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One thing I can't fathom about cities in North America is this sharp division between residential areas and shopping areas.

I'm by no means a world expert, but the places I've been to (Middle East where I grew up, Japan which I visited a couple of times) don't have this sharp distinction. Sure, there are residential areas and there are shopping areas, but every residential area will have many small shops here and there. You don't need a car to shop for groceries. You can just go down the street and there's likely a small store within 10-15 minutes walking distance that will have most of the things you need.

In North America it seems rather normal to have blocks and blocks of nothing but houses. To buy groceries, you need a car drive (anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes) to get to some plaza (or a mall) with big name stores like Wal-Mart or Target.

This has always bothered me. I think the only exception is the core downtown areas of big cities, but living there has its own downsides. Too expensive, too noisy, can sometimes be somewhat shady.
Typical of the nanny staters who think that they know what's best for everyone and their non-preferred lifestyle needs to be "fixed."
I'm from Australia, and have been living in Canada/USA for 10 years.

Yesterday I flew to the UK, and drove around with a friend today. Immediately one of the first things I noticed and commented on was how much better traffic flows. We hardly stopped, and just kept moving through roundabouts.

Is there any world where four way stops make sense?
The Comeback and Competition of the Inner City
Bootcamps have become more about cash and I know quite a few that are in trouble financially. Though they've gotten postive reviews lately it seems they will eventually be viewed in the same vein as Online degrees.
Bingo. Look at the re-conquest of New York City, which follows pretty exactly the pattern you mentioned. "All private schools" isn't even necessary de jure if you can do it de facto via magnet or charter schools and theoretically open neighborhood schools targeted at particular areas.
If you don't work from home then clearly you'll have a commute; how long/expensive/stressful/environmentally damaging it is obviously depends on a number of factors. I don't work too far from where I live and I use public transport to get there, so I can read and listen to music, which means it's not remotely stressful. Working in an office means I can switch off when I leave; when I've worked from home I've got distracted so I feel like I should do more work to make up for it. People at home see me there and expect me to do non-work things because "it'll only take a minute".

I was talking about the `ideas via casual chat` thing, though, which is obviously entirely separate from any discussion about work/travel etc. It's different if you're remote because talking face to face is a different dynamic to talking over the phone/skype/irc/email etc. I mean I could sit and drink by myself at home and talk to other people who are also drinking alone at home; perhaps that's an environmentally way of relaxing after work; it would reduce drink-driving deaths, wouldn't it. It would also be a horrifically depressing insulating way of living and it's not for me.
Is there any evidence at all that "so many robots designed to resemble women"?

Has there been any attempt at all to actually survey this and understand the numbers? Is it more than half? What about IBM's Watson? HAL 9000? T800, T1000? Commander Data?

Or is this just some off-the-cuff estimate by a lazy clickbaiting blogger, spun into yet another bald-faced attempt at generating controversy (and clicks) from nothing?
> Tell me, can you copy/paste the "𖥶" character with the mouse after double-clicking it in your browser?

No problem (Linux/Firefox).

The Unicode standard is not static (unlike those old codepages mentioned by OP); it is being changed and improved continuously. Support for characters outside of the BMP (such as the one you mention) is mostly there, but it may not be at the level of the basic scripts supported by, say, Unicode 5.0. That is fine. New features in standards take time to implement (the same thing happens with HTML and CSS).

For developers Unicode support is there. Has been for years.
I lived next to a commercial area. You'd think it would have been very walkable with a grocery store across the street, a rec centre just a block away, and tonnes of useful businesses. But the biggest problem I had walking anywhere was the vast amount of surface parking surrounding every business. It was a few minutes just to walk across the grocery store parking lot.

Autonomous vehicles would mean valet parking for everyone, which in turn means that we don't need to surround every business with vast fields of parking spaces. Yeah, the parking needs to still go somewhere, but at least you can put it off in a corner somewhere and most of it can be walkable.
Spaghetti Junction (Gravelly Hill) looks horrid when you see a photograph, but it's well signposted and really easy to drive through so long as you're comfortable merging on a motorway (and if you're not, you really shouldn't have merged onto the motorway in the first place!)

Some of the intersections within Birmingham itself are pretty awful, though, and it's not helped by the redevelopment the city centre is going through. Last time I passed through it took me three attempts to find the short stay car park at New Street station...
I think he means to store the bulk of the cash on your own, and it wouldn't be inconsistent to store a couple thousand in a bank to access the usual banking infrastructure.

If you wanted to avoid even that amount of storage, you can also use them primarily for borrow money(credit cards, loans, mortgages, etc.) and pay the debts back with cash. I can access borrowed money through my bank's online interface.
You only see one bit at a time, and the actual circles are small. You yield to anyone already on the roundabout, unless they're exiting and won't cross your path. If it's empty, you yield to someone waiting to your right.

