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Because it's large?

I'm all for public transportation and LA used to have the best in the world 80 years ago. But, a large city as large as LA is never really going to be completely walkable unless everyone always moves close to their job. That would mean moving away from friends and family because of a job change rather than just commuting a little further. I suspect most people would chose to stay near their friends and family rather than move closer to their job.

You can compare Tokyo which is large like LA but which has excellent mass transit and yet the average commute is 80 minutes each way. Why? People can't or won't uproot their families for new jobs. Also housing close to a job is probably also often either too expensive (downtown) or undesirable (industrial area).
Although smoking is cheaper and better for your health.

Honestly, I know people who have ended up homeless over bejewelled.
>More often than not schools in suburbs and rural areas are head and shoulders above their urban counterparts.

a school in a rural area isn't automatically better than a school in an urban area because its rural.
I can't speak for anybody else, but you highlighted the origin of my general annoyance.

Applying cross-domain concepts to improve your local domain is awesome.

Applying somebody else's invention from a different domain to your local domain and then acting like you invented a new thing is... annoying.

If various forms of "reinvention" didn't seem to come with a Twitter-cult and snazzy *.io website screaming, "Look at me! Look at me! See how awesome this totally new thing is that I'm pretending to have pioneered!" There'd be no inclination for anybody to respond with, "Um. You didn't invent anything. Please calm down."

If you throw yourself a parade everyday celebrating the genius of having figured out how to wake-up in the morning to attend your parade, then inevitably somebody is going to rain on it.
I've been shifting a bunch of data analysis out of spreadsheets (and some adhoc SQL) to Jupyter/Pandas, and we've found some unexpected tradeoffs on both sides.

The lack of testability and version control (and really, long-term maintainability) is what drove us out of spreadsheets into Jupyter. We've found though that the workflow in Jupyter, even with Pandas, is not great for exploring and getting a feel for data --- we end up missing the very quick "poking around" you can do in excel or in a good sql client.

I'd have to use Stencila more to know if it strikes the right balance for the kind of analysis work I do, but I'm glad to see such a thoughtful attempt to try a new balance.
If there was a lot of exotic elements out there, we'd have seen it with our telescopes. It would point to new physics, for a start, since we don't think very heavy elements are likely to form naturally at all, let alone be stable long enough to be observed in any quantity.

Even if such elements are out there in the universe in tiny quantities, we'd run into a billion carbon-based biospheres before we found any.
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Then the problem isn't that people don't know how to program, rather that js is missing standard functions. In the C++ world there is a large push to avoid rolling your own things, indeed even simple constructs like `for` loops are starting to be frowned upon.
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Entertainment is a tough business to be in in general. There are plenty of good songs out there no one listens to. Mobile games suck for more reasons than the present most profitable business model and I don't think the industry is at risk of being destroyed any more than otherwise with or without a freemium model. I know plenty of people argue that freemium is what allows the mobile game industry to exist in the first place.

Your last sentence is at odds with the claim of mobile games being supported by whales. If the popular games were a costly addiction, then they wouldn't derive their revenue from so few users. In fact most people play them as a distraction or hobby and never pay a cent -- hence the need for whales (or ads). They may be an addiction for the majority of people who play them, but they're not costly.
Amen.

I've done this a lot. I've always programmed but I'd say the most used things I've ever done are Excel workbooks. It's great, you don't really have to worry too much about compatibility. You're never like hey install this program so you can use this other program. I don't have to make a 'ui'.

Sure they're prone to breakage, they're kind of fiddly and inelegant. But they work and get the work done which is what I need to do at the end of the day.
Fun idea, but yea it seems like this could encourage some people to drive faster just to hear what it sounds like sped up.
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There's really no reason it needs to be this way. Obviously, some games require controllers with their complex controls and aren't a fit for mobile gaming. But there are so many great games to be made with minimal interfaces that can run on these amazing little computers in our pockets we call "phones".

Phones don't just have ring tones anymore. I can listen to just about any song ever published on my cell phone with spotify or pandora or slacker. There's no reason we should only be writing garbage "ringtone" games for mobile.
I was joking clearly. Thought the ridiculousness of the idea make that clear.
Check out "Hacker News Collapsible Comments" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap... if you don't want too many changes that come with the Enhancement Suite.
With the exception of areas where it's impossible (NYC) IME the majority of pedestrians and cyclists simply do not care about the crosswalks/laws/etc. Jaywalking is constant as is crossing in the crosswalk against the signal.

What I'm saying is outside of structural changes to the roads themselves (like you mention, eliminating some intersections) I don't see much change happening.
Can you believe these environmentalists that own cars and fly in planes?

