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>centered all around driving

Are they centered around driving?

First, the development pattern of suburbia was centered around white resistance to racial desegregation [0]. Suburbia wasn't "about" the car, it was about opting out of certain societal changes and rejecting the premise that humans could or should figure out how to live in close proximity in units larger than the nuclear family.

Now that that's fallen out of fashion among many, we're still stuck with it because:

a) Wealthy urban residents have gotten used to things being uncrowded, wish to protect their property values, light, and air, and see preventing dense development in the neighborhoods as critical to doing so.

b) Poor urban residents and their liberal allies across the income spectrum wish to keep rents affordable for the people left behind in cities during white flight, so they pursue policies to keep these people in their homes (rent control, requiring a percentage of units to be below-market-rate and allocated by lottery to those below an income threshold, blocking luxury construction on the belief that it will keep neighborhoods from gentrifying, etc) with the side-effect of slowing down middle-class reurbanization. (If you're a professional but not oligarchical white dude with particularly leftist friends, expect to be called out as a gentrifier if you move to any dense neighborhood you can afford).

The car is just the mechanism that lets us cope with low density. You might think that if the coping mechanism is gone, we'll be forced to find a real solution, but the people who rely on driving are, far as I can tell, a different cohort from the people who control the planning commissions that block construction in major cities.

>Your attitude seems to be that it's up to others to somehow 'fix' modes of transportation until the somehow compete with driving in terms of convenience, because your convenience is apparently much more important than considerations like the planet.

Yeah, basically. We need to fix driving too - public policy kicks towards smaller, more fuel efficient, hybrid, and now fully electric vehicles are critical. Getting people to step down to the minimal motor vehicles that work for them is also great - for example, California got me out of my 28mpg car and onto a 150mpg motorcycle for most trips through the composition of the BART parking lots.

It's always a balance. If we valued the planet above our own lives without limit, the only rational action would be suicide. We would certainly not be having this discussion with manufactured computers sipping generated electricity. It's good that people are pushing the balance further towards the planet's favor, but there are always going to be tradeoffs we're not willing to make.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
The Secure Enclave system has yet to be publicly broken. While CCC showed a hack against TouchID in a lab setting, it has not been replicated and is not easy to reproduce.
Why on earth would you format it if Windows Defender caught the "virus" (in this case a false positive) before you had a chance to run it? As long as you haven't run it (php in this case, so you'd have to have run them on a local web server), even if there were a virus, you could simply delete the file without opening/running it and you wouldn't have an issue.

I also have to know...if you think you have to format the laptop whenever a file you haven't run is detected to be a virus, how many hours have you spent doing this useless exercise?
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I've never been a parent or teacher, and have not been responsible for raising children in any formal capacity. So, my question is...

Are the kids remotely interested in programming, and does it make sense to try teaching them if they show no interest? As a child, I remember pushed towards taking piano lessons and hating every second of it.
The figures presented here give a general idea but should be taken with care.

A lot of these small virtual servers are packed into a single host. The actual performance you get depends a lot on how your neighbors are using the resources they share with you.
I wonder if this kind of research also translates to language design for quantum computers where determinism has to be sacrificed to a degree?
> You can do the same things as in Lisp, with type checking

Can't easily do even simple things like variable argument functions, or polymorphic lists (required for representing source code for macro programming).

Lisp has loops, variable assignment, stateful objects of various types and so on. Also, strict evaluation for straightforward, deterministic sequencing.
> I don't understand. What do you mean by this?

Ads embedded in the video stream (i.e. "burnt" as one with subtitles) can't be blocked but also can't deliver any active content (JS, Flash, etc) used for tracking or infecting users.
The other thing that makes the anecdotes better is avoiding thinking/emotional statements. Also using smiles and metaphors
to give the listener something some color. Try to tie it back to an experience they’ve probably had.

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How can it be so hot in the morning that you sweat right after the shower? My first shirt? I immediately sweated through it. On the bus I sweated through the second one too. The only open seats were the ones in the sun. That plastic was on fire! I had to shift around in my seat until it cooled enough for me to sit still. At one of the stops I spotted an ice cream cart. The smoke from the freezer floated out as the dude was reaching in to grab one of those drumstick cone. I would have bailed on work, bought the cart, and took a nap inside if we didn’t have that meeting scheduled.

A couple hours ago I saw John walking with an ice cream cone. I was like “Where’d you get that?”. Turns out his manager has an ice cream social every week. I tried to crash it, but the break room had nothing but empty cartons in the trash. At this point, it’s like God himself is telling me “Go forth my son, find some ice cream.”

