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"Windows 10 IoT Core is a version of Windows 10 that is optimized for smaller devices with or without a display, and that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, Arrow DragonBoard 410c & MinnowBoard MAX. Windows 10 IoT Core utilizes the rich, extensible Universal Windows Platform (UWP) API for building great solutions."

http://ms-iot.github.io/content/en-US/IoTCore.htm
Also from what I understand, the underlying OS wasn't ready at launch time, and functionality was cut.

I just resetup my consoles, and didn't bother setting up the Kinect.
This isn't as outrageous as it sounds. In the time that your dad's house went up 12X, the S&P went up 20-30X. (In the 1970s it was in the 65-100 range, and now it's over 1900)

While the calculation isn't quite this simple (dividends on stock versus not paying rent, and interest deductions) it highlights that real estate appreciation isn't quite as crazy as it's made to sound.
> If these programs are effective, entry-level programming jobs will drop to minimum wage from the increased supply.

I think there not very effective but can give a bit of programming culture and maybe the real programming virus to few.

This dicussion reminds my the personnal experience of "prog21" at school on a Apple ][:

> One guy presented this amazing demo full of animation and shaded images. I'm talking crazy stuff, like a skull that dripped blood from its eye into a rising pool at the bottom of the screen. And that was just one segment of his project. I was stunned. Clearly I wasn't the hotshot programmer I thought was.

http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html
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link should be: https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/02/29/homestead-release/
Does anyone know the resolution? There doesn't seem to be any numbers out, but roughly, it's very much likely less than 4K, probably 1080p and not too unlikely less, right?!
And $1.35m got me 1800sqft in Willow Glen last month. Afaik, avg sales price in Willow Glen over the past year is just over $1m.
> NEWSFLASH: buying land and sitting on it to exploit scarcity creates no wealth.

You don't sit on it, you rent it out to people who can't afford or don't want to buy their own homes. Where are those people supposed to live if there were no landlords?

I'm very happy and grateful I can pick any city in the world, move there, and find someone with an extra home willing to let me live in it in exchange for some cash.
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In Ohio, 4 acres is nothing special. What's "need" about when it's that cheap and easy to have?
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> Is it the lack of fresh, organic food in inner-cities?

Ha ha ha ha you think people are held back because their food isn't organic? Ha ha ha ha ha!
You're damn right it's not. We are effectively asking young people to join a game of monopoly that's been going for 2 hours. Would you play under those conditions? Well actually you have no choice thanks to the banks and their landlord foot-soldiers.

As many economists have noted, land is not applicable to the general laws of economics because it is finite in supply.

We need land value tax to squash speculators who add nothing to the world, right now.
NYC, in my experience, is cheaper, yes. We just hired someone who left Apple to come out east because they were being priced out.

Obviously NYC can be ridiculously expensive and the real estate market is annoying to navigate (broker's fees, wtf) but there is more housing stock available here, with decent-to-great public transportation that makes living in the outer boroughs pretty convenient.

Brooklyn, Queens, and Jersey City (NYC metro area) are all much cheaper than SF. Even parts of Manhattan above 59th st are quite affordable.
SF is cheaper than SV. Unless it's Palo Alto.
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Ah that is pretty nice if you got in a hot area before a boom. Kinda like rent-control in a NYC apartment where you pay 1/4 what your neighbor pays.
Why can't we name these people? Libel?

Pastebin?

Fuck these frauds.
My opinion is it's the cost of housing that people mainly talk about here, but often call it "cost of living". Don't get me wrong; housing is definitely part of cost of living, but if you own or are have been renting in a rent controlled situation then you don't have much to complain about really.
Another good article on the Monolith

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
> I greatly dislike the term "artificial intelligence". It's as meaningless and distracting as that other horrible phrase, "big data". I have no idea whether deep learning algorithms could lead to "intelligence", or what that even means. What matters is what a technology can do , and in this case, deep learning can do a great many interesting things.

The term "artificial intelligence" refers to more than what technology can do. It also refers to what technology could or will do. That why this term matters for the public, as it points at potential future issues described in Science-Fiction.

As for what it means, I could agree that it's difficult to coin it precisely, but it's not meaningless either. Some concepts have a meaning regardless of our ability to express this meaning accurately with words. It's a case of "I know it when I see it."
Disengagements while on public roads is the only representative metric. The real world is more challenging than whatever artificial testing environment Google has on their private roads.
No, (s)he wants to turn traffic safety violation reporting over to crowd-sourcing. There is a large difference. I am in favor of the same thing myself since humans drivers prove every day (look at the number of preventable accidents on roads) that they should not be trusted with operating large motor vehicles, especially if alternatives exist in the way of autonomous vehicles. If driving behavior is accountable in the same way as, say, banking transactions, then that seems like a good thing.
So there are lots of programming jobs out there at places that are not like the valley. Thing Initech from Office Space - business casual dress code, gantt charts, dreary cubes, long death march schedules you have no control over, people are resources first, salaries are intentionally below market rate...

