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> the consensus seems to be "we need more bike lanes!" and I'm simply pointing out that that won't solve the issue.

I really don't think that adding more bike lanes would get everyone biking or "solve the issue" entirely. That isn't a reasonable position. But nonetheless, we need more bike lanes. We need more separated, safe bike lanes. We need them in every city, except maybe for those who have got there already - i.e. Amsterdam, Copenhagen and very few others.

Survey after survey where I am shows that the main thing preventing higher (not universal, just higher) uptake of cycling to work is not the distance, or the weather, it's the fear factor, i.e the lack of safe facilities like bike lanes.

http://thinkingaboutcycling.com/article-fear-of-cycling/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2013/09/cycling-londo...
That's about as good as scrolling to the bottom of ExpertsExchange (what a terrible name). I refuse to sign in to read some Q/A. Quora is on my black list just as much as the EE.
Good point. You're right, it's not as bad an idea.

(I still think it's not a great idea. Being regular isn't necessarily the same as being parseable with a maintainable regex.)
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"If you manage to run your company as a factory where individuality doesn't matter". - You don't see the irony of this in the context of your argument for rejecting people because they have different musical taste? (not programming language preference but musical taste). The point of the article and its title "mirrortocracy" is that these people are building clones of themselves because of their narrowmindedness and that's increasing their chances of failure.

This is no different than any narrowminded and now dead organisation of the past that failed to survive because they couldn't take on people who weren't "the right type". As a result they failed to even find out what they don't know, let alone how to fix it and were completely surprised when history passed them by and they became the butt of the joke. (Mind you the 42 floors article is a parody in itself so we don't have to wait for the joke)
There was a BBC Horizon episode that went into each in depth to show that each is not as trivial as they seem. Money and Attention wouldn't really be able to solve what they're aiming for.

The example they used of why this prize was a good idea was how it helped sailors centuries ago with the ordinary watch/timepiece.

It was not possible to find one's position while at sea quite long ago without accurate time. Money couldn't solve this one, no matter how they tried they couldn't accurately know where they were at sea.

There were people with the resources to solve it and they did try many things but were not able to.

A prize like this for a working way to find someone's position at sea accurately got someone involved in making a unconventional timepiece that would be accurate at sea. This simple breakthrough probably saved many thousands of ships & probably pushed civilization ahead a few hundred years.
I don't know what you mean by "legitimate content," but saying things like "prosecutors would have sought the maximum penalty (of 50 years)" is just wholly inaccurate. If you said that on HN during the daylight hours, eventually an adult would come around and correct you.

It's not merely "unlikely" that Swartz was going to get 50 years. It was impossible. He could have plead not guilty, and then taken the stand, answered every question with "LAWRENCE LESSIG SAID I AM SPECIAL, SO I AM ALLOWED TO GO WHEREVER I WANT" and he still would not have gotten even half that penalty. "It's not hard to imagine Swartz getting 10 years" says more about the speaker's imagination than any real reading of sentencing guidelines.

It's like an average-quality HN commenter got a journalism job and didn't bother actually learning things that disagree with his worldview. Saying "Swartz was facing 50 years!" sure gets the blood flowing, doesn't it?

Apparently our industry is "drowning" in legislation. Given the tremendous rise in power and salary for all players, I bet other industries wish they were "drowning" the same way we are.
This is what I am thinking. I get a fraction of that in Spain, and I am towards the top end of the scale.
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I feel you're quoting me out of context. I used to not live near a metro. If I hadn't had bikes then, and could have afforded a car, I would have driven.

My point was that all factors count. In cities without metros, some people still take transit and bike, but more people take cars. In cities with poor biking, some people still metro and bus. But the more non-car options you have, the easier it is the not have a car.

You're making the argument "since bikes are not required in most cases, they're not useful". But you could say the same about any of the other four factors I listed.
That seems pretty dubious to me. Despotic regimes behaving badly is not really new or "interesting" to much of anyone. It's interesting because it's a current event, which means it should not be here.
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Oh, let me enlighten you,

People do what it takes to get a job. With the exception of 3 or 4 people you really know, that friend of yours, thats not a real friend, he couldn't care less about you. What you have is an employee skilled in pretending to be your friend.

It was the only job requirement!

You met him because you "accidentally" ran into him. You get along with him because he is a great performer. He likes the same music, wears the same cloths, has the same hobbies etc etc. You don't know who he is, it is all make believe, he doesn't even like organic carrots. When you close the door behind you he is glad you are gone.

You've recruited a psychopath[0] who smiles pretty when you desire it. If he doesn't smile you might fire him! Smiling at you is the only skill required to get the job and the tenure. He doesn't have real skills or at least very crappy ones.

