skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Value of Not Chasing Your Pay
Shouldn't it be more like:

(0. Are we solving a pain / is there a market)

1 - "Will anyone pay for it?

2 - "Can we build something"

3 - "Can we turn a profit on each unit?"

4 - "Can we grow profitably and eventually cover our fixed costs?"<br>
Because 911 was designed for ordinary landline telephones, before GPS existed, before computers existed. It's just a telephone call, not an app running on your phone.

Granted, it could rely on the software running on your phone to add information for the dispatcher, but not everyone has one, and not everyone who does has the same kind. And that's a good thing!

So it takes standardization, and government regulation. Standardization can work pretty well when there's a nice tight feedback loop with customers who are interested in the results (web browsers, for instance). How many telephone customers would switch phones based on the details of how well the phone supports 911-related features? It's not like we can test them without actually calling 911.

Government regulation can also work, provided you're willing to pay the costs: time and money. Lots of time, and lots of money. In fact, it costs so much for the government to regulate things like this that we end up in this exact situation. Phones have completely changed since the last 911 regulations were updated, requiring telcos to provide location information to 911 when the caller is using a mobile phone. It took years after that regulation was introduced before the telcos were compliant, and before all the local dispatch operations could use the information.

The same would happen today if new regulations were introduced requiring the phone itself to send this information; it would take years for anything to happen. (Though I bet Google and Apple could move faster than the telcos, they've certainly proved to be capable of that.)

And that's all ignoring the inaccuracy of GPS when inside of buildings, the time it takes for the phone to determine the location, etc.

Still, in spite of all of that, now is probably a decent time to start making those changes. It's been long enough since the last updates to the regulations, and new phones are capable enough now, that you'd have a decent chance of getting it done eventually.
Google tried precisely that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial.
A couple of suggestions based on recent (0.5.0+) Certbot features:

1. You can now do certbot certonly --post-hook "service XYZ reload" to run something if and only if certs were obtained / renewed. Or if you use the renew verb, you can use --renew-hook to get a callback for each renewed cert individually. See certbot --help renew for details.

2. You can set "quiet = True" to minimize output from the client (but see https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2990)
One trip to Walmart or a large, grocery store shows you how much the big companies can innovate. Actually, they do it even more than that but often do focus groups in a form of fail-early and fail-fast. The bad ideas get weeded out before they can soil the brand or dilute the earnings. What we see is what at least seemed to work. It then usually makes plenty of money.

Also, the big companies' innovation usually nets them tens to hundreds of millions in extra revenues or plenty of profit. They care about making money, not growth to sell out. Changes the nature of innovation considerably.
It's not exactly contour lines, but I made a site [0] that creates STL files from a global digital elevation model. You can select a region of the Earth and get a 3D printable file of its terrain. Might be close to what you're looking for!

[0] - http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/
Yet a lot of the tech startups seems to leave Pittsburgh once they reach the next level. (I seem to remember some vintage clothing startup thing as being the most recent casualty).

People might want to figure out why.
San Francisco's wooden victorian are very beautiful, it also has a lot of "western American port city" architecture in tact, as you say. Many of us find that beautiful compared to old European cities that have their own very different histories. "The most beautiful city in the world" is most definitely an exaggeration, but it definitely has its own charm.
Yes. Earth technology came from Keyhole, and you could buy it, or get it for free if you had an NVidia graphics card. It was really cool in 2003 to go flying over the earth.
A dozen years later, it's really about the same, but with a bigger imagery budget.
> But whatever happened to a sound business plan, an experienced team, and a sound business idea?

VC's won't fund that.
one manufacturer that did anticipate the 'death of desktop' was nVidia, as powering the "iPad killer", Pixel C.
Rank and file employees generally do not have to disclose their trades. I've worked at 3 public companies and never had to disclose to the government. At Merrill Lynch (and at other private investment houses), we did have to have ALL of our trades cc'd to the compliance desk, but that's a Wall St thing, not a government thing.
Wiener is really good on housing, much better than the Peskin group of Supes. Read his post when he came out against the Mission Moratorium to get a sense of his housing views:

http://www.scottwiener.com/more_affordable_housing_not_a_hou...

Alternatively, read his post on Medium titled, "Yes, Supply & Demand Apply to Housing, Even in San Francisco":

https://medium.com/@Scott_Wiener/yes-supply-demand-apply-to-...

