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I've often wondered why somone moderately wealthy doesn't just start a super dense town, e.g. everything within 100 acres, and be within 10 miles of a major city.

Create tons of these at a 50K people/sqmi density and implement some sort of hub spoke transportation with the major city being the hub and it could work!
Pullout quotes have always been silly, they never have enough context to use as skimming material either
Ah yes, forgetting... I feel we should maybe commemorate the atrocities of the past in some way... Like a National Remembrance Day for the Fallen Ads, we could have a moment of two minutes of ... loudly over-compressed slick fast talking sales pitches trying to make you feel bad about your life without their product.

Oh, the nostalgia :) Actually thinking about it, I can get nostalgic and enjoy viewing certain ads sometimes, provided that they're over 10 years old. It's that whole icky feeling of being manipulated even while believing you know they do it (except they do it worse) these grabby greasy fingers reaching into my brain. After a about a decade, ads lose that power and they just become quaint. Like the "Jazz Solo Design" from the 90s (image search it and you'll recognize it immediately).
Do you feel the same way about Zenefits?
people still play this? :D
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Why is "sharing to smartphones" in the set of things we want out of the technology stack that encourages young people to code?

Smartphones aren't the Nintendo Switch, and (for me, at least) wallpapering over the differences in hardware platforms is not an exciting part of the learning-to-code experience.
Or a PR person was involved. I've been quoted in press releases saying stuff I never said, and it's par for the course, apparently.
What do you mean by cultural excesses?
Briefly read, it looks like an idea and not an 'apparatus'. Yes, carrying error bound information along with the number is interesting. How is that implemented in real time? How is accumulated error calculated (how do we know the floating values we are calculating with are not perfectly precise e.g. 3.0000... and not 3.000...1)?
If he didn't patent his work someone else will and collect the royalties resulting in 0 additional freedom. There is nothing gained by not playing.
I don't quite understand your argument here. You posit that a reasonable position on immigration for America is that we should not have one hundred percent open borders, welcome all comers. And furthermore, since a reasonable position is that we should not welcome all comers, whoever they may be, we obviously need some way to establish who in particular is welcome, and who in particular is not.

I agree with you as far as that goes.

But then you go further to say that it's possible that Trump was trying to express the position you just described, albeit in an uncharitable and rude way, and that's where you lose me.

It's possible that you could theorize a hypothetical person who expresses that sentiment in that manner, but is that hypothetical person Donald Trump, with all the context of his previous comments and decisions? Because we're not talking about a hypothetical here, we're talking about actual sentiments expressed by an actual person, with a history racial insensitivity (to put it lightly) and heavy-handed bans that have no legal basis (again, to put it lightly).

It's not meaningful to come up with hypotheticals unless you attribute that hypothetical to Trump, and attributing this one to him means that it needs to be squared with his previous actions and positions. In my opinion, it seems fantastically unlikely that he was trying to express your position; if you believe differently, I'd be interested in your reasoning.
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> I agree he should get a percentage of the profits other companies make off of his invention, but it's not like he's entitled to any payments just because he liked to tinker around.

The first clause in your sentence is exactly what patents are for; the second clause is...tangential at best.
Could someone just use some sort of fuzzing software to generate these?

Just keep trying many until one hits.
> We store the source code for all services in subfolders of the same monorepo (one repo <-> one app).

So I'm curious, does each service instance have their own server, or do you have multiple services on one server instance?

I have some experience working with microservices. I saw the clear business benefits of being able to map design domain boundaries to repos and specific teams, and to let those teams be able to control their deployments while minimizing external dependencies.

But we seemed to be paying a lot in network chattiness, slow site response times, and networking costs. I'm wondering if we could have minimized those costs by sticking some of those microservices on the same server instance. Not really change service boundaries or interfaces, but change the methods that the microservice interfaces use to communicate.
Most East Coast American cities have neighborhoods that were built 100 years ago as suburbs because it was impractical to walk to downtown that are now considered inner city. Other areas of the country do as well, but I'm only speaking to my own experience in the Mid-Atlantic. These neighborhoods are higher density than modern suburbs but much lower density than downtowns. People like the character of these neighborhoods because they seem to offer a good mix of being centrally located but still quiet and pleasant. The people who live in them try to keep that character through zoning and NIMBYism. This is a compromise to preserving what the residents like while allowing slow increases in density. A reasonable next step would be to allow duplexes and triplexes up to a certain density like 2 per block or something. That way the neighborhood could develop over time without causing the outrage that tends to accompany a developer getting a variance to throw up a modern boxy 4+ story apartment/condo building in an otherwise 1-3 story neighborhood.
How can it be "clickbait" if it's in the article? What am I supposed to click on?

