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This comment breaks the HN guidelines in a bunch of ways, starting from the "I'm going to get downvoted" cliché.

The rules here don't require you to agree with anyone, but they do require you to be civil, not call names, and avoid gratuitous negativity. The things you're saying about others here ("engineers who are detached from emotion and any sense of duty towards other people", "Sand Hill Road Gordon Gecko wannabes", and so on) not only break those rules, they're pretty vicious. That's emphatically not what this site is for! If you can't restrain yourself from doing that, please don't comment here until you can.

Please (re)-read the descriptions of what we are looking for on this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

As it happens, we've been working on the largest changes to the HN guidelines since taking over from pg in 2014, and nearly all the coming changes have to do with reducing further the kind of comment you posted here.

Please note that none of this has to do with the particular view of cities, technology (or whatever the substantive topic at issue is) that you favor. On the contrary, when you express your views this way, you discredit them in the mind the neutral reader. So following the HN rules will not only help the community, it will help your argument as well.
" we also can not meaningfully speak of a partial order of a set of numbers "

Actually surreal numbers have a well-defined partial order despite the dimensionality concerns; keep in mind surreal numbers are a class, not a set. (They contain as a strict subclass the transfinite ordinals, so it must be a class).

Moreover I think the form <:> is best considered an operator (or generator) than a cartesian product. You can put a set of surreals on one side of <:> and out pops another surreal.
If I punched you in the face (Windows 8) the slapped you after (Windows 10), you'd find the slap quite an upgrade as well. It still doesn't mean it's pleasant (halfassed Settings).
China’s powerful new rocket makes a successful debut launch
>It is obvious that the vote had nothing to do with opinions on the EU to a huge number of voters.

Just because they don't approach it from some high-minded constitutional-philosophy or European-project perspective doesn't mean that it wasn't about the EU. The biggest issue was immigration, because the EU doesn't allow the British to control immigration into their own country. If you wanted lower immigration, the EU gave you one option: leave the EU. When the continent totally rejected David Cameron's reasonable (and I think insufficient) list of reforms, they confirmed that.

For the Tories who voted Leave, it was also about economic growth because the EU has forced all member countries into a high-regulation (and in my opinion, low-growth) model that's more about protecting inefficient French businesses from competition than about raising the fortunes of the British people. It didn't matter how many elections Conservatives won, because socialism was imposed at the EU level. The EU even ganged up on Ireland for daring to have a low corporate tax rate. No change in the composition of the British delegation to the powerless European Parliament, where they were severely outnumbered anyway, had any chance of ever changing any of this. Again, the only way to even get the chance to vote for free market policies was to leave the EU. Now the British people can decide for themselves what path they will take, a choice which is by no means predetermined.

Many Scottish people feel the same way about their membership in the UK. I think that autonomy within the UK is the answer for them, but they really should leave if they think it's the only way they can control their own destiny. They definitely deserve a second Scottish independence referendum once the Brexit instability calms down.
repo tagging/grouping
Yes, but there is no conflict of interest: they are not directly elected in their home country.
Weird, it works really smoothly on my phone. Not sure what can be the cause of the CPU outrage on a laptop, specially on Chrome... I'll try to make some tests on Linux.
What's your startup about?
Without being FLOSS, GNU/Linux never would've developed to the point where you could reasonably use it as a competitor to Windows in the first place.
And if we were at risk, who'd have slipped through while the agents played tough-guy?
Or in some cases, to 'confirm' that what you think about something is correct or popular. How many of the people searching for the EU stuff were those in both sides looking to validate their own decisions?

But yeah, Googling stuff can mean a lot of things, and its ridiculous to assume it purely means someone doesn't know about something.
Why is this on Hacker News?
if more of us opted out more of the time, the system would become unworkable, and it would have to change.

You're saying it's workable now? While you and I are standing over there waiting for our groping, feeling smug about how we're sticking it to the man with our civil disobedience, the lines continue to back further and further out because they cut the number of agents. We're not sticking it to the man when the man himself is over there with a much bigger stick than we'll ever carry.

I still opt out, though.
> Cars are on a pedestal not only because of convenience and speed, but because they're the lowest common denominator.

