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Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010:

http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html

Many if not most of the special-purpose objects
around us are going to be replaced by apps running
on tablets.

I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever
tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace
the bathroom scale.

It's yet to be seen, how the bathroom scale will be replaced. But maybe the new touch sensitivity in phones (which PG includes in "tablets" in his essay) is one step into that direction.
A couple things stood out to me about Homejoy:
-When seeing the founder Adora speak at YC female founders day, she talked about doing cleaning herself to learn how things worked, and something along the lines of it being embarrassing if she'd been "seen" by someone she knew. That underlined to me there wasn't really a respect for cleaners. It seemed strange to start a business where you think it's embarrassing to be one of your own staff.
-When I did order Homejoy, the cleaner was sooo bad/slow that I felt that they'd secretly sent me one of their engineers who'd never cleaned an apartment before. He just seemed lost. He spent an hour and 45 minutes just cleaning my bathroom which was really strange. When he left, I realized that he'd moved the plunger out of the bathroom and left it on the bedroom floor and I had to move it back! It was just weird, an experienced cleaner wouldn't move a plunger into a clean area and just leave it there! I wrote a long email to them about the experience and they offered to send someone back to finish up the clean - of course I'd finished cleaning myself by then and said I wasn't interested. I didn't feel they really took my feedback to heart - it was detailed an took a while to write, but they didn't respond to any part of it directly.
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This is going to end badly. It's going to grow and eventually be used to stifle dissenting comments and open discussion.
The authors asking you not to discuss this publically is very telling.
irc.buttes.org #flashsupport.

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>> "The Netflix example is really wierd, as usage is at it's lowest during the night."
> Netflix usage or this particular network's usage? How can you know?

Both. Because that's how ISP bandwidth usage universally is. Peak usage starts after people get home and peak usage ends as they go to sleep. Few stay up during the night and even fewer schedule nightly downloads.
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424006.
The idea that any natural language has a meaning outside of the speaker's intent and the listeners reading is... well... it's absurd.

However, since I could not possibly write my post knowing you'd be reading, the social burden clear falls on you.

Please consider that.

> I just try to point out the flaws as I see them. I'm not sure anyone else can do better.

I hope this has value for you. It certainly has absolutely none for me.
You assume that a car will always have 30k parts and that Apple doesn't know how to manage more 1k parts.

Remove the combustion engine and its related systems, don't get beholden to legacy, and how many parts will a battery operated car really have?

To an ambitious team backed with plenty of money and expertise this is their dream come true.
Yeah, a competitor where users can easily fork the code and send a pull request (maybe even with support for a webIDE?) sounds like it could easily make profit in this situation...

I'm going to look into it.
Very informative link. Thank you for sharing it. I didn't know HCI was such a huge field.
Thanks for the recommendation Arvind.
What are your findings in looking at such markets?
Not sure that's a real solution. They will use that land to do something else, to fill another need, as long as they can get their hand on it, cheaply.
I think :terminal has changed the way I develop at least a little bit. I haven't checked out the async linters yet.
Thank you for the screenshot of the bugs. Very helpful!

The stacked tiles is a major bug that has been tough to fix.

Email error is new and I will fix that right now.

I will attempt to make the tiles on the home page more obvious as to their function. Totally agree with you.

Thanks so much for the valuable feedback.
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It makes some sense - In theory you wouldn't cast your vote prematurely (after reading the first sentence for example).
And if you want examples from today:

[1] http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/seven-accused-afr...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/05/opinion/the-persecution-of...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_witch-hunts
Yep, about the only animals that get shot with a .22 are squirrels, rabbits, and wolves.
For a second I thought it was going to be a short article about installing OpenBSD which encrypts the swap by default since version 3.9 (released 2006). It also encrypts different areas of swap with different keys and, when a particular area isn't needed anymore, the key is erased.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply and correction.

As I noted in my comment the area in which a parent selector would be of use was in a framework where I don't always have access to the parent tag where I could add a class or ID to the html. The way around this, because we got it fixed finally, was not to wish for a css solution but was in fact to have the authors of the framework create a fix inside the framework itself; where the limitation actually occurred. It's of little significance to you perhaps, but it is a point worth noting that the solution lay in fixing the right thing and not adding ill-advised functionality to the wrong thing.

Also, thanks to you and your collegues for your work, especially flexbox, I like CSS a lot (I know it gets a lot of criticism) and I believe it is what it should be.
They are down voting your attitude. Try rephrasing it in a nicer way instead of being rude to people.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488886
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Keep! And increase all font sizes to at least 1em. And give this comments page the same treatment, please.
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> I would have expected, in this particular case, though, that they have a fixed amount of bandwidth available at a fixed dollar amount per month (just for the consistent/predictable monthly expenditure).

