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Origin (http://www.originprotocol.com) is a blockchain project focused on building the sharing economy without intermediaries. We're creating protocols to allow buyers and sellers of fractional usage assets and services (think Airbnb, Getaround, Fiverr, Taskrabbit) to transact without paying middlemen 20-30%.

We're experienced founders who have built and sold multiple businesses in the past. Origin is the most ambitious idea we've tackled to date (hopefully on the right side of crazy).
We currently have a working MVP built on Ethereum and IPFS. We're looking for all sorts of people to join our team, whether you code in react, python or solidity. We're a distributed team and open to remote.

Ping us at founders@originprotocol.com if you're interested.
Since they are doing dedicated hardware anyways, I'd like to see it compared to custom 6-bit digital circuit designed for the same calculations; I expect the power consumption would be much closer to the analog computer.
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Absolutely. It's why building one is on my todo list.

Although it could be attached to a weather balloon and still be useful for scientific testing.
I have paid for a LWN subscription for several years now for exactly that reason. The standard rate is $7/month, but you can also subscribe as a Starving Hacker for half price. LWN is a great source of Linux-related news and well-deserves your support.

On the topic of Linux Journal, I can remember many years ago when I bought a subscription of 100 issues for $100.
I'm always surprised by how thoroughly uninterested the Haskell and Rust communities are in learning from the Ada/High Integrity Software community.

Here you have people who are actually doing what you purport to be interested in (creating defect-free code) who have a great deal of experience and a great many insights from actually putting their code into avionics bays knowing that thousands of lives are depending upon it.

But they're not valley programmers. They skew older. Heck most of them don't even live in California. And they don't "get" what's so amazing about category theory as a programming paradigm so obviously they're morons. Plus they seem to be process-obsessed and that process ain't agile.

Maybe eventually the valley bros will rediscover most of what the Ada programmers already know.
Visby | Software Engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Visby is building a new imaging standard for natively 'holographic' displays, like VR, AR, and multi-perspective screens.

Our tech is based on the concept of 'light fields,' the set of all light rays passing through a space. By capturing or representing all the light rays, you can determine what a user would have seen from any possible perspective. This is superior to traditional, 3D model-based imaging, because it doesn't look like a video game. Our approach is more photographic than other approaches, and leads to realistic images. While most of the work is software, we do have a huge pile of cameras and work closely with the film industry.

The problem space is very complex, involving the latest math and algorithms, and combining ideas from a huge, dizzying number of technical fields. So you don't need to be an expert in everything to apply, just have a passion for hard problems, be willing to work on a team, and be excited to learn (and teach). We have three open positions, but we will try to build a role for the right candidate.

Algorithms Engineer, Light Field Imaging: https://jobs.lever.co/visby/5f861491-fe0f-4003-99ab-01f9456a...

Research Engineer, Light Field Imaging: https://jobs.lever.co/visby/5ae6b083-ffec-4b1e-89db-8d81342b...

Software Engineer, Virtual Reality: https://jobs.lever.co/visby/662abcfa-6d30-4844-951a-75f1796e...
Yesterday's Kate Steinle article got flagged, but this article on Martin Shkreli's Wu Tang record did not. Wow.
> shouldn't you just charge whatever you think something (a product, your time) is worth?

If you’re paying yourself, then sure, go ahead. But if you want someone else to pay you, then it should be based on what they think it’s worth. Why should they care what you think it’s worth?
Dropbox | Solutions Architect (Pre-sales) | Sydney, Australia | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary market rate & Equity

We're looking for a Solutions Architect to join our team in Australia. This is a pre-sales role and you'll be working with sales reps as well as lots of customers where you'll be responsible for technology and solutioning in the sales phase; vision, roadmap presentations, security workshops, API details, deployment planning etc. Lots of fun, growth and variety.

If you like technology (deep+contemporary), SaaS, selling and Dropbox then consider joining a successful team of fun and capable people working for one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the world and (IMHO) one of the most exciting tech companies around today!

Email me at danieliversen (at) (company name) .com (esp. if you want a chat or have questions) OR apply directly here:

https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/928761

Good luck with your personal journey in whichever direction!
More people rent in the bay area than you might think:

* San Francisco: 65% renters

* Oakland: 60.2% renters

* Berkeley: 57.3% renters

* San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area: 43.7% renters
No flight of fancy: Law firm exports Houston's cost advantages to Silicon Valley
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How can something be a crime if there are no victims?
> millions of underutilized acreage in the continental US?

It's that land in Bay Area and SF which is underutilized. Because high density makes sense. Yes, I enjoy living in NYC.