I landed at one of these a few years ago and got out ASAP. They're out there, but not so much in the Bay Area because the talent war is so hot - any place like that wouldn't be able to hire or keep anyone.
This is happening. Finally.
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Totally agree in principle, but it does seem like just "getting into" the food delivery business is a humorously quick way to get a $X00M valuation in the private markets.
For clarity, the storm drain mentioned in the report is underlined in red in this screenshot: https://imgur.com/K1Yf36n
Not the best comparison points when you're comparing the most expensive places to live in the United States. L.A. is still kind of expensive compared to everywhere else besides those mentioned. My gf and I are considering sharing an apartment with another couple just to be able to make a dent in our student debt and savings. I can't imagine owning a house or a condo. I also don't foresee being able to afford having kids for some time. Hell, I'm holding off on getting a dog because of high rent.
Yes, exactly. I've stalked around VR communities for a long time, and control fragmentation is a serious and persistent concern. There's also a perception that a lot of people with a $1000 gaming rig will have gotten a gamepad at some point -- part of why the "XBone" controller was seen as a joke when announced (but also because it was the same event they reeled in Oculus Touch launch time frame expectation).
Well, I don't have a Facebook account so I can't test the experiment. But generally if I search for something I don't mind seeing related ads for that thing. Especially if it's something that suits my interests. Google for instance lets you edit your interests list.
I always thought it was incredibly ironic that an industry that's responsible for creating the virtual world would require all those working to create it to live in the same physical neighborhood.
I moved to Europe a few years ago, though entirely for personal reasons and not because of the cost of living in the SF Bay Area. I'm sure I'd be making more money if I'd stayed, but I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't have the same quality of life.

I know others who did the same thing, and are doing fine over here ("here" being mostly Berlin but also further afield). I think the trick is to know what you're moving for, as opposed to what you're moving away from.

In most cases you will make less money, at least over time, and miss out on career opportunities. But there are other opportunities people in SF are missing out on. And as others have said, the income difference can easily be balanced out by a cost-of-living difference.
That's one of the reasons I like fiddling around with the Hercules emulator - exposure to a system that's completely and totally alien compared to what I have used for years and do for a living.
I'm guessing NYC is at the top simply because it hosts the greatest number of opportunities. it's the rest of the list that's telling. the article also points out that the age 30-40 cohort represents the greatest portion of searches, which could indicate a natural course of settling down with family etc.

[which further proves to me that suburbs are not dead. it's merely been the vocal majority (millennials) blabbering on about big city living and how they'll never do this or that, only to hit the family creation stage in life and realize they were naive to think in such extreme absolutes]
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Same argument that gets made against red-light cameras, if "things" are accusing you of a crime how do you get to face your accuser?
If you don't do R&D, if you don't aspire to founding a successful startup, if you don't need to work with the smartest people on the latest tech... the Bay Area does not make sense. But if you check yes to any of those, you get what you pay for.
That's my point - you don't trust them. And shouldn't trust investment banks who get paid on transactions for coming up with a correct price. (Hence you call McKinsey for the 2nd opinion since they get paid on time rather than transaction.)
The comedian/improviser Del Close willed his skull to a theatre to be in Hamlet (http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/as-del-lay-dying/Conten...):

> "I give my skull to the Goodman Theatre, for a production of Hamlet in which to play Yorick, or for any other purposes the Goodman Theatre deems appropriate." At a press conference on July 1, 1999, Charna gave Robert Falls, the Goodman's artistic director, a skull resting on a red velvet cushion inside a Lucite box. Falls held out the skull in his right hand and spoke. "Alas, poor Del! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest..."

> But the skull wasn't Del's. Charna came clean in the October 9, 2006, issue of the New Yorker. After Del died, hospital personnel laughed at her request to remove the head, suggesting that she contact the Illinois Society of Pathologists. They too ultimately refused. After two days, she reluctantly had the body cremated in its entirety. Then she went skull shopping at the Anatomical Chart Company in Skokie. She purchased a skull there, and to make it resemble Del's she and her sister pulled out as many teeth as they could manage before turning it over to the Goodman.

