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Ask HN: Real world APIs?
APIs that tie into the real world are super interesting. Some well known examples are Lob, an API to send physical mail, and Twilio to deal with telephony. A less known example might be FloristOne, an API for sending flowers.

What are some other real world APIs? Also, what APIs would be interesting to find or build?
AMD cannot go out of business, in my opinion. They are the only other company licensed to produce x86, and the license is non-transferable. If they die, Intel faces instant monopoly issues.

AMD will stay around. Next time their stock dips big one day, get some.
Starbucks used to have cards that would let you download individual apps that worked like this.
It's my understanding that even an MD5 hash of a not-terrible password is still virtually impossible to crack, is that wrong?

Here's an md5 sum of a not-that-great password I just made up. It's 14 characters long, but has plenty of guessable features. Is it crackable?

1cf016ea3cb1f2aa2ccb59c196d0e704
I understand that, I work with Canadians in every one of their provinces daily. They definitely do not talk as backwoods as this guy. His shtick is just to be obnoxious, and it's distracting from the otherwise great tear downs he does.
Still no explanation whatsoever of what this is doing.

Anyone knows what mystery "the final few pages in the Joe Armstrong 2nd edition Erlang book" hold?
How familiar are you with US religious groups? Because there are a lot of US religious groups and sub-groups with high birthrates. Examples include Orthodox Jews, the most conservative slice of US Catholics, several kinds of the most fundamentalist Protestants, etc etc.
If you're at correct weight you can try some physical exercises.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Backpain/Pages/low-back-pain-exer...
The "Uber runs out of money 2018" thing looks like it originated from this popular comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13793406

It has been echoed so many times that it's now fact on HN and gets repeated in every thread but is there any real source on this?
A developer in Florida was probably really homesick.https://www.crossing.us/intersection/12110431995188_11043201...
I thought about buying something like that, but I often work at the house and I'm not rich enough to risk my girlfriend sees me wearing that.

There's an infomercial in Italy for a product called Royal Posture, which is supposed to force you to have a good posture.

I'm looking for ways to do it without having to wear something, though.
While I imagine it's not a security measure, I don't think it's "just the way it worked" either. It sounds like a conscious decision to limit false positives.
hahahahah!
The PGP option has been the preferred option for as long as I can remember (circa 2000).
Yeah, I think a service like this becomes much more effective when both positive and negative reviews can be posted. Also would help a lot if you could see analytics on the review, like average rating from each gender. Then it would be much more clear who is biased.
I'll bite. The analogy has a failing elevator becoming a jail. That sounds like motor but not brake failure, i.e. the elevator getting stuck. If both motors and brakes failed, an elevator becomes a coffin not a jail.
Where you say Angular, you can replace it by Python, Swift, ...
Cultures are extremely hard to change, and there is a culture in hardware manufacturing to expect a product lifecycle of production, distribution, sale, and returns if something physically breaks.

The Internet connectivity is not the real problem, but it is the greatest show of the problem in commodity hardware (and this does apply to a lot of computers, particularly phones - the more disposable the device the more prevalent the behavior) that manufacturers believe it is ethical to produce a product nobody can maintain or repair on their own. These companies also have limited to no long term plan for support. The problem is that general purpose computers are not suited to fire and forget when interacting at levels of abstraction as large as TCP networking.

I don't think this will ever be solved, because average consumers are incredibly ignorant of why it is a problem to begin with, and thus they do not care if they don't have rights to repair the software running their devices. At least until something goes wrong, then you get isolated outrage that fades away when the computer is too "complicated" or "magic" to understand and thus the ignorance drives people to simply assume it isn't a solvable problem, when it really is - we have communities maintaining support for chipsets manufactured in the 70s with modern software, but they can only emerge and grow when devices are either popular enough to incentivize the massive effort require to reverse engineer the software entirely or have publicized documents on how to modify them.

As long as it isn't generally considered unethical to provide black box software running the hardware you buy (when likewise the design documents of said hardware are also often proprietary trade secrets) then nothing will change. People are offended if they are sold a car whose engine they cannot open and whose parts they cannot replace (up right until said car has a computer in it, at which point all expectations of right to repair go out the window because the computers are "magic" in ways belts and radiators are not) but they happily buy phones they can never disassemble.
I dunno, getting an app on people's phones and amassing both sides of a market (critical mass of users and drivers) is no small trick. Uber and Lyft had to massively subsidize each new market to bootstrap it.

The real test is how all the competitors in Austin are doing. We'll find out in a year or so.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/14/15803138/austin-uber-lyft-t...
That was quite a something...
It's a system with an incredible number of fail-safes. Only a massive change (say, a meteor, a super volcano, or, I dunno, pumping trillions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere) could cause the whole system to collapse.