> These trends are exactly why the supply-and-demand deniers pose such a significant challenge to actually fixing our housing problem. As we work hard to try to produce new housing — through market-produced housing, below-market-rate housing, new types of housing such as co-housing and micro-units, and more flexibility toward in-law units — we have a vocal and influential set of advocates pronouncing that we shouldn’t even bother to build market-produced housing, since, according to them, doing so won’t lower housing costs and may even raise housing costs. This argument, to the extent it succeeds, not only reduces the amount of housing produced in San Francisco but actually slows the production of below-market-rate housing, since market-produced housing, through our inclusionary housing program, is the most significant source of new affordable units coming online.
The kerosene-burning boosters really leave amazingly clear contrails. And the separation ballet is called Korolev's cross.
Counterexample: Goldman Sachs and Buffet's stuff. They hire and pay entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs, managers, and product developers. Many of their top people bringing in big dollars have attributes of all of these. Their job function just brings the money back to the parent company instead of a random investor. There's nothing about big companies that prevent entrepreneur-like activity within. Usually, just their management culture if anything.
Just curious: why do you think Philadelphia is a lost cause?
I'm working on a free LetsEncrypt expiration monitoring service https://letsmonitor.org, since the certs only last three months. The point of this is to get escalating messages via a third party when your cert is about to expire. It also checks the validity of the certs.
An excellent algorithm to know backwards and forwards.

It's one of those tools you always want to try first if you can assume a somewhat linear approximation will work.
Similar models exist in big business under the name of divisional organizations and matrix-style management. The latter is nowhere near as cool as it could be with some minor changes involving VR and AI's. Yet, it worked in real-world businesses well enough.
This reads more like an excuse then a reason. Nothing of what he says is a reason that prevents them from being more open.

All that he says is summarized in "it was too hard to think of a solution, so we didn't do it."
He also said in a recent podcast that Ruby 3 will likely take 2 to 3 years to complete so don't bet the future on it.
Reminds me of "Will the last person leaving SEATTLE -- Turn out the lights" in 1971, http://www.historylink.org/db_images/req094.JPG, during a Boeing bust in Seattle. How times have changed.
That's a nice, romantic point view of the world to have.

But the reality of the city's history and demographics is far more staid. And the people living there just want jobs, affordable housing, and better public transportation just like anywhere else. And streets that don't flood during storms, and air they can breathe.
This example doesn't make much sense, since adult baby food is one of the hottest food trends right now. It's usually packed in squeezable pouches rather than plastic containers, but other than that it looks like they were just ahead of their time.
No, it's a terrible article. It's factually wrong, and then it tries to explain, with parables and no real evidence, something that isn't even a problem - at least, not in tech.

I'm even not sure it's a problem in most industries. I suspect that companies that do the same thing over and over without any successful innovation are freakish exceptions, not the rule.

It would be far more useful to (e.g.) think about how to match innovations to the market, and how to create balanced corporations that include a working mix of all the so-called corporate life stages.
Hillary totally exposed through statement about Bill
> It has a pretty serious relationship to whether or not some haskell implementation has the ability to generation objects and libraries and binaries for it.

That's right. And as i just said, zero relationship to the question you keep failing to answer. Where are these multiple Haskell-to-readable-C implementations you tried to make up?

> And it does that.

So now you reversed your position again and you are claiming that Haskell can generate binaries for my system without knowing what my system is?

Keep it classy. I'll let you talk yourself in circles. You don't need me for that.

Start here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11708601

(Let me know if I have to read the thread back to you again).

So which is it going to be next? You did or you didn't claim that Haskell supports my platforms?

Inquiring minds want to know!
" that has given up on innovation. They've pursued the other strategy: buy it."

Writer claimed they were doing the opposite. Or am I misreading what you're asking? Did you mean to ask if buying something was itself an act of innovation as in other comments?
The title on HN is blatantly editorialized. The actual article title: "Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Procurement Consultants to Register as Lobbyists".
Or look at retail logistics and sourcing. Or big German car companies in the 90s, when they switched to common platforms that allowed more interchanging between models.
Intimacy never really made it on Social Media
The Jewish population in Iran is down nearly 95% in just the past two decades. And they the Ayatollah makes the real rules, the democratic side is largely for show.

I mean, this is a headline from just today out of Iran:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/world/middleeast/irans-har...
If it's possible, the government and eventually private companies will have access.
Well it's easy enough to transition into arrow and hamburger

ObjectAnimator arrowRotateAnim = ObjectAnimator.ofFloat(mDrawerArrowDrawable, "progress", 0.0f, 1.0f);

arrowRotateAnim.setDuration(Constant.NAV_ARROW_TIME);

arrowRotateAnim.start();

and vice versa on progress where mArrowDrawable is a DrawerArrowDrawable object. I set NAV_ARROW_TIME to 300 and it seems the same as what google has.
News announced shortly after May 16 22:00 UTC

Price pre-announcement: $454.48 USD

Price 2 hours after announcement: $453.64 USD

Change in price: -$0.84

Price difference: -0.0018%

So.. Not much.
Ask HN: Just how many developers am I competing against?
So I was looking at the stats for this npm module [1], and I was shocked to see:

440,000 downloads in the last day
8,177,477 downloads in the last week, and
33,166,896 downloads in the last month.

