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Because it doesn't have to be that way. You're just arguing from the "we've always done it that way" perspective. Years ago, I took the extra time to compile a Qt application so that it would run on Windows and Linux with the same code base. Why not? Why not compile for Windows and Mac, and let people choose what works for them? You may have no use for it, but I do. Is it worth the effort? Depends on the application? Is it worth Microsoft's time to support? Obviously not. But at this point, the ability to compile for multiple platforms at the same time shouldn't have to be rocket science for the situations where it makes sense.
Very much so - I'm stuck on the periphery (operating the environments the system touches for data) an endless MVP...1.5 years when the initial sprint was 6 months. Management keeps adding more features before wanting to release it to a test group yet keep calling it an MVP. New teams are being brought in and have to be retained. New management is brought in each time with more ideas of what is "minimal". Yet they keep throwing money at it...
While a very small market segment but I've noticed that my user demographic's snap story usage has been in rapid decline. The people whom I saw using snap stories the majority of time, have since cut their usage in half if not completely and switched to Instagram stories.

Going to be very interesting to see how they handle user growth & user engagement.
Yes, because of Prop 13, assessments have very little connection to current market value.
Nice work! But I can't help but notice that in the first diagram, the author misspelled "link" as "1ink".
While reading this article, it struck me that the amount of "useless" data increases as the alpha value approaches 0. For example: in a pixel with rgba values of (1.0, 0.4, 0.5, 0.0), the rgb values are redundant. Is there a color format that would prevent this redundancy? Perhaps by some clever equation that incorporates the alpha values into the rgb values? I don't think Premultiplied alpha would work, because you still need to store the alpha value for compositing later...
Meanwhile you can buy a Chevy Bolt today with 238 mile range, MSRP $37k before tax credits, ~$30k after.

The more upscale BMW i3 with 195 mile range can also be bought today, at ~$35k after tax credits.

If GM can build enough Bolts to keep up with demand (the waiting list here in Europe is apparently 12 months now), and with the other big players trying to catch up (Hyundai, Nissan, Ford all expected to have 200+ mile range models in 2018), Tesla has to hurry up and deliver on their target price, delivery dates and volume.
> The people who are ending up in buses have lived in California since housing was cheap enough that they didn't have a problem, or since they were children.

Most of the people I know who complain about the housing cost in California are young people who make considerably less money than their parents do but expect to be able to maintain the lifestyle they had growing up. That's incredibly unrealistic and I doubt that's ever been attainable unless you're exceedingly wealthy.

When my parents moved to the area I grew up in, it was not even close to the desirability that it is when I eventually moved out. I've done what they did. I bought a house further away in a less expensive neighborhood because I can't afford to live there.

The amount of young people who think they have a right to move in the opposite direction and maintain their lifestyle is strange to me. Tons of people I know moved to bigger, expensive cities out of college/high school but they had to live with 3 roommates to do so. Eventually, when you want your privacy back, you have to move away.

For most young people, you can't have your cake and eat it too when it comes to where you choose to live.
It would be cool to have that display engine on other platforms though..
I just went and tried this. The Zestimate for my place is... ludicrous. Probably 30% below market value. What's more, similarly sized apartments on the same floor vary by 15%!

I'd always thought this number was dumb but wow. This is even more ludicrous than I could've believed.

How can it be this far off with apartments with recent sales history in a building with lots of unit (and thus lots of sales activity)?

Could this be a case of them A/B testing on the Zestimate model to maximize lead generation with the "disagree?" link?
The method exists in both IEnumerable<T> and Collection<T> (I do not remember exact class, but it was something simple like List`1).

The difference is when you use IEnumerable<T> user method (provided as extension, using IEnum) has to call IEnumerator GetEnumerator() and allocate it on a heap. But that collection have its own implementation which works faster than generic one.
It isn't claiming that one side is more intelligent than the other. It's talking about curiosity vs. intelligence and how that affects how people of different belief-sets agree or disagree with a given statement.

You're really inferring a lot from this image that isn't there. It is clear there isn't an intent for this image to be "Dems are smarter than Repubs", but it's very telling that that is all you get from it.
On the upside, this is great news for them - congratulations!

On the downside, I fear it means that their Mixed Reality plugin for Unity (which looks awesome, and I've been waiting impatiently for) will be a long time coming now :(
> The question is backwards.

I don't think so. Win32 with MFC is already in the free VS Community Edition on Windows, so we know that the work to package up those libraries is already done. We also know that Clang and GCC can already cross-compile targeting Windows, all you need are the aforementioned platform libraries.
I'm 20 years old in my first year of university, and I'm probably going to fail the final exams next week. I don't think I'll be having the chance to take advantage of this peak.
Then, they will try to - let's say - organize an event and will realise Facebook might not be fun, but damn useful to do this kind of stuff. Snapchat is not a social network, it's just a camera app. It's just a feature easily cloned by Facebook, and Facebook will end up winning just because of the network effect they can count on globally, and across nearly all demographics.

