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There's tons of very simple problems in the world, and tons of people who would be willing to solve them, if only they could get paid for that. That's the limiting factor, not skills.
It really is. There is nothing more to say than the fact that small business owners can't afford to have a dedicated delivery service when they know demand is near 0 in some hours and through the roof in another.

I'm curious though--will small business owners bother to implement this in their website, or isn't it easier for someone else (Uber, or its competitor) to do it for them?
Podcasts are hot right now. Big Money is coming. Big Money isn’t going to sell nicely designed, hand-crafted, RSS-backed podcast players for $2.99 or ask you to pay what you want to support them, because that doesn’t make Big Money. They’re coming with shitty apps and fantastic business deals to dominate the market, lock down this open medium into proprietary “technology”, and build empires of middlemen to control distribution and take a cut of everyone’s revenue.

Hats off to that guy for succinctly summarizing why we can't have nice things.
The most important thing to have when a job is lost is a network of people you can tap into to help you find another job. Sans having a robust network you can always try the apply and pray approach of job boards and other online platforms.

Frankly, companies like to hire people who already have jobs. It mitigates risk in their approach to hiring people. If someone has been somewhere for a while and has held that job then they must be reliable and employable.

Even with the market cooling off there are still high costs for employers to hire people. I'm part of a startup that is relaunching a platform for developers to get paid to hear job offers. If you are interested in being a part of the relaunch feel free to sign up. http://www.joinjune.com
So networking, "grabbing coffee" with investors and talking to potential acquirers are a waste of time, yet YC insists that startups go to one of the most expensive place in the world just because it's more convenient to to those three things.
As far as I know, Gabor filters show up in all kinds of multi-layered models, even in unsupervised ones. Gabor filters are quite canonical.
Sure, it's a spectrum. But it's a very lopsided one -- there's a huge mass of people over at the "100% user" side of the spectrum, and a long, thin tail out towards developer.
Nothing useful to add other than thanks for the great library. I've been using Celery for years, it's made my life demonstrably better.
Most of the criticism seemed to be centered around communication/PR so statistics don't really address that. Definitely important when considering a provider though.

While the numbers are nice, if some outages only impact a subset of customers and your monitoring accounts aren't one of them it's hard to determine how good your monitoring data really is. If he was impacted by a 12 hour outage and you only show ~2 hours that's a really significant difference.

I guess it really depends on how you monitor and how comprehensive it is. Do you monitor from multiple ISPs on different network paths in multiple regions/countries? Do you monitor each of the services under different load conditions and monitor multiple accounts? Sometimes "up" only tells part of the story.
Actually the 89 earthquake did a surprisingly small amount of damage to the bay area (in SF primarily the marina and small but significant damage to the bay bridge; outside it was the cypress structure and much of downtown santa cruz).

In addition, the reconstruction was spread over a long period (for example they haven't finished with the bay bridge).
Desktop computers are extremely relevant to people who do anything more than passively consume entertainment and participate on social networks. Mobile touch screen devices are next to useless for creating content.

Also, speaking of desktops, don't forget laptops.
Strange, I remember it being there just a few months ago when someone posted it.
This is an excellent area that could really help! Any pointers on where to start researching?
Yep, their H1B applications confirm that.

http://www.jobsintech.io/immigration_companies/netflix/salar...

500k for Research Engineer Manager.
Except SF ran a deficit of 100M last year despite record revenue. Youd never know they have billions more than just s few years ago, the streets are in a shameful condition, homeless situation is quite bad, and public transit is a joke. They're doing a terrible job of managing their money.
>We've made offers to candidates that have been very comparable to that, but only if you include stock

I don't.
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Hmmm. I would have thought it'd be for other merits? Like a better TCP stack, kqueue, first-class ZFS support, etc.
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Relatively easily. Really. Your solution is for ordinary non technical people to become development managers and hire someone they don't know to do something they don't understand at their own financial risk.
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Who cares if it's old news. It's important nonetheless. Damn news addicts. :)
got a 30mbit VDSL connection and UMTS for safety.

