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I think the thing to realize is that there are certain advantages to suburban living: The modern suburban home is what many people consider a mansion in other contexts. A lot of people take a lot of pride in their home's interior and exterior work.

Thus, perhaps the city of the future needs to figure out how to give people space and personality in their dwellings. Living in a shoebox apartment where all one gets to do is pick the wall coverings does not appeal to everyone.

Instead, perhaps it might be better to think about how someone can buy property in 3D? Large empty 3D grid-like structures where someone can build and have a high degree of control over their interior and exterior?

Perhaps even elevated walkways and trains, so people can get around without needing to venture down?

Might sound like something out of sci-fi, but cities really need broader appeal. A lot of people just don't want to move into a building where someone chose everything else for them.
Let's face the facts of the last 50 years - democracy didn't eventually "destroy" communism: capitalism did. How did we think capitalism wouldn't eventually turn on democracy as well?
Key point being, "offered."

Microsoft is making an offer that most non-technical users can't refuse. That's not ethical. The ends don't justify the means.
> If the employee loses the stock when he's fired early, then the company has a huge incentive in firing him a day before he vests

Not if they want to keep a reputation in the community of good developers, where demand far exceeds supply.
You're assuming said options exist, depending on where you live, they normally don't.
Thanks for the info. Technically speaking, posting a link on Facebook and tagging a friend to it seems impossible, unless some manipulation or a flaw was presented. Can you confirm or not that Facebook is somehow vulnerable to tagging to links (not posts)
In Vienna "maximum 5-10 minutes walk from the closest supermarket" would cover virtually the entire population.
The point trying to be made is that they are racist because they are racist - not that they are racist because they are Brexitors. It's an important distinction to make. In the same vein of thought, terrorists should be called terrorists because they are terrorists and not because they are Muslim.

And I happen to agree that Muslims shouldn't be called terrorists and not just because some majority % would be upset about the association.
Upgrades aren't always entirely painless and without cost.

If the UI significantly changes, for instance, there will be a time investment needed to re-learn what you need to get work done. (This was a particularly nasty issue for Windows 8, not quite as bad for 10 but there are a few changes for sure.)

If the upgrade fails in any way, there may be significant time spent getting the computer back on-line. Sometimes this takes a very long time.

Software upgrades may actually introduce bugs. In the worst case scenario, some OS software upgrades have actually "bricked" devices (see: Apple iOS 9.3.2). These further impact productivity / take time to work around.

Some very old legacy programs may not work at all. It takes time to implement a new solution for the problem in a new tool. (This isn't a big issue for 7 to 10 from what I've heard, but you do hear this about other upgrades in the past.)

This cost in time is not nothing. If there is no real net benefit, it could end up being a big waste.

Even if people want to upgrade, IMHO the way Microsoft is pushing out the upgrade is quite bad. Usually in the enterprise world, IT departments tend to test new OS releases (and even patch updates) to make sure everything works, before rolling out the updates in the wild. They don't want a patch to break some mission critical software. The cost of that could be huge in some cases.

Even for Windows 7 retail to Windows 10 retail, I could see many people preferring to be cautious. Perhaps they are wanting to wait for a slightly more stable OS (usually the first release of a Windows version is a bit buggy). Some people also might want to test things out first, to make sure there are no problems. Of course there's those that don't want to update because change bad, but I don't think that's all cases.

Furthermore, a fair bit of Windows retail I'm sure is businesses - these tend to be even more cautious than overall consumers. A software update going wrong could cost them money, after all, and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I honestly don't think the "rolling updates" model being pushed works for enterprise... even small ones.
In most of the US, you have a choice of one or two wired broadband ISPs anyway. I imagine most renters don't care about competition, since they know they wouldn't have much of a choice no matter where they go, and if they're in an area with two choices, they're likely to be equally crappy.

ISP competition is important, but I see this as a symptom, not a cause. Fix the root problem, and people might start caring about ISP choice. Once renters care about ISP choice, big landlords will fall into line.
Valuing stock options at zero is one of those HN memes that are repeated endlessly, mostly, I suspect, by people not from Silicon Valley who know few, if any, engineers who got rich from stock options.

Just because stock options should be valued at less than a company's private valuation does not mean they are worth 0. Very few engineers actually value them at zero.

