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Does the software industry even have a requirement for professional licensure? If not, then there is no "professional engineer" that signed off on the design and there is no regulatory liability and hence no questions to answer by the engineer.

This is one of big problems with the software industry nowadays. It has a role to play in nearly every major industry but does not have the same regulatory hoops to jump through to get into that industry. In this case, I am sure multiple mechanical and electrical licensed professional engineers had to stamp all of the physical components that make up the vehicle but I would be very surprised if any software was ever signed off on by a licensed professional engineer explicitly (there is a case to be made for implied acceptance by the engineer of record for the system that the software runs on but I think it is weak).
Adidas buys fitness app maker Runtastic for $239M
Why the assumption that an index must represent a market?

Wikipedia def:
"An index fund (also index tracker) is an investment fund ... that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market, or a set of rules of ownership that are held constant, regardless of market conditions."

The OP only discusses the former, not the later. I see the point that an indexed fund tied to a specific market, the narrower the better, may bring antitrust rules into play. But the later concept, that a indexed fund is simply a fund with fixed buy rules, need not get anywhere close to antitrust. They need not have a presence across any "market" as conceived by antitrust.

How about an indexed fund with the rule: Own equal numbers of share from all publicly-traded social media firms, except facebook. Such an indexed fund might find lots of investors without getting anywhere close to antitrust.
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Who is Dan Weber?

I'm sure we're in different communities, but surely there are a lot of "mainstream leftists" with lots of public visibility? And I haven't seen "unions are always correct" expressed by public figures.
Or go to college, get a degree, take on oppressive debt by 22, move back in with your parents...
I've always thought that when a company tells you that their product has some quality like safety or quality, instead of showing it to you with their product, it's likely that that's the extent of that quality in their product: the declaration.
We could kill off nearly every other species on the planet, including many of which we have domesticated and breed for product (bees, cows, etc.) and humans would be just fine.

The only sad thing about a species going extinct is it is one less species for us to study and learn from. It's a drastic loss for science and the only hypothetical loss for people at large is if there was something of value lost (e.g. discovery of a gene that cures a disease that only the now-extinct animal naturally produced)

You can especially kill off most apex predators without issue. Which is why the loss of a lion isn't a big deal.

Now if all producers were to go extinct and the bottom feeders of the food chain(s) such as plankton were to vanish from the Earth? Most, if not all, life as we know it would die from starvation. The animals with the most adaptive and most abundant food sources would live the longest, but eventually they would also run out of food!

A lion isn't a producer nor is it the bottom of the food chain. So a lion dying or lions going extinct really doesn't matter outside of scientific studies.
Any facts to back "forming bonds with"? I have many anecdotal stories of people related and unrelated forming bonds as strong as dogs with chickens and pigs which were later slaughtered and eaten.
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How I got removed from the 3rd place on Product Hunt
"Competition is a sin." - John D. Rockefeller
Wow. That's pretty confusing. And modifying the Firefox user.js is sounds kinda underhanded.
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spotify is pretty crappy (experiences on android):

* they broke google maps for about 3 months. Originally, when google maps needed to give audio directions, music would pause. It worked. Some moron decided, instead, to make the audio keep playing but make it quieter while google maps was giving audio directions. What he or she actually did is to mute google maps. This persisted for 3 months while assholes there made excuses (how fucking hard is git revert) and claimed bluetooth audio wasn't supported and therefore customers had no grounds for complaint. What was particularly frustrating across the 100 page support threads was the fact that this bug was so obvious that clearly not a single employee uses the android app or gives a damn about the experience.

* spotify added a moronic "control spotify from other devices" feature. What this does in reality is this: listen to spotify on your way to work. At work, set your phone down and start listening to spotify on your computer. The next time you get a txt or interact with your phone (ie enter your pin into the lock screen), the spotify session that's been lurking steals control of your mac and jumps back to whatever you'd been listening to hours ago on your phone. The cure is to always leave spotify in offline mode and/or kill the task when you're done listening to it.

* listening to files you own -- eg a concert recording unavailable in spotify -- while theoretically supported, is just janky.

* If you make the mistake of allowing spotify to go online on your phone, it eats battery life.

* there's a long list of other bugs, but I now wait at least 3 months before installing any updates and archive previous apks so that I can revert their idiocy. I really need to get on figuring out how to import their playlists into something better.
Not dismissing anything, just pointing out that the author's standard of evidence is somewhat lacking.
> Why would someone take time to understand the internals of a GPLv3 app, when they could never incorporate pieces of it in their code later on?

