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Ok so it's the future and the magical robots can easily move houses.

Why would the guy with the beautiful lake front property move his house? Why would he make his lot smaller to let other people live closer to him? What's his incentive?

Being able to easily move a house doesn't do anything to make lake front property less scarce.

If your answer is: "the government would force him", then that sounds more like a dystopia than a utopia.
> For the GeoJSON, does it support properties?

Yes, Tile38 has full GeoJSON support including properties for Feature objects. Though there is one exception, the CRS key is ignored because WGS84 is assumed.

> Meaning can I store a a whole document in there?

Yes, as long as the document conforms to http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html. Though JSON keys that are not defined in the spec will be stripped out of the document prior to storing in memory. For example, a "properties" key of a type that is not a "Feature" will be stripped, and requesting that object at later time will result in a JSON document that does not include the "properties".
Also: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/officer-steven-blaken...
Don't ever apologize for reaching out! As it happens, we're all in a very happy place right now (Patrick is having a blast with Stripe, and Erin and I started a company with two friends that is booked solid through 2017), so if you're still looking for advice, we're all happy to help.
I'm not him, but there are already like a hundred companies doing that. All it has accomplished is one more hoop to jump through in front of all the hoops that already existed. It has only made a ridiculous process more ridiculous. I think they were trying to make the process less ridiculous, not just be yet another hoop. But it seems like people don't really want that.
I dislike this imposition of one's own views on others without their consent posturing as moral superiority. Sure you may believe there's more to life but that's no reason to force others to turn over their hard-earned money to collectivist purposes. And branding anyone opposed to your views as philistine just mark you as an uneducated bigot.
Dentsu is exhibit A for what's wrong with the Japanese work environment. This isn't the first time they've been responsible for an employee's suicide through overwork. This young woman's tweets before her death are pretty revealing. References to her male superior telling her that she can't hack it because she's a woman, the toxic seniority system where you can't question those above you, 20+ hour days. Just awful.
I'm barely a developer, and I'm in highschool.

I'm so used to getting told I'm an idiot that I don't even react anymore.
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In the future there will exist people who are equally capable as they are today. These people will also possess the same needs and desires that people today possess.

It used to be that each person was responsible for performing tasks that would ensure their survival and the survival of those important to them.

Specialization and division of labor allowed certain people to do productive activities that didn't directly connect to their own survival.

Some people built houses and thatched roofs. Some people became blacksmiths and made tools. Others farmed large plots of land.

Markets in equilibrium allow producers and consumers to exchange goods and services for money and the system as a whole can be said to be more productive.

As some point in time though, machines will advanced such that nearly any productive output a human can undertake would be performed more efficiently by a machine instead. The value of human labor output will be driven to nearly zero.

Where people go wrong is that they ask the question, "If humans make no money how will they buy anything, won't everyone just starve to death?"

The purpose of an economy seems to be to create information in the form of prevailing wages which signal to members what tasks the system values. Once machines are the supermajority of the productive value output and humans are a mere tax on output, we take on a role similar to the ones pets have right now.

If the machines are sentient, then they simply outcompete us and we lose unless they support us with generosity. If the machines are owned and directed, then either the majority of people will decide to ensure some component of the machines output will always be directed to the sustaining of humanity. If a minority owns the machines and resist the taxing of their wealth, then there will be revolution and violence.
Is there another format you'd like to see?
Most weird gaps used to be areas where we detected the data we had conflicted. In those cases, rather then give possibly wrong answers, it says nothing
Before reading, I thought it was going to be an approach to todo lists, but it's merely "progressive" in the "progressive enhancement" sense.

It's essentially a sample app for the offline-first approach to application design.
It depends on the context. Resuming a request handler after the client timed out is no good. Even in CL in those cases you're fixing at the REPL and having the client redo the request.

Or you're developing your function in a sandbox and restarting the computation has no difference to resuming it in the first place.
The behaviour can be in line with desktop.. ie. click extension to get a choice to add current page to "favorites" (assuming extension manages the new tab as well, which is where the shortcut would go). Only when in the new tab page, I'd allow drag and drop of the icons.

It's pretty nutty to think just how crude the Google Chrome default tab page is. I'm not sure why it is that way. I don't think the page screenshot is that much helpful. Some sites look good and the thumb is pretty recognizable, others are relatively random.

Actually, I wonder if an extension can pull the "apple-touch-icon-precomposed" hi dpi icons in the meta tags?
It does not produce good outcomes for food you believe others should eat. But it produces enough of a variety and abundance of foods to serve a variety of needs from celiac to halal to vegan to allergies.

