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> If you enjoy certain characteristics of urban living -- dense, progressive, diverse, bustling

Plenty of cities have these characteristics that have a much lower cost of living than NYC.

I love NYC. It's a great city, probably the greatest city on earth, but there are plenty of other options out there.
EPA Tested Pollutants on Humans Without Disclosing Risks
I agree, you could say the same thing for voice search since you can use voice search on your iphone/android to queue up videos to airplay/cast.
When I raised my first round I worked from home most of the time and time boxing was the key. Writing down one or some goals and trying to achieve them in a given period of time.

For me 19 minutes works the best. It doesn't feel like too much ('19 minutes won't kill me') and still you can move mountains in 19 minutes. I don't do breaks inbetween them, I just make like 3-6 in a row and the some break.

Because none of the tools were really perfect I wrote my own, very lean and a not configurable tool:

- 19 minutes fixed

- a crisp & clear ticking sound (WebKit only)

- browser-based, just enter url and the thing starts without the need to press any further button; the page title shows the running time

=> http://revs.co
We at LeastAuthority have written a blog post about the Cryptocat audit from our perspective: https://leastauthority.com/blog/
Fun fact. There are more people in City of San Diego than the entire state of South Dakota.
Smart TV saturation remains small, so I don't see it being a proposition where they need to convert people: If you put the Amazon Fire beside an Apple TV, for many people the Amazon device may very well represent a better choice.

As to the specs of the device, while it's certainly true that specs alone mean little (especially vague, close to meaningless specs like "quad core"), the hardware put a ceiling on what the device is capable of doing. And in this case right off the bat it can do voice search, which as an Apple TV user I would actually be a convert for: It is an act of pure brutality to search on the Apple TV device.

Even just that the remote does not use infra-red is a hugely compelling feature to me.

EDIT: given that I mentioned the specs being vague, I should correct that on Amazon's dev site they list specifics, and it has a powerful CPU/GPU combo. Actually the same SoC as the Nexus 7 (2013), running at a higher frequency.
We stream Amazon video all the time to ATV. This def works.
This is a reasonable answer to Apple TV.

If you have videos on or subscriptions to iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon Prime (as I do), there's no box I'm aware of that will let you watch all three. So you end up using your Apple TV and then Roku or another box -- the Playstation 3 in my living room takes a long time to boot, and a long time to load the Netflix app, draws quite a bit of power, and is overkill for merely watching streaming video. The Amazon Fire TV, assuming it's fast enough, will add another device to my living room cabinet but make it a lot faster to switch to watching Amazon Prime videos.

Ideally Apple would allow Amazon to add Prime Streaming to the Apple TV box, or Roku would get the iTunes library. Then I could have an all-in-one box. But we all know that's not going to happen...
> type hints which are required (I think)

Only in strict mode; in partial or decl mode, you can leave off the annotations. In fact, a large fraction of PHP files are also valid Hack files in partial mode. The article has a decent explanation of the modes, and see http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.modes.php for our official documentation.

> Technically HHVM can run projects that are a mix of PHP/Hack, but I wouldn't recommend that. Mixing your codebase is worse for portability, in my opinion, as implementors are more likely to implement just Hack than Hack + PHP.

I'm not sure I understand your argument here. Hack was designed to be seamlessly used in a mixed PHP/Hack codebase. Facebook itself is still in such a mixed state, and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future; we've gotten a ton of benefit from converting most of our code, but there's a long tail that's just not worth pushing through all at once.
Once I moved out - everything is back to normal for my rest of family. They sometimes call my family to check if I am back, but getting "no" answer each time.

Yeah, with some of these friends I keep in touch.

So it played out well for me and my family. But definitely not for the people of Belarus.
Interesting, as well, that Microsoft wrote a love story between Cortana and Master Chief.
1) the only solution is an online wallet

2) those businesses will need to be paid for their service, and face security risks as well

3) government will regulate

4) some businesses will start wallets/vaults, which will enable you to open a wallet free of charge in exchange for depositing your bitcoins

5) those businesses will use the deposited bitcoins for lending, investments and speculation

hello brave new world...
Does anyone have two audio streams playing on this link?
Uncss: Find Unused CSS
Am I the only one who is hearing a weird interfering conversation being picked up by the guys microphone? (at time 2:11:30)

It's a little difficult to hear.

edit: Looks like they fixed it now. (2:27:00)
There's a third feature that is not so obvious: competition. The more the better, for us customers.
Give it a few months, and I think you will see this.
You should have come to us when you were 25. :)

You already know how to program and you have degree. You just have to break into the industry. A side project where you build a web app, put it on the internet, will be very helpful in getting a developer job.

