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this is a crock. it was a crock when it was written and it's still a crock now. the idea that someone can for 8 years in the spotlight disguise themselves so much so that appear wholly opposite is ludicrous. it takes months for professional actors to produce 90 minutes of performance - the guy was on camera for literally weeks. he's not "smarter than you" this kind of revisionist nonsense is politically motivated - people were saying the same exact thing about Trump before he took office and we are now all very sure it's not the case.
the whole point of the amazon bidding process is to induce competition between cities to give amazon exemptions and tax breaks-Philadelphia/Pennsylvania will probably benefit on the whole if they were chosen...but the size of that benefit would depend substantially on the terms they offer amazon.
I live in the North of England, Air Conditioning isn't a thing here and I don't drive or use public transport (I live a 15 minute walk away from work).

I do have some cycling gear but that's specifically cycling gear.
I name-drop it every chance I get ;) We used it to automate the integration tests for a game engine at a previous company; worked great, because it allowed us to fire events into the engine itself based upon the actual rendered pixels (Sikuli supports varying levels of fuzzy image detection for event targets).
That's true about any engineering artifact though. If your steel rebar isn't built to whatever standard you require your concrete skyscraper isn't going to be structurally sound. To build on top of the layers below you, you have to trust that they work, and when problems occur you fix the problems as they come up (or ideally prevent them ahead of time).
>I’m extremely proud of the work I’ve done at Uber. I have no worries about finding my next job. I have a laundry list of companies who have contacted me since Jan 1, 2018, including FANG.

Given that your name is "uberemployee"... and that your comment history shows you are for lack of a better term an uber jingoist, I have to ask...

How do I know you're not some HR shill trying to do damage control?

/I say this half jokingly
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Great question. If I remember I'll reply somewhere in a month, I'll try to go past the 15GB mark by then. Opting out of the cap would make this useless for me.

But if you were reimbursed by an employer upto $X and that's what you want to spend, not going to normal speed starts to make sense.
150 - 2.9 is definitely a step forward...
Evil is an interesting choice of words to mean not wrong and impressive...
Seattle native who feels the exact same way about Seattle as you do about Philadelphia.
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Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
Only for the last 20 years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports
Most people are idea people to a certain degree.
Out of the 10 largest U.S. cities, only San Antonio has a majority of the population of its metro area. Most aren't even close, at 20-30%. Out of the 10 largest EU cities, only three have less than half the population in the core city: Madrid, Paris, and Hamburg. And Madrid is close to the line--48%.
It would be nice, before giving Barack Obama as an example of how to act, to present some evidence that he was an exception to this trend. For example, was his IQ significantly above 120? I'm not saying it was or wasn't, or that he was or wasn't perceived as an effective leader, but they give no reason why this data point should be an example to follow.
I'm here. I moved from Austin (call me crazy). I haven't seen a slowdown in recruiter spam since I've arrived.
Yeah I still haven't updated one of my iOS devices because quite a few good apps haven't been updated to be compatible with iOS 11
Thanks for your insight.
The regulations in Minneapolis don't seem so reasonable to me. For instance, if the property is ever not owner occupied you are supposed to remove the unit. If you want two units then that is straight out. You still can't build over a single story if it's an accessory structure. I'm assuming it doesn't change the amount of unbuilt square footage you need, though thankfully they did relax parking requirements. They haven't been popular here at all, and while they are expensive to build, I think they are also pretty regulatorily constrained.

I've thought that if anything ever happens to our garage and I need or want to rebuild, I might look into an ADU. But probably I'd just try to get the property upzoned or otherwise get an exception instead of working inside the current regulations.
There's a group of people that believe that most current "dense cities" in the united states are very poorly designed.

So, when you say "dense cities already exist", that group hears "your concerns are invalid/useless".

Conversely, "making cities harder to get around when not on foot" also means "making cities easier to get around if you don't own a car".

Individuals who live in cities and don't have a car are comfortable with this. Or, they live in cities and a car is not their dominant method of travel.

This whole issue is extremely complex, and not amenable to a simple solution, like "making cities easier to get around on foot" or "make it easier to drive around a city".

Jane Jacobs's "Death And Life of Great American Cities" is a fantastic (and beautifully written) exposé of the topic. Believe it or not, I finished the book this morning.
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Could you recommend a remedy for someone who's spent a great chunk of their programming experience in misdirection?

I have only recently realised that my terrible misunderstanding of programming is slowing me a lot.
That is indeed the point of technology.

