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Airware (YC W13) Is Hiring: Develop an OS for Commercial Drones
Airware's commercial drone platform comprises of plug and play autopilot, software to create flight plans and a cloud to analyze data collected during flights. Our cloud allows enterprises to collect and share sensor data collected from missions through apps, created through our API. Our hardware and software allows drone operators online, realtime, access to data analysis, video, and images is a critical element of transforming drones from flying robots into viable business tools. We have a variety of positions touching every aspect of our system from interacting with hardware to analyzing large datasets.

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Great work. Have you looked into integrating with the helmets with similar sensors in them?
Speaking of renting in Seattle...

There's a phenomenon in older apartment buildings on Captiol and First Hills where a large number of renters are barely able to pay rent, or are already past that point and have stopped paying rent. Evicting them just means adding to Seattle's homeless population (the other 1%).

This doesn't apply to the shiny new condo you'd be living in. It applies to the ugly, squat, 95-year-old brick apartment building across the street.
Theoretical physicist Roger Penrose is a proponent of this view, but theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson presents a rebuttal of his points [1]. Another article claims that the distance between synapses is two orders of magnitude too big for quantum mechanical effects to be effective, which seems like a plausible rebuttal to me [2].

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec10.5.html
[2] http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/is_the_brain_a_quantum_device
Brin and Page Win the First Seoul Test of Time Award
Jeff Hawkins' team of researchers and the people behind NuPIC and Numenta.org, at least, given how it was explained to me, believe that the human brain does compute digitally (ie the analog values don't matter, the presence or absence of the signals do). Geoff Hinton also appears to believe that the biological neural signals are interpreted in a binary way.

I could have misinterpreted their work, though, as I'm far from an expert, but that's what it sounded like to me.
From skimming the study where they changed the wording[1], it seems like they did in fact use cards, just like the original study.

[1] http://cogpsy.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Griggs_Cox_198...
I think the response is more accurate - that big ideas and epic world-building require a lot of space. http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/may/20/fanta...

And I would cite Brandon Sanderson as a good example (and good counter-example to the original article) - smaller ideas get novellas (Legion, Emperor's Soul), medium-sized ideas get novels (Elantris, Rithmatist, Warbreaker), epic ideas get large novels in series(Mistborn, Way of Kings).

All excellent, by the way...
I've noticed that my brain has developed an actual revulsion to fiction that never ends attains closure on anything. It is starting to feel very similar to the dream most of us have had of the quicksand we can't get out of because however high we go it's always higher. I don't mean that as a metaphor, I mean, I really do get a very similar feeling out of both.

So many of these things seem to start out tight, then just drag out forever. I have more experience in the TV-series side.

I am happy to not have all the answers, I'm happy to watch something overarching that goes on for a while, I'm even happy to watch something that ends ambiguously. But I've got little and ever less tolerance for those authors who think the way to make their universe last longer is to never resolve anything. No... you resolve things, and then there are more things. Preferably consequences, anticipated and otherwise. Just like, you know, real life. Don't simply stretch your story out... and out... and out... and out...

Stargate SG-1 attained the nearly-perfectly-correct balance for me. And it made some of the developments in that series legitimately surprising to me, when they actually upended their universe a bit in several of the season finales, because I so casually expected "nothing to ever change" in a series like that. (Now it's more normal, but at the time especially I was surprised by their boldness. They never did quite take the step of making the program public knowledge, though...)

(Special callout for Alias, by the way, who also scraped against my brain in such a way that I'm also extremely irritated by "but wait, there's a conspiracy behind that"... by the fourth or fifth time it's like the dream hallway that never ends. And my suspension of disbelief really breaks down too... how, exactly, does one become the guy in change of the conspiracy under the conspiracy under the conspiracy under the conspiracy under the conspiracy under the conspiracy? Is there a college track I should be focusing on for that? Does the n+1th conspiracy conduct secret interviews? Is a member of conspiracy-4 really supposed to be surprised to discover conspiracy-5?)
I am not sure that it doesn't. I found it a bit of a pain to setup the last time I tried though. Apart from that I mostly meant 'apart from Gitlab' because I have already played around with it and was looking for a fun new thing to try out.
So unfortunate that we still can't just use flexbox without hacks. Do you know of any methods of 'fixing' Safari?
Either call them Hitachi or HGST or Toshiba. But as HGST still exists as a brand name of Western Digital and new HGST drives are either 2.5 or don't resemble the old ones mentioned in the statistics, it get's quite confusing - as the statistics is often used as a buyer guide. Adding a remark somewhere on his article would help to avoid the confusion.
H-1B salaries are actually "pegged" according to the title of each position; they call this the minimum or prevailing wage, and it's specific to an area.

