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I wanna say "Welcome to the security theatre industrial complex", but hey, Orlando shows this isn't an insane scenario (although, to be fair, like most things people are irrationally afraid of, I suspect way more people die each year driving to and from nightclubs that _don't_ get shot up - than have ever died (no matter how horrifically) in a nightclub shooting...)
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If you search for "reflection" in the list of papers at http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/ there are some proposals to add compile-time (as opposed to the run-time reflection described in the article) reflection/introspection to C++.

Of course compile-time reflection can be used to generate the code/data structures necessary for run-time reflection.

P.S: The blog post is from 2011
Having bootstrapped a couple of times:

1) I would double your estimated time to build. Worst case, think it would take 9-12 months.

2) Personally, I wouldn't get too into the finances of my co-founder. I'd just want to know that what are bringing (financially, sweat equity, and/or key industry knowledge) are equal. If I'm bringing 50K, my partner should too.

But to answer your question, if I was that co-founder, I would. I would look at paying off the debt and lowering the overall amount we needed to get to MVP.

3) Numbers look more than reasonable. Actually, I know a lot of people that would never have that much to bring to their own startup.

4) Don't touch the 401(k) or Roth.

Are you sure you need all this money and time to get your MVP ready? If you're bootstrapping, why not stay at your current roles and code in the mornings, evenings, or weekends?

Get your MVP done, get it into the hands of customers, and see if you find a fit. I'm not sure you need all that time and money...
They won't look vastly different. When you get right down to it, pretty much every creature bigger than a few cells on land is a tube with a mouth at one end, limbs to move it around and a bunch of sense organs near the mouth.

Add in that advanced intelligence would require communication, the ability to create electricity and infrastructure (which rules out undersea civilisations fairly effectively) and the probability of being vaguely like something we see around us gets fairly high.
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I particularly enjoy it when people hold their iPads above their heads to film shows - presumably because, ummm, nope I've got nothing except "because they're self-centered jerks"...
I had never heard of Kotlin before, despite reading Hacker News daily and otherwise being generally plugged-in to programming discussion on the Internet. So for many people this will be their first introduction to the language.
The government of the Scandinavian countries is not so much bigger then that of other western nations.

In scandinavia they are not keeping companies alive that are literally consuming money, such a the British coal mines.

Before she took over Britain had very litte growth and was called the sick man of europe. Inflations was getting out of control and would have ruined Britain.

Certantly not everything she did was good, but Britain despretly need some of those changes.

If you look at indexes of economic freedom the scandinavian countries are actually quite high. Their are many extremly capitalist aspects of their society as well.
Definitely. That's why I'm to hyped for compile-time reflection in C++: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/ (search for "reflection")
Yes, it's called a 'puff piece'.

Given this is an entrepreneurial-leaning community, maybe we should be congratulating Yondr for securing the coverage rather than criticizing them and the NYT. Marketing is a necessary part of any successful endeavor.
> At least we found out early that this isn't going to work.

$US150M later isn't early
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It shouldn't even be too difficult to create separate albums/streams for things like 'closeups' or 'labels/bills'.
More importantly: Isn't Hacker News about programing and technology?
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Sorry to hear about your troubles! Assuming you got hit by our painful network outage, we can only repeat: sorry, and we have taken serious action internally to avoid this again.

To explain the difference between your experience (outages taking you out) and "Google.com", I'd guess the difference is that "Google.com" is massively distributed. Perhaps you were running in just one zone or region, or maybe even quite sophisticatedly running across two regions (say us-central1 and us-east1). For Google.com, we have 15 "major" datacenter locations (https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/in...) which are approximately regions in Compute Engine / Cloud parlance.

To your other question though, Cloud is not a side project. Google happens to be enormous, so even though we have thousands of folks across Technical Infrastructure (TI) working on Cloud, thousands divided by tens of thousands is still a "small" percentage (but TI is bigger than say YouTube or Android).

[Edit: And please reach out to support! Don't be silently unhappy, have someone call us up, even if it's just to strangle a PM about how difficult it is to use.]

