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Yes. If I had to give any advice to young programmers it would be these: 1. Learn to touch type. 2. learn to code in Python. 3. Learn emacs.
Time zones aren't for farmers; they're for employees who have employers who won't (or can't) let their employees set hours that give them free time in the daylight.

There's also opposing needs: working folk like afternoon sun so they have daylight when they get off work, parents with school children like morning sun, so it is light when their children are waiting for the bus, and in the winter there's not enough daylight to satisfy both groups of people.
> Space is not the issue - space utilization absolutely is and zoning laws produce suboptimal space utilization. There should be a lot more residental sky scrapers in the bay area than there currently are. If San Fran adopted the zoning of say Dallas, things would be different and probably more affordable.

Another point is that the land under a building may not support a building taller than a certain height.
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dense housing is efficient in all manner of ways. American sprawl is one of the primary reasons we contribute so much greenhouse gas per capita
Brutalism is super cool though.
I think it was a MAJOR impact. To show that you actually can beat a super power sends a massive message.

Germania at that time was actually quite similar to Afghanistan today. Tribal, violent culture, high breeding rates and no bounty to be conquered. Unlucky Romans. Unlucky Americans today?
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> The 8 year old might still need some hand-holding, but the 11 and 13 year old

I grew up in the 1980s - so I know this might not translate, but...

...when I was 8, my parents allowed me to do all kinds of things "by myself"; ride my bike around the block, go down to the corner Circle K for a candybar, play with friends next door, etc.

...when I was 11, I'd ride my bike much further away, and my friends and I would shoot bb guns at birds (horror!), explore farmer's fields, and more.

...when I was 13, I'd ride my bike with friends, and we'd complete multi-mile circuits around our small city, heading out to "far off places" and exploring (and falling, and getting back up).

I dunno...to me, it sounds like parents don't let their kids do these things anymore? Granted, I lived in a small city at the time (bigger today, and where I grew up is much less rural than it was back then), so maybe in a more urban context it might or might not be as safe (if nothing else than dangers from more automobile traffic).

I can't really say one way or the other which is better, but those experiences shaped me in a certain way; it's disheartening to think that kids in general don't get to experience that any longer (or as much)?
It’s not uncommon to find fixed-rate mortgages that are significantly cheaper than the corresponding rent for the same home. The risk is only high the first decade, and then it becomes a huge safety net.
When your service is a commodity, consumers choose by price and ease of integration. This is a great way to make the choice easy
The most addictive substance on the planet, and still have to make bribes, strange.
Wish same could be said about NYC.
AFAIK there are unofficial C++ Torch Interfaces, but nothing official.
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Monsanto is fucking genius. This is the kinda can do attitude I associate with American Capitalism. Get other people to break the law for you and create a network effect that no-one can run away from.

Buying stock in Monsanto.
What do you mean by out-of-core?
I'm not trolling but you cant take 1 company and have their reviews as "this is how it is in the entire industry".

I don't want to sign in though, since that service offers nothing for me as a non american.
They include the combination to unlock it in the delivery address

Most shipping software will "standardize" addresses, contorting it to CASS standards, often thereby omitting unparsable add-ons.

In fact, most will contort my address to something the USPS will bounce back to the shipper if the P.O. takes its rules to the letter ("#123" gets changed to "UNIT 123", which the USPS considers invalid).
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Density provides many benefits. For example - how much is an hour worth to you? How many hours a day do you commute? How many hours are just sitting in a car watching traffic (or the countryside) driving back and forth to work? That certainly isn't a zero dollar impact.

It would be nice if telecommuting was an option, but even most computer-based programming positions don't have a lot of telecommuting flexibility.
Oh it’s not at all. I particularly hate having things in my pocket. That’s my use case. And honestly I rarely close my windows or sliding glass door so it’s the least of my non-concerns.

Check out the defcon video where it gets owned up and down[1] though if you want to see red strikethroughs on all of the security claims.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMB1CkZi6t4
That works if you have the land to do that. The Virginia side of the DC area has lots of high rise apartments and skyscrapers built around the metro station and it definitely works to keep cars off the road but I don't know of the same thing can be done in the bay.
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The article addresses exactly this "myth" in the 3rd to last paragraph.

