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For now. If you want to see the future have a look at the debacle that just went on with prime/appletv/google. If they get a strong enough dominance they will. Given that the IoT is a rising thing, and Amazon is placing itself at the apex of the internets backbone and already has a strangle on the physical goods world, it should be easy to see the next 10 years if it continues. I can see the pitch now... imagine... a world where you can sell your hardware and put your servers all in the same stack! (at least until you POC it for us). If you want to see the future of that, have a look at companies that have had their physical goods ideas stolen and are now mass produced at Amazon for that "everyday low price" (and no that jab at them v walmart isn't an accident).

I was hoping somebody would bring up Netflix. Netflix is AWS's poster child and they know it. They need AWS still just as much as AWS needs them. The statement you just made proves that. They will do everything up to and including take a loss to keep Netflix around. I can assure you that your company will not be getting the same price quote or technical support that Netflix does unless they can bring them just as many sales by being a status symbol and marketing tool for them.

There seems to be a trend of people thinking "AWS is my friend". No. They are a company, and they exist to make money. Have we not all been bitten enough by this thought pattern and loyalty to learn the lesson of "stay flexible"? I'm not advocating that AWS is done away with entirely and nobody should use them ever. I'm advocating that putting your entire stack into their system is a bad idea and that using "black box" software as little as possible is a better approach. When it was just EC2 it was fine, you can build your stuff on an EC2 box with your favorite flavor of *nix and quickly throw boxes up elsewhere if things go south. Now I'm seeing companies put entire critical infrastructures off on Amazon pre built services like they've never seen a tech company go under, or a fad die, or strongarming with brute power.
Wow, YC is realizing a dream of mine. Congratulations, it is a great idea!
It's not a default sub, you have to actually subscribe to get it.
Completely agree. Would love to understand the money here - think it would provide a lot of perspective on how the technology financing community works.
I couldn't find the iso on android-x86 but it's available on sourceforge.
Time for some true confessions. My mental risk model tells me I'm not more likely to get sick if the food touches some surface. I'm a pessimist so I generally assume all those bacteria are already on the food and/or in my body. I don't know if my risk model matches reality or not.
"Huffman believes Reddit can be mainstream, embraced by the larger world."

It might sound hipster-like, but whatever: mainstream is boring, stupid and brings all the worst type of people. Best online communities are niche, small and focused. Reddit for a long while was just a big pool of niche communities. They were good subreddits, there were ugly subreddits, and things were OK.

But with time it grew popular and now it needs to "take a stance on political correctness, social justice etc", "people get offended", it's bad for business, while the company needs to monetize after so many years ... so rules needs to be imposed, etc. etc.

Racist people will move elsewhere, hate will move elsewhere, they won't disappear - that's for sure. But most creative people will also move as they were on reddit for what it used to be. There's a reason why these "awful" places like 4Chan and Reddit were the source of most of online trends and interesting action: "Pretty Flowers Grow In Shit".

Reddit is doomed, just like digg was. It won't happen over night (digg.com is still around), no, but it will.

Hopefully something p2p and decentralized (zeronet maybe?) will replace it this time, so it won't be owned by any entity to impose some stupid rules.
I think that just exacerbates the problem though as the "power users" of reddit move away from the vitriol of the default subreddits, the vitriol becomes more visible on the surface. So the larger subs end up less and less attractive to users new and old.
Same thing happened to an anonymous forum recently - https://twitter.com/lpushx
Selfishness exists outside of pathology. In fact, I don't know a single human who is not selfish on some level and I suspect such a creature doesn't exist. We do have a huge number of armchair psychiatrists making invalid long-distance diagnoses of people they don't like but that's not really the same thing.
It looks like it uses socket.io for connectivity.
Aren't these annual fees a large part of the business model and the profitability? Amazon manages to be able to keep _raising_ theirs!
US city's only have relatively low populations because so many people are willing to put up with soul sucking commutes. If DC prevented people from commuting from the outside you would see a dramatic increase in population density without adding a single building.

Union City's population density is twice that of NYC specifically because we pretend meaningless markings mean suburbs are not really just another part of one big city.

PS: City's get this way in large part because they can offload lot's of costs by simply having vastly more office space than residential space. One fairly simple solution is to replace zoning with a fee to add new housing / office space and then let the markets decide. Want to add 1,000 homes or a 1 Million square feet of new office space to an area? Sure, just pay for the infrastructure cost for new schools, wider roads, sewage, and whatnot up front.
IIRC, The UK FSCS covered individuals in the case of the Icelandic bank crash. Only people who didn't claim it would have lost money (up to the guarantee, which was lower back then). Not only that, but back then, interest rates on current accounts being at least 3% (and savings accounts being around 4-6%). Nowadays, the difference in interest between stuffing cash in your mattress and putting it in a bank account is negligible.

