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> Wouldn't want to spoil your enjoyment but why isn't it a problem in the Antarctic?

Wouldn't the fact that the arctic and antarctic are geographically quite different have an effect here? The arctic ice in question is largely ice sitting atop water. Thus the feedback mechanism described in the article. Light colored ice thins, darker water is exposed to sunlight to warm and thin more ice or not freeze as rapidly the next winter.

See a similar effect in Greenland as pollution (mostly from North America?) is covering the ice sheet with a darker soot, leading to heating of the ice sheet and faster than normal melts.

The Antarctic is sitting away from pollution and the ice sheet is largely atop a landmass, not just water. In particular, the central ice sheet is on land. So any water warming affect would be going outside-in, not inside-out. No internal feedback loop to destroy itself. Regarding pollution, as a contrast to Greenland, its air currents aren't pulling in heavily polluted air from industrial centers and setting it down on the ice sheet.

Why it's grown? I haven't got a clue, but why it hasn't shrunk like the Arctic? It's not the same configuration, it shouldn't be expected to react the same way.
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Also hoping for small business accounts becoming an option soon. I have been using them for my personal account for about six months and have no complaints, love it.
Job security ;).. j/k! I imagine it must not be fun
One of our contributors has recently done exactly this, triggered by a `git push`:

Announcement: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/reviewboard/SVOF-4KZ-VU/lSf0...

Video: http://vimeo.com/86448355

Also, for the record, after we wrap up this 2.0 release, we'll be focusing on allowing users to review branches of commits in a review request, and not just individual squashed patches.
I wonder if it's possible to make a search engine that people can verify is not spying on them. One where the source is truly open source. Not just on github, but where anyone who wants to can ssh into the server and have full read-only access to the whole system to verify that the code they see is really what's running. Sure, there'd be some security things to work out to make it balance how easy it'd be to hack it, but maybe it's doable.
Unfortunately, it seems that lies are being spread on both sides of the conflict. Reminds me of a Hadith:

عن ابن مسعود رضي الله عنه أن الرسول عليه الصلاة
و السلام قال :
" لا بد للناس من إمارة برَّة أو فاجرة ، فأما البرَّة فتعدل في القسم ،
ويقسم بينكم فيؤكم* بالسويّة ، وأما الفاجرة فيبتلى فيها المؤمن ،
والإمارة الفاجرة خير من الهرج "
قيل : يا رسول الله ، وما الهرج ؟
قال : " القتل والكذب ."

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الفيء : الخراج و الغنيمة ( الضريبة )
ذكره الهيثمى في المجمع:(9124) وقال :رواه الطبراني و قال العراقي في تخريج الإحياء : إسناده لا بأس به. و ذكره ابن عساكر
They get half the interchange fees on every transaction. That's the benefit, worth MUCH more than "interest" (which is only at 0.01 percent at the moment). The other half of the fee goes to Bancorp.

TL;DR Its about the transaction volume.
No apology necessary. I grew up pretty rural and the automobile was the lifeline to education, goods and jobs. It took a half hour to an hour to get anywhere at all, but it was definitely necessary.

What I'm specifically referring to is that once you're in an urban center, is it more like a European or even an older American (pre-car) city where you can walk locally, public transit outside of that and then drive, or is it like Houston, LA or Dallas? Where the difference between living in the "city" and living in the country is that it shaves half the time off your drive to get anywhere and you have to drive to accomplish even basic daily tasks like grocery shopping?

LA is the quintessential example where urban planners decided to build around the car and invested heavily in freeway infrastructure instead of robust public transport (and the urban development model that implies). Building cities around vehicles and not around people (as has been done for millenia) is the experiment I'm talking about, and I think it's proven to not be the better model.

I think it can swing wrong the other way as well. Building only on the scale for people to walk around causes friction with entering or leaving the urban "zone". If you want to go visit a city, you have no place to put your car, this hurts the economy of the city. And if you want to leave the city, maybe for a trip, or to pick up a bulk good you can't hand carry, you may not have a car to do so (this is partially addressed by services like zipcar and similar).
As someone who lived his first 22 years in the metro Boston area but has lived in various parts of California for something like 16 years, I'd argue that it is impossible to paint "California" with such a wide brush.

I live in San Diego and it is very different here than in LA or the SF Bay Area (with each of those also being very distinct from each other).
Is Gqpd = giga queries per day?
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I actually think WhatsApp's $1/year revenue thing is a smart idea and that they might well hit the required level of growth, though I would like to know what their actual profit margin is because obviously all that infrastructure doesn't run itself for nothing. so I'm not sure I agree with the analyst here...but that's one of the best-written headlines I've seen outside the Onion.
anecdata: my sister lives in los angeles, and her company once posted her to their seattle office for a few months. her impression was that it was an extremely white city; that might not be the sort of thing that strikes you if you're white yourself, but coming from california it would definitely reinforce the provincial impression.
no one. they are covering that base with AI and Robots. We're all doomed.
I don't see that a=? rule. By selecting "100" rows out of a million, I think that means 100 distinct dates.

