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I think the UI is great, it took me a couple of times playing around with it to map everything out but once I got that down it became incredibly easy to use.

Swiping to move between screens (there's only 4 main views) is very fluid and easy to navigate.
It's incredibly easy to post to your story (you can also take a snap, and send it privately to certain people, which will notify them, while also posting to your story), so there's really not much effort involved.

I agree with the other commenters, that a reply to your snap (directly through the app, or in person at a later time) is pretty nice. One of my favorite little things, though I don't know if it's common with other users, is my friends will often have a sort of open "conversation" indirectly with each other through their stories.

Last weekend, a friend of mine posted snaps of her working on some ambient music to her story. So I posted some snaps of me playing a synth. She posted snaps of her playing her synth. Another friend posted to his story him playing his piano, then another friend just playing the Mario Bros theme on a keyboard. And this continued for a few hours until my "Stories" section was just filled with friends playing music.
Can you unroll argon2 for cpu-vs-memory tradeoff like scrypt? Both are supposed to be memory-intensive, but in scrypt you can get 2x slowdown by using 2x less memory and just computing the missing bits. (http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2014/03/why-i-dont-recommend-scryp...)
It's hilarious how many people are confused about the proprietary Cyanogen OS vs. the open source Cyanogenmod. Really makes you wonder what they were thinking when they named it the same thing.
Fishers, Grizzlies, and the 'Reverse Apocalypse' of Washington's Ecosystem
I'm from New Zealand and every time I see something new that I'd be interested in using, it's always US-exclusive.

The same applies for software, hardware, clothing and a lot of other things now that I think about it.
How did you make that much? How often did you have to source contacts and how many did you take at a time, and for how long? I'm trying to do similar and am absorbing any input I can about this.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, but I think this is very much on point.
> A 6in4 address ends in an IPv4 address so it doesn't actually add any IP space: A 6in4 host can't allocate additional IPv6 addresses that are routed over IPv4.

Not so - if you have a single public IPv4 address you can turn that into an IPv6 /48 and put up to 16 bits worth of hosts behind it. Given that these are only for edges and not meant to have routing within them that should be plenty (having two different sets of routing logic applying to the same packets would be a recipe for difficult-to-debug disconnections and even-more-difficult-to-debug transient slowness).
The point is that black + Hispanic Americans are more likely to be unarmed when shot. That has nothing to do with the proportion of Americans who are white.
Come move over to windows. I have. I'm not unhappy.

1. The Dev environment is basically superior to everyone else's now.

2. Microsoft is very open about the stats and rules they collect. Apple does many of the same things (don't believe me? Proxy your apple machine and use it for a day. Start typing in spotlight, too) and it's straightforward to disable them.

3. The hardware is nicer. Especially now that the rev0 bugs are mostly worked out.

4. The ecosystem is more open by design. You can bring in an iPhone or Android Phone without trouble. Heck, many of the interesting bits even run on OSX.

5. There is an MIT license over most of the core dev tools (some other projects use the Apache license) Microsoft has released, and their libraries and APIs. This means that unlike Oracle's java, the Mono project has a great deal of future proofing against these absurd lawsuits.
Streaming and Dataflow
I swear... I will redesign and develop Postgre's site for free.
I edited before seeing this comment and you had all ready responded. In my experience you are dead on, it shows "I am on this and value your time."
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I often see people over 20 complain about Snapchat's UI/UX, and yet the app has millions of daily users. I don't think it's successful in spite of its UI/UX, so there is something to be learned there if you are developing a new social app.
> consider it an ethics violation to use a control group, the logic being that in denying your experimental method to the control group you're putting them at a disadvantage.

Oh man. Someone should tell them about double-blind clinical trials for cancer treatment. (Those can be, and sometimes are, "stopped for efficiency", when a midway evaluation shows the treatment is so effective that they already have a statistically significant result. They then start giving the treatment to both groups, I believe.)
For an uneducated person (like me), what's the difference between this and generic ad-blockers that pull in a variety of hosts files? What are the use-cases for this?
I'm not saying it's _hard_, it's just _different_ and would be a challenging migration for established apps as I don't know of any framework's authentication system that works like that.

Also, why would you sync pg users in ldap? pg can auth against ldap.
Partially off topic but what would you recommend for transactions in the 1 to 10 Euros range in Europe?
PayPal and Stripe have fixed costs per transactions that are quite substantials on the amounts at lower bound of that range. Thanks.
So what is your point then? No matter what you do – whether you verify password yourself or externally – the state of the art constantly changes and you have to update your code either way. There's no escape from that. The reasons change, but not the code churn.
True, but I think a major point is that it can be much more difficult for people to live happily and peacefully when they have less money.

