skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victoria beats the pants off Vancouver, in terms of being a nice place to live (if you can afford it) or visit. I always find Vancouver to be pretentious, crowded, overdeveloped and generally lacking in any sort of charm.
very different products: Instagram users, for the most part, want others to see their pictures. WhatsApp users, for the most part, don't want others to read their SMS messages.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you there (the "all in" comment). I'm kind of in the same boat. I learned BASIC and vb first, then some PHP, but I've been doing MS-related work for the last 12 or so years. The MS ecosystem is definitely segregated but that doesn't mean you're stuck only doing MS work forever. Over the time I've been programming, including doing MS work, I've been learning so many other technologies and it has also positively impacted my work on the MS side. New ideas for how to lay out code, new technologies to integrate with, etc.

You may not have made the right choice, but it's not because you chose ASP.Net over PHP (you'd probably be asking the same question if you picked PHP). It's because (and I'm sorry if I'm being too blunt) you didn't seem to question what you were doing or go out and seek alternatives. You mention the "drag and drop" world, but that's not the only way to implement those features. We both worked in the same world at the same time, but I didn't like the "magic" the drag and drop functionality provided. It didn't give me enough control over what I wanted to do so I figured out how to do it manually.

My response is a bit more rambling than I intended for it to be and I hope you can piece it together. :) My main point is that we both ended up with the same choice (ASP and ASP.Net) around the same time but I also have those bullet points you mention checked off. I don't regret my decision one bit and I don't think it has stunted my professional growth at all. If anything it has probably helped it because .Net devs are in high demand and highly paid in my area.

Edit: Hah, I wrote this post without knowing who you are at all. I may very well be wrong, but that was the impression I got from your comment and the original article.
"Those who work in banking, venture capital, and other financial firms are in charge of allocating the economy’s investment resources. They decide, in a decentralized and competitive way, which companies and industries will shrink and which will grow. It makes sense that a nation would allocate many of its most talented and thus highly compensated individuals to the task."

The simple flaw with this idea is that wall street is squarely focused on making more money. Not making society better. Not allocating capital effectively. Not even on creating wealth(which is distinct from money). The single guiding equation for all deals and transactions is "how can we make as much money as possible with as little risk as possible and also stay out of jail".

That wall street occasionally invests in companies that actually do create wealth and allocate capital to the betterment of society is more a case of broken clock sometimes being right.
I lived in Seattle for six years and I totally agree with Vonguard. It doesn't have anything to do with being a "hater." You just need to be good at observing people, specifically their body language.
Every time something new comes out from Google or Microsoft, I just wait to see where is the catch. There is always the catch.
Could this do real-time position, rotation, and gesture tracking if it was embedded in a VR head-mounted display?
How's SF 'Southern California'?
I wonder if it uses the machine vision aspect to prevent the typical problem of accelerometer drift. e.g. by orienting itself relative to walls/other stationary things.

Also, imagine making a 3D "scanner" that you can scan objects with into a virtual world, or print out on a 3D printer.
"Unfortunately, due to FCC restrictions, we can only send development units to incorporated entities or institutions at this time."

That's a bummer.

Also, the page's default background-color should be set to black (or something dark). Most of the text is white(ish) and with a slow connection the background images take a while to load, making it impossible to read while you wait. /rant
That makes sense, but this person was advocating assuming something to be true without secondary sources other than hearsay.
I think I see what you mean, but isn't it true that if there is light shining on the object, then the lamp must be in the light cone? It is literally impossible for something outside the light cone to have any physical impact on the object at all.

We do know the sphere of causality already, no computation needed: it is the sphere defined by the distance light has had time to travel. You don't need to simulate anything outside that zone to know that it is impossible for matter outside it to physically impact the center.

Think of it this way: if you want to simulate Earth through the year 2000, you know you don't need to simulate Alpha Centauri after 1996, since it is more than 4 light years away. You can know this without doing any computation at all.
That doesn't look too bad, though I would be wondering about the corner riser being able to fit the two 27" monitors.
Facebook, Instagram, Khan Academy, Sberbank, etc.
Some people (like you) don't see it, but that doesn't mean the phenomena doesn't exist. Why would you think it has a common name -- the seattle freeze -- if it was a problem isolated to these two individuals?
'make' the playing field uneven? The field was never even.
I firmly believe that the financial sector is nothing more than a thief. If you are making money, but not a product then you are stealing from someone. The high speed traders are the best and easiest to explain example.

Having said, that I send about 5-10% of my income every month to my financial advisor for him to invest because I don't know of any better option. Can anyone tell me a way to save for retirement that produces similar results and isn't funding criminals?
Does DuckDuckGo have image search?

