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I see that you actually took the liberty of proving your point looking at the leaderboard.

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Some lines are being blurred here, and perhaps it's troubling in the abstract, but it's too early to tell. For now, it seems more like a donation and less like a buyout.

If we want to call attention to something very troubling in the here and now, we should look at the for-profit prison industry. That's a whole different ball of wax.
Bigger pizza's are also the better choice for increasing the ratio of topping area to crust, assuming constant crust thickness through the various sizes for a given pizzeria.
I feel like pizza places made a mistake when they first decided that diameter was the way to go with advertising pizza sizes. Human brains like to think in linear terms (unless the numbers get really big, in which case we seem to switch to logarithmic thinking because we just look at how long the number is), so at worst, you want the relationship between cost of production and the number you advertise to be linear.

Even an educated person is going to intuitively feel like a 16 inch pizza is twice as big as an 8 inch, and a less educated person will actually think as much.
> NYPD can make 91K after 6 years in the service.
>
> Is Facebook paying less? I don't know the cost of benefit and insurance. I really doubt a single police officer will receive more than $100K benefit in three years. I would be very surprise if they do!

Rule of thumb in government: double the wage to achieve full-cost of a salaried employee.
It's a very fuzzy line though. One moment they can be making regular donations to the city, and at another moment they can say "oh you know those donations we've been making, we'd probably have to stop because we can't afford them anymore... Unless of course law X gets passed, wink wink"
Then you don't need JSON, all you need is the plain old JS object.
> I added my email to the list, but I probably won't remember what the product is when you finally release it.

I'm sure the email you receive when it launches will give you all the information you need to remember what it is.
In Firefox, scrolling down the page below the cover image causes a Youtube embed of what I assume is the trailer to get stuck blocking a large portion of the content of the page.
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About a year ago I started making a point of sampling all of the teens I found myself in conversation with — family dinners, speaking at high schools, friends' siblings — and asking about their email usage patterns.

While it's true that they don't use email as a primary communication medium (yet) it seems likely that this is because they also don't have jobs (yet) and that it's currently easier to talk to their friends via Instagram, WhatsApp and Tumblr.

And yet they all have email addresses, because otherwise there's no way to access most of the stuff on the web. You have to sign up, and unless you're talking about a phone-centric app like WhatsApp, there's no practical way to avoid email.

Even if you can login with Facebook Connect, you still need email to use Facebook.

So, can we dispel the myth that "teens don't have email" please?

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As for my referencing a support operation delaying email, I used it as an example because I wanted to demonstrate that it wasn't a half-baked notion based on anecdotal evidence from one guy.

Meanwhile, conversations are most certainly NOT getting shorter. Each message in an exchange might itself be quite short, but the conversation itself really never ends.

Ask yourself what is more distracting: a long email or a series of 80 individual "short, to the point" texts, where each one vibrates your pocket and you have no idea when the next one is coming. You already know the answer. Often times you give up trying to do anything else and just stare at the messaging interface, waiting for the next message/fix to arrive.

Don't get me wrong; I use iMessage constantly and vastly prefer texting to calling people for most trivial things. But I also gave up IRC and ICQ (dating myself) cold turkey because eventually I was forced to acknowledge that it was holding me back in life. It was not more productive; it was incredibly counter-productive.
Many moons ago I've been exactly where you describe, so listen to uncle.

You are already incubating a start-up - it's your child.

Your sole task is to keep the cash register chiming bimonthly. Focus on the job that pays you, if you have extra time then work harder for your current employer. Pile up some good karma.

Run those errands, be with your spouse, speak much less than spoken to, & forget your buddies.

Also be on excellent terms with your in-laws.
Even if it did resemble HipChat (not sure I agree), did you have a point?
I very strongly disagree with this, from the article:

"When telling, showing and proving that Android 4.x smartphones are lightyears beyond iPhones in terms of hard-, software and design iOS"

iOS is simple on the surface, but the developer frameworks are far more consistent, well designed, and powerful than what Android offers. From video editing, typography, persistent storage, animation, UI, audio processing, iOS seems well ahead of Android. Much of the Android SDK feels cobbled together.
> cons-cell is a terrible abstraction on
modern hardware

Could you expand on this?