For example, if a company is hiring a "senior software developer" in NYC, and the US government considers $120k to be the prevailing salary of a senior software developer in NYC, then the company must pay that person at least that much; Google can't pay any less, even if it wanted to. The wage database is public [1].

So that gives you the minimum, at least.

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx
Drop the prices for Azure VMs to the reasonable level similar to that of the other hosting companies. Right now the first tolerable configuration A1 costs $57 and this can be had for $15 elsewhere.

Please also make your payment processor accept virtual credit cards so I can actually pay you money with the means I have (not in a possession of a real credit card). PayPal will also do nicely.
What is that 94k/yr number from? Is that for industry average?
The lyrics of recent No. 1 singles average at a third grade reading level
The Philosophy of Color Perception
Cool suggestion, I will give it a try. Great that it works with existing repos.
I did a back of the envelope calculation on how much salary it would take to get me to move my family to Silicon Valley. The answer was "7 figures". Granted, part of that was due to the fact that my wife would have to recertify to find work, but it was still eye opening.
I don't think it's a good idea to buy a software company for the aim of making money. First, it'd be little difficult to understand the schema of a company which is already running and further it's even more difficult to analyse such company from outside or by just looking at the statistics.
I must say, it's better to invest in a start-up because they are little bit flexible and simple at the beginning to understand. Also, you get more chance to hit the jackpot.
Any good already running software company might be not interested to sell unless there's some problem. So, just stick to the start-ups.
It is very complicated, and I'm not suggesting that rent control is good. I'm just saying there is a difference between buying a house in the bay area vs living in the bay area. Right now, the former is insanely expensive, whereas in some situations the latter is not. The article I linked does a great job of explaining the history and various problems and tradeoffs.
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
I've been wondering if that these are all coming to a cusp, not soley because of some tech driven revolution, but because there's a shift of who controls investments, in turn driven by a generational changeover in business/industry leadership. (baby boomers are retiring...)
This is an unfortunately all too common occurrence in Europe. Several times per year.
Too bad that it doesn't have pull requests, but that still makes it acceptable for private projects. Might just be the excuse for buying another raspberry ;).
needs more demo... the bubble screen shots should be clickable to see the whole thing.
This is great news. Hope to use this soon from Rust.
Categories are about marketing. "Young Adult" categorization is part of a decision to market primarily to the YA demographic, not a content-based description that the book can "reasonably by read by" young adults in a way that doesn't apply to most other books in a bookstore.
Crypto Adoption Growth
While I get your point, I'm not sure Athens is the best example. Athens is a college town that's both too close and too far from the Atlanta metro area to really see many companies invest in it.

Alpharetta, for example, is an hour away from Athens, closer to the City of Atlanta, has a heavy tech presence, and a median household income approaching $100k in a state with a median income half that.

It's more expensive than Athens, yeah, but it's also not Silicon Valley expensive.
Should humans not get similar treatment, being allowed to ignore the law because it is bloated and outdated?
CaseRails should patent their processes if they can and when the other person tries to enter that area, sue right back.
Thanks I'll check it out. I'll add my own recommendation: anything by China Mieville. Although he does have a few books that are set in the same fantasy world they are each stand alone storylines although they may loosely reference each other (kind of like the Discworld series does). He also has quite a few single volume books, each with its own rich and fascinating world.
Your business seems interesting. May I suggest you use HTTPS in your login/registration forms? SSL certificates can be as cheap as US$ 9/year and your users will feel more secure while using your site.
Also, night time.
So the answer, in other words, is "no".
The model of flexbox is that items are layed out along an axis, and justified/aligned along the axis and the cross axis. The axis can be vertical or horizontal. This is not an immensely complex model, and in fact makes a lot of sense.

As for doing alignment with explicit horizontal/vertical specifications versus based on an axis direction, I can see advantages and disadvantages of both, but no pressing reason to prefer one over the other. I don't know what the discussions about this were like, or what compromises are involved.

In my opinion, your finding the names of these two properties somewhat hard to remember doesn't discredit the whole layout model as much as you seem to think!

Me, I'm just glad to have a better way to do layout. I switched our basic layout (a full-viewport web app, similar to the "holy grail" layout) from absolute positioning to flexbox earlier this week. It's been quite pleasant to work with, and I can see it saving quite a bit of time in the future.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1612-W-Hacienda-Ave-Campbe...

Here's a great listing I noticed this morning

2 beds 2 baths 827 sqft

"Bring your tool belt, this property needs some TLC! Great location, this property has much potential! Close to schools, shopping, and freeway access."

