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There are tons of pedestrian bridges in Hong Kong, for instance [0]. This is over a complicated intersection with a large street that has a lot of bus traffic, so it makes more sense for people to go up and over to cross the street rather than for there to be ground-level crossings with confusing traffic patterns. Hong Kong is very pedestrian friendly.

[0] http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45505811.jpg
This breaks the HN guidelines by being flamebait, by being partisan battle, and by not doing this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and do better when commenting here.

Edit: you've unfortunately also posted a ton of unsubstantive comments to HN. Please don't do any more of that.
You want me to explain how I'm not a McCarthyite?

Why not ask something more civil, like "When did you stop beating your wife?"
The repo is missing a LICENSE file, and the links to the data should also specify their redistribution policy / license. Why is this not standard practice when creating a repo these days?
Is Rex Computing still in business? Just yesterday I was thinking about the founder who had won the Theil prize. I don't think their website has any updates.
It's not? I'm not a mathematician, but Wikipedia says "In mathematics, a function or sequence is said to exhibit quadratic growth when its values are proportional to the square of the function argument or sequence position."
fwiw Tim Ferris (a fellow alum) is not a techie/nerd type, though he is certainly an entrepreneur.
How? I never voted for Junker. I voted a list of MPs from my country.
Under anarchism wouldn't the right just form a block to dehumanize the other? Wouldn't there just be a far-right solidarity group and nothing changes?
Receiving an empty parcel looks like an opening scene from a horror movie.
Well that is why you have a public bidding process where you throughly document why the winning bid won.

If they had nothing to hide, that part of the equation would be perfectly transparent.

I work in the public sector in Scandinavia and while I realize our laws are a little different, I would be in jail if I did something similar. Getting contracts to friends/family is a huge issue in most countries, which is why you document the reasoning even harder to make sure its absolutely bulletproof legally when they happen to have the best bid.
> Rape is much more common than false accusations of rape.

You're throwing away a datapoint - "the police decided not to press charges or Bob was found not-guilty in court".
You do realize the current administration is actively trying to go after state governments that have decriminalized marijuana, right?

http://www.newsweek.com/will-jeff-sessions-medical-marijuana...
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> This is bullshit. A street designer has one job, to make the street good for driving.

The field you're referring to is called "highway engineering" or "traffic engineering", depending on specifics, and safety is absolutely a critical component either way.
I think one of the problems here is how the issue is framed to begin with. Do we have a serious firearms problem or do we have a suicide problem? Two of my cousins have committed suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound (one was an extremely successful doctor and the other an auto-factory worker.) Two-thirds of gun deaths in the US are from suicide. Bet you most of you gun-fearing folks didn't know that.

"In terms of race and ethnicity, Kaplan said that 77 percent of white gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides, while less than 1 in 5 (19 percent) is a homicide. The figures are nearly opposite for African Americans, for which only 14 percent are suicides."

http://luskin.ucla.edu/connection-poverty-inequality-firearm...

Instead of a firearms problem, maybe we have a suicide (mental health?) problem and a poverty/inequality problem. Or maybe we have a media problem - neither the left, nor the right's propaganda machines seem interested in the real issues.
I’d be more concerned about water TBH. Most of us carry a fair amount of fat, enough to survive several weeks without eating. Having rations available extends that timeline a lot. But without drinking water, that’s all moot, since you can’t survive long without that.

Really depends on your timelines. Prep for short-term disaster scenarios on a 1-2 week timelines should be manageable for most, and really we should all be doing it. Prep for longer timelines is much harder.
Lightest vim config, have fun
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I doubt that. They haven't backtracked on this at all.
Simple: a flashing red light means stop, and proceed if safe.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/traff_lgt...
You described what I kind of hope my future to look like, I'd love to live somewhere like that and commute/work remotely. Question: was it hard to get reliable internet out there? With the mountains and all.
As somebody who has bad knees, 11 acres, horses, a goat, a dog, and some cats, I really do love car culture. It might be unpopular to say it, but I personally think big wide streets with lots of parking that make point-to-point personal transport possible are simply awesome. I lived downtown in my area for a while - yes, I could walk to a lot of places and I didn't drive my car as much, but I also absolutely hated it. My next move was to skip right past the suburbs and into the fringe of farmland, and I now commute ~17 minutes and ~16 miles to work every day (80% 80mph freeway), and I love it. I get to have my tractor and my software engineering job. God Bless 'Murica :-D.
It depends, there are many in working in place like Hong Kong and Tokyo sleeping 4 hours a day. Including many of my colleagues. No idea how they do it because i need minimum of 8 and preferably 10 for my brain to function at decent level.