> devalue someone else's home

A house is not money. It does not have a guaranteed value. It's property, like stock. If one's shares go down because of e.g. competition, people don't see it as an unjust assault.
"Your idea is not valuable" ... no, maybe not some top level idea like "Social media, but more private." But, execution is just a bunch of smaller ideas.
Prior links of mine on general-purpose analog, analog accelerators, and/or neural analog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11731697

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/friday_squid_...
Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
lol, don't hold your breath.
^^ So many companies are managed by people that seem to absolutely require you to be butt-in-seat or else they assume you will turn into an island or not get any work done, despite all evidence to the contrary.

About a year ago I decided I was going to stop moving around the country chasing opportunities and move to a place I actually wanted to live, assuming I'd be able to get reasonable remote work. My salary fell from $180K to $60K because it was impossible to find suitable remote work after 6 months of looking and I got stuck at a local small-time outfit. Hell just take a look at the "Who's Hiring" post on the homepage, even in the tech space remote work is basically non-existent.
Yeah, nice vista...
To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no machine has gone before.
Thanks for the reference on doctests.

I encourage the collocation of tests with procedures in every language, but I personally doubt the efficacy of pound defines.

Assert macros are great, but how can a programmer guarantee that they are ever even invoked?

"mo' tests mo' problems" -Sean 'puff daddy" Combs.
Most of the ones from the 90's are the ones I was referring to as the standard fare (recommended every, single, time: TAOCP, SICP, intro to alg, js good parts, etc), and their covers are a hell of a lot better than the newer books..
Things you can’t do you in Rust: fungible functions
I believe in their acquisition of Cruise Automation, they've mostly left it independent and still headquartered in Silicone Valley.
The 3D map indicates that places with the highest density of people pay enough for utilities to make it worthwhile to provide and maintain and that infrastructure for far flung folks is a fiscal mistake that will probably cause most cities of signficant size in the USA to fail to maintain their infrastructure or go bankrupt trying.
> The scandals are for the company , the employees , and the gov to figure out.

Not too big on the responsibility of ethical consumption, huh?
He’s an absolutely loathsome creature, up to and including the point where he put out a bounty for Hillary Clinton’s hair. (It’s just a joke, guys! C’mon! Just bros bein’ bros!)

But that’s the problem. You can’t really have rule of law and increase someone’s punishment because, well, they’re an asshole. The amount of legally-defined harm he caused is trivial. You can argue they’re putting every possible punishment they can on top because he was a dick who raised the price of drugs and is seemingly 4Chan incarnate.

(But oh man is that little pharma bro manlet so punchable. So, so punchable.)
>> I have probably spent thousands of hours of my life using it. And yet I have absolutely nothing tangible to show for this.

It seems we should have at least as much to show as other forms of group comms tools.

Re urgency : same applies. a group should set standards for urgency based on various human and project needs. Point is these should be set my people not the tool.
Open Collective | https://opencollective.com | New York City | ONSITE

Open Collective allows communities (like Open Source projects, meetups, etc) to raise and spend money transparently. You can charge membership fees, get donations from individuals or companies and spend it by filing expenses. The entire financial ledger is publicly viewable to ensure transparency. Some examples: https://opencollective.com/webpack, https://opencollective.com/babel, and many more https://opencollective.com/opensource.

We are a founding team of 3 (two engineers) and are looking to hire our first full-time engineer (https://medium.com/open-collective/open-collective-is-hiring...).

Send me a note at aseem@opencollective.com with your GitHub, LinkedIn, resume, etc.
Yes, traditionally many renters that count themselves as progressives in SF has fought for restricting housing supply.

Restricting housing supply has priced out a previously thriving african american and hispanic community, as well as most working class families.

In Norway, where I come from, this would not be considered a progressive opinion at all. Quite to the contrary it would be considered an extremely conservative opinion, and possibly also classist.
Why would people be entitled to reparations because of lack of access to credit? Easy access to credit is not a fundamental human right. Also the lenders are often private businesses, so wouldn't they be liable.
There are two different concepts, internet neutrality, and network neutrality.

Network neutrality is "treat bits agnosticly"

Internet neutrality is "treat opinions agnosticly"

Which one "net" neutrality refers to is anyone's guess.
You don't use it in individual transactions.