Adding on to this comment:

It's a spectrum, not a black and white your options are worth zero dictum. At one end, (extremely early stage startup, < 5 employees, you're not a founder) your options are probably worthless, sure, although you have a minuscule chance of being worth $10M+. At the other extreme, you join a company that everyone knows is going to go IPO within two years, and essentially earn what you would earn at Google or Facebook, maybe slightly more.

To give you one example, I knew someone that made about a million (vested over 4 years) in options by joining an already-successful startup as engineer ~70, that he believed would IPO within 4 years. On top of his market rate salary.
Did you just learn about the concept of Immutable? It's a very simple concept, it seems to be the buzzword lately, especially with JavaScript libraries.
How is a Chromecast a valid response? It's the wireless equivalent of an HDMI cable.

You need access to a service on your phone/tablet/computer to push it to the Chromecast.
For an extreme (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) version of that, see The 5th Element. Everything happens in the sky and street-level becomes this shady area filled with trash and thugs. :)
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I suppose this discussion would depend upon our economic ideology differences. Yes, there are differences in ideology and we can each prove our ideology is right mathematically, which is why economics is the dismal science.
Time to cue the NeWS reminiscing.

Around that time, X11, NeXT computer, Apollo Domain, and SUN (where the network was the computer) were all pondering how get programs to run on one machine and output on another. Printers and display screens were kind of the same thing if you though in terms of shipping a vector program around instead of a bitmap, so there were a number of advantages to that scheme. Of course, X went the bitmap route. But Sun Openwindows was built on PS, and it was glorious.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

* http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html

Not to be confused with Sony NEWS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_NEWS
checkout the details of the project, the idea is that you can run AFL on arbitrary VMs (like your rails VM)! just need to have your test cases, your userland harness, and the addresses to monitor for "panics"
I thought it was my particular lcd that headline color combination is literally difficult to look at. yeouch
Well, there is always someone. I think it's fair to say that slightly higher trade tariffs in the UK will not result in a global recession.

It might trigger a sell-off of over-priced stocks, like a crash of the Chinese markets did in August last year, but stocks in the US did not tank because of the Chinese market crash, they tanked because people were concerned about rate rises and the US economy.
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Navigation between orgs is borked.
Also here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston,_Virginia
IIRC Microsoft bought the apartments across the street for visitors and interviewees, cheaper.
There's no incentive for that profit to be passed on as reduced rates for the tenants.
"Pyret is already fully-fledged enough to self-host its compiler, which is a non-trivial and realistic challenge."

Has it been used for anything else than its compiler?

--Traditional Computer Science question
Just put transactions in the application. With row level locking, the odds of running into contention problems are low. If you've been careful to always lock tables in the same order, then deadlocks are a non-issue. At that point, having longer running transactions does not matter. What matters is contention for the internal locking mechanisms inside of the database. And limiting how much extraneous stuff you have improves that.

Now it is easy to screw up an application. It is easy to screw up a database design. It is easy to screw up queries and query plans. But all of those are fixable in relatively straightforward ways. And once you do that, you will wind up with database throughput as your bottleneck.

As for NoSQL, the problem is this. Moving to that architecture requires taking an up front hit on transactional complexity, usually requires several times the hardware (data needs to be stored multiple times for hardware failure), puts a lot of stress on your network and latency, and is really easy to screw up. Just using a popular out of the box solution is not enough - see https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen for a list of real failure modes on stuff that will look perfectly fine in testing.

It is a necessary challenge to accept if you want to go beyond a certain scale. But you should not accept that challenge unless you have good reason to do so.
Wow, very interesting. Thank you for sharing. It seems like the moral of the story is to follow the money as Twilio did. B2B may be boring but at least they pay you.

What was the thought about where the "marketing stunts" would lead? More consumer-focused product would lead to your company becoming the next AT&T or something?
> The Queen can technically refuse his resignation. It would be quite encouraging if she did so,

Yes, because what Britain needs is the Queen triggering a constitutional crisis to force a leader who doesn't even believe in the Brexit to, against his will, negotiate the terms for it. Because that would make the situation better.
Paginate pull requests. For the love of all that is holy, paginate pull requests. It's probably the main thing that frustrates the hell out of me when doing code reviews. Argh.
Dialup in SV? Where, the mountains?
Isn't this it? https://dotnet.github.io/docfx/
To change an existing city you have a lot of baggage in the form of existing structures and landowners who you have to either convince that the change is beneficial to them or force the changes and fight the inevitable legal battles. That's just assuming that your plan can be implemented with the existing structures, if not it's going to require purchasing the existing structures and rebuilding/tearing them down.

