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If a freeway is full of cars and you add lots more freeway, won't that make more space for cars?

The obvious answer is yes, but the obvious answer is often wrong. Adding more freeway can create more demand, meaning no progress is made. [1] [2]

Right now the major constraint on having a larger tech industry in SF is the real estate expense; both offices and apartments are through the roof. It's so bad that established companies are opening or expanding offices elsewhere, and even many startups are trying other things. They wouldn't be doing that if they could keep expanding here, so no, adding lots more housing might do nothing but create more demand.

Also, saying "massive construction of new housing" so glibly suggests that there is a lot of empty land just waiting for construction. Take a look at a map of San Francisco: there are buildings almost everywhere, and the people in them are generally pretty happy where they are. Where there are no buildings, we mostly have parks, which people are also quite fond of.

Mencken wrote: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." As here, an number of those answers come from applying Econ 101 in a way where one might as well be saying, "Assume a spherical cow..." [3]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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Not to mention the way ISPs are going, we are going to be paying for all the content twice, 3 or more times if you want to watch it again.
its also certainly possible that part of the emulation requirements include xbox 360 patch levels, an emulated file system for updates and everything else to be together in a single container.
In the book Nurtureshock (must read for any parents, IMO), sleep deprivation is considered as #1 cause for all evils. Many schools forces teenagers to wake up as early as 6AM and they typically can't go to bed before 11Pm. This is loss of 2 hours of sleep each day for brains that are still developing. Result is colossal drop in grades along with other artifacts. Schools do this to accommodate different grades in same building. Lot of schools have fixed this slightly after this book came out by making teenagers start late and kindergartens start early.In my view, it should be unlawful to have schools start before 9AM for any grades.
Their birth rates are generally lower than US birth rates.
I didn't know what bad documentation was until I used Ruby. I'll take Node's docs over Ruby's any day.
Can't read without making an account...
Would bankruptcy absolve you of that though? Or is it one of those long term things where they'll garnish your wages as much as they can? In Canada if you get in a bad accident w/o insurance the government fronts the money and then uses its power to garnish wages/make your life hell to collect as much as it can.
..two minutes in and queue the white guy in a kimono giving social commentary on Japanese culture.
Well, some British bus stops may be not that beautiful, but are well furnished and equipped with TVs http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/6564-bus-shelter-joins-online...
Lack of electability is a poor reason not to vote for someone. The cool thing about elections is the person with the most votes wins regardless of how electable they seem.

You're talking to somebody who has been voting Libertarian since 1996 and who ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC as a Libertarian in 2008. You don't have to tell me that "Lack of electability is a poor reason not to vote for someone". I'm just observing that McAfee is going to have a VERY difficult time with this, not telling people not to support him.

My own willingness to support him would hinge on a better understanding of his positions and principles, and how favorable I find those to be, relative to the other candidates.

There are much better reasons not to vote for McAfee

I'm sure there are. :-) I'm going to be very curious to see what kind of into on McAfee emerges as this unfolds, if he's serious about this.
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Adding support for `import` will be a huge breaking change unless all existing packages have to opt-into it somehow. I don't think anybody has a good plan for this yet, apart from treating it as syntactic sugar for CommonJS.
This guy has just got daddy issues: his father is a CS prof at Yale.

(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelernter, mention of his son as this guy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702038331045770721...)
> It’s unclear why Apple has not implemented some sort of manual verification method. The company did not respond to a request for comment.

Uh because most people would have no clue what it meant/did and just be more confused. Don't get me wrong I'd live this feature but I'm in minority and even with it I'd probably only rarely check the keys against friends.

Just because something is possible (showing key fingerprint) doesn't make it "unclear" why it hasn't been implemented....
Distantly related, but might be useful for anyone using Bootstrap, flexbox doesn't seem to work with Bootstrap' carousel.
With a first past the post election system, lack of electability is a very good reason not to vote for someone as that vote subtracts one vote from a candidate who has a realistic chance of winning.

Not if you would have simply chosen not to vote at all otherwise. Nobody is entitled to my vote, and every candidate has an equal opportunity to earn that vote. Somebody will, most won't. If nobody does, I won't vote. And I'm not the only person who operates this way.

This wouldn't be as big of a problem in a runoff style voting system.

