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> In all the historic places you visit and that, in some parts of the world, add up to a significant amount GDP thanks to tourism or related activities.

How did ancient Rome ever survive to the extent that it exists today if they didn't have historical preservation statutes? It has a lot more to do with protecting their buildings from angry invaders than it does with protecting their buildings from developers. In reality, developers have little innate interest in destroying the culturally valuable...it is too expensive.

> And what is not culturally important today might be a century form now, or viceversa. You are applying survivor bias. Think of all the historic places no longer with us because they were not deemed culturally relevant or properly protected in first place.

It is true, I'm applying survivor bias. But you are applying a bias of your own. Think of all the future historic places that won't exist because they never get built. At least with my bias we can reason that the buildings that were torn down were, at one point in time, more of a burden than they were worth. Can you imagine not having Independence Hall today because historic preservation statutes decided to preserve all the historic Chestnut Street homes that were torn down for it?
Yeah, I'm not really in the market for the i3. But if the Model S looked like an S3 or an M3 I'd be perfectly happy. I can't quite put my finger on why though.

Since I'm getting downvoted above, I'll take that as evidence that I am in fact the only one. Ha!
Pittsburgh has a lot going for it, and it's been really cool seeing the growth since I moved to Pgh in 2009.

I think the one thing it might have against it is a growing anti-gentrification/tech movement. It's nothing like throw-rocks-at-busses San Francisco, but you do see things like this graffiti:

http://imgur.com/5T0iJQ6

And it's not just the fringe with these views, but (in my experience) reasonable people who are frustrated with rising rents and they scapegoat tech growth.

The housing market is also a little wonky. Pittsburgh is cheap on average, but it's sort of bimodal -- there are nice new shiny apartments being built, especially around Google (Bakery Square) and thereabouts, but they're going at maybe 1.5-2x the median rent. Then the rest of the apartment stock is just a little... old. I took for granted having parking and laundry and post-1950s wiring when I was on the west coast. There are a bunch of places here that haven't been renovated in 50 years.

In any case, I agree with PG that there's a certain pragmatism here and I think really great things are coming if the growth continues.
Backchannel: http://dev.backchannel.net

https://medium.com/@backchannelbots/introducing-backchannel-...
It says they don't support it on custom domains.
I find it to be an interesting strategy by Tesla to get some real world data upon which to build truly autonomous models. Other rumored self-driving competitors (Uber, Apple, etc) are at a disadvantage in that they will be hard pressed to gather real data.
You can use Bot Engine to build a Slack bot too, it's not tied to Messenger in any way, there is a HTTPS API.

Use cases on Messenger will probably be more around customer care or entertainment, news, etc.
This is not even remotely true.

The harm caused to people who evacuated was finding a new supermarket in the (nearby) town they moved to versus significantly higher risks of cancer if they had stayed. Think of a 10x increase in rates of Thyroid cancer. This might cause one or two deaths over a decade depending on the sparseness of population, but we are talking about people's lives.

In terms of insurance, the region was known for some rare produce, saké, and tourism, but I think well-being should be the primary concern.
Chatroulette, and tons of similars, already do this if you wanna just chat in audio without the webcam.
> Given that we have designs for modern nuclear power plants which are not cooled by water and are impossible to meltdown

Any plant that works, or is it the same old "in 5 years it will work, this time really"?
I'm working on Remember, it's a personal search engine. It's like Google Photos for every file type. And while it's great for productivity, it will hopefully serve a bigger purpose, maximising human potential.

We're building a product where a researcher can type "all of my research on cancer" and will see their life's work unveil in front of their eyes. All the papers, notes, voice memos, everything. And maybe, just maybe it'll spark an idea they would've otherwise missed.

I think the biggest way I can benefit society as a 21 year old is to make a product that enables people to do so. I know I can't solve wealth inequality and cancer all by myself, but I might be able to empower the people who will. I believe this is the greatest power of software.
Amazing what a bit of competition can do.
Financial trading algos where low latency is important were the initial big market for stream processing/cep. As another example, imagine you're trying to do real-time fraud detection based on click stream analysis. If your latency is low enough you can potentially prevent suspicious transactions ever happening instead of having to allow them and then recover them somehow later.
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Unfortunately no. The curent amount is already serious and, if we were continue at our past rate, we'll make space inaccessible.

Orbital Debris Quarterly is a good resource on the subject.

http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/newsletter.html
Broad generalizations here, but from my understanding -

Back in the dark ages, the performance difference between imperative code and functional code was too large for FP to gain much traction outside of academic circles.

By the time the hardware was anywhere near reasonable, OO had become a thing. People missed some of the key points Alan Kay had, latching on to the one thing that was immediately understandable: objects could model the nouns of your problem domain. That popularity meant that the mainstream was focused on OO, rather than FP.