$900,000
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really like the interface though. Meat looks a lot nicer.
It does? Last I checked you don't have to make your page screen reader friendly. Some technologies are very inaccessible without modification.
I use meldium, it has teams, and the chrome extension is a life saver.
Sure, dragonwriter, I'm not contesting that. But I live in the "real world", and this is a real world tool that will help me help users who, whether you like it or not, fail at technology.
I understand the logic and confusion you are presenting. The confusion that I am referring to is what portion of the problem statement can be trusted and what must be verified.

The situation follows:

1) There are four cards with a number on one side and a color on the other.

2) If a card has an even number on one side, then it's blue on the other.

You are only allowing for confusion about the commutative nature of the conditional in (2); it is not commutative, but a common false assumption is that it is.

What the parent of this thread is referring to is that there can be confusion regarding whether (1) must also be verified. If (1)must be verified then every card must be flipped.
I'm already there. Considering the moves MSFT is making towards open source, I think their future is a lot brighter than a lot of people might think. We could very well see a total renaissance for the .NET stack, with MSFT ultimately delivering cross-platform development tools that will run on Linux just as well as they run on Windows.
It seems silly to compare to coal because coal benefits from an enormous external subsidy: the coal power industry dumps its waste products into the atmosphere at no cost to itself.
I think there's another effect operating here.

New borrowing rules went into effect that reduce the amount that can be borrowed for a given income. As interest rates rise, the approvable loan amount will be trimmed still further. Even if you have stock winnings, most people still need to borrow to buy a home. So buyers are looking at a declining amount that they can bring to bear in the market.

However, sellers conditioned on ever rising prices aren't willing to accept lower prices just yet. Some are starting to reduce prices, but recently there have been multiple homes that don't sell and then quietly roll off the market in the 'hot' areas.

Thus there is a market standoff, and buyers who want a house realize they can simply not afford a house here. Some react to that by leaving, a trend that is accelerating.

It will be interesting to see what happens as interest rates go up, and reduce borrowing amounts still futher. If the future will bring a decline in prices or long-term stagnation - it's anyone's guess.
I wasn't suggesting calling the dispose method in the finalizer (that is evil), rather setting a flag in the dispose method that indicates whether it was called. Then logging a message/whatever in the finalizer if that flag isn't set.

AKA, using it as a debugging aid.
Ask HN: Simplest way to accept credit cards?
Going to spin up several SaaS websites as a test project, and I wonder what's the easiest way to handle credit cards?

I want to avoid incorporating for each project if it's possible.
Given TargetCo(CRM) and BuyerCo(MS), if TargetCo walks away from BuyerCo's offer, that could be a bluff or a positive signal about TargetCo's value.

CRM likely thinks it's worth more and/or it could get more. The market agrees for now.
VCs are overrated. They can take your company and throw you out if they don't like you. I have actually witnessed that happen. Stay clear of them if you don't want to lose your business.

Talent of SV is also overrated. Smart people are available everywhere, many of them not interested in going to the US. Pay them reasonable salary and they will build you anything.
I've read great short fiction, but nearly every time I read something Really Awesome or Interesting, I end up wanting to read more exploring interesting things in that world. Parallel events, precursors, Lore, etc. I dislike when there's a constant "To be Continued...." (Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones), but love when there's a series of related books that each can stand alone, but also enrich a shared lore. I absolutely devoured nearly everything in the Dragonlance novels and Star Wars extended universe books, for example.

Whenever I read the first book of a book like Dune, or Foundation, or Earthsea, or Anne Leckie's Ancillary Justice, or the Diamond Age (or Snow Crash) I end up wishing for more from that same universe of Lore. Sometimes this ends up being something amazing, like the Foundation series, other times the sequel fails to hold me, or goes off the deep end like some fantasy serieses seem to.

I think I end up gravitating towards trilogies. I know there's more to the story arc than just one book, and but enough written that I (in theory) won't be left in the lurch. :-)

Then again, I also read all [at the time] of the Honor Harrington series, because I loved the characters and political story arc(s), but ended up getting burned out and never reading the more recent novels. I don't even know or recall if it was a feeling that it jumped the shark, I just didn't feel I had the energy to devote to it.
Open source would be really great and a must for me to consider running it.

However, I don't understand the apparent outrage and flaming going on by others here. If you guys would've only had a payed plan without the option to self-run there would've been no problem. You offer self-hosting for free, something that you'd pay for with other services, and you are suddenly seen as the bad guys. Very strange.

