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A lot of young interviewees think it's not their place to ask these questions. At least from my own perspective as a founder/CEO, as long as it's not combative, I think much more highly of people I interview who show the maturity to think about these things.
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> I only claim that they are irrational actors

But, as I understand it, you're suggesting that they can produce a government which is on average less irrational than themselves without a government. I don't understand what mechanism exists that should make us expect that this is possible.

> Perhaps some sort of regulatory body that, per industry, is charged with prosecuting these types of lawsuits.

At the end of the day, society has to figure out how to appoint these people. This doesn't break out of the problem of people being irrational.

> An FCC governed by communications and data scientists instead of telecommunications lobbyists. An FDA governed by doctors, toxicologists and clinical nutritionists.

A reasonable-sounding idea, but how can you implement it in real life, given that people are irrational?

> Gauss's law predicts that we will never, with a democracy or a republic, have a perfect government. We will, on the other hand, never have a truly deplorable government. We will just have an average government.

I can agree with that, but that's not what's important. What's important (to me) is whether having a government is better than not having a government. Not whether the perfect government is better than not having a government (which, is pretty much the case by definition of "perfect"). Not whether a truly deplorable government is worse than not having a government (which again is the case by definition). But whether the government which we can reasonably expect to have in real life (which is similar to saying "the average government) is better than the government-less society which we can reasonable expect to have in real life.
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The regular web version cuts off after hundreds of words with a "click here to subscribe to continue reading" wrapper, but the PDF has the complete article. Bizarre.
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I visit my friend in bay ridge all the time. I take the N to 59th street from 30th in manhatan, and its at least 45 minutes. The R is considerably longer. closer to an hour when you consider walking to the station and waiting for the N. somehow I always see R when I need an N. This situation would be more typical than yours, requiring at least an hour full commute to your destination.

I lived Philadelphia for 9 years (from outside Pittsburgh), I'm curious to what 'a lot more opportunity, a lot more options' mean? I find almost anything NYC can offer that other cities dont are things that I myself do once in a blue moon.

sure, I can't see a 100$+ broadway play at the cost of 24k$ a year in increased housing, but instead I can take the train out for the 1 time a year I do and spend the rest going to i dono, egypt?
Agree about the inconsistency, but
>if you're on another OS...
try:

http://www.smartmontools.org
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
In 2008, forced updates of mobiles, particularly of the s40 and s60 variety, was not a thing.

It turns out that when an operating system is in service for a very long time without updates, bad things happen. Now if you want a real scare, consider for a moment all of the code running on embedded hardware that makes up the entirety of the world energy grid.
Interesting that they released this, having just shuttered their very similar app Poke 2 months ago.

The big difference? Slingshot doesn't use the Facebook branding. That's very telling.
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Nah, I think keeping unicode as "characters" is fine. It's perfectly reasonable to encode non-linguistic data as characters if they're using in such wise.

Edit: to circle back, you said:

How are emoji different from other logograms?

and everything thereafter was pointless pedantry on my part. Sorry for wasting valuable minutes of your life.
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OT also won't lose data under pressure.

The biggest downsides of CRDTs are that your data ends up much bigger (although usually by a constant multiple), and nobody has figured out how to edit JSON documents using CRDTs yet.

Its not all that surprising that CRDTs will be larger - imagine a stream of operations happening to a document (think about them like tiny git commits, if that helps). You can end up with a lot of changes for a small document (tens of thousands of changes for a single page of text isn't unheard of). CRDTs in effect embed the history of operations into the document, while OT stores them separately. As such, with OT you can eventually migrate the operation log to secondary storage (or throw it away). You can never really do that with CRDTs.

The JSON problem is harder, and obviously very important for realtime web apps that do more than text editing. Decent CRDTs will be trivial to add to ShareJS when they're ready.
We started working on Hummingbird slightly over a year ago and have grown quite a bit since then. We have a total of 50,000 registered users and ~30% MAU.

We decided to open-source it because we don’t always have the time we would like to work on it after putting in hours at work/school, and we had a lot of our users interested in helping out. We also found that working out in the open is a lot more fun!

We have a fairly modern stack, the backend uses Rails, Postgres and Redis. Front-end is a client-side application written using Ember. (Mostly — there are legacy pages still rendered using Rails and some performance-sensitive parts that use React.)

The current incumbent in this niche is a website called MyAnimeList (myanimelist.net) which has upwards of 2 million registered users. Considering it looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005 we strongly feel this niche deserves better.

