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I live in NYC. I enjoy being able to take the subway to many world-class establishments in under 45 minutes.

If/when I have children, I'm getting the fuck out of here. Many (most?) people do the same.

There are huge numbers of people here, so of course there are lots of children here. They're either super wealthy, or really not living up to my standards for quality of life. (I was not raised in a big city.)

If you see lots of children around NYC, consider the case of cars. I don't have a car in the city, and no one I know does. But there's clearly many cars all over, more than can really fit in the roads and curbs and parking garages. Having a car in NYC is a huge pain in the ass. It's not a great car experience. Same with children.
Thanks for the tip! I've been using it for just a month or so, so I'm relatively inexperienced :). So far I've been only whitelisting youtube/vimeo CDNs and Cloudflare endpoints on a case-by-case basis.

I've learned some interesting things with uMatrix. Like, on Twitter page, the password field of the login box doesn't work unless you let the site download some script (the username box works fine)...
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It's a charming ideal that I think is vanishingly rare in real life. I also can't see how the hair on fire thing fits with any of the top startups and ex startups I know. In fact I dare say the rapidly rising user count is a separate story from the hair on fire story. The hair on fire tends to be a specialty business problem and still, against all reason, tends to require a pretty rigorous sales cycle. The problems I work on, making the medical record discrete data is of this kind. The other kind is more like Google, Facebook, Uber, AirBnB and those were surprises because no one's hari was on fire. We didn;t know we wanted that stuff until we saw it and then we wanted more and more.

In summary, I guess I disagree with the whole thing
> the other side of the coin

Not really - I didn't say "get rid of all the cars". He's creating a false dichotomy. Cars are fine for many things, but shouldn't be the top priority, but one of many ways of getting around.
> No more hierarchical/dendritic street layouts.

It's worth playing some Cities:Skylines (which has a fairly accurate traffic simulator, particularly with the Traffic++ mod) to understand how the road hierarchy came into being. Or, for that matter, trying to drive through a grid-based city like Manhattan or SF.

You get very large traffic jams. The problem is intersections, and particularly intersections where traffic backs up to the previous intersection. When this happens, a traffic jam tends to spread across the whole city; incoming traffic can't clear the bottleneck fast enough, so the bottleneck just grows like a cancer until it envelopes a whole neighborhood.

Oftentimes, the solution to a traffic problem is simply to bulldoze a few intersections. By doing this, you give cars a buffer. It increases the median trip length but it also increases vehicle speed and road throughput by more. It turns out that the major contributor to traffic jams is the acceleration of having to start/stop at traffic lights and when turning.

Self-driving cars (or just ubiquitous turn-by-turn navigation) could change this equation by intelligently routing cars around bottlenecks and avoiding the neighborhood entirely, but as long as drivers have imperfect information about traffic conditions and tend to take the shortest route to their destination, this will remain a problem.

(I've had great success with using pedestrian paths to provide cut-throughs between dead-ends and nearby intersections, though. And with providing pedestrian paths under or over those intersections so that people don't have to wait for stoplights to cross the street and don't stop traffic with their jaywalking. The game unfortunately has pretty terrible pathfinding for pedestrians and won't let you build compact staircases, so this limits their usefulness to real problem intersections, but in real life I think many suburban cities could drastically improve their walkability/bikeability just by building raised pedestrian footbridges over their major arterials.)
wonder how it all works. city pays for cars google keeps all the profits. local taxis and uber drivers go out of business...city planning at it's finest. People keep wondering why productivity isn't increasing with all the tech investment...The tech companies keep slurping it up in profits and sloshing it away overseas.
> I have never seen so many loud sore losers after an election in my life.

In some parts of the world, sore losers after an election start civil wars.
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Of course you can butcher the language in all uses-cases it's not suited for but hopefully you realize that sooner than later. A complex language(e.g c++) would put off most of the students(unless they are CS students). It seems the language is heavely trading large scale development features for its specific use case(see the comment about unit testing below) so hopefully it will become "impossible" to misuse it.
Care to enlighten us?
Have you ever taken a look at: "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science"

http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...
Oh man this is such a hard problem. There are many 'smart cities' built in EMEA region e.g. [1] that just haven't lived up to their hype.

It's tough because we don't yet know what to solve for. We don't understand the nature of city creation, what attracts people, how culture gets formed, how businesses and leisure activities pop-up. We don't know if things we perceive as problems are constraints that make the city thrive in unknown ways. We don't know if there's a significant amount of path dependency and sequencing that's appropriate.

To me, cities feel man-made because they're made of concrete, steel, and other metals. But they're a lot like an organism, competing against other cities and only keeping features which make them continue to thrive.

