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Depending on what you're doing, you probably should invest time in VR development, but I don't think you need to do it now. Still extremely early days, and I have no doubt frameworks/toolkits will emerge that make things easier, development-wise.

One thing I keep coming back to with VR (as a personal observation) is how anti-social it is. Not sure what the implication (if any) is of that, but it leads me to hesitate in using mine.
Why does everyone have to keep naming things "Paper"? It's so generic.

First FiftyThree released Paper, their excellent app for drawing/note taking on iPads.

Then Facebook released Paper, it's news reading app.

Now Dropbox is releasing Paper.

Stop reusing the same name over and over. It's confusing. And it's unfair to FiftyThree which I'm guessing doesn't have the legal resources to go after a Facebook or a Dropbox (assuming they could even win, with the apps doing different things maybe they couldn't).
> I don't see any value whatsoever in what bronz was communicating, and any discussion that starts from that is going to be equally vapid.

That's fine. What I'm referring to doesn't actually have to yield further discussion. Some people will take belittlement, accept it as an indication they should have thought through their position better (if that was indeed the cause). Others will immediately become defensive and start responding to something that doesn't really need a response. Sometimes it just depends on the mood of the person. Not using insults (or at least making them clearly supplemental to the supported point) helps avoid this.

Insults are appeals to emotion. Emotion is exactly what you don't want when you are trying to avoid useless discussion. I understand the pull, and I'm sure I fall into the trap myself from time to time. Sometimes someone says something that seems divorced from reality, and you find the premise so absurd that you find it hard to address it seriously. It feels good to strongly call out the absurdity for what it is, and people who agree enjoy seeing it, but ultimately it makes it more about you than the point. For example, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment of your original comment. I just think it's slightly self defeating when the discussion is between many people in a group setting, because it often yields more useless comments as people dig in on their sides.

> It's about what you say AND how you say it.

That's the exact point I was trying to make in the prior comment.
How Android M made Sensy Remote re-think user onboarding
Purely altruistic? Probably not. But spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ventures that have an extremely high likely of failure? He's definitely not in it primarily for the cash.
The sensationalist media makes it seem like bank failures and collapse are a frequent occurrence. In reality, there have only been tow major financial crisis in the past 100 years (1929 and 2008). So while that does not prove there wont be another crisis, the odds are pretty long.
Hey there. Stepan, co-founder of Wallarm, here. Feel free to ask any questions.
The attackers are saying they intended this more as a prank or warning, rather than something completely destructive.

It wipes the MBR, but no other data. The MBR isn't that hard to recover.
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1570/
I feel you just haven't proved your claim given the numbers. Even if the last round's investors were guaranteed a 3x return, that only takes up $1B of this $3B.
Didi is now backing Uber’s fiercest rival in Southeast Asia
I bet the guy that won 100k shares of jet.com stock is excited!

http://fusion.net/story/54990/guy-got-rich-using-jet/
Erlang has been and is in use in many less visible places, same as other frameworks, but WhatsApp provided visibility in the contemporary world of short-lived startups.
Announcing Tokio: Network Application Framework for Rust
I propose that Walmart needs to use their bulk purchasing power/clout, in combination with the efficiencies that Amazon has put in place, to provide lower prices. If you're going to unseat Amazon, it has to be on price.
I quite like this idea. But, in thinking about it -- why not a specialized ground robot from truck to doorstop? Kind of like the irobot packbot. I could buy the argument that drones are easier because they avoid the terrain hassles.
401k + boring old index funds. I started putting in as much as I could since my first job out of college. Still not even 35, and have already seen plenty of returns. Will I be the only person in my generation to be able to afford to retire?
> - Allow paths that are greater than 260 character (MAX_PATH).

That's surprising.
Yeah, considering the revolving door between banking and regulation, the odds are kind of, you know, stacked by now.
You are right, that wiki page is confusing. I'll ping devs about it later.
You make reference to underlying assumptions about the economics of drone delivery, but I don't think you've shown anything.

What is the average cost per UPS delivery, and what would the cost be with a drone?

Assume a drone has an avg 1 year lifespan, can make 20 deliveries a day, costs $9k, and $1k in annual power and maintenance. Thats $1.40 per delivery.

If a UPS driver + truck cost $100k / year and can do 200 deliveries a day, that's also $1.40 per delivery.