A different way of stating what you're saying is that the new supply hasn't existed long enough, which is probably true, but it's not necessarily an indication of a problem with the market.
replace python with haskell, and emacs and vim, and i'm with you.
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If you bought your home 5 or 6 years ago, then your mortgage is most likely lower than the market rent for it. I have friends in this exact situation. New job and moving in 30 days. Off to a property management company where somebody else will pay the mortgage for you.
I firmly believe we'd see a lot of problems. Pick nearly any datetime library and see how easy it would be to calculate things like durations between two arbitrary timestamps. Even with those that do handle daylight saving or time zones properly, many applications that do use these libraries don't use these features. Or how often projects update their timezone databases. Handled in an incremental way would be a world of pain, precisely because of our reliance on modern electronics and software, or more precisely, because we rely on time so heavily to coordinate events, and rely on syncing these operations with human activities. I think I may have just literally shuddered.

By the way, what you describe is how things worked prior to standardization of time which was driven in part by the expansion of the railroad. There's a brief history on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone#History
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I hate those year-over-year charts. Show me the data, not the first derivative of it.
NO! Agree that the transition is hard, but Standard time is much better.

Wakening before the sun is not only biologically counterproductive, but the late morning dark would further hinder ability to exercise in the morning for months out of the year.

Just Kill DST, stay on standard time and be done with it
As someone who is both an avid Django user and about to be a new parent, this is awesome! Expect a PR or two from me :)
I've been building an automated service very similar to this for womens fashion (mens fashion soon) in my free time over the past 5 months using deep learning. The goal is to index existing items, and then expand to items that are no longer available. So you could take a picture of your shoes/shirt/hat/etc and it would ideally find the same one. If it doesn't find the same exact item, it would find similar items at different price points that you could buy. Getting similar items isn't that hard -- getting the exact item is much trickier though. With the pace of improvement in these types of models, there will probably be a lot of these types of apps popping up over the next few years.
True. The images not load for me and only see the text. I recheck later and it show...
This is a nice little resource. One positive about cookies that may be missing (but is admittedly a bit of an edge case) is that they're your only option for storing auth/bearer tokens across subdomains if that's a use case you need to support (e.g. a dashboard that stays auth'd across language specific subdomains - de.example.com, es.example.com, etc). As far as I know, being able to store the token against the apex .example.com is something you can really only do with cookies (when it comes to default web storage options).
Same here. I had two in a row for which I was told had been "delivered", yet they didn't assign the pickup codes. Therefore, they were lost in limbo forever (although after some amount of time they just get returned to Amazon).

Both were Daily Deals, and Amazon refused to honor the sale price for replacements. Nice.
It uses mysql under the hood it looks like. I'm not sure it's a graph database? I don't see a reference to it being a graphdb, anyway.
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Lol air travel is nowhere near being an economically efficient means of transporting workers on any other timescale than every few months at the shortest
Mate, did you ever attend high school?
My first Smart phone (Palm Pre) fit in the watch pocket. Sometime I keep my remote for the garage door there. but yeah, lots of uses.
"Lots of tables" is the finite case, for which the AC is a theorem. An infinite set of tables is qualitatively different. An arbitrary f(table) function will have to contain an infinite amount of information, which is beyond anything my intuition can grasp. For f(table) functions that contain finite information, the intuition is easy and the AC is reduced to a theorem.
All of the arguments seem to assume you have today's current tools and knowledge at your disposal, just with timezones abolished. This is clearly not what would happen. The real answer to "What time is it there?" without timezones would be the same exact thing, you google "what time of day is 4:25 in australia?" and google would tell you something like, "it's equivalent to 8:00 where you are"
I think they were just wondering why this is the #1 ranked link on HN right now because it's so obvious. Honestly, I was wondering the same thing when I saw the headline of the article.
It seems that I am unable to navigate the offerings.

I don't navigate them at all. I hear about shows from coworkers, or occasionally trip across something right here on HN. As a recent example, I present The Orville. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15333242) I mean, I'd heard of it, but it didn't sound like it was for me. As the thread shows, I was wrong. Now my wife and I are hooked. Or sometimes a show will just get mentioned in passing here, I'll look it up, watch an episode to find out if we'll like it. Once in a great while Netflix or iTunes will come up with something "you might like, mikestew!" that's worth watching. Not very often, though.

That's it, we just watch what I've tripped across serendipitously. And we can't keep up (just now getting to the third season of 12 Monkeys). Granted, our viewing habits might not match most (if there's nothing on, then we do something else). But if we want to sit down and watch something, we rarely lack for something of quality.

Contrast that with the "25 years ago" you use as a comparison. My memory of TV in the 90s was using the TV set to watch movies and ST:NG. I don't think we watched much, if any, actual TV shows because I recall that there was nothing worth watching except ST:NG.

Games are the same for me, whatever my circle mentions, and whatever Bethesda has put out recently. That might or might not work for others, especially if you don't like RPGs like Bethesda puts out. I've tried paying attention to IGN and the like, but, yeah...