Disclosure: I work on Compute Engine.
Wow, that's really impressive. I'd have assumed you'd run into some kind of doppler shift issues going that speed unless you were pretty far away from the launch site. Why bother with a TCP/IP link, though? Seems like a less verbose protocol would be a better choice to use to get a simple data stream from your rocket to ground control.
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Being far far away from any tech scene, i.e.: no networking.
No. More like a cookie. It should basically replace user/password authentication.
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I think so. The lack of parametric types leads to an explosion of types for each concept, and where they don't do this a load of casting from runtime.Object and interface{}. The lack of exhaustive pattern matching is responsible for many bugs, oh we forgot to add a case for runtime.InternalEvent etc... However our project will be using Kubenetes library and thus we're also doing it in Go. MetaAccessor another eye sore. It's all a trade-off I guess..
> What would it take to know your product either falls flat or bringing in regular revenue? Do you need to raise money for that?

We will likely need to raise money. My cofounder and I have a wide variety of experience, covering machine learning, data science, and site reliability engineering. We would like to hire a data scientist with deeper and narrower experience to handle some of the most difficult mathematics.

We can build the first version of the product by ourselves, but our product (enterprise SaaS) is not likely to gain traction until someone much better can performance-tune our algorithms. We would also need a strong UI / UX engineer, a designer, and a corporate salesperson -- but we can probably hobble along for longer without those roles.
"I definitely know that feeling you are talking about. Happened to my previous startup (project) which failed."

> Do you still feel that way, or did the feeling change when it didn't work out?

"Survival is not an issue, as a developer I can always find a remote gig to pay the bills."

> That's a good position to be in. I've got several siblings and at this point all of us have migrated over to software engineering of some kind because it's so powerful and flexible.

"Joining a startup which does something somewhat interesting/relevant to my passions is a good idea, unfortunately those are a few, but it's a good place to start I reckon."

> Yeah, it seems like even if the startup itself isn't doing anything you're passionate about, at least you'll be surrounded by people who grok it.

What kind of stuff are you passionate about?

"I've lived a digital nomad lifestyle for the last couple of year, and it didn't work out very well, so I moved back to SF."

> Did it just not agree with you? I've been wondering whether or not I should try it.

"I'm not sure how "exploring passions" would work living in a complete isolation in a place where you don't even speak the language."

> From what I hear there are large expat communities. I've found that a lot of my exploration is limited by my own ability to learn and apply, rather than direct access to other people. I got on my current track because I was searching youtube for robot engineering. But other people are an important part of it. It seems like SV is probably the best place in the world to find like-minded people.
If I were these guys I'd be pretty focused on the VR market.

Scribblenauts VR will need keyboard input!
> avoiding single points of failure

I still don't understand how so many businesses simply ignore this problem. The network is assumed far too often to be reliable and ubiquitous, even among people who have years of experience with radio dead zones, oversubscription, and the numerous other ways networks fail.

> reachable 24/7

While 24/7 (or other excessively long periods of time) should simply be banned for basic health and safety reasons, I do understand that on-call time is unavoidable for some businesses. The catch is that any on-call time needs to be paid. How much payment is open to negotiation, but if you are expected to restrict your life such that you can be called in for overtime, then some amount of compensation is required.

If this seems impossible due to being paid a salary instead of wages, overtime limitations/restrictions, or similar nonsense... that's what unions are for.
Good idea, another youtube hit.
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I would not be surprised if one could write a ZFS implementation optimized for more constrained devices. If you already know you are going to a have flash storage you can probably ditch some of the N layers of cache you see in common ZFS implementations. Not that ZFS is a one size fits all, but the file systems specification could be implemented in more than one way.
Interesting. I guess I didn't think of the comedian angle. Still, I'm on the adapt or die side of this. When I am paying $200 to attend a show, don't take away my phone.

I went to a show earlier this year and the artist had everyone put their phone away for one song. Was great and the audience generally accepted it for what it was, a moment that the artist wanted to share with the crowd.

Just don't treat us like little kids.
Let me help on that 5th panel:

Because it's fucking distracting, often interruptive, and speaks pretty plainly to the character of a person who values everything else BUT that place in that moment. I can't remember the last time I saw anything interesting without some jackass with a phone stepping in front of me to snap a picture of it. It would be a revelation if something of note happened and people chose not to take a picture of it.