I have no idea about the accuracy of my numbers above, but neither seems out of the realm of possibility. I can definitely see drones being economical.
Same here. Only a Gear VR, and it's mostly on the shelf. My usage habits with it mimicked my usage habits of a a single video game - get excited and play it a bunch at first, but then lose interest.
Probably my collection of Magic: The Gathering trading cards, if I were to sell them these days. ;)

The best investment that I actually converted to cash was AAPL that I bought in 2009, and sold in 2015.
A good mental game to play to counteract the endowment effect[1] if one ever ends up holding $[some_large_number] of [tech_stock] is to ask yourself "If I had $[some_large_number] in cash, what % of it would I spend investing it in [tech_stock]?"

Very very rarely will you find yourself saying 100%. Act accordingly.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
Apparently Ethereum has dropped almost 22% in the last day. That's unreal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-seaman/bitcoin-and-ether...
I have to imagine the lanes this will use are divided from the rest, and the entrance to those lanes has a "maximum height" barrier like you see at drive-throughs.
I'm neither a VC nor rich, but the best investment I have made in terms of raw return was into myself when I started my computer servicing business with a capital of three hundred bucks right after high school.

It is pretty straightforward to reach a six-figure profit in consulting over a couple of years, and I'd be glad if I could just "repeat" this performance with a larger amount of money.

An experienced VC once answered my question about why he is flying first class and visiting us lame fucks in a third-tier town in Europe for two days and how he could justify spending so much money on us. He said it doesn't matter if he flies first class or not because if their investments don't work out they run out of money anyways, and if they do work out they make so much money that everything else becomes irrelevant. This put some things in the startup world for me in perspective, and I am trying to be not too harsh and frugal with myself since then.
* I was looking at "losing" 25% of the value of the investment by turning it into cash. Ridiculous right? Well now I think it is ridiculous.*

Reminds me of a stock options seminar I went to, presented by an actual Fidelity options trader. The question came up along the lines of "so something something, what would the tax implications be?" His answer was something that I remember to this day, and remind myself when I'm worried about "something something capital gains": "I'm the worst person in the world to ask about investment taxes. If I'm getting taxed, then I'm making money, and that's as much thought as I give it."

I couldn't even tell you the capital gains rates at this moment. If I need to get out of a position, I get out. And to quote the above professional options trader, if I take a tax hit then I made money. If I try to avoid the tax hit by holding on for a few more months to avoid short term capital gains, I might very well lose money in the interim. So I just don't pay any attention anymore and settle up with the government come April.
I just saw the new Star Wars -- cofinanced by (e:) Alibaba films. In it, one of the moral cruxes of the main story was that the crew needed 'Unity'. I saw this as a subtle shift from american 'Freedom'. There's a <plot point, not super spoilery> point where some 'good guys' are being held prisoner. In any red-blooded American Hollywood Film, this would lead to 'GIVE US OUR FREEDOM' type resistance. In this movie, it led to 'WE NEED UNITY' resistance.

Maybe I am reading too much in to it, but it felt like a shift influenced by the additional target market of the East, and I don't see Hollywood as a source of affecting moral/civic unrest.
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Startup Sound for Chromebook
Index funds, mutual finds, ETFs, ect. Treat stock like vegas money.

The problem with stock is that it's very hard to beat the market, unless you work full time at researching what you invest in.

Be careful with real estate. What goes up will go down. Don't assume that "real estate always goes up" when no one can afford to buy a normal home with a normal salary.
If pivoting means you're not smart, HN would be the stupidest place on the internet.
I wonder if there are countries that didn't sign it.
Could not agree more.
ما الفرق بين HTML5 و HTML4 ؟ و ما هي مميزات HTML5؟ – Code95
The HR Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot
Yup! Additionally the Chinese government is not a smart investor, and that's led to overcapacity. Eventually these bad investments will punish China, but it make take some time.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21696552-chinas-indus...
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21693573-chinas-exces...
> So if I make business decisions via ouija board or in a cocaine induced rage, I'll have a leg up?

Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflict has a focus on the ways that people can benefit in a conflict from being, or being perceived as, irrational or constrained in their choices or access to information. Clearly you can't be better off in all areas of life by making irrational or random decisions, but there are some specific situations of conflict where you might be, if others are aware of it.

One familiar example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)

where if people think you are very irrational, you're likely to win!
If you need to verify an email address, it's very likely you did not obtain it via an opt-in... a la Spammers... or people purchasing bulk mailing lists. Both are illegal.

It's difficult to imagine how anyone using this service is not violating the CAN-SPAM Act[1].

Despite its name, the CAN-SPAM Act doesn’t apply just to bulk email.
It covers all commercial messages, which the law defines as “any electronic
mail message the primary purpose of which is the commercial advertisement
or promotion of a commercial product or service,” including email that
promotes content on commercial websites. The law makes no exception for
business-to-business email. That means all email – for example, a message
to former customers announcing a new product line – must comply with the law.

