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Please don't come to Austin. I moved from SF to Austin a little over two years ago, and I want to make it clear that it's terrible. The food is bad, the people are lame, and all the musicians are out of tune. I hear Chicago is where it's at, so please go there. Or New York. Or anywhere else, really. Just don't come to Austin.
I wish you were joking.
It would be more like forcing a baby to spend her whole life going through airport security.
"I'm suspect that" ~= "I doubt that"
How can the US not have something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
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The iPhones that people queue for are usually incremental upgrades not "capability enhancing" devices.
Same. It's basically a crapshoot if they'll find it. I've accidentally brought pocket knives, bottle openers, and multi-tools. The detection rate is about 1 in 8 if I forget to grab it out of my carry on.
Contracts for private sector companies doing work for the public sector tend to protect the private sector company from being fired. Also you may want to check who sits on the boards of some of the private contractors working for your government (or you might not want to - the results might make you more cynical).
Second page & I'm already totally in disagreement. Its not the object-oriented-ness of the books first counter-example that's confusing, its the use of a monstrous, confusing expression. And the functional "contrasting" example has a similarly inscrutable expression. How is that better?

And part of their "improvement" to the example is to transform the expression mathematically, so now it has almost no relation to the original intent. Again, its not at all clear how this is better, or if it is, how its harder to do in the OO program.

The ideas behind functional programming are great, but nearly every example I've seen has these over-extended, inscrutable expressions.
Well that's the typical discussion at least in the US. "Look how much taxes the top 1% pay over those low income slackers."
I'm sure the fact that there's an increasing trend of empty Chinese investment properties isn't helping. I grew up in Cupertino, and when I visit my parents there, I'm rather shocked at how downhill the neighborhood has gone in parts. It's crazy that these old 70's tract homes go for 1.5 million. Even more insane is that they're bought and then left empty to go downhill. Literally broken windows and paint falling off. I never used to see that.

Part of the problem with building more housing (outside of SF where transit is decent) is that it means even more people. Lack of effective mass transit means those additional people need to drive everywhere, and there's no space for more roads/freeways. So the roads will just get even more clogged.

Cupertino recently had a developer proposal for 4 large high-density housing developments (condos & some apartments), and of course they were to go into areas that already had ridiculous traffic, and there was no way to facilitate even more drivers.

Until the South Bay gets serious about mass transit, merely adding more housing is only going to make the traffic pain worse.
Yes, that's garbage collection. :)
I'm sure Facebook has people who work there because social networking and a solid cross-platform messaging system are both useful services to a huge number of people.

Warner Bros. makes plenty of money off of product placement, but it doesn't make them not a movie studio.

And what about Oculus? Are we writing off VR as a technology because Facebook might put advertising in it?
Note wink at end of dangerlibrary's post!
the grass is always greener on the other side.
> Can anyone name a language that they've grown to like more the more they learned about it? I would guess maybe only those in the LISP family would make the cut.

Well, personally I've fallen in love with using FORTH for when I'm doing my hardware hacking (mostly on Arduino). I don't think that anybody would call it 'in the LISP family', but the language has similar grammar-extension capabilities, and I adore it for that.
Makes sense. I wrote a piece called "Do millennials have a future in Seattle? Do millennials have a future in any superstar cities?" (http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu...) that focuses on Seattle, but the problems in SF are even worse.

We're seeing decades of parochial land use policies turn into affordability crises in SF and similar cities. Which is why so many people are moving to Texas: http://time.com/80005/why-texas-is-our-future, despite some of Texas's other challenges (like travel and inadequate mass transit).
Less implicit, from the originally linked article:

> The scale of the sharing program was apparently misrepresented to the public, originally announced as an app to help hospitals monitor patients with kidney disease with real-time alerts and analytics. But since those patients don't have their own separate dataset, Google has argued it needs access to all patient data from the participating hospitals.

