skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - street design: No more hierarchical/dendritic street layouts. That is, no more dead-end streets, which lead to collectors, which lead to arterials - you're bottlenecking a huge population through a very small, fast, and unsafe road system. Instead, make the streets highly connected, and narrower to encourage slower but steadier car traffic, and blocks shorter. Porous streets networks can route around bottlenecks and can have many more concurrent cars than even crazy-huge Texas-style freeways.

Alternatively, you COULD use dead-end streets...that are only dead ends to cars, but have pass-throughs for walking and biking. For an extreme example, see Houten, NL: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Houten,+Netherlands/@52.03...

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/06/a-case-study-in-bik...
...whatever. Use NoScript. Problem solved.
Sometimes I wonder if Americans fucked themselves by creating cities with roads and cars in mind, thereby ruining the organic walkability of naturally sense cities which were historically limited by the distance one could reasonably walk in a given day for their regular necessities.

The only old American city that I think stands a chance is Philadelphia, which has a great number of single-lane one-way streets, which allow emergency services to get to where they need quickly enough while providing a decent amount of walkability. But then again, the original plan for Philadelphia is a hilarious testament to the utter failures of centralized city planning.

" Penn planned a city on the Delaware River to serve as a port and place for government. Hoping that Philadelphia would become more like an English rural town instead of a city, Penn laid out roads on a grid plan to keep houses and businesses spread far apart, with areas for gardens and orchards. The city's inhabitants did not follow Penn's plans, as they crowded by the Delaware River, the port, and subdivided and resold their lots"
-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia
President Obama should pardon Edward Snowden before leaving office
Days when "ramen-profitable" meant you actually ate ramen are over. Now everyone jumped on the fitness bandwagon, and eating various types of salads & green stuff is hip. And also expensive - "natural"/organic food is a big business these days.
The order of the categories in the stacked bar graphs not being the same as the order in the legend for said graphs is irksome.
It is surprise to me, that though a lot of technologies seem to make location less important (internet, video conferences, online stores, better transportation), ppl ten to cluster around few hub cities.

Importance of network effect is increasing faster than advantage of tech allowing distributed work. I wonder if this trend will be permanent or will shift at some point.
Achieving Gender Parity with Male Allies
Money is not a worry, but food and shelter.

If everyone gets money and freedom, where do food and shelter come from?
Another example of developers borrowing terms from other subjects in an effort to big up their projects. See: "Isomorphic" JavaScript.
> Property in uninteresting cities is very cheap, because nobody wants to be there.

Many more people live in 'uninteresting' cities than 'interesting' ones. They're cheap because of the relatively big supply, not necessarily because of the lack of demand.
Is it really better looking or is it simply a case of shiny and new?
Thanks for the feedback! I am a PM on the docs team and will direct your feedback right now to the engineering team to look into the perf issue.
CentOS is (and always was) literally a rebuild of RHEL, so what's your point exactly?
Why Brexit (Probably) Won't Happen
>Didn't XP teach us all a lesson about locked in/legacy software

I would agree with anyone claiming that this is a shitty argument: Users to some extend brought this upon themselves, because given the option people would stay on Windows XP or older.

All the people that are still on Windows XP, their user experience has just gotten better, no longer is Windows nagging them about updates and security fixes.

Microsoft is trying to transition people to rolling upgrades, because users suck at letting go of their old unsafe legacy software. They transitioning in a shitty manor, but I'm not sure they have much choice, other than turn their back to Windows 7 and 8 users.

I have co-workers that when they where upgraded to a later version of Windows on our terminal server wanted to know: Can't we just stay on Windows XP. This is people who try to sell consumers what ever happens to be the fashion this month. People that would like nothing better than customers that swap out everything in their home every six month. Everything except the operating system on the computer apparently.

Yes, Microsoft has made a shitty move, but on the other end of that spectrum is end users that would have you run Windows XP service pack 27.
Thank you for the feedback! We will gradually migrate more documentation to our new docs portal.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/api/system.runt...

Though I'm not sure it's of any value outside of Windows.
I'll see your Douglas Adams and raise you "None, none more black!"
"The Leave campaign has no plan" comes from the aftermath of the vote. There has been a serious lack of leadership from the Leave captain, and a lot of backtracking on promises.

I was expecting Boris or Farage setup a great press conference telling us what they were going to do starting by requiring Cameron resignation, appointing guy X and Y, start a task force to do Z. A message for the market. Even banter like saying they would ask all the European in the UK to register somewhere, tightening the border controls, suspend the naturalisation or permanent residency demand coming from European people, ...

