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Yes, I can understand your views. I guess it's possible to disagree about this. I've seen how bad things are in America in terms of affordable housing, so the options in Japan seem quite nice by comparison.

As for bedroom communities without commerce, I would attribute that to: (1) an excellent public transportation infrastructure, and (2) an overall migration of livelihoods to Tokyo/Osaka-scale urban centers. My experience (in Nagoya) is that there are offices and light industry mixed with residential in every direction until you reach 里山. In fact, many people that I know operate businesses out of their homes, including light manufacturing, restaurants, etc.——something you cannot do in most American cities.

And finally, I can certainly understand your view on the "disposable" nature of housing here, but I still think it makes good sense. This is earthquake and typhoon country, so the codes change with advances in technology. The industrial nature of the housing business here drives the cost way down. In America, residential construction projects are notoriously difficult, over-budget, and late. Compared the efficiency of scale of a company like Sekisui, American contractors are an unfunny joke. I have seen homes built in Japan with a crew of no more than three or four men, plus a few traffic guards, in just a few weeks. And they work quietly and keep the area clean. I can build a new house in my city in Japan for around US$150,000——something that is completely impossible in most American cities. (The price of land here in another matter, of course. It's very expensive.)

I will never understand why Americans pour money into old houses. Even 伊勢神宮 is rebuilt every twenty years, and it's more than two thousand years old!
Perhaps, but the comments are a bit silly given what the parent poster says: 60% of Android users are affected by this.

Why do Uber need that permission in the first place? What exactly are they doing with the permissions that are granted?
One big reason I always bring up and which I never ever see spoken of is reuse.

Our microservices are reusable. We have lots of user-facing apps -- different web sites, each with their constellation of services required -- that all use an overlapping set of microservice backends. If we have a new app, we are usually able to write it entirely as a front end. We pick and mix those backends we need.

For example, we have microservices for: Identity/auth/authorization; messaging (SMS, email); image processing; geocoding and various other GIS operations; event logging; site map management; and so on. One of most important services manages data as documents, with data in Postgres and queries through ElasticSearch, with a fine-grained security system. All our apps use it, and many of the microservices are layered on top of it.

With a monolithic architecture we would have been forced to write this stuff as libraries, and forced our apps to use a single language. (Our microservices are written in Go, Ruby and JavaScript.)
I think it's a more interesting topic. Another article on animal emotions would be inconclusive. But this represents real progress in ecology and environmental protection. A GPS sensor that fits on the back of a bee is incredible.
> Autonomous flight up to 10,000 feet

Count me in the skeptical crowd. A typical prop plane takes minutes to get to 10,000 feet and has many advantages in terms of fuel capacity, engine power, and airfoil lift.

Or is this whole thing fake?
...What about all those lovely Naval Air and Marine Corps Air Stations?
I have driven for both in the past. Lyft has major advantages in my mind:
1. Tipping is allowed so you make more money that way. I don't think the fares are significantly different (maybe they are, I haven't compared).
2. You can cash out early. I was driving because I had just gotten a divorce and moved out and had extra expenses with getting into a new place, and frequently, being able to put $50-100 into my bank account after a night's work was the difference between solvency and insolvency.

Also, I've observed anecdotally that the Lyft passengers are nicer. I've talked with various people about why that is and there are various theories, but generally the idea is that it starts at the top. Uber has a history of dick moves and I think that reflects in the different clientele.
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MonkMed-What the world needs now
My story is about an innovative young company called MonkMed who are a small business with a 'whole lotta love'. MonkMed are changing lives for the for the better 'right now' not 'some time in the future' by helping sick patients to access affordable medicines.I first encountered Tim from on Twitter while researching the new anti-viral medicines (DDAs) and engaged him in a long 2 hour chat. I'd read that licensed generic meds were being manufactured in India for around $1000 a treatment not per pill. Tim told me MonkMed wanted to help the millions without access to the medicines and wanted to do it properly with prescriptions, Dr support, legally (it's legal to import 3 months worth of life-saving medicines into many countries for personal use) and good communication. They were on a mission. I decided to trust them. It was the right decision.
This is a long story and a learning curve for all involved, but it has a happy ending. MonkMed joined forces with another innovative maverick, a Dr from Australia called James Freeman of 'Fix HepC' who was working along the same lines, this brave and brilliant pair have now helped thousands of patients world-wide access Indian generic forms of the life-saving medicines via the official Redemption Trials. Many are now cured and many more on treatment and getting cured. Parents, grand-parents, most baby-boomers I would guess average age 55 who have contributed to society and have been devastated to discover they have this virus usually many years after infection (it develops slowly). Now these people have hope and a gift of life, is a gift of love.
I have talked to Tim from MonkMed nearly every day of my life since December15, the caring attitude of him, his staff and the Drs who they work with is something special. Their efficiency and communication is faultless and their compassion is real.
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Doesn't uber have tight integration with other apps that could be running? e.g. Google maps?

