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> Then, he met his co-founder Maria De La Croix, through a feminist organization. As part of that movement, they protested the average pay gap between women and men by burning the extra wages he hypothetically earned because he was a man.

Wait what? Hasn't this common misconception been debunked, or at least to be shown to be very insignificant when controlling for obvious variables?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/01/...

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...

http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th...

http://www.ne.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.99257.1346412310!/menu/sta...

https://www.med.upenn.edu/gastro/documents/Whogoestothebarga...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/02/24/childless-wo...
To give a little context on how old VR is, see this picture of Ivan Sutherland from 1967:

http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/35...
- LinkedIn has employed "Dark Patterns" for a long time to scarf up your Address Book via your e-mail id. Then unless you are VERY careful you will end up spamming everyone with an invite.

- They also employed a MTM attack on your mobile "Intro App" https://threatpost.com/linkedin-intro-app-equivalent-to-man-...

- Have you noticed that the LI News feed is a high-noise collection of crap?

- and on and on

"Monetizing your users" is rapidly making that site useless for almost everyone.
Wage inequality in three charts and 34 tweets from an ex-Googler
Already knowing where "Enhance!" going to lead me! :)
At least California lets Tesla sell cars without dealerships. How's that for Texas small government?
That's all well and good, but you missed the fact that what made SFO the melting pot that it's known for today was a liberal immigration stance and an egalitarian mindset. What you're describing is conservative immigration and a preservation mindset, which is fine, but the opposite of what made San Francisco, San Francisco.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Dan Ariely (behavioural economics)
Frans Johansson (author of The Medici Effect)
>We're able to more strategically invest in open source projects

Like numpypy?
Those are great. Other favourites from the list are:

1) The Pynchon Gate: A Secure Method of Pseudonymous Mail Retrieval

2) Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol

3) On the Economics of Anonymity

The third in particular is interesting, because it analyzes the social roadblocks to deploying decentralized systems. Everyone knows that decentralized systems are technically challenging, but very few people consider the issue of actually incentivizing people to contribute to your network once you get it working, until it's too late.
Then anything that doesn't use fusion/fission to make carbon is carbon neutral.
No tangential flamewars on Hacker News, please.

Perhaps there's a substantive point to be made about California and Texas, but flat-out tribal/ideological provocation is the opposite of that, and not ok here.
There was a big price correction last year which was fairly clearly attributable to competition, especially Google. There will never be quite the cutthroat competition that retail brings, but Amazon is positioning itself as a logistics provider not a retailer.
How would you name books in the Library of Babel? Giving each book a unique name would require as much information as the contents of the library itself. Unless you could re-arrange the library and bring the useful volumes together, you would never be able to make a catalog for it.
That's not nearly as good of a talking point.
Great! I'm searching for more open sourced blogs like yours.
How can gold be used as an indicator of inflation?

Gold went up by almost 50% during the 2008 crisis and has dropped by 1/3 since it's peak. If we use the price of gold as an indicator of inflation that would mean we a huge inflationary spike followed by a severe deflationary period?
It seems as though it would cost several thousand dollars per year to be licensed to operate this in Toronto, Canada. Toronto is really struggling to work out a decent model for licensing food trucks and the like, and it seems as though being a mobile food vendor on a bike doesn't really fit in their models at the moment.

If it wasn't for that, i'd be all over this. $3000 for the basic bike is a steal, and I could totally see me doing this for a couple of days a week over the warmer months.
It's amazing that Kepler continues to discover new planets and (I hope) it will get to the point where we just expect it to be the norm. Oh, another planet in the Goldilocks zone? It's just a shame it'll be a long time before we can actually step foot on any of those planets.
It would be nice if everyone standardized the folder and data formats on jekyll. Then, I could consider switching to a new engine without much work.
Been living in Saigon (legally) since 2006. Count me in the Saigon group. My wife is from Hanoi (where we met) and she moved to Saigon. The climate is much milder and the city has less red-tape. They told me there is even a migration of Vietnamese from North to South..
Crashplan recently removed it's multi-year plan and increased prices. Gone are the days of 4-year plans that average out to a few dollars per month. Crashplan's prices have nearly doubled in the past three years alone. Disappointing.
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It is a tradeoff. If you are looking for a job, or are new to the industry, linkedin is better than trying to build a professional network otherwise. After you have been in the industry for, say 15 years, and pretty much know most of the people working in your space, are highly specialized, then the recruiter emails will feel like spam. My guess is that for the first case, you aren't specific enough about yourself, so recruiters have a good chance of reaching you, based on your profile. After a certain amount of time, your profile readily doesn't distinguish your interests clearly. For example, a java developer tag at the start of one's career is quite different from a senior java developer who has understanding of internals of JVM. Recruiter may not know about the second case enough to be of much help.
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I've always particularly liked the bra-ket notation for making this sort of problem intuitive, typically used by quantum physicists. (There's a wikipedia article on this notation, though I don't think it does it justice.)