How do you propose to do better by having the government mandate specific foods?
Oh yes I know this. Sadly great products don't sell themselves, but proper sales people can make shit sell like gold.
> In the future the concept of a fixed house would be bizarre, with everything being able to be made portable.

People have been predicting this for some 200 years. It's older than flying cars.
There's a great German word for this exact feeling: fremdschämen.
> In Japan, leaving before the boss is distasteful

My personal management policy is I get in before and leave after all my employees incase they need me and to show them that I am there for/with them (within reason - if someone is putting a really late night I may leave first).

The idea of not leaving before the boss leaves is weird to me. I get higher pay and more stock options, why should I be leaving early when my team is working their butt's off?

Edit: I realize this could be taken as a ploy from me to get the team to work more hours. But I also don't shame employees for leaving before me. It's not a contest. If they get their work done they shouldn't feel guilty leaving at 5:00.
It's curious why people try to build arguments for linear or even worse growth. The arguments are so odd, it seems to me that they are more about the wishes of the author then an attempt to provide a counter argument. Perhaps it's just a misunderstanding of the theory?

Why is this argument about AI? The idea of a technological Singularity has nothing to do with AI. In fact the theory is pretty explicit about the fact the details of future technology are unknowable, and generally never predicted correctly. The theory attempts to explain a global evolutionary model in which global evolution continues despite the speed of localized evolutionary systems, like say biological evolution. Local effects of any particular technology's growth are not predicted, and moreover they are said to be unpredictable.

Even if the op was successful at arguing that AI does not work like every other technological system that is not salient to the ETA of the Singularity.

The point is not that cpus double in transistor density every 18 months, and therefore Skynet. The point is that evolution was exponential, human knowledge was exponential, electrical technology was exponential, digital technology was exponential, biological technology was exponential, and in aggregate exponential growth across all technologies is consistent and predictable. Even as one technology's growth or usefulness tappers off, others supplant it.

If you arbitrary pick something say, vacuum tubes or the printing press, and create some sort of argument that it doesn't in and of it self experience exponential growth, you may succeed in your argument, but you haven't said anything.
DDG is my default search engine because I'm addicted to the !bangs. For example, I use !pf to quickly convert an article into a PDF.

I maintain a blog where I "showcase" the best bangs for the Duck: http://duckgobang.com/
Haha thanks :)
I truly wish you luck on that. I hope you can succeed in opening up this kind of data. It tends to be a very tough road to hoe
Seriously? Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and Uber are all aiming for "a year or so". Volkswagen and Volvo seem to be about a year behind that. Don't get me wrong, I think there are significant challenges to overcome, but this "self-driving is always 20 years away" view doesn't mesh with most credible projections.
You have listed the reasons why I wrote a language that's a superset of Lua and Lisp, allowing lisp style macros to manipulate lua code as data. http://github.com/meric/l2l
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I've been a web developer my whole career, with a CS degree, and 16 years experience. In 2007 I joined a new VOD startup and quickly rose to CTO position, then over the next 9 years grew it to 7-figure users and revenue, 16 engineers, and a highly respected brand in an industry niche. We hit a rough financial patch, so I left for another seed-stage startup which failed to gain traction.

Now, for the first time in 16 years I find myself looking for a job in SV without a direct reference. I was assuming that my broad experience, ability to bridge the technology-business gap, natural programming ability, and entrepreneurial spirit and tenacity would make me the kind of sought after employee that all growing SV companies claim they can't find enough of.

Unfortunately after interviewing at ten top companies (mostly later stage YC), I've been declined nine times. The last company where I felt the onsite went flawlessly and I had great rapport with every interviewer still thinks my experience isn't exactly the right fit for a tech lead position (even though this is exactly what I've done for the last 9 years!).

The things I think are hurting me are that I'm not great at whiteboarding, my experience is not at massive scale, and it's hard to summarize the scope and impact of what I've done as CTO growing a team from 2 to 16 engineers. Also the majority of interviewers are in their mid-20s and have come from Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, Uber, etc; I doubt they even have the context to understand the strength of my accomplishments. They seem to have fat hiring pipelines and value either top-1% algorithm brainteaser performance or specific large-scale experience at brand-name companies.

I'm coming away with the impression that SV is starting resemble the world of finance where pedigree is utmost importance. Is there anything to this assessment? Does anyone have any insight on the young hiring manager mindset in top YC companies these days?
French food is an interesting case, IMHO.

Aside from pommes-frites and crepes, finding French food at the bottom of the price scale is pretty difficult.

