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These are all brick-and-mortar companies that were built around a single product (electricity, telephone, railways, airlines, dairy roll-up) and later expanded by merging with competitors or expanding into related fields. You can also add P&G, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and many more.

In each and every case, these companies delivered a product or service in exchange for the customer's cash. This is the key distinguishing factor between companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, who deserve to belong on that list, and companies like your hyped SV unicorn that has no business model besides "eventually we'll introduce ads".
...Just ignore all the other differences between to the two laptops.
I love that idea and I'm glad someone realized it. The dry wall helps with the noise, which reduces stress in that environment.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375535. I work on Cloud KMS, happy to answer questions.
Wraith is super useful for web development on existing complex sites and I rarely hear of it or existing tools. Setup a staging site along with your production site, list the important URLs and when you run Wraith it'll compare screenshots of changes between the URLs on staging and production. This lets you update existing pages and verify you've not broken other pages with only a small amount of setup.

See https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith
I'm greeted with a subscription page and no article.
But the value of Bitcoin is that it is durable, portable, divisible and uniform - and basically in limited and predictable supply (unlike the Weimar Reichsmark or the Hungarian pengo.) That's what makes it useful. Why does a currency need to have other "functions"? Its usability as currency is its underlying usefulness.

Lots of perfectly reasonable and useful modern 'paper' currencies are not backed by any commodity nor have been since their most recent introduction. Money is useful as money, that's generally good enough.
So when's my free account lol
> being priced out of it eventually

This applies to home ownership as well. Taxes can increase to where you can't afford to live there anymore.

> It's rather the higher density urban areas that subsidize the suburban low density single family houses (most of which are very shoddily constructed).

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I am talking about, mostly, income tax deduction that applies to everyone. There's also the 30 year mortgage and VA loans and (I think) FHA loans.

> most Americans don't have a portfolio of investments of any sort.

Many times it because they put all their income into their house because they believe it is their house that it the key to building them wealth!! My only point was this is a common misconception. Housing is for living in, unless its an investment property that generates cash flow but that's not what we are talking about.

Buy a house, or rent, there's tradeoffs. There's pros and cons of both. Its different for everyone at different times in their lives. As I said, a house is a great place to live in! My only point is the American/Canadian mindset that buying a house is the ultimate way to build wealth is false. It might, if you are really lucky, but don't bet on it. Especially don't bet your future on it!

Yes, you have to buy housing, you need somewhere to live. A house is a good choice for many. A house may be cheaper than renting. It's just not a guaranteed generator of wealth like most people believe. You shouldn't disregard funding your retirement to buy a house. You shouldn't stop saving to buy a house. Diversify your assets.
This is part of my research and I'm happy to answer any questions.

I gave a preliminary poster about this a few months ago:

http://imiller.utsc.utoronto.ca/media/ci-2016/2016-06-03_a-s...

This project is under active development as I wrap up my PhD.
I don't think that is a good analogy. The end product (app/house) is what the code actually does. What you use to make that product is a tool, including what language you use.
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Thanks, i was not aware of that. What is a possible fix?
Not only can you, but people have done it. There are several available methods using native and non-native tools.

The only people who cannot do so are people on the insider ring builds. When you sign up for those builds, you accept the telemetry as part of the agreement (which is not unprecedented at all).
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> haskell is not used apart from niche or academic projects

While haskell doesn't have as wide adoption as the top languages, your comment is not true. Even facebook uses haskell for fighting spam.

> If you want to use jvm to deliver functionality for your users just a "boring" technology

You're entitled to your preference, but I assume you'd say the same about about Clojure and Scala then, since, after all, everyone should just be using Java?
Last I've heard, the channels for getting second amendment rights restored are poorly documented and not often used, and for practical purposes are impossible to follow to completion without expensive lawyers that put the idea of it far out of reach of lower-income people.

It's a particularly tough issue to get political movement on because the Left mostly likes helping felons get back to a normal life, but hates any kind of gun rights for anyone, while the Right likes gun rights, but doesn't much like helping felons.
They should have picked one single niche application for BitTorrent and built a killer product around that.
That no articles reached the front page as the price was rising says a lot about HN's general opinion of Bitcoin.
Maybe the most unrealistic part about the simulator, then.
Finance is one area where C++ still rules as full stack language.

In the typical enterprise, whose domain isn't selling software products, C++ tends to be mostly used as infrastructure language for .NET/Java/JS native libraries or interacting with their runtime APIs.
Your problem is knowing how most C implementations work and trying to extrapolate that knowledge to other languages.