Granted, a developer can install a module many times for multiple projects, but still, millions of downloads in just a week makes me uneasy.

I am an independent contractor, and what with everybody calling for just about everybody else to "learn to code", just how many developers am I competing against for jobs?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob
"One of the most" is what I said, not "the most."
Only if they were not competing against other nation-states
Gilts have historically been there-or-thereabouts in terms of interest rate with respect to US Bonds.

Certainly in the last decade they are near indistinguishable.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/08/28/the-special-relatio...
The US doesn't fund terror groups so that they will commit acts of terror; it's usually much more complex of a relationship. I don't deny your claim, because it's true, but it has entirely different aims.
Facebook has had abuse from pages that got likes, and then later changed their title and purpose.
The whole point is that you shouldn't have to download a third-party app, it should already be a feature on your phone.

Analogous to how organ donation should be opt-out instead of opt-in.
Definitely twitter is entirely about who you follow. I tried it out early on, saw no value, and ignored it for a year or two, until a friend convinced me it has some value, and there are two uses I find.

I follow several programmers (some internet famous, some merely who I've found from using a project they worked on or someone else's retweet), and through that, find it interesting to get a glimpse at what other people are doing or finding challenging, or see when there's buzz around some new technology in my space.

The other thing I find it useful for is local updates in my (relatively small) city. Traffic updates, road closures, police activity, events, etc. The local public works and city hall accounts are surprisingly active and often useful. I also follow a handful of restaurants nearby the office: they often tweet lunch specials.

I follow exactly zero mainstream celebrities, never look at 'Moments', 'trending', etc -- I find those things full of crap I simply don't care about at all.
Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers (2008) [pdf]
Designed to Let Us Down, our deliberately frail cell phone system (2007)
I'm not sure what distinction you're making? "Too hard" is often a valid reason for not doing something.
From part 2 of this series: https://hbr.org/2012/10/how-big-companies-should-innovate

"If the antibodies already exist within your organization to destroy new endeavors, you need to go outside of the organization to overcome them."

Another option is to just fire or move employees that are resistant to change and innovation to other parts of the company where their resistance to change might be more helpful. I don't understand why this option is not considered or discussed.
React.js Best Practices and Tips from React.js Experts
浣腸!!!

I think that double-staves-off dementia.
The Other Legacy of the For-Profit College Boom
Having animals and colorful bricks is okay, so long as we're not in conflict with what is actually fun about what is being taught here...

Programming is fun because we can control the machine, and make it do things... magically, at our whim, with the right combination of instructions.

So compared to that, having a cat walk towards a barn seems like a completely irrelevant layer of entertainment forcefully tailored to the taste of the students, who at best are distracted from the real fun, or at worst presumed to be incapable of understanding why programming itself might be fun.

For all practical purposes HTML is a great place to start. Immediate output, can share it online, and it's easy. And easy to expand upon with CSS and Javascript and everything else. Also Processing is great for an art cs class. Not to mention both web development and computer graphics being two highly relevant skills in today's job market (thought that is thinking a bit ahead considering the ages here, but better relevant than sorry).
And, to the best of my knowledge, it has not been reviewed by experts. Platforms like this are notoriously difficult to build securely.

Not to mention, there are huge liabilities from a legal/securities perspective.
I disagree. Editorialized implies opinion. I don't think the fact that the bill is "transparency legislation" is an opinion. I think everyone agrees that's exactly what it's for. Whether it achieves it, is another question, and might worthy of a veto because it does not. But that's what it's trying to achieve.
> It's not all that effective

I find it perfectly effective: If you deny an app a permission, it doesn't get any information for that permission.

> some apps (like the Hue app) just crash if you deny them anything

That sounds like the app is badly implemented, really.

> Why didn't Android add the option to provide blank data to apps?

Because it's a completely new API and it shouldn't have to, apps should check the return code to see if the permission was denied or not.

Are you talking about denying permissions to apps that don't support the new-style permissions natively, perhaps?
The original example is gamefaqs introduction of edits. What is your shoe size?

11

Then the question changes to an age related question. What is the ideal age of a prostitute?
Ask HN: What if a SuperPAC sponsored a voting machine bug bounty program?
Instead of wasting all that money on campaign ads, why not pay to hack the voting machines until they're fixed?

If they spent as much money as they do now, they could offer obscene amounts.
Well put. That is one of the fundamental problems with the economy of the current tech startup boom. There is too much of a winner-take-all dynamic. From the VC's perspective, it doesn't matter whether the portfolio is 10 or 1000 companies, as long as you get that home run. But to each individual founder, it's the difference between a 1/10 and 1/1000 shot at success.

