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San Francisco, as well as L.A., are located on one of the most active fault lines in the USA.

http://www.wired.com/2008/10/five-us-earthqu/

Even Tokyo has most of it's trains above ground. See Yamanote line with 29 stations versus the 16 cumulative underground stations that both the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit and Saitama Rapid Railway Line serve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway

Also of note, the New Oakland Bridge that took years to build, went seriously over budget, included a very disappointing design flaw. This bridge was mostly paid for by the State of California not San Francisco by itself.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Bridge-s-troubles-...

If San Francisco wants to have dozens of miles dug beneath its surface ignoring the potential of a "black swan" earthquake event then perhaps San Francisco and not the state of California should pay for it. Or more accurately, San Diego county, Orange County and Los Angeles county should NOT have to pay for it.

We love you San Francisco but you're not that awesome.
Ask HN: How to make use of the maximum of a tech conference?
I'm going to attend a technical conference outside my city for the first time. How can I make use of the maximum from that conference?

Sorry for bad grammar.
Why?

1/2 the city is gonna be underwater by 2050, right?
When I was young, our concentration would always lapse. We would watch the first hour or so, then start itching to play, so we'd run outside and have our own game of cricket in the backyard. Mum would yell if a wicket was taken, and we'd rush back to the lounge room to watch the replay. Good times!
When I was that age, 8:00 meant that either Topo Gigio or the Muppets were on Ed Sullivan (they were always, for some reason, scheduled for the second half-hour). I'm not sure I needed the extra half-hour that going to bed at 7:30 gave me, but I'm pretty sure that my parents needed the recovery time before their two hours of grown-up television.
I wouldn't quite call it "basic". Just look at all the confusing/opposing anecdotes being exposed in the article and the comment section here.

If anything, without more evidence, we might as well chalk-up the pre-school teachers' threats to strike as being self-motivated. I.e. Preschoolers getting more sleep = being calmer = 30mins break for teachers + easier time after nap time.
Isn't friend recommendation mostly stuff like "people who follow you/you follow also follow X"? Maybe going one or two more follow hops, but not so far out that you need a global view of the social graph. If users of a decentralized network publish their following and follower lists, it should be pretty easy for a local crawler to check those hops.
I have a hunch this is meant for Patrick "patio11" McKenzie. If so, visit his website at http://www.kalzumeus.com/ and you'll find his contact info there.

If not, just ignore this post.
I haven't followed all the details of this saga, but my understanding is that this release is the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the emails. The emails were vetted by the State Department, and only those that do not have security clearance restrictions are being released to the public.
That's 3.5 times the cost per foot than in Denver.

Heh, given that land out there east of the Arsenal refuge is almost free and the cost of building an elevated structure in an earthquake zone... this comparison is the first time the AirBART replacement has sounded cheap!
Love the idea. Any plans for an android version?
> What betrays the rejection of science even more, is making blanket statements or taking strong standpoints, especially on controversial topics.

The controversy-value of a statement has no bearing on its truth-value, and to think so is deeply unscientific. Belief in the supernatural is unscientific by definition: once something crosses into the natural realm it comes under the dominion of science. In the meantime, God will not pop into existence if enough people believe in him. Even if I am so persuasive that I can convince every living physicist that I'm immune to the laws of gravity, when I jump off a tall enough bridge I will still plummet to my death. If the fate of our species should we continue on the path we're on, is the collapse of our civilization and binding to this one planet until our eventual extinction, then that is what will happen regardless of whatever clever arguments against climate change you can conjure up. The combined willpower of every living human being could not so much as change the spin of a single electron. The universe is indifferent, and it is hard to overstate just how dangerous it is to ignore this basic fact.

Moreover, taking a strong standpoint is absolutely justified based on the strength of the evidence. To do otherwise implies that the evidence is not so strong. And again, controversy-value has no bearing on this, either.
Scientists don't want to have to change the way they think to solve every single problem. We want to code something yesterday that solves today's problem and move on. A language that allows us to use simple idioms will be awesome.
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Romania, and parts of Poland where new Fiber networks are laid out have ~$35-40 1Gbit unlimited internet. Meanwhile people in US wonder how much Google is losing on $100 per 1Gb clients? :)
That's why in nethack you only meet three horsemen of the apocalypse (death, famine, pestilence). The player is implied to personify war.

