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I had assumed Google Photos was the Picassa code rebranded. Since Picassa was the engine for photos in G+, and then G+ photos moved to Google Photos, it never dawned on me that Picassa was still running as its own separate thing. I wonder why they felt compelled to redo photos?
This article and thread hits pretty hard for me. I was born in Vancouver and I'm getting pretty worried that Canadian salaries aren't enough to live in Canadian city. To any of you living in Vancouver and working remotely, do you have any advice for getting into that?
A fascinating bit of self-analysis as I see this headline appear on HN ...

I typically don't find wired.com headlines interesting and typically don't follow their links. However, this headline did pique my interest ...

... and I didn't follow it because I am not interested in the "deal" that wired.com offered the other day. I have neither a dollar I want to pay them nor do I intend to disable any adblocking.

Or whatever the deal was. Who cares. The bottom line is, I didn't read it.
Well, I mean, I certainly don't wish I did it years ago like you did- I love GV. I can't see myself leaving it until they make me, either through closing it down or making it too obnoxious to use or etc..
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Why they didnt evolve google talk into a skype clone is beyond me.

I have 20 ideas at least of cool features, but as we only have skype this type of product will stagnate.
That's kind of Google's modus operandi though, isn't it? They don't make desktop apps unless there is a distinct need for it (Google Earth, for example). They are all about the web!
> I'm not opposed to a dedicated scrum master

ok, here's something I've been wondering. Assuming your team is in the 8-12 programmer range (which is typical for an agile team), what does the scrum master do with all his time? How is there enough for him to do to fill up a full time job?
Albums you had in Picasa aren't gone, they're just accessible through the new UI.

Well, except that some photos do not show up in Photos and only in Picasa Albums (e.g. images shared through Hangouts).

Also, Picasa had a lot more photo management features.
I feel like companies that shut a product down should release source code. Then people who still want to use it can continue development.

If the company doesn't offer it anymore, why do they need to keep the code secret?
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Dependencies (and their specific versions) are already managed explicitly via package.json.

The shift to a flat dependency hierarchy in NPMv3 will make managing dependencies of dependencies much more explicit and straightforward to manage.

JSPM already uses a flat structure and shows how simple dependency management can be.

I'm not sure what you mean by "the dynamic nature of the tooling". The JS development ecosystem doesn't attempt to provide an end-all-be-all monolithic core lib. It's a good thing and one of the primary reasons why advances in the JS evosystem are happening at breakneck pace.
> I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected.

Although I never really used Picasa, Dropbox's decision to shutdown Mailbox and, to a lesser extent, Carousel, was particularly upsetting for me. Although in the case of Mailbox it was more due to a decline in acquiring new users after the buyout [1].

I'm not too bummed about it now as I've found better alternatives.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9873268/why-dropbox-mailbo...
Because the whole point is to handle anything that needs Unicode support. A library that only manipulated Unicode strings would be incomplete if you still couldn't use Unicode in command line options, file names, etc.
>Just think of how little it takes to silence someone like Marc Andreessen

Hyperbole much? He wasn't silenced in the slightest (which would be difficult to do, given the amount of money, i.e. power he has).
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I'd intended that to be a broad statement: "more regulation" can mean either additional regulations or broader interpretation/enforcement of existing regulations. Either approach has the effect that anti-AirBnB folks want to see AirBnB more regulated, and AirBnB and pro-AirBnB folks want to see AirBnB less regulated.
That's not for anyone else to decide.

If I make the decision to take up painting; my economic worth will decrease. That's personal.

I, as somebody who aspires to be a father some day, will try to make it worthwhile for mom; but ultimately her lifetime financial earnings will be less with kids, and that's something she will decide.

As far as occupations which are "underpaid", that's up to the employees. Nurses are paid what they value their work at, if they don't want to work for that money, they don't have to. Because nurses don't mind working for what they're currently paid, they are paid that much. If they were paid less, fewer of them would do the work.
There are guys I meet that I think could become my best friend or a great future co-founder. But I never call or text them, because I get busy with work and life.
or what the ads are being converted into and who monitors the conversion...

Now there is a room for ad agencies with a close relationship with the end product to link their pricing to conversion rate and eliminate the campaign buyer's downside risk. But even if Facebook positively encouraged it, I don't think a market for third parties to speculate on something as complex, heterogenous and generally low value as social ad campaigns exists.
"should they essentially be punished for those choices"

Certain jobs are worth less than other jobs. Can we agree on this? I think it's reasonable that college education and experience allow me to earn more than someone working a job which requires neither.
Permanently? That suggests a law that can't be repealed, amended, or otherwise modified, when in fact it's just had its expiration date removed.