It does not matter about the content, as you said, I would probably not have liked it or found it reasonable. But at least it looks like the guys were a bit prepared to win, that they had put some thought in at least maintaining the appearance that they would push for the stuff they promised or for something.
"Over the next two decades, however, streetcar lines either were bought up and then closed down by automobile companies or simply went bankrupt."

Ah, America.
> Autonomous vehicles are still coming.

Autonomous privately owned vehicles on shared rights of way are still coming. Centrally managed autonomous vehicles on dedicated rights of way are here already -- think inter-terminal trains at airports. If private car ownership is up for discussion (and it's explicitly called out here), you could imagine, for example, an urban plan where people got around on a macro level on automated elevated light rail, and on a micro level by foot or bike.
No they don't. This is bulshit.
There's places in Berlin where you actually can only order in english.
The thermal conductivity is just because it's carbon, you can use other forms of carbon like diamond which also have about 10 times the thermal conductivity of copper.

Diamond is used sometimes in thermal pastes and adhesives one of its disadvantages however is that it's quite abrasive so it cannot be used on naked silicon dies or in applications that require thermal grease and are hence under stress, I would suspect that other nanoforms of carbon are more or less just as abrasive as diamond so they would have similar restrictions.
Something I've always thought about is smart traffic. If nobody else is at the intersection I shouldn't have to wait at the red light. On a large scale the economic benefits would be amazing - faster transport, higher car mileages across the board (fewer hard stops for cars), increased efficiency, happier people.
“Let European copyright catch up with reality”
If you have single lane streets, what does an emergency vehicle do when the lane is blocked by vehicles, people, or debris?

Wouldn't wider streets be better in every case?
Home theater system for about $350
these 3 things + an iphone make a great home theater system for about $350:

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(speakers)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009WHV3BM
(hdmi for iphone)

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(hdmi projector)
the asp.net core changed a lot between rc1 and rc2 (because moved to .net sdk instead of dnx). The normal libraries or console app not too much
I don't know about Detroit, but Buffalo is in the midst of an amazing if long overdue recovery from its status as a dying old blue collar rust belt town. It wasn't the nerds and hipsters that pulled this off though, it was a few large wealthy real estate developers who saw a town with potential which due to collapsed real estate prices could be developed at a bargain.
I said Arabic OR Muslim because they are different. Maybe it would be useful for you to start reading properly what people write.
I said Arabic people and not people speaking Arabic because that is completely different. Most of my friends in Tel-Aviv speak arabic or understand it because Arabs represent a significant proportion of Israel's population/residents.
I said "only for Arabic OR Muslim tourists" because they are treated differently at the borders. Just go to Ben Gurion airport or the Wall and you will see that Israeli soldiers are asked to pay special attention to Arabic and Muslims. That has nothing to do with racism or anything like that: they just know that there has never been a terrorist attack conducted by a white Christian guy.
What I said is based only on facts [1] and what my friends in the army told me. Because, yes, I lived in Tel-Aviv for 2 years so: yes I know a bit about Israel / no, I'm not really the guy who is going to discriminate Israel.
Next time keep your mouth shut. Really.
If you need COM interop, you don't need cross platform compatibility. You can just use the full .Net framework.
I've extensively researched the concepts of hub and spoke models for cities and town centers for suburbs.

I think a very effective way to design cities is to have the following:

1. A densely developed urban core that sets quotas on what % of apartments must fall within whatever's considered middle class pricing, as well as a quota for a minimum % of apartments that must be for purchase rather than rent. The former prevents cities from being turned into ghost town banks for the wealthy to park their money, and the latter gives citizens an opportunity to build equity if they desire/have the means to.

Also, there should only he height restrictions on buildings if there's a structural reason for it, not because "it'll ruin the character of the area" or "my views of Central Park will be blocked".

2. Suburbs should be a healthy middle ground between densely developed and suburban sprawl. Living in houses the size of a box isn't appealing, but neither are mcmansions that are 15-20 minutes to the nearest retail center. The concept of strip malls and office parks should be completely scrapped in favor of walkable town centers with multi level parking garages on the perimeters. These town centers should be mixed use, so that people have plenty of options to work, shop, entertain themselves, dine, etc within a reasonable distance from their homes. The town center layout promotes a sense of community and socializing. Suburban towns should have a size limit, and each town should have a light rail station that runs alongside the main road/highway so citizens can easily commute between towns and to the city center without traffic congestion.

When a town becomes fully developed, rather than progressively building smaller and smaller houses to increase density, a new town should be built at the adjacent free land with its own town center. This results in the hub and spoke model of suburb towns that are mini cities surrounding the main urban core, rather than sprawled bedroom communities that have no economy of their own.

3. Between each city should be a low cost and high speed transit option like a maglev or Hyperloop, so that citizens have the option to live in neighboring cities and commute to work in a reasonable amount of time.

