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The combination of setback and building height limit establishes the maximum amount of natural sunlight that your building can block from your neighbors, and the adjoining street.

I believe the template for setbacks and height limits came from New York City, wherein a new 40-story building cast a good deal of the surrounding neighborhood into permanent shadow.

As the "Ancient Lights" doctrine of English property law had been repudiated in America, and the Prescription Act 1832 obviously came after independence, the neighborhood incumbents had no real legal grounds for complaint. This disturbed enough people that New York passed its first architectural restriction laws.

Land-use restrictions basically came out of racists trying to legislate segregation. Those nuisance laws combined with architecture laws to birth modern zoning. Once that camel's nose entered the tent, the rest of the camel came right in. Every problem that has a nexus with private land use had an attempted zoning solution attempted somewhere. So things like parking-space allotments and environmental impact assessments were added. The NIMBYs could halt developments they didn't like by dealing the death of a thousand permits and public hearings through the zoning laws.
Right but 100% of overweight people are unhealthy. So clearly that can't be right that EU food regulations are ensuring good health.

I guess they could be saying that among the remaining third of the population, the Californians are still unhealthy even if not overweight while the French are healthy. Seems unlikely to be true, though.
As far as I know there are no non-solicitation or non-compete agreements involved in this case at all. It all hinges on the fact that he was employed by Apple and owed them his undivided loyalty.
Nice article! Is it possible for me to restrict make disable write for all the tables when use rails console in production. Do you have a recommendation?
I wish it were true. Two main things bite me everytime I've tried the MacOS to Linux switch:

1. Inability to just plugin any set of monitors and make it work (mind you I've used Linux in various capacities dating back to Slackware in 1998 - I CAN totally do the OS nerd thing, but in 2019, why should I?)
2. The Apple ecosystem (I can login with my watch, receive calls and send texts from my desktop, my Airpods work seamlessly with all my devices, etc)
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Money provides a claim on future labor. Having more of it in fewer hands leads to worse decisions for the human race. If I acquire all of the dollars in a rural economy and use them to cause a giant statue of myself made of butter to be erected, after the statue melts I have no money and no statue. The community has the dollars again, but they do not have the butter that was wasted (or the labor time which was wasted).
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> With the iMac pro you are even limited to buying RAM with the machine.

You can upgrade the RAM after purchase by going to an authorized repair store, or by reading a couple of iFixit guides if you're fine with doing it "unofficially".
In Australia, card processing terminals are leased from the bank, not owned, presumably for this reason. Banks can force an upgrade.
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3/4 of the states are not “red states”. Look at the composition of the Senate. Each state gets 2 senators, but there are only 53 republican senators, not 74-76 as one would expect if 3/4 states were solid red.

In reality the country is divided enough that no wholesale rewriting of the constitution would ever be possible in the current political climate either way, using the amendment mechanism. Hence the importance of using the SCOTUS to reinterpret it one way or another instead...
Sure, Clipper was a disaster, but we've learned a lot about encryption since 1998. I still think key escrow and gov't backdoors are probably a bad idea, especially when you look at the US's privileged position in the internet, which should really be a global or jurisdiction-free space. However, I don't understand why it would be so much harder to protect these keys than the update signing keys that Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc (not to mention every app author including Facebook) already have to protect in order to prevent malicious actors (including nation states) from trivially bypassing all security protections by pushing a signed update to the end-user device.

Honestly if your security model involves hiding from the FBI/NSA, you should not be using a cell phone to do your encryption/decryption. That device runs closed-source blobs and can be remotely configured, accessed, and updated by (at least) your carrier and the device manufacturer.
So the summary of the article is:

"Don't leave valuables in your car that you don't want to risk getting stolen"

I guess the author is bringing this to light in the blog post, but don't people see this in parking lots of shopping malls or community centers to apply this everywhere?

It would be even more relevant, since you're going on a trail and aren't near your car for potentially days at a time depending on route you take... but still! :\
I'm presently living in a fairly rural part of the US due to an illness in the family. In the town of 14,000 I currently reside in it's pretty difficult to network in a meaningful way and talk about my company with folks that can give guidance and feedback. Really excited for Startup School and so grateful that YC has put this together.
Preface: I'm really not trying to be belligerent.

I know it's a common trope to complain about HN becoming like reddit, but that doesn't mean it will never happen. Of course, I don't even know how I would identify that beyond how it feels, which isn't any stronger of an argument than everybody before me has made.

I guess the real question is, assuming it happens, how would we even know?

