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This is not how businesses are run. No sane person running a business will take a 1PM outage over 1AM. The whole point of heroku is that you are relying on them to do a lot of the infrastructure systems because you are low on manpower. The resilient system will be built over time and is being worked upon. But to put the blame on heroku's customer for the outage is nonsensical.

People do night shifts in so many industries. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just part of the job. My building security guard does a night shift and what he does is way more important and needs more attention than an engineer. Unless you think we should not have security guards in the night.
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A better one on this page http://elena-v-kuzmina.blogspot.com/2013/01/sergei-vladimiro... (it gets bigger if you click it)
Well, right. That's why I wrote the sentence prior to what you've quoted. I'm not sure I understand quite what the article's point is. The part you quoted sounds very live-and-let-live. But then there's this:

> it saddens me that some of the worlds most driven, focused, intelligent and inspiring individuals don't focus their time on solving the real problems our society faces. It may well be that Yo has the user engagement and growth that justifies such an investment on purely those terms, but, to me, that is a narrow outlook.

> I therefore find it difficult to see individuals who could focus their time and effort solving these problems, instead put their efforts into something like Yo.

I grant that this is not exactly boot-on-the-throat language. But it's hard to read these remarks about what "saddens" McCann as anything other than (passive-aggressively) prescriptive.
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I've been wearing a Fitbit One for almost two years now. I'm not too interested in the motivational aspect, but use the data to back up health-related decisions.

For example, I was able to use the data to confirm that getting exercise late in the evening doesn't affect my sleep (so no need to change my gym routine).

I ended up building an entire service to support these kinds of analyses (zenobase.com), hoping to find enough people who care more about data than badges :-)
Stack is down (says maintenance) why not static site?
There are significantly bigger problems than those, but if you want to make money you have to solve problems that rich[0] people have, which mainly seems to be boredom.

The people with the biggest problems are the people with the least money. You can't save them with apps, but you could help them with money made by making apps. Not that most will though, if they ever make it big.

[0] Rich is a relative term. Got enough to eat and access to the internet? Compared to most humans, you're relatively rich.
"But critics say it is immoral for companies to profit from the death of employees, while employees themselves do not directly benefit."
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I'm not the author, but that appears to be who your comment is responding to. I even put "us" in quote to signal I wasn't endorsing his use of "we".
prediction:

Lots of people will sign-up. These people will love the service. They will come to need this service for their businesses to survive and function properly. Two years afterward Google will do what they have done time and time again, close down the service - for unknown reasons - at every users expense.

Will it happen? I don't know but they just don't have my trust for the long term. Yes, I know that you can transfer domains fairly easily but nothing is ever that easy.
Its amazing the only comment is about what happened to the stock price, no discussion of the tech/Oracle @ all.
Besides the argument of the potential that an app like Yo could have, it's also a business decision.

Developers have a limited amount of time they can spare to write code so they have to be wise with their venture choices.

At the end of the day, when you read that Yo was funded for $1M, bubble or not, it's a smarter decision after calculating the risk / benefit ratio to emulate Yo's model.

If their would be more funding in the areas described in the blog post, I'm sure more developers would launch start-ups around them.
I'm sure that's the plan. But if you really really really need faultless 24/7 you're looking for something akin to "NASA as a service", and I assume that such a service wouldn't be able to invoice using something as pedestrian as a credit card.
>> And, by the way, who appointed Christoph McCann arbiter of what it good and valuable in this world?

This is such an important point, and why free markets work best. If people derive value out of Yo, then terrific. If they don't, it goes away. Don't need a moral crusader to decide what is worthy.
Would you prefer survivor bias?
This is a quite liberal interpretation of facts in evidence.

"a hard line anti-car agenda"

Seriously? The city has almost half a million parking spaces, nearly all of which are free of charge. There are no congestion charges.

"Inefficient responses to groups like Critical Mass that breed resentment against bikes"

As opposed to the Critical Mass that the car drivers stage every single day at 4:30pm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAO20jJHNuI
The video:

http://tech.yandex.ru/events/cpp-party/june-msk/talks/1954/
(Co-director of the film here.) Exactly. Kickstarter is the big name in crowdfunding for documentaries, and there have been several Bitcoin-related documentaries funded on the platform to the tune of $75k. It is possible, though it's not easy.

