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Show HN: Stadia Maps: simple, affordable maps for every app
https://stadiamaps.com

Maps shouldn't be difficult or expensive.

We founded Stadia Maps to address these two core issues. Most online maps are expensive, and when you have the money, difficult to implement and integrate.

We're starting out with base and static maps and routing. By starting simple, we can offer fair and transparent pricing. As we continue to expand our services (geocoding and satellite maps are on our short list), we will keep a straightforward pricing model.

We believe maps should serve the customer, not the map provider. Some mapping providers display maps with competitors to your business, reviews (that may be fraudulent), or their own logos alongside your data. We believe a well-designed base map is all you need to allow you data to shine. As we expand, we will continue to focus on putting your company and data first.

That's just the beginning; we are working on several simple tools to help business owners and developers utilize maps in their web and mobile applications. Ultimately, we want to enable others to create fantastic mapping experiences.

How

- We strive to provide fairly priced and transparent plans.

- We provide beautiful themes for a variety of contexts.

- We never track* or sell user data.

- We never display reviews or potential competitors (“related” businesses) alongside your data.

- We never display ads on your map.

- We are working on JS libraries to make interactive map design suck less.

*Beyond the necessary details to implement rate limiting and similar technical measures to ensure everyone has a good experience
Well, there a lot of specialized consultancies that pay well but with a high barrier of entry (I don't think you'll become a, say, Guidewire consultant overnight, or replace with whatever specialized field you know).

If you mean with a generalist's knowledge of IT, the place to be is San Francisco Area. This report might help you:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/blog/linkedin-workforce-report...

I guess IT Infrastructure and Systems Management is not sexy :) . I wonder if it pays the bills though.
So there is a way to figure out who is downloading what on IPFS? (At least assuming that you have assets comparable to national governments.)
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Double points means stronger effect. I would prefer if it would not be so. Only street knowledge acquired in kindergarten tended to override this.
Arch has 6.0 in testing at the moment. :)
In your experience, can a tick attach to you if you just brush against it while moving fast (running or cycling)? They're rather slow-moving, so I thought they can't latch onto you that quickly.
I don't think there's many activities which bestow coolness merely through participation at a casual level.
Think of them as FaaS - filtering as a service.

If you post an ad for a software dev position, you're going to get dozens to thousands of applications, and most of them won't even be close to what you're looking for.

Recruiters aren't perfect, but many of them are quite good. And from the perspective of a hiring manager, having a recruiter find you candidates is much less time consuming than posting an ad and then trying to read through and filter the applications that come in.
> anyone on the IPFS network could have a copy of your page

Yes, but critically they can't modify it thanks to content addressing [0].

> and serve them in your behalf.

Yes, over IPFS. So anyone with an IPFS client will have a robust way to view your status page. If people want to view it via HTTPS, they hit ipfs.io, which is an IPFS/HTTP gateway. While it's possible for other people to run gateways, I believe ipfs.io is the main one. It could theoretically be a bottleneck.

[0] https://dweb-primer.ipfs.io/avenues-for-access/lessons/power...
Terminal with GNU Screen works really well for me.
What antibiotic did you use? Doxycycline?
Why not? If they gave that to an athletics department nobody would blink.
Yes, it was a very, very, very long line.
Let me tell you this from direct personal experience: Opiate addicts are not "free" to do much of anything -- very very least of all are they free to, on a whim, switch and/or stop the drug. Yes that sounds over-exaggerated, but it is not. There is a huge wave of opiate addiction that is sweeping back and forth across the USA,, and nobody seems to be doing anything about. The White House acknowledges the problem, but offers nothing more than platitudes for political points [and doesn't even do that convincingly] and KellyAnn McPlasticSurgeryLiarFace who couldn't find her own ass in the dark with both hands.

And yea, the pharmaceutical companies are to blame -- of course it's not all their fault, but a huge, HUGE % of it is. It started with over-prescribing of pain pills. Particularly OxyContin. The pharmaceutical companies and their reps, intentionally and knowingly, told the doctors "don't prescribe a higher doseage, prescribe more pills of the lower dose" -- along with giving them financial incentives including straight cash kickbacks. They knew how addictive these drugs were, and they didn't care, if any of them say different they are flat out lying.

Then the government steps in, the DEA either pressures the doctors who are over-prescribing until they give up and quit, or they shut them down directly. Now there's a vacuum with a ton of cold hard cash floating around in it - the addicts still have to have their opiates but the suppliers (which were their doctors) are gone... what an opportune time for the heroin dealer to step in and fill the void?!?! And that is exactly what happened, and is happening right now everywhere in the country.

