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It's just completely surreal driving a bicycle in car traffic. The vast majority of car drivers simply lack the moral character and should not ever be allowed to drive such dangerous machinery.

Cycle paths are optional here, and I very regularly opt out of driving on them because they are in a constant state of disarray, had snow and glass shoved on them, are too close to parking cars or end abruptly, forcing me to merge into traffic. So, being a vehicle, I drive on the street. I drive on the middle of the street, because (1) bicycles come with two (bi) wheels and naturally oscillate (2) street conditions very frequently make it necessary to use space to my left or right and (3) to make it clear that you can not overtake me in the same lane.

Car drivers regularly think this is an invitation to overtake me extremely closely, basically touching. They value my life, really any life, so little compared to the nonexistent time or speed benefit they would get from overtaking me. They think they are supremely in control of a large four ton object driving at 30 mph when they couldn't park it to an inch to save their life. They think I have done them wrong, and are now trying to get back at me; it's a game to them!

I don't know what it is that makes people lose all compassion or basic rational understanding of risks and dangers once they get into a car.
Apparently it is around 20% - http://gizmodo.com/5969312/how-qr-codes-work-and-why-they-su... (paragraph 8).

I would imagine this might be a tad optimistic, mainly due to their use being limited to only a few forms of advertisement (print being the main one). The only time I can remember using a QR code was when I watched a stream of the Google I/O 2010 conference and they showed one to get a CR-48 chromebook. Needless to say, that QR code will forever be my favorite one.
But, in general, you don't live cheaply there especially compared to other cities of the area like Bratislava or Budapest. Prices in Restaurants, Coffee shops, etc are the same as in most other capitals of western Europe. Source: I grew up in Vienna and lived there until 3 month ago.

I am now living in Chania, Greece and it's quite cheap to live, has a beautiful old town, nice beaches and fantastic mountains around. The only drawbacks are that there is only a small Linux user group, but the next hacker space is about 3 hours by bus in Iraklio and that it's only cheap as long as you don't have too pay to much taxes.
Well it's not like he's trying hard to hide his name. If you google his email address, the first result is his github page which contains his real name.
I don't understand your point. What is misleading?
Less than I'd like, actually — the scene is connected with Missoula's, but it seems to be a somewhat loose connection (despite the two cities only being a three-hour drive through beautiful country from each other).

They do have a solid community, though, from everything I've heard so far. http://Startupbozeman.com has some info, and I went to the HATCH conference this year (http://hatchexperience.org/) which takes place in Bozeman, and met some wonderful representatives from the city. Good people, a nice downtown, and though not QUITE as walkable or cheap as Missoula, it's absolutely beautiful over there, and I always enjoy a visit.
Why are so many comments here raising the straw-man argument of a cyclist flagrantly disregarding all traffic laws and common sense? No one is suggesting that the driver should be at fault in such cases.
The problem with the truth as you state it, is that it pierces the veil. You are now just another guy running a 501c(3) PAC. Which increases the attack surface and subjects your political and cultural position of priveledge to being undermined systemically. This is precisely why "political correctness" is the ideology of the modern university. Its a strategy to minimize that attack surface. /. end rant.
>you would be more likely to see the cyclist if you were faced with jail time for not seeing him.

If that's the proposal then my counter-proposal is to ban all bicycles from the streets. People make mistakes, and it's simply not reasonable to put someone in jail for a mistake a normal person would have made.
This is probably because a lot of them lack internet. Our internet penetration is around 75%. Medical insurance is 85%. I suspect there's a lot of overlap between the un-internetted and un-insured.
Sure. I was cycling down 21st in Astoria and staying to the right. I passed a bus that was picking up a line of passengers and still had about 5-6 more to go as I was passing it. I was already about 3/4 of the block away from the stop when the bus ran me over.