4. Zoning should be designed to quickly and easily adapt to growing cities, so that what is zoned as suburban can change to urban as a city grows, and the perimeter of suburbs would grow to account for that. This would occur to a certain limit, and when a city reaches a max size where sprawl is a problem, a new planned city must be built in an optimal place in the state to start the cycle all over again.

In addition to underground subway systems for urban cores and light rail for suburbs, there should be uber style shared car/bus services to fill in the gaps.

As for energy, there should be a heavy emphasis on wind, solar, and nuclear.

The role of regulations should be quality of life protection, not special interests. That means a reasonable minimum square footage for apartments and houses depending on the number of bedrooms, but not a limit on tower heights.
Thats https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/index
You don't even need to go that far; wider adoption of remote work would create enough opportunity for a lot of people.
Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends
Donald Knuth: Surreal Numbers [video]
You're missing some context. Much of the Leave campaign has been appealing to workers by labelling more wealthy socialists as "smug superior intellectual upper-middle class Guardian readers" etc [1]. The author is just parodying that, he's not actually proud of being smug.

[1] http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44970.htm
[1] https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/middle-east/israel...
Just out of curiosity is it easier in Seattle to meet the conditions I mentioned, namely keeping expenses reasonably low and getting qualified staff? Housing and technical employment currently look like seller's markets in Seattle.

For example, if you take numbers from comparison tools like www.numbeo.com cost of living in Seattle is not much less than SV locations like San Jose.
The trend has been people moving to cities. However, I wonder if that will be reversing any time soon, with people moving out of (large) cities and into smaller towns?
Coventry, UK is a good example of this. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Coventry+Cathedral/@52.407...

The city centre is essentially car-free, with a ring-road highway around it. The centre is dense enough to have most things you'd want, but small enough that you can walk across it quickly.
then from your iphone just open hbonow or netflix etc and u have 70 inch hdtv on your wall
From what I see Samsung has been contributing on that front. They said in the announcement that Samsung has joined the Dotnet Foundation.
Wow. I don't think there's anything close to that in the U.S, maybe PayPal, but the red envelope thing is really novel. I don't even know how legal that would be in the U.S. The concept of giving money away randomly is just strange.
> Importance of network effect is increasing faster than advantage of tech allowing distributed work.

Or wealth is consolidating, and the network effects are about money and wealth, not about communication and cooperation per se.
oh and only Firefox... will update some time
Honestly? Yes. We support ES5 but strongly recommend using Typescript with Angular2. Do you use ES6? If so, you already know how to use Typescript.
The biggest gap in this discussion, thus far -- the elephant in the room, as it were: there's almost no room left on the planet for building "new" cities of any significant scale (meaning of course not just the meticulously designed city core; but the whole meta-city that will grow around it -- with suburbs, transportation links, etc).

Sure, there might be a few -- a very small few -- bona-fide brown zones here and there that are virtually depopulated and where one can more or less from scratch. But by and large, and realistically speaking, the real question is how to redesign and rethinking existing cities. Which conceptually speaking is a much harder question.

The other elephant in the room is the inevitability of massive forced dislocations of existing populations in these "failed" urban areas (or so they will be declared) -- perhaps on a scale never seen before (that is, outside of modern China or the early decades of the Soviet Union). And BTW, there's no getting around the term "forced" here -- no matter how you try to incentivize it, some people just aren't gonna want to uproot themselves (and destroy the organic connections they have made with others in their "failed" or "poorly optimized" communities) for the sake your grand vision, slide decks and TED talks.

It's either that -- or build out in the jungle somewhere. But of course (with the earnest suport of a certain very famous YC board member) we've been down that route already:

Honduras Shrugged
http://www.economist.com/node/21541391
This is a conundrum indeed, managing the line between what makes sense (economically or otherwise) and what's acceptable to an population. The coming wave of automation related job displacement is gonna make immigration related job loss look like a small thing.
I keep getting back to (forms of) basic income when thinking about how these scenarios would play out.
When cars and planes drive themselves and 3D printers are as good as Star Trek replicators, then maybe cities will be unnecessary. Until then, you will always need to live near the things you want - including friends.
It is a mistake to assume that because cities were the most efficient way to organize people in the past, they will continue to be so in the future. Given the trend towards remote work, socialization and shopping, there is a lot less of a need for density.

Instead of asking "how can we make the city of the future" we should instead be asking "how can we create a habitats for humans that promote happiness, health, harmony, and do so in a way that is economically and ecologically sustainable."

I believe that people are happier when they have a sense of connection and belonging in their community. Cities discourage this.

I believe people are happier in environments that feel more natural and alive. Cities discourage this too.

I believe people are happier when they have a sense of personal space and privacy. Another mark against cities.

