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I left Facebook/Instagram earlier this year. MPK is very family-friendly, I'm sure you and your family will enjoy it.

I lived in Palo Alto in a 2BR/2BA apartment near El Camino and California. Not the most luxurious space, but it did me just fine. I was alone, so I Airbnb'd the 2nd room, earning about $2k a month. My rent was $2700, plus ~$100 for utilities and Internet. I made enough that the $2700 wasn't a big deal if I had to eat the whole thing, but I was alone, so I optimized. MPK's free food definitely helped me keep costs low too, but of course, that doesn't quite help the rest of your family.

These are questions best answered by Peeps @ FB, but you're not the first, and I'm sure they have plenty of resources to help you out.

All said and done, it's definitely doable, but depending on your salary, it could be tight. If you want a bigger/cheaper place, consider MV, Cupertino, or Redwood City, or even San Jose. Heck, Oakland's a great option too. Check the shuttle schedules to see what works.

I enjoyed my time there, I'm sure you will too. But ultimately, you have to answer this for yourself!
Unmotivated product placement, but I'm really into 316 stainless. I use HydroFlasks (http://www.hydroflask.com/), from Amazon. They're heavier by far than either plastic or aluminum-with-bpa-lining, or single-walled stainless, but incredibly durable, and being able to have a freezing or hot beverage inside the container for a day or two is pretty awesome.

An OXO bottle brush is pretty essential to cleaning; I then use boiling water, soap, and sometimes bleach to clean them out.

I wish I could get a run of them custom printed as promotional items, and ideally cerakoted, but that would be horrible overkill.

(they're also a good way to transport high quality alcohol into settings where alcohol may not be so permissible...)
I agree with your general sentiment, but I think this specific case is simply a tragedy of politics, specifically of someone higher up not wanting to appear "soft on crime" and therefore ordering their army of underlings to perform a full-blown investigation that lasted for what... days? weeks?

I really, really doubt that the individual police officers and investigators actually wanted to deal with this nonsense.
Color me surprised. People supporting the status quo have always been given credence they don't deserve. People hate/fear change. It's human nature. Sad but predictable.
> that needs HTML?

I think you are setting the bar a little too high. It seems to me like there is quite a bit of mail that benefits from HTML. Superscripts, subscripts, italics, bold and colored text (used in moderation), inline images (used in moderation) can be really useful when discussing concepts that aren't easily reduced to characters.

Suppose your email would benefit from some mathematical formulas. You can do the old standby and drop into latex math mode, but the person on the other end of the email might not understand what you mean by

\sum_{n=1}^k\,\frac{1}{n} \;=\; \ln k + \gamma + \varepsilon_k < \ln k + 1

much easier and clearer to use LaTeXiT or something similar and copy/paste in an inline image with the formula correctly formatted.

Or, say you are a taxonomist. Italics in species names are not just a stylistic choice, they also convey additional meaning. For example in

Epilobium ciliatum Raf. subsp. watsonii (Barbey) Hoch & P.H. Raven f. rosa

the italics show what parts of the full scientific name refer to the species and what parts refer to authors or levels of taxonomic organization (subspecies and form). You can't do that with plain text (you could of course do it with markdown, though)...

plain text is sufficient of course; but sometimes the additional bells and whistles of HTML really are useful.
The original publication from 2012, in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/816.short

And the PDF: http://genetics.wustl.edu/bio5491/files/2013/03/Jinek-et.-al...
Isn't a person that is about to die anyway and is willing to take it the exact perfect test subject?

Strange thinking.

By the way, 200k people die each year from measles, that's 199k more than ebola.
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The HN community takes a rather strict approach when moderating comments that contribute noise to the conversation. "Nice article!" comments are routinely downvoted. As is sarcasm, witticisms, memes, references and other styles of comments that occur frequently but do not contribute to the discussion. It's a knowingly doomed attempt to hold back the flood of noise that covers Reddit.
I tried to comment the other day, but apparently I met my quota for replies.... but I wanted to respond to this.

You are making assumptions incorrectly. You are determining right from wrong, good from bad, and everything else for someone that you don't know, and you do not know that person's circle of friends or family, so you can't assume that they care as much as you'd like them to care.

When you create a program, you should be trying to solve a problem.... I'd like to know what problem it is that you are trying to solve?
Geez, same TIL, and I didn't need that... Thought I was better than that (everyone thinks).
Ceramic floors beat the glass bottle. Also, they leave dents in hardwood floors. Still worth using, just keep their limits in mind.
Successful people in Individually dominated professions become successful due to their own efforts. That's not just the case with Iranians, but with people every where around the world.

If some one is good enough to win Fields medal every one and every thing around works more like friction to their overall direction. And that's true for every country in the world.
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> Under a complex set of internal timing conditions and system events, software using the Intel TSX (Transactional Synchronization Extensions) instructions may result in unpredictable system behavior.