It's easy for us to say money is nothing vs time, but less easy for the single mom working at wal-mart 60hrs a week to feed the kids.
There are substitutes, but they are of such poor quality and such user unfriendliness that they're inaccessible to all but the most technically inclined, patient and sympathetic users.

That's sort of the story of desktop Linux, to be honest.

And Ubuntu was keytracking in searches, collects data on its users usage, and does centralized update authority as well. It's marginally better for a substantially inferior experience with much worse hardware support. Especially if you're on a modern laptop.
Is there a strong overlap between "people who don't know (or care) who DJ Khaled is" and "people who are unlikely ever to see any value in Snapchat"?
A great book to read in this context:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Sleep-There-are-Snakes/dp/18466...

or indeed, any context. It's a fabulous book about the good and bad in societies untouched by civilization, and about one man's attempts to understand a language with no reference points. And his struggle with his Christian mission, ending up in his atheism. It's got everything, and would make a great film.
That's a really good point. Theres no other app I use consistently which requires me to ask people for help in person.
Good point. Can you share some?
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I do everything possible with every client I work with to talk them out of using Paypal period, but especially as a primary or sole payment method. In fact, if they want Paypal as a sole provider, most times I will refuse the work because I have had 2 clients blame me when Paypal decided to freeze their funds. Something I have 0 control over (but had warned them was possible) and eventually I got them to see that, but after considerable stress and pain.

That I have seen, Paypal has promised for about 2 years that they are correcting this issue and making things better, yet I still hear about frozen funds quite regularly, even charities which then can cause a charity to potentially be in deep trouble with donors and the law. Almost always Paypal freezes large percentages like 2/3rd's of the highest months gross billings, and then hold the remaining during the charge back window.

I don't disagree Paypal has to be fraud smart, but so does every other payment processor and I don't know of another Processor that is as aggressive as Paypal or as willing to interrupt your business as Paypal is.

I always wonder if there is some legal factor that could put Paypal in hot water as they are interfering with the operation of your business, potentially tortiously interfering with contracts by witholding funds like this. My bet is there is something, but they will claim it is in the T&C's. However, they likely only do this to small businesses without the funds or ability to fight back as T&C's are protective but cannot violate other laws.
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Stop. There are no "HN people". There are people who post to HN, but the opinions are for the most part surprisingly varied. You are shooting yourself in the foot by making over-generalized comments like this.
As to why you're getting downvoted, I would assume a lot of people (such as myself) don't agree with your anecdotal evidence that waiters never react badly to splitting a check, unless you "live in a weird place".
Waiters are really good at "guessing" how much a customer will tip and will act on that belief.

Now there's a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
Mass surveillance in India
Not clear to me if the article implies that totalitarian societies have more coercion - but if it does, should a country like China have more mental illness? I don't know if thats the case, at least in percentage of entire population. What does that mean for the central hypothesis of the article and its validity?
It's expected with gmail (although I don't like it) because every interaction I have with gmail is sent over the wire to google's servers. That isn't the case with my operating system.
The author is on the program committee for some academic conferences, so he is not just an observer, but a participant. It is also common for academic computer science papers to use industry applications as motivation for their research - and, similar to the author, I often find some of these motivations misguided.

(I work in an industry research lab, write code for a real product, and publish academic computer science papers.)
It's basically a secured credit card. And you get the primary holders SSN (credit report) to have a credit relationship with. It actually makes a lot of sense.
Off topic, but I like to submit this:
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2866286/microsoft-subnet...

Of course, Caspar Bowden was fired years ago, but I have a feeling Satya probably only made this culture worse. I remember this for example too:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ballme...
There are ads in the fucking start menu?

Everything I hear about Windows 10 confirms my choice to steer clear.
> DE-STAR or Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and exploRation

Ugh! "exploRation"?
The drug war is cutting life expectancy in Mexico
Thanks for your response!

I see a lot of services going this way; interacting with an AI, rather than a user interface. Facebook is doing this with their messenger, Microsoft with Cortana, etc. etc. I suppose you guys are the next iteration of this for financial management. Maybe I'm just being "old-man-get-off-my-lawn" by preferring a UI over a textual conversation with an AI...
Huh! Good to know. ftp://root.cern.ch/root/doc/11InputOutput.pdf[1] The spec for anyone interested.
For comparison:https://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/hdf5_aip/aip15.gif to page 6 on CERN's PDF.
I've discovered that my sneaky digital scale has hysteresis: it shows the last reading unless the new reading is more than 1/2 pound different.
I know, right? When my wife mentioned this, that was the first thing I said: there are plenty of fields where the research has life-or-death consequences and they use control groups. Education, by comparison, is low stakes.