Basically the bus immediately pulled out after picking up the last passenger and was going way too fast not looking ahead. I got hit from behind on the front-right side of the bus and fell to the right and ended up in the bus' right front wheelwell which I rolled out of before it ran me over completely. My bike took more damage than I did -- I was lucky.
> if that job pays 200k a year with 1m+ option vesting over 3 years...

Assuming they can't fire you and leave you with nothing, not even the technology you created.
He hit something at freeway speeds that lifted his car into the air yet continued driving, even after he was alerted the collision had caused significant damage to his car?
There's nothing wrong with riding on the sidewalk as long as you're careful and it's not crowded. You shouldn't go blasting down it, but if it's safe and legal, what's the problem?

Sometimes it's the only sane option. While I can legally ride my bicycle on a four-lane road with a speed limit of 45MPH and no real shoulder, I'd have to be crazy to prefer that to the sidewalk that sees perhaps one pedestrian an hour.
The odd thing about "looking busy" in the context of software development is that goofing off by browsing random stuff on the internet looks more work-like than reading a work-related book.
I've always felt pretty sore when I wake up after surgery, and I didn't have a comparatively huge electrode sticking into me.
I just spoke at a conference in Des Moines, and there seems to be a real groundswell of support and enthusiasm for entrepreneurship in the state. Great to see. Lots of good people.
They're a potential indicator for NIH syndrome.

Good, well developed internal tools which speed up company work in a way that something off the shelf cannot, can be a good thing. Even the best internal tools, however, will require some ramp-up time for someone joining the company to understand and use them to their full potential. They require developing in the first place. The gains must be able to justify the costs, which even a good tool cannot always do due to the limited consumer base of an internal tool.

In less ideal circumstances, they can be unholy buggy unsustainable messes that actively sap resources for maintenance and are worse in many if not all respects than cheap off-the-shelf alternatives, even for the company's own specific needs. They may be kept alive by the difficulty of transitioning, other internal tools depending upon it, or misplaced attachments to the system ("we've invested too much into it to switch now!" etc.) or misguided approach to tools in general ("licenses are expensive, let's just build our own.")
You've answered your own question.

Why would people be upset when you've ignored the lane provided for you and instead decided to slow traffic to a grinding halt by taking up an entire lane? Certainly, it's unfortunate that the bike lane is poorly maintained, but to wholly place the blame on the drivers strikes me as questionable.
Seconded. It seems like a fantastic city, but I'm not sure what to make of the recent troubles or whether I could swing it as an Israeli (but I guess that problem is outside the scope of this thread, still I mentioned it on the off chance somebody has some wisdom to offer besides getting a second passport).
Perhaps the physical disparity between these two modes of transport makes them so incompatible they just shouldn't be sharing the same space at all. Unfortunately cities just haven't been built with this in mind, so making the adjustment seems near impossible at this point.
>> [ed] The over-aggressive family planning measures (including forced sterilization in a handful of cases) during the Emergency in India led to Government family planning measures being widely distrusted in rural areas for the next few decades. This, combined with improved healthcare and low infant mortality, has led to roaring population growth.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no evidence for your claim. Here is a graph that shows India's fertility rate from 1960 to 2011.

Exactly where do you see it "roaring" between 1975-1977 in response to government-mandated family planning?

http://www.geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/India...

P.S. My profession, or yours, has no relevance to this argument. Let's stick to the facts please.
I do not bike to work, right, it's 50 miles one way. But I ride the bike for recreational purposes.
Why the downvotes? Is my comment incorrect?
The scary thing here is that people are phrasing economic obligations in moral terms. You may get fired for doing something your boss doesnt like, that has nothing to do with whether it is immoral to do so.