Can you believe these white social integration liberals that don't live as minorities in minority neighborhoods?

Can you believe this health and fitness advocate that once ate a Snickers?

Can you believe this yoga instructor that bought lululemon?
Do you know any projects that reverse this functionality (generating API documentation from code)? I know that https://github.com/timothycrosley/hug intends to provide this in the future, but could not find one for other languages (Javascript would be useful right now).
What about legacy applications that rely on Blowfish? :)
This is not at all illuminating and is just a typical advocacy piece for more transit funding.

Like most of these pieces, it compares road spending and transit spending as though this is somehow a useful comparison. It isn't. For rail transit systems, spending includes all labor and capital expenses--train operators, cars, electricity, etc. Road spending does not include the enormous capital investment that citizens and businesses spend for motor vehicles.

Putting that problem aside for a moment, it says that transit gets a smaller share of the funding pie. So what? Roads blanket the nation--I don't think this article would suggest operating public transportation to compete with every road.

Then there's the usual "OMG induced demand": "road building as already mentioned does nothing to combat traffic" because of induced demand. This is specious. Yes building roads encourages people to go places. That's the point.

To top it off the piece says nothing about "why traffic is awful".
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(Part 3/3 - please see two comments below as the starting point) Aside from the different use-cases they address, there is one other, important difference between Citus and Redshift (and any other distributed database in the world, for that matter). Citus does not fork the underlying database, PostgreSQL. Instead, Citus extends PostgreSQL to transform it into a parallel processing, distributed database. We use PostgreSQL's powerful extension APIs to accomplish this (you simply CREATE EXTENSION Citus on PostgreSQL's latest version, 9.5, to get your distributed PostgreSQL database).

While this might appear as an implementation piece at first, it has important product implications, and might even impact how you might want to think about your database stack. By not forking the core database, you are choosing to always stay with the core PostgreSQL product. For starters, you get the uber-cool (and uber-fast) JSONB type that came with 9.4, or the recently checked in UPSERTs, or the popular PostGIS extension for geospatial capabilities. More philosophically, the moment you use forks of database, you know you'll be diverging over time. And when you introduce new databases and/or piece together many different ones to build one application, your development cycles will only get costlier and more complex over time.

This was a long answer to a short question, but hopefully useful. Let me know if you have questions, or any feedback using Citus – would love to hear your thoughts!
Once discussions get long I can't even follow them, though. There at least needs to some something added to the UI so I can see who is replying to what and where a tree starts/ends
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I understand the philosophy, but the law of unintended consequences means that the comment threads are only about whatever the top commenter brought up.

For example, let's say the article is "Scientists discover new material that boosts solar panel efficiency by 16%". The top comment might be, "This does nothing to alleviate the base-load problem. We still need better battery technology".

Well now the comment section for me is all about battery chemistry, battery manufacturing news, hydro-pumping as a means of storage, etc. All because the top comment spawned its own mega-thread that pushes relevant (to the story) comments off the bottom.
If you're able to walk for 95% of your needs, public transit, taxis, uber and zipcars solve the other 5%.
If you're only able to walk for 5% of your needs, public transit isn't going to help you much.

Rent/Housing does indeed cost more in walk-able areas. That's a great signal telling us that there's a lot of demand for walk-able neighborhoods, and urban planning should allow a lot more of them.
Unless all cities concurrently advance in this area, this simply becomes a factor that drives home purchase / rental prices up.

San Francisco has neighborhoods with a WalkScore of 100, but the baristas and cooks and other laborers in those neighborhoods, including construction workers who build the homes, largely drive and transit in.

IMO it basically carries that you worsen the Effective WalkScore of other people's lives, even if they live in neighborhoods that are walkable to desk-sitting professionals, because the wage-paying jobs in those areas (e.g. Oakland / East Bay) doesn't pay as well as the wage-paying jobs in neighboring cities with stronger economies (e.g. SF).

This is absolutely happening right now and the reverse impact is that SF's cost of living is creeping over Oakland's and driving the folks who live in Oakland and work in SF to further reaches of the bay as people, giving up on walkable life in SF, try it out in Oakland.

Bicycles help this, but I'm here to tell you that nobody has any fucking sympathy that you've chosen a car-free life and it's El Nino and why are you late because your coworker who drives an SUV 100 miles is already here and how is your life possibly harder?

Anyway .. it's complex AF. Believing another world is possible is for sure a great first step.
Don't leave us hanging. What's the term?
> Honestly, I know people who have ended up homeless over bejewelled.

