skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seattle 8 years. Sadly I have to agree wholeheartedly with this, because I've been unable to find much contrary evidence. The 'Freeze', which is deservedly famous, is very, very real, no matter how many people try to minimize its reality. Go ahead, come here - it's on display every second of every day in every cubic meter of the city. The only people who will make eye contact or speak a word to you are the homeless - I'm unable to decide whether this is because their livelihood depends on it, because they've transcended excessive self-involvement, or both. People are passive-passive, extremely unfriendly. It's like everyone is playing a private success-seeking game in their head, never really showing their cards, but presenting a cultivated image. Yes, of course in 8 years I have met some awesome people here and there (and I'm not saying the rest aren't awesome, but they aren't sharing). Yet there is also a persistent shallowness and aloofness even to a lot of my friendships that I can't seem to crack sometimes. And yes, very segregated. Scavenger hunt: find one black person on the Eastside. It might take you days. No idea what to blame for that, but it's true.

I liked the snowboarding, and I liked working at MS for less than half the time I spent there, but I'm definitely looking into relocating at this point. (For reference, I'm from Boston, where I assert that people generally say what they mean or what's at the front of their mind, instead of what's faultlessly polite or strategically advantageous.)
And then, there's Jurgis Kairys[1] doing things like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWaSgofuD6g at 60.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurgis_Kairys
It would be great if glfw2 were in community.

While I like Arch's philosophy of always being on the cutting edge and making the glfw package be GLFW 3.0, I think it would be good if GLFW 2.x stayed in the official repositories for a while as a separate package. The two packages don't interfere with each other. It's basically the same situation as with SDL 2 and 3.
Do you realize that you didn't refute or deny any of his criticisms?
I agree.

(I'm the original owner that sold the domain.)

I'm sorry for not having won the web for the google search on 'experiment', but I actually believe that this team is going to succeed where I have not.

I believe they are on the right track, and that they can grow into a variety of spaces/tools/utilities/education/information systems etc., especially if, as they have done so far, they "stay true" and focus on the bits that make for high quality investigations.
Nobody who likes Williamsburg or Dumbo gets to have an opinion about cities.
I can understand why the confusion may arise due to both groups wearing fabric-based head garments, but most (though not all) Sikhs are of Indian origin.

Their cultural connection is much stronger to South Asia than to the Arab world. Also, many Sikhs do not not wear turbans, so to you or anyone else, they would just appear to be "Indians".
Sites are starting to go black in memorial of Jim Weirich
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Honestly, it would be great if they had passwords instead of just a maximum 6-digit number (!!!) for auth. It's fucking absurd.
Interactive view of the same photos:
http://blog.blogvio.com/post/77297366370/ukraine-protests
I grew up in Victoria, and lived in Seattle for several months. Seattle was literally half the price and twice the wage in all aspects, you'd be stupid as a new grad not to go to Seattle if you grew up in Vancouver or Victoria.

I also found the people of Seattle pretty much identical to people in Vancouver. If you switched out a few street signs you wouldn't be able to tell much of a difference between the places.
Mozilla shutting down paid contributions to Persona
IOS concept that combines control center and app switching
"I am more interested in water policy once a split occurs. I would imagine some desalination plants would finally be built."

I agree, although there are some desalinization plants already.
Horrible working conditions are not excused by the voluntary nature of employment.
Downvoted for your blanket statements about an entire populace. Calgary might be more racist? Based on?

Most major Canadian cities are close to the US border, for three very important reasons: geography, temperature & economy. Geography: because a good part of the country is covered in Canadian Shield, making it very expensive to excavate land. Temperature: because the nicest temperatures are near the border. Economy: Transit to exporting is cheaper if you're near the border.

Why would Vancouver be around for Seattle? Wouldn't that be the other way around based on population? Also, if we're going to use US exceptionalism as the standard, then you should help explain Detroit vs. Windsor. Because Windsor isn't getting torn down neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
I chose the MS stack because of the stress and nonsense that went with dealing with php devs and oracle db's in the 90's. When .net 1.1 came out I just sat down and bashed my head against it until it was useful.