Personally, my only gripe is that those technologies tend to heavily depend on cloud and SaaS, which make you a slave of the whims of a third party, that is unreliable and often doesn't have your best interest in mind. Those same tools could be equally empowering without that dependency.
"every geek I knew trying to re-invent moral philosophy ended up at utilitarianism, only to find out that the good counter-arguments had been made a long time ago"

And kudos for overall quality post.
Simplest answer: IQ doesn't measure inter-personal skills, and people who are really good at one type of thing (measurable by IQ) are often not as good at other things (various proposed metrics of social intelligence).
1. Not rebuilding our reputation/changing things for the better.

2. Not competing in self-driving.
It would be good if AWS et al had an easy way to manage third party ip ranges for security groups. When I was deploying a site we came across this issue and so whitelisted Cloudflares ip ranges but it made me uneasy because what happens if a new IP address is added? How do we manage this list and what sort of notice is provided?
Didn't the swing states also demand IDs which democratic supporters would not have?
My friend moved to Scotland and had a baby there. As toddler, one day she pointed up and exclaimed "look! there's a hole in the clouds!".
Cloudflare has text files here https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ - would be cool if there was some standard protocol for this.
See also - Quayside - Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs redevelopment effort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16181331
Half of Philadelphia's General Fund revenue comes from wage taxes. That ends up being 1/6th of the budget of Philadelphia and 2/7 of the revenue for the city.

While it isn't unreasonable to worry that the net effect of lowering the business income and real estate taxes applied to Amazon would result in a negative tax/expense ratio, when applied holistically and including the other taxes, it's also not unreasonable to think the city revenue will increase, particularly when you add in related businesses.
Adam Smith was the Piketty of his time.

I'm guessing this is generally not obvious to the people who frequently cite him or portray him as some sort of free market champion.

It's interesting how the issues addressed by him are just as relevant 240 years later, the main ones being insufficient taxation of wealthy landowners and eventual consolidation of capital.
Not wizard-level but I got started programming on a ZX-81 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Si...)

Which was a few years old then, the games such as they where never held any interest but a machine that could be told what to do was magic to me.

I could write programs on a ZX Speccy before I could read (properly) and that started a life-long love (and career) in software development.
My favorite introduction to Piaget was the book Mindstorms, about Seymour Papert and the development of logo at MIT. I'm interested in anyone on this thread contributing more to my reading list. Some of the references in that article are very esoteric to me.
Thanks, that was the sort of article I was hoping for. I am surprised to see Denver winning best transit in America, though; it still takes me 2-3x the time to travel light rail or bus than driving. Sometimes the convenience is worth it, but usually not.
No, what we are advocating is that we make more areas where people can get around their own neighborhood on foot. That it makes the neighborhood harder for outsiders to get around is a side effect. However the neighborhood doesn't need outsiders in this model.
Agreed. I'm not a JS fan by far, but I don't see anything wrong with Solidity (nor am I a huge fan). The Solidity pitfalls are just the pitfalls offered by the EVM. I agree that tooling should improve to highlight potential failures, but to treat Solidity like JS is a mistake.
Any favorite books you have read that contributed to a better understanding of your work?
It's funny - I have avoided BoA because they treated me like dirt in person when I had nothing.

It made me feel like they treat everyone that way, but I guess now that I have a few pennies to rub together I should give it a shot.
Or, you know, make sure you get paid for your part of the work, and if they don't take your advice and fail, that's on them. They are developers, not investors, this article goes against common business sense.
I think this flowchart is addressing some commonly asked questions as well as providing a guide. There's more information in the links below; basically, even if you think you saw it fall from the sky, you actually didn't, and that isn't a reason to discount the flowchart and think you saw a meteorite.

http://www.meteoritemarket.com/metid2.htm
From wsj.com:

"...some site-selection experts to speculate Mr. Bezos may choose a location where an influx of workers could help promote political change..."

Playing with that notion.

Premise: 50k tech workers would have more impact on US politics if: 1) added to U.S. cities; 2) added to cities in states with smaller populations. (Debatable premise(s), but just go with it).

Below is trimmed down version of the original list of 20 with that in mind, sorted by lowest population. Cities in states where 50k would be < 0.40% of the population were cut (eg. 50k in florida would only be 0.25%).

Place: 50k/State Pop (as %)
------------------------------------------

Denver: 1.00%
Nashville: 0.77%
Northern Virginia: 0.63%
Atlanta: 0.50%
Raleigh: 0.50%
Columbus: 0.45%

(50k would be about 7.35% of Washington DC, which I edited out, but put back in after seeing a reply to this post)

(list of cities and quote above from https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-narrows-choices-for-seco...)
See for example the history of Photoshop and games!
When making software you don't optimize more then needed. It just have to be fast enough. But where performance is a selling point, things have actually gotten faster, for example JavaScript engines. And compilers can probably compile a 20 years old program and make the binary more optimized then it was before.
The BBC is the largest broadcaster in the world.
It's interesting that it came down to actual virtual warfare.