Also if I'm a condescending prick for thinking that, Randall's a condescending prick for his assessment of people like me. Unfortunately his reasoning cuts both ways.
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I'd fork it and add a sample of https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font (more like a terminal font than a programming one) if I had a Windows machine with Sublime Text on hand. Can you add it for me?
A lot of people are like that with their dogs - doesn't mean we allow their pets into restaurants where other people go to eat. We make allowances for people with real and documented needs for service animals there, but not just for people "who'd rather lose a couple of digits than be without their dog/phone". (And, of course,this leads to over-entitled people faking it and ruining it for the people who need it: http://dogtime.com/dog-health/general/20325-advocacy-column-... )

You can choose to go to other shows at other venues. Artists are also able to choose to not allow phones at their shows.
Even if a socialist country yanked a private company away from its owner, it would be "theft", nationalization without compensation is not a core socialist tenant.

> Do they continuously assign any bad news the doings of Americans and the traitors among them who sympathize with Americans?

Again, not something defining or unique to socialism.

> Zimbabwe has a tortured history with lots of corruption, colonialism, despotism, nepotism, racism, ethnicism etc. The economic system is the least of its problems.

Zimbabwe is far from Somalia. Yes, economic system issues were one of their primary problems, arising from problems like corruption, colonialism, etc...:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
Are variables being assigned multiple times needlessly here? What's going on, is that just obfuscation? Search the code for "this._hash.words" and have a look.

https://gist.github.com/Antelox/020c727e1917bd018441cb6425ca...
I don't think that is Kickstarter's fault -- the fact is that building stuff (particularly real, physical stuff) is hard.
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Yes, it has "Read & Execute". I don't see how this is related though.
This article is about technology. More specifically, society's reaction to modern technology.
It also raises questions of how society is going to react to wearable computing once that becomes more prevalent.
I have a tangential curiosity: how many of you live without a cellphone? And if so, why?
Six hours for Godwin's law. Of course in threads where privacy is concerned this is not a record. :D
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I would imagine that the physical inertia of the speaker would also be a factor.

Opamps can respond that quickly electrically, but you need more power the faster you want to move the speaker cone.

Say the mic is 5mm from the speaker. Sound travels at 340m/s. so 0.005/340=0.00001471s. So it takes 14.71 microseconds for the sound wave to travel that 5mm. That sounds awfully quick to have to reactively move a speaker cone accurately. Obviously speakers can move quickly enough to play at the correct frequencies but I don't know what their latency would be.

I'm sure there are other complications that I'm forgetting but it's definitely harder than you would think to cancel out sounds.
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Also, some people enjoy challenges, not easy wins. I was an average Quake player but enjoyed playing high ranking players so I could learn, even though the final score was something like 20:1. Off-topic, but the main reason I gave up on computer games is that most mainstream titles today are easy to the level of stupidity and for this reason get boring in few hours max.
Is there any graph based dbms solutions that uses its own storage backend, engineered for graph operations exclusively in a way that key value stores or relational cannot compete? If so, are they reliable?
On the other hand, I've had smart phones since before they really were smart phones - but I still frequently take off for the weekend without my phone, just because.

(Having said that, my Flickr account is mostly snapshots of events - so I'm no poster-child for the "no phones at gigs" crowd...)
Improved life expectancy for the whole population, not for that children.

If a child dies at 10 instead of 2, the population life expectancy at 0 will be greater, but from 10 - the same.

Heck, even if dies at 80 instead of 2, this does not say anything about health, just the fact some dangerous early-life condition was addressed.
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SQLite is a practical option if concurrent writes are not required. It is not meant for that, and that is also one of the reasons why it is both fast and simple, since without concurrency, a whole set of really complex problems goes away. SQLite is great when the communication and arbitration between two services takes place at the application level, as is the case with DNS AXFR requests, for example, and each of those services may have its own private data store. In such a situation, an immediate benefit is realized by having a domain specific, uniform data manipulation tool (SQL) without having to write custom data manipulation code. This is especially well suited to scenarios where configuration management is performed via OS packaging.
Ycombinator is about startups, Yondr is apparently a startup.

It's an interesting startup with an interesting idea but the article couldn't be more clickbait advertisement.
1. You don't need repeaters. HF is plenty for worldwide communication, and VHF/UHF can handle local communication very well. So in a disaster situation, local volunteers would use VHF/UHF to communicate with some central command. Ideally, that location would have an off-the-grid HF setup, which could be used to relay information into and out of the affected area.

2. This is simply not true. Emergency traffic is prioritized over everything else (by law), but almost every repeater is publicly usable by anyone with a valid ham license.