Killing off one tiny piece of the puzzle (if that's even possible) won't do it. For all of the hang-wringing about "what about the bats|birds|frogs|fish who need mosquitoes to live" the evidence indicates mosquitoes are a small percentage of their food supply in all cases.

Humans have already disrupted ecosystems with climate change, which has caused a massive rise in mosquito populations in many regions. Malaria and Zika are now a threat in places where they weren't as recently as a few years ago. The disruption has been happening for decades and mosquitoes are the result.

So...I doubt we have the technology to actually eradicate mosquitoes, but if we did, any harm it would cause would be vastly outweighed by the good.
I think it's partially a California thing. Coming from New York I was profoundly baffled to see people trying to stop trains from coming to their neighborhood.
Switching to a sit-stand desk was life changing for me.
There are still too many people who don't have ready internet access. Free internet, and a librarian to help use it, can be vital to a homeless person trying to find work, for example.
Naw he looks like a crackpot
How is this any different than discriminating based on hearsay? I.E. what happens if you get on such a list without any resources to defend yourself? This experiment has been tried before (Mccarthyism). It did not end well!

This also assumes that the accusing women are being entirely truthful, honest, and acting in good faith which unfortunately is not always the case.
I have an electric heatpump for heating and hot water. The first thing I did when moving in to the house was install a reasonably efficient, manual wood burning stove, with 2 m3 of wood in the basement. I have had the heat pump fail in the middle of the winter, but the wood burning avoided any freezing disaster.
I'm sorry I'm taking your bait, but obviously it is the same waste of money whether you pay for it with cash or on your credit card.
Which Intel part has 36 cores? Do you mean threads, or is there a Knights Landing card with so few cores I'm not aware of?
Despite the Ethereum thing, I liked this because it is a simple safe language that runs in the browser.

Something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14752850, for example, could use this to run in the browser.
Again, the inventor of memory foam isn't going to hide it, they are going to create products out of it or license it. So the idea that NASA "shares" is immaterial.

Calling the SLS "not ideal" is like saying a Tsunami will get you wet.

SpaceX benefited as much from NASA as NASA benefited from the Nazis, and as the Nazi's benefited from Goddard. Research marches on.

But currently the most important R&D in the space business is being done by SpaceX. The only way space travel becomes economically viable is through re-usablity, which NASA has not made any credible attempts at solving.

And NASA isn't inefficient because it's not a business. It's inefficient because it's being used to distribute pork barrel spending to specific congressional districts. If the most efficient way to build the SLS was to build it in Puerto Rico, it would never happen because Puerto Rico doesn't have any congressional votes. Instead NASA is forced to break up projects across a massive number of congressional districts and do each sub-task in the most costly way possible so the sub contractors in those districts get a big taste of excess profits to spread around the district.
By allowing them to not have to pay and subsidice drivers the primary expense.
Not really. The TMS9900 [1] used memory as registers and had a fairly compact instruction set. Yes, it does have registers, but only three (a program counter, a status register, and a pointer to the current "register set" in memory). At the time, it was regarded as a slow machine, probably because of all the memory-to-memory operations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900
a loss? are you joking? Benchmark investment in Uber is tracking to be one of the best VC investments ever made, 11 million series A + whatever money they put in pro rata and their stake is currently worth anywhere from 5 billion to 14 billion, 20% of Uber (Series A) + dilution
Well, the language has just appeared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14770501
Do you think this is powered by OpenStack? I know Alibaba uses/used OpenStack internally.
You can however add things to the constants pool using [1] for example :)

[1]: https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb/blob/master/src/mochigloba...
7 Facebook Ideas to Master Facebook Marketing
Vary: User-Agent header, caching servers should consider the user agent when deciding whether to serve the page from cache. [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Va...
So, I assume it doesn't get tiring..?

Did you have a hunched back and did it improve..?
Amazon operated in a red ocean? How?
I know I don't have all the information, but just on first glance--

I think it's pretty inappropriate for a VC to ask an entrepreneur who is at demo day (presumably pitching) to babysit their kids, unless they had known each other for many months as friends, which seems very unlikely given the context.
You're getting supply & demand wrong.

You want offices near you but no more housing, so that people work near you and are forced to live closer to you, and have to buy houses near you for ever-increasing prices.

And people who own homes (older than most of the population) are used to driving everywhere, they don't want people constantly walking in front of their houses. They all want their own cul-de-sacs.
I scale my CAD-like software to high core counts. Memory performance from the hardware side isn't a tunable parameter.

