude can have any sort of power in government and even scarier that this sort of behavior isn't un-like many of the dictatorships that have started in years past.
> The ones that could land another job by the quit date.

The ones that are confident they could land another better job by the quit date.

It's not enough to be possible to get any job. The offer only makes sense if you are certain you will trade up.
Listen to an audience react to Star Wars for the first time in 1977
Consider how a rocket engine works.
Take mine please!
Zen looked nicely done. How would you compare these two platforms?
All of the components of diet coke and mentos fit into the bottle prior :)
Also, don't beat yourself up (hopefully others who have this similar thought won't beat themselves up either). We've all thought this way at one point or another. To me, my code is art. I love showing it off and letting people who appreciate my art also see what I have done. But through long fought for and won experience, I have grown to understand reputation is hard to gain and easy to lose. Keeping it is the real art in our business.
Now do a dry month. I am very easily addicted to alcohol, I hate the goddamn thing, I can hold out a week, but a month is much harder and shows exactly how far into it I am...
The ability or inability to describe an idea in simple terms has no relation to the validity of the idea.

>If Zappos has a unique take on how to replace middle management, let's all hear it.

I think their idea is in this book, mentioned in the article, that they asked all zappos employees to read: http://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
#4 and #5 are definitively harder than they look.
I met her on reddit. We've been living together for a year now.
If you are into decay I'd also like to recommend the Rodale book of composting[0], you'll be making great compost soon enough (weather you read it or not).

It isn't sensational, which can be nice. They approach it from a gardeners perspective while still mentioning things like how blood has a high nitrogen content.

[0] http://amzn.com/0878579915
Unless you're trying to demonstrate why. It doesn't seem to be the case here, but you could probably get the point across better if you simply showed people how much information you could gather about them.
> It was unclear what his intentions were.

When you don't know how to run a business, cut costs and call the result a profit. Then take the bonus for "hitting the target", and pull the golden parachute ripcord.
Buffer's recently switched to self-management as well. Their early reflections[1] on switching is a good read.

[1] https://open.bufferapp.com/early-reflections-buffers-switch-...
That's because they technically are alcoholics. One small "fix" every day makes it unnecessary to binge like it's the last time (because it isn't).
Not quite as cute as throwing up Xeyes on someone's machine when they hadn't locked down their X client's remote port, but funny.
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it's easy to forget that zappos was acquired by amazon. i am interested to what extent sales growth or lack thereof, would be a driver of radical restructuring.
They are being reinvented.
> And why is Tesla so against dealers?

I don't think Tesla is against dealers per se, it just wants to control end-to-end experience like Apple does. It's totally understandable for a high-end manufacturer.
So 14% read Lord of the Flies instead and decided to get the hell of the island.
Sorry for the blatant plug, but it might be relevant — in my M.Sc. thesis I surveyed main memory optimized index techniques and also provided some background for why traditional binary search is not very optimized for modern hardware. There's lots of illustrations and I cite some great material. :)

See here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Florian_Gross/publicati...

Along those lines:

* CSS Trees: Pointerless b-Trees with a layout optimized for cache lines (http://www.vldb.org/conf/1999/P7.pdf)

* Intel & Oracle's fast architecture-sensitive tree search (combines huge pages, cache line blocking, and SIMD in an optimal layout):
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jatin_Chhugani/publicati...

* Adaptive radix trees (http://codematch.muehe.org/~leis/papers/ART.pdf)