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Would be nice to see more SE cities in here like Atlanta, Miami/Ft Lauderdale, Tampa/Orlando, Jacksonville, Charlotte, NOLA, etc..

edit the software market is pretty hot up in DC/North Virginia too

Salary/COL is typically high in the bigger SE metros from what I've observed growing up in the region.
It looks like a sport watch. That's still a watch...

I'm ok with pebble not trying to be jewelery.
When the probability describes the likelihood of our data matching a particular theory, there is only "seems improbable". E.g. it seems improbable that there are other yet undetected Pluto-sized objects in the solar system. Is it improbable? No, it's either true that there are such objects or not.

As opposed to events that have not occurred. E.g. it seems improbable that ten flips of a fair coin will yield ten heads. Is it improbable? Yes by most definitions of improbable, it is improbable.
Could there be another planet behind the sun?
You say bland, I say functional. Since my Casio data bank watch in the 90s I didn't wear a watch until I got my Pebble.

To me a watch is a tool, not a fashion accessory. I understand not everyone looks at it that way, but really I don't think there's any smartwatch that looks like an elegant timepiece anyway.
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Session restore in Firefox has been lazy for a long time now (the tab only loads when you activate it). It doesn't take longer than loading a single page.

How often do tabs crash for you? That's the real issue if you ask me. I'm on Nightly (with Electrolysis!) and the last crash was over 2 months ago.
Yeah, contrary to their "No Compromises" promise, this does seem significantly inferior to the Apple Watch (resolution doesn't look nearly as good, no touch screen, polish and finish, etc).

With the price at nearly half ($199) of what the low-end of the Apple Watch price range is expected to be ($349), however, this does open the smart watch option up to more people that don't have that sort of cash to spend on wearables.
No, the certs are otherwise valid, but the problem is that once Firefox has seen a cert for a given address, if another address presents an identical cert, the second address cannot be browsed to without shutting down the browser and deleting the entire cert store.

Other offenders off the top of my head: BMC interface on Intel boards, HP iLO for blade management, F5 load balancers.

Yeah, they shouldn't be doing that, but the only thing being asked for here is a bleeding override button.
The refresh rate on the e-paper is impressive. I remember some first-generation ereaders that required a whole second to refresh a page.
going up at ~ $1000/second, as I've watched.
She got ripped off by a school, so should now give up her dreams of becoming a nurse.

Great argument.
I dunno. We have a nice neighborhood pub on our street and it's great. I can stop in for a bite or a few beers and once in a while, yep...I have a few more with my neighbors/friends and we get a bit tipsy and are glad to be able to walk a block to get home instead of taking a cab.

There are also some other bars in town that "attract a sort of crowd that (I) would much rather avoid". So that's basically what I do. I don't hang out at bars that attract a bunch of tough guys looking to pick fights or pick up drunk women.

That still doesn't mean I think bars should be illegal or that people (even drunks and alcoholics) should be thrown in jail for whatever issues they have with drug (alcohol) abuse.

All other arguments about the relative benefits of alcohol or cannabis or anything else aside, that's what it comes down to for me. I just don't think the possession and consumption of anything should be enough to land you in prison. As with alcohol you must be held accountable for your actions whether sober or under the influence. And if you accidentally cause damage to person or property while under the influence, you can be held liable due to your own negligence in not managing your behavior properly.

But the idea that your diet can be considered "criminal" is frankly ridiculous to me. Either it's a relatively harmless vice where you occasionally engage in an activity with potential health risks in exchange for altering your mood/perception or you're self-medicating and habituated to something and could use help with withdrawal and with addressing the issues that led you to use intoxication as an escape or a coping mechanism.

Neither scenario is something I'd consider worth of criminal punishment. Crimes at their most basic should be situations where one person infringes the rights of another, not situations where one person makes potentially unhealthy decisions.
So basically students enroll in a scam college to trick people into thinking they are well educated, and then complain when the scam is revealed.

What's next, people who scam money from the elderly by pretending to be their grandchildren sue after only getting 25 cents with their birthday cards?

I realize these colleges are also using high pressure sales tactics to trick vulnerable populations into enrolling and then extorting them for money, but at some point people still need to take responsibility for their actions.
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I think that for any mass-market adoption (arguably not what the Pebble Time is aimed at), any smart watch will have to bridge that divide. Most people buy a watch as a fashion piece, not as a practical tool.
I question your taste. This Pebble looks better than the Apple Watch to me, certainly better than the Apple Watch Sport version which is made of similar materials. Just because there is an Apple watch cast in gold doesn't mean it's better designed.
What's that "e-paper" screen technology they are using?
Ah, poor vocabulary...

