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I'm assuming glokon means Telegram for Android.
Or why bother with those webpack features if the tools you use already do the job?
Hit them with some tangible stuff that showcases your ideas. Eg. a LaunchRock page with clear value prop.

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> http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170

It now says "Not Found"
> I'm surprised that even though you managed to venture out of your bubble, you still remain woefully (perhaps willfully) ignorant on how the real world works.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
Even with my web developer hat on, I've never liked those 'features' that make a site more annoying to use - scroll hijacking, overly heavy loading, etc.

I know the majority of web developers have some (to me) weird love affair with Chrome, but I'm glad Apple's focus on the user isn't thrown under the bus in the name of more technical features developers will abuse.
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I also use a separate browser to log into Google for those customers that use Google Docs. Email is in Thunderbird with my own accounts, but I have a gmail account for YouTube and Gdocs (and Android, Analytics, ). I'll be happy to be able to have the option to separate the accounts of all Google properties as if they were from different companies. I don't need to share data among them and I don't log into them anyway unless I really need to do something (example: tell gmail to forward me invitations to share documents). Not the most common setup, that's sure.
I've always felt like "Head of Community" is a weird job title. I mean, isn't a community, by definition, imply joint ownership by those in the community? Or if there must be a leader, then they have to be elected by the people to represent/lead them.

The whole thing just feels like you're being taken advantage through marketing. They foster that "community" feel without actually giving any control that a community collectively should have.
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This would be really bad for consumers' security in light of the current fashion of deploying poor quality firmware full of bugs and dropping support for a product after it has been on the market for a couple of months.

I thought that the linux-wifi people had made some good efforts at regulatory compliance by signing the rules list. While this doesn't nearly make breaking the rules impossible, it makes it enough of a pain to do so that many people won't. The FCC could then go after bad actors who distribute modified blobs with one of those "Notice of Proposed Forfeiture: $25,000" actions the way they sometimes do with CB radio amplifier clowns, rude ham operators, and those pirate FM transmitter hoons who seem to be competing in a contest to demonstrate the worst engineering practices.
Principle-Agent Problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

The principal–agent problem (also known as agency dilemma or theory of agency) occurs when one person or entity (the "agent") is able to make decisions on behalf of, or that impact, another person or entity: the "principal". The dilemma exists because sometimes the agent is motivated to act in his own best interests rather than those of the principal. The agent-principal relationship is a useful analytic tool in political science and economics, but may also apply to other areas.
I was thinking if this is like a Putty-on-the-web kinda thing with Terminal UI embedded. That would be nice. But I guess it's not what I thought.
Good and Bad Reasons to Pivot
If you want to walk on the wild side and get out of the framework cage and take a breath in fresh air then checkout the following:

https://github.com/channikhabra/yarr/blob/master/complete-tu...
Mentioned this on Twitter to the Aurora program manager but it would be awesome to see a PostgreSQL compatible frontend.

Still though, awesome achievement to build a competitive database engine. :)
If you want to focus on education as a cause, then I agree working as a teacher at some point makes a lot of sense.

I think it'll be hard to work out what works just from that though, because the outcomes of education take many years and are often counterintuitive. You'd need to eventually do randomised controlled trials.

I've written some more here: https://80000hours.org/2015/06/5-reasons-not-to-go-into-educ...

I'd also recommend checking out sources like this:
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/about/what-works...
Yet, when it comes to government officials no such thing applies.

No. Government positions are subject to various oversights. Much of the role of democratic forms of government are precisely that oversight. Though yes, it's quite often very imperfect.

Elections, FOIA requests, investigative journalism, lawsuits, review by other branches (e.g., state of county/municipal, federal of state/local), accounting/accountability offices (GAO for the US federal government), etc.
I'm still holding out for Homomorphic Encryption.
That link is 'Sounds of Earth', there's also 'Greetings to the Universe': https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/golden-record-greetings-to-...
I've definitely met developers who made the choice to say "I can do this myself, I don't need someone else to do it", and I've also met developers who when tasked with "make our app run" simply say "ok, its running on port 80, so it's up right?" without any of the associated work to make it secure, reliable, backed up, etc.
Ok, thanks for taking the time to read through.

I agree another big part of the equation is what causes to focus on. We have separate content on that but it needs a lot of work:

https://80000hours.org/articles/cause-selection/
That means they're all tied.

What responses did you put in?
key points:

Much has been written about a startup making a pivot in direction after Eric Ries first coined the term in a 2009 blog post “Pivot don’t Jump to a New Vision.” The word pivot has attracted almost as much wordplay as the word lean.

