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I agree. Pedestrian zones that are closed off to regular traffic are very common in Europe and they're awesome.

They also boost the traffic the surrounding businesses get and make it easier for cafés and restaurants to add a terrace area.

Well-executed pedestrian zones are one of the easiest and most effective ways of making a street more liveable in my opinion.

Edit: Also, (preferably one-way)streets where the sidewalk-to-road ratio is a lot higher than usual. Case in point[1]

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5003418,19.0510879,3a,75y,17...
2016 is shaping up to be an interesting year, and the worldview espoused in this article is one reason. While the EU or other institutions may be "right" in their aspirations, the fact of the matter is that the status quo simply isn't working for a large number of people.

It's no surprise then that these "losers" are seeking something better for themselves. They may not know what the right answer is, but no one does. And the argument that "we should keep trying the same thing" eventually falls flat with no results. So a headlong leap into the unknown looks better than pounding your head against the same wall over and over again.

Which means this boils down to a very obvious realization: people who don't see the benefits of the status quo don't like the status quo. To those for whom the status quo is working, this comes as a shock. And for whatever reason, this year is the one where that minority becomes a majority.

What I've found shocking in all this is the vitrol of the "winners". Brexiters (and Trump voters) have been called naive, idiots, racists, xenophobes, sheeple, and worse. ("Losers" comes to mind.)

No matter what happens as a result of the UK/EU decision, the U.S. presidential election, or other policy changes around the world, we have to figure out how to fix the problem at the core of all this. Why so many people are unhappy. And name-calling isn't going to help.
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Ah, thank you, this does the trick; I first tried to use my database name as inputSchema, but I had to use "public" in PG.
Do you have any more of these? Since reading Dan Harmons story structure I have enjoyed American television a lot more.

http://channel101.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Super_...
Oh, yes. My apologies, I didn't see this before.

The risk analysis is here: http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2010/nea6862-comparing-r...

In it, the probabilistic risk of a major nuclear accidents are calculated. It's a bit difficult to parse without a stats background, but if you Google the title there are some good summaries.

Most of the data is presented in graphs common in probabilistic risk analysis, but the authors do examine an example of the anyhow burg Nuclear Powerplant in Switzerland.

This is a very low baseline. The plant consists of Gen. II boiling water reactors, built in 1967. The reactor core has multiple cracks in the core shroud.

Even with this design, the authors describe how the risk analysis demonstrates that the probability of a major accident (deaths > 2000) is less than one per one million reactor years.

The risk graphs demonstrate that for reactors newer than Gen. II, the risk is greatly reduced, to the point that modern reactors are 1,600 safer than Muhlenburg.
Thanks for the kind words!

Firefox performs better than it did, because the whole language has gradually increased performance, but still the worst of the major browsers. It's worth writing down a bit about that here, just for others to see and comment on.

We have some ideas that we suspect will mitigate the main issue in Firefox, which is that Firefox stack frames seem to be very large for compiled Pyret functions. This matters because Pyret's execution control works by (a) figuring out how many "typical-sized" stack frames fit before a stack overflow; this is a little tricky [1], (b) leaving breadcrumbs of metadata on each stack frame, and collecting them on an exception thrown when the limit is reached, restarting after yielding control to the browser's event loop. The issue is that the "typical" frame size for a Pyret function in Firefox means we only get a few hundred frames, and most idiomatic Pyret is implemented recursively, hence lots of pausing and collecting the stack.

It's clear that good support for safe-for-space tail calls is a simple way to mitigate a lot of the issue. We have a version of safe-for-space tail calls that avoids using unbounded space, but doesn't help (much) with speed.

Upcoming safe-for-space tail calls in JS provides one avenue for this that we'll be trying to take advantage of.

Actually compiling instances of Pyret tail recursion to JS loops is something we want to get working. It's a mildly nontrivial engineering challenge in the presence of dynamic annotation checks for return values (which muddy the definition of "tail call", especially since annotations can contain refinement predicates -- more function calls!), the desire to report faithful error information to students, and wanting to yield to the event loop often enough to not lock the page and get "busy script" errors. It's not extremely difficult, there's just enough tricky bits that it's on a branch right now and we're not totally satisfied with it yet.