...to make it better for their uses, rather than their products? "Enforcing envy," though--please, be more of a jerk.

I'm curious as to what large-scale applications have you developed and released under a permissive license that make you such an authority on what others should do with tens of thousands of their man-hours.
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Cabal itself is fine. The problems are

(1) Haskell is a compiled language, so you need to compile everything locally

(2) Libraries are unstable, because they are young and authors are too creative, so dependencies are unstable.

Maven, and whatever Python and Ruby have, can ship you everything you need to run. (Except for things that depend on C bindings, where they become just as painful as Haskell libs, for the same reasons)
I too am on 10.9 and it feels great. I used to use 10.10 and it was crashing when I did VNC. Now it's stable as a rock. It was very difficult to downgrade, because Apple cut almost all the ways. Fortunately, my laptop originally shipped with 10.9 and I was allowed a web download of the OS from the boot loader.

On a tangent note, I am frustrated with the slowness of Chrome, too.
Runtastic joins Adidas Group
> Information can no longer die - CDs, DVDs, libraries - a new dark age will be mercifully short.

Well, also, the printing press was invented a long time ago, so we actually have loads and loads of dead-tree copies of the really important stuff.
Personally speaking: I think open source/permissive licensing works for libraries. I think it's been amply demonstrated that that doesn't work well at all for applications, and honestly that's the one place where I'll throw a bone to the free software folks.
I totally agree with you on Photos. Everything about it is overly complicated. It should be a simple as take photo, it's on my phone, automatically added to my computer and in the cloud. Edit/delete anywhere. At least they got rid of the Camera Roll.

If I do plug my iPhone into the computer, I should be able to drag and drop photos from my phone through Finder. No application needed. I miss the old iPod Classic and it's external hard drive functions.
Many people manage quite handily to work their way through college.

Don't want debt? Be frugal and choose a different school.
Like @kspaans says it's more about buying a representation of the market i.e. passive investing. Though, in the case of the S&P500, 500 large cap US stocks is hardly buying the market, so a keen investor would try to create a truly diversified portfolio including domestic, international, equities, bonds, real estate, commodities, etc.
> What is strange is it is in many of the rural areas (see most of Northern Minnesota).. See Paul Bunyan Communications for instance.

Municipal fiber doesn't need to be profitable.
I am not sure what features you exactly want for your sprites. But in general you could create a Plug-In which saves sprites yes!
We aim to teach a craft, not expose secrets. All of our lessons can be done with common items, not gimmicked tricks. We want to preserve the integrity of the craft, not spoil it.
My complaint is that a number on the stack before a command can mean two different things in different contexts. Apparently it is the responsibility of each command to consume numbers off the stack and choose what to do with them.

...Which doesn't sound as bad to me today as it did yesterday. I dunno.
While I understand the need to give a snappy comment, does this really contribute any value to the discussion? It's obvious that OP means develop apps without dealing with servers. I don't think anyone would imagine that the entire app is running without any servers at all.

Please reconsider leaving this comment here.
Inner functions and function arguments have function scope anyway, so it's not just about `var`.

From the acceptance of ES6 forward, JS devs (and devs of whatever languages consider themselves to be a superset of JS) need to accept that both function scope and block scope exist in the language.
My only issue with GM is the portability. I work out frequently, and lugging around a large smartphone isn't the best scenario for simply listening to music.

I'm looking into getting a smaller MP3 player and putting my GM library on that to achieve the level of portability I need for my music.
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Boot times for my Macbook Pro have gotten really long since a recent upgrade to Mavericks. Went from ~3 seconds to ~30 seconds.
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Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic in a deal worth $239M
I suggest the difference is I, and other people I know, keep finding apple bugs so common and frequent that it's essentially clear there is no testing at all. viz the discoveryd fiasco. Either nobody there could be bothered to use stuff on a network or an exec forced it to be released anyway. Or trouble connecting iphones to itunes, etc.
I figured we all learned this from Square One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM
The harrowing story of the Nagasaki bombing mission
A product is greater than the sum of its specs.
>> (e.g. claiming that a $250 HP laptop is in any way equivalent to what you could get for $2K at Apple)

If you're focused on specs, build quality and performance, etc., of course they are not equivalent.

On the other hand, if you look at how they are to be used in the real world (i.e., a typical staffer who primarily does e-mail, Office and accesses web apps), they could be equivalent in terms of end-user effectiveness/productivity. A lot of people use computers that have too much capacity for their daily tasks.
They took the equipment down so they knew it was there and recording them. Not getting all of them COULD mean that since they thought they got them all, that they were no longer being recorded and now safe. Safe meaning reasonably assured of privacy.

