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> modding and racing culture is still there, but it's moved on into pc building, make spaces and perhaps even open source contributions.

I don't think so. Cars and computers/programming are completely different interests. I'm into both but the enjoyment of cars isn't really matched by anything else and I can't see it being replaced. Neither would any of my friends who are into cars. There's still a big thriving car culture out there, it's just moved upscale a bit due to the other things you described like rising costs and reduction in time and space.
I was going to mention Zeal (a free Dash replacement), and then founds this from the Zest author[0]

> Some people may know me as the original developer of Zeal, the Dash-inspired offline documentation browser for Linux and Windows.

[0] https://medium.com/@jerzy.kozera/from-zeal-devdocs-to-zest-m...
I guess this guy is not a refugee in the sense that things are ok for him to go back to family
Great business idea -- Perhaps we could have refugees drive us around for a beer and Taco Bell gift cards!
Tickets aren't a huge concern for me living in a state that has fairly strong anti-speedtrapping laws, but the absolute thing that has pushed me to driving less on a daily basis are other drivers.

I drive a low slung sports car, so it's clearly not the act of driving itself that I hate: it's dealing with nearly being hit by inattentive drivers that are more focused on their cell phones than the road on a regular basis. It's people riding at 30 MPH the entire length of an onramp and then being surprised they can't merge with traffic traveling at 70+. It's the fact that the two mile commute to my office that takes five minutes most hours of the day will turn into a fifteen to twenty minute commute at peak hours.

It's a lot of stress and unnecessary risk when there are better things I could be doing with my time.

I love driving when it's hopping in the car and going to carve up some mountain back roads. I loathe it when it's standing between me and just getting daily living done.
Workout Routines – What's Right for Me?
Just curious, what did you and your wife find unpleasant about growing up in the suburbs? I grew up in a suburb and loved it very much.
Closures aren't more expensive than what you use; they're not heap-allocated by default, and a closure that doesn't close over everything should end up being a regular old function.

We just merged an RFC for ? syntax, which should make error handling less verbose.
You can read the full article by clicking the "web" link under the title.
I grew up in an 1,100 square foot house with a four person family. My downtown Baltimore apartment is larger.
> It is logical to require you to have a license to fill a cavity for safety reasons. It is not logical to require a license to cut hair.

You mean there are no "safety reasons" involved in cutting hair? A person with sharp implements around your head and neck poses no safety risk?

Also, even if the "safety reasons" are more compelling for dentists than for barbers, that's still not a reason to have the government doing the safety checks by means of licensing. Private organizations could do the same safety checks--plus, they would have an incentive to do only the checks that actually added value, whereas government has an incentive to impose any requirements that have enough of a political constituency, whether or not they add value.
A wonderful write-up and great photography...

I especially enjoyed the diversity evidenced in the photos...what a variety of personalities...

The band shifting on-the-fly to a hoedown when a fight broke out...this place had personality!

This quote did it for me:

>George F. Jones, the owner of the bar, has given to charity within his community for decades. One might not notice it at first, but upon entering the bar, there is a whole wall dedicated to honors and awards that Mr. Jones has received on behalf of his generosity. He and his staff have held countless benefit concerts and fundraisers for folks who have been down on hard times, who couldn't pay their bills, or bury their loved ones. Southern Comfort has done well in creating community, and a wonderfully diverse community at that.<

That sort of magnanimity seldom goes unnoticed by patrons to any business...if you're interested in longevity there's a really good lesson there...
What about suburban family life was unpleasant? I'm curious what you think the upsides are for raising kids in a city, which I personally think is a bad idea. Kids need an environment where they can go outside and be kids without all the difficulties a city adds.
Even by just taking control though they might be removing control from someone who wants to pump up the next quarters results.
Almost all the rental prosper in Anchorage is owned by Wiedner. It sucks because it drives up rent.
The internet really isn't life. I think a combination of increased car ownership costs, car-sharing services, increased population living in denser areas, and ridesharing has helped.
> If you can't have a meeting of the minds between you and your doctor or plumber, you can't have a free market transaction.

What do you mean by "a meeting of the minds"?
Reminds me of the letter Bill Gates wrote about hobbyist programming (almost exactly 40 years ago). "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?"

To answer the question of whether his work is "undercutting professional photographers", look at the Free Software Movement. The movement has been wildly successful; GPL code is pervasive. Yet, the number of programming jobs today is at an all time high, and still growing. No undercutting happening there. Instead, GPL projects (like Linux) enabled the creation of programming jobs that wouldn't have existed otherwise (like jobs at Google, or Facebook, or Netflix, or...).

He's doing what he loves, and there will always be people who do what they love for free. But I don't think what he's doing is taking away the ability to still get paid for the same kind of work.
Been seeing this mentioned in connection with the reasons why self-driving cars & cars that are essentially 24/7 robot taxis will be a genuine thing.