You should do the Masters if you want to learn another area of CS more deeply, such as Machine Learning, Distributed Systems or Programming Languages and Compilers. This is not necessary if you are interested in becoming a professional programmer. It won't make you more money on the outset, but it could help you develop other skills, but it will make you a better critical thinker, writer and give you a network that will be valuable to you.
Why not do the search for a variable name, and not just the pair of letters?

/\<ct\>

Learning to use your tools properly is the real boon to productivity, not arbitrary ad hoc rules.
I hear it too.
Is 120K a year a lot of money in a city where the median price for a 3br house is 1.1 million? (check zillow and us news money magazine for figures).

According to sfgate, the average application developer in SF earns 110K a year, the average dental hygenist earns 106k a year, the average RN earns 112K a year. Software devs earn fine salaries, and I'm very pleased that dental hygienists and nurses are well paid, they should be! But let's not start acting like software devs in high cost areas like SF (where many of the companies claiming a shortage are located) are an exceptionally well paid group compared to other professions in high cost areas. They earn enough that in a two income family with both parents working full time (say, a dental hygenist and software developer), they can afford a house in a reasonable school district, moderate but not exceptional vacations, and so forth.
In due time.
"and it isn't fully in favor of short term happiness"

Exactly. And see nobody wants to believe that. They want to think that things will just work out.

I'm wondering about how many people downvoting or disagreeing are aware that the major problem in marriage (as reported in popular culture and I believe it from my observation to be true) are money problems. So sure hey continue to pursue what gives you happiness but don't forget the things that allow basic survival.
I think the point is that the old packages will fail to install on future computers.
Get Out of Denial About Your Startup's Priorities
I'm a computer science postdoc at the Salk Institute. We're having a big public event next Saturday (Walk for Salk) where we're also doing lab tours. Bring your daughter there and I'll give her an extra tour of the computational areas.

(find me at avani@salk.edu)
I can hear something about someone using bed sheets to do something, and people using their imaginations. Is it a home shopping channel?!
While it may not technically be a violation of laws protecting freedom of speech, consider for example...

- Organizing a group of bookstores to stop selling a certain book because you find it offensive for any reason

- Using your privileged position at say, a conference, to get other speakers removed because you dislike them

- as a web service provider, removing a website about a topic you find offensive

None of these have anything to do with the government making a law that infringes on free speech. If they don't violate laws protecting free speech then they certainly piss all over the spirit of it. Or are they only bad when the speech is the "right" kind of speech?

Also as I said elsewhere in the thread, most of the time I find boycotts ineffective, especially when it would only jurt innocent people and when the change it creates is merely cosmetic. You're certainly free to boycott anything you wish, and to ask others to boycott, but you can't expect everyone to agree it's a good idea.
Microsoft debuts Windows Phone 8.1, Cortana assistant
Yes, looks like they fixed it now.
There's also the "if I make this prediction and I'm wrong, will it affect me?" bias too.

The more involved you are, and especially the more accountable you are held for your decisions, the more you're likely to second guess yourself. There's normally a reason your second guess wasn't your first guess.
Do you really believe that the user is actually in control of the upgrades ?

On iOS at least, it's (by default) a manual process to update an app.

Having to code specifically for each device sounds like a benefit to you ?

Benefit for the user, yes.
I don't understand why you would ever want comments to affect the outcome of the program, it can only confuse programmers
This is a valid point, and I suppose you could look at it as lock-in. Amazon of course would see customers simply choosing the better deal. Its what they do, after all.

Looking at it the other way, Amazon could build 20 teams to maintain the streaming software on all the devices, something that would be difficult to do at scale, profitably, while providing the solid customer experience Amazon has come to be known for. The detractors there would say "who cares if they don't lock you in, they cant, it sucks its slow and it crashes all the time." In my mind, Amazon is making the right choice, especially in the wake of Apple and Google.
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Yes and no. Chromecast requires you having another device to use with it. Grabbing my phone, opening the Netflix app, choosing to Chromecast, searching for a show, hitting play then waiting ~30 seconds for the Chromecast to actually play is not a good user experience. I use my Roku almost exclusively now.
Playnoise.com is an HTML5 noise generator that supports Brown noise (as well as pink and white). I find it much less harsh than white noise for any period of time.
Fixed Action Patterns
Sorry about that, we had the permissions set too strictly. It's fixed now, and I want to thank you for bringing this to our attention before the competition starts.
Actually I'm quite ambivalent about it, I never used ubuntuOne. The problem is there is now precedent for this, and it's all secret. We can't know one way or the other about this or a ton of other stuff. It's more a comment that the NSA has thrown up a huge amount of uncertainty about a lot of things and you can now second guess so many things. And that sucks.
If you have kids, you get some love in your parent role, too: limits to what kids see, and caps by content types and times of day -- no more negotiating! And they're launching an all-you-can-eat content subscription designed for kids under 9, including e-books.
I felt the same way about working with music on, until I found http://musicforprogramming.net/
Video Game Storybundle 3.0 – the best yet?
Looking for a develop that understand the mission – Get Men Stuff
I know the title seems a little vague but I have the info all worked out. I need a developer that can understand the vision and help make it a reality.