Since we've largely focused on design of language features rather than performance for a long time now, there's somewhat of a backlog of these kinds of straightforward performance ideas that aren't in the system yet.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/28730491
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I think the idea is, of you compare short fiction to the Harry Potter graph, most stories have simple emotional arcs, rather than complicated back and forth. Though, if you limit the word length allowed... I wonder how they deal with "it was the best of times. it was the worst of times"...
I use the AVerMedia Game Capture HD 2 to capture HDMI from Xbox One and PS4 and I've been very happy with it.

Unlike a lot of such devices this one is stand-alone, I don't plug it into a PC, I just use it as an HDMI pass-through, plug a USB3 external hard-drive into it (it also has a bay for internal 2.5 SATA HDD, but I use an external drive so I can just pull that out of the capture device, plug it into a computer to get the captured mp4 files over quickly and easily for editing).

The stand-aloneness of this device is pretty great because it means you don't need to muck around with drivers on your other computers, though YMMV depending upon specific usage, a lot of people like to do live streams directly to places like twitch and this device isn't really well suited for that sort of thing.

Also, this device (AFAIK) doesn't do HDCP pass through. Game systems generally don't enable HDCP during gaming (but do during, say, blu-ray playback). So that certainly makes it less flexible than solutions which will allow HDCP capture.
One of the things that I'd love to see you studying would be how to build cities that can scale to large numbers of people without causing some of the problems that come with growth. NY had the Grid system which allowed it to grow to its current size.

But how can we build a city that could grow to 100 million people? Can we build such a city while avoiding congestion, a city where you can travel fast and easy from one end of the city to another? How dense should such a city be? How can you make it livable? And so on.
> Soundproofing

US houses and apartments seem notoriously poorly insulated when it comes to sound. As you say, its a small extra cost, and it can allow for more people in an area (even having connected townhouses or apartments) without having to deal with neighbor noises. If you can fit 3x the number of houses into a lot and they have good sound insulation, you're producing a lot more revenue from the house sales as well as generating potentially much tax revenue for that area of land (depending on how property taxing is done there)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11971774
How about this: it's none of their business what people choose to do with their computers. It's not their ecosystem.
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Why balancing screen time in the era of iPads is no longer about hours. Screen time is becoming a mainstream term describing time spent in front of technology screens. The problem is, in the era of iPads & smartphones, “screen time” has become just “time” as we are constantly surrounded by mobile technology. With this, parents are now asking themselves: How can I expose my children to all these screens in a healthy way? The idea is to guide those we care about, knowing our child's behavior using a flexible app to manage their devices.

Link here:
http://screen.guide
Granted, BeOS is a single-user OS, but no, there's nothing comparable mainstream.
They should have named it as xNET :) pronunce it as cross platfrom NET - dot net framework which works on all platforms
I just don't want them to be automatic. I want to have control over time they are installed so I can, you know, have my computer available when it's needed and do maintenance when it's not needed.

Apparently Windows 10 randomly resets the update settings though so it's very hard to avoid surprises. This is just user hostile behavior in my book.
I don't think one needs to support the invasion of Iraq to know how deeply uncool a comment like this is on HN. No more political flamebait, please.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984942 and marked it off-topic.
I think some MS EULAs has class action waivers AFAIK.
If a company grants you stock options as part of your compensation, you need still need to pay to get the stock. That's called exercising the options.

If you leave the company, there is a limited window of time to exercise the option. If you don't exercise it, the stock gets returned back to the company.

This post is favoring that window being long and is responding to blog post favoring that window being short.
Read a little more carefully: I update when I want my laptop tied up with an inconvenient process. Scheduled, not never at all.
So they'll become more careful.

Good luck putting everyone in jail. But hey, we'll all be safer in cells, right? That's what this is for, isn't it? Our safety?

Have you looked at red light camera traffic death stats? This person cited in the story is correct.
Few years ago I visited someone in a suburb of Seoul. He lived in a new, massive apartment complex with dozens of 25-story high rise buildings. What really struck me was the parking situation.

The entire complex does not allow any cars on the surface within the complex. All cars are kept in underground parking lot. This allow more efficient use of land, keeps noise away from residents and real useable green space for residents.

I did not feel like I was in stuck in a concrete jungle at all.
The mould is most likely growing because a few strawberries where damaged and the rest got strawberry juice on them.