In short, any unsolicited email sent with the intention to promote commercial interests is a violation of CAN-SPAM, and can carry heft fines.

Effectively, this service is a facilitating violation of the law.

Penalties can be up to $16,000 USD per unsolicited email sent.

Just ask Papa John's how much unsolicited messages can cost you[2].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/can...

[2] https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
> Other reforms like the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act are widely reviled.

Sorry to comment again (I can't edit anymore)—but it wasn't an absurd law to begin with. Much of the black community was in support of such laws, and the only controversy around Hillary specifically of which I am aware was the "superpredator" comment. Bill's another story yelling at BLM supporters for being ungrateful, which was stupid but understandable given the crime rates of the early nineties that millenials never saw.

That said, you're absolutely correct, they're centrists to the core. She's a warhawk who worked to censor violent video games and Eminem. I'll be watching her like a hawk.
The difference between HTML5 and HTML4
I think I just don't come across situations where I find myself needing generics in the software that I typically write. I can imagine it would suck in those situations. There is a workaround for it, though. Basically you write a template and do code generation off of that to sort of approximate generics. I've never done it myself, though.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_type
What if you don't necessarily want to be "in the top tier of success" but just want to be a successful programmer? Come on.
Toronto and Vancouver is an apples and oranges comparison when it comes to having space/land to build new structures.
The homogeneity is certainly becoming more prevalent however I think the author is placing a disproportional amount of responsibility for this phenomenon on Airbnb. The bigger issue is the confirmation bias that social apps have engendered. I only follow similarly-minded people or I only get certain type of news pieces in my feed therefore my frame of reference becomes smaller. Add to this that many products are not content to be a utilitarian commodity any longer, everything seems to be aspire to be "brand" or at its logical conclusion "a lifestyle" with its own flagship stores and flagship stores must exist in all major cities. As the noise gets louder the signal for brand identity gets louder and louder as well. Its not just cool hotels and coffee shops however. The previously mundane has gotten in on the act as well. Any recent visitor to New York City will tell you there is Citibanks, TD Banks, and Bank of America on almost every block now, often times many per block. This is in an era where few people have a need for a retail bank branch. There's an interesting phenomenon whereby these hundred of banks leave their interior lights on all night because their real purpose is advertising.

None of this bodes well for society. My optimistic self used to think that there would eventually be a reactionary element against this homogeneity but I'm not so sure any more.
Yeah it's definitely improving. But last I checked the PHP internals team was very reluctant to change anything, even plain-crazy stuff, to maintain backward compatibility. In PHP, if a bug sticks around long enough, it becomes a feature.

I'm not a purist, if you're making money coding PHP more power to you. Around here there are a lot of businesses hiring people to make them Wordpress sites. But an aspiring dev asks me what language to learn I don't recommend it.
> One thing I keep coming back to with VR (as a personal observation) is how anti-social it is

Can you elaborate on this? The potential for social VR seems huge (which is probably why Facebook bought Oculus).
I have a handful of these sites in custom uBlock filters that hide the links to the sites. The sites either require ad blockers be disabled or require a login to use so I'd rather not ever see them. I use a similar list to filter my QuiteRSS feeds. If anyone is interested http://pastebin.com/T1gxeWtj
Thanks for the link. It's not necessarily true that Wolin's views are entirely justified, the article admits as much with "Wolin holds that" and "according to Wolin". Also I don't believe his views go contrary to what I wrote.
Yeah, Google is very good at vertical integration. Make sure it's competing a little in all areas.

http://insidertestprep.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Vertic...
Its true, but its indirectly connected to budget concerns. Long term, a good code base will be easy to fix saving a ton of time effort and frustration. Thats why we usually do give a fuck. Technical debt is a pretty accurate metaphor.
Why is it a problem if China develops a higher GDP than the US. Its not a problem for the people. It might be a problem to politicians that want to tell a story, but wishing china to do worse economically is truly backwards. If china comes out with better technology than the us, better products and services, cheaper and all that, the whole world gets better. If you dont believe that, then you must for the sake of consistency think that products that come out of the us into other countries are vultures in nature and draining in economic terms.