Yeah, that's nice and descriptive. Damn. :/
Also: NEXTSTEP.
Esoterrorism is at the end of http://codon.com/programming-with-nothing - nice FizzBuzz version...

What is YARV? :)
In the Atari TOS screenshots, other icons such as arrows are black on white background.

If the icons in upper left and right are also like that, then the upper left icon is actually four little triangles pointing inwards and not an X. The one on the right is four little triangles pointing outwards.

(Or it could be an X)
http://toastytech.com/guis/ns08.html

NextStep 0.8, '88 vintage.
> The patent behind all these lawsuits is not particularly innovative. It claims something about sending notifications after an emergency phone call. Here’s the gist from one of the figures . . . .

This is a little disingenuous. You know the patent doesn't cover the "gist" or any particular figure. It covers the claims (which you don't mention at all, even in passing). And for some reason, you don't even tell us what the patent number is so we can look at it for ourselves!

From a little googling, I suspect that we're talking about Pat. No. 6,775,356. But why hide the ball and characterize the patent as "not particularly innovative" when you could just let people see it for themselves?

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=patentimages.storage.goog...
No 'x' to close vi? Was that not always there? I've certainly been using it as long as I can remember; that's not to say it's always been there though - does anyone know when it was first available?

Edit: seems Wordstar used X too, probably starting in 1978.
Do you use an IDE when developing on mono or just a text editor? If you do use an IDE what's it like?
Professor Hancock who authored the study has his PhD according to his faculty info on Cornell's web site: http://infosci.cornell.edu/faculty/jeffrey-hancock

Why does the article keep referring to him as Professor instead of Doctor?
My default for gmail is sending plain text, but sometimes I will flip to html for bullets or if I am sending a project plan or some similar that I want formatted nicely.

But yeah, most of the time text I think that plain text works better.
I agree, if it were me I'd be begging doctors for a test drug OR begging any survivor for a blood transfusion. You're already at serious risk, this is the moment when you try.

I also think the patient should have had a say in this -- they never even asked him what he wanted to do or mentioned that this was a possibility. He was a doctor and could have given informed consent.
From paragraph #4:

> A 2011 study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found that almost all of the 455 commercially available plastics that were tested leached estrogenic chemicals.

There are other endocrine disruptors out there -- I think the main point of the article is that the US has no systematic process for testing plastics for consumer use.
'X' always seemed fitting for another, more poetic, reason: The kiss of death (X also represents a kiss). I wonder if it was in the designers mind.
Yet Another Ruby VM - the "official" Ruby interpreter, if you will (also known as Matz's Ruby, or MRI). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARV

Yeah, Tom Stuart is great - that's where I got the idea to create this.
I will sign an NDA only if it is very specific and very limited, and relates to something concrete: for example, "the list of our clients and their contact details". Anything broader, never. Before we sign an NDA, we need to run it past our lawyers, which means legal fees, which means we have to bill the potential client. Somehow, suggesting that they cover our legal fees seems to scare off most potential clients, which gives some idea of how serious they are.

For ideas, there are patents. If somebody tells you to sign an NDA because they haven't got the patent yet, they're being naive. Assume their idea is really brilliant and technically innovative. They're busy patenting it, but tell you under NDA. You tell your friend Sue, who goes and rolls it out before they do. Well, now they can sue you for the billions they will never make - good luck with that. But they can't sue Sue: she never signed anything with them, and they don't have a patent. If there's really a "secret sauce", patent first, talk later. Generally, though, there's just ketchup.

I've also seen too many NDA's that include some sort of "rights grab", such as "any ideas that come up during our discussions belong to the company."

I wish independent developers would stop signing anything that is put in front of them. It makes me seem quite unusual in the industry, and often means that the first 45 minutes of a meeting is spent explaining why I don't sign NDA's.
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As an Atari ST user from 1985 to roughly 1993, I wasn't expecting the author would actually mention GEM/TOS. I was pleasantly surprised when I scrolled down and, lo, there it is.

That said, since the "X" in this case is white on a black background, I always interpreted the icon as four arrows pointing inward to indicate a shrinking/disappearing motion. In fact, when you closed a window, GEM would play an (inelegant) animation akin to the Macintosh of the time, composed of a sequence of boxes first shrinking from the size of the window to a small box and then shuffling that off to the top left of the screen.

As bemmu points out, the maximize button (at the top right in a GEM/TOS window) is four arrows pointing outward. Incidentally, GEM did not have a notion of "minimize."

Put another way, although I find the Japanese inspiration argument interesting, I don't think there's a whole lot to it. I think it's a fun coincidence.