In that notation, a vector |a> which is basis independent has components <i|a> in some basis |i> , where (say) |i_1> , |i_2> are the basis vectors. Then to change to another basis <k| the "operator one" (which is the outer product of a basis, i.e. sum over i of |i><i|) is inserted to get <k|a> = sum over i <k|i><i|a> , which turns into the matrix mechanics.

(Each of the outer products e.g. |1><1| is a "projection operator" which projects a vector onto that basis vector. The sum of all of them projects onto the whole space spanned by the vectors, which is the same as doing nothing, which is therefore the identity operator.)

Once you get your head around the connections between coordinates (i.e. a_x = a_1) and the dot product with a basis vector (i.e. dot(i_1, a) = <i_1 | a> = <1|a>), this notation can make the whole thing intuitive and mechanical.

I have an explanation of this online at http://cs.marlboro.edu/talks/bra_ket.pdf .
It's about quality of life, not relative income. I used these two states as examples because I've spent a lot of time and have a lot of friends in both. In Texas, a middle class income sets you up with a decent house, in a decent hood, with a decent school district, and a fairly low stress life. You mix with others from random walks of life. In California, it feels like you spend every dollar just to survive, and you tend to associate with a narrower spectrum of peers.
Ummm... Should I refer you back to my original post? ;)
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You are rightm but we can use Biogas in the burners, since the amount of fuel is negligeble compared to an engine. It is not avalible in all places yet though.
Duncan Ballantyne from Dragons Den
I would think SB understands how to maximize revenue based on size, rent, and location of their stores. Revenue/sq ft would be one metric to use. There's SBs out there with no seating or public seating (like airports), to ones in stripmalls you have to drive to.
I think "significant" is probably overstating things. In the bottom quintile in San Jose has a 12.9% chance of making it to the top, Houston is 9.3% (nearly the same as Sacramento).

I grew up in California but moved to Houston half-way through high school. The school I wound up in in Houston was light-years better than the one I left in California.
But your capital lease payments aren't included in (ie removed from) that operating profit. Since you don't know which is larger, I remain befuddled how you claim aws is profitable.
Is Network effects a company? If so, can you give the url. Googling doesn't help much in this case.
EDIT:If you were talking about social network effects, this is embarrassing.
The Amiga turns 30–“Nobody had ever designed a personal computer this way”
Was AvalonDock one?
I'd argue that my time + cost of parts would make this more expensive than a good NAS. When it comes to storing my photos and video, I'd rather have a purpose-built system than a DIY that I have to configure, patch, and maintain. Just my two cents.
not to mention the plethora of patent lawsuits they launch via shit like intellectual ventures
You think that rice isn't produced by multi-billion dollar corporations that have spent decades honing their lobbying techniques? Like ADM, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis-Dreyfus Group, look them up. These are the same guys who are able to maintain agricultural subsidies larger than NASA's budget as well as regulations mandating ethanol in gasoline which works out to be just another kind of subsidy.
We LOVE people to hang out. The point is that most young people don't have access to the $ 500 000 it costs to open a Starbucks in a big city.
"San Francisco would look like Manhattan within two years."

A crowded, hyper-expensive, tourist trap with limited housing that most locals avoid? Good goals.

"This would all be fixed very quickly if it was legal to buy some land, demolish what's on there, and build a skyscraper instead."

"Economics concerns itself with what actually happens when you incent people though, not what we intend by those incentives."

Simple narratives make for good rhetoric but poor action. Especially when those narratives are driven by what I'm assuming is your libertarian politics.
For physical commodities, financial cost will eventually converges to physical cost as the contracts reach settlements. If not, those financial contracts will be replaced; by another product that can truly provides physical players to hedge their risks.
This One Intersection Explains Why Housing Is So Expensive In San Francisco [1]

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com.au/why-housing-is-so-expensiv...
Walmart is cheaper. Significantly cheaper. You don't have to pay $100-$300 per year plus Amazon's typical 10-20% price premium* in exchange for "free" 2-day shipping. If you live in the right place you can pick up the goods same-day from Walmart, maybe even on your commute, so for some people it's more convenient too.

* The usual caveat about everything varying with geography applies here too, I'm sure.
Australia!
Oh yes, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. If that's the bit you were objecting to, I apologize for misreading your comment.
Not to mention a drag on business due to people not purchasing much coffee, being there for hours, _and_ appearing to be homeless.
It is propping up the rest of their business (which is doing very well but like others have said has very low or negligible margins).

