skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree. I fall in the DINK category, but even we cannot afford many of the places that are inside the loop, or even near there. I know some people who do live in the Montrose area (rapidly rising price), and they do so by putting 3 single developers in one house. Once you get married, that becomes less attractive, and you end up forced out of the loop (like we did) - I'm in the process of buying a house conveniently located under 5 minutes from work just inside BW8, and I still can't walk there - doing so would require crossing the Beltway at high traffic times, and I don't care to greatly increase my risk of death five days a week.

I'm actually a big proponent of public transportation and increased options for travel, and am really glad when they get implemented, but purely for selfish reasons - it means less people on the roads. I'll gladly pay a bit more in taxes to make the roads less of a logjam at most hours of the day.
I dont have this option in my account
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You are a true Polish patriot. I wouldn't expect anything less from you.
I must say I had a wonderful time in Seattle. I found the people a ton more friendly, approachable and varied than in the Bay Area, where everyone is just interested in 'networking' with you rather than befriending you. Plus Seattle has absolutely stunning nature.
I didn't stay because of the grey skis. Couldn't take it.
Seattle doesn't have ghettos. Seriously, compare Oakland or south-central LA to Seattle's "ghettos" and tell me they are similar. Vancouver's Downtown Eastside had the worst concentration of poverty and desperation I'd ever seen in North America while I lived in Vancouver.
I think you define it very well. Self-sense building is the identification of perfect or near-perfect prediction of inputs based on outputs produced. When I move my hand on the right, the visual pattern it produces moves on the right ... and so on. This is basically related to the level of control you have on the feedback loop. Numerous experiments back that idea, including the ones you refer to.

This reflexion may be extended by asking oneself how perfect prediction might be linked to pleasure / pain signals (this is purely rethorical as the answer is obvious and known). What is not to be enjoyed in perfect prediction ? This could be a reason to self-enjoyment (or self-sense might be related to enjoyment), and even enjoyment of other people whose actions we can predict.

We are embarking on the path to understanding what information really is, and this will no doubt deeply shake our world. Deep and fascinating subject anyway.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say. Did I mention anything about swampland? Did I mention anything about a desert? Did I mention anything about being an 82 year old withering away?

I mentioned a nice house in city limits with a short, quick commute downtown to work in an office making almost as much as the house costs per year. Weather plays a factor, true, but I wouldn't want to be living in a shitty apartment in SF when the San Andreas goes off again either. I'm not trying to be a walking tourist board for a city I don't even live in, but describing a 200,000 person city with the best beer in the country, a major hacker convention every year (GrrCon) the yearly ArtPrize exhibits, and a great local music scene as "a desert" or "swampland" is a pretty shitty move on your part.

You seem to have dismissed every single word I said as soon as you read "midwest". That's not very polite, nor is it appropriate for any kind of discussion.
I live there, and in my experience, Stuttgart is not a very good city to live in, and I know quite some people who share that sentiment. Swabians are famously unapproachable, though I do respect them a lot.

Thats one reason I'm moving to Munich - anyone knows a good company to work for there? :)
Who could have added that? Github?
I had a couple of domains to try this on. One domain switched over within a minute. The other has been almost an hour. I'm assuming the TLD makes a difference?

.com was < 1 minute, .cm is > 55 minutes.
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I've been pestering Nick and the gang to launch this thing for years! I'm so happy it's finally out in the world. As a UI designer, I've found this thing is the best tool for sharing and discussing visual things. Now that it's live, I can now get all of my clients on this thing.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
cmake is standard enough now that 'magical unicorn' is rather unfair. I've had more difficulty with bare/automake makefile-based systems than with cmake (not that cmake is at all stellar: but it can at least handle spaces in filenames).
Regular imperative statements versus FPL abstractions
Most of my work is remote and yet I agree with this. It's part of the reason I visit the office at least once a week, despite a 2-hour commute. There is value in casual conversation. Work topics can be raised in informal ways. People share more of their personal lives and come to know each other better, fostering understanding and relieving some of the tension that can arise from misunderstood or poorly-worded emails.

Working remotely requires a lot of attention to relationships in ways and over channels that most people aren't accustomed to. It can be difficult even for people who are very good at it. I enjoy working remotely but I value the personal face-to-face time I get with co-workers very highly.
Vienna is good overall, but it's passive smoking hell. 99% of all clubs ignore non-smoking laws according to a recent study and you often find particle concentrations higher than on a busy road inside various cafes/clubs and washing all your clothes after a night in a busy place is a must. For some people this will be a sign of relaxed, "laissez-faire" style life, for others like me this is unbearable and I hate it.

The Mercer study Reuters mentions is, by the way, apparently only based on a few publicly available key statistical indicators and not on actual surveys.
Building your own airplane is possible and actually quite common. There are kits for anything from one-seaters with open cockpit to pressurized turboprops.

http://eaa.org/homebuilders/
With the right architecture, it is largely a horizontal scaling problem.