This law is no different to any other tax law, and is therefore subject to the usual whimsy of Congress. Just this time it doesn't expire automatically.
The synapses are the important part. The other information can be inferred or reconstructed. But your memories and behaviors are stored in the connections and weights of synapses.

His test is extremely unrealistic. No one is claiming to have the technology now to be able to revive cryopreserved brains. All we can do is try to preserve as much information as possible so future technology will have more to work with.
Yes, it's enough to rent in a decent place, live comfortably, and save ~20K/year.

A senior engineer in Seattle can do the same, and save ~100K/year.
I wouldn't exactly say support to the compliance with a threat
1. What study? Show 3 examples from reputable sources.
2. Soo... how do latina/white women magically end up in a lesser-paying profession? The counter to the 'but they like women's studies and teaching' is to remind you that women used to be a larger proportion in CS.

Most people who argue for wage-equality are arguing for a more fundamental change: how come women and minorities -- the traditionally oppressed groups -- just happen to have lower-paid fields? You attempt to dismiss it by arguing that since the type of work done is different, it's not an issue worth considering.
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>> Being paid more =/= fixing housing crisis.

It solve the crisis for the people you pay. It allows them to live rather than move elsewhere. If all employers did the same, then it wouldn't really be a crisis.
Never said they were unwanted.
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I moved from Israel to Berlin and love the weather here (somewhere between oceanic and continental).
This is more of a general question, but... what is the advantage of having a "faster" client, i.e., one that executes contracts faster? Is it just that your machine will use less power and you'll have a lower electricity bill? Or have more resources left over for computing hashes? Or is there an advantage to be gained from executing the contract faster than your peers?

Can anyone recommend a mid-level description of Ethereum that is more detailed than Wikipedia but not as detailed as the yellow paper? In particular, I'd like to understand whether mining fees are paid for executing contracts or for solving hashes or for both; and how consensus works (i.e., how it is coordinated that, as Wikipedia says, "[e]very contract is run on every full Ethereum node simultaneously and the result is the consensus of the output").
It seems like the three categories that make up the 100% are where they had a home before: 71% SF, 19% elsewhere in CA, 10% out of state. Are you saying that they are lying about having had a place of residence ever before? What would that mean?
I'm fine with the dismissal, personally. Do I think some of this stuff describes me? Yes. Does that make me a special snowflake, or somehow more put-upon than others in the world? No, and I think that belief is harmful and self-absorbed.
Tangentially related; it was stated by some that the decline in the quality of education in the US is due to women having more options for other types of work. Meaning that women were once pigeon-holed into education as a career, thus the many brilliant and smart women who pretty much had education as one of the few career paths socially available to them started to leave to other fields as equality movement opened them up. Now we have results of the people who have entered education as a field being not as high of quality than when we forced all smart women into said field.
It's also interesting to consider that the way Social Security is structured - all our children will end up paying for those who don't have children.
Which actually says....

Women aren't paid less because they take jobs for less money, women are paid less because men are promoted more, men dictate the location of families more, and women are encouraged to take on more of the homemaking as compared to their husbands.

Oh good, we've moved past the idea that a woman doing a specific job should earn less into a much harder problem of how do we convince society that women's careers are as important as mens.

edit: clarification: men dictate location of families.
So it's not a home run, but it still sounds like a good deal to me - especially if I was an Oligarch keen to put distance between myself and the FSB
>> More research funding is needed. Just kidding—isn’t that how all of these are supposed to end?

Ha! Really interesting numbers there, and encouraging. It doesn't take all that much work to get your resting heart rate in a good range.
The guiding value here is intellectual curiosity, which is gratified by running across things that are unpredictably interesting. HN has never been just about startups and tech. It's also about Byzantine coins, medieval manuscripts, Nabokov's butterfly expeditions, the tomb of Queen Esther, T.S. Eliot's letters, and Jim Henson's coffee commercials. Pee-wee Herman? Why not, if there's an interesting aspect to the story?

Stories that take us off the beaten track into the wild are the rare earth elements of HN, and we can never get enough of them. There's a strong tendency for everything to homogenize on a small number of hot topics. Those are exciting, but to let them crowd out the quieter, odder material is not how to optimize HN's long-term interestingness. We think it's great to have stories on the front page that defy expectation, and we consciously moderate HN to protect those when we see signs of community interest in them.

Of course people disagree greatly about what counts as interesting, but hey, if one oddball story bores you, another may hit the spot. Keep HN weird.
Who do you think might be "punishing" women for their career choices?