It's weird, I've had the exact opposite experience than a lot of you. Php, Linux, and Oracle were so effing painful that when it occurred to me that the wankers who kept holding me over a barrel were no smarter than anyone else so I decided to learn to code (properly, not just scripting) I looked at the MS development world where you have a capable stack that solved the kinds of problems that I needed to solve and didn't include the bullshit of php and linux and oracle...constant rev's to patch features, etc. Linux being open source didn't provide me one iota of benefit because when I had a kernel panic because of a driver I was still on the phone with support, not reviewing the errors and submitting a fix back to Linus. (I'm much closer to being able to do that kind of thing these days.)

What gets me is that if you are intelligent and want to learn about the craft and science of programming the languages and platforms don't matter as much as the concepts that they implement. You naturally end up finding ways that other languages or platforms could be useful...but end up deciding most of the time to use a very safe subset of things that you are most comfortable with.

I guess the trick is to make that subset of higher quality over time.
Touche on Ghostly blocking all Heap requests, didn't realize they did that. However, other sites still irk me like the Omniture cases. Is it so hard to confirm functionality before you use it? Plenty a corporate internet blocks lots of these JS libs/API's and if you're not writing fault tolerant code, folks are going to wonder why site X does not work and just use site Y instead.
Yeah. (original domain owner here).

I really struggled on this point, but was coached by someone I trust that legal gymnastics were not in anyone's best interest.

What I really want is for experiment.com to become wildly successful, so that I can take part in some science projects.
>A hick town with skyscrapers as I've often called it.

Something tells me that you've never met "hick".
True. Or they bought the plane 20+ years ago and still own it.

When I go to EAA meetings I'm the youngest by 15-20 years and I'm in my 30s. I don't think I've ever seen a privately owned certified plane that was newer than 25 years old.

It's all around a bad situation for general aviation.
Right, I couldn't agree more. It's a very clever delay system that ensures that the EM waves all arrive at a single point such that they constructively add together.

That means that when you're in the pCell pocket you get excellent reception because of everything adding together, and when you move away it drops off VERY quickly.

It's smart stuff but not impossible to comprehend. I'm surprised that none of the VCs "experts" could figure it out.
As someone who moved to the Bay Area from Vancouver, it definitely was a bit of a shock. In Vancouver you're very used to seeing white people work in low income jobs, and that just doesn't happen a lot here.

Calling the Bay Area congested, incestuous and overpriced compared to Vancouver is a little like the pot calling the kettle black, however. Yes, transit is a million times better in Vancouver. Yes, the cycling infrastructure is at least twice as good as SF and the peninsula. But try driving to or from North Vancouver during rush hour and you will experience some world class congestion.

The recent run-up in housing prices, particularly on the west side of Vancouver, where people have speculated in the housing market has left that part of the city half vacant. It's the same thing you see in London; wealthy foreigners come in, buy a place and use it for only a few weeks/months of the year. It totally wrecks communities.

That said, yeah, I still love Vancouver, but I love working in tech. If you're a software engineer, you really ought to be living in the Bay Area. There's no other place like it.
This is a project I'd definitely be interested in.

I am a webdev by day (Python/Django) but recently started learning x86 assembly at home (after which I can pick off from where I left in C at college).

Some of my colleagues think I'm crazy, but I find I'm learning a lot about how a computer really works (and I'm also beginning to understand why the great old 'real programmers' spent hours upon hours on the damn machine :-))
None of it works particularly well?

That's just not true.
Is that true even if the passengers don't pay more than their fair share of the operating costs?

One instance I can think of are the EAA "young eagle" flights where kids can come to the airport and get a flight with a pilot. Those are definitely advertised, but since they aren't done for profit, my impression was that they are clearly part 91. (I don't know if those flights are completely free, though.)