If he didn't start out like that you can still make a real friend into one. Might take a few years before they get tired of your ravings about organic carrots. That way they can gradually practice the act you desire from them.

I suppose it is a bit like the credit card wife.

[0] - http://www.wikihow.com/Identify-a-Psychopath
Here is a brilliant idea. How about not traveling if you can't afford it.
There's a whole world beyond SV filled with companies that value experienced and reliable developers. I'm 35 and I'm the youngest dev at my current place, by quite a bit.

I've been around the block so many times now I can predict the majority of any new block. And spending your time outside of work doing things other than dev-related is great. I am adding a dog to my life on Sunday to help encourage me to keep up with my exercise regimen and get me outside. Enjoy life, we only have one!
This is excellent, I've been very happy since switching to FastMail and now this just adds even more value. Keep it up FastMail!
"I'm personally quite annoyed by freshmeat's shutdown - I still checked it every (other) day."

Wow. Yeah, but good point about the package maintainers. I think there is this weird mechanism, products targeted towards a large consumer audience tend to be much better than products targeted to the "producer side".
Cary resident here. In NC it's pretty much guaranteed that 90% of the days between mid-May and end-July will have a 30-40% chance of thunderstorms in the late afternoon to early evening. I like it, but it can make planning outdoor activities a bit tricky.
I was excited to see this, and it works quite well, my only wish is that I could manage one calendar and have the changes push out to all connected calendars.
The folks behind Outbox were attempting something that was way more ambitious and interesting than most of the SV startups I see mentioned here, and I agree that they got a bad rap from the press and the Postal Service.
There exists at least one OpenCL implementation of a DES cracker - a modern laptop GPU could certainly accelerate the process considerably.
This is very sad. If anyone hasn't, I highly recommend you listen to his poetry. My favorite is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olHlTM31OKY but the TED talk is probably the most famous: https://www.ted.com/talks/publisher_felix_dennis_odes_to_vic...

It reveals the thoughts and vulnerabilities of a very accomplished man who lived a life of extremes.
I've lived and bike-commuted in Denver, Los Angeles, and Honolulu, so I'm somewhat familiar. I don't mind bike lanes when they're just another strip of road right next to the other ones. One must be mindful that other vehicles will unlawfully enter/occupy the bike lane, but that doesn't seem to require a different sort of awareness than cycling in general. Also one should ride to the extreme left of the bike lane to avoid the door zone.

As you imply, "separated" bike lanes are another matter. It's as if one is on a pleasant jaunt through bucolic parkland, punctuated repeatedly by intersections with angry vehicular traffic that can't possibly see the cyclist before she enters the intersection. It's probably possible to design these so that don't have problems at every intersection, but the concept in general doesn't lend itself to that. My suspicion is that separated lanes are an attempt to turn cyclists into pedestrians: stop at every intersection, never enter the street, stay the !#@% out of the way of red-blooded American car drivers. No thanks! When I want to travel as slow as a pedestrian (and in many cases I do) I just leave the bike at home.
Really want to submit this every hour?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7931232
1 point by markcrazyhorse 1 hour ago
No, that's not the case. They had a large staff meeting, and at least one of the radio announcers expressed misgivings. These were completely ignored. It was an absolute travesty what happened next. The female DJ's career has ended, whilst the male DJ's career has bloomed.

I note this is the station that had a massive boycott due to one announcers finally going too far. You might want to look up "Sack Vile Kyle". [1]

There is no doubt that 2DayFM we're hoping for massive shock and outrage. That is their modes operandi.

1. http://sackvilekyle.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/vile-kyle-bad-be...
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Surprised not to see liberty in that list.

Liberty is the greatest issue of all times.
The other thing is they have Facebook's DNA where they constantly push the norms of user's expectations in the direction that they want. It feels slimy to geeks, but in a lot of ways it's the biggest story of the last decade of the web's evolution.
It is interesting that the man who invented the computer was the man who needed it the least. He had eidetic memory. He was able to compute infinite sums in his head. His vast intelligence was not crippling; he made huge contributions across many fields of science and mathematics and still managed to get married twice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Does anyone know of someone alive today that is even comparable to Von Neumann?
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>I'm actually quite comfortable with Vim's perceived learning curve: it keeps the most superficial users out of our ecosystem.

Literally the dumbest thing I've read on HackerNews. https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says material.

Why would you even care who uses what or belongs to your 'ecosystem'? What?!
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There were a couple of commits last month, and a few last year. See http://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/commit_browser .
Of course, the fact that you feel 38 is in any way, shape or form, old, is insane.
In addition to GTFS, in Europe we have Transmodle [0], with the UK implementation being TransXChange [1], for scheduled public transit timetables and SIRI for real-time [2].