I went through college in the late 2000s, at a well respected university, for computer science. I had classes devoted to OO(A/D/P); I had none devoted to FP. If you were exposed to it, it was via having to learn a Lisp in the AI class, or similar.
Yeah, to be fair the design of the S is to have one of the lowest cD of any production car. A traditional grill generates a ton of turbulence so that's a contributing factor to the nosecone/grill-less design.
> historic preservation of places eventually pays off.

Historic preservation is no more than collecting, done by the government. There's no guarantee that what they collect will appreciate in value. For example, maybe they're preserving 1970's Kenner Star Wars toys, and maybe they're preserving the ones from 1999.
Except Google knows that low-quality ads are driving people to ad-blockers
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> This is one big reason why bands/singers/artists need labels. They're not able to turn the lyrics on the back of a napkin into a credible album on their own.

You're incredibly mistaken. Yes, the Backstreet Boys/One Direction were exactly what you are describing, as are any major acts. But bands outside "mainstream" music are anything but pretty faces. One can write credible music without production. See: Pixies, The Jesus Lizard, Andrew Bird, ...
This is one reason why I have been resisting signing up on various mobile chat apps like whatsapp. My family and friends use it and they get shocked when I keep refusing to sign up on these things.

I do feel excluded from various online chats but for anything important, they text, call, or email me. So perhaps it is not too bad. I end up saving time by avoid gossip and funny videos.
As far as I understand this Odyssey is GoPro building the actual hardware and Google Jump is the software technology that powers it.
In terms of goals, it's pretty much the same as Facebook's new camera.

Other players in this space are Lytro [1] (they have pivoted away from consumer cameras to professional VR capture hardware) and Jaunt [2].

[1] https://www.lytro.com/immerge
[2] https://www.jauntvr.com/technology/
MySQL has online, non-blocking schema changes since version 5.6. But the underlying data file has to be upgraded to the latest format version for it to work first, and to do that in a non-blocking way on a master server you are probably best off running percona toolkit one first. ALTER TABLE --- FORCE does a data file rewrite.
To my eye, the overall body shape of the Model S has since its initial conceptual renderings and then at its launch appeared similar to the Jaguar XF. And in my opinion, that's a good thing. I'm not thrilled with this change to remove the false grill, but it's fine. I think this is a matter of not yet being used to the notion of cars with no grill, but over time it may seem more familiar and comfortable.

I am a Tesla advocate, so I am biased, but for what it's worth I feel the conservative styling is an upside. I leased an electric Mini (the "Mini E") for two years and really appreciated that aside from some special paint colors and a couple small graphics, it was basically a Mini Cooper. It wasn't a "Hey, look at me in this electric car!" design. I agree with Musk's opinion that electric cars don't need to stand out—they don't need to look goofy or extreme.

I think the Model S looks classy. Mainstream, yes, but classy mainstream and not boring mainstream. I prefer it to the modern bulbous Mercedes-Benz motif and the Predator-grill Lexus motif.
You're right to be skeptical, because this is going to be very difficult and has many challenges that need to be overcome.

But that doesn't mean we should sit here and say "nope, can't be done".

People were skeptical when planes first flew, when it was attempted to put people on the moon, and so on.

Jeez, people were skeptical when SpaceX said they could land a first stage on a barge at sea, and posted endlessly about how it couldn't be done.

Don't be one of those people.

Even if they "fail" to make all of this work and get something to Alpha Centauri, they're still going to vastly expand mankind's knowledge of a lot of difficult space-related technologies, which is a huge win.

This is hacker news, where people are trying to do difficult things to change the world. That's the whole point.
So how do we fix this?
That doesn't answer my question at all.
I wonder what people here would say if non-tech folks started talking like this about the tech industry. For example, how many stories have we heard about data leaks involving complete incompetence or negligence by the company involved? How many of them have ended up in jail or even with a fine?
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I concur, and will add: a growing developer community, bad (and increasing) traffic, and quickly escalating housing costs. :)
And there is a burgeoning tech industry in Austin...if the choices of my fellow tech industry recent college graduates relocation choices is a reliable anecdotal indicator. I found out a fair number of my acquaintances from college (University of California) took jobs and relocated to Austin.
I'm a bit surprised at the downvotes. I'm no scientist, but I meant this suggestion in earnest. As far as my layman's knowledge goes, I've always understood the Moon's He-3 reserves to be a "vast, as-yet-untapped power resource".
So, basically, a Ponzi scheme :)
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And I realized maybe it is not such a great practice to make your router/firewall double up as a backup server. So I virtualized the box using ESXi and ran pfSense and Debian in two VMs on it.

It sounds like that was previously the case, but the complaints above appear to be pfsense in a VM and debian in a different VM. Why wouldn't that scenario be supported?
Great argument, I'm convinced.

