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Agreed. CM ten years ago was a real neighborhood spot. CM five years ago was basically turning into the hipster version of Herald Square.
has a lemonade stand ever evolved into serious business? I am of the impression they get abandoned
What's jobs in europe pay more? Are considered more valuable/prestigious?
I feel like it is inevitable because the current crop of right wing politicians are hard core ideologues. Pragmatism is not in their vocabulary.
Scientists using GPU-driven deep learning to study gravitational waves
fwiw a CloudHSM is a dedicated piece of hardware that is otherwise fairly expensive.
Are the Digits of Pi Truly Random?
I always enjoy the food there. What's _not_ a tourist trap in Manhattan?
>The first component of what was to become US Steel opened in 857

I'm such an idiot that I read that and didn't even think it was a typo. I was really impressed that the company had lasted that long, with that belief propped up by the fact that steel itself by far predates the Roman Empire. Sure, the steelmaking process we use now is pretty new, but battles in Ancient China and Rome were fought using steel weapons.
> "keep a cron job running" sounds like it you're running the cron job by hand.

Cron jobs fail sometimes. You have to monitor them, investigate why they failed, fix the issue, and rerun them.

Web servers fail, too, but with shared hosting, it's mostly not your problem. And shared hosting providers are still trying to charge an arm and a leg to manage SSL certs for you (because it's a nice high-margin business for them).
This is plainly wrong. Rockefeller started dealing in oil because the unit economics were excellent, and because he recognized that no dominant players had emerged in the market yet, opening it up to vertical & horizontal integration (both of which he executed flawlessly).

Furthermore, asserting that indoor lighting was a toy -- in an age where other light sources were dim, prohibitively expensive, or excessively smoky -- seems mistaken to me.
while working on our startup [1] this is one of the top pg quotes I like. However while talking to our customers we regularly face the "toy" critic as opposed to "feature rich". however approaching it as a toy keeps it simple , though for saas it appears as too simplistic sometimes.

[1] we offer games and puzzles as a service to serious marketing clients.
Stupidest mayor, or most venal? We should all watch very closely what happens to the people who put together the "winning" deal. There probably won't be suitcases full of cash exchanged in dark alleys, but there just as probably will be a cohort of former civic leaders who find remarkably lucrative jobs in the private sector within a few years.

Also, the author's right that the structure of this guarantees that the winner will be loser. The probability of all twenty finalists putting together bids that are actually good for their cities is practically zero. Even if everyone's trying to be honest and responsible, there will be some bids that are based on too much optimism and the winner will come from among those. The cities that only lost the employee-hours necessary to put together a bid will be the lucky ones.
I think your assumption that steel is usually embedded in concrete is incorrect. It can be, but it's also often not. Have you never seen steel beam construction with exposed beams? It's not at all uncommon...
that kind of gamification does not alter the nature of your product though. it s still some kind of tool and not something people use almost exclusively for fun/leisure
Half-day old snow is safe to eat
Book: In ‘Brotopia,’ Silicon Valley Disrupts Everything but the Boys’ Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
Wow, this is actually something useful.

This isn't another "Uber for X" or "AirBnB for Y". I can't wait for you all to get huge and for this to succeed just for the fact this idea is so simple + pure but has such huge promise.
What? Googles new office on 30th and pearl is hardly 'sprawling' - the target and wholefoods that are right next to it each take up a much bigger footprint than the office, and that is just the buildings themselves - Target and WF have surface parking which takes up huge amounts of real estate for almost zero value - whereas the Google building has 3 or 4 levels of parking underneath it, reducing their overall footprint.

Man, if only Google left this lot condemned and abandoned, along with the defunct car dealership across the corner which is just an empty lot. Boulder would be so much better off.

You can verify all this with the satellite photos and street view.
Are you absolutely sure about this?
Put another way; Seinfield was about how people react to a breakdown in social conventions, and really small ones at that. The types of things that happen in Seinfield were the types of things you would go home and talk to your spouse about. "Someone at work today was standing really close to me!" "I was driving through an exit ramp and two cars tried to merge into the same space!" etc.
Protip: reload the page.
you seem to think that QtCreator has special cases for Qt code. AFAIK the only specificity is that some icons change on signals during autocompletion, but it works just fine for non-qt projects - it's used quite a bit for development on embedded platforms. the c++ code model is simply its of clang.
We chose "carbondoomsday" to be provocative, and to push into a silly level of seriousness about climate change. Similar to http://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/
As much as I disagree with his thesis here, the entire point of it is that YC wants to and does fund toy companies. So they're trying to solve the exact problem you're railing against.
State of Blockchain 2018 [pdf]
I don't recommend labelling yourself as a terrorist, but I think it's important to consider if there is any society so unjust that you would give your life to destroying it, and maybe considering how, exactly, that's different.
That's pretty much how most countries made money. Opium wars, slave trade, etc.
Counterpoint: small inefficiencies add up, ruining throughput and latency in a bigger codebase.

