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I think the market structure is just too difficult to penetrate, with not enough profit, for a few reasons.

There is an enormous amount of vendor lock-in present in most solutions out there. Through hardware only compatible with one system, hardware that is claimed to be only compatible with one system (you won't be believed that a barcode reader will work with another system), and hardware that is simply outdated. The hardware is the most expensive part to change. The current software may or may not make migration of data easy.

The software needs to be able to mold itself to many different business processes/workflows. The business processes may be inefficient or irrelevant, but if you want approval from management you need to say you can do X,Y,Z. Also it should interact with every system they have in place.

Management/owner buy-in is difficult. Just convincing lower level employees that something is great is not enough if their boss points out something doesn't have the word "cloud" 1000 times in their marketing literature (I've experienced this).

The space tends to be dominated with solutions that are provided by combination software/consulting companies. Charge little for the software, and a lot for actual implementation by the hour. Or companies that rely on affiliates/resellers and enterprise sales reps who work for commission.

Or how infrequent necessary technical competence is simply not present at many companies. When present, sometimes it's suffocated by management, other times they're too busy with other fires and fear a new project on their plate.

I could go on.
Just to clarify, GitHub hosts a very specific type of content: open source software development projects. They never offered to be a general purpose hosting provider.

From @mhagger's measured and thoughtful reply: "We understand that part of the CocoaPods workflow is that its end users (i.e., not just the people contributing to CocoaPods/Specs) fetch regularly from GitHub..."
Holy cow, this is totally epic.

And, this the first time i've been truly excited by a sporting event. Wow, so that's what that feels like!
Rural or urban also makes a difference. My brother and I regard fish as "poor people's food", a thought brought on by experiences as youths.

I should point out many poor people on EBT (new name for food stamps) do buy toilet paper in bulk once a month. I do wonder how many merchants raise some prices on the 1st of the month.
From the point of view of an active MITM attack there is no difference between unsigned encrypted and unencrypted.
I find it challenging to accept the humanity of the person that thought breaking print was a jolly good thing to do.
The way CocoaPods is using git is bad, so they'd probably run into some problems no matter how they host it. If you know anything about filesystems, they start to have pathologies when you have many entries in the same directory (which is why git has it's object store in the format prefix/object). In addition, it looks like git has it's own pathologies with such large numbers of dentries. Having 16000 entries in your "specs" directory is not a good idea. No matter how you store it.

Not to mention that "just buy another server for this one project" sounds like something CocoaPods should pay for.
"It's just bin-packing!"

I think you'll find that most IaaS providers largely follow the latest heuristics in established bin-packing literature.

(Source: worked at Google, knew some folks on the Borg/Omega teams.)
It's good news in the longer run (more than 2 years,) in the short run it can cause serious problems for global markets are they adjust to the new environment. The big time bomb from this is the debt market taken on by commodity based companies which could infect investment grade bonds.
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Filesystems also have the same pathology, which is why git's object store is of the form prefix/object.
So you are saying you don't spend any time preparing for your interviews :-)
As unusual as the presentation is (lack of chemical and physical material details) that is a decent amount of corroborated evidence for a room temperature superconductor. I can understand why they may withhold the patentable components given the disclosure requirements of patents in most parts of the world.

This might be an effort to gain recognition of the credibility of their results (that whatever this is is a superconductor if the researcher is not lying) that can be used as leverage in funding a patent which depending on the material properties and cost of production, could be anything from valuable to insanely valuable.

Yes all the past high temperature stuff was valuable and liquid nitrogen is cheap, but it's also dangerous potentially deadly stuff with lots of extra work required to safely use it and ensure systems don't break down, etc. A room temperature superconductor cable can be safely used instead of regular cable with no operating expenses and reap all the benefits of superconductivity. Hundreds of miles of liquid nitrogen pipe to build a superconducting electricity grid is extremely unlikely, hundreds of miles of cable is already replaced each year to maintain electricity infrastructure around the globe, replacing that with superconducting cables is an extremely valuable upgrade in a lot of cases.
That is why you don't see poor people protesting a Walmart, but you hear claims from local businesses. Heck, Walmart pays better wages than the local grocery store did.
A Developer interview that actually makes sense
There was a recent discussion about startups and an increase in income inequality.

It seems some people think that there is no such thing as too much income inequality.
In seventh grade science that year was "life-science" I don't remember shit from that class. In fact the only thing I remember being taught before the 8th grade was how to math, read, write, and some stuff about the presidents and how a bill becomes law (which turned out to be a big fat lie).

