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Might it make more sense to rather compile the editorconfig file into the respective editor's config file? That way you need not depend on a plugin being written for the editor. This would mean that you could support more editors and enhance editor configurations without having to wait for the plugin to update to support your own new features. This would be at the cost of the ease of simply editing a single file, though it could be set up that, when compiled, the system will back the old config file up and insert the new one in its place.
the minority of companies is shareholded in EU I think
Once again downvoting a perfectly fine post with no indication exactly what your fucking problem is in the first place. Good job, HN.
Nobody should ever contribute content to proprietary resources. The community should own the content the community generates. Wikimedia stuff and Stack Exchange stuff is all CC-BY-SA licensed. We should contribute to those things! Screw Quora!!
If you like historical maps as much as I do, this is pretty wonderful.

I'd always heard that there used to be a bunch of airports up and down the San Francisco Peninsula. Now I can see where they were: Bay Meadows, San Mateo, Belmont, Cooley (a private airport north of San Carlos), downtown Mountain View, and a seaplane base by the San Mateo Bridge:

http://ims.er.usgs.gov/gda_services/download?item_id=5506677...

The circles that look like gears are airports.

If this gets your curiosity going like it did mine, this site has more about these airports:

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm

And if you're around Palo Alto, did you know that Hawthorne Avenue, three blocks north of University, used to be a railroad spur leading to the Catholic University (now St. Patrick's Seminary)?

http://ims.er.usgs.gov/gda_services/download?item_id=5503465...
In fairness, what MS did in the past is what Apple and Google are going now, just with larger market share.
AirBNB also provides a product that was very hard to find before. Although most of the NYC housing market consists of units kitchens and living spaces, it was very hard to find a two-bedroom apartment to rent short term before AirBNB. As someone with a family, the ability to rent a traditional apartment for a short time is a significant improvement in the market.
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And then Larry Page walked in and said "Focus! Everybody's goal is to push Google+ now!"
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Loved the presentation, makes me realise how much more difficult it is to hire and foster innovative culture here in India where the office space is still marred by the age old 'BOSS Rules' culture.
>Apparently people thought auction was the "least worst" way

Auctions only confirmed the intrinsic value of medallion in that system - $2K/month rent pay for a medallion in SF before the auctions corresponds to something like $200K value of a rent-generating asset.

>Once we've decided on having some sort of system to limit the number of taxis

exactly, protecting monopoly as such a limit has nothing to do with consumer safety.

Edit: just googled - the medallion price in NY is $1M and in SF - $300K. Sorry for using obsolete data (holy macrel what a nice exponentially looking price ride of recent 3 years Uber has killed : http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/06/chart-of-the-day-nyc-taxi-m... )
You could go ahead and build support yourself.
Could part of the problem be that each subreddit can set its own CSS? You can disable this (once you have an account) by unticking Preferences > allow subreddits to show me custom styles
Those billions are made outside of US. And I think that their Irish branches are separate companies, not american.
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The Danish Geodata Agency (Geodatastyrelsen, abbr. GST) provide point clouds, elevation rasters (both ground and surface), topographic maps and more in a national project that started in 2011. http://eng.gst.dk/maps-topography/topographic-data/

As an experiment, they even have a couple Minecraft servers running with a copy of the elevation model in 1:1 (site is in Danish only): http://gst.dk/emner/frie-data/minecraft/
HN does not allow one to downvote replies to your own comments.

I do disagree with you, in every regard, but I don't downvote over disagreement (and could not possibly downvote you in this instance). Someone else must also disagree with you.
“As a result, barriers to entry that have stood for decades are melting away. Every incumbent business is vulnerable to competition and disruption.”

Upper middle class dudes from elite academic institutions create businesses. What's the new thing? Maybe I'm misstating this and I'm just going to piss away what few points I have less, but hasn't business always been this way?

Railroads killed the stagecoach, the lightbulb killed gas lamps, Craigslist killed the newspapers. Amazon might well kill Google, but if they do, its not necessarily a new thing.
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To invite people to our app. Is there a way we can make our users send a message to multiple whatsapp contacts.
This is really great, but I would appreciate some tests or description or your testing procedure. Does this project pass the NodeJS test suite?
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Inspiring and made me change my thinking.

Gracias.
Speaking of disruption, what's funny is the extent to which SGI was done in by id Software.
Comment too complicated. Needs discussion. HN kryptonite.
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If you get easily distracted, make what you want to be working on distract you away from unproductive things. E.g. I've made an autohotkey script to bring my IDE to the front when I've finished a build, and command line aliases to trigger desktop notifications when long running operations finish.
Here's Reddit's official announcement on their blog...

http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html

...and here's Jase's (the developer's) announcement on /r/alienblue...

http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html

Android version in the works?

