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> It seems to be abjectly off topic for HN.

So long as enough people here are interested in the topic, there's almost no such thing as off topic. In my opinion, HN is the better for that. Even if it doesn't lead to a discussion central to HN, the diversity of discussion is critical. There are also very frequent cross-over impacts in the world of politics, that involve technology, security, encryption, tech companies, et al.
Interesting article along with the ongoing coverage of the push to declassify the 20 some pages of the 9/11 commission's report. I expect that Saudi Arabia has more to lose economically than the US does, but I also don't think that is the real issue here. Rather there are some really deep and intertwined politics in the middle east and Saudi Arabia is hip deep in them. I wonder what happens if the rest of the region sees the US as no longer willing to back the kingdom.
You need exactly zero knowledge of Javascript to share data on the web. Plain server generated HTML + some CSS framework is more than enough for most cases. Even if you want some more interactive stuff you don't need to know the "Javascript ecosystem". It's still possible to link a couple pf JS files in script tags, you know. It's even possible to link XSLT 1.0 stylesheet for some non-interactive clientside processing.
Look at how engineering students answer a question about gravity.

http://www.falstad.com/gravity.html

> Physics 324 - Modern Physics for Engineers

> "A body is at rest tends to stay at rest, plus there's no gravity"

> "The gravity of the moon can be said to be negligible, and also the moon's a vacuum, there is no external force on the pen. Therefore it will float where it is."

> "The pen will float away because the gravitational pull of the moon, being approximately 1/6 that of the earth, will not be enough to cause the pen to fall nor remain stationary where it is. The gravatational pull of other objects would influence the pen"
Because no one has any concept of that unit of measure. They use relatable units of measure, that's where the whole banana for scale thing came from because almost everyone has a grasp on the dimensions of a banana. People know cars weight tons and so a ton is a vastly more relatable unit of measure.
Doesn't matter. The point is to push the inventory mix toward smaller dwellings. Someone who want a big house won't buy 5 little ones.
In Australia, if you're married as an international student, you can bring your spouse, and he or she doesn't have to study and have the right to work full time. That makes it much more easier for both of them financially, individually to make a foothold in the country. It's one part time income and one full time income to support two people and one degree as opposed to, if they were by themselves, one part time income to support themselves studying a full time degree.

Then later as they achieve temporary and then permanent residency the marriage can be used to apply for visa for the spouse.

I have met a few international student couples who marry at 20 or 21, and one of them drops out, for this advantage.

And since they're living pay check to pay check anyway, it's not risky for either of them.
This was my first reaction, but one of the examples allows dom manipulation. https://github.com/koehlma/jaspy/blob/master/example/hello.p...
If you have somewhere to put it.
Zoning isn't needed just for low and high noise.

You also have to consider factors like industrial safety. For example, fertilizer[1] and pesticide[2] plants must be built a certain distance away from populated areas. There are, of course, many other industrial processes that also require a safety perimeter, but those are two that come immediately to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster
The NYTimes had an article on an absolutely unregulated city in India. Sewage bumped in vacant lots is a problem. Safety outside developed areas is a problem.

Still, removing parking requirements might be a good thing if creates incentive for public transit. Removing single family home mandates seems like it would be great for avoiding sprawl. But as you say, just these two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/asia/09gurgaon.html
For those who haven't had a physics class, that's garbage because silver is somewhat more conductive than copper, which is slightly more conductive than gold.

The main benefit of gold is that it's more stable than copper, so it's a good material for connector contact surfaces, but the bulk of the contact should be something else like copper or steel, depending on the relative importance of electrical or mechanical properties.
I mean that in the UK say, we only moved to a constitutional monarchy and had a bill of rights in 1689. And there have been glitches like Hitler and Franco coming to power. Europe has only really been stable and fully democratic government structure wise since Franco died in 1975.
When a "terrifying" bill that "really is the end of the Internet as we know and love it" generates a whopping total of 60 comments on HN, then you've made my point for me. I'm not blaming the EFF; I'm not saying Citizens shouldn't rise up. I'm stating that the EFF needs to find an alternate strategy because constantly crying wolf fatigues even their most hardcore audience.
Increase crime, or expose more rich people to crime?
> I'm not sure what a recursive calendar event is. Are you reading "recurring" instead of recursive?

yes! sorry i misunderstood. and now we have solution to both recurring and recursive!

> The same `Parent-Id` solution as subtasks should also work here.
Yes, it will - but does it complicate the architecture ?
Agree 'Normal computers work, either there’s power going through a wire or not. It’s 1 or a 0.'