Moreover, these are clearly marked quotes from the press release and the patent. Maybe this technology doesn't merit an article. But if it does, quoting the inventor is exactly what one expect from coverage. Note that it does invite scepticism, starting with "claims" in the headline.

This gratuitous hatred of journalism is seriously getting out of hands.
Why is the right thing to do work for no compensation?
Would you still feel this way if this was just a run of the mill patent by intel?
I think there's an increasingly compelling argument to be made at this moment in history, with the rise of powerful increasingly intelligent software that can 1) rigorously shape policy to ensure that ends are met and that 2) the means to those ends employ minimal bias, and 3) do so adaptively, shifting policy dynamically as circumstances evolve. I believe it's time to start planning for the day when we shutter the voting booths and find a better way to govern using networked sensors and dispassionate computers.

Democracy is dying. Long live automatic government for the people.

Is this really necessary? IMHO, yes. It's become clear that the easy manipulation of a gullible, clueless, and intellectually lazy electorate has broken all three branches of US government:

1) we have an imbecile President and a cabinet of grotesques who border on insanity

2) we have a congress that for over 30 years has done almost nothing constructive, that campaigns on one set of principles then serves others, the primary two being: the financial interests of Those With Money, and paying lip service to the fantasy-laden desiderata of Those Without.

3) a legal system that imprisons over 90% of those charged without a trial.

What brought America to such a dysfunctional State? The democratic popular vote, of course. Nothing else could.

Thus I believe it's time there was a serious discussion (outside of Washington, of course) about alternative ways to shrink and de-bias all three branches of government, at all levels.

I'm convinced that software soon will be powerful enough to fairly, effectively, and adaptively guide the players (both citizens and businesses) in questions of policy to reliably and precisely achieve desired ends, rather than relying on the venerably bent tools of power -- a gigantic incoherent mass of self-serving, ends-oblivious, and inconsistent principles chisled into marble long ago by power brokers to preserve eon-old biases that reliably serves only vested interests.

If we want AI to reach its true potential, I propose better government be its ultimate objective. Start from the bottom up -- local government -- and introduce ends-driven smart services to serve civic and main street business needs at that level -- where feedback is clearest, most immediate, and most accountable. This way we might just put government right, from the bottom up, cutting away Caesar as we go.
Interesting, what would incentivize people to live there, as opposed to the city?
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Don't think so.

Though, you have a high change of crossing over the Autobahn with your plane if you arrive with a 2 engine model (the HEAVYs cannot use the northern runway, as the runway is too short for them)

And some planes are parked rather remotely, where the bus trip might take around 10-15 minutes and is not that much different from the official guided bus tour of the airport.
Don't companies usually hand out t-shirt swag with their company names on it?

Most of the time that I see someone with a company logo on their shirt I do not readily assume they work at that company.
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The prospect of traffic and rent in that area can be a bit dismal, if they are to make the move....
Seems entirety reasonable to judge on both. A persons impact on your company is not just what they can do but also how they behave.
On iOS/MacOS you can just use the Apple Notes app to share text betweenn your phone and mac, it's updated in Real-time (instantaneous!)
For this hacker news commenter, news article headline is, like, lame.
you are right, I went to read the PR after commenting, it's cringy.
FF is great. She is leading online courses for all Uber employees about business strategy and culture from real Harvard professors. It’s very educational for everyone.

It’s a very unique opportunity for us because she is an expert on what makes companies great. Not just culturally but business strategy too. Having her as a key member of the team is an advantage that t companies don’t have because whereas other people are figuring things out on their own, she actually studied it and taught it.

I hope she stays a long time to help mold this company into one of the greatest companies.
Actually, it sounds exactly like he's judging people based on what they "have done".
No employee wants to move there.
Just in time for Labo?
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> There is a price for density: crime, trash, prices, overcrowding, urban decay, poverty and homelessness, etc.

Density without strict oversight, perhaps. Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore seem to be counterexamples.
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Density doesn't necessarily lead to those things. For example, Tokyo is very dense, but has a low level of crime, and is quite clean. Poverty is found in urban, suburban and rural areas.

This same site has a good series of articles on suburban poverty: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/12/6/best-of-2016-s...
I think maybe I'm explaining it wrong. I'm sorry. What I mean to say is that there was a certain wonder and a strange form of legitimacy that writing software on a "real" computer that kids got when they were able to type something into the same device that ran their favourite games/software from "real" developers and see it show up on the screen just like the big boys. There was a sense of "Wow, anything is possible now that I can develop real software!"