Super cool topic though and great on YC for opening research on the topic rather than proposing solutions. Best of luck to the team.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdo_International_Busines...
everyone wants competent 24/7 support, but nobody wants to pay for it.

smart people cost a lot of money, having them on call at any time of the day or night costs even more money.
Like when they removed Macros from Visual Studio because according to telemetry only 1% of users used them.
For writing production software, I have the same kind of concerns. Plus, what if you want do something more than simple unit tests (property based testing, concolic testing, etc) or if someone comes up with a better unit testing framework? You'll still have to setup those tests in a separate file, and then the in-line tests are just some unused feature of the language.

However, for educational purposes, I think it's actually a compelling idea. My perspective is that while unit tests are a great idea, each unit test only provides marginal value. Thus, unit tests need to be as easy and natural to write as possible or developers won't do it.

Habits, like writing code that doesn't need much mocking, definitely makes TDD easier, but that often comes after habituating oneself to TDD. For students, I think getting them as early as possible to write unit tests would be a big win. Putting the tests right there in the code with no need to set up test infrastructure or learn a separate test framework will be helpful.
But I am picky about location which is why I wrote my post.

"move to college town with a large student population and good science programs"

Scranton doesnt fit the bill.
As a web dev I'm definitely in favor of keeping people updated. However, MS should never never never fucking never interrupt somebody to force an upgrade.
As expected, given the title, this[0] lecture by Vonnegut is mentioned in the article.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
I wonder if Google can/will be held to the same scrutiny for automatically upgrading Chrome?
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This commentor is definitely not proposing traditional suburbs. Integrated permaculture would mean living in an edible garden for one.

I agree that we need more local control of food, the American diet is killing and sickening more people than tobacco ever did.

The incentive is to hack our brains with foods that activate reward centers, rather than helping people to live healthy lives through nutritious food.
Check out Processing.org

You might be able to sketch something up fairly easily. It's a code-based visualizer/interactivity used mainly for art but I imagine it'd be easy to plug in some algorithms to mimic QM.
Updated! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Well, if you could send it into semi-exile but keep the tax receipts? Seems like something that's worth exploring, anyhow ...
Another sad example of pirates having it better than us legitimate users.
You really need to check up on what 3rd world country life style is. I used to live in Munich on a 45k wage and while I wasn't living in a huge flat in a posh area, I made a comfortable living. Granted, that's been a while ago, but even now my cousin as a policeman in Munich is far far from anything even resembling 3rd world. And he's certainly not earning 60k.
In 2014, Facebook made a famous post (https://www.facebook.com/notes/mike-develin/debunking-prince...) mocking researchers for using Google Trends data as evidence it would die.

I made a comment along the lines of this a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828295) when people cited Google Trends as statistical evidence people were looking for a Reddit alternative in light of the controversy back then.

Google Trends is fun for snarky Tweets, but I'm still seeing it used to prove points in startup blogs, which is a problem.
But it doesn't break down other cities in a similar fashion. Metro London is absolutely huge, it's larger than all of those listed cities (plus San Jose) combined.
Don't get too depressed; the value of real estate has been falling for 100 years relative to business equity and other productive assets, and most real estate assets are hugely leveraged today. I somewhat doubt a lot of the debt capital, which is optimized for relatively predictable payouts over long timeframes (with good reason -- this stuff funds pensions and universities) would shift to funding higher-productivity assets if given the chance.

Ultimately, you have to realize that not everyone in the world has the appetite for the kind of high-risk, high-return sort of lifestyle and pursuits that YC founders and partners do/did. A large swath of the population is content to earn their 2-3%/year on real estate, which when levered 3:1 or 4:1, gets up to 10-12%/year, which is a pretty good return in the world of non-VC/non-SV investing.

Source: Piketty's Capital in the 21st century
So pointing a loaded pistol at a clerk while robbing a store is then not using the firearm?
I'd like to see a more conventional bug-reporting scheme. The 'issue' mechanism is too confusing for typical users, because it presents all sorts of items that are unrelated to bug reporting, and it's ugly for developers, because so much of the browser screen area is taken up with whitespace and trivia.

It would be nice if the github site permitted users to set themes, including some that are substantially thinned-out.
European SUPERSTATE to be unveiled: EU nations 'to be morphed into one'
I can't watch the video right now. But I can confirm that one can define what it means for a surreal number to be smaller than another surreal number in a meaningful way: So that the surreal numbers are totally ordered (for any two surreal numbers a and b, either a < b or a = b or a > b) and that the usual expected rules for transforming inequalities hold (for instance that the "<" sign reverses when multiplying with a negative number).