> It's unethical to act against the express request of your employer;

!
But if you do then do it at the speed of the pedestrians.
Cycling laws are the biggest problem in LA. Depending on where you are in LA, you're either can ride on the sidewalk or you can't. There's no consistency. I'm not in favor of ANYONE riding on the sidewalk, but cops in LA in areas where you can ride on the sidewalk like to be dicks and give cyclists bogus tickets for riding in the street.

http://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/la-county-side...
If you need a throw away account, maybe that's a sign you just shouldn't say anything?
Facebook is pretty tiresome, for many of the reasons already beaten to death here. It's also nothing new, there were "social networks" long before MySpace, rewind to the 90s and there was the uber-cool MindVox, the less cool and old people version the Well. Nothing new here.

What strikes me is the simple fact that it's kind of useless. I don't need endless status updates of people I don't really know, if I need to find my friends or share something with them, there's this new thing called a smartphone, it has my Contacts, I can share whatever I want with them and not spend my time staring at endless scrolling ads and the flotsam of people's lives.
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The article completely glosses over the fact that the reason for the media silence is the D-Notice (officially DA-Notice but no-one calls them that) in effect. This is a 'voluntary scheme' in which the government asks the media not to cover a story on the grounds of national security, but really it's only voluntary if you don't mind having your access to government more or less killed off, which for most news outlets is a no-no. Only the Guardian has the balls to stand up on this one, and you've seen what's happened with shadowy goons destroying laptops, people detained at airports and the attempts at intimidating the editor.
Quite realistic scenario ...
If a child gets run down by someone who didn't see him...

...an investigation will be launched to find out whether it was an accident (i.e. child did jump in front of car) or a crime (i.e. driver was texting, easily could have spotted child).

Similarly, an investigation should be launched if someone runs down a cyclist. Could be the cyclists fault (i.e. running a red light) or the drivers fault (i.e. running down a cyclist on a cyclist lane where the driver should take care not to run over cyclists...).
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Pretty sure I'd be dead and my car destroyed if I hit something like that at highway speeds.
Seconding this. I lived on the asian side for a bit before moving to the euro side. On euro side I was about 3-400 metres from Taksim Sq for 6 months. (Near where the big recent protests - I got gassed going supermarket shopping a couple of times).

Istanbul is a massive city split by the Bosphorus straight (?) into a European and Asian side. The euro side is where most of the tourist, nightlife and business stuff is. The asian side is a bit more like suburbia.

In my experience rent was more expensive in Istanbul than Sofia. Around 400+ Euro per month on the euro side. You'd expect cheaper on asian side.

Food costs were quite low when eating out, but very low when market shopping. At best, around 1USD per kilo of the best peaches on the planet. Like drinking sweetened peach juice. Cherries and grapes the same.

I used to live on the european side and commute to asia to do my market shopping. :D (Better produce).

Sorry for rambling.

Upsides of Istanbul: farmers street-market lifestyle - get incredible produce super cheap. Very happening city full of new experiences. Crossing the bosphorus on a ferry as part of your daily commute.

Downsides: crazy traffic, quite dirty (think HCMC), byzantine bureaucracy, not much english around if you're living like a Turk.

If you go to Istanbul, use my app to navigate the public transport:

https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/transportist/id644276437?mt=...

PM or email or whatever if you want a contact for a livable apartment block right near the centre in a gypsy slum.
I've seen an MIT Scheme class video, and it was painfully slow and the guy seemed to explain everything in painstaking detail. I've heard about the bimodal distribution, which I believe I witnessed among fellow students when I was taking classes. But I'm having trouble seeing how Scheme made it any worse or how the class was too fast.

And, Pyret looks like a terrible beginner language! I like PltScheme, but I can't see how anyone would ever want to use that.
You're playing with fire here.

You might be right, but being right and dead is cold comfort.
It's not the sodium, it's the glutamate (the "G" in MSG).

Glutamate is an excitotoxin, and it's an additive in almost all processed foods, in various forms with many different names (http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html).

Excitotoxicity is the "pathological process by which nerve cells are damaged and killed by excessive stimulation by neurotransmitters such as glutamate and similar substances" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity).

