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Bringing Stocking Elementary out of moth balls, replacing boilers and roofs, and removing asbestos were just some of the projects GRPS put on the Warm, Safe and Dry list before the Commodore computer.

It seems they've already replaced boilers. They could have fixed any leaking radiators while they did that. ISTM they really are just talking about the control system. Perhaps it made sense to build a custom system in 1982, although I really doubt it. Nowadays, Honeywell certainly sells units that can just be dropped in, at each site. Unless they have steam tunnels running between the 19 buildings, centralization of control seems unnecessary. Sure, holidays, snow days, and terms move around slightly, but schools are on the internet now so staff at district HQ can manage each site's schedules when they need to do so. It would make sense to have centralized reporting, but just run that over the internet instead of the walkie-talkie bands.

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Knock it down an order of magnitude and the payback goes to 100 months versus 360 months on the bonds financing the renovation.
>Management thinks that they're the real movers and shakers , having to take all the risk , make all the tough decisions , while having to deliver results while being saddled with sometimes recalcitrant and inefficient teams.

It is by far easier to imagine something than it is to make that imagination real.

It is by far easier to tell someone what to do then it is to do it.

Management is by far easier than engineering.

Management, however, is still a dramatically different skill than engineering, and it is a skill that is important.
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And hey! In a list of US states by population, Michigan is #10! Who knew?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
> I had drinks with one of the $1 billion "unicorn" CEOs last night, in a trendy Noho bar in London.

Where the hell is "Noho"? Is this some ridiculous attempt to Americanize London by trying to rename parts of it after bits of New York?

If the author means the area north of Soho, I am happy to point him in the direction of any map of London, where he will see that area labeled "Fitzrovia".

Also, who points out that they were in a 'trendy' bar without covering the word 'trendy' in a fetid, glistening layer of sarcasm? Business Insider journalists, I guess?
because there is a difference between 100% of value collapsing all at once, and 25-50% going away. Yes, Uber is likely to be overvalued. But it is a real business, with real customers, with real money being exchanged. It won't go to 0 overnight like everything did in 1999. If Uber suddenly goes from 40 bil to 30 bil, who really cares? It just doesn't effect very many people.

Also, these are private companies. If the S&P loses 25-50% overnight it literally effects everyone in the world. If privately held tech companies lose 25-50% it definitely sucks, but it doesn't effect everyone. It just effects rich people in SV, who are all incredibly employable at other companies not in said bubble.
ditto, google/twitter/facebook/github are all ok for me, just don't make me type my email again.
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So many of these articles (and CEOs) fail to take portfolio theory into account.

Your chances of success are still very small. Almost infinitesimally so, and your valuation doesn't change that.A lot of companies will fail. VCs hope that the ones that are successful are successful in a big enough way to make up for all of the losses.

But the fact that a bunch of "billion dollar" companies are going to go belly up doesn't mean that everyone's acting irrationally. They're just going to subsidize the failure of the many with the success of the few.

A bubble bursting happens if on average the investors lose so badly that their LPs start to put money into something other than startups. Not if some "unicorns" fail.

And by the way, there are a lot more variables than even the success of the startups. Interest rates, success of other types of investments, etc. probably play more of a role in startup valuations than the success of most startups. Right now interest rates are essentially zero, and as a result people are throwing money at almost anything that has a vague promise of a return.

That being said, the entire VC slice of the economy is laughably small compared to other aspects. It's basically rounding error.
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Good. SV is a terrible place to work and I hate how all the jobs are there.
Poor? Measuring what? Yes, the US is much more liberal and stuff, but know what? We have way lower crime rates, much less citizens in prison, good healthcare and education systems for everyone, and average people don't have to work in 3 jobs in parallel to earn a living. And tell me, a german, about how rich the US is, comparing the national dept? Isn't it that China virtually owns a large chunk of the US already due to credits and bonds?

Yes, the top 1% in the US have much more money than the top 1% in EU, but that's it. Oh my god, we also have less startups with boatloads of funding that develop the next big social messenger thingy, or mobile app for optimizing "how to burn through VC". Woo!

Seriously, you lost me with "socialist policies". This is complete bullshit. You have to strike a balance between business greediness and general welfare.
I agree with you. Or you will know it's a bubble when people start to say "this isn't a bubble, it's different this time." It's never different this time.
You know what the solution to this is? Replace your damn equipment all at the same time :). Just make sure to implement some good hygiene pretty quickly.

