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I'm not involved in FlatBuffers -- I said I hadn't heard of it before yesterday. :)

My comment about unions was about the Google protobuf implementation, which I am tangentially involved in.
I don't blame apps or app-makers for people's choices and actions, but this seems like the perfect app to cause texting while driving even if the recipient had no intention of doing-so. Requiring a "recipient" to send a message in order to receive a pending message sounds like it'd be more-likely to create that scenario.
Most elementary school aged kids I have talked to play Minecraft. I heard from a teacher that it is the vast majority.
Haven't we already seen this movie with Facebook Poke? We saw how that ended...
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Dang, I hate to be "that guy", but surely there's a better, more useful lesson we can learn here.

"Don't be a dreamer, be a creator", AKA "get shit done", "hack the world", etc. is pretty par for the course.

Mr. Garry Tan tell us more about how Instacart executed, how they got to those first steps of signing suppliers. Any such tidbit would be valuable and useful to us entrepreneurs!
The average smartphone bill is like $160 a month,

For a family of 4, or for an individual?
With the recent popularity of 20th-Century period dramas in the US, it seems like the market has never been more fertile for a film or series about the age of phreaking. It would be quite something to see a movie set around the time that Hackers came out that actually had well-researched, realistic hacking!
Exactly. bayesianhorse's approach is perfectly valid, but your response describes our reasoning for our approach.
You can also query on them, which is really cool IMO! E.g. give me every document where the score has increased:

r.table('games') \
.changes() \
.filter(r.row['old_val']['score'] < r.row['new_val']['score']) \
.run(conn)

Or, give me every document for user X:

r.table('games') \
.changes() \
.filter(r.row['new_val']['user_id'] == X) \
.run(conn)

So you can write really cool apps out of the box without having to filter things on the client.

(BTW, we have a lot more planned for this)
I'm happy to see someone who shares my exact same sentiment. I mean, when I read "but there's a catch, they have to send something first" I thought it was a joke. First of all, the fact that they made another snapchat with just a little spin on it says to me that they don't really know what they're doing; they're just after money, there's no vision behind it. Secondly, with all the useful products and services they could be developing for the betterment of society, they decided it would be a good idea to sink money in yet another pics sharing app. I fear the future will be just this: a selected few engineers making toys for the entertainment of the masses living on minimum wage. Bleak times indeed.
If you want to keep your creation forever, then don't tell anyone about it. Don't even write it down.
Skimming the beginning of the article, it looks pretty good.

The origin of the name is in part in reaction to neoconservatives (the real ones, not the silly, almost meaningless epithet it's become post-9/11). They were Communists/socialists/liberals, err, the latter are now progressives again, who lost faith due to the manifold failings of the Left. There's of course a lot more to say about them, especially their attitudes towards change, the distinguishing characteristic is that paleocons never had a phase when they were on the Left.
$10k for an entire year sounds really amazing. Did it feel like $10k? Mind sharing a rough expenses/budget? Even with a $100k salary, saving/investing $90k annually would be amazing...
Yeah, but then you're working for FedEx. FEDEX.

I'm sorry, but Pittsburgh has very few software companies that provide the sort of training, environment, experience and challenge that allow an area to develop and produce top technical talent. Yes, Pittsburgh has great universities, a small startup scene, and some amazing medical and applied science companies, but the software development industry there is extremely small.

I lived there until I was 26. I worked 5 years for Sony out in westmoreland county. When I started to do some freelance work, I had local Pittsburgh recruiters tell me I could never make what I was aiming for. So I took a contract just a few hours away in Philly that paid double what I could get in Pittsburgh. I don't know if there's a single firm in Pittsburgh, aside from perhaps Google, that could match the salary I currently have or the offers I've had from large tech firms in LA, San Francisco, Seattle and NYC.
It's called "pic for pic" and I hear the kids are really into it.
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100% agreed.

I'm from New York City but went to college in the 'Burgh, and while I do have an affinity for the place given the four years I spent there, I'd never choose to live there. It's a remarkably isolated city...

The last time Pittsburgh was a real, honest transit nexus was some 60-70 years ago for the Pennsylvania Railroad. While USAir had something of a hub at PIT, it's been tertiary to PHL and CLT since the company was called USAir, and then they pulled out very quickly after they were acquired by America West. For road travel, maybe it's a pass through city if you are starting in Philly and are driving to Cleveland, Detroit, or Chicago, but most of the traffic in the NE Corridor opts for I-80 to the north, which is much more direct and a much easier drive than the Turnpike.