Mildly interesting on a pacifism run.
OK, I thought relational modelling was more niche than that, thanks. But as long as we're on the topic of the kernel language model, I'm getting reminded of the fact that every time we add a stratification to the KL, we don't get a _better_ language; instead we get a _different_ language, with its own set of strengths of weaknesses.

For example, if the relational language is the database kernel language (model?), why does the "degradation" towards key-value pairs benefit a cache like Redis?

I'm all for principles books on databases right now, so thanks, I'll take a look.

EDIT: oh, CJ Date wrote "Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners", which seems newer. Do you know how they compare?
Julia is slower while its "JIT" warms up, and then beats the snot out of R to make up for it?
Schools in our area started at 7am for k and first grade. Some required taking a bus around 530-6. So my kids would be getting up at 4 something.

Screw that. I went to the school, picked a teacher I liked, hired her as a governess. Setup a room attached to the house as a classroom. Now school starts at 9am and it's much healthier. They sleep as much as they want, basically. (9-10 hours). Been doing it for a couple years now. Other parents have begged us to take their kids on.
What's the killer app for the Oculus Rift? So far, there are roller coaster simulators and first person shooters. Those are fun, but the market is limited. (The roller coaster thing is fun for about half an hour, tops. The FPS market is bigger, but will only catch on if you can kill more effectively wearing the headgear.)

In the last go-round of VR, the killer app was supposed to be the Multiverse (as in "Snow Crash"). Now that Second Life is available but slowly sinking, that doesn't seem as compelling. The problem with Second Life doesn't seem to be graphics resolution, lag, or anything technical; it just isn't worth the trouble. There's an Oculus Rift client mod for Second Life, not that anybody cares. (The Second Life people should do a WebGL client; more people might try it.)

Interestingly, in the first round of VR, back in the 1980s, it was "gloves and goggles", so you could actually do something while in there. This time, the gloves seem to have disappeared. The stock controller is the XBox game controller, although there's an optional wrist-tracking controller. Full finger tracking, no.
Let me get this straight. Your proposal is to force the NFL to draft players out of high school? How would that work? They'll simply say that none of the athletes are developed enough and pick them out of the college programs as they do now. How would the regulators know?

More importantly, even if players could be recruited out of high school as in basketball, it doesn't solve the problem, and we know this because it hasn't solved the problem for basketball. (College baseball and college soccer were never moneymakers and never will be, so not even the coaches and administrators make money, and we can ignore them for now.) The second tier players will still play in college, where all the non-athletes involved with the NCAA will still make bank, and the athletes will still stay broke.
I enjoyed the heck out of The Jennifer Morgue (like all the other Laundry Files books) but - until now - had no idea any part of it was based on something real. This is rather mind-blowing. Nice job by Mr. Stross, weaving in some interesting real-world stuff into his quite fantastical world.

Now I'm going to feel the need to go back and re-read the rest of the Laundry books and see if I can find any similar tie-ins.
Fortran indexes from 1. Fortran is the original higher than assembly level scientific computing language and a lot of scientists alive today got their first programming experience in Fortran. I suspect that they all follow from Fortran.
On Linux you can change the mac address quite easily with most network cards.

A quick websearch indicates that even on Windows it's not a problem.
The same conditions hold true for most baseball players drafted out of high school. They spend several years in the minors for this reason. Why not have a football minor league?
>Samsung wants people to go to “qualified” technicians. In a statement, a spokesman said, “The technology found in TVs today is more sophisticated than ever before and often requires a level of expertise and technical proficiency to repair most of these high-quality products.”

>I’ve heard this argument echoed elsewhere in the electronics industry. But the view is not unanimous: Dell, for one, makes repair guides and parts widely available on its site. So do H-P and Lenovo. Are we to believe that repairing a TV is so much more complicated than poking at a laptop?

Opening up a laptop and replacing a part available from the Dell online store is an entirely different scenario to fixing a burnt out TV...

Would the author be arguing the same thing if he'd tried to fix something himself and been zapped in the process?
One positive light is that before, there was only one big science fair which sort of became the defacto prestigious award.

These days kids have so many more options for science fairs and competitions by discipline, but none of them would exist had it not been for the Intel Science Fair.
Olympus cameras are another nightmare to repair. The button broke, but they 1) won't sell the parts to the repair store, 2) want it shipped to the factory and $200 to repair. A button that shouldn't have broken in the first place (I've take thousands and thousands of pictures and never had one fail before.

