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It's fun to see San Diego at the top of HN.

I'm finishing a PhD at UC San Diego, and I've noticed a few things. First, there is a different dynamic for biotech talent. The biotech scene in SD is strong, and people seem drawn to that. Second, in contrast to LA at least, commuting in SD is not terribly difficult. And there is a light rail (trolley) beginning construction up to the UCSD campus from downtown. Third, this city is a draw for people (like me) who are looking for something less bustling than SF or LA, and I think it's important to try to keep young talent here by selling this idea. In biotech, we desperately need better software engineers.
> Many people believe that what is important is getting stuff done, not social status grooming with shows of allegiance in meetings.

It's not about shows of allegiance: it's about being present for your fellow-participants.

> Is there any practical reason, that makes texting rude, discourteous, and unprofessional, besides that it unflatters someone's ego?

Human beings can't multitask: every second you're texting is a second of meeting content you're missing. It is rude, because it says to those speaking, 'what you are saying is not as important as what I am reading or typing.' It is discourteous, because it wastes their time. It is unprofessional, because a professional would do others the politeness of turning down the meeting if he doesn't believe his presence is needed, rather than attending and ignoring.
Eye tracking? It's rather good nowadays.
I could always put it into perspective for you and tell you about the Albuquerque, New Mexico startup ecosystem.

As far as quality of life goes, it's still pretty good, but the startup ecosystem doesn't factor into that equation at all.
RXJS and it's learning curve, not just getting it to work but getting it to work idiomatically has been my biggest struggle with NG2.
FTA: 3rd party ads, issues with preserving SEO rankings and a staged approach (only certain parts of the site on HTTPS).

The more technical article is better: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/wired-completely-encrypted/

I've made the move before and have definitely experienced the SEO drop, even with all 301 redirects and sitemaps reconfigured.
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The warm and fuzzy feeling should have gone away immediately upon discovering that it was not a hardware mute, but instead a software-defined feature... no?

I mean, if you can turn the LED off through software, it's really no better than the little menu bar icon that every other laptop has. If it were done all in hardware, that would be cool.
I have had nightmares doing both. One of them ongoing.
"Because entertainment commonly portrays it as such, and few people are familiar with the workings of pilot aids installed aboard commercial aircraft" is an answer to that question. Perhaps it is not one you like.

Perhaps also it is not one which is accurate. I'm not really familiar with a lot of entertainment that includes this trope, which is not necessarily a surprise; what is a surprise is that TV Tropes, which is generally very detailed on such matters, doesn't seem to have anything covering it, either. That certainly suffices to inspire some doubt in my mind as to whether "oh, it's just entertainment" is an accurate answer, or a just-so story.
FYI unless you have a dedicated graphics card (if you have the 13" you don't for sure) you can't use both Thunderbolt and HDMI to power 3 external monitors. Source: I tried and expected it work based on various news articles that said you could but left off the fact you need a dedicated graphics card. That said 2 external and my macbook open is good enough until Apple releases an upgrade to the MBPr that I think is worth buying (and upgrading the the 15" with dedicated).
That's cool - thank you
You're confusing the issue by focusing on protocols versus actual physical implementations (data centers, trunk lines, etc). The physical installations for what we call the Internet are centralized. Companies like Level 3 might put some redundancy but at some point the cost of redundancy out weighs its benefits for them and other companies like them. This is especially true of consumer financial services like banking. If an attacker wanted to disrupt the United States they only have to do it to banking to cause a panic. They could easily ignore emergency services, hospitals, and even the government itself (outside of ACH) while doing this. And it would be such a mess that we couldn't resolve it immediately. The happiest outcome is the disruption is only for a few hours but the more likely outcome is possibly days or weeks of disruption where a large part of the banking system would be inoperable. It doesn't matter if you used TCP/IP or switch based communications the outcome is the same: the American economy shaken and possibly worse. So, we can take all day about Facebook and Diaspora but neither of those services do anything important for the average user like your bank which also uses the same centralized infrastructure. There is no Diaspora for banking and not one that's widely used or not using the current banking/financial transfer systems which are centralized.
> It's Visual Studio Code...not core. And it's not a skin it's an actively developed fork of Atom.