It's for wholesale drug operations. Usually drugs go at one time, money comes back another time. Only now instead of cash you could just use a crypto, but figuring out how to liquidate enough of it would be difficult.
Im just arguing that its not good to have code samples slapped onto the front page of every language, and particularly that this behavior shouldn't be "expected and glorified"; not that samples shouldn't be readily and easily available (they generally should be! Its part of the summary of the language)
Think schedules, skills and resources against relocation patterns and not just proportions abstracted from schedules. Think of the housing industry as a CPU. Think of babies as data coming across buses and switches. Never forget mortgage deductions were never states of "American dream" grace but subsidized and still subsidize wealthier purchasers. Tons of Americans purchased and are still purchasing depreciating "Levittown" type assets all over the USA. We are not just cutting ribbons for bad purchases. All the policy details matter where and when they matter. Rentals are just as important as purchases. Many Americans move quite frequently and do not enjoy corporation relocation bonuses.
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This was false. The plant was shut down for an extra two weeks to control Sonic supply. There's been more demand than inventory almost everywhere except California. They've basically sold everything they've made. LG Chem was contracted for 30k batteries and that's about what they will have sold by Jan or Feb or so at the current rate.
This response doesn't float right with me. Are PHP fpm configs horribly wrong by default? Do you not put a service like nginx/haproxy/apache/gunicorn/caddy in front of Ruby/python for a serious production deploy? Do you legitimately expect to deploy ruby/python without spending a minimum of an hour going over configs and assuming everything is right for your application by default while also assuming the opposite for PHP? I read the PHP configs for fun micro optimizations. It takes less than 10 minutes to find your framework's best practice list and apply them.
That's how public student loan applications in Ontario work. They send you a document with a unique barcode, you go to the post office and prove your identity there. They scan the document and that sends a message to the loan centre that this person was positively identified.
There's nothing wrong with making people rich in exchange for money they give you. That's how jobs work. Making someone else rich is something to be proud of and aspire to. Not as cool as making yourself rich, but still good.
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I’m especially gutted to read stuff like this, having been recently diagnosed with a moderate to severe case after not understanding my behavior for over thirty years. Have you ever asked someone with BPD what it’s like to live with themselves? To cry and drink themselves to sleep because they don’t understand why they’re like this? How they can’t fathom why they’re completely and utterly alone when it seems like they’re doing everything right, but going off the deep end every now and then without any earthly idea why? How they’d much rather embrace a bullet to the fucking temple than deal with this godawful sickness and a world full of indifferent people like you for just one more day? Pray tell, have you ever asked someone what it’s like to feel like life itself is a prison from which you can’t escape, trapped with a person you can’t even begin to explain nor relate to?

Didn’t think so.

I get my work done, dude. It’s like no matter how much I try to keep other people happy, nobody gives a shit and assumes I’m like everyone else they’ve ever met who claims to have it, and they’re confidently able to predict who I am based on a label. You sure have the leprosy of BPD figured out; sounds like I should be playing more office politics, since that’s what I’m supposed to do, apparently.

A not-insignificant portion of this thread sucks, is just outright depressing, and suggests to me that there’s little hope for ever successfully loving or communicating with other people. And you know the worst part? I fall in love easily because I want absolutely nothing more than to feel that connection with another human being. Comments like this remind me of the futility that lies therein. I shouldn’t have read the comments, and I knew better when I clicked it, but I did it anyway in the vain hope that I would read something to inspire me to keep pressing forward. How’s that working out, you ask? Makes me relieved I bought a tall bottle of Goose at the store earlier, thank you.

Your other, horrible comment comparing BPD to incontinence makes me want to say something really nasty, emotional, and visceral to you, but I’m strongly resisting because it would just reinforce your fucked up belief structure about people who are genuinely suffering on a level that you can’t even comprehend. Seriously, I’ve clicked Edit and typed some of the meanest things I’ve ever said several times now, but I also know to resist that overwhelming urge for both of our sakes. How’s that for your opinion of people like me? Do I fit your box?

I genuinely hope you find it in yourself to develop empathy for people who aren’t as advantaged and in control of their lives as you. I’m sorry to rebuke you so harshly, but Christ.
He's probably got toxoplasmosis
Wealthy people that can afford luxury units only rents one unit, and if that unit is in a luxury building then they won't compete for the rest of the housing stock.

An old building should have decreasing rent over time if the quality of the landlord does not invest in getting the units up to standard, unlike in the bay area where even moldy out-of-date units are going for about he same as a new luxury building unit.
I can't vouch for their work environment, but, I've been using their product since nearly day 1 and I can attest that it is top-notch.
We are going to find out.
Radiolab did a great summary of this just a couple of months ago: http://www.radiolab.org/story/sun-dont-shine/ You can skip the parts about the time capsule if you want.

tl;dr: it's not clear what defines the edge of the solar system, there's interesting reasons to want to know where it is, and voyager taught us a lot about it.
Sure we will, in my opinion, Forgotten is the biggest weakness we human have.