A more mature approach would be to think what to learn and do(or not do) when someone is showing great signs of progress. Getting more products from China makes the whole richer. China's protectionis policies are probably harming them more than helping them, why play in the same game.
Docker containers are not a way to overcome difficult installation for the kind of users deploying WordPress en masse. They're (still) often on shared hosting, in a lot of cases, using whatever control panel their host provides, and not only don't know how to use Docker, they don't have the capability to do so on the server. Even most of the folks with a VPS aren't on board the Docker hype train just yet. (Docker is cool and all, but it's not how people outside of our bleeding edge bubble are doing things, yet.)
The mistake you make here is thinking that drones are dominated by existing shipping methods.

They're not -- while they're currently more expensive than existing shipping methods, those costs will drop.

Furthermore, drone delivery is going to be much faster than any method of delivery. And what's really the difference between a self-driving bike vs a self-driving small-air-vehicle? One is going to be easier to implement.

There's no doubt for me that drone delivery will happen. It probably won't make sense for all packages in NYC, but it will make sense in smaller towns and for out-of-town deliveries.

Drones will provide speed, reliability, and at some point cost over the alternative. [Remember, they can be charged in an arbitrary location, so their electrical bill will be the cheapest place in their flight range]
> Reading this, I realized the US -- including Silicon Valley -- has many commonalities with the Free Software ecosystem.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard and barely a comparison.
Ask HN: Tons of new banks in my city. Why?
I live in Rochester, MN which is population ~110k.

There are TONS of new construction physical banks being built in town. A small town that is already saturated with existing bank storefronts. Why is this?

They are from many different financial institutions, so its not like one institution is growing.

Aren't most new banking clients going online? I can't wrap my head around the business case that would exist for a new bank storefront when there are already ton's of them in this small town.
Actually, come to think of it, 2/3'ds of the successful people I know are actually formally trained accountants who have people skills. Although I think accounting and programming have a similar mindset. If those same people were 20-30 years younger, they might be programmers today.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213593
A cheap state school computer science education. It paid for itself the first year I worked as a software developer.
Uber and Google are very different cases. They, as tech companies, are also different cases from consumer companies. Detailed analysis are required to gain insights on why they succeed or failed.

In short, Google posed a thread to the government and the political system. If it was allowed to run freely, it will break the restrictions and the controls the government has been trying to impose on the internet. So the government can't afford to have Google freely spread information, etc.

Uber doesn't impose such a threat. In my opinion, Didi simply outperforms Uber. I use Uber and Lyft in USA. Last summer I was in China and tried Didi and Uber on purpose. I think Didi's app was easier to use, had better design, more integrated to other services, and had more drivers. I talked to the drivers. My general impression was that the drivers were more content at working with Didi. This was especially true when issues occurred. Didi were more eager to work with drivers to get issues resolved, while some drivers complained that Uber was kind of condescending, treated drivers less well.

As for traditional consumer companies like Walmart, etc. cutting costs was their primary goal, IMHO. When one complains about cheap products from China, has she/he thought about supply and demand? If the demand for such cheap products is low, will the companies continue making them? For example, there are high-quality hand-made silk, linen, cotton clothes in China, I don't think the big companies are interested in them. The market for high-end stuffs is always small. Most people would prefer to buy high-end stuffs on well-established brands, like those in France, Italy, etc. It takes time to build such a brand. So it is not as profitable to cheap products. Due to the drastic disruption before 1980 in China, Chinese start to build high-end products only in last several years. It will take at least another 20 years, IMHO, for such products to mature in both quality and design, and be recognized.

We have some cotton fabric hand-made by my wife's grandmother, in traditional ways. After 40 years, they are still both soft and sturdy (of course, we don't use them that often, since they are so precious for us.) It feels just so good, much better than those very good quality beddings one can find in department stores here. You won't find such products in department stores, though. That is my point.
It might look more familiar, but it's not better than JSX. It gets really tedious to write the pure JavaScript versions of components especially when specifying lots of attributes and nested components. It's also hard to follow. Everyone I've worked with on React projects has had similar initial reactions, it just looks weird to have html inside JS. But try it out first, I'm sure you'll grow accustomed to writing JSX and the tooling built around it.
Learning to program.
What's to the left of you at 33.802799, -117.885665 using apple maps?

Could you explain your example? I tried this, thinking it might give me something interesting, but I couldn't figure out what you were referring to.
Impact Health Is Hiring a Head of Growth (Los Angeles)
Philadelphia 76ers to beat the Chicago Bulls a few years ago in the NBA playoffs. Payout was something like 11-1 and our model had implied probability at something like 45% for Philadelphia.

Made like 50k.
Incorporating in the US? A Stripe Atlas Walkthrough
Bought 150 shares of Apple in the late 90s (before it had a 7/1 split)
An interactive explanation of quadtrees
Related http://plaintextoffenders.com/ I submitted a couple over the years.