Also, whether or not it's better to teach to kids than JavaScript, Squirrel is a more traditional curly-brace alternative to Lua for embedded development.
Both terms have been in use for a long time. When Frank Luntz was a republican strategist he suggested the party use "climate change" exclusively because he believed it sounded less threatening.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=326
so do you use tabs or spaces. or tabs AND spaces. Is that 2 spaces or 4?
or did I accidentally put 5 in somewhere? is a trailing space going to cause problems or not? Text editors certainly don't help keep this stuff straight. I just don't think white space should be part of the syntax. It makes editing HARDER. not easier. And it's not even visible, unless I turn on a special feature in my text editor.

I just don't know what exactly you YAML guys are smoking that you think it's easy or more humanistic.
It's not shocking at all that they make people uncomfortable, just like it's not surprising that it's uncomfortable when someone points their mobile phone at you on the train.

It's not rocket science, I think people should be aware of when it's appropriate to have these things on their face, and when it's not. It's not important whether or not you are recording people, they don't know if you are or not, and they have every reason to be suspicious.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that businesses shouldn't/don't/won't engage with customers.

All this particular business did was tell people that if they have a time-sensitive problem, call them and get immediate help.

Delaying replies to emails solved a number of problems and streamlined the exchange. Everyone seems happy.
Sorry our definitions of what constitutes a "professional" are entirely different. The best teams I've worked in take great care to avoid needless complexity in code. Readability and maintainability take precedence over everything else... (even performance unless proven otherwise by measurement).

Given the kinds of projects I've been part of are already swarming with (externally imposed) system complexity to begin with, an attitude of "I write dense code since I'm a professional" won't get anyone very far in such teams.
Most of this is already implemented in my C library called "liblaxjson" [1]

I did it because I had a use case where the JSON file is for user input, not for computer-to-computer communication. So I wanted it to not be so annoying to edit and more importantly, to allow comments.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/liblaxjson
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a: Even with rectangular pizzas sold by weight, the larger one is a better value than the small. Consider that the border of the pizza is a 2-3cm wide crust that will probably go to waste because eating that much white bread is awful. In any case, it lacks delicious cheese, sauce, and black olives or pepperoni.

The larger the pizza, the smaller the ratio of fixed width perimeter to center. If the area of the perimeter were to maintain a constant ratio to the total area, it's width would have to increase in proportion. That applies to any 2D shape, not just a circle or square.

In fact, the calculation in op is wrong because a 16" pizza isn't merely four times as large as an 8" pizza. The 1" crust makes the 16" really a 14" while the 8" is really a 6". 14^2/6^2 = 5.44 times as large.

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YAML looks nice, but it's very overcomplicated for what it's usually used for [1]. Nobody wants to figure out what %TAG directives or "|", "|-", and "|+" at the end of lines mean, the difference between the folded style and the literal style, etc. just to read a configuration file.

I don't like JSON either due to the comment issue; simple ad-hoc configuration formats like most C programs seem to have mostly work, but aren't as nice as a standard format. If anything, I like configuration files expressed as scripts in whatever language the program is written in, since they're very flexible (if I want 100 almost-identical entries for whatever reason, I can say so in the file rather than writing a separate generator), and while programming languages are complicated, people tend to already know them; but that does tie you to a specific language.

[1] http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html
Ukraine has Mickey Mouse Army. 24 planes, of which only 4 can fly. Everything shootable was sold to Africa long time ago. Artillery is very obsolete, but there ae mo troop capable to operate it. I kid you not.

And most of the 'army' are ethnic Russians. Guess, shall they shoot east or west?
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It's rather hard to believe that any number of them wouldn't have an email address, considering everything they would use in place of it requires an email address to sign up for.

Are they mostly talking to friends via email? Probably not--I don't think that's ever been the case with teens--but I can't imagine that they just flat out do not have an account anywhere.
> It excites the hell out of me.

> In my wildest fantasies...

> Nothing would make me happier than to work on this full-time

I think you answered your own question. You can't make any stronger statements for what you want to do than the above lines I quoted. The FUD will always be there with this sort of decision.