Don't buy.
In Australia a law was introduced where realtors had to provide realistic values for property that went to auction.

Before that if you were looking at 2 bedroom apartments, around Sydney, you'd just mentally add 400k. Not sure if it's better now or not.
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Yep travel to the US from European already is extremely cumbersome due to all the checks and long security procedures. This would not only annoy travelers but put immense pressure on the airlines flying between both continents. They must be unbelievably pissed.
Not quite. It's when we agree it's gender neutral. Good luck with your multi-decade quest to change the accepted meaning and connotations of relatively common words in the English language.
Except that this doesn't work. Or, perhaps more appropriately, it doesn't work faster than the forces spewing misinformation work. Converting people one at a time doesn't work when the opposition is converting them via mass media.
I know it's settling a lawsuit, but isn't it nice that Magic Leap has actually done something for once?

More seriously, I'm continually annoyed by this "woman hired to combat sexism" thing. It's a special case of a scenario plenty of us will recognise: where a problem with your boss is somehow your problem to sort out.
Wait, what? We're putting laptops in luggage because we're afraid that they are bombs. But laptops stored closely together in luggage with pressure changes can explode..and we don't know how to handle that.

In the name of safety we're introducing a restriction that makes people and airplanes less safe!
In modeling whether this makes sense, I looked at my annual electricity bill, which comes in at about $1,800/year. That's not enough savings opportunity to justify a ~$70,000 roof+batteries.

However, when I add 2 electric cars, the savings nearly triple [0]. Instead of buying gasoline, I'll be paying for electricity.

At $5,400/year, spending $70,000 starts to make some sense.

On the other hand, if I put up ugly panels and still use the Tesla batteries, aren't I going to save a lot more?

[0] 24,000 miles/year, 225 miles @ $10 per charge, vs. 25 mpg @$3/gal

EDIT: Corrected KWh charge... $10 is cost for one charge.
> Going forward, growth is going to be flat, maybe even negative, now that every messenger service now has their own Stories clone.

This is my thinking as well. Stories was a good idea but there wasn't anything proprietary about it and now that a larger service (Instagram) copied it much better there isn't much point to using it on Snapchat anymore. I would imagine their users will continue using their silly filters and doing direct messaging but so many apps have built in filters now I don't know that it is a big enough differentiator anymore.

I think the performance of their stock is going to depend on how well they execute on a new product like spectacles.
Very well designed, one "issue" however is when I open cards there is a small delay before the card title is centered, it opens to the extreme left of the modal as if it's waiting for styling.
This is something they're specifically trying to address. Elon posted some high speed footage of a "hail gun" shooting the Tesla tiles.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BT7Gxsag27j/?taken-by=elonmusk&h...

Sounds like a fun job to build and operate a "hail gun"
My parents have both gone through multiple sets of hearing aids, at many thousands of dollars a pop. Based on their experiences, when it's time for me, I will design my own, and to hell with how they look.

One problem with miniaturization is that putting the microphone close to the speaker is a recipe for feedback. Separating them by even just a few inches should make a huge difference.

Also, if you don't mind carrying a bigger battery around, you can throw a lot more processing power at the problem.

I've read that you can get satisfactory hearing aids without a prescription in some countries, and that they are much cheaper that way.
Facebook is big, it's everywhere. That's not cool for teens. Being different is what teens want. This can backfire on snap too if there is something even "cooler".

I will definitely buy some SNAP after they employees sell like crazy in desperation. I am optimistic about future value of SNAP and pessimistic about Facebook
Tesla posted this hail test video https://twitter.com/TeslaMotors/status/862394764460605440
It's really not equivalent if you wouldn't call someone that to their face.
Tesla's initial product is actually intended to compete against premium roofs, not low-end. There are lots of places where you're not even allowed to install a low-end roof due to homeowner association rules.
How's that going to find rotting wood underneath the porch or a broken AC?

You know, what inspectors actually do...
I hit this a couple of years ago and hoped things had improved.

d3 was too low-level for my tastes (There are two types of programmers - builders and disassemblers. I'm the latter in that I like to start with something working and figure out how to take it apart).

I toyed with Vega, nv3d, Bokeh and they all had great things going for them but nothing felt like it had nailed "making the easy things easy, and the hard things possible".
I tried once. The challenges came down to too many variables relative to sample size.

You gave just a small subset of variables which can impact price by over 20%.