So I went to Dairy Queen to get some Blizzard action. You know what? They were out of ice cream! I’m like “How can you be out of Ice Cream? Dairy is in your name!”, He’s smirks and said, “We still have cheese.”. CHEESE?!?!. So I ordered cheeseburger. It’s was good.
if everything is a polar change, nothing is a polar change.

having a boring conversation about nothing doesn't make it a series of polar changes.
One wonders, which department will be on top.
Simple RESTful API with Koa
I would be interested into some more details. Disclaimer: I am not a drug lord.
> Does he literally have a finger on an abort button? I find that very hard to believe.

Why? Anyone can call a hold until the T-10 second mark (after that the computer is the only thing that can call an abort). All they have to do is call "Hold, Hold, Hold" on the countdown net, and the person who actually has their finger on the button will press it.
assuming you're in Europe, where they have laws which mandate a certain amount of natural light. No such thing in the US. Our workplaces, the unique campuses of Google et al aside, are far behind. I've worked in places that felt like dungeons and no workers made a peep about it. Actually, my own high school was modeled after a prison - no windows at all in the entire building (seriously). Here, even in NYC, I'm not aware of any office towers that have end-of-trip facilities for cycle commuters (just finding a place to park or store the bike is a luxury). Our work culture is awful... please don't point to Google or Apple's campuses either, they are anomalies. Go look at what kind of environment the average American works in. I've also never been offered ergonomics checks or advice by company staff, let alone equipment (bring it myself). OSHA (occupational safety) is basically a joke in this country, so nobody really fears it or thinks about occupational safety, especially in white collar office settings.
Curse those model train enthusiasts!
Other options :

Dejaclick

Selenium IDE
This sounds really cool, now why wouldn't the general population do it this way, even assuming it was packaged in a convenient open source app?
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Legos. I think the key concepts are building and creativity. After all they are kids.
I wanted to do something similar with a slightly different formula but got into major issues. I couldn't log in from any other computer without opening a terminal and typing code for two minutes. I couldn't use it from a mobile on the go. key logger was even more dangerous since now the attacker could learn all my passwords instead instead of just one.
Wise.
Oh also... This is not true of aethism either

> the belief in one true way to understand reality

Again, there are no tenants of atheism, no rules, no insistence that there's only one way everyone should define reality. We just don't believe in God and that's the entire thing. Some atheists may think that but I don't and it is not atheism.

We're not in a religion, a club, or anything. I don't get to tell another atheist they're doing it wrong because there's no affiliation between us.
This is far from the closest to launch SpaceX has called an abort. Many may not remember 3 years ago when they called the abort at T-1 after main engine ignition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v0k_0PTLnI

To be honest, though, neither case is really abnormal. There's a whole reason it's "T-minus" and "T-plus". T-zero is the point of no return (on the STS, this was when the solid boosters were fired). An abort at any point before then is still considered normal. Aborts after T-zero are anomalies.

(FWIW, even the STS has aborted take-off post-main-engine ignition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bkYP3pU76I . The main difference between the SpaceX Falcon and the STS is that the Falcon is capable of re-igniting its engines almost immediately, making a same-day re-attempt of a post-engine-ignition abort possible. The STS main engines require a manual reset, making abort post-engine-ignition more costly.)
> Are you seriously saying you think Apple or HTC would stop selling things to Nebraskans?

I literally just said Apple isn't the one who will have trouble affording to pay for these regulations. And that it's difficult to spare a tear for a big company.

Reread my comment.
Wow! That's a pretty interesting..i actually never thought of it like that...that 'hacking' only extends to engineering type..examples: farming is hacking ecology..yoga is hacking breath..procreation is hacking mortality etc. to me..a hacker studies a secure well established and seemingly stable system for loop holes, enters it, breaks it down, creates chaos and redesigns it. As I understand it now..it is not necessarily about problem solving in technical parlance. But being a non technical person, I see 'hacking' as a diff way to solve problems as I understand it from a colloquial point of reference.
That is quite silly. I briefly contemplated this idea for TXR Lisp, but completely rejected it. The = function is numeric comparison, like in Common Lisp. You don't want to turn that into assignment. People used to Lisp dialects where = is numeric comparison will make the mistake:

(if (= whatever whatever-else) (you-got-burned))

Arc code written by people used to Lisp dialects where = is a pure comparison function, or Arc code converted from other Lisp dialects, has to be carefully reviewed against this.

If I put this into a Lisp dialect, I would make the code walker issue a warning whenever the value of a (= ...) assignment is used, and provide an alternative assignment operator which doesn't have that warning.
It is so telling that when we [1] read this headline, we thought Apple was saying how great this would be for Nebraska; that Apple is suggesting Nebraska can boost its economy and profile by becoming a hub for technological innovation.

