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> The problem as I see it is that we force everyone onto the freeway. Need to get somewhere a few miles from here? They make it very difficult to get there without getting onto the freeway.

This applies to many American cities, but not really most of LA. The relatively grid-like nature of the surface street network + the level of highway congestion makes short trips do much better on surface streets most of the day.

Of course, the flip side is terrible surface street congestion (to to go east from Santa Monica to UCLA at end-of-day rush hour... or south to LAX on Lincoln). But it reflects that LA's street planning is in many ways much more like an "old" city than a "new" one with lots of intentionally-confusing local road routing and consistent, easy routing to the highways instead.

But when every street going west->east or north->south is backed up, whether they're 1 lane or 3-to-4, I'm not sure there's any room for a denser grid of narrower streets, or that it would improve much.
I think it's likely that Trump will make difficult demands of his staff, and they find a way to make it happen. The President doesn't necessary get involved with the details of formulating the strategy to accomplish the demand. What's more important is the President thinks about risk factors, fallout, long-term implications of the strategy their staff proposes.

The 'incompetent' comes from an apparent disregard of thinking about the consequences of his actions. The 'blowhard' is self-documented.
Hey, not even the CIA can crack the Intel management engine.
Even without migration, the synchronization can be an issue. In older multi-core machines, tsc synchronization was an issue among cores. Modern systems take care of this. And core CPU clock frequency change is also taken care of, so that constant rate is available via tsc. However, when hypervisors such as VMWare or paravirtualization like Xen come into play, there are further issues, because RDTSC instruction either has to be passed through to physical hardware or emulated via a trap. When emulated a number of considerations come into play. Xen actually has PVRDTSC features that are normally not used but can be effective in paravirtual environments. The gettimeofday() syscalls (and clock_gettime) are liberally used in too many lines of existing software. Their use is very prevalent due to historical reasons as well as many others. One reason is that the calls are deceptively "atomic" or "isolated" or "self-contained" in their appearance and usage. So liberal use is common. A lot of issues come about due to their use, especially in time sensitive applications (e.g. WAN optimization). This is especially true in virtual environments. There are complex issues described elsewhere that are kind of fun to read. https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf and https://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.3-testing/misc/tscmode.txt.
The issue becomes even more complex in distributed systems. Beyond NTP. Some systems like erlang has some provisions, like http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/time_correction.html#OS_Syst.... Other systems use virtual vector clocks. And some systems, like google TrueTime as used in Spanner, synchronize using GPS atomic clocks. The satellite GPS pulses are commonly used in trading floors and HFT software. This is a very interesting area of study.
> But why are we willing to pay for electricity, gasoline or air travel, but not for roads?

Because we already pay for roads through taxes, and car registration fees, and drivers license fees! Meanwhile the money that gets put into tolls doesn't get returned to infrastructure we agree with. It goes into company pockets who then monopolise the roads for decades and providing awful service.

It also penalises the poor; everyone in a BMW/Audi can pay the tolls and travel in comfort but the rest of you need to go to cattle class in the bus. Ummm, subsidised by everyone else of course.

You don't get to make money off of the commons just because you're unhappy that - you know - commoners are using it "too much".
There's a big difference between war and spying. Accurate intelligence can actually prevent wars as it keeps governments honest about their movements and actions. It can also limit the damage of aggressive actions as it allows us to help target only the actual enemies rather than the enemies plus everyone in the entire village (obviously not 100% accurate).

Your claim that having the tools to spy on people is inherently unethical, but I don't buy that. The ability to hack a TV is nowhere near the ability to destroy a city with a WMD. It's not even on the same slope.
Who said "being not surprised that encryption is broken"??? Read the quote again: "Intercepting audio/texts before encryption"

I'm not surprised that they can INTERCEPT and read ALL your communications... jeez
They work a little better in LA than elsewhere, but yeah. In LA they have solid lines, so if you see a cop and jump out, they can nail you for jumping the line.

Anywhere else, they can only nail you for the carpool violation if they catch you, but you aren't as suspicious as someone jumping a double yellow.
I like your example a lot. It's easy to imagine a monstrosity of an equation stretching off to the right, but knowing the solution (or at least a solution) can constrain the knee-jerk reaction of "oh, that looks complicated"
Pragues transit system is very good.

I used to code on a bus-commute in germany, i honestly must say i liked it more then driving around in a car. Its quiet, you can focus, and its the perfect length to create a feature.

The problem with buses is they attract those who are no longer allowed to drive (alcoholics, drug-addicts) - but overall.