Its micro four-thirds so my next camera will be panasonic.
ML and Statistics are so different to the point that comparison between them is worthless. ML predicts, Statistics explains (and can predict in some limited scenarios). Also ML workflow includes some statistical techniques.
> What's the killer app for the Oculus Rift?

Here's my guess: Feeling like you're in the same room with someone who is far away.
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I was looking into flexbox a little time ago and came away with the impression that display:table, while a bit less elegant, is substantially better supported and a plausible solution for right now. Flexbox seemed to be more a possibility for some unspecified future.

(In that both are only supported in relatively recent browsers, but display:table was supported a bit further back, and across some important point, probably some important IE version, but I don't remember the details).

Has that changed?
Oh wow.
Thanks for the quick reply. I was actually thinking of an app running on a separate IP-based DHT, but your reply brought to my attention that IPFS actually already runs on a DHT.

Since IPFS runs on its own DHT, are there any plans for a client-side IPFS DHT library for apps to use to connect to peers on the IPFS network? Similar to https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht, but with native support for IPFS peers?

Something like this would make building a client-side real-time app based on IPFS a much more streamlined experience since developers won't have to depend on an external DHT.
That is pretty disappointing to hear - Intel's execution and involvement with the fair has been a great model for all STEM competition. The other major high school research event, the Siemens Competition, seems much less rigorously conducted (they're dropping the finalist talks for teleconference presentations this year) and doesn't capture the same brand recognition that STS does.

Still, since so few students interact with STS compared to, say, ISEF, it may be that Intel is trying to expand its reach by de-emphasizing the elite and looking to support the broadband "maker movement." It is also unlikely that Google, which the article mentions, will pick up the banner - they run their own Google Science Fair (which hasn't yet captured the prestige of STS). We'll see how it goes, but I and many others will miss Intel's STS, the crown jewel of high school competition.
Nice idea, but reading http://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/appendix16.php, that doesn't work for swapping the stack. Bank switching switches in a 16k block at the access window starting at $4000.
With zero assurance that all work emails are truly in the dump, I wonder if it will be at all possible to analyze gaps in it (ie. questions by Hilary without a response, regularly recurring interactions missed) to make educated guesses about what confidential emails she purged.
I signed up to this when you posted it on Hacker News...never got an email from you though? (just searched my email for flexbox.io to check)
i almost understood cricket one time ... then a bunch of badgers came out from the floor and i was completely lost again
Sad, but true. The timing is curious, next year (2016) is an election year.
US claim on the world’s servers at a crossroads
One step at a time :-) Android will come but we had to make choices with our small budget. Thanks for your patience
256 bit hash collisions have so low probability that you don't need to prepare for them. If one happens, its cause for celebration.

You can cover earth surface with 8.5×10^36 oxygen atoms. Imagine that every one of them is IPFS file with 256 bit hash. Probability of collision is still less than 0.1%.
Japan had a interesting mix of private companies providing and competing in areas where public transit is actually profitable and the government providing it in areas where it won't be profitable. To me that's politics done right. The market is the strongest force you can use if it works in your favor. But it's key to understand when it won't. Too bad that on the US that decision is usually driven by ideology rather than practical thought.
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By a whole 3%, on average, across the entire DC metro area, with questionable causation.

In DC proper, rents rose.
Where I'm from people would be ecstatic about getting a subway station near where they live.
The big difference is that those people don't have any VR games so they are playing non-VR games on a VR headset. When Oculus is released, it will have a whole library of VR games.
Yes, the 6809 was Motorola, and like you said, MOS took the engineers from the 6800 to develop on the 6501 and 6502.

I'm learning the 6809 for other reasons, it would be nice to be able to take a stab at something like this in a few years.
> Facebook's design is inherently centralized

Not really. There's no reason you couldn't implement Facebook's core functionality with personal servers containing a profile at each node and a pub/sub (or even just pull) system connecting each node with its friends.
https://www.loggly.com/blog/tag/sounds/

It looks like the page it was supposed to link to is no-longer there (which was a google app-engine app if I recall correctly) but maybe someone with some better google-cache fu can pull it up.
Homeless congregate in downtowns because it gives the most profitable begging revenue. Homeless populations are also surprisingly small, something like %0.5 or less of the population of a metro area. And then on top of that, most homeless people aren't crazy people who shit on sidewalks. It only takes a few hundred crazy homeless to make a downtown core horrible.