I don't know what happened to individuals' money in Cyprus. I know there have been problems accessing money held in bank accounts, and the economy is broken after the collapse, but are you sure that money has actually evaporated?
The Intercloud.
Surely I'm missing something here. Won't giving YC equity to these researchers (who are working not-for-profit and releasing IP freely) incentivize research that benefits YC startups directly and hence increases the value of the equity held? Can someone explain why not? Honest question.
Surely I'm missing something here. Won't giving YC equity to these researchers (who are working not-for-profit and releasing IP freely) incentivize research that benefits YC startups directly and hence increases the value of the equity held? Could someone explain why not? Honest question.
I love this, it really helped me put into perspective the decisions a founder can make and how it can effect the later stages. I haven't worked in the startup world and I don't have a very good understanding of business so this helped put this corporate finance stuff into perspective.

I would love it if you could add other choices like bootstrapping/family and friends money, accelerators, cofounder issues, and board seats. These kinds of business issues are really hard for people outside of the startup world to understand the consequences of, I personally would really find it helpful. Would make a really good interactive fiction or idle game as well :)
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It's a very agreeable point you're making, but

you'd probably say Dhaka is too full at 112,000 per square mile, right? Well, why do humans live there? Indians are as human as any of us. Why would humans live in a city that's too full?

Because theyd still rather live there than the indian countryside. Even for Indians in Dhaka it's all about tradeoffs.
Firefox bookmarks have tags, you just need to click twice on the Star and it'll show a dialog where you can insert them.

And yes, they are searchable: just type the tag in the Awesome Bar.
Leaving your work computer on doing anything has nothing to do with the usage of a mobile app. He's not leaving his phone on playing music overnight at work.

Pandora isn't claiming to be the most used app in the world, they're claiming to be the most used mobile app in the world. People take their phones with them and for battery life alone are not likely to leave them playing music while they aren't listening to it.
> 30-40% more cars on the road

When the population density increases over a certain limit, it becomes more economical (also faster and more efficient) to move people around by a combination of walking, subway, and buses. Like in London, Paris, New York, central Boston etc. After that, adding more people will not add more cars.

Of course, in the ultra-nimby San Francisco, building a subway would also get more resistance than in most other cities of the world.
Ask HN: How to keep up?
How to keep up with the frontier of technology, programming methodologies, etc..
Is there like a Techcrunch for that?
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I think it's terrible - I just wanted to point out bad information in the parent comment.
How is that a moving goalpost? And of course you're free to comment however you please, I never implied otherwise.
Just like there are people in Boulder who wish startups would leave and never come back, there are also people in Detroit who wish Dan Gilbert had never moved Quicken Loans downtown and started buying buildings.

Most of it is pure jealousy, because at the time no one wanted to bid against him. Engineers have caused downtown rents to soar and pushed the poor completely out. Sound familiar?

Even Gilbert's fabled security grid which has made a night and day difference on crime in downtown has its enemies, one merchant got upset when his landlord let Gilbert post cameras and demanded they be removed. There's even a protest t-shirt:

https://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1986/3481/...

Just for reference Detroit in 2014 had 2010 people per square mile and more are welcome.
I agree it's real money, enough to do some real stuff.

But:

> An academic institution will take 50% or more straight off the top, so you're looking closer to $150k to $250k a year.

Well, that 'overhead' is paying for things like lab space, electricity, health insurance (at least for the faculty, good luck grad students), liability insurance, etc. Not to mention the actual salary of the PI and/or other researchers -- which universities in STEM schools increasingly expect to be covered by grants too. The academic institutions would argue all the 'overhead' they take is legit funding of things necessary for the research to take place, but even if you think they are spending it inefficiently or 'stealing' money for unrelated things...

I think as a rough napkin calculation, the $500K is probably still closer to that same $500K when YC Research spends it too, not twice as much.
I agree with this. The most interesting thing I got out of Paula Stephan's How Economic Shapes Science is that a few years' back, the NIH basically doubled its research funding and all that happened was a post-doc bubble and university admin hoovering up the money to build buildings.
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Two URLs are only optional if I don't want to add anything to the page that's not allowed in AMP. Or if I don't want to have a bunch of external JS required just to show images.

This sort of "same content, different view" feels like it's what content-type was designed to solve.
I think that is sage advice, appreciate you posting on here its been helpful
Sure it does. We leave Pandora open on our phones during the workday almost all day and at least one of them in the evening at home.
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You might try Jamendo. Most (all?) of the music on that site is under Creative Commons license, but I'm not 100% sure if that captures exactly what you want.
Thanks for your contribution.
Though I don't think that would count towards "most-used mobile app". I think they mean phones.
> Not just a story or two, but shockingly many good stories get overlooked by default

I didn't realize that. Like every reader, I thought only my good stories were being overlooked! :)

> Any ideas?