Maybe something like the african Matatu system for comuters would be ideal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matatu
The cost of vehicle ownership is a sizable toll people already pay. Even a beater is $300/mo. for insurance and maintenance, not counting the fuel. We've dumped our second car (2010) to shed about $900/mo. in insurance, maintenance and loan payments.

And then you've got this double-edged sword that Lyft is cheap enough to be competitive with vehicle ownership + parking (for commutes up to about 8 miles), and the Rideshare cars have automatic free access to the HOV lanes. So those people get to ride fast without removing a car from the road as the HOV program intends.
Might not contribute much to the discussion, but I found this pretty sad:

- Mac users can encrypt their drive with 1 click.

- Windows users would need the Pro version and prefer laptop hardware that supports TPM.

- Linux users would require disk reformatting
I'm not sure if it's the fact I work in the industry and therefore in a bit of an echo chamber, but almost every other story has a security angle these days - and that can only be a good thing, raising its awareness.

Whilst this list isn't perfect, it's certainly a good starting block. Oh, and obviously these suggestions aren't just for start ups! It's nice seeing about the risk of 'insider threats and data leakage' being brought up, seeing as I'm working on a service in these areas.
To improve C++, I'd need to write proposal papers to the committee, mount a campaign to get it accepted, attend all the committee meetings, and wait years for the next standard to get through the process.

With D, I could implement it and ship it in a few days or weeks.

Of course, I could (and did) add features to the C++ compiler I developed. But I soon discovered that nobody was interested in using features that were not part of the standard - even the people who proposed the features would not use them.

Over time, many of the improvements put in D found their way years later into the C++ standard.
Key points you are missing:

1. the society in question is Norwegian

2. the social norms of what is "equally subject" to the law is also interpreted by Norwegian norms.

So for example in the US. everyone pays the same fine for speeding. In Norway, the fine can be 10% of your annual income ( http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/07/highest-speeding-fines/ )

The Norwegians view this as a "equally subject to the law"
> On the bright side, if you live that far from work, your housing is probably cheap.

Yeah, your house probably cost ONLY 500k-1mil!
I actually found that article to be one of the clearest explanations of how a jet engine works I have ever read. It may be exceptionally simplified but that can be a very good thing
Agree, I wouldn't do that either. For those russian guys it's bit different though, as they are already hired, with decent salaries and benefits (for Russia). Moving to HQ is just a big (and questionable?) bonus.
I think every writer makes mistakes. Stay humble in your writing and people will correct you in the comments.

"develop the habit of letting small bad things happen" - Tim Ferriss
This:

> There is a strong correlation between self awareness and intelligence

Does not support this:

> Anyone who chronically sniffs is not very smart

Chronic sniffing isn't necessarily (or even likely) a sign of a lack of self-awareness.
I live in Australia. The last time I took a bus, many years ago now, a bunch of natives took turns urinating down the aisle and threatening to slit the throat of all the white passengers - which was just me and the driver. I live in one of the major cities.

After that I went out and bought a car and I get more than a little upset when anyone suggests people should be forced to do otherwise.
Tinder Select is a secret, members-only version of the app
Hmm, maybe some big company with a great speech to text capability could offer to process the videos to add captioning info ...
This is standard for Facebook open source. Keep complaining though, they've made adjustments in the past (it used to be worse?) due to these types of concerns being raised.

Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356508 (2 years ago)
One real problem with Pragues tram system though, is that we use island stops (stops that are in the middle of the street, so you have to cross a lane to get to the tram stop). You can see why this is bad in this map of pedestrian collisions and deaths https://samizdat.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?a... The blue and yellow bubbles are pedestrian injuries, the red ones deaths. You see that along the grey lines (tram lines) there are clumps of injuries and deaths, those are where the tram stops are. So far, we haven't found a great way to solve this, except to put fencing up to discourage people from jumping out into the street to catch the tram...
http://www.metrolinx.com/en/projectsandprograms/transitexpan...
This is pretty much the definitive book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/dp/193236496X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_NMZ...
Of course, D having a much larger community these days means that improvements take longer from conception to ship. More community means more process.
So everyone but the wealthy (defined here as property owners in LA) still gets screwed?
Let's not add commercial value, this is about solving real problems, not making money. The constant mixing of those two is what creates problems in the first place. There is no problem in having a an economical positive impact with a solution, but not solving a problem purely because it would "only" solve problems for many people instead of also making a ton of money is a bad way to live (at least, that's what it looks like).
'gradual hire' sounds great in theory, but it is going to be a pretty unattractive option for a lot of developers. One problem is the lack of certainty - why would I get 'gradually' hired somewhere if I have other options where I can get a permanent job right away? The bigger problem is the lack of benefits, which presumably includes health care. In the US, at least, this would make it pretty difficult - buying insurance on your own can be very expensive and going without it is risky/costly, so it would be a pretty big problem for a lot of people, especially those with health problems or a family.