The most important when I looked seemed to be:

- Neighbourhood (even street in some cases)

- Number of Bedrooms

- Year of construction

- Year of last renovation

- Floor (apartment)

- View (especially for apartments)

- Number of Bathrooms

- Year of sale

That last one, year of sale, is important because it actually impacts your training data. Do you use five years of data even though local real estate prices have been increasing at 10-20%/year? Or can that be normalized even though some neighbourhoods are changing at different rates than others?

I restricted my research to 1BR apartments in the city of Vancouver. There are some unique challenges for real estate in Canada, but basically the best sample size I could get was about 2000 sales (I think this was all the 1BR sales in a given year). Very few had information on all of the variables I listed above. Suffice it to say, you can't train a model of any quality on that data.
Batteries + roof PV, is far more expensive on a per-watt basis, then a power grid + utility-scale generation.

"Just buy a $15,000 PowerWall, which you will need to replace every 10 years" is, compared to grid electricity, incredibly wasteful.

There's a reason why customers and users overwhelmingly prefer centralization, even if its harmful for them in the long-term. It's cheaper, and people would prefer it to be someone elses' problem.
Maybe it's time for ships to come back in vogue.
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At the roof launch event, Elon was very clear that it priced competitively with high-end roofs. And that appears to be what the actual price competes with.
Now you are hitting a very interesting idea which would be to standardize home inspection reports in a machine readable format.
Counter-example:

while ( j < JMAX) {
i = callback(j);
if( i >= FINAL) break;
...

If, in the specific circumstances of this use, callback(j) will always equal FINAL before it exceeds it, a test for equality here will not cause the program to behave differently.

The fallacy of your argument is that == is not an assertion that its arguments should always be equal; it is a test of whether they are at some specific point in the algorithm.
But accepting a monopoly standard guarantees loss of freedom and rules out any future prospect of legitimate competition.
What do you mean by unenforceable? If the rules are passed to airports in Europe, it's going to be enforced. Same thing happened with liquids.
> On the operational side, measures such as stopping online check-in for U.S. bound flights or ensuring U.S. flights depart from a dedicated part of terminals are among ideas being mulled, although no decisions have yet been taken.

How would stopping online check-in help with laptops? Wouldn't a laptop ban be enforced during security screening of hand luggage?
Can't you just ask the permission of the person who said that, and, if they agree, drop the []'s? If it makes anyone feel better, they could speak the revised quote out loud to an empty room before you drop the []'s.
> According to the report, Instagram Stories has more than 200 million users per day, with that number being measured by people updating their story or watching a friend's.

I wonder what the number would be if those who only watched stories were excluded. Its also worth considering that Instagram delivers some of their announcements as stories and whether or not people viewing those also count towards the active user number.
If solar roof companies are to get an indirect tax credit then:

1) It should be in exchange for preferred stock/bonds in the company; and/or

2) the tax credit should favour lower prices, not higher
$35k for a car is absolutely mainstream - in fact that's just about the average price for one...

[1]https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car...
I'll do you one better. Before all of that, Groove was a workgroup product, started by the famous Ray Ozzie, which was acqui-hired by Microsoft, and then spiked. It was brilliant. There's been nothing like it since. (Except maaaybe Slack.)
The $80k roof is especially scary if you live in an area with any type of natural disaster risk.

The area I live in just had a huge hail storm. Most roofs in our neighborhood will require repairs. That's a bummer with asphalt shingles, but it would be a lot worse with an $80k roof.

Most people won't think about those risks, but over the time period you need to consider for a roof, it's a big risk in most places.
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That's interesting, I've run across the "make the chart responsive" request before. My impression, after beating responsiveness into the code with a sledgehammer, is that it's really not meant for that. You can, but why?

And, on most screens - even smartphones - they don't need to be responsive at ordinary dimensions.

Usually, the request seems to indicate a fundamental lack of understanding of how D3 is meant to be used, or design/page layout flaws that get dumped on the chart code.
Our house is in the hottest part of Portland, OR, with double digit % increases in the last couple years.

Last October when I refinanced, it was appraised at $455k. Zillow had it at $467k-ish.

Not enough to bum me out because I also had a now former neighbor sell recently. Buyers got into a bidding war and he walked off with $15k over asking.

Seems accurate to me! ;)
Agree--that's why I'm hoping for something 'next gen" for smartphones.
I wonder how/if this relates to the fact that many mental illnesses fully manifest around 25 as well.

"Roughly half of all lifetime mental disorders in most studies start by the mid‐teens and three‐fourths by the mid‐20s."
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1925038/
You can readily buy a 30 year shingle roof. Calling it a lifetime warranty when it is no better than a common, good quality shingle roof is absurd. Metal roofs have even longer warranties.
I'm pretty sure from my experience it's not a shared instance - you can create multiple databases easily.

