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I think that these layoffs were made significantly less burdensome because of who was laid off -- i.e. real estate brokers.

Almost all real estate brokers in the non-tech world work as 1099 contractors anyway, paid completely on commission -- no salary and no benefits. This has always been the "standard" in real estate, and pretty much everyone gets into the brokerage business knowing that. Sure, there have been some innovative exceptions over the last couple of decades (limited-service residential brokerages like HelpUSell or Assist2Sell, for instance), but full-commission is the general rule.

So... you are a broker and you take a salary or semi-salary job with a tech start-up... You ought to realize that you are stepping outside the way your business normally operates. You are much more likely to be standing on shaky business ground, much more likely to be discarded when the boss changes his mind about the deal he signed (which happens in real estate all the time!).

Laid off from that company with the snazzy HN post "42 Floors is Hiring!" from a short time ago? If you are a competent broker, you have a career path available that has always been there and will be there for the foreseeable future-- back to being a commissioned salesperson. If you can produce sales, you can get a new spot quickly and without much hassle.

If it were any other demographic, the boss would have had a harder time.
The feature-set for this is pretty low. I've built a better solution with much more raw access to HTTP request and response streams.

If anyone is interested in an open-source version of Amazon API / Amazon Lamba, you can check out: http://github.com/bigcompany/hook.io http://hook.io
Good point. At the time I think I wasn't aware of the actual law, and because he'd done a good job of keeping it quiet until that moment, we were all in the room and got the news all at once so hadn't had a chance to look it up. Mainly I think I just had a feeling that he was screwing us over somehow and so asked all the awkward questions I knew he didn't want to hear. I particularly took offence to having to look at his NEW car outside the window as he delivered the news.

This was 20 years ago though (man, that's depressing!) and nowadays I would have spotted the warning signs a long way off and planned my exit strategy / final negotiations much better.

I still think he was screwing us over, though. And I still think he was a cunt :)
Your meta-description is either severely lacking or non-existent. You need to add more content describing who you are and what you do on your pages. Among other stuff...

Maybe the best thing to do is to head over to seomoz.org and get their free SEO manual so that you can learn more about online marketing. Inbound.org is considered as the HN for SEO, so check that out too.
I can't read the article, says I've read my last complimentary issue. That's in Chrome, I added them to my allowed cookie list. It still doesn't work. I tried Firefox with cookies enabled and it works so guessing something to do with the ad cookies from their site I have blocked.

If I open an Incognito window in Chrome it works.
I find even this view to be pessimistic and limited, because it assumes we need to keep fairly conventional (but electric) cars around, which we don't!

It's likely we'll rapidly end up with something like the computer controlled "carpods" Google is building, which could be radically cheaper than any car people have to be able to drive. Even if they can only go 45mph, that's enough to navigate most major cities at an optimal speed.
I see more than one person on this thread who thinks native means "runs native machine code" and more than one person who thinks it means "looks like it was built with the native GUI library" so the term is ambiguous. Before iOS app store, I think it was more common to mean the former, so it may be related to that.
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The future's already here. A 2-3 year old Nissan Leaf, top trim with all the features, with 10-20K miles on it and a 7-year factory CPO warranty, costs just $10-12K. That's thousands less than the average price paid for a used car last month. If your commute's less than 40-50 miles each way, you can have all the advantages of owning an EV today, not X years down the line. Zero gas, zero maintenance, zero emission inspections, and damn fun to drive. And you don't need any special charging hardware; you can plug it into any old 120V wall socket overnight.
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Well, for anyone that reads this. Talking to Dell they claim everything is secure and no data has been compromised. I just don't believe it, the scammer called our unlisted phone number and had all the machine and our personal details that we had given to Dell for a prior support call. So either Dell has people in India stealing customer data and using it to scam people or Dell has leaked/lost customer data and isn't being honest about it. Either way something isn't right.

I'll give Dell credit for quickly responding to me, but telling me that everything is secure and I need to file a complaint with the FTC just doesn't cut it.
The Microsoft campus in Redmond would most likely not be knocked over by the tsunami: a rather hilly Seattle is in the way, then there's the large Lake Washington, and then Redmond is another ~40 feet above the lake on the far side, plus another ~2 miles inland. A fair amount of the energy of the tsunami is going to be expended by the time the Microsoft campus gets salted. (Kirkland is west of Redmond, adjacent to Lake Washington, so it's a similar-but-somewhat-less-optimistic story there. Fremont is adjacent to Seattle and slightly inland, so it will be worse there.)

Of course, the infrastructure of the greater Seattle area is going to be trashed, but chances are good that the Redmond and Kirkland campuses of Microsoft and Google respectively would be intact.

