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>City planners need to take public transportation into account when they issue new building permits, etc. They need to encourage business to build closer so people can use public transport.

The problem we have today is too much planning, from the smallest rural town to the biggest metropolis. Planning has gone from the simple but noble goals of ensuring public safety and efficient flow of goods and services to dictating lifestyle and trying to preserve things exactly as they are.

The typical suburb or sprawling city, for instance, doesn't merely not take into account public transit in zoning and approval processes, it actively allows only sprawling designs. Minimum setbacks, floor area ratio limits, side, front, and back yard requirements, minimum parking requirements, and height limits all act to make it so nothing but sprawl is even legally possible.

I can point to numerous examples of these sorts of regulation from all over the United States in cities big and small, from New York to Nome. Yes, this includes places like Houston where it is claimed that there is no zoning but land use control is still Stalnist.

This is all based on a 1950s utopian vision where all people everywhere would have cars, cars would just be extensions of people, and we'd all be able to live in a comfortable middle class suburb the next state over because modern planning would ensure no traffic could ever happen.

It would also ensure those pesky apartments full of those 'others' would have limited density, so they'd be packed away in some ungodly corner of the world where everyone else wouldn't have to see them.

This power is still used today as a de facto tool of modern segregationists who are concerned not merely with race, but also class and even taste and lifestyle.

Reducing the power of these local regulators so that urban planning once again becomes a boring profession concerned with public safety and the movement of people, goods, and services and not a way to enforce a very specific 1950s utopian lifestyle would go a huge way to fixing sprawl in America.

>You can't have people out waiting on public transport in that mess.

Until about the 1950s, people in the South did wait on public transportation. Look up the timetables and maps of the old railroads, interurbans, and streetcars. You'd be amazed how far reaching public transportation in the US was. Many of the cities of consequence in the South sprung up around the railroads.

Atlanta, for instance, used to be known as 'Terminus' as it was the end of the line for a railroad with nothing else nearby. The city was built around it, grew rapidly, and eventually the state capital was moved there. Streetcars further fueled growth. This is a story repeated all throughout the South and the rest of the US.
> Nope, it's cause we're idiots and we like inefficient things.

Let's have a look: Health care, public education, mass incarceration, anti-vaxxers, "war against drugs", "war against terrorism", free speech...

I think your theory checks out.
Apps like these existed before[1], many real and licensed taxi drivers participated. Only difference I can think of is that the driver decided the price (as he had to), app was there to just check it for users. You could pay both through the app and in person I believe.

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sk.hopin.taxia...
Same situation right now, do i focus on the thing i think is the most important or do i focus on that but build services around that integrate several other semi related things.

I think the latter could earn more per person, while i think the first would probably be way easier to advertise and gain users with.
That's correct. Lots of people do 16/8 fasting. It's easy to get used to skipping breakfast and having your first meal 5 or 6 hours after you wake up and then only eat in the following 8 hour window.

I use intermittent fasting as a very effective way to keep my total daily caloric intake in check. If there are side benefits on health that is a cherry on top.

A typical day for me would be up at 7 am. 2 or 3 cups of strong black coffee until noon. I'll eat two main meals of ~800 calories at noon & 5:30pm and then sprinkle 1000 calories worth of snacks all throughout my eating window until 8pm. I stay very satiated all day in this fashion...much more so than if I were to eat breakfast first thing in the morning.
What exactly is 'one belt, one road'?
But can't drivers be part of more than one platform?
Bear in mind that the other costs for the driver are the same - they need to pay the car lease, insurance, etc in both cases. As far as I can tell, the only difference is 250 vs 20%.
You do realize it's not purely software, right? All cars don't come standard with Lidar, computer controlled braking, cameras, etc. There's a significant amount of hardware needing retrofitted to make it work assuming it's even practical at all.
I don't think "stupid" is the right word to describe Ballmer. Maybe unsophisticated but not stupid.
I like my first email so far, it really does look great and simple. Personally i am ok with Analytics, but it has grown on my, i got used to it when it still was not much more than a fancy hit counter. It was simple at a point, is not any more.
Part of the problem could be solved by reducing car traffic in central London and encouraging (perhaps through radically cheap or even free) bus journeys; and improved communication to tourists that sometimes the best way to get from A to B is to walk (e.g Leicester Square to Covent Garden)
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Actually the squaring was for a more practical reason. Lets try to minimize the sum of the distance, oops |y-ax| is not differentiable so we can't use calculus, lets square it instead.

