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Just want to point out that Detroit built itself this way through the 1950's and 1960's. At the time, urban planners thought it would be efficient and sensible design.

What ended up happening, though, is that as factories shuttered, the neighborhoods that were built around them started to collapse. The net result was pockets of localized decay, that eventually led to the entire urban area rotting as more people left. It's actually kind of stunning to see in person. (I live about 50 min South of Detroit). And oh, the riots of 1967 didn't help, either.

It's hard to imagine that happening the the metro-Bay area, but I remind myself that people once thought GM, Chrysler and Ford could never go under.
The best way is to make work from home / remote default. If US does then devloping countries can follow. If Fortune 100 company makes rule for thier offshoring companies allow work from home then they pretty much can solve traffic issues all Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad in a month. And the country like India can also improve infrastruture other than road .
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Nevada is too different, the combination of non-enforceable non-competes and the nice weather can be duplicated elsewhere in CA easiest, and this is happening. If your state has big corporate HQs forget about getting non-enforceable non-competes.
We considered starting a company in SF a couple years ago. I'm glad that we decided to instead start it in Mountain View (http://www.dremio.com). We're able to attract very talented people from San Jose, Milpitas, Redwood City, etc. where rents are a bit more reasonable.
Once you have a social circle is hard to move. Not many People are open to completely uprooting to an area where they have zero friends or family
Pg:

"Here's a test for deciding whether a VC's response was yes or no. Look down at your hands. Are you holding a termsheet?"

From http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
There are also YIMBY orgs almost everywhere. The south bay YIMBY twitter account has updates on what you can do as well.

From following the YIMBY movement (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/06/yi...) it's hard to not take the YIMBY position. More needs to be built, but we can have ~10% BMR requirements as ways of increasing diversity in a neighborhood and preserving some local control/culture. If enough is built, there won't be a need for BMR.
It doesn't contain the horrendously-overused word "excited".
If the issue is cars being status symbol being fancy but cheap won't help and won't make it desiderable nor a status symbol anymore than a dirt cheap rolex would
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That's almost not a joke - I did particle astrophysics, not astronomy, but for the exact same reason you state, our physics results (we used particle physics as a window to astronomy, or at least we tried to) would end up with broken power law fits.

There's something deeply satisfying using a model so simple to explain a piece of nature. :)

Example: cosmic ray energy spectrum. http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/7/075009/downloadFigu...
They prefer “CIA” without an article, oddly enough. At CIA, CIA concludes, etc. When speaking with other Washington types the A is often dropped, too. “(So and so) at CI” is something one hears a lot.
In Spanish and Portuguese "mal educado" == literally "poorly educated" is used to mean "someone with poor etiquette ... doesn't know how things should work" ... writer probably means in that sense.
Agreed, with regard to the quote about Montessori, Papert and Bruner, I don't have the necessary background knowledge to truly evaluate the statement. The terms "pedagogy", "psychology" and "mathematics" are very broad though - not meaningless, but nearly so in this context. If you say somebody combined teaching in general, theories of human thinking in general, and mathematical reasoning in general, that's too broad to really get any sense of what's being talked about, and whether the ideas are valuable or just hot air.

I guess I've come to be suspicious of pure philosophy, or theory divorced from practice. A broad idea can be wonderful when it's used alongside actual practice (like Bret Victor's explorations of immediate visual feedback and interactivity in creative tools and programming tools). But when it stays in the theoretical realm it can get insidious: perhaps designed to impress rather than inform. I haven't deeply dived into Alan Kay's work except for learning a bit of smalltalk (and enjoying it), but everything I've come across since leaves me scratching my head wondering if there's much substance under all the semi-profound and abstract talk.

So I guess I'm expressing my growing antipathy towards pure theorizing divorced from practical implementation. Together they can be wonderful, but if grand ideas are floated around in a vaccum too long they start to stink.
You could start from something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y
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Perhaps the 65000 years people didn't leave any descendants. Or perhaps that DNA research wasn't definitive.

