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> The main schedule constraint is that marketing spend must be paid months in advance for the purpose of reserving specific time windows. That spend is often equal or greater than the development budget. And, if you miss your time window, too fucking bad. You will have no marketing, no more money to buy in again and your game is now a flaming money hole.

That's a good argument for being date-driven. However it strikes me that the best way to deal with that is to have a disciplined project management process so that you have a good estimate for when product development will actually be done.
Mmm... Ashton-Tate dBase III+, those were the good old days:) And later, similarly with db and programming integration: MS Access, and even Excel to some extent.

None of them ever made it past the 'desktop' as a whole though, probably a feature of any db-included programming language.
While I agree that limited release is better than incarceration in many instances, I don't think the GP should be dismissed so quickly. The third point is important. If being put into this system is viewed as not has harsh as being incarcerated, does that change how likely people are to have charges pressed? Does this bypass most of that by being associated with the pre-trial but post-charges phase? If it ends up causing a 20% dorp in pre-trial incarceration but somehow encourages 20% more arrests that have charges applied, is that worthwhile?

I don't know the answer to any of these, but I think it's worth discussing. As such, I've decided to view your dismissal as a compliment. "Only on HN is app-based remote monitoring as a method to reduce jail seen as a complex system with many inputs and outputs that sometimes have unintended consequences and as such it deserves in-depth discussion, especially since it's such an important issue." (not that I think this discussion is only available on HN)
"The pending purchase rankles some Westminster faculty and alumni, who question what a longtime maker of steel spans knows about running an elite school whose choirs sang with maestros Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini and Seiji Ozawa."

I think that sentence provides some insight into the deal. As China becomes wealthier, their aspirations will be elevated as well. There's a lucrative opportunity here where the prestige of an American institution can be used to attract family who have the means and aspirations for their children to be acquainted with cultures and arts other than the ones they are born into.

It's kind of funny to hear people complain about a former steel company taking an interest in music education given the prestige that Carnegie Hall holds in American culture.
An idea, any foreign country that forbids buying land in their country [0] is not allowed to buy land in our country. Sound equal?

[0] "Foreign investors are not allowed to buy land in China. The land in China belongs to the state and the collectives."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_law#Buying_la...

Edit: I think it's reasonable to leverage our freedom as an asset instead of a liability to be abused.

Edit: Replaced "fair" with "equal"
This post doesn't mention when to sign an operating agreement with your co-founders and legally form a company.

IMO, the answer is: you should have a signed equity agreement before you start working on the MVP, and and you must have one by the time you finish working on the MVP.

In practice, you'll probably need to incorporate a business to build your MVP. If you're accepting money from customers, the company should accept their money, not a co-founder directly. (Y Combinator recommends a Delaware C Corp.)

Even if you're just spending money, maybe at first one of the co-founders can fund it out of a personal bank account, but it's way better to have a business with its own bank account and operate the business out of that.

Your MVP isn't really viable unless your co-founders have signed an agreement. Sign one, early.
Why use Telegram over something actually secure like Signal?
> ...but will involve us trying to get them back on calendar if they miss a court date

Isn't that inherently what bounty hunters do?
This[1] suggests that they do have specialized channels to report this exact type of problem, and that they do investigate and take action on reported cases. It says they also periodically send reminder emails about the legal requirements for drivers.

I talked to a driver once that said that he got suspended when a rider had erroneously reported that he "looked high" (despite that being the only complaint that day despite him having had many passengers). He complained that Uber had not even bothered to hear his side of the story before suspending him and they should've told him to come to a driver center to get tested, instead of just taking someone's report at face value. He said he went to the hospital to get drug tested and had to submit the results to get reinstated. So at least from anecdata, it seems non-compliant drivers do get booted on a shoot-first-ask-later fashion.

It sounds like the problem here is that some drivers still choose to break the law on the 1 out a 1000 chance they run into the service dog situation, even despite all the warnings telling them not to do it.

[1](https://accessibility.uber.com/)
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(I work on Google Payments, opinions are my own)

Google probably accepts the most forms of payment of any single company in the world (just a guess), but which forms of payment are accepted on any given product under Google will vary. For example, Adwords[0] has the list of supported forms of payment by country. While in Play we things like Paypal, direct_carrier_billing, and gift cards.

I have no clue what the News Initiative is supporting, but I could guess it will be credit/debit cards from around the world.

Google has built a LOT of payments projects. Some have definitely failed, but there are many that you don't notice because it will be supporting specific flows in specific countries or products.