FWIW, we are not making a movie solely for cryptocurrency enthusiasts; we're targeting the mass market. We do assume that many early backers will probably be Bitcoin/Dogecoin/other crypto enthusiasts.
I agree, and want to do "Captain Hindsight" here: if you wanted to get a payout on event X, you should have bought a policy on X (not complain about the person who did).
So let's not study stuff like astrophysics, since it doesn't really help the starving kids somewhere nor does it solve energy problem, right? And also, let's not make art, after all, it's just some first world people enjoying their luxury while someone somewhere in 3rd world is suffering, how about that? As mere mortals we can never know what impact a technology can have in the long term, no matter what it looks like right now. It's arrogant to judge someone else's creation no matter how silly it looks, especially when it is something that managed to get into a lot of people's mindshare.
I have been using the SP1 as a student for over a year now and love it. I print all PDF hand-outs to OneNote and annotate them with notes from class. Everything is indexed so I can search across 5 quarters worth of notes in an instant and access them from any device.

I'm in business school (don't hate :) ) so most of our content is in the form of HBS case studies and diagramming and drawing graphs/charts is pretty common.

I see a lot of people using Notability on iPads. If I could get a Wacom or NTrig active stylus on an iPad, that would be sweet, but alas, not possible.
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The sibling comment is correct: the FAQ is out of date. Bucardo 4 supported only 2 masters; B5 is N >= 2.

I'll try briefly to answer your questions, having used Bucardo for several years, having a (woefully under-utilized) commit bit, and being a somewhat active participant on the mailing list and in #bucardo.

Conflicts are handled in one of a number of user-selectable ways ("latest" wins, "source" wins, &c). They're selectable on a per-table basis.

If the configuration DB were to stop, I don't actually know what would happen. I've never faced that scenario. AIUI, however, Bucardo only reads its configuration on startup, so it shouldn't break anything unless you were to try to change your replication configs (or restart, which doesn't typically need to happen), at which point you'd be able to address it.

If syncing stops, "deltas" (which are merely a timestamp and the pkey of the changed record) accumulate in their source databases until syncing is resumed. Healing consists of those deltas being replayed against their targets, as managed by the selected conflict resolution strategy.
8AM EDT is 5AM PDT, which is where web tech can be found in the United States.

I'm not sure if you're just being sarcastic, but talent in North America isn't limited to the Pacific Timezone, and such a claim borders on hilarious delusion. I don't say hilarious emotionally or pejoratively, but rather it is actually ha ha funny that anyone would actually believe that.

However yes, there are endless loads of top-skill talent that will happily do "maintenance" in the middle of the night. I've done it on occasion, and slept in the next day. Big deal. Half the time I simply took a timeout from some online gaming I'd been doing.
Here's another bathroom monitor from thoughtbot a while back: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/arduino-bathroom-occupancy-dete...
If watching Game of Thrones can be inspiring, than surely Yo can be as well.

I don't understand why the author chooses to single out Yo. Someone took the time to develop something, and others are using it. Congrats to them for providing something of value. The simplicity of the app is inspiring in itself. Who cares if they raised 1.2 million? This is investment money, this isn't 1.2 million sucked out of a charity, or off the tables of families in Africa, this is 1.2 million that someone wanted to invest in a business, and they believe Yo is that business that'll give them a return.

This entire article is complete nonsense. Trillions of dollars are pissed away in this world, and we're going to point fingers at a developer that did nothing but invest some of their free time to contribute a fun social app to the market?

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Show+HN#!/story/past_month/0/Show%...

Take a look at what's coming out of the HN community. Do we criticize each other here for not solving 'real' problems?
A couple weeks ago when the new Google My Business platform (http://www.google.com/business/) was introduced I thought it was very interesting. To me it signaled Google's interest in entering the small business game by building a platform for SMBs to have a consolidated online presence.

They wouldn't have combined the products and created a platform if they didn't plan to expand it. I thought about how significant it'd be if Google included some sort of website builder along with the Google My Business platform. They organically have more reach with SMBs than any competitor can afford to buy. That combined with the high switching costs of websites and they have a massive opportunity as long as they don't misunderstand their target market.

Now they're offering domains and teaming up with some of the biggest website builders out there. I'd wager that 1) it's only a matter of time until their domain service is offered as part of Google My Business and 2) they offer their own website builder/CMS.

