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It's probably very complicated, but I would answer yes to many of these questions. I think it would be worthwhile investigating a model where every home has a mini-grocery with affordable prices within 2 blocks of every home in these neighborhoods - and to achieve affordable prices, there may have to be some tax breaks involved, with some accompanying price limits on "staples" (bread, milk, etc). Difficult, yes; impossible, no; worth it, I think so.
The description I heard of the Japanese zoning system seemed pretty good: zones increased in terms of noise and irritants. In, say, zone 1, you could have low rise houses, but no commercial centers. But in the commercial zone, you could have houses.

So the zones set an upper bound but not a lower bound.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12325992

So you could start with the commercial zones and simply allow them to become mixed use. And for new developments, you could authorize mixed use cases. In a lot of areas they're currently forbidden, even with no existing residents.
There is no need to sacrifice owning a home with a yard or the ability to own a car. It is possible increase the population density in many suburbs through more effective land use, making more modes of transportation feasible.

Once those other modes of transportation become feasible, the myth of the personal freedom of driving may actually be true. Driving out of necessity is not freedom. It is a burden. It forces people to work more to purchase, insure, maintain, and fuel a vehicle. It forces people to work more to pay the taxes necessary to build and maintain more roads as well as higher capacity roads. It forces people to work more to pay higher taxes because the land lost to roads, whether it is paved over or serves as a buffer, does not generate property tax revenue. In cases where there is no business or residential frontage on a road, people are paying more taxes to build yet more roads to provide access the adjoining land. And even after you have considered how people are slaves to their jobs because of the expenses incurred by automobile centric cities, they are slaves to their vehicle because other modes of transportation are not viable.

Personal freedom comes from choice. Many of our cities are not designed with that choice in mind.
Mark Adler, the maintainer, has it here https://github.com/madler/zlib
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Yea, not native which is what the poster ended up meaning, but I hear that one you linked from Damian Conway is great.
Call me a skeptic (and this is an active board right now, I'm surprised I'm the first to say it) but this doesn't really add up. Guy is smart enough to fool the brightest HFT minds around the world and wipe out trillions of dollars in market cap from and make a lot of money 'from his investments' yet he loses all of his money 'from his investments'.
Is Azure cutting deals beyond the usual free 60k over a year or two or whatever it is for cool startups? Azure seems significantly more expensive in general, problems and slowness aside.
I think almost all zoning laws actually meet your definition; there are very few zoning laws (that I know of) that specify what colors or shapes you can use on your property. They all deal with things that 'leak' outside your property.

Do you have any examples of zoning or land use laws that don't fit your definition of 'things we are allowed to regulate'?
<div> is html while div[] is elm code. Are you asking why not support html in the elm code? IMO its much much nicer to just program the DOM in elm than translate between elm and html.
Also, I type my code any old way such as { counter: Int }. When I save elm-format reformats automatically.
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Not having Internet access, probably.
You can use elm-format and never think about formatting again.
Instead of mixing html and js why not use function calls for everything. I believe there would be no jsx if javascript would allow function calls without the parens.
Most of their income probably comes from customers that run their own GitLab Enterprises installs. This would have really sucked for all of their non paying users, though.
I like the idea of something that records your actions and creates a script, but for your particular case this would be super easy to throw together with Python and the Requests library. You just create a Session object and tell it to perform the series of posts and gets that take you to the desired page, and then search the text of that page for whatever info you want.
Singapore in general is probably the best example of what a wealthy urban benevolent dictatorship looks like. Their Single City Gallery (basically their urban planning museum) is a must visit for anyone interested in that sort of thing. Whether that's a desirable or practical model for a US city, I'll leave to others.
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RDS also comes with its own set of tradeoffs. There is no free lunch, and the cloud is just another word for someone else's server. There are reasons Gitlab opposes that.
The commute is created by the expense of moving closer to work.

If renting, you may suffer a rent control reset.

If owning, you lose 10% of the home's value to various middlemen. You also get a reset on property taxes.

Either way, you also have the opportunity cost associated with a house search, and you have the moving expenses.
The problem is that they more or less come as a bundle.

Not everywhere. Salt Lake City for example has wide streets and multi-story underground garages to allow locals and commuters alike to drive to the city, with a walkable city center above the garages. The newest residential buildings in the city also advertise their double-walled soundproofing between units.
Having a view is something some people want and they're willing to pay for it. With your scheme, nobody can be sure they'll keep their view if the neighbor builds too high and blocks it.
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The equivalent does sortof exist. You can of course preview your layout in the browser, and chrome (and possibly others) allows you to change the dimensions to reflect mobile devices. You can also link the source code in dev tools to a file, and edit the page live.
If 'caste system' is responsible for Indian IT workers, what do you think of Americans who have been 'scheming' from high school to get into HYP, then to consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG), IB (GS, JPM), PE (KKR, BS), hedgfuns. Of course, you don't see a caste system in the States.