What? Story time?
We should probably define our terms. I never felt physically threatened (in the sense that I feared getting actually beat up and bloodied or seriously injured), but I was tossed around and shoved into things (physical acts of violence, even if relatively minor). Was your bullying non-physical or just, similar to mine, never escalating to the level of injury past bruised body and ego?

People draw the line at different points. Some might consider the shoving that happened frequently to me one year something far worse than what I considered it to be (frustrating and annoying, but not causing me any anxiety for fear that it'd happen again, I knew it'd happen again, but I didn't have panic attacks about it).
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/12493-hacker-news-folding-...

I wrote this userscript a while ago.

edit:

In light of the left-pad brouhaha, maybe I should mention that my userscript doesn't have any dependencies - not even an embedded jquery.
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I think there is a tax deduction for paying off your student loans? Or is that just interest?
it's _not_ given to you 'all in one shot' though. the 'top' comment is first, along with all of its responses, then the second top comment, and so on. you'll still miss many good responses because you won't scroll through hundreds of comments (which can be very lengthy on a mobile screen).

also let's not conflate collapsible and half-loading. this thread is not advocating partial loading. you dont need partial loading of comments in order to enable collapsible functionality.
Unless you consider both C++ and C# "dialects" of C :)
It doesn't prevent them from creating hedges, just makes it harder.
There's no advantage to not having the feature. It isn't a trade off so it's somewhat odd that you disagree "strongly".
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Distribution platforms mitigate this risk. These days, mobile app stores or services like Steam/Desura/Gog/Itch are what you trust, and they often have nice refund policies.
I always wondered why the fact Ross had a PhD was relatively underplayed on the show. It comes up in some episodes, however Ross' job wasn't focused on that much. Probably would not have made for funny television I guess.
I doubt anybody is relying on children for revenue...
FYI, the controversy with the doomsday argument is the distinction between Self-Indication Assumption versus the Self-Sampling Assumption. The question comes down to whether you are a priori more likely to live in a world in which more people exist (over all time) or not. Does the existence of more consciousness make it more likely that you, a 'randomly' chosen consciousness, exists in the first place? If so, then that factor exactly cancels out the doomsday argument. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-indication_assumption
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sampling_assumption
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Indication_Assumption_Doo...
To be fair that practically seems like a nonissue compared to the inverse.
I live in Minneapolis, we have the light rail in the downtown area that runs all the way down to the Mall of America and the airport. It also runs to St. Paul. We subsidize it heavily, but it is also an honor system for paying for it (no turnstiles). We also have a pretty decent bus system.

Problem is the further away you get from the city center the worse it gets. They've talked about putting in a light rail line to the southwest suburbs at a cost of billions of dollars, meanwhile the core roads don't get additional help and are perpetually bad because of the winter.

It's a balancing act, and at some point everyone needs to decide who's lifestyle is more important from a priority perspective IMO. If I decide to live in the suburbs, and commute an hour a day, is a dollar more important for that person? Or the person closer to the city core that wants more mass transit options?

Honestly I can go both directions. I currently have a 10 minute commute (by car). But I've also had the 60+ minute commutes for jobs. I also use the light rail to get to the airport pretty frequently. However I never used mass transit to get to work because I like to be able to leave when I want, and go anywhere I want as needed from work.
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Let's be fair here. Bejewelled is the crack-cocaine of simple addictive games. Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Pinball are mere gateways to Bejewelled.
Bullying is most effectively done by socially talented sociopaths in many situations. Those at the top of the social hierarchy cajole those they need to, but demonstrate dominance and power over the weak. This should not be surprising.

The teachers naturally will "like" the talented social sociopath, so they forgive and don't punish their transgressions against the weak.
Fair point - I assume this will be merged together in some way (i.e. the Citus stuff building on top of the parallel scan infrastructure), but probably a better question to ask on #citus IRC / open a Github issue.

Some Postgres committers work on Citus as well (e.g. Andres Freud), so I'm sure this has been thought through before.
I actually find I get into more discussions by using a plugin that allows me to collapse so that I can comment on lower threads because I can actually get there when I'm interested. It really should be built in though.
There was one eyewitness to the shooting. Their testimony contradicted physical evidence in multiple ways (from the location of the shooting, to the number of police cars that were present.) That same witness was forced to admit on the stand that their recall was compromised by alcoholism.

The same eyewitness is the basis for claims Nieto's hands were in his pocket when he was shot. But Nieto's hands were wounded by the shooting, and his pockets were not damaged.
I'd really like to know what the true costs are.

Are Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore all massively subsidizing their mass transit? Do they have enough riders that they're profitable? Are they more or less efficient in how the manage them?