[0] https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375433?hl=en
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I wish lively.next could get some more funding or otherwise take off. It would really change how people make complex web applications
If Apple open-sourced their OS you'd have a CentOS in half a day. Apple definitely doesn't want clones, it means less customers and less cohesive branding, so is there any reason this wouldn't be a very damaging move?
And in your investor deck you "promised" your VC investors there is a potential for huge monetary return in this. That's what the VCs will look at anyways. Side benefit to community? nice to have but who cares.
I quite like this (extremely accurate) opening:

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

– The Luck of the Bodkins
Are these colleges accredited? And if so, will they still be accredited and reviewed just as they were when they were wholly owned by the University?

It smells weird that a foreign state-owned company wants to buys a US college. Maybe they want the land, or maybe its all about that tuition money. The China sees that we Americans are stupid enough to pay $30-40k per year to go to a private music college, and they want a cut of that.
I kind of doubt this story. What kind of radiation would you have from Chernobyl?

My understanding is that bit flips (SEEs) are typically caused by energetic particles like cosmic rays. To simulate upset damage on Earth, you typically need to decap the IC and go to a testing facility that directly hits the wafer with particles. It seems unlikely that somewhere near Chernobyl that there would be particles energetic enough that didn't get stopped by the IC packaging.

Gamma radiation gives total ionizing dose effects that degrade chips until the point they no longer work. Those shoot right through the chip packaging. But I don't think it typically causes upsets.
We have a number of companies who apply to YC with an MVP before incorporation. While I agree getting this done is a good idea - its not an absolute requirement for YC.
If you get rejected, you can apply again for the next batch when you'll have a working demo and maybe some users.
The new one is better:

https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/#?src=https%3A%2F%2Fb...
"Testilying" is a fun, cute name for the crime of perjury.
That's a pretty bad outcome, since (if "gig economy" businesses drive out regular ones) it will have the effect of making it much harder for disabled and elderly people to travel or even leave the house.
The IRS treats cryptocurrencies as property, just like stocks. The standard rules for capital gains/losses apply when you buy/sell/exchange it. For more details, read the IRS guidelines:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
Perhaps because it breaks the site guidelines about shallow dismissals and responding to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Obviously the app is just a part of what they're doing, and the bulk of it involves working with people and institutions.
It's a canary, it should ideally never be triggered but in case it does you want to know about.

Another way would be to put a fake user in your users database and then watch password leaks and see if it shows up. Then you know you've been breached. It should never happen but if it does it's good to know.
Employers must provide "reasonable accommodation" to those with disabilities.
I assume the allergy situation is different for encountering a dog on the street versus in closed close quarters such as a vehicle.
What happens the first time someone is murdered by someone in your program who would have otherwise been in jail? It’s ruined countless political and civil servant careers. How will your company survive the public backlash?
There used to exist Google News Archive Search, and it really worked. I was able to search for the name of an obscure person who died in 1910, find obituaries of them and create a Wikipedia article about them, etc.

Then in 2011 it was shut down, and also the number of newspapers hasn't grown, it has actually become smaller.[1][2] It's claimed to be back in some form, but those who used to use it earlier aren't really satisfied.[3]

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/googl...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google_News_Archi...
[3]: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/Fw2caKy6...
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The accommodation is for that driver to provide medical evidence when they're employed, and then for Uber to only allow drivers with previously declared allergies to decline dogs.

Since Uber still claims it's not an employer it's going to continue to not provide this, which means they'll face dual claims: from guide-dog owning passengers and allergic-to-dog drivers, both of which are being discriminated against by Uber's illegal practice.
yep, my local radio shack, in the end, started to start stocking some interesting stuff ... and they had a series of drawers that had a variety of resistors, leds, and other such things that you could pick through. But as you said, too little too late. They could have taken the lead on the maker movement, given that they had the infrastructure in place ... but despite them having this stuff, the workers knew little to nothing anytime I asked them a question, they were just there to take the money at POS and restock the shelves :(
Hard to say; it's entirely possible he was "joking" at the time.

It's also completely possible (and this is my belief) that he eventually drunk his own Kool-Aid and came to genuinely believe that Facebook really was about making the world a better place by connecting people.
> Only on HN is app-based remote monitoring seen as potentially worse than being IN JAIL.

That's a bit of a strawman - there are other ethical issues at play here. Some people don't have smartphones. Others will have theirs lost/stolen/broken. Do they go back to jail?
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Petroleum industry used to use Pick where I lived for some distribution software, but it seems it's main place is medical records software from what I've heard).

