Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14969165

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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.

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!

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]

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 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."

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.

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?

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

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!

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.

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?

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.