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l...

What about Windows phone?

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_l...

iPad version? Do I pay for it?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue...

How to transfer settings to new app.

http://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2jdcao/alien_blue...
> * At 10mm thickness, that's actually going backwards from 7mm for iPhone 6. Every mm of thickness adds perception of "hugeness" dramatically.

This is the only one I disagree with you one. If I can get more battery life I would GLADLY give up several mm. Battery life is practically the most important thing for my phone and the race to be thinnest is counter to what I desire. It wouldn't kill me if the iPhone 6 was 10mm if that extra 3mm was filled with battery goodness.
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True, but that's a different level of ABI. Stefan is talking about the base language ABI, e.g. calling conventions, vtable layout, etc., which is what matters if you're trying to call C++ from another language. You're talking about the ABI of the standard library -- or, more accurately, any library that uses STL types in its interface (which probably disqualifies it from being called from another language anyway).
The thing is though, for every topic I know anything about, the corresponding reddit communities are OK but certainly not the most authoritative place go to ask questions or read the latest news. The most knowledgeable communities still tend to be based around traditional phbBB bulletin boards or other types of conventionally structured forums.

I use reddit a lot for asking questions because it's a really low-friction way to find a community that knows quite a bit about a certain topic. But once you really start researching a topic thoroughly, reddit's structure and voting system doesn't seem well suited for most discussions, and as a result the communities that form always seem to have a certain casual quality to me.

I think reddit offers tremendous value, but more because of the potential for easy discovery of new communities and the potential for community cross-pollination that results.
The motivation of Google is not even discussed here. Why do you want to create a certain environment for "smart creatives?" Oh yeah, almost forgot... so they'll make products that will make Google lots of money. This always leads to a logic contradiction. If they are so smart and creative, why do they need Google? Everyone knows if you create the next g-mail you still walk in on Monday and get a salary, not equity. You might get a huge bonus, or Google might choose get another airliner instead. That's a risk you'll be taking.
Sad that a bunch of designers can't come up with an original thought. Looks exactly like the Apple TV.
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He's talking about the prospects of businesses taking on incumbent businesses, not the chances for individuals. Incumbents like the regulated taxi industry or Borders Books don't just roll over for new challengers no matter where the new firm's CEO went to college.
Exclude the military though and it will be a very different story
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> All three you mention currently have severe deficits compared to Netflix.

I agree to your points to a certain extent. However, you're forgetting that Netflix also has deficits to the other three. HBO, as I understand it, would most likely have up-to-date recent films, something Netflix severely lacks and people actually want. Amazon is bundled with Prime, a big draw for a lot of people which makes it's offering look more desirable in many ways. Hulu is free (except Hulu Plus). Probably most importantly, all three have unique content which is not available on Netflix (especially true of HBO).

> It seems unlikely they'd pay any of the others without paying Netflix.

I don't think this is necessarily true. With VoD services like these, people will use the ones which have the content they want to watch. As the 'incumbant', Netflix will have certain first mover advantages in terms of brand recognition, but this won't last forever and the market still has lots of room for growth.
Actually that's not true. The first Star Wars had lots of input from others, because Lucas didn't have the clout to do it on his own. Same with the second and third films.

It was the prequels that were just Lucas. And we know how that turned out.
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I'm seriously considering buying a couple of Xbox ones with kinect for that reason. My parents are getting older and my sister lives overseas with a new baby. I live in another city again. The kinect Skype with fancy microphones and the ability to focus on the speaker is compelling.
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Great! Let's keep spreading awareness so that this becomes a high-demand item for each editors! I personally commit to make a PR to each major project I use as I found out about EditorConfig just by being curious about the config file in a project, so, this will definitely boost adoption.
Not only did Ireland not default but it was strongarmed by the ecb into repaying loans foreign banks had made to irish banks.
The reason for this was to prevent 'contagion' ie to save the european banking system. Ireland was later given some assurances about being looked after for doing this which have so far not been backed up
We "launched" a couple years ago with support for only a handful of editors. Most of the plugins have been community-made.