But I'm also working from my GFs home (30mbit VDSL).

all connections have an uptime of 99% of the year. but since I'm not working 99% of the year and using different connections I never met any downtime.
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I was going to post a similar comment. I kind of think the "Don't try" strategy is worth highlighting, because... it kind of points out how silly it is to worry about failure.
The American patent system is a dead weight drag on the American software economy. The quality of software patents is atrocious, and the value of the tiny fraction of good patents in this space does not make up for the Billions lost to trolls and the costs of administering the system.
I'm curious if they'd take a similar position about using phone calls/SMS or any non-encrypted HTTP communication to UK which are 100% being intercepted.
We use t-SNE for the projection! We do mention it somewhere in there. Could maybe be more clear

The sequences of emoji we ended up glossing over here (difficult balance making these concepts as accessible as possible). In the app we can beam search to predict combos, just as you would in sequence to sequence learning. That's not demo'd on the live website though.
I guess what I'm confused about is the "waiting for the result" in the parent comment. Celery is pretty much entirely fire-and-forget, and you're usually firing to an entirely different server. If this is being used to achieve parallelization instead of asynchronous processing, then it's no wonder that the parent is having trouble, because they're using Celery for a task for which it's wholly inappropriate.
> which may adversely affect the performance [..] on Bloomberg.com

"If you notice your browser performing better than usual, and the site being more responsive, please try disabling your ad blocker to remedy the issue."
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But the interest rates can stay low indefinitely; the Fed is determined to keep it that way because of how many people depend on home value. Even moving short-term rates to 0.25% is met with shock.
In 1994 I did contract work for a serious businesses that ran commercial pay-for-click information website that ran fabulously on Linux, 1.2.x kernels.

Since I first started using Linux in 1993 (0.99 patch level 12), it has always been a functioning kernel.
The networking is the personal insurance policy by your cofounders against startup failure. The people connections built during networking events will land these cofounders leadership/management positions at other companies if and when startup fails instead of being unemployable or starting at the bottom. The founders, typically technical co-founders, that don't network has no such insurance in place and tend to go back to work for someone else as software engineer rather than upper level technical management positions like VP Engineering.
I disagree. Sounds perfectly fine to me. What do you think is wrong about the sentence?
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Windows is still the desktop OS for the majority because you can't walk into Best Buy or Frys and buy a Linux laptop or desktop. There was a small window with the early netbooks, but that's it. My kingdom for the ability to walk into Frys and buy Dells XPS 13 with Ububtu.
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Thanks! I'm saving this comment for its general applicability to, unfortunately, anything.
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The US tries to keep its surveillance secret. Seems to me that this makes it unlikely that they'll backdoor apps, because random hackers might reverse engineer the apps and discover and publicize the backdoors. Instead, the US backdoors communications lines and data centers, or uses existing security holes to break into targets.

China doesn't keep its surveillance a secret. They don't go out of their way to publicize it, but they don't seem to care if people know it's there. A backdoor in an app would fit their style better.
> A major challenge in podcast monetization is the complete lack of data: listeners still download MP3s and that’s the end of it; podcasters can measure downloads, but have no idea if the episode is actually listened to

That's not exactly true. Marc Maron always encourages his listeners to use his offer code (often "wtf") to get discounts. Surely they have data on that.
For the record I agree with you but existing customers who are heavily invested in AWS would find it difficult to vote with their dollars.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ycombinator/comments/4n6vcv/y_combi...
Airspace is regulated federally in most countries, but what you can build on the ground is almost always local in regulation.

You might be allowed to fly overhead without he city being able to do much about it, but you won't be able to land or take off.

(And to be honest, if the city complains to the federal regulators regarding noise, they almost always listen - almost every airport in a town has strict noise-reducing approach patterns for this reason already.)
"I’ve started four companies in the past with a mixture of exits and bankruptcies, so I understand that this is what startups are supposed to do, [...]."

As someone completely unfamiliar with the world of startups, this sentence baffles me. If this describes your track record, how do you even get funding? Obviously I'm not an investor, but this sentence alone is a massive red flag.
For as much as I like this article it really sells Ford as an industrialist short. He had two policies/practices in his business life that we seem to have forgotten of late.

1. His ideas about pay are antithetical to how a lot of businesses run today. For ford turn over was bad, really bad, and paying his workers MORE meant that he could retain them and their skill. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story... --- This is the opposite of how walmart runs, and how we produce goods.

2. The amount of vertical integration he undertook, and the businesses it created. His amazon adventure was about securing rubber, and he had some other interesting offshoots as well, like kingsford charcoal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsford_(charcoal)
http://i.imgur.com/RSEqcN6.png
People commenting here apparently haven't read the comment @cremno linked to:

> Lots of things inside Windows emit ETW events, which is Windows equivalent of DTrace (basically the entire OS, and .NET), it's super useful for debugging performance related events. It's not "Telemetry" like Google Analytics, it's for _you_ to debug your own programs.
The easiest way to view the output of them is via WPA, you can watch some videos about it at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652077
It's always a good idea to save, but if you get fired in the US do you not get unemployment benefits?