If anything, they could leverage their cloud tech further in the consumer space by developing uses for it beyond just video streaming (could be other uses but this is the main one I am aware of). I think we've seen that with Echo and a next-gen version could easily do more as an assistant, an all encompassing one for any digital support needs. Perhaps also stream games a la PS Now.
Thanks! We applied and they must have liked SOMETHING, though it is beyond us what. The plan is to build better and better bikes. No more, no less.
Man, part of me thinks this is a terrible idea for a host of reasons but the founders seem really brand-centric and financially savvy. I wish them the best of luck, it is clear success is possible, maybe even likely, but the magnitude is an open question.
You just described most of China and developing SE Asia countries. Not respecting lines, general littering, lack of attention to personal space (bumped by everyone, all the time). I'm not sure it's unique to Vietnam.
Yeah, no. Maybe if you only stick to Bui Vien street.

I met a lot of great foreigners through the HCMC Javascript Meetup and at various co-working spaces in Saigon. There really are some great people in that town.

You have to stay for more than just a few days to figure out where the good people are. That was likely your issue.
Selling picks and shovels is only viable for the small entrant if there's an actual gold rush.
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I can barely get a 1br in Austin for that price.
Wow, thank you so much for your feedback and advice. I really appreciate it.
We are talking about a brute force, exhaustive search method versus algorithms which have significantly better time complexities. I don't understand how the word "approximate" applies to these algorithms which are largely or entirely deterministic, but sequence alignment is an inherently approximate question. You want your answer to be approximate, because mismatches and gaps are real things. In fact, finding the "approximate" answers are what the OP is after - places in the genome that look like, but aren't exactly, the query sequence. And as soon as you expand your query length or edit distance even a little, finding that becomes completely infeasible. In fact, the OP lucked out because this is a very special circumstance (this method is completely computationally infeasible for 99/100 applications of this problem).
Agreed - there's an opening for a great desktop software solution to manage all AWS services. Kind of like CloudBerry Explorer but for more than S3.
My comment wasn't meant to be tangential or start a flamewar. I think the article hits upon one of the most important issues of our time, namely how we want to structure our most important urban centers moving forward. There are very real quality of life issues at stake. Like many others here, I don't think of myself as Californian or Texan but as an American who has lived in various places at various times and who votes with his feet as opportunity arises. I used a bit of tongue in cheek snarkiness to drive the point home. Imagine my first comment as a political cartoon and you might see it in a better light.
I think it's funny that there are portable coffee stands all over parts of Southeast Asia.

I wonder if most people realize that the "innovation" involved has to do with franchising and finances, rather than the fact that it's a cart that sells coffee.
We've already got cheap, self-reproducing labor on Earth. Getting that model to the Moon and maintaining it there is expensive enough to defeat the purpose, though. The kind you're talking about is much more practical in a lunar context than it is dirtside.
No argument from me on that score. ...nor even that SF political culture lead to the current state.

But getting rid of artificial housing constraints is a far cry from saying: how dare non-rich people even think they should be able to live somewhere with good economic opportunities and a high quality of life.
We care about reducing memory usage because it gives us greater flexibility in our infrastructure. We're offering this to hundreds of scientists a day - not huge numbers in the grand scheme of things, but usage is bursty and by paying customers. This means we can mix in CRISPR work with our other processing infrastructure, and we can choose between many servers with low memory vs a few servers with high memory.

Maybe genomics doesn't have to be so memory hungry. 8)
You don't seem to understand the difference between building on coreclr and building on *nix. You asked about coreclr, I answered :)
Based on this piece of information alone, I am going to predict that the founders will fail.
I remember looking up runit[1] the other day, and going "I can trust this software" based off the spartan HTML.

[1]: http://smarden.org/runit/
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Yeah. Tell them they could live in a nice big apartment tower in the Marin Headlands and have a quick commute to the Presidio and Chrissy Fields across the Marin BART, which also got shot down in part by Marin NIMBYs concerned about population density[1]. Of course, Chrissy Fields and the Presidio would just be quaint names as they would be massively built up and look like SOMA if there weren't all these darned NIMBYs around.

[1].http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/23/imagine_hopping_on_...
Emacs org-mode could be a choice though it takes some ( or long) time to learn. You document in plain text and may export to tex, pdf, html (docx is not supported AFAIK).
Do new residents get shares? If so, how do you deal with dilution? Seems like that would become a reason to want to keep people out.
Rent control is about not increasing rents by too much each year while you are living there. Once you move out, the landlord can agree to a new lease at any amount. The only way to circumvent this is to assign your lease to the next tenant when you move out. Most people just move out after a while and the apartment goes back on the market. You get some very long term tenants, but so what? It's a small percentage of the population.

Given this, I think rent control is fairly ineffective at preserving diversity, but I like it because it means that people can't be forced to move all of a sudden because their landlord puts the rent up by $500 a month. I don't believe that the already astronomical rents in SF would go much higher if rent control was abolished anyway.

