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What a load of BS. To just pick on one point:

* There are only 250 Duane Reade's total (according to Wikipedia), there can't possibly be 400 in Manhattan.

* Duane Reade as a chain is intricately associated with the city of New York, at least from the point of view of a San Franciscan. It is the local culture.

* What's wrong with not having to walk a mile to go to a drug store? Having more locations helps build smaller neighborhoods.

Nobody grows up wanting to own and operate their own drug store anymore. So chains do it instead.

And I don't see how this is different than 50 people opening their own boutiques and destroying neighborhoods through gentrification. But I'm guessing the author would have a different opinion on that.

also: this is the CEO of kickstarter? Isn't it slightly self-serving for him to say "people should be trying their own crazy things that they could never get money for before kickstarter"?
This isn't hugely effective.

Trademarks are industry/product/service specific. So just because someone else owns "Example's Flower Shop" doesn't mean you cannot use "Example's Bakery" since there is no reasonable expectation that a consumer could confuse the two (i.e. your bakery doesn't benefit from their Flower Shop's brand). So if you owned Example.com as the baking company, it is unlikely that the flower shop could take it from you even if they own a legitimate trademark.

Another note is that trademarks protect TRADE. If you own a registered trademark's domain but use the domain to host your collection of cat photos it is unlikely the company could take that from you (although they can force you to give it up by costing you thousands of dollars in lawyer fees for their frivolous suits, which companies have definitely done in the past).

All I am saying is, it isn't cut and dry. Trademarks aren't a magic bullet.

PS - But like all things, the party with the most money/influence almost always wins regardless of right/wrong, lawful/lawless. They can cost you tens of thousands of dollars even if you're completely right and on the right side of the law.
That's what most PC developers think until they hit their first Console port.

Correct data organization is critical for getting this right. The PS3 was particularly brutal in this respect since it forced you to segment your computations in 256kb chunks(to fit in the SPU).
Interesting and related is the voting card from the Anschluss referendum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Anschluss_referendum,...
Windows supports regular / symbols in pathnames. What system doesn't?
Minor counterargument: Banks, Walgreens, Duane Reed have done much to improve previously seedy neighborhoods by being able to invest in security and general upkeep of their storefront.
Its name in English changed. Peking was its old name in English and now it is Beijing. The old name wasn't wrong and the new name isn't right. The concept of wrongness or rightness doesn't even make sense in this context.

It isn't controversial that the city that the Italians call Roma has an English name of Rome, or that the city the Germans call München has an English name of Munich, but somehow if the English name for 北京 doesn't sound as close as possible to what the locals call it in their own language, that's awful cultural imperialism.
(author here, sorry I didn't see this earlier)

One of the principles we tried hard to follow is that after building the indices, the query times should be proportional to the resolution of the plots you're generating.

So the difference here is building the data structure that's fundamentally well-suited to interactive visualization. So we push hard to get low latency, and we take trade-offs that will let us generate query results well-suited to create histograms , heatmaps, etc. These are typically multiresolution (sometimes you want mile-wide pixels, sometimes you want yard-wide-pixels, or day-wide pixels vs second-wide pixels) and require some index-building tricks that we hadn't seen combined in the way we did it.
Yes, those of us who have been editing Lisp using Paredit-like commands for years [0] may not find that much value here. But I think we're not the target audience; the goal is to help get newcomers over the hump, and that will be a wonderful thing if it works.

[0] 35 years, in my case. David Chapman and I implemented balanced-parenthesis editing commands for Zmacs (the Lisp Machine editor) in 1980. To my knowledge, it was the first such implementation for a text editor; the Interlisp structure editor already existed, but was considered hard to use.
Emacs people, I want this.
I wish it was that way. Apps are still growing strong the way I see it. EasyTaxi is the greatest example in Brazil. You want to have it installed and with your credit card data already there before you go out and leave your wifi/cards.

(Thinking if I should move to mobile development..)
> In the late 1930s, despite several attempts by some leaders to maintain Austrian independence, Nazi influence within the Austrian government and among the populace was too strong. The Nazis entered Austria on March 12, 1938 and absorbed the country into Germany the following day; the annexation was known as the Anschluss. A manipulated plebiscite administered a month later indicated that over 99 percent of Austrians were in favor of the situation. And though questions persist about the Austrians’ willingness to be a part of Nazi Germany, the raw footage in these films presents at least one side of the story.