That's not to argue that it isn't a crapfest out there. It's partially why I quit paying attention. Let's take Modern Family as an example. Seems to get rave reviews, it's been on for a while. Hmm, might be decent. I didn't even know that shows still did laugh tracks. And the jokes were recycled versions of what was on TV 40 years ago in the 70s. Drop an episode in a time machine to 1978, and the only difference viewers would notice are those strange glass hand-held devices the characters keep staring at, and wow, their microwave sure is small.
My concern is if and how high density zoning promotes growth models and patterns that detract from them availability and creation of affordable housing. It's also sad to realizing that affordable housing in the metropolitan US also typically means low-end.
very well said with annotated sample personalities who made it top of Silicon Vally ...

> Life is long. If his location gives him access to opportunities that you don't have, figure out a way to get access to those opportunities and execute on it once you graduate from college. Many prominent

> Silicon Valley people came from small towns in the mid-west (Marc Andreessen, Evan Williams) or immigrated from poor political situations abroad (Sergey Brin, Jan Koum, Elon Musk).
That article reads a bit strangely to me.

It basically says the anecdote is true, but because it's true for "trivial and unremarkable reasons" they are labeling it as false. Which doesn't seem to make sense to me personally.
Interference in foreign elections of the nature in which Russia has interfered and colluded with the Trump campaign is unprecedented to say the least. It's a whole new game.

Foreign intervention in elections up till then have been pure amateur hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
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Complementary reading: "A Most Dangerous Book. Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich" by Christopher B. Krebs (W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 2011)

(German translation: "Ein gefährliches Buch. Die 'Germania' des Tacitus und die Erfindung der Deutschen"; DVA, München 2012)

Especially interesting for pointing out a rather ambiguous role of early humanism (as related to the reception of the Germania) in German history.
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>All of you ladies and gents who blow off your annual flu vaccine because "you just don't seem to ever catch it" - you're just lucky

That's not true. There is a significant portion of the population who are resistant to the flu.

I'm 34 and I've never had the flu. None of my 3 siblings, nor my mom (who's 55) have either. This is despite never getting a flu shot, and spending several years riding public transit.

It's well documented that many people just don't become symptomatic or even contagious. A study in 2011 infected 17 people with live active flu virus, and only half developed any symptoms at all. Furthermore, it's likely that people with this immune response never develop the viral load necessary to easily spread the virus.
You could tell it was just a rant from the first sentence:

> Amazon wants to let strangers into your house and train a surveillance camera on your front door. Oh, and they’d like you to pay them $250 for the privilege.

For one, they aren't strangers, they are postal office employees, and of course they are not giving out a door lock and camera for free.
With USPS P.O. Boxes, you can sign a side agreement (no additional cost) and they will accept other shippers' deliveries to you and hold them in the Post Office system as long as you use the proper street address format for the P.O..
Perhaps 11 inches wide times 12 columns per inch?
If you've got a way to save up some 10's of thousands of dollars for a down payment in a reasonable time, and be able to pay the mortgage for the loan, that doesn't sound like "tough times" to me.

I bought 7 years ago, when the market in my area was at its lowest. Saving for years, on an income significantly above median (for the area), I was just able to afford a down payment on a starter home.

Most people in my area make less than me, and the market has significantly picked up. My next door neighbor just sold their place, smaller and less upgraded than mine, for about 1.5x what I paid for mine. And the people that couldn't pay 2/3 that price 7 years ago should have just tried harder to save up to afford it now, right?
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Wait and see if it trickles down?

There's a lack of affordable housing. Isn't that a problem with the market?
In one case we are talking about the wellbeing of other actual human beings, in the second, the abstract concept of the human race. Seems like a bait and switch to me.
A better place to start would be dropping the unsubstantive comments. HN's rules aren't the way they are to try to neuter your brilliant genius. We're just trying to avoid sucking quite so badly. Since you use this site heavily you should contribute to making it better, not worse.
This is already happening. Just look at the drone industry.

DJI, founded in Shenzen, has 87% market share at the most popular price point, and 48% share in the next closest. This is an $8B market and will likely double or triple in the coming years. US companies won the web, but China is making a run for the IoT.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/businesses-want-cheaper-dro...
We should trust Monsanto, they have a long term vested interest in keeping those farmers in business.
Do you know offhand of any stations that make it really clear they have their own radar?