The lowest common denominator? I don't own a car, and I'm sure many other people in my city don't either, so no: it's not the lowest common denominator for us: walking is.

Cars are themselves very expensive and require a massive amount of infrastructure to function. Look around a city and think of all the cars, streets, parking lots, highways, etc, used for cars. Then think how that all impacts any other mode of transportation other than vehicles. Go deeper and imagine a world without those cars - what to do with all this new-found space?

The words you're looking for is, "status quo". Cars are on the, "status quo" pedestal. They've replaced everything else because their massively profitable to produce. Damn the long-trail environmental cost of them, or how they've influenced the design of our modern cities.
Britain tried this after WWII, building about 20 "new towns".[1] China is doing it in a big way right now. Building isn't the hard part. The usual problem is a lack of jobs.

Check out the US census population projection for the next 50 years.[2] Population is leveling off, and if immigration is restricted, it will decline. Most of the EU countries, and Japan, are already in population decline. Also see Fig. 6, "Dependency ratios". The US is headed for a situation where 75% of the population is either too old or too young to work. Retirees increase from 23% now to 43% in 2060.

We will need more retirement communities to warehouse old people until they die.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_towns_in_the_United_Kingdo...
[2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
Some of the best resources are:

PostScript Language Reference Manual (PLRM)

http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/docs_html/ThinkingInPostScript.pdf

Experiment with GhostScript, the #ghostscript channel on freenode

Although PostScript is a complete programming language, allowing obvious attacks like going into an infinite loop, exhausting memory, etc, it's also easy enough for the printer to sandbox print jobs to prevent you from doing anything too nasty. Also, PostScript is really on used to define the print job output, it doesn't give you low-level control over the hardware or anything.
GPS is more key for long term navigation and knowing when the car should look for a turn. Simple road following through LIDAR and other local sensors is enough for 90-99% of tunnels today since they are mostly just single roads from point A to B without required turns.
Because we paid for their OS and expect it to be supported ?

Windows 8 was out in 2013, 3 fraking years ago. Even Ubuntu, which is free, has LTS supported for 5 years.

When you pay good money for an OS you use in your business, it's damn logical you want it to last you almost a decade without having to play the upgrade game all over again.

I don't have time for that. I don't have the money for that. And I don't need that. The OS is not a product I want to think about, it's this transparent thing that I'm supposed to forget while I doing actual work.

This Windows upgrade is uneeded and unwanted.

Yet it kept comming back to disturb me in my work with stupid notifications, reminding me that one day, it may reboot my computer at the worst moment, eat all my hard drive space or make me loose hours locking my computer.

What happened ? Well, one day my windows pratition broke for some reason I can't figure out and I got a perpetual guest account. I'm not even trying to fix it. I just stay 100% of my time on my Ubuntu one, because I don't want to deal with it.
Memory optimizations for feeds on Facebook for Android
Good and Evil Architects
If what the central planning authority does is mainly pre-empt more restrictive planning, that might be worth a shot.
A team of Facebook employees will soon suggest events for you to attend
I feel like this reasoning trivializes the redistribution of wealth. Sure, taxing "maximum wealth" and redistributing it fairly sounds like a great idea. In actuality, it's obnoxiously difficult to take something away from someone who already has it (see: salaries, housing prices being sticky downwards).
Seeing these bankers send jabs reminds me of this African proverb:

"When the elephants fight the grass gets trampled."
We started out as a Racket `#lang`. That is in principle always an option. However: the in-browser support is non-negotiable. We have many users in schools, which have very locked-down machines. Many of them cannot install new software. This is a real obstacle for many curricula, and our ability to run just off the browser has been a huge prerequisite for adoption of Bootstrap's [http://www.bootstrapworld.org/] curricula.
> 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.)

Racism (racial discrimination and racial hate speech) is illegal in this country and given some deplorable scenes we've seen over the past few days, I think anyone being racist should be heavily reprimanded.