I agree that signal-to-noise is a tough problem and I have no specific expertise. I suspect part of the solution is less democracy and freedom of speech: They are absolutely necessary in government and public life, to protect rights and ensure voices are heard, and I think we instinctively apply those ideals to online forums. But those tools don't apply well here; there are few rights to protect and much less risk to an unheard voice; nobody is going to jail, dying, or paying taxes. Also, democracy is a poor method for creating great products. The content, the linked stories and discussion, are your company's product [1]; what company designs their product/content by public vote? Does the NY Times? Do game studios? (I don't want to be Reddit or Wikipedia.) Even community-based open source projects have benevolent dictators.

I suspect a good benevolent dictator (BD) editing/managing content, including front page links and discussions, could greatly improve signal-to-noise. Maybe the users and BD split votes 50/50, or the users control and the BD overrides them when it is valuable. Of course I might dislke that particular BD's judgement; as with strongmen/women in government, be careful what you wish for (though maybe the BD could reign and users vote up/down on the BD's overall performance). But I expect I'd much rather have the judgment of one or a few of the best HN members/admins than of the HN average.

A couple more thoughts: 1) It would significantly differentiate HN from a million 'democratic' competitors. 2) It could be implemented experimentally: Have both a BD-edited front page (and maybe some disucssions) and the normal front page; see which draws traffic; experiment with different BD formulas and arrangements.

I've talked more than enough. Thanks if you've read this far, and thanks for wrangling the community.

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[1] I realize YC's profits come from elsewhere but for the sake of discussion let's focus on HN. I also realize YC may feel that engagement, not content, is the priority for HN. That may be your choice, but this one user is interested in signal-to-noise of content, and that will drive my engagement.
Peering links are charge on a consumed bandwidth basis (in a weird sliding scale fashion depending on your balance of egress vs ingress. The closer to 1:1 the better) rather than the fixed fee you pay your ISP.

I used to work for an ISP that would juggle which peering links the usenet servers were favouring to make things more favourable :D
If they were considerate they could've made it IPv6-only.
Well the reason I haven't moved is I haven't found jobs that wouldn't amount to a 75% reduction in pay, not because good paying jobs don't exist in the small towns, but because my skills don't qualify me for those jobs. As a result I'm weighing my options to get the necessary skills/experience to make the move. Nothing happens instantly, so to deny my claim that it is intolerable just because I haven't abandoned everything to move to a small town and take a job as a fry cook overnight, is disingenuous.

And your assertion that "Density does make life better" is just that--an assertion, and exactly the kind of assertion that dismisses the opposing offhand that I was commenting about.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346787 and marked it off-topic.
It's not zero sum.

The peak hours are when electricity is most expensive to generate. And transmission lines etc. need to be sized to the peak.

That's one of the reasons that rooftop solar actually makes a lot of economic sense anywhere that aircon is used. However, the people who generate that electricity receive no direct reward and will probably be accused, by the very utility that benefits, of being subsidy junkies or parasites.

When utilities have calculated the "value of solar" its come out as much higher than the price currently paid to homeowners.
Thank goodness for being client-side! It's a refreshing change almost every other web app.
Which makes you part of Pandora's claim that they're the most used mobile app. Leaving a desktop computer streaming music on at work has nothing to do with mobile app usage.
Why is a video game website feuding with Star Citizen's developer?
Watching him occasionally stream his sessions shows me that what he is doing is just funzies.

His tooling is so far behind anything all other languages have that I would never bother to learn this language, because it was "for games."

If I wanted to make a game I would learn any engine using any number of language bindings.
Yea, I agree, wealth can help fix many of the problems of density. Still, except for some global hotspots like HK, NYC, Tokyo, etc. there's not enough money to warrant crowding to such an extent. And in many of the global cities the problems of density are typically worst on the poorest.
For someone using Perl 5 as a replacement for bash scripting, is it worth making the jump to Perl 6?

P.S. Why not name this language something new? -- Nicklaus Wirth didn't name Modula-2 Pascal 2.
This is what happens to your brain and body when you check your phone before bed
If there is a difference, I'd suspect it to be the result from a combination of environmental, ergonomic, and physical factors. The subjective experience could be shaped by slight differences between monitors; directional glare, acoustic comb filters and air drafts; habits related to posture, ocular dominance, or physical ailment; or a preference for interacting with the IDE via mouse or keyboard. Which is to say, that a good first working hypothesis is that the phenomenon is limited to "this place, this work, this time, this equipment" rather than generalizing to an intrinsic property of the person.

My advice: keep working with the IDE on the right so long as it makes you happy.