Do you think someone is purposely organizing the system so that women are paid less?
Dying is already expensive enough without cryopreservation.
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>pay more taxes for goods and services just because they’re bought online.

Not sure about this one, does this only apply to Federal Taxes? I would still have to pay CA tax when buying from Amazon right?
I imagine the popularity of '10,000 steps a day' was mainly driven by how cheap/easy it was to measure steps. Nowadays with smart watches or dedicated fitness trackers it's finally becoming possible to come up with better metrics that can be widely used.
Probably referring to the Documentation link you provide on the GitHub page, and it breaks back button for me too.
> If we want our countries to have the same tax revenue

Which is not a premise we should automatically accept without question or criticism.

> then every time we reduce the tax on something

This didn't reduce taxes on the Internet; it makes a statement that new taxes will not be added to the Internet. You could ask whether taxes could be lowered in some other area by adding taxes to the Internet. But this isn't a question of "where do we get the money that lets us lower the taxes on the Internet", not least of which because there weren't any to begin with.

Also worth noting that the economy is not a static set of transactions where taxes can be raised and lowered in proportion to keep tax revenue static. Sometimes people start buying less of one thing and more of another, which also changes tax revenue. And that shouldn't automatically result in an effort to start taxing the new thing. (For that matter, taxes themselves can cause people to change what they do, hence the concept of "excise" taxes.)
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This provides some interesting perspective in wage gaps:
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...

The TLDR is the strongest correlating parameter that affects wage gap is child-rearing but not necessarily gender. Given a woman doesn't step out of the work force to raise a child, she should expect to have relatively equal pay to a man. That said society constantly pressures women to be the child-rearing gender in a hetero sexual relationship.
Right, but it's also hard to define the "majority" and "minority" coin here. You could define "majority" based on "most hashpower", but say that chain is being mined exclusively by the 3 largest China-based miners, would it still be considered the most valuable? Or maybe only by one miner, like when ghash.io was over 50%?

If the exchanges don't support the concept, it'll still at least be up to the user to figure out which chain the exchange is on.
"The only thing that makes it pseudo-affordable is the fact that rent is usually half price to a current mortgage."

That is an important point, and why some of my friends moved there despite knowing they won't be able to buy their own place. This also seems quite unique to Vancouver, in most other places, like SF, high housing prices implies high rental prices.
I tend to agree with you. I think we hit an issue though where someone feels that they should have gotten that raise/promotion/whatever even though work is #4 on their list of priorities and everyone knows it.

Not saying that's your opinion, but sometimes this attitude comes out in some of the HN comments that it's unfair for someone who works 60 hours a week and answers emails at 9 pm to get a promotion over the single mother who walks in the door at 9 am sharp and is pulling out of the parking lot at 5.
That hypothesis isn't falsifiable. We know "X effects Y" from experimental result. You're asking for proof that "X and only X effects Y", which is the same as asking for "There does not exist some X' that effects Y" where the set of X' is unbounded. No, that's not testable and doesn't need to be.

Just like we didn't need to know about the X' of Einstein's equations to know that the X gravity was the primary force holding you to the ground.

There very well may be an X' that effects observable biological features other than evolution, but that X' needs to be tested on an individual basis. So while it's productive to hypothesize an X' and test it, there's not much we can do to rule out all X' as a class.
I complain every day more about how we organize our works and need the insanely complex git to collaborate because we have insane ways of producing code.

An industry that requires increased insane level of complexity for simple task to "progress" amaze me at failing to get the problem is not in the tools.

I can guarantee that for 10 weeks work with "old" technologies (python + whatever static HTML server) I can make a one size fits all website for all restaurant that can be customized without security holes. Make it in a free license so that people make money with my second creation ... on purpose. And we would all win. All the economy from having something simple and well thought.

But I can't do it. I am not an influent trend maker so no one will bet a kopek on my business.

And you know, these tools cognitive load on the brain, is a load that should be spent on business problems, where cost efficiency matters.

Where operational expenses are better kept low whatever the initial investment is.

The fact we all use at least git (+ a ticket tracker) that are heavyweight, should tell us that we are dangerously inflating the cost of building software. Hence, contradicting our very primary reason to be : which is to diminish operational expenses the most we can.

And we still have not proven anything about how much money this increased expenses due to complexity finally create value anywhere... In decreased price, decreased incidents, higher quality, better jobs, better economical growth ... saved lives...business values true SLA (and not the one measured by the editors/operators)...

So, well, github may not be the problem.
> silence

If getting a deleted tweet reprinted in several tech publications and on the top of HN is being "silenced", I would love to be silenced more.
Great thing about software like GNUSocial is that organizations can run their own social infrastructure, a bit like how organizations could previously run their own email or any other service infrastructure, rather than rely on a third-party company to dispatch it on your behalf.