Can't find the article I read recently on all this, sadly...
When the WSJ says "more Americans" does it actually mean that, or does it mean "more people who live in the US and make at least $100,000 annually"?
Super Bowl 50 and Technology: Smart Equipment for Football, Baseball, Golf, Tennis
The Morris corollary:

"Including Common Lisp."
http://paulgraham.com/quotes.html
Mostly right, but,

> More prone to breakage due to complexity

Engines used to be good for 10 - 30k miles, now that's a service interval.
Sorry to repeat myself, but this is what Clasp [1] does (I am not affiliated with it, I promise).

I am in favor of integrating tightly with a compiler whenever possible, but the selling point of c-amplify is to be independent from any compiler or your existing toolchain. This means that (1) you can work with a in-house proprietary compiler for specific hardware like a game console (author used to develop games) and (2) you code according to some stable C standard and not against a possibly evolving compiler. I suppose the LLVM API is quite stable, but things might break over time.

[1] https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
Tracking North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-4 Satellite Using OSINT
Thanks for the link! I wish this was a little bit easier though. One of my coworkers still prefers a password list in notepad vs key-based authentication. This looks quite complicated.
When I posted the site, I checked if it was readable. Clicking on the link, I still get a readable article. Is there a limit on WSJ articles you can read, is it geo-blocked?
Not to mention that states all over the country have been raising their driving ages, reducing the number of eligible drivers. Here in New York you can no longer get a license until you're 17 years old if you've taken driver's ed, else it's age 18. Not surprising, then, that the percentage of drivers under 17 has declined.

Article makes no mention of that fact and I wasn't able to locate the paper with a cursory look.
> Feminism has never demanded equal respect.

Stating that Feminism has never been about equality is an absolute statement. Even if it's true that Feminism has had little to do with equality, all you're doing here of swinging to the opposite extreme in response to it, which doesn't seem like a healthy attitude.

> 1. Australian right for women to vote. It took another 60 years because they didn't care about aboriginal votes. That's not equality!!!

That was quite a long time ago when attitudes towards race were different. It seems unfair to take this attitudes and apply them with an absolute statement like "never." Would it make sense to state that the United States has never been about equal rights and point to slavery, "separate but equal," and the KKK as my proof?

> 2. An education system that went from a majority of honors students being male to 80% women earning honors in 30 years - and you call that equality? Do you argue that boys have become stupid (as is the modern myth of feminism) for such a drastic swing at almost all levels of academia.

Unless you can directly connect Feminism to this, then you need to explain what you feel the mechanisms are that Feminism uses to indirectly influence these results. Which education system (I assume Australia)? How has Feminism affected these results?
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The form of your argument seems to be that if a policy has a race/sex disparity in impact then it's inherently racist/sexist.

Let's go for the reductio ad absurdum.

We have a choice between two policies. The first says if you're accused of being a child's parent and you can prove with a genetic test that you aren't then you don't have to pay child support. The second says if you're accused of being a child's parent then you have to pay child support even if you can prove you're not.

Suppose we know that there is a sex disparity in impact for this policy. The people falsely accused of being a child's parent are disproportionately men and single parents with custody are disproportionately women. If we let the accused parent prove the facts then it will benefit men to the detriment of women.

Therefore, by your logic, it is a sexist policy to not force people who can prove they aren't a child's parent to pay child support anyway. Which is absurd.
I got all the way to the twaddle about general relativity.
Why are western websites so empty?
This quote from the article really echoes my experience:

"Every C++ shop has its own 'accepted' subset."

And it's frustrating. This quote from the article too:

"these are clear signs that C++ isn’t providing any real cost benefit for us, and that we should be writing code in other ways."
Sorry, I don't see the point of this library. What exactly does it provide? It looks like a very thin wrapper (150 lines of code) over psycopg2 that does exactly the same thing, just with a slightly different API.
Can also be read on the wikipedia link that I posted. :-)
Well he wrote in his comment that he has no understanding of markets. I'm agreeing with what he wrote about himself -- verbatim.
Yes, that is indeed what I feel when I read comments such as yours.
Self driving serfs are around the corner. It's not slavery if it's not human, right?
That's because more people are able to work from home, and cities have finally become more walkable, as more areas are built up. In the suburbs, driving is still big.
In fairness, your (commendably candid) FAQ states the precise opposite "In the future we plan to charge for live trading, when you trade your algorithms through your brokerage account"
Game consoles are all running architectures that are supported by LLVM. Many of their toolchains are LLVM [1].

The LLVM API breakage issue is legitimate, but not enough to outweigh the downsides of compiling to C. The definition of LLVM IR doesn't change that much for the C features.