Wholesale bandwidth is sold with a commit and burst. The commit is your fixed monthly charge (and bandwidth) you pay for each month regardless of how much you use. Overages, calculated with the 95th percentile formula, are paid at the burst rate.

> The microwave backhaul is connected to a 100 Mbps port which would come out to $9/Mbit/month. From what I've seen, that's higher than what you'll pay if you're connecting to an upstream in a well-connected facility. If we then assume 95% billing and peak usage at 30 Mbps, that's an obscene per-megabit rate.

Well, yes. I remember Hurricane Electric running a promotion for 1 Gbps of IP transit for $360 a month, but then again they are not present at a HE PoP.

As to pricing, it sounds like run of the mill rural charges. Also we don't know their commit, so can't really calculate with Mbps rate. Perhaps they just decided to go with a zero commit and $30 burst rate instead of paying a flat fee of $1500 for the 100M port. Would make sense at their very low usage rates.
That's exactly why we have the free software movement.
Keep it. Looks great, true to the original, and now readable on my constant companion.
its built into the spec of WASM for it to be able to be "prettified" as well. I imagine it'd do about as good of a job as current prettifying of minified JS.

"The WebAssembly text format, which is designed to be read and written when using tools (e.g., assemblers, debuggers, profilers), is specified as a textual projection of a module's AST."

This is apart of the MVP even. I think the authors of WASM actually agree with your opinions here and are working to a system that satisfies that concern.

BTW taken from, https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/MVP.md
Next up: Comment thread folding.

It's the one feature that keeps me from switching from https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on mobile, or uninstalling the Hacker News Enhancement Suite in Chrome.
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Like this? http://owner.estate/realestate/view/70967
Or this? http://owner.estate/realestate/view/101203
due to the two-way review system, renters were reluctant to write a bad review since they were concerned they could get retaliated by the owners giving them bad reviews in response

This, I think, is important. Both the renter and the landlord have to write a review before both reviews appear on the website. And the review content of the other party is not known to you until you post your own. So, basically, we know when the renter is "problematic" - has a lot of complaints, is constantly unhappy etc. We generally don't leave a review for such person. This is probably not the best approach from an ethical point of view, but yes - we do not want to know what this "problematic" guest may write about us.
Deletion of accounts is a very low bar that should be met for anything to be qualified as a minimum viable product. It shouldn't be that hard, especially if you take 5 minutes to think about your assumptions and how you could handle it, right at the start.

This is a service that ends up running on the internet and can have international people using it. That means you need to be very conscious of international laws. EU citizens have a legal right to have their data deleted by sites.
I read that more as: "your use case looks like the way people attack our network (and people actually do attack our network). It is too much work to enable your bots to run what amounts to simulated attacks, when what we want is a network for people to communicate with each other".

It certainly is a limitation, but any kind of service needs DDOS mitigation.
Obviously not. The pedestrian is responsible of his movements and can avoid the car. On the other hand the passenger is prevented of having any action. Therefore he should be protected at all cost by the car.

Now if the driverless car is empty, then of course, it should gladly destroy itself to avoid hurting human pedestrians, and even any animal or robot.

If the driverless car transports a human or animal passenger, then it should avoid hurting them, even if that means hurting external humans, animals or robots.

But if the driverless car transports a robot, then it should avoid hurting it, even it that means hurting an external robot. But it may hurt its passenger robot to avoid hurting an external human or animal.

Now, assuming some mean of communication between the driverless car and the external robot, and the passenger robot, the driverless car could, if it was absolutely impossible to find any combined action of the external robot and the driverless car avoiding to hurt both of them, then a solution that would hurt one or the other might be found, depending on the criterial of "importance" of each robots. For example, if one or both of them contain information or transports materials critical to save the life of humans or animals in an immediate situation (the reason why one, the other or both robots are moving), then the choice should be to keep moving the one with the best impact.