A pivot is recognition of two requirements for success in a startup:

1. You have to continually re-evaluate and refine key hypotheses in your business model, remaining alert not only to the possibility of failure but also improvement.

2. As you make this change you have to do so in a way that you continue to explore new market and technology possibilities instead of traveling in circles (or playing “rock paper scissors” with yourself where you cycle through a series of options such that each new one appears superior to your current one but if you are not careful you discover you have return to an earlier point of departure).

Three principles:

1. Recognize Need For Change, But Make Sure it’s Progress

2. Good Pivots Build On What You Have Learned and Accomplished

3. Fix What’s Not Working
In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That's 66% more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.

Whilst I'll happily congratulate Stripe for the investment, I don't myself see it as a good thing. With Stripe having investments from both Visa and AmEx they have little incentive to challenge the current fee structure. Stripe processes its payments in the US through a strategic deal with Wells Fargo, who have a substantial (> $1 billion) investment in Visa, who in turn have an investment in Stripe. Do any large retailers or merchants have similar investments in Stripe? I don't believe they do.

If you're a merchant I wouldn't see Visa and American Express investing and taking equity in Stripe as a good thing. These are companies that have every possible reason to keep credit card fees as high as possible and prevent regulation from reducing them (which is exactly why Australia's fees are much lower - they're regulated).

I like Stripe as a company. I think they do great stuff. But a Stripe that's received investment from the card networks is a Stripe less likely to make disruptive moves to break the monopoly card networks have today.
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Funny, and here I sit thinking that it's a case of business corrupting government, for its own ends.
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It's true that it depends a lot on what you do within the career.

On stats behind earning to give, of the people we know, 0% have quit, meaning carrying on in a high-earning career but stopped donating at least 10%. Most are still earning to give, and the others have left high-earning careers though to make an impact through research, nonprofits etc instead. I think this is due to the strength of the community - if you were earning to give alone it would be much harder. Also, we only have 3 years of data, so it's too early to get a good measurement.
Why is this any different from the situation with GSM (where you are sort-of required to run proprietary software and not allow anyone to flash any "bad" firmware to get a certificate)? Sure there is the ISM frequency band, but a lot of wifi hardware is physically capable of violating both: the allowed frequency and power regulations (which btw can be different in different countries).

Not that I approve this new rule - just saying that it's a natural extension of another existing rule.
VISA provides a valuable service, and they need to get paid. It's not like Stripe is now just another cog in the machine. Well, this likely secures their future.
Thanks for the analysis. We shouldn't treat the baseband CPU code any differently than the user OS. Inherently we loose software control of one of CPU's, often with DMA, and arguably the radio is the the most important hardware.
It's probably worth (re)watching Cory Doctorow's talk at 28c3: The Coming War on General Computation. He mentions this issue around the 23:45 mark, but the whole talk is great.

https://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg
The only server's I've seen (and subsequently replaced, with Debian) breached were old CentOS boxes.

The key thing here is not "Debian is bad" or "CentOS is bad" it's that you need to keep up to date with security patches. For Debian that usually means a combination of using the Security Apt repo, and for things like OpenSSH, using the Backports Apt repo.

I do agree that Debian isn't a silver bullet, but in my experience it's much easier to work with from a setup/management point of view than CentOS, particularly for small shops that are't heavily invested in a full-blown CM tool - shell scripts and/or Debian config packages [1] can be used to fully provision one server or fifty.

[1] http://debathena.mit.edu/config-packages/
What about installing OpenWRT on RaspberryPi with USB WiFi dongle which can be used like any other router? Can they ban it as well?
> Do you think it costs Visa 66% more to process a payment in the US than Australia? The answer is, of course, it doesn't.

I know literally zero about credit cards beyond what I know as a user, but I can imagine a couple of reasons why that would be plausible, ranging from "There is more credit card fraud in the US" to "The market for credit card rewards in the US is more aggressive, and a 1.75% fee is a net loss for many US rewards cards". Can this really be dismissed out of hand like that?
The point is that regulation won't make it worse. Even without regulation they're already putting more into the closed firmware than either of us is comfortable with, and putting frequency and power limits into ROM or the closed firmware isn't taking away any meaningful freedom.
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I'd be happier if they tried to take out the credit card cartel rather than seeking its approval. They're in as good a position as anyone to make progress in that direction, but I suppose everyone has their price.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959451
> In the US Stripe charges 2.9%. That's 66% more than in Australia. Do you think it costs Visa that much extra to process a payment in the US? No, it clearly does not.

