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use the communities. i stream game dev myself and have 31 followers after starting around 5 months ago. Not the fastest growth, but I've been very sporadic these last few months. i'm hoping to hit 50 followers in the next few months.

Also use twitter etc. to promote yourself.
http://www.superanimo.com - HTML5 cartoon and gif editor

I didn't have a plan to monetize it, but I thought it would become a startup and I'd have users and funding by now. I've worked on it about 5 years so far.
Let's call it the first iteration of this generation then. (And incidentally, Gen 1 wasn't in the early 80's, it was in 1968[1]). There have been incremental improvements in VR throughout the history of computer science, much as there has been for many technologies. At some point, the technology catches up to the vision and it becomes viable. That's where we are today.

It's not merely graphics that make today's VR better than VR in the 90's - and actually viable. There has been a confluence of enabling technologies including:

- High bandwidth internet
- High DPI OLED screens
- Development of VR-specific techniques such as low-persistence pixel strobing, rolling shutters, pre-warped images, asynchronous reprojection, etc.
- Computer vision developments for 6 degree of freedom tracking
- Submillimeter tracking of room position for the VR user and his/her hands
- Fast GPUs to allow for consistent 90 frame per second display
- Cheap precision manufacturing for complex systems
- Lens technologies
- Lightweight materials
- Capacitive touch technologies to enable finger tracking
- High bandwidth I/O ports (USB3, HDMI)
- Fast, cheap CPUs
- Widely available Graphics engines and toolkits to accelerate and democratize content development

None of the above were available in 1998.

Yes, one important result is better graphics, but the sum total of the above is an experience where your brain forgets it's inside a simulation. This comes from low "motion to photon" latency such that your movements track 1:1 with the virtual world, "good enough" graphics (but could be better), a wide enough field of view (but could be wider), and so on.

People didn't buy VR in the 80's, or 90's, or 00's, because it sucked. The technology wasn't there. That is no longer the case.

Future iterations in this generation will widen the field of view, further improve pixel density and brightness, lower weight, reduce cost, and increase portability - all important evolutionary steps that incrementally improve the experience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual...
That is a truly deep thought, I love it. I also think it's begging for clarity - it's right and wrong at the same time depending on what we're talking about.

Whether our "natural" impulses are destructive, they were evolutionary advantages when it comes to pure survival for long periods of history. Craving sugar was a good thing until the last century. The sexual impulses that lead to higher mating success are also evolutionary advantages despite their being destructive and socially unacceptable.

There are known parallels in humans to what this article is talking about. The book "Sperm Wars" mentions many of them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_Wars The authors go to great lengths to denounce violent behavior, but nonetheless discuss the evolutionary advantages of some behaviors that we do not allow socially.
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The app shows the weather for right here and right now. Tomorrow's forecast can be iffy – we only show the weather forecast for today. This way you have realistic expectations and don't get disappointed by inaccurate predictions. No information overload – just the current weather conditions.

The temperature display is available in Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Awards:
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https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1252405260
Economics and game theory tell us that into all systems, a bit of suckage must come. If you take a subversive look at the history of the United States, it would seem that groups of people here all lift themselves out of poverty through a combination of entrepreneurship and shameless graft/cheating/crime. I don't think the US has been free of some kind of group strife / domestic terrorism since the 2nd presidential administration. That's also when one political side accusing the other side of being horrible people who would bring about the end of the nation started.

The older I get, the more Stratfor's geographic interpretation of history and geopolitics makes sense.
Tectonic is built on Terraform but is not based on kubeadm. However, a Tectonic vanilla k8s cluster may be similar to a kubeadm one since they both leverage Bootkube to provide self-hosted k8s.
>You (the buyer) schedules the inspection, you can ask the real estate agent to do it for you but it's a simple phone call.

Yes obviously you can do that. But you have to take the time to research the different companies a little to find a good one and you have to be there while the inspection is done.

>...I don't understand the contractors statement, a contractor is not a usual part of a real estate transaction, at least in my experience?

In selling, often there are either things that come up on inspection that need to be fixed or improvements that are done to make the property sell better - new paint, new carpeting, etc. Obviously a seller can do this, but it takes time to get bids and to be at the house to let them in, etc.

>...Putting an ad on the MLS can be done yourself for a small fee - https://fsbo.com/flat-fee-mls

Yes, obviously this can be done, and yes you can also take the time to look at a number of listings and write the ad copy if you choose.

>...Buyer's questions can be better answered yourself, most sellers agents are unable to answer any questions and they'll have to relay most questions to you anyways, once again, my experience.

A good agent can save you time here.

>...Open houses are more about generating leads for the agent then they are about showing your house.

One way or the other, you need someone there during an open house. Either you have to be there or you need to pay someone to be there.