Big, normal roundabouts with multiple lanes are much scarier...
Self-driving cars may lead to marginal improvements in road throughput, but shared-vehicle transportation will always be able to move more people in the same amount of space. If a transit route has sufficient ridership to justify investing in rail, it is already going to be very congested at commuting hours, and will remain so after self-driving cars become common.
It'd be interesting to see if they could get multithreaded support with web workers. Good stuff!
I see. Still don't understand why these zones, however badly designed, aren't properly mixed with reasonably sized pockets of undeveloped land such as forests. It would make the value much higher, make the environment better, make people healthier and so on. It should be a no-brainer in terms of city planning. It doesn't have to be organically grown "proper" suburbs. They just have to be planned to get the same appeal.
Yup, but the main screenshot looks like Gnome, so I think it actually works quite well to show how cross platform Emacs is.
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There are many people, usually in so-called "urban planing" positions in cities, that believe that suburbs are something that shouldn't exist. They detest the option of suburbs.
The choice between "dense urban core" and "suburb" is distinctly American. Especially in Europe, city (in the sense of "not suburb or rural" != center of a large (1M+) population.

In America, any region with a population the order of 100k or less is basically a shopping area surrounded by suburbs. The same is not true in Europe.

In Europe, you can definitely find walkable, breathable, friendly cities while still living in an area that is safer than (and has a smaller population than) the typical Chicago suburban area.
Howdy neighbor, I'm in the suburbs of Indianapolis, and I am much more sympathetic to the article. I think living just outside 465 is more akin to the author's suburbia than Valprasio or Plainfield or Evansville.
Public transit has huge positive externalities in terms of reduced traffic. I think that in Europe on average tickets cover only 25% of expenses.
Everyone at office is happy to gran some grub before going home. It relieves pressure on the home cooking effort, especially when the little kids don't eat grown-up food anyway
I can't possibly roll my eyes hard enough. But if the author thinks suburbia is bad I'd hate to hear what he'd say about my rural upbringing.

Meanwhile I'd consider an urban upbringing the worst option. Give me rural America for kids any day of the week. Suburbia works in a pinch. But dense urban? Urgh, no thank you.
One of my questions when interviewing a new physician is to ask their opinion on "detail people".
Yeah I had similar thoughts when they announced the Nvidia 1000 line the other day. The 970 GTX, whilst great for gaming, was a huge disappointment for CUDA programming (dodgy memory issues). Whereas it seems they've really stepped up with the Pascal generation for CUDA, and gaming will benefit as a result.
The important distinction is that gas taxes could pay for the whole thing: Federal, state, local...

3T miles driven a year, $90B in annual public spending. It works out to about a $0.60/gallon cost. Even adding in a surtax for CO2 and other emissions, it wouldn't represent a premium over gas prices of a few years ago that certainly didn't destroy the system.

It's just easier to pay for local roads with local property taxes. Everyone uses them even if they don't have cars.

But most public transit systems could never imagine charging full fare to their riders. They'd go into a death spiral. AFAIK, most can't even cover their maintenance costs, let alone capital expenditures.
I think he's also looking at European cities with quite rose-colored glasses. There are nice European cites, and (perhaps more to the point) nice areas of European cities. I lived in central Copenhagen for years, and I really liked it! But they're far from universal, and European development models also produce vast swathes of neighborhoods and housing that suck. In different ways than American suburbia, but still not somewhere you'd want to live, given the choice.

Example of the European equivalent of suburbia, which I'd argue is overall a less nice place to live than American suburbia: the more affordable London suburbs, or even worse, the more affordable Paris suburbs. They aren't vibrant, quaint, walkable cities, but just huge expanses of low-quality commuter housing, with bad commutes. Realistically for many people, the European equivalent to a lower-middle-class Houston suburban house with freeway commute isn't a nice apartment in a vibrant city center, but a small, somewhat shabby terrace house way out near Luton with a 75-minute bus+rail+tube commute into London. Compared to that version of Europe, the Houston suburbs don't look all that bad.
I had the same reaction. I grew up in suburban Chicago and it seemed nothing like this. We walked to elementary school, to friends' houses, to the center of town for ice cream. When I was a little older we rode bikes all over creation -- to the hobby store, the mall, and plenty of adventures like sneaking into the abandoned Borg-Warner research facility in Des Plaines, or dumpster diving for discarded electronics at Motorola in Schaumburg.
Oh dear. Comments like this will get you banned from HN pretty quickly, so please don't post any more of them. Instead, please read the HN guidelines and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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The emacsrocks videos existed before the website refresh and weren't created for gnu.org, but I can imagine Richard asking for new videos to advertise the GNU platform instead.
I've seen that a lot in Emacs videos and screenshots, the last few years.
Can the author go this direction with Gremgo? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/3.2.1-SNAPSHOT/tutorials/gr...
> Fast forward to now, and I'm right back in the 'burbs, in a house where my kids have access to safe streets, parks, and decent schools.

