skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” Previewed the Information Age
I think that's a fair point. To be honest, I'm more concerned about the real limitations of the paradigm (the nice-to-have features I will have to pass because the architecture is a bit too closed)
There's been lots of software to serve construction. PlanGrid is successful because:

1. It's late enough to the game that it could start as a SaaS company.

2. It's late enough to the market that it can leverage contemporary Silicon Valley financial tools.

3. Mobile computing is now ubiquitous enough that a mobile first strategy is viable for construction...PlanGrid's creation story is based on the introduction of the iPad.

4. PlanGrid has a low first cost (as in free tier) pricing model that allows initial use by construction company employees without incurring a cost against the budget of the projects to which they are assigned.

5. The product was introduced to solve a narrow problem rather than sold a by four legged meat eating sales team as an office suite.

That said, successfully scaling out to a general solution is a different challenge because the number of moving parts increases and the edge cases that can cost a construction company enough money to put them under are exponentially larger. There's a hard copy fallback for drawings at the building department and another at the architect's office and various other copies living out in the wild at the architect's consultants and the contractor's subcontractors. That's not the case with a contractor's internal documentation.

To put it another way, there's a certain tolerable error level to a PlanGrid generated link from a floor plan to a detail because it can verified against the originals and the actual building. The acceptable error level is different when the electronic version is the original and there's no external validation mechanism.

Then again, $40 million is a lot of money to deploy against such challenges.
As a consumer who ships packages every now and then, I'm impressed with how usable USPS's web site is compared to UPS or Fedex.
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I can just see the genuine sexists using this just, forever, to justify their biases about female leadership. It's very saddening.

Doesn't help on that front that it's a fashion oriented company either...
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How is this any better by an order of magnitude from the current spate of mappers that contain resturants? Why reinvent Yelp or 4Square or GoogleMaps?

>am I solving a problem only I have?

Most likely.
Good to know, because many towns have that I thought it's really Stadt-Bahn. Didn't know S5/7/75 have that special name.
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Simplifying and Isolating Failure-Inducing Input
The only reason for have providing a postal service be a Constitutional power of government is because having one in place and operational was viewed as having a public, externalized benefit. As such, one shouldn't expect it to be profitable -- not that its bad if it is, but as long as the magnitude of the net expenditure is less than the externalized benefit, its worthwhile.

Clearly, the unsubsidized-but-government-controlled model doesn't make a whole lot of sense, either from the "it is a public benefit and should be a public service" perspective or the "it is not a public benefit and should be provided in the private market" perspective.
Here's the relevant data:

[The USPS's] unfunded liability grew 76% between 2007 and 2015, to $125.2 billion. The Tax Foundation, a think-tank, doubts it can ever repay this money. The service has done much to improve its financial state—hours have been cut at rural branches and it has reduced work hours by 420m since 2002, saving some $17 billion annually. It has shrunk its staff by nearly 300,000, but it still has staggering labour costs. About 80% of its budget goes to its workers. Under a law of 2006, the service has to pre-fund 75 years’ worth of health benefits for retired workers, something no other company, much less a government agency, is required to do.

Privatization isn't looking too bad. I'm all for strong employee benefits and organized labor, but 75 years' pre-funded benefits for retired workers seems excessive. We might end up losing a few of the more rural branches, but the employee/employer negotiations and business model would be much more sane under a private for-profit structure.
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Using this[1] humorous but still mostly effective methodology, that model seems to be okay[2], at least for now.

[1] https://twitter.com/todb/status/648956328292057088

[2] http://www.rapid7.com/db/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=SB6141&t=a
"Being able to take all the data in the stream and merge it with previously collected data, then query that merged data is the sort of thing I need to be able to do."

Sorry for the shameless plug, but Striim does that with a SQL-like interface. Joining streams and previously collected, cached data is as easy as writing a join.

You can try it out here:
http://www.striim.com
From the parent comment, it appeared that the commenter was saying TLS for the WiFi connection. Upon reflection, that doesn't make any sense! Nice catch.
"You want to tell me where the wifi is you are feeling good for me."
When I saw the phrase 'Rent the Runway' I thought of airplanes and related equipment.

Maybe the investors are similarly confused by this term, which was apparently a company's name even though it sounds like an action statement.
Couldn't agree more! We're in a niche industry (food and beverage _production_) as a "vertical-specific SaaS" and there are 1) few players 2) immense demand for software that can do anything and everything.