This total order is also very useful. Namely one can associate surreal numbers to positions of a large class of two-player games. The sign of the associated surreal number (whether it's positive, zero, or negative) then tells you which player possesses a winning strategy. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Application_to_... for more information on this point.
A Windows update broke Quickbooks for our entire org over the weekend. Happens more often than you would think. A few months back a Windows update broke Outlook for half our team.
Most cars don't have people in them most of the time. Its the design of the city to store all of these empties that seems... suboptimal.
The chemistry of 30 years ago was different - much more work was done rigorously air-free or under high vacuum. Today there's a much greater focus on the life sciences. Indeed, one supplier changed its name from Chemglass to Chemglass-Lifesciences some ten years back.

That said, access to a glassblower is an infrastructure problem. When you need to consult with one about design of a piece of equipment there's no alternative, and when the guy is in-house turnaround is faster and friction is lower. The difference is: thirty years ago more people in the chemistry department had use for the glassblower, the cost would be spread wider, the budget item would be easier to justify.

Someone mentioned secretaries in this thread. Every faculty member used to employ one for typing, travel arrangements &c. Nowadays everyone types their own manuscripts and books their own travel, so it's difficult to make the case for an assistant. But when a conference comes up and the task to make arrangements for ten speakers falls on one member of faculty you really see why personal assistants are vital infrastructure.

Another funny thing: the majority of labglass factories is located in New Jersey because of the pharma cluster in that state. Pharma has moved out, and likely we'll see closings in the decade ahead.
I believe you can use PostgreSQL with Dapper, as there is an ADO provider for PG, but I haven't tried this.

https://github.com/StackExchange/dapper-dot-net#will-dapper-...
The research phase won't be that expensive.

If we built one it would require $tens of billions of capital, but we have some interesting ideas about how you might finance it.
npgsql is the open-source default driver for PostgreSQL and works with .NET core (netstandard 1.3):

https://github.com/npgsql/npgsql
(Anyone who's seen The World's End with Simon Pegg et al has seen what the UK 'Garden Cities' look like -- the big rectangular drag with all the pubs on it is Welwyn Garden City's town centre)
I'm glad this was written and has more historical examples than just Brexit.

I could imagine a good portion of the questions could be originating from students. If a large political or economic event happens, it's not unlikely for classrooms teachers to task their students to understand what's happening. Search is the obvious first step for that.

Even more broadly, and in line with the article, extrapolating from a single coarse data point is a Bad Idea™.
Because they compress the video before sending it over IP. Nothing fancy, just M-JPEG which is basically the same thing as taking a screenshot of the video every nth of a second and saving it as a high-quality JPEG (probably around 95% quality rating).

The screenshot in the video suggests 1000fps but that figure is highly dubious. It is much more likely to be 30 or 60fps on a cheap HDMI->IP converter like this.
See my bit elsewhere in this thread about Japan - small slow streets need less or even no use segregation. Part of the equation is that small streets discourage fast driving, but also when walking/biking on those small streets becomes the 'new normal', drivers will tend to be extra cautious, expecting slow bikes or walkers anywhere
Silicon Valley is ...nice...in certain areas...but overall, I don't like the US way of planning living areas - seems like that unless you have a lot money, you'll be living in some endless suburban sprawl and commuting 90 minutes to work in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

I know pay in Berlin must be lower compared to that in the Valley, but what's life in Berlin like if you're in software?

How's the job situation, relative pay, quality of life? Does anyone regret living there? How are the locals treating you?

I have an EU passport and already speak a little bit of German, if that matters....
My thought as well. If you have sneak in and force your users to upgrade, your doing something wrong.

And everyone frames this upgrade tactic like it's good for the user. In reality, this is good for MS, and it happens to have some benefits for the user. Lets quit acting like MS is being altruistic here.
Recompression via a lossy algorithm probably
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy4QjmKzF1c
No, pointing any firearm at a clerk would be assault (with a weapon), whether or not it was loaded. If I told you that I went to a shooting range and used my gun, what would you think? That I'd pointed it at stuff? If I said that I went out onto the street and used my rifle, you would not surmise that I had looked over the iron sights.

note: I do not own a firearm
Why Did the UK Enter the EU in the First Place?
bikes in summer, cross country skis in winter
Probably because the data is US-centric. So they will break out neighboring American cities into several 10-100sq mi. chunks but leave European cities that are 600sq mi. in tact.
Even dismissing the windows is considered "yes, upgrade". That way beyond sneaky, that's just black pattern.
I'm choosing an extreme case to demonstrate the point. The same thing applies in a city. Take a city road and fill it with people walking. The throughput will be huge. The latency will suck, and you will not want to go a long distance, even intra-city, that way.