Nothing teaches this better than seeing code making thousands of ephemeral objects in Java in a heap profiler and getting GC stalls with no big place to fix.
Eight years on and I'm not sure that essay, while confident, has been borne out by time.
We'll never fight an all out war like that ever again. Future wars will be cold and take place in cyber space and the media. These systems are meant to be deterrents and symbols of financial might.
>I'd like to know what we're doing to destroy communities and how we can prevent that.

Stop moving into small cities with workers paid significantly above the average of the existing residents. Restaurants open that they can't afford, the limited housing stock gets bid up quickly, good schools get overcrowded, etc.

It's not a pleasant answer, but realistically that's ultimately what upsets a good chunk of the people that complain. If you bring in 2,000 people into any small city who make $200k/year+ when the average is down around $50k/year, it's going to result in a backlash and there is nothing you can really do unless you ban your employees from spending money there. The only real strategy is to pretend you are concerned and wait for the problem to gentrify away.
Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law. The term typically refers to redistribution on an economy-wide basis rather than between selected individuals.

Thanks, Wikipedia.

Now, the Republican policies take less than has previously been taken from the rich, and take more than has previously been taken from the middle-class and poor, but not just yet, so it actually increases the deficit by a trillion dollars in order to make it more palatable.

So, yes, the Republican policy as exemplified in what they actually pass is to transfer money to the rich and borrow money to do so.
We're not talking about natural selection, we're talking about actual learning(crow article), and discussing if other animals have that ability. I understand how evolution works.
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Personally i wouldn't mind it that much if the browser let me bypass the error but HSTS seems to mean "even if the site would work fine otherwise, keep it broken". There have been several cases where i couldn't bypass such an error in a site that i just wanted to read something and i was very surprised to see that Firefox didn't had any about:config option to indicate that "i know what i am doing, let me in". So much for taking back the web. Seems it was only temporary so we can hand it to Google.
Of course a mystery website attacking city-run broadband was run by an ISP
Author here. I wrote a Twitter thread demonstrating many of its features. You can find it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/captbaritone/status/9612747140133...
Amazing quotes. You're a gifted commenter.
> Over 68% of Chrome traffic on both Android and Windows is now protected

> Over 78% of Chrome traffic on both Chrome OS and Mac is now protected

This is an interesting way to report HTTPS usage.

Why are Android and Windows grouped together and why are Chrome OS and Mac OS grouped together?
Don’t think GP was entirely serious.
Many businesses were launched from Wordpress, and I know more than a few bespoke technology products where the MVP was Wordpress with a few plugins. I don't think you're too far off-base here.
Winamp + dialup connection. How many hours have we lost downloading a bunch of mp3 files...
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Generally I hate these warnings because they are extremely stubborn while not really telling the user what could fix the problem. They also don’t explain why the error might show up today when everything was fine yesterday.

I’d much prefer a message like: “There is no way to verify that this site really is who it claims to be (possibly due to an expiration date, as sites must periodically renew their validations). The owner of the real site can resolve this error by using certification services such as LetsEncrypt. A secure connection is not possible until the site renews its validation.”.
There are maybe 600k people within commuting distance of Google Boulder. Adding 1.5k high paying jobs isn't going to drastically affect the community.
I think most specialty "wide" shoes are only normal wide, that is they're the correct width for people who don't have particularly wide feet.

I have a pair of Otz boots that I love, they look like Timberlands but have a really nice wide toe box, and a zero drop vibram lugged sole. And of course, they don't make them any more. I would have bought 3 or 4 pairs if I knew that to last me a while.

It's even worse with bike shoes, and I don't even have wide feet. I just want a pair of mountain bike shoes that don't make my toes hurt.
I don't see how desirable unit economics refutes GP's claim that the initial market was lamp oil.
I understand that they are doing this to help keep housing costs affordable, but Detroit needs tourism income more than they need affordable housing at this point. They have plenty of land and run down houses that can be fixed up if AirBnb raises the cost of real estate in one area.
So funding toy companies (IE Mark Zuckerberg and other well-off white men) is solving the problem of only funding Mark Zuckerberg and other well-off white men?
Rollup's strength is its simplicity and focus.

It splits a fine-grained module graph into coarse-grained vanilla ES modules with zero duplication across fragments and no artificial overheads, e.g. no wrapping internal modules inside functions, and no runtime loader infrastructure.

A simple idea done well.
Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch
Hello all, OP here.

