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Buzzfeed should also open restaurants and or at least license “Tasty,” to a restaurant juggernaut company so they can create Tasty restaurants.

It could be the first social media menu driven restaurant where the most liked Tasty videos/dishes establish the menu.

I mean I don't cook, but constantly salivate over their videos.
this isn't strictly true - there's a new generation of desktop apps which are native Qt and looking really nice, e.g. https://github.com/mujx/nheko. In terms of the Android app; we're working on it as fast as we can (but it's a one man team atm).
> to Carl Sagan intoning that “we are made of star stuff”

I like how Carl Sagan’s most famous quote is him just dumbing down the lyrics of a Joni Mitchell song so that his audience could understand it.
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Geography definitely impacts it.

There is substantially cheaper housing in the East Bay, compared to SF/Peninsula. However there's no good way to get from the East Bay to where the jobs are: you are limited by one of three bridges, all of which have terrible traffic.

Imagine if we filled up the entire SF Bay with concrete, and demolished all the mountains surrounding the Bay Area. I'll bet you would see improved traffic and more even prices between East/West bay.
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I think the idea of "external wealth" is interesting. But how are banks culprits here? Are they forcing you to borrow money? Should they charge no interest so your business doesn't need to grow? Also, I don't follow. You need revenue to pay the interest (and principle), not constant growth.
Getting a non authoritarian regine in place would be progress in almost every way. The Monroe Doctrine precedes 1904. It's interesting that the Venezuelans have been in favor of it at times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_of_1895
Flying into transparent glass under their own power isn't something that kills an insect, so there won't be any selection mechanism at work.

One of the other things to consider is the windshield/windscreen phenomenon[0]:

> If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen...
> I used to have to wash my car all the time. It was always covered with insects.

I suppose there might be a selection mechanism at play there. Perhaps some insects have learned to avoid flying over comparably warmer swaths of pavement?

I still think the news here is pretty frightening.

[0] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...
Yes, but I'm pretty sure we're discussing outbound selling here though.
there is no such thing as a "college professor license"

Our accreditating agency insists that that faculty members have got a degree (actually 18 credit hours at graduate level) in the subject they teach. If you are a foreigner it's a pain in the arse, because you need to produce an equivalency evaluation, even more so when your degree wasn't modular.

It causes complications when you teach an allied subject (say your degree certificate says you are a physicist and teach physical chemistry in the chemistry department) but it's easy to see why the accreditator insists: there was a time when there were too many unqualified people teaching.

The real trouble occurs when the institution mistakes certification for qualification, but that's a different story.
Here's a version not behind the Medium paywall: https://www.fastcompany.com/40454254/dont-be-scared-about-th...
DNSSEC is secure. The root is well protected.

It's not trying to solve the problem of privacy, only authentication.
Selecting text with shift and arrows, moving across words with the control key and arrow keys, using home and end keys, using CTRL F and CTRL G, all those are already plenty enough for me.

I honestly don't understand why people use VIM or Emacs. I'm much more productive just with notepad.

Most editors can fold code block, use syntax highlight to make code so much more readable (if you take time to choose the right colors), highlight braces, autocomplete (even sublime text can do a weak autocomplete which is already quite handy).

To be honest, when you learn to type, using the shift, control, home and end keys should be the second thing you learn. Forget about vim and emacs, those were for times when people were coding over SSH. Use Nano if you're in a terminal. Also most of what coders do is read code, not write it.
Ignoring the whole "speed-of-light delays make galaxy-brains impossible" thing, here's a different argument I'm fond of:

A conscious mind has an at-least-somewhat-coherent preference function, yes? (Under modern predictive-processing models of the brain, the experience of being a mind is the experience of focusing on things that allow you to make reward-biased predictions, to further drive embodied processes like movement to "unify" those biased predictions with the environment—i.e. to seek the reward state. So you need a preference function to focus, and thereby to have a train of thought.)

So, the Earth might be conscious. Despite seeing ourselves as different from e.g. spiders, or algae, or bacteria, every preference-function of Earth-based life is actually rather close-together in possible-preference-function-space. You could say that the Earth—i.e. everything on Earth that thinks—"wants" to spread carbon-based life through mitosis and meiosis. If the Earth was a starship, this would be its mission.

The universe, on the other hand? Maybe if we're the only life in it. Otherwise, there's probably a https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer somewhere with a very different idea of what the universe "wants", that can't really be coherently combined with our own.

If such a universe had a brain, it would necessarily be one with split-brain syndrome; it wouldn't be able to both "be" Earth-based life and "be" a paperclip-maximizer at the same time, and still have consciousness in the sense we define it. So, not "one" consciousness, no.
I think Perl fell victim to the inner-platform effect somewhere along the way. Larry Wall doesn't want to design a language anymore, he wants to create the ultimate platform for creating languages.

