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> I took for granted having parking and laundry and post-1950s wiring when I was on the west coast

having lived in both sf and la, you really can't expect many rental places to have all 3 of these things (or even 2, really), except the newest developments. most buildings in both cities are cheap-ish mass housing built in the 40s-70s. the new stuff gets a lot of attention but is a tiny fraction of the city.
Strange comment about Pittsburgh's diversity and strangeness! In my experience, outside Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, perhaps Monroeville, and some working class neighborhoods, Pittsburgh is a fairly conservative South-US-ish city.
The tides turn when your government starts investigating people, versus investigating crimes.
This sounds very similar to the actual process that Durham has gone through over the past 15+ years, and the first visible signs were in the restaurant business too (concerted efforts by the city and local businesses were less visible, but preceded the visible signs). Pittsburgh seems like it has an incredibly similar social and historical setting, so hopefully they can pull it off as well.
Good response, I'll give him that. It succeeds it bringing focus away from the fact that they tried to kill the book before it got published

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, that's fair. Maybe I sound too negative. It's definitely mid-pack, but it's an incredible car! It ought to look like the sexiest, most desirable thing available.
Pittsburgher who moved to Seattle here - would agree. As bad as Seattle weather is, Pittsburgh hits both extremes (ice and heat) and isn't predictable.
We can't stop talking about him because he was a charismatic asshole. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to insult his memory: he was a type-A personality, extremely driven, and knew when to try alternate methods of attack to conquer a problem instead of trying to just ram through.

Steve Jobs is a benchmark on what CEOs should be, even though his story is extremely unique: what Apple is today is because, as a founder, he was thrown out by his own shareholders... and then came back with his own NeXT army when the shareholders realized they made a mistake.

To make a political metaphor out of this, it'd be like Taiwan (aka the Republic of China) marching back into China (aka the People's Republic of China) and becoming the legitimate government again after being invited to do so.

Steve Jobs never quit. He never stopped. His self-perceived imperfections were magnified ten-fold in his internal mirror, and in the mirrors of others. He knew what he disliked about himself, and he did everything possible to eliminate it.

Even when the Universe singled him out and tried to fuck him over, he kept going, and going, and going. He was one half Genghis Khan, one half Energizer Bunny, and one half salesman. Most of us only get two halves, he picked up another one along the way.

The Apple of today is the largest company in the world by market cap (trading it back and forth with Google), and almost twice the size of Exxon, Berkshire Hathaway, and Facebook, and bigger than Microsoft. If Steve Jobs died a decade earlier, and the Tim Cook of today became CEO then, Apple would not have become the juggernaut it is today.

However, he was still a man. This is largely what irks me about the idol worship that goes on. He was a man, he was flawed, his personal relationships with family and friends were horrendously bad, but he also never prioritized those: he was friends with people whose relationships served him, and when they stopped serving him and his goals he put them on the back burner.

That isn't a bad practice in of itself: but you typically only do that to people who are seriously toxic, those people you consciously cut off. Steve Jobs did it to basically everyone. I'm not passing judgement on him, just stating the facts.

The way he was served him in life, right or wrong. It's a compelling story to tell. He's like a modern day pharaoh, and the story we tell of Apple is the pyramid he was entombed in.
thanks, I'm gonna try https://www.hover.com too. I've heard they are the new modern one.
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How to make any place a startup hub: Have connected investors/money that is willing to take risks (drives job growth) and founders who have exited to encourage and promote new startups (creates the ecosystem).

There are almost no cities in the US outside of SF that meet those two criteria. Even NYC which has VC money (nowhere near that of SF) doesn't have more than two major exits (Etsy, Tumblr).

All those other things are nice to haves. Job opportunity and money are everything.

Pittsburgh has none of those. Nowhere on the East coast does, and I can verify it as we are HQ in D.C.

Also Pitt is cold.
There are a couple of adages that may be valid.

"If it's too good to be true, it probably is"

and

"Cheap, Good, Fast - pick two"
based upon the photo-spheres i've made, the more pictures definitely help correct light-levels. Especially correcting areas looking at sun or glare.
>> What's your Significant Other's nickname?

> Use a random but user friendly value

> "the frozen one"

I imagine that may make make your significant other who was previously friendly, markedly less so, if they see your "friendly value". But that may have been your point, as it may be quite a bit easier to remember. :)
I still think that it's absolutely STUPID that sex can be given away freely (legally), but it is illegal to charge for it.