I've been laid off in Austria before (a few years ago, the company I worked for downsized about half its workforce around ~2010) & was IIRC entitled to unemployment benefits for about half as long as I worked there (ended up finding a new job before the benefits ran out).
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Execs, Managers, etc. should be sent to jail when they break the law deliberately.
Fines are not enough as if the benefit of breaking the law is higher than the fine, then there is no incentive to stop.

We've seen that happening with all the big corp cartels that just provision money from those benefits to pay the eventual fine.

The fact that the French Law here may be bad or wrong is not relevant to this point.
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Podcasting right now seems to working wonderfully. It's one of the most expensive ways to advertise. If it's not broken don't fix it. Tracking and the targeting didn't save online advertisment, it won't safe podcasting.
The simple use of the term "IP" goes against your goal.
All these things we call "IP" are mostly unrelated to the notion of "property" itself ; they're related to temporary government-enforced monopolies.

This simplistic view as a "property", which is a very familiar notion for most of us, confuses people into thinking that they could, and should be able to "own", for example, a joke, an idea for a business, or any kind of idea, the same way they can today own their car or their house.

The law is way more complicated than that, and by default, ideas can't be owned (and for that matter, can't be "stolen" either).
I don't think we want this to change.
However, it might be desirable to get this into peoples' mind.
No matter what you do, you always need to have a rate limiter / DOS mitigation for your login APIs / pages.
I'm aware of incidents of the government deleting my posts and messages. When students in Hong Kong were having a riot over I believe last summer I sent messages and posts, privately and publicly.

My public posts on my discovery wall were removed and my private messages were also deleted. My fiance also noticed lots of generic pro-government messages in her feed at the time.

I don't believe there is a back door, just a connected office.
They could do some kind of drone and do all the safety checks regularly before dispatching them, perhaps. Then the people doing the checks only need to be at the site. Maybe also allow remote control that can take over in emergencies and keep a few pilots around for that.

That said, convenient landing spots may not exist for many trips, so I have no idea what a good use case would be for this kind of thing.
Not sure what you mean about raising the watch and scrolling. On the Apple watch you get a series of short buzzes for a left turn and long buzzes for a right turn. There's no looking, scrolling, or dismissing necessary.
https://bycontrast.co/ is just a "hello world", is there a normal site for that
Which is it: selfishness is "learned", or selfishness is the product of thinking. Could the same article have the headline below?:

"Sharing Is Stupid: We tend to be cooperative when we think too little"
Yes it can, language models can generate phrases that have not been seen before. Karpathy's RNN post is a pretty good intro to how that works http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
> Stitcher is thought to be the 2nd most popular podcast player, although it has long been controversial in some circles for its default practice of hosting podcasts itself (instead of directing users to download them directly from a podcaster’s server) and inserting ads.

Why would a consumer install such a program, when AntennaPod exists?
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Someone somewhere will always need your skills.
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>This is quite a bit different than, for example, the situation with Windows 10.

The situation is different; but the direction is the same.
> And you don't "own" software you buy and pay for once.

What else could ownership possibly mean at that point?

The thing that's missing from the app store isn't subscriptions, it's service contracts.

* I go down to the store and buy a toaster -- I now own that toaster. Now I don't expect the toaster to last forever, but if the toaster breaks or simply stops functioning after a year I have both contractual and legal recourse to have my toaster replaced or refunded.

* When I buy a Windows license I know that I am paying for a guaranteed X years of support.

* If I buy an app I'm paying for... well that's the thing, I don't really know. Some apps it's indefinite, some apps it's until the VC funding runs out, some apps it's until the dev is bored with the project, etc.. Worse, since apps are all thin clients now when that support ends the app is useless.

> What is moral is creating a system by which software developers can support themselves...

Don't kid yourself, no morality went into this decision from Apple's side or any Dev that chooses this monetization path. This is about what people think they can get away with.

I think the central point worth debating is this: A customer has a reasonable expectation that a one time purchase guarantees them that an app will continue to function and be maintained^1 for either the lifetime of the service or the lifetime of the device on which it runs^2.

^1 Not necessarily any new features, just continuing to function.