> The truth doesn't seem to matter to most of those who knew him. Robert Falls still keeps the skull on his bookshelf. The attitude of most of Del's friends is that if it wasn't originally Del's skull, it is now.
Judging from the number of my relatives who have left the Great Lakes area for places south and west, many people will. But a northern Ohio fall can be beautiful, and I enjoyed the winters.
I'd like to see that study, too, but have it maintained and enhanced for a decade by people who are not all members of the original team.
By any objective measure, it IS good.

Concrete is not a weather condition.
Silicon Valley style programming means working on consumer apps that have a chance of being used by thousands and millions of people.

Especially in Europe, most programming goes to custom software for banking and various industries. There are very few Microsoft, Square or Google style companies in Europe, where software is the product. A lot of software is a cost center for something else. For some, it doesn't give them the same feeling of accomplishment.
Team size isn’t the only factor in breaking a monolith into services. In my experience it's been an effective strategy for removing bottlenecks in your application, as well as a way to isolate a piece of code that causes errors and causes the application to crash.
Most of us (particularly small business owners) pay someone to do their taxes right? If you took the time to learn the tax code, you could do your own. Same deal here. In the end I think it boils down to a matter of priorities.
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All the metrics I gave could be completely automated.

What is the problem then? There are certainly no technical limitations on storing an arbitrary amount of articles.
I've been working from home of the past four years. About once or twice a month I get an email from a recruiter from the Bay Area. I in turn reply that I'd be interested if I didn't have to relocate and can continue working from home, to which they usually reply no.

At what point in this tech worker shortage/drastic expensive economy do I convince one of these companies that I'd be a better value working remotely, even willing to work for less salary? The tooling is so good now it almost seems like I'm in an office anyway. And the irony is many of these companies already have distributed teams that use these tools.

What am I missing?
I definitely know that. I've done work on an NES emulator, and a lot of the software uses the hardware in undocumented ways, like odd timing quirks, undocumented CPU opcodes, changing display registers mid-frame to achieve special effects, etc.

I've looked at the SNES and N64's hardware to consider contributing to an emulator for one of them, and the hardware certainly doesn't get simpler as time goes on ;-)

The comparison I was making isn't really fair, anyhow. Corn was fast, but the last revision only really covered two commercial games (Mario and Zelda). I'm sure that they heavily optimized for the code patterns in those specific games, without regard to accurate emulation of the hardware in the general case. Expand the supported cases and the problem immediately becomes much harder. Comparing Corn to an accuracy-focused emulator is like comparing one of the cut-down, portable-friendly SNES9x builds to Higan.
By "need" I mean trading off things that you can't get in Ohio for 4 acres, which you can get in Ohio. How do you use 4 acres, physically?
Elevators do fail occasionally. There are several videos of elevators moving before the door has finished closing, or stopping mis-aligned with a floor. It's just a very unusual occurrence.
> yes, API takes strings, but it calls native DOM at the end anyway

jQuery calls unsafe API which should only be handled trusted strings but makes it easy and convenient to give them untrusted string and thus introduce exploit vectors.

Furthermore it's also significantly more difficult to audit the code, using the regular DOM there are only a pair of attributes to check, whereas pretty much any jQuery method call is a potential security hole.

tldr: jQuery makes doing things wrong very easy, much easier than doing things right.
I think React, in particular in combination with a flux pattern such as redux, has only shifted complexity.

Complexity shifted from a mess of jQuery event handlers shuffling the DOM around to an intimidating mathematical abstraction in the form of functional programming.

The benefit is that you can reason about pure functions, whereas you cannot reason about a mess of intertwined event handlers.

Between to equally complex problems, react forces you to converge on a problem that you can actually solve.

Programming is hard. I think what's happening now is that we're starting to discover issues that were previously hidden by problems that are now solved.
You make an excellent point, however as I've been recently up to my hips in RNNs I wonder if we can figure out how to score encounters, can the car learn the level of malice to expect, can it learn it to the level of perhaps the individual driver shifts? My daughter took the 54 to DeAnza community college and learned which drivers were ok, which were mean, and which were indifferent. Would regular exposure of the car to the bus at different times of day allow it to figure that out? Can we start with an expected level of malice and tune it? Fun question to think about.
I guess I was dreaming last Friday when I saw the Google self-driving car pass by twice on the same route, at 10:30pm. I even handled a stop with very limited visibility on one side like a champ. If anything, I think self-driving cars will end up driving like my Grandma, but probably safer.
I have lived in a food desert, it sucks and seriously affects what meals you have. Organic is a bit of a red-herring here IMO.
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VC money is stupid. Mark Cuban took VC money at the very last minute.

The latest incarnation of VC-backed tech companies leave very little for the founding members.
Some would describe the 'perfect weather' of the Bay Area as 'tepid' or 'freezing cold'.

