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He said technology powerhouse not, business powerhouse. I don't see how traction, market share or profit come in here. But for the record, Konga is moving fast in terms of traction and has a fair share of the Nigerian market, this is a country of over 100 Million people with more than 16% online and increasing. If you live in Nigeria you should know this, I really doubt that you live in Africa. I am not for endearment but if you do the maths, Konga is headed towards profitability that's for sure.

Sources:

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/nigeria/

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/nigeria-popula...
Indeed, if the data in a page's canvas has a different origin, you're not allowed to read pixels back (http://www.w3.org/TR/html/scripting-1.html#security-with-can...).

If the DOM element you draw has the same origin as your canvas it seems like (from my reading of the spec) you should be allowed to do what you describe.
To add to your analysis, Instacart is also very dependent on a large team of 'staff' (be it contractors or employees) to provide its service. A major cornerstone of low-margin companies like Amazon is high levels of automation and standardization to reduce the number of humans involved.

That said, this is a relatively small round of layoffs focused on a team not directly related to the product (recruiting), so it's not really proof that they are in trouble yet.
oops, didn't even realized it was you. I hardly check out usernames on HN, I just go for the content because most usernames are usually weird.
Mandrake was my first ever Linux too. I bought a box set which included a mousepad and a starters guide - it was imported and cost approx 20% of my monthly salary then. I had to Google at my office for guides on how to configure my dial-up modem and print those pages to try at home in the evening - it was a moment of euphoria when I could finally connect to my 256kbs account.

From the point of aesthetics, I think Mandrake was quite advanced - I tried some other distros at that time but none felt as well put together as Mandrake.

One of the things that was getting annoying for me was that I kept seeing more and more packages I wanted available as .deb compared to .rpm. At first I just force installed or compiled but that messed up the system since I was walking all over the package manager. I backed-off from installing from source and just stayed with RPM and tried newer distros e.g. SuSE. Most articles on the web that time about installing Debian gave me the impression that I needed to be an "expert" (even after 3-4 years of daily Linux experience as an end-user). When Ubuntu came along, I gave the live CD a try and loved how good Gnome looked, how responsive it was, how it "just worked" most of the time and how 99% of the time apt-get would find me what I wanted. I briefly gave OpenSUSE a try after the Unity forced my hand to leave Ubuntu but YaST felt way too heavy handed. Been using Linux Mint for a while now and I think I'll settle with Mint as long as they dont do "weird stuff". If they do, my next and last distro would be pure Debian.
The more civilized countries still let a lot of shit like this fly. Most of the advertising industry we have today would not exist in an actually civilized world.
This is an old video, but I love watching these airline pilot saftey presentations. This video in particular covers a lot of these automation issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN41LvuSz10
All languages allow unsafe things,if you think in terms of logic errors.

But C's unsafety leads to memory corruption as well, even for very skilled developers.

Only matched by programming in straight Assembly.

Yes that was the expression we used in 90's.
Rents are listed as per week here in Australia too.
Well, that's what happen when you use Facebook..
So true. And it correlates with this article: http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

It's time to go back to 2004 style ads, before or around when Google Adsense disrupted the advertisement world. Dumb plain advertisement based on jpeg, animated gif or formatted text.
The author talks about "ad industry" as "us", and the website's name is "Ad Age". I want to understand this context better: is it a big industry publication? And what audience inside ad industry does it cater to, exactly?
I think there are pretty important implications of cell counts.

It is probably more apparent if we look at the brain - it has been pretty important to evolutionary biology to study not only the whole number of brain cells but also the proportion that are neurons and the proportions that are other, supporting cells. Similarly, it matters how many cells there are in a particular region of the brain when we ask the question - how did this region evolve to be of this size?

If this piques your curiosity I'd recommend Suzana Herculano-Houzel's work - either her popular TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so... ) or this kind of paper if you want to take a deep dive ( http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnana.2014.00... ) << should be open access.

Getting accurate measurements of the numbers of cells gives us a good idea of the number of divisions required to produce them, and could also be used in normalizing cancer risk across organisms.

Measurements of types of cells in a tissue give us an idea of the magnitude of the signaling / secretion events from these cells.
> Seems like you want to make a black list that is very very long.

Probably. But it's long exactly because people are not willing to blacklist as much as they should.

