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The reason that mass transit is so profitable in those countries is because they can capture the externalities of their benefit through owning capital near stations.

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/09/the-unique-...

In NYC, some rich landowners get all the benefit of public spending.
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Hello,

I work for Cogent, a global, Tier-1, fiber optic ISP. 30% of the worlds internet traffic runs on our backbone and I've been trying to get in touch with people who make IT decisions in the adult film industry. Can anyone help me out? I would really appreciate the help!

Thanks,

Laura
lhannigan@cogentco.com
I also dislike "gallery" type of presentations. I also prefer an example similar to the "bostonglobe.com", perhaps with some blazy effects http://dinbror.dk/blazy/.
Japanese has the fat enter.
I would never just roll my own solution for a client. The whole point of open source is that it's battle tested.

It also saves you lots of time that could be used on the features they actually do want.

Most clients just want a soluton that works

I suppose it does allow you to lock them in easier with a custom solution.
I don't know much about this stuff but I doubt it would work. For invitation generally there's some degree of responsibility put on the person sending out the invitation. If you are a random internet person buying a ticket they are probably not allowed to "invite" you because at that point it's like ... "why did you invite this person? do you know him?" .... "err ... because he paid $X for a ticket".
For what it's worth, I agree that the web needs something like WebGL to cover the Flash use cases (animated ads and casual games).

Not sure why you need voxel.css, though. When would you use it instead of http://www.marmoset.co/viewer ?
Hi!

Here's just a quick comparison between your version and a version where I changed some small things. http://imgur.com/a/w1bUV

font-size 11pt
body width 80%, margin: 0 auto;
header height 40px and header > img 35x35px.
most market makers lay trades off against other securities. they quote against bids and offers in other corners of the markets (some relationships are more esoteric than others).
Or in other words, civil servants have actual job security and don't have to constantly worry about finding themselves in sudden poverty because of an economic pendulum swing.

Whoop de doo?
It isn't just crashing Safari but does a full OS reboot on my 5c running 9.2.1 (which is the latest release iOS version as of today).
React is the new jQuery (in the best way)
To me, the worst part of the fantasy is that we then consider the people that actually do make it to the "money shot" as if they were management geniuses, instead of lottery winners.

Mostly the success has more to do with luck, timing and personal connections than the individual technical merits of the management team, but that is never what you read afterwards. And so you end up with all sorts of ridiculous management, methodology or market segmentation advice that bears little to no chance of ever working again. The same lottery ticket may win again, but it is highly improbable.
It's interesting that Apple's keyboard designs all revolve around on-demand parts. The holes can be milled to any arbitrary size or shape. The labels on the keys themselves are lasered on as necessary.

Apart from the membrane and the key shapes, this keyboard looks like it's intended to be highly reconfigurable.

This probably makes it easy for a single assembly line to slot in the keyboard for the destination region without too much fuss. Russian keyboard on one unit, Belgian on the next, no big deal.

I can only imagine how complicated that might be for a company like Logitech or Dell where the caps themselves are injection molded with the letters built in.
Where genome editing is needed
I find it best to enjoy HN for the technical content and ignore the rather absurd cult-like startup worship.
Are we going to get HW decoders for H.265 or WebM on mobile ? Or is this something of the past and cpu decoding is good enough ?
> Saying an application has a "horrendous UX" because you refuse to run its code seems strange to me.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi...

If you want to ignore 1% of the internet, you go right ahead.
Market makers can have actual value by reducing bid/buy spread.

However, I don't think reality supports the idea that HFT are adding real signals to the market. HFT software has little understanding of the 'world' so they add noise which reduces signal. Taking the markets further from reality.

See: flash crashes. They don't actually have anything to do with the wider economy just feedback loops devoid from reality.

PS: Some software is designed to automatically read and interpreted news, but they often get it wrong moving the market in the wrong direction.
There is one for German, the Neo layout: http://neo-layout.org/index_en.html
Here's a cool project to efficiently and flexibly implement minecraft-like games in the browser in JavaScript/WebGL. It's built out of a bunch of NPM Node modules with browserify.

In the video at the top of the page, Max Ogden's presentation is fantastic and well worth watching! He did a survey of many other similar projects on github, and built on top of the best ideas from them all.

http://voxeljs.com/
>> if you are using a heap on really small embedded device you're gonna have a bad time any way.

Yep. malloc() is generally discouraged on those things and should be seen as a big red flag in any code review.
My memories go back to 2000 as well, running it on a Pentium III laptop.

Back then, I used it for running multiple versions of Windows so I could test web apps on different versions of IE (4 and 5, I think), when IE was still the dominant browser.

It was such a game changer at the time.
> Or you can start a consultancy, very classic business, low risk.

