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Hipster Domain Finder was created by HN user bramgg. Three months ago he posted looking for someone to take over.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10861715

Being a big fan of silly domains, I had already started working on reviving it before I saw that thread.

It's open source, you can find the code here:
https://github.com/djh-/hipster-domain-finder
Well arq 4 was slow, but now arq 5 is much faster, uploading at 10MB/s from my macbook over wifi to amazon cloud drive.
I think the question of where the "next" silicon valley will be is the wrong question; the question of where is way less significant than the question of what.

I don't think the next hub of cultural and economic significance is necessarily going to be about what we think of as startups, it will probably be something that doesn't even register with most people today.
That was true in 1964. It was no longer true around 1974. Because people like me bought those records ( ten years before I did this ) and learned how to play off of them.

That's part of why Tedesco was much less employed and Hal Blaine was working as a ... security guard(?).

Lumpy on the beginner guitar newsgroup (alt.guitar.beginner) wore out Ovations for a living at some time around then.
To everyone proposing places like Nashville and Dallas - do you have any idea what it's like being a not-white person outside of the major coastal cities?

It's a miserable experience. You go from seeing a lot of people who look like you in the industry of your choice, to being one of a token few. Food and grocery options go from omnipresent to something you have to hunt down. The way you lead your life goes from something you take for granted to a difference that you must confront at every turn.

Good luck building the next Silicon Valley in a place that is not welcoming to multiculturalism.
I think you've nailed it with regards to Atlanta--I quite like Atlanta and have a lot of friends there (when DragonCon rolls around I stay an extra 3-4 days on each side of it to hang out with my local friends too), and I'd love to move there except I would almost have to have a car.

Dallas is a little different in that its suburbs are fairly dense, but you have to go there, and...car again. And, for me, life is way, way nicer without a car.
I wouldn't associate "red state culture" and a particular city in that state together. Remember, Austin is a city in Texas.... The 4 major cities in Texas in fact are either well mixed or liberal (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio).
I hardly move my car on the weekends, get around just fine. My current job I have to commute by car (actually I could ride the train technically...), but many people walk/use public transportation. There is even an entire underground tunnel network between most of the buildings downtown...

Also, what is your definition of a "top university"? Ivy?

Also fun fact...Dallas has the largest public transit system in the nation as far as length of track.
Unfortunate name collision: https://redex.racket-lang.org
This entire post is just PR spin. I looked for substance. Couldn't find any. Exactly the sort of response I should expect from a company as awful as claimed in the book.

In 'Disrupted' Dan claims the company is cultlike, ageist, sexist, and whiter than a Klan meeting. The book argues HubSpot is cruel and the management engages in childish as well as grossly abusive behavior. In the postscript even criminal behavior is alleged. I'm not sure whether Dan is a reliable source (and he certainly has his share of character flaws), but the book is utterly damning of HubSpot as a company. Unless HubSpot figures out how to counter some of the claims their reputation is (perhaps irredeemably) tarnished.
How about Qt bindings to other languages? Last I checked for Python (like 4 years) ago, the biggest problem I had was with licence (GPL). But yeah, compared to Python, using C++ also gives me system threads which might come handy every now and then for CPU intensive stuff.
* level 1 — command & response

Functions?

* level 2 — hard-coded conversation flows

Scripts?

* level 3 — fuzzy/continuous/fluid state.

Threading?

I can't shake the feeling that deep learning is being shoehorned into a bot with a specific purpose (ShoeBot, etc). Talking to a ShoeBot, I would expect it to have predictable responses or state changes. I don't want it to suddenly infer that I'm looking for shoes for my wife because of an opaque model it's formed from an insufficient set of training data. Many applications of deep learning seem to be just a lazy way to have the machines do the work automagically.
It's a normal employment clause, don't freak out. Just fix it. Tell them that you would like your own projects excluded and your agreement should exclude your own personal projects as long as you inform them in writing of what those projects are.

It's not something to be appalled about. They aren't trying to be evil overlords.
Thanks for sharing that. Awesome!
> I've never heard of anyone opposing nuclear plants while promoting coal plants

That's exactly what people are supporting when they oppose nuclear power. Rejecting nuclear doesn't provide power, so it's a de facto vote for staying with the status quo of coal.

Until solar/wind can operate fully without a natural gas backup, it's still vaporware for the base load. Maybe that will change in the future, and solar/wind should obviously fill some (non-base load) power generation needs, but until that happens we generate power with either nuclear or carbon. Pick one or other; not choosing leaves the choice to the market which is always going to choose whichever is cheaper, which is coal because they externalize the cost to human health and the environment.
Seems like a great product! Our inhouse flagging system is painful to use when applying features en-masse, and makes "fast" rollbacks virtually impossible. That, and other reasons, make this seem like a good alternative.