It's not a fork of Atom. It's independently developed text editor/light IDE which runs on Electron, chromium toolkit created by Atom devs to ease creation of desktop applications using JavaScript and HTML.
Replace OS X application icons programatically
The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem
With only that tid bit of information you have about him, there is nothing crystal clear. There is not a single individual build the same way. Some people can run 7 marathon in 7 days, and they have been doing that for 20 years, others are going to have knee injury after a couple years of running. Some of it might be technique, but it is likely combined with different bone/joint/muscle architecture.
Not necessarily. Having recently moved from Sydney to NYC and being disappointed with the coffee here, I decided to take things into my own hands and bought this beauty here: http://www.brevilleusa.com/the-barista-expresstm.html

$600USD and about 2 months later I don't regret a single cent.
People care about money. That's why raising the tax is the solution. These homes are investments. The homes are empty because the owners are living elsewhere, mostly China, and don't need the rental income. However, if you impose a 10% tax, the lure of value appreciation is much less powerful and it pushes owners to
a) not invest there in the first place
b) rent out the property
c) actually live there
What I normally say about university is: "We teach you everything you need to know, and nothing you can use." That would seem to fit the bill here.
The terrain following radar feature that has been in fighter jets since the late 60s uses radar -- as the name implies, and serves a similar purpose. It allows the pilot to set an altitude and a "comfort" level regarding how aggressive the autopilot can be with regards to avoiding danger (basically, how quickly the plane can pull Gs to avoid terrain, and how many Gs it can pull).

That works well when you're straight and level, attentive, and the radar can point at the ground. This system can't rely on radar exclusively though because the aircraft may not have its radar pointing at the ground (as in the video, the aircraft is inverted in a pretty steep dive).

So, they have to factor in precision INS/GPS and known topology to assess terrain altitude in order to perform collision avoidance.
I was curious so I did a quick bit of Googling:

Since 2013 councils can levy an “empty homes premium” of an additional 50% council tax [1]. No idea how many actually do.

The rate of unoccupied dwellings in London is 1.7% [2]

1. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/21/tens-thousan...

2. http://www.emptyhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Empty-H...
Why?

Sometimes they break, by wear or by accident. Other times I find that I made a mistake in buying them because they are uncomfortable or badly designed (chord too long, clicker placed so low I can't use it if I'm wearing a coat). I don't buy new headphones every other year as a matter of principle. It just seems to have been the case for a good number of years.

Good headphones last tens of years.

You must use yours differently than I. Or the ones you buy are more than just semi-expensive.
It seems that a plausible reason warning alarms would be ignored might be that the driver had a heart attack or stroke while auto-pilot was engaged. In that case, disabling all automation might be the worst response to the situation. I'm sure that Tesla engineers have considered this scenario but it certainly makes you realise that this is a hard problem to solve.
There's no strong public transit in DC either.

There's the Metro, which occasionally kills people due to terrible maintenance, but it's only really useful for DC proper. There's not many tech jobs in DC, they're all outside in northern VA or southern MD, quite some distance from downtown DC. And those places are not well-served by Metro at all; basically there's some giant park-and-ride centers where commuters can drive in, park ($$$) and ride ($$$) the subway to their job in downtown DC. This isn't useful at all to people who actually work out in the suburbs in places like Reston VA (near the airport) or Manassas VA or Laurel MD, which are popular places for tech companies.

From what I've seen on my visits to San Diego, I'd say the situations are pretty comparable actually. Terrible, terrible traffic, and terrible public transit outside the city center, and all the tech companies are nowhere near the metro center.

On top of all that, the other problem in the DC area is that almost all the tech jobs are defense-related, so if you're not interested in that industry (or in working on projects that drag on and on for years and basically never get anywhere, and definitely aren't anywhere near the cutting edge of technology), DC is not the place for you.
Ask HN: Hosting companies providing gratis hosting to free software projects?
Who cares? Where are the articles about San Antonio losing its "young oil and gas talent" to Houston? How about Philly losing its "young finance talent" to New York?

Also, I'm pretty sure biotech counts as "tech." Hey, it even has it in the name. Too bad they don't have more on demand laundry startups, since apparently that's the key to success as a city.
Imagine a quadrant chart that plots the superlatives of web solutions. The bbc sites resides in a different quadrant than these Css emphasized solutions...
It's a short blog post linking off to CodePen demos:

* https://codepen.io/jaysalvat/pen/HaqBf

* https://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG

* https://codepen.io/rgg/pen/QbRyOq

* https://codepen.io/rgg/pen/vlrnd

* https://codepen.io/rgg/pen/eHGfj
> "Inability to reliably detect completely stationary objects is a known and documented deficiency of the system."

"Caution: car may drive into solid objects at 70mph"

Meanwhile on the front page of HN, a system which is not calling itself autopilot manages to avoid flying a plane into the ground: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501985

Technologies like self-driving/autonomous/autopilot cars need to be very clear about what they can and cannot do. If the human has to be paying attention and able to take over before a solid object appears within the stopping distance of the car, then it should not be marketed as any of those and should limit itself to calling itself a driver assistance device.
I listen to music all day long on $30 BT headphones/buds and have none of these issues (save for recording which I never do).
Seattle's cost of living is not exactly low either.
I don't think it says anything about the Big Bang. The earth is supposed to have formed from the remnants of supernovae, not elements produced by the initial nucleosynthesis of the Big Bang. Indeed, most of the elements earth is made from are believed to have come from the insides of stars, not from the Big Bang.
So my biggest bit of advice is to get out of the tech sector as much as possible. One of the great things about ops is that there literally is not an industry that doesn't employ us. I've worked for non-profits, education, farms (you'd be amazed some of the data needs agribusiness has), and now aerospace. I've even gigged for food service (a local brewery paid me in beer...)