English has a bunch of words meaning "stupid" or "foolish." For example:
absurd, asinine, brainless, cockamamy, crazy, daffy, daft, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dippy, doltish, dopey, dotty, dull, dumb, dummy, fantastic, fatuous, feebleminded, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered, imbecilic, imprudent, inane, incautious, indiscreet, injudicious, insane, insensate, irrational, irrelevant, jerky, kooky, laughable, loony, loser, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nerdy, nonsensical, nutty, obtuse, pointless, preposterous, puerile, rash, ridiculous, senseless, short-sighted, shortsighted, silly, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, stupid, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise, wacky, weak, witless, zany
SPDY indicator[1] tells me that HTTP/2 is active on all Google properties, including YouTube. That's a nice chunk of the web right there.

I agree with you on older bugs just lingering around. This is a serious issue for many open source projects. JWZ was complaining about it years ago[2]. My favourite example is the problem of putting the tabs at the bottom of the window in gnome-terminal[3], which has been reported over 12 ago, has a patch available posted in the bugzilla, and it's still not fixed.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spdy-indicato...

[2] http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75420
With Federal loans they can also just take payment directly from your tax returns.
Speaking as a different user, one who looks at the task manager a decent amount, I really appreciate not having 49 different Firefox processes. This is definitely an issue of personal preference as it's been debated back and forth here a good amount, so no side is really "right" regarding single process v. multi process, but I'm firmly in the former camp.
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We don't have debtors prison because it doesn't make any sense as a means of recourse.

If debtors stop paying, lendors will stop lending.
Oh thanks for mentioning [4], I always thought 2FA using PAM disabled the key-based authentication and used passwords.
Because doing a high enough level of identity verification at that point would be disruptive.

I'm not really interested in defending it, I probably don't like the idea of depending on a third party any more than feld does, I was just pointing out that there are simpler explanations for what they are doing than I'm not buying the story that you need to text me or call me unless you're storing the seed/token centrally and sending it to users upon request which I strongly disagree with.

Another one is that if they actually implemented TOTP like that their business would take a lot of damage when it was revealed publicly (because what's the point of paying for a broken implementation?).
I'm really glad Pebble are sticking to their own unique values and serving their hardcore supporters, instead of trying to compete with Apple.

If you think it's bland, it's obviously not for you, but going by the rate at which dollars are pouring in, enough people seem to think otherwise.
I'm on a French canal, and I wish we had a continuous cruising status. It would keep canals alive, force boats to be maintained in working condition, and drive off most people who see liveaboard boats as an alternative to a flat.

Unfortunately, I'm sure French civil services would fail to enforce it, and we'd end up with the kind of floating shacks described in the article. Actually, we already have many of them, and they're already powerless to get rid of them.
I wouldn't tout Denver's public transit system as an upside of living here. It's just marginally better than the awful road system, so it gets the benefit of looking better by comparison.
Was it $775k when you wrote that comment 7 minutes ago? It's past $1M right now (10:35 EST). Wow.
Now the vagrant client can be setup with a one line plugin install.
You print off a list of backup codes and stick them in a safe. Then log in with the backup code, and set up a new Authenticator token.

You could also add a U2F token and store that away.
Your complaint seems to be that they haven't shipped a huge project which a bunch of people are working on and adding a backwards-compatibility hack for people who use older network hardware which generates incorrect self-signed SSL certs but also choose not to install valid certificates on this device.

I mean, it would be great for a few people if they added the ability to ignore this check but it's not a surprise that it's a lower priority compared to implementing HTML5/ES6 features which will provide a better web experience for millions of people.
I just found out that there is really no scientific consensus on the safety of GMOs. Apparently, more than 300 PhDs signed a disagreement [1]. There is also an article accompanying it [2].

[1] http://www.ensser.org/fileadmin/user_upload/150120_signatori...