And I wonder why that's true. I mean, in Los Angeles, I can find food from other great culinary traditions at both the high end and the low end of the price scale: Korean, Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Peruvian, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern -- even Japanese, which, considering general price levels in Japan, is surprising.

But French food? It's almost always some high priced, sit-down place with a valet out front. There don't seem to be a lotta reasonably/low priced French food joints out there.

(Even stranger is the price of "British" food, usually found in pubs: always seems overpriced. And British is not exactly known as a great food tradition.)
The results are extremely shitty indeed, especially for tech and programming related topics. I tried DDG for months and I found myself running every search twice, normally and once with !g appended. That's beyond shitty.
In France evryone is convinced that "The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer". This proverb/pseudo-analysis is a huge emotional trigger for a leftish vote, and is liberally repeated by many newspapers. I systematically try to counter this proverb, because every available evidence points at the opposite:

- The poor are getting less poor. Famine is less harsh and UN reports lower poverty levels for the bottom 10%. There are severaly explanation, basically the poorer benefit from the globla growth and global scientific advance. Of course it's limited because of patents and other hindrance, but we should not deny the globlal trend.

- The rich are getting richer, that's exact, but it's also because the population is increasing and the top people today serve bigger economic interests than 50 years ago (whether it be Snapchat for beginner CEOs or Tesla for traditional CEOs).

Hence, maybe the spread between the rich and the poor widens, but that's not what the proverb denounces, and the proverb is wrong. The proverb specifically says the poor are getting poorer, which is widely false. Moreover the variation of gap is not demonstratedly unfair.
Here's a randomly selected one: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147940-google-self-drivi...
Hmm, odd, that doesn't match my experience at all. I realized how bad Google was when I started using DDG and realized that all the bad results in DDG were bad in Google too.

Maybe it improved since you used it?
Great write up. Does anybody have more information on the attack near the end "...defrauded by Lithuanian hacker gang which figured out how to use our application to proxy a telephone call through Twilio’s phone number verification feature to a phone sex line in the Caribbean..."
I will accept my downvotes proudly.
I just launched www.fibretiger.co.za an online fibre comparison site in South Africa, we got over 8 fibre networks and more than 20 fibre isps.
A problem with this is that government intervention/subsidies competes directly with local businesses and farmers and they won't be able to compete.

This will lead to a situation where once you start giving them food, you won't be able to stop or it will devastate the economy and people will starve.

It's better to give local businesses and farmers the tools and knowledge to grow the food instead. This way, they won't be completely dependent on another nation for survival.

Many of these poor countries have governments that rule with an iron fist and make it nearly impossible for anyone to thrive. This problem needs to be fixed first, or all of our other ideas will only end up hurting them in the long run.
" has semantic meaning in code, whereas “ and ” have semantic meaning in text. If you're a coder, you want " and only ". You especially don't want "helpful" software that thinks you should want text quotes, and tries to fix them for you.
Thanks for the link. I enjoyed the breakdown, and can see how it works, but wow that code would be easier to read split up over three php files and a template.
Ah, so minority rights don't matter any more? By your standards even Hitler was democratically elected. That doesn't make his actions moral.
At some point the robots and AI will take care of us, similar to how they did in The Matrix, or I,Robot. I'm sure we'll be fine.
Scott Adams has similar advice (for anything, not just programming):

"Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/care...
The lasso seems to "give up" if too many nodes are selected - stops updating the selection although it keeps updating the green shaded area. Perhaps it should only give up on the text labels which are probably the expensive part.
It is, but there's no better potential for ad targeting than in a search engine, which is what the GP was lamenting. I read their comment as "how can they target ads well if they don't track me?", to which the answer is "they don't need to track you, you've literally told them what you want".
India is actually better positioned than most, what with their sea of IT infrastructure outsourcers and maintainers.

It's Africans who will likely get screwed again.
The Galton box generates a binomial distribution which when taken to the limit of n->infinity, produces a normal distribution.
Out of curiosity I Googled that and, for me, Google now auto-corrects it to disk image.
I care about earning potential and physical appearance. Why shouldn't I? I also happen to care about many other things in a potential relationship but those things you mentioned are definitely high up there for me.

Who are you to tell me what value system I should have? All of this is independent of social media, by the way.
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Oh, you were asking a simpler question: "why is the site down?" Sorry!