We later realized this worked so well because it's max likelihood of the model y=ax+b+e where e is a gaussian error function. But that came much later.
Yes, but the counterpoint is that if they let their buddy off the hook and this is later found to be the case, they all end up on a considerably pointier hook.

Speaking of, "the hook" was what you got in the Ottoman Empire instead of a jury trial. You'd be sat upon a large metal hook until you confessed or died.
Uber's API is not RESTful. It's JSON over HTTP, with some correct verb usage, but that's all.
>If Uber allowed drivers to set their own rates that would initiate a 'race to the bottom'

Not necessarily, it could easily go both ways as it would create a market for people that want to pay more for "better" drivers.. people with nice cars (teslas and generally expensive automobiles) just to be seen in them or to experience riding in them, drivers that pamper their clients with newspapers, in vehicle entertainment, free water, etc.
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Well I feel sad for people like my classmates (and you?) who lost 5 years to learn to do "simple math" and learn "about algorithms"... Because under my rock, 5 years is enough to learn to code (good not VERY good), and of course learn about advanced algorithms, data structures, language design, J2EE and all the shitty stuff we use in entreprise, etc.
Most of the "OOP" code I've seen recently is made mainly of static functions organized in classes with little or no state, instantiated and injected by a DI container in the name of flexibility.
So I'd say that, in some sense, it's much less in vogue than it was fifteen years ago.
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> As a non American, the USA justice system honestly sounds like the worst possible system for justice imaginable.

You just have to love a justice system where the police chief, the district attorney and the judge are political offices and must appeal to the masses.
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> let's try squaring the distances instead and then minimize that sum so we punish large deviations from our line a bit more

More like so we can differentiate easy. Then if anyone asks, you wave your hands and mumble something along these lines :)
The topic is interesting, but I would rather read an intelligent synopsis with comments on the implications than try to read the court opinion on my own without any input from those properly trained in the law.

(Linking to the actual decision IN ADDITION to some expert analysis would be a great idea.)
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What I would really like is wildcard certs for internal only use. For now, as I understand it, the only way to do so would be to temporarily port forward the internal server so it can reach out and close it later... Certs are not just for the internet websites, they are important for Intranets too.
Can you use AWS53 latency, failover and geolocation for sites not hosted on EC2?
"Try weighing yourself before bed and when you wake up. You'll find you lose a pound or more for exhaling carbon in your sleep"

I've tried this a bunch of times and have seen up to two pounds difference on rare occasions!

A significant fraction of the weight loss is due to water loss though.

(and technically it's carbon dioxide, not "carbon", although with climate change being blamed on "carbon" we may have already lost the war on that misnomer!)
That's rebutted by the Janet Malcolm quote the author includes.

The absences of knowledge isn't impartiality: people don't render decisions from ignorance + logic.

They simply fabricate their best attempt at knowledge and apply that to the situation. So in this respect, it's not a choice between "relying on legal experts to provide legal information" and "using your own amateur legal knowledge" but rather "bastardizing legal experts' explanations to fit your own views" and "using your own amateur legal knowledge."

From that perspective, the latter seems a lot more preferable...
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Many lower-middle class people have smartphones but not a computer because a smartphone is often much cheaper and also satisfies most of their needs for calling, texting, etc.
Thanks for the error report! I've updated the site to fix the arraybuffer error handling.
Controversial and insightful, deserves a read.
But can't drivers be operating on multiple platforms at once?
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Every tourist gets a Tube map. Some designer should create a Tourist-friendly walking map.
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That's the job of the defense, who's trained and has done the research. It's their job to call bullshit on the prosecution in your presence.