Please let us know what you think!
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> And they don't even seem to have a monetization strategy for it.

Not yet, but mature messaging services seem to have reasonable monetization that isn't primarily display-ad-based. I understand "stickers" to be one of the main ones.
Slightly misleading title: "w/o a CS degree" yet has a ECE degree. I went through the same ECE program at a different school and from the experience of my peers and myself, an ECE degree is treated just like a CS degree (but not the other way around). Also, she already has experience working as a PM at Microsoft.

If this was coming from some random X school with a completely unrelated degree or big name company on the resume, I would agree with title, otherwise, no.
A box fan might be a safer alternative. It'd give you the ability to move it around but not the high rpm of a angle grinder.
That's not even close to equivocation. It's not equivocation to use the term "animals" to refer to a set of things like cats, dogs, monkeys, etc.
There's also a third Google product for your TV, the Google Fiber TV Box. As I understand it, its compatibility with and similarity to either Chromecast and Google TV is low.
Unrelated... this video player and transcript integration is really, really nice. Did HeavyBit build some or all of it? I see the player is video.js
Plausible breakdown of Google/YT's side of the story:

1. Youtube wants to offer users a subscription service with no ads.

2. Youtube needs to update its licensing/terms with artists:
If a video plays for a subscriber they see no ads, artist gets money from subscription pool.
If a video plays for a non-subscriber they see ads, artist gets money from ads pool.

3. Artists need to explicitly agree to these terms because it changes how and how much they'll get paid.

4. It doesn't seem fair for a user to pay a subscription, expect to see no ads, and then see ads for some video's because that artist/distributor did not agree to new terms. This is why Google wants all or nothing.
What would be great is finding out how much exactly recruiters and referral services charge.
For instance, how much can Hired.com charge per referral to afford to give several thousand back to the employee.
Instacart started with food that internet early adopters wanted, even though it was operationally difficult.

Other services started with items that were easiest to catalog and inventory. Safeway (for example) started with a full selection of Oscar Mayer luncheon meats and Kraft processed cheese food, but no microbrews or good cheeses (I remember searching for Brie and getting no results) even though they have such things in stores around Palo Alto.

Instacart took the better path: first please early adopters, then please everyone at scale.
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My company did a fairly thorough review of the open options in this space and settled on select2, which has a handy angular support library here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-select2. This isn't the most performant one (twitter's typeahead was for the ones we looked at) but it has a lot of great features, nice look and feel, and not terrible graceful degradation.
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It's an empowering sort of hopelessness, though, at least for me. It's a dark world, with lots of horrible people, and humanity seems to only make bad or worse choices, but at the root of things, they are OUR choices, so it's for us to work our asses off to fix them. Even if success is essentially random, if you try more you'll succeed more. I've always felt that it was disingenuous to not look at all the terrible aspects of the world head on, but I also see no reason this shouldn't be a tool for those who can see it, depressing as it may be.
Great. According to this I should be living in Bolinas, CA where the cheapest house currently for sale is $1,249,000. I'll get right on that.
You live in Bay Ridge so you can afford to live in greater NYC and access NYC opportunities. Not to live in Bay Ridge for the Bay Ridge lifestyle (necessarily.. some people live there for the schools).
So, simultaneously? Look up bitpesa and the SMS based hosted wallets.
Exactly this.

Also, for those that still remember Heartbleed, read again the above comment and think what embedded hardware is running around you. It is a bit scary.
> Also are you honestly counting CEOs who get millions in stock and $1 pay as... just getting $1 in pay? How stupid are you.

That's not what's implied by the article: "big chunks of the compensation packages for the highest-paid CEOs come in the form of stock and stock options."

Edit: From the paper....

"To better understand the drivers of the pay effect, we decompose pay into its major components. We find that most pay components are negatively related to future abnormal returns earned by these firms, with the strongest components being the value of options granted and long-term incentive payouts. However when we add other control variables that have been shown to explain the cross-section of returns, the components largely lose their significance, with the exception of the value of options granted, which emerges as the main driver of the pay effect."
I guess my thought process was that most people would be more automotive oriented on that site vs software oriented here, so I was hoping that some examples on "hacking" into a piece of hardware would be around and someone would be able to point me to em. Thank you for the link though, not sure if I'll find what i'm looking for but worth a shot.
which controls are usable? everything i click just gives me an annoying "gimme $$" popup, haven't actually found a function that works
People use SSL every day and I bet most of the population, software engineers included, don't understand it. In fact most of the population probably don't even know that they're using SSL.
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Related submissions that we buried as duplicates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7905539

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7905532

It's not always obvious which post to treat as canonical, but the current thread has the most substantive discussion.
Because doing so is complicated and expensive, would be my guess.
Even Satoshi said it is likely most people will use lightweight clients. Even the original paper describes how to make a lightweight wallet that don't need the full history.
I wonder how much of SF's growth is forced by VCs, like what happened to my friend who recently got funded. He was DC based, and as a requirement from his VC he had to move to San Fran for a minimum of a year.