Pittsburgh also doesn't have much of a metropolitan area surrounding it. The drop-off from downtown to rural is rather stark. And while there are indeed some nice neighborhoods (Shadyside and Squirrel Hill within the city... Fox Chapel and Wexford to name a few outside,) most of the inner suburbs have an, IMHO, outer-outer borough NYC feel to them (i.e. Bay Ridge or Bay Side, not Williamsburg or Park Slope.) There is practically no commuter belt, so you either really have to like the urban core, or the surrounding mountain towns.

So yes, it's an isolated city. Even Cleveland and Baltimore have more of a metro-urban feel to them in some respects. It's certainly not an issue for many who choose to live there, but it's always been my reason for staying away after college.
Same conclusion we also had in https://github.com/mopidy/pyspotify/issues/139 when looking at if we should move away from libspotify in favor of the new web API. For now I would stick with libspotify wrappers until a more complete version of the API comes out.
I really love the idea. But the first time I saw the site, with the description, I thought, Oh god, is this just another to-do list or task management app? Well, I was convinced later. I'm going to give the app a shot. I'm going to implement this for a small team in my company (Skcript.com) to check how this works. But truly, a neat and good idea. The app looks pure.
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"The BBC understands that even if blocks do go ahead, content from artists signed to independent labels will remain available on YouTube via channels such as Vevo."

This completely changes the issue altogether.

How did the Guardian misreport this so badly?
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What's the point of withholding from non-US appstores?

Isn't it MORE WORK to selectively publish to specific appstores instead of just leaving the "all countries" checkbox checked in iTunesConnect?

So tired of announcement after announcement from fb just leading to blank pages on my devices.
Another reason could be that there are some really smart dudes profiting using only public or non-material non-public information. It seems hard to disentangle those two sources of information and I can't find anything about it yet in the paper.
The difference is Youtube is being forced to not show it by the people claiming they are blocking it. It would be illegal if they did show it.
Is using http out of the db really useful?
Can someone give me a simple case when this should be used?
I think it's the difference in "we're mad/blackmailing/whatever, so your videos won't play anymore" and "we legally can't play your videos."

GP is suggesting throughout this thread that the indie labels are using deceptive language to say "YouTube is blocking us" when really they're saying "we don't like the terms so we won't let YouTube play our content."

Whether that's true or not, I have no idea.
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Just FYI, you compound indexes are already fully supported -- see http://rethinkdb.com/docs/secondary-indexes/python/.

The particular issue in question is using an index to filter documents, and then ordering them by another index.
Says who? All of the atheists I know tend to have some like of Star Trek-like futurist beliefs. Or watered-down Tim Leary beliefs of mind expansion and space migration.

Also, its probably not in our best interest to pretend that extinction events don't happen. If anything, if we're seeing some paranoia, it might be healthy paranoia. Imagine if Al Gore was a "everything happens for a reason" type person and didn't care to invest his political life into the environment. Instead he fought to popularize global warming and has helped moved policy forward. Policy that will probably make a difference to our grandkids.
There's a lot of middle ground between the optimism of 72 virgins and the strawman doom-and-gloom person you describe.

The most hopeless people I know tend to be conservative religious types for whatever reason. "Get while the gettings good" seems to be their collective motto. Who cares about the future when Jesus/Buddha/whoever is coming back any day now!
From my experience, pivoting does not motivate people who work for a start-up on a salary basis. Once you've made something, which you start liking, your bosses (start-up founders) tell you that they are going to pivot to a different direction. That simply drives away any sense of satisfaction by the work you've done.
What if that were true? How many works that we enjoy today could not exist under that sort of copyright regime? Disney is the obvious example, but many other works are on some level derivative of previous works and would be banished from existence by such a law.

Works of art survive because they are reproduced. This is why still-existing older works are so much better, having been heavily selected already.

Given the already ridiculous difficulty in identifying copyright holders in some cases presently, creating an eternal paperwork burden is a sure way to ensure that works become legally unusable, preventing them from being reproduced and ensuring their demise.
I lived in New York from '05-'08. It was fun. I have lots of friends there and I could go out to awesome bars and concerts and comedy shows, and it was generally a great time.

Eventually though, I wanted better opportunities. Nobody wanted to pay in New York. If I looked for web design gigs on Craigslist and elsewhere, everybody seemed to think $10/hour was a fair rate. It was insulting. So I got the hell out.

I moved to DC in 2008 and haven't really looked back. In 2008, it was considerably cheaper, and salaries were generally higher. After struggling to find a decent job when I was first planning to move to New York, I was shocked to find that there were many companies and organizations in DC that were jumping to hire me.

Now I live just outside the city. I actually have kids and own a house. Those things would have never been an option in New York, unless I was willing to raise my kids in a shithole apartment. Granted, DC's cost of living is astronomical, but it's still way more accessible than New York.

