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I think all the subway tunnels in the U.S., including those in Boston, Chicago, and NYC, are >24 feet in width. The London Underground's deep-level tubes are less than half that at <12 feet in diameter.

That said, I don't think American cities could run subway cars as small as in the London Underground even if they wanted to because of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Also, it might be difficult to make cars that small that pass muster under Federal safety regulations. AFAIU, Federal regulations basically require subway cars to be built like tanks.

EDIT: >24 feet just seems too wide for the old, deep tunnels in the U.S., but I can't find any references that aren't from books at the turn of the 20th century, which have very inconsistent numbers. I said >24 because that seem to be the width of old cut-and-cover tunnels and newer deep tunnels. I'm going to go out on a limb--based on random sources--and guess that the really old tunnels still in use might be closer to 16 feet in diameter. Feel free to correct me.
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Possibly, but there has been a lot of humans walking around North America the last 12,000 years or so.
I would stop using your fingerprint to unlock.
For the project:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_replacem...
PINs require you to remember them, and they aren’t actually required to solve the main fraud problem. The card companies decided Americans would spend less if presented with the hassle; who knows if they were right.

Physical credit card theft is a negligible source of fraud, it’s all about card cloning, which EMV does a moderately good job of preventing.
My Github profile is, in fact, the reason I got several of my jobs and clients in the past and there's a bunch of other people I know this is the case for.

It really is baffling how completely out of touch you are with the immense amount of benefit that the FOSS community and Github users have been reaping the past decade. You've equated Github to Oracle for some reason and are on a crusade against them, I don't get it. I truly don't get how you can be so hateful against people doing things right, versus the atrocious alternatives that exist out there.

Perfect is the enemy of the good.
The world population is increasing, and people are moving from rural areas and smaller cities to large cities in record numbers in every country on earth. The generations behind you want the opportunity to live in cities too. What gives you more right than they?

There are plenty of cities that aren't growing, even very nice ones. Cincinnati, St. Louis. If you wanted things to stay the same for your entire adult life, you should have picked one of those.
I'm sorry. I meant to post "I don't know what I think about ...." then my comment.

I think the tweeter's intention was to see what he could get out of this, but it also showed Scoble's attitude about the whole incident.
I used to sign my name as the president on digital signature screens for credit cards. Not so much this year
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Exactly, what's an apology without punishment? There have to be repurcussions of illegal behavior. Else I would just say sorry after murdering someone and get sympathy.

Remember, he's not sorry he did it, he's sorry he got caught.
Hmmm, I've never thought of it that way. My liberal friends are pro state rights for pot and marriage equality (before it was federal).

Doesn't freedom of speech also mean I can protest speakers I don't like?

Also disagree on Milo. Flipped through his book and he is garbage.
I wonder how crowdsourced paper reading can change peer review. For sure, we need experts to tell the quality of a paper. But most interesting papers coming out of Arxiv got read by experts anyway.
He's just sorry he was caught and not that he did it. Else he would have apologized earlier.
B-b-but it's okay to punch them because they are bad
For the sake of argument, let's say that Amazon "destroys communities" (I'm more inclined to believe the posts that blame Seattle itself, also "rent increase" sounds to me like a natural phenomenon that one company or the next will drive). I'd still rate being an Amazon worker above being a marketer or most kinds of paid writer.
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Soil, generally, is surprisingly delicate stuff. It accumulates at the rate of about an inch per century under natural conditions on such abundant landscapes as the US plains. That's slow, but over the 10,000 year span since the last ice age, it's enough for 100 inches or so to accumulate (about 250 cm).

Much of that isn't deposited but fixed from the air by plants which then decay in place, though the freshly-arrived material often provides vital micronutrients -- itself a problem in Australia where the lack of geological activity means that there is very little of these materials, limiting ag productivity.

In regions with harsh climates and short growing seasons (e.g., Iceland), there's little time for soil-forming processes to set hold, and the slight progress made can be undone quickly. Even in places that appear full of life, conditions may remove soil or nutrients, e.g., tropical rainforest.

If I think of things that may bring doom to humans, I tend to think a lot about dirt and bugs and plankton and algae.
This is excellent news and I'm incredibly grateful the code used to convict people will be publicly scrutinized.

That said, me and other C# devs have already found numerous signs that at least parts of the codebase were done by someone clueless or inexperienced with C#. And there's no tests.