The legitimacy of the company that produced Mario, etc. will rub off onto a new generation of kids and make them feel like they are really playing with the big boys.

I don't know how to explain this right. I know that I myself still get this feeling when I see something I wrote running on an actual Atari Jaguar because I was such a fan of that console when I was a kid. It's like, "wow, I'm actually a real developer! I made it!"

I start thinking about all the things I can do and all of the possibilities that are more than just firing pixels on a screen.

It's a form of technological empowerment, and it's something that makes a huge difference in a kid's life. I know it did for me when I first discovered BASIC on the Commodore.
You can hate the patent system all you want but this specific case, assuming that his invention works, is a case where patents are being used correctly.
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A few things in no particular order.

1 - It's not holding back anything. If this invention has any merit, it will be licensed and society at large will benefit from it.

2 - Incentive. If this inventor could not make a guaranteed profit from this idea, I imagine he could have found more interesting ways to spend his time than playing with floating point numeric representations. It's not like he stumbled upon this on the road and then hid it from society. He set out to create things like this as a means of sustaining himself and improving the world at the same time.

3 - The reason markets are useful is because they work phenomenally well at determining value. As we swapped to currency operated markets over barter, nobody ruled a chicken was worth 3 coins, a pig 10, and a cow 25. Instead market forces decided, and tend to do better than any other means of measuring value. Donations, let alone bureaucracy, are extremely poor substitutes in determining the value of anything. Their ideal would be to approach market force level efficiency. This isn't to say markets are flawless, but rather they're a whole let less flawed than any alternative.
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I don't think this is going to change any time soon. the last time patent lifetime was changed, it was to make it consistent with the rest of the world (20 years). It's unlikely we (US) would change that; it would be a huge international battle for something that people have more or less accepted.
> many AAA publishers absolutely refuse to release without DRM

Why, though? It doesn't even work. Denuvo sort of worked, had a GIANT performance hit due to running on a VM, and even it was cracked before long.
MCI is sort of a drive for me, but then again all airports are. I'm roughly equidistant from STL, SGF, and COU, with MCI slightly farther away. Icelandair seems like it could be a great way to get to Europe? I'm actually a little bummed out by the terminal plans, since they're likely to throw away the quick-in/quick-out convenience that exists currently. Flying was so much better in the 1990s, and MCI right now is sort of a throwback to that time. However, the current design makes connecting flights through KCI sort of impossible, so I can see why the airlines don't like it.
The cynic in me believes the whole Fuchsia thing is to avoid the GPL.
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I don’t know if it was necessarily intended to be that. The phrase “great leap” is used in a lot of contexts.
That latest report says it covers the first half of 2017 so we'll have to wait to see whether they consider the actions from the second half of the year to change the fourth item on that list.
Stop editing your post and give us some more details, now that you made it interesting :)
There is inaccuracy, but the point is that it tracks how much inaccuracy there might be. I picture this as being similar to how computers can't trust time for all sorts of reasons, so Google's Spanner uses time ranges and estimates of potential inaccuracy to make it possible to work with that. It will truncate, so you won't really have 1/3, but you'll know it's approximately 0.333, definitely more than 6/20 but definitely less than 7/20, for instance, and if you ever exceed certain bounds of certainty the calculation and all resulting calculations are flagged as not being that trustable. As is my understanding from the article, anyway.
Even more progress yesterday, whole system on FW 3.0.2 and below has private homebrew. There's also a homebrew development library already out that you can use right now (on switch 3.0.0 only).
Ignoring the weird comparison, he's right. Patents, as bad as the system is, are an improvement on no patents.
Allowing only cloudflare IPs for ports 80/443 (e.g. in nginx) is easy and the server can still be used for other purposes without Cloudflare. Other services can use different domains, would be hard to find out the server ip this way.
When I see Uber on a resume I have to ask more questions to get comfortable that I'm not hiring an asshole.

Uber has many good, decent people, but there is definitely some guilt by association.
$10B will likely end up being 10% of the total cost. Not to mention all of the Prop 1A mandates that the state has already violated, such as the requirement for private partnership, and ridiculous ridership estimates...
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In our consultancy we refer to this kind of situation by similarity to the Mad Man "Jai alai" episode (S3:E4)
Can you explain where else the cost comes from?