Let's chat.

Email me at: lchristian2@dons.usfca.edu - apologies if this is the wrong place for this request.
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What you're talking about isn't "a sliver." Given the underlying architecture of the various mobile OSes (FireFox OS excluded, perhaps--I don't know enough about it to say), it's actually quite probably a very big task.

I'm sure there are masochistic people who write code for browsers who'd love to maintain the browser-API abstraction over N OS API implementations. I'm not so sure there is a sufficient number of them to get such a task off the ground. It's not some trivial matter of simply implementing something like an HTTP-based API.
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Roku is close once you use Plex. You get local network playback + Netflix, Prime, Crackle, Hulu, Pandora which is what I want. The video quality, performance, bugs, and gaming support of the Roku suck though. I keep swapping my Roku for a Chromecast and back again.

I'd like a box that supports Prime, local network playback, and casual gaming/emulation. If Amazon would have released a Prime Video app I'd switch to some of those cheap Android PCs on an HDMI stick by now but they've been holding out probably to use as a carrot to get people locked into their app store.

I hate having to side-load apps but if I can on the FireTV and get local network playback working I very well might buy one.

Edit: Looks like it will have Plex and Miracast support.
It's in the matrix farther down on the page as a checkbox, "sorted" below Crackle and Hulu Plus.

The YouTube logo is not in the big image describing "What's on Amazon FireTV?" [0], apparently it is one of the "plus many more".

[0] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/d...
ABI Research states Chromebook shipments reach 2.1 million for 2013
Microsoft introduces Universal Windows apps
Interesting. I went to look it up because I thought you were wrong. You can get the Amazon Appstore on non-Amazon android devices, but it seems you are correct about AIV.

Wonder if its a DRM issue, or other hardware security issue for Android devices.
And for "games" (many exist, though not of the sort that this device promises).
> other channels, live news, or broadcast TV and we'll buy it in a heartbeat.

Agreed! Does anyone know of any device that offers live streaming news from CNN, Fox, etc.? The Roku store doesn't list CNN; it does list Fox News but only "video clips" and not a full 24/7 live stream of the television channel:
http://www.roku.com/channels/#search/cnn/by-popular
As someone who worked in business strategy / analytics, I can say that procrastination does occur, but it's probably a bit harder to get away with.

You generally have to give frequent updates, with a predefined deliverable. It's often a series of sprints, vs deliver this in 2 weeks. If you don't deliver something - which happens all the time for unforseen reasons - you generally make everyone aware of the delay and what caused it. So, you can only procrastinate so much before you run out of excuses.
Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
Not sure if it will be a category winner, but if the gaming works, it will definitely be a winner for me. I haven't owned a gaming console in years, but I'd certainly do some casual gaming if there was a cheap option built into a streaming. I currently own and frequently use an older Roku, but if gaming reviews come are positive I will likely switch.
With screen mirroring, Apple TV offers the ability to play any game in the App Store on a TV wirelessly without having to buy a controller. That game library will likely always be larger than this one. Granted, you must have an iPhone or iPad, but I am surprised that Apple does not tout this feature more. I use it daily and it is pretty awesome.
>Any time a new app comes out for iOS that supports streaming video, I know I'm going to be able to play it on my television.

Unless they block Airplay, which is not unusual. Like Amazon Prime didn't allow streaming until recently. HBO Go also took a while to allow it.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/17/amazon-primes-ios-app-fina...
Railscasts Down
It looks like Railscasts is offline - hopefully it's temporary.

http://railscasts.com/
Ah, this is one of the problems with isolated ecosystems, I guess. Until Apple opens up AirPlay (never), I'm stuck with whatever they give me. :/
It's interesting how different perspectives work:

> The gaming aspect of this will make it a winner. OUYA's big problem is that it didn't do streaming and was a bit clunky. Amazon has a big game library and just needs controller support.

I think the gaming aspects are the worst part and are entirely useless. Who wants to casual game with an underpowered box on a giant TV screen? Goofy games are fun on a 4-7" screen because expectations are low. On my TV I expect a crazy immersive experience, not "Candy Crush".