Also, don't take any advice on if it will work or not. Nobody has the experience you do working this niche. Even if they are doing something similar, your situation is unique, and you will find other angles you can hit this from to make it grow. With your time time attention on this, you might also find other things you can experiment with when your niche is out of season.

All the things you mentioned that you would like to do will give you great experience also. Go for it.
You can deploy Snap apps to Heroku pretty easily.

https://github.com/begriffs/heroku-buildpack-ghc
Privatized police forces are also one of the standard topics of cyberpunk.
The hidden cost of always getting the bigger pizza is your health. I wonder what the picture will look like when you factor that into the equation...
You sound like an amazing CEO :) I really dig the company culture.
If Buffer isn't hiring for Summer internships, I suppose hiring for a 16-month internship is out of the question?
Yes indeed. That doesn't mean my logic is wrong, it in fact means it's consistent with reality!
>In the case of bomb threat or shooting, I am damn sure a 911 call is enough to get 100 county officers from MP and nearby county. A single officer will not help much.

A single officer in the right place is far more usefull than 100 in a nearby county. Breivik was just one man. He could have been easily stopped by a single officer.
I find the negative responses quite interesting. From watching The Wire, I assume there typical way of getting this done would be simply Facebook contributing to members of the City Council.

Of the two, I might like the open proposal for direct funding of the position more than an envelop of cash passed under the table at Alexander's.

While Facebook is free to donate funds for this to the city, or not, I doubt that accepting the contribution creates any kind of enforceable contract, rather a mutual expectation which if the city renegs they simply won't be seeing any more deals like this in the future. I think from the city's perspective it's free money for a cop who is going to be at the new substation anyway.
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Is something as elementary as `git grep` really front page HN material?
Why do you think Google is investing so much into robotics? ;)
One man and a $9 idea validation.
It even happens in chrome. I don't even compute how the developer could fuck this up this badly.
Is the only solution really to give up on your own desires? (Or to force yourself to desire the things you list?)
Some create intentionally bad films and some are coding intentionally bad apps to app stores ...both flood the market.

For movies we have IMDB.com that works well for consumer to filter out the good ones. The current app store implementations are not good enough, an independent app database with information, rating, pictures, videos and comments like IMDB would be great.

(IMDB already features video games where actors were part of the development process)
Was that Wave's issue? I thought it was that it was a solution in search of a problem.

Which does make me wonder what problem Hum is solving. What group is saying, "X is really painful for us"?
I strongly disagree with you. How many Android apps did you develop? Do you know the newer Android tool chains?

Just the non-resolution-independent framework on iOS is a big pain and iOS biggest bottleneck and this is where Apple struggles right now (to make the next bigger iPhones happen).

But your post shows very well again the general attitude of iOS folks and it's your pure fear which speaks out load -- your fear that your dev experience and skills in iOS will be less worth very soon and you have to start at zero again, on Android.

Edited: btw downvoting != disagreeing
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That is mathematically false. Simply having more people does not make a survey better without taking into account how the sample was chosen.
I don't get the need for a subject line. You're always going to read a message from friends. They can screen the first line of the first message if they want. If I want to start up a new conversation with a friend group, it should just tack onto the last conversation with that friend group.
> Even in the link you provided, there is nobody protesting legal birth control.

Transparently false -- the people in the story are protesting legal birth control.

> They are protesting being forced to pay for other peoples' birth control.

That's this week's explanation. These people are against birth control, and they con't care what form it takes.

> I was simply trying to point out that the government is willing to put people out of business and litigate them all the way to the Supreme Court to mandate free birth control.

Yes, just the same way the government put people out of business and litigated all the way to the Supreme Court to mandate an end to slavery. You very clearly have no idea what you sound like.
This was in one of the comments;

> Get the gang activity under control, and it actually would be
> quite nice. The irony is, if it became safe, it probably would
> gentrify rapidly, housing prices would go up, and the poor people
> who rent would have to find somewhere else to live.

Is it just me who thinks it's terribly sad there are people apologizing for decreasing crime and therefore increasing property value?

The real answer is that housing should NOT be so scarce that the only thing hat makes the price affordable is weekly gang shootings. Supply should be fostered until housing can be both 'safe & affordable' using the myriad tools cities have to foster new construction.