The TransXChange schema guide is a 300+ page PDF [3], so there is a big barrier to entry.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmodel
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransXChange
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Interface_for_Real_Time...
[3] http://81.17.70.199/transxchange/schema/2.5/doc/TransXChange...
The same old blind spot in place with respect to aging I see. The cause of two thirds of all deaths worldwide, more than 90% of all deaths in the first world, and the largest share of suffering and medical expensive, all of which falls most heavily on the poor of course.

But actually do something about it in this age of biotechnology and rapid progress in medicine? No, never.

The organizers point to age-related dementia as one of the potential items, but strangely not to attempt or incentivize any work to fix the problem at all through medical research. They treat dementia as a result of aging as a given, something set in stone, a thing to be made marginally better with palliative treatments and accommodations, not fought with medical science in search of cures.

Craziness.

The world drowns and dies in this blind spot related to aging and age-related conditions.
I've found that light therapy can make a big difference, for me, getting 8 hours of sleep instead of 7. I use this very handy device: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I45XL8/
Wow, I didn't realise that Quora has its own register-wall. I will refrain from linking to it. This is a shame as it does some interesting bits of info.
Find out. Put a Google Cloud DNS hosted domain in the box in the upper-right of the page.
Actually, since the Arab Spring, the United States media (at least) has devoted a disproportionate amount of attention on events in Egypt. While the covered topics are newsworthy and, in my opinion should be covered, most global events and countries don't receive the same level of attention.
What's so great about Opera 12?
Soon:

I came as quickly as I could, are you OK?

Yes, I was just trying to turn up the volume of my music, but wasn't paying attention.
All of your options can be condensed to two words:

Learn. Do.

Which is exactly what you need to do, so go do it. I would just add one step: Show. Learn how to do awesome things, do them, then show them to interested people. You say you're passionate about design, so start there. Do a complete redesign of a site you use but don't like the design of. Post it on HN. People will notice and talk.
Assuming the laptop contained a GNU/Linux operating system, as well as some way of providing serial ports, you could probably set it up as a multi-user system connected to a bunch of VT50 terminals.
>[B]lack males receive [prison] sentences that are approximately 10% longer
I don't see how this is related to programming but yes it is correct. The effect is even larger for men/women, so that men recieve much longer sentences for the same thing than a woman would.

>The ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings was 77.0
This is mostly but not fully explained by choice of career. Women in the cities of US actually earn more than men.

I don't feel like responding to more, since they are unrelated to the topic at hand, proving discrimination in the workplace keeping women out of programming.

>providing proof of endemic sexism

It depends on what you define as sexism to be sure. If you define sexism as telling a woman she looks beautiful, or showing pretty women in your presentation, then yes of course you will find things like that.

>demand evidence in every discussion is a distraction tacti

Yeah, I guess it disctracts from reading poorly thought out analogies...

>income stats

Correlation does not prove causation.

>if you still demand that someone else go search for things online for you.

Wow are being really hostile. I have made no such demands. But if you try to "prove" your point by doing analogies or by linking to irrelevant stats like incarceration of black males, I will call you out.
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You're most likely to have a bug caused by a hardware failure than a problem caused by colliding UUIDs (provided they are properly generated or large enough).
There's a Russian designer, who owns a big studio, yet is away on expeditions and travels for most of the year. In his blog, there's a series called "3 questions", where anyone can ask for advice.

I think one of his answers might help you (http://tema.livejournal.com/1401690.html, 4th question). Here's a rough translation.

"Q: Me and my husband own a chain of restaurants we have invested a lot of energy and effort into. We want to travel, and the question is, how can we leave our business unsupervised for several weeks? If we go away on vacation, we'll be worried all the time, phones in our hands. You travel a lot. How do you both develop your business, and travel?

A: I've spent a lot of time worrying about this too. But then I noticed, that if I'm away from the office for some reason, work doesn't suddenly stop. And so I started traveling. There are no more colleagues, who are unable to work without my supervision. Everyone knows, it doesn't matter where I am, because work goes on. My advice is - build your life to your comfort. Others will accept it as a fact. If not the current ones, then the new employees will. And it's important to keep working. Distance is not relevant, but presence is. Coordinating projects is presence."

I took away that employees know what to do. Being present via project coordination, and being chained to your office chair are not the same thing. Delegate more (most) tasks, and go travel.
>That's 32 miles and 52 minutes for a round trip every day.