No assumption there, they didn't have a separate dataset and so granted access to all patient data.
Also,

The high cost of housing here is often presented as Bay Area specific phenomena whereas it's phenomena that's appeared many urban areas, especially the most desirable ones that Bay Area residents might consider moving to.
Good thing we have such competent developers on the project.
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The question is will people use this signal to change course (better transit, sane housing density, walkability, etc) or to perpetuate the wrong course (more tract housing in Antioch, wider freeways, etc).
Has this number gone up or down compared to other years ? It is completely conceivable though that people would want to move, given the difficulty in procuring homes.
They were being sarcastic.
I accidentally took a multi-tool (with several blades) through an airport security checkpoint 2 weeks after 9/11. It was found on my person, and confiscated. I was told I could collect it on arrival at the 'weird items' desk at London Heathrow baggage claim. When I arrived a Heathrow it was waiting for me in a padded envelope at the desk.

I was flying out of Beijing, you know... that country with terrible human rights... To be clear: there are multiple human rights issues in China, many of which are far worse than the US. Just not everything.
What about a semi-autonomous fighter, with a pilot to provide low latency input on what to shoot, and the plane deciding how to fly and make that shot independently? You could even have the pilot prone for higher G tolerance, like they tried in some of the old Gloster Meteors, since their input is no longer necessary for all of its operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_"Prone_Pilot...
What's the number of people that want to move to the Bay Area though?
Ah so you're defining reference-counting as garbage collection?
best part of this is when we reach the skynet robot uprising they'll know exactly how to kill us the fastest
Does it even matter? Why?
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Ooh yeah, in between times when they're actively inspecting YOU, it'd be totally trivial to hand things off and circumvent their "secure" zone. Thinking about all the ways you could sneak something through if you wanted to is always entertaining while I'm waiting.
> “I’m not going to keep jumping through hoops.”

If what's being demonstrated is the ability to jump through hoops, he has to jump through at least one. This is just him standing next to a hoop, telling everyone that he just jumped through it.
I built a newsletter tool that signed up for its members and aggregated the data into singular emails, but be received at a day/time of the users need. On paper it worked very nicely, and beta it worked pretty well. But no funding, no fun, as they say. I still say there is a need out there for something like this.
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Legal niceties take much longer than this. Once 48hrs is passed your fingerprint is useless to unlock the phone. At that point there is nothing they can do since they cannot demand you give them the code. A finger is part of your body, the passcode is only in your head.
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It's also particularly interesting to compare this growth now with city desirability immediately post-recession: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2009/01/29/for-nearly-half-of... . I can't say with any certainty that the desirability has gone up or down for people living outside the Bay Area, but this may be another "cycle" that San Francisco goes through.
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If the point (if there is a point) of terrorism is to "terrorize", I can't think of a better way than making me sweat for 3 hours in a huge line wondering if some maniac's going to come in and start spraying bullets or exploding, or perhaps opting out of traveling altogether. OP has it exactly right. Airplane hijackings get a lot of attention, but being afraid of even mundane activities is downright terrifying.
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The fibers remind me of Elixir's processes. Elixir fascinated me at first, but I really didn't get into the groove of it after trying it out on a project.

Wren looks equally fascinating; perhaps it could warrant a trail project of its own.
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It seems to me the real answer is to leave. This town ain't big enough for everybody. Mass transit isn't going to solve this problem.
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shame on you for even mentioning Austin :)
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After living in the SF Bay Area for 5 years, (1 in a crappy apt in Belmont, 4 in a modest home in Hayward), I have very mixed views of the place. I love the progressive politics, diversity, high concentration of smart and interesting people. I hate the traffic, over-crowded trains and the vast wealth inequality--especially since I feel that a large portion of the wealth has been retained due to tax loop holes and that if it were taxed fairly, we could solve a lot of the referenced infrastructure problems.
I don't know of any implementations yet. On the other hand it isn't that hard to get the basics working (see http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/lmcinnes/hdbscan/blob/mas... for an explanation of the algorithm). The trickier part is getting good performance, but for small datasets that doesn't really matter. Hopefully someone will put together an implementation for R soon.
But were they? Really? 100+ temps in the summer... landlocked in Texas.
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Huh? That article is about how thrust vectoring, a really complex and expensive piece of hardware on the F22, is unnecessary to it's main mission, which is air superiority. If the F22 doesn't need one of its most marketed features to dominate the skies, that's a good thing.

The F22 is expensive but so good at its job that no other country had tried to counter it with its own design, and one of its primary problems is the health effects of extreme g forces on its pilots. The software is now modified to limit it's maneuverability just so that its pilots can remain concious.
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Absolutely. I don't find the distinction to be particularly meaningful in this case.
I really like how this post is written. It basically reads as though you're a fast and straight talker.