Cities make efficient use of space, density lets you produce buildings cheaply in terms of living units/dollar, and they are more efficient in terms of distributing goods and services. I believe that alternative building techniques can mitigate much of the cost of reduced density. I also believe that by integrating permaculture based agriculture into the landscape design you can mitigate some of the efficiency losses in terms of distributing the most important good - food. You could further reduce the distributional inefficiency using a system of neighborhood based co-ops - I'm sure people would adapt to quite easily to the reduced selection of snacks and processed food.
Indeed.

It should confuse any reasonable person that despite the death-knell 'Leave' has meant to be to trade and immigration, it's supported by many powerful free-trade libertarian think-tanks. For example: the Hoover Institution [0], the Cato Institute [1], the Adam Smith Institute [2], etc.

For whatever reason nobody likes to admit that there are intelligent people with different beliefs to them.

[0] http://www.hoover.org/research/cautious-yes-brexit

[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/economic-development-bullet...

[2] http://www.adamsmith.org/evolution-not-revolution
What Happens When You Don't Let Women in Law Tech Raise Their Families?
The UK had the most Europ-skpetic vote in the EU Parliment - its something that Boris and his cornies never mention, they constantly got overruled since they were always against anything that allowed the EU project to move forward.

The UK will go on fine just like The republic of Congo is doing fine.

The EU for a long time has provided great boost in wealth for about 40 years. Its only due to the financial crisis that
things have not been really great lately.

However the European Project is much larger than any single nation state or generation of people. Given the change that has been happening over the last 50 years, do you think trade, movement of labor is going to decrease in the next 100 years ?

America is an economical powerhouse with 3/5 of Europe's population. Same goes for China. Even India has more clout when it it dealing with american companies since the consumer base has more value.

Europe has two paths, one is disintegration and one is faster and more united integration.

The important thing from the Perspective of British interest is that both path leads to Britain being a loser.

If the European Project fails then Britain is going to suffer as much as any other European country ( one of the reason why britain's foreign policy for 400+ years has been promoting continued stability in Europe )

And if Europe goes down a path of deeper integration the UK will be a competitor to a trading bloc that is essentially is a giant Star ( 15 Trillion vs 2 Trillion )

The EU also has plans for integration with Turkey, a country with the largest land army in Europe. As much as british people think of Turkey as a joke - its one of the fastest growing economy in the world.

Who do you think will have more leverage when forging trade deals with the middle east ? Turkey and Friends or the UK ?

The thing that most british people do not seem to realize is how small 55 million is - in a flat world of 7 billion people. It used to be different, but not anymore.
> I would be impressed with a tool to quickly design a web application in the same way Visual Basic did 25 years ago instead of talking about Bootstrap, Foundation, AngularJS, React, etc.

It's called ASP.NET Web Forms. Version 1 was released in 2002. Demos of it back then were quite impressive.
I remember seeing some video on civil engineering twenty years ago where they talking about how that was a major mistake they had learned from. Arteries just cause traffic jams, while permeable neighborhoods allow traffic to diffuse through it.
> Steam

"It says here you've been affiliated with a "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" where you were a terrorist.."
I think you may be missing an important part of how this guy communicates. Like many Brits, he's using someone else's label of himself in a semi-ironic way. He almost certainly acknowledges there's some truth to it, but doesn't wholly agree with it.
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In your experience, what metric(s) is(/are) the best indicators of product-market-fit (or lack of it)?
Infrastructure runs mostly on Linux. Just try finding a BSD based router.

It is indeed turtles all the way down. What is most unfortunate because Linux does not have the best security record around.
The situation in France is way worse that what can be seen in the media, 3 months of major strikes with even petrol shortage in half of the country, the president has only 13% support, the lowest of the 5th republic. They even had gunshots on the main building of the party.

The socialist party (equivalent of UK's labour) is dead as dead and I expect it to break into pieces as people are going to create new left parties. On the left side, the far left is almost guarantee to win. On the right side, the party is weak and polluted by internal fights and if they choose the wrong candidate, they are also dead.

The country is the most anti-EU country in Europe, even more than the UK, only Greece is toping France on that aspect. Although it's not for the same reasons as the UK.

The next election, only in April is going to be pretty intense.
I had stumbled upon this recently, and it kills me that these kinds of resources aren't more available. Even the few (outdated .mov) videos are extremely helpful.
I won't ask you how to identify these markets because I think it's fairly clear that it takes dedication, thoughtfulness, and experience.

I would like to ask if you believe there are many markets with unserved "hair on fire" customers. Are there thousands of these problems waiting to be solved? My intuition is that there are many people with hair on fire problems, but not many of those problems generalize to products that lots of people would want. What do you think?