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Thoughtful critique / history of Smart Cities. Adam Greenfield's book 'Against the Smart City (The city is here for you to use)' is required reading for anyone interested in the topic.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626431-against-the-smar...
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Do you know why it takes too long? Because it's illegal to build things that people need on a day-to-day basis near where they live in large swaths of the US.

Some people want their car-centric lifestyle, and hey, that's fine too (as long as they're paying for it); I think the problem is that it's simply not a choice for many people due to the central-planning style zoning regulations entrenched in much of the country.
>> This device happily decodes HDCP.

If used as intended will it allow an HDCP source to show on a non-HDCP display? Because stupid AppleTV won't allow "protected" content to display on mt main TV because it doesn't support HDCP, and if you buy something on iTunes you don't find out until you've already purchased it. DRM is driving me away from services like that and I'd rather just stop using them than buy another TV.
So...

You can't eat when you're hungry, because you don't keep food at home.

A huge portion of your week is suddenly devoted to shuttling back and forth between home and the grocery store.

And you think that's not a massive inconvenience?
For the record, Linux does not do this, and it is an operating system.
Apple’s Craig Federighi explains the built-in security features of Auto-Unlock
That's terrifying. Why are inbound calls dependent on a Windows machine at all?
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Attention Economics, the Digital Age, and Nature Connectedness
It’s a $3.99 kindle book written by a career political blogger. Imagine the amazon reviews as the comments on a newspaper site.
First startup powered by osquery gets funded
Yeah, like Sao Paolo.
Inlined formatting commands could be recognised and skipped, just like the //-comments.
It does not; it uses the same JIT and GC as the Windows version of .NET Core, and the code is also shared with the (full) .NET Framework that ships inside Windows.

Actually, this has always been the case for .NET Core, but you may be thinking of our older preview versions which gave you the option to run your app entirely on mono.

(I work on .NET at Microsoft)
Cars or bikes are great because vehicle + roads = a fairly robust network [if done well, no single points of failure].

That's not usually the case for public transit.

[Agreed about real estate. Although dense cities are very eco-friendly, it might be hard to motivate dense cities when real estate isn't super expensive. Manhattan grows upward because it's expensive to grow any other direction]
>That's all people can ever come up with.

This isn't true. [1] highlights handful of crypto problems in Telegram (besides it's being being opaque af).

>non-compliance with any government requests

How can you now?

>not being a legal entity in privacy-invasive countries

I've actually LOLed at this point. Telegram is developed in Saint-Petersburg, Russia; are you really sure that it's not a "privacy-invasive country"?

>which can make no claims on Telegram's chats or even metadata

The problem with Telegram is that passive snooping is enough to get that metadata. Given that Telegram servers are mostly outside of the US, it's a fair game for NSA to listen for Telegram metadata.

>the reason is efficient device synchronization

Already done in Signal.

>you are blowing it way out of proportion

"The market leader" didn't claim that it's all "secure" and "encrypted".

>none have actually broken the algorithm

See [1]. It was broken many times.

>Telegram added a bounty of $200 000

…under totally ridiculous and unrealistic restrictions. See comments here [2] for some context.

>neither has the Signal protocol been proven to be secure

It was to the large extent [3].

>they used existing building blocks (SHA1, AES, DH) to form a new protocol

If anything, recent security breaks shown us that it is very, very easy to combine secure building blocks in unsecure manner. Which is exactly what was done in Telegram case.

>that has stood the test of time so far

It hasn't [1].

>If anyone is opaque it's Whatsapp with their closed-source clients

A: Telegram is opaque and you can't trust it

B: Whatsapp is even more opaque!!!

Can you see how B can't be a counterargument to A?

>at the time Telegram came out with MTProto, there was no such thing as the Signal Protocol

There was, it was called "Axolotl ratchet protocol" [4]

It seems that your most basic assumption for this comment are wrong. Please reconsider your worldview re: Telegram.

[1]: http://cs.au.dk/~jakjak/master-thesis.pdf

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457

[3]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf

[4]: https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
People tend to say the same thing about marriage. They say "when you know, you know". Not extremely helpful information. However, you can optimize for that scenario by dating as many people as you can. If you go on 3 dates a week for 6 months, thats 75 dates of worthwhile info you can use to get closer to that objective.
If I'm an experienced Python developer who develops a lot of websites and APIs using Django or Flask and SQLAlchemy, is there any reason to try this stuff? C# is a great language, but what about the libraries? What replaces Flask? What replaces SQLAlchemy? How do I deploy? Looking for some practical reasons to invest time on this if Windows development is not in my roadmap.
> I take it that you don't use a smartphone, either, since you have no way of knowing what is transmitted either, either by the primary OS or the secondary radio OS.