The extra interchange in the US doesn't go to Visa but instead to the banks that issue the cards -- much of which then, in turn, gets passed to consumers in the form of rewards. So, whether it costs more depends on your definition of "cost" -- but Visa itself does indeed incur much higher fees in the US (since they're paying more to banks). To a large degree, it's just a different equilibrium.

That aside, I'm one of Stripe's cofounders. We're not beholden to credit cards: Stripe was the first major payments company to support Bitcoin; we support Alipay; we support ACH. We funded Stellar. And we have more in the works.

But we should acknowledge that credit cards are by far the dominant instrument today. The purpose of this partnership is to help build products that improve the experience of accepting credit cards on behalf of the businesses that use Stripe. (And there sure is plenty of improvement possible there!)
I've lost track of the characteristics of the players in this space. Do Rackspace or DigitalOcean have anything that even compares?

I've always used Rackspace as a sort of default. They seem to employ good people, so they must be good - so the thinking goes.

But what's the real breakdown between these three? And any others I might not know about?
I think they already know the whole deal is ludicrous, they're joking too, and they are gently trolling you.

Or so I hope, for the sake of my faith in humanity.
Already happening.

https://games.amazon.com/games/the-unmaking

"Powered by Amazon’s AppStream -The Unmaking is the first game to unleash the power of the cloud so players can experience thousands of enemies, destructible environments, and an epic, cinematic soundtrack on their Fire tablets."

May or may not be cost effective.

I'm highly skeptical of the viability of your point #3.
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If I had to attempt to predict the future, I'd say give it time...
Does anyone know how this benchmarks against Postgres and MySQL? Would be curious to see how TPC-C runs on this platform but I can't find any studies of any independent parties benchmarking Aurora.
Prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959451
I liked them. Different strokes eh!
That would all depend on the nature of the agreement, obviously. If the goal is to prevent corruption, you only have to prevent future employment by those who are serviced by your governmental position. Nothing about that necessitates blanket removal from working in a field.

This really sounds like you're trying to engage in an ungenerous argument. Don't try to nitpick everything I didn't say as though you don't have enough brains to think it through yourself. Instead of trying to win an argument, you should focus on addressing the problem.

Because, again, saying that we should just accept corruption as unavoidable is about the most abhorrent political position one could take.
Inspiring.

First the idea of mapping slums and making stakeholders aware (even though they are already) whenever they sit to plan. Secondly the idea of using children who will foresee the future they want to live into.

"The value of child-led mapping, however, is not restricted to dreaming of a modern cricket pitch or other public utilities (although that's evidently important)."
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959451
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The result of your single morning would be a clunky ux that no one wants to use (or pay for). No one's saying you can't get a good start on the data model and basic skeleton in a single morning, but only someone who's never produced working, polished software would contend a finished and tested feature of any significant complexity at all could be truly finished in a morning.

The people downvoting you live in reality...
Yes, I am not an RC hobbyist. I was interested in the programming aspect of it. I have been playing with PilOS, which is PicoLisp made bootable on hardware, or Qemu or KVM. Alex Burger has been developing and using PicoLisp for decades. It has built-in Prolog, database and other amenities. The Rosetta code examples are telling of the language. I love PicoLisp, since I can tackle learning everything from the ground up. It's also very small, and very embeddable.
> You're always bound by the same latency - your input goes to the server and server returns world state for your PC to render

That's untrue of most games. Most games will accept inputs immediately on the client, and only correct from the server if things get significantly out of sync ("rubber banding"). Dead reckoning is both hard and super important.

> As for economics I already said you can exploit the shared state very much in games if you rework the way rendering works. Right now games focus on camera space rendering because they only care about 1 view output and view space effects are cheapest in this scenario.

The way you say this makes me think you have no idea how rendering works. There is no rendering without a camera. The idea doesn't even make sense.

> recomputing lighting/shadows, animation, particle effects, etc

Particle effects are dependent on graphics card bandwidth and fill rate. No benefit of shared state. Animation is done in vertex shaders. No benefit of shared state. Lighting and shadows are done through GPU buffers. No benefit of shared state.

The only possible system where shared state could (maybe) be useful in the way you describe is some sort of massive ray tracing operation. That wouldn't have anything to do with GPUs, and if you're talking about real time ray tracing the economics of this just got sillier. Now you're basically talking about a super computer cluster.