I'm thinking here that if a taxi driver's earning, say, $35,000 per year, and you can have two drivers working a shift per car, per day, then your labor costs for operating a cab are $70,000 year per car. Assume a car drives ~100k miles per year, gets 25mpg, and gas costs $4/gal. That's $16,000 for gas. How much do the cars cost, and how much maintenance do they need?
It seems like the problem here is overregulation.

Not the sort of regulations that require sufficient egress options or that housing be constructed in a way that's somewhat resistant to burning down, but the sort of regulations made in the name of the "preserving the character of the neighborhood" or "nobody should have to live in X (safe and healthy) conditions". The motivation for many of these seems to be wealthier people not wanting to see, or at least live near poorer people.
Spent a year working on an ecommerce platform with two other people. The company wanted their own custom thing, but at the same time to launch a new company through us.

Lead kept wanting to imitate Shopify. I kept saying if we try to compete with Shopify we're already dead -- we're just a small team with maybe a couple years runway; it has to be different.

Eventually the company we were working for abandoned the project and switched to Shopify, since, you know, we were building a poor copy of that anyway...
Jobs. Then lifestyle.
Jane Jacobs was right.
What fluids end up in the trash? Leftover/spoiled vegetables and fruits for sure are water for a large part, but I can't think of anything I would throw out in fluid form.
I guess the WSJ editors are going to juicier titles, and we are talking about it, so it is at least somewhat effective.
I'm still figuring that one out, hah. I think if the culture was strong enough and public transportation was "perfected" within the cofines of the 100acres people might gravitate their under normal market pressure.

Otherwise I guess you could just make it cheap. For those reading -- what would incentivize you?
Because there’d be more competition for W-2 jobs? Any situation where the average business owner can make more money by becoming a W-2 worker at someone else‘s business is not a stable equilibrium.
They find you, that's kind of the point. You do your thing and eventually, if you get noticed by the right people, you start getting invites.

Some also have public "ask to join" links. One such example is https://wip.chat
I wonder what city will be the first to ban private cars and allow all streets to work this way.
Don't forget Big Data and Data Science. Sometime in 2017 cryptocurrency really blew up in popularity, and suddenly everyone in my LinkedIn network went from being a Data Scientist to Cryptocurrency Expert or Blockchain Developer. People love bandwagons.
Yep. That's definitely about the maximum mental exertion I can do in a sitting. The important thing, though, is breaking my tasks down to things that I can do in a single sitting. If I have to spread the work out to multiple sessions, I have a hard time picking up where I left off.

A lot of my ideas about how to work were strongly influenced by Cal Newport and Matthew B Crawford.
No offense taken.
They're "free as in freedom"[0] to publish their inventions without applying for a patent, or to license their patents in any way they see fit, including free-as-in-everything.

[0]: The original "Free as in speech" seems to be a much better way to express your sentiment.
You don't generally use a clipboard to share files with other people, you use it to share files between your desktop applications, and in this case between your computers. I have been emailing myself files, because synergy doesn't copy files and airdropping with an old mac is annoying.
Something like this maybe?

http://www.andrewalexanderprice.com/blog20151203.php

Also, Amsterdam is creating a new neighbourhood like that:

https://nltimes.nl/2017/11/23/amsterdam-set-build-massive-ne...

>The goal for Haven-Stad is to have everything within walking or cycling distance. "As a resident you can bring your children to school on foot or by bicycle and you can work around the corner", the city said.
White flight
- They do have a governament, even if it doesn’t work.

- I’m not free to move anywhere I wasn’t invited nor is anyone paying my trip there.

All in all, death and taxes as they say.
Because it depends on the algorithms you put a float through.

Addition has a maximum accuracy of 1 LSB. Makes sense: the last bit could have been "rounded off" and 1.5+1.5 == 2 (but really 3 should have been returned).

Subtraction has unlimited error bounds (!!!). Well, I guess there's 53-bits of a double-precision float. So subtraction can theoretically create 53-bits of error.

In practice, you need to keep track of the error bounds during the runtime of the program. Its not something that can be computed at compile time. After all, addition of a positive and negative number IS subtraction. (so some subtractions are additions: with accuracy of 1LSB. While some additions are subtractions: with unlimited error bounds)
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Here’s the issued patent: https://www.google.com/patents/US9817662

Note that it’s a claim on the processing unit implementation (e.g. the FPU), not the method.

Nonetheless, I’d be very surprised if this stands the test of interval arithmetic prior art.
You can, but the number of possible inputs is huge and fuzzing won't prove that no such input exists.