My takeaways from operating in a "vertical-specific SaaS" are:

1) Lots of value to be captured by making something for specific vertical and then growing within that vertical

2) Owning the data end-to-end is our "network effect" or "secret-sauce" or whatever VC Buzzword they ask about (but is truly valuable)

3) Domain knowledge is critical. We need to know _a lot_ about the beverage product being produced and speak fluently about it to have any credibility and any chance of addressing their pain-point.
Wow. Just... wow. That is more amazing than most of the code I see on a daily basis.
What would the alternative be? Tell companies that are going to mine trillions of dollars worth of metals that they need to first re-incorporate in Angola or maybe Sudan?
Analysts advise Yahoo to sell core business, question leadership
here's a proof that the ratio of the triangle area to the square is scale invariant:

imagine covering a geometric shape with a bunch of little squares, each with side length s. you could imagine a limit argument, with the squares getting small enough to arbitrarily approximate the area of the shape. uniform scaling increases the distance between any two points by some factor k.

the area of each of the original squares is s^2, and the new area is (ks)^2 = k^2*s^2

thus the area of the triangle increases by a factor of k^2. the same argument will apply to the square drawn on the hypotenuse. thus this k^2 term will cancel out when you take the ratio.

(we could've used the area formula for a triangle here, but this argument applies more generally: for example we can deduce the area of a circle is proportional to radius^2 without deriving the formula)
Note: not quite "analysts" but activist investors.
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Yeah. I bet they're sending a sternly worded warning to these companies that if they go to space and bring back a trillion dollars worth of metals, there's going to be thousands of dollars of fines to be paid.
I'm pro-encryption, but I think your argument is lazy and not fact-based. We see from this article that criminals are not particularly skilled at hiding their communications.

You and I both want a world where encryption is ubiquitous and easy to use. Where text messages are somehow encrypted-by-default. That does mean in this instance police would have had to use some other means to apprehend Abaaoud. That's a cost of everyone having privacy. Banning encryption will stop the majority of violent/petty criminals who are not educated and poorly funded from using it. I won't claim otherwise. I think the answer, as always, is educating people and making sure they have decent responsibilities and resources at their disposal so they won't want to do harm. People who can trust their government to give them privacy and protect their interests won't lash out.
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I think college isn't right for everyone. I also think that individuals don't realize a lot of potential benefits from it. It would be economically beneficial on an individual level for many more people to learn math up to Calc II in undergrad, and I suspect that would represent a public good.

But most affordable state U's operate their low level math classes as weeders, not opportunities to educate students. So I don't think I would want to aggressively make policy to reduce college attendance without experimenting in improving their outcomes.

(And I agree with your last point.)
You'd still have a telephone number. From that telephone number you could go to a judge and request a warrant for the telephone records. From there you could look at all the numbers dialed and received. Now you get a warrant for the addresses of the subscribers.

No bulk surveillance required, just honest police work within the confines of a valid and acceptable legal framework.
Yes, that's demonstrated in the video. You have to login on another page before that page will work.
Blame management is super important! Faking passion is what the grad in the article needs to work on apparently. I don't think unis are equipped to teach everything.

The article says that internships are where grads can get workplace experience but I've never handed real problems to any interns. Who would? Important stuff needs actual employees.

Frankly they'd learn more by watching me do my thing than solving their little intern assignments.
It's All About Morphisms
> Privatization isn't looking too bad. I'm all for strong employee benefits and organized labor, but 75 years' pre-funded benefits for retired workers seems excessive.

The whole purpose of that unique mandate is to make privatization look better by making the state of the USPS look bad.
Maybe you do (as long as you pay, of course). Legal protection gives you recourse, but doesn't protect you from malicious adversaries. Shall something bad happen - you'll lose your identity and will have to seek it back in a court. It's a sort of insurance.

Also, that juridical sense isn't international. There are countries that seize or undelegate domains they can reach at whim. There are countries that block other zone domains, mandating Internet traffic filtering within a country. Legal sense doesn't mean a thing against rogue governments.

To put it security: I really don't want to trust any other entity but myself to be a source my identities, and find any concept of trusted authorities to be hazardous. Seriously, how come we designed the whole damned network that when I come to someone's place why I happen to need some landlord to confirm (why?) that I am who I am? Isn't this is only a matter between myself and whoever welcomes me on their site?
In a different way.

Job postings are either broad in the sense they want a unicorn (massive often unachievable in reality skillset).