Low risk? Consultancy/freelance businesses are very high risk. Easy to start, very difficult to maintain.
It's like occupy Wall Street with guns
I believe he meant that in France, being a civil servant is kind of a common "dream job" - high pay, little work, near 100% job security, plenty of benefits. Brazil has a similar culture with the "concurseiros" too.
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I'm from Finland and have an used Thinkpad that originally came from Germany and has a German keyboard layout. As long as you can touch type, it's not actually an issue at all, since I can just switch the keyboard layout to Finnish in the OS and go from there - the keyboard has the same amount of keys in all the same places, after all.

The only time I've had an issue in this regard is with US keyboards, because the physical key layout is actually different. Most notably, "international" keyboard layouts have a a button next to left shift that's missing from US keyboards, which is used to write <, >, and | in the Finnish layout (and most other intl layouts), and no key maps to it if you switch to a Finnish layout on a US keyboard. This made programming an exercise in great frustration. (I also really didn't like the short Enter, I kept constantly hitting the button above it due to having used a tall Enter for all of my life before.)
Thanks for the kind words! You might have seen the UI after I just pushed a small improvement through (it was right around the time of your comment), so it may have been less offensive for your particular viewing! (If it doesn't change when you do a hard reload, you saw the updated version.) Hopefully that addresses some of the issues, but I agree that focusing on the core service is more important in the long run.
Of course at 1% margin you got them an extra 6k in profit, of which your 2% raise may have eaten up a big chunk. Margin matters here.
10s of billions? That's a bit optimistic. The best HFTs, of which there are a handful, have revenues of roughly $1 billion. That's revenue. Their net profits are usually in the $10 to $100 million range. (See for example, Virtu's recent IPO filing.) These are successful global businesses, but they're hardly outliers in that crowd. Hell, Twitter had more revenue last year.
Probably when you have to try NOT to do something...? Like at this point, I would have to try not to play guitar. Or try not to program and experiment with designs for systems software. But I am trying TO start a business as well. It doesn't come as naturally.

I like the idea of making money independently... and I actually DO like satisfying customers. But so far not enough to give it a real concerted effort. (I have a good job otherwise).

EDIT: Although I will admit I had to reach a certain level of competency at guitar and programming before I stopped needing to force myself to continue... you do have to sweat it out first. I think what YC is doing is good because they're providing the equivalent of free online guitar lessons... definitely better than nothing (for the motivated).
I believe there is an X to close it but it is in the upper right hand corner of the page not in the upper right hand corner of the image as one would expect.
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Its there, all the way at the top right.
If you don't like the Delhi comparison, I linked to lots more. Land prices, wages and benefits are pretty high in Singapore, Spain, Japan and Hong Kong.

An incremental change would be to start replacing MTA employees with Spanish, Indian or Hong Kongian contractors who can get the job done without featherbedding. Probably nothing but more money for the people currently robbing us will be "politically acceptable".

And yes, actually putting them in jail would be something I oppose - if you couldn't tell, that was a bit of hyperbole.
Thanks, you are right and upon closer inspection South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand use US-style keys as well. My point still stands: If you have an European laptop at hand and don't care about the markings, you can freely use any of the other European keyboard layouts.
An interesting read is Why Zebras don't get Ulcers by Sapolsky. It's a book about stress. Eating, fat, insulin and weight are an interesting part of it, and their relation to stress and health in general.

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Zebras-Dont-Get-Ulcers/dp/07167321...
Hi, eric. I haven't touched the header yet, but after doing a hard reload in your browser, can you tell me if you like the body style more? (And thank you!)
Manufacturing is still the critical barrier for open source hardware. It's not infinitely replicable at zero cost like software.
It seems that what is happening with javascript frameworks is what has happened with python web frameworks, which have become splintered thereby dividing the community's mind share.

When I was first looking at python frameworks, I had to spend a not insignificant amount of time evaluating the various frameworks before deciding which one to hitch my wagon to. Had I decided on Ruby over Python, the choice would have been easy given the clear dominance of Rails.

I have limited time to learn new tools since coding is not my primary focus, and one thing that is holding me back from learning a javascript framework is trying to decide which one to dedicate my time to. They all have pros and cons, and I hope a dominant framework emerges soon, and the bulk of the community rallies around it to make it better and better.

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
I assume that part of the reason for the "thick copper cables" is to bring the resistance as low as possible, like, under an ohm for a few thousand feet of 2 gauge wire.

Which will still be thousands of volts, but it sounds like it's pulsed thing as well, and they would certainly disable it if they're not in a dive or otherwise trying to be stealthy.
...and why there is no night at the north pole.