You seem to be confused. The article is saying that American suburbs are particularly poorly designed, not that suburbs as a general rule are terrible.

Here is Gröbenzell, a suburb just west of Munich that's surrounded by farmland: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gr%C3%B6benzell,+Germany/@...

In the states, such a suburb would be super-low-density and car-dominated, with all the negative features the author describes. There in Germany, Gröbenzell actually has a population density 30% higher than Seattle, and the whole town is within easy walking or biking distance of an S-Bahn station that gets you to the center of Munich in 20 minutes.

It's possible to have suburban towns that are still walkable, that still allow kids some measure of independence, that do not kill any sense of place. In the US, we've just chosen not to create them.
Maybe someone could make Rhino[0] run in this, so we can run Javascript in Java in Javascript! Yo dawg!

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Rh...
Why does Stripe not currently support businesses based in Estonia? (See: https://support.stripe.com/questions/what-countries-does-str...)

Regarding the need of a physical address in Estonia in order to start a company, if their government could address that somehow, maybe Estonia could be another option to use with the Stripe Atlas service? (See: https://stripe.com/atlas).
Its also a question of pricing. No point in launch a shiny new transportation tech when its priced using price skimming.

Much better approach (for society) is to launch it with a super low discounted price until its gained some mindshare and people had a chance to evaluate it in the context of their routines.
Yeah this is what I figured, still kind of surprised to see the new site go live with them. It isn't all that difficult to make a simple screencast on Linux to show off some of the basics.
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Hmm, I'm not so sure that's what the intention is. The FSF is adamant that non-free software should not be promoted if there is a free equivalent that can do the same thing. So I'm also surprised that OS X features prominently, like this, on the front page.
> Ok let me get this clear, you're saying that the language is at fault because the programmers don't write correct code.

Yes.

A good language makes the correct thing the easy thing.
The problem with this article is that it ignores a TON of research.

We tend to trust women more then men:

The Role of Gender and Race in Cooperation and Trust: Experimental Examination of Identity Based Strategic Interaction

http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~rstarr/Econ191_2014_webpage/191%20F...
Lol at calling the north side risky
The site seems to be having some trouble, so from the Wayback machine:

The previous site https://web.archive.org/web/20150522051725/http://www.gnu.or...

The new site on the 20th of April https://web.archive.org/web/20160420170002/http://www.gnu.or...
Author of TREZOR here. Responses inline:

> have a "stuck" RNG

TREZOR asks for external entropy during the initialization and this one is mixed with an internal one. Even in the unlikely change that internal RNG generator fails, you should be on the safe side.

> The author is trusting people he doesn't know

The whole design is (hardware and software) is open-source. You don't need to trust, you can verify yourself (or ask a friend who can if you are not able to).

> inheritance

When you initialize device it will give you a list of 24 words, which are a way how to recover funds. You can split these words across your family members (using e.g. a Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme) and once you are dead your family can recover your coins.

I recommend watching my talk at CCC where I explain in detail the basis concepts of TREZOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaBKNus1n0
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The current requirement for e-residents to have an Estonian postal address is quite a speedbump for what they're trying to accomplish. The article mentions several companies filling in the gap by offering virtual addresses. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Estonian company that provides this service?
> "I live in "suburbia". A small city of 30,000 in Indiana called Valparaiso. We have a vibrant downtown and where you can live, shop, eat, go to shows, etc. We have public transportation with a local bus line and also bus service into Chicago."

Then you don't live in the type of suburbia the author was referring to. A small city with a variety of activities close by and decent public transportation is a million miles from the type of monotonous residential sprawl the author is referring to.
MapD tries to cache compressed versions of the "hot" columns of a table in GPU RAM, which could be up to 256GB per node across 8 GPUs. If necessary though it can stream the data from CPU RAM - of course such queries won't be as fast.

Yes you could imagine accelerating index lookups with GPUs (I think there's some research papers on this subject already) - maybe a future project for us.
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Yeah, it's probably as reasonable a hack as you can hope to find in the context of C. The thing to watch out for is that you'd end up with different semantics in arithmetic operations. Right-shift wouldn't sign-extend, for example, that's the first one that comes to mind.