It is a fine distinction I suppose, although the Pick stuff I've looked at was more than just stored procedures - TUI/GUI support for apps (mostly dumb terminal based but Cache probably has some GUI stuff in there now), overnight batch scripts and report creation etc.

I haven't used MUMPS, but did a little bit of time with Pick and later on Cache. I believe Pick systems were often more than just the multi-valued database and absolutely horrendous language, in that they were often tightly integrated into the OS too - disk storage, terminal support etc.
I am fairly certain that is not correct. When you buy a virtual currency with another virtual currency, that is a taxable event, and you have to estimate the basis for tax using the currency gain in dollars. Or that is what I have understood from their guidance docs.

I do plan on talking to an accountant with specialty in this, obviously, just trying to figure out what others have experienced to see if my thoughts are off.
Telegram has publicly stated that they refuse to hand over their keys (though whether or not they will, time will tell). This is in contrast to FB, Google, and Twitter who have not released a statement about whether or not they will comply: http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-twitter-google-censors...
So does that mean an employer has no obligations give accommodations to the disabled given there is no law granting a right to work at a particular job?
So how does the system know what time it is? Host time is not reliable. Genuinly curious.

This is the reason why Ethereum contract usually set start time, end time and similar in block numbers. Block number is reliable while timestamp is just a local time of the miner that mined the transaction in which the contract call was included.
It doesn't hurt to have raytracing primitives with efficient implementation.

I see that GI and ambient occlusion are generally low frequency in space, but don't reflections and refractions require higher fidelity?

uh, I'm thinking mirror-like reflections, but there are softer reflections, like off a matt red wall (seems GI-like).
No, not crazy. I have/had a hard time believing it but according to FB they do:

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
It is a safe haven for capital, too - see the comment below about the 1980s Japanese property bubble.
There's a big difference between proper service dogs and pets.
>The chair of the committee can call anybody in the world that they deem appropriate.

Serious question: if I were to be called by the UK chair of the committee, aside from optics - why cant I just say "FU"? What authority do they have over me?

NOTE: Not defending FB/Z
What happens when multiple people have conflicting disabilities is not one with a well-settled answer, as far as I'm aware. It can create theoretical situations where all the available options potentially result in someone filing a lawsuit.
Yes, I too doubt that a very different case from many years ago will appear on the news, which is for current events as far as I'm aware.
No-one's going to stop them, but they probably won't want to unless they have some way to keep their allergic reaction under control.
I'm disappointed that the timeframe is so short but I can't say that I am surprised. The writing has been on the wall for awhile now and I was already looking for alternatives.

The 'Standard' product was shut off abruptly and they tried to shove everyone onto their half-baked swarm mode platform. When users who were happy with the Standard platform (and confused by swarm) fought back, they re-enabled 'Standard' mode as opt-in. Unfortunately all development halted at that point and it has been more or less abandoned for over a year. They stopped providing updates on their managed nodes and stranded all of their users on outdated buggy versions with no way to update.

Also, there was quite literally 0 customer support for even for paying users unless you had contracts with them in the thousands per month.

Its unfortunate. As far as I was concerned, Docker Cloud (Standard, not Swarm) was very close to what I needed. As far as I can tell they got so caught up in battle for orchestration supremacy with Kubernetes that the left a good portion of their user base in the dust.

Perhaps this is a well calculated decision for them as a company, but from an end-users perspective, it feels like they lost their way and abandoned their users.

Anyone have suggestions for good hosted alternatives?

I'm looking for a service that offers:

1. Hosted node management with nice simple UI

2. A dashboard with visual health monitoring for nodes and containers

3. Configurable alerts via email/slack/sms

4. Github / auto-build / CI integration

I'm currently investigating https://nanobox.io but am interested in any other suggestions.

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I unfollowed all my friends(you can also use an extension that removes your feed), now I have the pros of Facebook which is being connected to people I care about while not having to fight a feed-looking/time-wasting addiction.

I only use facebook for messenger and events now and it works quite well.
Could somebody give me a breakdown of the allegations? What exactly have they done with the data.
sonic.net has been offering a free VPN to their datacenters/interconnect sites as a service to their broadband customers for privacy when they travel for over a decade.

This idea does not seem new to me.
Does no one care that Digital Ocean is owned and created by Russia? You're all worried about apps, what about the hosts they use?
My LG is older(first OLED generation) so I guess that's why it doesn't have this new "feature". Ads in AppStore make sense but displaying them in the menu is outrageous.
They have no authority over you.

Here's a bit more: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...