Any less sleep will means my productivity drop off rapidly and makes error and judgement that I need days to recover from.
I guess that as a private citizen he would not have access to a lot of tech and information Pentagon has, no matter how much money he can spend. So spending money lobbying to get Pentagon create a program like this might be better approach rather then trying to carry out investigations on your own.
GF's kids came home yesterday talking about school shooting safety (hit perp with a fire extinguisher -- which is too heavy for any of them to lift), the safe closet, etc.

Their chance of being shot is infinitesimal, while the chance of choking or dying in traffic (1K kids/year in the USA, for example) is real. But there is no training on what to do in these cases.

Seems like it's all part of the terrorization of the populace, of which this clothing is a symptom.
> Perhaps they could have built the elementary school and high school on the same side of the street?

Given how politically acerbic your comment is towards StrongTowns and their efforts to save lives, your argument is incredibly badly reasoned. These are separate schools with separate facilities serving separate age groups. It is unlikely the reason this young junior high student was crossing the street at 8:30pm[1] was to visit the elementary school.

There are not that many schools along typical commuter routes. It seems unlikely that calming traffic along this one would seriously impact the "transportation needs of real [sic] citizens everyday."

[1] https://www.ksl.com/?sid=43931746&nid=148&title=syracuse-tra...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15943911 and marked it off-topic.

Would you please stop using HN for generic ideological arguments? They're off topic here, and we've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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dod video shows unknown object intercepted by navy.
And if they do exist, then what? Piss 'em off by trying to kill or capture one?(more likely) Send Richard Dreyfuss up for an extended visit to Wyoming?(less likely)
A jigsaw puzzle goes together only one way. Many engineering problems can be solved in infinitely diverse and creative and unique ways.
I don't see any references to Cultural Revolution in that quote?
One reason why we need Full AV. And its lucky to be working in places where 8- 9 hours are norm. In places like South Korea, Japan and HK where you are expected to work from 8 - 8 or more, hours of commute is literally torturing.
Tokyo master race reporting in. At least I was, now commuting for two hours from the regional town I live in (not in Japan). Still it is not too bad since I can work very well on the train which takes 1.5 hours of the whole trip and I come into the office only twice a week. Since a large part of the trip got dodgy internet reception I can work without distractions so it is 6 hours net which I consider a working day. So I only work another 2 days at home rather than 3.

In Tokyo you are usually no more than 10 minutes walk to a decent and rapid public transportation, the rent is also quiet cheap comparing to other major cities, especially if you are willing to commute for half an hour or so.
Would you please do a better job of following the site guidelines? They include "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." They also include "Snark is deprecated".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So what would you do instead?

When Cheryl Yeoh posted her story, I wrote a few blog posts positing that we ought to focus on prevention. You and most people here are kind of assuming that the only point at which Microsoft had power to intercede was after the woman was sexually assaulted and now has this horrible dilemma of whether or not to work with her rapist.

But the incident occurred because she went out for drinks with colleagues, got too drunk to drive home and crashed at the home of a colleague. Microsoft could have had policies about how to handle work related functions that discouraged drunkenness, discouraged a woman crashing at a male colleague's house instead of being put up in a hotel if she couldn't make it home, etc.

No one ever brings up that angle but me and when I do, I get accused of blaming the victim.
I think your situation is great! The problem arises when you have a million or so people who all want that same experience in the same small area. It just doesn't work very well.
The statute I referenced specifically prohibits the unauthorized access of servers and access which exceeds authorization. It is not difficult to argue that Uber’s activities fall under “unauthorized access” or “exceeding authorization”.

“Uber accessed a protected computer database to lure drivers away to work for the company even though "the database was protected by 'Captcha' to prevent the sort of automated downloading that Uber's MA team intended to carry out. MA was ultimately successful in hacking the system and obtaining the driver database. Because Uber knowingly accessed a protected computer in order to fraudulently capture its valuable contents to gain a competitive advantage, the hack violates the [Computer Fraud and Abuse Act], as well as California Penal Code Section 502."”

The CFAA is broad by design unfortunately. We’ve jailed people for enumerating customer data by incrementing a query parameter.

https://www.wired.com/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-years/amp/
What concerns me about these things is the likelihood of it being an earthbound experimental aircraft. If it's not ours, and it looks like magic to us, we're losing our air superiority.
>Not factoring opinions about a product from the employees who are making it is incredibly irresponsible, and makes those employees much more likely to find an employer who will value them as subject matter experts.