3. Yes, that's how two way radio communication works.

I'd encourage you to connect with a local ham club, or even better, go check out Field Day (http://www.arrl.org/field-day) this weekend. Literally the entire hobby (as far as the ARRL is concerned, at least) is focused around how to most effectively communicate, no matter what the situation is.

As far as using the repeaters directly to contact your family members, this would be one of the situations where you'd need to coordinate with local volunteers to get a message out of a disaster area (if that's the situation you're talking about). It's very possible that you might get to pass the message over the air yourself, but even if you can't, at least you could let your family know that you're safe.
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When I was a competitive breaststroke swimmer in my high-school years I remember that the league made the use of a supplementary dolphin kick during the glide phase of the stroke a disqualifiable offense. I'm not sure why they did that since it's simple enough for anyone to learn. The principle was that you move faster underwater is the same as the one in the article.
Lack of privacy and security? It's public radio communication. What exactly do you expect?
ITT: angry hipsters who simply cannot put their phones down for any reason whatsoever.
Not faster perhaps but with sqlite3 I had locking issues and after I switched to mysql I don't. It's really that simple. The app was used by a small office of 40 people at first, then started being used by close to a hundred people and that's when the locking errors began.
So, what keeps me from opening the bag and take the phone out inside?
And if the terms and conditions for that $200 ticket explicitly stated "you can't bring your phone into the performance" when you bought it - which side are you on then?

(And before anybody asks, yeah - if your friend bought you that ticket with those T&Cs and didn't tell you, that's still not the artists problem... Cope, or get better friends.)
That doesn't match with my observations of the few decentralized systems we had working so far (e.g. Bittorrent, IRC, federated messengers or the WWW seen as a whole.)

To take the WWW as an example, the W3C once tried to unilaterally update the system with XHTML2 and utterly failed, because none of the peers were adopting the change. But even the browser vendors don't have (or didn't have at least) the full control: they were bound by backwards compatibility of existing sites and by the threat of new browsers or forks emerging. Finally, the peers can change what they are executing by using extensions or forked browsers.
Plus, almost no information about how it works or why people would not just open the bags on the inside.
> I'd just want to know that what are bringing (financially, sweat equity, and/or key industry knowledge) are equal.

My cofounder has several more years of work experience, and more closely focused on mathematics and machine learning. I have some experience in these fields, but am more of a general software engineer. Because I am bringing the money to the table, we intend to make the equity split 51/49 in my favor.

> Are you sure you need all this money and time to get your MVP ready? If you're bootstrapping, why not stay at your current roles and code in the mornings, evenings, or weekends?

We are currently working nights and weekends and making good progress. We both work very fast-paced, demanding jobs in Silicon Valley, which makes it hard to sustain our current pace without burning out.

> Don't touch the 401(k) or Roth.

Would you suggest that instead of cannibalizing our existing funds, that we just stop contributing to our 401(k)s and save more cash for our startup? Or should we continue to save for retirement at our previous pace?

> Get your MVP done, get it into the hands of customers, and see if you find a fit. I'm not sure you need all that time and money...

I am definitely in favor of doing this, but like you pointed out, the MVP could take twice as long even when working full time.
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Feint, I think?
I mostly agree; to say two more words about Lightroom, I still use it with a set of catalogs spanning the entire library. But as you describe, the intake and structuring of the photos from the cameras and devices is handled by other programs and services (in my case Google Photos and dropbox with scripts dealing with folders and backup) and the sharing/publishing is also done outside of Lightroom.

I think LR needs to know about all the photos to do the tagging and editing, but otherwise it becomes a smaller and smaller piece of the overall workflow.

About the "Don't understand photography", IMO it's misdirected in the sense that Apple surely understands how people want to deal with their photos, but they seem to be pretty bad at this game, stagnated for a while (even now, they don't care enough to bring a competitive pricing model for the icloud storage), and now that decent competitors are rising up with features way ahead of what Apple has to offer they look like they're missing the boat.

Fundamentally Apple has been going the right direction for a long time IMO. I think they're just wildly underestimating how much they are behind what people expect from them and are too slow on the execution to capture the needs of the moderate to heaviest users.

As they are heavily flexing their marketing muscle tonpresent themselves as where photo happens on smartphones, there's a dissonance between their "with us you can take the best photos" message and the state of photo management on their platform.