We'll probably put it back on the air at some point in 2017. It's down for a lot of little reasons (inefficient AWS configuration, occasional need to babysit, the need to adjust a lot of little messaging things around the site so as not to make people think we're still recruiting off it, &c) that add up to enough hassle that it's easier to have it be down for now.
Some questions from a person who's never done anything to do with machine learning:

-Is the idea to pick features that most define your data set? For example the spiral is sort of periodic in x1 and x2 directions so I picked the sine functions as features to try and predict it

-Is it best to have the max amount of hidden layers and max neurons? (I noticed it seems to oscillate on the output when I add a lot)

-What exactly are the graphs on the hidden layer neurons? To me it looks like at each node we're combining the graphs of previous nodes but with different weights for each?

-Does each node represent a sort of intermediary prediction of the original dataset?

-If someone were to code one of these neural nets, would they manually code the properties of the hidden nodes?

-How is this thing actually learning? Is it just some complicated error minimizing algorithm?
You're comically unaware of the tyranny of the majority. Ever heard of Idi Amin?
Alright. I even agree for most comments albeit less for this one. Let's try it your way so the feedback is specific, constructive, inclusive to audiences unfamiliar with grading search, and not profane. Here's my similar experience using the DuckDuckGo, search service after being a long-time user of the Google, search service.

1. I type search terms in text form into Google in an attempt to get a list of results that meet my needs. It virtually always gives me high-quality results I need in top few hits. High-quality means the results help me find what I'm looking for or better understand what my search terms describe. I do this into DuckDuckGo, it often provides low-quality results. Low-quality means the results were not relevant to the text I typed in, they were barely relevant to the text I typed in, or they were relevant but had less utility than results from Google.

2. I do exploratory search with Google by typing in words I think are related to the topic I'm trying to understand. It often gives me high-quality results in the top. If I do it with DuckDuckGo, it gives me low-quality results about as often as high-quality results. I see few patterns in the input that would let me accurately gauge whether inserting specific terms into DuckDuckGo instead of Google would produce as many relevant results I could utilize. This makes me unable to know if use of DuckDuckGo will have as high utility for the time and effort invested vs using Google's service. So, as I default on privacy, I had to try inputting the search terms into DuckDuckGo first with expectation it would often not meet my goals, mentally track what it succeed or failed on, and slowly gain instincts on what search terms to skip DuckDuckGo on in favor of Google to be more time-effective. As a Google user, I didn't have this problem that forced me to profile the search engine to gauge when it was capable of performing a search with high-quality results.

That, in detail, is why I had a poor, user experience with the search service provided by DuckDuckGo. Of course, explained constructively & in detail, it just looks like I think readers on Hacker News are idiots. Even my grandmother knows what a "shitty," "terrible," or "bad" search engine is. Such terms are how laypeople universally describe search functionality that fails to turn their queries into actionable information. They also short-hand what's common knowledge to save time. Describing your search experience in detail to such people will even sound condescending. So, instead I just usually say it's a a hit and miss search engine with result being them nodding their head in understanding. The other commenter apparently thought so, too, condensing it to one word and I still knew what it meant.
Money is a sedative. It improves life to a certain point, but past that point it's less effective. There's also the effects that chasing wealth has on your psyche, where accumulation of wealth requires fiscal discipline, and the more money you get the more reluctant you become to spend it, and you're driven towards the accumulation of even more wealth.

Perhaps you don't believe me. If so, how do you think the cultural meme of the unhappy rich person came about? What is it about the lifestyles of the rich that would get in the way of living life to the full?
The variations you are talking about are not really variations, they are mostly marketing variations mixing the same stuff to produce things that appear different in the minds of consumers, but are really variations of the same thing. Our choice of food is severely limited, i.e. everything is made from corn. The variation of crops planted to feed our limited choice is again a mono-culture and optimized for profit, not for the environment or food diversity or animal rights. We have bad diets in general, any dietitian will tell you that.

I don't propose the government mandate anything. I propose the government give out good, healthy food for free. The market can continue to compete for people who wish to participate in it. Food is already subsidized heavily. So what if we give a certain amount of it for free to anyone who wants it.
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Those pages are loading instantly for me at present, but even if they were slow, your comment is far too uncharitable to make for a good HN post. Physically angry? Come on—it's a single programmer's project from decades ago. He's probably tackling the problem of upgrading it by himself. The last thing he needs (or we, for that matter) is an angry chorus of internet entitlement.

If you're hot under the collar, please cool down before commenting here.
I never viewed him as a CEO. :( Likely my view is just off.

Though, I'm now curious how much of this Bezos learned from him. Weren't they close? It makes sense to view these acquisitions as investments, instead of takeovers.

And for everyone that has given examples of Google doing this. Apologies for not responding individually. I am glad to hear it is more that they just get a lot of press for the mistakes. I'd love to see more press dedicated to what appear as successes. I guess they have to be ballpark hits to get press?