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See, this is what fascinates me. I don't think it's that Trump supports are "unfazed by his racism and xenophobia". I think it's that they don't see it as racism and xenophobia. After all (playing devil's advocate)...

Trump has never mentioned race negatively. Mexican is not a race (it's a country). Muslim is not a race (it's a religion).

Trump's comments on immigration, trade, or terrorism doesn't come from a dislike of people from other countries, but a desire to put American citizens first. This might be what you want from an American President.

So your "racist xenophobe" is someone else's "nationalist leader".

But name-calling tamps down reasonable discourse in all cases. (And Trump is as guilty of this as anyone, but certainly not the sole offender.) Going up to a Trump supporter and saying, "Hi you racist xenophobe, want to have a level-headed discussion on nationalism and human rights?" doesn't work so well.

The profoundly negative coverage of Trump is doing as much to explain his success as anything else. It causes people to shut down. And it's not healthy for anyone.
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You are suggesting S&P = mega bank? S&P is more like the "What Hi-Fi?" of finance...
If the choice is between driving to the store 1x a week vs 7x a week, then you have an excellent point, but if the choice is between driving 1x a week and walking 5-7x a week, in the long run the latter is much better for my health, and it replaces time I spend on the treadmill in the gym.
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And also probably a lot of job fields that existed then, that do not exist today considering the Industrial Age was on its way to hitting its peak in the following years.
Um, do you have any idea what "let it burn" is going to look like, in terms of human suffering? And those on the short end of the stick currently are likely to get more than their fair share of that suffering.

So I cannot agree with you. Bad as things are, they'd have to be a lot worse for "let it burn" to be an appropriate response.
2014. You can get some info from the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

Most interesting being the layman explanation: "Vantablack is composed of a forest of vertical tubes which are "grown". When light strikes vantablack, instead of bouncing off, it becomes trapped and is continually deflected among the tubes, eventually becoming absorbed and dissipating into heat."

I'd love to see someone walking around in a bodysuit made out of this stuff (although I have no idea if it's flexible enough).
Yes, you can reverse it on Windows. I should know, Windows 10 activated 'natural' scrolling on my touchpad when I upgraded. I'm really not sure why.
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I got the map out the last time I was in the car. Far quicker than waiting for my phone to get a GPS lock.
Are you another support drone or a manager?

I have contacted the support desk many times and you guys have lackluster support.

Some of the support team don't seem to grasp simple business terms, nor understand the different types of business out there.

I know the devs on HN lavish you guys with praise because you are flavor of the month right now and have the mantra, by developers for developers.

But honestly. You guys are a JOKE.
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I really don't see a problem with with him "skimming" a few bucks off me. Its a tiny reward (4%? 8%?) for information, and it doesn't increase the price for me either.
If the city doesn't appear at all, then it either didn't have any startups associated with, or was in the middle somewhere.
> Because we paid for their OS and expect it to be supported ?

The upgrade is free. You are being supported. You can choose not to upgrade (and I think you're wrong, but it is your choice). What I don't understand the mindset behind "no, I won't upgrade, but I want a bunch of feature-change patches without making me upgrade" (as with the assertion that the auto-restart logic could/should be changed for Windows 7, not Windows 8).
> While some Brexitors are racist xenophobes, not all are

And the ones that are should not be called racist xenophobes because they they voted leave and the other 50.99% might get upset about the association?
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"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

I would absolutely say these things face to face, because I believe them to be true. I'm happy to go into detail on the first comment, and the second is hyperbolic metaphor. You've seen "Wall Street"? I don't think it's so far off from the truth here.

Also, the "downvoted" comment was less a cliche, but more an acknowledgement based on previous experience. I'm happy to engage in deeply rational discussion around issues like basic income, the automation problem, and the issues specific to the Bay Area, but my comments keep getting downvoted far below the fold.

That said, do you have any direct responses? :)
My understanding (I don't keep old OSes around so I can't test) is that Automatic Updates settings are still honored. Is this incorrect?

Past that, is there a reason that system should be connected to the Internet in the first place?
Do not compare an a paid OS I run a business on which upgrade one entire version, force rebooting, freezing my machine and introducing incompatibilities and spywares with
an free opensource browser that I can merely swap with any competitor at a click of a button in my start menu.

I don't run my main source of income on Firefox or Android. I didn't pay a licence for a browser or a phone OS. I can't find a quick alternative as quickly for my dev laptop as I can for those.