>...Negotiating with buyers can be done yourself easily.

Obviously a seller can negotiate themselves and maybe they are as good at negotiating and know as much about the local market as people who do this everyday and maybe they know the agents to avoid. Though maybe it isn't that uncommon that the seller hasn't sold many properties and is better off having someone else help them.

>...Working with the title company isn't something real estate agents do, not around here anyways. My lawyer handled all the title stuff. Plus what sort of "work" does an agent need to do with the title company?

Different situations in different parts of the country I guess.

>...Handing off the keys? Seriously?

In this part of the country, it is done later - agent meets the person at the house. Again, no reason you couldn't do it, but it is time out of your day.

>...That is done at closing and shouldn't cost $5,000+.

Not sure where the number comes from - there is no need to put words in my mouth. Simply listing some of the the things the agent did when my place was sold. If I had to take time off of work to try and handle all these details, it would have cost me a lot more than the commission the agent got.
> It has some issues, including this one that mean it will probably never be what most people use for everyday money. Whatever succeeds it and eventually assumes that role will avoid those problems.

I wouldn't go as far as to say this is a show stopper. Wallet developers should be (and probably are) aware of this and take it as a challenge optimize the way their wallets spend money to avoid this issue, even in the face of receiving btc in a way that may create dust.
Quirky papers from arXiv
Look forward to the day? Religion (for whatever its faults) figured this out a long time ago. Man (by which I mean humans) is inherently sinful, though we are intelligent enough to recognize it and be responsible for it. It takes work, guidance, and discipline to live a righteous life.
I've seen two large usages of DynamoDB at two different companies, and for what it's worth, in both cases we've had similar trouble as the author. In one case we ended up ripping it out and moving to a sharded Postgres scheme, and in the other we've left in place for now because a migration will be such a monumental effort, but it's pretty much universally maligned.

Fundamentally, the problem seems to be that choosing a partitioning key that's appropriate for DynamoDB's operational properties is ... unlikely. In their own docs on choosing a partition key [1] they use "user ID" as an example of one with good uniformity, but in reality if you choose something like that, you're probably about to be in for a world of pain: in many systems big users can be 7+ orders of magnitude bigger than small users, so what initially looked like a respectable partitioning key turns out to be very lopsided.

As mentioned in the article, you can then try to increase throughput, but you won't have enough control over the newly provisioned capacity to really address the problem. You can massively overprovision, but then you're paying for a lot of capacity that's sitting idle, and even then sometimes it's not enough.

Your best bet is probably to choose a partition key that's perfectly uniformly distributed (like a random ID), but at that point you're designing your product around DynamoDB rather than vice versa, and you should probably wonder why you're not looking at alternatives.

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[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...
The market value of a thing is what someone is willing to pay for it. The appraisal usually comes in at the offer amount because the appraisal is ordered by the bank providing the loan. The appraiser knows/has the offer and works backwards to ensure that other people would likely offer the same amount as the current offer/buyer.
Not sure removing parking minimums is all that great an idea if the public transit isn't keeping up though.

I'm also not very familiar with Seattle, but generally when cities just start building nilly willy, traffic become a real problem, which then limits how far from city center you can be while still having an acceptable commute, which drastically raises prices since people are not willing to live further out.
Agreed, I briefly entertained the idea of adding deadlines to the distributed PM-software (https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis) I'm writing but decided to nudge evolution in the right direction instead.
I made a site for playing turn-based board games ( https://new.amecy.com/ ). Sign-up is free; I was eventually going to charge a small fee for extra functionality, but I haven't gotten enough users to make it worthwhile.

One of my main problems is that the site is not too useful unless you sign up. You can see what's going on on the site at https://new.amecy.com/main/observe , but it's clearly not as much fun as playing the games yourself.
>Those glass boxes won’t have a Dan’s Belltown Grocery, a little pizza joint; you’ll miss out on the divey bars, the dress sellers"

Why shouldn't they? There is no reason you can't give the ground floor to bussinesses, and have living units upstairs.
My long-term lover enjoys being slapped, choked, and generally degraded during sex. Doing these actions increases the amount of mating we indulge in. Through this effect, I too find myself conditioned to sexual arousal in these circumstances, noticeably increasing the extent of my tumescence.

There are plenty of other females out there who desire similar treatment. Perhaps humans are not so different to baboons in this regard?
The article is talking about a situation with a clear power imbalance. The concept of 'at work' is much broader than this. Does 'at work' mean 'in the same office'? 'in the same department'? 'in the same building'? 'in the same role'? Should a janitor and a gardener be verboten from dating? A backend developer and a legal eagle? A graphic designer and a receptionist? I hope you don't live in a town where there's just one big employer.