As the article says, when glutamate is consumed naturally, it is intertwined with fiber and other chemicals that regulate its uptake; however, glutamate additives are not and thus flood your body with glutamate, which can overload your blood-brain barrier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%E2%80%93brain_barrier) and disrupt the delicate balance.

This is akin to Dr. Lustig's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig) findings on sugar (fructose): Eating whole fruits is fine because you're consuming fiber with the fructose (nature provides the antidote), but fruit juice is all fructose and no fiber so your body is flooded with fructose, which is toxic (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...).
Its because of many things.

One thing for our american cousins to note is that up until recently we were regularly being bombed because of our (in)actions in Ireland.

THis is why there are no bins on the underground, and why there are only hand full of ways to drive into the city of london.

another problem is that our media is on the whole sympathetic, or apathetic to spying. The mass hysteria surrounding paedophiles is a wondrous tool for ill thought out laws.

The public don't really like being spied on, but assume if you are against, you must be up to something.
This was so weird to read as a Dutchman. In the Netherlands the automobile driver is (almost) always at fault.
I use MSG in cooking and it's a great way to lower salt while dramatically increasing flavor. It doesn't make bad food magically good, but it makes good food great. Especially good in soups and stews. I bought a bulk container in the ethnic food aisle of a grocery and it has lasted a couple of years and is now just about gone. It's amazing how much a little pinch goes.

Amazon has a 1LB bag available for $6.50 and is Prime eligible: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OCP02Q/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Right. I shouldn't disagree with the status quo. That's a sign of a healthy community.

I made the throwaway to make a point to a friend of mine regarding HN voting in Tesla threads. It's working, right down to the prediction that I'd be called a troll within 30 minutes.
People will probably keep downvoting you until you explain your comment a little more.
As a matter of fact, I do speak the language. A lot of things feel weird to me when I come to visit the city. I have this uneasy feeling about things like the Hungarian Guard [1][2] - a paramilitary group having a rally on the most most important square in Budapest. Or having a fascist party, as the 3rd biggest, in the Parliament [3].

Yet, there is an incredible amount of gifted people, who are the exact opposite of these jerks. I guess a lot of people here admire undertakings like Prezi, LogMeIn, ArchiCAD/Graphisoft, or Ustream, all coming from Budapest.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Guard
[2] http://www.maszol.ro/uploads/files/userfiles/images/kulfold/...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik
The new course is so different in content from the old course that I don't think any pat comparison is meaningful.

At any rate, I went from being a staunch believer in the simplicity of Scheme's syntax to starting to think -- based on lots of observational data, and some preliminary studies (http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/mfk-va...) -- that it's too simple (a failure of the "everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" maxim).

But MIT's decisions are their own, and potentially peculiar to their specific curricular needs. Pyret was not influenced by them. Brown is proud to teach Racket and does so very successfully. Not every university is a dedicated follower of fashion!
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The problem is that "I didn't see the cyclist" becomes a catch-all excuse that law-enforcement takes at face value. This leads to an implicit (though not acknowledged or stated) assumption that a driver cannot be at fault in a driver/cyclist ahem interaction.

I commute to work by bike every day, and every day I watch drivers with their heads down texting, fiddling with the radio, spaced out, or just plain aggressive. If one of these people hit me due to their inattention or actions, I'm pretty sure most police officers (and juries) would just assume accident. In a lot of cases, the incident wouldn't even be investigated.
I would go for Lisbon. It has very good and cheap flight connections to the rest of Europe (not good to the West Coast of America). Easyjet, and RyanAir fly out of Lisbon, and the national airline TAP is very good and only slightly more expensive. Very nice weather. We still have not turned on the heating yet.

You can live cheaply and well. It may not be the cheapest cheapest in Europe, but is good value for money. For example at a restaurant opposite our office for only 5€ you can have a freshly grilled Sea Bass or a steak. Office rents are cheap as well. Expect to pay from 6€ to 10€ per m3. So you can out source the cooking and even the driving cheaply. A taxi to the airport will set you back just 8€.