If you need the performance, AMD has no product in this space.
Where is Angular 3?
High-impact devops consulting. "Migrate me from expensive on-premise hosting to a private cloud running Openstack, because I have regulatory requirements that prevent me from going public cloud. This will save me $1.5M/yr in hosting costs". Great, that'll be a half-mil right to the engineer's pocket, TYVM, we'll be ready to launch in 8 months.

"We have zero CI/CD expertise in-house, build us a pipeline that does all the things vis a vis testing, deploy, etc". OK, that'll be $90k, we'll have it done in 2 weeks, plus another week for training your team on its use and upkeep.

"Our CTO is actually the tech person, and he's tired of provisioning VPCs and VMs by hand. His time is better spent doing more business-ey things" Poof, here's your CM deploy that lets your CTO either update a single YAML file and press 'go' to spin up all the things, or allows him to hire a junior/mid-level to twist all the knobs and pull all the levers. $300k please, it'll be ready to go in six weeks.

so on, and so forth.
Uber wasn't a risky startup about four or five years ago. They were a startup, yes, with all the risk that being a startup implies, but they were doing very well and expanding into new cities and holding their own against a competitor whose only attempt at differentiation was quirky pink mustaches. Even in cities that (unlike SF) had functional taxi systems, they offered compelling features that the taxis didn't have at the time: app-based realtime requests and reliable credit card payments.

Or, put another way, if Uber's shares in 2013 should be estimated at zero, should anyone's shares not? Anyone substantially more stable than Uber is either paying you actual cash, or giving you something with a liquid market and a clear market price (e.g., RSUs on post-IPO stock, which you can just sell as soon as you get them) instead of ISOs.

The entire point of ISOs is to avoid paying your employees a competitive salary entirely in cash by giving them something that you're claiming has more expected value than the difference between their base salary and what they're worth. If you're lying to them, then it's unsurprising that they'll be bitter.
> "high speed centrifugal juicers oxidize the juice"

Source? I've seen no empirical evidence to support this notion.

> "heat it up"

No they don't, not even close. My Green Star twin-gear and my Omega 8001 auger juicers both heat up juice WAY more than my Omega centrifugals. My centrifugal juicers also don't produce foam in any meaningful quantity.

These are very different juicers, meant for different tasks. My Green Star is the only juicer that I can use for leafy greens and sprouts, and it's brilliant at those, but it's useless for bulky things like apple, carrots, and beets.

My Omega centrifugal juicers, on the other hand, can't do greens worth a shit, but they'll suck nearly every drop from apples/carrots/beets, leaving just a slightly moist pulp behind.
>A different standard does not mean the absence of standards.

But that was the point I was arguing for. That US standard is not everyone's standard.
I believe this is the case for most organisms. Even humans are included.

Only a relative few would cause wide spread extinction.
I posted this before, but always relevant:

It is worth remembering that NIMBYism and real estate prices are one of the biggest drivers of inequality in the world.

Housing doesn't have to be expensive. It is, mostly, due to political reasons.

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2164734...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrdUj1adIBCaKe3H4RGq...
Your model assumes most people still own general-purpose cars, and farm them out on the side. Uber's assumes it will become more possible for people not to, and that they will instead rely on trip-optimized vehicles available centrally on a case-by-case basis. I think they have reason for optimism there...

For one, many times when Uber is in highest demand are also times when car owners most want to use their own vehicles (say, rush hour), so this notion that an Uber-like service can rely entirely on spare hours of personal vehicles is a little silly; sure, there are tons of idle cars at 4am on a Tuesday morning, but who needs to use them all then?

For another, I can totally foresee a future where we move away from this idiotic practice of having the typical vehicle on the road by a five-seater with one person in it, which is hugely inefficient. Commuting alone? Have a tiny car. Going on a trip with the family? Enjoy this self-driving SUV. Need to get from DC to Florida? Enjoy this self-driving bed, and wake up at your destination in the morning. Etc., etc.
Yes, KDF->pubkey seems like only sane way forward. Any discussion over old school passwords is a waste of time.
"contradict...not...barrier" is a triple negative, too much work for me.
White House releases personal info of voters who emailed election commission
this was an awesome read. archived for future ref: http://archive.is/XM2BO
> The day Mercedes ships the first self-driving car, it will come with "Go make yourself useful"-mode