I don't like that when I press tab I go to the search field I would like to go to the first link. Also I type in YouTube and the first link is for the Wikipedia entry.
There are two choices. If everyone guessed, the expected value is 50% correct and 50% incorrect. This is why it's 25/75 for the question with four choices.
It simplifies your life if you don't need quality (tailored platform experience). Makes it simpler to tick the mark that you have a version of app you don't really care about on every platform.
We're a US C-corp.
What's the performance characteristics of Pulsar vs. core.async like?
Same here. I've been using reddit primarily as a search engine for the last two years. It's a good supplement to filter out the bs.
He somewhat addressed that earlier, in the paragraph starting with this:

> At this stage, if you are an investor, you have two choices. The first and less damaging one is to accept that social media investing is not your game and move on to other parts of the market, where you can find investments that you can justify with fundamentals.
Chrome is the only app I have that will consistently turn my macbook into a 1000˚ clothes iron. That's probably the #1 reason I still use Firefox for general computing.
I've been doing large site SEO for almost a decade, working for brands like eBay, Disney and others, it's not that weird. It's just that that's not the thing people know me for ;)
Online banks are great until your ATM card is compromised at which point it is promptly cancelled and a new one can be _shipped_ in "3-5 business days." When you're 3-5 business days overlaps with a holiday and a weekend, this can keep you without access to your bank account for almost 2 weeks (shipping doesn't mean it's in the mail yet). The only way around it is to pay $15 to expedite shipping, which (should) get it shipped in around 1-2 business days. So being a victim of something like a Target-level attack is particularly problematic. When I was at a 'bricks-and-mortar' bank, I could walk in and get a new card _that day._

So far that's been the only real drawback, for me, at Ally. That and their website is pretty bare-bones compared, especially, with Wells Fargo's. WF has some pretty great budgeting tools Ally just doesn't have. Mint fills in that blank for me. I just became a Simple customer and am honestly a bit wary of them being part of an international banking group.
Seattle is 16+% Asian and 70-% white, 8.4% black and 1% native. How is that very white? In contrast, LA is 50% white, 10% asian, 10% black, with a 50% Hispanic (many co-identifying as white or black).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Seattle
"Plus I find the Bay Area congested, racist, incestuous, and overpriced."

Now... I've never lived in the Bay Area. I travel there once or twice a year but visiting is nothing like living in a place. So, I can relate to the adjectives above except the "racist" part. Is the Bay Area really more racist than any other large metropolitan area?
> People always complain about the "freeze" but I call bullshit.

First, some humor: http://lifeexplained.thecomicseries.com/comics/62/

Now, some serious (as it was while I lived there, but funny now that I've escaped), all from Seattle newspapers:

But the dichotomy most fundamental to our collective civic character is this: Polite but distant. Have a nice day. Somewhere else. [1]

Your city is a lovely one, and people here are nice enough when you come into contact with them in such circumstances as a retail transaction or participation in a mutually held-interest group. However, there is an unmistakable coolness exuded by many inhabitants of this city toward people they don't know; it exceeds what I would consider "normal." [2]

Seattle public radio: while people here are “open” to new ideas, we’re just near the bottom of the states for being extroverted. Sociologist Jodi O’Brien at Seattle University added that this group relies heavily on digital devices to communicate which means they are losing the ability to simply hang out and talk. “If you email something I don’t like, I can scream at the computer, but I don’t have to interact with you. The more we can do that, the less inclined we are to engage in the messy social world.” [3]

Seattle Freeze: Can we blame it on the Norwegians? ...and there is even a meet-up group working to defeat it, the Seattle Anti-Freeze. [4]

Turns out that while Seattle has lots of romantic settings and events – the people themselves aren’t thought to be very romantic.[5] In a poll on that same Seattle newspaper blog, 80% of the readers say that the Seattle Freeze is very real and/or awesome. A slideshow of ways of dealing with the freeze agrees more or less with your advice to pick an interest and go from there.

[1] http://seattletimes.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.html

[2] http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/northwestvoices/2009/0...

[3] http://www.kpluwonders.org/content/why-seattle-freeze-so-har...

[4] http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2012/12/04/seattle-fre...

[5] http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2013/02/12/‘seattle-fre...
Makes me think of the arm computers from the Neanderthal Parallax. I'd love to get my hands on one of these
interesting that they built this into a phone. but i guess once you need a mobile computing device with a screen and a camera you end up with a "phone" nowadays.

the reliance on lenses is a hinderance though as it has two and holding it without covering them both requires user effort. you can see it at the end of their video where a finger is partially over the second lens.

still, exciting!
The first example of reactive programming in Wikipedia is the ability to define a = b + c, where b and c are changing (and a is changing with them. In Quasar, you can do it imperatively:

for(;;)
a.send(b.receive() + c.receive();

Or functionally:

zip(b, c, (x, y) -> x + y);