Perhaps they would have been better served by spending their time getting HBO-Go, Starz/Encore and Spotify all hooked into their little box. If they want to be the central hub for all things "media" and want to compel people to move off of their existing platform ( Roku and ATV ) it seems like they need to offer a more complete package.
Not for me. ALSA was fantastic for me, I had custom routing set up with LADSPA processing, very low latency, and multi-stream mixing. Pulse doesn't do nearly as much for me.
> I suspect the main buyers will be those who simply have bought into Amazon Instant Video as opposed to iTunes in the past.

But that includes anyone with Amazon Prime.

> Let's see what Apple's next revision of Apple TV offers.

Is Apple's next revision of Apple TV going to let me watch iTunes content from non-Apple devices? You're glossing over this as insignificant when, for lots of us, it's a deal-breaker.
What is everyone using for a DVR? Why doesn't this include some time of recording, storage and pausing capabilities? The DVR provided by the cable companies are laggy and the Tivo one charges a monthly fee for what equates to updating program guides, but not accounting for shows actually running over.
A note on the title change:

When the story title is linkbait and there are no good subtitles, we sometimes draw on the first sentence of the story. In this case I used the description under the photo. The key thing is to use only language that's already there.
People love to say this, but it just isn't true. Ideas can be very valuable, particularly when they come from a well-informed perspective in an untapped niche/market.

Of course an idea isn't useful without execution, but without the idea, you have nothing to execute.
Why dont you just build something with your knowledge (a fun side project) - forget the MS and taking a code course. You can't learn the in's and out's of developing in a language without doing it.

So do.
Windows Phone 8.1 and Cortana officially revealed at Build 2014
As a chinese,I can't agree more with you.:)
I'd be surprised if the lack of WebGL is what's holding back mobile browser based games. I would imagine it's the relative difficulty in monetizing them vs the app store.
Maybe HS First requires a lot of programming, the regular FIRST for 9-14 does not require any programming to advance. It is mainly focussed on presentation skills rather than technical skills.
This is imho the best news ever from microsoft. Now I can target serverside, frontend, windows8 devices and windowsphone all with one language (javascript for me). Not bad at all

update: I have to add other news just announced. With winJS now we can target also xboxone, ios and android device
And also the full framework is opensource under apache license

update2: winJS on github https://github.com/winjs/winjs
Another interesting algorithm for fuzzy searching is this one: http://www.catalysoft.com/articles/StrikeAMatch.html

It essentially compares the number of matching two letter pairs in strings.

I used it in a C# app that did a fuzzy instant search as the user typed more letters in. On a dataset of about six thousand names it performed really well, but it was a pretty simple app. I also used a javascript version on the same list to see how it performed on an X120e netbook, and again, it was instantaneous.

No idea how the performance would compare to the methods for common substring. I like the pairs matching because I can screw up letter positioning and accidentally type a letter or two that doesn't exist in the string, but still get back strongly matching results and usually find what I want. I used it because we had a huge issue at work with people brutalizing names they entered into our employee database.

Here's an implementation I wrote in javascript: https://gist.github.com/doorhammer/3016ecaac5313a87804b

I never used it in production, and it's not optimized really at all, but it shows how straight forward a typical version can be.
Does it have a headphone jack on the remote ala the Roku 3? It's probably one of the more useful features on the new Roku box.
ouya only supported selected games. If this box supports all games along with emulators and top tier games, it may be a different outcome.
I actually find it much easier to search or browse for content using my tablet or phone, then choose to throw it up on the TV via Chromecast, as opposed to searching for content using a remote like on a Roku or my Xbox.

It just seems easier for me to do this in my hand than ten feet away, especially when I have to try to enter text into a TV interface.
Well, people claiming to be psychic have sometimes managed to get worse-than-random results when tested...
Space surgery robot will enter astronauts via the belly button
How To Improve Product Quality
They aren't blocking anyone. You get a message saying "Brendan is a bad man, use another browser, click Ok to continue if you want"
So, the short version is that for a digital currency to be popular and convenient, it has to not be like bitcoin at all
They were just ahead of their time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)
The only way to get yourself out of the lock in is to stop buying their devices.
This is a really interesting question, actually.

In my undergrad ecology class, we were assigned a scent-based laboratory experiment which involved all the male and female members of the class wearing the same white t-shirt for 48 hours in order to accrue bodily odors-- heavy workouts, perfume, showering, etc were all prohibited. At the end, everyone in the class sniffed all of the t-shirts and guessed which t shirt had been worn by what sex.

Most people had a 50-50 chance, and a few guessed slightly better than chance. I was far worse than chance, guessing only 10% correctly. In a way, anti-forecasting is a type of forecasting, too. If someone had asked me for my guess and then guessed the opposite, they'd have had superior guessing power. This paradigm falls apart quickly when the chances of events aren't so clear, however.
Where have all the workers gone? – New Yorker