Simply idiotic.
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Yes we do. Checkout the documentation for front-end flags at http://docs.launchdarkly.com/docs/front-end-flags.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Disclaimer: I'm a front-end developer at LaunchDarkly.
I'd hardly call debian and its derivatives 'niche', but whatever floats your boat...
Did you by-chance try substituting all "n's" with "m's" in your spouse's name?
Gene-editing surge drives US to rethink regulations
When it's detected on the ad serving side, the action is "google doesn't show that ad". This is not something that a user will generally notice.
Oh no. There's a lot of ruin (™ Adam Smith) in the US and global economies, but a great deal of damage has been and is being done and more is to come.
I have a friend that have an app that does something similar, the name is PartyWith a local

So I have help him research for similars and found this.

couch surfing, TravelMate, tournative.com, toursbylocals.com, moneysense, toursbylocals.com.

What I found is that families seem more willing to pay for a service like this, than young.
Agreed! Economic models for funding decentralized apps are the key barrier to liberating our network effects from the companies who have fenced them off. I spend my days trying to solve that problem. I'll post on /r/Ethereum soon when there's something people can use.
I haven't either. What would I learn if I did?
From the article, it sounds like these investigations are mainly run-of-the-mill criminal cases:

A large number of the law enforcement requests were
related to fraud investigations or the use of stolen
credit cards, according to the report.

But why that would require 12 million user records to be disclosed to the government, of course, is another question entirely.
A well-designed logo relies on its inherent memorability and the strength of its association with its parent brand/entity to create a lasting impression.

It might be informed by the name of the company, but certainly doesn't need to achieve a one-to-one association with the visual letterforms--we don't expect the reverse after all.

Memorability and distinctiveness is the end goal, and if your brand is strong enough that a simple mark will be sufficiently distinctive, then it's to your advantage to adopt a simple mark.

No one will forget that Microsoft is four boxes, and that the Internet is a blue e, even though these marks are visually panned, and in a context-free environment, only loosely associated with their parent brands.
This is a bad comparison. Leaking someone's dog pictures or email address is different than crashing the global economy for personal gain.
If you think that though, you haven't got a clear picture of what pointers are and how they work. The pointer itself and thing it is pointing to are two completely different variables in memory. Being unclear about the difference is likely to cause lots of problems when coding C.

Using a pointer to iterate through a string/array/other data structure, that is stored in const is a completely standard thing to do.
Interesting - I didn't know that, and I think the penalty levied here should have been levied as a fine, rather than compensations or restitution.

Where did the legal precedent or IRS rule be set that restitution should be a deductible business expense? If you need to pay compensation or restitution, it means you did something you should not have done as decided by a judge/jury, so having it be treated more like a "penalty" seems prudent to me.
From the ashes of MathML, a new "Getting Math onto Web Pages" Community Group
Every urban area fits the bill. Once you have a dense enough city, night life and progressive politics are automatically included. Good transit, universities, high speed internet are all common enough.

I personally think there will be a decline in interest in traditional night life due to some neo-Luddism taking hold. We'll see more appreciation among young people for "long-form," delayed gratification pleasures like hiking and nature. So my bet is that CO will really start to take off in the next 30 years.
Yet they still brought in session musicians and George Martin still made enormous contributions. Ironically for your statement, Eric Clapton was a session musician to play lead guitar for "While my guitar gently weeps."

Their pre-label original tunes just weren't that good. They played mostly covers. Can you suggest a pre-label Beatles original tune that was worthy?
Would you really take the Ford bureaucracy over Google auto's? I can understand taking Ford for work-life balance, but I haven't heard anyone claim that's a reason to work there.

If people have true success stories of corporate outposts out here, please share. I'm happy to be proven wrong.
We also use it on a multi (postgresql) database setup where every customer has its own database. Works really good, we never had any issues with migrations and do them frequently (maybe once a week).
The report can be found here: https://transparencyreport.uber.com/

Interestingly, Uber does appear to have included an explicit NSL warrant canary.
> It is people who's job it is to do their homework and understand these products. We are not talking about selling complex products to grannies. These are highly educated, highly paid finance professional who simply did not do their job of vetting what they were buying.

Sure, but how many of professional money managers had their clients entire portfolios in subprime mortgages?

My guess is that it was mainly allocated to the portions of portfolio deemed "high risk", and if they're not buying subprime mortgages, they're buying high-yield bonds, Puerto Rico munis, assets of bankrupt North Dakota frackers, and high-risk high-yield real estate projects like casinos and theme parks.

There's daily trading activity on JNK and MORL and similar other instruments. I don't think there's any pretending going on that those are high-quality assets, and I also doubt anyone (in a clear state of mind with no gambling addiction) is going 100% into those ETFs.
I - and I think many others - feel that these companies should get negative consequences from their behavior. If the government is just inflating the number artificially, and actually resulting in something that benefits the group that did bad things... seems like most people would be pretty unhappy knowing that.