Turns out they're trying to scare Nebraska into not doing it.

Doug Barnes, of course, told us all along that Apple was hostile to hackers.

[1] Or at least, "I"; I'm hoping it applies to other people as well.
Iep. Running the tests over the new commits before pushing is still required. Usually not a big problem.
The article as well completely ignores the fact that the Medellín Cartel has had a "strategic partner". Interestingly, the name of that partner is often connected with drugs. It is the CIA (no... not the Cocaine Importing Agency but the Central Intelligence Agency):

http://fair.org/extra/media-censor-cia-ties-with-medellin-dr...
Have you had to repair an Apple product? You basically get the shaft--they either try to replace the entire board or they force you to buy a brand new computer. It's a freaking joke! All because some tiny resistor or random chip crapped out. It's ridiculous what Apple has done to make their hardware cheap and non-fixable as a profit motive. So spare me all the talk about 'security' since when you're sitting there with a busted $3000 laptop and your thumb up your ass, you might reconsider your options.
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The US Navy is already involved a fair amount, as the article described the torpedoes getting detected by their acoustical signatures. That is not US Coast Guard-built skills, equipment, and expertise, so I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the military is involved way more than we are let on.

This presents an interesting operational challenge for the US Navy. Say they are authorized to engage and terminate without warning any submarine operating within US territorial waters that is not a registered civilian submarine broadcasting its presence, or another US military submarine. Just how would US naval underwater assets know who each other are without compromising their mission if it involves staying undetected? The closest approximation I can think of is encrypted sub ID and anticipated operating theater within the next 24 hours, using a Gertrude-like system or some other two-way submarine communication (and there aren't any good current choices for systems in that field).
I don't know. I suspect that whatever drives that site is broken. But StatsCounter says 6.75% for Firefox.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/?chart_type=line&statType=Browser
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I'm bad and should feel bad and only do my corporate books once a year right before taxes. Each year I've completely forgotten everything about QuickBooks specifically and accounting in general, and have to rediscover everything.

Is there a quick, written overview somewhere of creating/classifying accounts, processing transactions from banks feeds, etc? Ideally it would also cover common things like what taxes we've paid (state, local, federal) I need to pull out and track separately from payroll and the like.

We only have about 100 entries a year right now, and mostly with the same few vendors. It feels silly to pay someone else to do this, though I'm willing to hear that I'm insane to be doing it myself.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674890
If you want to read an article from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong about how to keep the country you are ruling free from corruption, I suggesting reading http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/fight-against-corruption....
I sometimes wonder what it means that there's a common, concise idiom for "I'm about to knowingly say something offensive, but if you're offended it's your fault".
Try just staring at yourself in the mirror for 10-20 minutes. It is a very strange, disorienting experience, almost like a dissociative drug.
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?....
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?v....

Just compare the amount of code execution CVEs found on a yearly basis and the level of severity of each. Then think of how Firefox has much less marketshare than Chrome (FF sits around 8% and its share keeps going down year by year), so Chrome should be a more interesting target for hacking.

Then come back and tell us which browser has the lesser amount, and when some are found, which is most likely to have the more severely exploitable vuln.
A Python script on my Android phone computes the above. I might write a native app later. I'm also thinking of making something at my desk that emulates a USB keyboard that I plug into my phone with an OTG cable to enter the computed password automatically.

For less-sensitive sites (i.e. things that aren't going to screw me over if my account is hacked), I just save the computed password into the Chrome password manager. The computed password can't be feasibly used to get my master password anyway.

For many sites it's possible to stay logged in with a session cookie without saving the password.
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Sure, here's a good overview of some of the controversy with this issue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/upshot/death-by-medical-e...
So true there is way more to the browser than the java script engine. So I ran ye old browser showdown on my comp (Fresh everything). Firefox and Chrome are very similar in speed with Java benchmarks, but once you get into the "real-world" type benchmarks, Firefox was faster by a large margin and was almost 3x as fast as Chrome in some tests.

You can take a look at my results here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/58doo8csebp9l62/Bench.pdf?dl=0

Each browser has it's strengths and weaknesses it seems, So I run all of them lol
For my day to day tab filled behemoth I have to use Firefox, any other browser can't handle the ~80 tabs I have open at once.

In fact me and my roommate have on going challenges on how many tabs we can keep open and up times of the browsers/OS's (He is on Win7). During our battles we have tried tweaking some things and using odd browsers and such, but to be competitive with one another we have to each use Firefox cause it just has that much better memory management/stability.
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Or a magician, a few years ago I watched an interview with a magician who just said his only key to success was daily practice, hard work, forcing himself to get up early every morning and just grind through it for years until he was good enough to invent his own tricks.