Don't think I'm agreeing with the behavior at all, just voicing a thought.
> I think open source/permissive licensing works for libraries. I think it's been amply demonstrated that that doesn't work well at all for applications

PostgreSQL is an application, not a library. It is permissively licensed. It has at least one major proprietary downstream derivative that contributes back significantly to the core. Its usually recognized as a successful open source RDBMS.

Please explain to me how it is "amply demonstrated" that permissive licensing "doesn't work at all for applications"?
Thanks! We wanted it to be activity centric so that meeting new people feels more natural.
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I just can't see it as something positive.

This is signaling that monopolies have massive power in their industry horizontals. 'To compete', they must take over another industry horizontal.
Lack of git/versioning integration is pretty key and is one of the downsides of requiring deployment from the browser. We're hacking on something that solves this @ https://stackhut.com.
Oh, hello Spenser-- haven't seen you in years. We went to MIT together. Congrats on the launch!
Cripes, people. WHO CARES?

So I SSHed in. I got the message. Then I saw all the people freaking out here and couldn't believe my eyes.

Ask yourself this:

How often do you SSH in to arbitrary hosts? Ones that you don't control, or work for, or trust with your source code?

Did you really expect that you could give the same long unique base64 string to a bunch of different hosts and NOT have them connect your identity between them?

Do you not understand that the whole point of public keys is to uniquely and reliably identify yourself to an arbitrarily large number of parties?

Honestly, the only real eye-opener here is that Github gives out your public keys and can be scraped to collect all of them. But some of us have been using that functionality to share / snag each other's public keys for a long time now anyway.
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Thanks for the reply and apols -- no hard feelings.

At least the new Dart compiler generates nice JS, and the future efforts on Dart and JS look more aligned. We still don't have a bignum champion in TC39, but we do have great SIMD championing from John McCutchan (who started it) and Daniel Ehrenberg of Google; Dan Gohman of Mozilla; Peter Jensen, et al., of Intel; and others at Microsoft whose names I'm not remembering. This leads to value types as an extension mechanism, so we should get bignums sooner or later.

On whether DartVM was justified as a hedge against Java going away on Google, I've heard that too, but both for Java on the Google server side and for Android Java, I have never seen any evidence to support this notion. I'd want to see an efficient AOT compiler from Java classfiles to Dart, for example. Another example: some convincing work on library/framework parity on the server side to go along with Dart's (very nice) DOM and client side libraries.

Perhaps such work was kept behind firewalls. If instead it was just a case of saying "oh, we may be able to use DartVM if things go south with Oracle", that velleity hardly counts as an intentional, operational Java replacement strategy.
I would argue the reason it's coming is the low regulatory burden in Texas. Why would it seing it the other way?
Thanks. That's something that would have been really helpful to see a note on. It changed the behavior of a button that's been consistent for as long as I can remember.
Google Fiber as a residential service hasn't been rolled out in Mountain View....
It also runs on Mac! https://hyper.sh/blog/post/2015/07/30/running-containers-fro...
We know since today (-,

https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/issues/51

If you find other bugs just shout!
In addition to not doing other things, I'd like to suggest adding the idea that one also does not have to burn out or be burned out doing a startup.
It's certainly the case that OSX, at least, has gotten flaky as heck, but at the same time: What's the competition?

While Apple was releasing Yosemite, Microsoft was going down the Windows 8 rabbit-hole, releasing the worst version of Windows since ME. And while desktop Linux has been getting better over time, I don't think anyone would say that it "Just Works" yet.

The only desktop/laptop OS that actually does "Just Work" is ChromeOS; and while that's a wonderful experience for its use cases, there are still plenty of situations that it's not great for.
Here it is as a Github project: https://github.com/ucbvislab/Proton
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That's intentional and good. Bleeding-edge packages are a headache to manage, due to complex dependencies. You should really wring everything you can out of Platform, and feel like an advanced Haskell programmer, before dealing with Cabal.
The ability to upload 20,000 songs and than download local copies is amazing.