The mould is already there, just not visible, on all strawberries, waiting for some sugar and water...
So your argument is that government didn't come up with the original idea for neurology and therefore, what, exactly?

What is your argument?
They're talking about the amount of time you have after leaving a company to exercise the stock options that you were granted, effectively purchasing them at par value. This has huge tax implications, and requires quite a bit of cash on the spot.

Traditionally, the period has been ~90 days, which makes it even harder to weigh your tax options and come up with the $$$$ to exercise the options. Since its expensive, and has a short window of execution, the practice has been viewed by many to be unfair. The Stock Options were a part of your compensation - part of the Risk vs Reward balance you choose when you worked for a startup, and now if you don't have thousands of dollars to spare on a gamble - you forfit those options back to the Company.

By extending the period to 10 years, you have the ability plan accordingly, see if the company will eventually exit, and exercise them when the time is right.
If anything I prefer more companies to move to SF and Oakland from SV and create more awareness around solving homelessness and transit first development. I am really happy how Twitter & co transformed Tenderloin. Western Waterfront and Oakland is SF's future, Central Subway (if its extended to F.Warf) is going make it pretty easy to get to Mission Bay/Dogpatch from other parts of the city.. We need a big tech company in Hunters Point and extend the T line all the way down to HP.. More companies need to move to Oakland and push for the second BART tube..
> questions.

How can one meaningfully speak of comparative measure between constructs that occupy distinct dimensional spaces. Question mark. (point well taken! :)
This is just a very catchy phrase.
This is so exciting! I love that YC is researching this. Personally I hope that this research would help to design better charter cities that are open to all https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer
This has been said before. The different states in the United States are far more alike than say the UK and Poland.
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(where they are 8% of the population)?

They may be 8% of the population, but they have 0.15% of the government's power. Scottish law is written mainly in Westminster, in which the conservatives have an absolute majority. 56 of the 59 Scottish seats went to the SNP, only one to the conservatives.
> The world is full of people who aren’t realizing their potential in large part because their cities don't provide the opportunities and living conditions necessary for success.

> A high leverage way to improve our world is to unleash this massive potential by making better cities.

I don't think cities make it even into the top 10 reasons why people don't realize their full potential.

Here's a small list, out the top of my head:

Depending on were you live, corruption is probably in the top 3 reasons why "people don't realize their potential". Most people don't have the "guts" (or low moral standards) to participate in the corruption games that are required to climb the social ladder.

Then there's the thing called "competition". Once a person realizes his full potential (s)he will want to stay at the top as much as possible and that includes fighting others who try to challenge their dominant position.

Racism, xenophobia and other types of discrimination.
Maybe not as evident in the "western" world, but still a very powerful reason in many parts of the world.

Other reasons include things like politics, poor laws and stupid fiscal policies. In general, these go hand in hand with corruption and everything else.

In my view we don't need more large cities, rather I think the solution is de-centralization and de-urbanization.

Many small high-tech independent "village-sized" cities, self contained and self-sufficient, interconnected with high-speed transport services is the way to go.
I don't think the previous comment is suggesting it is bad. I think they're trying to stave off any "OMG! MS is looking at your porn!" posts, by highlighting the privacy policy of the telemetry; which sound reasonable to most people.
"The poor in the developed economies are far better off"

The grandparent said "the same track". People are not revolting because they had bad times they are revolting because they don't see the end of it. They see a trend. So, who say that they (we) are not going to finish like the poor in the not developed world?

For instance, in Europe there was a de facto 'social contract', the welfare state, that is being dismantled using as excuse the need for 'austerity'.
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The new shiny, touchy, metro-y Settings app, for one. Half the settings have moved there, while the rest of the stuff (generally the more advanced, non mobile-related kind) still lies in the "legacy" Control Panel.

One of the most embarrassing aberrations of trying to convert a powerful, productivity-oriented PC operating system into a mobile devices firmware.
> The fact is that US military are in fact terrorists, as is the citizenry that supports this terrorist regime with tax money.

Please don't post shrill ideological denunciations to HN. It's not what this site is for, there's no substantive argument that requires it, and one needn't be a militarist to know that.
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> many/most distributions have major releases every 6-12 months, and the upgrade process is a lot more hit and miss.

You might want to try a rolling release distro, something like Antergos (Arch + Tweaks)
How about 100% everything instead of "basically anything", without serious "if's" like "as long as drivers are compatible" ?