Link to the inundation zone predicted for a magnitude 7.3 earthquake on Seattle: http://wa-dnr.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/ger_ofr2003-14_t... This isn't even "the big one" as the OP describes, much less "the really big one", but it's a rough description of where the flooding will happen. Downtown Seattle (up and left of the word SEATTLE on the map, with streets in a dense diagonal grid) won't be strongly affected, because downtown Seattle is a hill. With an 8.5 or 9.0 earthquake, of course, Seattle will be much worse off, but there's still some hope that Redmond and Kirkland won't get too damaged.
The point here is not particularly about signedness, it's that UB allows better optimizations to be performed.

If overflow is defined to wrap around then it's potentially an infinite loop (take N == MAXVALUE). With overflow defined as UB you can say the loop executes exactly N times (because you're not allowed to write code that overflows).

So UB is both bad and a source of power :)
Same here. Today, I tend to make sure these days that my projects absolutely are SPAs beforehand. If someone mentions traditional pages, SPA is out.
It's fascinating that now that things like deep learning have massive traction, people like LeCrun and Bouttou (both now at Facebook), who apparently pioneered the stuff, are taking a critical position on it - critical not being negative or dismissive but rather a "we have to see the limitations and good beyond them" approach.

See: LeCrun's What Wrong With Deep Learning
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxKBnD5y2M8NVHRiVXBnOVpiYUk...
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Yes, it's unfortunate that people still live in suburban areas that don't have transit.
cc: @foogered

This is what's been so off-putting about Rust, to be honest.

"I should never assume" is precisely what bothered me.

I loved Rust at first, but it required so much maintenance with its constant changes between versions, that I stated to dislike it. I didn't have much time (and I enjoy learning new languages), but when I had to virtually unlearn something just learned the previous day, it became frustrating after a few iterations.

A colleague at work once sneered at me when I suggested I could do my next [internal] project in Rust; I didn't end up using Rust, because I got self-conscious about the idea, and kinda got scared that I'll have to do much, much more work simply because completely valid code would not work in a few days. That feeling is kinda stuck with me to this very day, even though Rust wasn't a stable release back then, and now is.

Not to mention, there's people I've talked to about Rust who still feel like Rust isn't mature and never will be—simply because of it's "reputation."

[1]: They were referring to how dramatically and chaotically it changed before the first stable release.
Curious - via the web, an app, or SMS?

I got the impression those were SMS commands only, but it would be interesting to learn they'd shut down some of the functions but not all.
Public bathrooms in NE, BE, FR, GB are paid per use and far between. My mom has stories of jumping under the stalls if they didn't have the shilling, sixpence or whatever it was in the 60's. In LA, it's mostly systematic hatred targeting minorities and homeless people from completely necessary bodily functions... which is dumb to deny, because they'll do it 'round back for spite... the owner could so just be cool and ask everyone to promise (really) to not make a mess and keep it very clean so people feel slightly worse if they were to slob it up.

Also, every Starbucks in the U.S. seems to give out water or water with ice upon request. That's not the same as a community identity space and symbol of a water fountain or a Roman aqueduct with water endlessly flowing out of a hole in the wall (we're obviously not able to waste as much as in the past).

Perhaps the symbol of the commons replaced with nothing but apparent commercial options is what people are moral panicking about? Or is there (perhaps as a result of what follows) a popular, definite consumer mentality shift to eschewing anything free == not good, expensive == good?
I love this idea. Like a reverse parachute. It would be great for both the earth quake AND the tsunami assuming you could get high enough fast enough and stay up long enough. If I was rich I would just buy a cheap helicopter but your idea is more affordable and would be accessible to more people.
I sleep like a baby after exercise, you are tired already why would I be awake? :)
If you are using it for small services it's probably fine. But the original article did say that uninstall sometimes doesn't work correctly. Apt is more formal than pip.

So at some point, as you know you'll need to move on.
[a Density founder here] Okay...

> Why does this need to connect to your servers?
Because that's where the signal gets processed. We store all signal data ever captured and do all the math on an analyze server. The benefit of this is that as our hardware can be cheap enough to replace or give away and when our algorithm improves so too does all historical data.

> What happens if you become insolvent?
Not sure yet. What happens if any of your providers become insolvent?

> Why can't I just buy the damn thing then use it?
Because there's no margin or recurring value in the damn thing. And selling hardware is a bad idea right now.

> Why do I have to pay for a subscription to a service which is effectively a simple proxy between the device and my infrastructure?
Because we're not selling the device. We're selling the analyzed data. Also, I should probably say, you're not our target customer. We're after companies that control / manage large networks of locations not individual developers.

To be honest, we'd love to give this to any developer who wants it and just see what they build. Hopefully, we'll be able to do that someday and support that community properly. Until then, this is the best way for us to be a sustainable business and not rely on the crazy thin and ever-decreasing margins of hardware sales.