And it's not like the DEA doesn't know this is what happens, they would have to be bumbling idiots not to, but they have to show results in order to justify their budgets and keep their jobs.
This is money that could have been better spent to fund something more useful. I stopped supporting the Free Software Foundation once they starting making compromises in their mission and failed to give proper funding to critical infrastructure components that are part of the GNU Project. While they did say :

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Increase innovation and the number of new projects in high priority areas of free software development, including the GNU Project;

I'll believe it when I see it. We have become too dependent on core components that are not being properly maintained, lack funding or both. This won't solve the funding issue if these funds are squandered on a bunch of new projects and management.

I won't give another dime to the FSF until management changes, campaigns actually does something engaging with the community and more funding is put towards critical GNU components (instead of new bloated projects).
I still support the idea of Libre / Free Software, just not the religion and church that popped up around it. I'd like to see an organization that advocates for Free Software and is consistent in their mission (Hint : OSI and the Linux Foundation are not a fit).
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A good strategy is to bundle them, so that users can review a bunch of alerts when they're ready for the task.

Release Notes of a new version is a good place to place that bundle. People concerned with security do set aside time for such task.
Housing is largely a positional good, so for that Starbucks employee to live close by, someone else has to commute. Building more housing makes it less accute, but there will always be people willing to deal with long commutes, so that is the behaviour you see. I mean, I work at a company that pays very well in NYC and I have co-workers with 1hr+ commutes because they traded off commute time for a nicer home.
Its like the northern version of malaria.
The D&B numbers would be from the last fully reported year, i.e. 2016. They typically have pretty accurate data.

My point was not to imply this is a bad deal for any of the involved parties, but simply to add a data point to the discussion, one which other entrepreneurs looking for areas to add value should find highly interesting.
I feel like english does not provide us with effective words for discussing this topic.

unless you live alone in a cave, what other people think of you is important. it is exceedingly difficult to succeed in the modern world without cooperation, and people will not help you out as much or at all if they don't like you. this means you really do need to care what others think.

that said, it is common to conflate this sense of "caring" with the deep seated need for external validation that many humans have. most people enjoy being appreciated by their community, and this is fine, but I think it is very important not to be overly dependent on this. ideally, one's self worth would come primarily from within.
get as much data as you can find and start back testing all trading ideas you can come up with... sooner or later you'll find something that works for you, the most important part of the back testing is to back test for at least 1 market cycle, the more market cycles, the more robust system you'll have...

After that it is easy to convert the code and build the trading robot, now every discount broker is offering API for automated trading...
If people over 30 think it is, it is Discrimination. And if your caught bang to rights it makes sense to settle instead of being paraded through the courts and have the oppositions highly paid rotwilers trash your senior management teams competence and ethics.
> Total Tether issued as of the end of 2017.

Total Tether issued as of the end of January 2018 is about 2.3 billion.
Google Flights will now predict airline delays – before the airlines do
The great thing about being a parent is that it isn’t a one way street, where you just simply pass things on to your kid. Instead, you pass things back and forth. You share your interests with your kid, and they share theirs with you. Of course, not every interest is going to be shared equally, but you will both gain new interests from each other.
How is this not age discrimination?
"Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40."

I think this tells us so much about the financial literacy of today's society. And also quite something about the human psychology.
This is such a natural use case for IPFS that commercial adoption seems inevitable; as first mover you can offer the concierge edition and optionally gain a ton of credibility by open sourcing some of the core bits!

It sounds like your marketing will need to explain:

1. How updates work and how you guarantee staying universes away from NSFW/illegal content -- answered separately because nobody wants to find out what IPFS is infamous for as a part of discovering your service. (Both explanations need to function at two levels: one for techies and one for their bosses controlling the purse strings.) This may be possible​ to pull in quickly from existing CC-licensed documentation.

2. How users can link to content through multiple redundant WWW gateways/other services, and how to pay (you and others) for more reliability. Reliable reachability is absolutely key here, and should be built on multiple existing 3rd parties that are already used as status pages. For example: pay extra to whitelabel an auto-Twitter retweet bot.

Opportunity to be the "enterprise IPFS contact" here - explain from soup to nuts how to push status updates from anywhere (setup and simplified through your service but without requiring it be reachable) with any of multiple Yubikey/hardware auth tokens.