Must be able to debug kernel drivers, write ruby, be CCNA certified and a qualified first aider.

The kind of posting where you know they actually need two sometimes three people and are trying to get one.
No doubt about it. The question was about avoiding the if/else within the for loop body.

In js the for could be replaced with an array of 100 elems and a forEach:

Array.apply(null, { length: 100 }).forEach(function (_, i) { })
I'm all for strong employee benefits and organized labor,
but 75 years' pre-funded benefits for retired workers
seems excessive

Those two things are not related. The prefunding requirement was specifically added for political reasons to screw over the Postal Service.
I'm curious then, because "Hello" is currently available on Youtube. If that will hold true for the rest of the album, then the article the other day about YouTube Music being the BeAllAndEndAll of streaming may hold true. This is a fascinating situation to be in. YouTube could OWN the music streaming world in an interesting way.
It makes sense -- a nice evening gown can run upwards of $1000 but if you only have occasion to wear one once a year, it makes more sense to rent it for $150. Even if you wear one more frequently, you probably don't want to be seen in the same one too many times.

And there are a lot of physical stores that do this already, but RTR can benefit from the scale of a national client base.
From what I understand the advantage the 65xx had over the 8008/8080, and Z80 back in the day was a) price and b) way better cycle efficiency and c) faster interrupt response. The 6502 could often do in 1 cycle what a Z80 took 4 cycles to do. An 8-bit memory read or write was 1 cycle. For 8-bit home computers mostly used for graphics and games, that's cool cuz you got good performance per dollar.

I guess 65c816 kept that speed and its simplicity and offered an upgrade path. But only the IIGS and the SNES used it.

Direct page is pretty cool when you consider that the cost of a memory access was 1 cycle. So it's effectively 256 extra registers (tho still only one ALU).
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I did not make my point clear. The question is still: Why is the self interest of each farmer so at odds with the common interest of all farmers/all humanity?

The competitive environment you mention is the large scale structure of society itself. Those external actors you mention are the very forces that define the environment and define the context in which a farmer determines their self interest. These structures do not arise from the aggregate of individuals working independently, but from the coherent actions of ensembles of actors. The very notion of 'self' is ill-defined and subject to change as social forces construct the way people perceive the relationship between their bodies and the rest of the world. There is no state of nature.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10506422 (906 points, 15 days ago, 155 comments)
Assuming you could exploit the browser's JS to submit such a request (I thought I remembered seeing a security feature of modern browsers to prevent this?) and assuming the web interface requires no authentication, you would only be able to enable WAN HTTP access. The telnet and ssh still appear to be LAN-only. And you still need the serial number to generate a password (does the web interface even show that?). I don't see a viable drive-by attack vector other than malware.

edit It does look like telnet can be accessed via WAN, which is pretty bad.
> We'd still have people here illegally, because some won't qualify even for crossing light, and some come here expressly for criminal purposes. But this seems like an improvement.

It'd probably be far easier to catch them and point them out - no one much would likely feel sorry for them, and they'd likely stand out even among their own communities.
One potential way to solve this would be to include the origin in the challenge, which the server could check:

ssh demo-ssh.bob.com -l 7d7662f63f70de7714 -p 2222 https://www.bob.com

Mallory's attack then would have the possibility of being detected:

ssh demo-ssh.mallory.net -l 7d7662f63f70de7714 -p 2222 https://www.bob.com

However, this still relies on the user manually checking the origin of the challenge every single time, and users aren't very reliable. It might be better suited to a browser extension than to a manual copy-and-paste process.
The root problem is that telecommunications is similar to utilities in that it is a natural monopoly.

Basically imagine if someone owned the only bridge into San Francisco. They could charge whatever people were willing to pay. But you would think if they charge too much money or scream obscenities at everyone who drives through, then someone could build another bridge and steal their customers. The problem is that if anyone builds another bridge the bridge owner could stop screaming obscenities and lower his prices. Then the second bridge could not make the return on capital. The prospective business owner and current owner know this so the status quo of one expensive and crappy bridge
remains.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Full disclosure: I'm a recent graduate of Fullstack Academy, the organization that is overseeing Grace Hopper Academy. Grace Hopper is going to use the same curriculum that Fullstack uses.

"You make sure they are highly motivated by making them take the first part of the course online... The cost to run the online course is very cheap, and now you are guaranteed to have easy students only."