I ran and scaled the Napster server to 80 million users. We pushed about 70 billion "index file" commands an hour alone at peak. We had a chat and messaging system that also pushed millions of messages an hour.

There were some pieces of data that had to live on all the servers (what user was connected to what server) which would have caused some problems eventually (though with how much memory you scan stick in today's machines, not for a very long time), but from experience, 10k really was the same as 80 million.

The code to do this was a relatively small amount of C++ code. Most of our problems with scaling had to do with bugs in Linux when it was younger and "line-speed" Cisco switches that would blow up just because you pushed a few million packets per second through them.
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Hi Hershel, Andrew co-founder of CircuitHub here. Thanks for checking us out. We have a few early beta users that have manufactured with us and to my knowledge are really happy.

We've got a lot to do though and any feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks
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Look it up. If you install $15M of fiber in/around town, you can bet your bottom dollar that the local taxing authority considers that real property and will tax you on it at appropriate rates.

In TX, colo providers have had to send business property tax bills to people who locate their servers in those centers. Sometimes those bills are quite shocking.

In CT, the local phone companies started putting DSLAMs on poles because it got them off the ground and saved them millions on property taxes because there was a rate differential between property that was pole attached and property that was on the ground.

Never underestimate the effect that taxes can have on the deployment, operation, and maintenance of business property. You can explain great deals of financial shenanigans to the real savings associated with avoiding taxes.

And who gets screwed? Anyone who doesn't have the scale or size to make avoiding that tax worthwhile. e.g. the small-business owner.
Google and/or Facebook were my dream jobs at the time, if not for the work and peers, the bragging rights and resume fodder alone had an appeal. In 07' they were the cream of the crop hotbeds, you had Facebook poaching talent from Goog and both of them poaching talent from Paypal, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Even the early backers that had left FB had gone on to found things like LinkedIn.

It was a case of "if you work here, you're certified as knowing your shit" and "it's not what you know, it's who you know."

As said, I was self taught programmer, so for me this was a type of validation which meant the job had more significance for me at the time. If I could make it onto the Facebook staff, I was legit. It took me a lot of hard work and dedication to overcome that mental set back. I think all of us self taught devs have a lingering suspicion we're not good enough, not vetted enough, not seasoned enough, etc. Having a major life goal (@ 22yo) sitting at your doorstep and missing it due to your own shortcomings pretty much brought those back of mind doubts to the forefront and crushed my self worth, for me.

Luckily I'm not a "ah well, guess I'll go cry" kind of guy and adhere more to the "oh yeah?! well fuck you too!" attitude and having this happen to mean early in my career did nothing short of light a fire under my ass to be better than I was and better than I think I need to be. The salary offered for the position was about $28k more than I was making at the time and through a lot of self teaching, negotiations, and job jockeying I was making more than that position offered by about $5k within 1 year.

Despite all of this, that FB denial still has a tinge of "you suck, give up, go home, raise rabbits or something... you'd be a good ditch digger..." that still sits in the back of my mind reminding me constantly that some goals just aren't achievable... even if I don't want them at this point in my life anyways.

/rant
Honestly, if your thirteen year old technology choices are still having an impact today, then you're doing the wrong thing regardless.

I started out with PHP, got whatever job I could which involved Access and VBA, then VB.NET, then C#... now I use JavaScript, Python and occasionally Ruby.

That isn't to say that you should know six different languages. But you should know programming well enough that you can apply your skills wherever you need to.
ruby-prof has been around forever. Combine it with kcachegrind and you have a very powerful toolset. I wrote about instrumenting Rails apps here: https://www.coffeepowered.net/2013/08/02/ruby-prof-for-rails...

The same concept applies to gems. You just construct a scenario that stresses your gem internals, run it with ruby-prof, pop open the resulting dump in kcachegrind or similar, and explore to find the hotspots. I did something like this for MongoMapper, and documented the process here: https://www.coffeepowered.net/2013/07/29/mongomapper-perform...
I think renting such a plane would be difficult, but there are home-built airplanes with ranges over 1000 miles. You need a big bladder to go that far, though...
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> Money is a tangible object

Money is an entry in a ledger. It can or cannot have a tangible manifestation (coins, bills), but it is not always the case (reserves are purely electronic).
Banks don't have incentive to build nice interfaces for their users, because they're a State-guaranteed oligopolized cartel.
Do you ever bring up your beliefs that the wait staff is underpaid with the management?
I've always gotten the impression that about 40% of the people you meet or see in Seattle are at that exact moment contemplating suicide. That's just the general tone of the city.
which cities have you lived in and tried the public transport thing if you don't mind me asking?
I am over 30, yes.