Hope that addresses some of your questions.

Andrew
CouchSurfing did prove that there was a market out there waiting to be tapped though. AirBnB were able to capitalise on it.
But once it's no longer an effective loss leader, they might just stop selling gas, which has the same effect.

You can see from land use patterns (at least in the West Coast North American cities I'm familiar with) that at a certain land value the retail gasoline business no longer pencils out, or at a minimum it becomes more of a natural monopoly. Intersections in gentrifying neighborhoods that used to have two or three gas stations increasingly have one or none.

Like drive-thru restaurants and banks, they're pretty effective at sabotaging walkability, so I wouldn't be too sad to see them go (or transition into just convenience stores).
Way more than that. The current cheapest model, with UK fees and taxes, at today's exchange rate, is $134,860.

If you want one with a V-12 (Which, if you're buying an Aston you do), you're looking at $200k, minimum.
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The security vulnerability isn't with the websites (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) - it's with you (not keeping your email addresses up to date) and the organisation that is repurposing your email address.

Having multiple email addresses associated with your account wouldn't significantly increase the attack surface (apart from increasing attack surface for phishing and the like).
If you did it would probably strengthen the isolation of your modules from conflicts, or say un-installation errors. Whether that's needed is up to you.
Indeed. One thing I've realized over time is how common it is to suddenly realize something, perhaps years later than you should, that should always have been blindingly obvious. I like to call such experiences "duh-piphanies". What's interesting is that this happens all the time technology and invention. Take something like the "hesco bastion", it's just a giant, foldable, wire reinforced cloth sided bucket that you put dirt and rocks in using earth moving equipment. It's something that could have been built a hundred years ago. But it wasn't invented until the '90s, and since then they've seen widespread adoption in a huge variety of uses. Similar examples exist in every industry.

The rise of Google is a true Unicorn tale. The story of hardcore CS nerds rebuilding a product that was already ubiquitous with a crowded market and re-inventing it down to the algorithmic level, defying every norm on the way there. But most innovative products have some element of blinding obviousness about them. Uber? Maybe we could use the worldwide communications network that every has a constantly connected terminal to in their pockets at all times to dispatch cabs instead of, you know, telephones or just having cabs circulate in high-demand areas. Dropbox? Network file storage that leverages the speed of the modern internet and modern storage technologies to remove the hassle of dealing with networked files. Square? What if people could just run an app on their portable computing devices which are already vastly more powerful and constantly internet connected instead of using crusty custom-built PoS hardware and systems? Stripe? Imagine if banking embraced the technology of the late '90s. And so on.

90+% of the "Unicorns" are just the sensible application of technology to already well-known problems, and just doing it well and monetizing properly. That shouldn't be so exceptional, but somehow it is. I think that's more an indictment of the silicon valley way of doing things than anything else. And the thing is, the rate of return to VCs when a Unicorn hits is so big that it covers the losses from all the bozos.
This is nonsense. C has a very weak type system and very weak runtime guarantees, making it much easier to introduce problems with no indication that something's up. Other languages with strong type systems and/or stronger runtime checks eliminate large classes of bugs that are very easy to trigger in C.

So, yes, it is C's "fault" that it doesn't protect against classes of bugs that many other languages do. Sure, those languages have some of the same bugs that C does, but they're missing most of the very worst ones and that's really powerful. For example, a garbage collector protects against accessing dangling pointers: it's just not something the programmer has to worry about at all.

Rejecting cricitisms of C's safety inadequacies with "just code better"/"just learn the language better" doesn't work in practice: there have been too many high-profile vulnerabilities in C software, many of which would've been much harder to trigger in other languages.
It's a conspicuous display of wealth either way; people can and do lease luxury cars, but only if they're trying to look richer than they are, which is still a cunt move.
My major use case is a read only, throttled, and cached front end for the mediawiki api at http://snpedia.com . The ability to monetize the api for higher throughput is an appealing plus. Gateway still seems pretty good for this. I'd welcome input or thoughts from others.
All,

If you want detailed guidance on how to build SPA apps in a right way then you need to check out this guide (called Project Silk) from Microsoft [1]. It contains lot of insights and all the approaches provided are still applicable in 2015.

It comes with complete source code.

[1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh396380.aspx
Nothing, it just sounds good.
Kernel interface change is low on purpose. Test it first with additional vms before throwing up your hands and exclaiming it can't be done, you might be surprised.
can we stop using that word? please and thanks.
I have also had a startup that had few customers. And another that never launched.

I think people misrepresent the reality: startups are hard. There is a lot of competition to get attention. People who are complaining about your site design are probably right -- there is always room for improvement. Standards are very high.

I think marketing and networking are key, but so is everything else. A fair amount of luck is involved.