So you have two sides who are trained and have (hopefully!) done the research i.e, the facts of the case. Provided they have (and the judge can and will throw out cases where this hasn't been done), then the judge will instruct on the points of law being decided here, which the jury will then decide on.

It's far from perfect, because people aren't perfect. But it's a degree better than the State simply deciding your guilt.

Sometimes the parties show up with half a case, the jury can't agree, and the foreman throws up their hands and says "This is all bollocks", and everyone goes home. Which is what happened in the article.
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tl;dr: ships are not going to trust the weights supplied by packers of cargo containers after mid-2016, instead the weights must be supplied to each ship by the shipping companies or approved 3rd parties in advance of loading.
Nice project... here are my observations thus far

- login screen takes several seconds to load
- not usable on screens/mobile devices
- seems like every click makes multiple server requests
(and loads for up to several seconds)

Also, would like to hear your thoughts on building a new system vs building on top of the many available open source medical systems.
>The US is a country where it's very difficult to live without a car, except in certain major cities.

This is by design. As I mentioned in another comment, there was this 1950s utopian ideal amongst American planners that we'd all own cars, we could live tens of miles away from the city where we worked, modern planning would ensure traffic was amazing, and we could avoid all that nasty density business and all the 'others' that come with it.

No longer would white men have to live near black men. We could all just drive away to the suburbs where restrictive covenants meant we couldn't even sell to black people and restrictive zoning forcing large lot single family homes would ensure that, even if we could legally sell to them, they wouldn't be able to afford to live there anyways.

Racially motivated covenants can't be enforced any longer, but the land use control mechanisms put in place to ensure no poor people move to the pristine suburb still exist.

It is unfortunate that the Supreme Court upheld these laws, even sharing in their legal opinions that apartments are evil and a drain on society, so of course we should ban them.

If they had not upheld these laws, or these laws did not exist in the first place, I'm sure the US would have maintained its public transit friendly character to a great extent. Even LA had one of the largest, if not the largest, rail systems in the world. Imagine that.
The fact that the class of NN functions is universal is almost vacuous: the basic idea is that if you allow a "neuron" for every point in your input space then you can mimic any function you like (i.e. each neuron handles a single input). Obviously such representations become arbitrarily large.

Which almost immediately suggests a solution to why NN learning works: the processes that produce the types of datasets humans are interested in are produced by (effectively) polysized networks and you can probably say things like the probability of recovering a polysize function from polysize samples is high.
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Uber vs this, looks like Apple vs Android (or PC many years ago).

What I mean is, to compete with Uber it's a good idea to build taxi calling platform that all local taxi networks could adopt (and brand to some degree). Same way that Google needed to create open platform that established mobile manufacturers could participate in.

They will eventually adopt it because it brings customers (and they can't adopt Uber), and customers will adopt it because they'll be able to use central platform to call local taxi with all the conveniences of pre-defined destinations and automatic payment.

I think the Uber is successful not because of price achieved by hiring non-professional drivers with their non-professional cars and getting the price down. I think they are successful because you no longer need to talk to the driver or manually pay to get somewhere.
Gaining an understanding of your enemy's background, capabilities and motivations is not a 'courtesy'. Rather, such knowledge is needed to achieve victory.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
It's also common in the US. Surnames like Harrison or Taylor are surprisingly often used as firstnames.
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cant you use `+space to type one? it always worked for me with all keymaps... was awkward the first few times, but by now its become really easy.
Ok, then we need the right kind of planning, not more.

>> >You can't have people out waiting on public transport in that mess.

>>Until about the 1950s, people in the South did wait on public transportation. Look up the timetables and maps of the old railroads, interurbans, and streetcars. You'd be amazed how far reaching public transportation in the US was. Many of the cities of consequence in the South sprung up around the railroads.