You say there are multiple things that contradict it. What are the others? It can't be evidence of people being there at more recent times -- that doesn't contradict evidence that they were there earlier.
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That's a fascinating point. Can any lawyers comment on how the law might see this?
SETI analysis: http://seti.berkeley.edu/ross128.pdf

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I've evangelised this tool on every team I've worked with for years. It eliminates _so_ many forms of conflict and bikeshedding. (Plus I have contributed in a trivial way to the Emacs plugin; they very happily accept PRs).
Trend down doesn't mean the number of Linux gamers is decreasing. Even if you assume the survey is correct and representative, it can simply mean the number of Windows gamers on Steam is increasing faster. Besides, Linux gamers are less likely to use Steam than Windows ones (DRM-free preference).

From DRM-free stores, GOG unfortunately don't publish any stats, and stats from HB show pretty good Linux percentage.
You make PhD sound like robots, only able to follow what they've been programmed to do. Persons don't have "entire value propositions", and they may welcome a different environment than what they've been doing in academia.
Your reasoning is flawed. Once a contract is developed that proves to be secure, it can be used over and over at no additional cost.
The "Lead by example" behaviour mode is going to get more visible in the US, I imagine. Let's hope that most of the population has a good sense of what is right and what is wrong and only do the right things.
> This is also probably why startups tend to hire younger people, rather than older developers who've worked for places where the risk tolerance is very low and thus they take the time to make sure things are very solid.

Appropriate older developers should have an even better handle on when (and how) to write good code and when (and how) to write bad code. Moreover, their bad code will be better, and produced faster.

Young coders are hired mostly because they are cheap and don't understand stock options.
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Imagine you and your friends are for some reason dissatisfied with the way you are able to deal with money among yourselves.

For example, maybe you like to quickly reimburse each other for dinner, but you won't or can't use Facebook Messenger payments, perhaps because some of you aren't on Facebook, or you're not in the US.

So you want to make your own little payments system. You might start with just setting up a simple server that tracks your debts, with a simple web app to log in and send funds. Suddenly it's much easier for you to pay each other!

Once that works, you realize it would be really neat to have group payments, where you can automatically split a dinner bill, for example. And then maybe you'll even want to kind of crowdfund your dinners, so that any of you can put up a request that says "please send me 5$ each until tomorrow at 4 and I'll order food." You can see this becoming more and more complex.

This is kind of the evolution of blockchain going from simple transactions towards arbitrary smart contracts.

A contract on Ethereum is basically just an address that's associated with a little script in a stack machine bytecode. When you send a message to such a contract, you're actually signing a transaction that says "I hereby perform the instructions of this contract with these given parameters."

For example, the bytecode of contract X might be:

VALUE 2 DIV DUP <address-1> SEND <address-2> SEND

(The SEND instruction doesn't actually exist; you'd use the CALL instruction, but it takes some parameters that would make the example less clear.)

So this contract, when transacted with, would split the ETH value sent to it in half and send to "address 1" and "address 2".

The neat thing about this blockchain thing, compared to a Messenger-style central server, is that you can federate the service in a P2P way, so several of the friends can run a node that verifies all the history, and nobody needs to be trusted with an admin password that can change history.

The neat thing about having those smart contracts on the blockchain instead of as proprietary code is that each participant can (in principle) look at the contract's definition and know for sure what it does, and the contract can't be changed arbitrarily.
I think this is great way to search for PhDs with programming skills for free. I am really getting sick of this kind of covered advertising method. It devalues hn.
For sure, 40 fps is playable, but at that point you might as well just buy a console and play the games with that with no hassle and run Linux for other purposes. It will probably be cheaper in the long run.

However I've spent money on 144Hz monitors and for enough performance that the games I play run on at least constant 120 fps. Obviously it's not necessary if you are in it just for a story, but as mentioned in another post I exclusively play multiplayer games with my friends and if you haven't experienced playing games (or even just using a computer) with 144Hz (running at or higher frame rate) it's like a night and day.
I've purchased several houses both with and without mortgages. If you are getting a mortgage, the underwriter will need an appraisal in order to calculate your loan-to-value ratio. They will need title insurance (for which you probably want to get Owners coverage anyway) which requires a title search.

I've never had an underwriter ask for a home inspection report.

But in any case that doesn't mean you need to write a contingency into an offer that the house will appraise for a certain amount or else the deal is off.

Even in "cash" offers there is the offer letter with a check with a deposit amount, but there's still a time period for you execute a purchase and sale agreement and make the final payment. This is where you do things like title search, prepare the P&S agreement, prepare other documents like fire certificate, septic certificate, etc. This always takes at least 30 days anyway, so if there's an appraiser ready to go on Day #2 there's time to get your loan closed before closing day even on a "cash" offer with a quick close.