I'd love to see us adopt Approval voting, but I'm not holding my breath.
I have never understood the huge fuss about the underarm delivery. It was legal and just showed that Greg Chappell knew the rules. The way the NZ batsman (I have forgotten who he was) chucked a wobbly and threw his bat away was worse as it is actually contrary to the rules.
He doesn't have the energy or sensible plans.

Sanders + Lessig appears to be the current best hope for the U.S. and world causes.

PS: He's coming off as a Byronic attention-queen at this point, and that makes me embarrassed and ashamed on his behalf. He could be fighting for sensible privacy open-source projects with nonpartisan advocacy and security foundations for the public good. Instead, it's the heroin-rattled rockstar "what sh&t will he say today" celebrity narcissism-cult routine rather than planning to "get sh&t done."
Right to be forgotten however applies only to search engines right now, doesn't it? The articles the results used to point to still exist. So a redundant mesh itself doesn't seem to apply here.
This is just a comment on Reddit that summarizes an article that was previously posted to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152269
While I'd love to live in a city with an effective government and great mass transit, I just don't have faith in SF city government specifically or in most local governments generally being able to accomplish the largest scale civil works projects successfully.

While some kind of big master plan would, if executed well, produce a better result, I'd prefer to stick to smaller projects with reasonable deliverables which actually happen, and then hack together a less effective than ideal, but still better, end result.

Arguing like this for all-or-nothing is a great way to get nothing, which makes me sad because SFBA transit is such shit today.
ipfs currently uses what we call a 'multihash' where every hash value is tagged with the hash function used to generate it. As of now, the default hash function is sha256, and if I recall correctly, the chances of a world ending asteroid hitting earth and wiping out the planet is far more likely to occur than a collision. If sha256 is shown to be broken, we can change our default hash function to something like sha512 without breaking any existing data.
> Secondly, your premise is incorrect. It's the NFL that has a rule against drafting players out of high school, not society.

I'm not sure how you could have interpreted my post any other way. When I refer to "collusion" I'm speaking of that between the NFL and the NCAA. I'm aware it's the NFL's rule (in collaboration with the NCAA).

> That doesn't solve the problem. Even if football athletes could go straight from high school to college as in basketball and baseball, college football will still be a huge moneymaker, and the athletes will remain broke.

Actually, this solves a lot of problems. First, that there is more than one route to the NFL. If you're 18, insanely talented and want to go to the NFL, you don't have to waste everyone's time pretending to be a student for 3 years. Colleges can focus more on academics instead of the charade it is now. And if you have the skills necessary to make money out of high school, you have an avenue to do so.
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Cars, driverless or otherwise, don't scale like subways do. A single BART train can easily carry 500 passengers, and can be loaded in a few minutes. Cars can't compete.
this PDF: http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf ? http://ipfs.io appears to be under heavy load...
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This app is really useful and I really like where it is going. Many people have come home to a medical bill that was more than expected. I myself know how that feels
That's interesting, but I see no reference in the website or the paper to GNUnet or Freenet or other existing DHT-based file distribution networks. How does this compare?
Am I the only one who finds it weird that the CFO at Twitter seems unaware of the existence of the word "then" and always uses the word "than" instead?
Fantastic guide, I've seen flexbox around but haven't looked into it because of browser support issues, but this guide was a great (quick) primer on how to use flexboxes and how amazing (and relatively easy to use) they are.

Even if you can't use flexboxes right now, I still think this is a worthwhile guide to look at -- especially if you can control the devices/browsers you support (and it doesn't hurt your core business too much)
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I think I only use a fraction of flexbox's capability, but I don't seem to have any more trouble in Safari, even iOS, than any other browser... are there some known issues in Safari? Beyond what is listed here in the known issues section? http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox Pretty sure I've hit every single one of those.

I do use autoprefixer, maybe that helps. But in general, flexbox is the only layout model that makes any sense to me for building web apps, and support seems decent to me and only improving from here out.

Curious if my outlook seems more positive than what I'm reading here because I'm getting lucky and missing some of the ugly flexbox bugs others are running into?
You know the saying "quantity has a quality all its own".*
Sometimes being able to draw on a wide breadth of experience allows you to see the bigger picture that most people miss. Even in an almost perfectly modular system, you need generalists sitting on the borders.

Take the case of a product that consists of a back end API, a single page web app, and a mobile app. Who do you want designing the API? I think ideally the answer is someone who has some experience with all the systems involved.

I've been on teams where the back end guys designed the data model and the API and forced the front end to conform to that. And I've been on teams where the front end team ran the show--in my opinion neither situation is optimal.