I assume the handoff from Google Maps doesn't require any kind of check to running apps from Uber, but I am curious if it is something along these lines.
Inter bank transfers are also instantaneous and cost $0.08 per transaction
> We don't punish the children of murderers for their parent's offenses, let alone the descendants of their neighbors.

I'm not totally sure that's true, under your definition of "punish" (or at least of "cause harm"). If a convicted murderer writes some memoirs, there are laws that prevent them from profiting off their story, and often allow the families of victims to sue for those profits. This applies even if the murderer is personally unable to use that money (due to being in prison, being on death row, etc.) and is just trying to provide for their children.

If the victims' families discover a few years later that profitable memoirs were published, I believe they can still sue to recover that money, even if it means taking money out of an innocent child's college fund.
I mean, practically, it's more profitable to get on with life, and just ignore the injustice.

But yeah, saying "if X is moral, and if Putin was also moral, then Putin would behave differently, and therefore X must not be moral" is a hilarious argument. I, for one, aim for a higher moral standard than "as good as Putin".
I'm really trying to solve my other question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11511793

I thought I'd break it up since it really is 2 questions.
A lot of furious camelx3 customers right now. How in the world will they be promptly notified of amazon price drops!?

And why the hell doesn't amazon acquire camelx3 already?
>fighting so hard to make these bugs ... impossible is worth the cost or not.

In this case the solution is trivial, just don't include null when you design the language. It's so easy in fact, that the only reason I can imagine Go has null, is because its designers weren't aware of the problem.
" What the world needs now ..is love, sweet love" ...

Some people reading may remember that classic song by Bacharach/David but for many people of a certain age this means much more as many are sick and dying from the Hepatitis C virus. A heavy opener I know but this is fact and baby-boomers are most at risk from this virus,

The crazy thing is that there are new treatments that can cure almost everyone of this condition that untreated can lead to a nasty death by liver failure and cancer but many people around the world cannot access these medicines due to the extortionate cost, around $1,000 per pill in the USA. Insurance cos and health authorities are being forced to restrict treatment only to the very sickest with severe disease while the rest wait in limbo as their health deteriorates to danger level. Apart from the moral issue this is not remotely cost-effective, causing transplants and end stage liver disease. How can it be in such wealthy countries like the 'USA/UK? Aren't we supposed to be civilized? The anxiety of waiting to see if you can get treated, requests and refusals to insurance cos and health commissioners, always waiting ...for the new medicines to be approved, the next medical appointment that it may offer hope, reading & researching, meeting others some who are very sick while the rest of us head that way and some we lose way too young.
Yeah, really. One of the driving forces of theoretical physics is simplification. That's what all the quantum-gravity-unification noise is about: having two theories is messy, even if they both produce solid predictions.

Unless your point is "they won't listen to a poor sap like you", in which case, take a chill pill.
Why is Windows so neglected by LE?
I'm not so sure. The Saudi low-oil-price policy has been ruinous for some American domestic oil companies. There intentions may be more long-founded than the current flurry of coverage intimates. They may have been preparing for this for the past 2-3 yrs.
I knew of an assembly worker at HP Labs whose job including trimming off gold flash. It was a small amount but she threw it in her desk drawer. After a few years she sold the collection for a lot of money. She was caught and had to pay it back.
The same lab does a lot of things with nanotubes. One of the videos linked to at the end of the embedded one shows the work they're doing with spinning carbon nanotube threads. Some fascinating progress with making lightweight durable materials there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XDJC64tDR0
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For me it loads in Chrome, but in IE11 I only get a blank page.

Perhaps the connection is overloaded. Have you tired using this from a nearby Starbucks instead of the same building?
With Uber I had to get a vehicle inspection and medical certificate which required a visit to the driver center. I believe the medical certificate is legal requirement in my state.

Lyft's mentorship process wasn't much of a process in my experience. I met a guy at his house, we talked for about 45 minutes, it was kind of helpful but I felt like Uber's onboarding was more organized.

Uber also has a number of training videos and I think they do a better job than Lyft at providing information to drivers.