Why are we so crazy about cramming so much info into the minds of children? Short of reading, writing, and math what does a kid need to know that can't be taught (probably faster) starting a bit later in life?

Shouldn't kids be playing with sticks and frogs and getting fresh air and sunshine? Not having the creativity squeezed out of them in buildings that resemble my office on the inside?
where do people even go to start to sell an exploit? how does that kind of stuff work?
How about technical interviews for non-technical roles. Any advice?
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I wish they would highlight the most recent placements, so it's easier to watch intermittently.
That and getting rid of the TTY altogether.

We aren't using punched cards

EDIT: people hate when I say this, which amuses me. The TTY must die !!!!
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Wow @TheCowboy. Your reply is literally one of the most thoughtful and detailed replies I've ever gotten on HN. You absolutely nailed everything why the inventory management market is tough.

If you had time, I'd love to shoot a startup idea I've been playing with and have you give feedback. I feel like you'd punch the right holes into it.
That was bought with tangible wealth and the mildly less tangible opportunity cost of having the time to do that instead of work.
Part of WAMP's strength is the routes and the extra capabilities they bring into the system. While unnecessary for some, they are a powerful part of why WAMP is used by many people. WAMP wants to be a routed message system, it sounds like you want something else.
My main issue with Free Software projects using GitHub is that it's proprietary, not that it's commercial. Admittedly, I think GitTorrent is a really cool idea, but I'm wondering if a distributed filesystem might be a more elegant solution than using both BitTorrent and Bitcoin.
The kind of wealth that doesn't have dependants
My thought was that to know what the different reactions were first hand, you'd have to try it yourself.

On second thought, you can of course observe how others are treated.

I can confirm that when I worked at Google, people had a lot more interest in talking about my work. That was in part because of the Google Glamour, but I'd guess it's even more because it's a company people have actually heard of and used themselves.
Eh, I've lived here & haven't found that to be true. Sure, I do know people who work in the entertainment industry, but by and large they're regular people. Some are assholes, some are kind. I found the same to be true when I lived in Sunnyvale.
Ahh, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!
While it is only a few :

Sydney Olympics lighting system was Plan9 based.

Inferno was used by NASA JPL projects

Lucent use a real time version of plan9 in phone masts

Coraid use Plan9 on their NAS servers

Researchers at LANL and IBM use plan9 on the Blue Gene, and other, supercomputers

I have worked for two plan9 based companies - ok they didn't survive but we tried :)

The international plan9 conferences drew about 30 people. People from commercial enterprises used plan9 in their workflows. Plan9 was my desktop while building a successful recruitment website.
Does this thing remind anyone else of a musical instrument from a CGI short animation called "Animusic"
>* hypothetical specter of tremendously skilled and bored black-hats who will ruin lives for fun*

I'd assume having $15k to spend is a lot more fun than any enjoyment one could have by hacking someone's facebook account.

You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.
Even among open-source titles, this one excels. Witness:

* Uses Golang

* For Phishing

* Gopher, a digging rodent

* Go Fish, a card game where you steal from your opponent

That's a quadruple entendre. Well played.
Fortune: "In February 2015, exports jumped 48%. So this February exports were up against a strong performance last year."

The 25% number needs units. Is that in yuan, dollars, or TEU?

The Port of Los Angeles publishes container statistics in TEU.[1] February isn't up yet, though. January was up 33% over last year. So this isn't showing up at the physical container level. Container statistics are useful because they're actual counts, not some kind of estimate.

[1] https://www.portoflosangeles.org/Stats/stats_2016.html
>Rob probably sees things like LANG and LC_ALL as bugs. His fix was UTF-8 everywhere, always

The problems solved by LANG or LC_ALL are not solved by UTF8 alone. Even if you use UTF8 for all your input and output, there is still the question of how to format numbers and dates to the user and how to collate strings.

These things are dependent on country and language, sometimes even varying between different places in a single country (in Switzerland, the German speaking parts use . As the decimal separator, while the French speaking part prefers ,)

These things are entirely independent of the encoding of your strings and they still need to be defined. Also, because it's a very common thing that basically needs to happen with every application, this is also something the user very likely prefers to set only once at one place.

Environment variables don't feel too bad a place.
thanks for sharing that nugget of wisdom, I don't think I've ever heard a perspective on education that was more inspiring.

I'm going to stop making excuses and go back to school, I think.
Market is figurative here - even if you don't pursue immediate commercial benefits, you may get ahead of fall behind, as it was happening in less than market oriented Soviet space program.