[1]: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....
Geez you frontapp guys send me a lot of unsolicited email. Every time I launch a new site, there you are, annoying me again.
As is usual the Rust crowd is excited about the shoutouts and the applicability of the consideration to Rust's analogue.

In particular, I enjoy that Rust just decided to change their "try" syntax for calling a function that could possibly fail to a simpler "?" suffix, and now we get Duffy praising how well "try" worked out for them. :P
Ask HN: A service for delivery outside of major cities?
Is there something like postmates (or maybe postmates in addition to some light personal assistance stuff) outside of major cities?

If not, does anyone have any suggestions about how to get items delivered or taskrabbit-ish stuff outside of typical coverage areas?
> The click-to-copy works through ZeroClipboard, which uses Flash (I'm so sorry). If you don't have Flash, you'll have to highlight the faces like a caveman.
The answers here might be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35247436/cloudkit-server-...
> Allegedly many of the migrants are economic refugees in addition to or instead of political ones.

Whether one can be defined as "economic refugee" is questionable. One is not going to get asylum anywhere in Europe because one is fleeing from "unemployment". The expression makes little sense. These are economical migrants, who came to Europe illegally for the most, especially those who can afford to go back home because Germany didn't give them the job, the house and the welfare they thought they were entitled to.
Traffic sign classifier using histogram of oriented gradients (HoG) and svm
Ok, we took "free" out of the title above.
Because it's at the expense of the consumers causing them to turn to the alternatives faster than they otherwise would were no protectionists measures in place (of course tech advancements are the real accelerator).
As an alternative to locating old chips, it is possible to re-create old style speech synthesis in software with a little effort. Google Linear Prediction of Speech and you will find many leads. Linear prediction speech synthesis was a US vocoder federal standard at one time, standard FS-1015. It made everybody sound like Speak'n'Spell.
And it is about time! This crazy fuel-consumerism is simply unsustainable.
>Private organizations could do the same safety checks--plus, they would have an incentive to do only the checks that actually added value,

"value" wouldn't have to mean increased safety for the consumer, though. The incentive on the part of private enterprise could just as well be to impose any requirements that increase profits, whether or not they add value.
Actually, seems to be fixed in Nightly (47.0a1 (2016-02-07)) already. Cool!
You've probably lived somewhere with leaded pipes. They are very common. Across the country we are working to replace leaded pipes when we can, but the problem is very complex. As it turns out, it's much more cost-effective to treat water than embark upon giant infrastructure projects. Simply put, the MDEQ, and the EPA should have known to treat the water, which would have kept the lead from leeching into the water. Unfortunately, this wasn't done, and now the pipes are damaged - perhaps beyond repair.

Despite the above, the water problems in Flint can't be attributed to a single thing, but rather a culmination of failures in state and local government best described as a problem of culture. Instead of a culture of openness and communication, there are indications the state, and to a lesser degree, the local government embraced a culture of only communicating good news and spinning or squashing bad news - even internally.
IIRC, it's limited by number of articles. I think that number is somewhere around ten.
> this guy wasn't really a migrant

He was migrant by defintion. Not a refugee though.

> he was pretty close-minded in regards to integrating into a new
> culture/diet/environment

I wonder, what is the percentage of those hundreds of thousands who do not have the same mindset. Alas, the thinking of those pro-Europet-taking-in-refugees is somewhere along the lines:

1. Take in all the refugess
2. ...
3. Integration done.

There is no magic for the step 2. And there is the big misundrestanding how deep the difference between the cultures is. Also, the not undrestanding that Islam is not just religion, is the way of life—and the way not very much in agreement with the western one. Especially when the western way is considered subpar and the wrong one. Good luck in thinking that a few lecutres on European values will change all that.
I think Milton Friedman had some great (albeit biased) lectures in which he analyzed these issues from a consequentialist libertarian point of view:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8q71hrwUcu0
I've looked into it because its been a traditional straw dog for decades.

The stereotypical image of an all male barber shop giving men buzz cuts with a clipper is appealingly boring, but the work clusters inseparably with womens beautician type work, and that work can be crazy.

They use corrosive dyes and peroxides and bleaches that will damage your skin or destroy your eyes both as a victim or as an employee. Used correctly its safe as a surgery scalpel.

They insist on mixing technologies that are very problematic for the general untrained public to mix, like water and electricity, as either victim or employee.

There can be disease issues, not quite of the level of a biohazard lab, but you want at least some minimal standards and of course some of the chemicals used for sterilization are not necessarily safe for the general public to screw around with as either victim or employee.

This was a "local news issue" a couple years ago where the big bad state was attacking "retired beauticians cutting hair in their basement part time" but they carefully don't mention its more than cutting hair, there are open containers of high strength hydrogen peroxide in a residential house with kids in it, or the hair dryer not plugged into a GFCI outlet next to the running water sink, etc.