> this means that an expert (someone who is specialized) is always able to crush a FSDev in his own field of expertise. So, FSDevs are always the rookies in all fields, compared to specialized devs.

I think there's a few different things to say here. First, I think most teams aren't really made up of experts. Mostly because most teams can't afford to be made up of experts, and because most teams probably don't need that many experts.

Second, there is a huge amount of overlap in most developer roles, so a lot of experience in one role transitions very well to other roles.

Third, most good generalist developers probably have some field that they actually are experts in. You've probably heard the term "T shaped developers". Their field of expertise might even be something like domain knowledge or management.

And finally, for most developers, there is a limit to how specialized you can become. To have along successful career in software development you can't afford to become completely specialized. If you plan on writing software for 40 years or more, you're probably not going to be a Rails specialist for the entire time.

In the end, I think a good team requires a decent mix of specialists and generalists to function well.

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Relevant Southpark: http://southpark.cc.com/clips/153064/its-better-than-flying
Also https://canhazip.com/more or https://canhazip.com/headers if you want additional headers. v4 and v6 compatible, just use curl -4 or curl -6 (not dedicated subdomain right now, might add in the future).
> Organizations like the NSA (and our future robot overlords) now only have to intercept our communications at a few sources to spy on us.

If you had the hash of some content, couldn't anyone find all of the ips currently serving it?

EDIT: Found this

https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/12
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It's a good argument for adding another level in addition to semver: A human-oriented release number.

After all, when a project goes from 2.0 to 3.0, you expect something big to have happened -- not just some breakage.

Some projects use release names (e.g., Ubuntu and Android), but if every project starts using release names we'll have a lot of (mostly silly) names to deal with on a daily basis. Plus, there's no inherent ordering in names.
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Articles like this are not too credible which tries to generalize personal anecdot and a comment from a friend. Where is the research and citations? I'm also not sure what is the take away here. Don't send kids to preschools? If that's the case then there is a fair amount of research that kids who attend full time preschool have much better chance of academic success and they are better at social skills[1]. Montessori crowd is even proud to put kids to school as early as 18 months, 3-6 hours a day and 5 days a week. Is Montessori method considered play based or more academic focused?

[1] http://www.seattle.gov/council/issues/PreschoolforAll/docs/A...
I wonder if the right vocabulary is to talk about local optima, even though that isn't really the problem with being incrementalist as a rule. Or maybe once upon a time "paradigm shift", also not the right concept.

Anyway, my point being that constant iteration or the use of heuristics have value, but it can also be useful to understand models, and occasionally take a break to think big about the direction you want to move in the long term, with the realization that many of the steps to get there will violate some pet heuristics.
Are there internship positions open for similar positions? I'm very interested in the topics mentioned in the "required experience" section.
> San Francisco has been poisoned by the "low hanging fruit" which is a series of "manageable" projects which are going to improve things but which turn out much more expensive and much less effective than the "big thinking" alternatives.

One could say the same thing about agile software development. :)
But the probability that sha256 is broken is much much higher than a collision, and definitely within the realm of human understanding.
>>Yes, poor people tend to have rigid work schedules. If congestion pricing were implemented, employers would have to be more flexible or pay their workers more.

The employer won't be more flexible nor will the salaries go up; what would happen is the employee would complain and the employer wouldn't care because they'd know there's someone out there who's so desperate for a job that they'll take the horrible situation.... e.g., the awful working conditions of a lot of immigrants.
All that article says is that a few super-expensive building projects won't bring down apartment rents for the rest of us. Well, duh. It wasn't supposed to. It was catering to the very high end of the market.

Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere. One lot that currently supports a single house could easily support a five-floor, ten-unit building with much higher aggregate rent than the house.

I don't understand how anyone can say with a straight face that adding more housing exacerbates the problem of not having enough housing. It's not like there's infinite demand, and if you add ten million houses then eleven million people will instantly move to San Francisco. You don't say that giving a starving man food will only make his problems worse.

Just curious, do you own real estate in San Francisco?
Well.... while an asteroid annihilating life on the planet isn't likely, the size of the web isn't a joke either, so such a collision is more probable than in other cases...

I suppose this could be made a problem for the user, i.e. if you want to make sure that your page isn't colliding with any other, then simply check first. (Of course there is still a race condition possibility of two colliding addresses being created at around the same time...)
> brain injuries and the muscle-mass maximizing arms race

The huge players and huge hits are a direct consequence of the modern changes to the game. Just go back to no separate defense/offense/special teams. Everybody runs the whole game. Maybe also bring the play clock down to 15 seconds.
Cool!