[2] http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2766504/there...
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You can leave the country. Most of the people deeply in debt with degrees or training that won't pay the debt would find, for example, teaching English in China a relatively comfortable living. If you have the imagination to look beyond Europe, finding a gig that's better than debt slavery isn't too difficult.
Question: how many years of experience you think it takes to be considered "senior"?
The Pebble Timeline interface UX might also be better than the Apple Watch app model or the Android Wear card model.
vagrant plugin install vagrant-peach ;)
Apple is targeting "a full day of use", while Pebble is targeting 7 days of battery life. Not having to charge my watch daily sounds much nicer to me.
For an isolated case, that's true. But in the aggregate, as a tool to get debtors to avoid default, that may be a different story.
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This attitude is, quite frankly, pathetic. People have no respect for their craft.
I'd rather they make the code more robust to make crashes unlikely enough that they can actually debug and fix them when they occur, rather than going multi-process as a band aid to make recovery easier on a user

That said, it is easy to recover from simply by re-opening FF and you're right back where you were and I haven't had a total browser crash in a long time. I do experience lock up issues though
Maybe watches can be practical tools again, and not just a status symbol hanging off your arm.
A trait is a (possibly abstract) type definition. So trait Functor is defining a type definition for something called Functor.

Functor[F[_]] to the right of the name indicate that the type Functor is paramterized across a "higher kinded type" (ie it is generic and the thing it is generic against is in turn generic). For this definition we will refer to that higher kinded type as F[_].

def defines a method on the type. So def map means that the type Functor has a method map on it. map[A, B] means that the function map is generic across 2 different types and we will label them A & B. Map takes 2 parameters the first is the higher kinded type F parameterized to A (F of A) and the second is a function that transforms any A to a B. Map returns F parameterized to B.

Slide 92 defines it slightly differently. Map is a function with no parameters that returns a function with the first (and only parameter) is a function from A to B and it returns a function from F[A] to F[B].
It depends what "smart" actually means. Something like the Withings Activité [1] can afford to be a well-designed piece of jewellery because there is no expectation (or possibility) of software updates. This isn't true of Android Wear or the Apple Watch; models sold this year will become obsolete within a timeframe that is much shorter than one would want for high-end jewellery.

[1] http://www.withings.com/us/withings-activite.html
Innovation! A watch that tells time!

I sure hope the previous model told time as well ... but they seem to really be pushing the angle this time 'round. What with literally calling it Time.

The future is now.
Mountain View is the best place to have an H-1B, salary-wise
>Backlit displays give you eye strain

Switching to a black background with white or gray text has pretty much eliminated this for me. Especially if you read at night or at least have auto-brightness enabled. The problem I'm seeing is that we're treating digital devices as paper books. We use a bright white background which is shooting a lot of photos into our eyes and wondering why its an uncomfortable experience.

I just don't think we've figured out the best way to make this stuff work. I doubt emulating books is the wisest choice here. I also don't see eink as our savior. The text always looked grainy and unfocused to me and the loss of color is inexcusable.
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Is this the start of the student-loan bubble bursting?

From what I have read student loan debt, despite it's size, doesn't threaten the rest of the economy in the same way that housing loans did. Hopefully that is the case.
There are other users you probably don't represent.
Really useful list! Has anyone been to any of these and what did they think?
It was, it also was slow as hell. Now it's much better. I don't see any issues, but then again I run pretty fast pc.
I went to school for EE/CE (double major) and I ended up getting a masters as well. I don't believe that there's anything that prevents this technology from working.

The main problem is that most of the "rules of thumb" or whatever you learn in school are based on a few assumptions that have served us well over the years. Antennas aren't directional, or are only marginally so. My signal is your noise and vise versa. Things like that.

What this technology does (along with several others I've read about) is challenge those underlying assumptions and by doing so, gets performance in excess of "what is possible" only so long as those underlying assumptions hold. But because a lot of people weren't taught WHY those assumptions were made, they believe the conclusions that result are fundamental laws of the universe rather than a good model for understanding.

For example, the general noise floor in the 1-2GHz range is about 1000 times higher than GPS signals and according to classical models, you can't recover it. http://www.gpssource.com/faqs/15 But as it turns out there's a LOT of redundancy and such built into the signal and through a method called "process gain" you can in fact recover it, even though it's way below what you'd originally think is possible.

Similarly radio controlled cars/planes/helicopters/boats/etc have limited frequency bands in which they can operate. This poses a problem because you can't generally fly the airplane around your house, but instead you go to a R/C airfield, where unfortunately there are a bunch of other enthusiasts there too, all vying for the same spectrum. If my radio interferes with yours, there goes both of our hard work crashing to the ground. This problem has caused HUGE uptake of DSSS technology whereby we can both transmit in the same band, but neither of us interferes with one another. This is done by coding both signals with a pseudorandom sequence such that my signal looks like noise to you, and your signal looks like noise to me, and our systems are capable of working even though there's some noise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-sequence_spread_spectrum