I believe power does not go through the wire, it is current or charges, and usually voltage is used to signal states. We can have wires depending how you define a computer, but in most cases it just feels wrong.
Right. In fact I'd bet that 10% is a very generous estimate. I'd be surprised if it's even 1%.
Marriage by capture
Trudeau is reasonably smart, and admitted his knowledge was basic. It's everyone else that's acting ridiculous.

>“I was flabbergasted,” Laflamme says. “I don’t know how he does in other subjects, but in quantum physics, he knows the basic pieces and the important questions.”

Maybe he read a single article about quantum theory in an issue of Popular Science. Maybe, before an event at a facility where he knew he would be speaking, he spent fifteen minutes reading something he asked an aide to give him, so he could speak intelligently about it.
That's certainly not true.
What has happened in SF, NYC, London, is that the high cost of housing is caused by market inefficiencies as pointed out by a number of economists (eg, Edward Glaeser, Paul Krugman, Tim Harford) called “rent seeking” where politics is used to artificially limit supply (in this case through zoning restrictions) to create artificial scarcity. This is true of NYCs 13,000 limit on Taxi medallions which caused them to have a market value of $1.2 million until Uber came along and provided alternatives (the values have dropped to about $700k).

The “rent seeking” is a regressive tax which transfers wealth to billionaire real-estate developers like Donald Trump from the middle class and the poor. It also harms the economy as a whole since more income is going towards rent and housing mortgages less income is going towards goods and services. It also artificially limits construction so there are few fewer construction jobs than there would be if the market inefficiencies were removed.

Edward Glaeser is author of “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier”

Tim Harford is author of “The Undercover Economist, Revised and Updated Edition: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!”
That's what we get with a system of pretend journalists shooting for sensation with no information.
Well, he did spend two years studying engineering at a decent school, so it's reasonable to expect him to have a higher aptitude for these things.

Also, you're way overestimating how much a layman knows about computing, quantum or otherwise.
About half the people shot and killed by police in the US have a mental illness.
Zoning isn't a federal issue and won't be one in the next 8 years.
This is a common intuitive argument, but the question that follows is why? Why must all housing be used? Could we not simply build more? Instead of looking at foreign purchases of homes as taking away an opportunity, it should be viewed as a stimulus program. The real problem seems to be that city planners are restricting new construction (to keep up home values, and allow them to 'shape' the city), and thus forcing foreign and domestic purchasers to compete instead of collaborate.
Oh, it's real, rather than fake? Whoever coined that word was trying too hard. It reminds one of "People's Republics" and fields of study the names of which include the word "science".
Can't someone smart just read the source code and figure out exactly under which conditions files get written to the disk?
It's been tried and the problem is that you end up with slums.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/slums.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_End_of_London
I use audible a lot. I've found that as I've got used to it I can increase the speed to around 2x. When I first started using it I usually set it around 1.25.

It depends a bit on the narrator and the content. I find I often need to start with a new narrator at around 1.75 and then bump it up to 2 when I get more comfortable with their voice. But I would say that provided the speaker is clear and not heavily accented my language processing quite happily works at 2x speech speed. (Perhaps they deliberately speek slower for audio books though?).

Whenever my wife hears it she says it sounds like nonsense to her, so I do think it's something that you get used to over time.
NYC is one of the safest places in the world _per capita_
We are Google !
So nice you stopped by.
Would you like to be assimilated ?
Japan (which is not a perfect analogue) handles several of these issues nicely, IMO. I live in a city of a few million people. Nearly every building is multi-tenant. Even homes are designed with two- or three-generation residents in mind. Large, functional apartment complexes are the norm. Many people live in so-called one-room apartments because they're affordable and available. I'm not familiar with zoning rules here, but just looking around tells me that there is far less segregation of commercial, industrial, and residential space. Also, housing in Japan is designed with a twenty to thirty year lifespan, so almost every space is relatively new. For example, I rent a brand new four-bedroom, two-bath house in a lovely, safe neighborhood with good schools and parking for two cars and a few bikes, for US $1,700 per month. (That is considered shockingly expensive to most people here, but I'm anchored on the American markets.)

This way of living might offend some people's aesthetics or their idea of what they deserve, but it works very well.
And yet there is so much resistance to moving to clean, renewable, domestically (even locally) available energy. Must have something to do with money.
Doesn't load w/o javascript...which seems like a natural requirement for those looking for more anonymity.
And Bernie Sanders being in favor of labeling GMOs.
RSUs, both at Dropbox and Amazon. And yes, you're right that RSUs are better than options for that reason.
It's possible that parent comment referred to such democracies as Germany, Italy, etc.
>Could you please explain why the foreign investment is a problem? Every time I've heard this discussed, it's mostly been people saying "The CHINESE are buying up houses" with a racist glint in their eyes.