That's not to stay starting over is easy. Trying to create a city out of whole cloth with sufficient jobs and infrastructure to attract and retain people isn't an easy problem in the slightest. It does avoid the NIMBY fight of trying to change an existing city though.
It happened to a DJ at a club I was at about a month ago. Middle of his set, his Surface Pro decides it's a great time to restart and "upgrade" to Windows 10.

Somebody at Microsoft seriously needs to be fired for that "feature".
Based on their green color and activity, apparently they only wanted to complain about this submission.
In practice no, it's not useful for this because it has to take over everything. This makes it basically impossible to support for anything complex like a web browser. You end up having to put way too much stuff in the trusted environment. It might have worked way back in the text terminal days when it was slightly realistic for someone to build basically an entire trusted OS to run instead of your normal OS, but today that's just not going to happen.
I think Visual Studio Code introduces much better extensibility philosophy than Visual Studio.

Of course VS is old product and has some legacy we have to excuse, like COM, writing tons of boilerplate code just to show item in context menu, etc., but I mean philosophy of being friendly to everyone, regardless of underlying technology, is very important. For instance, writing language service, in C++ or C# only is a real limitation for some languages and prevents many languages of being integrated, so "Common Protocol for Languages" is right decision.

From another side, Visual Studio is very powerful in terms of customization. Creating virtual item hierarchy is easy (if we consider something can be easy when creating Visual Studio extension), so we have things like database project, with a lot of items, but no real files. I look forward to find similar possibilities in Visual Studio Code.
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Haven't watched the video yet, but then Conway and others formalized a bunch of theory for 2-player combinatorial games like Go, using surreal numbers for game states. (e.g. the number * = {0|0}, or, whoever moves first wins.)
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling commenters.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987265 and marked it off-topic.
Does anyone know if any large-scale landlord is also receiving user data as well as cash from its ISPs? EULAs are broad enough to let any ISP, website or app provider to do anything with customer data that they want. Landlords could already being treated as "partners" and thus negotiating for and receiving user data in order "to offer goods and services" and "to improve the "UX". Is this a fair price to extract from a residential "captive audience?"
It's an interesting question: how does one maximize the potential interconnections between people and places? I know that when I'm in a dense city, it definitely feels like there are a lot more places and things I can visit than when I'm in a suburban area with a car.

But that needs to be balanced with the desires of some to have fewer connections, but perhaps more yard. And some people honestly desire to have fewer connections and live further away from others.

However, what if the suburban area was more varied in locations: smaller businesses and corner markets mixed in with residential areas? Right now most suburban development consists square miles of nothing but residential cul-de-sacs peppered with massive clusters of big box stores that require huge parking lots and must serve large numbers of people to survive. People want the big box stores because they think they save money, but the same savings are possible with lots of small stores as long as there's a real market and clever people running small businesses. With that type of sparse use of land, greater distances between things on average but with the speed of cars, would that allow more interconnections than density?

I think that over the past few decades, that those that desire the yard, and those that desire fewer interconnections have been able to prevent those that want density from building it. There's a clear undersupply of dense locations and a clear oversupply of sparse locations.

I think the key is to have lots of diversity so that many experiments can be tried. Right now there have been few styles that have been tried with cars, and though I personally consider it a failure in that I don't want to live like that, there are plenty of people that consider density to be a failure and would never want to live like that. Any solution(s) to cities should be able to meet everybody's desires.
If only more folks knew how the Telecoms/Utilities dreaded the public utilities commissions.

If the FCC and PUCs could do marketing, that'd be awesome, but I'm sure some corporate crony politician (or even judge) would shut that down...
But when you move to scale, you lose key employees.
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In today's environment? Probably the bank losing its password database.
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"User Reports"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S50bqKrTBkY

I remember Twilio giving this exact demo in 2009, though I can't find the video. There were audible gasps from the audience back then, the moment people realized their web development skills suddenly applied to telephony.
Scalability IS NOT performance.

I like to say that scalability is like a Mac truck. Good if you have to move a lot of stuff, but not necessarily the best tool for getting your groceries. Moving logic from stored procedures to the application adds latency and network traffic. This is never going to be good for how fast you process an individual request. However it can let your system handle more requests per second.
"Which Belgians?" is a similarly important question to ask.

I was somewhat surprised by the immediate inference that people searching "what is the EU?" were people who voted to leave, rather than people who voted to stay, or people who didn't vote at all.
You're right on your analysis, but you've failed at one thing: Logic and facts do not matter. The EU would be the scapegoat because people buy it.