WRT danger and risk its about one or two steps beneath the truck driver with a CDL and hazmat cert, or the electrician who does the wiring for a public pool, or the welder at the local nuclear plant... and the hoops to jump thru are also, appropriately, about one or two steps lower. From a high risk down view as opposed to low risk looking up, its not unreasonable.

If you propose separation of the harmless hair cutting stuff from dangerous stuff, then the tear jerking starts about problems of scale and unless there is a level playing field of identical training only giant salons will be able to afford the specialized and soon to be rare training to color hair or whatever.

It makes a great straw dog, but is a pretty good match compared to other fields.
You should read http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F... before you decide to believe anything in Flash Boys. Most of that book is ignorant at best or outright deceptive at worse.

Brad Katsuyama's dark pool is definitely deceptive.
The most pressing question i have after reading the OP and all the comments here is not answered:

Why would anyone ever have the urgency to read comments on YouTube?
Well there are stories that they were told by trafficers that they will get a house, a job, and a car upon arrival.
I'm not pnathan, but I grew up in the suburbs and am never going back; my spouse and I have raised our kid in the city for several years now. Why didn't I like it?

- The sameness. Every house on the streets where I grew up looked virtually identical, as did the neighborhood where I bought my first house. It took owning a house in the 'burbs to remember how much I didn't like the cookie-cutter aspect. Doubly so for the fact that virtually every suburban neighborhood built in the past 20 years has an HOA, which I detest.

- The distance. Going to anything, even just a Wal-Mart to get groceries, meant a minimum of 10 minutes just to get out of the "residential area" and make it to the "commercial area." The one corner store we had was usually under pressure from the city government and nearby residents to close down because of, allegedly, too much traffic.

- Minimal cultural differences. Yes, my hometown had a Western Days Weekend and an Old Town District but that was it. The town where I bought my first house (this was a bad idea, in retrospect) didn't even bother with that. Everything else in both places was strip shopping centers or Wal-Mart or paved six-lane roadways to get people out of town to the big city for work and then back into town to get to sleep at night. Going to do anything, like a zoo or museum or a baseball game, meant a half-hour minimum drive. There are lots of suburbs in north Texas, let's say, that exist solely for zoning authority.

You mentioned being outside and being kids. The city where I live now, Seattle, has a massive parks system. My tiny house on a tiny lot in the city still has about 1,600sqft of outdoor area to play in and a huge tree. Even the apartments we've rented have a courtyard and are near to parks and sidewalks and places to play. It's great for people whose kids are outdoor types; mine prefers to be inside with books and puzzles and computers.

What I like about raising our kid in the city: Exposure to new and different ideas; most cities aren't self-selected to be the same as each other. A varying cityscape that isn't just the same houses feeding to the same street and to the same businesses. More cultural and entertainment options are close at hand. Being able to live in a more environmentally sensitive way (my kid doesn't want to learn how to drive and prefers to take transit and has made compost and recycle separating into a game).
When I read about people not wanting to get a driver's license, my mind boggles. It's not about owning a car. For me, that's primarily a decision about economics and the advantages of having a personalized space. It's not about my routine day-to-day travel requirements although I do indeed require a car for that.

Rather, it's about experiences going into the mountains/deserts/forests that require driving. Sure, I could wait for opportunities when I can piggyback on someone else but who wants to have that sort of dependency?
Wait, is a CEO lying (Jen-Hsun in particular) supposed to be some sort of scandal?

Maybe if you interpret "lie" using the courtroom definition, sure, it would be a scandal, but that's not what the author was going for.
You say "see ...", but I've already commented on that comment.

Your analogy with Torvalds isn't that relevant. Building an init daemon didn't conflict with the long-term goals, and the advantages are reasonably clear.

Consider the FOQ "Why is Taskwarrior written in C++ and not something hackable".

We can construct a similar question to pose to Torvalds - "Why is git written in C and not a more modern language like C++?"

We know what Torvalds thinks of C++ ("C++ is a horrible language") and of that proposal.

If he ignored or blew off the first email to suggest rewriting git in C++ then we know exactly where git would be.

This demonstrates that your argument concerning "can you implement X, Y, and Z for me, it would make my life much better" has little predictive or even explanatory power.
People are overly distrustful of private entities. Likewise, they're also overly trustful of public entities. It's implicit in almost every argument you will have when advocating free-market solutions over state-monopoly and state-regulation type solutions. And this applies to practically any problem.

Unfortunately, no one wants to see the elephant in the room. Both types of entities will do (or at least have the risk-of doing) what is in their own best interest. But only one can have a violence-backed monopoly advantage.