The website builder industry is competitive and noncompetitive at the same time. The companies that spend the most on marketing have the shittiest products and the companies with the most product potential 1) don't advertise or 2) don't cater to small businesses as much as they should. They're all asleep at the wheel in one way or another.
Question - Wouldn't it be possible to provide a static version of the site, operating elsewhere, when there are connectivity or maintenance (what this says) for the main site? Even if outdated by X hours would still be better than getting nothing at all.
I'm a huge fan of Sass. In fact I taught myself web development with Sass/Bones, so writing in pure CSS makes me feel kind of like a caveman making a fire. I 'get' why Sass and other preprocessors will make my life easy. I don't 'get' why a postprocessor will make my life easy...
But it will stop 100,000 people all trying to do domain transfers at once. I don't think anyone to try and support something like that.
Poppup?
I like C++ because I only pay for what I use in the language. Very little overhead or additional baggage to slow or weigh things down, unless, I elect to include the extra luggage.

The recent updates - C++11, C++14 and the drafts for C++17 are also very welcome.

When you need performant, deterministic, portable and testable code, you go for C++.
If you haven't ever released a product with massively flawed security, you've probably likely never released something, or you have released something massively flawed and don't know it yet.
> As for ensuring the driver can react fast enough if any of the systems become unavailable, AFAIK all the cars that have this set of features also have systems that will beep at you annoyingly if you take your hands off the wheel. It's one of the unwritten purposes of those "driver drowsiness detection" systems these same luxury cars now come with.

That's great, 'cause that's one of my concerns with this kind of thing. Still, I wonder if it just might be better to leave everything to be handled manually, since then you have more things to keep you busy and thus awake. I imagine that I could end up like I sometimes do when watching a boring movie late at night - it's very hard to stay awake because I'm not invested in what I'm watching and I am not doing anything but watching it. Of course, it might just be best to pull over and sleep for 15 minutes at that point.
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The Dokku team is behind Flynn (https://flynn.io/) which has more features a la deis.
I think the point the OP really should be making isn't that we shouldn't be building them, but that we shouldn't be giving them so much press. Who's to blame here, really?
OK, use something else then.
Servers include semantic update: I doubt you have the capacity to do that with the same commitment, or that Wolfram Language would make much sense without it.
Yes, I believed you missed the point. Someone lamenting the fact that smart people are working on stupid problems is not the same thing as them saying that smart people should be forced to work on hard problems. Hamming put it best:

"Over on the other side of the dining hall was a chemistry table. I had worked with one of the fellows, Dave McCall; furthermore he was courting our secretary at the time. I went over and said, ``Do you mind if I join you?'' They can't say no, so I started eating with them for a while. And I started asking, ``What are the important problems of your field?'' And after a week or so, ``What important problems are you working on?'' And after some more time I came in one day and said, ``If what you are doing is not important, and if you don't think it is going to lead to something important, why are you at Bell Labs working on it?'' I wasn't welcomed after that; I had to find somebody else to eat with! That was in the spring."

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Yo's developers getting more than a million in funding at least makes it pretty clear at least in part why this happens.
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No one with half a backbone should be willing to do scheduled work all day and then during any portion of the night.

You need to build a resilient system, and that's gonna cost you. It's a lot less fun than adding features, which is why business people tend to put it off and instead manipulate the tech people into working crazy hours.

The 24/7 web culture is dying. Adjust your business plan accordingly.
what about in the case of something like:

auto it = std::find(vec.begin(), vec.end(), value);
I think the turning point is already ahead of us where the thin client server-heavy webservices will be considered a "smell" or at least the uncanonical way of developing web apps.

It pays off to do a lot in the client (good libraries provided). You have a high frequency of development iterations, direct response during development and you are working closely to the "medium" of presentation.

I have had a project that started out as a flask web app and all of the sudden, I realized that moving things to the JavaScript world in the client (I was using ClojureScript there) was actually safer, faster and better than keeping it on the server. In the end the server Did validation and database access in the sense of a Web API. It really was a clean solution
GrubHub helped solve my food issues.
I agree with your point on lousy options for small businesses. See my other comment in this thread. The SMB website market is ripe for disruption.
It's a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird
Also, I'd venture a guess that if you sum up the total cost that has gone into Facebook's Poke feature (development, maintenance, deciding whether or not to turn it off), it would dramatically eclipse the 1.2M that everyone is so up in arms about. No one is losing their marbles over that stuff.