That said, building more housing obviously helps. As does making nearby cities nicer places to live.
Have you thought about using the hammond distance, instead of the array?

It should give you the same answer in 3 CPU instructions on registers instead of 2 array lookups and arithmetic in ram. XOR, hammond weight/bitcount and and equality check.
Objective criteria which are established... how exactly if not by popularity contest? And if making the criteria ex post facto also wins the popularity contest, then ex post facto it is, regardless of whether that offends your sense of justice.

(It's not really ex post facto anyway - you simply apply the existing (1945) standards for what was considered a war crime, and find that the bombings fit the bill [1]. That seems to me the best way to do it - what would you prefer? That no one had used an atomic bomb before, need not exclude the possibility of the first such use of one being a war crime.)

That said, I mostly agree with your take on war crimes in practice, if not in principle. But if the allies had lost the war the bombings would have been considered a war crime by the victors, without a doubt. In that sense it is appropriate to call it a war crime. Again, it was a war crime in a war replete with them, and it was not the worst of them either: it was certainly no Holocaust, and I don't think the two bombings taken together even rise to the level of one Rape of Nanjing, either - but it was a war crime and yes, that is the popular opinion of it globally.

Try to keep in mind that I'm mainly defending the original statement "we understand that it was horrible war crimes". That is an accurate statement, even if you have grounds to think that people are wrong to see it that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing...
Everyone knew this.
Lack of sustainability is more about lack of political will than technology and resources. A lunar colony presumably won't have any dipshits saying "Don't bother recycling the waste water, just dump it on the surface. I'm sure we'll find more somewhere."
Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3
Back when I used Compose/MongoHQ exclusively for my sideprojects, they had a very generous free tier. They only recently switched to stop being generous (which is completely understandable).
I suppose that's reasonable.
Thanks for sharing. Hmm, 1.6 MB minified and gzipped that might mean something like 300-400kb, which sounds fine to me. Edit Aha you wrote uncompressed — I suppose the JS was minified already then, and then the bundle will be larger, okay.

Full stack Dart seems like a good alternative. I wonder how popular it'll become now when there's Rust, Go and Scala.js too :-)
It seems the main problems Homejoy faced were:

- not able to increase retention rates and get organic growth
- heavy reliance on discounted pricing
- rapid (too ambitious?) expansion strategy
- customers and contractors bypassing the service for subsequent bookings
- pressure from investors

This is a real shame as Homejoy seemed to have a great team leading it (I enjoyed watching Adora's part for How to Start a Startup). Lessons should certainly be learnt and I wish the best of success to everyone who worked at Homejoy.
In that case, it doesn't seem very honorable for you to be giving quotes to the media like, "We’re powered only by the sun and your own body".
Are you sure? I'd quite like to walk up to my bus stop and have my phone provide me a link to a stop-specific schedule, among other uses.
Facebook comments are perhaps the worst metric i can think of to measure a media company on. The data does not support your claims. Look at their factchecks. clearly nonpartisan.
>> Chomsky compares the approach to a statistical model of insect behavior. Given enough video of swarming bees, for example, researchers might devise a statistical model that allows them to predict what the bees might do next. But in Chomsky’s opinion it doesn’t impart any true understanding of why the bees dance in the way that they do.

Chomsky is at liberty to pursue an understanding of bee behavior. The engineers and scientists who created the system were interested in translating, not understanding. It seems to me that any system, whether based on a statistical model or some other approach, that achieves a valid translation is clearly a success. For all we know the brains of human translators work similarly.
This is a fairly low bar for calling another human scum
living in Saigon since 2006 to date and agree with jawngee.
when was the last time there was a javascript meetup... unfortunately that seemed to have died down a bit now
Same boat. Funny a few years ago I was cleaning some stuff in my parent's basement and came across a collection of old computer magazines from back then. Ended up climbing up in the attic, grabbing the old C64, and hooking it up just to make sure it still worked. Started right up and worked just like the first day I got it. Wish I could go back to those days without a care in the world.
The method they accidentally found is not as bad as you make it to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin–Karp_algorithm

Rabin karp with rolling hashes is actually (not exactly but almost) what tools like rsync, or bittorent use to find chunks and differences in files. So it scales really well.

The algorithms you cite come from a time when computers looked rather different in their architectures.

Linearly scanning the entire genome from ram for example, could be significantly better than performing multiple index lookups from disk.

Many problems of bioinformatics (the text processing) aren't that hard or special anymore, a genome is tiny compared to the amount of data we have lying around elsewhere.
I could wrong but you seem to be just citing data for the US. Aren't the founders from Europe? Does every country in Europe have fair pay between genders?