Referencing Mt.Gox is a risky move, though :)
Not sure if the venue, but why is UPitt left out here? CMU is great, but Pitt is also a world class research institution and with a first rate medical school and insurer already investing deeply in startups.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/mental-health-startup-lante...
There's a word for people who like to daydream and spread their wishful thinking around them: "naive".

It actually stems from vanity and vanity is disgusting.
I think it's concentration of capital more than anything else. You can do engineering or write code anywhere, but raising money is much easier in SF/SV than anywhere else.
Me too. We've macroexpanded the acronym above, and marked this subthread off-topic.
Or using Continuation-passing style* programming.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation-passing_style
All right, just to get things straight.

First of, I am not a US resident nor a citizen. Therefore I really do not care about the remarks about Republican Congressmen. Well, mostly.

Second, in my comment I mostly focused on the group who are physiologically women and also address themselves as women, i.e. women. If this was not clear enough, I am sorry.

I did also not mean or write that there is in my opinion an increased risk from transgender people in the case of unisex toilets or that it would increase the risk for the transgender people. I hoped that the meaning was clear enough, I am sorry again.

I am also not arguing against the opinions voiced here like "transgender folks are generally the ones at risk of assault".

I am not physician and I do not have any court statistics handy, but my hypothesis was that

a) hygiene in the men occupied toilets in general might be worse than in women only occupied toilets and sharing a public toilet with men might raise the risk of infections for women (it is a less problem for men because they mostly use urinal in the public toilets, if this was not clear enough),

b) women may be at higher risk to be sexually assaulted in the toilets shared with men (and please note, I know that this is already a crime).
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It's partially political: the University of Oregon is in Eugene, and has always been the main university in Oregon, followed by OSU in Corvallis.

Along these lines, I'm quite pleased that Bend is getting a university, OSU Cascades, which is something that has been lacking over here.
He has to mean Jesse. Gretz didn't play any of the Solid State albums, if I remember correctly.

I'm also fairly sure that Underoath's Define The Great Line has since outsold any of Zao's albums (I'm guessing either Liberate or Blood and Fire were the top seller that bald_fat mentioned).
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My brother a student is paying $1600 for a bedroom in Chinatown. It's a high-rise but not luxurious.

I don't get the appeal of Boston as a transplant at all. Not compelling unless you are there for a very cool job or education.
Moving from Austin (where I went to grad school) to NYC was eye opening on that score. The average rents had skyrocketed in Austin since I first moved there in 2008, but when I was living there I didn't fully realize how cheap it remains relative to NYC or SF. My friend is currently living in a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice part of town that costs around $900 per month (granted, not the greatest complex, but it has a pool and is 2 blocks from the new metrorail line). The city has changed a lot but the core things I liked about it are still there (natural springs to swim in, good camping and walking trails, Tex-Mex and BBQ, relatively friendly and interesting populace, active music scene). I'm surprised by how much I miss the quality of life in Austin relative to NYC.
The Fukushima disaster was caused by TEPCO, which suffered from shoddy planning, and resulted from an extremely rare natural disaster. Recognizing that these mistakes were made and have happened does not instantly restore confidence in nuclear energy to opponents.

Even with properly located pumps and larger sea-walls, it's easy to imagine destruction from the greater Tohouku earthquake and tsunami still presenting huge operational hazards to the Fukushima TEPCO nuclear power plant.

In order to dispel myths around nuclear power, it's going to require everyone to have a lot more knowledge, including those arguing for and against and those who are designing these systems.

There aren't many people who understand all of the climate risks, engineering concerns, issues to social welfare, and risk of disaster (natural or man-made) at stake in this position, so it will require much better communication overall before we can solve this problem.
Enom.com, for one, offers a very straightforward API, that lets you register a domain and setup DNS with a single HTTP request (provided that you have payment info already saved in their backend).

I'm sure there are others, Enom is just the one I've used at work for this purpose.
No because of the way genetics works it is much more likely to be the Y chromosome that is lost. First the Y chromosome is under stronger indirect selection than the mitochondria due to asymmetric mating. Second in mammals when two different species have a genetic incompatibility this incompatibility manifests in the male offspring. Both of theses point towards male Neanderthal female African as the way this hybridization happened.

Edit. I should add the scientific paper behind this New Scientist article proposes a precise genetic mechanism for how the Neanderthal Y chromosome is lost which is further evidence the loss is due Y Chromosome incompatibility.
Looks like a magic carpet to me.
do you support single page apps?
I think VR has so much potential to make people in remote places work together in close productive ways, that I wouldn't be surprised if the next silicon valley isn't even a real place.
Is this totally new or have there been [rumors | accusations | scandals] about Uber with respect to privacy/data selling before?
It's funny that people are downvoting you for your opinion. I don't share the opinion, but downvoting is not for matters of opinion. Whatever.