You know, two wrongs do not make one right.

> Or macOS (nee OS X), since Apple gathers telemetry as well.

In OSX, sending telemetry and crash reports is voluntary. It is being asked in the OOB wizard and is easily available in the Settings application.

In consumer SKUs of Windows 10, that's not the case, sending telemetry is mandatory.

> Paranoid or not, telemetry is already everywhere without you knowing what's being sent and it's here to stay.

Too early to say. It may also break Microsoft's neck.

> Singling out Windows is ridiculous.

Biggest target. They have a great opportunity to lead by example - in the positive way.
What is Kodi?

Kodi® (formerly known as XBMC™) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.

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Seems like a Plex replacement?
Again, look at it from the perspective of a user or system administrator rather than a kernel developer. Yes, someone has to remove a bunch of easily searched for and removed code and rerun their test suite but that's a handful of people for a very small amount of time compared to the number of people involved with something which will make a major change on hundreds of millions of running systems. More critically, the development work is completely under Apple's control and shipping can be delayed as long as it takes to complete testing but once they ship a filesystem it will very quickly reach the point where it will be in the wild for years even if they immediately ship a new release which takes a different direction.

The question isn't whether Apple will force this on users soon or without notice but rather the observation that they're going to be very careful not to do this more often than actually necessary. That's why despite having implemented and shipped ZFS in the 10.5 beta series they removed it prior to release. Sure, it might have gone okay but if that changed later there would be no easy way to go back without forcing users to migrate existing data and if that hit a licensing/patent case, the other side's lawyers enjoy the extra leverage which that would give them.

As an aside, “There are many filesystems in the kernel” is technically true but misleading: HFS+/HFSX is used constantly on every device, FAT/ExFAT are used regularly by many users, and everything else is a rounding error. A few Mac users use NFS or SMB, even fewer use UFS, etc. and no iOS device uses any of those.
DoD contractors.
You mean the other reasons why Germany is interesting for competitive people?
Doesn't really solve the problem, you have to buy out the landlords to get the land.
Linus was already in the US when it created GIT, so I don't think it should count
A swift/objective-C object that lets you add a background video to iOS views
Mmmh. I can still hope, can't I?

I mean, really, assuming that all of the practical problems of building a probe and getting it to Uranus or Neptune were solved, wouldn't you just love to send it there and explore the $expletive out of them?
>If you have a narrow street, less people drive, and thus there is no issue getting an ambulance through.

Huh? If you limit supply, demand goes down?

Your logic would say that the solution to Los Angles traffic problems is to close half the lanes and wait for people to sell off their cars?
I think there are actually two aspects to the market question. First, there's the level of pain experienced by the customer, and second, there's the size of the market. Lots and lots of startups are solving "hair on fire" issues for relatively small markets - enough to generate millions in revenue, but not billions.

For a sad case in point, there's not a whole lot of research for a cure (or even a treatment) for ALS - a disease that is completely debilitating and almost always fatal. There just aren't that many patients (even though it's common enough to touch famous people like Lou Gehrig, Stephen Hawking, and Jason Becker). Meanwhile, tons of money are poured into Viagra and its competitors - not an actual lifesaving problem, but a huge market.
My point is that it's just hard to understand what exactly one means when they're writing ".Net". Do they mean the entire framework, a specific library, the CLR, one language, etc. For whatever reason, the name has a very contextual meaning, and people use them interchangeably (".Net Core" is clearly specific though).

Not that they're alone. Adobe did worse with "Flex" since it could refer to the compiler, a framework, and an editor at one point until they decided to make it a bit more standardized.
We had food at home, and went to the store 2/3 times a week. It was 5 minutes away by bike, so popping over was no problem, and it meant more fresh fruit and vegetables in our diet, too, which was nice. It was not an inconvenience, nor a "huge portion of my week". It was a small store that was quick to go through and get what I needed, not something like Costco. We did bulk buying elsewhere for other stuff, too, and took the car. It's nice to have the choice.
sudo apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003121
... some second later...

>> This software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft.

Edit: Please visit http://aka.ms/dotnet-cli-eula for more information.

The link is a 404 on GitHub
You can have a small subset of your queries in raw SQL and if you really need to shard them, you mark them up with structured metadata. But the rest would be automatically structured, analyzed and sharded.
> I'd try something like this, stats wise. It is just 10 minutes of effort, but accounts for the different sample sizes. I added one success and failure to each city, i.e. Laplace smoothing. Then I computed a 95% percent confidence interval for each, using binom.test in R (i.e. binom.test(8,9)$conf.int). I sorted by the lower bound.