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Consider a completely separate marketing push/landing page that doesn't even mention IPFS until potential customers ask how it works. IPFS is a buzzword here but commercial customers probably count it as a negative (analogy: ICO on HN). Focus on the unique features IPFS offers and write up how those features solve the status page problem!
I think some base stations use GPS time as time/frequency reference.
The main difference here is that Wall Street does have more well regulated segments, such as your traditional investments like stocks and bonds. I think disclosure of the nature of investment is a key here. Even more risky areas (options and whatnot) can be approached at with at least some degree of analysis -- you are investing in companies of whom are required to maintain a series of statistics that can help you determine value.

Fraud still happens even in this space, but it's not a huge moonshot like an ICO would be in the best of circumstances (let alone the completely fraudulent make-money-fast type ICO scams.)

My thought on the CDO crisis and the somewhat nonchalant reaction from regulators, is that this was a sign that Wall Street needed more regulation in certain areas, their howls of protest on regulations that did appear post-2008 (eg Dodd-Frank) notwithstanding. It is worth noting that in the Savings and Loans scandal 20ish years earlier, people were jailed for selling fraudulent investment vehicles. The reaction to the CDO driven crisis in contrast was very weak IMHO.
What briandear is trying to say is that extreme points of view damage the democracy regardless of whether they are to the left or right.

And your point is extreme, for example. You are claiming that he is unfit. That's your opinion but wasn't the opinion of millions of people.

Personally I think he is extremely unqualified, and should not have been elected. Again, this doesn't matter.

The point is, he is the president, trying to delegitimize him serves no good to this country.

A democracy is built on the losing side acquiescing and letting the majority rule. This is why it was a big deal when Trump stated ahead of the elections that he would dispute them if he lost: it was a threat to the Democratic process. A civil war is the final result of this, when the minority does not want to give up control.
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That's the very corporate bullshit I mentioned. They talk about vague “concern in the community”, while the problem is direct, one-on-one breach of trust between Firefox and each of its users. People were fine with sending crash reports that can cause someone at Mozilla wonder if spending 10 hours at a single porn site page is a common use case, and the ability to install new code on users' systems could be a necessary evil in case of some network worm exploiting some zero-day, but that all was grounded in the firm belief that Mozilla did what it was supposed to do, i.e. making a good web browser, and was not abusing its tools.

The people responsible don't even understand the multi-layeredness of the fuck-up (because they don't understand the core problem).
a) There is a silently installed unwanted code.
b) There is a little known backdoor in Firefox that installed the code. (And that makes manual confirmation of regular updates a security circus that simply cheats the user.) Sure, they can say it is only used to satisfy a specific set of developers' needs, but
c) It has already been abused!
d) To everyone's amusement, Mozilla happens to bother itself with that baloney (“…instead of working”, many will add).
e) No one at Mozilla prevented that from happening (or was able to, or was aware of it).
f) That all makes the crack between Mozilla's declarations and Mozilla's reality shine bright. Now if someone at Mozilla decides to come up with the times and sell user browsing history (“non-personalized”, as they say), will I be able to find solace in another couple of PR bullshit blog posts?

If some engineers were Mr Robot fans and decided to implement the same functionality, it would have been forgotten in a couple of days. Easter egg, mildly amusing, go on. But a company that shows its absolute incompetence that way is not a pleasurable sight.
Philosophy is a great example of something that’s definitely helpful, just tough to lay out concrete benefits. You can give it a lot of ham-fisted examples (philosophy helps with maths), but at the end of the day philosophy is about life itself.
The Mozilla Public License is not a standard licence. If you don't understand why it's unhelpful to muddy the waters with non-standard licences, here's a blog post: https://ben.balter.com/2016/08/01/why-you-shouldnt-write-you...
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Yeah, the nodes connect via IP addresses. You could proxy it through Tor or something though.
Why there were no blockchain projects for the last 10 years?
> One of the annoying things about cookies ... is that they need to be created by a web server

Nope.
Is there any chance Nutella would stop using palm oil as the base of their spread?

People love nutella so much, it's a real shame it has such a terrible impact on the planet.
I live in an apartment where electricity is free (bill is included), so I'm curious if mining with a single GPU is worth it. I have Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB and nicehash is saying I can make £52 a month with it. If that means running the GPU at full power 247 it would probably give up the ghost sooner than it pays for itself, not to mention it would be loud as fuck with fans at 100%.
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Couldn’t one flip the equation by saying that allowing certain tax deductions is a form of government spending? The government has decided it is OK with non-centralized (you and I can pick) funding to certain classes of organizations, which is as much a part of the tax code (Or was) as the tax rate itself. I find it difficult to place a kinda of moral burden on the tax payer when this is entirely government policy.
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Why don’t you think charging different prices to people of different ages is age discrimination?
Depends on the target. It would be much harder to implement Java with a assembly target and some of the standard library because you would have to implement that from scratch. Not only that, but you have to deal with vtables from inheritance and class layouts. C doesn't require any of that complexity.