In any event, I was about to add to my earlier reply that the modern M5 looks quite fantastic. I for one would love a Tesla-like experience in the body of the M5. But I think that speaking of design only, the Model S is at worst mid-pack among the mid- and large-size luxury sedan segments.
I don't know where any of you live, but saying recklessness is "victim blaming" sounds like a first world privilege. Yes, in generally in the first world, screaming for your rights can actually work.

In other worlds however, the problem is usually too widespread. You might get a lot of attention, comiseration, etc. but in the end, being reckless goes against survival. People who point this out should not be shushed for pointing out what you need to do to survive.

Its amazing to see that this "victim blaming" mentality is growing in Brazil. Violence here is out of control. You might get mugged/shot/kidnapped for no reason, or not displaying any wealth. Having been kidnapped myself, and chatted with the kidnappers, they do look for signs of wealth before pouncing. Therefore, yes, the victim does has an ounce of control over their risk and it's not wrong to point that out.

It does not solve violence, and attackers will just look for other victims regardless of their reward estimate. However, would you tell your children not to not show affluence/vulnerability in shady places just because you don't want to "victim blame"?
Surprising to me, I listened to the two songs and it does sound to my ear that Led Zeppelin borrowed part of the Spirit song.

Based on what I've read, it also sounds like the songwriter from Spirit was ok with this.
You do it by objectively analyzing the music from a technical standpoint. That's how last.fm started; it was someone's research project to look for "musical DNA" and then use that "signature" to find similar music. It actually worked well.
Neither did I. Is it customary for trainers to be capable of supersonic flight? The T-6 we use in the Navy is a turboprop whose flight envelope is well under transonic speeds, let alone supersonic ones.
Although I have used the CLI for doing so, I believe that you can do everything you want with AWS Route53.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/Welco...
> To be fair, that's a game account. I realize some MMOs can have really real-money valuable characters/items, so this argument can break down

You want to know how bad it can break down? I imagine the worst case scenario, for so many reasons, actually happened and was mtgox.com. It started out as a Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange (from what I understand) before it became the now infamous Bitcoin exchange that was hacked[1] and massive amounts of money was stolen. I don't know for a fact that old accounts before the pivot to Bitcoin still existed and worked, but it's not inconceivable that they would. One hopes they adopted much better security compared to when they were a trading card exchange (if it wasn't already exceptional at that time), but there could very well have been a time when it was gaining traction for financial type services but didn't have good account safeguards.

1: Or whatever. From what I remember that's a story convoluted and with enough conspiracy theories it's worth a movie.
That's true, although we should be fairly concerned about a company using very cheap hosting on VPS with no form of encryption storing anything sensitive. You may also be breaching PCI DSS (fwiw) doing that.

In reality though, more companies do this than should be allowed. I worked for an ISP in a previous life and even on the super cheap shared hosting there were companies that were making a decent turnover and then using the cheapest possible hosting for their email/site. The quantity of these companies was a significant number too.

Especially when they were kicking off on the phone due to inevitable maintenance/downtime. Trying to appease customers that turn over 10 million a year and pay £5 a month for hosting is a bit wtf. You pay for what you get... that's no different in hosting.
I also am skeptical. Why not instead try to send a probe into the interior of the sun? (because its cooler there than at the point of those lasers) Why not create a survey of the Oort cloud (because its an order of magnitude closer). This project seems cool; but maybe not well thought out.
Someone correct if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're using the Grasshopper3 camera, which retails for about $3k, and there are 14 of them in the pictured array. That's $42,000 just for the cameras. I know professional video shooting equipment is expensive, but that's more than double the price of a top of the line RED Epic-X camera that a professional 2d film crew might shoot on.
You're right about UX being central to the problem, but you're missing a major part of it here.

UX is hard. Getting great user experience takes IMHO a lot more pain than getting algorithms and systems to work right (in most cases). UX is about endless revisions, a lot of boring and often ugly code, obsessing about pixels and quirky details of your UI's "story," and other things that are very time consuming, not fun, and that the vast majority of programmers hate doing.

As a result, people generally have to be paid to work on UX.

This is doubly true because most nerds don't need great UX. They know how things work and can use "raw" hacker projects from the command line. So there's really no motive in most cases. "Works for me."

Until and unless there is an economic model for a less centralized less winner-take-all Internet economy, vertically integrated closed silos will continue to dominate if for no other reason than the fact that they can pay people to do the boring tedious work that separates a nerd project from an app non-nerds want to use.

Edit: It's really always been about UX to some extent. Personal computing won back in the 70s and 80s because it offered far superior user experience to closed silo mainframes. But the Internet and especially mobile have changed the game pretty dramatically. Now closed silos are winning because they offer superior user experience.
It'd be pretty cramped onboard the 2D Branecraft