In any event, thank you for the trip down memory lane and for the fun screen grabs!
I wondered similarly, but I wondered on the scale of companies that buy hundreds of thousands of these chips. Does Intel give a discount?
Now I'm genuinely interested in knowing which parts of python are 'slowing down' the application. With the help of Cython[0], one can give hints to the compiler to improve performance for most of the cases.

[0]:http://cython.org/
F# has unsafe capabilities. Look at NativePtr and friends. And since you can make operators, you can end up writing fairly concise code.

The rest of the real arguments are essentially "library support". Which is a good argument, but not really about the language itself. There's no reason that WPF, DB access, etc. can't be just as fine in F#.

(C#'s limitations, like no tuples, led high-profile projects like ASP.NET MVC to do dumb hacks like "pass in an object and we'll assume each field is a parameter". If C# had been more capable in the first place, they wouldn't have resorted to such hacks.)
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Well, that's different. You are talking about an "x" that you type in, as opposed to an "x" you can click on.

To answer your question, "x" (short for eXit) was available in vi from the beginning:

ZZ Exits the editor. (Same as :xCR)

Source: Bill Joy's "An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi" http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vi/vi_editor__bill_joy.pdf
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What about crossing out dates or tasks?

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/88203236-calendar-with-date...

Or crossing-out an item to "delete" it on the page?
Fortunately, F# does OO and procedural pretty well, so you shouldn't feel pressure to use a functional style if it doesn't fit.

I noticed that was something certain folks tended to do, they'd insist on creating an expression as a series of folds and maps, even if it had a very simple expression otherwise (as a list comprehension or simple for..in loop). Cast those cares aside, and write what is most useful for your use case.

Sometimes though, you do want break/goto/continue, although in most cases I think such code is better off in C or Rust.
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I always found it interesting that Sony swapped the X and O buttons for the western Playstation market. In Japan X (batsu) does mean "back" or "no", whereas elsewhere it is reversed.
I spent the last 30 minutes consulting the literature, I can't find any studies that indicating stainless steel leaches manganese. I realize it was mentioned in that atlantic article but they didn't cite any sources. Do you have a source indicating SS leaches Mn?
In the article you supposedly just read, they explain the doctors were extremely worried that if Khan died after being given the drug, Africans would believe the western drug killed him and mistrust of western medicine would grow even more.

Which makes sense, they already struggle with many Africans who are afraid of western medicine and prefer witch doctors to the strange outsider western doctors. Just a week or two ago I was reading of how western doctors were being turned away from infected villages by road blockades and armed men.
July 2014 conversation on "social audits" of algorithms, at Harvard's Berkman Center: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/uncovering-algorithms-l...

Edit: Historical visions of the boundaries between emerging science and ethics: Some Thoughts on Ethics and Science Fiction, http://spectacle.org/396/scifi/pavlac.html
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"“What they really didn’t want to do was kill Dr. Khan with their attempt at therapy,” said Dr. Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist at Doctors Without Borders. “If word got out that M.S.F. killed Dr. Khan, that would have implications for outbreak control,” he added, using the initials for the French name of the relief group."

It is really difficult to challenge this line of reasoning from the sidelines. Doctors especially those directly involved in public health are forced to make utilitarian decisions like this all the time - weighing the greater good against the good of an individual. People on the ground in West Africa are much better equipped than any of us in the West in assessing the risk of such a rumor damaging outbreak control efforts.

That said, it doesn't say whether they considered giving Dr. Khan the drug secretly. It seems like such a thing would be possible, and they could disclose that he had received the drug after the outbreak had started to slow down (which hopefully will happen soon).
They mention X and O on the PS controller but usually in games O is for no and X is for yes. Completely opposite of the batsu/maru, incorrent/correct they were discussing.
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> Do you have a source indicating SS leaches Mn?

I don't. Although maybe acidic food?

And like I said in another comment, I'm not worried about it. But some people are.
Interesting, but the connection to symbols from Japan seems a bit dubious (or at least not very recent). The term "cross out", and hence the use of an "x" to indicate negating something, seems to have been in common use in English since at least the 1920s:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cross+out
Looks like a great idea. My only feedback is on the sales page. Every button is pushing me to try the demo, but nothing is sending me to sign up. I had to scroll to the bottom to find the pricing information, only then could I sign up for a paid account.
Yes, it's different, but the article was trying argue that since "X" wasn't used in that context at the time it was introduced as a GUI element, the GUI element couldn't possibly be referencing the letter as a way of closing a program. While I agree that it's unlikely that the GUI "X" refers to a letter "X", that's not a valid argument for that position.