But on the other hand, I'd be surprised if Blue Origin was only focused on the market of commercial flights to space. That market is somewhat covered by Russia's Soyuz flights - admittedly just a few flights total so far. Suborbital flights - may be, but there could be competition from Virgin Galactic. Blue Origin also makes engines which are planned to be used on other manufacturer's rockets - here we have competition from Aerojet and even XCOR. So - even if some market niches don't exist today, it doesn't mean Blue Origin doesn't have competition - as they are also not offering flight right now. Competition in space flight, for example, existed, say, in 1960, when two countries tried to send a man to space first.
I read the article from top to bottom, and these questions aren't exactly answered. I got the impression it was a group of mostly artistic types getting together for conversation, essentially bringing social networking back to the real world instead of through screens.

How the hell this was supposed to be a "startup" that expected to grow into a profitable business is beyond me. In any case, Jeff Hull inherited many millions of dollars, blew a chunk of it on a personal pet project, and then had a hissy fit when he tried to monetize it and met resistance. Classic child-like behavior of inherited wealth, completely detached from the real world where the rest of us have to work hard to earn a pittance.
Funny that the assumption is you must have credit if you are going to school. That's just a given now I guess.
Perhaps a brief gameplay vid for those of us who don't have iThings?
Different business models, different segments of the market.
There's a good documentary that covers this migration -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Train_Home_(film)
Did a 48. I got a runner's high by the end of it, and lost some stubborn belly fat. Important to stay well-hydrated.
RSA-2048 as it unfolds
+1 for enterprise. Startup culture is picking up, but most of the existing companies are big enterprises here
In later elementary school at least (in Canada, in French immersion, in a moderately-above-average public school), homework was very effective in increasing knowledge. Our kids enjoyed it, and expanded their vocabulary and fluency in a second language. They had ample time to play, to participate in sports, and to sleep. I can't imagine them doing less homework, and I suspect they could have done much more.

The whole experience of learning is about practice. Early on this can be in well crafted exercises and simple homework.

I'm sure that homework can be counterproductive and poorly managed, but I've seen it succeed in moderation (2-3 hours daily).
Wait, you can take tours of SpaceX?
Well we all know that Bezos is known for his healthy and reasonable approach to work-life balance.
A conspiracy theory states that breakfast is the most blah blah was invented by the agri-lobby to up the sales of cereal etc.
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In high school I did near 0 homework. I ended up with a 69 average which rounded up to a 70 allowing me to graduate. I ranked in the bottom 20 students in a class size of around 450 students.

I was a few questions away from a perfect score on my SAT and had an app with over 2 million users so I still got into a good college. So it is doable and I would still encourage others to refuse to do homework.
>You simply log into the Bloomberg/AP/NYTimes account, post some fake economic or political news, and then call in some options you purchased the week before.

It would likely be far cheaper and easier to execute something like this via social engineering than using an actual exploit. I'm reminded of the time Twitter user @m had his handle stolen because Apple gave up some personal info.

Given that there are likely 100s if not 1000s of FB users who may have access to Bloomberg/AP/NYTimes official page, figuring out in an automated fashion of who can be easily socially engineered isn't likely worth 15k.
Trammel of Archimedes
Have you looked into unschooling/homeschooling? If you can't afford an alternative with cash, you might be able to afford it with time.
This requires a lot more typing than APL. OTOH, code seems less write-only.
My impression is that unless you're a C++ developer doing avionics, all the development jobs are back in "cost center" areas. Do you think that's accurate?

I considered applying a few months ago but my current employer (large conglom-o-corp that ate my old company) has made me nervous about being walled-off as a code-monkey.
Fair points. FWIW, we've asked people how long the problem took and they all said it took a few hours, so I think it's the right scope. It really is a fairly easy piece of work.
It's common (in the economics/financial press) to refer to year-on-year changes in this way. This article is in the mainstream press, though, so perhaps they should have spelled it out.
Although everyone mentioned the cities covered in this resource, i'm sure vice'll create more soon: http://www.vice.com/cityguides

maybe useful
Manage the lifecycle of pull requests with Bitbucket, Jenkins and ElasticBox
Let's forget about cheating on races. I want one for my commuting bicycle so it still looks like a normal bicycle so thieves won't be interested in it.
I know it's not the focus of this game, but it would add to the presentation if a robot handled the stones for alphago.
I wouldn't expect there's much of a difference in how laymen (jurors) understand reading out and using an image of a hard drive and reading out and using an image of a flash device.