Weirdly enough, in my project above I ended up eschewing unsigned ints and just relying on signed numbers everywhere. I have to take a big hit on performance by adding a couple of asserts that consistently enable this without undefined behavior (and I might still be missing something), but performance hasn't been an issue so far. I just don't want to think about whether I might want to perform subtraction down the road when I create a new int. "Unsigned integer" is an oxymoron since integers are defined to include negative numbers.
The safety that someone under 12 requires is very different than the safety that someone over 12 requires. Seems like the teenage you were content with just cursing your dull suburban neighborhood, rather than setting your neighbors' houses and cars on fire for shits and giggles.

Yes, it is part of parental responsibility to provide an environment stimulating enough that vandalism, arson, or drugs aren't an attractive option.
> I can imagine Richard asking for new videos to advertise the GNU platform instead.

Me too. He often asks for corrections in light of these types of oversights (at least, it looks like an oversight to me).
Clearly no one is required to do anything. I merely interpreted your repeated replies to me as an attempt to engage in intellectual discussion, and I was attempting to participate. That's normally what one does on HN.

Perhaps I misinterpreted and you were merely replying in an attempt to raise your status at my expense? If so, my apologies, and I accept your victory. You are a high status, mainstream person with values within the Overton window. I'm a weird nerd who follows his reasoning to wrongthink. Congrats!
Most likely they were created by the one who made the website, which most likely used OS X like most designers :p
The EH info looks the same when in SSA form - when building SSA the right PHIs are inserted for the values potentially defined in EH blocks.
Your comments continue to be uncivil despite repeated requests to stop doing this. I almost banned your account for this, but it does seem like your comments have improved, so instead I'll just ask you to please improve them more. That means respecting the people you're talking to, even if they're wrong, instead of jabbing them.
No, they detest what suburbs are in the US. Which, besides all the problems mentioned in the article, are often funded via a Ponzi scheme of development: http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
Even in videos and screenshots that are endorsed by the FSF? I find that hard to believe.
I'm always amused when a new and "better" (browser) technology's website makes my browser hang up.
To clarify this: flip implies end over end rotation where as roll implies side over side rotation. Therefore, it takes considerable more force to flip a car than it does to roll it.
dupe, please check before submitting:
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Should show a loading progress indicator for the demo because that took ages & I thought it was broken until I inspected Console.
Not too surprising, OSX is a common platform for devs who are linux/unix-oriented but want a high-level OS with all the sleek GUIs and mainstream features. OSX is a certified Unix OS, after all, so it tends to speak to emacs users in a way that you won't typically find among the Windows base.

Yes Unix is not Linux, but I see OSX widely used at hackathons and conferences because of its underpinnings.
Thank you for your explanation. Plain text shouldn't be a problem anyway. I'll put it on todo.

Though, I think I tried to make JSON files as light and as readable as possible.
Because being black is an inherent trait outside of someone's control. Choosing to be an Uber driver is a person's active choice, and everyone has a fingerprint. So you're not forced to do something you don't want to do, and you're not being discriminated against because of something you cannot control.
Maybe if you are talking being overweight, but this article is about being OBESE.
It's amazing all the people posting comments here who completely missed the point of the article.

The author is NOT saying that suburbs are bad. The author is saying that American suburbs are bad. There is a difference, and that difference is the entire point of the article.

Seriously, did you even read it?
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You are mistaken to believe that only a suburb fits the quiet & safe criteria (or even is the best fit). A traditional european city apartment, with a central courtyard, parking in the back, mixed use zone, is likely safer and just as quiet, yet you are within walking distance of shops, schools and public transport and are still in contact with other humans. I can't imagine a better environment for raising a child (except maybe some kind of dense rural community).
There are already "virtual offices" being offered by Estonian physical companies. These fulfil the requirement for having an Estonian address for certain functions. It was in the article, near the end.
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Designers rarely make a website - they just design it.
There's no place for this kind of flamewar ignition on HN. Please don't post anything like this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650792 and marked it off-topic.
Agreed, I noticed that too. I was hoping he'd just subconsciously lifted some phrases, but the amount of the overall similar content/structure and the specificity of phrases do really kinda push it to the level of plagiarism.
This might be as simple as the fact that you're spacing your learning out less. In college you learned things over a span of 15 weeks, giving you many opportunities for spaced repetition, which is one of the most effective methods to make material stick. Now I'm assuming you learn material in much less time than a semester, so there's less repetition and therefore less long term retention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Sure, look at the "revenue by markets" slide here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10050/nvidia-announces-q4-fy-2...
> Get out of here with that nonsense.

Please don't respond to inflammatory trollishness by making the thread still worse. It's hard to resist provocation, but important. The rest of your comment is fine and would have been more persuasive without the first bit.