While it's cheaper to run an online course than an in-person one, it's by no means cheap. The point of the first third of the course is to bring everyone up to speed and make sure everyone is competent in basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Considering the highly motivated students taking the course, there's no advantage to learning the very basics in person. I'm talking about getting comfortable with basic design patterns, JS prototypes, using higher-order functions. Callbacks and promises were only taught in the next part of the course, to give you an idea.

"They will have a nice job because they are very smart and motivated." No, they will get nice jobs because they're smart and motivated AND now know how to code, know how to work as part of a software team, know how to use coding best practices, and most importantly know how to learn new technical concepts and languages.

"That's $15,750 a pop." That's only slightly more than what Fullstack currently charges.

"A state university education in Ohio is $12,000 for 15 weeks by the way." Yes, things cost more in NYC. And Fullstack grads are WAY more competent than someone who's taken one semester of college CS courses. For four months I lived and breathed Javascript. Bootcamps focus on producing programmers who are ready to work in a production environment, something you absolutely cannot say for college grads.

"The Dean of Grace Hopper Academy has no academic credentials listed whatsoever..." For the last time, comparisons to academic college programs make no sense. The curriculum is already proven to produce good coders, and the staff constantly iterates to see how they can improve the program and the student experience.

"Do the [instructors] have industry experience and teaching experience?" Absolutely, every single one of them. They're likely not listed because it hasn't been decided which of the Fullstack instructors will transfer. From what I hear, it'll be a rotation, so you can look at fullstackacademy.com to see who'll be teaching there.

"Are any of them female?" WTF, the entire program is in place to ensure that more women will become coders because there currently aren't enough!
If topMostVC fixed your bugs, you probably aren't following Cocoa patterns. You're probably introducing new, subtler bugs.

Honestly, I think you just need more experience before attempting a library like this.
IME there are three random features you might want on a collection: pick a single element, pick n elements and shuffle the collection. While it can't be #2 (as that requires an elements count) the random() method could be either #1 or #3 and the naming provides no indication of which.

Plus #1 and #3 (not in-place) can be expressed through #2 and likewise #1 and #2 can be expressed through #3 (not in place, especially if it's an iterator).

So the naming is unhelpful and the only operation implemented is the least useful random collection operation. That's not very good.

Finally you don't need to pull a whole library for that, it's a 3 lines extension.
> Or how there's a direct link between a country's oil revenues and democracy.

Yeah, oil prices drop and Alberta and Canada promptly elect left-of-center governments.
> That and requiring them to subsidize mass junk mail delivery.

Actually, I believe junk mail is a big money maker for USPS.

> "What we want to do is to make standard mail more interesting for customers so we can grow the total volume," Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in an interview. "We don't call it junk mail—it's a lucrative avenue for anyone who wants to reach customers."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702046125045766067...
Or was it the beginning? Time travel makes idioms hard.
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The bigger question, obviously one could contract out mail delivery to FedEx, DSL, etc..why has not the move been made yet? One could do areas to each one like say Alcohol is done..and the public would still get the public benefit
I'm talking more codebase wise, not protocols, languages, specifications and franchises.

For example, Wii U mario games aren't using code from the original 8bit mario games. Same with most SMTP servers today. SMTP is old, the current implementations in use most of the time are not that old. I think many unix tools in use today like grep are probably not using the original grep implementations either.

So I covered most of the list with UNIX (OSes), Oracle (DBs) and mainframes. I did miss compilers, vim & emacs but even that is being replaced by guys like LLVM.
Just Rails for now, or will Ruby in general work? We use sinatra.
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No, but we've banned people who were acting like it. HN accounts don't come with payroll stubs, so we work with the data we have. :)
Indeed. Junk mail subsidizes first class mail.

The solution would be for the USPS to deprecate junk mail, properly price first class, priority, express classes, and start offering banking services to the unbanked.
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Let's take a slightly more factual article:

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/13/postal-service-tallies-51b-lo...

USPS made $1.2 billion in operating profit in the last fiscal year. The USPS has been an independent, revenue-neutral agency since 1971.
You probably haven't ordered a sub $2 product with free shipping from aliexpress recently, have you?

They are not shipped together and broken out at port, they get separate tracking numbers in a separate package. There is no fulfillment middleman on the US side.

Looking at USPS's domestic rate table to understand how most aliexpress shippers get their products to the US isn't likely to be that enlightening. Read up on epacket, which is one program between Hong Kong post and USPS that is used pretty frequently.
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