skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and a [shop, street, park, restaurant, school, etc] will have 10x as many people that are living within walking distance.

This point is made well in this article:

http://newworldeconomics.com/how-to-make-a-pile-of-dough-wit...

>Our basic goal, in all this, is to deliver roughly triple the density as this “New Urbanist” model, while still preserving what looks very much like a “traditional Small Town America single family house,” including a nice backyard and lush, tree-lined streets. This is what gets us from 8,000 people per square mile, for a typical Los Angeles suburb (with 5000sf plots), to maybe 10,000 for the New Urbanist example and more like 25,000-30,000 for our example. We have already seen how our basic house plot shrinks from 4000sf to 2000sf, which doubles the density right there. We even have some smaller house plots of 1,250sf and 625sf. Then, we have a huge amount of land now being consumed by vastly excessive roadways and associated Green Space, that we can replace with Really Narrow Streets, thus freeing up more land for houses. For example, if the house plot/total land area ratio rises from 50% to 75%, that is a 50% increase in density right there. The combination of half the lot size plus a 50% increase in density due to reduction in land used for streets/Green Space/parking lots gives us our triple density bogey. Triple the density means that every store or restaurant now has 30,000 people who are within an easy walk of 15 minutes or so, which means that they can have a viable business without a parking lot. It means that every school now has three times as many students that are within an easy walk. No more chauffering your kids to school. No more school buses. At 30,000 people per square mile, and if 15% of the people are school age (6-17), that means 4500 kids are within walking distance of the school. It means that the four-year high school would have about 1500 students, all within a half-mile walk of the school. It means that, if a train station is introduced later, three times as many people will be able to walk there as well. In short, everything becomes a lot more “walkable.” By making it walkable, we thus eliminate the need for cars unless travelling outside the immediate neighborhood, which eliminates auto traffic and also makes the neighborhood much more peaceful, quiet, and suitable for kids, families, and seniors.
I wrote an interval arithmetic package once too. It was slow, because it had to change the FP rounding flags multiple times for some operations.

In the end, it seemed like any substantial computation ended up having extremely wide bounds, much wider than they deserved. Trying to invert a matrix often resulted in [-Inf .. +Inf] bounds.
That's old hat and ineffective. Scrapers usually proxy through large lists of rotating ip addresses. There are lots of services for it.
Does anybody know whether I can run the SAPGUI (win32, not crappily-maintained java version) yet?
I imagine the poster might have meant "idea [only] people"...i.e. those with ideas but no execution
The problem is that you can easily detect that some properties have been overloaded. For example, you can execute Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(navigator, "languages") to detect if navigator.languages is a native property or not.
Amazing but true. The scrawl on the board shows how they make vinyl monomers out of acetic acid derived from their carbide process, then PVAcetate, then PVAlcohol.

This whole article reminded me of paper made out of rock. Depressingly, it's still a fuel-based product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_paper
Squandered talent, exceptional investment, buzzword, buzzword, partial-buzzword, connections.

It’s a great place to be young and wealthy, with minimal affect and empathy.
It's quite like the space race after the American moon landing, or it's quite like the end of a Californian Gold Rush. This is California's DNA, and time passes for everyone, and consequences always arise.

Do you happen to know that California is still dealing with the environmental effects of the gold rush?
This appears to be complete nonsense.
IMO advertising systems that have this intimate of knowledge about you are immoral because they undermine a consumer's agency well beyond traditional demographic-level or local advertising.

Google didn't just look at the fact that you were searching for tents online to serve you that ad. They looked at how old you are, what time of day you are most susceptible to clicking on ads, who your friends are and what they like, your address, your preferred colors and letters... It's possible that they figured out you just broke up with your SO and use shopping as a coping skill, so it was time to pull out the big guns. Google probably doesn't even understand exactly why they served that to you. And that's a problem.

> Doesn't sound too unethical to me especially because it is all one big opt-in.

Google serves me ads and tracks my behavior even if I never use a Google product. And there's no way for a user to decide whether or not they're okay with this on the web at large (unless you install an ad blocker). That doesn't sound opt-in to me.
>I'm scared to see the numbers of "incentives" that local politicians try and hand out to Amazon. There's little evidence that the public money used/lost will ever be recouped.