A developer is not a subject matter expert on how to market a product. Maybe you can restate your opinion.
well.. Stalinism is a subset of Socialism, i guess. [1]

and i don't know anything but lame propaganda, so i'm left to ask wikipedia about the starvation pieces too:

> Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
...this is sad in the instance you describe because the actual seller did not request that 'advert for reviews' and it now marks their product as 'fake'. Yet the actual seller is legit and doing a great job according to 'fakespot'. Sample listing:

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To quote the author [0]:

> This blog post explains lots of big FP words (in simple English and with code that looks similar to JavaScript): partial application, parametric polymorphism, type inference, etc.

I think a lot of the functional programming vocabulary can be scary or confusing to newcomers, so I'm a huge fan of this kind of writeup. It also showcases the exact benefits of certain things, like currying. When you first see an example of partial application / currying it's not obvious why it's useful. But once you start using it, it's hard not to get hooked into the more declarative code style.

[0] https://twitter.com/rauschma/status/942141942200197120
Just to comment on this. A common google search would have pointed out that your ideas about local police forces are largely incorrect. Police have been a thing for much longer. The big thing that happened in more recent history (Meaning 1700s) is separating them from the private market, the military or unregulated local mobs. You can trace the enforcers of civil law through force all the way back to ancient Babylon because civil unrest is bad for raising taxes. You could argue this were not police but rather various forms of 'authority,' but it's dishonest to say that they were not acting like police.

Easy example of this would be Cohortes Urbanae in ancient Rome which was specifically formed because the Praetorian Guard was too corrupt even by Roman standards at the time and mobs, gangs and 'random' violence were common.
"creative writing" is a specific genre of writing that focuses on originality. But for most, "creative" just refers to the act of creating something. A blog entry creates something, as does an hn comment.
> Deciding to hire both, and then assigning them to the same team is clearly the wrong solution

Couldn't Microsoft also get into trouble by hiring just one of them (the other one could have a good case for being treated unfairly)? And what if they don't have 2 separate teams which need new members? Should they create a new team just to make sure they don't heart anybody's feelings?
Would you please read the site guidelines and not post like this here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We're looking for civil, substantive comments only.
He's elected by a bureaucracy and some part of this bureaucracy is elected by the people that actually care to vote.
Of course it isn't. And it's not in Australia either.

So if you want to compare the best parts of the USA with the best parts of Australia, you'll still be ~5x more likely to be murdered.

Why do Americans fail to grasp that we're talking about an average across entire countries, and as much as it's not accurate across the whole USA, it's also not accurate across the whole of other countries?
> Most of us are on flights today

Yeah, someone mentioned Mozilla plays rich, and fly-in all employees every 6 months.

And someone found a good time window to post the article, when the corporation drones were offline, and had no time to flag the HN news to avoid a backlashe.

Mozilla acts like a unicorn startup, not like a non-profit org at all! All these unwanted DRM support, missing WebSQL support, unwanted Hello, Pocket, Easter-Egg addons that can barely be removed with lot of work are alienating your user base, and it's completely Mozilla's fault.
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It is striking how honest this journalist is being about purposely determining the slant of stories (rather than being driven by the facts at hand). He used to have a general positive impression of the startup community, so he chose to write positive stories about individual startups. Now he has a general negative impression and he chooses to write negative stories about individual startups. You only see that sort of honesty because he's convinced himself he sees the overarching truth so clearly.
Using "science" makes your statement too broad.
Clang on Windows (not cross targeting) is faster for basically no performance loss (it's in the noise for chrome). It's actually very significant performance gain in some cases. Build time savings is literally hours on official builds.

Cross-targeting from linux is probably slower ATM (clang-cl is not fast :P)

That said, if you have a single compiler you can use across platforms, and it generates the best code (or within a small enough percent), and enables a suite of cross-platform dynamic error checking capabilities (ASAN, etc), that provides significant productivity/etc advantages for people. Especially when you can easily improve them according to your own engprod priorities.
Yeah, and I know this first hand. I work at a biotech startup and we have some super intelligent people who regularly get confused with modern UIs. For e.g. Not everyone understands that the hamburger menu is actually a menu. Or that flat shaded text can actually be a UI button element.
That's my point. The wiki definition you have cited is correct, but it doesn't compute with the article.
This is a great idea. They need to hook this thing up to Glassdoor.
Consent is not negotiable.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bdsm-consent
Just for further illustration, from my own childhood in a less dense, car obsessed town/city:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-35.2516734,149.0794549,3a,60y,...

https://www.google.com/maps/@-35.4122069,149.1282473,3a,75y,...
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They very much have an in crowd. The rules for the in crowd are de facto different from the rules for everyone else

Historical comments by the previous lead mod essentially admit this is conscious and intentional. But if you try to point it out, you get all kinds of denial.
Here's some issues with the poll:

1. Status quo bias. Ask whether any complicated policy should be changed and most people will say it should not. What percentage of respondents would have supported reclassifying ISPs under Title II in 2015, giving the government the power to dictate prices?