I don't want to squash people's views by calling out racism, quite the opposite. I've been trying to have calm, rational discussions with people to try to understand why they voted out. Unfortunately I've only been told media soundbites such as "we want our country back" and "immigrants claim too many benefits". It usually ends in "I'm entitled to my opinion".
No, floats have explicit exponent and fraction parts. For the "finite-ish" parts of the knuth construction, the maximum size depends on the "generation" of the construct. A "knuth"-string float would have a variable length, depending on the amount of precision necessary to express the value you seek.
Thanks for the writeup! I'll poke the appropriate teams. Sorry about the paper cuts -_-
Google is indeed rightfully called "the Address Bar of the Internet" in the article.

Few of the searches I did today[0]:

- russian letters - because I needed to copy-paste a glyph

- ramen - because I wanted to double-check this word for one of my today's HN comments

- polyvalent - because "wtf does that word in today's HN link mean?"

- sabaton prague - to get the name of a song I wanted to listen to

- list polecający - to double-check that's a right name in Polish for "recommendation letter"

- shield logo - to quickly find an image URL I could post to office chat so that the person who stole my mug can know which mug I'm talking about

etc.

I could call only one of these (the "polyvalent") a case of not knowing something. Rest were mostly "utility searches".

[0] - I'd post more, but for the typical weird Googly reason, they completely fucked up the search history interface - it's now mixed with sites visited with Chrome, of which I have significantly more than distinct Google queries. And there is no way to filter the list. Why Google keeps making interfaces dumber and less usable is beyond me, but I'm started to get sick of it.
I am very critical of America's torture, surveillance apparatus, wars and all the things you list. However, it cheapens the discussion you and I have against it. Terrorism is fundamentally very different from an invading and occupying force. The nature of the soldiers, their funding, purpose, propaganda used to send them off, as well as their very mission and goals all differ to such an extent. Calling this terrorism cheapens the word (terrorism), and makes it easy to ignore your somewhat valid points. I think there is a place for discussing the merits, drawbacks, and issues associated with America's unreasonable middle east adventures, but this is not it. It is also unreasonable to cry 'Censorship!' Whenever one strays and veers far off the OP topic. Please, do put up a thread, a blog, a news article and we can discuss, debate, and learn together about which is which, and why. But not here, and not in a way that cheapens the wonderful site that this is. Let us do all we can to not become reddit.
Depends how pedantic you're being, but ripping DVDs for personal use doesn't count as "piracy" in my book.

Since this involves removing the encryption, it is technically a DMCA violation, but I'd like to see someone bring you to court over it. I'd love for it to go to the Supreme Court and for them to find the DMCA overreached when it effectively eliminated time shifting, media shifting, etc...
> that it was a shame to require secret knowledge and aha moments to use

But Myers had this aha moment about private constructors in 1988! Since then, this has been covered in countless books, tutorials and coding convention documents.

A newbie still has to read something in order to learn about "= delete". This is not "discoverable" just by experimenting with the language!

Knowing that delete is a keyword, and that there are declarations of the form "specifiers fun-declarator = blurb" you are very unlikely to discover, on your own, that the blurb may be the keyword "delete", and that this actually compiles and has a certain useful effect.

However, the combination of constructors and "private:" is discoverable, as Myers' 1988 aha moment shows. It's a logical combination of independent features.

It's okay for techniques in languages to be discoverable logical combinations of features rather than arbitrary syntax thrown in.

It's also okay for the culture which surrounds a language to have a body of techniques which are carried in that culture, rather than shoehorned into the language parser.
I strongly second this request. As a founder working through a v1 and currently thinking a great deal about product/market fit, it would be fantastic to hear more about this.
Well, biological brains are 3D processors, and have been a thing for billions of years..
I love the direct integration of async support in templates. You can extract the value of promises and observable directly in templates using the async pipe, which cuts down on a lot of boilerplate. That means your templates can directly subscribe to observables and auto update on changes. Awesome.