They exist because there isn't mental health funding to house and manage them. It's a tragedy of the commons problem.
Interesting point - but why wouldn't the business model that worked for Facebook - ads - work on a decentralised web? Instead of posting content to FB alongside which they run ads and generate revenue, individual publishers could keep the ad revenue themselves, perhaps with a brokerage / commission model like Google operate. Seems to work OK for blogs, which are quite decentralised. Why shouldn't it work for status feeds?

In terms of targeting, once you're dealing with "small data" instead of centralised "big data" you need a lot less algorithms to figure out what ads might work. A FB neural net probably does a lot of deep learning to guess that a bunch of mountain-biking friends might be interested in saddles. Decentralised operators could probably figure that out themselves.
I remember a friend showing me GEOS in ~1996, It was a click and 10-30 seconds of waiting followed by another click and another 10-30 seconds of waiting. C64 simply had no memory for GUI OS.
People don't fight upzoning because it reduces the value of their real estate; in fact, it almost always does the opposite.

People fight upzoning because they like where they live, and upzoning would destroy what they like about it.

As for "people trying to enter the market", upzoning makes it that much harder; condos are generally a worse investment, so most high-density developments are rentals. If you think housing prices are high, try the cost of a buying a rental building.

Lastly, the "incumbent residents" bit is hilarious. I believe that's called "a citizen", or "a community member" -- as in, the people who are paying the taxes and electing representative leadership to serve in the interests of their established community.
It was a while back, yes. It looks like the players have had a significant win in the meantime - minimum player salary increases by $15k/year for the next four years: http://www.spotrac.com/blog/nfl-minimum-salaries-for-2015-an...

$400k for a 3-year career is a lot better than the picture I was painting, thanks for the correction.

edit: link fix
John McAfee is running for president in 2016
If he wasn't a billionaire and didn't behave like a rich kid buying himself the hottest toys I would use a different phrase.

Why can't Zuck actually compete with Snapchat, WhatsApp, or Oculus? His response to competition is to spend $30 billion buying these companies instead of actually contributing something new in the world himself.

Zuckerberg, Chris Dixon, and Andresssen Horowitz dismissed Oculus. Many thousands of regular people could see that Oculus was special but these Titans of Silicon Valley believed "bad intel" about Microsoft (of all companies) having something better. Better than what John $#U*%# Carmack had chosen to work on!

Such are the brave risk takers of Silicon Valley.
> As the Oculus Rift is about to hit the market, Zuckerberg is cautious. “It’ll ramp up slowly,” he says. “The first smartphones … I don’t know if they sold a million units in the first year. But it kind of doubles and triples each year, and you end up with something that tens of millions of people have. And now it’s a real thing.”

I'm sceptical and not least because of Zuckerberg's involvement. Mark Zuckerberg reminds me most of Bill Gates and has so far displayed the same level of vision and imagination as Gates (i.e. almost none).
Delivery of the unencrypted premium content would likely happen through a direct link with a different protocol. As you say, the content providers don't want that content to be accessible to everyone in the network.

The website used to navigate the catalog of premium content could be built as a IPFS page though.
Are you talking implementing IPFS on the browser level? Is there public code yet?
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Subways are typically speaking not he most economical form of mass transit. Right of way, interruption and building underground tunnels (not open trench) are super expensive.

That said an above ground system up and down over and across Van Ness, Geary and maybe Judah/Taraval and taking over for Caltrain down the peninsula would be great.

Speaking of the peninsula, it could exploit a system going down the camino real corridor. That alone could alleviate congestion and housing, if only they developed that long corridor and put in mass transit along the line and allow mixed use mid-rises five blocks on either side of it.
Release notes are here: https://golang.org/doc/go1.5
> Change zoning restrictions and make it a lot easier to build denser housing everywhere.

Which increases infrastructure demands, which increases labor requirements, which increases housing demands ...

> I don't understand how anyone can say with a straight face that adding more housing exacerbates the problem of not having enough housing.

Why is it so hard to understand that ecosystems have equilibriums, and that changing one variable never occurs in isolation, and doesn't magically maintain a balanced system?

> 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.

There's also not infinite supply. Not of resources, not of land, not of infrastructure.

It's not like you can add "ten million houses" and expect that you'll somehow solve affordability in isolation.

That's just naive 5th grade economics.

> Just curious, do you own real estate in San Francisco?

No, I moved away from San Francisco, and bought something elsewhere.

If I owned real estate in San Francisco -- and didn't care about quality of life -- density would be good for my pocket book.
This is a repost from like 6 months ago.
What has tesla done that needs reigning in?