It is a classic example of the winner's curse[1]. If Amazon is auctioning off the HQ for tax breaks, the government that wins is likely going to overestimate the value that winning the bid will provide. Those odds greatly increase when you throw in the fact that governments have misaligned incentives. Most politicians will choose the continuation of their career over the good of the people they govern. "Winning the Amazon bid" might be enough to get a politician elected to a higher position long before any economic reprecussions are felt. You see this same scenario play out all the time when public money is used to build sports stadia.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner%27s_curse
I like Toronto a lot but man its so freaking cold.
Link to actual data instead of clickbait : https://wellbeing.smgov.net/about/wellbeing-index
Not to mention how many people cars kill each year.
I literally have it open right now. They've supplied slack in .deb and .rpm files for a bit now AFAIK.
That works for cash. In case you haven't noticed, cash isn't common any longer. What about about electronic dollar? The money that never exists in any form other than on some computers managed by systems built and maintained as cost centers that need to have every single possible corner cut? Do you trust those systems to accurately reflect what the Fed actually issued? If so, why? They certainly can't provide even reasonable evidence for it, much less proof. The best they can do is "but the computer says" and point to a machine slapped together by an inexperienced technician and running software maybe cobbled together from outsourced components, poorly documented, and rush out 6 months before the developers on the project thought it was actually ready for use.

They're just getting ready to take that system down to patch the WannaCry vulnerabilities, so you might want to check it quickly. They're not sure how long until they're back up.
The EME DRM is part of the game for those who really want to block headless. It will arrive, sooner or later.
The articles I’ve read state that $10B is Uber’s revenue not gross bookings.
Amazon picks 20 finalist cities for its next major HQ
Hmm. So people would live inside some sort of "sub-urban" environment, which wasn't quite rural, but not exactly urban either.
The AM/PMs I've seen in the peninsula take debit cards and cash only. There's one debit card station to serve all the pumps.
Watch the video, which cites sources (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2p-HoK9KXEAamNTTkdSaERqdGc...). This isn't just staff active on the train, but maintenance, administration, back office, etc.

Amtrak employs ~20,000 people. When you get to the number of annual passengers, and how many trips they operate a year, it breaks down to ~4 passengers per employee per trip.
If you live a fulfilling life, the process continues up through 25, 30, 35, and presumably onwards though I haven't gotten there yet.

Unfortunately a large number of people get to 25 or 30, figure "I'm an adult now", and then their mental model of the world gets stuck at however it was when they were that age even as the world changes around them.
"a strong existing tech workforce and universities"

Hate to say it, but Northern Virginia and Raleigh have Toronto beat on this
Good. It shouldn't.

The web should be open the fact that people are still trying to stop this is a joke.
Browser fingerprinting, I almost forgot. Non aggressive and impossible to stop.
CodeWeavers takes corporate sponsorship of specific fixes that an application needs to be supported. First the MVP version ends up in their commercial product. Once the fixes required for a given app are cleaned up and refactored they roll these back into the opensource Wine project.
If the user doesn't like it, she can turn it off. If the user likes it, she gets paid with free services. All other users get the benefit of free information about the business, whether they have location tracking on or not. I don't see the problem here.

Some Google products are stupidly designed, but this one looks like it's doing the right thing.
>time spent finding a parking spot

Not a lot of time at all in my experience, certainly less than waiting for public transit or an uber to arrive.

>opportunity cost

To me it's worth it.

>exercise

You walk inside the mall. And what about people with certain disabilities? Do they get left out of this walking-only city?

>pollution

Emissions are improving all the time, and electric cars are on the rise.

>depreciating asset

So? Along with almost everything? Buy a used car if you're so concerned about your "asset" depreciating. You get value from it when you use it.
Does all state have to fit in memory?
What makes you think that USSR was a paper tiger?
More proprietary crap, do not want, both slack and snap.
I agree with your analysis of the problem. However, I deeply distrust your solution.

Two problems: One, do we really get unbiased software? Or do we get software that's claimed to be unbiased, but has actually been quietly biased according to the authors' prejudices (and all attempts to criticize it get shot down because "it's really unbiased, so the problem is with you")? Or do we really get a good-faith attempt to write unbiased software, that winds up biased in ways and for reasons that we don't understand?

Second, how are you going to make this happen? It's going to involve taking power away from the existing powers-that-be. And you don't sound like you're going to do it by democratic means, since you see democracy as broken. How do you propose to do it? ("Bottom up" isn't enough of a plan. At each step, it's going to be a war against entrenched interests. How are you going to win?)
Does anyone know if Office 2016 is supported?
Triangle resident here, and we don't have anywhere near the density to actually make general-purpose light rail work, economically.

That said, I do think we're somewhat competitive for this, even though I don't want to see Amazon move in. The housing stock availability is a huge liability for the locals...we're already in a seller's market right now.
And they should think about a hefty rent hike when it's time to sign the next lease. From the GP's comment it sounds like they left money on the table.
It's always a tradeoff...

- super dense cities like Tokyo or New York can feel suffocating. A lot of people can't bear it. The lack of green space, and the overcrowding of people and cars increases the stress levels by a lot. Yet, being able to walk around the city is excellent for exercising and mindfulness, it's easier to meet with people, etc.