How about Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Antwerp, Koln, Barcelona, etc... which are all an order of magnitude smaller than the previously mentioned cities but all have pretty good public transportation.

These last cities are all on the same order of size as SF. About 1 million people each and yet they have vastly better public transportation than SF
To your last point, I noticed that too... including that in the title was total clickbait.
>Release ad-supported games (everyone hates ads!).

Do people hate ad-supported games more than they hate games that nag you to spend money on them constantly?
> $10,000
Isn't this related to the actual growing wealth inequality?
As the people in the top have more and the people at the bottom less, will it in a time to come make sense to create products only for the rich?
1,000,000 people paying $1 is the same amount of money than 100 paying $10,000.
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I grew up in South Texas. Ain't nobody got time for walkin' more than a block in 100+F heat and people end up spending more than their mortgage payment on electricity and A/C repair because the heat will literally kill you.
Your assumptions about both cases and your preconceived notions of racism have lead to you faulty conclusions. The Swartz case was about the response fitting the crime. The Nieto case is about police officers ostensibly fearing for their own safety and the safety of other.

Had Nieto's weapon been holstered and had he been arrested, I might have been just as critical about the prosecutorial response as I am in the Swartz case. And had Swartz come out guns blazing rather than taking his own life, I would not have faulted police for responding with deadly force.

Your generalization is faulty because you've trivialized the relevant details away.
I'm pretty disgusted with the bulk of the industry and their attitude. The company I was associated with, I felt, was doing more harm than good to the world by promoting a false set of idealistic beauty standards, promoting obsessive behavior, promoting competition based on physical attraction, etc.

I'm all for free markets but I'm not dogmatic in my support, the people that pay money for freemium games are going to be at a net worse position in life. There is an argument about free choice, whether the person would engage in another 'destructive' behavior, etc. but in the end I just felt the industry was focusing on being hyper-exploitive.
Nearly perfect for me are (1) a city with great light rail, and (2) a Brompton folding bicycle for the first & last miles. I realize that this combination isn't available to all, but it's awesome.
I really don't understand why Microsoft didn't put a filter on this thing. They have a lot of experience in this area from their ventures in online gaming. If they would just add a simple rule to not respond to tweets with offensive words and don't tweet anything if it contains an offensive word. It would have saved them a lot of embarrassment.
In my experience, they are the ones buying the IAP.
Git was created basically because there wasn't an open source implementation of BitKeeper, and BitKeeper was unique in its function. If at all possible Torvalds would have stayed away from making Git (in fact he said so himself). This is different than reinventing a wheel with existing functionality. I don't see how VSS relates, since it's used for different things (like comparing Oracle to SQLite?)
That this happened on Twitter is not at all surprising. Learning directly from humans seems a very unwise approach for AI.
And the same quack doctor (a Guadalajara-educated rheumatologist -- definitely not a neurologist) that ran these studies to hide the affects of CTE was the same asshole that was defending MLB's steroid policy during the early 2000's.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/sports/baseball/medical-ad...

What an amazing coincidence that the same guy happens to be an expert on both steroids and brain injuries when it benefits billion-dollar sports empires.
Yeah, the article points out that only 20% of our federal and state transit budgets go to transit, implying that it's underfunded. But it lacks the context that only 5% of Americans use transit...
Could you elaborate? My first inclination is to strongly disagree having worked on hedges before, but if you know something I do not I'd like to hear about it.

Edit: You can create hedges on unknown time-horizons with unknown returns but rather quickly the cost of maintaining the hedges should drastically outpace their value as hedges. Time volatility on the order of years is harder (read much more expensive) to deal with than revenue volatility with a known time-horizon.

So, while you can create a theoretical hedge instrument, the application of such an instrument is untenable as a profitable hedge in practice. (from my personal experience, would still love to be proven wrong here)
You can run multiple containers on a single host (VM).
> Yes building roads encourages people to go places. That's the point.

Building roads encourages people to drive in their cars to places. The problem is that automobile infrastructure is woefully inefficient, expensive and doesn't scale.

If you want to create the ability for people to go to places, there's more efficient and cheaper ways to do this than building more roads. One of these methods is public transit.
In some of those areas you're talking about huge population density as well, so it becomes more effective.

I live in Minnesota, where suburb living is very popular. We don't have very dense areas of population that a typical transit system would cover.
Possibly I'm wrong again. Actually happy about it.

If the network part of AGPL only affects the original AGPL software then it even kind of makes sense although I still wouldn't use it myself except as an extortion scheme :-P
> The majority of popular mobile games are a costly addiction, not a hobby.

The article contradicts this view, as it looks like 99% of the people don't pay at all.