A moment's thought makes is less 'blindingly obvious'.
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Check if https://founderspledge.com/about-us (https://founderspledge.com/faq) can offer free legal/tax advise here. They have a forum as well.
>functions with names like reify or transduce are commonplace.

Neither 'reify' nor 'transduce' are particular to english. They're both Latin.

I'm reminded of Feynman's experiences lecturing in Brazil. He got complimented on his rapid grasp of Portuguese, when in fact he was exploiting the fact that all the big fancy Portuguese technical words were either Latin or Greek. He was perfectly able to talk about Physics, but he was unable to order himself a sandwich.
Tangentially related but I believe Soundcloud actually paid above the average Berlin start up salary. Maybe someone else can confirm this?
...they would have to fold under the Uber brand. Alphabet/Google automatically gives it credibility.
I'm curious what GnuPG would offer beyond what they can already do using S/MIME via CAC?
There are many rule-based expert systems in large scale use today. I know of applications in medicine, supply chain and logistics, and military.
Show HN: Let Others Access Your Jupyter Notebook via a Public Url
What we call computers are merely artifacts that algorithms run on. A misconception that the name Computer Science pushes. But the artifact can be anything that follows the rules of an algorithm.
The big difference between most of America and Japan is that people on this side don't give a shit about each other. So if you want to be able to sleep at night without dealing with constant frat parties and the police telling you to just deal with it, your only option is to live in a low density area, with no shop around, on a small dead end street.

So people get very opinionated when it comes to zoning, and it ends up done sub optimally.

Put some teeth on laws that make it so a single person can make 200 others miserable with no repercussion, and all of a sudden most resistance to proper zoning will go away.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-go...

Pretty much anyone on the internet that gets traction is using outrage to spread their message. Since the emotions that cause viral spread on the internet are only outrage, lust, and awe, some huge whopping fraction of all communications on the internet through social media results in positions so extreme, someone eventually basically advocates destroying the human race or some large swathe of it.

It's like Godwin's Law. It's most certainly related to that, come to think of it.

Douglas Adams was a prophet! http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6458-meanwhile-the-poor-babe...
The housing is not limited to employees, nor are employees limited to this housing.

Problem is, that area is enveloped by bumper-to-bumper traffic on both the U.S. 101 side and the CA 84 (Dumbarton Bridge approach) side. And CA 84 to the west just dumps into U.S. 101 anyway.
There something similar to Hackernews for designers: https://www.designernews.co/
This. I have owned a Crumpler DRY RED NO 5 for ages, highly recommend. Great laptop compartment (super padded), and heaps of other compartments to store things. I use everyday (laptop, lunch etc), but also use as my primary travel bag.
Easy INLINE testing with Tape
The cloud-to-butt browser plugin once again delivers.
They need to spin up marketing in each locality, which is both costly and requires nuance with local colloquialisms and existing market forces (e.g., knowing what ITP and OTP mean in Atlanta, or the huge taxi market in NYC). It's probably the hardest part to scale.

They also need local support infrastructure. Lyft actually does an in-person interview with every driver, which requires a human being there. They have at least re-used resources by promoting certain drivers to a higher level that enables them to run these interviews. But bootstrapping that infrastructure requires some effort.

Between the costs, the marketing efforts, and the support infra, it's not as easy as just flipping a switch.
>"Putting up this data together is very disturbing and to be honest somewhat desperate in my eyes. Cannot these guys find jobs themselves, they must be sold in a bundle, or what is the idea behind?"

I think this a rather insensitive view. How is this fundamentally different than changing a your LinkedIn status or putting your resume up on a job board? If anything it might just be more efficient.
You've seen the rate of A (improper ways) given B (success), but that doesn't tell us about the rate of B given A.
I'm assuming this is a reference to key escrow, which they do indeed have already (Audit purposes + ability to make sure older e-mails can be decrypted upon key rotation).
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Amazing job, man. You should be proud.
I share the author's frustration with wikipedia sometimes - people usually go to wikipedia for a distilled, comprehensible description of the subject matter. What he quoted was certainly not comprehensible, even to someone well-educated in CS foundations.
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Fluent Python is a great book. I found Luciano Ramalho's writing style very easy to follow and his knowledge of Python is extensive.

Looks like Effective Python should be next on my reading list!
Where are all the Nintendo Switch game ports?
This is a weak metaphor, but a digital monitor can reproduce a fine work of art, but synthesizing (or modelling) the look and behavior of real oil paints digitally is a challenge.