If someone spends the time to look into the codebase, I'm predicting a basically 100% chance that parts of this code will be shown to produce inaccurate or completely wrong results. Innocent people will probably go free because of this.
Why is this title in quotes?
I've always assumed that signatures were purely for some form of potential legal proceeding where they court can ask, 'did you sign this?' -- and nothing more.
I'm curious about such a pricing model. Does a paid for version work with it being open-sourced?
I have waited in the rain for a taxi to stop for me in Manhattan for 20min before a nearby white guy saw me and hailed one for me (and didn't let the bastard leave when he saw me). Accountability is awesome.
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But with people moderating, you can never have billions of users.
> person who spends a lot of time marketing themselves but not actually getting shit done

Why can't you market yourself AND get shit done at the same time? As a person who likes to code alone in the dark (I started with foxpro and cpp in 7th grade on my beloved 386) I grew as the world changed.

> If you think a blog post is proof of knowledge

A Blog is a personal publication (freedom yay!) and shows that the person writing the blog at least "spent some time researching something that your regular job doesn't need you to do". And that's a big plus in recruiting.

Disclaimer: I don't have a blog because I don't need to :)

Coding is mainstream now.

Move On dude!

EDIT: waiting for downvotes from butthurt people!
It's a shame that EDN never got over the hump in terms of adoption outside of the Clojure community. At least that's my impression.
Github has done a lot to move the conversation from free software to open source.

"Open source" is now this thing companies do. It's now a PR and marketing trick, or sometimes an attempt to get free labor selfishly.

It is no longer about user's rights and freedom. Github has been a huge part of the slow bleedout of the free software movement.

I think this is the true damage that the combination of Github and "open source" companies have done to the software ecosystem.
I'm always amazed when I'm remembered how extremely young is US.
The little city where I was born is almost 3000 years old.
Reading that for some people forever starts not even 50 years ago is quite weird.
Kudos, but my bias is against feed content selected for me, and towards me deciding what is of interest - which is somewhat at odds with your unique selling point.

What led you to decide on a trial followed by paid subscription model?
Or maybe instead, we should open up the app market, so as to reduce the monopoly power over that market.
> Ads are laser targeted?

You clearly don't work in ads, we don't manage to have ads that render 100% of the time. Everyone thinks we have super awesome targeting that tracks your every move but most of that is marketing bullshit from people are trying to work for advertisers. Here's a huge amount are targeted do are you in this area, are you in the 18-24 male demo, and did you visit website XYZ in the past 30 days.
It doesn't have to be evidence of a crime. It can be evidence of policy violations.
I've done work in statistical genetics, but not in forensic analysis specifically, so take these rough estimates with a grain of salt. That said, forensic analysis generally involves identifying the origin of a tissue sample. If the sample is substantial enough for reliable genotyping, once the genotyping is done the actual identification step should take less than a second in a well-optimized system, even to pick out the origin from every human genome in history (assuming such a database was available.) It's just a matter of finding who has matching allelic variants, and ensuring that you match over enough common alleles with low linkage disequilibrium (shared-haplotype correlation) that the risk of a match is infinitesimal, even among individuals with high consanguinity. If you organized the genomes in a tree where each node split on a single allele, you could search in logarithmic time.
>I suppose it’s possible to get a pretty good env with vim (you’re losing a lot without a mouse), but damn it’s a lot of work to get there...

>unless you like manipulating your tools 10x slower than ide users

Imo using mouse alone makes you at least twice as slow as using keyboard shortcuts. Not only do you need to physically move your hand and find your mouse, then you need to locate your pointer (which might not even be on the same screen) then you need to swing it in the approximately right region of screen and search for the button to click. Only to return your hand back to familiar keyboard. All the while you probably could have just pressed 2-3 buttons and be done with it.

>Also vim seems less discoverable to me. If something’s not a keybind you already set up, you need to look up plug-in docs, or tab through all the hundreds of possible commands.

The handy `:help <what-you-want-to-know-about>` has so far served me well, when searching how to do stuff in vim.

Otherwise it is obviously up to your taste. I truly believe that you are wrong, just as much as you believe that I am. From my point of view you probably didn't give vim a proper chance (most likely you fell into the few big potholes that many beginners find themselves, which I'll admit is fault of the default vim configuration)

As for
>ctags for every language? Official language plugins?

Excuberant-ctags have so far worked with me on all but one language (Robot Framework), but people have long told me that exuberant-ctags is bad and I should use something else that is more advanced, I just haven't bothered since it handles C++ and Python well and that's all I currently care about. For language plugins, I guess only thing I have is specific syntax file for Robot Framework, but that's again only because it's still uncommon tool, so support for it is lacking.
Why do this when we already have a successful open one called Bitcoin?
Yeah, my personal thoughts on this are somewhat similar. As a JavaScript developer I prefer to do what I can in JavaScript as compared to Java, but that doesn't make Java bad. Java is actually better as a web middle tier for managing sessions and all the other OWASP goodness precisely because it is a completely separate technology. But at the same time if the end product is something that appears in a web browser you have to concede to some mastery of those skills for the sake of product quality. Putting everything into Java (or JavaScript) for the sake of comfort is so very bad.
That's a great point, I failed to realize. This is a two-deck tunnel, so the price increase might not have been as steep.