For example, the robotcar drives a robot transporting the antitoxin that will neutralize a biobomb that could kill 100,000 humans in ten minutes, while the external robot transports the bronchodilator that will save an asthmatic child, and there's no way the robocar and the external robots can avoid themselves without hurting the passenger robot, then the passenger robot should take priority and the robocar should optimize its safety.
I don't have any numbers, but I think they mentioned this in the article: It depends on how well distributed your points are. There are a lot of cases where a point cloud will yield an inefficient obbox using the PCA method, while (if what you want is the minimum volume) their method guarantees optimality. As always, it depends on your use case.
Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment
Elasticsearch 1.0.0 was released less than 2 years ago. A project with more than 100 M$ of funding may be able to maintain stable branches for users who cannot cope with the non-trivial upgrades to more recent versions.
Yeah it can! Try pacman -Syyu instead. Oh yeah be sure to read what's changing. Arch user since the early days, never had an issue I couldn't fix in minutes. Rule #1 read.
TLDR of the children comments:

"Name one such scientific consensus that was..."

Asks for examples, shoots them all down with no true scotsman argument...
The automobile industry has heavy regulation for their engine (and similar) software, and their code seems to be pretty poor.

The big internet companies, like Google, Facebook etc, have no regulation on their code, yet adopt practices like code review.

Banks have pretty bad software quality, too. (I worked for one bank, and talked to lots of people.) Though that's a generalization: there's lots of places for software in a bank. The parts that directly handle the money tend to have less bugs emerging day to day, but that's more because of low velocity and operating within known parameters (so as not to trigger any lurking bugs in the edge cases).
I figure you've never used emacs ;)
Good point. However, it was part of the Hellenistic empires for more than 180 years. Alexander the Great even died in Babylon. It was subsequently ruled by the Seleucus dynasty, even after the inhabitants of Babylon were transferred to Seleucia.

Not that it has anything to do with the Greeks putting engineers under their arch.
Not perfect, but definitely an improvement.
I don't really know. I use Flow, but I don't use React.
Please try harder (or be less sarcastic?). How do I know which is which?
I was about to clone it and push a patch.
But then, I realized how complex the procedure was going to be:

1- clone the repo on github
2- clone the clone locally
3- patch the file
4- commit (with a meaningful commit message)
5- push the patch to the clone on github
6- go to the github web to post a pull request.

Plus, that would leave a trace on my github account (I assume that I could:

7- delete my github clone.

but only after the pull request is acted upon (which even if automatic is bound to take some time during which this github activity could be seen).

The lesson here is that providing small patches is too costly.
> Bandwidth isn't cheap. But they should impose a traffic shaping policy to bring their users' transit levels in line with the fees they pay, rather than poking around into who is doing what on the network.

That's the curious thing. The users are paying more than enough to cover all costs, so there is no need for all this tomfoolery. I guess they have either have mentality or technical issues.
It's not a substitute to distribution-maintained packages. With no security support, you'll have to track and upgrade to the latest version. In contrast with other software, you'll have to upgrade your ES cluster (and potentially apply specific upgrade steps) several times a year.
The simplest functional double-ended queue is actually really easy to code up and reason about.

It's the more complicated optimizations that were PhD work. But designing fast persistent data structures in an imperative setting ain't easier.

(To avoid confusion: `persistent' used here as the opposite of `ephemeral', and without any relation to saving to disk.)
Video can often come from a less than perfectly reliable source (eg. satellite downlink), so video transcoders should be able to handle errors as gracefully as possible.
it would be nice to have a button to use desktop version at top or bottom.. on iOS it's nice but I also like seeing more headlines at one time
No positive feedback tends to catastrophically run away. Feedback with control elements can oscillate uncontrollably. For your comment to ring true it would mean that some control mechanism is present, I don't believe that to be the case unless you think humanity is that control element, i.e. drastically reduce our CO2 output at the top of the cycle and then increase it again at the bottom of the cycle.
In Lua, you can set the allocation function (for memory limits) and I think you can set time limits by using coroutines.
Slight improvement over zooming in manually... but my main issue is with the voting buttons and that seems to have remained unchanged.
The video clip from Russia is interesting.
The text of the article is total crap.
In other words, newmotors, just like you learned how to deal with paragraph and word minimums in school, on HN, you need to fluff your positive gratitude in a bit more specificity to match the vernacular: Why do you think it's cool? How does it positively affect whatever you are working on or what your interests are in?
> Sure, bandwidth is cheap

Indeed it is, especially when you consider their fees and costs. Based on the information in the article their monthly free cash flow is $2150, so they certainly can afford their current bandwidth usage be it at $9 or $30 per Mbps without playing silly games and spying on their users.
> Do you seriously think, a motor, chassis and four wheels are all there is to make a car? Or its easy to manufacture cars in bulk.

I don't think it's that easy, but I do think that once you are at the bulk manufacturing step you have already reached most of the way to the goal. If you have a working car prototype that passes all the regulations in dozens of countries, you have a network of retailers that can sell it and service it and so on (Not a small feat!) then the biggest problem has been overcome already.