Could you enlighten the statistically-impaired on what this has accomplished, compared to the raw data?
I feel like this comment applies to Manhattan but not greater NYC. I also live in NYC and many of my coworkers have children. They all live out in Queens, though. Areas like Forest Hills have a cute suburban feel and are car-friendly but also afford solid public transit options. Sure, it might cost more than a comparable house in the suburbs, but you can find a full house for under $1mm.
It would be less of an issue if more vendors submitted drivers to Windows Update. As much as I am "happy" with my cheap TP-Link 802.11ac NIC (I use a lot of TP-Link gear in my house, my TG1600-24TS switch is great for the price too) I literally cannot reinstall Windows without having the driver disk at hand or plugging in my powerline network adapter to download the drivers from their website. A lot of these issues could be mitigated by this alone, as the first thing that the Windows installer does (if you are upgrading from a running system) is check windows update for updates to the installer and compatible device drivers.

I agree that maybe they shouldn't be so persistent on trying to get people to upgrade this early, especially if you have a NIC that isn't supported out of the box or has a driver that isn't on Windows Update (because I know the first thing I do when unboxing new hardware is throw the damned CD away, the only thing I use the DVD drive in my PC for is ripping movies).
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Also curious about that. A few years ago (maybe 2011) another article also stated that Berlin now (=2011) wins against London as the new startup capital. As a Berliner one remembers that.
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So I started to read about Postscript in attempt to learn more about printers and what's hackable about them. I know all the embedded stuff is about using embedded web servers with crap configs and coding, but there is something appealing to the potential of powning a printer by just sending it a print job.

Has anyone studied that, a la devttys0.com, and how did you get there? I am digging through old PS books, so I am hoping in a decade when I finish that to learn from your comments if left here. Haha.
I'm surprised no one is giving a device like that away.

Owning AI in the home seems like a no brainer to me.
I think you mean more risk-averse?
Seconded. I saw the announcement and immediately went to grab the docker image and give it a shot with F# via "dotnet new -l F#" and go. It restored and built, but didn't run. So v1.0 is broken, I guess?
The Washington Post reporters knew that Google Trends data was not accurate and misleading. They went with it because: it is a liberal site, wanted to make people angry against the Brexit voters. Also Jeff Bezos(the owner) has a beef with Trump and publicly supports liberal media outlets like Gawker.

tldr: Nothing unexpected happened, they knew what they were doing.
Interesting that you mentioned pattern language. My brother is an architecht, I'm into tech. I remember asking him about Alexander / pattern language after reading GoF, et. al. and he hadn't heard of him. He looked into it and was kind of like shrug. Seems Alexander isnt't super mainstream in the architecture community, and his ideas weren't that revolutionary. My read is that he's better know to software engineers than actual architects?
it's actually 'freedom of movement for workers': if you lose your job and can't get another, and don't have the ability to support yourself independently then the host country is within its rights to deport you
As someone living in a place "designed for people", my trip to the grocery stores means putting on my shoes, walking down the stairs and across the street. The next department store is about 200m down the street.
Bikes may be great but cars are terrible for cities. They take a ton of space and require massive amounts of restrictions on non-car traffic. Space is the biggest premium in a city.

If a fraction of the space that was devoted to car traffic was instead devoted to public transit, public transit would be far more efficient and robust than cars.
No, markets are a great way of finding what makes the most money for those who build the stores. That may be "the best" solution that is also aligned with the interests of the people who live there, but it might not be.
I think that depends on what your trip from home to the store is. Is it a pleasant 10 minute trip on down a country road or in an exciting, bustling city, or is it a 10 minute trip along a despotic road with nothing going on and which screams "cars only! no humans allowed!"? I prefer getting smaller grocery loads more frequently when the store is nearby, but when the trip is an ordeal, you go fewer big trips to avoid that as much as possible. A pleasant 15-20 minute walk to a store is much nicer than a 10 minute drive through an oppressive roadscape.
"We'll come up with something positive" is not a plan.
Plex began as a fork of XBMC/Kodi.
Then it’s much more efficient to cluster those 100 different places into a few compact areas, so that most of the people can walk or bike, or take the subway.