In this case, I take n = 1,000,000

The first query is likely O(log(x)) where x is number of distinct values of a. I approximated that to be O(1) relative to n.

I could be wrong here, or we could have seen different questions, or we are just interpreting the question differently.
A downvote is not a punch in the face. It's not an act of violence. It's not even an insult. It doesn't materially harm you. A downvote is "I don't think this comment is contributing to the conversation" - I think downvoting the comment I downvoted was completely appropriate. This doesn't mean that I think the site would be better off without you; this just means that I thought the site would have been better without that particular comment.

I'm not going to downvote /this/ comment, because I think it's contributing something. It's... too large and complex for me to properly digest and respond to right now, but I think there is something there... you are attempting to convey something to me... which is going to be quite difficult, because we have very different ways of relating to emotions, and because we have very different jargon, and even when we mostly agree on a word (like your example of 'obviously') the emotional connotations associated with that word are quite different.

I suspect that we even have a different way of relating to the emotional connotations of a word, and separating those from the thing actually being described.

But, if this was your response the other night, when I had more time, I likely would have put significant effort into responding instead of just downvoting.
This was Google's thought when I was talking to them. "Seattle's only a couple hours away. You could possibly even commute!"

I checked out the area through the lens of possibly living there when I went down for my interview. Seattle and Kirkland are not comparable to Vancouver in the slightest. Mostly the ghettos and rampant poverty, combined with the fundamental social differences between the countries. Didn't help that the one restaurant I ate at in the suburb of Kirkland had a fresh bullet hole in one of the windows. No thanks.

I found areas of New York (Williamsburg and Dumbo to be specific) that felt more like Vancouver to me than anywhere in the Seattle area.

My calls with Google are now pretty short. "Is there a Google office in Vancouver yet? No? Not interested, thanks."
That's because tipping in America makes no sense at all. You're "supposed" to tip 18-20%. So why not just put that into the price of the dish you are eating in the first place? I hate nothing more than seeing something like '19.95' on a menu, but then it ends up costing something like '26.29' with tax and tip. What's the point?
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When the guy from Sequoia, who has the inside numbers on the top companies, says it is unheard of, its probably unheard of.

The backend service is rather simple for 50 billion messages a day? hmmm not so much, I'm thinking.
I agree. You have people out there like Marc Andreessen comparing SnapChat to Tencent and saying it's potentially worth $100B or so. These people are off their goddamn meds. They are pure vulture capitalists, and poor mom and dad out in Nebraska are going to get stuck carrying this stinking mess when their 401k inevitably implodes.

You want to see how much eyeballs are worth, look at reddit. They are pretty much a corporate charity, with their reddit gold scam going on.

When people get accustomed to not paying for things, they don't pay for things. I'm not going to pay for a newspaper when I can read it all online. And yet, I'll happily go to dinner one night a week and spend more than it costs for an entire year's subscription to the local newspaper.

WhatsApp is $1 a year. That's great if you're running with a few hundred employees and have such a massive user base. That's doing more than okay, in my book. But $19B? You're not getting that back. Certainly not in any timeframe that matters. Because what's hot today will not be what's hot 5 years from now. We all know that. It's how the tech industry works.
What's the problem with cold winters? Unless it is below 0 F (or say, 20 F) or something, you can still get around. It is quite rare that you have such long streaks of sub-zero temperatures. Go out and learn to XC ski, snow-shoe, or just dress appropriately if all you are interested in is walking the streets. Many people I know in the mid-west bike even through winters. Some dedicated folks even bike several miles to commute even on the coldest days of winter.

Besides, there are many good universities and large and small companies in the mid-west, in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. These states put together have about 1/3rd of all the Fortune 500 companies, to give you an idea of the economic activity. So the comparison with ranches and deserts doesn't hold. That said, traffic isn't universally great in the mid-west. Chicago is a notable exception, but then you have plenty of public transport facilities in Chicago as alternatives to driving around.
I'm not sure, but doesn't the tipping usually come after the service? So the chance for extra nice treatment is mostly gone anyway?
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What do you mean? IT IS TEXTING! It's texting via a TCP connection and with the help of Apple's and Google's push messaging servers instead of going through the SMS channel of a GSM network.
As a product it's the exact same as SMS/MMS. Just the technical implementation is different.
But, the first entry point is namecheap. The domain is at Namecheap, so it will not find the zone file at Route 53, if Namecheap does not send it there. Right?
I had a background of Unix and Windows NT. I did both ASP.Net and PHP and switched back and forth between contracts for about 6 years depending on who offered the most cash. I now sit at a Microsoft consultancy, on a Mac, doing all the high level technical design work and Unix bits the company needs (and occasionally digging the company out of the crap when they screw stuff up and the normal staff don't know what to do and Googling it is beyond them).