In any event, some of the original proposals were for six lanes --wished they'd carried that out.
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You are putting words in my mouth. Not that they are untrue about tech fueled influx, or the displaced from SF. If you want to turn me into a paper bigot, go somewhere else.

What Seattle would be well served with is the most draconian rent control that a region has ever seen. You own the place you live in, period. Owning a second home and renting it out should be legislated into oblivion.
Pfft...corporations and biz schools can't produce people who can solve these kind of problems, therefore we will see exactly what happened to HP, IBM, Sun, Nokia etc happen to Google.

There is a long line of pointless CEOs that all these companies produced that nobody remembers today. Why? Cause they are programmed like robots to believe in infinite growth.
Absolutely!! I’m originally from the UK so, living in the Bay, I joke that I used to go to pubs that are older than this entire town.

It’s a joke, but it’s also true: my high street had two pubs that had been around from the 1700s, a tourist information center that’s from the 1500s, and - in the middle of the shopping center - a ruined chapel from the 1130s.

That some places here are all excited about being founded in the 1850s took some adjusting to when I first moved. For me that was the age of my friends small houses...
Italy: I've never been asked for a PIN, which I don't remember and I'm happy not to have to. It was swype and signature, then it became chip with signature and it's contactless without signature now, but only for amounts under 25 Euro, I think.
It's a story about a drug company that is trying to unseat the current most popular sleeping drug.

They went to the FDA process twice. At the end of the article the FDA is only approving 10mm dosage of the drug which is just as effective as placebo and that if the patient get no effect then doctor can prescribe higher dosage.

The drug company wants to go back and get approve at the higher starting dosage because starting at 10mm is stupid and would make user think their drug is ineffective.

I actually like the story, I just interned from FDA and am taking survival analysis right now and it's pretty nice to get a clear view of everything and history of sleeping drug and the mindset of FDA and the Drug company.
Somewhat recently a reporter in Mexico was sexually assaulted and got a hold of surveillance footage and posted it to twitter to try to shame the police (they have a pretty poor record of prosecution of this sort of thing) and she was attacked pretty hard on twitter (and it sounds like the Mexican police were not very sympathetic when she reported it.).
https://news.vice.com/article/reporters-video-of-sexual-assa...
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The labour unions were unwilling to compromise to stay competitive with international factories.

I was surprised when it was reported that Toyota wanted to reduce the Christmas shutdown period from 21 days to 10 days in line with other international factories and the union rejected this. This was in the context of other car manufacturers shutting down in Australia at the time and they had to know that this attitude was risking Toyota leaving as well, but they just couldn't accept a reduction in any conditions.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/toyotas-altona-plant-to-st...
Of course you can. However, if your protest is done in such a manner that it negates their ability to speak, you've taken away their rights.

Oh, Milo is just a trolling attention whore. He's harmless. You should go spend a day on voat.co. If you want to, let me know. I'll go guide you around. You will see horrible people. There are some good people but they are the minority.
As the saying goes, Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
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well nearly 30 class action lawsuits have been filed against Equifax... If they come out on the other side any other way but in a proverbial corporate coffin, it would truly be a miracle.

The thing to look out for, and call me paranoid if you wish, is now to "rectify" the problem, government or corporations (or both), now start to demand rfid biochip implants as a reliable means of authentication..... or transacting business.

It sure looked far fetched before the Equifax breach, now not so anymore.
This is why I wish that there was a higher-level, maintained api for the compiler internals, to make it easier to do these kinds of experiments
This discussion about what police tactics work best very likely contain zero actual cops, but several people with certain knowledge.
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> Fixing this will have to be the next step.

Depends really. Moving to a different country would be my next step personally.
Microsoft wants to end cheaters in our games with an anti-cheating system
(I was joking)
Ask HN: What do you run on your VPS?
I just got a lifelong VPS for free. It's pretty minimal (1GB RAM, 60GB SSD, 1vCPUs), but it's also decent for most lightweight things.

What do you run on your VPS?
> a lawsuit in state court to dissolve a corporation

Couldn't they just re-incorporate the next day in another jurisdiction.

Or it implies that the state can force them to sell all the assets, lay off all the workers, and return the money to creditors.

Well in either case, it is a nice fantasy. Doubt anything like that would happen. Even worse, after nothing happens, everyone who deals with such data will watch and learn a valuable lesson - "Don't bother with security or data protection much, just hire a PR firm and wait for online news to cool down for a month, then continue as usual".