The article points out that Perl can read and execute COBOL if it's configured properly, which is neat, but ... what's the point of saying "this is written in Perl" is it's actually written in COBOL and running on the Perl interpreter? This reminds me a little bit of the JVM. There are dozens of languages that can be converted to JVM bytecode, but only one of them is Java.

Anyway, Perl's endless configurability is a mark against it, in my opinion. When I read Java or C++ or whatever, I have to wrap my head around what the developer intends to do, but the syntax is always the same. With Perl, you not only have to figure out what the developer intended, but what the developer told Perl the syntax is supposed to mean in this particular scenario. That's a big part of why Perl is considered a "write-only" language.

Also, I think we already have a hundred year language: Javascript. It's shitty, but it's good enough, it's forgiving, until it rises up to smite you, and it's ubiquitous. I don't think we'll ever really kill it off.
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A big reason for that is those communities are ultra nimby. If you want to buy land, it needs to be a large plot. This makes it inaccessible cost wise to most people even if they want to be pioneering.
I wonder how accurate it is at detecting exercise. Could I put it on an oscillating fan for an hour a day and have it register success? And would my daily commute - which includes about 20 minutes of walking, some of it up and down stairs - also qualify?
Because that theory allows the person promoting it to cling to an assertion that markets are perfect and never produce a bad result, and anything bad that does happen must be the fault of a government which got in the way of the perfection of the market.
I'm outside of Missoula. There are a few trans people on the reddit and I've heard adds for clinics offering care on the radio.

Generally Montanas seem to have a "you mind my business and I'll mind mine" attitude. So while there is a large right wing component they seem to be mobilized more by gun rights and logging/mining jobs then being anti gay/trans.

Our rural county did stop taking federal money for the women's health clinic as a tea party grand stand which is unfortunate.
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People on HN are quick to offer criticism for karma, but slow in thinking about what function they aim to serve in offering it.
Ah, this is awesome! So far I had to rely on Lucene++, and it could get complicated at times. Using go is something I had been wishing for.
For local redundancy, use a RAID 1 or RAID 5 setup, either in one of your home systems, or you can buy a simple NAS solution like a Drobo, and set it up for mirroring to multiple drives. The NAS unit ($350-500) + 3-4 4TB HDD's (~$120/each), or $700-1000 which will last years.

To do offsite, in case of fire, you can clone backups onto another harddrive or every few weeks or months onto blurays and store them at a relatives, safety deposit box, or somewhere else you consider safe and accessible. Or you are willing, for offsite matters, go a cloud provided like Google, Box, DropBox, which will charge you $10-20/mo for a TB of storage on their servers, you can use that.

I personally, don't use much offsite storage, for most of my data. I make occasional Blu-Ray or thumbdrive clones of important files and keep them in my bedroom, and accessible if I have to run. And while traveling I'll bring a set of thumbdrives with me.
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The ability of external powers is a point I bring up when people go on about Venezuela being a failed socialist state.

With the stroke of their pens, other nations have limited what Venezuela can achieve on its own, and are forced to play the game as usual.

How anyone can say it a symbol of failed socialism states when you're being squeezed by international super powers into a corner with no real access, I have no idea.

Blind zealotry of their home land, IMO. I have zero faith or respect for humanity at this stage.
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You can pretty much use any keyboard you want with USB. I used to use my tablet with one of those usb thinkpad keyboards - thin and easy to carry around.

For my phone - I looked at some folding Bluetooth keyboards on aliexpress which /look/ nice but at ~$30 it's a little steep for something that might be crap and end up never used/trashed. Maybe on Nov 11th i'll bite the bullet if there is a good sale.

Just search "folding keyboard" on ali.
Swagger is typically used to auto-generate nice and interactive API docs automatically, not really meant to be written by hand.
Since we seem at the moment to be unable to actually get to the link, I can't ask how accessible it might be. IOW, can an idiot like me begin to make any sense of it? For now, I'll default to "no".

In the mean time, while we wait for the link to get mirrored or beefed up, I'd like to note that I'm impressed that a guy who was given two years to live in 1963 is still going. Probably luck more than anything, but the odds are good that Hawking has outlived the doctor(s) that diagnosed him.
Very cool idea! Thank you.
If you really cared about the author's credentials, then why didn't you even bother to do the most basic of Google searches before coming here to complain about not knowing immediately who the author was? I mean you didn't even get the author's gender right. What exactly are you contributing to the conversation here?
I like growth. I want to be wealthier or be able to work less (which is really just an aspect of being wealthier). I want everybody else to be wealthier too. I want my children to be better off than I am.