In C, a variable's lifetime is limited to the current function call. The natural implementation of C is to track both function calls and variables on stack structure with statically determined offsets. Thus, C has stack-allocated variables.

Since a Clojure variable's lifetime is not limited to the current function call, C's implementation details aren't relevant. Stack-allocated variables are a bizarre notion.
This is one area I think government ought to play its basic role. However given that government its self has been predatory with out money it is hard to expect that they will do anything other than bailing wall street out.

Baptists and bootleggers!
> Hardware 2FA, a security key, (such as a Yubikey) is the only likely way to prevent phishing
For now.
>decentralized digital publishing platform

Like the internet?
Because the vast majority of the supply doesn't meet the company's standards.

It is a selection (of few) process. If applicants are plenty it may not be economically wise to pay for everyone's interviewing hours.
There are different types of libraries. At one extreme, we have archives, with an explicit goal of having a copy of every book and never throwing anything out; in the middle we have research libraries; and at the other extreme we have community public libraries, with a goal of bringing written material to the masses in whatever form the masses are going to consume it.

It's absolutely valuable to have a place to find obscure books... but a community public library isn't that place, and isn't intended to be that place.
Sure you could push the transaction cost up for a little while if you're into throwing money away.
Author here.

Your response is a bit over the top. I'm in no way criticizing anyone or placing myself above anyone. I've been a junior engineer and I've under-engineered. I've been a mid-level engineer and I've over-engineered. Only through feedback from senior engineers did I finally get to see code I wrote stand the test of time 2 years later with minimal to no change.

As I mentioned in the post, no matter how many years we've been doing this, we'll continue to over-engineer and under-engineer because software is hard. The article is meant to layout the mistakes I've learned from, and for engineering managers, our responsibility is to help those we manage avoid the pitfalls we ran into.
Nor any evidence whatsoever that there was intoxication.

The DA should be saying "There's no evidence of that", not "There isn't enough to prosecute". She's lying by implying that there's a body of evidence that is just not quite sufficient to convict, as opposed to the FACT that all evidence points to not-guilty. Not insufficient, but directly contradicting the charges.
I wouldn't be surprised. Won't be an existential issue for Bitcoin though (beyond the temporary 2-5x price drop). Bitcoin doesn't need national approval to succeed. It will thrive in some jurisdictions and not in others.

Nation states have the most to lose, since they draw so much of their power from the ability to manipulate currency, so we should expect to see a lot of attacks on Bitcoin by them.
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"If we don't want to look like we are harvesting data for ad networks, we'll just sell to Google."
I've been writing C# code for four years now and love it, but you have to be careful with the Microsoft stack, they would have you chasing your tail with the constant stream of new frameworks and tools.
With all respect I think "easy-to-access" is a bit of an understatement when you are comparing a 3D game to real-world sensor data. They are barely comparable.
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I'm a crappy economist. In theory I think it should be somewhat/somehow linked to productivity. If a company positively impacts national productivity the company would be a "bottom line" company?
It's not just a matter of the streets; it's also the space within each block. Having towers makes it possible to have open spaces as well without decreasing the density.
Read the paper - it describes three safety features of the device which are explicitly designed to contain infected blood.
Convergence on target speeds and steering is actually very quick (a matter of hours on a modern GPU / AlexNet / 227x227 RGB) once you have the data. Generating training data with the correct speed limit and providing speed limit based rewards is the missing step. The training car already obeys traffic laws.
"Better safe than sorry" is the enemy of efficiency. Jobs are more temporary than ever and many people who aren't high skill developers are scared of losing their positions. This has caused in my estimation less autonomy in the work place. Every decision no matter how small requires the sign off of an entire chain of command so that you might "cover your ass".
> I was able to learn C reasonably well as a child precisely because of how straightforward it is. You can reserve a block of memory. You can free it. You can get the address of a value. You can get the value from an address.

And everything function parameter is passed as value. In many 'advanced' languages, some things are passed by value, other by reference depending on the type, sometimes automatically, sometimes manually, it took me years to figure that out.

Same things for loops.

And I still have nightmares about some languages memory models: what is allocated where? what kind of allocation was performed on the object that this function returned, do I have to free it manually or will it disappear when I leave the scope? which scope? is it on the stack or is it the GC that takes care of it? when does it take care of it? should I call it manually?
Sorry, let me elaborate what I mean by "potential." I don't mean candidates that have potential to do the job extremely well, but candidates that apply for positions with adequate signals but without the capabilities to do the job well.

Bootcamps and Universities don't convert potential candidates into highly qualified ones in this model, they convert non-candidates to potential candidates.

