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ryen··on Google Maps' Moat
I think you're confusing ideas/features with execution. Apple knew very well at the onset what to build. But they executed poorly and underestimated the amount of non-trivial human involvement in correcting mistakes and combining many layers of information into a cohesive and [mostly] robust experience.

These kinds of applications aren't Apple's strong suit, and Google is years ahead on technical abilities on the data correction and feedback front as well as custom satellite hardware and software design. Although Apple may be moving on that [1].

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/21/apple-satellite-hardware-proj...

ryen··on Moving from Disqus to Schnack
Sure they can. Author could specify a unique #hashtag for the post that can be used on Twitter/FB. Not sure about other platforms that support hashtags or similar concepts, but its not out of the question to track comments like that elsewhere.
ryen··on Wag, the ‘Uber for Dog-Walking,’ Is Drawing Uber-Like Scrutiny
I'd also liken it to child sitting. Once we went through several trial runs with urbansitter folks we found a few we can fully trust and just use text and venmo to handle our on-going sitting needs.
ryen··on AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances
I'd only do this strictly in dev or qa. Remote teams can always spin it back up if they need it on a wider schedule.
ryen··on AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances
Tag it with something like shutdown=non-biz-hours, or can even specify a schedule that a lambda function can pick up each minute or hour and parse to stop/start any instance that falls within that window.
ryen··on Cutting your salary by 40%
The job posting is here: http://startupjobs.asia/job/33056-backend-developer-fast-gro...

And the salary looks pathetic (in USD)

ryen··on Eaze, cannabis delivery company, raises 27M
There are many cases of extended time served for small personal amounts of marijuana. Especially after "tough on crime" effort and 3-strikes laws that permeated throughout the country starting in the 90s. Obama vacated many federal sentences before his term ended, but that didn't cover prisoners in state and county prisons.

Plenty of press and articles around this over the past few years.

ryen··on GDAX will restore the balance of margin called users with company funds
Seems like a good mea culpa, but time will tell how they really feel about making good on these promises.
ryen··on Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in 2016
Clearly those are lame asks from the renter. Does Airbnb assist you in those situations? If you forward those requests to Airbnb support will they prevent a bad review from showing?
ryen··on Justin Kan: I'm starting a new startup incubator, Zero-F
"Zero f*'s given"? =)
ryen··on Seven earth-sized planets discovered circling a star 39 light years from Earth
Wonder how tidal forces from these planets would affect [possible] oceans on their neighbors. Would imagine it would make for quite a perturbed environment.
ryen··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
My only complaint is the light is too faint. I need to hold it about 6 inches from my eye to see the whole display at once in the dark, and my eyes are still pretty good.

Also, if the light button had a timed-release of around 4 seconds that would be a big usability improvement.

ryen··on API Monitoring: Up Is Not Enough (2014)
Some shops call this "synthetic monitoring" where the tests run are a subset of a full integration test, that can be run at regular, but timely, intervals of say every 10 or 15 minutes. "The happy path" for some typical use cases.

This monitoring shouldn't brush aside other system-level monitoring - which can alert on abnormal memory, disk space, error rates, etc.

ryen··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
What's changed between then and now? Because it seems they now welcome all the workers they can get, refugees or otherwise.
ryen··on Overlearning hyperstabilizes a skill by making processing inhibitory-dominant
Curious how overlearning influences political beliefs, and if a subject is less likely to alter their belief system based on living in an "echo chamber" and constant re-enforcement of those beliefs.
ryen··on When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the U.S.
I wouldn't believe any assumptions around how Uber ratings affect drivers. In many cities Uber's demand outweighs their pool of available drivers. Its not in their best interest to remove drivers from their platform other than the most egregious cases.
ryen··on Airbnb expands to experiences
Tried Denver, Portland, and Venice Italy... "We couldn't find any experience. Try removing your filters"
ryen··on Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout
>ensure that the networks are continually upgraded.

How is that ensured? At least in the US, munis and federal govt are notoriously slow on upgrading tech. Often requiring legislative (slow) approval and tax increases to get it done.

ryen··on FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
The burden of proof should be on the manufacturers to prove, scientifically, that it's safe and effective. Not the FDA
ryen··on rm -r fs/ext3
> For a while, some thought that might be a filesystem called reiser4, but that story failed to work out well even before that filesystem's primary developer left the development community

This was a nice toungue-in-cheek for Hans Reiser going to prison

ryen··on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads
When it snows, how effective is it to shovel the gravel roads?
ryen··on What Dads' Play Does for Kids
Friends of Robin Williams may disagree with you
ryen··on To End Soccer Riots, Brazilian Club Forces Fans to Sit Next to Rivals
>fans are always integrated, but may become very violent

Sure, but at a much smaller rate and size of mob. Usually its just a few drunk idiots.

ryen··on Show HN: Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring?
Useful, but falls short for surrounding areas of Los Angeles like Venice (neighborhood of LA) & Santa Monica (adjacent and much a part of LA). I imagine there are issues like this for other cities and regions too.
ryen··on How Google Hires
True, but theres a difference between paid in-house training and being able to investigate problems on your own without constantly bothering everyone on the team to do your thinking.

The latter is a candidate I try to avoid like the plague.

ryen··on California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought
>Any reduction in these rights is viewed as a legal "taking" or condemnation of a property right by the state

I wonder what role "eminent domain" may play in an issue like that.

ryen··on Stop using tail -f (mostly)
It may also try to do syntax highlighting and other formatting stuff, taking up even more resources and cpu time.
ryen··on Non-Obvious Tips for Your YC Application
>And again (don't use the same application / idea/ company each time)

Is it not a red flag that someone applies consistently applies with a new idea and/or company each time? In my opinion that doesn't really show commitment to something.

Showing improvement in traction over time might be a better way.

ryen··on Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
The majority of noise you hear from a small prop plane flying above is from the engine.

Also, the advanced height they're trying to achieve limits the amount of noise relative to what you would hear from a small drone overhead.

ryen··on Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
The specifics on how it works is in a sublink here: http://www.google.com/makani/technology/
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