Good on you for sticking through it.
I can't imagine how you don't see it.

All of his warnings are against regulations that make collusion more likely, and he explicitly says that it would be impossible for any regulation that would prohibit people from the same trade from meeting to "be executed" or "be consistent with liberty and justice".

Every single admonishment was against regulations, whether on grounds of contributing to collusion, or being unenforceable and inconsistent with "liberty and justice".
The mayor has avoided answering that question on some radio shows. There's the cost of such meters, and the conspiracies that some of the water usage offenders are wealthy people who might be supporting the ruling party in the city or province.

When flying into Cape Town, you still see a large number of pools that look well-maintained, which is scary. I'm convinced that some residents just quietly pay excessive water penalties, and are let off the hook.

Given the Listeria breakout that's happening, and the "falling" or unprepared public health sector, it's a matter of weeks till we deal with a huge crisis.

Disclaimer: I have been working in CT for a few months, fly in and out every week.
In that case, the planes will likely be parted out. Wings and tail removed and likely installed on another A380 body.
Indeed. My wife and I explored opening an "art gallery" in Mott Haven/South Bronx in a cool old warehouse that cost less than our small apartment. It didn't work out for a number of reasons but the size of the space was a tremendous value.
There's a difference between metaphors and speaking down to someone. When I talk about topics in CS or mathematics with my girlfriend or some members of my family, I speak in metaphors. I don't speak to them like they're five. I speak to them like they're intelligent people who have a model of the world that is different than mine or the things I want to discuss, and I relate my work or interests to their models.
Meh. Open Google Maps (the app responsible for all of these notifications). Go to settings > notifications > your contributions. Turn off everything. Done.
It's just one app being a bit too nosy. Nothing like the OS that tried to silently re-enable the privacy settings I turned off in an update.
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It’s the largest, or second largest (if you have a mortgage) investment people make, and despite that it typically has less than 5% utilization rate. We’re not talking about cake TV channels — making car payments is a major source of heartache for a lot of people, Eeven worse than making rent since you typically need a vehicle to earn your rent.

Large companies can borrow for less AND get a much higher utilization rate from the asset.

I just ditched one of my cars. I had no loan, but dividing the purchase price by the 8 years I’d had it, plus insurance and registration it cost me ove $15/day just ito have it in the driveway. I spend less than that on Lyft/uber (though I have a pass for the latter)
What is a "main street" in the context of Manhattan? That phrase only has meaning out in the suburbs. "Walkable street" does not mean the same thing as "main street". Every street here is walkable.
Usually in larger stations and it is really infrequent. It's usually a bunch of patrol cops with a plastic folding table and they set it up in the station outside the turnstiles. They'll "randomly" select people and check their bags. I've seen them in Queens (Roosevelt/74th) and other random stations.
Telling people to fuck off sucks. But being able to tell people to fuck off is awesome.

There's an analogous aphorism: it's not working that sucks, it's having to work that sucks.
If you happen to be using gnome I wrote a small script that uses the relay plugin so you can get native notifications even if your weechat is remote: https://github.com/Fingel/weelisten

That got rid of the last thing I felt was lacking when I started using weechat.
What a terribly blatant shill response.
Yeah, if your business has a surefire way of getting paid (i.e. upfront for risky stuff), you don't turn it down...
TIL software engineers aren’t actual residents of the places we live.
Someone claiming to be his widow on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3sdg9u...

A great story at least :)

Comparing pictures: http://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2000/08/22/ca3bd939-a...
Your point is valid, however no car factory built recently has garnered a fraction of the publicity/public interest that HQ2 has. What people don't know can't hurt them.
> there are a lot of news stories out there about how taxi drivers end up with a great memories from having to remember all the routes

The question is, does that do them any good? It might help them in the rare case there's a problem with navigation data, but 99% of the time it's a wasted effort, and personally, I purposefully prefer taxis/transport services that use navigation.

My own opinion is that we should treat brain-memory as cache memory: store the things that are directly relevant to the important parts of our lives, to make ourselves better in those areas; otherwise, don't bother memorizing.
In addition to the other threads here:

Buying specific cars tends to mean they're all over the country. Easier to fly there, check it out, and have it moved for you. Car collectors, for instance, though I assume the rich ones don't have these problems.

Sometimes it's cheaper to buy a car in state X and move it to you rather than buying it where you live. Also other countries, etc, though I assume you put that in the same mental-category as "over water" :)
> I think it is important for everyone nowadays to have at least an notion of how software works, given that there is software is almost everything we use these days...