I strongly doubt it. The first properly self-driving Mercedes will be an S-class, and posh people don't buy $100,000 limousines just to rent them out for $14.99 an hour.
Ah, got it. You typically have to say that really explicitly in all the languages. Also, it depends. Generally speaking, best practice is to have one and only copy and then a phone call where it's explained however. Better practice is not to take legal advice from my Internet comments, because I am not a lawyer :D.
We support arbitrary data formats in that Quilt falls back to a raw copy if it can't parse the file. On the columnar side (things we convert to Parquet) we support XLS, CSV, TSV, and actually anything that `pandas.read_csv` can parse. We use pandas and pyarrow for column type inference. We want to add a "data linter" that checks data against user-provided rules, and welcome such feature requests on GitHub or in our Slack Channel.
> Put it on top. Connect the I/O lines on your little PC to the output of the smoke detector chip. Let it do the heavy lifting, the stuff that you aren't sure you can do safely and which it has proven it can do for decades.

I worked on a network communications part (the little PC) of a device that controls train signals (the smoke detector chip). This is exactly how it's architected -- the safety-critical components are isolated from the non-safety-critical ones. The busybox linux board does not go in between the sensors and the vital control logic, but rather "on top"
Go-discover: discover nodes in cloud environments
Small private company, nobody's ever heard of it. There are a lot of shady ones out there.
There's always a list. Sometimes it's in people's heads, sometimes it's on paper. Sometimes it's in a computer.

In the UK, people can ask to see any information on them stored on a computer. Which is why blacklists are done on cardfile even today.
Its only been around a few years. If they fail and everyone is talking about some other transport service you will eventually consider the others or start walking. What process led to "trust" Uber can be duplicated.

And many people don't have the same attitude as you. Some with avoid uber because of ethical concerns, some will install every rideshare app and carefully consider prices before getting a ride and others will just install whatever and do whatever else.
I live in Colorado and am constantly perplexed at the presence of blocks full of million dollar houses down the road from hundreds of acres of cow pasture (not parks mind you, actual cow pastures that smell like cow shit).

Edit: These are not super nice houses either. They're just small 1-2k sqft houses built on top of each other. The problem is, when some developer manages to obtain one of said cow pastures from the city/rancher (many are city owned and leased to ranchers) they just pack it with 4k sqft mcmansions with barely enough room for a driveway between them. I don't know anyone who wants a 4k sqft house for $650k

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/121929267_zpid/globalr...
About that competition.

Per http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/07/number-of-uber-l... in SF there are 1.8k taxis and 45k Uber/Lyft drivers. That's 4% taxi vs. Uber/Lyft.

Barring changes in the law, number of taxis is limited by number of medallions. Number of Uber/Lyft is limited only by demand, which we probably are not even close to meeting (surge pricing during rush hours is still a thing).

If anything, the reports are that number of taxi rides went down and some taxi companies literally went bankrupt.

So taxis are not a competition.

You claim it's easy to compete with Uber/Lyft. Where is this competition in SF?

How do you explain what happened in Austin? When Uber/Lyft stopped service in Austin, several local competitors emerged.

When Uber/Lyft came back, they all folded within weeks. They just couldn't compete on price or availability.

Furthermore, if you claim that Uber, at their scale, has to subsidize to stay in business, how does that not apply to any other competitor.

Either this can be profitable business, in which case Uber has significant advantage due to their scale, existing user base and marketing presence, or it's not, in which case no-one can make money.
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Working poor in Mountain View are living in RVs
What startup was that, may I ask?
The 12 core threadripper (1920) is comparable with the 10 core 7900X in temrs of milticore performance, while still $200 cheaper. You can't compare only on the basis of core count as this review did.

More detailed review here:

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-perform...
Self-driving bed? Really? Is this in the hypothetical future where the Land of the Free, the home of muscle cars, pickup trucks and road trips, has banned cars driven by humans? Otherwise there's no way to make that safe.
Any reason you didn't have a backup generator? I would think if you were at risk of frozen pipes without electricity, it would be a wise investment.
Why is that sad? Intel didn't even have those chips on the roadmap until AMD punched them in the face with Ryzen.

Furthermore, how about that ECC memory? What good are 4 memory channels if I can't actually rely on the memory?

Competition is a good thing... and you can't exactly expect AMD to match every last SKU Intel has been holding back.
Then we are in agreement. My remark was not a rebuttal to yours.
Very true. Also, the divide is between long term residents and recent transplants. I have fights with people on Nextdoor everyday who rally neighbors to fight any development in our suburban city
Profuse apologies in that this is not a so-called boot camp type avenue, but if you're really interested in some computer science concepts, UMass Dartmouth offers a computer science certificate.

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I own a SFH and I am a YIMBY. But you are probably right.
The meat allergy thing is nightmare fuel.