Anyone with the skill set for this job should apply
I remember on the defunct 43 Things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Things), you could sort by geographical area. For NYC and LA, top 5 had "Get the hell out of [city]."
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A wink does not necessarily mean sarcasm? I agree that in this case it probably does, but I don't see how that use of sarcasm adds anything substantive to the conversation (aside from a not-relevant-to-this-post dig on microservices, perhaps).
> "...no money to be made..."

That's the ethics of business. We have no healthcare; there's a healthcare industry and we are how it extracts its profits.

This inevitably corrupts the goals of an "ideal world" healthcare system which would exist to provide efficient and affordable healthcare.
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I already left! In Boston currently, but looking to go back to SoCal soon! (Really wonder why there isn't a bigger startup scene in LA/SD than in the Bay Area, it's such a sweet location..)
They have this at many airports, but the prices are exorbitant. It was something like $10 to mail a swiss army knife home (vs. $15 to just replace it). They have a captive monopoly - there is one place you can mail it from, you can't step out of the terminal, and you have to decide immediately if you want to toss or mail - so they can charge whatever they want.
This thread contains several posts that have very long, unbroken, lines. If those lines had started with four (two?) spaces they've have got different CSS - the pre-formatting would have put the very long unbroken line inside a different box with scrollbars.

Here's one example post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610111
Perhaps Austin needs a lot of zoning laws and bureaucracy to prevent more people from moving there. Worked really well for SF.
There is a huge difference hijacking protocol between now and 9/11.

Post 9/11 passengers are not going to allow a guy with a razor blade hijack a plane, or even several guys with razor blades. Passengers and crew members now fight back and have the advantage of numbers.
Correct that you cannot be compelled to unlock your phone (with a code, not Touch ID) or reveal the passcode?
I'd have to point out that "driving the US economy" is not related to "growth".[1]

add in tech playing the MAJOR role in the MAJOR parts of growth in those industries, and you just look like a silly disagree monkey wasting everyones' time.

poo on you, shit monkey.

[1]http./duh
This looks like a really neat project that could really benefit me (Skype is a buggy piece of garbage but it's the place where 90% of my online friends congregate).

However, one big issue I forsee is issues with Skype changing their API/protocol and completely breaking the open source alternative. Updating would require a constant stream of development work which, if past projects of this type are anything to judge by, may be difficult or impossible to supply.
I wouldn't think they'd have the authority to seize the drugs themselves, since the warning sign is from the Port of Portland, the governmental authority that oversees PDX as well as marine ports. My feeling is that they would be obligated to attempt to hold the bag (less likely) or flag the bag and passenger (more likely) for a Port Authority Police officer to handle.

EDIT: According to one story [0], the TSA cooperated as, essentially, an "informant" for the DEA, flagging those with large quantities of cash, for the DEA to then seize or investigate.

EDIT 2: In fact, the TSA policy is to keep dangerous materials off aircraft, but they have no real enforcement authority. Law enforcement gets involved when, for example, narcotics are found. "While TSA works to keep dangerous items off of commercial aircraft, when contraband is found, it must be reported to local law enforcement. Here are a few of the more notable narcotics discoveries:" [1].

0: http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/21/how-the-tsa-and-drug-enfor...

1: http://blog.tsa.gov/2015/01/tsa-2014-year-in-review.html
I hear you'll have a lower life expectancy in Chicago...but that's just what I gather from the news :(
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> you will either see the patient in there or in a death index

Or you won't see any new information for the patient, because the patient is lost to followup. Or - worse - you'll see new information, but it'll be invisibly erroneous, because random GPs don't work to the standard that physicians administering examinations in clinical studies do.

> 50M people will provide a lot of robustness that you wouldn't see in a 1000 patient trial

Not if the 1000-patient trial is well designed, and the data of those 50M people is totally uncontrolled and unverified. This isn't warfare - Stalin's dictum has no place here. You can't overcome the flaws of a dirty dataset by adding more dirty data to it, especially when you literally cannot know either the magnitude or the nature of the inaccuracy, or even tell what's accurate from what's not.