It's a nice area for certain, but it makes me wonder about myself when I'm wearing a parka and everybody else is walking around with a scarf or light jacket.
Not useful in most cases but setting your phone to airplane mode helps too for those who don't have opt-out links and aren't sure of this being in their carrier.
For development purposes, it seems like head-count per-project is a more useful metric?

My impression from a past life was that even large companies didn't frequently staff hundreds of developers on the same project. Even if they might have thousands of developers overall.
What's your questions about Americans without bank accounts? I grew up poor so I knew plenty of people growing up without bank accounts. I can answer most questions.
16 million that could've gone towards an innovative product developed under a separate (non-Yahoo) label.

If the brand is that expensive to fix, build a new brand.
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How did the camera identify the demographics? BTW this isn't using cameras, it's using location tracking from the mobile phone companies.
I think this push for coding thing is great.

I see being able to code as a thing like literacy, either you have it or you don't, and, if you don't have it, then you are going to be held back and not reach your own potential. In the workplace I see a lot of people using 1990's tools like Excel to create 'reports' of some sort, where the data in them is as good as dead. Meanwhile, those of us that can do a database join or two and get the results in some type of web page (or text file) don't have to keep creating the same 'reports'. The computer just does it thereafter.

Companies that used to have a web page (and not much more) are now using online tools for business, whether that is getting stuff out the door, handling customer service, doing business intelligence things, in fact almost everything gets touched on by this 'web' way of working. Doing things in legacy tools (Excel spreadsheets, Word docs) just does not cut it anymore, things now get done in a web-style way with some backend processes bespoke to the given business smoothing things along. 'Let's go back to doing everything in Excel' is the new 'let's go back to doing everything on paper'.

Even if one is not proficient at coding it is still important to be able to work with those that are, to be able to describe processes in a way that can be 'automated' to some extent, a 'systems approach' rather than hand-me-down ways of working.

This automation does not necessarily put people out of work, it empowers people to be able to do their actual work without the tedium of repetitive tasks. They can be more customer focused, do better 'business intelligence' or keep better tabs on getting stuff out the door.

There was a revolution in the 1990's when Word came along and replaced Wordperfect. Suddenly people could type their own letters and memos, they did not need to dictate to a secretary. Oddly nobody has gone back to the 'Wordperfect' ways of working. Code (particularly on the web, whether front or backend) is like that, a game changer, and I want to see people coding, not necessarily to do some SF next-unicorn thing but just to be able to be participant in regular SME businesses.
In a monolith you can achieve code compression ratios (think DRY as a sort of entropy coding) not possible in micro-services.

Therefore, if you build it sensibly, you can achieve more with less resources. But this also requires you to do a time-memory trade-off in that it requires more effort for any individual programmer to learn all the abstractions to eventually become (surprisingly) productive.
I never went to SV or the Bay Area for work, instead opting for NYC since I lived nearby anyway (nearby being within 3 hours). It's a similar issue, though. Housing is way too much. Taxes are horrendous. You make a good salary, but the cost to live there is rough, especially if you have a family.

I still work for a NYC-based company, I just work remotely from Richmond, VA. I like it better this way. I may not always work for a NYC co, but I will stay here. I bought a house last year that would be well into the millions in NYC's commutable suburbs. My kids go to just as good of a school as they did in NJ. There is no traffic to speak of.

If you have a dream of being in one of those cities, one of those scenes, then by all means, go for it. It's just not for me (and from what I can see, a lot of other folks on here).
Most people making money on real-estate are doing so not on yield but on capital gains. The rise in land prices make the cash.

With proper taxes discouraging speculation, like land value tax, income taxes could be far lower and we'd have a world where working actually got you somewhere instead of leveraging up on land to build a property mini-empire.

Would love to know how many people made very little from their failed SF startup but overall made out good due to land prices appreciation.

HN is full to the brim with people complaining about high rents. You are not the common case.
If you don't need DNS

If you don't need DNS, then why would you keep it in place? As an example, I have a system that needs to contact exactly 2 hosts (one of which hosts package updates). So it has DNS turned off and I have a local hosts config. It seems like using a exploit announcement as an opportunity to review whether you need the service in question at all is actually good server administration.
Or they could pay insurance companies to give them these correlations.
So here's a question: why do you absolutely need to own a house? I'm 28, still haven't figured out why people are so obsessed with the idea of owning.

What practical benefits does it give you? All I can see are many many downsides.

edit: I can see it making more sense if you can pay the whole sum in full on the day of purchase.
We had ~33% equipment failures in Dell just in our last round of purchases. We are dropping dell 100%. We are also dropping all EMC in favor of other alternatives.