Everything that I like about New York is still there when I visit once a year or so. And that's about all the partying I have the stomach for these days anyway. Even if I lived there, the best parts of New York would only benefit me on rare occasions, but the drawbacks would be daily.

All that said, if you're in your mid-20s and looking for a few years of having fun and living in a tenement, go for it. I wouldn't advise against it. But if you're looking to ever settle down in New York, it's not a good idea.

I don't know if any city comes close to New York in terms of the entertainment and culture options available there. Even New York's subway system is unparalleled. DC's Metro is beautiful but functionally, it's only a tiny fraction of the New York subway.

Even in DC, I, I keep thinking of how low the cost of living is in Baltimore or Harrisburg, and whether maybe I should try to convince my employer to let me become part- or full-time remote, and take my DC salary to someplace with a lower cost of living.
I think I've crashed in the iOS version of the app no less than 15 times in the brief time I've been playing with it. The app is pretty, but all the pretty in the world doesn't matter if it's not functional.
It's extremely convenient for interactive use. See this tutorial -- http://rethinkdb.com/docs/external-api-access/.

You can grab JSON data out of APIs in seconds, filter and manipulate it, and enrich it with more APIs. I've been using `r.http` for some time (since an internal beta) and I now find it invaluable for ad-hoc analysis.
Another symptom of centralization. Why don't people host their own videos?
FYI, the 360KB PNG on your site made me feel like I was back on dialup.
clicking the "Reader" button on safari, located to the right of the URL bar gives a similar view.
Facebook Slingshot is much more than a Snapchat clone
We already have this sort of eventual consistency in Derby, built on top of ShareJS. All documents (JSON objects) can be edited synchronously in the browser, and changes are automatically replicated to all other clients.

If two people make a change to the same documents at the same time, the changes are merged in a way that will never conflict. For example if we both simultaneously insert into a list embedded in some part of the data model, derby sends a "list insert at position X" operation, which is seamlessly transformed & merged into the document at all sites. The insertion position is updated automatically before merging using the same logic that makes collaborative text editing in etherpad work. Except you can do it over the JSON structures that power your web app.
Well yes, that's why VHDL, Verilog, and the like exists.

In those languages, when you "include" a module that is "unsynthesizable", for example the stdio library, then the entire program is rendered unsynthesizable and unable to be compiled into logic gates -- but can still be run for simulation purposes.
Oh, they get filled. I took one of those jobs out of college. Took quite a while for people to realize that developers are a resource worth more than 45k.
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I love how names change and mean totally different things depending on the era. Just the change in meaning of the word "Liberal" could fill a book and tends to bring confusion to some current pundits.
So you're using Windows XP or something similarly mired in the 90s which doesn't have fonts installed with glyphs for a standard character. That's bad for you and a small number of other people but that hardly says it's not useful to the billion or so people who can read Chinese.

The nice part about having it Unicode is that if you copy and paste that character somewhere else, it'll still work. It never goes through what we used to have to deal where the same character value couldn't reliably be processed without knowing the intended encoding with certainty.
> "The more CEOs are paid, the worse the firm does over the next three years, as far as stock performance and even accounting performance"

Yeah well this entire study is invalidated by using stock performance as the lazy way to measure CEO performance.

Expensive CEOs are typically expensive, because they're hired to fix a company that everyone knows is going down. The riskier the company, the more the stock is expected to go worthless, the more you get paid in cash for taking on the job.

So it's expected that if you look for expensive CEOs you'll be seeing stock/accounting performance going down in short to mid term, because recoveries, whether successful or not, take time. They take years.

Also are you honestly counting CEOs who get millions in stock and $1 pay as... just getting $1 in pay? How stupid are you.
The 35% U.S. federal subsidies for solar energy are due to expire in 2016. That's an important consideration.

Nice coup for New York and its rebranding strategy. Doesn't Sanyo have a big facility upstate?

Unfortunately, in all of this, we never see a discussion about individual ownership and transfer of excess SREC's.
I work for IBM now in Pittsburgh. I think I get what you are saying. There are jobs in Pittsburgh that pay that much but they aren't jobs you would want. FedEx was pretty terrible but if you were the kind of person that could put up with an environment like that you could make good money. IBM has been surprising not as terrible as I thought it would be.
"build an ecosystem of applications,"

Google tried this in the mid-oughts. They stopped and began focusing mostly on Android, Search/Ads and YouTube. They rolled all that random idea/app shit into Google X. Apparently, Steve Jobs and the Google founders sat down and he basically said focus or die. So Google focused. I'm sure there's a Google graveyard out there that highlights all the apps they attempted to make, a few are still kicking like finance and news. But like Reader is huge shutdown from that period.

FB will likely do the same thing while it finds it's voice.
Really great points. I think that when working around power tools it is sometimes forgotten how careful you have to be.