And there is first class support for component-scoped css, aka emulated shadow dom, which is great for large codebases.
The UK is now rated like the US government, Brexit has pushed it to the verge of bankruptcy!
Updated (min total startups to be considered = 7):

Worst:

stddev Exits Total City

-8.0733 55 178 Los Angeles, CA USA

-5.5089 13 135 Moscow, 48 RUS

-4.6686 63 124 Redwood City, CA USA
-4.1965 12 42 Raleigh, NC USA

-3.5345 9 21 La Jolla, CA USA
-3.4526 2 16 Quebec, QC CAN
-3.3204 11 36 Rockville, MD USA

-2.9826 4 15 Lucerne Valley, CA USA
-2.9103 2 22 Edinburgh, U8 GBR
-2.8953 2 10 Netanya, 2 ISR
-2.8038 0 7 Livermore, CA USA
-2.7531 2 9 Marina Del Rey, CA USA
-2.7115 9 24 Berkeley, CA USA
-2.7108 3 13 Torrance, CA USA
-2.6849 26 83 Pittsburgh, PA USA
-2.6366 3 15 Santa Ana, CA USA
-2.6334 0 8 Centennial, CO USA
-2.6226 5 30 Columbus, OH USA
-2.5629 2 9 Edison, NJ USA
-2.5578 1 10 Colorado Springs, CO USA
-2.4961 1 14 Lexington, KY USA
-2.3659 2 16 Memphis, TN USA
-2.3645 1 8 Sacramento, CA USA
-2.2869 1 8 Kista, 26 SWE
-2.2535 11 33 Santa Barbara, CA USA
-2.2321 2 10 Lake Forest, CA USA
-2.1807 3 12 Concord, MA USA
-2.1566 0 8 Reno, NV USA
-2.1472 0 9 Little Rock, AR USA
-2.1286 59 155 Toronto, ON CAN
-2.0520 4 12 Wilmington, MA USA
-2.0374 4 12 Westborough, MA USA

-1.9802 9 30 Indianapolis, IN USA
-1.8886 0 10 Saint Petersburg, 66 RUS
-1.8813 0 8 Tallinn, 1 EST
-1.8615 2 8 Worcester, MA USA
-1.7769 14 41 Brooklyn, NY USA
-1.7189 1 12 Glasgow, V2 GBR
-1.6803 1 8 Huntsville, AL USA
-1.6410 1 9 Troy, MI USA
-1.6338 0 7 Taipei, 3 TWN
-1.6337 0 7 Brisbane, 4 AUS
-1.6184 6 20 Newport Beach, CA USA
-1.5786 0 7 Turku, 15 FIN
-1.5739 2 7 Blue Bell, PA USA
-1.5707 0 9 Porto Alegre, 23 BRA
-1.5668 0 9 Jakarta, 4 IDN
-1.5612 9 41 Cleveland, OH USA
-1.5600 4 12 Jersey City, NJ USA
-1.5029 6 13 Acton, MA USA
-1.4916 2 9 Lausanne, 23 CHE
-1.4875 0 7 Sao Paulo, 27 BRA
-1.4645 1 8 Fort Worth, TX USA
-1.4637 1 8 Manchester, I2 GBR
-1.4199 4 20 Melbourne, 7 AUS
-1.4106 1 8 Honolulu, HI USA
-1.4096 8 25 Orlando, FL USA
-1.4001 1 8 Sarasota, FL USA
-1.3922 2 7 Maple Grove, MN USA
-1.3811 5 13 New Haven, CT USA
-1.3667 5 19 Albuquerque, NM USA
-1.3379 2 8 Wellington, G2 NZL
-1.3361 0 7 Lima, 15 PER
-1.3238 2 9 Bristol, B7 GBR
-1.3162 25 64 Denver, CO USA
-1.3004 4 13 Tempe, AZ USA
-1.2051 19 48 Philadelphia, PA USA
-1.2004 2 12 Fayetteville, AR USA
-1.1954 2 9 Markham, ON CAN
-1.1660 4 11 Maynard, MA USA
-1.1381 2 8 Saint Louis, MO USA
-1.1364 1 7 Chattanooga, TN USA
-1.1294 2 7 Richmond Hill, ON CAN
-1.1272 8 20 Newton, MA USA
-1.1053 3 9 Goleta, CA USA
-1.0719 1 7 Glendale, CA USA
-1.0718 6 17 Englewood, CO USA
-1.0635 2 10 Hartford, CT USA
-1.0437 5 19 Rochester, NY USA
-1.0119 6 22 Omaha, NE USA
-1.0092 10 21 San Carlos, CA USA
To back this up, I often try to Google in non-biased ways. If you search for "Is paleo unhealthy," you're going to get very different results than "health benefits of Paleo."
Heh, interesting. That may have been my problem - I didn't particularly care about the cute girls on campus.

