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Ask HN: Interview on mobile / startup scene in major cities
We're running a blog series on the mobile development scene in all major cities. We'd like to interview people on the ground. that are hands-on with startups and app development. Any recommendations?
Sorry to hear. But surely you have to agree that your introversion has handicapped you significantly in life?

From your own story, it sounds like it stopped you from being able to complete a degree program and has cost you job opportunities. It sounds like something worth working on fixing or at least working around.

I was a super shy kid and am still way on the introverted side of the spectrum. But I've learned to work on teams and to lead them. It's a skill, like any other. Much like you couldn't blame the paratroopers for rejecting you for refusing to jump out of planes, you can't really blame a school or employer for rejecting you if you refuse to learn to overcome your aversion to working with groups.
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Yeah, but a lot of the limits we're hitting are tied to physics. But hey, we're used to trade offs and will go for slightly lower quality in exchange for ease of use and convenience
It's not so much pivoting as conglomeration. The end-goal of all these companies is to be "the point-of-contact a small-business-owner has for everything their business does that's not making their product." (In other words, to act as a PE firm or bigcorp acquirer without needing to do any actual acquiring.)

The main method of achieving this goal, from the starting point of having any one "component" of such an offering, is merging with other companies that provide other components, or integrating others' components into your own as a "suite" or "dashboard", or selling a "concierge" service that recommends others' services, etc etc.
Have you looked at the other four languages I mentioned, e.g. OCaml?
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Fantastical inspired? :)
> Most of the 11 subjects had unique microbial clouds

So even in their tiny sample size they wouldn't be able to identify individuals. I suspect if you increase the size, you'd find people from same families have similar microbial biomes and they are not at all unique.
Yes, up to isomorphism.
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If there were life on Mars. It will be the our first, and may be the possible only, source of foreign life to study.

I don't think we want to contaminate or destroy our only source of knowledge on other kind of life.

May be we can do that later, once we study them enough or have kept it enough for further study. But let's not make our first decision be "We gonna destroy it someday anyway, let's just stomp on it carelessly right now"
So will we see Servo in either the mobile browser or the desktop one next year?
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I think one should consider that GDP itself is a grossly flawed metric.
If there is an active secondary market[1] for the company then employees maybe able to sell their share (options). A valuation provides a new baseline for pricing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecondMarket
"Lets's force people who have taken steps to avoid adverts to watch adverts for our products against their will.

That's bound to make them feel good about it and make them buy our products."
I had a similar experience. Posted a profile, get lots of requests, spend money on credits to reply and nada.
In all of the mistrials and cases where innocent people have been killed, someone has thought the party was guilty. The thing that makes the death penalty barbaric is that people have misplaced confidence in their opinions.
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Not sure this thread is the best place to get into all this, but in general unless you are one of the very earliest employees of a hugely successful startup you aren't really going to get rich on stock.

It looks like Thumbtack was founded in 2008. All "early" employees would have joined before 2010. So I feel confident in saying that not joining "some months ago" didn't cost you anything. At the stage the company is at, the difference between the value of your stock grant back then and your stock grant now wouldn't be enough for them to probably care if you asked them to make up the difference as a signing bonus. The difference is likely low five figures at most.

A high valuation definitely doesn't necessarily mean a good exit (exits are complicated, read up on participating preference multiples e.g.). And what you should really care about is valuation growth anyway.

Anyone can buy an expensive diamond and sell it later at a similar price. Special things happen if you can get your hands on an expensive diamond that nobody else thinks is expensive yet.
> Airbnb is essentially enabling any joe idiot to run a shit hotel anywhere in the world with zero accountability.

That clearly is the business model employed by these glorified Forms, fancy photos and legal agreements companies. No silver bullet, you get what you pay for, etc, unfortunately. Little has changed, clearly.

For the unfortunate visitors, I'd recommend one of the regulated accommodations in Barcelona.
I dunno, my non-interchangeable-lens camera (Canon SX40) has a whole range of features which are important to me and that the iPhone doesn't (and will never) have:

* 30x optical zoom

* optical image stabilization

* tripod mount

* flash hot shoe

* 58mm filter mount

* good ergonomics & no touchscreen

* RAW files

* scriptability of shooting e.g. for thunderstorms (camera triggered by lightning)

* replaceable battery

* removable storage
Non common law countries have consistently suspended almost all civil rights from time to time. In all the common law countries you list, this is basically unheard of, at least in the last 400 years.