> I have no doubt this is the future of VR

VR is BY FAR the most sensitive to even minor latency. There's no way you're doing VR over a network.
It's possible through the UI. I'm sure it could be automated, though I don't know how.

When you send a text message from one iOS device to another, it will be blue if it was sent via iMessage, green otherwise.

Again, not sure how this could be automated en masse, but I'm sure it's possible.
Oh yes, please.

That would greatly simplify tooling and integration with RedShift (which already uses PostgreSQL frontend/protocol).
It might be a solution, but what vendor would go to such lengths (instead of just implementing signature check and denying any kind of custom software) if they are not legally abide to do that?
It's like Bitcoin, but a lot more complicated with lots of new features.

Last year, there was Paycoin, which was like Bitcoin, but a lot more complicated. It tanked. It seems to have been a scam.
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If nestle's water consumption is producing bottled water, and you assume people don't dump bottled water down the drain that often, then all of that consumption is going into human bodies, isn't it?
If you wrote numbers or letters as precisely as the triangles are drawn in the example, I doubt computers would have much of a problem reading them. We've got fast algorithms for digit classification that are pretty much perfect on the MNIST dataset with just 0.21% error (and I'm pretty sure there are errors in the dataset itself, which brings the real error rate down). MNIST is an easy image recognition task compared to others but it's not done with clearly written numbers.

Here's an example of some that were misclassified by an algorithm: http://www.concordia.ca/content/concordia/en/research/cenpar...
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This is interesting because certain parts of the bandwidth for wifi routers crosses into the bandwidth for amateur radios. So in some instances these devices fall under Part 15 (consumer devices) and sometimes under Part 97 (amateur radio) depending on the operator and how it is used.

Some HAMs use hacked routers to implement "broadband hamnet" (http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/) ... theoretically they could transmit from one of these routers at 1500W (in practice much less I presume, and the rules say you have to use the minimum power necessary) ... this regulation would effectively strip them of devices and force the use of devices blessed with a "SDR" label, if I understand it correctly. Facepalm for the masses.
Google has CloudSQL (=MySQL) and BigQuery, which is SQL-ish.

https://cloud.google.com/sql/

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/
I would love a link too for a SNES hardware clone in Brazil. I know lots of brazillian NES clones (including the infamous PolyStation), but I don't know any SNES clones in Brazil.
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Why is it targeted as such. Agism is a social issue, found predominantly in several of the industries suggested.

edit: I just took a quick glance at your 'Meet the team' page, and it's almost exclusively very young white males (save 3). I'm now not sure what you mean by social change. It can't be equality in gender, nor race, nor age. What are you striving for, and why aren't you practicing it?
I do get annoyed with any example that begins by harkening to the success of a forerunner. Ford had amazing success. He also had some solid competition and the parts of Ford's success that are often cited are not necessarily the path to success in today's world. (Nor were his competitors all losers...)

To give the article credit, it does mention later troubles Ford faced. But more as a lip service to deflect any criticism that entire section could receive.

The rest of this comes down to hedging your bets and return on investment. Nobody really cares about anyone that had to pivot during their execution. Indeed, often we forget the pivots that companies had to do. To that end, being able to pivot (i.e., reverse a decision) is a very important skill. Is it a "double win" if you automate that? Depends. Did it cost more to automate the reversal than it would have to just manually do it?

Seriously, the cost of building a solution should be considered with the value it will provide. If what you are building will not cost less than the extra value it will provide. Than it likely isn't providing value. You don't get double points for how a solution was built. You only get value out of things that add value.
I think the biggest addition to this that I would make is why does CircleCI have only one ops person to handle the day-to-day operations of all of these moving parts? They've got a considerable number of moving parts, and one person fighting to keep everything from fighting over leaves no room for other people, with other operations experience, to look at solutions that could at least provide a bit of breathing room. For example, there are a few ways of throttling based on IP; limiting requests from github to, say, a kilobyte per second of bandwidth would have slowed down that incoming tide to let the queue start to drain.

I think this is the biggest frustration of cloud-based services that I have. Just because you don't have physical systems to maintain doesn't mean you don't need people who are comfortable climbing in and through the systems and network level of the stack to ensure everything's working as well as it could be. A good, solid, ops department gives a different perspective, and their focus on other layers means that developers don't have to worry about those pieces. Ops is not a profanity, and just because your devices are virtualized doesn't mean you don't need them for the rest of the things they do.
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