Likewise, getting the algorithms just right and in the right orders and quantities to replicate everything analog modular synthesizers can do is very tricky, though theoretically possible.
Snake oil has always been popular and profitable. All you need is a good story, some people to say it helped them when nothing else did, and a supply of anything at all to sell to cure what may or may not even ail you.
What Is Ethereum?
Well, there's obviously that but since we built this on your FB graph, you'd be delivering stuff from either friends or friends of friends at worst. I feel Walmart is doing this and worse by asking neighbors to deliver your stuff.

In fact, I often carry stuff for my compatriot coworkers and friends to/from the home country. This was just a more regularized and systematized version of that.

All said and done, you're right - even my cofounder and I felt a little uncomfortable being mules for others even if the item being sent was totally innocent.

The one and only delivery we made successfully was from Toronto to London via New York for the then CIO of British Telecom. He loved the idea so much that he covered it here http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009/12/02/hauling-bits-around... on his blog.
I agree with you! That's why you can't automate a valuation, unless you can magically poll through digital means potential buyers in a market on demand. You don't know what the property is worth until it's on the market and you have bona fide offers in hand.
Very interesting concept. Excellent job. As others mentioned, it can be extended in to other attractive domains than code visualization. Developer tools don't tend to be as financially rewarding.

Reminded me of a conversation with my friend over a year ago about using VR for data visualization. His son had sold a VR startup, another of his friend was working on DNA/RNA visualization with VR, and he was exploring dashboard data visualization with VR.
As a developer, I would love to have something like this. If you can make the visualization easily traversable using simple text queries, that would make it even more useful. Heck, there is value in simply being able to query your runtime data structures anytime. So monitored data structure is in itself a very cool idea.

I highly recommend coming up with a small enough use case to ship sooner so that you can build something that users want and pay for. Also, if you can document the client/server API, other devs will write monitored data structures for you.
The thing is, as new luxury housing is built, existing housing becomes cheaper. Eventually the older developments become "affordable" because all the wealthy buyers want the trendy new places. There are some exceptions e.g. gentrification but that tends to happen only in areas with good location, and architecturally interesting but run-down structures. Most developments are not that. They just get cheaper as they get older.
The problem is that we rely on phone companies way too much. You wouldn't trust some random person in a foreign country with a million dollars, right? Yet the phone companies are trusting those same people and are giving them enough access to their infrastructure to do millions of dollars in damage if they wanted. And of course if you treat your employees like crap you'll get some people breaking protocol and the fun starts.

Until phone companies get their stuff together and start acting responsibly (which will never happen, because the current situation is still profitable for them), we need to stop trusting them and assume every single bit of data sent over their networks is compromised and readable by anyone. So don't rely on phone numbers, and if you must, get one from a reputable VoIP provider (Google Voice?) and use that instead.

And as if this wasn't bad enough, there are inherent vulnerabilities in the protocols used to do roaming between carriers. When you're connected to the SS7 network you can say to any carrier "hey this SIM is now roaming on my network so just send me all of their calls and texts" and the attacked network will happily comply, sometimes despite the fact that the victim's phone is still connected to the attacked network's towers.
AHS - Amazon Housing Services (like AWS).

Multi-tenancy included :)

If ol' Jeff picks up the idea, he should give me and parent commenter a cut.
He complains that DynamoDB doesn't work for him, then says you should instead use Google BigTable. But he doesn't offer evidence why you should use BigTable. And just says that it works for him.

I don't buy it. I've used BigTable in the past and found it to be infuriating. Now, because it works for him, I'm supposed to believe that BigTable is right for me?
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I've never taken a CS class.
Our entire culture has become about self, and individualism. We do not have the community, historical or racial binds that much of the rest of the world do, and the culture does not propagate the idea of looking out for each other, only "your own" be that your immediate family or subgroup. The technology we develop and trumpet is a bit of an application of Conway's Law.
Impressive! Seems like you can't just use PDFBox out of the box (no pun intended) and need to write some custom code specific to the PDF itself per the chart-parser commits[1]

[1] https://github.com/robinhowlett/chart-parser/tree/master/src...
Indeed. Nationalism, playing the man instead of the ball, blindness to hypocrisy because "the other side does it", whataboutery, and all round aversion to principles and reasoning. It long predates social media, but social media makes it worse, and the dilution of a basic consensus source of truth into fragmented tribe-truths - I don't know where it leads but it's not a good place. Soon, whatever deluded tribe gets their hands on the rudder will drive the ship of state until it hits the rocks of reality.
I'm aware of that. This seems like the sort of thing where an exemption should be a no-brainer, and I'm fairly shocked there hasn't been a law allowing jammers in prisons yet.
I am pretty sure all ex-soundclouders are going to be super happy when low-ball offers start coming to them. They should consider their next job a temporary one and immediately start searching for another, better one...

EDIT: for downvoters, you probably never worked for Berlin startups, right?