The advantage of this is that gets you out of some of the myopia that the tech sector has a tendency to instill, as well as broadening your geographical opportunities beyond the few tech hot spots. It also teaches you the three most important words a sysadmin has to learn to say: "I don't know". A sysadmin who can't say that immediately when it's true is going to have problems (after all ops is about 85% reading documentation), and figuring out how to get data from a barn to a datacenter will teach you to say it quickly.

Another piece of advice: if you haven't already, work in a datacenter, at least once, for at least a year, before you quit in disgust (everybody does). No datacenter sysadmin is happy, but it's a huge resume buff and it teaches you a lot.
Focus on clojure.spec: combining specs with s/or
Social media isn’t optional. Neglecting it almost killed out startup
I would just like to point out that your caution applies to just about all cars currently on the roads.
Philosophy/(Pure) Math double major here.

I would argue that my Math degree made me a "better" writer than my Philosophy degree did. Writing quality in philosophy
is generally much poorer than other disciplines; you pretty much have to use passive voice everywhere, which is the first thing your college writing lab will tell you not to do.

On the other hand, in my Math classes, I had to turn in 5-10 pages of proofs every week/every other day for problem set work. It was this work that taught me how to write clearly and parsimoniously, much more so than my Philosophy courses.

Of course, YMMV.
The lack of documentation about testing is a major annoyance. I really thought that they would fix that before declaring a final release of 2.0.
I don't see why my examples should in any way "disturb you". Science fiction frequently is an inspiration for products and ideas that are made real, examples are legion.

I judiciously selected I Robot and Minority Report because Audi and Lexus, respectively, had product placement for future design concepts.
Umm Compatibility reasons? It's probably also much easier to create certain things using a full range of tools rather than trying to implement it purely in css
Why is this being modded down? It's absolutely correct, as anyone who lives in the DC area would know.

Come to DC and try riding the Metro on Saturday or Sunday night and see how you like it.

Metro used to be a pretty decent system 20 years ago; today it's a disaster.
If "Keep It Simple Stupid" causes one to make something complex, they have failed to keep it simple, and can't blame the principle for their failure to adhere to it.
Am I being trolled?
F-16s are G-limited to 9G. You can happily pull 9G day in, day out. The actual G loading the plane is certified for would be much, much higher than this (probably at least double).
Practically speaking: experience.

Peter Norvig's advice: http://norvig.com/21-days.html
> No datacenter sysadmin is happy, but it's a huge resume buff and it teaches you a lot.

Why is that? What kind of valuable experiences are you thinking of?
When I asked for examples in another comment, the replies (so far) have been sci-fi movies. I'd hope that people aren't inferring real-world capabilities from sci-fi movies, but they very well could be.
We need blockchain voting.
Yeah, I understand that. These are like short but beautiful poems, where the BBC website is like the Britannica Encyclopaedia.

But if there's someone who works on bbc.co.uk reading this, I salute you for the amazing work you do, because you often don't get enough credit.
Apologises if I'm miss reading this

> Angular and Ember allows state and logic inside HTML.

State updates do not occur in Ember templates. Templates specify the follow data from one component to another, as well as callbacks which are names of actions defined in a javascript portion of a component, or a parent component.

But it does not allow you to specify how state is updated within the template. In terms of Logic, there's just if statements & loops which is pretty conservative imo.

edit: rephrasing words
Yes, but they're not marketed as being self-driving.

(This whole issue is very important for people who do want fully autonomous cars, as Tesla et al messing up the PR will get them banned if they're not careful.)
I somewhat disagree. Interestingly, one of the most extensible SW systems ever is Unix shell, which is completely opposite to the OOP idea.

The idea in Unix is that data are the interface, in case of Unix the data are unstructured text, but I think it can be generalized to systems with structured data. So contrary to OOP, most extensible systems seem to be the ones that (self)document their data structures as interface and leave it at that.
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That's fine for dictation but of little use when driving or other eyes free scenarios.
Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos
I think that the "Bay Area scene" is different from much of the world.

I think that part of human nature is that people like people who are like themselves, so you sometimes get these insular / discriminatory sub cultures that judge people on superficial traits instead of the quality of their minds. From both this article and the tales of many friends, San Francisco strikes as one of these low-tolerance / high-discrimination places.

I live in NH, on a farm and work (mostly) remotely. I've got a network of contacts, I get pinged w requests for contracting work, I do the job, I get paid. No one asks me about my age (45) or judges me because of it.