An increase to property value is a great service to every property owner (53% owner occupied) in the city, but it's an attack on renters (41%). Another way to put it, cities should be doing great things like this to increase property value, while simultaneously fostering new construction, as a balanced approach to serve their constituency.
This didn't address the question of how Hum will be different than any other chat program
You can enable -Wextra as well, but there are still more warnings you have to enable manually. At that point though, you're looking at weird not-necessarily-bad and language-specific things.
> For those who hire, do you pay women developers less than male developers of the same skill level?

Skill level perception is influenced by gender, even for experts. [1] [2] Unless hiring managers are blinding the process by which they determine skill and/or pay, then they could well be paying women less even if they think they aren't.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.full [2] http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903
Probably a similar circular diagram system, except replacing pizza diameter with waist diameter.
I hope the originator of this idea realizes it would be illegal if put into practice. It would be like Wal-Mart arguing against all those indie drugstores and mom & pop groceries that make bigger businesses like theirs unprofitable.
...and the nag ads on the Google.com homepage to install Chrome. It shows up everytime and general public accidently clicks on it.

...and Adobe Acrobat (Reader) that tries to install Chrome like "adware" - one has to be careful to opt-out on the Adobe website. Also many freeware and some open source like WinSCP come with this kind of "adware" like shady auto-installer and often install Chrome (opt-out is available, bit hidden in advanced options).
A "professional" would never write that sort of dense C code.
Can't say I was disappointed by this article, because I've grown to expect so little from the press: Unfortunately, media coverage tends to be sensational and topical. Here we see an example of a sensational headline followed by a topical article.

For a couple of years in college, I worked as a senior reporter at a newspaper, wrote hundreds of published articles, and never wrote a headline: Copy editors write headlines. Besides writing the headline and correcting spelling and grammar, editors also rearrange paragraphs, delete stuff, re-write whatever suits them, decide what page the article will appear on (front page...buried on the fiftieth page) and decide whether or not to print the story at all. Headlines themselves are written in a domain-specific language called "Headlinese." The American Copy Editors Society has an annual "Headline Contest": http://www.copydesk.org/programs/contests/headlines/

WRT the headline's boast of using math as a "secret weapon against wall st," the article said "Frenkel blames the global economic crisis of 2008-09 on inadequate mathematical models used by bankers and traders to predict the financial markets..." My reading of this is that if people weren't so math illiterate, they could have seen the crash coming and perhaps taken steps to protect themselves.

Hmm. As both a mathematician and a former vp at a wall st bank, I have a different POV on the 2008 financial crash: Massive premeditated fraud on savers and retirees perpetrated by a handful of TBTF banks, enabled by lax government regulation and an "easy money" policy by the Fed. I didn't need my math skills to see this crash coming four years in advance, and my math skills didn't give me any "secret weapons" to stop it or defend myself--it was kinda like being caught in a tidal wave, except this was a tidal wave of greed and corruption.

Journalists say, "A picture is worth a thousand words." William Schiesser said: "An equation is worth a thousand pictures." I wish there were more equations and more coverage of STEM in the popular press. It would be great if journalists proved their conclusions logically, step by step, from their premises.

But the sad truth is that journalism is nothing but a form of entertainment. And there are so few of us who find math entertaining that journalism (other than niche journalism) will never cater to us.
I don't get it. If someone is not hungry then what's the point of paying more for a larger pizza when you are probably not going to eat all of it. I am also surprised that we think it's fine to buy more than what we can eat just because we can pay for it!
Meteor is more for front-end right? I think Snap is mostly for the backend portion of that, however there are some Haskell to Javascript libraries which may enable functionality you get with Meteor (as well as the type safety most know and love).
Given that I started using Slack (slack.com) last week, what in Hum would tempt me away from it? Slack fits pretty much everything I would want in team communication (being more or less private IRC with persistent history, full history searching, file uploads, etc), and has straightforward APIs and preexisting integration with assorted software and services.

The only thing I'm seeing Hum offer that Slack doesn't have any equivalent to is the email integration, and if I'm emailing somebody external to my team or company I'm not going to want to treat it like a chat anyway.