In medical research they have procedures and statistical techniques to detect significant results and allow for early stoppage. There's no reason the same techniques couldn't be applied to education research.

But you need control groups, or you don't actually know that you've made an improvement!
I think the newer agile software development process requires companies to focus more on monitoring rather than testing, in order to understand how software is being used and also to figure out what needs to be improved/fixed. Microsoft is just implementing such processes in their products just like every other company. We would be hypocritical to say that we can make use of that processes but not Microsoft, just because we say so. It's important to realize that this monitoring based software development approach is going to stick around, and we have better chances of coming up with some strict guarantees around how that data is used, protected and anonymized rather than not collecting data at all.
With the housing bubble there wasn't a good way to look at each mortgage or the borrowers ability to pay. In a lot of cases the mortgage data was falsified or didn't even exist. In the aftermath of the bust several banks could not produce any documentation on homes they wanted to foreclose on.
Every time I click on a Forbes link, I'm instantly reminded why I don't bother with it. Straight up asking me to disable my adblocker and refusing to let me progress to the link isn't going to do them any favours.
"Second: don't get hung up on who invents what. Coming from academia, I was trained to fiercely defend my intellectual territory, pissing all over anything that seemed remotely close to my area of interest. Industry is far more collaborative and credit is widely shared."

In my experience, this is only true until there is money to be made. Or more specifically, that industry was more than willing to share credit, but ownership was theirs.
I'm not familiar with those statements, can you provide an example?
Sounds similar to what happens automatically via meditation [1]?

[1]: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-min...
Didn't get to the end of the article, it instantly popped up on me, was surprised it managed to gain any traction here. (Rotated monitor is probably why)
"Supports increased growth in Mr. Wolfram's ego."
Out of curiosity, has anyone managed to find something more detailed about the guts?

It sounds like it's basically a BTree that stops branching at a certain threshold, but I'm almost certainly wrong.
You two just demonstrate my point.
The shitfit is this sort of cognitive dissonance. As Apple does a lot of this shit without discussing it and has for years, but mysteriously people are comfortable with OSX.

And of course, mobile apps are saturated with complex metrics collections. Every major phone app ships with a huge sum of metrics embedded that can be monitored and almost no mobile apps discuss this.

Need we even mention web sites and their inescapable universal surveillance of their users? Even if cookies are turned off, there is so much we can (and do!) use to track users with startling specificity.

Microsoft is just a brand people like to yell about. It's a well-known brand name and people who want to express but not actually show education about digital privacy desperately cling to it to signal they are "IN THE KNOW."
small unrepresentative sample size. a problem many studies have issues with.
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So higher interest rates mean greater happiness? The interest rate is essentially what you will exchange your time for.
The Bloomberg chart states it is talking about projected earnings over the next 12 months. Would these projections be what the individual companies report, or would they be forecasts by Bloomberg analysts?

The CSE page doesn't define how they compute average P/E, in principle they could be using some historical measure of earnings.
A New, App-Based Format for Novels
Again, I fail to understand why we're off on this "linux sucks" tangent in a discussion about privacy. You too sound like you're just making a value judgement (though you use some more colorful language) that software quality trumps privacy. Well... fine. Just say that and be done.
> but the information Gmail has access to is limited to what ends up in that email account.

Which is often enough to completely divorce you from your identity legally, steal all your money, and possibly incriminate you.

That's all. But hey! My porn browsing habits are SAFE ON MY OS.
C# never really had this if I recall (years ago), and Java had it but required monkeying around.
The building is aging, that's partly why they're relocating the market, which will continue to operate. The article makes several colorful comments about the state of literal decay it's in:

> Tsukiji is creaking at the seams

> leaky roof

> bumpy floors

> An earthquake could bring the roof down.

They spent a decade cleaning up the prospective new site, which hopefully means it's no longer contaminated. I'm sure the city understands the value of keeping fish clean and safe, especially considering their habit of eating so much of it basically raw.

In addition, the building is too small to support the needs of the city and the businesses within. One apparent objective of the new site is to accommodate the growing needs of the fish market, which should be a net success for the area's customers.