I agree that the tipping thing is huge. When I drive, I get out of the car and open the door for the passengers, that kind of thing. I also make a point of keeping the car clean; at least vacuuming before I work a shift. I keep Armor All wipes in the car too so I can give a quick shine to the dashboard and the door frame (it gets scuffed up from people getting in and out and shows dirt quickly).
It's perfectly possible to separate declaration and initialisation without using a null value.
The taboo's around changing one's consciousness are pretty strange. Why is it ok to blunt reality with whiskey, but not enliven it with a cannabis tea? Anyways, I've noticed how certain people become their better self when a little bit of weed is in them. I was happily surprised by the Carl Sagan article linked in this essay, http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/
I had no idea Mr. Sagan!
You forgot MongoDB. MongoDB is webscale.
This is something you'd really want to be sure about. If the cause of said income gap is instead cultural, genetic, or something else altogether (e.g. drug war, single motherhood), reparations have the potential to make things far, far worse long term. Shielding people from reality (e.g. cause, effect, self-ownership) for a sufficient period of time is a dangerous game.
What you've said is true, but misses the point. Office buildings don't require schools in the same way houses do. Look at the development in Palo Alto over the last ten years. It's largely commercial and this isn't an accident.
You can't just 'redraw' state boundaries though. The core fallacy in this kind of thinking is that the existing political geography is all the result of some top-down design and thus subject to top-down revision. The 'United States' is more than just a name, it's a literal description. The US Federal Government is essentially a super-national body that is the product of a treaty process not too unlike that which we've more recently witnessed in the founding of the European Union. The vesting of partial sovereignty from the constituent states into the federal state does not negate the sovereignty that is retained by the constituent states. They are not mere administrative divisions subject to the redistricting whims of some legislative body.
They probably tried to modernize GoDaddy and the efforts didn't take. Look at the folks she's brought over from MSFT.

This is just moving on to greener pastures as the market shifts its expectations. This is potentially a well timed career move as well depending on what she's going to be doing at Google.
That's funny, I would trade my office job for the right blue collar job opportunity.
Ultima Online continued this. keywords required for opening shop and bank menus, for example.

There was always the urban legend that if you said just the right thing to a wisp, good things would happen...

So ahead of its time, that game. And so unable to evolve to become relevant after most of its groundbreaking ideas were dropped because, for 1998, they were unattainable.

In some respects, it was a victim of its own success...
This is a race to the bottom.

The real survival struggle is against Apple, Tesla and Google.
I couldn't agree more that devices don't expose enough detail about a GPS position. It sounds like you solved your problem, though. Airplane mode turns off cell and wifi radios, but leaves GPS alone so it's the only thing left to read position from.
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Before, or after EA pillaged it? :)
We tend to not have those were we need them. Is there a Naval air base near A-stan?
1) Can't is different from unlikely to.

2) Aquifers do.
If the means are there, solutions for the 99.9% can be created.

Look at how popular adblock's becoming.
The IRS can reject my efiled return if the information I enter doesn't match what they have on their end. So why not just save me the hassle of entering a bunch of data if they already have it?

This seems like such an obvious no brainer that could save millions of people hours of frustration. That's why I'm 100% sure it'll never happen.
If its nothing why update the permissions at all?
Here's a quote from the "Son of Sam law" Wikipedia page:

In certain cases a Son of Sam law can be extended beyond the criminals themselves to include friends, neighbors, and family members of the lawbreaker who seek to profit by telling publishers and filmmakers of their relation to the criminal. In other cases, a person may not financially benefit from the sale of a story or any other mementos pertaining to the crime.

It goes on to say:

With the advent of the Internet and online sales, many Son of Sam laws are now targeting the sale of so-called "murderabilia". Few courts have yet issued opinions regarding the constitutionality of many of these new laws.

Dumbfounded as I may be, you're clearly right on that.
Well, I know one that doesn't work like that :)
When I did corporate education narrations, half of the work was breath and mouth opening/closing control. Reading was the easy part.

Begin recording = inhale, open mouth, wait fraction of second then speak

Mid-sentence inhale = decide where to breathe in text, and at that word, leave mouth open, inhale then continue speaking

End recording = end talking, leave mouth open

(Worse than the breathing sounds was wet mouth smacking open and close sounds when I needed to inhale, or at start or ends of dialogue.) _
I've finished IV, V, VI, VII. I think VI and VII are much better not just in terms of graphics but also gameplay, plot, dialog, and characters. That said there are still good things about IV and V, but I wouldn't go back and play them again.
And a digital image with a text file accompanying it describing the image format is similarly resilient. Heck, you could provide text describing the format within the image file.