Personally, I dislike places where people are provincial and close-minded, so I'll stick to the rural countryside and leave SF to the bigots.
The downvote of any kind of discussion of the influence of the religion in the acts of people, also curbs the freedom of information.
To be fair, outside of testing I have generally found the documentation to be excellent. Also, the debugging tools seem to be pretty nice. In particular, Angular Augury looks amazing: https://augury.angular.io/

However, if you dislike the approach to templating, you will definitely dislike angular. This is one of those things that is controversial, regardless of which approach they had chosen.
And? The CA system is already deployed. DNSSEC is not. Why would we deploy another compromised PKI, one that can't be separated from governments, one that would force most huge sites to abandon their current domains to avoid USG spying, when we could spend a fraction of that energy getting CT deployed?
I don't understand the distinction you are trying to draw. Both examples seem to put the same configuration in the component tree.
try [()]
If such a small thing is enough to discourage women from entering the field, then by all means it should be done at this stage rather than after several years of college or in a workplace.
You can run multiple VM's at the same time as long as you have a separate GPU to assign for each VM. There are videos on Youtube of people demoing this.
What are you doing your PhD in? I'm working on a healthcare software company in San Diego. We should chat.
Steam is a terrible security example because Steam just gives Everyone Read/Write/Execute access to its folder(s) on Windows. The Steam solution to permissions on Windows has always been to basically just give up and not bother.
seriously? people moving away because there are no good restaurants near work places?
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I agree with argonaut. I did have a philosophy class in college. However, most of my time on it was spent reading books, discussing such subjects with people of many views, looking at real-world events to see which philosophies hold up against them, doing thought experiments, and so on.

I bet this taught me way more than an academic program with a narrow focus run by one or more people probably within same or similar political leanings. Plus, I learned business and tech skills. :)
Some cultures don't trust banks and prefer to park their money in real estate.
I've never had the best body for running. I'm not tall (good) but too heavy (bad) and I have flat feet (bad). However, I was able to start running at age 50 and by 55 qualify to run in the Boston Marathon without injury. I ran six marathons and probably a dozen half marathons in that time, eventually at a pace in the top 20% of my age group, not that great (or even that good) but I finished my marathons and was in fantastic shape.

Here are my recommendations:

Shoes -- keep experimenting until you find pairs that don't cause aches and pains. Some shoes caused knee pain in me, but others didn't. Find two different brands that work for you and use both pairs alternating between them. Each manufacturer's shoes feel a bit different and alternating you will lower the chances of overuse injury.

Form -- learn to feel like you are hitting the ground very lightly with your feet. Don't pound, land on your heels, or over stride. Thinking of contacting the ground directly under your body with your foot fall will keep you from landing too far in front and will reduce the strain on your legs.

Mileage -- limit long runs (over 5 miles) to one per week and once they get over 12 miles to once every two weeks. For most of my training I kept mileage to under 40 miles per week. Plan on taking over six months to build up to being able to run a marathon even if you start out in good shape. Build mileage slowly.

Frequency -- take days off to allow your body to recover. Most of my weeks I ran MWF about 3.5 miles each day, one day at the track doing intervals or hill training, and one long run on the weekend.

Run/Walk -- my first marathon was one of my fastest. Although the conditions were ideal that day, I also credit using Galloway's run/walk method [1]. During a race or long run I would walk through the water stops and walk for say 45 seconds to 1 minute during that time. This really gives your legs a nice break and I was surprised at how fast my overall times ended up being using this method.

Lose Weight -- I will never be a good weight for distance running (even in college as a gymnast with very low body fat I weighed about 150). However, distance running helps one lose weight and losing weight helps one with running. Being heavy greatly increases the stress on your body.

Finally, I would take aspirin or Advil for aches when needed to help keep inflammation down. Warm up before running, but don't stretch before running.

[1] http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/run-walk/
We've converted all our node apps to typescript and I've even started messing around with replacing all our back end promises/callbacks with rxjs.
By not using it because it sucks. Too much of what Microsoft puts into Windows is to spy on you.
I really like the look of good, B&W pixel art. I think that games like Dark Castle and interfaces like HyperCard really benefited from it.

Maybe I'm just old-fashioned though …
In that case, it seems like a fairly empty claim. Here's another "last API you'll ever need".

value["functionName"](...[arguments])

value is the the thing you're operating on. functionName is the name of the thing you want to do. arguments are any other relevant values.
Other way round: real-world capabilities are built out to meet the SF expectations. Star Trek communicators -> mobile phones. Star Trek computer -> Alexa/Siri et al.

(Besides, the alternative is for the layman to infer capabilities from marketing material, which is even more outlandishly fictional)

Oh, and if you want an exhaustive list of when something appears in media, TVtropes will always deliver: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=6zj22p5kr47sfh2...