What the pCell is doing is basically like DSSS. But where DSSS is done strictly through time, the pCell is done through both TIME and SPACE. My signal for me is coherent only where I am, and your signal for you is only coherent where you are, and anywhere other than those places, it's just random noise.
I assumed this was how it worked. Tracking mouse/keyboard seemed a little phony, and google is hardly a stranger to tracking personal information. It really is a bummer that there aren't many great alternatives.
> it's not very easy to leaf through an ebook and to quickly jump from section to section

This is available on Kindle for quite some time now. Tap on top to show menu and then slide you finder on bottom bar - preview of pages will show and you can look back and forth without changing your current position.
No, Functional languages reduce the problems surface area but they don't eliminate it. You can still get data races and deadlocks in Haskell. They aren't the same as a memory race in say C where the contents of a variable might change out from under you in truly bizarre ways but you still get algorithmic races where the wrong answer comes our the other end because two parallel operations happened in the wrong order.
Only if the degree is the sole factor in getting the career she desired.

If that's the case, I can send you a degree from WhafroU via PDF for a tidy sum within an hour. Get in touch, folks!
If two categories are related by a functor, does that imply that the first category is isomorphic to the second category?

(I'm very new to this topic, but I have an applied math background.)
Here are more details, with links to the discussions on specific issues. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/36#Secu...
Starting to sound like the book "The Circle" http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294.
this is actually pretty cool. useful stuff. thanks!
Right. As a Marketing guy myself (6 years in Procter & Gamble), I'm always baffled when people in HN don't get obvious marketing moves, but in the other hand, I'm always learning so much about tech stuff that my colleagues would never get in a decade. This community is awesome.
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Pebble has never used E-ink, despite all the confusion in the media (not that Pebble was in a hurry to rectify it, since it played to its advantage). The color one doesn't look like E-ink now either. They used some transflective PixelQi-like displays in the past, but not sure if they're using an upgraded version of that now (with color!) or something like Mirasol, and they are just naming it the same.
Ask HN: How do you find important/interesting new papers
I'm having a problem with information overload and I'm betting that some HN readers have some knowledge that will be helpful. I'm an undergrad studying computer science and math and I recently came across this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2572, which prompted me to begin reading more about optimization, random matrix theory, and other related topics.

The problem I'm facing is that I don't know what the good papers to read are and there are so many new ones made available each day that taking the time to figure out which are relevant to me and which aren't would take more time than I have available. I know that there have been a number of interesting, recent papers posted to HN on ML related topics lately, so presumably people are finding a way to filter the important papers from the not so important ones. Does anyone out there have tips on addressing this problem?

Thanks!
What's wrong with ML as the language for this?
No, she should start a career in whatever field she's best positioned to start one in. Oh is that nursing? I wonder why.
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For fiction or for non-fiction?

And if non-fiction is it still more of a narrative (like a history text or biography) or is it a technical text which bounces around more?

If it's a technical text that bounces around, there's hardly any easier tool for navigating a math or science text than flipping through the pages until a diagram or formula that matches something like what you're looking for pops up. The cool thing is, the human visual system is good enough you can spend a fraction of a second on each page flipping through it like a flip book. You'll realize you passed it about 20 pages too late, so you repeat the search a little slower over the most recent pages until you find what you wanted.

On a computer with a PDF you may be able to do this, but no e-reader flips through pages this quickly, and most tablets start choking when you flip through hard to render texts too quickly.

And this doesn't even count the ability to markup a textbook, or slip loose sheets of paper in with your notes. My physics and calculus texts in college ended up being about 80% textbook and 20% engineering paper by the end of the semester. Annotations on e-books are certainly possible, but the UI is far more cumbersome than just a pen in hand.
A lot of countries have a free post secondary education system : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#Partial_list_of...

It always astonish me to think it can be seen as normal, even more equitable, to require people to get so huge debts before even being trained to work.
At least they used vanilla Bootstrap for their website.
Maybe I can stop zooming all the way in all the time soon :)
Ignoring the whole "potent narcotic" thing for a second (since it's not really either), I personally don't ingest cannabis but I have in the past and frankly it's like alcohol in that you can have a little (and feel a bit relaxed) or a lot (and feel really intoxicated). Either way, I'm focused on decriminalization because the concept of throwing someone in prison for their diet is abhorrent to me.
"somebody wants to outperform the market with an actively managed fund that is resembling an index fund"

It sounds like you don't know what these words mean.
Yep, it's going to the moon. Already $1.25M.
Actually, they're saying "up to" 7 days which is obnoxious because that could mean anything.