Why do you think so many people choose to drive their own car, when given the choice? It's not because throughput sucks and they just want to stick it to the man.
Too many people conflate what "globalism" (of the E.U. variety) has become with the libertarian program of open borders and free trade. The E.U. is a long march towards political unification. That's why you have libertarians who (rightly) oppose it.
The middle-class seems to be something tied to a different era, of industrialization and lifetime jobs. The dwindling middle-class may have more to do with our changing work behavior and desires, than it does cost of living?
It depends on if you want to run ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework 4.6 or on .NET Core 1.0. It's not just the SDK that is new, Core console apps are pretty recent too, as previously it was mainly for web apps.
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> Why is it okay that my iOS and Android devices essentially require an update several times a year but not my PC OS?

In my case, two points come to mind, for me. First: My phone isn't as important as my PC. It's just a convenience. If the update ruins something, I can always re-flash to a clean image, and the phone'll automatically re-sync most of my stuff. Or I can grab the spare from the drawer. Or buy a cheap-o replacement for $50 or so. Second: My PC's set up to support almost 30 years worth of software and a couple different OSes, with some weird hardware configurations. It's a much more complex system. Several things will break during a major upgrade.

> Didn't XP teach us all a lesson about locked in/legacy software and it's danger to the security and stability of modern computing?

Sure. Stick it behind a firewall and don't go questionable places online. Reboot to Linux if you really feel like you need to ;-) My Windows XP machines work just fine, thank you very much!
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You just provided a link to UCSF, a government-funded public university [1], to prove your point that the government didn't fund the development of neurosurgery?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California#Histo...
>"Leave campaign have no plan".

The reality here is the EU doesn't discuss alternatives to staying in the EU, so there's nothing to say until negotiations are well underway. That's fine, the UK has a powerful economy and will just negotiate like every other nation outside the EU does. Is the USA and China hurting for not being EU members? The larger economies have more sway, if anything not being in the EU means a better deal for the UK.

I'm starting to see this the way I saw Communism in the late 80s. The cracks are showing. I don't think these trans-national unions will ever truly work. People want autonomy, have their own identity, have their own politics, and don't want to be bullied by Moscow/Brussels.

Its clear the leftist Europeans made the EU into way much more than it needed to be. All the social issues are now center to it instead of it being a economic participation and common currency to help facilitate business. I hope its not too late to reform before it goes away. Losing 60m people and a $2.6t GDP is a serious loss to the EU. The idea that the UK, who historically has a strong economy and military, will suffer but the EU won't is laughable.

Heck, the EU is still signing checks to millions of Greek pensioners who worked maybe 25 years at do-nothing government jobs and retired at 50 and who will live to be 75-80, being on a pension longer than they've worked! As a Greek-American, I see this stuff first-hand when i visit my motherland. Of course the English are sick of paying for the corrupt EU nations who know how to game the system. How could you not be? Toss in unfettered immigration and its a miracle the EU is even in one piece right now.

I think history will see this a shrewd move, the same way we see Thatcher keeping the pound instead of the Euro as shrewd. The EU might make sense as a French-German-Italian dominated economic forum with smaller member nations getting sweetheart deals from them, but as-is its too expansionist, too ambitious, too tolerant of corruption, and too distracted by non-economic issues. I could certainly see it turning into a G7-like format that removes all the social/immigration stuff and focuses just on economic development.

edit: I prefer replies to drive-by downvotes. HN is very liberal and as such any remotely conservative or moderate view isn't welcome but you guys can at least try to argue your point here.
I don't think graphite is abrasive.
I think that was targeted towards 20somethings that don't have a wife/kids yet. Obviously, a start-up with extra baggage is an entirely different ballgame.
but when chrome does it, its awesome
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IMO Toronto's system is not so great, especially for a city its size. A city that size (especially one with as much congestion!) should have a comprehensive subway system (see Barcelona for a great example), not a measly 2.5 lines.

Sure, downtown the transit is pretty good, but move outside of that, and things aren't all there.
I'm reminded of an article by David Pogue, who used to write the back page column in MacWorld back in the '90s. One issue, he introduced a lexicon of terms he invented that he felt the computer industry should adopt.

One of them was "corrupgrade", which was defined as something billed as an upgrade but was actually worse than the old version. It's still the only one of those terms I remember, just because it's so useful.
> for a surreal number to be smaller than another surreal number in a meaningful way

By definition! He was discussing ordering a mix e.g. π-sn, π, π+sn, π+smallestRealNumber.
I don't disagree, but HN can merely add to existing law with their self-built city; they're not going to be able to negate existing country/state/province law, so why would they need to fit all law within 100 pages?

Find the locality that already meets your needs closest, iterate from there.