But I was talking to a former colleague who is EVEN OLDER THAN ME - over forty, in fact! - and he was saying he has used WhatsApp. Has been using it for a while, in fact. So, it looks like my age isn't to blame here - I am just hopelessly behind the times.

(He said he was going to stop though, now that Facebook have bought it. I pointed out that due to his age, Facebook probably won't care.)
Works in France too.
He had a heart attack at work yesterday. Jim was only 57 years old.
PNG Hat
Not quite what you asked for, but how about this?

~^(?|
xx(x)/user/([^/]+)/(\d+)
| x(xx)/user/(\d+)
| (xxx)/user/([^/]+)
)$~x

Then just prepend 'xxx' to the front of uri in the call to preg_match. Now the second entry in matches tells you which handler, so for example for uri = '/user/nikic/42' you pass 'xxx/user/nikic/42' and get back 'xxx/user/nikic/42', 'x', 'nikic', and '42' where that 'x' tells you it's the first handler.

I'm not an expert in how php does REs but I imagine there may be a way to use preg_replace or similar to replace the first '/' in the uri with 'x', 'xx', or 'xxx' and still get a the groups returned for the matches for user and id say. This could save a potentially costly string creation.
Exactly. Here's a recent interaction I had with Simple support.
http://cloud.mattermill.com/image/2w0W1v0z3E0d
your optimal lineup for today has danilo as a SF, projected to get 27+ points, but he hasn't played a game all season, and is out tonight... which makes me wonder...

what data are you using to project averages? 2012-2013 season?
The "reactive" in the "reactive manifesto" shares only the name with reactive programming, nicely explained in the Wikipedia articles you link to (which are also linked in the article).

Same goes for Akka. I don't know if it supports reactive programming (despite the use of the word "reactive" in the materials you linked to), but none of the links you supplied suggests that it does.
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@nchapman

Looks very great. Could you reach out to me @ jonkotthoff@gmail.com? I have some feedback and may be able to get you some funding/business partnership.
It replaced Google search for me. I like adding !sp whenever I feel like getting Googly ;)
I've enjoyed my experience with Simple, but the complexity of actually getting money onto the dang card was a huge turn-off. It just took way too long and the reasoning for the issues came across like a glaring incompatibility between the banking industry and startup culture as a whole. Why did I need to pay myself via Square just to get a few hundred bucks on my card? And why did it take 12 hours to show up? And why, if I do a bank transfer, does it take more than a week? I hate to say it, but when you're called "Simple," there shouldn't be that many hoops.

And while the app was impressive and offered a lot of smart thinking, Capital One's app is not so far behind what the company's doing as to make it a total downgrade to use the big bank's app instead. And unlike Simple, I can easily deposit money anywhere and most of it is available to me immediately.

Simple is awesome for spending money, but the problem was that there was really no good way to deposit it. Perhaps the bank buyout could help make that issue a little less painful.
I love ING Direct.

I just wish they offered Two-Factor authentication for "360" accounts.

Relevant link:
https://www.facebook.com/CapitalOne360/posts/101515573342295...
People will always seek to make money from a perceived opportunity. Whether the opportunity is the climate changing or people mistakenly afraid that the climate is changing does not in any way change whether or not the climate is actually changing.

In other words, an increase in umbrella salesmen does not any any way prevent the sky from falling.

Frankly, I don't know if global warming is true. Having examined some of the claims and by using my own intuition, I think it probably is. But its validity shouldn't matter to you if you truly care about the problems you listed.

For example, let's look at two of the other problems you listed that we are supposedly currently ignoring: pollution and resource depletion. Both of those problems are usually tied to the burning of fossil fuels, which just so happens to be the suggested cause of global warming. The suggested fix of global warming is typically burning less fossil fuels, which would in turn reduce pollution and lower our resource consumption. If you truly feel that those problems are what we should be focusing on, you should encourage people to believe global warming is a problem that needs fixed as it would further your goals.

Personally, I don't care if somebody makes a mint off solar power. I'd rather have money go that direction than the oil conglomerate. Even if both groups were equally "evil", I'd still vote for solar because I believe it's better for the ecosystem.
I thought this was interesting:
"Now you can say it: Google is actually evil, right? · I don’t think so; but get back to me later. I shouldn’t write too much about Google in-the-large until I’ve got more perspective."

At best, it sounds like he's a bit doubtful of Google's white-hat status but is trying to remain professional, doesn't have a specific incident to point to, or both.

