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Most cities are trying to remove the private car from streets. There are principles around induced demand [1] and traffic evaporation [2] that come into play.

The principle of induced demand is that by making it easier to drive, you encourage car use, creating more congestion. You are better off making it harder for cars to access the city centres. Where major routes prioritise modal equality where separate space is provided for walking, cycling, and driving. Only after those are catered for do you provide on street parking.

Traffic evaporation is a term to describe the way humans think about driving. Most people perceive traffic in a similar way to the way water works in rivers. If you reduce flow then you create massive tail backs. However humans do not behave that way. What happens is that if a route becomes too difficult/congested, people look at alternative routes or even change mode of travel.

Parking control (you know you can't park in that area unless you have a permit) has been used extensively in NYC to discourage car use. Conversion of parking space to cycle spaces is also key to encouraging modal shift [3]. Nottingham UK, is using the workplace parking levy to finance and built its tram system [5].

Use of filtered permeability [4] is a significant tool in still enabling access to roads for motor vehicles, but making it less direct for cars by closing off roads as a through road. Rising bollard systems can enable a city to provide efficient public bus services.

The key bit to realise is that with urban design the car is no longer considered a good form of transport, particularly as more people move into cities. It is exceptionally inefficient and requires an immense amount of space as well as storage space.

I suspect that most cities will move towards a hyper aggressive approach to keeping cars on the edge of cities using a combination of parking control, congestion charging, making available routes into the city less direct for private vehicles.

I also see technology being vital to bridge the boundary between urban and rural living. Current public transport models are based on providing regular services using peak hour vehicle requirements. Yes a 120 capacity double length bus at 8am is right, but at 9pm it could easily be an 8 seater bus.

(I really should have applied for the ycombinator future cities team ;) )

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_traffic
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share
[4] http://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/dictionary/filtered-permea...
[5] http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-stree...
> No, on windows you still have to run a Linux vm which the containers will run inside.

I don't think, that's correct. To me that's the whole point of having a native Windows / Mac version of docker. From their feature list:

> Faster and more reliable – native development environment using hypervisors built into each operating system. (No more VirtualBox!)
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This is made to sound so revolutionary and novel but in fact it is only an intermediary, fast, transparent to the processes, automatically managed memory. Badly managed as it turned out. What hurts the most is that there definitely is some sort of influence on how a process can take advantage of caching, yet not in its control, and even with the best practices on memory optimization it all falls flat when a few processing layers get stacked on this hardware clever cache memory management. The fast memory should have been left in the control of the software. It should have been left small and accessible like in the old computers (16 bit range) and what is now considered "the main memory" to be developed as a new thing, that could be left to grow massively. I think that the current situation is less the result of quality engineering vision and more of the result of marketing departments putting pressure on the development teams to come out with clever tricks to beat the competition.

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P.S.: I already thought about the backward compatibility considerations being primordial. That would have meant that the technical advancement transparent to the existing usage was a reason in itself, but that doesn't quite hold water. The 16 bit to 32 bit architecture switch opened the possibility of adopting a secondary (but slower) layer of RAM going over 64 KiB and keeping the 16 bit manageable memory range close to CPU, as (at least one of) the cache layers.
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Ouch. They got me too.
Quoting Edison here:

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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While I think the proposed changes makes sense, I don't think the FSF welcomes them as much.

The FSF has always thought for getting the full stack GPLed, and creating clauses which makes it easier to silo out the GPLed bits, while keeping the rest of the system locked down will probably not ring well with them.

Which is probably why we look at this post 2 years later, with seemingly nothing done to address the concerns raised.
Since when should the GPL protect companies?

I always thought of FSF and GPL as way to protect consumer rights and interests.
The linked fsb.ru update says nothing about ability to collect encryption keys by themselves.

It only says that the method with which the companies will be able to give them the encryption keys is approved.

Still, my russian may be rusty, but it seems to me, the FSB just documented a procedure which the companies will need to follow to provide the FSB with the keys.
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A better solution: rebase or cherry-pick so that every commit has one parent and history is linear. That way every commit shows what was actually changed.
That'll be because Windows 10 is the first desktop Windows OS with support for Hyper-V.

