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As an extremely heavy listener of podcasts, there's no way I would listen anymore if I had to have 20 different apps to run to listen to them. It's an absolute non-starter. And then to have ads on top of that. Fuck that.

Maybe the author's right that what works for current users won't work for the masses. I don't know. But I do know that I will not listen to more ads (that's why I stopped listening to radio and I suspect I'm not the only one), and I will not go to the trouble of using more than a single app.
Some of those things are not entirely within SF's power to fix, though, or are complex beyond belief to solve.

I don't think anyone has good solutions for homelessness, for example, and transit is complicated by the fact that all the neighboring counties have to agree to most changes/upgrades to transit systems, and some have a history of vetoing or refusing to participate.
I think the app boom is in decline, but I really don't see how illustrating lower growth for the 20 most well known apps demonstrates this. Less people downloading Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram? Account for how many people already have it! There could be a saturation of those very well-known apps.

There's a lot more to consider once you look at how the entire app market is changing, rather than just the very top.
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As a lover of Emoji and deep learning, this is awesome. Are you planning to support unicode 9.0 sometime soon (I know it isn't even technically out)?
>Be careful using the multiprocessing module, it has some very serious bugs. I've spent the last 4 years rewriting parts of it for Celery

I regretted this as soon as I submitted it. I would hate for someone to do the same thing to my projects so I should know better. I've written about it before, but realize that you probably have not read it :)

I really like the multiprocessing library, it helped me start Celery in the first place. What it tries to solve is actually very very complicated, and you would have to test it on production systems for years to be sure it works, and I think Celery was the app that did that testing. I contributed some fixes back into Python, but most of it is not merged upstream.

The most complicated issue I had to solve was that multiprocessing.Pool uses POSIX semaphores to share pipes between processes (that's how the pool processes receive jobs, and the parent receive results). If a child process is killed before releasing that semaphore you have a deadlock that's tricky, if not impossible to solve. So I rewrote the pool to use async I/O instead, which also had the side effect of drastically improving performance (no locks). Sadly I'm not sure how to implement that on Windows, so it's unlikely to be merged upstream. Other fixes and features used by Celery is available in our billiard (on PyPI) fork of multiprocessing, but the async pool is not part of that yet as it currently depends on code in celery that does not fit in billiard (it should be rewritten to use asyncio now).

You can claim to replace Celery using a small layer on top of async I/O, or claim to replace Celery with a simple Redis list operation, but I think that's unfair to all the work that went into Celery, and the other features Celery implements like monitoring, workflows, and a large list of other things that you don't immediately think of when starting a project. It keeps a repository of these patterns for the Python community, and even something like crossbar.io could be supported as a transport.
The point was to be used as a colloquialism to address people who disagree and encourage them to stop, think and remember everything has tradeoffs and compromises. Then to think about those before simply saying "this isn't a GIL workaround". Maybe it had the opposite effect. :)

I mean, I'm a python fan and this has tradeoffs too (external dependency, task dispatch latency) which doesn't make it suitable every time the GIL gets in the way.

In any case, I don't believe either of these were any more sensational than some of the content in this post.
I'd rather just have slow ground transportation that's practical. Walking is a human's natural mode of transportation, yet so many modern cities are built in a way that makes walking useless. Allowing all to live within walking distance of stores, work, and friends would be a greater achievement than a society built on the flying car.

"The paradox of transportation in the late 20th Century is that while it became possible to travel to the moon, it also became impossible, in many cases, to walk across the street."
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Interesting that it's not a percentage of your wage, seeing as you pay more unemployment insurance/social security the more you earn (at least you do in Austria and Germany).

In Austria it was 55% if your net salary IIRC.
I want a T-shirt which says "Jessica Livingston"! Very good advice overall.
How deliciously dystopian.
The dragonflybsd community is great. When I was experimenting with it, their freenode channel was super helpful, often with Matt himself answering questions. I ran into a bug after an upgrade and he had a patch up in like an hour.

I've been deploying my stuff in linux containers recently, and I really like that flow. I really hope something like Jetpack (https://github.com/3ofcoins/jetpack) can eventually provide a solid OCI implementation on top of jails and hammer (not sure what containers demand of a filesystem, I know jetpack is currently focused on ZFS).
No link to the code on github? (or gitlab or wherever?)
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At the time it didn't seem like anything significant - nobody really wanted to do a Linux port of Oracle. But I did a test port and wrote up the many missing system calls and many incomplete system calls and many missing library implementations. Larry read it and I didn't really think about it again. Guess I should have saved a copy. And this was definitely an internal white paper - not something for circulation.
Bots are the new apps: now what?
I never actually went in for the curriculum that included advanced study with the non-optional arena fight at the end, but I can appreciate biting[1] satire done so well.