Hopefully I got a dual boot and make sure I don't boot Windows anymore, otherwise it would be really dangerous, as I could be giving a training and suddenly get my machine locked for some undesired upgrade in from of my customers.
I think everyone can have their own perspective on what a defining problem is. If you're straight and white, wealth inequality is a problem. If you're not, then I beg to differ on what the defining problem is.

If you can't at least try to see issues from other people's perspectives, then that's your main problem.
One of the things I thought Windows 8 did really right was trying to instill into applications the lifecycle that they could be force closed/rebooted at any time and should be good at saving and restoring state across application starts. This is good beyond just system restarts and good in general to know that applications would typically come back to where you left off after the system losing connectivity or going to sleep or unloading an application to save memory/CPU while you aren't actively using it.

The complaints about this lifecycle model from app developers is that is hard to program for. Windows 8 was also strict enough forcing this lifecycle (closing out applications sometimes seconds after minimizing and attempting to restore them quickly on window restore) that it showed how bad developers can be at programming hard things like proper app lifecycle management, so they begged Windows to be less strict about it.

(That was one of the magic things about Windows 8 that Windows 10 doesn't quite replicate: minimizing a properly built application and watching the application's memory and CPU usage quickly drop to zero.)
I lived in a building that had an exclusive deal with AT&T. Problem was they were out of "connections," and couldn't hook me up. I only had my cellphone hotspot for months, until I threatened to write a letter to the FCC and CPUC about their "monopolistic" practices in my building. They got a tech out the next day.
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Only assuming that the benefit gained from firing the employee the day before they vest outweighs the cost of bringing on a new employee.

Which probably comes down to the position.
The other thing I think Philadelphia has going for it is that rising water levels from global warming won't affect it as much as they will affect cities right on the ocean, or islands like Manhattan. The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers will rise, but the city won't be hit as hard as the coastal cities.
MinuteDock (https://MinuteDock.com) was just me until last year - scaled up a couple of staff to try grow faster :-) still bootstrapped and profitable!

Also the guys at Quotientapp.com are just 2 dudes bootstrapped - and multiple times bigger than MinuteDock.

World's your oyster - it's a hard slog just grow slow and steady and you'll get there.
Yet in the Brexit case, there was a ton of money on the Remain side, too. So...
The situation is even worse in Vancouver. [1][2]

This is a city with Manhattan rents, paid for by Cincinnati salaries... Amid a desparate shortage of housing.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouve...

[2] https://affordablevancouver.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/airb...
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>I'd be curious about alternate land-ownership structures or incentives that make people view housing more as a service than as a good store of value. I don't know what that might mean in practice, but the idea itself seems important to me.

Look no further than the BLM and leasing on public lands. Grazing, etc.
I used Gentoo for a very long time (2005-ish to 2009 or so) and tried Arch, too, both back then (after I, uh, toasted a power supply compiling packages for five days straight) and more recently, about a year ago. It's a very good approach, but far too high-maintenance for my taste. During my (latest) short stint with Arch, I became a walking bug tracker. Stick to Adwaita because everything else breaks, don't do that in a KDE app because it crashes, try to reboot my computer only to find out it's stuck in a loop because some process can't notify some other process through D-Bus...

There's a bunch of stuff that doesn't work on Debian, either, but at least it's the same stuff for about a year or so.

Nowadays I get to write Linux software at work so I get all the bleeding-edge stuff there, and dealing with the latest and greatest breakage is part of my everyday job. I have no desire to do it at home, too.

Edit: plus, to put it bluntly, it's really no longer fun. When I said goodbye to Windows, back in nineteen-ninety-something, I did it to get away from the mind-boggling complexity and uncustomizable blackbox blurb on my hard drive.

Nowadays, it's an order of magnitude more complex; some of it is unwarranted and much of it just isn't reliable. Windows' and OS X's isn't, either, but at least it's nicely tucked away behind an interface that works, so you're not exposed to the crap underneath. I spend a lot more time wrestling with my computer than I'd like to.

I can mostly navigate through this whole maze of thisandthatkit and systemd-everything, largely because I'm exposed to it for eight hours a day, whether I want it or not, and have seen it being developed. But I don't think it's sustainable, and I have a feeling I'm going to call it quits one day.
How does that invalidate anything I said? All it really points out is that both sides had lots of money invested, and one of the sides didn't get the anticipated outcome. This happens every election in the US due to the two party system.
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But that's not the point. The European Commission and European Parliament can, together, make laws directly binding on British citizens. But in making those laws, those bodies are required to consider not just the welfare of British citizens, but the EU as a whole.