Do you have links to browser implementations?
"ipfs dht findprovs <hash>" gives the hash of the nodes serving it. I'm not sure how to get from that to an IP.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that some non-profit hospitals misuse their tax-advantaged status to benefit a very select group of individuals at the top of the management hierarchy.

Again, if the states managed their money better, they wouldn't need to try and take the money that these educational institutions have amassed to secure their own mission. These schools manage their endowments very well because it's the only thing that provides them a measure of security in a very uncertain world.

We should not be looking for new ways to hand politicians money. They've done a decidedly poor job thus far with the funds they've been entrusted with.
"In their trial run, Julia was much faster than R. But I objected, because random walk is a sum. Thus one can generate the entire process in R as vector calls, one to generate the steps and then a call to cumsum(), e.g."

You missed the point. Everything is fast when you export what you're doing to a library. Julia is fast when you do, and when you DON'T.
What age are we talking about here? I think below 3 absolutely requires supervision and helicoptering. No?
My bet is FB's end game with VR only starts to be realized once hardware is much smaller, much cheaper, performs better, and is ubiquitous.

Imagine how kids are glued to their cell phones today. Not
I true a slim, always on VR/augmented reality device that allows them to connect with their friends virtually. Add cameras and mics for shared experiences and streaming their lives and it is clear this is in its infancy.

"Rainbow's End" by Vernor Vinge starts to get into this a bit and provides great insight there. Functional "telepathy" seems almost reachable with how fast this has moved.
If it means better services for me and the people around me, yes, give me higher property taxes.

Being terrified of taxes is just peculiar - it's certainly not an argument-winning trump card.
"ipfs dht findpeer <peerID>" will search the DHT for connection info on a given peer.
Right, but fiddling with probabilities is exactly what you want to do in that case right? I don't know if a hashing algorithm that has no collisions exists (I suspect the answer is no, maybe other than the identity function). If collisions start to become a problem, you can move that problem further out (much much farther out) by mixing more hashing functions in, which was my point.

It's well documented (of course also by the link you posted), the super low likelihood of hash collisions, but I think (hope) the original poster knew that -- was trying to answer assuming that extraordinary case actually happened.
6809 was Motorola.

MOS took engineers from Motorola who made the 6800 chip, cloned it and MOS 6501 was pin compatible with the 6800 and the 6502 changed two pins. Motorola sued and won over the 6501 but not the 6502.

The 6809 was a 16 bit chip IIRC. TRS-80 COCO used it. It was the original chip to be used on the $600 Macintosh project until Steve Jobs took it over and changed it to the 68000 CPU.

6800 cost $300 and 6502 cost $30, guess which ones the 8 bit video game consoles and computers wanted to use?
And yet NYC and Tokyo are housing way, way more people than San Francisco, so they're actually a lot more successful at being a city in comparison. All of that density has lots of advantages -- and I say that as a Manhattan resident who rarely goes anywhere outside of Citibike range. I certainly wouldn't trade my current situation for the comparative sparseness of San Francisco at the same price.

New York City also does still have lots of opportunities to build upwards, many of which are being taken. A huge amount of housing inventory is coming online each year. The city is accommodating large influxes of new people. It could be doing even better with less restrictive air rights, but things could always be improved. San Francisco isn't doing as well by comparison.

And keep in mind, it's not like there's an infinite number of people living on the planet. Nor does building denser cities cause more people to be born that otherwise would (if anything, it's less). Housing demand thus isn't infinite, and it doesn't logically follow that addressing housing demand by building lots more housing is a self-perpetuating problem.
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Const usage prevents a bug in my example directly above!
MTG cards have had rarity indicators on cards since 1998.

http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Rarity
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Heres the article i normally link to when this comes up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4014090/is-it-safe-to-ign...

Its generally considered safe to ignore, there are no known sha256 collisions, and most people are fairly confident they wont see one for quite some time.
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I agree, I found that aspect of the article confusing as well. It's very clear why it isn't part of iMessage.

Though you could make the argument that by allowing manual key verification, Apple increases its trust with technical and privacy-conscious users. And while the vast majority of people might never know the feature exists, the technical users would become strong evangelists for the company's products.

It's a good long-term strategy for Apple to try to get the privacy and technically minded users on their side.