Our common law system has evolved to be resilient against many different things, rather than being designed to maximize efficiency of a few things. It is certainly not perfect, there is no doubt of that. Combined with the culture and other institutional patterns it has co-evolved with, it has proven incredibly stable, open to evolving for the better, and has served our common interests very well.

Perhaps Germany is better at overcoming prejudice, but that was after the common law countries were forced to physically restrain them from aggression and murder. The list of common law countries is also the list of countries that have not had even a hint of losing their democratic institutions in centuries. That is something you can't say about any other countries in the world.
I read his post as the death penalty can be a bludgeon that prosecuting attorneys will wield to get many more plea bargains from people accused of serious crimes. Pleading out to lesser offenses still with decades in prison is a much different calculation for the accused if the alternative is a trial with a death penalty vs. a trial with another decade or two on the end.
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We put the people we're genuinely afraid of in extralegal holding facilities instead. (Though we're not scared of what they'd do, mind you; usually it's what they'd say that's the problem. Non-allied parties who know classified information they shouldn't are effectively infohazards from a government's perspective.)
"that will hopefully give my 6 year-old daughter a better sense of who I was as an adult" ... :( heartbreaking
Younger people do that. Clicking around the recommended videos right hand column is the modern day channel surfing
One of the amazing things to me about Thumbtack is the new user on-boarding experience. If you're building a product that needs user signups you should check it out. Basically if you come there looking for someone to help you mount something, they take you straight there and only ask for your email address so they can send you an update when they've found someone to do the job. What they've done in the background is create an account for you, but they just never asked you to create a password. It's a small detail in the overall service offering, but I think it probably increases their user retention rate quite a bit.
Noe Valley in particular is considered a very upper class area. The rest mentioned are all decent / above average.
That was an enjoyable read. As mentioned in the article, here's the link to the same talk he gave at Facebook's @scale [0], though the sound gets ridiculously out of sync after a bit.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IyXcLFO9ns
No mention of the similarity to Roboto? IMO, the aesthetic effect of Roboto is not as good as the former.
This is probably one of the best news sites out there.
Exactly. Blogs are mostly text sites and one would expect such to open at rapid speeds. That's one of the things I like about Svbtle, they load the blog as one single request/response with all the text, styles, JS(barely noticeable) inline making for very rapid load times
So you seem to actually worry about hosting and servers, despite you saying you do not ;)
If there is life on mars, then it would be highly adapted for the Martian Climate over millions of years. It's unlikely that Earth Life would be able to out-compete them.
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Does someone know what the equity of the founders looks like in these ultra-funded companies? Do they still own a significant part of their business? Is it more like 5%? 10%? 30%? 50%? (doubt it)
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Why would backup generators be running outside of power cuts? Even if it is just to test them, that should only be a minute from time to time.
Oh I listen to Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders too! Great stuff there for sure
This is good news for Apple. Liquid Spill Indicators will generate revenue on Mars too!
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Yes. See Nick Bostrom's Why I hope The Search For Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing: http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf
This is great news because hopefully it will allow Thumbtack to become the domestic services platform.

Think the funding and valuation is too high? It takes inordinate marketing spend to become a focal point outside of metropolitan areas. I've interviewed with a handful of more focused (e.g. industry specific) services marketplaces, and each one's offices felt like a sales boiler room as hundreds of associates reach out daily to service providers across the country all but begging them to join their platform. Pulling it off across multiple industries will take n as many sales associates, but the payoff is enormous (imagine, an e-bay for all local service providers). Thumbtack caters to the broadest swath of service providers, and winning in k industries makes it that much easier to attract providers from the remaining n-k industries; there are very strong network effects here on top of the obvious economies of scale.

On the consumer side, Thumbtack delivers huge benefits.
I spent two hours calling carpet cleaners to schedule a cleaning on my move out day in Seattle. When my carpet cleaner bailed the day of, I tried thumbtack for the first time and someone was at my house within an hour. When I needed a linux box built I reached out to Thumbtack, and within 2 hours I had multiple bids...in Salt Lake City no less. There is, however plenty of room to grow: the number of lead-paint removers on thumbtack in SLC where 90% of the housing stock was built 60 years before lead paint was banned: zero (and I'm still searching for one).

Transferring search costs from consumers to providers, providing a reputation system, facilitating coordination... these are all very valuable things to me, that's why I'd participate even at this valuation and that's also why I so desperately want one of these platforms to win, and so should you.
I was going to say tha they must have one hell of a light pollution headache, but apparently the observatory is not in Rome, but some 15km out of it in a place called Castel Gandolfo... which is actually a pretty badass name if you think about it :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Gandolfo
There are two issues here that most commentary about this case seems to be happy to conflate:

- Is he guilty

- Should he be executed

These are independent questions. One is a question of fact, and there seems to be almost no credible reason to doubt his guilt.