If you didn't want to use Windows 10, perhaps you might have some more luck with a Windows Server OS. Does anyone know if the latest version of Docker will work on Windows Server 2012?
That's incorrect. They have $75 billion in total 'cash.' $15 billion is listed as cash and $60 billion is listed as short-term investments (as of Q1 2016).

http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/financials?p=GOOGL
The problem with this is the expectation of a 5 star review for adequate performance. A lot of reviewers view 3 stars as "I didn't like it, but at least customer service didn't screw me and it didn't burn my house." I'm aware that this is terrible because it leaves no room for superior delivery, but it's just the way of things.
>Not sure what changed

Metrics driven design and development.
1) team gets told it has to increase sign ups
2) Product already too popular to go anywhere meaningful with it's content/features
3) Only hope left is to make the experience worse for non-users in the hope to irritate them into being users.

> It’s probably less high on the priority list than “give affordable internet access to 1 billion people”,

Both this awful login form and the cynical project to get the 3rd world online via Facebook are part of the same goal.
Did you do specific exercises, or just read and re-read Sarno's books to make the concept stick?
Sure you can. Nokia was pretty entrenched in the phone business in 2007. Sony has very diverse revenue sources, yet most of them have dwindled due to competition.
Specifically, US Population Ages 55–64 death rate from cardio-vascular disease is 27%. That is roughly 2 out of 7.

Among Apollo astronouts, 3 out of 7 died from CVD. So, that is a difference of one person between matching the overall population and "a significant result." Of course, the difference between 28.5% vs 43% looks huge, but that is just one person.

These people would have flunked my Intro Stats class for using percentages with tiny samples.
Not even necessarily a percentage of actual income either - it can be a percentage of the income the courts think the ex-husband should be earning, because there's this idea that men who are unemployed or underemployed, or even just self-employed and not doing as well as before, are doing it to screw their ex-wife out of the money they should be earning for her. (Little details like the entire industry they were employed in going away, or them being in their 50s and in a line of work with massive ageism, matter less than they perhaps ought. Especially since he probably can't afford a good lawyer.)
I've done hundreds of transactions at various Citi ATMs over a 10+ year period and never had an issue. So I'd say pretty uncommon.
This reminds me of a similar horror story involving "the ultimate database design" https://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/opinion-pieces/bad-carma...
Firstly, out with Temer!

It was most definitely a coup. The people prosecuting her couldn't care less about the alleged violations, that's just a nifty way they managed to get into power.

The people in charge now manage to be even dirtier.
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Exactly, they didn't completely implement the w3c spec.
There is; the equation on the CERN mug in the photo is an example.
For example, the gluon Lagrangian (Section 1) may be more compactly written

-1/2 Tr F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}

for a suitably defined F.
Or further abbreviated to something like L_g.

It just depends on how much detail you need to expose.
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Wow, this article read like a fortune cookie. Trivial words about obvious matters in Open Source development by our #1 closed-source drive-by-installer supplier.
I got a couple of experiences worse than that, including one where they were stupid enough to put in writing a suggestion to enlist as a contractor/freelancer with a shadow organisation of them to match my requested range (which was nothing special)...I just replied in a sarcastic tone that for that situation my prices where 10 times that value, and fortunately, it was the last I heard from them.
> So far, no moonshot by a big corp has paid off.

What about that mobile phone apple launched in 2007?
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I would switch if the following points are given:

- lower price

- same quality or better quality

- easy to remove the old service from my infrastructure
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The scary part here is that I am not actually sure whether this is fiction or not.
Is that true story?
Ask HN: Junior Developer Nightmare
If you have a junior developer who isn't quite ready to be let loose on his own because of bad design choices (through lack of experience), but takes constructive criticism badly, how do you deal with it?

He has great ideas, but sometimes it's difficult to get the project done.
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I would evaluate a Trial. "More intelligent report" is vague.
How to find a software company that provides the very best price-quality ratio?
This is actually pretty cool. To answer a question someone might have about "why not just use docker". Docker comes with its own learning curve and concepts. Sometimes all you want to do when developing is have an environment in which you can't screw your main machine up. Think of virtualenv in python if you've used it. This might be the equivalent of running docker run -it ubuntu:latest /bin/bash and then developing inside that container. But wait! what ports do you open up? What directories do you mount? And then suddenly you are in docker world. It feels like coffer is just a way to say "hey create me a sandbox where I can mess up things minimally no matter what I install and mess around with". Not sure what files get mounted. Shall try it out in a bit and see how it goes.
If I've understood the article, the ideas proposed for GPL4 aren't about taking away consumer rights and interests, but rather to encourage companies to contribute to and use GPL software.