You make it sound like 'every human being is not selfish' or 'most of the human beings are not selfish'. Just work in the service Industry, you see the turnover rate just because people want to make $2 per more elsewhere.

The reality is that caste system never exists, nor does it exist in India. Castes exist, however.
Smart is a hard thing to talk about. Like the concept of "quality". There are hundreds of different kinds, and I can't really describe it, but you and I both know it when we see it.

I can forgive them for being overly broad with "smart". You're also right that it's not one thing, but it's just hard to talk about, because it's like a wet bar of soap.
Thanks for your thoughtful response and attempt to provide logic and reason. I respect that. Just to quickly reply to some of this though.

> both you and the media would need to possess the truth. Since that is clearly not the case, you are once again jumping to the conclusion that the conspiracy must be true,

I am not rushing to jump to the conclusion that this conspiracy is true. I said the allegations should have some type of investigation. It is actually the media that has determined, with no conclusive proof one way or another, that this story is absolutely false.

> However, starting from the position that all organizations are assumed to be pedophile rings until proven otherwise is a complete inversion of our entire judicial system.

I never stated this. When speaking about Pizzagate in the past, I've always maintained that everybody is innocent until proven guilty. Given the types of allegations being spread here however, I support some type of investigation.

> Many of your arguments are analogous to saying that since some rectangles are squares, and we can't directly observe this particular rectangle, we must conclude that this rectangle is a square.

No, I'm saying that since we can't directly observe this particular rectangle, I think it's wise to investigate before making a determination about it's shape. The media are the ones that have already decided what shape it is before having proof.
How do we get there? Hop on a plane to China. Nearly any city there is high density mixed use.
Technicality?

This guy ferried gigabytes of secrets out of a secure installation, fled to a foreign country and was likely protected by one or two hostile foreign intelligence services, and then made a movie where he admitted the whole thing.

IANAL, but it seems like the facts of the case make this a pretty open-and-shut case. You don't get much more solid evidence than the accused admitting to the crime.

I'll note that you don't get to violate the law for "a good cause" especially when you, in your sole judgement, decided that the government you screwed over, deserved that screwing.

I'd argue that with the ACLU behind him, he's gonna get a much fairer trial than any one of the hundreds of other folks that get railroaded in our justice system because they are too poor to afford competent counsel.

So let's stop with the hyperbole. Nobody is gonna kill that guy. They are gonna keep him alive at a SuperMax prison in Colorado, right next to Hansen and Ames. A long life behind bars makes a good example for the next traitor who gets an itch to help out our adversaries.
One of the last times I was there, I remember I was staying in some hotel and could literally see the shopping center with the restaurant I was planning to eat in across the road. I had to get in my car because there was no way to safely cross the single road between where I was and where I wanted to get to.
> the human brain (without implanted computer chip of course) would just lose to computers.

Your conjecture is compelling but: As I previously stated, this has yet to be conclusively demonstrated on any realistic scenario I'm aware of.

HFT and air combat are hardly similar problem spaces.
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What does shadow mean? As the sun sets, there's going to be some time when things fall into the shade.
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First, I assure you my daughter is very real and ceased to be a hypothetical about a year ago ;)

As I said earlier, I don't think gender-segregated events should exist in a balanced world, but I don't have a problem with them when there is a great imbalance and they have the potential to tilt that balance back towards equality (by existing temporarily). The whole idea of them is to create an environment welcoming to girls and get them interested in coding. I don't particularly care whether they do this by promoting only to one gender or explicitly allowing only one gender; that's logistics. I care that if we can provide more girls and women with an accessible pathway into software, that's a good thing, because once CS classes are and industry are more gender-balanced, we won't need these types of camps.

Calling it "weakness" to gravitate towards something that other members of your gender are doing is misplaced, in my opinion. My computer engineering classes were roughly 95% male and I'm not so naive to think that those were exactly welcoming enviornments for women.

To deny these pathways is to claim that the status quo is fine and that this inequality is either meant to be or will somehow solve itself. I don't believe either of those things.