Everyone innately knows certain things like "don't stick fingers in light socket" but other things aren't immediately obvious. Perhaps because you are juxtaposing something like an iphone and maybe are focused on the worse case scenario as being a destroyed iphone (in other words the money issue) instead of the iphone flying off into someones face.

I was watching an episode of "Property Brothers" (a typical renovate a house HGTV type show) and was amazed that they were having the owners participate in demolition without using practically any protective gear (while using crowbars and sledgehammers etc.)
I'm guessing that you want the emails to be encrypted before being saved to any disk? In that case, Switchboard isn't sufficient: it runs in front of email providers, and can't prevent them from saving an email to disk.

Switchboard could be used to fetch the email, encrypt it, and then replace the unencrypted email with the encrypted email on the server. However, replacing emails is invasive if the user doesn’t expect it, and other than the email provider's word you have no guarantee that the unencrypted email was actually deleted.
We should be treating the symptoms and also be focusing on the root cause.

I believe a lot of people have a mindset that technology can/should solve all the world's problems. The mindset can be misguided. When we pump hundreds of millions of dollars in a technology that might not take into consideration the human elements of the problem it is trying to solve - or the unintended consequences of such technology - we should be looking objectively and asking questions. Even if those questions don't have immediate answers.

It seems like if someone brings up any rational doubt or even QUESTIONS about GMOs they are instinctively labeled an "anti-science loon" and dismissed. Dismissing doubt by saying "you want children to go blind and die" isn't productive.

Everything has a trade-off as there isn't finite resources or time. I believe golden rice was misguided and the time and resources spent on it could have been better spent elsewhere, even on cheaper and more proven supplementation programs. It was over engineering.

I read an article in a magazine about how problems might not be solved in a straightforward manner and there is a lack of testing for various interventions to see which one works best or even works. There is a movement to science based aid. The example given that there was a trial for the best way to increase a child's education. Many things were tested such as free textbooks, more teachers, teacher education, etc. Do you know what worked the best for increasing children's education? Anti-parasitic medications. Children lose significant school time due to parasites. Which is in NO WAY obvious.
The name "Smarty" can be confused with a templating engine (which has the same name).
Nicely written - the last paragraph draws the whole arc...from C preprocessor directives to Twitter hashtags; brings it together.
I'm with you to a point, but this objection is a close relative of the "we can put a man on the moon, but we can't ______?" argument.

There are other companies, not focused from the beginning on advancing social connection in the Internet age, that are spending billions of dollars and millions of man-hours on improving the world in other ways.
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Same happened and I didn't even watch full screen.

Maybe this is a way to test those sea bands that I have that I think generally work. But now I do have motion sickness and felt it almost right away.
That's a nice analogy. Now I understand!
It's easy to think of reasons why something won't work. The best entrepreneurs just do it anyway. I'm still impressed that Instacart is taking on Google, Amazon and others, and succeeding!
> the tech boom never ended

As a mostly life-long 'burger (up until I was 26), I disagree. In fact, I'll claim that if you're a software engineer in Pittsburgh, then you're in a dead-end job as long as you remain in Pittsburgh.

Yes, you'll have a very nice quality of life; however, you have significantly less opportunities as a software engineer there. Aside from a few firms, Pittsburgh doesn't have an industry that provides the environment, training, challenges and opportunities of both large technology firms and a robust startup community that you see in other major tech hubs. This lowers the wages and, to be frank, lowers the quality of engineers available to hire in Pittsburgh. It makes it more difficult to move out for engineers who have spent the formative part of their career in Pittsburgh.

And that's fine. Software programming isn't the be-all end-all of human activity. It's awesome to be part of something bigger, delivering real value aside from shipping the next social-photo-sharing-app. But just because you can get software programming jobs in Pittsburgh in no way allows Pittsburgh to compare to San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, LA, Boston, Austin... It's just not the same environment and we shouldn't pretend it is.
I'm not convinced either, but I'm not going to try it. My immediate thought was DOA.
I don't think I ever met anyone who was "pro-gun" but not about individual liberties.
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If you have a car and know the way to the nearest Safeway, then you have those first steps covered :)
I got Takoma Park, MD. Looking at the stats, I guess the nickname, "The People's Republic of Takoma Park" is pretty much accurate.

The place I actually live was #3 on the list, so close enough I guess.
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The spreads you find in shops in most countries today bear little to no resemblance to margarine. Hence the "modern" health claims.
Why is this based on IMAP? When I see "server-side
email processing" I think SMTP.
There are very few cities which have bars that are open past 2am, and there are very few cities in which you can code at a bar and not be weird (which means things like accessible power plugs), and there are very few cities in which there's hustle and bustle, even at 3am.