The problem is growth without care for the consequences. Making some people wealthier at the expense of killing the planet is a bad plan.

But I think that it goes too far the other way to turn around and say that growth itself is the problem and should be eliminated. We should strive for sustainable growth, not stasis.

The story of the African tribe with external wealth is nice, but doesn't seem like a good goal. What happens when some change in the climate (which can happen even without human intervention) wipes out a plant they rely on, or a long drought shrinks their food supply by half for a couple of years? Heck, what happens when somebody gets cancer, or cataracts, or an abscessed tooth?
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I try swaggerbuckle nuget c#. It was easy to consume from ios swift. Then i try on android. Not easy. Then try again on react native js, also not easy. My suggestion is try one or two simple API.
Yeah, I think that's true for a lot of people. The other aspect of this is that your enjoyment/appreciation of a book can greatly depend on what's going on in your life at the moment.

So, it's not just if a book is good or not; it's also if it finds you at the right time. I don't just mean maturity; I also mean what big ideas are swirling around your head at the time.

For example, I read One Hundred Years of Solitude in HS and hated it. I read it again several years later, having mostly forgotten it, and I loved it, thought it was a masterpiece. I recently reread it, several years passing and having mostly forgotten it again, and I couldn't finish it, just didn't resonate the same way and moved too slowly to keep my attention.

If you try reading a classic and are still hating it after 50 pages or so, I recommend just putting down and trying again later in life. Of course, that doesn't work so well for required reading when a teacher wants everyone in the class to discuss the same book.
I'm in suburban DC (Reston/Dulles area). $200k gets you a 1-bedroom condo in an older building. $400-$500 buys a nice older town-home. It'll be smaller (1500sqft with small bedrooms). For a small single-family, $500+. For a modern single-family home, you'll need $700k or more.

If you want to live inside the Beltway, add 20%-50% to those figures, depending on neighborhood.

All those will be in livable, reasonably safe neighborhoods with decent public schools. I'm sure there are options that cost less if you look hard enough.

FWIW, I chose "nice, older town-home" for a bit under $500k. That's on two mid-career, white-collar salaries. We have enough left over to max our 401ks, take vacations, etc. The loss of one income wouldn't drive us to homelessness, but it would hurt. I walk to work, bike to grocery store, and my spouse has a 7 mile commute (it's also bike-able, which she does occasionally).
Proton has a free tier, if that helps make it more clear. Though I'm not sure that free vs. paid is such a distinguishing characteristic that makes it impossible to compare.

If I give you some blueberries and you buy some from the store, you're still able to compare and contrast the two and the paid blueberries may actually be inferior to the free berries.
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You are forgetting interest deduction & property tax deduction.

so 900k mortgage at 4.1% interest is ~3k of interest and 1.2k of principal for first month.

Now you have 1k/month of property tax, 0 HOA (i was not talking about a condo), and 180$/month of insurance. I've been quoted 80-10-10 which have 0 PMI fees.

Let's be safe and assume that you're taxed at 30% at your highest level. Its likely you're being taxed at 40% though.

Now doing some math....

3k*0.7 + 1.2k + 1k+0.7+.180k = 4180$/month. Obviously there's maintenance and other costs but that's how much its actually costing you.
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Not really my use case as I read PDF papers on an iPad Pro 12.9 inch, which is just fine, but very neat work!

I tried it on this one: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1702.03277/

Some commands don't work (\textsl, \rotatebox, ...) and the thank you footnote is incorporated into the title, but otherwise very readable!
I see consciousness as a way to describe the reinforcement learning process for an agent in an environment. Thus I try to see if a universe consciousness would have the characteristics of an RL agent.

What would such a conscious universe be conscious of? Would it need to feed, mate, learn and defend itself? If there is no utility, no purpose, then why would it be conscious?

At least in biological life, there is an internal purpose - that is - to live and self reproduce. The consciousness of the universe would not have such needs, and with their loss, it would lose all that evolution achieved.
By some definitions, proving this would objectively prove God exists.
I don’t disagree with you. I wonder at which point is it unethical to build more office space if the Bay Area has determined it prefers peace and quiet. Jobs can then relocate to places that want growth.
"SFO is one of the worst airports to arrive from abroad"

Explain?
And what exactly is wrong with NIMBY-ism? Not everyone likes living in dense cities. I don't see anything wrong with groups of people who prefer to live in less dense development working together to create less dense places to live.

The problem is that there are (as I said) more people who prefer to live in less dense development than there is space to accommodate them all. At that point, the market takes over and decides who gets to have a back yard and who has to settle for the fifth floor walkup. Given the problem statement, isn't that the best possible outcome?
You still can't move information faster than light.
Oh, Penrose. He comes up with weird theories of consciousness every once in a while. His basic argument is that for some reason consciousness in a deterministic universe runs into undecidability, and therefor consciousness must require some quantum phenomenon to work.