I couldn't agree more. Education isn't just learning facts, it's providing tools so kids can contextualize the world around them.

When the world is powered by software, even a passing familiarity with the basics of programming will be as important as learning history, literature, or basic science.
Ask HN: State of the art for code snippets in KeyNote/PPT
I'm working on a Keynote presentation that includes code and can't believe the pain of formatting code snippets.

I've seen this presentation https://www.slideshare.net/LookAtMySlides/codeware which is great but doesn't offer much in terms of tactics.

The methods I know:

- VS Code has "Copy with Syntax Highlighting" which I think is the best so far
- LiveSlides.com could be cool for embedding a webpage but it requires running a separate app so sharing a presentation requires some minor training
- Screenshots look good but are hard to maintain

What I would love:

- Embeddable REPLs with syntax highlighting in Keynote
- Embeddable web pages

Any other ideas or state of the art things people are doing?
There's usually a catalyst (New York was a good port or something), but after that it becomes difficult to replicate.
What would be an example of a “third tier” airline?
Which algorithm is better: O(nlogn) time and O(1) space vs. O(n) time and O(n) space?
> And I can attest that they often presume that I'm a robot.

In my experience this occurs when you are either doing this too much, or you are not accepting their cookies when logged in. (I don't recall the behavior when logged out.)
It is a mistake to focus on individual properties.

http://scorevoting.net/PropDiatribe.html
Electorally DC is less relevant to national politics than any house district (I was replying as you trimmed DC from your list).

Which would be the next unit to analyze, as the statewide population doesn't impact house elections all that much.
Depends on your background, if you are .Net maybe F#, Java maybe Kotlin, PHP (and I say this as someone who writes PHP as a day job) maybe any other language in existence.

Functional programming is a completely different conceptual model and even if you don't use it day to day it teaches you some important principles.
Except we're inherently idle creatures. So while you may be right in some silly marxian sense. 90% of us would do nothing until forced to due to biological needs.
Having a 'choice' of GUI toolkits is going to lead to a shitty experience for everyone. As a user, now I have to see if a particular app works with my chosen toolkit, or if I have to deal with a substandard experience, or something that prevents me from using it properly. As a developer, now I have to decide which one I take, or spend twice as long and have twice as many bugs to use both.
Thanks for the report!

We've already fixed some of these issues[0] but I didn't update the code snippets in the article -- woops!

[0] https://github.com/tromey/vlq/commit/3b41a2b6c778ce476eaaa28...
> Chicago

Some individual portions of Chicago are very walkable. Likewise with some small bits of San Diego, though you are right, not as good as European cities.
The way i see it you are basically describing south Brooklyn with the 30k/square mile. Something like Bensohurst (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.620487,-74.0093661,3a,75y,20...) or Western part of San Francisco.

I think the issue with this approach is it doesn't take away individualism. Everything is still too far away. Most people still have cars and look for parking for hours. The parks are few and something like 30 minute walk away. Your friends and gym are also going to be 30 minutes walk away. It's not dense enough for subways everywhere and buses stop on every block so it makes just as much sense to walk. Nobody walks anywhere besides their neighborhood and there is usually nothing in their neighborhood.

So it's really worse than suburbs and worse than city center that has buildings. Worse than city with buildings because you don't share common resources so everyone is still for themselves. You also don't get nice things like common public playgrounds and parks.

It's worse than the suburbs because you still get the same problems of it being difficult to get places but now it's even harder. You still get "what's mine is mine and I don't want public things" but now you have less of your own stuff and fewer public things because real estate is expensive. You also don't get the diversity of food or clothes that you would get in a city.

I think the ideal is 90k/sq mile in the places where people live with 4-6 story buildings.
Alot of uber type parking apps failed.

curious why a blockchain will work?
No, but car-suburbs don't give you the convenience of having transportation options for all ages. It also doesn't give you the convenience of having services and amenities in walking distance.

Living close-by does strengthen informal ties, because you're more likely to run into eachother, literally. The alienation of the car-dependent suburb is admittedly a literary trope, but it is rooted in reality.

Different people, different strokes, suburbs have a different appeal. But it's a sliding scale. People that don't enjoy car-dependency have very little inexpensive options in this country. The market has spoken, and the demand for town-living is far greater than the supply. It's reflected in the house prices, virtually any metro, the walkable areas are more expensive than the car sprawl.
My understanding is that thanks to E911 your precise location is tracked, and that's the information that mobile phone network operators provide to law enforcement through their location portals:

... web portal that Sprint provides law enforcement to conduct automated “pings” to track users. Through the website, authorized agents can type in a mobile phone number and obtain global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the phone.

From: https://www.wired.com/2009/12/gps-data/