Which brings me back to my question: is it racist and xenophobic for the British not to want to be governed by people who owe allegiances to people besides the British?
This is a called a binomial process. We want to estimate the true proportion of exits for a given city. A city has x exits out of n trials, so one estimate of this proportion is just x/n. However, if you have a bunch of cities like this list, you're going to have cities that by random chance end up with a fraction close to 1. That doesn't mean that startups there are guaranteed to succeed. It means if you flip a coin 5 time, and replicate it 1000 times, you're doing to have some runs of 5 heads, and some runs of 5 tails. If you kept going, you would find the proportion approaching 1/2 (for a coin) for all cases.

So the problem is how you compare a city with 5/6 exits like Branford, CT USA with 143/208 like Mountain View. Is Branford that much better because 5/6 > 143/208 ? Mostly all you know is that the error in your estimate is much larger for Branford than for Mountain View, because your value of n is 6 vs 208. You can't say with statistical confidence that Branford is better.

So one trick to punish the little n locations is to do some smoothing. Laplace smoothing is to add 1 for all outcomes, so 1 success to x and one failure, meaning we add 2 to n. That also means that nothing gets exactly to 0.0 or 1.0. The odds in Saint Petersburg Russia aren't really 0.0 because the were 0/11. There is some chance you could succeed, so it gives you a better estimate of "unseen events".

The next thing you want to do is look at confidence intervals, rather than our point estimate of x/n or even (x+1)/(n+2). There are a number of formulas you can use, I used one built into R, a statistical modelling language. This gives you a lower and upper bound on your true estimate of the proportion. If the bounds is exact, then 95% of the time the interval will contain this true, unknown proportion.

The bounds on my smoothed counts are:

x+1 n+2 lb x1/n2 ub
Mountain View, CA USA 144 209 0.621 0.689 0.751
Branford, CT USA 6 7 0.421 0.857 0.996
Los Angeles, CA USA 56 180 0.244 0.311 0.384

So the true estimate of Mountain View is somewhere between 0.621 to 0.751, while Branford CT is between 0.421 and 0.996. Since these estimates overlap, we can't really say one is better than the other. Also consider LA, which has range of 0.244 to 0.384. Since 0.384 < 0.421, we could say that LA has a worse exit ratio than either Brandford or Mountain View, with 95% confidence.

To sort, it is often good to be conservative and use the lower bound. I used a 95%, which is good for saying Branford is better than LA, but might be a bit large for sorting. You could use a 90% or even 80% interval for that, if desired.

It is really crucial to take into account what you don't know when comparing fractions based on different values of n.

Hope this helps...
As far as I'm concerned the worst aspect of Windows 10 are the forced updates for "unmetered" Internet connection users. As it happens, many of us have wired connections that we pay through the nose for, and as long as MS won't give me an option to control the download of potentially massive updates, I'll continue sticking to my current 8.1. If this is back-ported to 8.1, I'll wipe my last install of Windows and go full-time Linux. MS has no business Forcing me to download stuff that I end-up paying for. The same goes for telemetry that will also presumably consume some fraction of my paid-for bandwidth.
i am eagerly awaiting a good linux command line implementation, at which point i will embrace the "put pyret in all the things" revolution. it's a beautifully designed language.
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I have ratted out two places in my South Granville apartment building that were permanent AirBNB's. My place is good value, and well run, and I believe someone should have the chance to live in it.
Well, if all you ever do is winning "world" championships…

Baseball, (American) Football, Basketball, … I guess coming in fourth does feel crushing.
I don't know if you're from the UK or not, but I'll assume for the moment that you're not... In the UK system, you vote for members of parliament (MP for short) that represent your local area. The majority of MPs have party affiliations, so in principal you vote based on both the local candidate and the party that you want to rule the country (in practice many people know diddly squat about their local MP and vote purely on party affiliation). So long as a party reaches past a set number of MPs in order to reach a parliamentary majority, the leader of that party becomes the prime minister.

In principal, as people are voting for the best combination of MP candidate and party that suits them, there's no need for a new election to decide the new prime minister as the Conservatives still hold the parliamentary majority. In practice, as most people know very little about their MPs and are voting based on the personality and perceived competency of the party leader (and/or identification with the principals of the party), there will be people calling for a new general election.

I didn't vote for the Conservatives, and I'd like to see Labour take their place, but now is not the right time to do so. Not only have we got the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, there's also a civil war going on in the Labour party, which is likely to get worse when the report from the Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war is released next week. We need stability right now, new UK elections can wait until 2020.