I've been reading a history of Central Europe lately, and one of the interesting points that it brings out is that in the 1800s there was a desire on the part of some to unify the different German states within the general German world; this included Austria, and this unification for a greater German state was called Anschluss. Particularly after Austria-Hungary broke up in the WW1 aftermath, this was up for discussion a lot. I was quite surprised to read that; it suggested that the annexation of Austria was not a Nazi invention at all and had much more historic roots.

(I'd love to hear more from someone who knows more; this is just cribbed from history books).
Swipegood was shut down in late 2011 unfortunately :( Give A Dime is most similar to this one.

changeit.com doesn't support a lot of the popular banks/cards here in the US, and rounditupamerica.org focuses on getting businesses on board - but you're right, they'd be great partners!
I totally agree "do the right thing" is a special case of "just try harder". And "Try harder" is the solution to nothing. You have to change the system to make what-you-want-to-see the natural output of the system.
Good to hear. Clarity is really the most important part.
Thanks yo! Disney is actually a-okay to work for. I've done a few of their shows. So, probably best not to say what I'm working on now then ;)
This looks really good and modern.

Can you also add a Open Source license? I would suggest MIT.
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> Your idea is worthless. Execution is what matters.

That strikes me as an overplayed sentiment.

Your execution can never be as good as one done at the OS level by the company that owns it. That does not mean your idea is 'overvalued'. In fact, quite the opposite - it usually means you have proved that your idea has enough value that it should be bundled up and given to every single person who uses the OS. You just won't benefit from it.
the blog post does not even mention warrants but the justia link does... I would be curious to know if a warrant is required for all people located in the area where such a device is used (which of course should be impossible).
I haven't been able to find a way to try this. I'm not sure that it exists yet, at least not everywhere. Seems like each year someone posts something saying that it may be coming, but I personally haven't seen it yet.
I completely agree. As a society, we need to figure out who's truly dangerous and lock them up, and provide rehabilitation or community based correctional options (probation, community service, jail) to those who we're really mad at.
How is this different from the days of Windows desktop software? Microsoft could copy any popular desktop apps (and in some cases, they did).

But it didn't stop companies from becoming wildly successful building desktop software.
I tend to rely ( probably too much ) on Adam Smith for my ideas about capitalism, and so far as they go these phenomena are not that.

Specifically land leads to Ricardian rents, and historical examples of taxing land rents abound. Japan went from medeviel backwater to industrial giant in ... decades through the use of land taxation.

At some point, they decided the classical Japanese values were more important and that is when the industrialists took over as an update to the Samurai and the rest is history. I don't blame them - classical/medieval Japanese culture is extraordinarily beautiful. But the Bushido Code does not mix with machine guns.

Generally, capitalism if practiced by ... Vulcans or robots would not result in most of what we attribute to it as ills. But humans love to cheat, and the cost of prosecuting all that cheating is probably too high.

We also seem unable to develop a media culture that does not fawn all over the rich and powerful.

Actual Capitalist ethics emphasize consumer surplus most of all. Whether the externalities are what we think they are is a much richer discussion. Quite difficult. It is important to realistically believe you are serving your fellow man in this way.
Yeah, that's a good one.

I'm a bit of a hippie in that I'm biased towards innate creativity and improvisation as opposed to strict learning of traditional established forms of music.

I realize that's a false dichotomy but it's semi-useful.

I only took a small number of music lessons but they were definitely focused on learning the exact way to play finished songs by established artists. There's nothing wrong with that, it's quite satisfying to play things you recognize, and it's probably easier to teach in some ways.

But improvisation is such a magical, living thing. I haven't tried to teach someone in this way, but if I did, I would focus on exercises exactly like the one you describe.

I would show the student how beautiful music can be created spontaneously through the application of patterns and "restricted subsets" (scales, chords, etc).

I've met some people who work with musical therapy. I believe they focus on this type of thing a lot. I don't know why in years of music class in school I never came across anything like it: free improvisation based on restricted creativity.
no mention of inflation in your link, only PPP. The article author also goes on to state that this isn't enough / as meaningful as you're making it out to be...

"And making sure everyone's making at least $1.25 a day isn't the end of the fight either. The world's median income is still only $3 to $4 a day. By comparison, the poverty line in the US for a family of four is $16.61 per person per day. Once under-$1.25-a-day poverty is eradicated, the world needs to set about eradicating under-$15-a-day poverty, which will be a substantially harder task."
Thinking about it, ideally the arrests should hit the news in cases like this. I am thinking that jury nullification should be replaced with a temporary stop on enforcement.
This is what you want to happen.