His conversations with me have been interesting, with the main point being that he has to pay WAY more for talent, space, everything. His main frustration is he doesn't need the mythical "10X" developers. He just needs people who can deliver, and has to fight for talent with dozens of apps which have premises so silly that he can't believe they are funded.

I got an offer the other day for 120k in SF. I did the math, and said no. I'd be better off taking a job for 85k in Austin.

And regarding Austin getting more expensive: There is a huge differentiator here. Austin has a booming housing market AND a booming development market. There is tons of new housing being built, and a lot of it is very interesting, moderate density in-fill development relatively close to the downtown core. There's one company building neo-traditional development neighborhoods in old strip mall locations where the houses all have solar panels and uber modern designs. They go for 270k for a 3 bedroom. Hardly exorbitant.
But, don't you think the "No, we don't do this, we build products that ...." for Zuckerberg ends with "allow hundreds of millions of people to share photos and videos". Or something like that.

Feels like there are many ways to share a photo/video and Facebook wants to make an app for each kind of way.
I just loaded some example projects, hit the play button and started changing the code. The output responded immediately.
Since when has YouTube ever cared about hosting unlicensed content? That was their entire raison d'être for years, and they still haven't completely abandoned their reliance on less-than-licensed content.
I'd like to know if anyone is using a 4K monitor and their experience with it. I have an Apple thunderbolt display and I am ok with it.

I do not have a 4K. I use it with macbook pro 15" (retina display) and even though I do not get the same resolution, it does not look flaky at all and is decent enough for reading. Moreover, it connects with the pro using thunderbolt and thus does not require multiple connections for speakers, camera, mic and display.
Great job! Totally loved it. Thought it would be a good idea to have channels instead of tables for pub/sub mechanism.
>Also are you honestly counting CEOs who get millions in stock and $1 pay as... just getting $1 in pay? How stupid are you.

No. And neither did the study.[1]

>We use three measures of compensation: (i) total compensation (TDC1) which includes salary, bonus, total value of restricted stock granted, total value of stock options granted (using Black Scholes), and long term incentive payouts, (ii) total cash compensation (TCC) which includes salary and bonus, and (iii) the difference between total compensation and total cash compensation (TDC1-TCC) which is meant to capture the options and incentive components of total compensation. This difference, which we call incentive compensation, is our primary variable of interest, including restricted stock grants, option grants, long term incentive payouts, and other annual noncash compensation.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572085
Hey look! Another product that looks like google Wave!

I remember when wave came out and being blown away by collaborative editing. It's nice to see that those ideas have lived on in many other forms (notable recent example being hack pad).

There's a lot of room for better web collaboration tools. I still find myself getting more out of face to face meetings and I was dwelling on why the other day. One place where online tools really fall short is audio quality. It just isn't good enough. I realize that discussion is orthogonal to this but I think it's still closely enough related that it's worthy of discussion.
I think I haven't clearly understood where to use Switchboard.
In my normal mail stack (postfix, dovecot) where would Switchboard be placed?
Upon reflection , I think this article (and others like it) are starting from the wrong place and end up confusing the issue more than illuminating it.

I think the right place to start is that Google wants to offer a premium, ad-free YouTube service. Given that, what happens to videos that are ad-supported today:

1. They participate and are ad-supported for free users and subscription-supported for premium users. Cool. Everyone's happy.

2. They don't participate and...

(a) Premium users see ads anyway. They're pissed.

(b) Premium users don't see those videos at all, but free users see them with ads. Might dodge the issue for a while, but when they find out they'd be even more pissed.

(c) You can't offer ad-supported videos to free users unless you also offer ad-free videos to subscription users. Labels that like the ad-supported terms and don't like the subscription terms are pissed.

Alternative (c) seems to be what Google has picked. Which seems logical if they're launching a new service they want new users to like.