EDIT: nm, saw the post above about "common purpose" rule.
http://www.neo.com/

http://columbusrb.com/

http://www.fvrb.org
On the other hand, every Democratic president for a long time would have still won their election if CA had gone the other way.
Here’s why it wasn’t crazy for Mark Zuckerberg to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp
Paraguayan TLD Administrator nic.py hacked
The tech industry gets better the further south you go along the west coast

To a point.
This is exactly why I created Package Lab---to make Linux packaging easier for developers and ops folks. Currently in private beta and would love feedback. Please get in touch with me if you're interested (email in profile).

https://packagelab.com/
Did you ever use Razor?
Direct Invoice template editor. Design your invoices with HTML, Liquid and Sass.
I love 312, but then again my tastes run plebe.
> If you are an investor, stop trying to explain price movements on social media companies, using traditional metrics – revenues, operating margins and risk.

This just seems goofy to me. If you're an investor, isn't that exactly what you're supposed to base it on? After all, you're investing dollars into the company (presumably). It seems a dangerous game of chicken, because people don't put their money into a stock just to watch them get more users, they do it to eventually get more money back. To me, that's done in 2 ways: if the company actually makes enough money and gives a dividend, or secondly by selling to a 'greater sucker'. If you ignore "traditional metrics", aren't you betting on the 2nd one?

And even if we do that, FB can really "only" grow their user base by ~5.5 times. Beyond that, you have to look at things like revenues, operating margins and risk, don't you? I understand that when FB was at 10 million people they were growing extremely quickly, so their valuation was probably crazy high, but how much growth can FB really have anymore? Now that they're public, isn't that supposed to be the time when revenues, operating margins and risk actually kick in?

For the record, this is exactly why I don't invest in social media stocks--I don't understand it. It might make sense to someone else, but not to me (yet, anyways).
Dropbox – Updating our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
I concur as another Canadian. There is a subtle racist world view that runs through American society, probably rooted from the higher amount of social economic inequality and history of slavery. Canadians for the most part just don't think like that and it can be a bit surprising to encounter at first.
It doesn't ensure they stay relevant but it's a better strategy than watching your target demographic leave your platform.

It's a $19B investment in trying to keep people on Facebook. $20B if paired with Instagram and $24B if they had acquired SnapChat.

The numbers sound crazy but they're trying to hold on to and grow a market cap that's currently $175B.

Zuck has some steel nuts but it's what got him to the $175B number in the first place.
It's interesting to see how he states that his remote work arrangement would not have been as productive as him moving.
"A Hijacked Life"
A report done by CBS local news (California) with Elder Abuse an Corruption in the probate system.The report uncovers the truths about a court appointed fiduciary...this is now happening to a 12 year old Down Syndome boy's special needs trust by the same court appointed fiduciary. Probate abuse and corruption at its finest.
This is merely a question of fidelity. One can imagine a simulator which produces low-fidelity everything and only increases fidelity gradually in isolated regions as the human observers peer at those regions. And, there is nothing to prevent results being continuously retroactively computed (just in time) as new 'discoveries' are made.
I note that the parent is mainly talking about the people, and you're mainly talking about other things, except to admit that the people are 'a bit' (I would say profoundly) passive. Believe me, I love the scenery and the sushi too, but goddamn this place lonely.
Adding Comments to JSON
well I'd never thought I'd tear up browsing a github page ...
If it were my ass up in the air, I think I would prefer that the electric power to the drive motor(s) be provided by a very reliable Diesel-cycle or external combustion generator and not just a battery pack, at least with our current generation of battery technologies. #2 fuel oil is far more energy-dense than any battery that I can afford.
Free, Open Enea Linux taps Yocto and Linaro code
http://linuxgizmos.com/free-open-enea-linux-taps-yocto-and-linaro-code/
After being forced to use a non Debian distro at new servers at work (SLES) I am so proud of Ubuntu packaging community.
However, CMake sucks in terms of installation paths. Ever tried installing a library into a libdir other than ${prefix}/lib? In the worst case, the developer tries to "fix" this by guessing the architecture and append a magical 64. This works on some distributions but of course not all of them.

I got sick and tired of this situation and wrote a small CMake module [1] that accepts standard configure options to determine the installation path.