They could find you in contempt, which would matter if you ever visited the UK.

The risk for Facebook is that the public are increasingly frustrated with big companies not paying their fair share of tax. Some people will say "but they're only paying what the law says they have to pay". Those people are failing to understand the British cultural value of "not taking the piss". Not attending would be saying "FU", and that's likely to add to the pressure to make these large companies pay more tax.
The Mess at Meetup:

https://gizmodo.com/the-mess-at-meetup-1822243738

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16401042

Other complaints:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15793754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299755
I have a lovely blockchain idea but don't really know an appropriate person to deep dive with on it. sad face
Oh stop with this ridiculous hyberbole. Just stop.

>This is one of the important moral issues of our time.

No, it's not. Even if it was (and it's not) I'm not even sure if it would crack the top 100. For example, did you know there are people without access to clean water? There are civil wars? State run gulags? Did you know man-made global climate change is a thing? How about that we're going through an unprecedented ecological collapse? All non-issues. The big moral problem of our time is a social media company that wants to sell you shit.
Odds are the camera flash discharge caused electromagnetic interference (EMI) that disturbed your electronics rather than the visible light and UV radiation from the flash itself. Wafers are photo sensitive, but light is blocked by the packaging. Did you have decapped parts?
interesting question! and how many in the US are in the present? and just _when_ in the world is silicon valley - or tokyo?
> The problem is that it can take a while to start to see results, and people often give up.

I recall listening to two pretty well known experts in mindfulness meditation, and they said it can take thousands of hours of practice before you start to see profound results. Like anything, it requires practice and patience.
> Meet Telegram, A Secure Messaging App From The Founders Of VK, Russia’s Largest Social Network

Well, there goes any interest I ever had in using Telegram.
> everyone else is biased against the often-maligned center-right, but there's some conspiracy where no one can talk about it unless they're far-right

Perhaps the issue is that people talking about it, regardless of their actual beliefs, are labeled "far-right". Hell, even Stephen Pinker has been called "alt-right" at this point.

> At some point people who read the NYT or WSJ and say it's far too liberal may have to accept that their definition of "center" is skewed.

Or perhaps the Overton window on what is considered "progressive" has moved left. For example, ten years ago, senators Clinton and Obama voted for a border fence.

> the very-much centrist mainstream media is too biased toward liberal news

Did you read the Podesta emails? It was example after example of mainstream journalists going out of their way to curry favor with the Clinton campaign. Once again, I think the Overton window of "mainstream progressive" views has shifted. For example, where are the Blue Dog Democrats anymore?

I would invite you to question your own biases.
They know what went wrong, they already fixed the barn door a while ago, although 50M profiles had already left the barn.

And they are angry (or should be). Not because they care about users, but because their business is selling influence, and it's not enough that someone managed to outsmart them and sell the most expensive form of influence using facebook's data (with facebook getting little or nothing, certainly not the lion's share or even 100% as they are used to when selling influence) - they are being publicly shamed about it.

Everyone who cared (including facebook, politicians, journalists, and a non-trivial amount of the population) knew what was happening. Every single thing about the outrage is a charade, except perhaps Facebook's outrage that CA ate their lunch and left them holding the bag.
Incorporation isn't required, but delaying equity agreement is a recipe for a painful co-founder breakup later when it emerges that I thought we were going in 50/50 and you thought it was 70/30.
Skipping discussion about "actual security": vendor lock-in & network effects. None of my peers uses Signal for everyday communication. Quite a few use Telegram, +Telegram channels & conferences, bots, and, well, honestly, it's really quite nice app to use. So, yeah. It's sad.
Like every other chat application, networks effects.

I could switch to Signal today but I'd be talking to myself only.
For those concered about any security issues, it might be worth your time to look at the methods outlined in glacier protocol[0].

0: https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/downloads/glacier-protocol.pdf
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So it sounds like this is an alternative for defendants who cannot make bail? I see it as the judge will set bail of $0 but require the defendant to enroll with Promise and follow through on the plan set forth by your company or risk the chance of a real bail declaration.

It seems like an interesting idea but I'm hesitant to support this. As we've seen this week we need to be more critical as to what companies are doing with our data. Unfortunately a disproportionate amount of black and Latino individuals are processed through the criminal Justice system. As a black man I really don't feel comfortable with supporting a company that will data mine people are are systematically processed through the CJ system.
How is it possible that any colleges are cash-strapped with the tuition they are charging these days? It boggles my mind - they must be incredibly mismanaged.
I wonder if this is their answer to their absurd requirements to get into American Universities
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