I think this method would highly select candidates that didn't have better options. The reason it works in your first example is that the person being gradually hired is employed by another firm that offers them stability and benefits in the meantime.
I've been enjoying this new push into cross-platform, open source stuff by Microsoft, whereby everything is always broken, incomplete and incompatible.
Everyone knows single-payer would be great, but practically speaking we don't have the votes :(

I'd also propose a ban on drug marketing, which would reduce about half the costs.[1]

I don't think that excluding monopoly drugs will work. First, the industry has made significant progress in the past two decades, so for most major diseases, the leading treatment was patented within the last 20 years. Second, drug companies have little incentive to make direct competitors, and R&D effort is better allocated in areas with unmet medical need. Third, unpatented cures are already cheap, so by market size, almost all drugs are monopolies.

Over a third of the $333B pharmaceutical market[2] can be attributed to:

- Antibody drugs, $100B revenue and growing, almost all after 1997. E.g. Herceptin for HER2+ breast cancer, Humira for arthritis, Avastin for many cancers.[3,4]

- The cure for Hepatitis C is patented until 2028, and currently has $20B revenue.[5,6]

Disclaimer: I've worked in the industry.

[1] http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2013/05/23/ano...

[2] http://trade.gov/topmarkets/pdf/Pharmaceuticals_Executive_Su...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4622599/

[4] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/antibodies-market-no...

[5] http://www.pharmacompass.com/patent-expiry-expiration/sofosb...

[6] http://www.pharmacompass.com/radio-compass-blog/top-drugs-by...
Salt Lake City, Utah, has had very good success with light rail.
And they're using git flow
Reader mode seems to break on web pages with an ampersand in the URL (on my phone, at least).
>delivery services

So you are paying make it worse for everyone but you. Brilliant.
Why Topological Data Analysis Can Deal with Complex Data
I have installed vpn on both my PC and phone, even through google were back to China, I would still visit google.com, not google.cn. So fuck off.
> The worst part is having to create a new account for each of these career "portals".

Oh it gets way better than that. How about when you are applying to XXX company through a portal and YYY company also uses the same portal? And how about when it won't allow you to use the same email address, as if that is some highly suspicious activity that should be disallowed?
And still the usability of FF on iOS is so much worse then the one of safari it stands no chance and that is not all Apple's fault :(
You forgot regressive forms of taxation. So increase the street sweeping to 3x a week in the bottom-feeder neighborhoods, and issue 3x the number of street sweeping violations.

Hyperbole aside, when you see gentrification in neighborhoods like Boyle Heights, one has to wonder how numbered are the days of LA's poor neighborhoods.
If anyone from Penny is still around, I have a question. In using the app an error occurred and Penny apologized and said someone would look at it shortly.

About 15 minutes later I got an email from an engineer saying my request got caught right in the middle of an upgrade and that's why it failed.

Great service and a fast response time, but I'm curious how much information is shared with the engineer when that happens? Considering that happened automatically without me requesting help, I'd hope extremely limited information (and absolutely no financial information) is given to the engineer assigned to the ticket.

How much information can an employee see about a particular user? How about when an error occurs? Is it possible for someone at Penny to see financial data, and if so what is the process for an employee querying that information about a user?
leafo! This made the thread 10x better, for me at least :)

Since he doesn't want to mention his company, it's called itch.io. It's a game marketplace -- kind of like Steam -- but with a ton of pretty interesting ideas when it comes to advertising, pricing, etc.

The really cool thing is that the site is written entirely in MoonScript AND uses the Lapis web framework, which he also wrote entirely in MoonScript.

Anyways, if you're ever looking for a place to host and/or sell your game, itch.io is definitely the place to go.
With innovations in services like squarespace, wordpress, web development tools and frameworks, the push for kids to learn coding, and the overall push into digital / IT, good'ol web development is going to fade away into a low pay blue collar job (for most cases). Atleast thats how I interpret it.
Clearly the only scientific thing would be to have different tolls on different weekdays. Monday: $25, Tuesday: $10, Wednesday: $17, Thursday: $50, Friday: $31. Now you can see which price eases congestion the most!
I'm not sure I see this working, unless you toll every road or have a hidden toll by enforcing a local gasoline tax. Surface roads are a very viable way to make relatively long journeys in LA when the freeways are jammed.