Good luck.
I'm in a similar situation and I don't know a single person who doesn't think academia is horribly broken. Internet rants from people leaving academia are practically a monthly occurrence these days, and nobody ever disagrees with them.
That's not the problem. When I view on a Apple device it looks good. I use Windows 10 at home and I just couldn't read it.
I thought the issue there was primarily legal, not technical.

We have OsmocomBB, but it's limited to the 2G standard and comes with a ton of usage caveats pertaining to regulatory compliance and legality.
Flow batteries, like those made by Redflow [1], are an interesting alternative to lithium-ion batteries for domestic use.

[1] http://redflow.com.au/
Using the calculator for that service, I put in 50TB and 25 hard drives, and the estimated charges came out to $2435.75.
The point where snowball is cheaper is fairly low. 4TB on 2 drives is 194.86. Basically more than 5TB over 2 or more drives and it's cheaper to use snowball. Plus you have to pay to have the drives returned back to you.
Any musicians on here? What do you think of Gigmor?
>If people behaved the way they do on these boards they would quickly be ostracized by society if not having the shit beaten out of them on a regular basis.

If people talked in public the way they do on those boards there might be consequences.

But if people behaved the way they do, they'd probably be voted into office.

We've just had the British Prime Minister give one of the most offensive and hate-filled conference speeches a lot of people have ever seen. His administration is full of people who are questionably sane.

The Chancellor has turned up in Parliament looking like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtXxYrp7mo

Cameron's colleagues have been directly implicated in starving dying people - some of whom can't walk or speak - to death by claiming they're "able to work" and so shouldn't receive any state aid.

You want physical harm? We've got as much of it as you can bear to read about.

So really, hate speech on Reddit is a non-issue compared to what goes on in supposedly serious politics.

And did I mention the Internet censorship and surveillance? Because we have that too.

In reality free speech isn't a panacea. There are too many crazy people in politics all over the world, and free speech on Reddit or elsewhere has done nothing to keep them out of power.

It's not the basement-dwelling sociopaths with twitchy keyboards you need to worry about - it's the professionals.
The numbers in this article are somewhat lazily assembled, which confuses the analysis. The density numbers everyone's immediately going to fixate on are those of SF and NYC. But they're using the numbers for the combined statistical areas for SF-SJ and the NY metro area.

SF population density is something like 18k/sqmi. NYC's is 27k across all the boroughs, ranging from ~10k in Brooklyn to ~20k in Queens to 66k(!) in Manhattan.

The analysis is trickier in the midwest. Chicago has a citywide population density of 12k, seemingly lower than that of SF. But Chicago dwarfs San Francisco, and the average is brought way down by places like South Chicago and Ashburn. Lakeview, for instance, has a density around 30k. You'd presumably have even worse problems making comparisons to a place like Detroit, which has large areas that are virtually depopulated within it's city limits.

Communities like Lakeview and Lincoln Park in Chicago do not seem to have taken a major quality of life hit despite being far more dense than San Francisco. They consist of tree-lined streets and relatively capacious 2-flats and 2-3-4bdr apartments. I would 1000x rather live in a vintage stone Lakeview apartment, with an alley and a parking garage, than share a rickety wooden apartment in the Mission.

You think of people with a fixation for low-density living as those wanting lots of living space, a yard, plenty of parking, low crime, that sort of thing. But the median San Francisco resident gets none of that. It really seems like a worst-of-all-worlds situation, unless you've been grandfathered in to a huge house that you bought in the 90s, or have struck it rich and decided to plow all your winnings into real estate.

They certainly didn't do themselves any favors by comparing every city to Dhaka.
sustained writes of several hundred thousand, with a 25x decrease in database size?!

I knew it was the future today when I woke up.
In what /r/ are you "hanging out" that you feel like you're actually with racists and sexists?
Paris is slightly smaller in area than San Francisco, yet has three times the population. As you said, Paris is a very livable city. Yet, a lot of people would describe San Francisco as "full". It is nowhere near "full" if the city updates its infrastructure to accomodate the incoming population, and it puts the housing crisis into perspective: there is room for a lot of housing in San Francisco.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS1515+#spec

5 * 6TB drives, RAID5 would put you at nearly 24TB of storage, if my brain is in gear.
I consider it good luck when I find something in the first and in the last place that I've looked (especially when I didn't know I was looking for it :)).
> closely built, dual use 7-story buildings with offices & shops & restaurants on the ground floor

This also describes much of Berlin. The effect is a lively city that rarely feels overly crowded.
Or the Eixample neighborhood in Barcelona. Population density 92000/sq mi (36,000/km²).

A photo:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zHv1hczQcD4/UdgqTs1G3cI/AAAAAAAAqCI/le...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eixample
You know, normally I'm one of those jerks constantly criticizing the Silicon Valley Way of things. But this was a very good idea, I wish you the best of luck with it, and if, God forbid, my current employer went pear-shaped, it's the kind of place I'd love to work.