By organizations, I'm talking about business, government agencies, educational institutions, et cetera.
In theory, yes.
In practice, if you own a currently 4+ million dollar home built in the 50's, you are paying at least 15-20k on it anyway.

Here's an example currently for sale:https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Altos-Hills/27446-Black-Mounta...

They are paying 18.2k.

If it was reassessed today, they'd be paying 40-45k.

If they do what most people who have lived in a home forever do, and are downsizing to something smaller (IE kids grew up, whatever), they will likely end up with either the same or less in taxes they pay now.

So it's not like right now they pay nothing, and they'd pay a ton, it's "they pay a lot, they'd pay more".
Kinda weird how "China!" is somehow an argument against the big miners all by itself.

Anyone is free to set up a larger mining operation if they are so inclined. Until then, the bitcoin community can't be anything but extremely pleased with how much processing power the Chinese miners are contributing to the system.

> The original idea of Bitcoin was that mining would be something done as an idle activity on user's PCs.

I don't have a quote handy, but as far as I know that is not true. Satoshi expected mining to eventually be run out of large data centers.
Lol, and philantropy is not "self seeking and manipulative"? Do you think all those magnates donating to libraries did it out if sheer love, or rather to make people forget their reckless and rapacious acts in other fields? And the best thing is, philantropy works great to manipulate perceptions, even better than press. BillG used to be the guy who "stole the Mac UI", "killed Netscape" and "embraced and extinguished", to the point of being lampooned on The Simpsons for being a brutal mobster. Then his Foundation happened, and now he's a shiny beacon of virtue. Same for "peeping Zuck".
Can we have a new api for Google photos please. I'm choosing between Google photos and amazon cloud drive and cloud drive have a pretty good api.
How are property taxes calculated in [...] London?

Properties are assigned to a tax band based on the tax office's assessment of the house's value were it to have been sold in April 1991. Bands vary from A (less than £40,000) to H (more than £320,000).

The council tax ratios between the bands are fixed - so a band A property always pays one third the price of a band H property. The band a house is assigned to is essentially permanent, although you can appeal if it's not in line with equivalent properties in the same area.

This provides certain desirable properties - more expensive properties pay more, but your bill doesn't go up just because house prices in your area go up.

Disadvantages are your tax bill can still go up - just it goes up for everyone by the same percentage; if an area has become much nicer (or less nice) since 1991, the council doesn't make any more (or less) money; and valuations based on a government employee's estimate of a hypothetical sale don't have the idealogical purity needed to really get the support of voters.
Great summary of your findings.

I've been wearing a Fitbit Charge HR since last June, and I definitely do not reach 10k steps daily. However, I've noticed that on days I hit the gym and do weight lifting, my caloric burn easily tops 3300, while on days where I'm lazy and just working on my laptop, I barely break 2100.

As a rule, I typically do not do any cardiovascular exercise. I think, I do not know for sure, the Fitbit is better suited for measuring cardiovascular activities, so I'm not sure how or why it's adjusting my caloric burn on my gym days. Maybe it's looking at my heart rate and extrapolating?

Anyway, I'd be very much interested in some kind of fitness tracker that can provide better estimates on caloric burn. That coupled with calorie counting/recording of meals is what will really help me shed this weight.
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This is all the dollars we blew out the trade deficit over the last 30 years coming home to roost. Those houses are essentially physical alternatives to treasury bills that pay zero interest or less with inflation.
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Low avg income in Vancouver is unique vs the other cities you cite. Much lower. Apparently ~$44k in 2009[1]

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/real-est...
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Nice story, looking forward to the follow-up.

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I find the concept of "tax free" services interesting as a European. VAT is placed on everything and people are just fine with that. Would not come to my mind to question that concept.
Of course, in a heterosexual relationship the often man earns for the family, and the woman can (and does, statistically) spend most of those earnings.

I don't think the pressure is unjustified either; it is, after all, literally the only reason the species exists.
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Many communities have thrift stores that take donations. The thrift store then becomes a place of employment for mentally disabled people or others struggling to find work.
That prediction doesn't seem to be based on anything. DDT doesn't accumulate in the body and stay for decades. A more likely environmental source would be lead or other heavy metals. There are a million other chemicals and environmental factors that could be correlated to it.
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The Guardian has not been left-wing for at least 6 years, if not 20. They repositioned when Blair did. And if you call Blair left-wing, I'll cry :)
Consider Quebec City as well - it is significantly more romantic for an anniversary occasion!