Just watching those kids quantum stream their lifes in the Andromeda, yet none of them even mentioned the good old Voyager 1.
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https://youtu.be/w-I6XTVZXww
I learned about it through this Numberphile video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

There's also a nice write-up from Terry Tao: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclauri...
This is great! I want to also posit that these principles can be used not only for public libraries, but for the software inside of your applications as well.

Honestly I couldn’t care less about PEP8... frankly my flake tool triggers a build failure more often than an actual code problem. This list, however, should be used like a golden rule for python software development (and all software, regardless of language) – a lot of these principles are universal.
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As long as those stocks are related to productive pursuits, I completely agree. Risk and reward. Stocks that are geared towards only capital growth through monetary inflation will do poorly. As they should.
"Q2: Can use smart alarm clock when leave the phone?
A: Certainly can, or else how to call smart alarm clock? After pair Mi band, set once in the Mi band app, and then switch off the phone, no problem."

I still need a phone to set it though. I'm still using a 64GB iPhone 4S, and I don't plan to buy a new phone just so I can set up another alarm clock. In fact, if I buy another phone, then I can just use that as the secondary alarm! (but it wouldn't be silent)
Well, not that it matters to my argument, but I did go to university, and did well (in the academic sense - much of my time would probably have been better spent drinking and networking rather than getting good grades). Personally I think it was an incredible waste of time. Even though I worked incredibly hard in many diverse subject areas, most of what I learned was taught at such an abstract level as to be completely unusable in any practical sense. Almost all of what I needed I later learned on the job as needed. Of all the things you've listed, why can't you just look them up on the internet or hire a tutor at worst?

As far as "leveling up as a human being", books are free - go sit in a library. Hell, grab a kindle; most of the cool stuff that I learned about the human experience I learned from talking with others, staring at the sky, hiking in mountains, and reading free books that people on the internet recommend. None of this requires taking out the equivalent of a mortgage or listening to someone lecture on it. If you want a lecture, those are free online too!

I just get the sense that university is used as a filter to differentiate yourself from people who are "below you" - not as smart, not as hard working, not as "mature as a human being". But the main barrier to get into a university seems to be connections and money, neither of which I have a huge amount of respect for. Many of the wealthiest and well connected people in the world are huge assholes, and many of the poorest and least connected are incredibly wise and kind (and intelligent and hard working). It feels like a way to separate yourself from the unwashed hoi polloi and put a barrier to entry between yourself and other people who could do your job. In that sense university encourages laziness!

Overall, I just get this sense that university is this bullshit thing we all just agree to participate in because, for those who go they get a monetary benefit, even though everyone knows its just this bullshit thing. That monetary benefit comes from being a class filter, a networking tool for like minded rich people to find other like minded rich people, and probably a few other class effects I don't really understand. I thought when I was younger that as I got older that maybe I would get more jaded and just accept bullshit things. It would certainly make my life easier to do what other people do and not fight against the tide. But if anything I've become more altruistic and romantic, I want the world to be more honest and people to do the right thing.

I don't know. I've probably benefitted from it even though I wished people judged me based on other qualities that are more important.
This seems like a clever ploy to recapture some of the ground that Foursquare is taking, in that Foursquare has the deeper intuition on customer preferences linked to social networking data - you have to use some identifying info to connect to the network, plus there’s the possibility these wireless routers may be scanning for nearby phones/computers. It could lead to the Yelp app advertising based on proximity to restaurants that people in similar demographics liked.
Not sure, but my instinct would be no. If you pay a shopkeeper with a stolen dollar bill, does the shopkeeper have to give it back?
Good move for Yelp. Probably bad news for data privacy advocates.

They could track you from venue to venue, without your even connecting to the wifi. They could see how busy a restaurant is at any time based on number of smart devices with wifi, they could infer demographic data based on device id, etc. etc.

They could probably correlate this with other data sources to 100% identify who you are and target you.

It's good for business owners if they surface this insight to their audience. It's bad for business owners because previously Yelp has been notoriously a bad actor in the space and can't be trusted.

It's good for business owners that want a great interface and offer wifi that might also better the experience for their customers.
Win 10 has its fair share of bugs, tbf. In fact win 10 feels like a Google product that never leaves beta. There will always be glitches and weird stuff. Some things have become very good over several iterations. But there are a ton of new stuff they keep adding and all of those are half baked until the next big release.