1: That's not a pun. A pun has no place near something this well constructed.
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Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary? [video]
It doesn't sound like you are doing anything much different than me except I don't use Facebook. I normally keep my browser open for weeks at a time and never break 2GB unless hit some crap website. Addons?
Where do you live after you sell your home? My home is "worth" over 50% more than I paid for it, but if I had to rent, I'd end up paying nearly double what I pay in mortgage.
He would have had to make a down-payment on the house too. You pay e.g. half the total payment up front and then the remainder in monthly installments. Still, it would have been a quarter of the retail price, not half, in that case.
Exactly this. The fact that dominoes makes money off the pizza sale just means they have a business stream to subsidize the cost of delivery to nearby locations.

Same reason Amazon can run Fresh. If you order groceries and your neighbor orders an Amazon package, just pocket the money that would've been paid to a carrier to deliver that box and get your Fresh driver to do so instead.
"States are also readying for bad times by squirreling away more cash in reserves."

Now both huge companies and local governments are hoarding cash. Which is problematic for the economy as a whole.
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this is true. I'm actually non judgmental of dancers and even strippers. I mean, for the same reasons you just said.

but should this be an advertising mechanism at a tech conference? if you need a dancer to advertise your startup, then you probably have a shitty startup because your product doesnt speak for itself.

So no I'm not against dancers in general, or even strippers, but there is a time and place for everything, is a tech conference the time or place for dancers? I would say probably not.

When I say "demeaning to women in tech" I mean WHILE AT A TECH CONFERENCE, for women to be default assumed to be in an auxiliary role because most women at tech conferences are hired to be in auxiliary roles, is demeaning.

I'm not making a statement about appropriate sexual behavior. I am a liberal feminist and I believe women should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies, and sympathise with women who don't get the opportunity to educate themselves, and also support women who willingly choose other paths. The female body is a wonderful thing and can be enjoyed by whomever she feels comfortable sharing it with. In South Korea, prostitution is a respected career and feminists in south korea even lit themselves on fire in protest of trying to outlaw it because they believed it was encroaching upon their freedoms. Awesome for them. One of the girls on my old sports team just got featured in VICE magazine for, after graduating as valedictorian from my highschool and then at Princeton, went underground for multiple years studying female rights as a call girl in multiple countries in multiple socioeconomic stratas and wrote a huge article on womens rights even in the realm of prostitution.

Believe me, I am not here to crap all over women dancers. It is women in entertainment, and female rappers who are trailblazing the idea that their bodies are wonderful and they can do what they want with them and say what they want and that its ok.

I absolutely agree with you, but I still dont see what that has to do with a tech conference...

tech conferences are somewhat professional and its even valid to argue diverse enough that some ethnicities might even have males that are offended by female dancers at a tech conference.
Consumers are like water seeking the path of least resistance. It takes lots of engineers to reduce the resistance. Someone pays these engineers. That money comes from the users. Users don't like to actually pay for things if there is a free alternative, so users pay indirectly with their information.

A Facebook clone wouldn't pull many users due to network effects. I think decentralization is opposed to network effects in this case.

The article mentions the somewhat current but certainly future problem of decisions being made by algorithms which "casually crush" users without any human being able to determine why it happened (and in many cases unable to fix it).

They could fix this problem by hiring more people and giving them more power to correct the system, but it will probably never be a big enough problem to affect the bottom line.

Increasing awareness of the problem and technical skill among users would probably cause users to become more autonomous and less like water. This is a long term possibility, but it strikes me as an unappealing fight. It’s like trying to convince an entire generation to take bitter medicine without any parents to assist.
I’ll assume users won’t be getting better. Perhaps we just need to focus on building better ways to protect ourselves from the almighty algorithm, so there are options when the system fails. We can protect our data from online shopping sites by having nodes that process purchases for a large number of users and perhaps ship to a network of local points where pickup is by some type of PKI based system. Social networks seem like a lost cause. A return to blogs with lots of links rather than a replacement network may be the answer.
Hm I was more thinking about open FD, not just special file entries on the FS. Well, I agree with you: it's a little weird and in some cases dangerous to have the char/block devices in the FS, and it has already been worked-around multiple times in different ways, and even in some cases simultaneously with multiple different work-around. NT is better on that point. But not once the "files" are open and you've got FD.
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And would it have reached that if it was chained to the Macintosh dongle? How much of that activity comes from it being available on Windows?

Jobs hub was not iTunes, it was the Macintosh sitting in the livingroom corner.
I think this is called bikeshedding.
It's a great point, too bad the author is focused on loserisms like winning competitive awards. Most ironic of all is applying for a Thiel fellowship because it's prestigious.