^2 Depending on whether the app is a service or not.
How is she connected to Theranos?
I don't really consider that to be the early adopter phase of OSX. If you go by the whole technological lifecycle theory that'd be the innovator phase (though realistically I think it was mostly just the most die-hard left of the old guard Apple fanatics).

To me it's when the Intel macs came along (10.4.4 I think) that new adopters really started picking up steam, but the ecosystem they helped build wasn't really there yet.

At least, that's my perception.
I believe you're talking about Elizabeth Holmes.
> The takeaway for me is that (yet) another website I entered personal information has leaked it - regardless of how this happened it further damages the trust I have for Twitter.

I..I don't think you did. Twitter wasn't hacked. It was most likely a totally unrelated piece of malware. Users that were infected most likely have all their passwords handed over to this hacker (which means there will be more leaks to come).

I mean if anything, this is a good case against using the Firefox/Chrome password storage mechanism (which is most likely where these leaked passwords came from).
Lots of people fly currently and there is seldom fatal loss of lift.
We're already sort of in that state now.

There a few podcast networks that have their own software but if you want good data on your listeners you're basically stuck between Blubrry & Libsyn and they're both severely outdated platforms. And you pretty much have to use iTunes.

I've been toying around with building my own open platform for podcast hosting/analytics for a while since I could use it for my own podcast and I have friends who would use it.
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This thread has the potential to become hilariously cringeworthy in a decade or so. I'll be checking back in five years to see if lightweight VTOL aircraft are still an idea that is "obviously stupid because we've tried it before and it didn't work".

My guess is that the progress in batteries and electric motors will have made this concept a lot more feasible by then. At some point it will be a completely obvious idea which will make us shake our heads at the skepticism it had before.
Already playing with devuan to get used to the jump I plan on making away from NSA/linux cough systemd/linux.

Oh RMS, how little they understand you...
> Theranos and, by extension, Jessica Livingstone [sic]

What's the connection between those two??

You don't think all women look alike, do you?
The corollary to this is also that if nobody likes your product, adding more features to it isn't likely to help. Lots of developers also fall into that trap.
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I'm not sure I follow your example. Why would a cleaning service use uber? The cleaner doesn't have a car, or the uber driver will also clean your house?

Edit - I see what you mean now, more companies will make physical service API's
Why the quarter delay in making the source available?
I'm currently working on an MMO that's in the same spirit but much less graphically ambitious. (2D 1980's "Arcade Space" -- especially vector graphics.) However, it's very ambitious non-graphically. Not only is there a procedurally generated universe of 2^100 locations, there will also be crafting involving a procedurally generated Tech Tree that's just as vast as the world. I'm also planning on incorporating user-scripting of most entities in-game and compiling those scripts to a format which can be subjected to Genetic Algorithms. The scripts and crafted items will be "productized" to be sold or licensed to other players with in-game currency. I currently have a server running on AWS, capable of supporting 70 players comfortably in the same instance, all at the same location. (You get O(n^2) when all ships are in the same location.)

The project is called "Emergence Vector."

https://www.reddit.com/r/gogamedev
Having worked through the 2001 crash and the 2008 crash... it's nothing to do with being a tech worker.

If anything it means that you'll be able to bounce back quicker than others because your skills will be in demand (just not as much as before and it'll take a while to get back to a hiring market).

What will help is financial planning: 3-6 months of expenses in the bank is a good guide. Know how to live frugally, etc.

The recession that happens next is likely to not be as big as 2008 (or as dramatic) but it will eventually happen. You're already seeing the economy and job market slow down due to that + election season nerves.

But it's the same for tech workers as it is for anyone else: financial planning. Not in the "where to invest" sense that HN loves but "how much do you have in liquid assets" and by liquid I mean "if rent is due in a few days can you access that money by then?" kind of liquid.
And here I thought it was 'Automatic', but I haven't dealt with a FADEC since I wrote avionics test scripts almost 20 years ago.
Sounds like a lot of wasted energy if that thing has to fly any reasonable distance.
We were busy doing other stuff.
You do get unemployment as well in the states in a LOT of cases, but it never lasts that long. However if your a "contractor" your not paying into the system so no pay out.
VR solves that.
That's the reason I'm a DragonFlyBSD user.
Plus the lovely community there.
But then the problem is that some apps bug you for location access every half hour (I'm looking at you, WhatsApp) because they don't realize they're being blocked.