Look at their stock https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:EFX was $140, crashed to $100 then recovering, now at $110. Only 20% down or so. And that's after losing SSN, names, addresses, etc for large chunk of the US population.
Using Mac Chrome I was given the option to "inspect" on the right click menu.
I created https://github.com/adtac/commento - it's lightweight and privacy-focused. It's written in Go and you run it in a Docker container.
I'm continually baffled as to why gentrification is the new renters' fault but not the landlords'.
I'm glad someone wrote this.

The posts about low quality are just continuing stereotypes, and the data shows the opposite. Look at the ratings for any Australian built cars that were exported or sold in Australia, and they do really well.

The thing about long supply routes is wrong too. Mass freight is just so cheap that location doesn't matter.

The exchange rate killed the industry. $A1 bought $US0.5 in 2000, and $1.05 in 2013. Hard to export competitively when that happens.

OTOH we did avoid mass unemployment during the financial crisis, and the economy even kept growing so I guess that is the upside.
In med school or just in undergrad?
I'm way up outside Rangeley, Maine. I even have true old growth and there weren't many natives in the area. So, there are some places where it's a good guess. They aren't easy to get to, of course.
When FB and social media is used in a way that results in a "favorable" change its called the Arab Spring. When the result is "unfavorable" its called Russian interference.
This is insane. They're using ML to predict wind speeds at different altitudes and how to move the balloons with their various speed and power restrictions to optimize on-the-ground connectivity while maintaining close enough clusters and decent backhaul. Incredible.
Amazingly, it looks like they still use Sanger sequencing, and a lot of the uncertainty will probably come from genotyping errors.

There is a lot of anonymized genotype data in the 1000 Genomes Project (http://www.internationalgenome.org/data), but the devil is really in the genotyping details with this kind of thing. It looks like in the validation project (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4113877-1-19-17-Exhi...), they went from biological samples to sequence data to analysis results, which is the right approach.

With this kind of low-througput genotyping so much depends on the accuracy of the genotyping method, though, which in turn depends on the lab, the protocol, the technicians, and sometimes even the weather. The software is not where I would start, in worrying about forensic evidence based on this method, though it definitely could be a source of errors.
I don't think we can even comprehend what lies ahead of us for the future of urbanization. The cities, the suburbs, and the rural districts are all undergoing radical generational changes, and there's no hope things settling down anytime soon. If anything, the pace just keeps accelerating...
A much more feasible option would be to directly make it a law that camera footage must be producible on request, much like tax receipts, driver's insurance, transit passes and other such documents.

There would still be lots of details to get right, but at least it wouldn't violate the basic underlying principles of our legal system.
Wellllll, I can't edit it anymore, but yeah, got that totally wrong (original source was a real estate developer who's involved with a couple of the projects).

I suspect he took "about 60% more than any other city" and radically misinterpreted it (and I went and parroted him -- oops). Original conversation was right around when this article was published: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-ha...

Apologies for the error!
When annual salaries get reported in this context, you have to watch for the pea and the thimble trick where they take the base hourly rate and multiply that by standard hours to arrive at the annual salary, but nobody actually gets paid this amount.

This is because the base rate leaves out all of the various loadings that are applied under different circumstances. There are so many circumstances for loadings that the base rate becomes meaningless.

Overtime is only one way to get paid more than the base rate. Also, overtime becomes a meaningless word when you can get overtime just for working slightly non-standard hours, as opposed to working extra hours.

The agreements are written in a way that makes it really hard to calculate what a worker is actually likely to get paid annually. The only way to be certain is to look at the worker's group certificate for tax purposes.

So, while what Senator Carr said was probably technically correct, it was also meaningless since I would suggest that no worker was actually paid that amount in a year. It would be more meaningful to ask what the average amount on a worker's group certificate was.
Whoa—and there's currently one in Georgia enroute from Nevada! That's super cool: https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL033/f3b3a2c
> Listening to tech people talk about their 2 and 3rd Seattle house (concurrent, not serial) sickens me.

As a tech person in Seattle, could you please tell me where all these fantastically megarich Seattle tech people are? I'd like them to take a look at my resume.
That is pretty awesome. I didn't realize the scale and complexity of what they were doing. When I first heard reference to this, I for some reason assumed that these were simple tethered balloons, not stratospheric swarms of AI balloons!
she posted somebody's phone number. If there's one surefire way to get punished on twitter, that's it.
Does Scoble seem reasonable to you? I think I'd stopped paying attention to him by the turn of the century, certainly by the early naughties.
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> The problem is with situations like where our President tweets gifs promoting violence against people and news organizations, or attempts to instigate nuclear war via Tweet.

That is spectacular. Our current culture war is THE reason why the Left is losing.