What's the flow like for a developer creating their own environment? I'm a little concerned that asking developers to visit a third party site/be connected to the internet to use feature flags locally be pretty inconvenient, especially if the developer is working offline. Would you consider adding a simple server implementation that could run locally and do feature flagging on a per user basis (rather than rolling out to percentages, to prevent misuse)?
Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it?
Well, I concede that HN is not the forum for in depth debate. I do think your image of who visits this forum is a bit narrow though. Two data points speaking against it, you, and me.

In any case if you'd like an in depth economic analysis of how the Internet actually did change everything that might challenge your view you might appreciate The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Bekler.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page
Yes absolutely, sir.
I'll second that I found it strange that the brutal Pittsburgh weather wasn't mentioned. CMU, Cornell and MIT have an awfully hard time competing for graduate students in CS when the visit days have to be late March or early April (there can be nearly a sixty degree Fahrenheit difference once you include wind chill).
>Worst case, we'll learn something

we might learn something, but we have to use resources for studying and there might just be better and/or more useful alternatives
NYC and Chicago, but not Boston? You can live without a car very comfortably in the parts of the Boston metro connected by the T; in the old town and Cambridge, you're actively better off without a car. But I wouldn't bet on Boston becoming more of a startup hub than the modest extent to which it already is; it's too expensive...
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Are you sure? Wikipedia[1] seems to indicate it at least got into a beta, but it also implies that the domain was what was reused for the bitcoin exchange, not the code base. That said, the references on wikipedia point to the Internet Archive, which shows a placeholder page that says it's in beta, but there's little there to indicate there was ever anything working. It also says it was used to advertise another card game later, but that was just a link to another domain.

I guess that's a long-winded way of saying you are probably right.

Then again, bitcoins were worth so little in 2010 that I could imagine the account security on exchanges back then being comparable to hobbiest exchange sites, so the spirit of the comment may be valid even if the specific example falls down. :/

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Founding
To be fair, the presence of Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh is one of the cornerstones of the essay.
I haven't needed an IDE in Rust. The auto-generated documentation is usually good enough for all my needs. However, C++ is pretty awful without an IDE, because you can easily end up with deep object hierarchies, usually with two files per object.

It's also nice to just tab to your terminal and do `cargo run` and get your code compiled out of the box. Writing a decent makefile (or whatever else you plan to do) for C++ is comparatively quite a hassle.
Thank you for the encouragement and kind words. (feel free to up vote it fwiw)

I'm hoping to keep it as lightweight/simple as possible (node/socket)
and try out some Progressive Web principles (https://addyosmani.com/blog/getting-started-with-progressive...)
I thought that was a solid response, take ownership of some of the more egregious things, re-contextualize some of the impressions. But I was pretty amazed at the 12.6% annual turnover? That is 126 people a year, it would be interesting to know the mean and median tenure length. Its very expensive to replace that many people a year.
Bingo. The farther suburbs are fairly conservative, midwesternish in culture. Though the areas you mentioned (SqHill, Shadyside etc.) provide enough of a cool college-town vibe to perhaps be sufficient as a nucleus to attract (or rather, keep) the young college graduates required for general optimism... not just startups.
I tried the quiz and scored about 4/8. I'm probably a little more permissive in letting people express their opinions if it means they dig their own holes.

I know nothing of this soccer caper but aside from the last sentence, it seems like a fairly typical rant. But why do they publish Mourinho-loving dross? :)

If they genuinely want to clean up their comments section, eliminate the professional trolls. e.g. On any politics story the same faces appear, seemingly plucked from university debating teams. It doesn't matter what ridiculous position is being argued as long as they cheered for their side and smeared the other mob. Most voters have leanings but don't have a "team" per se and simply want good policy.
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I think Rust will teach you out of the box a lot more about concepts of ownership and lifetime, i know i learned a lot from Rust.
Well, I do stand corrected then. Thanks :)
I don't and as far as I know my family doesn't - I wouldn't have tried LSD if I did (I was already nervous enough even without the additional risk). In general I'm pretty stable.

Given all the data I could find it seemed that the majority of people have positive experiences and only a minority have the trouble that I had, but it's possible that it's underreported - either way the risk is real.

I've never tried shrooms, but from what I read the risk there seems similar.
I for one "treat the people starting these little restaurants and cafes as your users" in SF and I can tell you, the permitting process is not the biggest problem.

It's costs.

Commercial rents have skyrocketed. Moreover, residential rents have skyrocketed to the point where few people in the service industry can afford to live in SF at market rates. Even if you can find a space, how are you going to staff it? Who's willing to commute in from Oakland (which is getting expensive too) for a low wage job with grueling hours?