Also, the leader of each party is voted for by the members of that party, and anyone can become a member of a party by paying a small membership fee. If you care about who is the leader of a particular party, you do have the choice to have a say in it.
Personally, I was hoping it was an article giving me an excuse to pursue 10 years of intense exercise and outdoor adventure.
Not a mathematician, but Wikipedia says the following:

> In mathematics, the surreal number system is an arithmetic continuum containing the real numbers as well as infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number. The surreals share many properties with the reals, including a total order ≤ and the usual arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division); as such, they form an ordered field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
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against Java --

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against Node.js --

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against Python --

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> the left, who used to represent the working class

Commentators on the margins of the US left have recognized this problem, and been calling it out, for at least a decade - Joe Bageant, just to pick an example off the top of my head, was a powerful and persuasive voice on the subject, but for some reason, even as he achieved international prominence outside the US, he became ever more marginalized within.

(Edited to add: Somebody elsewhere in this thread linked a Mark Ames piece in which he says the same thing. If even Mark Ames, whose major claim to fame is a multi-year exploration of street-level prostitution in newly post-Communist Russia, can see that it's a problem...)
It's about SF and on Medium.
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I think a 10 year exercise window makes them much more valuable. Now instead of being faced with a decision of whether or not to spend thousands of dollars when leaving a company that I'll very likely never see again I can now defer that decision. Right now my options are to not exercise and risk kicking myself in the future if the company makes it, or exercising knowing that I'm very likely throwing my money away.
Don't know about that[1] but Skype founders were Swedish & Danish and Estonia is close by.

[1] "consist of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_countries
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Right...I've lived in Vienna and Berlin for over a decade (including a wife and child) and we never owned a car, and generally popped into the nearest supermarket for fetching backpack-sized loot every couple of days.

It's not really an inconvenience.
If you're interested in trying out BCPL on your own machine the inventor of the language, Martin Richards, maintains a working environment/compiler[0]. I've gotten it up and running on both Ubuntu and OS X. The readme is structured in a way that makes it kinda hard to follow so I wrote down some instructions[1] for my future self after I figured it out.

C was my first programming language and several years ago I became acquainted with ALGOL 68. I'd never seen BCPL before a few months ago. It's rather interesting how, from the perspective of someone born well after its creation, it is very clearly the link between the ALGOL family and C. I'm sure that's rather obvious to programmers who were around in the mid to late 60's but for me personally it was a lot like discovering a missing link.

[0]: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/BCPL.html

[1]: https://gist.github.com/seaneshbaugh/e09abd748ccc07c5463f253...
Isn't the Mesa compiler for the Alto available? If you have that, there's no need to write in in the British Cruddy Programming Language. BCPL was written as a tool for bootstrapping compilers. It's one notch above a structured assembler. The only type that BCPL supports is the 16-bit word.

Mesa, on the other hand, is a good language.
Yes. It's bad when Microsoft does it this way because it's opt-out. IntelliJ/Android Studio prompts you and asks you your preference first. I think Eclipse is opt-in but could be mistaken.
Cute, but ultimately a waste of time and cognitive drain.

Also, shops pitching for "hungry developers" are generally best avoided.
that's sad. beside, internet archive respect robots retroactively, so there's that.
In cities with not enough housing (like, say, SF), then someone generally is forced to live there since alternative options may be slim to none.
Encourage your qualified friends to apply for jobs at the company, get through to the offer stage, then decline the offer for that reason.
Unity definitely has an office in Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://unity3d.com/jobs
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"my cluster is unresponsive" is not straightforward at all. in fact it's the vaguest, most un-straightforward kind of problem you could have.

one of the interview questions i ask is "a customer calls in and said their system is unresponsive. what do you do?"

this will weed out a bullshitter 99% of the time, because the potential problem domain is the entire OSI stack, across the open internet, and also could be potentially on the customer side, which is most likely also a complex setup.

if you want someone who can actually fix the problem to help you, it's going to cost a lot of money. one of these people is six figures. now imagine a whole team of them, 3 shifts a day, every single day, forever.
Downtown Chicago comes pretty close with subway on the lowest level, trucks and commuter rail above that, and cars/pedestrians on the surface. There is also a large network of pedestrian tunnels which is useful in winter (and when coming from aforementioned commuter trains).

And until 2003, there was even an airstrip only 2mi from downtown.
I agree with you. The apartment I recently moved into made it clear up front that hey had an exclusive cable and wireless provider. But the cost of the service is bundled into my rent. It's a great apartment in a great location and still cheaper than other apartments around so I decided I didn't care that much about choosing my own provider. It's not ideal and I thinks it's a shady practice, but I'm willing to live with it for a year or two.