I'm not quite sure what you mean "no escrow period" but in no case does anyone simply show up at Open House day with a check for the full offer amount and expect to close on the house that day... that's simply not what "cash offer" means.

A "cash" offer with no contingencies simply means your offer amount will not change even if the house appraises for less (requiring a larger down payment to achieve the same LTV) or if there are issues discovered by a home inspector (e.g. roof needs to be replaced).

Note even in a "cash" offer there's still plenty of room to negotiate if non-obvious things are discovered about the house because the seller is still providing a property condition statement (at least in any state I've done business in) where they attest to the overall condition and any adverse issues like septic failing certification or prior insurance claim for flooding or things like that which you discover after making a "cash" offer -- all of it the seller had a duty to disclose and frees you from the offer if you decide to walk away before signing the Purchase and Sale and accepting the quitclaim deed.
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Can BART overcrowding be addressed in part by improving BART itself? It'd be one thing if it were already moving such large numbers of people that it'd be infeasible to expect higher capacity, but its current ridership isn't even all that high. The Chicago "L", for example, has a similar number of track-miles (though more stations), but moves twice as many people on an average day. How is BART moving half as many and yet overcrowded?

Wikipedia says that current headways fall short of the original plan, which seems like it could be part of the problem:

> In the 1970s, BART had envisioned frequent local service, with headways as short as two minutes between trains and six minutes intra-line on the (quadruple-interlined) section in San Francisco. However, headways have fallen short of the original plans, presently three minutes between trains, and 15 minutes intra-line in San Francisco.
As long as you want the exact same contract.
Ah, well, some PhDs do work with an agile mindset (fail fast with research ideas, most of them suck anyways). PhDs seem to be all over the map in how they approach problems.
How did the white hats understood the vulnerability? I don't know anything about ethereum so i'm honestly asking. Is there a public log of the method invocations so they could see the hacker was exploiting that exact vulnerability and decided to replicate it?
People should give up. People should leave the area. They should move where they can find a job and a cost of living that's reasonable. The fact that people don't give up is why landlords can afford to charge $2,800/month for a 1 bedroom. You can't rent at $2,800/month if no one will sign the lease.
> Attackers certainly hope so

They don't. As the parent said, the problem with the internet is that billions of people have access to your office door. Cut the external cable, and it's right back down to the number of people who literally have access to your office door. It's not a good fix, but it absolutely does make random or semi-targeted attacks far less likely, which leaves only someone with a specific bone to pick who is targeting you--and even they'll have more barriers to jump to get there.
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Regarding smart contracts and other inventions of cryptocurrency: I think, most of all, the crypto market is absolutely vicious, in a way that both capital markets and technology companies haven't seen(in the public eye) for many, many years. As of right now there's still some faith left that Ethereum is going to go places because firms keep trying to use the technology on the basis of hype. Unlike with most overhyped and half-baked tech, though, the failures do not get shoved in the back room for some hapless dev or ops team to deal with. This is like if Apple and Google had daily columns on the front page showing every bug or support issue that they experienced in the past 24 hours.

And that's been true right from the beginning with Bitcoin: scams, schemes, heists, data loss - the headlines scream blood all the time. We've never had that kind of "mean time to disaster" in technology before. The status quo was that something would fail, but the failure would never quite get back to the individual or company that produced it. They would spin it away, and no careers would be harmed. But the likes of Solidity produces a meat-grinder, a blind destroyer of any who dare enter calling themselves rockstar.

I think it's kind of awesome and beautiful, in that sense. It will induce a maturation throughout the economy to adapt to this new pressure. But like adolescence, it can be an ugly work in progress, and I don't expect Ethereum itself to be a survivor at this rate.
Well, what's the point of having a smart contract if it's not the final authority? We already have contracts that require highly paid humans to judge whether they've been broken or not. To me at least Etherium was dead the moment they chose to fork because they felt a contract was "hacked".
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>But, you would need to up your game if you really want to argue your case on HN. I can think of several good arguments, better than "Why do you care if I get high when I get home?"