- super sparse cities (like LA or Brasilia) on the other end tend to isolate people, and to mediate the experience of daily life. Life is constantly split by episodes of driving / parking. Yet, these cities offer a lot of space, greenery and privacy.

The fact that both very dense cities and sparse cities exist and are successful only shows that different people enjoy different kinds of cities, so it would be a bit preposterous to claim that one style is better over another.

That said, electric cars and self driving car fleets will most likely help reduce pollution (both noise and air) by a lot and make living in dense city much easier.
One can imagine if the bid process is sufficiently competitive & transparent, if HQ2 brings $10b in economic good, cities might bid eachother down asymptotically to offer $10b in incentives, which in net would result in nearly zero economic good for the winning city or the parent country, and transfer all that value to Amazon & it's shareholders.

There's also the concern that negative impacts are being ignored, such as increased demand on infrastructure, ala the Olympics, wherein by most accounts the winning city actually winds up economically worse-off.
Can’t I accomplish the same thing by compiling a modified version of headless chrome?
Which is exactly why I think that we're a front-runner. Just like the winter Olympics all over again...

The south Denver/Tech Center area was imagined with something like this in mind, maybe a big chunk of land out east along the southern part of e-470.. It's really all the other stuff that kind of stinks, all the extra traffic, all the extra people on the ski slopes, etc..
This is the correct answer. There's nothing stopping you from setting up a 16 bit protected mode descriptor in your GDT and using it. The issue was in thunking HANDLEs.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384249.aspx

> Note that 64-bit Windows does not support running 16-bit Windows-based applications. The primary reason is that handles have 32 significant bits on 64-bit Windows. Therefore, handles cannot be truncated and passed to 16-bit applications without loss of data. Attempts to launch 16-bit applications fail with the following error: ERROR_BAD_EXE_FORMAT.
I now work for a company that is gathering metadata on the IP address space (in an effort to reduce the amount of abuse that sites and service providers have to deal with).

It won't be very long before it'll be possible to identify most of the common proxying networks and block those.

Scrapers can respond by setting up something like an ssh tunnel from a residential high speed connection to a remote server (so that scraping run on the remote server appears to come from the residential connection) and using that as a proxy, but it adds another level of effort.

(I am generally on the scrapers' side on this and think it's ultimately futile to try to block all scrapers. Website administrators need to accept that anything they put on the internet is public and get over it.)
No performance issue on iOS iPhone 7.
The occupant landlords I've known have been very picky about their renters, conducting extensive interviews; whereas management companies literally only do a background check and a financials check.

And they've been orders of magnitude more responsive about problems with utilities, plumbing, appliances, etc. They care. And they form human relationships with their tenants. It's not just about "having an eye on you".
The person you're replying to assumes that transportation and demand to live/work/spend money in the city has such a high baseline volume that the city will always be relatively prosperous and the experience of walking in the city is the bottleneck when it comes to making the city better. This is fine if your world view doesn't extend beyond existing large cities. It's like being rich and complaining about having to maintain your vacation homes. Most smaller cities can't take that high baseline amount of economic activity and prosperity for granted so they need to balance luxury stuff like walk-ability, nice parks, etc. with making it easy and cheap to engage in commerce. Luxuries like walk-ability and parks are second to building up a baseline amount of (hopefully diverse) economic activity that won't go away at the next downturn.
> That's an open question that Google could solve by providing said option. One dollar a month for the complete suite of google tools with no tracking or ads whatsoever?

"No tracking" only, not "no ads". No ads would be far more expensive.

But you can actually do it: buy a corporate account from them and then use an ad blocker. As simple as that.

Now go and put your money where your mouth is :)
On the other hand Austin is the headquarters of Whole Foods Market which owns a lot of real estate. Until recently they built stores with cash and often owned the shopping centers their stores were built in.

Texas has no state income tax which wouldn’t be a public reason for the choice but is obviously going to be a factor.

Austin is also a good culture fit with Seattle and is a startup hub.
> There are also Spectre fixes landing in kernels. E.g. Linux 4.14.14 added initial retpoline support:

Which has its own performance drawbacks, but the microcode update itself has even more. And you need the microcode update for Broadwell and newer for retpolines to work.
Yeah in theory their could be penalties, but in practice no court wants to discourage doctors from saving people's lives.
Then don't use it. You have the freedom to choose.
A trend I expect to continue is apartment complexes and little developments set up around them that are near commuter rail. But realistically a lot of people still want houses.
Or you could add more supply.
I would not be surprised to see MS introduce a dockerized '16bit compatibility' mode for Enterprise versions of windows. The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.
More of a potential problem than an existing one but I know potential issues have shapped how fonts are delivered on Android :

A recent version of the OS + support lib added the possibility to reference a font in your app in order to have it downloaded (if necessary) and applied to your views.