Did I do the right thing? No. I should have skipped Microsoft stack entirely. I say this after 12 years of .Net and a previous 6 years of COM/C++/Win32. It has been the universally most stressful platform to work on. The technology is terribly complicated, obtuse and non-orthogonal and full of dead-ends and surprises. It's also virtually impossible to cleanly automate anything which means you need thousands of hands to push the buttons in the right order[1]. However this pales in comparison to the culture which almost universally (90%+ of outfits I've worked at) contains solely grim factory farm programmers who don't actually care what they are doing or understand what happens outside the ecosystem and outsourcers who whilst technically superior to the on-site staff, march around with loaded guns ready to shoot their own toes off (and anyone else dancing with them).

The only good bit was the cash.

I'd rather have picked up a 2003 OsCommerce site than do it again.

Now I'm learning Objective C and Cocoa to solve a few real world problems in another non-technology market that IT rarely penetrates. I'm doing that on my own.

[1] This has finally improved, but a little too late with PS and PS DSC for example.
Agreed on all fronts. Rooting for the Simple crew to keep their product rocking.

I also have to note that the Spanish banking system is among the worst, most troubled, in the world. Santander recently bought Soverign bank (US regional bank) and it makes me wonder whether they are trying to address solvency from bad loans with fresh deposits however they can acquire them.

makes me nervous to think about having any serious amount of funds with a spanish bank.
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Those managing the Delaware toll booths on I-95 seem to agree with you.

However, many eastern states can be traversed in on common travel routes in about that time. In clear traffic, you can do the Maryland stretch of I-95 in about two hours. Connecticut and Rhode Island are not particularly large.
Sorry to be negative; Sam Altman is a great guy and had plenty of valuable insight before, but his take here is infantile at best. When people accuse PG of speaking in very authoritative terms, it doesn't bother me. It's a writing device. But here Sam is doing the same trick, with the difference that I know the field he talks about well enough to see the poor logic transitions. My take: don't imitate PG's style on areas where you are not deeply knowledgeable.
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Circuithub looks very interesting. Has anybody used their service ? How is it?
Glad to see people feeling free enough to voice their honest opinion for a chance.
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Yep, my domain is not resolving..at least is not an important one..
Superintendent of NY Dept of Fin. Services AMA on Bitcoin/Virtual Currency
Seattle is my favorite place in the entire world.

People always complain about the "freeze" but I call bullshit. Seattle is the perfect place for people who enjoy a small social circle (Larry David style - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_M73MoxJE)

The one thing I always tell outsiders when they ask about finding friends when they move here is to pick an interest and go from there. For example, I love hiking/climbing. I joined a climbing gym and found a few great friends with that in common.

People here aren't outwardly friendly to strangers, but find a commonality and go from there, it's super effective.
No - go Java. ORMs, document generation, reporting, integration, architecture, deployment, tooling, devops stuff. Literally everything is ready to roll out of the box for $0. And it all works.

C# - half of this is available for a fee and the rest is available for a larger fee. And none of it works particularly well. And if anything breaks it's $200 a go to get it fixed.
Comments on this from yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266869
Interesting company behind Google Voice
It's somewhat similar to Prague, yes the center is nice, but most people live in very ugly buildings built during communism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k).
There are plenty of small aircraft that get 30-40mpg cruising at ~150mph. They are usually home built.
And surely taking action against parties who exploit that fact is their solution.
The quick tut on switching to DNSv1 is nice however the option doesnt exist in my account
Stockholm, Sweden has the same thing going for it. In the few months of the year you can actually go swimming without freezing to death that is :)
If I had dedicated more time and energy to learning new things 13 years ago would I know more things now?

Yes?
Interesting that the median price for a detached single family home in Vancouver is now $929,700 [1] and in Santa Clara county (which is San Jose and the cities around it) is "only" $754,400 [2], of course a house in San Francisco is like over a million dollars.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/house-prices-still-rising-in...

[2] http://www.zillow.com/santa-clara-county-ca/home-values/
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I didn't say that. What I implied was that Vienna is much more walkable than a place like LA. Los Angeles will never appear high on a list of most livable cities -- despite having lots of services, nice climate and loads of culture.

But you could probably pick any major European city at random, claim it was "most livable" or "best quality of life" or whatever and it would be reasonable.