No one has submitted an Eclipse plugin yet, but we would love to help make one happen.
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Direct link to the paper: http://crayfis.ps.uci.edu/paper.pdf
Which had an interesting reception among Googlers.
.editorconfig supports domain specific properties: https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig/wiki/EditorConf....
Its encouraged that other extensions/tooling take a dependency on .editorconfig to introduce their own configuration.
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I was under the impression that the work load at Google is so heavy that it is almost impossible to get "20% time" anymore. During what time did you work on your idea? Are they freeing you of all responsibilities to build your prototype or do they expect you to do it in your free time and then donate it to the company?

Thanks, I'm very curious about this aspect of Google's culture.
Vendoring always seemed a bit gross to me. On one hand it makes it possible to avoid build breakages when doing "go get" from master, but on the other hand it makes keeping up with master more difficult as it disassociates you from the source.

I think when multiple projects involve vendoring we will end up with cuts at arbitrary places in our dependency graphs, and knowledge and manual intervention will be required to sync with modern/bug-fixed implementations.

Someone gave me a good piece of advice on ethics once: if it's a problem when everyone does it, it's probably unethical.

In this case we want to make life easier on our users, but from those good intentions we may actually make an ecosystem where everyone is less efficient...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_of_anarchy

I would personally rather intervene once to lock the entire transitive closure in a buildable state rather than manually find and update all vendored cuts in the graph.

The plot will thicken with http://golang.org/s/go1.4-generate as I suspect the generate step will frequently refer to things in $GOPATH/bin.
Tsssh, please don't wake me up from my startup dreams! But you are right, it happens very rarely that an individual creates a billion-dollar disruptive sexy cool company without the specific kind of socio-eoconomic background you mentioned. On the other hand, one can live a perfectly fine life off a small business with a local scope and - I think - that's not in the unreachable zone unless you are starting from the other extreme side of the society.
Disregard early downvotes. Voting still mostly balances out in the end.
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In addition to obviously selling the upcoming book this also seems to be selling Google to potential "smart creative" types. Kind of saying that Google is the one which has the ability to give "smart creative" types the freedom they need to flourish. So in addition to selling copies of the book Eric is also selling Google to potential employees.
Glide sounds pretty cool, but how is it better than just setting your GOPATH on a per-project basis?
"Smart and Creative" does not mean "Lucrative". Less cynically, one might consider it a virtuous circle. Google gives smart and creative people a chance to organize into small teams and innovate. When some of those projects become lucrative, more smart and creative people can be hired, and so on.

I've certainly found myself at odds between projects I'd Love to tackle versus bills that Have to get paid. After enough failures and false starts, it becomes less personal risk and more general survival. I look forward to going out on my own again and trying some more, but I need to contribute to my current employer first as I save up the energy and resources for my next personal endeavor.
in retrospect, thank you SGI, for XFS filesystem.

http://xfs.org/
If you own a property (or have the owner's permission), why does it matter whether you actually live in it or rent it out to other people? Should we be prohibited from lending our physical books to other people just because publishers would rather we didn't?

Why does it matter who you rent out your property to? Why does it matter whether you rent it out for 30 days a year or 300 days a year? Why does it matter whether you rent it out for 30 days to one person or one day each to 30 people? The last one is especially arbitrary, and the only reason it means anything at all is because the hotel industry uses it as a threshold for market segmentation.

Is it safety that matters? If so, let's drop all the "up to X days" bullshit and actually focus on safety. How can we check whether an AirBnB listing is "safe", whatever that means in this context, how do we compensate victims of "unsafe" listings, and how do we come up with a good incentive structure to encourage "safe" listings and weed out "unsafe" ones?

Is it taxation that matters? Of course people should pay taxes on all of their income. In fact, AirBnB income should be easier to track down than the proceeds from that MacBook you just sold on Craigslist. AirBnB keeps excellent records of all of your income (and their fees), after all. Then it's just a matter of getting those records into the hands of the IRS.

Is it zoning that matters? If so, why do we care about zoning at all? Over the last few decades, the only thing that zoning achieved in the United States is the complete segragation of residential areas from all other areas of modern life, so that everyone needs to drive a dozen miles to work and another dozen miles to get their groceries. Many cities are now beginning to toy with the idea of vibrant mixed zones, where people can live, work, shop, and play all within easy walking or cycling distances. A hostel next door suddenly doesn't seem like a bad idea after all. (Oh, it's not properly managed and people are shooting crack up their arms in the backyard? Well, that's a problem with poor management, not a problem with the mere fact that it's a hostel. Would you ban houses with basements because some basements have meth labs in them?)