Fair enough, but surely we can do better 60 years later.
From the abstract and the introduction:

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Diagnosed rates of autism spectrum disorders have grown tremendously over the last few decades. I find that assortative mating may have meaningfully contributed to the rise. I develop a general model of genes and assortative mating which shows that small changes in sorting could have large impacts on the extremes of genetic distributions. I apply my theory to autism, which I model as the extreme right tail of a genetic formal thinking ability distribution (systemizing). Using large sample data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I find strong support for theories that autism is connected to systemizing. My mating model shows that increases in the returns to systemizing, particularly for women, can contribute significantly to rising autism rates. I provide evidence that mating on systemizing has actually shifted, and conclude with a rough calculation suggesting that despite the increase in autism, increased sorting on systemizing has been socially beneficial.

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if you marry your high school sweetheart, you picked among those people who happened to be born in your town, but if you marry your college sweetheart, you have picked among people who chose the same college that you did. More recently, the internet has made it easier to find people with similar interests or traits

[...]

one less understood impact of assortative mating is the strong effect it has on the extremes of distributions. Positive assortative mating on a trait increases the variance of that trait, and the increase in variance causes large relative growth at the extremes of the distribution.

[...]

the growing returns to mathematical ability may have contributed significantly to the increased prevalence of autism spectrum disorders. Diagnosed rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have grown tremendously over the last few decades, and a number of possible explanations have emerged. One of the more interesting possibilities is that ASDs are related to a genetic trait called systemizing, which governs how much our brains are wired for thinking about formal systems. High levels of systemizing may give ability in pursuits like mathematics and computer languages.

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Regarding L2, I think it is just the most convenient way to do the maths from a set of observations (differentiability). Later one, the link with maximum likelihood-based methods was made, by Gauss.

In 'machine learning', structured learning by Vapnik and co (theory behind SVM), has a beautiful and strong mathematical underpinning. But in general, it is true we don't really have a good understanding of why learning algorithms work. The very notion of generalization to unobserved data is not well understood (I like D. Wolpert papers on that topic).
Thank you for reading. If you have a solid tech background, you will not have any problem relocating there. This was my second time. My first time was in 2005 and I relocated to Shanghai.

As far as dev salary is concerned, most expats get better packages, especially if you've a hard-to-find skill set.
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Great questions:

1. Very conservative (I hope). As to exactly what this means, the specs are here: http://robmoffat.github.io/pure4j/concordion/org/pure4j/test...

2. Not the whole program, but "islands of purity". i.e. classes or hierarchies of classes which are annotated with @Pure/@ImmutableValue/@MutableUnshared (see above for what these mean, exactly).

3. At compile time, it builds a model of your software by analysing the byte-code. It should run in linear time I guess but I haven't tried it on any huge codebases yet. At runtime, the performance will be heavily dependent on the performance of the Clojure collections that I've imported.
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We got where we are now with nearly a century of poorly-considered planning and infrastructure spending. It will take another century of better design to get us out of this hole.
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Curiously enough, after 10 hours your work is still running, having survived a slashdot'ing. Well done! I applaud your bravado! Bravo!
Somebody already asked that for you: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/4094/is-the-plan...
The university I go to makes a point of telling us almost every day that we have no rights because we signed them away when we accepted the application.
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That would be contradiction of terms. Anything with such restrictions is, by definition (look it up!), not Open Source.
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Any kind of loop is just syntactic sugar over a goto. Having looping semantics in the language makes it clear when that particular pattern is being used, and it can prevent bugs that might pop up if everyone was writing their own ad hoc loops. Same thing with break. It makes the intent clear and makes it harder to accidentally stray from that intent.

Of course, there's a problem when sometimes you want to stray from the patterns encouraged by the language, but it doesn't provide adequate means to do so.
Yes you can, even on the same IP address with a technique called SNI. It's built into Apache and all common web browsers so you don't even have to worry about it.
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