Also, I'll note that the comment I responded to specifically claimed that positive images last forever.
Hindus have always been the majority on the Indian subcontinent (around 90%), similar to how the majority of Americans (after the 1700s) have been white. The prime worry of the Hindu population seems to be that gradually they would represent smaller proportions of the overall population. The reasoning behind this is that although you can convert to other religions, it isn't possible to convert to Hinduism. In 1951 Hindus were 84% of the population. In 2011, that had dropped to 79%. [1]

With the loss of majority status, it becomes difficult to dominate the political discourse like Hindus do today. Just like how it was impossible to think of a non-white person becoming President of the US, it is also impossible to think of a non-Hindu holding any serious power in India for the foreseeable future.

Note for those unfamiliar with India - the language Hindi is unrelated to the religion Hinduism. Its possible to be a Hindi speaker and not a Hindu and also possible to be a Hindu and not a Hindi speaker.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Census_of_India
"Et tu" comments without even bothering to search for earlier submissions aren't particularly enlightening.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465215

From myself in the past week. I've lobbied several app devs to remove/reduce permissions. I've uninstalled others.

Android's privacy model sucks. It needs retroactive fixes. Highlighting the problems is how that gets fixed.
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The book was great! I am so excited we're getting to see this made into a movie. Very excited it's coming soon to the states. Coming from a similar cultural context as Ramanujan, I appreciated some of the details given by Kanigel in his book.
Google released, then withdrew, an interface for revoking and limiting application permissions. On existing Android devices. Three years ago.

We know they can do this. We also know they don't care.

The challenge is to make them care.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-p...
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with the residences of a city saying "this city is done". I'm not saying that I agree with SF being "done". It's not all that different from arguing with a manager asking when some complex IT system is going to be "done". My answer is always the same - it will never be done until you pull the plug on it. But back to cities like SF. Who other than the people who live there should be able to say it's done in terms of new development? I certainly don't want to give a vote to anyone who benefits from development (unless they live in the city, and in that case their vote should count no more or less than anybody else).

There is plenty of good greenfield and brownfield space in the USA. Developers and people that want cheaper housing have places to go. There are so many great medium and large sized cities. There are places that may very well be the next SF. If I were a young adult, I'd be collaborating with other like-minded young adults to do some urban homesteading. But do your homework. And decide if what you are trying to do is get in on the ground floor of the "next happening thing" or just find a place that you like just the way it is. Rarely if ever can you have both. Go to local planning meetings to verify that others mostly share you point of view. And later when other claim NIMBYism, call them out on it and say "we came here because we like the way it is and want to keep it that way". That is neither elitist nor racist. The consensus may change - that is democracy. If the place you are changes into something you don't like then just go look for a new place. Change can be a good thing. It clears away the cobwebs and detritus of being in one place too long.

Clearly this "5th-generation San Franciscan" thing carries no weight. One's dead ancestors don't get to vote.
It does happen with the default setting, but if you journal everything, then it doesn't happen. Performance on spinning rust, however, drops 50%.
Didn't know that; thank you for pointing it out. If you have to have tips, that’s a good way to handle it.

Nonetheless I prefer doing away with tips for other reasons:

* It’s just one more thing I have to decide, and I’m tired of doing it. I don’t even do a good job. I often tip people based on completely irrelevant things.

* Tips don’t lead to better/friendlier service. Taxi drivers regularly get well over 20% tips but I’ve had very few good experiences in a taxi. Rather, they just expect a tip and get quite made if you leave a small one.

* Tipping is gamed by service workers who learn what to do to get bigger tips and then focus on those things. Other aspects of service are often neglected.

* In Japan service is far superior to America in all the ways I care about, but tipping is virtually nonexistent. Having spent time there, I just can’t get behind tipping.
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"perceived" being the key word?
Are you straight and white? Different races have wildly different mileage on dating apps, and for different actions, so your advice may apply to your group but probably less so to others.
That's a really cool idea.
Ask HN: How to Land a Managment Position with Only Tech Lead Experience
How do I land a management position at a corporate company if I don't have limited management experience? Let's say a popular company like Walmart / Adidas / Coke / Target.

My experience:

* 4 years experience writing websites in college. 2 years as a technical lead on rewrite of school's website for mobile working w/ other students.

* 1 year at Microsoft, SWE focused on mobile apps.

* 1-2 years at a startup, tech lead focused on mobile apps. Recruiting/interviewing, mentoring junior engineers, coordinating development, and coding.

This particular position is a "Engineering Manager of Mobile Development".
The position asks for:

* 4 yrs experience leading mobile teams and web teams.

* 4 yrs experience hiring, coaching, managing SWE

* Experience leading projects w/ Agile

* Mobile development experience

My concern is over how accurate my experience matches the "4 years" they request. How should I approach my application / interview process?
Could simply be based on a campaign that kicks in after a long period of non-usage. Then again, you have the outline of a repeatable experiment here for someone with two phones and a period of Uber exile.