It will be interesting to see what he says in a year or so.
Think of all the state drop-downs that need to be replaced.
The conspiratorially inclined explanations in me thinks that there might be another reason for this extreme valuation. Considering that just last year Google offered 1B for this service, and was denied because at that time Sequoia had invested at a 1.5B valuation, and Google had been unwilling to up their offer. It would appear that a 3B price or a 2x valuation would be sufficient. But clearly it was not. And I don't think it was because of competing offers from Yahoo! or others. Here's what I think might also be happening. I think some major surveillance outfit (NSA / Five Fingers / etc.) saw that by circumventing the telecom infrastructure and allowing for massive texting information to be 'funneled' through off-site servers, to support the WhatsApp service model, that they could harvest this communication without having to involved all the individual telecoms world wide. Instead they get a direct feed into the worlds texting data by buying the 'funnel' itself. And I think that they were willing to pay any price for this. I think that once Whatsapp figured this out, and came to terms with the fact that their technology was going to be used to circumvent traditional telecom limitations, they just went after as much as they could. And that turned out the be close to 19B dollars. The irony of course is that the one founder refers to the evils of soviet totalitarianism as part of his driving force. So it may be that when every thing is said and done, he provided a surveillance tool to an emerging regime of techno-fascism, the likes of which his previous hated regime could never imagine.

Again, this is just a shot in the dark. A wild stab at a rationale. But that's what will happen with an insane price valuation like $19B.
I experienced this talk in person and, for me, it was the highlight of the conference. "Highly technical. Extremely Pointless. Worst Ruby Code Ever."...and 100% amazing (though the American Sign Language interpreter, for whom signing this talk appeared to be a Herculean effort, might have a different opinion).

Great talk. Greater man.
Behold:

1. Sprawl cities have shorter commutes [1 - compare sprawl king LA to NYC].

Even within dense places like Manhattan & EU cities, commutes take a long time. Whilst studying abroad in EU Subway Wonderland, my ~3mi subway+walk commute took 20-40mins. In Sprawl City USA, my 15mi commute took 15-20mins, with easy parking both sides.

2. This is common in dense urban cities: Parking in urban cities is a nightmare. Parking in suburban sprawl cities is a breeze.

3. Never seen the movie Pi?

[1] http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/03/where-it-ta...
$117M seems very little in light of yesterday's news about WhatsApp but in absolute terms it's still an astoundingly large amount of money.

I'd wager that the founders wanted their FU-money to eventually pursue something new.
While there are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to not want to move to the bay area, I'm not sure that I would list exceptionally pervasive racism among them.
Compared to Canada? It sure is.
This looks awesome. If people are interested in this and haven't checked it out yet, http://microcorruption.com is still running: 19 levels of security challenges on an emulated MSP430 board.
Cheers, look forward to finding out more from your blog posts...
Their customer support is based in Ukraine. I hope their employees will get trough these crazy times unhurt.
A response to this post from another asp.net developer:
http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/archive/2014/02/19/155486...

"...early on in my MVP/Community days (2007ish). Microsoft hired some non-traditional devs to head up something in the ASP.NET group. Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery all came on board and launched ASP.NET MVC which BLEW. ASP.NET. UP."
Developing on the ASP.NET stack is nothing like it was in 2001, or even 2011. I used to loathe ASP.NET, but what MS has done has really emboldened the dev community to contribute some really great OSS solutions.
Like the new name; 'two tap' checkout definitely sounds like something I want.
$929,000 in Vancouver means the east side, which is traditionally the lower priced and income area of Vancouver. If you want anything close to downtown or the West side, it is well over $1.5M.

A lot of detached homes in Vancouver at the $900k price range look like they are in bad condition and reflect the land value. So while it is expensive to purchase at $900k+, consider the renovations that will be needed to bring the house up to a livable condition.
I made a similar comparison and went with Ally - their rates are far better than Simple.

Simple's app is good, but in all honesty I don't have a huge need for it. Ally has a servicable app that does check deposits, and I use Mint to analyse my spending etc.

Also, Ally refunds all ATM fees, Simple doesn't. In a city like New York that's a huge benefit.
The unconscious may simply be related to responses to stimuli repeated and internalized enought in neural structures for us to not have to supervise them anymore. This mecanism could be put on par with abstraction in my opinion, for the role it plays in enabling us to control our environement with limited attention resources.
> 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.

They have a lot of costs for that interchange fee though. That's not where banks make they money and the .01% interest you mention is what they pay, not what they would earn if they actually held your deposits. If they held your deposits and worked like a regular bank it would be dramatically more profitable: $10,000 in your account means they would owe you $1 a year in interest. They could simply park that about anywhere else and make a decent amount, but banks really make their money by leveraging.
They raised $15M+, which pegs their valuation somewhere in the 50-100M (as a guess). So $117M means that the founders get rich and most of the investor money gets returned at a 1-3X multiple. Not shabby for 4 years of effort, but not what most investors are looking for.
Testing-as-a-Service can provide a competitive edge
I wrote a tool we use internally that has that as a feature for Review Board. It was super easy.

I still prefer a more formal code review process since things slip through from people hitting "Ship It" when it's not fully baked.
Quickly spin up an HHVM VM with FastCGI support (Apache/Nginx)