This is what I use The Art of Computer Programming books for. I'll watch a lecture in basic computer science I'd forgotten long ago to get the intuition being explained of concepts like generating functions, then look up the subject in TAOCP series to read Knuth's explanation, and do all the exercises possible. Most universities I've found with open calendars or lectures have been locking down their assignments to prevent students from cheating and looking up answers like 15-251 at CMU. They have public lectures but no tests or exercises available so TAOCP complements these lectures for anybody self-learning by giving you hard problems to reason about so you remember the material. https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.a...
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When Good Intentions Backfire, and why we need a hacker mindset
This is how video conferencing should work: I go to your page and generate a link. I send that link to participants. They open it, the video conference starts full-screen immediately. High resolution, no plugin downloads, no prompts, no "invites," nothing. No clutter on the screen at all. I don't need emojis or filters. If there are 4 participants, split the screen automatically into quadrants with each participant's video in one quadrant. None of that Hangouts auto-switching nonsense.
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I've been making a simple command line quiz with our 9 year old, using Elixir. It went pretty well so far.
> Use ACID compliant Database or not

How is that specific to only NodeJs?
I don't run the computation on devices I don't own, in case my master password gets leaked by a keylogger. If I have to login to a non-sensitive site on someone else's machine, I compute the password on my phone and the type it in manually.
> Clearly HN even hates the suggestion

You are suggesting https://www.android.com/tv/?

You might be jumping to the wrong conclusion about why your first post got a downvote. I don't know, and didn't downvote, but I imagine it could be due to talking exclusively about Android & Google in a thread about Nintendo dev kits...
But tabs-on-the-side is important enough that they are running an experiment with a first-party extension right now. https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center It's gong to be a priority for the new extension model to support this kind of thing before FF57.
Here's the actual legislation [1] (pdf).

Of note, notice the carve-out for automotive industry.

> Sec. 7. Nothing in the Fair Repair Act shall apply to motor vehicle manufacturers, any product or service of a motor vehicle manufacturer, or motor vehicle dealers.

Why is Nebraska making it easy to repair farm equipment and cell phones but not cars?

[1] http://nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/105/PDF/Intro/LB67....
Cutting through wayn3's (unproductive) sarcasm, he has a point. The typical programmer is going to be better served by the network of contacts he/she develops over time than the code they develop. The people you are sitting at the table with may get promoted, leave the company etc., and can open the door to opportunity down the road.
I don't mean for this comment to come off as condescending but if you think that all a PM does is "come up with features and an MVP" and have people build it, then I think you ought to really go talk to multiple PMs to get their perspective on what their job entails.

Coming up with features is just one of the 100s of different items a PM will do on a daily basis.
Check out Fanboy lists for uBlock Origin: https://www.fanboy.co.nz/

Also, there are several extensions specifically for blocking social media tracking, which also block comment sections (and you can still go directly to Facebook)
I agree, I'm just surprised that Google isn't pushing it as a serious console alternative for gaming on your TV. One of the common complaints is that Android users don't pay, but I feel like a lot of that is price anchoring; if you anchor to typical console prices you can probably raise the price users are willing to pay.
I'm an ER Doc. The focus on illegal immigrants is way off base.

There's a law called EMTALA which is basically an unfunded mandate that says, in part, we can't just turn away patients because they can't pay. This was because slot of hospitals (university of Chicago in particular) were dumping or transferring patients to other hospitals who couldn't pay and making huge news stories. As you mention, this means people who can’t pay get free health care.

Who does this end up being? Almost 100% alcoholics and homeless patients, often with severe mental illnesses. When there are no resources for them, they end up taking ambulance rides to the ED, say they have Chest pain, and then we give them thousand dollar workups that you end up paying for. Illegal immigrants at large county hospitals are often grateful for any care and usually actually do end up paying at least some portion of their bill, and often are not super high utilizers.

For example, do you know who the number #1 utilizer of NY state medicare dollars is?

http://nypost.com/2009/07/12/hosp-itality-abue/

Trust me, if hospitals could sort out paying from non paying patients they'd do that in a heartbeat (if they have one). There's lots of programs that try to draw those sorts of patients in, like international elective procedure patients and elderly patients who are universally paid for by Medicare.
My son is 8 and started using Scratch at school. He had me install it on my macbook and he created a simple side-scroll game and a program to play the Jingle Bells chorus.

I was impressed with how quickly he went from "just tried this at school" to "leave me alone, Dad, I know what I'm doing here".

Seems like a good intro for kids.
That's a pretty terrible idea. Your web browser is probably the most important piece of software to keep up to date, besides the OS for security reasons.