First of all, for most of them, it's black magic. For the few who know a bit more, will be convinced by arguments of analogy (after all, nowadays many hard drives are in fact flash devices, and the details of interface protocol are beyond what jurors will care about).
I think it's designed to be enough to convince would-be hackers to reveal the bug, but not enough to incentivise large amounts of people to sit around all day every day trying to break Facebook for bounties.
What I'm understanding here is, that while it might be profitable to someone to have an exploit on hand that they can use, the actual work that goes into turning a profit from the exploit may be me costly enough that its not worth pursuing.

Not sure if you read Cryptonomicon, but there's a part there where Randy Waterhouse finds a crap load of gold in the middle of a jungle and then rationalizes that there's no easy way to get it out of there, making it worthless at that moment. That gold has value, but no liquidity.
If you want to make jelly (or quince butter), just boil them until they're soft and process them through a food mill. No peeling or cutting up of hard fruit needed.
These are dangerous as they naturally lead to a fast/binge type eating pattern . if you're not careful you'll Indoctrinate yourself into a new hell.

I've been lifting and experimenting with my nutrition for over a decade. Just be careful, it goes from regime to disorder quick.
If you don't want the browser to freeze ...

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Prices of goods usually adjust quicker than salaries
There are few protocols that were truly worse than Apple's non-HTTP APNS protocol. You can read more at https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ... , but suffice to say, the best part lies in:

If you send a notification that is accepted by APNs, nothing is returned.

If you send a notification that is malformed or otherwise unintelligible, APNs returns an error-response packet and closes the connection.

"Unintelligible" here includes of course invalid tokens, e.g. when the user uninstalls your app.

One of the upgrades was actually returning the last notification that made it through before closing the connection. Before that all you could do was add a sleep() and pray.
If you are interested in trying out this type of serverless architecture for Slackbots, but don't want to deal with using AWS today, check out: https://hook.io

A few of our users have blogged about building SlackBots with hook.io. It's a great fit!

https://medium.com/bloc-posts/creating-slack-command-with-a-...

https://medium.com/@katyemoe/making-custom-slack-slash-comma...

Full disclosure: I built hook.io.
You may want a moped. And there are eletric powered mopeds as well (they aren't that expensive).
Maybe the lizard people were painting the art?
How George Hotz Plans to Beat Tesla and Google with His Robocar Startup
Clarification, for the benefit of the sibling comments: inflation screws the poor because

(1) the poor are most likely to be on either fixed incomes, or incomes where cost-of-living adjustments are substantially time-delayed relative to the increased cost of living, and

(2) they're least likely to have any sort of hedge against inflation or sudden shocks to the system, such as having a paid-off house, a fixed-rate mortgage, adequate savings to handle an emergency, or investments in assets other than plain ol' US Dollars That Only Come In On The First And Fifteenth.

The middle class weather inflation just fine -- they're likely to get yearly raises that outpace inflation, to have savings to be able to handle unexpected price increases, and to have at least some assets that keep up with inflation even if their liquid accounts don't. And the wealthy benefit from inflation, because their factories keep producing widgets but their labor costs go down relative to the price of widgets.
Honestly, I don't like to give advice about this. Due, in part to risks involved, and since I've been out of it for a couple years, I don't really feel qualified.

Everything you need is online but you'd have to find it for yourself and make decisions about the best way for you to do it.
I had an interview at Blue Origin a few years ago. Very driven group of people. I wasn't the right fit for the position, we both agreed, but it was a great experience. If you're into spaceflight, I would definitely recommend checking them out.
This is a forum focused on the startup community. The difference between the merely-useful and the truly-marketable has been discussed ad nauseum on these pages, as that difference makes and breaks many startups.
Reading "serverless" and "powered by AWS" in the same sentence. Click bait headline. Amazon Lambda is a managed service, but not serverless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Lambda
But events are mostly expensive and waste of money as author notes. Few barely make a profit.
"Its almost laughable to me these days that an amazing company like netflix can only charge 5 dollars in america while in china people are spending insane amount of money online for really simple services."

I'm not sure where you get this impression. Online services in China are extremely competitive. Netflix is $8 per month in the US, or $10 per month if you want HD. Tencent video in China is 20RMB (~$3) per month. Most of their content is available for free if you don't mind ads.

Another comparison:

- Dropbox: 1TB for $99 per year.

- Baidu Yun: 5TB for $15 per year.