Lots of them say something sly about using the only radar network...
RT/Sputnik is part of an integrated state propaganda machine which is indeed the source of the election interference. You cannot separate them.
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The $1000 units are gone, forever. If Portland builds enough to keep up with demand, eventually inflation will cause the rent in real terms to be equivalent to $1000 2017 dollars, but the sticker price for these units will never be $1000 again.

There's a real financial incentive for developers to not take lower rents than they budgeted for - those rents need to cover the payments on the loans they took out to finance the construction of the building. It's why it's usually much more attractive for them to offer incentives like a free month of rent - sure, they take a hit up front, but the long term financial viability of the project is intact. But if they take on a bunch of leases with lower rents than they projected, now they have a building which is just losing money every month.

Also, be careful what you wish for - the way you would get back to $1000 a month rents is Detroit-style depopulation, and that really sucks.
What exactly are you on about?
Having lived in Chicago, I think it's probably because the city government is corrupt, the Cook county government is corrupt, the suburban county governments are corrupt, all their municipalities are corrupt, and the whole region is going bankrupt from it. People look at Detroit, and think Chicago may be next. They don't want to put their eggs in the same basket as a time bomb, or an egg-sucking weasel. The only thing that has saved it so far is that it is a nice, affordable place to live.

There are billboards on the state border encouraging people to live in Indiana (live in Gary?!) because Indiana isn't going bankrupt.

And it isn't just the obvious form of corruption that everyone can see and hate on, like Blagojevich trying to outright sell a vacant senate seat. It's also the subtle form that pays public employees slightly too much to do not quite enough, and then a pension that gives them even more for doing even less, while their replacement adds even more to the burden. You can't just fire all those people and take away their pensions, because then you can't provide municipal services to your residents, and that is more acutely painful than being slowly bled to death.

Edit:

In slight support of those billboards and some cousin posts, Indianapolis is one of the most affordable cities in the US for buying housing. And the pool for tech talent is largely untapped.

Public transit sucks, though. The city has a huge area and is almost completely flat, so it has taken extreme advantage of its ability to sprawl. Any sudden spike in growth will immediately lead to commuting nightmare traffic, all around the entire city.
> If everyone else is immunized to the point where there is significant herd immunity, but immunization has a low but non-zero cost (e.g. feeling crappy for a few days), then the rational selfish action is to be a free rider and not immunize.

Except that's not really how it is. There's still a very non-negligible risk to catch any of a number of vaccine-preventable diseases. People die from measles on a regular basis.

You can in theory imagine a situation where this is different, but realistically Vaccines totally make sense even from a very egoistic perspective.
Yes, but a lot of people, for various reasons, either believe that econ 101 arguments don't apply in this situation or that even if they do, the effects of building market rate housing are still undesirable.

Their actual stated arguments tend to be delivered in unconvincing ways, but Julia Galef (who I gather does believe in the econ 101 take) took a stab at steelmanning that side in https://juliagalef.com/2017/07/13/should-we-build-lots-more-..., and it's definitely worth a read.

What I'd add to her points is a fourth, that while some people believe that either overall affordability or total number of below market rate units are the right metrics to measure success by, some people care more about the percentage of affordable units than the number. An extreme version of the argument says that having 100 affordable units out of 200 total is better than having 200 affordable units out of 1000 total, because the second scenario will mean a strong demographic shift in the neighborhood (a "whitening"), not to mention an increase in density that will change the feel of the area. This is not an economic argument, but one about values, so it's not going to be resolved by numbers.
Interesting--I'd like to know more.

Would you please provide example command(s) of blocking both ANY queries and NOERROR responses that you've had relative success with?

Thanks!
Yea, I don't see any mention of that here. I recognized several of the apartments from the pictures and these are all Inner Portland apartment complexes.
Maybe a better advisor would have helped them find a research topic that engaged them? I really didn't care much about traffic. I cared about Chaos Theory and MDOT had free traffic data and DEC was willing to loan me some hardware. That's it.

I mean, I like traffic now. Back then? I was just meh... But it was something I could bite into and really see where Chaos Theory techniques could apply to understanding traffic. Which is to say, quite well - actually. But, I digress...

A great advisor really, really helps.
> "you're confusing a personal religious/spiritual practice with the physical act of abstaining from food"

No, she is not (being married to her, I can speak with some authority regarding her intent.)

She does not fast as a part of a religious practice, but as part of a dietary one. And has likewise been reading dietary, not religious, guides to fasting. And it is a commonly reported experience for people to have a degree of increased focus/clarity on about day 4 of an extended fast. It can come in a religious/spiritual form, but can also simply be "man, I'm really on top of things today" -- as if the biochemistry of the body after 80-90 hours of deliberate fasting puts the brain into a mode of hyperfocus.