[1] http://bloerg.net/2013/10/29/turning-cmake-into-a-good-unix-...
Heart attack.

:(
OP here - I've made quite a few choices but this (as mentioned) was a pivotal one - and yes I wonder if I did the right thing. The MS ecosystem is very insular, so once you go down that road you're "all in" - so the choice wasn't a casual one at all.
I've heard it argued that it's predominantly AAs that use and benefit from SYG.
Offline Garmin Workout Visualization built with d3.js
I appreciate the civil tone, sorry if I flew off the handle.

SF might be great for some, but it's not for me. Unfortunately, SF, Seattle, and Vancouver always top the lists and they're all places I wouldn't dream of living in any time soon. If I'm moving, I don't want to take a pay cut. I wouldn't trade a $50,000/yr job in the midwest for a $100,000/yr job in SF, because I'd actually have less money than I do now.

I'd rather be rich in a swamp than poor in a city. I just really wish there was a list of great cities like Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh, or Kansas City where you don't have to fight traffic for hours a day, you can actually buy a house somewhere close to work, but you can also work for a great company doing something exciting and make a livable wage doing so. As you allude to, most lists of "best mid size cities" point to retirement-age people.
Mint has never worked for my wife. When she's out looking to spend all of our money she doesn't want to be bothered trying to open up mint and get a current snapshot of our finances. She also doesn't care about our 401k or brokerage accounts.

The only thing which has worked is the Simple app that by opening it tells her exactly how much money she can spend without sabotaging her savings goals.
> it's based on empirical data

What empirical data can say anything about, for example, the philosophical zombie problem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
> Is it?

At least on MSSQL, I would expect a query plan like so:

1. Index seek WHERE a = 123, yielding ~100 rows. [1]
2. Bookmark lookup with results from (1), yielding ~100 rows.
3. Filter (2) WHERE b = 42 and project date_column, yielding ~10 rows.
4. Aggregate (3) by date_column, yielding ~10 rows or less.

And the optimizer will choose this over a full table scan so long as the 1+2+3 < full table scan. I don't know the threshold for that, but is is certainly more than 100 rows out 1M+, and the planner will have an estimate of selectivity that will inform plan selection.

[1] Important caveat. I interpret this line,

Current situation, selecting about hundred rows out of a million:

....to mean selection of 100 rows from the base table, rather than projection of 100 rows in the result, post-aggregation.

But if he really means a SELECT statement that returns 100 rows, then we have no idea how selective the WHERE clause is, and my answer changes to "The query will be much slower (impact >10%)".
The Rent Is Too Damn High: The Enormous Cost of Letting Finance Rule
Can Namecoin be a cyberwarrior?
After reading This:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act

& This:

http://www.ibtimes.com/obama-says-cyberterrorism-countrys-biggest-threat-us-government-assembles-cyber-warriors-1556337

why aren't more developers working to make namecoins peer-to-peer internet structure a reality?
>2. This is common in dense urban cities: Parking in urban cities is a nightmare. Parking in suburban sprawl cities is a breeze.

It seems like you missed the point entirely of samtp's comment on this one. He wasn't comparing "taking a long time parking" to "taking a short time parking", but was comparing "taking any time parking" versus "not having to park at all".

>3. Never seen the movie Pi?

No. Would you care to elaborate or educate us on its relevance to the topic? I'm not trying to be HN-passive-aggressive in a "tell me so I don't have to Google it" way. I looked it up, don't quite get what you're saying, and don't have the time to watch an entire movie this very moment.

EDIT: Removed my final question because you answered it elsewhere.
In addition, part of a private pilot license training is stall recovery, and engine loss scenarios.

I remember sitting in on a lesson while my brother was getting his private pilot's license. The instructor would randomly idle the engine in flight and have my brother practice the procedures for a engine loss in flight (put the plane into the ideal glide position, identify all possible landing spots, runway or field, etc...)
In academia interviews are how you get a raise. In a lot of places, the only way to get more money is to say you got the offer elsewhere.
Rob did some interesting and influential things in the .NET community which stems from exactly what he wrote about: his work with Ruby and Rails.