So then, an amended question: given that you do much better solving a problem that you personally have, what happens if you're a person of few desires? Someone who enjoys having a simple life and focuses intently on a few things that matter to them, but doesn't really sweat or even notice many of the things that annoy other people?

It seems like this personality type would be well-suited for entrepreneurship in general, between having a low personal burn rate and being able to focus intently on a topic, but the inability to recognize and get seriously worked up about a problem seems like a killer.
And yet, there's virtually nothing within reasonable walking distance from my house, and there is no commercially-zoned land nearby that would allow someone to open up a coffee shop/corner store/restaurant/pub/whatever. Literally no community-oriented locations anywhere nearby.

In the summer, it's possible to bike to Safeway, but summer doesn't last all that long and then there's a pile of snow on the ground again.

If they want a seat at the table, they've got to get better at what they do.
It isn't about the vesting periods, it is about the exercise period. Vesting periods are fine in most cases.

The exercise period is usually 90 days, if you leave a company.

What happens a lot is there is no liquidation event for years meaning that an employee with shares needs to make a decision fast to convert or lose their shares (which they earned) and that cost $$$. I've seen time and time again, where people get locked in because they need to drop 4-6 figures to exercise their shares.

> If the employee loses the stock when he's fired early, then the company has a huge incentive in firing him a day before he vests, and thus he should regard the vesting compensation as nonexistent.

I've seen this happen a few times in SV where employees are fired 1-2 weeks before their vesting period. Sad when it happens. Not saying that all times it is because of the cliff, but people talk and are aware of companies that have done this.
Well, what else have we got? "Make it expensive" seems to be the only tool that works in this case, since they don't seem to actually care what we think about any of this.
Good god those color choices are terrible.
From my conversations with the telephone banking operators, it's clear that they have the plaintext password in front of them.
Wring.io, 0.13.4 released
Does the perfect city really need to focus on higher population density? It seems like less density is ultimately what most people would want.
Optimize for pedestrian traffic or mass transit for most daily activities; but remember this:

People love cars!

So make sure that something like a zipcar is present when someone feels like taking a drive to the mountains on the weekend. Or, make sure that rental vans are available when someone needs to move something too big to carry on the bus.
> hdmi without DRM should produce even cheapers devices, but yeah, everyone has to embrace DRM to name it hdmi

Not really. HDMI capture devices actually can't "embrace" DRM; no (legitimate) HDMI capture device is permitted to decode HDCP at all since that would defeat the point of HDCP.

HDMI capture devices are expensive because it really is difficult-- 1080p is a lot of bytes per second to decode, reencode, and record to permanent storage.
I wonder how many people do that just to lie to people, because if people believe that Google Trends pseudostatistic, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
On latest Linux kernel from SSD to USB or USB to USB with it's easy to lock up the copying application or even whole machine while data is flushed. It's less of an issue with deadline or bfq i/o schedulers, but it's still there. Now, we copy around at least gigabytes these days, but still. When I was using a Mac, the first thing I always did was to completely disable Spotlight (including all indexing).
Because someone submitted it.

Why are you?
BS. Nobody is forced to live in these apartments. If you are looking to rent and this is important to you then rent someplace else.
There's actually precedent for that in the world of cars. The GM EV1 was leased out and later 100% recalled and destroyed. Under the license agreement with GM, they did have the ability to take away your car, much for the same reason Microsoft pushes OS upgrades: their inability or unwillingness to support the platform any further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1#Program_can...

At some point Microsoft has to make breaking changes to Windows XP. Simple service packs won't suffice. Airbags, three point seatbelts, electronic fuel injection, variable valve timing, these are all modern conveniences that people expect in a car these days. Things that are very hard to retrofit into an old car without redesigning the platform at a core level. Sure, a 2016 and a 1992 model are still Corollas but it's hard to argue that Toyota should still be selling the 1992 model retrofitted to include all of our modern needs.

The argument here is "Microsoft should still be patching Windows XP." Should Toyota keep retrofitting modern safety features into their old car?