I don't really understand what "handicaps" the existence of an all-girl coding camp represents to men or boys. There are a plethora of options for us/them. Who is getting really, genuinely hurt by this, in your opinion?
Very true. I use to say that I'm too smart to be confident :-P
I went to one of these in an airport. They gave a first-rate demo. Seems like a good product, but they asked me what I thought and I told them, honestly, it's a lot like Google Cardboard.
I don't like the dark header.
But StackOverflow changed its header from dark to white and I don't like it either.

That makes me so confused about my likes.
I compile chromium all the time and the difference between the 2 can't be more than 10%.
The complaint that's currently in vogue here in Seattle is that if someone builds high density housing in your neighborhood, then the people living there will want to park nearby, and suddenly the people living there lose their abundant and free street parking.
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> Assuming the noise or smell was somehow contained, what's wrong with living next to a concert venue or Sriracha factory

Pretty big assumption, my friend. Generally they're not, or they're not contained well enough, or people are just old and grouchy so they go form homeowners associations and ban Sriracha factories. That said, I do agree with your overall outlook here, I'm just afraid that a lot of (particularly older, more traditional people) don't, so it's unrealistic to expect change. People don't like change, and they sure as hell don't like changing the way things change.
Imagine if the world's nail salon workers could spend their time curing cancer, fighting hunger or homelessness instead of the useless primping of rich people's hands and feet. If we only had an economic system to allow everyone to reach their fullest potential despite circumstances of birth, and social priorities where personal vanity was not placed above the good of humanity. In 500 years time maybe we'll get there.
Yea they talk about using 30 petabytes of data per year. Backblaze can fit that in half a dozen racks these days. I can't even imagine how much Google can squeeze into a modern data center. Storage sure moves quickly!
Sounds an awful lot like METAFONT.
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If you're OK with smaller cities, then there are quite a few options. I know quite a few people who live in downtown Raleigh for example. But I suspect that most of the people advocating for city living are thinking more in terms of SF and NYC.
Compilation and interpretation are also implementation strategy issues, unrelated to programming paradigms. Almost any language can be implemented using either strategy, and most systems we think of as "interpreted" in reality employ a mixture of the two strategies.

I don't know what you mean when you say they are also spatial and temporal in nature. You are being extremely glib, and I don't really understand what points you are trying to make.
I did the Windows equivalent once a long time ago (I think it's deltree?) and I did it on a university computer system. It cleared out a TON of files and the computer itself pretty much stopped working. I had to hard turn it off.

Fortunately the University was using some tool that can re-image a computer each time it boots before hitting Windows so starting it back up and all the deleted system and application files were back.
So let's stop with the hyperbole.

A long life behind bars makes a good example for the next traitor who gets an itch to help out our adversaries.

LOL, way to contradict yourself. Whatever, believe what you want, but Snowden is a hero and we all owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude.
1000 times this. Raw brain processing power doesn't have all that much to do with one's disposition to the world. Wise people realize that the smartest human is still hopelessly incapable of really understanding the universe. Smart people can come up with better models of reality, but they are still subject to the chaotic nature of the universe just like the rest of existence.

Forming and dwelling on a belief that society wasn't created for you is something that can happen for a variety of reasons. The healthy thing is to accept the things you can't control and figure out how you can best get along in the environment to which you are subject. For the very smart, there has probably never been a better time to be alive in terms of applying ones gifts.
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I get your point but I'm not entirely sure human capabilities are fixed. In fact I would opt to say that we're the only species that has evidence of not being fixed in capabilities. I have no doubt that pg was a better programmer in the 90s than I am today. However if me now and him then were pitted against each other to build some web app I'm thinking I have pretty good odds. Human capabilities are their inate skills * education * available tooling. Education and tooling improve as time goes forward (generally and hopefully).
It's still a symptom of the root issue -- sparse, car-centric cities. I live in NYC and the odds of me switching jobs to the point where I'd need to move (or purchase a car) are basically nil. Even if the only job I could find was in Stamford I'd still have a better commute than a lot of people in LA.
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You might be surprised. There are certainly historic districts that can impose fairly explicit regulations on colors and shapes. One also reads about HOAs that cause trouble about insufficiently mowed lawns and the like although I don't know how common that is vs. "man bites dog" news stories.
Windows 95 was great if you liked having to restart every 3 hours. At least if you forgot to restart, a blue screen would appear to remind you to.
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In the case of SMF, the same vulnerabilities were present in the production versions.

