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I'll go ahead and throw my 2 cents your way since I just graduated last month (and will be back for grad school in the Fall). I think our perceptions on the whole "college experience" is different now but I was a lot like you when I got to school too.

In short, I mainly kept to myself within the CS department. While I had friends there, my relationship with them was majorly school-based. My girlfriend and guys I hung out with on a regular basis were all in different fields but that never bothered me because we still all had a blast. I worked on personal projects and homeworks mostly by myself, but I personally preferred it that way because it was so much more rewarding to me to do it that way than to have someone else walk me through it. So, was this solidarity beneficial to me? I think it was for me but could see how others may want more. One thing I did do was find a few professors I really respected and talked to on a regular basis which I think was more beneficial to me than most peer interactions.

On another note here is something to think about Facebook: You only see what everyone wants you to see about them. Kids in college largely have the same mindset as you...they want to be having the best time of their life, so you can be sure that is how they perceive themselves on social media and crop their content to fit that. I can remember countless parties where a large group of people walk in, pose against the crowd and take pictures, then leave. Maybe they go hang out somewhere else or maybe they go home, but you can be sure the next morning they all have those pictures all over Facebook showing 'what a great time' they had. Personally, after my sophomore year I stopped using Facebook all together and only get on when I have an email notification I need to attend to.

What kind of clubs and social life are you looking for? If you have a strong CS dept, it is likely your professors head their own research groups for their field and would at least let you come to the meetings if not participate in the research yourself if you showed some initiative. If you are really unhappy I'd consider transferring but only after you're sure that what you are looking for isn't available where you are. Sometimes you just have to look a little harder and put yourself out there.
Agreed. Another thing that pisses me off is the editorial style: "I met Mike in a soon-to-be fashionable dive bar in the lesser known South part of town, where Pearl Jam's former masseuse mixed us a cocktail containing african dung beetle livers and wolfsbane."

Ever since Po Bronson was covering the dot-com boom with stories of weed growers from Michigan launching dot-com empires in his graphic you-want-to-be-this-guy style, they haven't shifted away from it.

The style has been locked down ever since Conde Nast bought the magazine at Providence Equity's yard sale in 98.

Reading Wired in public is modern leprosy - thankfully neither are too contagious.
So you're saying LMDB looking up a user-specific record and returning it will always be faster than either an lseek() and read() on a cached mmapped file [old model] or an open(), read(), close() on a cached file [new model] ? Is the Linux VFS that slow?

In terms of transaction guarantees, I thought the commenter was talking about the newer model where each profile is an independent (and tiny) file; if that's the case, then deleting and renaming files wouldn't be necessary, and any failures in writing could be rolled back in the journal rather than be a file that's now non-existent or renamed. From what I understand, the most the ext4 issue would affect this newer model would be to revert newly-created profile files, which again I think would be a minor setback for this forum.
No, she's facing the right way - it's a music lesson, so she's facing the instrument which she's playing. But she's looking slightly towards the (I assume) teacher, as if asking "Am I doing this right?". On Tim's version, she has abandoned the instrument completely and is just talking to the gentleman, who is also much more engaged with her judging by the body postrue - I'd say even there's something else than music lesson going on in that version :) So these paintings, while being similar, actually depict two quite different situations.
After seeing that there was also two., four. and five.sentenc.es I wondered if the site just had an auto page generator based on the subdomain.

Alas neither fifty.sentenc.es or life.sentenc.es worked.

I was disappointed.
Are you on a mac? I just tried and the close button is on the right.
Or perhaps more pragmatically, to simply deny her claims for assistance until she can prove her maternity.
did anyone else notice the photo/painting's caption read "Click to Embiggen"?

Could this be a subtle nod to the animators who painstakenly produce live cartons at the sacrifice of their wrists?
Hi Adam! Yes, we are rolling out city-by-city in order of number of listings. Mountain View has around 400 active listings, so we should be there in the next month or so! We use a ton of data to derive our prices, rather than creating a generic pricing algorithm without data, so it's just a matter of getting that together and testing in each market.
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Very interesting article but this:

"I couldn't find a CNC lathe large enough to make these parts"

Makes absolutely no sense. I've worked on CNC rigs that would turn shafts for ocean liners and wheels for cranes, a couple of table legs should not have been a problem.

As for the theory, very interesting.

Here is the artist painting himself in his studio:

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/catalogue/image-paintings/ar...

I don't see anything like lenses, mirrors or other tricks, mostly just brushes, paint, canvas, the artist and the subject. There is that little black stick on the top right of the canvas, wonder what that is? Maybe there is a mirror at the end of it ;) It would be funny if the evidence for all this was sitting in plain view for a few hundred years but likely there is a more ordinary explanation for that stick, maybe someone with more experience in painting can chip in about what that is.