The problem is when those 200 people want to go to 100 different places spread throughout hundreds of square miles of evenly low density suburban sprawl like a modern US metropolis.
What about a computer that runs a specific piece of software (say, Mach3 for CNC control) that doesn't have a win10 alternative. It only runs in windows 7 32 bit. There is no good alternative. I would prefer to make the determination that the machine will NEVER update. I just need it to remain the same until mach 3 updates or an alternative comes along.
> 2000 people are being relocated from Morgan Stankey to Dublin or Frankfurt.

Sensationalist nonsense. Banks are considering long-term options for the worst case scenario if the UK leaves the single market. That is unlikely to happen.

> Even worse the uk won't secure any trade deal with Europe because the will want to discourage other nations to follow the same path.

The EU needs free trade with the UK more than UK needs it with the EU. The EU cannot afford to freeze the UK out.
Any capture devices you know that are decent? I've been toying with getting one to do demos.
I know a student whose computer restarted to upgrade to Windows 10 the day before a paper was due. Needless to say she wasn't very impressed, and will likely never buy a PC again.
Every time I see someone planning for a greater/better city they always forgot to include room for poor, or at least the not-wealthy people. There is never enough room, resulting in the majority of the population having to live outside the planing bubble and commute in (brasilia). Housing is like chopping firewood in winter: Make however much you think you need, then do that again... twice.
Cars and tunnels existed for a lot longer than GPS.
>Moreover, the same sort of anti-EU feeling that drove Brexit is not isolated to the UK. It's rising all over Europe.

reminds about federal vs. state power struggle 155 years ago on another continent - the solution of the issue back then seems to have so far been keeping the separation issue off the table. Another case - after almost 70 years of strong federal power, the moment that federal power weakened, the components of USSR run immediately away.

I mean my point here is like comparing a cable bound agglomeration of smaller ships vs. tightly welded one huge ship of the same mass - the former is nice and enjoyable with some impression of freedom of movement on a quiet summer day until wind and waves start to pickup, and cables are immediately broken while the huge ship wouldn't even notice it with the cruise's patrons continuing to have non-stop party :) Of course the cruise ship have deep hierarchy - the patrons are stratified into different classes, ship's staff subject to tight discipline, a captain having God-like powers and a gun in the safe...
Well we have things like Outlook and Word now that automate a lot of the work of a secretary.
That's not what was said at all. Nowhere do they say they don't keep food at home.
No, those are anti-social.

Which also counts.
This is just a personal view, but my first instinct when I read about product "CoolApp" and "CoolApp Core" would be to assume core is a subset of the first. Not a new and re-engineered product line.

I could see why others might see .Net Core as a parallel product as opposed to a new one.
And I could keep fixing my 92 Toyota Corolla to keep it on the road, but at some point it becomes more effective to just move on. There are some things inherent in older software that go beyond a simple patch, design decisions that may have made sense at the time but don't today. The only real way to go about that is how Apple does it, releasing a huge service pack that makes pretty major changes to the OS. And at that point, it's hardly any different than the changes Microsoft makes in different versions of Windows, except for the GUI.
Similar-ish to the cancelled 'Google Flu Trends' project, which tried to predict flu outbreaks based on search trends. A paper was initially published, containing fantastic results, but since then the results have not been great:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

I like the Google quote at the bottom of the article - '...part of the issue was that they sometimes get a flood of searches simply when there's a lot of flu in the news'.

Who would have thought of that, eh? It apparently took eight years to discover!
ZERO

But do learn German for everyday needs.

Also you might be in a meetup and some presentations might happen in German
I completely agree. My objection is simply to the idea that increasing throughput matters when talking about the merits of cars versus other forms of transportation.
Stockholm has severe housing problem. It is impossible to get long term contracts which means you have to move somewhere else every six months approximately. Living expenses are too high comparing to low salaries. Only a few companies in Stockholm pay higher than 40k swedish krona. (that means 25k after tax. 25k -> 2.6k euros). If you are not a native here, you can only get a flat through black market. Eventually, you pay around 8k-12k sek for a single bedroom with 30 mins commute. Tough winter is also another case.

Denmark has better chance for being the capital of startups in Europe. Higher pay and no rent problem. Stockholm obviously is not going to scale.

If you are planning to move EU, I would definitely suggest Berlin. You can make 55k-70k euros easily. Cheap rent and food. Nothing to say about its nightlife. (best in EU)
> you park your car in a pod, and the pod is on rails

Why not have seats on the pod, that way you don't have to ferry around a 2-tonne car. Indeed if you have solved smart automation, why have rails at all? Presto, you arrive at the idea of self-driving taxis as a public service.
Except it's not a loaded question at all -- administrative murder seems to be exactly what you are proposing.
They're built for people in cars. They're not built for people not in cars.