This cannot be mid summer though, because a larger area to the north should be continuously illuminated then -- the part above the arctic circle.

Living north of the arctic circle makes nice summers, reading in bed without any lamp, but sucks at winter.
> mostly by spreading distrust of computers. (Distrust which has proven partially justified - see the Knight Capital meltdown a few years ago.)

Computers only do what they're programmed to do by humans. Inherently, distrust of computers (sans AI) is distrust of humans.
Tag lists more generally appears all over AmigaOS as well - especially as they started running into limitations with the existing APIs that depended heavily on fixed structs with AmigaOS 2.0, they more and more opted for adding taglist parameters to avoid running into the same situation again.

And while it's request-response based over message ports, personally I see AREXX ports in most larger Amiga applications as a good example of the overall approach of cooperating processes to build larger systems.

Dbus and similar systems today has lots of great functionality, but what they miss is what ensured AREXX was "everywhere": It was trivially simple to support.

Pointing to the simplicity of OSC in the article really resonated with me, because a lot of these systems are far less useful than they could be because it's extra work. Simple systems on the other hand end up shaping application structure:

AmigaOS was massively message based from the outset: Message ports and messages were "built in" and used all over the place. E.g. when communicating with filesystems or drivers or the GUI you do it via messages.

Then came AREXX and there was suddenly a standard message format for RPC - both application-to-application and user-to-application.

If Amiga-applications were message oriented before, a lot of "post-AREXX" Amiga applications took it to the next level by being shaped around a dispatch loop that included not only e.g. GUI updates, but defining internal APIs that exposed pretty much every higher level action in the application, and used that as an explicit implementation strategy.
I made a couple of small tweaks. If you have a moment and are willing to take a look, I'd love to hear your thoughts! (You may need to perform a hard reload in your browser.)
Clyde has better experience of actually developing programs. He has exercised and demonstrated his technical skills. For someone who actually needs new programs developed, these skills may help to deliver a substantial amount of business value. For someone who doesn't need the new programs but is poorly incentivized to care, Clyde is also adequate.

Alice may have a fine future in consulting, but if her projects never demonstrate hard-to-find technical skills no one's going to pay hard-to-find-technical-skill money for her efforts later.
I've just found out that some users (not hackers) click or tap somewhere if they want to close or do something with it even if they don't know how to interact with it in the next step.
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Many countries are loaded with debt to the maximum their debt/GDP ratio allows and will be in big trouble when even slightest recession appears - so they will prefer to apply stimuli even if it doesn't make life better for average Joe.
You mean, spaces instead of tabs... :)
Is is likely that Hyper-V in Windows 10 or the OS X hypervisor framework will evolve into replacements for Workstation/Fusion?
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It also once had a row limit. I believe it was 32k, but its been a while. I remember having to program my perl reporting tool to add a new sheet each time.
It's a symbol for the now-defunct lira, though a 'L' was probably more usual.
I've tried to like Safari. It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. It's fast and seems light. I'll go as far as to say I want to like Safari. As a heavy iPhone and Mac user, going all in on Safari would buy me a lot. In a similar vein, I want to like Firefox - even more so than Safari. An open source web browser by a non-profit? Sign me up. That's an excellent concept to rally behind.

But...

I can't ditch Chrome. I know it eats up resources like it's nobody's business, I know it's probably tracking me, I hate that it wants me to 'log in' like it's some sort of operating system, but I just can't kick the habit.

I think it's the tabs. For whatever reason, chrome is simply the best browser for those 50 tab research sessions. It's also the best file downloader, the most configurable, has the best extension ecosystem. It manages to be the best pro-user's browser, and the best layperson's browser at the same time.

I still have all three browsers sitting in my dock. I just use Chrome by default.
It's also affecting the Settings search apparently
> "But how do we know if it is in our blood? That is probably the hardest part"

I would say if you have to ask that question of yourself, then the answer is self evident.
You expressed the sentiment I came here to share beautifully - thank you. I think a lot of people fail to understand that exercise isn't that important when trying to lose weight.

Another issue I think is extremely pervasive is moral licensing: apparently, doing something that helps to strengthen our positive self-image also makes us less worried about the consequences of bad behavior, and therefore more likely to make bad choices. This can translate to internal conversations like, "I did good by exercising today, I guess I'll order dessert." I think this error in thinking causes serious problems for a lot of people. There are no "good" or "bad" actions - only actions that add or detract from whatever the goal is.
No, he opposes the robber baron approach. He prefers indirect monopolies, built on technical advantage rather than force. His canonical example is Google. They have a monopoly - on search. Do they charge for search? No. They make money indirectly off their monopoly. And they maintain that monopoly by technical superiority. Anyone could write a search engine, and some have tried (Microsoft!). But the monopoly is natural, not a product of force.
Hey, xjay. If you do a hard reload in your browser, you should see that the encyclopedic data is now bound to a 32em width (with a smaller font size). Does that look a bit better to you?
That, plus Bill had a trust fund big enough not to have needed to work, so quitting Harvard was no risk at all for him.
Well when I ordered my first mac I clicked British keyboard. I nearly sent it back as I thought they'd sent the wrong one.