I see your point though - I'm not bringing up anything new and in that sense it's not interesting.
The last two international flights I've flown have already had small wings on the headrest. Not a big as the ones shown here, but useable at my height/size (5'7", 150lbs).
Some sense of how widely adopted the software is. There is a critical mass required for me to commit to an OSS. Before that critical mass the products are usually poorly maintained and full of bugs and security holes.
Has SoftBank finally looked in a mirror and seen its emperor's new clothes?
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> with officials at the $100 billion fund preferring to sell or liquidate the company and other investors preferring to downsize the business while focusing on sustainable growth and profitability.

The fact they went with continuing to grow a sustainable company is what is most interesting about this story and counter to the popular SV narrative. There is still hope left past the headlines.

There are a lot of people looking to build legitimate businesses in the startup world and VCs doing pump-and-dump growth>product schemes tend to be the exception not the rule.

The high-risk splashy investors like Softbank get 100x the amount of press... the Wall St crowd also loves talking about them, which is the subsection of the SV/tech world Levine excels at critiquing.
If it attracts enough people who'll carry an interest-bearing balance, the math works out fine. Many of the higher-end rewards cards have annual fees, too - Chase's Sapphire Reserve card is $450/year. Amex's Platinum is $550.
This appears to be long-form ad copy. It's characterized by extremely short paragraphs (often one sentence), one after another, and a winding story the reader must wade through to get to the payoff promised in the headline.

I can't stand this format and associate it with scams. But many prominent marketers consider it the key to their success. The authors of the OP appear to fall into the latter category.

After 1/3 of the way into the article, I don't know:

- what RocketChart is or what it does

- how the authors got 150 beta signups

I have, however, gained numerous insights into the emotional state of the author, friends, and family, and have been blasted with memes from here to Timbuktu.

If the article isn't long form ad copy, then it could use a thorough edit. Start with the actionable part and give me a high-level view of it in the first paragraph.

However, I strongly suspect otherwise.
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Ask HN: Service that checks if my home is online?
Hey all,
do you know a service that drops you a message (push notification, email, whatever) when a heartbeat signal was not given in a certain interval?

What I am thinking about is for a home automation use-case. You have a Raspberry Pi or any server running. Your home automation is functioning without the internet. However, you might have VPN installed to be able to connect from elsewhere to check what's going.
I want to be informed by a service when my home is offline. The idea would be to install a cronjob that calls every 5 min. an API. The API checks that every 5 min. There is a call. When there are two calls missed, it pushes you a message.

Implementation wise this is quite simple and straight forward. But I believe sometimes you need to focus on your domain and don't need to reinvent the wheel. Any hints here?
Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 13.3 with Communication Limits for Screen Time
As a messaging service, it’s certainly not ‘unusable’. You’re claiming that the ability to permanently archive message history is an absolute minimum requirement for consumers (and that a service that does not offer this is ‘unusable’). I’m going to put a big citation needed on that.
You got to ask, why no emojis?
1. It is their own take on accounting software. You make it sound like it’s silly to need validation because the category exists. But every business ever needs validation.
2. They are new to the market (and seems like they are new to business in general) and need to learn about it
I dont trust Facebook and frankly, dont care about end-to-end encryption as there are a myriad of ways to communicate if necessary. But I definitely do not trust Barr or the Justice Department or any AG in any way shape or form as they have proven to act immoral,criminal and are clearly beholden to their political puppet-masters and campaign donors. So in the end, its better to have both side incapable of deciphering the data than either capable.
I think people kind of talk past each other in these discussions because there isn't a standardised vocabulary. I would call that kind of anaemic Makefile a "task runner" rather than a build system. And yes indeed, a task runner can easily be written as a single POSIX/Bash shellscript that has conditional behaviour based on its first argument. The `case ... in ...` statement in shell is rather nice!
Or, "ascii nema", just like it's spelled.

But yeah, I can't get past the name; for this very reason.
YC Startup school was an amazing experience. The content and the other startups in our group really helped us hone in on our communication and made us think about the two most important things as an early-stage company: building product & finding customers.

It helped us became aligned and accountable which ultimately helped us get into YC!
Then I hope the case is thrown out. Companies have no loyalty to us. Why should we have loyalty to the company?

Ah yes, because they have money and power. Sounds familiar.

I think I get the argument – "how could society function if every employee were allowed to actively sabotage the company they worked for?" – I just don't buy it. Most people have no interest in doing such things. The law of large numbers seems to guarantee it won't be a big problem in practice. And I'm more in the "Let employees have civil liberties" camp than "Let companies protect themselves from any conceivable harm." And besides, we have a clear remedy for employees who sabotage their companies: fire them.