The market is under no obligation to respect you. In fact, competitive pressures push everyone towards exploiting you as much as it is possible. So the limit of crap we're being served is the same as what we're willing to endure.
As it says, it violates a few state laws. Mostly, it is seen as a distraction to the driving of others.
>Which gives a ratio that can best be expressed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

A bit unrelated but I found it amusing the author used an emoticon in a magazine article (a reputable magazine, at that). Even more interesting, if you search for "I don't know emoticon" the first result on Google is an article from The Atlantic on the subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-be...

And while facts like the cell to microbe ratio may be useless for most in terms of practicality (as someone else mentioned), for me they are not only interesting but instill the same sense of wonder as knowing that there are ~100 billion stars in the Milky Way. Definitely makes you think about the scale of numbers, if nothing else.
yeah, it is ambitious to say the least.

There are several parts of the android framework that I would like to see rewritten from scratch (activity as a god object, love of inheritance everywhere in the framework classes, weak UI/animation framework, etc) but it is also a mature code base with tons of features, tools & open source libraries built around it.
a) brake lights - at least of same color - in front will not happen - because you instinctively know - especially in poor visibility) to follow red lights and avoid the bright white ones - which is oncoming traffic...

b) in most of europe the thank you is done with a momentary press of the hazard button - thats why its generally so easy to access on most european-targeted cars.
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Problematic questions would be raised about cars that redlined certain city neighborhoods.

There is illegal robbery and legal robbery... once neighborhood redlining became popular, you can guarantee cities would start raising revenue by ticketing self driving cars caught cruising residential zones, entertainment districts, etc. We have plenty of existing laws and case law against "cruising". You can imagine the bug reports already "Your service failed to inform my car that the sportsball team was having a game last night, placing the stadium district under no-cruise law, so I got ticketed, towed, impounded, and had to pay for a taxi home"
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Currently manufacturers feel that they need to have their cards obey the law in every case, which is what people need to be warned about.
I agree that this may not be a sign of trouble, although this has been happening with more frequency across the on-demand sector. However, I would also consider most on-demand companies as service companies, not product companies, and in doing so, you consider the base labor cost the same as your cost of goods sold. So the 80% driver cut for Uber/Lyft would be the same as selling a retail product at a 20% markup (assuming sales taxes and payroll taxes/worker's comp are equal, which they aren't).
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Agreed about the book and miniseries, but for me the problem with the film is that the book "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is one of the great character-driven spy thrillers, so while the film on its own is not a bad film, it dumped vast sections of character development to get down to 127 minutes.
We shouldn't get upset. Karma is a &itch. Look how much fun France and Europe is having with all those hungry masses flowing in.

Nor should we surprised

France allowed her colonies independence (without a bloody fight she was certainly going to loose), on the condition that they used the franc (technically the convertible franc).

This would enable France and French companies cheap access to African resources, that is continue what colonialism had been doing <- stealing African resources to subsidize France.

Also, it would prop up the franc as France continued to print money to finance her welfare state (not a judgement on the merits of a welfare state, just a fact that the French weren't taxing enough to afford it).

We shouldn't be too hard with the French though. The Americans largely do the same (see how quickly the leader of an oil producing country is deposed is he declares to ditch the dollar). The Brits gave their empire to the Americans to piggy back off this.
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Same thing happens to me time and again. I get passionate about X - spend all my time learning everything I can about X and one day I wake up and couldn't care less about X. This happens once every 5 years. It's just the way I am and have made peace with it.

The answer is to look for the next X that gets you passionate again - i.e. Y. This can be anything you choose - a new startup, get into software marketing, write a book, teach .... the world is your oyster.
"a single allegation is properly sourced." This isn't a report for external review. This is an internal communication among people who are in the loop.

This is a primary source for future sourcing!
> Though the several iterations of privacy scaremongering

I'd argue that this is another case which shows that the privacy scaremongering isn't scaremongering, but the privacy issues are real.
And... this was a surprise?
PHP itself has been pretty secure for a while. If you're concerned about security within your application, go with a framework that handles things like database access for you.

The biggest thing to watch out for is SQL injection. There's so much old, viulnerable PHP code out there - and much of it in the examples people put out there for beginners!

OWASP has a PHP Security Cheat Sheet you might find helpful: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Security_Cheat_Sheet
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> Years later, a disk copier appeared that was able to preserve these fuzzy bits but it was way after there was any commercial interest left in the Dungeon Master titles.