I've come from the Microsoft (Windows 32-bit API) to .NET Fx to Linux/Unix world in much the same way as Rob; ASP.NET to Rails.

There is a certain reality I have learned over the years: when I consult part time and don't mind sometimes boring work I earn twice as much writing C# than Ruby. The money is in the enterprise.

Of course at my day job I write Scala and figure out ways to get the most amount of Ruby [or sometimes Python] I possibly can into our day to day work. I love optimizing for productivity and happiness.
Built-in ES6/JavaScript constructs as monads
Thanks for the info, I'm glad someone responded. Bitbucket has side by side diffs, but I think both those and inline difs work fine (just a matter of taste).

I don't think those other features (for me) justify the complexity of running another application. For example, not enforcing LGTMs is a feature, in am emergency, a team member can get stuff done. But if someone abuses that regularly, they loose pull rights (or are fired).
>> Such 100 random IOs will cost 0.5 sec on 1 iron platter HDD for example.

>That's an incredibly, incredibly, iffy and mostly wrong statement which depends on arguably a corner case which doesn't often reflect reality (factors include which DBMS, row ordering, table size, cache size, block size, page size, RAM size, Hard Disk seek time, HDD throughput.

you're welcome to specify iron platter HDDs which would do 100 random IOs in significant different time than 0.5 sec.

>Even a table of 1 million rows with ~30B per row could easily be read into memory in about 300ms (100MB read time + ~5ms seek time, or ~= 5+(1e6*rowsize/ (100e3)) )

>Query Optimizers do exactly this.

Not always. If it has enough info, it may take a full table scan path in such a case. Still it will be about the same time - 300ms vs. 0.5 sec. i mentioned.

Of course it is for cold queries. You forgot to mention, i guess, that full table scan you propose may by-pass DB cache (default depends on DB, modern tendency is by-pass by default), and thus second query will take the same time, while table blocks brought in by random IO would frequently be stored in DB cache thus making second query run somewhat faster - depends on how much data was brought in.
Every choice you make impacts you today. What you learned in high school, college, and at your first few jobs all shape who you are and what you know. If I wouldn't have spent those years in ASP.NET. I know programming, have the same skill set as you pretty much (no Python). I would have loved to be increasing my Ruby/JS skills during the "lost years" doing ASP.NET.
I know how it feels. I wrote an anti-abuse system that labeled stuff as elicit until a coworker came by.
Prototyping is Trying
Wow. Guess I better stop swatting the fruit flies that want to drink my wine!
Javascript frameworks are going a long way to eliminate some of the worst parts of .NET development. The ability to design c# as a service and use api calls as hooks to the back end has helped act as a catalyst for change.
I had the same reaction to ASP.NET 1.0. "Do they have to make this thing so damn hard?" I had a PO system to write, and didn't have the time to fart around with bloated datagrid components and reams of cumbersome XML.

I had the luxury of being a 1-man IT department, so I gave up and learned Zope, which led me to Python, and then Django. Had ASP.NET MVC existed at the time, no doubt I would still be writing code in C#. In retrospect, I'm so glad it didn't.
Handover is for established calls. I'm not surprised your instructor wasn't quite spot-on, GSM is not a simple protocol.
Composer: Downloading Random Code Is Not A Security Vulnerability?
> So some people like to drive: That doesn't oppress you.

I love driving too. But relative to walking or public transit, driving is hugely resource-intensive, it has high environmental costs, you get traffic problems if too many people do it, and it requires costly investments in public and private infrastructure -- road construction and maintenance, along with huge amounts of real estate devoted to parking -- that end up being paid for by drivers and non-drivers alike.

In an (economically) ideal world, we would properly tax all the negative environmental externalities, ban free parking, and charge a small fee for the use of public roads. Then everyone could make an informed individual decision about whether their enjoyment of driving is worth the costs. With the huge subsidies drivers currently enjoy, that's pretty much impossible.