Who do I talk to about getting that angle on this story out there? :)
Is it going to just do a fly by or will it somehow enter orbit once it reaches Alpha Centauri? How is it going to transmit data back to earth in a manner that would overcome the signal to noise ratio? Will power be solar or nuclear? How would it know when it is there to begin operating, especially if it uses solar power?
I'm surprised to see this much advocacy of solar and wind here.

I do agree that we need way more of that, but what's the required size of a solar power plant that's feeding an aluminum plant?

Get a few (modern) nuclear reactors for baseline load, fill the rest with renewables. And shutdown the damned coal plants, those things spew radiation.
Technically, we may be the universe trying to kill itself.
Let me give you two examples that show different things about preservation review. First, the idea that significant buildings usually survive, anyway, is emphatically not the experience here:

1. http://www.stlmag.com/arts/history/why-is-st-louis-destroyin...

Secondly, preservation review is about more than saving beautiful or historically important buildings. It's also about maintaining an urban form -- about preferencing the existing built environment over modern, car-centric, suburban-style developments. See this example:

2. https://nextstl.com/2015/01/do-the-math-qt/

This second point is tricky, because lots of people prefer the gas station to some old, simple, under-utilized structures.

But not the type of young people who want to work at a startup. Cities need to decide which kind of constituent they want to support.
I'm a PhD student at CMU right now. We just went from 75-degree "wow, we skipped spring" weather a few weekends ago to snow last weekend. Who knows what next week will bring.

Keeps things interesting as long as you remain indoors!
Buffalo is crippled by truly awful winter weather, especially downtown where the wind from the lake is incredibly strong. You could spend billions renovating the area, turning all the parking lots into something useful, and it would still be a fairly miserable place to live.

I've only spent a little time in western PA, but it's definitely better than that.
We need a WhatsApp API
Is the grammar in this headline really awkward to anyone else? "Uber says gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12 million users"

Either it should be "Uber says they gave" or "Uber gave". :/
And now your messenger app needs a launcher, switcher, notification manager, search, per-app settings pages, etc. And maybe its own process model/scheduler, to prevent rogue apps from slowing down the messenger app. And apps within the messenger app now need to be cross-messenger-platform on top of being cross-webview-platform.
Truly a terrifying hypothesis. Dearly hope it is not true.
"[B]urgeoning tech industry"? For what definition of "tech"? Dell and various semiconductor companies have been down there for decades. The games industry has had a strong presence since the mid-90s at least.

The startup scene might be considered burgeoning, but the tech sector in Austin as a whole is pretty well-established.
It is really quick to get started. You just drop our SDK into your project, and add a few lines to your code around where you want to toggle. Our docs [1] give examples in each language that we support.

[1]: http://docs.launchdarkly.com/

nb: I'm an engineer at LaunchDarkly
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> Luckily, we're in the middle of a decentralization renaissance.

Source please. Absolutely 0 non-tech person uses blockchain technology besides paying for ransomware maybe.
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I expect to work until I drop. And to be enjoying it
Merge stuff together and you get something clunky like Google+.
As the other replies indicate, it's less about them writing the law in this instance, but rather having the government prosecution be complicit in boosting the dollar number they can publicize in exchange for a lower overall cost to the company.

Both sides win in this arrangement, even though I'd argue most Americans do not want Goldman Sachs to do any kind of winning as a result of this very necessary legal action against them.
(cofounder of Wit.ai here) Thanks for your kind words :)
I understand your concerns, here is my take.

X as a service allows you to get X with a lot less efforts.
It allows you to understand the problem and your needs by getting started quickly. Over time, if X as a service saved you enough time and you become successful, you can choose to develop an expertise in X and cut the dependency.

Wit is also about building a community of developers and advancing the state of the art of NLP in apps. Once the bot engine matures a bit, we'll be focusing again on the community aspect of Wit and hopefully advance the field enough so that efforts like the standardization you mentioned are started.
This is super cool but what do you mean by intelligently?
Statistically Portland, OR seems like an ideal place (with the exception of Universities). The issue is it's already somewhat expensive.

I would say the research triangle seems poised for something interesting, but again, kind of already expensive.
Might just be "incidental collection". https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/758637-lesson-4-job-...
Microsoft: The cloud company
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yes, it is awkward (at the risk of being downvoted for my simple answer)
Boulder is a great place that has a lot going for it. It's also infested with NIMBY's that are possibly worse than those in the Bay Area.

https://journal.dedasys.com/2015/06/18/boulder-colorado-vs-b...
And why is raising money so important? Can't a lot of software businesses be bootstrapped?
1 hr/day, 3-4 times a week can be an enormous amount of time, especially when you are juggling children, work, and commuting. Higher income people can manage this more easily--often their work hours are more flexible, and the very high income can staff out their child care.

And lower income people are more likely to have jobs that require physical activity to begin with. Exercising is a lot harder if you've already been on your feet all day.