It's pretty much any major world city oligarchs have decided to throw their ill gotten gains at. In London it's Russians and Arabs with oil wealth. In Vancouver and SF it's Chinese.

These oligarch investments physically occupy a massive amount of premium space, pushing the poorer residents further and further out of the city.

In a lot of cases these people are pretty much criminals. It's rare to earn a lot of money in Russia, China or the Middle East honestly. Hence the desire for a foreign bolthole and an investment the host country can't touch.

But sure. Racist glint or whatever.
There are plenty of places where land is cheap but units are still too expensive for low wage workers and their nonworking children.
OP may be a libertarian, but you can't determine that from what he posted. There is a strong conservative case for fighting segregation enabled by zoning. I'm currently living in a rich suburb of DC. The local high school, one of the best public schools in the country, is underenrolled. Per student spending in this county is far lower than in DC proper, because we're not trying to make up for all of the consequences of segregated inner city neighborhoods by ineffectually shoveling money at schools. If we could get some lower-income people into dense housing in this area, we could replace expensive DC teachers with cheaper Fairfax County teachers and probably achieve better outcomes for kids to boot.

A lot of the symptoms liberal policies try to fight are caused by the underlying disease of segregated cities and suburbs. If we had more integrated communities where minority populations weren't relegated to looking in from the outside, the demand on the welfare state would go down.
Allergic Rhinitis Research Project Using Machine Learning
Ask HN: Am I too old to start a programming career?
I first got into coding ~5 years ago. Taught myself a few languages, did some online contract work on the cheap. I decided to go back to school for a CS degree. By the time I graduate, I'll be in my early 30's.

I know that the CS field tends to skew young, especially for entry-level work. Am I likely to face significant barriers due to my age?
Less outgoing links means users stay on the page longer meaning better retention metrics meaning more magic funny money ad cash.
I've not studied this branch of CS since college a decade+ ago. As far as I know, certain elements of the kernel aren't modified very often. Also the researcher claims to introduce new tools that didn't exist before. Again I think if the journal, EuroSys, is reputable, then that journal would vet the findings properly. Replicating people's work is standard procedure. Maybe people need time to attempt that. Right on if you are proven right!
People with children move into places without schools because they're short-sighted or because other priorities are higher for them.

Some portion of people with children may not care at all about them. That's one reason why there's public education, to prevent parent's lack of concern being something that cause a child to have nearly no future. Of course, such considerations seem to be already going away, so sure we'll have whole housing developments for home schooling nuts.
Can you share your favorites of the "Sega history books"?

Thanks for your time!
Thanks, in part, to LIAM[1]

Something that we just started seeing in robotics at the beginning of 2015, dedicated disassembly robots. They should be able to replace much of the disassembly done in places like China or Ghana where containers of old electronics have been dumped. In terms of a project that helps the world I would totally invest in such robots.

[1] (Warning its Mashable) http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/#f...
If I am reading anything worthwhile, I will usually be taking notes and looking stuff up every page or two, or pausing to make sure I really understood some concept, so I'm not sure speed reading would help much
> The Computer History Museum, run by “hardware guys,” has an extensive and impressive collection of vintage hardware of all kinds and from all eras, but it sits there as a collection of lifeless beige boxes.

And yet The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has its exhibits powered up - including a collection of several Domesday Machines.
If you want interactive stuff, there are plenty of Python plotting libraries that can produce interactive visualizations, e.g. Bokeh, MPLD3, or Plotly.
The line is wrong.
If you are firing on a target that is so close to friendlies that 2 seconds of on the ground movement can make a difference, then that is a danger close fire mission - which is rare. They also lead to additional safety checks and procedures before final execution. For example: normally an aircraft could just drop ordinance from any angle, but for danger close they align the friendly unit with the target - dropping ordinance once they've passed over the friendlies. While a drone can't really do that, the detached nature of the operator would actually be an advantage in that situation. If I had to choose between someone dropping bombs near me with a Google maps like interface or some dude rolling in riding 30 tons of angry aircraft, I'd choose the point and click option.
Then what about me. A lone programmer who can't afford to pay that much and takes advantage of the fact that software you write is implicitly copyrighted?
Which source code? There's more than one implementation of all of the following: OS kernel, disk driver, and filesystem.
You just have to pay attention...look at the site you're posting on! hn says "discuss" instead of zero comments.
That doesn't matter.
The billionaires who run the company have many huge beautiful homes. Their employees beg them to open offices in resident friendly cities, and the managers ignore them.
Product Death Cycle
Please check your categories. One could hardly be sentient if one denies climate change per se and no one does. If rather than these weasel words - not yours of course but introduced when 'global warming' fell out of fashion as a catch phrase - you mean CAGW (catastrophic anthropogenic global warming) then there are plenty of distinguished scientists who don't go along with that argument. Emphasis is on the C word and fundamentally the argument is a quantitative one bearing on the magnitude of the so-called climate sensitivity parameter i.e., roughly - expected global temperature versus parts per million carbon dioxide.
I've had the problem you describe when residing abroad, and it is frustrating, but I think you're off-target here. Parent comment seems pretty focused on the financing and accomplishments of various military activities. If you want to blame someone for encouraging false assumptions of homogeneity, Hollywood is a better target.
Somebody in the audience has recommended grafx2 as a modern open-source replacement:

http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2

I've just downloaded it and looks interesting. Haven't ever used Deluxe Paint, though, so can't compare.
Do you mean this:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04467v2.pdf
>The nation will become more equitable economically when rich people and poor people all share the same zipcodes again.

Sure. Works great in Brazil.

https://imgur.com/jRg2ZKQ
We recently had to equip someone in Argentina with a Macbook Pro. It cost literally double what it would cost here and it didn't matter if he bought it there or we bought it here and shipped it to him. (we opted for the latter and they hit us with import fees)
How much does it weigh in football fields?
The statement itself is pure technobabble.

"A regular computer bit is either a one or a zero, either on or off. A quantum state can be much more complex than that, because as we know, things can be both particle and wave at the same time and the uncertainty around quantum states allows us to encode more information into a much smaller computer."

To be sure, there are statements in there that are correct, but they don't connect up to a coherent description of the science behind QC. In short: I see words, I do not see understanding.

What is distressing or embarrassing though is the scientist who blatantly kowtows to Trudeau:

“I was very impressed he made an attempt,” said Dr. Lucien Hardy. “He got it spot on.”

No. He didn't get it "spot on". But I suppose if the prime minister is spearheading an initiative to fund you you'd better not embarrass him. But that sort of political play is not how you're supposed to do things in science.
GPS 2.0: Aerospace Corp. Launches Second Draft of GPS
It only takes one combination to start the chain reaction. If someone identifies one combination of kernel, disk driver, file system, hardware, and syscalls that results in reliable durability then people who care about reliable durability will start using it, and that will eventually turn into a de facto standard which will eventually turn into an actual standard.
All of it - these things aren't straightforward, you need to go knee-deep in this area of programming to have a good hnderstanding of it.
$900 per month for a one bedroom unit, with parking, in the Mission.
Anyone else in SF notice rents have either stabilized or gone down a bit?
I agree it is sad that people are making a big deal about a politician seeming to have a basic grasp of a science that is not well understood, but at the same time a high level understanding is really all he should have.

I think that ideally politicians should be working at a high level of abstraction (like any manager/executive in any field, especially technical). This means having a high level, big picture understanding of a field and the major benefits and hurdles to overcome.

Having a deep understanding of one area like this would make people in that field happy maybe, but it would not necessarily make him better at making big policy decisions and balancing the needs of the quantum computing industry with the other industries and the needs of the country.

The problem is that politicians generally tend to only be good at one thing: politics. A good leader would strive to understand at a high level all of the topics that involve policy decisions, with the intelligence to dive deeper if need be or be able to understand and verify the advice of an expert in that field and make educated decisions. This is usually not the case, but when it is we shouldn't deride someone for only having a topical knowledge of our own fields.
You're making a massive leap from legalizing more different kinds of development in the US to a totally unregulated city in India. It's basically a strawman fallacy. The article clearly talks about a lack of many basic government authority and services way beyond zoning codes, like electricity and criminal justice. I think the lack of reliable power and sweage treatment might have a lot more to do with it being chaotic than the lack of laws banning multifamily apartment buildings.
Searchable online version of the BBC Doomsday data:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
For the record, that's how Play's Twirl templates work. Templates are compiled (at compile time) to plain Scala singletons with an entry point method that builds the output.
1000-1500 in a good area
Great list! A couple more of my favorites are:

Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/127413729/podcast/

Startup (also by Gimlet): https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/
The EU is deteriorating a bit like 1939. I hope I'm wrong but radicalism and xenophobia is raising all over Europe and it's scary. I'm not talking for all Europeans nor I believe that the majority of Europeans cares about what happens in the US, Russia or China. But they should. We live in a globalised world and our actions have repercussions elsewhere. If US voters[1] favour a candidate that is less prone to warfare maybe, just MAYBE, the influx of refugees will stop. Same goes for Europeans leaders. Sadly I don't see that happening.

[1] The GOP candidate is a question mark regarding his external policy and we all saw how reckless H. Clinton is in Libya. I'm not sure if there's any chance for an external policy change for the better in the US right now.