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That's amazing! And is all the imagery in public domain?

Edit: I see 'bing', so maybe not. Also, if anyone related to the project is looking, the elevation model is extremely noisy and likely broken, so wrapping the imagery around DEM might need to uhh be looked at.

unfortunate because even if one couldn't get into a high paying job, one could try getting into an interesting one. Since they're the same, it's both or nothing. Thus it's fortunate for those that get those, but unfortunate for the rest. : )

It was supposed to be sarcastic. Didn't get the tone right.

>At my old place in Somerville, MA (not exactly a cheap place to live), $100 would be four large hampers full of laundry and my shirts would be pressed.

Was the before, or after the 10% Tufts discount though? If you're below 35, you gotta pretend you forgot your ID, and take that sweet sweet discount. Same for the Sushi place that's right next to the Tufts-discount laundry place.

In other (totally irrelevant) news from current-Somerviller to (past?) Somerviller: area around Davis has gotten almost on par with Harvard Square prices (in terms of rent). Things are crazy around here!

" ...First they came for the Cucumbers, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Cucumber ... "

-Song of those Tensorflow'd out of their jobs.

[Edit: Changed Cucumber sorters to cucumbers to clarify the sarcasm]

Disclaimer: I understand the parent and I are hijacking the thread, but...whatevs.

This. x1000. I wish there were more places I could put my four goddamn years of CS knowledge to use. I joke with business people in our team how they could steal my job after maybe 2 weeks of programming bootcamp.

TBH, any 9th grader with reasonable determination can do what I do on everyday basis, while the advanced/cool stuff that I really enjoyed/struggled with in college slowly fades from my brain.

I wish there were a way to somehow reconcile these. I want to make money, yes, but I want to do cool stuff too. I'd be willing to take a not insignificant paycut to work on cool stuff. Unfortunately, it appears that places with more 'interesting' stuff to work on are also those that end up paying more. Just like how colleges that are more expensive to get into are also those that will [more likely] have more money to throw your way.

What gives, people of HN?

For those who may not be aware -- As always in these situations: Scott Aronson said it first!

For reference, here's the highly amusing and interesting paper he's written on this:

"NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality" http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf

Abstract:

"Can NP-complete problems be solved efficiently in the physical universe? I survey proposals including soap bubbles, protein folding, quantum computing, quantum advice, quantum adiabatic algorithms, quantum-mechanical nonlinearities, hidden variables, relativistic time dilation, analog computing, Malament-Hogarth spacetimes, quantum gravity, closed timelike curves, and “anthropic computing.” The section on soap bubbles even includes some “experimental” results. While I do not believe that any of the proposals will let us solve NP-complete problems efficiently, I argue that by studying them, we can learn something not only about computation but also about physics."

For the second part, I'd add: people from your country.

If there's a gathering of less than 20 people from my country, I love everyone. 20-50 and I start hyperventilating. More than 50, and I make and execute elaborate plans to get out at any costs.

You seem wise...I'll ask for advice!

How do I, as a 27 year-old Grad student invite women for coffee without them feeling it might be a 'trick-date', or having them not get comfortable?

Really, I want it to be a date _less_ than you do, but how do I convince you that?

Ahh breitbart. The only honest, independent, impartial, and non-sellout media remaining. Everyone else is MSM-shill. /s

Interesting... Can this 'hack' be used to convince people that, say, they're in a different/secure website when they're in a malicious website? I ask because since the 'fake' cursor is visible even on the address bar, the page must be able to overwrite the pixels there?

Finally! In HN I have finally truly found the loving, caring crowd that really cares about ethics in game journalism above everything else! Keep up the good work folks!

There's this AMAZING scifi story, which I read in 'Writers of The Future' (great series, named after the eminent L Ron. H.). It imagines a future where after a certain age, everyone has a chip planted in them, which makes it possible to kill oneself 'on demand', painlessly, so to speak. It 'naturally selects' away all those who are uhh, more instably minded, and selects for the very very 'stable' minded. I believe the story was about how boring, unimaginative the society had gotten because natural selection had optimized for stability. Great read! You should read it if you haven't. The writer's of the future series is a collection of amazing stories also, and what finally tipped me into the Sciences, despite the somewhat uhh interesting Scientology connection. Anyone remember the name of the story?

This was inspired by @antiquark's comment: >>Probably has something to do with the theory of natural selection.

Haha, really!

Maybe I'm less-experienced (1.5 yrs), but it would have taken me significantly more than the 15 mins(was it?) that it took them to diagnose the problem.

Props to the team, and Thank All 0.33G Gods I was not on call!

Seriously! I wish I'd rather done an analysis of countries' shapes, and a measure of their rectagularity, viewed by hundreds of thousands/millions of people online than made this comment, where all I do is agree with you against the annoying snarkiness of the grandparent!

On a different note, agree with one of the higher level comments. Egypt doesn't look as rectangular as other countries: perhaps it's the country whose concavity and convexity are best cancelled?

Edit: Co-incidentally, the comment I was referring to was yours, parent post. I was unaware when originally posting.

Finally, a topic I can consider myself some kind of expert in!

For the record, here are my credentials: I've tinder-valeted multiple guy friends, selecting women and conversing with them and warming things up for them. My friends happen to be across a wide variety of attractiveness and success spectrum.