So I refuse to believe that the right answer has anything to do with how long you should be able to rent out a property. It's your property, you should be able to do whatever you want with it within reasonable bounds (like paying taxes and keeping your property safe for other users).

As long as we keep focusing on peripheral issues that are framed by existing business models with conflicts of interest, we'll never get to ask the really pressing questions, such as reasonable safety and insurance standards for small-time landlords.

And yes, I agree with you that AirBnB's reactive (as opposed to proactive) attitude toward this issue isn't helping, either.

/rant
"4 inches in a smartphone? That's too large!" /Everyone, 2008/
google is blah great blah because blah blah, blah blah work at google.
Yes, but the demographic constituency who can play the game is expanding. It's getting easier to hack your socio-economic status.
Re: sgi.bad-attitude. Yes, Netscape did have an mcom.bad-attitude, but the order is reversed, it was brought over from SGI to Netscape (or mosaic communications as it was originally known - we never did manage to get mcom fully removed from everything). Six week sabbatical after 4 years was another nifty SGI attribute that made it's way to Netscape as well.
I think that "better than Dart" is an opinion that is not shared by everyone. Personally I think Dart is better but also more different than javascript which makes it a bit harder to learn. As you said, a lot of developers on the MS stack likes to use what MS builds but others prefer things not from MS (sometimes very stubbornly :-) ).
It's complicated.

On one hand, traditional regulation keeps small or part-time players out of the market, because regulatory overhead is too high. The relative burden of regulation on large companies is much less, because they can amortize the cost across more business.

On the other hand, this only works if these smaller players get relief from regulations -- which means that they are operating outside the laws and regulations. For instance, turning an apartment building into a hotel via Airbnb sidesteps rules around zoning, tax collection, housing policy, etc. You could decide that these regulations are just annoying red tape, but they were put in place for legitimate purposes in the past and it seems like we ought to at least consider the impact before we throw the baby out with the bath water.

A third argument is that peer to peer marketplaces are changing the balance of power between producer and consumer. As a consumer, this sounds great -- but the person at the other end of the line is now an individual, not a giant corporation. When I have a bad cab ride, I go on Facebook and bitch about it, and life goes on. When I have a bad Uber ride, I give the driver one star and they may very well get fired -- and Uber will just replace them with one of the teeming masses hoping to make it rich driving strangers around for a living.
If he was Polish or Irish I would mention it also. Lay off me with the PC bullshit please, I was being descriptive.
What academic background is that? I'm curious.
EditorConfig support built-in to your text editor is the pipe dream. JetBrains 9 will have EditorConfig support, but no other editors yet support it natively so all of the plugins are necessary currently.

Unfortunately many editors do not support project-level configuration files by default. A conversion tool could be a good way to make global configurations even more accessible for editors that do support project configuration files and don't have native EditorConfig support yet.

Until native support becomes more common, EditorConfig acts as an unopinionated universal editor-level linter of sorts.
You'd have conceived a system used by billions though
Could that be after Sabbatical? SGI had a six week sabbatical after 4 years of work.
Well if I wasn't so lazy, it would be easy to implement a Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm yielding a list of primes up to some number, and then another function feeding 1000000 to that function and returning the length of the resulting list. The hard part would be actually proving the theorem I stated in terms of those two functions.
Sorry - wrong TrueSec linked to in my earlier comment. Should be http://www.truesec.se . Emil Kvarnhammar promises more information after giving Apple time to patch: https://twitter.com/emilkvarnhammar/status/52264650512848076... .

Another article about Rootpipe: http://www.99mac.se/artikel/6026-ny-sakerhetsbrist-upptackt-...
One great thing about the US copyright system is how things made by the US government are public domain. All these maps are public domain.

Many other countries do not do that. Why is why OpenStreetMap started off in UK and is big in Europe.

So yes, many countries will sell you raster/sheets of topographic details, but it won't be open.
> If they are so smart and creative, why do they need Google?

Many things cannot be created individually, no matter how smart and creative you are. Think of pyramids, space ships, - or even GMail. It's about leveraging the resources of a big company.

And not to forget the low risk: you build something while you are on salary vs. building something for equity that may or may not worth dollars in the end.
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People have been displaying contour lines and hill shading in OSM for years. There's no good reason to actually import the data itself into OSM,.
No, they really didn't. Wikipedia sums it up well, but the Iraqis insisted all along that the 'labs' were facilities to fill weather balloons which is even more amusing since those very labs were bought from the British in the 1980's. Those balloons were eventually used to range artillery, but the only people claiming they were weapons labs were the Bush administration..

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory#Dis...