The only objective negative I can think of is that the logistics of transporting the product from the market to the various local businesses might need to change significantly, but if the city's infrastructure is good enough to handle those needs then it shouldn't be a lasting problem.
Oops. I slip on those kind of things all the time haha. Yeah, the rural areas are dominating in that. I think the push will have to focus on how increased tech will bring more jobs to the area and maybe (ironically) increase their voice on politics. A way to stay in the loop, be heard, negotiate deals, whatever. Might be a decent selling point.
Ha. Even worse, if you go out to eat on the east coast you often have to wear "nice clothes", they won't let you into the better restaurant unless you have a tie and jacket. What rubbish. :-)

I want to drive my Tesla up to the nice restaurant and get out in jeans. Up yours, fancy pants places.
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I would rather that while we realize we don't want Microsoft to do it to us, we shouldn't do it to others either. Golden Rule: If you don't want to be tracked, stop writing software to track others.
High framerate video isn't necessary. The reason for the 60fps capable video card where the rift is connected is that when you move your head, you need the video to update quickly. If you had a 360 degree camera like the parent suggested, you don't need the source to be 60fps, just that when you move your head, you need the view on the rift to change at 60fps.

Think of a panoramic photo. It's not even 1fps, it's 1 frame ever and it still gives you a great 3D effect. I think you'd be fine with a much lower framerate source. And that would make a wifi and a not-that-impressive internet connection fine.

Edit to add: of course, with a 360 video you have much larger frames, not 1440. You could probably do with less than 360 though, since you can assume a person isn't going to be looking behind them or at the floor.
My understanding is that Ticketmaster has exclusive contracts with the vast majority of primary venues in the US. Nobody, artist or venue, is really choosing Tickemaster any more than a Comcast customer chooses Comcast as the only game in town.
I really think it's more about repetition than anything else. If a student has been "primed" for the topic at hand by some prior exposure, like overhearing their parents talk about it or encountering a similar situation on a different subject and being able to draw parallels, they'll be ready for straightforward explanation and be able to internalize it. If it's their first exposure to the topic, they'll need to dance around it and see it from different points of view before things start to make sense.

For example, at age 12 I read a book that made no sense to me whatsoever. I somehow finished it but didn't get much out of it. 12 years later at age 24, I read Terry Pratchett's book, the Lost Continent, and gradually realized it was the same book.

In 12 years I had gained enough background understanding of concepts such as Evolution, Australia, Satire, and Wizards to get the jokes and the plot, so that time the book stuck with me. Learning style had nothing to do with it - it was me that changed.
A friend of mine has an '85 RX7 (last of the original series, and a GSE no less) with some mods, including exhaust replacement. It's such a great sounding engine. I love that a little redline alarm goes off not because you're in danger of blowing it up, but because you're out of the power band at that point. You can't really blow up a rotary engine like you can a piston engine - it doesn't have crap like spring-loaded valves to bounce. As long as it has oil, it's happy.

And no fake anything in that car! You really feel the road when you're driving, feel the mechanicals as well as hear them. I really should buy it from him one of these days.
If the mom loves her kids, she will be happy as well.
It must be a well kept secret. Looks like Amazon has one of those slick new web page designs where you have dig down through a few layers in order to find out what the product actually is, but that's OK. They seem to have created something with a strong resemblance to PP in terms of their fee structure and how it's used by a small time merchant like me.

In other words, it might very well be a solution. I know that there is a certain fraction of people who have concluded that they will never use PP again, and I respect that. Offering two different possible payment plans might not add too much more complexity, and might sweep in some of those customers.

PP may have gotten a lot of people early on, when their offerings were a whole lot simpler. My business is really: Take money, ship gadget. No overseas business -- getting a CE mark is too expensive. I didn't look for any kind of API, and have never needed to speak with a human.

There may also be a trust issue (though Amazon is certainly trusted). A lot of merchants complain that PP tends to side with the customer in disputes, which I actually consider to be a good thing since I've never had any disputes.
Focusing on "real job" compensation is myopic thinking.

The promise of any startup is the potential reward on the Back-End (not to mention incomparable experience). Any bootstapper understands the beans & rice context, especially in the pre-revenue/pre-funding stage. It's never a permanent condition.
> As engineers, we are hardwired to nitpick.

This is just not true. You are not 'hard wired' to react in such a specific manner, and being an engineer does not mean ripping things apart.

You may be an engineer and choose to make a joke about something. You may be an engineer and something may make you go off and learn about something you didn't know about before. You may be an engineer and react in all sorts of ways to soemthing, nitpick is only one possible outcome.
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