There IS no better argument. Pardon my language, but I think a large proportion of the HN community especially agrees with the sentiment of STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY BUSINESS. If what I am doing has no or marginal negative effect on others, as a free human being with rights to self actualization, personal fulfillment, and self-determination, no one has any right tell me what I can and cannot do with myself.

The drug war is fundamentally about the restriction of human rights and invasion of privacy.
Good! We need every inch we can muster in the fight against global warming/heating. And I mean, come on, Miami is perfect for this.
> but at that point you might as well just buy a console and play the games with that with no hassle and run Linux for other purposes.

I stay away from DRMed platforms, so incumbent consoles are no go for me.

About higher framerates - it should be OK, once AMD will merge FreeSync support in amdgpu driver upstream. My monitor is 60Hz anyway, but to have good experience without tearing on high frequency monitors, FreeSync can help. Today, to use it you'd need to install customized kernel from AMD.
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From the article:

"During the intervening decades, the control groups have expanded. In the 1970s, 456 Boston inner-city residents were enlisted as part of the Glueck Study, and 40 of them are still alive."

"Those ties protect people from life’s discontents, help to delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes. That finding proved true across the board among both the Harvard men and the inner-city participants."

The study control for the effects of class. That refutes some of your assertions.
A serious question: are the benefits really worth it? How much overhead would it be to just include the library code directly into the contracts instead (so that the whole thing can be verified as a single black box)?
The survey doesn't show up when you are in big picture mode. Since Steam machines boot into big picture mode, they will never get the survey unless they switch over to desktop mode, which takes some effort. That would account for some of the Linux under counting.
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For MATLAB, just forget redistribution in general. Nobody is going to buy a MATLAB licence to run your code.

That's a bit far fetched. People already having a Matlab license (and it's not like there aren't many of those) already made that cost, so buying your Matlab product is not really different. Alternatively you could compile your code into a C API and distribute that instead: the Matlab runtime itself is free of charge.
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Gecko (and many other large C++ programs that care about memory usage of certain heap allocated types) uses bitfields often enough, and we've had to teach bindgen how to generate bitfields so that we can access them from Rust.
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PhDs are people too. They can have very different backgrounds. If the biggest, boldest, thing you see in the candidates with PhDs is always them having PhDs, you are painting everyone with a PhD with the same brush, you are having incorrect prejudices, and probably making a mistake.

Similarly, considering the author's self-declaration of being a TechStars alum, I also could pass judgement about them being a second-rate company since if you are willing to go through an accelerator, and you have not gone into YC, that probably means something. Luckily I know better than that. But I bet this superficial judgement would be more statistically accurate than painting all PhDs with the same brush.
> Or would the goal be to hire the best 100 and that should end up being roughly 35 females that are equally qualified and therefore earn the same?

Yes, that - hiring the best 100, and using the same criteria, and paying the same, regardless of gender.

If you _didn't_ wind up with 35 females in your scenario, then investigate. It might be that by chance few of the female candidates were good, but it might also be that they were penalised by inadvertent (or overt, in pathological cases!) irrational discrimintation.

Edited: oh, and often the systemic problems start earlier in the pipeline. Even the number of female applicants can be inadvertently driven down by creating job postings that appeal - in the aggregate, on average - more to men than women.
The parallel is totally damn right. eval with an unverified user input.

> _walletLibrary.delegatecall(msg.data)

Dunno how much contracts in the wild have such brilliant feature.
You're missing the point. Asymptotically, we have much better bound than 1.25506 -- the asymptotic bound is indeed 1+e for any e > 0, as the prime number theorem explicitly says that lim pi(n)/(n/log n)) = 1. The constant 1.25506... = 30 * log(113)/113 is only relevant because that's the the smallest global bound, which is there to take care of n = 113.

If you rewrite it to log_2, you get the 1.442... constant, which throws your calculations off by "almost 50%" I mentioned in my comment above. And yeah, it doesn't change anything in the qualititative analysis of storage needs, but that's not my point -- my point is that in math, you should avoid saying things that are explicitly wrong, unless there are very good reasons to do so.
>People mostly become addicts in response to something bad happening in their lives

This is absolutely untrue. It would seem that you are living in an ivory tower of your own. I won't recount anecdote, but take a look at this source[1].

1. http://theinfluence.org/do-we-overstate-the-role-trauma-play...