The other is a question of ethics and policy.

As for your argument on why the death penalty is barbaric, it is not a valid argument. Reductio ad absurdum, your argument implies that every punishment is barbaric, because all punishment is the result of people's 'misplaced confidence' in their opinions. So if the death penalty is barbaric, it's certainly not because of the reason you say.

Don't take that as an attempt to justify the death penalty. I believe that almost all the prison sentences handed out in the US greatly exceed the severity of the crime being punished. I can't understand why any prison sentence would be for longer than 5 years in those cases where there is no chance of a repeat offense, no matter what the crime was. I also can't understand why we would ever want to let someone out of state supervision (prison or other) if there is a very high chance they would commit additional crimes if released.
> Or, start from the user experience.
> Both are good places to start

Reminds me of Merise - a modeling method where the data model and the process model co-evolve in parallel. After many years I still have a fondness for it - but maybe that is just the French 80's kid in me...
Noe Valley has a lot more families and is generally seen as pretty safe as it's away from the shadier part of Mission.

Japanese tourists getting jumped on Market St. between 6th and 7th is pretty crazy. I work on that block and I'm assuming they were on the SoMa side? There are a lot of crackheads and bums but they don't usually bother people. There are drug dealers across on the tenderloin side but they keep to themselves.

Harrison and 20th is in a pretty gentrified area (1 block from popular climbing gym, 1 block from Trick Dog bar) so I'm surprised your friend got robbed there. Mostly a mix of high end condos, industrial warehouses, and cool bars. There is definitely a bit of a gang element in the area though.
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I've served on two juries. In both cases, a drunk driver was acquitted. In both cases, the defendant's guilt was obvious, and the cause was a single juror who hated cops. (Or, more indirectly, the cause was an arrogant young DA who wasn't aggressive enough in voir dire.)

On one of these cases, I was the last juror to hold out. It was like "12 Angry Men" in reverse: "12 Hungry Men And Women." It was 5pm, I wanted dinner and so did everyone else, and I didn't want to bring 11 other people back again tomorrow. So I took the easy way out, as did 10 other people.

On our way out, the DA thanked us sarcastically and noted that the defendant had two prior DUIs. If we'd given him a third, she pointed out, there might actually have been consequences. As it was... I live in slight terror of glancing at a newspaper and noting that he's erased someone's six-year-old, just because I was hungry and wanted to go home for dinner.

To put it slightly differently: a few months ago, a woman in SF suffered the death penalty. She was innocent. She just wanted to look at the sea lions, or something. Unfortunately, San Francisco had sentenced her to death.

The executioner was an illegal-immigrant drifter who'd been pulled out of ICE's deportation pipeline by "sanctuary city" policies originally intended for intellectuals fleeing El Salvador in the early 1980s. A couple of days before, he'd smashed the window on a car and stolen a gun, which he was using (according to him) to shoot at sea lions. A bullet

Is her death an accident? How about Glossip's? I know of one billionaire who cares a lot about Kathryn Steinle. I know of another billionaire who cares a lot about Richard Glossip.

It seems to me both these deaths involve the action of the State, in choosing to allow a human life to be taken -- in one case intentionally based on the determination of guilt, in another case negligently, based on -- honestly, I couldn't even tell you what this level of carelessness is based on.

Supposing Glossip is innocent -- which doesn't seem terribly likely once we read the piece above, which is far more detailed and down-to-earth than the emotional appeals that triggered pg. Then, his death would be an accident, wouldn't it? The State did not set out to kill an innocent man. It didn't set out to kill an innocent women, but it did that as well -- with far less thinking than went into Glossip's case.

Suppose our other billionaire, the one we adore here instead of laughing at for his ridiculous hair, had chosen to care about the other human life in question. Or, more to the point, the next 1 or 10 or 100 that might be sacrificed in this absurd and cavalier fashion. What would your response have been?
Because when the power does cut, how long is it going to take to get those generators up and running? It's not like the whole place can run on a battery backup in the meantime.
There's a number of comments here about this making phishing easier. The bigger issue is that the US gov doesn't consistently use .gov domain names.

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/

This is the official US gov site for applying for a visa. Given there are so many dodgy immigration agents operating with .com addresses it makes no sense as to why the official site is not just 'visa.gov'.
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Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/29/space-images-photoshop/#c..., which points to this.
They're not. This story isn't very good. The point it makes is somewhat valid, but the reporter's lack of understanding on the details means the way the story is written doesn't provide much insight.