2. The wording of the introduction is phrased in terms of ISPs providing more access (yayyy!) and being forbidden from charging "extra fees" (booo!). Here is a different phrasing:

"Currently ISPs are forbidden from offering customers discounts if they do not use certain sites or services. ISPs are also prohibited from optimizing latency or bandwidth according to the nature of the content. Removing these restrictions could allow for cheaper Internet plans and faster speeds for some content. Should this regulation be removed?"

One might object that "offering customers discounts" is a hypothetical, but the pro-NN arguments are also hypothetical; the fact is we don't really know what will happen.
I doubt they're going to change anything about Cliqz, as there's no actual privacy concern with it. There's the technological feasibility for Cliqz GmbH to steal user data, but Mozilla owns parts of Cliqz GmbH, so knows what's going on inside the company and they have a contract with Cliqz that prohibits the storing of personal data.

Mozilla has also made an official statement saying that no user data will be stored, so break that promise would be misleading of customers, and their Privacy Statement does not constitute the storing of such data, so allowing it anyways would count as violation of contract.

Additionally, they're testing it in Germany, where this sort of hidden collection of data either has to be obvious (for example, if you order something online, it's clear that they have to process your address), which is clearly not the case with Cliqz, or the user has to be prompted for opt-in, not either the case with Cliqz, or it may not be personal data. So, if it were personal data, they'd be violating German law.

And the handful of shitstorms in tech-focused online communities are hardly the end of the world for Mozilla. Making the internet rely less on search engines, which is what they're ultimately trying to achieve with Cliqz, is more important than that.
I think it is time to stop seeing anger as misplaced in discussions. Being labelled "a very angry person" does nothing to invalidate that person's position.
> If someone wrecks your professional reputation with a rumor, why don't you sue them? Your burden of proof is far lower in a civil defamation suit than the criminal case being advocated here for rape victims.

When someone makes a false claim without providing any of the specifics like when or where it supposedly happened, how are you supposed to prove it didn't happen under any standard of evidence? Show your whereabouts for every hour of your entire life?

These cases usually have precious little in the way of evidence one way or the other. If it was so easy for an innocent accused to prove they didn't do something then we wouldn't need the high standard of evidence in criminal cases either.
>would already have shown this to be a terrible idea.

What are you basing this on?

I'm just a FF user, and I don't think it was a terrible idea, even though I personally wouldn't have gone that route.
In your cover letter write 1 or 2 sentences about why you are a good match for that specific position.

Obviously, your cover letter should be adjusted to that specific position.

That also allows you to attach the same unchanged resume to [somewhat] different jobs.
The biggest concern is that it's really easy to de-anonymize location data, even if all you have is numbers moving around. Some locations are very unique and identifying (e.g. homes and offices), and other locations are very sensitive. Better to avoid it altogether, if you can.

Also note that bucketing is not sufficient if the lowest bucket is just 0 and the next one up starts at 1, because people walking alone will then easily show up as they go past a series of sensors. There will be a temptation to separate out zero, because it'll seem important to distinguish between "no traffic" and "small amount of traffic". Resist that temptation.

If there is any other information reported that can be correlated, it'll be easy to use that for further identification. For instance, pressure or vibration information, noise-level information, or many other sensors would easily be dual-purposed as a presence-detect.

Beyond that, please read up on all the ways that certain sensor data can have side-channels; for instance, sufficiently high-resolution accelerometer data can be turned into audio with enough fidelity to recognize speech.
Also an Australian. I have a feeling this may not make much sense to Americans.

Bulletproof clothing only protects you against bullets (well it protects against knives too but you can buy less expensive slash/stab resistant clothing). In Australia there is virtually no gun violence. The only people who can shoot you are cops. They will only shoot you if you're doing something that justifies being shot at. Therefore, the only reason you'd need bulletproof armor is if you intend to do something that would justify the police shooting at you.

Encryption on the other hand has legitimate purposes. It's quite possible for someone to say steal all your money by intercepting your bank account login and it requires no special, heavily restricted equipment to do so.