Attackers would have to go through the entire process of phishing you again to be able to do any rootkit level stuff again.
Many companies run on SAP R/3 ABAP (1983) code or even still SAP R/2 ASM code. The ABAP code syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP . And many banks still use PL/1 (1964) or COBOL (1959): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL . And Fortran (1957) has still the best optimized compilers, surpassing often even C compilers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
Those 'technicalities of the real world' are the things that lead to new and interesting mathematics. Maybe your 'whole number' concept doesn't properly model different kinds of measurement. Maybe you've got to iterate a couple time on the definition of 'smooth function' before you find one that's useful for modeling actual observations.

Mathematics is not unencumbered by the real world. It's just highly focused on specific classes of encumbrance. (If I put two marbles in an empty sack and poured out three, you can bet mathematicians would be interested in this new kind of arithmetical behavior, and try to model and explain it. Though talking to mathematicians, I get the impression they are so far up in the ivory tower, they think it isn't connected to the ground at the bottom!)

Our programs are not easily factorable. It is hard to separate different interactions across different problem domains. That's a problem of the language, not of the 'purity' of the program. Well, arguably. You could see it the other way, too, I guess.
Creating a new language is a big effort that requires a lot of expertise. Why would they create a new language if there's one that they already like and want to use?
Interview w. Helen Greiner on tech specs of CyPhy Works' new LVL 1 drone
The subject matter might elude me in its technical details, but oh how he got his point across ;)
> How would you write it?

As I said, I don't know; I'd have to see what the context is. As I've written in another comment, these few lines don't seem worth "fixing"; they're not bad. Yet they might be part of some larger arrangement that's overly complex, redundant, etc.

> Creating a pair does seem weird, unless those two values are going to be passed around through multiple method calls together for use in multiple locations.

Yet the pair is destructed immediately into two variables `bid` and `now`; if we want to pass a pair around, we'd need to create a new one using `(bid, now)`, just as if they were created separately.

If we need to use the pair, we should keep it; eg. `bidNow = liftIO $ ...`.
This person should rightfully be receiving most of the gross profits from the company making the displays as compensation for the loss of her hands, and the people responsible for designing an unsafe production process should be in prison, treated exactly the same as if they had walked up to her on the street and chopped her hands off with an ax.

This is not hyperbole, this is simple fairness and justice. The shareholders shouldn't receive a dime until after their victims have received their share, and any person or company complicit in unsafe industrial practices belongs in prison just as surely as if they had directly assaulted someone, because assault is what it is. There is zero reason to risk any human's personal safety just to increase a profit margin, and if we need to put executives, managers and engineers in prison to get that message across, so be it.
You are wrong because this IS about how the Internet works and less about how one person/company screwed up.

Apparently all it takes is one ISP misconfiguring something to break large swathes of the Internet. I believe the consensus on HN is that no one entity should have an Internet kill switch.

If someone managed to disrupt mail delivery on a global scale, people would be less concerned with THAT it happened than that it COULD HAVE happened in the first place. Why would global mail delivery be so not-fault-tolerant that one mistake brought it to a grinding halt for hours? Same deal here.
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ISDS isn't wrong. ISDS is a necessary part of trade treaties to balance the scales and prevent Country Y from screwing Country Z because Country Z exports 90% of substance N while Country Y wants people to use domestic substitute M.

That said, the problem with ISDS in several treaties in the past 20 years is how it has been employed [e.g. Cigarette companies using in attempts to force labeling changes and/or threatening small countries with ISDS cases. ]

It really just needs a "If the company who pursues the suit loses, they pay Costs+$X" provision to strongly discourage ISDS suits that are frivolous and to have a public health/safety exception.
The Fizzery on Mission St stocks it last time I checked.
instagram and whatsapp are already bought, and facebook does have plenty of revenue. Snapchat has started their business model, and they do at least have some revenue. (Certainly not profit, but revenue).

Any way you look at it, there are still more "real" companies than in 1999. And the rest, well it's not that surprising when startups fail. It's a thing that happens all the time. It's much different than tons and tons of public companies going out of business.
For a company that matches employees to employers, this is a pretty brilliant passive way of saying "Hey, look at how unexciting or terrible your job is, we can help!"

Personally, I was neutral across the board. Instantly had me thinking "should I be poking around for a new gig?", even if responsibilities/life make that somewhat unpractical.
I'm not too keen on a 3 day notice because of media exposure being allowed by California tenant law, there has to be some other violation of the lease?
Open the entire agreement up to the public and we can discuss these magical benefits for everyone that all the clever people here seem to miss out.
Party smart, not hard? :P
I'd want it to throw some kind of cast exception, personally, not try and do what it thinks I want. (I'm not the GP)
Thank you for the Feedback. The library only focuses on render a selection, either a serialized one (it's not yet shown in the demo) or a selection made by the user.