In other words, the code would still be developed in the open, no individual rights would be taken away, you'd just be making it easier for companies to assist with the growth of GPL software. I don't see any major problems with that.
Yeah, I guess I was wrong about regulation.
But point still stands.

From your second link:

"In the U.S., about 80 percent of antibiotics are used for livestock and 20 percent for humans"
Ask HN: Examples of elegant, non-trivial Smalltalk?
I've been on a bit of a Smalltalk / Squeak / message-passing OOP deep-dive as of late and was looking for pointers to good Smalltalk codebases to study that are considered particularly elegant and compact.

I'm especially struck at the moment by what seems to me to be a bit of a contradiction. In this talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QboI_1WJUlM) from COFES, there's a clear push for a kind of simplicity and elegance that seems very opposite to the common criticisms I've seen of OOP, that it too easily results in overly-complex software (one Reddit comment I stumbled across from someone that seemed to have experience working on commercial Smalltalk applications said Smalltalk encourages an explosion of complexity). I'm keen to look at some good counter-examples.

So, Smalltalkers on HN, what's your favorite Smalltalk-family code and why?
I'm curious if only the cardiovascular system is affected. And if so, why? What does radiation do to the brain, or the endocrine system, for example?
If its grey and moderately funny, I upvote it. Screw you fun-hating people.
The point is that variables are evil and arbitrary. So you give them short names to signal that you could replace them with anything else, what matters is how they appear together. Additionally different subfields of mathematics and physics usually adopt naming conventions.
It's amazing how many of these integral tools that we've relied on for a long time are maintained by selfless individuals in their basements. Fantastic.
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Any comments on the book? As quite time investment in so many pages. Anything better for Linux Reverse Engineering ?
Good points re economic instability as a driver for a -feeling- of less democracy and the distinction between wish and situation. Thank you.
Maybe in the Southern US. Here in Canada they're a lot longer from solving the snow and ice problem.
Good to see they are moving forward, but I have a working rig at the moment with virtual box.

"If it ain't broke, then don't fix it" is a motto I live by.

Better it's your blood on the bleeding edge rather than mine :-)
This is hilarious but I don't take this as a satire.

In my modest experience most companies have something like this going on. Either the guy that everybody think is a genius because he wrote a custom (shitty) framework or just the horrible process and code base.

And remember, when you interview for companies that ask you questions about the latest javascript trends, how you would design a nice one page application, how internal Go works, etc. They most likely work with spaghetti jquery everywhere and a homemade php framework as bad as in this post.
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Why aren't you running ublock and noscript?
> It sounds like the exact technology that Apple wishes it had.

Except... people just don't want to wear glasses. Especially not clunky ones.
I don't really understand the point of this article. For one thing, it conflates open source and free software, a difference which can be unimportant to many people, but is definitely important to the FSF, the GPL owners. And although they both result in freely available source code, they do have very different aims. The article is pushing open source aims, while the FSF pushes free software aims.

The article also shows a poor understanding of the GPL itself. For example, when talking about dynamically linked software, it is stated that since SMB was under the GPL, Apple was "afraid that someone might ... force Apple to share the entire source code of OS X." No! The GPL can never force you to share your source code. What it can do is stop you distributing software that isn't yours and that you were using under the GPL. In this example, the worse that could happen to Apple is that they would lose their rights to distribute SMB if they were found to have broken the GPL terms.
The dependently-typed-ish features of haskell can provide a sweet spot of both untagged data along with the flexibility of heterogeneous lists.
Why is there always a "genius" behind stuff like this?
I've been running Piwik since it was in Beta a loooong while ago. Its stable, fast and easy to use.

Its an excellent alternative to Google Analytics and you can circumvent a lot of the privacy problems when using Google-products.

It also feels good to own all the data you and your visitors generate.

I would like an easier way to move installations but all in all its a solid piece of software and really easy to set up and use.
I just leave a couple of excerpts for everyone to understand the level of competence up there.

> After signing controversial anti-terrorist legislation earlier today, President Putin ordered the Federal Security Service (the FSB, the post-Soviet successor to the KGB) to produce encryption keys to decrypt all data on the Internet. According to the executive order, the FSB has two weeks to do it. Responsibility for carrying out Putin's instructions falls on Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the FSB.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-sec...

> Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday at a media forum in St. Petersburg that the Internet is a “CIA project” that is “still developing as such,” the Associated Press reports.

http://time.com/75484/putin-the-internet-is-a-cia-project/
Except Google is exclusively focused on full Level 4 autonomy which is likely to be a number of decades out.
But how does it configure the page table?