The " was not on number 2
The # symbol had appeared on number 3
Where was my £ symbol

If they can't get a British keyboard right I have serious doubts about other countries.
the hurricanes are really cool looking
Wouldn't that be a little like a construction worker fashioning his own hammer, cutting his own boards, fabricating his own cinder blocks, etc?
Nope. We British wouldn't use "pissed at" we'd use "pissed off with". And in writing we'd never write that because it's actually quite strong language for us. We'd write "annoyed with"
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It's not really region locking, I was just expanding on his point. Unlike region locking, the keyboard customizations don't have a purpose of locking out other users; however, they have a tiny side effect of inconvenience that's similar to region locking.
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Hey, if you're willing, could you shoot me an e-mail from the address it doesn't like? You can reach me at hello @ the domain of the site. That's the first I've heard of the issue, and I'd like to make sure it gets fixed. (And thanks!)
The problem with custom solutions I see is that they are usually awesome at the first iteration but when the customer comes back wanting new features each subsequent version degrades. By degrades I mean that it takes longer, it is a little messier, a little hackier.

I believe this is honestly true for most software. The longer something has been around the more hacks it will inevitably have in it. The projects I have seen that last the longest are the ones built with a solid, generic foundation capable of handling all types of requests with minimal user touch.

I am not necessarily saying all out of the box solutions do this well but certainly, most if not all off the shelf parts have been iterated more to hammer out bugs, security issues, get the feel right, etc. than your homegrown bit ever could.

I of course couldn't advocate that wordpress is the solution to everything but if it meets the customer's needs right now and will do so for the foreseeable future, I see no reason not to use a mature, existing framework.
As someone owning an iPad Air and thus forced to use mobile Safari, this is hardly any news for me.

Back in 7.1 scrolling or zooming a page "too fast" led to an immediate crash. Onto 8.0, it still did but the threshold was apparently raised a bit. It was finally fixed before 9.0 but now fullscreen HTML5 video playing starts to crash randomly. Even worse, sometimes the page just goes blank and you have to reload it - The last time this happened I had spent five minutes filling a form. Hilariously, the preview interface still shows the actual page, so I managed to click the submit button by mapping its position from the preview.
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“Graphics software is expensive but Excel comes pre-installed in most computers." Both of these are false. There are plenty of freeware programs that allow a user to draw vector or pixel shapes. Excel/Office has not come preinstalled on any computers I've seen in many years.
This, to me, is a common fairy tale technical people like to tell themselves to justify not getting involved in the social connections (aka politics) necessary to be fully successful. It doesn't matter what metrics you choose, because they will all be gamed. Just like the politics is gamed. And no matter what game is picked, certain people will just not like playing it, and will bemoan the choice and why couldn't they have picked X, some other random metric that will also be gamed. But at least they like that game so they'll play along and possibly even excel.
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Cute. If the government is using information to abuse people, then the problem is that the government is abusive, not that they have too much information. If you take away the information, but leave the abusive government in place, you haven't solved anything. The solution is not to limit the information, it's to limit the government's power.
Sounds like a geek who sketches wild ideas; then in his cover letter he fantasizes that he actually knows how to do those things. I hope they took those claims with a grain of salt!
Food calories are 4200 joules.
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I can't ditch Firefox for the exact same reason! I NEED to have my tabs on the left side or the right side. I can't have it in the top because I end up not seeing any titles, just favicons, and that doesn't really give me anything.

Try the Firefox Developer Edition or Aurora (Alpha channel, rarely crashes but the performance is much better than current stable) together with TreeStyleTabs. Maybe that will help you out. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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One size fits all and other reasons why Google is fighting an uphill battle
Alice is the only one who realizes its our job to build products, not write code.
Let me clarify: my random delay shuffles incoming orders, while random exchange delays (outside of CME iLink games) do not. Removing determinism hugely hurts speed.

The value of further decimalization seems questionable. It would in all cases reduce displayed size. Would transaction costs still decline due to tighter spreads? For the liquid lower-priced stocks, probably. For stocks whose natural spread is > 1 cent (most of the expensive stuff), certainly not. For everything else, hard to say.

Maybe a Japan/Europe-style tick increment schedule is a good compromise.
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