From a cursory reading, it sounds like this person used his technical expertise to go start a startup, and tried to recruit some of his peers to leave their cushy bigco job and go help him. Y'know who else did that? Shockley Semiconductor.
Same here. For some reason cannot read with Javascript and reader mode doesn't appear as an option for this page. What's the reason?
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What kind of performance/use case did you have? I haven't touched leaflet since the giant rewrite.
I think it's fair to say no deep domain knowledge is needed if you succeed by the time you're 20. That takes time. But skills can be learned fast, and sometimes a skill such as selling can be little more than a talent. That can be enough to succeed, and someone who is genuinely good at selling can be well worth investing in.

Age is simply not a good metric for choosing who to invest in. It doesn't correlate (or inversely correlate) with any likelihood of success.
Dulles to O'hare (return fight) is ~$250-$300 economy. Business class is $600-$700. (both found using Google Flights)

So, you can already do what you want (get leg room and comfort for $1000 or less).
I think what they are pointing at is that the culture of "schedule first" may have prevented good process execution, including software development.

For example, it seems like they didn't follow their own procedures regarding the system safety analysis as it relates to MCAS:

"Assessed a failure of the system as one level below “catastrophic.” But even that “hazardous” danger level should have precluded activation of the system based on input from a single sensor — and yet that’s how it was designed."[1].

There are also examples of incomplete documentation, etc. that may contribute to a lack of understanding of the overall system. My tendency is to think a culture of schedule pressure may contribute to this.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
> there's no substitute for the study of mathematical logic and math more generally

I disagree with that account. I realize I'm on hacker news, but I must say that philosophical logic is extremely valuable in itself, and can be successfully studied without any concern for mathematics.

I actually know a bunch of brilliant mathematicians, and their reasoning skills on informal reasoning are totally average.
"Metal" as in the low-level graphics API? I'm not sure I see the business need, but also, WebGPU spec is in-progress as a higher-level API that would wrap around Metal and Vulkan, imho it would be more practical to launch such a service using the upcoming spec.
That’s a fair point. And no one should punish family members for what someone in their family did. And it is entirely possible that they were questioned on the few days that they did remain in the US.

So why was Clark even needed to “approve” these flights, one might wonder. I was just trying to say that Clark has been connected with rich Gulf monarchs and elites for a long time.
As ordinary people just dont care. They should, but they dont. There is nothing at stake for them. But they are saying that are targeting bad actors who DO care. And now you think that some drug lord (which has seen Hollywood movie about himself using encrypted walkie talkies) with infinite amount of money, smuggling drugs with mini sub (just happened in EU week or two back), the terrorist who is risking air-to-land missile and with oil based money flow is going to use sms/mms? No. The ordinary people will. Maybe potheads.
> [...] why wouldn't you OK the return of the Bin Laden family to Saudi Arabia, even if you had to? [...]

I can think of one reason: 3000 people who got roasted alive or crushed to death on a Tuesday morning in September 2001. If you really think that event does not have implications beyond what you personally feel is right..... lol, ok chief.

I would have had no moral qualms holding that family for years if necessary to enact the changes necessary within Saudi Arabia. This is a war setting, not a judicial setting.
And just because your company has a stated noble purpose, doesn't transmogrify all your actions into noble ones.

Heard this argument more than a few times from Googlers, although I doubt many feel that way these days.
can you expand on the former point about recruiting?

Non-solicit clauses in contracts are commonplace and I've never met someone in CA who doesn't think they have legitimacy. If he was dumb enough to directly solicit instead of making himself available for people to reach out to, if they chose to, that's on him. But I'd like to know if this is an invalid folk-belief.
Just wait until they lobby the FAA to make this mandatory in all flights for your safety and make it a federal crime ti block the camera.
The most infuriating of those are the “turn auto update on”

Actually the worst part is that if you prolong it long enough it will install.

But, Ueah, how do they get away with it? It’s just something you live with. I guess this is like how people just resigned to keeping the IE toolbars in the nineties.
Can I check something - reading the wikipedia article on Kelly Bets it seems that one should take the expected chance of winning, double it and subtract 1.0 and use that as percentage of bet size

So when I win 3/4 times, that's .75 -> 1.5 -> .5 of my total wealth.

But this basically means never gamble till the odds are in your favour. (ie above .5 chance of winning)

What does this say about founding a startup?
I'm speaking about a time long before the T9 was even thought of. The 386 was performance competitive with the T8 if you didn't need FP.
> Background is the wish of The Qt Company to change some of the contract provisions. It is still a bit unclear which ideas exactly they are pursuing

I think this is the reason of the timing of this post.