Actually, what's very interesting is how high Australian and New Zealand's cities frequently rank in these kinds of surveys. At least with Australia, there's enough of a shared development model with the U.S (big space, resource extraction, etc.). that when I've been there, cars were a necessity in general, but the urban cores were really nice and walkable.
It is. And it is the web _side_of_story_ that is super exciting.
Hopefully it will be someone who values privacy. I look at the generally negative reaction to Google buying nest and can't help but think if it had happened a year or two earlier the reaction would have been completely opposite.
> Public transport, even in cities with great infrastructure, is soul crushingly slow and inefficient.

Wow. Then how would you describe:

1. A daily 45 minute commune through barely moving traffic

2. Driving around a walmart/tj maxx/home goods/target... parking lot for 5 minutes just to find a space

3. Almost never having to interact with (or even look at) anyone in your community since when you are not inside your house, in a cube at work, sitting in a chain restaurant booth, or shuffling between a maze of aisles trying to find laundry detergent; your sat in a steel box, isolated from everyone else.

No only would I call you lazy, it also seems that you're quite antisocial.
I've interviewed many "senior developers" can't even JOIN two tables. The concept of a "covering index" might as well be brain surgery.
Comcast is not throttling Netflix. Their links to Level3/etc. are overloaded and it affects a lot more than Netflix. I have barely been able to keep SSH connections open to servers over the past few months.

Comcast should change their advertising to "high speed Comcast network access with limited access to networks not paying to serve content that you request"
Actually, you think Central CA would be the poorest, although that's assuming policy remains unchanged. Imagine a conservative state within 1+ hr drive of the bay area, that could eliminate personal income tax attracting workers from Silicon Valley, affordable housing, better weather, water control (delta), and agriculture.
Sorry if that came off wrong. I've only recently starting helping with development but have been a long time beta tester and really enjoy using it!
Seems like DuckDuckGo went down. Not loading for me.
I'd add bittorrent-sync. Encrypted, de-centralized Dropbox replacement.
I tried to think of an analogy of someone dragging CSS into this conversation, but I couldn't. Maybe like throwing a dead cat into a room full of aristocrats?
From Antirez's comment: "The fact we that it long-jumps back where it was and re-trigger the error, is to generate the core dump in a clean way."

Curious if this is a common approach? What are the drawbacks?
Why do you live there for SEVENTEEN years if you find it that shitty? You only live once, you know. You deserve to be happy.
I'm the exact opposite - the idea of spending 5-25min in a car, when I could be walking, sounds dreadful. I probably walk 500 miles a year or more, simply because I don't drive. I can't imagine moving back to a suburb.
Duck duck is barely usable

On the contrary, I find Google barely usable these days, with everything covered in layers and layers of horrible bloat, random UX mess of the week and constant pestering about G+.

DDG is nice and clean, has features Google is (still) lacking and just gets me the results. I may resort to other search-engines (like Google) once a week or so, but at this point, there's no way I'm going back to having Google as default.

That's just not worth it.
http://typesafe.com/platform/runtime/akka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_reactive_programming

http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/

http://vimeo.com/user18356272/review/66548920/f93e3fa7d9

http://letitcrash.com/
Times are changing my friend. Who would I go work for in Seattle to "make money" (if that were actually my primary goal)?

Amazon? In Vancouver now.
Microsoft? In Vancouver now.
Facebook? In Vancouver now.
Startups? Vancouver has our share.

Personally, if I were going to leave the country for a better tech industry, I'd fly right past Seattle and head further south. Sorry, but Seattle just doesn't make sense if you're not already there.
Then why do people from around the world flock to American hospitals?

They don't.

Absolutely no one comes "to the U.S." for medical care expecting superior treatment. Not since the 1980s. Some people, for whom money is no object, come to specific doctors. If that doctor's in Paris, you go to France. If that doctor's in New York, you go to the U.S.
Ask HN: game merchandaicing as a serious alternative to in-app purchases?
20 days ago there was an active thread related to how the in-app purchases have destroyed the game industry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7161901. Why not consider game merchandising, like toys or physical items of a 3rd party, like a milk carton, as a serious way to purchase extras in a game.
Simple's support is definitely outstanding. I get little notes like "Fixed it! By the way, it's not my business but I like that you hyphenated your name when you got married." that really reinforce that there are actual humans being allowed to solve problems, not fill out a script.
Hi, I'm rich the co-founder of tray.io..

There are quite a few different parts to our technology stack, and we were planning on doing a few more blog posts outlining the tech and challenges we have experienced..

For now I'll say that we are based on the jvm, using a mix of scala and java, typesafe stack, mongodb, redis, nginx, vert.x all hosted on AWS..