Do you have any other instances you'd like to inquire about?
I mean, that's bog-standard 80-20 rule stuff, innit?
Thanks for the pointer, it looks like iOS content blockers are preventing the images from loading in mobile Safari.
Saline bags are $80/dozen. They used to be $25/dozen before the price increases. While manufacturers did increase prices in lockstep, they are limited by the ease of new entrants. You might end up paying $700 for a bag but that's the hospital setting the price.
The average commute in Tokyo is 80 minutes on an extremely packed and uncomfortable train with lots of sick and often smelly people. Urban density is not in and of itself a solution traffic
I do not work on NLP, but my understanding was that, for purely syntactic work, standard parse-tree-based techniques had been quite successful in NLP; and that it is only for semantic work that symbolic representations begin to show weaknesses. Since we often care about the meanings of words, this is a pretty strong limitation; still, it suggests that standard grammar-and-parse-tree approaches do capture something significant about how human languages work.

Is this inaccurate?
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And that can be the case just as much even if there is no simple win-win solution to the problem.

One can hate the rules -- for their injustice, ineffectiveness, abstract immorality, etc -- and at the same time realize that the rules are an inevitable result of the complex system we inhabit.

As a student of history and humanity and a free moral agent, you can recognize the reality we live in, acknowledge that it contains many no-win situations, and still hate the status quo even if you don't have a solution for how to fix it, because it deserves to be hated.
In psychology, they call this having an internal locus of control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control. Just in case someone's interested in related work.
But none of the issues were azure/cost related except for the slow recovery? I mean, neither AWS nor GCE can make you notice youre not getting cron mail.
I'm someone who sees Snowden as a whistleblower rather than criminal. Of course he did damage to the US, but to me that was really ultimately the result of blowback due to the US's own practices. If the US is engaging in unethical behavior, and they suffer as a result of getting caught, it's the US government fault's not Snowden's.

Honestly, the current climate is terrifying to me, and I don't understand how anyone can see it differently. A quick glance at Trump's allegiences, with Putin, Duterte, and Ergodon, speaks volumes about the nature of what's happening. The immigration crackdowns today are horrifying, if for no other reason that they seem targeted against locales resisting Trump, and because they seem to be done with such little regard for due process (my guess is if this continues, they will end up deporting a legitimate US citizen, if they haven't already). Trump will start mass deportations of anyone resembling a foreigner, even if they're US citizens, and not let them back into the country to be heard a fair trial. His indiscriminateness is already evident in the EO against immigration from the middle east.

What bothers me as much as the idea of returning Snowden is a sense that this is all occurring because of collusion between the Russian government and Trump. Russia is amassing tanks in Ukraine, there's strong evidence of Trump's election team colluding with Putin's government, and now you have Snowden as a trophy?

Sure, the US ambassador mentioned something about continuing resistance to Russia's involvement in Ukraine, but that's undermined by Trump's own statements about Russia. To me it looks like what's going to happen is Snowden is going to be sent to Trump, Trump will parade his execution like he's Bin Laden, and then will turn a blind eye to Putin invading Ukraine.

It all reeks of authoritarian corruption. Any moral claims Trump might have about Snowden are undermined and nullified by his own corrupt business dealings with Putin and Russia. Corruption corrupts, it taints, it rots and undermines, and this is a perfect example of it.

We can argue until we're blue in the face about Snowden's guilt, but if Snowden's extradition and trial is occurring in the context of Trump using his position to for his own personal financial gain, at the cost of the US supporting corrupt authoritarian regimes, it's nullified morally in my opinion. At that point, Trump blew it ethically, and Snowden won.
I'm not sure if you're making an equally sarcastic point as your parent or not..
Anyone heard of these guys yet?

I couldn't find any prior mention of this coin on HN. It looks like an interesting idea - proof-of-stake, UBI-style distribution - where the Grantcoin Foundation uses it's funds to "back the value of Grantcoin currency on markets where it trades" - but I can't find a more detailed explanation of what that means.

(There's a few longer documents on their page I haven't had time to go over - maybe in there?)
This is beautiful. I'm sure it'll make picking up Elm much easier. Good job!
Maybe a bit of advance planning instead of doing everything just-in-time would be worth the extra free time not spent in gridlock.
"... the guest bedroom of the home (the least radioactive room, as it should be)..."

I think that's my new favorite quote from a scientist.
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Not married? No kids ? Asking your family to change schools and give up all their friends isn't something everyone has the option of doing
Buffer needs to provide business value beyond post scheduling. Tell me when the best time of day to post is or other analytics around posts. Provide a marketplace where people who want to sell products/brands can connect with influencers etc. I don't know.