From "Competition is for losers" (http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...):

"Always prioritize the substance of what you're doing. Don't get caught up in the status, the prestige games. They're endlessly dazzling, and they're always endlessly disappointing.” -Peter Thiel
pay for performance. If they do xyz then they get abc.
But the direction are the opposite:

1. Canonical makes no money.

2. They introduce a "bad" feature to try to make money.

3. Users outrage so canonical makes it easy to cancel.

4. Users are still not happy so Canonical turns it off by default.

vs

1. Microsoft makes s*loads of money from various sources.

2. They show an annoying popup urging users to upgrade to W10 (to make more money? to reduce support?).

3. They start forcing it by "closing is accepting".

4. They just start forcing it (according to many reports) so the users start creating tools to stop it.
I actually don't really like the continuous flight between systems. I prefer the simplicity of Elite. The massive increase in complexity is one of the reasons I never liked the sequels. But don't pay attention to me - I'm unlikely to be representative when it comes to a gamer audience.
Well, isn't EDI just an API for manufacturing + supply chain management?

As far as retail stores are concerned, they make an API call to a supplier, and product shows up.

Granted, it's a pretty convoluted API, but I don't think it's too difficult to imagine what a supply chain algorithm would look like. Just lots of exception handling + long timeouts...
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Providing value to people will never be over.
One of the founders from WorkRamp here. Happy to answer any questions.
Sure. I've been involved with a bunch of vendors who exhibit at conferences. Often there is an "oh shit" moment when you unbox the crates and find that the monitor you have is busted. You're missing an audio cable. You really need a 4' 2x4 to fix a collapsed table.

Doesn't really matter, but you could see a need for an "equipment and stuff" on demand in an hour type of service catering to these events.

Similarly, every wedding venue can have an "emergency" service for missing stuff ("Florist flaked? We can put petals to the metal and have them there in an hour!")

These are perhaps more extreme, but I'm sure there are any number of restaurants in your area that don't deliver, but might like to have that capability. One morning last week I went to my local bagel shop to find the manager loading dozens of boxes of bagels into her car (catering for the local school's Teacher Appreciation Day). There is insufficient demand for the bagel shop to have a full time delivery driver, but big catering orders UberRush might really fill a need for them.
> FedEx is not really focused on same day/same hour intra city delivery.

Well, in that they have lots of other services, sure, but FedEx does have both long-distance (FedEx SameDay) and shorter-time-window local (FedEx SameDay City) same-day services.

The main difference would be that FedEx isn't subsidizing rates with investor money to fuel growth, so its more expensive.
I check in PROMPT_COMMAND whether the current terminal can sudo without a password and add a colored note to my prompt if so.
There are similar APIs available for same day delivery from Postmates and Deliv so not exactly a new concept.
This is actually pretty cool. It lets publishers just focus on content, while the podcast apps offer the opportunity to monetize. Kind of like YouTube.

As long as the apps don't start doing stupid stuff like unskippable commercials.
That is an interpretation at odds with UNIX history, and basically only applicable to Linux, which is the exception to the rule. I suggest reading this article, it's written for FreeBSD but applies very similarly to Solaris etc.

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/03
Please don't post empty dismissals to HN. This could be a valuable comment if you dropped the name-calling and instead shared some of what you know about the GIL and asynchronicity.
Bring back the JNCOs, I'm in.
how can you say anything about a market when all you are looking at is the top 15 apps? Seems absurd. Maybe the bottom 50 pct have seen increased adoption? We don't know.
> Campaigning and lobbying are ways of effecting change to the system of laws.

Yes of course they are. But that way those with the biggest army of lobbyists and campaign donations are going to decide what your laws will be. This is part of your problem, not your solution!
I don't have a cite for this; almost no coroutine implementations are multiplexed across threads. I spent quite a while Googling around, and I wasn't able to come across any thing. The stuff that I did come across (without searching for 'goroutine') were comparisons of coroutines and goroutines in which one of the defining characteristics seem to be the ability (or inability, in the case of coroutines) to be multiplexed across OS threads.

In general, the term "coroutine" has come to be pretty watered down.
> No, Uber and Lyft did the right thing. They walked away from the scammers.

And Fasten is walking in to work with the scammers, which may make U/L irrelevant in 6 months to a year.

I accept your viewpoint. It is different than mine. Personally I don't think operating based on public perception is as bad as you paint it -- it's merely an acceptance that the people do not all perceive facts in the same way, and an acceptance that they can be educated for better or for worse. Which way is better, and which is worse, is subjective.

> If the politicians spent months lying about one company's transformer as being a "kiddy cooker", do you think the discussion would be meaningful?