Edit: and thanks for the vi ref.
I think C# 6 has exception filters; interesting that they took so long. VB was also on the right-ish track with optional parameters. It's hilarious, in hindsight, how terribly wrong the C# design was on that feature. And C# still got it wrong by not providing a way to indicate the lack of value, instead of compiling a default into the callsite.
Lots of banner ads make the close symbol e.g. the second from right (swap maximize and close) or swap the functions... thus exploiting muscle memory of people to open the ad :/
do they fit in car cup-holders?
Try playing some Japanese games on PS. It's the other way round in Japanese games
I recall being mildly shocked when Windows 95 came out with the the [x] button. I don't know why, but I thought that it was somewhat dangerous to allow users to quickly exit an application like this.

Maybe it's because I was used to Windows 3.11, where you had to actually double-click the [-] button to exit an application.
not always. western games tend to be bound that way, but Japanese games, espescially RPGs , were not.

example : final fantasy 7 control bindings.
http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff7/buttons.php
Doesn't this just make them want to go sidestep the issue and say you're not licensed to run the software, even if you can resell the hardware? Didn't Autodesk win on that, with respect to licensing software?
In Japan they're sometimes switched. That is to say, I've worked on PS3 games where the US SKU had X=accept, O=back but the Japanese SKU had X=back, O=accept.

[edited]
On the PS1, Final Fantasy VII was O=yes, X=no, and so were a bunch of the less mainstream JRPGS; also, Metal Gear Solid games were O=yes, X=no at least into the PS2 era.
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It can also be thought of as a pun -- when you want to "exit" an application, you "X it".
Good find. That's clearly an [X] in the upper-right corner.
I don't think there is much relevance in the Japanese argument. One funny detail is that Sony actually inverted in their games the meaning of Round and X for western markets -> making X act as "validate" and Round as "Back/Cancel", the exact opposite of what they do in Japan.

As for "X being a true icon", I don't know. For me, it could stand as well as an abbreviation for "eXit" -> X.

The AmigaOS Workbench used (and still uses) a dot instead of a X. It's just a matter of conventions.
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Is CAM space a truly constrained resource, as-in, is Cisco really on the cutting edge to deliver whatever amounts of CAM they ship? Or is it similar to their "software" routers, where it's nearly entirely marketing/product differentiation driven? Is adding more CAM as hard as Intel shipping 64GB of L2 cache, for instance?
In Japanese variants, he is correct. When Sony westernized the playstation controller, the O and X functionality was flipped.
Sony is yet to comment on the reasons why.
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Are there any services out there that will receive mail, open it, scan it (with optional OCR) and provide an API or hit a webhook after that process? I am familiar with virtualpostmail.com but they do not provide an API and I don't know what other competitors there are in the space.
Yeah, but still more recent than Atari's Gem.
So people multi-homing (which is the only reason I end up getting and announcing /24s) is not a significant amount of the route table? Cause IPv6 can't really fix that part (multihoming) can it?
If you're going to use electricity to make your hydrogen, you are certainly no better off than using it to charge a battery. Also, the energy density of hydrogen isn't exactly awesome either, and it's hard to store.
A very interesting paper [0]. I'm actually taking a similar approach (though, more generic in nature) for my CFD work (namely, using experimental data to help correct my numerically obtained answers for the same craft). After that, we take very different approaches in our work.

[0]: http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~ume/publication/2014_siggr...
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Another unmotivated product placement, this time for toddlers that can use straw cups. For our kids we bought the following and it works very well together -

Stainless steel tumblers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G9I8N9W/

Silicone caps: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0084GF5P2/

Silicone straws: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0084GF7GO/

I realize the tumblers are no longer in stock but the caps are pretty universal and can fit on various sized cups. Make sure you don't give your kids stainless steel straws, they're incredibly dangerous for young children.
In Japan the actual convention is X=cancel/back and O=select/validate. Most japanese games follow that, because the Batsu/Maru meaning is obvious in Japanese with these symbols.
> it doesn't say whether they considered giving Dr. Khan the drug secretly

Sounds like an easy way to worsen the worst-case scenario by quite a bit.
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I always saw it as an X, and when I used to tutor people on the ST (it was very popular where I grew up) I would refer to it as an X. It's more than possible that someone who used the ST, who saw it at as X, then suggested using an X as the close icon on Windows 95.

So the Japanese 'connection' may not be valid, but the notion that someone saw the GEMTOS symbol as an X and then influenced Windows 95 is not that far-fetched...

I was also really surprised (and glad) that the ST even got a look-in though =)
Wow great article. I don't agree with his conclusion that it came from Japan. But it's as good a reason as any I suppose.

One quick thing, IIR Windows 2.0 and 3.0, the '-' button in the upper left wasn't "close". It was a small menu that happened to have close as an option.
I was reading the post today about traffic signal timing[1] and just happened to walk past a traffic controller box and found a box with various stuff that apparently an installer left behind when installing a new device in the local traffic light system. I looked up the site and it looks like a computer vision system for traffic control.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8166678
https://www.earthclassmail.com/ is a competitor, but I don't see anything about an API