People like you who report their failures are a rare breed, so don't be fooled. Most startups are unpopular. There are too many options out there for everyone.

Keep working on site design, product improvements, product/market selection, marketing/networking, etc. Think of it as a popularity contest partly.

Keep trying to find and build a product or service people want. Keep improving, it is very competitive in all areas and usually requires great execution and some luck.

Some people are lucky and it comes easily. That's not most people.

Marketing, networking and feedback loops are probably key. Integrating in existing social groups.
I can't recall GitHub doing this, but LinkedIn definitely encourages one to enter lots of addresses without thinking about the security implications of losing control of one of them. They do that for cynical reasons: the more addresses they have, the more cross-referencing they can do.
No significant impact for remote working since the explosion of the web ?

More than cars, some people are even going away from owning a house and just hop between countries, etc.
> Chances of getting your account hacked increases not n-fold, but logarithmic with each secondary email that you add due to poor security

To the OP: You probably mean exponentially here? O(log n) would be much better than O(n)
The paper "Learning to See Less Than Nothing: Putting Perceptual Skills
to Work for Learning Numerical Structure" is available from the aaalab.

http://aaalab.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tsang2...
They're convenient because they're right off the freeway. The gas pumps will disappear and be replaced with superchargers.
if you care about keeping your equity you need to get a lawyer to look over anything you sign.
Well, you just responded to a Tesla owner who rents in a multi-unit apartment. I charge, overnight once per week, in a city garage 1 block away. I didn't say it was easy or common, but that it's possible and getting more common.

(And if I ever get short, there's a new supercharger in Mountain View.)

Palo Alto's new law mandating chargers in new construction just recently passed; in a few years it will begin to take effect. And they'll probably extend it to renovations of older buildings, etc etc.
So let me get this straight. In the "flyover country" where you DON'T get big city salaries, you're going to buy a $100k-$150k house because you don't make six figures. And then with all the leftover money that you don't have because you're not earning SF engineer salary, you're going to buy a car that costs anywhere from 25%-50% of your house?
I suspect this is in part a side-effect of the Anglo-American (maturity-mismatched) banking system, which keeps long-term interest rates artificially low, leading to higher time preference.
An impassioned article, but the ultimate takeaway is that websites that accept ownership of an email address as some sort of identity proof do not operate optimally when you lose control of any associated email addresses. So, stick to one or two email addresses not generally subject to organizational appropriation, and accept that we don't have the tools for stronger authentication for this class of website at similar cost.
Evolution of parents:
1. First baby - pacifier gets sterilized between uses
2. Second baby - pacifier goes through dishwasher between uses
3. Third baby - pacifier held out so dog can lick it clean between uses
The length of the tunnel doesn't have much to do with earthquake survivability, beyond the obvious linear scale factor. What the tunnel is tunneling through has a lot to do with it.

Seattle's geology is somewhat different from any of the usual cited examples, as we've learned by watching everyone from journalists to politicians to engineers stand around with dumbfounded looks while the Bertha saga unfolds.
Having the possibility to create an HTTP RESTful interface to many Lambda functions running on AWS is the biggest advantage of the AWS API Gateway.

Technically, stretching the system a bit, one could argue that we don't need backend software running on EC2 anymore, since everything can be a Lambda function with an associated HTTP endpoint to trigger it. I have been thinking about this a lot, and it could work if being locked into AWS is considered an acceptable risk.

For anything else more API-oriented (more authentication schemes, better security, more logging options, etc) I would suggest checking out Kong (https://github.com/Mashape/kong), which is pluggable with extra functionality and can work in front of the AWS API Gateway to enhance the REST-to-Lambda interface (and with any other API).
> I was flatly told "no" when I asked for tap water at a restaurant in Italy.

Modern consumerism at work!

In most of Italy, 30 years ago, asking for a jug of water at a restaurant was absolutely normal; you would order bottles only if you preferred sparkling, or if you were acting stupendous.

By the mid-90s, drinking bottled water at home had become normal even in cities with perfectly working water systems. People worried about hygiene started requiring bottled water in all circumstances, to be opened in their presence (god forbid you would actively recycle glass bottles in your establishment! -- to be fair though, in a country where screwing your fellow man is considered the smart thing to do, charging bottled-water prices for tap water was far from uncommon).

Nowadays, it's expected that water should be served in bottles; it's supposedly more hygienic and it's certainly more profitable for restaurants.

Somebody joked that in Sicily people drink water bottled in the Alps, and in the Alps they drink water bottled in Sicily. It's all great for the economy, of course, and terrible for the environment, but hey, così è la vita.
People are still disincentivized from soiling taxis by the presence of the driver. Though at the very least, you'll have to have a membership/accountability system in place, and that becomes harder and harder as you scale.