But of course you may use it with any other library :)
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+1 to all of this. I lived through the dot-com boom and bust in the Valley, much like Chuck did.

I'd like to add: There is a metric ton of opportunity at the bottom for those who hoarded cash at the top. I used credit card advances, equipment financing, and a SBA loan to buy servers at 10 cents on the dollar when Exodus Santa Clara went bust (I also bought fancy equipment from many other companies.) I started my company in 2001, when I was 20 years old, and in 2007, sold my company ("built on eBay", teased the guy who ran the acquiring company) for over $1 million. This was a completely bootstrapped web hosting company.

This time, if indeed we are in a bubble, I would cash hoard like a mofo, and scout for the new "10 cents on the dollar" opportunities that may well pop up in the next few years. You can build a cash flow-based business relatively cheaply at the bottom. You just have to endure everyone telling you you're crazy (I can't count how many times I heard "What do you think you know better than Exodus/AboveNet/all the big hosting companies who declared bankruptcy?" Well, I know I don't have to sell servers for too much money to clients in order to make a buck, when I'm buying them at 10 cents on the dollar...)
2010: Sorry, But This "Tech Bubble 2.0" Talk Is Ridiculous
http://www.businessinsider.com/one-big-reason-were-not-in-te...

2011: 11 Crazy Signs This Really Is A Tech "Bubble"
http://www.businessinsider.com/signs-of-tech-bubble-2011-8

2012: A Non-Tech Person's Guide To The Tech Bubble—And Why There ISN'T A Tech Bubble http://www.businessinsider.com/why-there-is-no-tech-bubble-2...

2013: Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble
http://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-that-tech-sector-is-...

2014: Here's The Evidence That The Tech Bubble Is About To Burst http://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-that-tech-bubble-is-...

Have we reached peak, "Tech Bubble" talk yet?

PS. those last 2 articles were written by the same person basically regurgitating the same talking points, but just 1 year later.
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An interesting take on the experience of occupying a transient and impersonal space, but also a reflection of the author's perspective on travel. The two are not the same.

Being disconnected from friends and family, being too narrowly focused on work, or actively avoiding human entanglements as the author admits, is a perfect framing device for melancholy. Whether this takes place in a home or in a hotel is simply a matter of setting.

Having held a travel-intensive consulting position in an earlier part of my career, I absolutely identify to the melancholy of constant dislocation. However, now that I work primarily at home, I do miss the occasional changes of scenery and am looking forward to my upcoming vacation overseas.

The moral of the story is that balance matters, as does context. Too much constant motion produces alienation. Too little produces boredom. And it's much easier to look forward to a personal trip than a business trip, because the former is much more directly rewarding. As important as it is to travel, it's just as important to have a sense of homecoming when it's over.
A big reason is cost-savings. This prevents each building occupant from setting the AC too cold, or forgetting to turn it up/off when they leave at the end of the day and for breaks.
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I remember a conversation I had with a friend's father, an HVAC engineer. He brought home a control board one-time, showed me the sensor inputs and control outputs. I don't remember how many there were, but let's say a dozen of each.

He described how a sensor in would connect to this spot and feed the system temperatures from a sensor in some remote part of the building. The control output would then go to the appropriate HVAC system and turn on/off A/C, heat or whatever to get the temperature to what it needed to be at.

The system would spider out around the building with these sensors and regulate the building's temperature.

At the heart of the board (which looked like a PC motherboard) was the CPU, a z80, already hilariously ancient when he showed this to me. So I asked him "why not use a more modern CPU?"

He responded, "why? This z80 can control an office building's entire HVAC system, and poll each sensor 200 times a second, how many times per second do you need? Temperature in a zone doesn't change that fast."

It was my introduction to the concept of "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Lateral_Thinking_...
That reminds of some idle thoughts I had several years ago, when I lived in an apartment, during a storm.

It was a dark and stormy night. The rain was coming down hard, and there was a good bit of wind. It was not a night you would want to be outside in. As I sat in my dry, warm, lighted apartment I got to thinking about how different life was compared to my distant cave dwelling ancestors.

If they wanted a drink of water, they had to leave their cave and go find running water. On a night like this, they would have to choose between thirst and going out in terrible weather.

In my apartment, I simply turn the handle on a faucet, and as much water as I want is instantly available. No need to leave the apartment when I get thirsty.

If I want to be in rain for some reason, such as to wash, I simply step into the shower and it will rain on my command, at whatever intensity I want, at whatever temperature I want. My ancestors would have to wait for rain, and accept whatever intensity and temperature that it happened to be.

If I get cold, I turn the thermostat up, and minutes later the temperature is to my liking. My ancestors would have to move around in their cave and hope to find a warmer spot, or build a fire and trade away clean air for some warmth.