Because else, this post is just reminding the existing contracts around Qt.
The point of the whistleblower program should be to always have conclusive proof. It should point the light at the problem so resources can be used to get to the truth. The monetary reward is necessary for people to give up their livelihood forever. You only get the money when it leads to something.
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These things have amazing build quality. I bought an 8-core 2008 Mac Pro in 2008, and it's still running 11 years later. I've added SSD's, better video card, and it worked great until apple dropped support for it. In 2008, it was a good value compared to other professional workstations for getting 8 Xeons and 32GB of RAM. Sadly, you can't even install later OSX versions on it because those require AES-NI and AVX instruction,s which these CPU's lack.
Apple totally could've went with EPYC Rome instead of Xeon W... Google was testing them way, way before the public announcement, surely if Apple wanted a "few" for testing, AMD would've been game.
Very much the Aramco IPO. Selling off a stake in that to buy non-correlated assets is a big step towards diversification.
I guess to avoid the confusion with the verb and make the sentence more pleasant to read. I think the more usual way to deal with that type of problem is to use italics.
> they may have lost what made them desire the house in the first place - a calm neighborhood, a sunny garden, a beautiful view, easy parking, a neighborhood populated by similarly wealthy individuals.

Good. If you want these things, you live rurally. Everything has trade-offs.
In my experience, the latest Windows 10 build "just works" way better than Catalina.
I'm not sure I follow. Maybe because I'm not familiar with U.S. rules.
As long as the government continues to give people loans (ie demand side) rather than directly provide a competitor to schools (ie supply side), the price will continue to grow.
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With modern preservation methods, factory made food can reach very high quality. Google the french chain picard, or micvac.

Maybe not for fried food, and salads(easy to make). but for most other types of food it can work.
Being able to measure our successes and failures is the first step towards better algorithms :) This is always exciting. I don't think anyone thought that vanilla CNN architectures were all that would ever be needed.

This paper which received an honorable mention this year from NeurIPS conference first attempts to convert the image to a 3d scene before detecting objects. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.01618.pdf
Weird. When I listen to songs I first heard 20 years back I take myself that far back. I have a song that takes me back to me, mother and late father in a foreign trip. I don't play it often since each listen brings the safe memory into harsh consciousness and dilutes it.
> those manual processes are expensive and likely to be automated away to some hackable business logic

I suppose this depends on who they're manual and expensive for. Some people will probably automate "respond to all agent-based deletion requests with a request for proof of authorization and direct user verification", because it lets them delete as little as possible.

But actually checking that info if its provided? Yeah, that sounds less likely. And I'll bet a lot of companies will just obey anyone claiming to be the actual user and providing some piece of personal info.
There's miles between understanding pinning well enough to call `Box::pin` (a safe API) and understanding pinning well enough to call `Pin::get_mut_unchecked` (an unsafe API). When we talk about understanding pinning, we mean the latter.
It's not even gray. There is no obligation to view their attempts at manipulation.
Bohm Dialogue (1991) [pdf]
You’d think but with Siemens requiring a college degrees because people can’t read at a 9th grade level, probably will have to take out a million Dollar loan.
>(12 sticks isn't superior to 24; actually, 24 is theoretically better because it is more parallelized, but only if the processors and system bus can handle the full theoretical bandwidth of that much memory...)

The hexa-channel DDR4 used by these systems doesn't improve in bandwidth past 6 channels. The Dell has 4 sticks on each channel to address(through the Register chip which adds additional latency), Apple has 2 sticks on each channel and apparently isn't used registered DIMMs which means it should be faster.
I've read your comment several time and have yet to make actual sense of this. Is your assertion that the parent comment is bad because it's made by a "young adult"?
I have to wonder...where does this money go? Unless all my professor friends are lying to me, it's not going to the professors' salaries. When I went to school (Florida State University about ten years ago), the dorm was absolutely dreadful, but that wasn't even part of the regular tuition, so it wasn't going to increasing student living conditions.
Again, I'm talking about 1986/7 or so. In that time frame the T4/T8 were performance competitive with anybody's CPU. However you could only program in Occam. Huge hygiene factor.

Of course today we have golang which has much the same features as Occam and everybody thinks it is the best thing since sliced bread. And we have folks seriously re-writing dusty decks in Rust. But back then you just couldn't seriously sell a CPU that forced you to program in an unknown, fairly basic, programming language.

Also, internally we still used a lot of BCPL. So the company itself didn't eat its own dogfood in the way it expected customers to.