The alternative is, you shrinkwrap everything and lock it down, and your dependencies never change. Except that now it's been a year, and you want to update your dependencies, and it's this huge jump that requires so many changes that it's going to take a month of concentrated pain to do, so you never do it, and welcome to the world of legacy code.

Take your dependency-update hits in small bursts on the regular, and only lock down (via shrinkwrap or Docker images) for QA/release builds.
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Tested on El Capitan. IIRC, SDL_SetRelativeMouseMode didn't work at all, the cursor remained visible. After some workarounds, there are still issues with the cursor not re-centering correctly, menu bar remaining visible, etc.

It's probably because I'm on a random Git commit rather than a stable release, but I had to do that due to another issue. It's surprising how many things are in flux, given how long it's been around.
> Running debug build of stl under win32 is extremely slow in my experience.

Set "_NO_DEBUG_HEAP=1" in your system environment variables.
Most of the wealth held by the rich isn't money failing to circulate. It's productive capacity producing goods for others. Elon Musk's wealth isn't a vault full of gold coins. It's a factory producing cars that other people get to drive.

Piketty's book describes this phenomenon as well - his book is fundamentally about the world moving from a situation of having a $1M factory producing $100k in income to a situation of a $2M factory producing $150k in income. (I.e., r=2, g=1.5.)
You seem to be talking about a very specific area. As I've eluded to earlier, there are clearly jobs where C is best suited, but C is hardly the best choice in most of the areas it is used. People are still doing GUI programming in C. That is a really poor fit for the language.

C isn't automatically easier to achieve high performance. Depends on what sort of problems we are talking about. If I remember correctly CouchDB was written in C/C++ originally and they switched to Erlang and got both much less code and higher performance.

But in something like a game engine were you want to be able to control memory layout and allocation C/C++ is a benefit. But Rust/Swift/Go allows you to do much of the same to various degrees.

At my work people write codecs and stuff and C is clearly a benefit due to its closeness to the metal. And as you say, yes they do write odd code at times because they know a lot about how the C compiler translates various constructs to assembly code. But this is specialist work. Most C coding doesn't involve this type of coding.

I think I just have to agree to disagree with you about correctness though. I had several years of C experience when I first tried Standard ML, and I manage to get a sorting algorithm correct on first try in SML, something I've never done in C. There will always be some stupid off by one type of error.

People have conducted studies of these sort of things and tend to measure better results for functional languages. One notable property of C programs is also that for any group of C programmers there is a huge variation in performance of the programs they write. The top C developers beat anybody. But average C programs are often slower than even average Python programs.
Doubling income is not the same as improving quality of life.

Capitalism suffers from a plague number of social ailments, including epidemic levels of stress and mental illness, that aren't present in "poor" cultures.

Besides, terraforming our planet to make it less, not more, inhabitable, hardly counts as a big win.
When I worked at Bank of America I tried to do something similar with their Keep The Change program, allow customers to have their 'change' go to the charity of their choice instead of their savings account, I called it Give the Change. I could never get it past the product team so I'm glad to see this project pop up on HN today! Keep at it
The cause of this was the vilification of motherhood by society. Girls needed to be "strong independent women" and the concept of women being a kind and nurturing homemaker was seen as old fashioned, even though these skills are absolutely essential to raising a well grounded, sensible self actuated and well adjusted child. The fabric of our society depends on it and somehow this was allowed to happen.
>Can anyone here present a use case where they have personally needed horizontal scaling

The embeddings for text models with a real world vocabulary can get very very large, especially if multiple languages are involved.
Strongly, strongly, strongly disagree with this description. This is a completely unfalsifiable definition of a bubble.

On December 5, 1996 Alan Greenspan first uttered the phrase "irrational exuberance". Some people amazingly credit him with "calling the bubble" for this statement. The Nasdaq 100 closed at 835.80 that day, the lowest price the Nasdaq 100 has closed once the bubble "crashed" was at 804.64 on October 7, 2002.

This is the problem with "bubble watchers". Yes, it's possible for prices to get too high and for companies to trade at too high of valuations (or so it seems) and late 1990s had plenty of that. However, many people are constantly calling bubbles, people were calling the S&P 500 a bubble in this current rally back at 1200 and 1300. Could it go back down? Certainly, but that doesn't make the people calling it a bubble at 1200 correct if it drops from 2100 to 1800.