It's a big jump from "some stars emit jets that seem to move them in a non-random direction" to "consciousness".
To be fair whether your house is worth $100k or $10MM doesn't mean much unless you sell it, especially in SF where your taxes don't change with the increased value. Yes, you can spend more of your earned income if you plan on leaving as soon as you retire. But it doesn't mean $60k is easy to live on.
Refresh the thread. They are working on something they call Bridge. They have an employee here, in the thread, posting links and answering questions.
Its never a good idea if your business model relies on the generosity of someone else's platform.
If it's possible for the Earth to have "one" consciousness while containing both the Cheetah and the Gazelle, the universe can reconcile us and a paperclip maximizer.
We’ve found that the best way to avoid a whole pile of management tools is to centralize your data, both logs and metrics. Tools like Loggly do this well. You can centralize all your logs so that everyone can see across the whole stack, then add monitoring on top so you get a single source of truth. It saves DevOps from having to switch back and forth all the time - makes a big difference to how much we can get done.
I am sure you are aware of the paradoxical article "are stories that have a question mark in their title always wrong?"
One or two months from launch. Basically just left it there without thinking much of it and then started to get customers all of a sudden. Now doing 7 digits revenue.
compact != compress

The easily confused names don't help with the obscurity.
> “You’re already in shaky territory from reporting the designer.”

Chilling...and sadly common.
Then build a bigger planet.
For you maybe. Probably not for Elon Musk.
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SOAP is a shitty implementation of a perfectly good idea.

GRPC, for example, is a vast improvement over JSON+REST.

YMMV with Swagger, as I've never tried it.
You make good points. The only highway expansion I see is for Mopac though, right? After that disastrous experience (which is finally nearing completion), I think people have become a lot more against expanding the highways any more.

Austin does unfortunately have a terrible record when it comes to public transit. The rail system is a joke. Although, I am hoping that future infrastructure projects will focus more on creating a viable train/rail/subway system from suburbs to dt/domain. The density of dt is skyrocketing with recent developments, and I can only hope that it will spur a rethinking of transportation policy.

As for the cost of housing... unfortunately, all the outsiders coming in are flooding the market and driving prices ridiculously high. I don't really see an end to the boom... which is why I too have stayed away from considering purchasing a house for the time being.
unless maybe you are super intlligent and found new physics
A lot of the oversaturation problem can be attributed to bad displays. Think about early Instagram. Everyone used terrible super saturated filters on their photos because the early smart phone screens were so bad, and got washed out so easily in the sunlight. By overcompensating with filters you got a photo that looked good on a bad screen, even in sunny conditions.

The same was true of early games. Gamers love the bright colors of World of Warcraft for instance because displays were bad, and it was easier to watch bright colors for hours on end while gaming. Even today my modern TV looks pretty bad in the sunlight. As much as I love the muted colors of Breath of the Wild I have to admit that without closing my curtains its really hard to tell what's going on if a sunbeam is hitting the TV.

I think as gamer's screens get better we will start to see a transition away from exaggerated brightness and a trend toward more realism, just like Instagram has transitioned largely from a platform that overcompensated for bad smartphone screens to a #nofilter style.
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The funny thing is these companies talk about digital connectivity moving to the cloud, editing files in the cloud, video conferencing in the cloud, make social networks in the cloud, buy things online without leaving your house, watch movies online etc. Everything is online, pretty, efficient, and convenient.

Then they turn right around and tell all their employees to move to the area, then to get in their cars, buses, trains and start commuting to a physical location, in one of the busiest, most expensive city every single day. So that these workers can then sit on chairs in a building and do probably the easiest thing to do with a remote connection -- write code, documents, email, monitor servers.
Yes, Castro Valley, Hayward Hills, etc. Selfishly speaking, the issue with moving further out means longer commute + plus distance from the kids school, etc. At that point, I might as well move out of state.
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I rarely play games but the most recent game I played was Alien: Isolation. It had been quite a while since I played a game before that so I was surprised to see a lot of these things on by default. Specifically, chromatic aberration. Why the hell would anyone add in a setting for that? I get that they were going for the Super8/VHS type of look but it's just really distracting. I forgot what the other settings were but I turned off a lot of those junk visual effects and then things looked beautiful.
> Ponzi scheme

nitpick: Ponzi scheme = fraud, giving people fake investment accounts, like Bernie Madoff's operation.

It's more akin to a pyramid scheme, greater fool theory, speculative bubble, etc.