If a machine is running, say, windows xp, and it does in a manner that satisfies the owner's need, then it should be able to keep running forever in the same manner, provided that hardware lasts and/or is replaced with adequate spares, not necessarily anything newer.

It's ok if that computer becomes incompatible with newer software because of that.

It's ok if that computer becomes incompatible with newer outside/network services because of that.

It's not ok if that computer stops being able to execute exactly the same process that it could do 10 years ago.
You will never have the technology to decrypt aes256.
The sad thing with animation libraries is, at least in my opinion, that in the end it comes down to a performance race.

I loved popmotion at first, but once you hit the first performance bottleneck you can either contribute and fix performance issues yourself or choose a different library (most likely not the hip, new one).

I do not want to convey the message that people should stop creating animation libraries, I think that innovation is great, but the road for such a library to be useful in production is a long one.
Driving is only faster in high density areas due to misappropriation of infrastructure.

The subway, light rail, and dedicated bus lane can be faster than cars, especially when you factor in parking. This is the case in many areas of many cities that do have appropriate infrastructure in place.

For example, I can take a dedicated bus lane into my city center in about 30 minutes, whereas driving takes at least 45 minutes during rush hour. It's faster for me to drive my bike to work than to take my car.

Furthermore, if you have mixed-zoning, you probably won't have to drive 5 miles to get what you need.

This isn't about making cars illegal, it's about reducing our dependence on them.
This is a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot idea. First of all, it legitimizes the kind of BS Mormon Utopia plan that [the NewVistas project is trying to accomplish in VT and Provo, UT](http://vtdigger.org/2016/06/19/residents/). It also involves massive reappropriation of the existing value populations have invested in the land. There's also no good metric for land service value other than feedback from existing stakeholders, which can be volatile in changing circumstances. I won't support a project that will have victims.

People have competing value systems. Communities grow around those value systems as they are constantly negotiated and re-negotiated over time. Asserting that one system of values is better than another is nothing short of authoritarianism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-EEgmEWJw
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> What should a city optimize for?

People. People will have to live and work their, so people should be the focus.
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The sort of 'libertarianism' that would advocate a world wide state than? To me that looks more like the ultimate in repression than in anything you might call liberty.
Toyota doesn't get to come to your house and tow your Corolla away when they think you ought to move on. You get to decide that: it's your car, and it's your choice.

If Toyota feels so embarrassed by the fact that you are driving your Corolla that they want to spend some money trying to convince you to replace it, they can certainly make you a trade-in offer. But maybe you like your Corolla, or you don't feel like dealing with all the paperwork; for whatever reason, you decline the offer. Does Toyota get to come haul your car away and give you a new one regardless? Hell fucking no. It's your car.

If Microsoft wants people to stop using XP they have every right to try to tempt those XP users with a better offer, but some people just won't want to, and that is their right. Their computer, their choice.
You may want to lower your voice. If there's one thing this referendum has (re)demonstrated it's that things can go from wingnut to oh-my-god-its-happening frighteningly quickly.
You're right! Those not-losers are so successful that some can even afford refrigerators!
Old cities suck. Their layout is literally derived from concentric walls to keep invaders out. I love the history and architecture, but from a usability perspective they're far from ideal.
> > Nothing here backs the assertion that good programmers are more likely to create more bugs per line of code written.

> I said that good programmers create more bugs on the whole.

Well if good programmers write more code, then sure, that follows quite nicely. If you don't normalize for lines of code written, though, then I'm not sure I follow what the point of that assertion is.

If a good programmer writes 10x the code but 1.5x the bugs, I don't think it's fair or meaningful for this discussion to claim that the good programmer created more bugs on the whole.

> We need surgery so that people don't die. You probably don't need to recover from malloc failing.

Software definitely runs in places where lives can be affected and lost.
Think about this: the media could concoct this narrative after every single election if they wanted to. They just chose this time because it suited their broader narrative. They're trying to tell you what to think and they're surprisingly effective at it. This should be a wake-up call to thoughtful people everywhere.

After this sorry debacle, with all of the major media outlets in the West pushing this ridiculous and spiteful narrative, how can anyone seriously claim that they aren't totally in the bag of certain political interests, that the media isn't pushing a particular world view by spreading lies and deception.