RxJava also lets you do the latter.
I see that it could also be achieved with a combination of Iteratees and Enumeratees in the code you linked to, using an approach similar to RxJava's, only more complicated and with fewer features.
> Plus ducks are my favorite animal

Good point, if anyone made a search engine run by koalas I'd have to use it no matter how bad it was
Credit Unions in my area (Portland, Or) have checking accounts that pay 1.0%-1.5%. No interest from Simple is the main reason I don't use them.
Thanks; I hadn't heard of this. To save others hunting down the link, here's a StackOverflow question with a (very little) discussion, a link, and related code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3287860/what-is-a-tagged-...
"written in Java, C/C++, as well as the Unity Game Engine" - good news and a discreet way of saying they support C# via Mono!
I don't know how this website works, but I can't see the latest posts at the top of the page! I'm looking for the latest info on the issue. Are you up and running? Should I move back to v2? Thanks
Sounds like a nice guy going through a bad breakup.
Here's the best idea I can think of with this technology.

Imagine taking a scan of your pantry, refrigerator, and/or laundry room. Then mark everything as what it is (e.g. "box of cheez-its", "milk", etc). Then come back a few days and do the scan again and it'll tell you what's missing. Once you return from shopping, scan again saying what the new items are (even if they aren't what was there). The software would probably need to recognize certain shapes so a slight rearrangement/movement doesn't change. It'd be like history/bookmarks/favorites for perishables!
"- Johnny Lee and the ATAP-Project Tango Team"

Johnny Lee was the guy with the awesome Wii Controller demos back in 2007 (can't believe it's been that long).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

edit: here's the full set of demos: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ (also, I'm assuming it's the same guy, but his site says he's at Google now)
But as you say, you don't go significantly faster by adding another piston engine, either. Aerodynamic resistance at high speed goes as v^2, so adding twice the power increases your speed at most 70%. In practice, it will be less due to increased drag from engines in the wings, more weight, etc.

I pulled a comparison from Wikipedia:

Cessna 310 (twin): 2x240hp, max speed 220mph, range 1000mi.

Cessna 182 (single): 230hp, max speed 201mph, range 930mi.

I'm sure the twin has more useful load, but it sure doesn't go much faster or farther.
Of course that is nonsense. What finance really is is the buying and selling of risk. Charging a fee to assume the risk of an asset changing in value (say, an airline pays a bank for an option on buying oil at a set price) is honest business. You make money at it by specializing in evaluating and managing risk and by being better at it than organizations for whom it is not their core competence.
All of the S&P 500 companies that are worth less than WhatsApp
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1215/
Can Twitter Predict Major Events? A New Study Says Yes
It's a thin line to walk. I would feel quite different if that happened to me.
My personal reason is because X86 just handles memory segmentation in an awkward manner.

Assembly is unforgiving, but some processors are gentler on the programmer than others. If I was trying to teach someone the basics of register indexing and indirect indexing, I'd rather do it on a 6809 than an x86.
> If you are making money, but not a product then you are stealing from someone.

That describes the entire service sector (doctors, lawyers, restaurant workers, cleaners, etc).
Now Google wants to index whole physical world, with help of millions of smartphones.
I wish I could go back to the time when I thought this kind of thing was awesome. Nowadays, it's just one more aspect of our private lives that'll be stored on Google's (or whomever) servers, sold to advertisers, harvested by the NSA, and abused by law enforcement. Add some object recognition to the 3D scanning, and you can start getting marketing messages about how much better [Featured Brand]'s refrigerator would suit your needs, courts will rule that no reasonable person would expect the interior contents of their house to be private and require a search warrant, and the DEA will be able to find something that looks enough like drug paraphenalia in the images from anyone's home to justify a home invasion of whoever their preferred target of the moment is.
If you own a motorcycle for 30 years, your chances are not the same every year - your chances of dying on a bike are higher when you're younger and when you have less years on a bike. So every year I ride, my chance of dying that year on a bike gets smaller.

In other words, the bulk of deaths on bikes are young, inexperienced, and/or unlicensed riders.

Also, bike deaths are far more likely to involve alcohol than car deaths; so if you're like me and you don't drink before riding, you've just improved your chances.
First 3D Sensor for Mobile Devices
I disagree with this; you make one patch for your reviewer to review. If you want to do two things, make two patches.

The history of how you made that patch should be irrelevant; if you care, your patch is too big. Split it up.

I will admit that this takes some getting used to. When I use git alone, I commit for every little thing I change. But that's not actually useful for other people to look at; what people really want are high-level patches that represent logical changes, not just physical edits of the source code.

I've also gotten myself into a lot of trouble by committing a lot of things and then splitting them up for review. This always takes a very long time.

So just focus on one thing at a time, send it for review, and make sure your coworkers believe that reviews are the most important thing they can be doing. Then you get the small commits you like, but also get a more readable history, and better feedback from reviewers.
The core requirement of a for-profit business is that it make money. If it doesn't make money, it can't continue to do what it does, and it can't support it's owners.