When I fly into LAX and head to Studio City, I take La Cienega, Fairfax, Fountain, and Cahuenga.. it's so much faster than than the freeway unless it's night or weekend. ("Take Fountain" is even a cliche in Hollywood.)
This is just a band-aid. Same with adding buses, lanes, trains, etc. When something goes wrong in software we usually try to resolve it by finding a root cause.

There are a lot of cars on the roads. Why?
People live far away from their work. Why?
All the office buildings are in one central place. Why?
... Etc.

The solutions to the root causes, whatever they are, are, unfortunately, a lot more complex and expensive than adding lanes or tolls. However, knowing the root cause allows us to implement policies and laws that can incentivize behaviors to address the root cause in the long term.

For example, change zoning laws for a better mix of commercial and residential within smaller areas.

Increase the cost of vehicle registration or gas taxes to encourage workers to prefer jobs closer to their home. Tolls on major highways rather than smaller streets can be part of this.

Provide free public transit in areas that meet requirements of commercial/residential mix.

These are just ideas. I don't know the real root causes, but a single policy won't help unless it's part of a comprehensive plan to reduce the NEED to travel and travel long distances.
We made paper stickers reminding people that they are illegally parked and we place them on the wind sheild. If it rains, then the person will spend a good 15 minutes getting the gunk off.
Well, yes, in an interview for a Java dev position I'd expect the candidate to be able to write code (whiteboard/paper) which at least remotely resembles Java syntax, is logically correct and does not break universal things like byte vs. char.
Try less, and smaller roads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess'_paradox
> So why even give a shit? As long as what they're publishing is true

Guess the phrase "lie by omission" doesn't mean much to you.
> Everytime I read news like this it just furthers the impression in my mind that Congress's SLS (and that rocket program is truly owned by Congress, not NASA) is an incredible waste of money that makes your average military recruitment contract red-faced with embarrassment.

Welcome to alt-space point of view of a few decades. Looking at NASA contracts - and Congress mandates for them - you can easily guess that the goal of them isn't space related, but something else - maybe politics related, when you have a fell-good agency, lots of work contracts distributed across many states and producing jobs for same old ways of doing things. If one would care about space exploration, one should definitely use modern opportunities for faster, better and cheaper technology. And even if, as in case of SpaceX, you have more mission failures for unmanned missions, you still have net savings and tremendous advantage in the speed of development.
I have seen the same thing happening in construction. An old building was being refurbished into some social housing units, and this building had a lot of storage space in the basement. But because the lift couldn't reach the basement, the contractors were forced to build a brick wall to block access to the basement otherwise it would violate disabled access laws. So no one can benefit from the storage space...
I installed the basic C++ tools (precompiled modules, Win10 and 8.1 SDKs, etc) and it has taken 2.5GB out of my C: drive (hardcoded location for the Windows 10 Kit apparently) plus 2GB on my install location.

Then I added NodeJS tools and everything went into the C: drive.

If I select Cordova and other Android and mobile stuff it quickly complains that I do not have enough space - which suggests these tools and SDKs are hardcoded to C: as well. I have not investigated in more detail.
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Little Snitch does filter itself, but the Allow rules are there by default. I remember on a previous version, one of the steps to pirate LS was adding a rule to block it from connecting to it's servers.
> On the bright side, if you live that far from work, your housing is probably cheap.

And that's exactly why things are the way they are. Shockingly, given the choice, most people would happily trade a long commute for the ability to spread out and not pay through the nose for the privilege of being crammed on top of other people.
A bus anyway in LA is substantially longer than driving. LA traffic is so annoying that a lot of people would likely take the bus if it was faster.

If there were 10x more busses, and I could pay $10 for an all day pass, I'd take the bus every other day. Especially if the higher cost limited those who unfortunately use mass transit as temporary shelter. (And find some alternative temporary no strings attached shelter for them.)
Norway comes down strongly on speeders ( http://www.speedingeurope.com/norway/ ) with mandatory jail time, etc. Seems like it is just part of how Norway regulates drivers.
Damn, I liked clef. Used it on a few sites and it was pretty seamless.
That's mostly caused by buses though, not private cars. Eg Oxford Street is one of the worst but has no cars on it.

Not sure how productive it is taxing buses...
Sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE (rather bad quality, good explanation)

There's a supersonic variant called an "unstart" which is very dangerous.
I haven't seen a compelling use case for these things yet, including visiting the homes of people who own one. But I sure have seen a lot of deal-breakers.
> Which file types are accepted?

> All of them

It is not accepting my Calculator.app. It just sits there, never uploading.
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