Congrats on a very nice looking tool :).
Because Florida? Unless there is some island of sanity lurking in central Florida that I don't know about (and yes, I have been to St. Pete a number of times due to having family there), it's difficult to look past the massive increase in Dealing with Crazy People that would follow a move from SF to there. I actually like Florida (probably a lot more than your average Bay Area denizen) but the lifestyle tradeoff is a lot more complex than you are making it out to be.
In my opinion there is none, it was focused on flash developers, IMO now we have tools much better like Unity3d and UE, b/c I see haxe as a game development tool, don't know others usages right now of haxe
You're not limited to powershell though. There are at least 4 options that are more appropriate for someone like you like Cygwin, git bash or one of the terminal emulators (ConEmu).

Anyway, I think it's a tradeoff in either direction - Programming on Linux, the way it's most commonly done now, means cobbling together a tool-set to do that work. Windows programming tools are typically more streamlined. However, on Windows you have to cobble together your kit for other things such as advanced command line tools that you may depend on.
Exactly. $200k is a pretty decent windfall for most folks, which conveniently just happens to match up with the 20% down payment for your median priced house. Down payment is the "hard part" of buying a house in the Bay Area, not so much the salary.
I lived in Athens until recently. I work in Atlanta now, but I don't doubt you had such a big pay jump. When I looked (very briefly) at tech jobs in Athens they were all around 50-60k for senior positions (not much of a selection either obviously). Of course you can also get a 3k sqft house for under $200k around there.
> This is a serious problem for me: I want to move to the Bay Area, but it seems like the up-front moving costs and rent will be too prohibitive even if after a few months they settle down to a net profitability.

There are more affordable places (still expensive, but less so than SF/Silicon Valley) within reasonable commute distance of the core of the Bay Area. If you've got good bay area job prospects, you might consider initially living on the peripheries until you can build up a cushion that lets you move further into the core.
Great public transportation in Japan
Safari works fine. It just still needs vendor prefixes.
Why would auto-vectorization fall under OpenMP?
How to Secure Apps Connections
Drivers pay for the customers they get. The analogy thus fits.
As I remember them, the Xanth stories had an order but mostly stood on their own, like the detective novels TFA mentions.

In contrast, there's hardly anything in Game of Thrones that isn't tied tightly to everything that precedes or follows it. The division between books is largely arbitrary and you could have divided them up in a million different ways that would be no better or worse than the way they are now. Not that this is qualitatively better than the older series or serial style, but I do agree with the article that it's "different".
Or you can turn electricity and air and water into hydrocarbons only slightly less efficiently than you can turn electricity and water into hydrogen. This'll give you oil at something like $300 or $400 a barrel at current electricity prices. Which is to say that it's really energy that's the problem.
The US is already in the midst of an energy revolution, just not the renewable one in question. Fracking has changed the game and pushed the US into being the largest oil producer in the world.

Hopefully fracking's cheap oil won't push the renewables timetable too much farther down the road.
No, I am not even sure how I ended up with that.
Super handy. Simple and clean. Better than 100 windows in text edit.
> when I think of the word "circle", images of circles and spheres show up in my head

There seems some evidence that this stuff is fairly central to human intelligence and the ability to visualize in 3d is kind of hard wired. Deciphering meaning is approximately "seeing what it means" which can correspond to visualizing it in your head. For example "the cat sat on the mat" is a bunch of symbols but someone or some machine can convert that to an image of a cat sitting on a mat then I guess they've understood it.
I don't know, it's not, like, crazy to imagine that both a merger and rejecting a merger might increase stock price.

Imagine that someone has the mineral rights to an area in which they assert there might be valuable mining. You are interested, but lack the expertise to evaluate their claims.

Now suppose that a savvy third party comes along and makes them a sizable offer for the mineral rights. You may think, "Okay, this third party has expertise that I lack -- I am upgrading my belief that there really are valuable minerals here."

Now if the original party rejects that offer on the grounds that it's not high enough, you might think, "Okay, they aren't idiots -- if they rejected that offer, they must have genuine reason to believe they can get more later," and upgrade your beliefs again.
Almost to the penny. That said, the median income in Athens is next to nothing, but the housing market is dirt cheap, too.

Truth be told, it's actually a fantastic place to live, I just missed living in the city.
Huzzah! As someone who has worked with building, testing, and numerical software, this seems like a great thing. Generally floating point computations are effectively non-deterministic: you (or the compiler) change something that doesn't seem like it matters and all of a sudden your result changes. Having more methods available that give you the deterministically best right thing at little additional expense is great!
I feel similarly about book series -- I __devour__ them, and then at some point feel just drained and tired, and can't read book 9 or 12 or something. In contrast, there are webcomics that I read every week that have been going for ten years or more, and I still do not get tired of them. It might be the regular drip-feed of content that does that, though.