Corollary: Indie labels should still be allowed to post whatever non-monetized videos they want (subject to other YouTube policies like the terrible ContentId, of course). If that isn't true, then we can talk about being "kicked off YouTube". Otherwise, they're choosing to leave because they don't like how the monetization option is changing. That's clearly their privilege, but, in the exact same way, it's Google's privilege to change the monetization they're willing to offer (whether that's as small as tweaking the payout formula or something larger like adding a subscription tier).

P.S. I found some of the Ars Technica comments (not the article) particularly helpful in terms of explaining how this must fit together: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/artists-who-dont-sig...
It seems their goal is to make a full-fledged DAW in the browser, but they are not there yet (and far from it from what I can tell). How they would be able to fund all that for $2k is beyond me.

That said, it's a really clever idea to have all the source editable, since js is an interpreted language anyway. One can imagine a future where the community not only shares songs and sounds, but the DSP units themselves. Unlike desktop DAWs, which rely on dylibs (dlls) to supply external synths and effects, a js-based DAW can load, re-compile and hotswap units on the fly.
I think it's for the career opportunities - there's a huge density of jobs in NYC and a diverse collection of industries. You can job hop and ratchet up your salary if you network and manage yourself well. You can do all this without moving because of the density and transit options. It's really quite rare to be able to do that.
The problem is when the unsolicited attention becomes a distraction. When you have engineers that can have their work process interrupted by something as trivial as workplace banter, an overzealous recruiter that calls incessantly, spams your email with job listings (for "anyone you might know looking for a new opportunity"), and in general doesn't know when to stop is something most developers would rather do without.

I've worked with a few good recruiters, but even over a 5-month job search and talking to every major recruiting firm in town, I got zero actual job offers (and only one real promising lead that fizzled out on the company's side). There's a LOT of inefficiency in the system.
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I know I'm late to the comments party. Though, here in Latvia we have a bicycle registry maintained by our local government organisation (which is more or less like DMV in US I think). It has enough resources and will to occasionaly promote this service and after few years of operation people here are aware of it and actually use it.
People tsk-tsk'ing security systems as "that won't be perfect, so it will just give users a false sense of security" has been going on for over 20 years.

Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's not. I remember being yelled at that anti-spam products were stupid because "I can't stand losing even 1 mail out of 10,000!!" (In reality, email is a lossy system that doesn't have four 9's of reliability anyway.) I heard the same thing about all sorts of products from people in both industry and academia only to watch them become significant parts of the IT world.[1] Nerds like black/white answers, especially about areas where they aren't experts. It makes the world much easier to understand.

(And I think it was a stroke of marketing genius for Zimmerman to call his product "Pretty Good Privacy" instead of anything implying perfection.)

So I have sympathy for your position here.

Still -- the JavaScript runtime is a hell of a place to try to encrypt anything. If your only hope is to add an obfuscation layer, call it that explicitly, and expect support to fall off. Adding more pieces to a system can make it less secure.

[1] and I still regret not following up with Dave Mann about his attempts to create a numbering system for attacks because someone else at the table said the AV vendors would never go along
Maybe not forced, but I did update several s60 devices as they had new firmware published. So they should at least have made the updates public and explained that everyone must upgrade.

Imagine, for example, openssl being told about the heartbleed vulnerability, then being pressured into paying big money to prevent disclosure, and then keeping their mouths shut about it for six years. Except this is even worse because at least then someone could look at diffs. I can't even think of a proper analogy here.
> here are very few cities which have bars that are open past 2am

Well to be fair, you didn't mention anything about coding in a bar that late.

> there are very few cities in which you can code at a bar and not be weird (which means things like accessible power plugs)

Bars having power outlets is a function of the city they reside in? And I think perhaps you've been living in that SF/LA/NYC bubble too long, it's not as uncommon in the less civilized parts of the country as you may think. Hell, a lot of bars in those backward cities have wifi too!

> there are very few cities in which there's hustle and bustle, even at 3am.

Well you've got me there.

Sorry, don't mean to be super critical, but your "NYC is the only place in the country where you can do these things!!!" mentality struck a nerve.
Interestingly, Peter Thiel wrote that Startup success is correlated with CEO pay (or the lack there-of)

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/08/peter-thiel-best-predictor-...
Yeah, it's definitely cool for what it is -- but it is NOT a DAW.

I would call it the audio equivalent of OpenSCAD.