The highly qualified component comes from more than just education, I knew a lot of people that got excellent GPAs through diligent hard work but didn't comprehend what they were learning in a way that would allow them to leverage the knowledge. I've met C students that were so fascinated with the topics they studied that they screwed off on school work to cover more breadth (building cars, satellites, etc.)

A bootcamp/university wont take someone that is diligent and transform them into someone that's passionate. It can take someone that's passionate and give them the qualifications to get to interviews though.
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The swift compiler is used in many large projects.

And you probably overestimate how large Instagram, the app, is.
> Agencies pay us for our services out of their own budgets

I think you should also have a leg of funding direct from Congress to create "universal" applications across the fed. Does NASA need a separate timecard program from the DoD from the NPS? Does OPM need a different training system than the GAO? I would argue that in 99% of the cases, no. I think 18F and the USDS are uniquely setup to standardize and reduce a lot of waste across the fed, but as long as agencies are paying for individual projects I don't see any standardization happening.
"I opened the ports on the firewall and gave the user access, why doesn't it work!? This system is stupid."

"I changed my password on one system and then on the other, but somehow my account got locked up in that brief time between changeover, how the hell do you unlock an account? This system is stupid."

"We're scaling up and we're running into outdated rate-limiting settings on every service we use, some of them even having multiple layers of rate-limiting within a single service, and each setting requires hours of debugging to figure out which setting is taking down the whole project. This system is stupid."

There's a reason Mongo got adoption while "secure" systems did not.
> Why didn't the father have his second amendment rights restored prior to purchasing a firearm?

If the felony was in federal court, that requires a Presidential pardon.

If it was a California state court, it requires either a state pardon, or an after-the-fact reduction of the felony to a misdemeanor (which is not allowed for all offenses.)

These are all rather exceptional processes; in general, both the federal and state bans on felons having guns are lifetime bans.
Sometimes "alternative media" is something like the Intercept, full of pulitzer-prize winning journalists who present a view contrary to the political establishment and are adversarial with respect to those in power, in sharp contrast to the "mainstream" NYT and wapo who are essentially government stenographers when it comes to much of their coverage -- they tell us what "a government source" has told them to tell the public without a critical eye or examination. If they dared print real criticism, they would lose their access or funding.

Sometimes it's Democracy Now!, a long-running counterculture mainstay that again presents an adversarial view and touches on subjects the mainstream media never would -- finding out about the Dakota Access Pipeline issue and reporting in depth months before the mainstream media deigned to grace it with even a moment of coverage.

Sometimes it's Breitbart. In those cases you are correct but 'alternative media' is an umbrella term that just means 'any group of people who do not behave as a mouthpiece for the political and economic elites'.

After the Telecommunications act of 1996 media has massively consolidated. At this point the 'mainstream media' refers to the media owned by those same 6 extremely powerful megacorporations that control all 'approved' 'serious' discussion. Alternative media means any alternate view.
Most reasonable paper currencies are backed by the fact that millions of people need to pay their taxes in that currency. That's generally what gives fiat money value.
For anyone not American: Drano is a drain cleaner brand common in the US.
Not to mention it's incredibly expensive, since it's neither SVG nor CSS. On Firefox in a large webapp it will peg a core at 100% for several hundred ms, because it modifies the DOM to add "waves" and then resizes them on every animation frame.
I agree. You always want to have at least two mistakes between you and getting harmed (more if you are handling anything valuable).

If you only have a VLAN separating you from harm, it only takes 1 bad switch configuration or any other device on the VLAN to accidentally be running a proxy or router.
I have a Stratos 24 (medium I think).

I second the removable waist straps. This would change the character of the backpack entirely.

I've been using it for about 5 years now, and it's a great backpack, but the straps drive me nuts. They are great when on a bike, but they get in the way a lot in other situations.

The other thing is that the vent on the back makes the main compartment a bit difficult to store things in. The back isn't flat, so the main compartment is kind of curved. The back panel is basically a really flat peak, like the roof of a house. I like to keep things in the top pockets, but they make it really hard to get stuff out of the main pocket once they get a bit of stuff in them.

Also, the side pockets don't work particularly well with water bottles. They are tilted a bit toward the wearer, and I've found that this tends to cause them to eject water bottles if you are leaning forward at all while running/jogging/riding a bike.

It looks like bag has been substantially redesigned in the past 5 years though, so they may have fixed these issues.

On the plus side, the bag is very durable, and it is very comfortable when using the straps. The integrated rain cover is nice if you are using it as a commuting bag, since I'd never consciously pack my own rain cover.