The about box at the bottom lists Tim as the guy behind DigiPaint of Amiga fame, and his company is also the one behind LightWave 3D.
He's done a bunch of stuff, but CAP is probably his most popular work. Even Wikipedia says that's what he's "known for".
Well, the thing is, anything would be better than what we have currently.

I know that in general the problem is undecidable. But we don't need to solve the entire problem to solve a large chunk of practical cases.

Even a simple runtime cast (with check) / asserting cast (a cast with an assertion that would be triggered at compile time if the compiler can find a valid counterexample, otherwise unchecked) combination would be miles above what we have now in most strongly typed languages.
At least for Scala it's not based on hacks, it's not slower and the reason the APKs are bulkier is because if you don't use proguard you'll be embedding the whole Scala library. It's not specific to Android, the only difference is that on Android we care about the whole package size while on a server it's not a problem.

Groovy is probably slower, but it's slower on a regular JVM as well.

So nothing specific to Android here.
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How does this work? If A has a channel to B, and sends that channel to C, do B and C now communicate directly, or is it proxied through A?

EDIT: I see you mentioned the Unix socket transport passes around file descriptors. How about the inter-host transports? Obviously two browsers can't directly connect to each other (or could they with WebRTC...?) what about, say, TCP between hosts on the same local network?
This is getting philosophical, but even if this was incontrovertible proof that Vermeer used these techniques to produce his works, it wouldn't detract from my appreciation. It would reshape my appreciate a bit, but I think that discovering these methods (by both Jenison and potentially Vermeer) is remarkable in itself. All artists use tools to produce their work - Vermeer may have just been innovative to find some really unique ones in his time.
If the language supports untagged unions, it isn't strongly typed. With very few exceptions.
Why would airbnb not be happy about this? They would really only be gaining money as their income is proportional to the owner's income. (Else this product doesn't help anyone, including the owner of the property)
The only problem with click-to-play is a lot of sites did their feature detect wrong and only try the HTML5 player if the browser doesn't list Flash support. If you use click-to-play, it still lists the Flash plugin as available so e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, etc. will load the Flash UI rather the faster, higher-quality path.
There's a village in China where they've made an industry out of producing good quality hand-painted reproductions of famous works. The cheap ones probably don't look that great up close, but I'm sure if you were willing to pay more (like $500) you could get something very nice.

http://www.dafenvillageonline.com/
Close, but Planet says their Dove sats are limited to 3-5 meters, whereas Skybox's sats are submeter resolution. Planet seems to have more of a change detection mission over a quality mission. Skybox also does video, which I'm not sure about with Planet.
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It's irritating. I keep Chrome and Firefox both installed so I can test sites on them and it's not until I go to use an addon or Firebug that I realize I somehow ended up using Chrome as my browser for the day rather than my usual favorite Firefox.
He is still committing, but not quite so often :)
I'm curious - why did you go with Python over Java in the first place? Many of your bulletpoints are also things that Java gives you, except for the duck-typed interfaces, goroutines, and control over memory layout.
Your opinion...

My opinion is his comment was a waste of time and mine was funny.
As has been pointed out, it would be easy to grab someone else's children in order to fraudulently sign up for government checks. In my own city, there was a massive fraud operation of mothers claiming to run (federally subsidized) day-care facilities and listing each other's kids as the attendees. It was all on paper of course; no kids were being looked after. That's the type of abuse that will always occur and needs to be curbed in some way.
I would actually argue the opposite: in theory, there is a type system that describes every system, even 'untyped' ones, which are really uni-typed.

In practice, there are often types that your type system can't express. I didn't start to really grok this till I saw dependent types.

Then again, I am an amateur type theory enthusiast...
I love the process he follows, but Vermeer the biggest painter of all time?. He must be kidding.

Vermeer painting is ok, but there are better paintings and certainly better painters.

Rembrandt or Velazquez run circles around Vermeer in photorealism, but if you consider other things Vermeer is not even in the top ten, probably in top 100.
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> Companies pay for faster Internet connections all the time. That's Akamai's entire business

Akamai doesn't pay for faster connections to ISPs. They pay for more servers located at more places in the network, so that the average network distance from an Akamai server to a user is smaller, using the connections that already exist.

> Nothing about this is having the ISP's customer pay more to the ISP based on which websites they want to go to

No, it's about websites or web services paying more to ISPs so that customers can get to them at full speed instead of being throttled back, even though the website or web service is already paying to have their content on servers spread around the world so it is closer to customers.
Go could take a bite from Python in web development area, but scientific computing...No chance
How come it is not hacks?