IIRC It is restricted to one font delivery system only allowing fonts available on Google fonts. Not because of a power grab, but because fonts are not just graphics but also run a bunch of code.

So unrestricted access would have been a big security hole.

If you want more details, the font team talked about it at length during an Android Developer Backstage podcast episode.
Having lived, worked and now running a B2B SaaS company there, the growth is real. Are the numbers exactly right, of course not. China is a massive, complex and not entirely transparent mesh of interests. Long story short though, there is a real middle class in China that is driving real consumer demand. This is starkly different to India, South Africa or Brazil where no real middle class exists.

Much longer thoughts on America vs. China http://www.jonathanbrun.com/who-will-lead-the-world/
Yes, they have been very tepid (only selling in CARB type states) and actually the quality of their EVs is subpar -- no active battery temperature management, low range.

They're making noises about improving, but then they go and do the opposite.
I do to an extent, and certainly appreciate it!

But it’s hard to disconnect completely when everyone else is at work. Having a corporate chat system doesn’t help in this regard, but even without that the interruptions come.

A couple of times last year I ended up doing a fullish day of work at the weekend for some or other urgent project. Now that I find amazingly productive, going on outright invigorating. Not something I really want to make a habit of though (family, plus no shortage of ideas for side projects).

I do dream of true team-of-one jobs...
There's no "of course" about it. If you're going to claim that the problem is the existence of the state, you need a lot more evidence than "of course".

Certainly you cannot claim the support of Adam Smith in your assertion.
If you're on a budget, Apple still offers a revamped iPhone 5S as the iPhone SE, which starts at $349 off-contract.

Despite being a pretty low-end phone, that's not a low-end smartphone price point by any measure, but it's certainly much less expensive than Apple's higher-end options.

The used market is also a possibility if you're on a tighter budget.
Hm. I have always thought of Seattle and Denver having equally blue-leaning, outdoorsy, marijuana-legalizing, progressively-led cities. What are the cultural differences between them that you're thinking of?
I appreciate that that article was short and to the point.
Yes I think it's possible but it's much harder to do, I guess.
Thank you very much!

The application is called SwyxIt! (the exclamation mark is part of the name). It is a VoIP / Softphone application.

Can be found here: https://www.swyx.de/products/support/support-downloads.html

I hope Wine 3.0 will be available on openSUSE Tumbleweed soon. Once it is, I will give it another try.
Think we agree on all the important points then. At least so far.

For the record I'm no fan or defender of Trump. But whatever we think of his obvious character flaws, he's really nothing without supporters.

What I have been trying to do is understand the people who do support him and articulate the best possible interpretation of events that I can make for how someone can support him.

That's not to pretend he doesn't have some racist supporters, he does.. but I think they are a very (very) small percentage of people who hold their nose at him personality and yet give him their support.

What I hear from the Left, over and over, is charges of racism and attributing the worst possible motives to most his supporters -- a strawman argument which they can then knock down with moral indignation.

So back to our discussion.

I don't think it pays to continually be outraged at Trumps never ending provocations. What I think needs to happen is to have an honest discussion -- where people on the left have to say "Trump is an idiot, but we understand that there are problems with unfettered immigration, and we respect the people who are worried about protecting America. We recognize them as patriots, not racists. We understand that many people support Trump not because they are attracted to his personality, but because we have not been willing to properly balance our desire to help people of the world with our need to protect our fellow citizens (regardless of political stripe)".

I am no expert on what the proper level of immigration should be, or how to vet appropriate applicants. But until we take responsibility for our blind spots, and at least be willing to acknowledge the other side as legitimate, we're going to keep talking past one another.

If we keep going the way we're going, Trump is going to get elected again. The entire culture is currently focused on the wrong thing -- and that isn't Trump's fault, it's ours.
If quality of life is so bad, then why are prices high?

If it sucks to live somewhere, you would expect it to be CHEAPER than living in the surrounding area.

But thats not what we see. What we see is that prices in urban areas are pretty much universally higher than living in the surrounding, less dense area?

Do you know what that means? That means that the market has spoken, and it proves that people want to live in these areas, as proven by the fact that they are willing to pay a lot more money to do so.

When it is just as cheap to live in the city as it is to live in low density areas, THEN we can talk about relative demand and the benefits of low density.
Bitcoin’s utopia has failed as big players hold all the power
You don't need to tell me, I live there :D

What's worse is that French, German and Dutch national rail operators have subsidiaries running rail contracts in the UK. So in a way we help fund the fantastic continental rail services...

But I understand that rail services on the continent are also heavily subsidised.