I wonder what's the story behind that copier. Was its ability a side effect of the method they used? Or was there a legitimate commercial interest in preserving those fuzzy bits in copies? Or was actually built with pirates in mind?
Linux-Mandrake 7.2 was my first distribution. 14 years later, I'm now working full time in open source, and while I've been on the Debian side of the fence for a while now, I'm still using KDE!

So thanks, Mandrake developers!
I would not trust her main point "China is far beyond copying the West." for 3 reasons:

1.Everything on China is in the end Central planned, an article that criticize anything about the Govertment-country and you are out of business, so when writing people auto censor itself in the bad things, over extend in the good things.

Of course Chinese Internet services are better than those from the US in China. Most of them work at Kbits/second if they work at all.

2.The person that writes this is in a privilege position, e.g when I was living and working on China I lived much better there that in Europe, so of course she believes everything is fantastic.

3.She is Chinese national. Just watch CCTV for five minutes on a song festival and you will start hearing songs about how great the Chines army is. In China you are surrounded by this stuff all day. Like advertisements most people believe they are not affected by it, but it is pervasive and it does affect you after a long exposure.

I consider Chinese central planned system poisonous for innovation, specially: "Chinese companies are fierce and grow out of alkaline land".

What the last statement means is that Chinese companies have absolutely no ethics, and in the end everything is about knowing-buying the people in power because those people will remove your taxes or give you the permit or credit or anything you need(and you need anything they want you to need or else...).

In China you have to share your innovations with other companies, this makes your bargaining power near zero while the company with more direct line with power gets the profit.
I agree, I visited colombia last year. Bogota, once stage of many of these violent events, feels safer than most big cities in Brazil, where I live
And, more importantly, it is a company that you do not want to ruin your contacts view of you.
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The DEA is not "powerless to stop them", it's actually empowered as an organization by this growing threat. The police and government contractors are a political constituency and political donors. As a societal problem, drug use and criminality around it is a consequence of the drug war, the only way to stop it is to end the war and start treating addicts as sick rather than criminal.
Someone on my team wants to propose something similar for WordPress. I'll pass this along to him. It would be great to have it built into the language itself.
I mean, if all you do for a living is email spam then I wouldn't call that hacking, but seeing as this is a programming based startup and the marketing attempt required programming skill, I'm imagining this was put together by the same guy/guys that are on other days making new product features. If slapping together a marketing scheme that quickly lets you reach a lot of people without you needing to spend a lot of time optimising or upkeeping it isn't hacking then I just straight up don't understand how the day setting up a new feature and a day setting up the new spam bot are different conceptually.

I don't think being an unsophisticated asshole and a hacker are mutually exclusive. Plenty of hacking is unsophisticated and most people are assholes, hacker or otherwise.
"One worker per core" is too simplistic. Yes, as I wrote in a pretty well-known article a dozen years ago, it's a good starting point. Yes, it can avoid some context switching. On the other hand, when you have to account for threads doing background stuff it can be too many, leaving you with context thrashing between oversubscribed cores. When you account for threads blocking for reasons beyond your control (e.g. in libraries or due to page faults) it might be too few. The right number of worker threads is usually somewhere around the number of cores, but depends on your exact situation and can even vary over time.

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Then we should start here and make sure that it at least doesn't become more companies doing these things.

I have all @facebook.com email on blacklist on my email server because I get daily spam from Facebook trying to get me to spend more time on the page, even with everything turned off.
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Probably http://flyclops.com/games/domino.html (looked through his HN description)
Mandrake was my first Linux distro that I installed in 1999. I remember some friends warning me against Linux at all saying the install would fry my entire computer.

I forged ahead and have ran Linux systems off and on from then until now.
Only in London - in the rest of the UK rents are usually monthly.
It means you care about your code, but your desk is simply not important to you.

I'm the same. Why people seem to have problems with that? There's limited amount of things we can care about. Some people simply care about different things than most.
You're welcome!

I'd rephrase the "in 2 minutes", not the "tell us about your situation". No matter how you change the latter, it has to be clear that you're writing an email to a person, who's never gonna be able to see it, read it AND start the system for you in 2 minutes.
Ad Age is a well known publication among advertising agencies. While articles are written on broad topics I'd say that the publication primarily is written for executives in creative and design-focused agencies.
Did you task yourself to clean the desk?
This was a horrible idea to put online, when it's not functional and appears to be broken.
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I can help you with that if you like :)
I don't think anyone is disputing that Linux has many encrusted layers of permissions systems, some of them Turing complete. And a terrible reporting mechanism -- your system call returns -EPERM, now you have to work out which of the many layers you tripped over. Or you can try decoding audit.log or remember which of the many SELinux tools you need to invoke.