One of my favorite jokes about the subject:
Bubble watchers have correctly predicted 9 of the last 2 bubbles.

Btw, for those interested in a sane economist talking about bubbles I highly highly recommend Scott Sumner. Here's a good old post of his on the subject:

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=8063
In political ponerology (study of evil in politics, coming from the works of Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski), a pathocracy is defined to be a government where a small minority of psychopaths through the machinations of the system gain vast amounts of power and use normal people to their benefit.

Homo-economicus is a psychopath. He values profit over people, uses people as resources, measures his own worth in money, harms the environment, has no deeper values, and so on. Insofar as our (capitalist) society rewards homo-economicus instead of shunning this miserable being, we are going to be ruled by a pathocracy.
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Thanks! We link with Bank of America (and they're also my bank).

If you have connections with them, I'd love to talk about how we could work more closely together.
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Except it was American courts in the early 19th century which deviated from the Anglo-Saxon common law tradition of property rights which viewed air pollution was a tort.

Soviet rivers were some of the most polluted in the world.

A free-market has much stricter limits on pollution than any crony government agency.
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Let's me try again then.

If you're unable to extract value from your idea, but someone else can, the idea has no value to you. Does it have value? In the right hands, probably. That doesn't entitle you to that value though.
hey look, an appearance from the amazing mr. strawman, capable of ignoring an argument's essence in favor of contradicting lesser points to appear correct, yet totally out of context! Amazing!
It's also been said the best way to build 100M company is to start with 1B company and run it on intuition.

MC Hammer, 50cent (?), so many multi-millionaire athletes are bankrupt. The fact that the basic institutions we require to exist - banks, convenience stores - stay financially viable is something we take for granted. I'm not sure tne new-kickstarter-economy can exist without the persistence of the old boring economy of scarce resources.
In terms of "in general", there's mapd, a startup doing something on a very similar space http://mapd.com/

It's definitely the case that our work is not ready to be shrink-wrapped and sold. But the need for it is there. I'm no longer at AT&T Research and can't answer for their current needs, and I unfortunately cannot talk about the usage scenarios when I was there. There's the academic paper you can read, http://nanocubes.net/paper.pdf, which has a few examples.

In practical terms, the difference in a system that has latency of a few seconds to one in which the queries come back in 60fps is significant, and enables a bunch of interesting stuff that might not be obvious at first sight.
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Downloading hasn't lost it's novelty (though it is still high barrier compared to mobile web). It's discovery which is the problem. New publishers are mostly doomed to fail. Apart from that, apps have short half lives. If someone doesn't use your app everyday, it's basically toast.

Mobile web is getting better, but i'd still rather use facebook's app and airbnb's app vs their adequate mobile web experiences. It's just a better UX. For things like uber, you don't even have that choice. On the other hand, if you're experience is not task intensive, mobile web is just fine.
Here's an interesting paper on the topic:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19829

I agree that females who would have become nurses and secretaries in the past are now becoming physicians and executives, and without doubt this a good thing. My observation is just that by solving one problem (limited opportunities for women to become professionals) we inadvertently encouraged another (assortive mating on the rise which reinforces inequality).

It's also interesting you mention social pressure at different times in history. I am working my way through Downtown Abbey at the moment and it reminds me that throughout history there have been strong pressures for people to marry within their own class/caste systems. Probably for many reasons, but one of them is certainly the maintenance of wealth and power, which has typically been far less equal throughout those historical periods than the US is today. The post WW1 period in the US has been the exception not the norm.
Dymocks bookshop in Australia does this at the checkout [1]. They ask you if you want to round the price up and donate the extra to charities.

[1]: https://www.dymocks.com.au/childrens-charities/round-up
The only "wildly successful" Windows app company that comes to mind is Adobe.

Some instant messengers enjoyed success ( but were never as big as Adobe in terms of revenue) due to the fact that the OS makers (msft, apple, google) are typically incompetent in social.
Looks like what Jetbrains would implement if they implemented a proper Lispy language support.

Very nice.
Step away from the tinfoil hat. "Reconsider" is still atop the best list.

Personally I found this article more interesting than "Reconsider". I mean c'mon, it's trivially true that the humbler road doesn't get the press but is more spiritually satisfying &c &c. Whereas this article brings together valuable knowledge from different domains.
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