If I want to do something that needs light and it is night out, I flip a switch and I have light. I can adjust the brightness to anything from just enough to get around to enough to do anything I can do in full sunlight. My cave dwelling ancestors would have to use fire for light at night, messing up the air of their cave and only partly lighting their home.

If I want to enjoy a gentle breeze, I turn on a fan. They had to go outside.

I then got to thinking about how if my ancestors could see me, they might think I was some kind of god as I summon running water, rain, wind, light at will, and control the temperature.

Then I realized that if they were put in my apartment and I in their cave, they would be able to do all that I can do after a couple minutes instruction...and I would have no idea how to actually make a fire.

I'm not a god compared to them. I just found a better cave.
Doesn't that question answer itself? Because a good engineer might have other things to do with that time. I take my job seriously, and I'd rather devote my surplus time and energy to activities that make me better at the job I have.
How do you control the development of independent libraries so that there's no incompatibility problems? Really, people have been solving this exact problem for decades. The fact that you changed a word there for something more specific does not change the world.

The answer, of course, is that you version it. Not put in version control, but manually assign version numbers to it.

You try to make it possible to use several versions at the same time, but that's not always possible. If you have to use only one version, make sure to not make any incompatible changes in a single step, first you deprecate old functionality, some time later you remove it. Some times that's impossible, it's natural but it'll hurt anyway, keep those times at a minimum.

Also, make sure you mark your versions differently for features added and incompatible changes, so that developers can express things like "I'll need an API newer enough for implementing feature X, but old enough so that feature Y is still there".
A real world parallel to clamping down on those who notify companies of security defects.
The map doesn't show Australia for me, which I suspect must be a contender for straightest roads.
All the URLs come from Business Insider. That's kind of like John Stewart's point how the News Media says year after year that this is the worst Allergy Season ever. Its the worst allergy season every year no matter what because pollen count increases every year no matter what.
Thank you :). Good point, I just thought it looks nice (works not in firefox though :/). Of course other colors would be possible, it's just a class that's applied on the wrapping elements. I will continue to develop the library and create more examples and use cases!
So they give you a couple grand. What other value do they provide? Seems like a bad deal for people who actually have good ideas and can execute.
I'm suddenly reminded of the episode "When the Bough Breaks" from Start Trek: TNG. Long-lost hyperadvanced planet-society finds itself infertile and unable to sustain its own population, steals kids from Enterprise to teach them how to be a generation of little Mozards and Rembrandts; Enterprise rescues kids and in the process figures out that said hyperadvanced society - having focused entirely on arts and humanities - forgot even the most basic understanding of the technologies they relied upon and were now falling victim to radiation poisoning brought on by ozone depletion and the power plant they were using to power their tech. Scaling down the power plant's energy production and reseeding the ozone layer implicitly fixes the fertility issues, at the cost of the long-lost planet now no longer being long-lost and the additional cost of the planet's inhabitants pledging to learn more about their technologies instead of blindly depending on them.

Moral of the story: make sure understanding of relied-upon technologies is prioritized, lest they bite you in the rear later.
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Unfortunately when the bubble pops while the VCs who hold equity in the overvalued companies will be hit the hardest, the entire economy will suffer. The public stock markets will crash, the housing market will crash, etc.

The irresponsible valuations and investing will hurt everyone.
We need harsher penalties and stricter oversight for companies responsible for such activities. Consumers cannot be expected to know the complete history of every product they purchase, especially when companies have so many levels of subcontracting that even government agencies have a hard time untangling them.

We need to push for reforms at the political level, but we can't all bear the guilt personally. Our only other option would be to completely halt spending.
Not until I hear some friends and family start talking about investing in tech startups again.
"Your face, your voice, your fingerprint, your iris, all of these things cannot be spoofed..."

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your focus here, but face, fingerprints, iris and voice prints have all been spoofed - some of them trivially easily. Fingerprints are particularly problematic as you leave them on most things you touch. Fingerprints have been lifted off of objects and fooled scanners with apparatus as everyday as gummi bears...
>stronger and richer US and EU.

The EU is a political construct yet you promote the benefits of a stronger EU while deriding the political system.

>This private justice would ensure that the free market reigns, not the misguided whims of bureaucrats who like to make tyrannical regulatory laws in their quest for more political power.
How to do audio recognition of animal sounds?
I'm really new to this topic and wonder if it should work the same way it works for music.
To be more precise, the biggest pain with selections I feel is that if you have a H1 (for example) containing some text and you select that text, the range will never report the H1 even though the user actually selected it. That makes it hard to go full WYSIWYG and you end up having to deal with parentNode and the likes.