I do strongly believe in the effectiveness of discourse, regardless of how much the participants have disagreed, leveled accusations, or made war in the preceding period. Leading figures in opposing countries can and do meet to find common objectives, even during or immediately after wartime. There are many examples of this in history. A PR squabble over taxi regulations is nothing compared to making up after a world war. Japan's economy, for example, had a great recovery following WW II without further conflict, largely thanks to good diplomacy after the war.

> When you realize you're being railroaded, the best solution is to not play.

Isolation is an absolute. Perhaps U/L need a break from dealing with Austin. There is a saying, only a sith deals in absolutes. I expect U/L will come back to the discussion table.

> If they stayed the best they could accomplish would be paying some graft for some useless services which would then become standard. (Well, if Austin needs that, so do we!) That'd make their service worse for everyone, everywhere.

Other ride sharing services like Fasten have filled the gap. Perhaps this is a temporary pill to be swallowed by the tech companies. Fasten is ahead of Uber in Austin because it is putting faith in building a relationship with Austin first. Later, with the good relationship in place, Fasten can still work on lifting the fingerprint requirement. This may hurt U/L, and U/L may wish businesses like Fasten did not exist. Wishing doesn't make them go away. They need to play the cards that are dealt.

> So when they are out to get you, you should be delusional and refuse to admit it?

No, I think in that case you can acknowledge that this is what's happening and still seek some common objective. If the politician truly is better than you at pulling the wool over the public's eyes, welcome to the real world, where you have to deal with people you don't like. Scorched earth politics are no fun. Despite that, you can still find common ground. All you have to do is be aware of the situation as you've described and work from there.

I notice you didn't comment on any of the videos I linked. I found [3] particularly instructive.

Anyway, I don't think either of us has been able to convince the other, so, I suggest we agree to disagree. Thanks again for the chat!
I just see an empty page with

>docs-598c00d615.js:1 Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

on the console
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> FedEx et all will deliver to my doorstep, but can they be here in an hour?

FedEx SameDay City Priority seems to guarantee delivery within 2 hours from package ready time within the shortest (0-15 mile) delivery range, and its available in a lot more cities than UberRUSH.
We start supporting them as soon as they're available! Obviously we have a lot less training data early on but we can lean on some heuristics early on until it builds up.

Unfortunately in the app we can't give you emoji that your phone doesn't support so we don't always show all the results.
Cash is in the bank being lent out to others. This is good for the economy as a whole.

Saving for a rainy day is prudent fiscal policy.
As I understand it, the overestimation was (at least partly) about a failure to understand how cascades worked. In particular, to develop a proper model of a 3D cascade in a sphere.

The result was a consistent underestimation of how quickly fission would advance, implying the need for a larger reacting body than is actually required to sustain a chain reaction.
It has not been a gold rush since maybe a year or 2 after the App Store became available (July 2008, so it's been over for a log while now).
Everything you set automatically is now more complicated.
right, but ideally I'd want someone who would believe in my product and not just do it for the equity/money... I've read that normally first marketing people get 1%-3% top, 5% is when this person has a really good "portfolio" and really knows what he/she is doing...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11868228 and marked it off-topic.
I read your comments just fine but you weren't making sense but now you explained it. 200 tabs in 12 windows? Yeah, nobody cares your browser is crashing now. You can switch to Chrome and maybe it won't crash as much but it will use more memory.

Personally, I would reevaluate how you use browser.
Why does your API is making such a big assumption that there is only one parcel/package per shipment[0].

I have looked at your competitors as well. Except for one all of them make this assumption. I guess customers with multi package shipments are not your target clients.

[0] https://goshippo.com/docs/#shipments
If Patent Reform Is Meant to Starve Patent Trolls, Why Is It Feeding Them?
This thing is so conceptually new, just thought to ask what people here, in the start-up, VC world, think it can best move forward.
> Does this move the company, project, or team forward in a measurable way?

I think a better question is, "Is this task consistent with our core values, value proposition, and beliefs."

Limiting yourself to only measurable activities will cut you off from serendipity, which alone can make or break a startup.
"make new partnerships, check out new hardware/software solutions to save time or money, possibly hunt for some new talent to join the company, discuss business propositions"

I think most of these are also things Jessica cited as distractions or just plain bad ideas for early startups.
My anecdotal observation about the size of companies moving to Texas is different. My neighbor just moved his company of three hundred employees to Austin. Another neighbor's company, Dimensional Fund Advisors relocated to Austin, about 1000 employees. On my small street (10 families), half work for or run companies that moved operations to Austin. Toyota just moved to a suburb of Dallas, 4000 employees. The operational cost savings are substantial.