The limitations are presumably so that they have control over settings for things like replication and their features that you can't mess with.
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"In doing our own research on the roofing industry, it became clear that roofing costs vary widely, and that buying a roof is often a worse experience than buying a car through a dealership."

Seems like someone just couldn't resist putting that little jab in there.
Sorry for the nit, but is that $2k CAD?
This post is very strange to me. It talks about our 3% increase in wages like it's an incredibly bad sign of instability in our economy, yet ignores the fact that wages have been stagnant for decades now. I also wonder if those wage increases went to the upper class, or lower?

I'd argue that this shift in worker/employer leverage balance is long overdue, and focusing on improving the gross inequality between the classes should be more important than having our economy continue some sort of exponential growth. We are currently living the future, it's just not distributed evenly.
Exactly...cost was supposed to be a new premium roof (just the roof, no solar panels) and they are about 3 times more expensive than "just the roof".

Unless they meant a "new roof" as in when you build a house from scratch and you don't have rafters or anything. If you have an existing roof you are redoing every 20 years or so, then this is definitely not the cost of a "new roof".

So, which "new roof" are we talking about here?
Why do you think the Go GC is better than any the JVM options? From what I've seen, while the Go GC is well tuned for low latency, by picking the right JVM GC parameters you can on balance get a better throughput latency tradeoff. I'm just wondering if you have any reliable benchmarks or evidence to support what your saying? I don't use either language for work, so I think you might have better information than I.
We have offices in Europe and US. While today we travel multiple times a quarter between the offices, I can see how people will not want to cross US borders no more than once a year. I also wonder how this (plus all the shenanigans on borders control, immigrations restrictions, etc) will affect budget and headcount allocations for international companies.
I think we will see an expansion of companies building R&D centers abroad and call it a day.
As someone who did a lot of market research before launching a paid plugin, the main reason is exposure. There is no other marketplace that comes close to the number of potential customers. Of course, you can roll your own solution but since almost nobody publishes numbers on how their business is going it's hard to see if it's more or less profitable.
I've actually been interested in affordable laptop rentals for a while but haven't found anything worthwhile, mostly lease to own. Has anyone encountered this done well yet?
yeah there is little economic incentive for anyone outside of California will to retrofit these onto an existing house. Take Texas for example a large house in Dallas is $500k I used the provided calculator on the Tesla site and the roof install will cost $211k! that is not justifiable on a house this expensive.
Hard forking is considered rape too.
Um no. https://qz.com/612159/why-trai-backed-net-neutrality-and-kil...
Tesla claims their shingles are a lot more resilient than standard roofing material...
For those wondering, this was (around) the 44 minute mark.
Not necessarily - my home was built in 2013, with a metal roof and 5kW PV system. But because it's so efficient, I end up not just zeroing out my bill, but giving power to the grid for free (since I don't actually get paid for the power I generate, I just get credits). I have evened the odds out now to some degree with a plug-in hybrid, but I will have to see if in practice charging it will soak up some or all of the surplus I was losing...
"non-answers" are never good, of course, but i can easily see a way he could give a workable answer to that question. for example, he could say that some people are trapped in loveless marriages they can't get out of, but he never has been, so he's not the target customer.

of course i'm just playing devil's advocate, because all evidence points to ashley madison being a scam, with essentially no women on the site.
Yes, but it probably costs the airport/airline less to tell everybody that they can't take laptop in hand luggage in person, than to deal with all cases of people trying to take laptops through security and being sent back. (Speculation)

We've had the liquids and sharp tools ban for years now and the bins at security are still full of them. You wouldn't throw out your laptop though.
I just skimmed through this paper that supports the 97% consensus and nothing jumped out at me to suspect the paper is "dubious". It seemed like a strong conclusion to me. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048...

What issues are there with that paper?
The company knows how to make great VR experiences but this is a bizarre move by Google. Historically, they've not been great in the game space (look at Ingress, or does anybody remember Lively.com)? I suppose you could argue this is their response to that but its not clear what their end goal is here (more exclusive content)?
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The roof launch event was very clear that this is a product that competes against premium roofs. Asphalt shingle roofs aren't premium roofs. As an example, for high-end housing developments, many of them do not allow asphalt shingle roofs.

If that's not your thing, great. Then this isn't the product for you.
I'm going with 2. It's honestly hilarious how ineptly the administration is trying to pretend this isn't a Muslim ban. There was a thread on Reddit a couple days ago about how all Trump's verbatim "we will ban Muslims" quotes have been scrubbed from his campaign site... except you can still see them with the right combination of URL parameters.
I guess it would force people to the check-in desk where they could be asked 'do you have a laptop in your carry-on?'. If they don't know about the ban this gives them a chance to put it in hold luggage. If it wasn't noticed until security it may be a bit of a nightmare.