There's no identity mapped mode in x86_64, which slowed down my work because of chicken/egg problems in early boot page table configuration.

That being said, I'd probably be using EFI in long mode if I was starting a bare metal project on x86_64 in 2016.
I read TDWTF as cautionary tales. I find this one to be reasonably (and scarily) believable. This 'Tom' guy probably looked at Subversion and decided, 'hey, history tracking is a GREAT thing, but I want to be able to see the history IN THE FILE ITSELF.' Thus was born JDSL.

The closing paragraph puts it perfectly. The design lends itself to production running latest trunk (because, obviously, it's assembled at runtime FROM SVN). The idea that a commit could instantly break production is horrifying.

Just another example of a developer looking for a problem to apply his solution to.
Really hoping this is a joke and fiction. At least I chuckled.
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> Founded in 2004 by Alex Papadimoulis, The Daily WTF is your how-not-to guide for developing software. We recount tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices.
Remy Porter is the editor-in-chief and needs to read your story or see your bad code.

And below:

> Submit Your WTF

Stories are not supposed to be fiction. Granted, editors can't check how true what you submit is (and often, you only have one side of the story), but there seems to be so much available material out there that we don't need fictional entries.
Amazon is already weighting reviews based on whether they are verified purchases, among other features: http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/amazon-updates-customer-reviews-...
Show HN: Your own AWS-like policy based access control written in Go
The dynamic linking clause is there for a reason, as it closes a massive loophole (put gpled components in a DLL, open source just the DLL and load it into your closed source program). But it does need to be clarified to more directly target just that loophole.

Currently there are questions about using opengl/vulkan drivers in a GPLed program on windows. They aren't part of the operating system (supplied by the GPU venders instead), so dynamically linking to them would create a gpl violation. But they implement standardised APIs that really should be considered as part of the OS.
23) War is never justified.

I had to stop there.
Speaking about Windows, it is also disabled on Windows 10 Home and only available on Pro edition. Hope they'll maintain VirtualBox support as a first-class citizen (well, given that it was the most mature option during the beta period, suppose they will).
Likely there are top-secret satellites doing exactly that for specific geographic regions. These likely wont retain all gathered data indefinitely however, and even if data is shared its tainted politically.
I agree, I think search is ripe for disruption, Google is the old guard in this respect, I think they reached a crossroads where improvements in their search experience did not translate to increased revenue, and they stuck with this 'good enough' solution which made a predictable amount of money. I still show many users the 'filter by date' drop down and it's the first time they have seen it, it still does not offer me any way to restrict my searches to categories, though it certainly seems to have 'knowledge' based data in reach when it shows me adverts. There is surely much more that can be done, most competitors seem to want to match reach rather than innovate on the UI, I'm sure there are lots of startups out there, so if anyone wants to point me in the right direction feel free :)
Would you have any interest in providing someone (I would volunteer) the videos so that they can package them in smaller, topic-specific pieces for easier consumption? I don't know anything about editing videos, but if your writings and lectures have taught me anything, it's that I'm capable of learning things and using that knowledge to do interesting and useful work.

As an aside, you are one of my main sources of inspiration. I was a high school dropout with several terms of failing out of community college courses, but after reading your PhD Grind series/book, I'm now a (nearly) straight A student and am very determined to go as far with my education as I can. I would be honored to help you in any small way I can to express my gratitude!

Thanks again for unknowingly improving my life.
There's a long history of using terms like loss to describe such segmented financial results. It's also typical to talk about them on an operating basis.

A vaguely topical example would be Xbox. Microsoft (and the press) reported losses on it for years, years were it would be reasonable to say they were investing in building up the division.
It's a really cool idea, the design is a big letdown for me though.
You mean the government wastes money?

That's a ignorant cheap shot. Speculative, risky research is costly because lots of things don't work.

The DARPA site you linked above calls it a "fully automated computer security challenge". They are not claiming it's AI.

Show me a definition of AI that would include papers published at NIPS/ICML or even AAAI and wouldn't include the same techniques as are used in the DARPA Grand Challenge.

AI is just a label, it isn't something magical.
I guess you guys proves that FB/whatsapp/Google/YouTube brainwashed most of Brazillians. After the coup, peace is reigning in Brazil (thanks to the media that stopped with the terror and the American tech companies, mainly FB, stopped their terror echo Chamber).