Staying at Facebook/Google/etc seems to be the way to go these days...
You could shine a laser projector on it to color it!
>But I'm seeing Apple struggling with keeping its current technology working as well as it has in the past

I find that mostly a myth. The original OS X (10.0.1 or something) was a terrible release. It took until 10.2 to be usable. The G3 iBooks had thousands upon thousands of broken logic boards. The G5 leaked green cooling goo. The Cube was overheating. Don't get me started on the quality of their mice until the Magic Mouse. And most OS X releases, with 1-2 exceptions (Snow Leopard for one) were met with complaints and tales of horror (In fact El Capitan has been a big success in this regard -- hardly many complaints as with previous versions). XCode has been especially crappy before 6 (and doubly so before 4).

There will always be problems when you make tens of millions of devices and 100+ software titles, including 2 full OSes, a programming language, browser, down to NLEs and DAWs...

There might be more complaints today, but there are also 20x more Apple users than in 2005, and 10x more advanced ecosystem. Back then we discussed rumors for months and we cheered if the newly released iPod had cutting-edge features like a "color screen" (awe) or "video playback" (gasp).

Now we expect a fully working phone, a top notch compact camera, 4k video, retina display, 1.000.000+ apps in the app store, 4-5 different sensors, quick 3D graphics, fingerprint sensors, wi-fi, light on battery bluetooth 4, and tons more besides, which we take for granted, merely 9 years after then.
Yes, unless you refuse to admit it and instead claim that security is improved by obscurity you chose to engage in.
Linguistic purism in English
The End of the End of the World
What if you answered "Si!" but you couldn't read the article?
The Politics of Genetics, Virtual Reality, and a Sound Castle in New Jersey
Couldn't you use server linux distro with your user's shell set to a BASIC interpreter?
Security Fraud in Europe's “Quantum Manifesto”
Dot-com party madness (2000)
Can you promise that
Too close and too inferior to NYC, DC (so great stuff just goes there instead -- Philadelphia would be ok relatively if it were in the midwest or south). Odd mix of expensive (city taxes and other costs) but lacking redeeming value. It's not Camden or Baltimore, but not great. UPenn, while a solid standalone university, isn't as integrated into a startup culture as even CMU, and certainly not as much as Columbia/NYU, themselves vastly less so than Stanford.

Legacy infrastructure, corruption, costs.

Lots of big biotech/pharma/etc. companies to sustain it and crowd out tech -- sort of the same problem as NYC (finance) and DC (Government).
Because if voting mattered, they would not let us vote.
If anything's messed up, then that would be my doing.

I thought at first that some of the words in the piece were distorted as a joke about undefined behavior, but as I look at the source, I think something is just broken with the custom fonts.

If signed overflow were defined, then 12 * i + 8 would have to have correct overflow behaviour for 32-bit values and so this trick couldn't be done.

I feel like this misses the difference between "undefined" and "implementation defined". Despite the example given, those of us (like me) who complain about compilers removing safety checks rarely claim that signed 32-bit ints must have guaranteed behavior on overflow. Overflowing might be easiest, if that's what the hardware does naturally, but it doesn't have to be defined to do this.

In our minds, it would be just fine for the compiler to generate an "add" instruction and let the registers fall where they may. What we object to is the compiler's reasoning that since "undefined behavior can be presumed not to occur, I'll just delete this spurious NULL check that the programmer accidentally put here".

Granted, there are cases where a compiler can take proper advantage of such optimizations, but it's emphatically not the case that the only alternative to the current "nasal daemon" approach is disabling all loop optimizations. Simply changing "undefined" to "implementation defined" would satisfy a majority of the objections.
Apple's trying to keep people happy, but they keep freaking out.
That's been my experience with big companies entirely, which is another reason I raise an eyebrow and silently call "bullshit" when I hear people earnestly going on about the importance of negotiation. How the hell are you going to negotiate when there is no chance you will meet anyone with the power to give you what you want?
It's not usually the startups having non-competes which are the problem -- it's the previous bigco employers of people startups want to hire, or people who want to found startups.
Beware survivor bias! Few people bother telling the stories where their gut was boringly wrong. That's going to make it hard even to gather data about yourself. I would say "listen to your gut" is a dangerous lesson to take from this anecdote.
The Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive
The "league" has billion dollar revenue, multi million dollar coaching salaries, enormous capital expenditures, and more. They are not "break even."

If in fact you believe that student athletes are not exploited to an unconscionable degree, here is just a little educational material to get you started.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-sham...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1591846323/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_TTMo...

https://youtu.be/pX8BXH3SJn0

http://time.com/3586037/exploitation-is-everywhere-in-mens-c...

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/four-years-a-student-a...

http://www.thenation.com/article/ncaa-poster-boy-corruption-...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2016/02/21/does-ncaa-...

And I'm not alone calling it slave labor. I'm just one in a massive chorus.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ncaa+slavery&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...
The Salesforce one is the best. They're off the planet.
Automatic Labs. lays off 28% of its workforce, aims for profitability in 2017