Look, I agree it's a ridiculous app.. but if people use it and derive value from it, good! Utility created!
I would disagree. Sure the app itself does something ridiculously trivial. But setting up an app that is expected to scale is not (I assume it is, if they got 1.2 million). They must have some very good marketing, or something special to get that million.

I do the database for a DNA sequencing centre. I guess some of these things are considered "important" problems (working towards curing cancer, or other diseases). But most of the bioinformaticians are second rate programmers (there are a couple of geniuses thrown into the mix as well). Their work generally helps, but to say they are doing something smarter that a scalable web app is a bit naive. Most of the stuff is 100 line scripts that count some numbers, and do some basic stats. Their software doesn't scale, it doesn't even have to be reliable, as often it will only be run on a couple of datasets. At the end of the day its a different set of knowledge and problems, the only similarity being that there is some programming involved.
Hilarious comment, indeed social engineering is out the window on this one.
What is a hustler?
This service is essentially what you describe. It's entering beta in Boston right about now:

http://www.bridj.com/
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Solving problems in an already crowded domain often takes non-trivial political skill even where it's technologically feasible to do so. If politics weren't an issue, I could walk down to the local hospital right now and save them tens of thousands of hours of time a year - they wouldn't even be hard problems; simple things like typing certain kinds of reports rather than using hand-writing, making one system able to read the files of another - that sort of thing. But, sadly, that's not the world we live in.
Cambridge (outside Boston where I live) had rent control but got rid of it around 10 years ago. I don't think its coming back.

I work outside the city core, they seem to building a ton of rental complexes in Watertown. Probably because the permitting is easier.
> If people derive value out of Yo, then terrific. If they don't, it goes away. Don't need a moral crusader to decide what is worthy.

Then you wind up with things like Fox "News" (actually Entertainment, NOT news) being popular, because they found that entertainment is much better at making money than actual news. If you let "making money" be the decider, lots of valuable things fade away.
You should only really use "auto" when the type is clear (like in your example #2). If it's not clear, you should probably specify the type so that it's more obvious what's going on. #1 and 3 are probably fine if x is defined right above y, but maybe not if they're at the bottom of a long function or similar.
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." [0]

The reason why this article resonates with many readers is that it expresses frustration with the triviality of how our economy allocates resources to start-ups. The promise of tech is huge, but following the money often leads to optimizing ads, machine learning algorithms competing with each other in HFT, or other applications with little net benefit to society.

It's not that EVERYONE should be working on the big problems -- just that the incentive systems seem to lean towards triviality over deep human benefit.

[0] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_17/b42250609...
you say in the article you were "stabbed in the back" by your co-founders. that's provocative language and an extremely strong indictment against two people that are not anonymous.
Possibly lower HOAs? But yeah, living in Atlanta would make a pool a must.
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I've been thinking about the applications of auto-driving cars a lot over the last year or so, and I think this kind of consumer use is not likely to be that successful.

It seems more likely to me that this kind of highway driving system would be installed and work on tractor-trailers. It's a good compromise; drivers keep their jobs but get less stress, and when these are legalized with less issues, the next stage where driverless trucks are introduced can come into play easier legislatively.

Legislation will likely be the biggest issue with these things in the United States. Taxi drivers already oppose Uber and Lyft; what do you think they'd do with an invention that removes their profession entirely? And their legislative pull pales in comparison to the teamsters'.

So, this kind of staging is a good idea for introduction to driverless vehicles. It just won't work for an Audi.
I have a plan to do this, have it kind of like a wiki with a breakdown of problems based on location (Becuase you can't solve world hunger all at once, each place has its own issues). Then have users submit possible solutions, and then open people to volunteer to implement solutions (maybe add a crowd-funding portion to it). Only issue is I'm too lazy to brush up my web development skills.
'Maybe that's more "fair" in some sense, but that doesn't make it good.'

I'm not even sure it's more "fair" - as you said, you're still paying. I suppose a part of the cost (time wasted) is sort of indexed by income...
The problem is with carbon in general is it has a band gap 5x larger then Silicon. Which overall (but not entirely) means if you want to build a transistor with Diamond (or graphene) you need to put 5x as much voltage into it.

The reason graphene is great for transistors is with its higher band energy its 5x harder for it to soft set itself. So if we pretend todays 11nm transistors have a 1% chance of electron tunneling, carbon would have a 0.2%.

The problem is that same switch would take 5x as much power to switch. Which means a modern 220w cpu would now need 1100watts of power :x