There's a UKIP MEP right now on Twitter blaming the EU because his toaster doesn't work properly. This is not a joke, this is actually happening.
> How can one meaningfully speak of comparative measure between constructs that occupy distinct dimensional spaces?

Because there is only a colloquial, not a mathematical, relationship between the notion of order, and most notions of dimension. An 'order' is any binary relation obeying certain properties (antisymmetry, transitivity, and, depending on whether you want a strict order, possibly irreflexivity); one can put an order on a set without any concern about whether it obeys your or anyone's intuition, as long as it satisfies those properties.
Car free cities
If a company fires you the day before you reach your vesting cliff, you can sue them for breach of contract, if you were performing well. Yes, you can sue them (and win, though you'd probably want to settle) even if your contract says they can fire you for any reason.

On a separate note, it's the same underlying principle behind why people are wrong when they talk about the DAO's contract meaning that the hacker was allowed to steal. No judge is going to enforce a contract clause that allows you to steal. And if you were performing well but were fired right before your cliff, a judge can find that your employers were acting in bad faith, etc. The underlying principle is that contracts are subject to reasonable interpretations by judges.

Your other point about getting yourself fired makes no sense (you're ignoring the cliff, then month to month vesting schedule that is typical).
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Disables virtually all possibilities of auto-upgrades.
Looks like they have reopened their offices, it still doesn't change the fact that Unity grew up in SV not in Copenhagen.
Except I didn't lease Windows 7 for a limited time, I licensed it for use without a time limit. If GM hadn't disclosed that the EV1 transaction was actually a lease -- meaning if they had gone into peoples' garages and towed 'their' EV1s away at a time of GM's choosing -- there would have been serious legal consequences. As there should be here.

You'll probably respond by saying that Microsoft is only doing what I authorized them to do on page 34, paragraph 8(c) of the EULA. At which point the only response I can offer is, "Fool me once, shame on me."
It wouldn't be the same track. It would be a parallel one.
It's even worse when you consider AMT; sure, dropping $10k to buy your stock might be achievable, but if the FMV of those shares has gone up appreciable, you may find yourself in pain come tax day. (If your strike was $1/share, but the FMV is now $10/share, $9/share "gain" has to be considered as income for calculating your alternative minimum tax.)
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Can this city please use version control for its laws? I want to be able to git blame and git diff my laws.
It's disingenuous to lay that fully at the feet of urban planners though there's only so much they can do via the tools that local governments provide budget and political support are both limited in a lot of cases. Also just because there's the space provided for commercial spaces to open doesn't guarantee you'd have the coffee shop/corner store/restaurant/pub/whatever you're asking for.
So you're saying that both Remain and Leave winning would support your theory? This means your theory has no value...

Look, it's really simple. People are only "easily" swayed because they have limited choice (and, even these two choices are usually the same, unless they're Trump, Bernie or Corbyn). UK and US are structured so that two parties dominate; many other countries have a multi-party system, so people can have their voices heard even by voting a non-winning party.
So basically, their conclusions and methodology are deliberately narrow.
This guy is trying to create a stream of conscious recording Memex:

http://quantifiedself.com/2009/09/the-social-memex/

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Relevant excerpt from The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson:

"Actually, now that he thought of it, losing his train of thought had been happening a lot. Or so he seemed to remember. It was an odd problem that way. But certainly he had been aware of losing trains of thought, which seemed, in their blank aftermath, to have been good thoughts. He had even tried to talk into his wrist pad when such an accelerated burst of thinking began, when he felt that sense of several strands braiding together to make something new. But the act of talking stopped the mentation. He was not a verbal thinker, it seemed; it was a matter of images, sometimes in the language of math, sometimes in some kind of inchoate flow that he could not characterise. So talking stopped it. Or else the lost thoughts were much less impressive than they had felt; for the wrist recordings had only a few phrases, hesitant, disconnected, and most of all slow – they were nothing like the thoughts he had hoped to record, which, especially in this particular state, were just the reverse – fast, coherent, effortless – the free play of the mind. That process could not be captured; and it struck Sax forcibly how little of anyone’s thinking was ever recorded or remembered or conveyed in any way to others – the stream of one’s consciousness never shared except in thimblefuls, even by the most prolific mathematician, the most diligent diarist."
Um... Two dudes? ;)
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