Because of this, it means that companies are typically very bad at looking at things in the long-term because it's far away and playing for higher profits overall over higher immediate profits doesn't make more money immediately for the owners.

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The problem isn't that the government's corrupt, it's that the businesses are.

If there's no regulating force there's much less of an incentive for companies to be forthright with individuals. I've heard people argue that private consumer protection agencies would help alleviate the problem, but there's nothing requiring the companies to open up to certain agencies, and nothing to keep an industry from creating a jointly owned agency, which is the only one with access to the entire industry.

While the consumers would be able to chose the agencies they believe most, there are industries which are inescapable, and if the entire industry ever created their own agency, or refused any agency access, there's nothing you, or really anyone, can do about it.
Damn it! I am planning to move to SF, Seattle, or NYC. The OP's story and your story are too sad about SF and Seattle.
Classical liberals, Rawlsian liberals, and libertarians all face the same public choice issues: they're not something any side can simply wave a wand at and make go away.

The annoying part comes when either side pretends like the other side faces them as a unique challenge and the other isn't subject to it.

(Traditional Burkean conservatism, on the other hand, doesn't face that issue in the same way: it accepts that government is inherently corruptible as part of the human condition and rejects the idea of a rationalist State.)
The same Berkut that captured, beated, took clothes and forced a man to dance naked in the snow, all while laughing and making fun of him. And left him bloody in the snow afterwards? In some other country that same Berkut would be prosecuted. I don't say I support violence without trial against them, but I can perfectly understand why would someone do it.
I did a benchmark a while ago. If your go blocks block a lot and communicate with many other go blocks, then Pulsar can be much faster (without changing your code if you're using Pulsar's core.async API). If they don't, then core.async can be faster than Pulsar if you're using Pulsar's default scheduler, which is based on ForkJoinPool, or a little slower than Pulsar when using an ExecutorThreadPool-based scheduler to schedule the fibers (see the UI example in the post on how to create and assign schedulers).
The real reason Facebook bought WhatsApp? Your address book.
The fascinating part about living in Toronto compared to Vancouver (or even another city, say New York), is how we view foreigners/immigrants. A few weeks ago I randomly spoke with a man from Egypt. My immediate assumption, even though he had an accent, was that he lived in one of the various multicultural neighbourhoods in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Only after speaking with him a while longer did I truly realized that this was his first visit to Toronto and that he was not actually living in the GTA. I would hazard a guess that most Torontonians would make the assumption that any visible minority or person with an accent is an immigrant living in the GTA. Tourists and visitors walk invisibly through the city.

I compare this to my experience in Vancouver where, even though I may be a visible minority myself who only speaks English, I was treated as a foreigner. In New York, people were shouting racial slurs at me as I walked down the street. Seattle/Bay Area however, I was treated like your typical tech worker.
In my experience, teams or companies that have significant problems communicating with remote workers just aren't very good communicators. Physical proximity is a crutch that can help them overcome their disability/dysfunction, but they almost always still have major communication problems--they just have more problems with remote employees.

A team that's good at communicating with remote employees is usually just good at communication in general.
This is essentially putting a Kinect in your phone and hooking it up with hopefully high-level APIs. It may take 2-3 years to make it into regular phones, but when it does it will be huge. Apple's acquisition of PrimeSense (the makers of the 1st gen Kinect) means they're also working on this.

To give you a real-world example: when I started BarSsense (http://www.barsense.com) the core problem was tracking the path and velocity of a weightlifter's bar. I bought a PrimeSense camera because it can extract a lot more data and with greater accuracy out of an image than a regular camera. After some prototyping, I decided to use a 2D camera and deliver the software as an app because I thought wide distribution and ease of use was more important than the fidelity and correctness of the data - ie, the "worse is better" approach. When these cameras make their way into regular phones, "worse is better" will suddenly become "better".
Stephen Hawking's 10 Best Science Jokes
"provincial, passive-aggressive, unfriendly to outsiders, and segregated" are not vague jabs.
How about tactical coordination and mapping for teams (i.e. paintball / special operations)? I'm picturing the HUD 'map' from every FPS game, except it is based on the current view and relative locations of the team's devices.
Ask HN: What domain registration and DNS service do you use?
I love using Digital Ocean and Heroku for my websites. Clean designs, straightforward navigation and functionality, affordable.

And then you have domain registrars like GoDaddy, Domain.com and others that are the exact opposite (except cheap).

Is there a domain registrar that doesn't severely suck the life out of creating a new domain? Something that has an easy to use API, clean and modern?
No it doesn't. In business speak a product is something you create, good or service. The difference between a good and service is that a service's product is consumed at the same time it's produced.