>spend 8 hours on the road biking instead

4mph is a slow running speed...
It's the last Linux version:

http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?os=linux
It's pretty sad how people become exactly that which they hate.
Exactly what Yardie said.
Housing isn't an all or nothing decision. You can always opt for something smaller, in a worse neighborhood, or outside the metro area ... requiring a longer commute. The impact that Airbnb has is that transient visitors are utilizing real estate zoned for longer-term residential use instead of booking stays in hotels. Hotels are upset because they're losing business to an entity not subject to the same regulations and oversight they're subjected to. But more-importantly, long-term residents of a city are impacted by a shortage of available real estate because they're looking to sign a year long lease ... not move from Airbnb rental to Airbnb rental from week to week.

I understand what you're saying with your ice cream analogy, but I'm not sure I agree that it relates to housing in the way you suggest.
I put in a vote for NSOne.net - which is not in the chart (They take issue with the testing from only Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York)

However, per: http://www.solvedns.com/nsone.net

After 4 lookups, the average response time of your name server dns1.p01.nsone.net is 11.56 milliseconds.
After 3 lookups, the average response time of your name server dns2.p01.nsone.net is 11.91 milliseconds.
After 3 lookups, the average response time of your name server dns3.p01.nsone.net is 11.60 milliseconds.
After 2 lookups, the average response time of your name server dns4.p01.nsone.net is 11.61 milliseconds.

I'm not sure whether they do those lookups across locations or not, but that would put them at 2nd fastest in the list.
An alarm to tell you to go home with ruby and GTK (A Ruby Script)
this script is rather simple one, it will wait until you finish work then show a window with a funny text that tells you to go home and enjoy your life.
this script will me very useful if you put it in your login scripts on your working laptop, this will make you know when will your official working hours are done and you're ready to go home.
this will work for flexible working hours as some companies tells you come in a certain hours adn you should leave after 8 hours of this time.
have fun guys :D

Full script with docs : https://github.com/blazeeboy/RubyScripts/tree/master/2014-06-23
For one thing, Opera 12 was the last version released for Linux. It was also the last version before they basically completely rewrote the software on top of Webkit.

I was a Linux Opera user since 2007 up until a couple months ago. I finally switched away because Opera 12 was getting on three years old, which is ancient for web browsers. Now I use Firefox full time, and I've heard enough bad things about Webkit Opera that I'm not really interested in even trying it.
Maybe not new, but definitely interesting. You're far too cynical.
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You can tell by the lack of social issues that this is merely an initiative for discovering billion-dollar business opportunities.
"Brutal", "Ageism", and "Tech" in this headline are all editorializing by the author. Beyond the tech bubble there are countless more traditional companies that depend to varying levels on internally developed software and are happy to employ competent folks of any age, especially those not likely to flee after 6-24mo (per a different post yesterday about how to make money as a programmer). In one of our offices the average tenure is >20yrs, with a couple of guys beyond 40yrs with the company. A few of them participated in the original authoring of a critical business system we wrote in the early 90s (it's been completely rewritten a couple of times since, but still), and having their deep knowledge is extremely important to us. But we're not a tech company and we are happy for folks to work a standard 40hr week, with comp time to compensate for on-call or extraordinary circumstances.
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Makes me kind of sad. Don't really know what kind of person he was, but I read his book "How to Get Rich" a few years ago and found it amusing. It had a certain juvenile charm with undertones of regret. Judging from that he seemed like a mischievous, playful guy that I would have certainly enjoyed hanging out with from time to time.
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"For people who’ve been on the wrong end, the death of the prank call would come as a relief. I know how they feel: Just last summer, someone called me and claimed to be holding my brother at gunpoint."

So is it dead or is it not?
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My reply was to:

If you try to change jobs every 2 years and are not great at your current position, you'll likely be sorely disappointed.

As you say Joe Dev wasn't good enough at their job for anyone to work to keep them, but somehow they have to be excellent to land a job somewhere else every 2 years. My point is Joe Dev is excellent at something, but that is interviewing. It says nothing about his actual job skills except that they aren't so great as to have a company bend over backwards to keep him.
This seems like the Innovator's Dilemma as it relates to any product or service that can be used casually but also has "power users".

Power users are a mixed blessing.

Pros: they give you many ideas what to do. Often they're your best word-of-mouth evangelists.

Cons: If you take their requests too literally, they can drive the product/service into becoming something with too-narrow appeal and poor learnability. (However, if you don't listen to them, enough, they get mad and maybe you lose their evangelism, or worse it turns into anti-evangelism.)
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I agree. I can't tell you how many times I've heard about interesting web sites and checked them out only to find that I cannot do a single thing until I create an account. No demo, no trial, no nothing. Of course I just leave.
If it floats, flies, or fornicates, better to rent it than to own it.
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looks nice. I wonder when we will be able to see a real type safe BTC exchange