That being said, I think it would be very valuable to see somebody implement at least a partial version of Java with standard library (such as generics or at least collections) with assembly as the target.
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Firefox has already whitelisted the IPFS protocol so that extensions can provide implementations. It won't be long before this can be decentralized.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo...
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I often play couch-coop-games with my girlfriends.

Coop is always kind of a bonding activity :D
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> Our intent was to provide a discount for younger users.

Let me get this completely straight. Netflix can deliver unlimited views of thousands of tv shows and movies for $10/mo. Spotify lets you stream 30 million songs. Amazon can get physical packages to your doorstep in two days. Google can spin up a server in a data center for you.

But Tinder requires $20/mo. It must be cripplingly expensive to store all of those photos and biographical text fields. I can't even imagine the size of the data they store, it must be terabytes. And the engineering behind swiping?
I'm not sure this is actually Decentralized. I have been playing with IPFS quite a bit recently, and this looks to host the content on one node. That node goes away, your content goes away. You need more than one nodes 'pinning' the same content in order to actually be decentralized, and as far as I can tell this project doesn't provide that functionality.

That has been my biggest drawback so far with IPFS, there isn't really an easy way to get other nodes to pin the correct content, without passing around big nasty hashes (e.g., QmYwAPJzv5CZsnA625s3Xf2nemtYgPpHdWEz79ojWnPbdG) by hand.
was missing something like that on whatsapp. interesting feature
There are places in this world for departments of philosophy and degrees in philosophy to exist, and a prestigious research institution like Johns Hopkins is probably one of those places.

In most other colleges and universities, I think it would be much more beneficial, to both students and teachers, for philosophy to become part of a common curriculum for everyone rather than remaining its own department with its own major.

Knowledge of philosophy is a kind of force multiplier. It can help you become a more thoughtful and ethical person no matter what you do. But if you do nothing apart from philosophy, well, zero multiplied by a force multiplier is still zero.

Disclaimer: Got a Ph.D. in philosophy. Currently running my own business.
My son just turned six and I got him a Switch for Christmas, it's his first gaming system. Apparently he's still too young to really be able to play the games I bought him, but we have had a lot of fun playing Mario together. He gets extremely excited being the hat and helping out. We've only played 3 or 4 times because I'm not that much of a gamer anymore, but I'd say it has been a positive experience. I wish there were a few more games that he could enjoy on his own though.
Personally, I am massively in favor of providing things like unemployment benefits through the state, rather than unions.
There has historically been a discount for “young poor kids” and we call that a student discount.

Charging an amount simply based on the numerical value of age (a pure, permanent demographic attribute) rather than what a person’s economic circumstance (something technically not permanent) does at least form some definition of unfair pricing.
Luckily there is a vaccine for this
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> Two, that by shipping drugs, drug companies are causing the epidemic. They may be profiting from it, they may support legislation to make it worse, but it doesn't take millions of pills to get hooked. This is a result of additiction, not a cause of it.

I hope you're right and it's not the other way around.

If you had told me a few years ago that drug companies were in on the take — that the drug companies had caused the opioid crisis, I would have told you to put your tin foil hat back on and stop watching 70's conspiracy films.

But with the millions (billions?) of dollars we're talking about and pharma's questionable track record....
Yes, absolutely. Hence my describing it as an overly narrow question.

My point is precisely that, in going the SHIELD route, they selected for people who would ask that narrow question, because that's what they're usually concerned with, rather than the bigger questions they should've been asking.
I think the "highly ranked school" is what matters in that case, not that the degree is in philosophy in particular. If you graduate with a 3.9 from Harvard, your specific degree doesn't matter for many lucrative fields, and you'll have access to connections for the interviews.
> The random tangent about deforestation and global warming seems ideological to me.

The relationship between insect outbreaks and climate change is not ideological and has a number of studies supporting the theory that insect populations increase and migrate due to climate change.

Here's one link [0] culled from a quick search on Google [1]

[0] http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[072...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?num=100&source=hp&ei=CNtxWsyxB...
It's true that isn't easy.

It's also true that it may not be necessary.

What makes a good language? One that randomly accumulates state of the art ideas about programming without breaking old code, or one that gets out of the way and allows requirements to be expressed reliably and relatively simply?

Of course C++ is used because it's fast. It's fine in limited domains like DSP.

But what is the rationale for a language that whimsically accumulates new features every couple of years, while failing to deal with basic challenges like memory management?

It's not as if it's ever going to reach a critical mass and turn into Haskell.