Don't hesitate to shoot any questions if you have any.

This blog is mostly oriented towards filmmakers, but the concept of perfecting vs completing can apply just as well to web or technical endeavors.
Nope.

http://www.httpvshttps.com

https://www.httpvshttps.com

See also: https://istlsfastyet.com
The user in this case is a random web browser piloted by a non-technical person. It doesn't make any sense to try to arm them with technical solutions to the problem; that's the site owner's job.
Boulder doesn't exist on an island. Many people commute to Boulder from Denver, the L-towns(Longmont, Lousiville, Lafayette), and even Fort Collins. So the population of the region is more like 700k
I dislike this because I have respect for human beings instead of applying moral rules like a robot.
This is often called with a flowery phrase "Machine Sympathy".

The problem begins where deadlines are too close to fix minor inefficiencies...
Oh stop the gatekeeping.

I don't think anyone really believes Chelsea Market is a culinary wonder, or that it's catering to the True(tm) New Yorker. It's pretty, it's in a fairly nice area, there's no entry fee, and it's easy to have fun there if you take it for what it is.
All correct, although one other angle might have been the protection of US space technology. Even though SpaceX is private, I believe their technology is not exportable.
This is a pretty bogus comparison; it's HTTP/2 versus HTTP/1.1.
That style of posting is not uncommon on HN. Some of the recent examples with the exact same structure, from https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22release%20notes%22&sort=byD... are: "GHC 8.4.1 Release Notes", "Gulp v4.0.0 release notes", "Go 1.10 Release Notes", "Cryptsetup 2.0.0 Release Notes", "MongoDB 3.6 RC release notes", "Android Studio 3.0 Release Notes", "Tmux 2.6 release notes", and "Django 2.0 release notes".

Did you understand what all of those meant? Probably not. I don't.

But your lack of understanding doesn't make it notable.
So nothing is worthwhile if it doesn’t also solve inequality?

Tall order.
Yes, I do agree with that.

If they are minimalistic and hold the app then this makes sense and then containers are essentially an unified packaging format that is accepted on "serverless" public cloud. This provides a value because you can then easily run your application on multiple providers where it is cheaper at given time.

I'm thinking that in the future your IDE could just compile your project into a single file that you then upload it anywhere and just run.

But the docker was promoted as something different with the union fs, nating etc. That works fine for development but it's a bit problematic operationalizing it.
Over half a million people live within commuting distance of Boulder. It may 'only' have 100k people in it, but you aren't forced to live in the city limits if you want to work at Google Boulder
thats a fine sentiment if you arn't having trouble affording housing...
Well, what if instead they think how stupid were we to not develop fusion sooner? Or immortality? Or human bioengineering? Eating cows hardly can make that list if we pick top 10 pressing matters.

Seriously, you want to make real impact, learn yourself a high energy physics degree and do research. Not eating meat is a joke. We as humanity will make not eating meat much sooner if we'd focus on uploading and fusion.
I think OP has a point. MZ was comfortable enough leaving school for a semester, and that too after being put on academic probation for violating serious codes of ethics. Despite all that, he still managed a $500k seed investment from Peter Thiel. Students who grow up in poverty and put the work in to get into college, let alone a prestigious one like Harvard, are usually fighting to do everything right just to make it through, and many don't because they can't make financial commitments (and yes, despite tons of scholarship money) or personal commitments with family.

People like Mark always had the security of their family's relative wealth and security on top of their general status in society. That's not a luxury afforded to most, and certainly not those from low-income backgrounds.
I'm black, I did YC. I know quite a few women and non-white men who've gone through YC, too. I think if you made your point (which is an important one!) with less snark and hyperbole, it would be more effective.
>Naval shipbuilding needs a SpaceX.

Waste is the entire point of the exercise. Massive spending on complex military hardware is the New Deal of the post-Reagan era.

The F-35 is widely regarded as a complete fiasco - massively over-budget, ineffective in most combat roles and plagued with defects. After 20 years and $1.5 trillion in spending commitments, it's still not contributing to the strategic defense interests of the US; many analysts think that the F-35 is simply incapable of being made combat-ready.

To see the actual point of the program, you need to look at Lockheed Martin's Economic Impact Report. 32,000 direct and 138,000 indirect jobs. 1,400 suppliers across 46 states and Puerto Rico. It's not a multi-role fighter aircraft, it's a pork barrel with wings. It's politically unstoppable - a Democrat legislator can vote against wasteful military spending, a Republican legislator can vote against expensive job creation schemes, but nobody can vote against both.
I have read(@ Atomic Adventures by James Mahaffey) about "lockwood" made by irradiating wood. It's supposed to have been quite popular, used for floors, even bows.
Have you encounter it?
regulating speech is a practically and legally thorny issue not just because tech bros are dumb and lazy
Attracting diverse employers from multiple industries who pay above median (but not too far above) wages. That is how you drag quality of life up for your citizens.