It keeps getting repeated that Apple can't just "go to Foxconn" to get their car built, but that seems to overlook that "car brains" have essentially been produced by the likes of Bosch for most cars for ages, and that there are manufacturers like Magna-Steyr that have manufactured cars for the highest bidder for a long time. So again: there are huge hurdles to overcome to launch a new car, but two that I don't think apple should worry so much about are 1) Bulk manufacturing and 2) "software development culture".
You can build ephemeral data structures in functional languages, and persistent data structures in imperative languages. (It's just not their default idiom.)

The ease and simplicity of the book's implementations owes to pattern matching syntax more than anything else.

As an aside: pattern matching on algebraic datatypes is awesome, and just like other innovations before, like garbage collection and first-class closures, I hope to see it transplanted to more and more mainstream languages.
Nice proof of concept, totally unreliable.
It's interesting only because Apple rejected that scale app to weight stuff with a spoon, and now someone's done it on Safari. Is it from the same devs? All in all, this is just a bad gimmick, right now.
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Sorry, too busy to do the research now. But people did trade before such regulations. And even today, eg Japan and Germany have notably lighter regulations on insider trading.
But the article shares pricing information and as I wrote in a sibling comment, the location is rather well connected for being an island.
Lots of real world examples. Eg Japan and Germany still have lighter regulations on insider trading, and in the US and UK people used to trade before insider trading was banned.

Insider trading probably ought to be thought about when designing regulations---but I am not convinced either way that it should be banned.
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I've never heard of any regulations governing software in ECUs in automotive. Do these exists anywhere? Does anyone actually regulate this? Because ECU software is typically very bad.
Wow, pg is already at "delphi's oracle" levels already.
Even banal passing comments that anybody with a minimum knowledge of technology could have formulated, are now read into like they were incredible prophecies...
In all seriousness, you need to remove your co-founder's ability to do anything on your site. If that's not practical, you should seriously think about making an exit yourself. For one, your business is now effectively dead in its primary market, it's going to be a long hard road back, if it's even remotely possible; for a second thing, you've just had your name and personal and professional reputation completely tarnished by what appear to be Michael's actions, and made worse by the childish retaliation on OPs profile (regardless of who did that).

The loss of your own reputation is going to be harder to come back from. Reputable VCs doing even basic due diligence are going to see this incident and aren't going to want to have anything to do with you, unless you show swift and decisive action, one way or another. So far your response has been neither swift nor decisive.

For what it's worth, asking Michael to contact OP seems like a really bad idea. He's hardly shown good customer services skills so far, do you really think he's going to do a better job suddenly?
I see a future in which I write apps that run JS for the DOM, but I need to worry about neither JS nor the DOM. Glorious.
Sounds good to me, they have ripped this country enough
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433288
I stayed in a house in nice residential neighborhood in Berkeley recently. It had four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen, and it was clear the owner didn't live there. In fact, I never saw the owner or spoke with him at all. We were instructed to not speak to the neighbors, and not answer any questions about the owner's Airbnb business. Clearly, the neighbors weren't pleased that an unregulated hotel had sprung up in the middle of their neighborhood.

On the other hand, it cost me $60/night versus the $250+/night charged by local 3-star hotels.
> even going extra miles and telling users not to use misogynistic words on their channels.

That's... that's... wow. Just wow.
The reasoning is, I guess, that it's usually not engineers that introduce serious problems and vulnerabilities to software, but management and sales introducing unreasonable demands and not caring about the product any more than how much money it brings.
In theory, but in practice do they have some evidence that people care more when they can't undo their vote?
I drove through central Utah; it was on a road with no shoulder and grass growing through some cracks (but well-paved enough to drive at highway speeds). And that was it - the only visible presence of government. There were miles between houses.

Many people reading this are in cities. Step outside and look around for the presence of government: Roads, sidewalks, streetlights, stoplights, road signs, police, buses, power lines, sewer, manholes, turn the tap for city water, fire hydrants, regulated things everywhere - buildings, parking, restaurants, etc etc. And people everywhere, of all kinds, almost all of whom you don't know.

Perhaps that explains the differing perspectives of people who live in urban and rural areas. And consider that that who lives in rural and who lives in urban areas is to a great extent self-selected.
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I think the argument of "anyone can figure out how it's done" is moot (as pointed out by many). But there is a significant change here: with Javascript or even ASM I can always take parts of someone's code and use it for my purposes. This means that developers are forced to think about security and business models in a specific way. With WebAssembly, we might lose that, as you pointed out. And that is a real issue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8438129
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