The venting on the back does help keep a bit cool, but it's not enough to prevent my back from getting all sweaty if I wear it on a hotter day. It's nice if you want a frame in a small backpack, but I'd avoid it myself next time because it makes the backpack pretty large for a given amount of storage, adds weight, and makes the main compartment harder to use.
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You would be correct if we branded it as "the" powerful language, but we used "a" meaning it's one of many for you, the programmer to chose. I have practically found Haskell-like languages to deliver lots of value in business settings and I want to bring those advantages to everyone who would like to take advantage of it, reducing the risk of adoption as much as possible. No user ever cared about the programming paradigm, but I think they would be happy if bugs were fixed faster (or not present in the first place) or if new features were added without breaking existing features.
i feel like each "new" general-purpose language project is just nipping at the boot-heels of the much bigger problem of constructing large-scale systems that can be fully understood by a few (2-3) people.

VPRI's research has shown that one important method for constructing large-scale systems that can be understood by small teams is to have a pipeline of problem-specific languages that express major portions of the system. they were able to reduce LOC for a typical OS with networking and graphics by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude.

general-purpose languages can't compete with DSLs in terms of expression, and yet we keep inventing them. i think our lack of imagination is starting to show. compilation and language design will need to become much more common-place if we expect to continue scaling up.

a tower of babel in computing is healthy, no matter how much employers want us to be easily-replaceable cogs in an IT machine.
No, the worst case is that they require their population to go through approved exchanges and to only use government issued Bitcoin addresses assigned to each individual.
The crowdfunding response is feels like common incumbentspeak. YC is threatened by crowdfunding so it seems like Altman can't see it straight. It looks like a major blind spot.

It would be great if YC actually did "eat itself" and usher in the crowdfunding era. This is certainly contrary to the exclusive club they are today but it beats being subsumed. And YC does have good things to teach people and is quite generous. It would be good for the world if they were the ones that did this. "Kickstart with equity" is clearly the model of the future. Indiegogo is working on it.
There's no such thing as an unbiased algorithm. Machines just amplify the biases of their users. Every choice reflects implicit values and assumptions. More so when you're trying to develop an objective function around the unknown preferences of future library users. What is popular today may not be tomorrow.

And you should really be asking yourself whether circulation numbers are a good proxy for the real value that people derive from the collection. My mother used to borrow ten books at a time and barely read any of them. Building a rigorous utility-maximizing model here is impossible. Human judgement is required.
Re point 5

Pay attention to the "bitcoin " Google trends graph and overlay it onto your bitcoin price chart of choice.
I would say in cases like that it's probably other people who also have little understanding of HR practices. I think the smartest thing my company did was hire a professional recruiter to supplement the HR team - she brought me on, as well as maybe 25% of this office, solo. She contacted me within about a day of me responding to a reasonably well written linkedin JD, stayed on top of me almost daily, and had sold me on the company, with an offer in hand, within 2 weeks of initial contact.

Just having someone who's job it is to recruit, and who's good at that job, can make a world of difference. I know a lot of startups just have the engineering manager or CEO themselves do it, which is a shame, because you can easily contract it out for something like a 10-20% finder's fee to a good recruiter/agency. Say what you want, there are good ones out there.
This is fascinating. It's not quite clear to me however if these are real people who have been anonymized or if they are a unitary statistical representation of the population?

Let's say I was looking for a startup opportunity. What kind of products can I build with this?
Considering how much clandestine activity has historically gone on on Craigslist, I'm shocked to hear it's not https only.
> Somewhere along the way we fell into stasis. We have a bunch of a problems in society and in the world. They need to be solved.

Internet may be partly to blame. It is at least somewhat responsible for making people believe their opinion is equally as valid as everyone else's, which diminishes experts and their ability to spearhead projects significantly. It made everyone into a NIMBY to some degree, and those NIMBYs penetrated all levels of government and policy.

Good god, that made me sound Ayn Randian...
This is something that other GC languages like the Oberon family or Modula-3 get right, by default you use the stack unless the objects are NEWed.

Eiffel has it even better, you can declared if a class should be heap or value type (expanded in Eiffel speak) by default, but you get to override it when declaring variables.

Still you get this problem even in languages like C, if the developers went a bit too heap friendly.
The director in L4D was had a very simple logic with inputs like number of alive special infecteds and number of zombies to control spawns. It's like seeing a health kit when your health is low.
So, their product is #1?

How convenient...
Absolutely. Would you put companies like Facebook, Twitter, or companies that may struggle to fix unit economics like Uber or Lyft on this list?