The question is if we can do better, and the answer is obviously yes because research OSes have existed for many years, like EROS, KeyKOS etc.

However rewriting all our software is not going to happen, so the question is how to get from where we are now to better systems.
So a star is a person who is good at their job..

> Going from individual contributor

What did you do?

> This is one of the reasons why you can't have a totally flat org - you need managers.

Look a Valve, a flat company, who are pretty successful. That proves your point factually incorrect.

> There's lots of managerial advice out there. It's hard to find any truly useful information out there, I'll say it all comes down to stars. They are making it happen.

So if it all down to stars, then what is the purpose of the manager?

> Seems the younger/sv area crowd are more into "culture fit". That seems a little too college fraternity to me. People say "one asshole can ruin the team". I suspect that's bullshit.

Culture leads to teamwork which leads to project flow. Nothing is better than a project flowing well.
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We are creating an ecosystem for Developers, Engineers and Service Providers. We are building a marketplace to allow developers to choose their text2speech/speech2text, storage service, artificial intelligence and some other badass ideas.

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"The Americans largely do the same (see how quickly the leader of an oil producing country is deposed is he declares to ditch the dollar). The Brits gave their empire to the Americans to piggy back off this."

This petrodollar conspiracy is baffling.

Countries don't hold dollars primarily to buy oil.

The oil and gas industry is only about 4.6% to 6.5% of the global economy.

Countries hold reserve currencies to manage the exchange rate of their currency. Petrodollar conspiracists would be well served by learning about foreign exchange reserves.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves

And in any case, only 65% of foreign currency reserves are in the USD.

Furthermore, research shows that being the world's primary reserve currency affords the United States negligible advantage: 0.3 to 0.5 percent of US GDP in a normal year.

See: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/economic_studies/an_exorbit...

Compare that to the costs of "deposing the leader of an oil producing country": $6 trillion for the Iraq war or about 36% of GDP

See:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSB...
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Boy, what a world that was. When everyone took for granted that Linux was a business and there were several competing commercial Linux distributors. How the world has changed.
"To be blunt, having your shit together is a respectable quality."

Not a native speaker, but I am surprised to see this kind of language in a magazine like Time. Is this normal for printed editions as well?
There could be a flag included in the HTTP response header (X-Batch-DOM) or a meta tag like <meta http-equiv="X-Batch-DOM" content="1">. The response header would be a better place for that flag since you can stick a meta tag at any point in your markup (even where it's incorrect to do so). The browser could choose to ignore the meta tag if any JS has executed or it could reload the page with the setting turned on. Not ideal. Anyway, if you feel completely sure that your code would not do anything like you've demonstrated then batching might work fine. Though this basically excludes the safe use of externally linked scripts that you can't control (analytics is one example).
It used to be much much worse, to the point of being absolutely unusable on the latest iPhone. I actually cancelled my FT subscription for several years solely because of the poor performance of that site.

It still has a nice bug where it reserves space for ads, then when it fails to download them (because you're offline) after 60s the whole page reflows (losing your position). Plus the classic loss of scroll position on screen rotation.
We had a Tesla fire in Norway a couple of weeks ago, happened when fast-charging a fortunately empty car. It burned down completely. In the aftermath, there have been statements indicating that people won't put charging stations in underground car parks. But I also believe (lots of) water is the recommended way to put it out.
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Right, and there's a huge number of index-assisted ways in which in can be queried, but ltree has some restrictions on what nodes can be called, which can be a problem if you're trying to represent hierarchies of nodes that already exist.

Most of the operations described in the article are performed by using the && (overlaps) operator, which can make use of a GIN index (though the article doesn't mention this), so probably the article's approach will work OK.
Professional game studios only change when forced to do so.

It was straight Assembly until console and OS SDK became mostly C.

Then it was straigh C until the said SDKs became C++.

Nowadays it will be C++ until they get forced to change again.
> The chart-topping office rents in San Francisco are also a testament to the city’s geographic constraints, crammed as it is into 47 square miles at the top of a peninsula

It's more of a testament to the city's anti-development attitude. Manhattan has twice the people with half the land area, on an island.
Growth hacking as I understand it means doing non-obvious ways to grow your company. I.e. finding ways to spread that aren't following the normal user acquisition channels.