I fix my big smart phone with a LG Bluetooth Headset problem solved.
The thing I don't like about analytics as a service is that, most of the time, it's highly opinionated about how to track and visualize data. We tried a number of analytic services in the past, but no matter how flexible they were, we always found corner cases or certain ways of visualizing and presenting the data that we wished existed but for some or other reason weren't possible, because each respective service always expects you to do things in a certain way at the end of the day. Which is understandable, because you can't have a fully featured dashboard right off the bat without an opinion about how should that work and be presented, so as an analytics provider it isn't an easy problem to solve unless you go the keen.io route and offer an analytics as back-end service only.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, while services like these are great, I find that eventually after a certain size startups will almost always need to have in-house analytics infrastructure to cover all use cases and needs specific to the business. Not that services like Amplitude don't have their place, which they do, I just wish there was an universal solution to that problem. But I suppose you can't help rolling your own infrastructure given specific enough needs.
Austin has had residential AT&T gigabit fiber in some areas for more than a year.
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I'm not sure that is an actual problem.

Generally, executives get compensated in stock in some way in their company. So the Coke C-Suite is motivated to compete with the Pepsi C-Suite even if the board members are the same for both companies.
OP here. Cartopy is actually news to me! Thanks for the info! HN at its finest.
I agree with you. I was talking more generally about basic human nature from a self-actualization perspective ala Abraham Maslow. Though now that I put that into words I'm agreeing even more with you as Maslows B-values such as justice, self-sufficiency and perfection, though shared, ARE likely ranked quite differently between the two cultures.
You must not be from Wisconsin.

Walker believes every public servant... (Other than Police and Firemen)... should be prevented from unionizing.
I'm also at JPMC and (at least in my department) it's definitely not bring-your-own-device friendly - and as someone who wholeheartedly prefers using a Mac, I feel like I had to bend over backwards to get my PC in a state to where I was halfway efficient and comfortable developing on it.
>> It's a premium (and expensive) device that can hardly be justified for the average mid to large business.

In all fairness, this does not apply to just Apple. It applies to the higher end Lenovos and Dells too (which are in the same price bracket as Apple's stuff), so let's not make it specific to a particular platform.

Not everyone needs to buy premium computers for their business. If they choose to, more power to them, especially if it makes their employees happier and less likely to leave.
Chicago police detained thousands of black Americans at interrogation facility
How Tesla’s Disinformation Campaign Dupes New Customers and Lets Down Its Owners
Because then it's not an index fund, it's an actively managed fund.

The appeal of an index fund is that it mechanically tracks an index so costs are very very low and investors can track the market as closely as possible.
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Great news! Now San Antonians can have everything they do online data-mined by Google!

I'm being snarky, but does anyone doubt Google will snoop the shit out of you once you're on a connection of theirs? That's the main reason they got into the ISP business.

It's not like they started snooping only recently either. Remember when their Street View cars just "accidentally" happened to capture nearby WiFi traffic?
Thanks for the comment! We had originally thought about solving the "coordinating with friends problem" but observed that it wouldn't be compelling enough to drive adoption.

Not to say that the current iteration is the silver bullet but it's a bit clearer in purpose.
This one really helped me back when I needed choropleth maps. So thanks!
WAS, RAD, DB2, MQ Series
In another time maybe, but not so much today.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/working-your-way-thro...

http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Study-shows-college-...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/02/10/millennials_l...
What's support like for this plan? I previously worked at an analytics startup in a support role and there were always tons of questions. It got expensive to provide excessive support to free plan customers; they were often the least savvy ones and had the most questions! I always wanted to error on the side of helping out the customers, but there's a point where your employer is losing serious money. For your system to not have a ton of questions during onboarding and throughout to the average user, would be amazing.
Or is this an expense you plan to eat for now as you grow?
Windows 8 has been solid (Except people don't like the GUI)

Windows 10 gives you the start button back (I don't like start buttons)

Linux - There really are good use cases for Linux. Your's might fit this one. Works for me and I dual boot for the odd time I need another OS (About twice a quarter)

Chromebook - Limited to "normal" users workflow cases.
It'd be nice to be able to search by type declaration
I would second Mint.

I made the switch a while back and am in the process of dumping Windows altogether so I can do all my development with Linux.
Do you rely on Time Machine? Drop to the shell right now and try "tmutil compare -n" to see which files are not making it onto your backups. For me, Time Machine randomly ignores certain files, for no discernible reason. Files that have sat on my disk literally for years will never get backed up. It's happened to me on two different Macs, and I've lost data because of it.
Real World Haskell is obsolete and is about libraries, not the language.

The "Effective" stuff is language-level lessons like:

* http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

* https://twitter.com/haskelltips (someone should organize the archive)

* http://www.slideshare.net/tibbe/highperformance-haskell
Sending a detective doesn't get a bunch of guys overtime pay.
It sure would be clever if Google realized they don't have to build out the fiber, just threaten to.