Likewise, I'm guessing "utilization" is measured by taking a loadavg, which is... not exactly really a complete measure of utilization.
That's pretty grim, then. Are other US cities like that, or is it just San Francisco?
True, kotlin has the huge advantage that google switched to Intellij, and the team knew how to take advantage of this opportunity really well. It also helps that JetBrains is a much smaller company and with that, more focused on their core products.

As opposed to that, I assume it is much harder for the ceylon team to get the entire company to support them. For example, even though vert.x 2.0 had support for ceylon, it's not clear for me if that is also the case for vert.x 3.0, and even if it is, ceylon still isn't featured as a main language on their landing page.

But they are working on an Intellij plugin, which I think will be available in ceylon 1.2. And that is the first step towards Android support.

Anyway, I hope both languages do well.
GOOOOAAAAALLLL! Fail Whale.
GOOOOAAAAALLLL! Fail Whale.

Oh yeah, fail whale. I guess Twitter really has come a long way in the past five years. Despite all of the shit they get for not building out their product in a visually-engaging fashion, I have to say that I can't remember the last time their product failed me. Props.
Seconds or less. This is a solved problem.

Backup uninterrupted power is not typically done by keeping generators online 24/7.
"There" is reasonable doubt doesn't mean much.

Reasonable doubt is not an observable quantity, like water on Mars; the question is whether jurors in the case doubted of the culpability of the accused. Obviously they didn't.

If they did, that may save this man's life, but do nothing against death penalty. Death penalty is barbaric; if you can make the case that guilty people should not be executed, I think it's much stronger than if you just argue in favor of the innocent.

... notwithstanding the fact that Scalia argued in 2009 that executing innocent people was perfectly fine: "This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent". (You have to love the quotes around the word 'actually').

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Completely OT: inconsistent number of spaces after periods is very annoying (the second paragraph has one, the third or 7th have two for example; the 6th paragraph has both). The correct number of spaces after a period is ONE, but if you disagree, the least you can do is be consistent.
What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why?
What is your preffered IP subnet for your home lan, and why?

I use 192.168.0.x, just bacause ;) Recently I had some problems with that (IP conflict between some dumb devices), so I'm asking if there are better options.
Thanks, I've never seen lightroom before, but I've used photoshop extensively. I have a Sony A6000 and shoot jpeg as I'm a novice and probably won't bother modifying all of my vacation photos (the A6000 applies corrections for things like barrel distortion for the attached lens automatically when set in jpeg mode).

I watched the first three videos and it actually turned me off to lightroom a bit or at least the workflow that was demonstrated. For example, when the author used the clone stamp tool it was painful to me that he just left those duplicated clouds in the final image without attempting to merge them in more gracefully. The final post-processed images look really amateur to me - overly artificial but not in a tasteful way. But all the youtube comments seem to be very positive so take my comments with a grain of salt.

I always assumed lightroom was used primarily to correct mistakes made by the photographer in exposure settings but it's use here seemed more artistic in nature... more like a fancier version of Adobe Elements. For example, one of the final steps in the author's workflow is to select a Camera Calibration which essentially applies some filter to the entire image like "Vivid" - which I thought negated all the effort to manually adjust all the individual colors, contrast, saturation, etc.
Well this post is spot on. Everyone knows that these services are blocked but we still, due to our unconscious mind, add these code while building a website there.

This post provides us with a not-t0-do list while working in China.
That FB can do just fine without tracking users outside of FB is true but debatable given how widely adopted is their WCA product, and the fact that they are looking into using their like buttons to track people's activity online to be used for their advertising machine learning.

At the same time the data that you voluntarily give to Facebook, while certainly useful for look-a-like campaigns and such, is not exactly that predictive when talking about DR campaigns for which you need to establish an imminent intent of buying something. Using their various tracking pixels, that ad networks cookie match with, they start to collect also that dataset. At the moment they also have 3 different ways to cookie match with partners, all 3 basically required, this also contributes to added latency when loading pages, would be better to have 1.

The ad tech market is fairly complex and unfortunately often people make assumptions about datasets, their predictive power or reasons behind why the situation is the way it is without necessarily having done the research about it.
Don't forget that a sprint is followed by a period of rest and recuperation, i.e. the retrospective and planning period. Only then does the next sprint really begin. So in that sense the metaphor is valid, and you can keep sprinting indefinitely.
If you are talking single server solutions, then https://github.com/progrium/dokku