So it is not all about knowledge and motivation and while it may have little to do with money, it has a lot to do with available time.
I'm not sure where do you get the idea that people aging 18-30 care about those specific things. I assume Pew will have some statistics about interests and priorities for these ages but I wouldn't be surprised if those are not the main worries of the generation. Yes, urban living is on the rise and with it some of these list item will rise too (density, night life, high speed internet, public transportation...) but this is a trend that will affect most mayor cities in the US.

My guess? The "next valley" will be highly decentralized and a lot of big cities will act as innovation hubs.

Oh and remember that the valley happened well before the flock of young people to SF. Lot of factors played in, including the presence of well established semiconductor companies whose employees were far from the stereotype you are describing.
IMHO this is The Problem, and is far more significant than the problems IPFS or even cryptocurrencies are trying to solve. I would stop short of calling these projects wasted effort, but solving the economic model is a prerequisite to any chance of success for the entire endeavor.

It's not entirely a technical problem. At some point I think a few sacred ideas will need to be questioned, such as the idea that open source must also be "free as in beer."

If there is no economic model, nothing is going to happen. Closed silos will continue to dominate in all the areas that cost money, and among those UX is probably the most significant differentiator that will guarantee their dominance. I love open source gift culture but there are some pretty severe limits to what can practically be accomplished without some source of capital or subsidy.
A cell phone camera probably has a resolution of ~1 arcminute (about the resolution of the human eye). The Hubble has a resolution of ~0.05 arcseconds. The HDST would have a resolution of ~0.002 arcseconds. So to get comparable resolution to Hubble the probe would have to be at a distance of (.05 / 60) * 270,000 AU ~ 225 AU and a distance of (.002 / 60) * 270,000 AU ~ 9 AU to beat HDST. A camera on such a telescope would probably be of somewhat higher resolution, however. In fact, it would probably be at the diffraction limit, which for a ~1 cm aperture in visible light would be closer to ~10". This would increase the distances above by a factor of 6 or so.

Resolution isn't the only thing, though. The contrast is extremely important. A little probe in the Alpha Centauri system would be able to take clean images of any planets in the system. A telescope in our solar system trying to directly image these planets has to contend with contamination of light from the stars.
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Google Doesn't Know What Is The Largest Desert
When it says "right here in your browser," it's not joking. On my desktop (Safari), the window becomes unresponsive after a few iterations. Does not happen in Chrome.

On my phone (Safari/iOS 9.3), the default neural nework doesn't converge at all even after 300 iterations while it does on the desktop, which is legit weird: https://i.imgur.com/KNaXeHH.png
"The technique uses cryo-cooled nanotubes. The current performance is of order 2 bits per photon."

How do you keep it cool with a 100GW laser pointed at it over 2 minutes?
> as are any major acts

Exactly my point. To become a major act (i.e. make money) artists need lots of artistic help. I know this is a brutal thing to say, but if you want to get a band out of obscurity, you're going to need help.

Even Michael Jackson had Quincy Jones help him achieve his breakout album (Off The Wall) and was smart enough to go get the artistic help he needed. And Michael Jackson was one of those incredible artists who could write, sing, dance, and arrange. And he still needed help.

If a band is not interested in making mainstream music, that's fine, but not making money comes with the territory of not appealing to the taste of lots of people.
Newspaper headlines have a domain-specific grammar, in which this is perfectly legal. But ok, have an 'is'.
I mean aren't we all?
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Oh, so it's Dallas. 75 is spring here, though.
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I remember my time in Pittsburgh. Mostly fond memories. However 8 to 9 months of the year the atmosphere is really gloomy (not just the weather - take a walk in the downtown - feels like everything is falling apart) - when things are not going right in life that is just the worst thing to put up with.
Actually, two of the Monkees were in bands before their "acting career" and they performed live together without assistance.

They broke up because of a no-holds barred fight with their producer/svengali, declining sales and an awful vanity film (think Spiceworld but much worse), but their albums still sold.
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Dallas:

- Highest growth rate in the nation (especially for 18 - 30 years old), after Houston, which is down now due to the oil industry, placing Dallas at #1

- Highest spending on food and alcohol at restaurants - http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/09/dallas-fort-worth-...

- One of the most affordable places to live in the U.S.

- Large number of top tier universities within 3 hours (Univ of Texas, Baylor, TCU, SMU, UNT, Texas A&M, UTD, UTA)

- Massive amount of wealth/wealthy investors, who, are starting to put their wealth into more and more seed start-ups

My point is, many cities all fit the same criteria as he listed. But until the people IN those communities move to make it happen, it won't.
In the last 3 years, I've seen a magnitude increase in Start-up/entrepreneur activity happening in Dallas. And I believe much of the criteria PG said is right and a good part of the reason, but those things won't just "make" it happen.