I have to download plugins from multiple sources, compile them if the binaries for the latest release aren't available, glue everything together and hope for the best while coding and deploying to Android.

Not to mention the bugs while interacting both with Eclipse and Android Studio tooling.
The MapBox Satellite layer available for tracing into OSM is sourced from DigitalGlobe[1], not Skybox, so it shouldn't affect OSM.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/help/mapbox-satellite-sources/
Have you guys modeled what this would do to the airbnb economy as a function of how many users actively use your tool?
Will videos of Dockercon talks be posted?
That might be considered the beta branch :)
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If you wouldn't mind providing some insight, I'm curious what your approach is to verifying a hire is w.r.t. collecting commission?
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You misspelled "discreetly."
Personally I prefer the "wait 'til standardized" approach better. Web standards have been dragged through the mud enough thanks to IE and its disregard for standards. We don't need Chrome running wild doing the same.
> I am a long term investor, so I am not terribly concerned with management fees.

This is what you should be most concerned with as a long-term investor. Investment fees can easily chew away at a significant portion of your gains over the long-term. The difference between a mutual fund with an expense ratio of 1% and a fund that costs 0.05% is $6661 over 20 years on a $10,000 investment (assuming both return 7% annually). In the end, it's the difference between $31,650 and $38,311.

Obviously the difference grows with the size of your investment.
Until they are packaged in a single "Android Support" package instead of being scattered across multiple project sites that one needs to manually glue together without Google sponsorship[1], they are hacks.

[1] At least Oracle sponsors alternative JVM languages.
Does it work if you send it to your own address?
You know what? I take that back. At some point, I'd had the impression that Alcubierre's solution required a fixed velocity (so you couldn't start or stop the spaceship), but evidently that's not the case. It gets to be problematic after all! :)
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Assuming stock based comp means anything to executives, then a shift in market sentiment away from their stock (ie price decline) should help modify behaviour.
Typically, if you violate FARs, you'll lose a huge pilot's license investment (private, ifr, commercial can total in the tens of thousands of dollars).

It doesn't hurt to lose a $300-$1000 quadrotor pilot license.
What's the difficulty, exactly? You need some mundane float->bits and bits->float operations, which are commonly although not universally provided in strongly typed environments. The rest is integer ops.
Thanks! I knew someone must have analyzed this before.
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Is that the same Eric Brewer from Inktomi?
If we had usage-paid highways (which we couldn't have earlier due to missing technology but now such things start to pop up), I can imagine some remotely-located mega-store could advertise as "come to us and we'll pay your road toll - both directions!".
Safety loses out when you're on a deadline.

I flew private with someone when I was a student pilot; we were on a deadline, so instead of waiting for the weather to let up, we were scud running about 300 miles back to our home airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_running). This is inadvisable; you're throwing minimum ceilings out the window, and hoping you don't run into obstacles on the ground (wind towers, cell towers, antenna guy wires).

It's not just dangerous, but illegal if you get caught. (Note: I was not PIC, and did not make the call). Do not do this.

EDIT: /u/lsh123 said it better.
Doh. Fixed, thanks.
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Frustrated that I wasted 10 minutes of my time filling out the form and never got my stock mix recommendations. I provided my data and you (the website) never upheld its promise of giving me a stock mix based on my preferences.
Is this the beginning of the era of online housing bidding networks? Guess soon we will have Airbnb exchanges...
Doesn't explain the differential population in coral and humans; the simpler organisms have shorter lifespans, it should matter less if they're susceptible to an external influence.

More likely there are so many receptors because the type and mechanism of cell death is important for the programming of complexity in organisms and macroorganisms.
"Many city residents blame a growing wealth gap on large technology industry salaries."

This is why the economic left loses while the social left (e.g. gay rights) tends to win. The economic left blames the successful for the unsuccessful and has a zero-sum view of the world. How far would the social left get if racial equality protestors had argued that whites should have less rights? How far would gay rights activists get with "we need to take the benefits of marriage away from heterosexuals?" Yet this is precisely how the economic left approaches issues.

The only time success is to blame for others' hardship is when that success is actually criminal or parasitic -- e.g. financial fraud, corrupt government contractors profiteering off tax revenue, imperial theft of others' wealth through outright warfare, etc. The tech industry isn't doing that to any significant degree.

The inequality problem in SF is due primarily to real estate hyperinflation, which is the fault of NIMBYism and poor city planning. Those high techie salaries are helping, not hurting, by pumping more money into the economy. Unfortunately real estate is the dry sponge soaking up almost all that upside.
"We have converted most of the CRT sources to compile as C++, enabling us to replace many ugly C idioms with simpler and more advanced C++ constructs. "

+1 I love it.
I think he's talking about mapbox's custom tasking that's still kinda being worked on. You'll be able to request fresh imagery through mapbox, that will be tasked to skybox (among others) through their apis.