Nopa, one of the most successful SF restaurants in the past 10 years, is posting job ads for cooks on their menus now.

This isn't because of a slow permit process. Nopa hasn't applied for a permit in years. It's a result of the macroeconomic effects of a tech boom. So while I'm very happy to see PG highlight macroeconomic factors that foster economic growth in cities, I see a missed opportunity to fully address their complex effects.

This is probably because this issue has been politicized here in SF, with the tech industry often lambasted for "destroying" the city (this comes from a lot of the people getting pushed out), so tech folks often get hyperdefensive and contort themselves trying to point fingers elsewhere. I think that's what's happened here with PG trying to blame the government's permitting process.

But clearly if we want to continue making SF an attractive startup hub, we need to help "little restaurants and cafes" continue to open and operate. And the elephant in the room there is quite simply the high rents and high cost of living for workers in the service industry, driven by a huge influx of wealthier residents competing for space. You want a startup hub, you need city policies that manage that growth.
> The "next valley" will be highly decentralized and a lot of big cities will act as innovation hubs.

I would like it if you were right, but I think you are discounting the critical factor of being able to be face-to-face with somebody. I live and work in Boston, and while it's not SF, I am within a forty-five minute public transit ride of most of my clients and almost everybody from whom I could conceive of needing a favor or an intro. Meeting a potential investor at a coffee shop because they had a few minutes and you happened to be in the area is the sort of thing you don't get with distributed communities, and as much as the I find the Valley to be personally kind of odious, that's an unmistakable advantage.

And this is a problem that technology, hype to the contrary, doesn't seem ready or able to fix. Video chat is not a solution. It may never be a solution. Being able to sit down and talk to somebody is not replaced by talking at a screen (and while I love the current crop of VR tech, I think it will be as effective as Second Life in terms of meaningful telepresence).
True, cost is a factor -- But that 30K number is if you purchase your own panels and equipment, and hire out all the labor. (FWIW, I spent about 18K on a 7kw system 18 months ago.) Also, that 10 year ROI assumes a linear progression of electric costs, which is speculative, and could go either way... but with the way trends are going, I wouldn't bet on coal coming back as a primary fuel source if fracking either gets banned, or in a couple years when the faster depletion of horizontal wells becomes more of a factor.

On the other hand, there are also multiple companies now offering lease programs that don't require a large initial payment. Pros/cons to that, as with everything.

But the other big problem is regulatory - if you want a grid tie-in (which almost all the leasing options require), cities often have a maximum amount of solar they will allow. And there are valid engineering reasons for this, but the real blocker to wide adoption of solar on single family residences, in the long term, will not be the cost, but the engineering of the grids, and the resulting regulations.
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Nashville is less white than Seattle. And Seattle seems to be doing pretty well.
A computational chemistry program I know uses at least four external libraries which rely on assembler for their kernels (BLAS, FFT, small matrix multiplication, and scalable matrix diagonalization). That provides a factor of several over Fortran, often running on petascale systems. The economics work in such cases, at least; Fortran-callable scientific subroutine libraries are one of the more successful examples of code re-use.
Oh, that's an insight I've never thought about. It never occurred to me that they had different purposes.
That last fact is a negative. You maximize track miles by having sprawl connected with trains. That's not what you want. Number of riders per mile of track is a much better metric.
That's definitely an important consideration. From what I've heard, Raleigh-Durham RTP actually has had a huge influx of immigrant engineers, and so is more diverse than one would expect from the South.

Shame about their recent legislative decisions, though.
Paul Graham is giving deadly advice for maintaining housing affordability. Those cute historic building become an albatross around a city's neck in a hurry once a lot of people start moving in.
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Well, you've described the items on my dream list perfectly, but it's quite the antithesis of my girlfriend's list. Her list includes:

- calm, peaceful nights

- suburban house with a yard and a dog

- a comfortable car and well-kept roads

- internet good enough to stream Netflix

- quality local universities that offer tuition scholarships

Unmarried 18-30 year olds are quite a diverse bunch.
I am not sure of that. The financial system is built to absorb expected losses. Where things go really wrong is when a big loss occurs where it was not expected. A lot of senior tranches in subprime RMBS had AAA ratings, which made then eligible for safe, low yielding portfolios. Banks could also pile them up on the balance sheet because the RWA footprint was really small given the rating. And that's why when it went "bang" it really hurt.
I have been living in Singapore for the last 7 years and the peoples discontent has had some effect in the last few years. They have been increasing the requirements for foreign labour every year for the last few years. Very high property prices resulted in a similar curbs on foreigners buying residential properties etc.
So people do have the power to bring change even in Singapore as far as changing the ruling party to some other is not going to happen any time soon.
I was resonding to the idea that people were still using Polaroids for tests on big shoots, not using it for their primary medium. (To my knowledge, only the Type 55 pos/neg was ever really used as a "conventional" film, though there were several people using pull-aparts such as 669 for one-off "fine art" transfer prints. Yes, other Polaroids were used for their particular look, often rephotographed for reproduction. But for the most part, it was all about the "instant", whether that was for mementos, home-made porn or Polachromes for putting together a quick presentation for the boardroom.)
MarkMonitor perhaps? Google and Facebook both use MarkMonitor as the registrar for their primary domains. Might be more than $100 per domain though.
agreed! The starwisp paper is really very nice.
Looks like a lot of schema migration talk here. Out of curiosity does anyone have production experience with lazy migrations for serialized data? Where your model migrations exist as code: an array of functions that convert one version of the model schema to the next. The schema version is encoded into the data. The migrations are lazy because the model is fast forwarded its latest version at the last possible moment, when the code reads the serialized model. I know Braintree does this with Riak. Anyone else?
My aunt and uncle live in Dallas, and I could imagine if I moved there I would just make sure to be near a Dart station. Like others have said, it is fairly comprehensive for a commuter rail line.
That money typically first flows into research universities.
I've lived in small towns in Texas, and I've only found good natured people. Small town life is different. It's a little bit slower, I never had to deal with traffic, and I could drive anywhere in town in 5 minutes. But even my medium sized hometown (pop 60,000) stocked vegan cupcakes in the town bakery. Maybe it's not as progressive as Austin, but I don't appreciate how everybody else in the world writes it off as a joke.

I'm sure the evil bigots living somewhere, but I don't know where.
That, right there, is a damning indictment of your understanding of modernist design and art. Visual communication achieved acclaim because it prioritized functionality over decoration and did so with the tools of reduction and abstraction. Art achieved acclaim because it prioritized the idea over the object.

As an aside, your tone makes you sound like a puerile weasel.
> Also, what is your definition of a "top university"? Ivy?

Great, well-known, research CS university. Think Stanford, Berkeley, etc. In Texas there's UT and to some extent Rice... neither in Dallas.
>communication achieves acclaim because it fails to communicate

I'm not sure that's the point. I think the MITP logo communicates plenty - just not the letters MITP.

But then the MITP itself is redundant. Once you know a book is from MITP, you'll know it's from MITP whenever you see the logo.

Meanwhile the logo includes a selection of visual puns and allusions - machine rhythms, digital precision and predictability, books on a shelf, book pages, and so on.

It's not that modernism is ambiguous, it's that modernism has consistently tried to move past literal single-view single-meaning interpretations to condensed abstractions that suggest multiple views simultaneously.

It's actually about implying and suggesting as much as possible with as little as possible.

This is fine as far as it goes, but you now have a problem - instead of making a single straightforward statement that can be read by almost anyone who's literate, you're relying on a viewer's ability to read an abstraction in a way that makes sense of at least some of the same associations.

If you do this properly, you've packed in a lot more information, at the cost of making it inaccessible to many viewers.

It's now more visual haiku than plain talking, and it only works for some of the potential audience.

What happens next is worse. You have a situation where less adept talents claim to be able to pack in meaning when really they don't. They produce a cargo cult knock-off of a successful design, they decorate it with explanations written in text in a supporting document to sell it, but they don't truly manage to include the allusions they claim to be including.

This is where modernism stops working. You get something that's really just been converted back into a single-view statement or object in a naive and superficial way, and it completely fails to have the depth of a genuine rich abstraction.

It looks minimal, but it's all surface and imitation with no creative compression. That's when the communication stops and you have something that's likely to be annoying and useless, and probably ugly too.
Detroit fits the bill on the whole lots of old buildings that were once built when the city was rich but then turned poor. You can buy a 6 bedroom placial estate in Indian Village for $350,000 and live next to estates once owned by the Fords and the Dodges, etc.

It's near a world class University (UMich) and has an abundance of office space, mostly owned by Dan Gilbert. The challenge is that it's just not that safe of a place once you venture outside of the protected downtown bubble and public transit is dismal. It's becoming a refuge for artists and free thinkers priced out of Brooklyn, seeking space that still retains it's edginess and grit. The problem is what they're bringing is aimed at the new Detroit urbanites and don't really help solve problems for all of the other normal working class folks in Detroit.

Disclaimer: I live in the Bay but spent a lot of time in Detroit over the last few years when my SO was doing a residency in Clinton Township in the Detroit suburbs. She would vehemently disagree with me on my assessment and sees a frontier spirit emerging there.
I'd rather my adblocker deal with these instead of my browser.
Maybe, but Plano, at least, looks like car country to me. I used to live on the end of one of the better commuter rail lines in the country. I still needed a car, and I hated it.