Somebody I know just rented a two bed apartment in the centre of town for 440€ per month.

There is a vibrant Start Up Community. Some really good people.

For us the decision was more than just cost, but also standard of living.

You can find more details here in why we decided to open an office here: http://blog.webnographer.com/2010/10/an-rd-office-in-lisbon/
> If you’re willing to leave the script running for a few hours, you can increase the image resolution on line 8. (Just make sure the width is divisible by 4.)

You can make a lower resolution version too. I used:

) ;v, x=1024, 800;C=range(v*x

which fakes the 4-width with a space before 800, and it worked fine: http://i.imgur.com/c9ossnw.png

I like this use of obfuscation a lot. Kudos to the author.
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All other fiat currencies are similarly backed by a government that enjoys monopoly of legal force over some geographical area. That's why when governments die (lost war, revolution) the value of their fiat goes to zero and only "money" with intrinsic value is accepted (gold, silver, gems, works of art, cigarettes). In 6000 years of recorded history money always either had intrinsic value or was backed by a strong guy.
Oh get over yourself. He's not telling people to avoid doing any kind of science at all, he's saying there are severe ethical problems with aimlessly experimenting on living things.
It is illegal to ride bikes on sidewalks in a lot of cities.
A gas tank is on the bottom as well, though I guess it doesn't run the entire length of the car either.
> Want to be cool? Create something new instead of just copying someone else work for a quick buck. Be creative instread of sucking other people's creativity.

Who wants to be cool here? The guy who replicates a game everyone knows he didn't create, or the lawyers trying to 'defend the company's assets' by making sure a game released in 1985 isn't playable on the Internet?
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while ensuring that the measure of employee worth is being made by the most qualified person to do so.

This implicitly assumes that the line manager is competent and not spread too thin.
No argument on the environment, and no I can't.
The parent is right. India has always been a socialist/pseudo-socialist country. And while a few state governments (Kerala, West Bengal) have been communist, the central government has never been communist.

"Emphasizing social equality for all" isn't communism, you should know.
What about the hypothetical scenario where Hasbro tells him to get lost, then rips off his design and produces the stuff anyway?

As far as I can tell, this scenario is very difficult to distinguish from a patent troll. The only real differentiator is whether or not the patent is actually a novel invention or whether it's just the "click a button on the internet" kind of crap that so many of these things end up being.
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This is true of all educational settings -- except that the language subset then becomes an unenforced (and hence very leaky) abstraction. Students inadvertently step outside the subset and get either bizarre errors or, worse, their program runs and produces strange errors.

DrRacket pioneered the notion of "language levels" that grow with the student's needs. Pyret will end up taking some variant of this route. It's just too early to design those levels yet.
Bike safety starts with the rider. One of the scariest experiences I ever had while driving a car was nearly hitting a cyclist as I was pulling out of a parking lot. He was riding at night with no lights or reflectors visible. Oh, and he was wearing 100% dark clothing too. This was in an area with very little street lighting. He was basically invisible to me until he got extremely close. Fortunately I saw him in time and stopped, but to this day it still makes my heart race a little bit to think about it.

Before anyone jumps on me for not seeing it from the cyclist's perspective, I spent several years commuting by bicycle, frequently going home after dark. During that time, I made damn sure I had enough lights and reflectors for car drivers to see me. I was never under the impression that basic safety was anyone's responsibility but my own.

That of course doesn't mean that there aren't car drivers out there who are careless around cyclists, but cyclists themselves have to take the first steps, such as making sure you are visible to everyone around you, (including avoiding getting into other people's blind spots), and above all maintaing awareness and caution at all times. I realize I probably sound like a school teacher, but they say these sorts of things for a reason. A cyclist with cavalier, reckless, or lackadaisical attitude towards safety is an accident waiting to happen.