[1] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/interfaces-for-visualizing-rapid...

[2] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-satellite-live-firstlook/
Crucially, the drawings in that NY Times piece were done from memory, not observation. It's a different problem. "draw what you see, not what you know" is the standard instruction given to beginning artists, and the idea that this is the way to draw us well-established, for example in the philosopher Thomas Reid:

'I was recently much struck by a passage from the 18th century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, who speaks of the general habit of the human mind to move extremely rapidly, from the reception of stimuli in the eye, to mental interpretations of those stimuli in terms of known objects in the world. "The mind has acquired a confirmed and inveterate habit of inattention to [the luminous stimuli]; for they no sooner appear than quick as lightning the thing signified succeeds, and engrosses all our regard..." The only profession in life in which it is necessary, by training the eye and mind, to break this process apart - to separate seeing from recognising - Reid says, is painting. "The painter hath occasion for an abstraction, with regard to visible objects... and this is indeed the most difficult part of his art. For it is evident, that if he could fix in his imagination the visible appearance of objects, without confounding it with the things signified by that appearance, it would be as easy for him to paint from the life, and to give every figure its proper shading and relief, and its perspective proportions, as it is to paint from a copy." ' (Philip Steadman)

Or Paul Valery: "Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees." Practically a cliche.
It's actually out of date, I'm currently in Kansas City.

Have you also been confused with http://hci.stanford.edu/msb/ or http://michaelbernstein.biz/ and even http://www.mabfan.com/ at SF conventions? ;-)
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I agree that our bandwidth to price ratio is shitty in this country. But until we have viable competition in THIS country, our rates won't come down. John Oliver's rant on Net Neutrality (ironically on HBO) sums this up pretty nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU
Does anyone here know which graph driver Docker is using in RHEL7 (aufs or devmapper)?
The bigger problem with trying to be socially responsible with investments in large public companies is that being large and diverse public companies they'll tend to all participate in activity with negative side effects if you look hard enough.

For better or for worse, this seems to follow the PR spin:
The sample portfolios give you Johnson & Johnson if you're against animal testing, even though despite PETA's best efforts they still do more animal testing than most companies. They give you Ford if you're against the bailouts their CEO lobbied for, though despite the publicity blitz associated with Ford not actually needing them they still took $6bn in government loans in 2009. And if you're against weapons and drone warfare they give you GE, which might have stopped loaning money to a few handgun shops in a public CSR gesture but couldn't really be much more critical to military supply chains, including specialised drone components
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I don't think that fact that advfs on tru64 did well is any evidence that other filesystems are not dealing with this poorly. I'm running an XFS filesystem right now that still totally sucks at this particular aspect but I'm loathe to move all the data off the machine, rebuild it all and then to move it back.

For one it would need a vast amount of temp space, the site would be down while doing it and the end result would be much the same as what it is today (I rarely modify the filesystem).
You're reciting an obfuscated tautology -- hard things are hard.

But most things are not hard. Hard things can be dealt with if and when they come up through documentation and training. Dealing with them by making easy things equally hard is silly.
>For high abstraction and friendliness, C++ doesn't do nearly as nice of a job as MATLAB or Python in exposing high-level scientific computing operations.

I think you responded to it yourself in the next paragraph.

While not quite the same as using MATLAB or Numpy; with Eigen, Blitz++ and Armadillo you can come really close syntactically. You do have to suffer through the compilation process but it comes with computational benefits. Numpy and its ilk are adversely affected by the limitation of their vectorization paradigm, some more, some less. This style creates needless copies, unnecessary and overly pessimistic loops. These cost performance. Eigen/Blitz++/Armadillo style libraries do not suffer from this problem. A common Pythonic way to recover from these deficiencies of Numpy is to use Cython (and numexpr although it has a very narrow scope). However, to see speedups in these tight numerical loops with Cython one really has to do manual indexing, write at a low level, not so for Eigen/Armadillo/Blitz++.

This, although very limited in scope, is a concrete example that shows that you can write at a higher level in C++ without incurring performance hits.
Great to see this on Hacker News! This has been my little secret for pricing my AirBnb the last couple of months! Guess the secret's out now.
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I suggest defining these acronyms. For everyone else: CFI = Certified Flight Instructor. FAR = Federal Aviation Regulation.
They weren't taking the children to give them to someone deemed more likely to be a parent, or indeed to someone who even claimed to be a parent. They were just taking them. If you think this makes any sense at all, you've got the burden of proof reversed. Yay totalitarianism!