You don't throw gasoline on a fire. You slow stoke it while continually adding fuel.
The trend certainly will continue, if only because that's how it's always worked - even before twitter, or even the internet. TV, radio, newspapers, publishers, etc. have always had this power - you had to market yourself to enough people for someone with influence in one of the aforementioned medias to consider you worthy and propel you to visibility and success.

One might even say that the current state of affairs, or trend, is preferable because it's not some small group of people acting as gatekeepers, but instead it's "the hivemind" as you've put it.
> Octopuses are incredibly smart

They are, but their lives are so short they'll never develop language, culture, or any other kind of memetic structure for their species.
This totally sucks for web based services and sites which don't have a (user friendly) chance to use HTTPS.

Think of LAN only IoT devices which aren't proxy through a external company site, have no domain, are accessed through (local area network IP) and maybe run in non internet environment.

I wish there was a solution for web based encryption for this application domain and browser vendors start to think out of their internet only box. ... same goes for service workers.
One has to follow the clock on their interactions with others. They have suppliers delivering food, distributors picking up the milk, part-time workers that have other jobs, etc. I'm sure transitioning helps, but that still leaves at least two weeks each year during which the routines are screwed up.
I would also add the following pet peeves:

- Qt Creator doesn't do a good job detecting when a build scripts should be refreshed even when a project is built, which causes compilation/linking problems.

- Qt creator doesn't support setting a centralized widget stylesheet to define and update the stylesheet properties of any widget.

- it only supports profiling in linux (valgrind)

- its refactoring features are relaticely limited

- support for static analysis via clang feels like a rush job
> Although I am genuinely surprised how much Google and others like Mozilla have had to drag many site owners kicking and screaming into HTTPS

Personally i am very concerned about how much power Google has over the web - all it takes to change millions of how web sites work and look like is a random decision by Google.

What bothers me even more is that most people do not seem to care much because they happen to agree with what Google is doing (so far). However i think that sites should make decisions on their configuration, layout, mobile friendliness and other things because they want to, not because they are forced by Google through taking advantage of their position and biasing what people see towards what they believe people should see.

I do not like that Google basically dictates how the web should behave.

(actually it isn't only the web, but also mail - just recently i had a mail of mine end up in the spam folder of someone else's GMail account because who knows what of the 1983847813 things i didn't configured exactly as Google likes it in my mail server... and of course the "solution" that many people present to this is to hand all my communications to Google)
Actually one of the only realistic things you can do is advocate a large scale rollout of nuclear power to replace coal, primarily in the US, China and India.

I'm not advocating dinosaur approaches like the AP-1000, but instead new, innovative designs like that championed by ThorCon Power.

http://thorconpower.com/thorcons-green-nuclear-power-gains-m...

"A comparison of all offered sources of nuclear found ThorCon’s power to be 4 to 5 cents per kWh lower than the competition and the only clean source of non-intermittent power that was competitive with coal."
It's HTTP/2 over TLS versus HTTP/1.1 without TLS.
Note 1: This is interestingly isomorphic to the immigration debate. I'm not taking sides on this point, I just find the parallels interesting.

Note 2: Thousands of highly paid employees will cause real estate prices to rise, certainly. But they'll spend on more than just real estate, so the economy as a whole will grow with a lot of incoming money to be spent. As these incoming people are already working for 1 company, their demand for products/services will fall onto the local economy. Which is good for existing residents who participate in that economy. It'll also be good for anyone else who lives (after surviving applicable rent hikes) in the same districts, as the influx of tax money will help local schools, law enforcement, libraries, etc.
If my numbers are right, that would be a car that does 20 miles per gallon.
Last time I went to Chelsea Market I got the feeling of "Nobody (local) goes here... there are too many tourists and the experience walking around here is miserable" Times Square-esque
Yeah, unfortunately it puts you lower on the totem pole as a software engineer. This results in lower salaries in general for developers there compared to the bay.
The article talks about how new people aren’t being recruited in the new administration. 18F under Obama was a major recruitment effort for quality talent.
Paul Graham's original article: http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
I am directly responding to above person’s claim that this practice by YC is somehow solving the very problem it is creating.

At no point did I claim that everything has to solve inequality.
What you're saying is partly true, but what do you think YC should do?
And standard bands and hardware buttons.
Fitness magazine. Usually the information is rehashed stuff from last month but I subscribe for two reasons.

1. Monthly renewal of motivation to workout.
2. I limit screen time at home. So magazines are fun to read/look at.