Observations:

1. As is obvious, attractive/successful men get a lot more likes than women.

2. Guys who get lesser matches get increasingly desperate, and start liking everyone.

3. Being 'picky' for guys is hard work. It seems funny when I put it this way, but going through hundreds/thousand(s) of women, and even making a binary choice of yes/no is actually pretty tiring. Even my better guy friends have tended to go on the safer side and pick the earlier choices, because oh god it's a tiring head-aching process, even if you have a group of friends assisting you with the choice and the conversations.

Going through Tinder so much has made me very very very cynical either about people, or the kind of people on Tinder. We're all stereotypes. Really. One picture with mountain in the background, one with a beach, one in Europe, one with friends, one with pet/lonely pouty picture. Bios mentioning 1) 'sarcasm' 2) love of beer 3) love of scotch/whisky. Some mention their heights, most add ' I don't know why this matters but here it is'. Almost everyone desirable puts 'not into hookups', but rarely means it. So many other things. It was only after I started heavily using Tinder (for others) that I really appreciated meeting/dating people more in person/talking over the phone and got really into 'old school' dating.

Anyone else have very different experience?

HA! Just yesterday a friend wanted to bet that they'd be soon acquired by GOOG/MSFT!

For any services/products outside Google, Cloud9 is truly the only service I have been really excited about. So much so that I've replied to their various automated emails thanking them for their services, and they've replied back. Love, love, love it so much. It is _so_ simple. I'm glad for the founders and the team, but I really hope Amazon keeps up the amazing support and the product they have.

This issue seems OK-ish important, but beware the incoming "but it's about ethics in game journalism" brigade!

Having read all the comments below, it appears to me that people most fervently pro-bitcoin are the kind of people who convince people towards the other directions with their arguments. Whatever merits cryptocurrency might have, "we need no goddamn taxes or governmetn" is likely NOT bound to convince people FOR bitcoin etc.

I found this one incredibly interesting, but for mostly tangential reason: relationships. I have mostly concentrated on trying to find reasonably likeable, kind, successful, and attractive partners. But because of that I have had a lot less variety of experience with different kinds of people. Perhaps a better strategy is to date a lot by uhh, focusing less on 'quality', so that 'relationship skills' are learned better?

What do you people think?

I'd love to see someone suggesting suing Breitbart/Fox out of existence. I mean... they're just as 'newsful' as gawker was...

Don't anger the Billionaire. He can fund the Lawsuits longer than you can stay solvent.

This is a really good idea: for workshops.

I don't know about day-to-day or in a classroom setting though. Whenever I did pair programming in college, one of the partners would often be overpowering in terms of skills and intelligence, and would spend most of the time getting the other up to pace. Which is great, except the laggards would often pretend to understand in fear of being looked upon as stupid.

As someone who's been on both side of the dynamics, yeahh, not sure about classroom settings. I would love to attend your workshops though!

I think you're missing what's happening here. This is a place full of exactly the people being satire: the self-awareness-lacking privileged people, as you say. They're being defensive of their choices, and arguing that they're not privileged at all, and anyone can do it, 'as long as they have the money and a job, which anyone can have', completely missing the irony.

YES!

And I don't want to piss of the uhh, bros among us, but it was extremely unfair as an international student to see mediocre fraternity brothers party through the semester, and then using their 'frat-connections' (basically the DL on all the old questions sets, collected over decades, and detailed coaching by fellow brothers on likely questions and answers) due exceedingly well in the exams, and then use their frat connections to land exceedingly awesome jobs. Blame the Chinese all you want, it hurts because they're the 'other'. (/rant. Sorry. Makes me really mad. I WORKED HARD TO LEARN AND ENJOYED CLASSES.) Funnily enough, I did exceedingly well in those exams that were open book (instructors knew the 'sharing of past papers happened, so they changed questions types) to which I didn't any scrap of paper. /humblebrag. But yeah, the system is unfair as it is.

Having said that, dear Americans, as broken as things are (despite those gosh darned 'cheatin' Chinese', as Trump would say), the system is better than anywhere else. Thanks for that : )

Supposedly originally Mindy's idea, until Ryan stole it from her. She later threatens to sue him.

For non-Americans, non-townies, non-Mass people, it's pronounced Woo-stuh. Not Wer-Chest-er. Yeaahhh.

This will be off topic, but I'd like to hear others' thoughts on the issue.

I really really dislike, the taxi industry. I have ridden a cab at 2am, and paid 4x what I regularly do, in cash, because 'the machine is broken'. I hate running after them. Finding cabs after hours is _hell_.

But I find Uber super-duper scummy. It's just the general...everything about it. That when you need it the most, it jacks up its prices, breaks laws like it's no one's business, and then spends SHIT TONS of money in lobbying to change them. Etcetera. But I do like the much improved transportation system it's led to. It's like day and night.

So... why doesn't anyone (or even a regulatory agency!!!) create an open marketplace for transportation services, where riders and drivers can bid, and all the 'services' are just middlemen between the marketplace and individual agents? Sort of like... email, but for Uber?

As clearly displayed by overeducated engineers in this thread. "Ahh people find anything offensive these days. If I say a Large company putting out a bot saying a mass murder of peoples is funny, it's funny, and not offensive. People should just learn to take in jokes hahaha"

saying 'a bot did it' doesn't make it right. Just as having an app doesn't make a company an 'internet company' automatically.

To put it into different perspective, imagine any number of things I could do to hurt you, and put it as:

>It's amazing that asadlionpk getting offended/hurt by what a bot said/did to them.

And then add (as children posts have done): "Ahh but asadlionpk will find any reason to get hurt/offended".

This again goes to show how a large percentage of the Vulcan overlords of Hackernews have lost basic humanity and care for fellow humans.