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> When it comes to families... It's hard for young single people to grok that.

I'm tired of this myth that young families obviously want to move to the suburbs. My young family certainly doesn't. And all our peers with similarly young children talk about is wanting to stay, despite the temptation of cheaper square footage out in suburbia.

Because just like you're saying of suburbs, among cities there are "bad ones and great ones". I think many Americans have never actually experienced good cities, because we don't have that many of them, and the tourist parts of many of the good ones are not actually the nice places to live.

> coffee shops and cinemas mean nothing

My three year old would certainly disagree. This morning, like many mornings, it was he who suggested we should walk together down to our favorite neighborhood coffee shop. Naturally, we saw friends we know along the way, and played in our favorite park.

> parks, walks

Both of these are vastly better here in my city than in any of the surrounding suburbs. It's not even remotely a contest. You can't walk out in the suburbs, other than in tiny little circles that don't go anywhere. When we visit the suburbs for a week, my kid starts asking why we can't walk to X instead of getting in the car again.

Children especially suffer from this, because they're completely dependent until they can drive. There's no gradual ramp-up in their scope of freedom. And old people likewise suffer, because once they can't safely operate high-speed machinery, they're as dependent as children.

And the health statistics are obvious. The biggest statistical threat to your children's long-term well-being are metabolic diseases, all of which are lower in cities than in comparably affluent suburbs. Our suburban relatives tend to lose a few pounds when they visit for a week, without even trying.

> schools

This again comes down to "bad ones and great ones". We live Somerville, MA on the edge of Cambridge. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a scientist. The level of intellectual stimulation, educated role models, general bookishness, and community commitment to art is nearly impossible to beat. We have our pick of educational options, including respected public schools, a constellation of private schools, and a deep and vibrant homeschooling community full of the aforementioned scientists and other assorted PhDs.

So while I don't expect everyone to want to live in the same kind of place, and I'm happy that other people are happy in suburbs, having kids is orthogonal to the question. For me, being a parent makes me more thankful to be living in a vibrant city.

I'm sure some people actually prefer suburbs. But many others would admit that they would choose to raise their kids in a city if they could afford to. It's obviously extremely desirable to very many people, otherwise it wouldn't cost so much.
There are some crosswalks, 8 blocks away from each other. No lights for at least a mile. In WA state, every intersection is automatically a legal crosswalk with pedestrian right of way (unless marked with a "No Pedestrian Crossing" sign), but the lack of enforcement combined with the high speeds makes that right of way effectively meaningless.
Agreed - the original title, about a guy beating a LIDAR ticket, was much more descriptive than this headline, which effectively says "This article is about LIDAR".
What was the previous title? The current one is the same as the name of the provided link.

If you don't like the title, blame the author. Mods, afaik, are just trying to follow the rule that the submission should reflect the title of the article.
I just did! :)
edit: uhm, any plans on paying it back?
I loved reading this the other day. Thanks again for writing it. I'll be coming to this post often, I think.
That's just a more formalized version of a plea bargain. (Whether plea bargains are just as much a due process violation is not part of my post.)
This is extremely cool; I started putting together some of the same pieces after Stripe's blog post last week (https://stripe.com/blog/bitcoin-the-stripe-perspective) and figured it was only a matter of time before something was launched. I'm glad it's open source and not for profit.

I do have a few concerns, though. Some of them require a bit more digestion so I won't comment on those here, but one that I'm sure about: WTF is the reference client written in browser JS?? It doesn't make any sense, for all the same reasons as the last time someone dragged out that dead horse.
Why we stopped focusing on 66% of our customers
Considering there's still a treasure trove of documents he has yet to release, I'm sure the Russians will be keen to keep him on the payroll until all the documents he has are released.
Yes; it's because your wallet is decrypted by the client and your password is never sent to the server.
Hey I'm Patrick, core team member on Helpful. Feel free to ask any questions.

Oh and I'd be happy to give out a self-hosted license for Helpful to any Hacker News folks. Just let me know.
"This is why suburban sprawl is so wasteful - it spreads out, but never up."

It's only wasteful if you have laws and regulations that prevent it from changing. Areas, and sometimes entire cities, re-invent themselves in different ways. In a normal, free environment as the needs arise the density will change appropriately.

On a side note, take a few hours off and try find some old photographs of cities (or towns if you go far back enough). Compare those to what the city looks like now, and you'll know what I mean. Everyone can be an arm-chair critic and talk about what's wasteful or not according to their beliefs. But things have evolved to this point over many generations, and many individual choices.
Mitro is joining Twitter and is now open source
Looks like a great event. However "first ever" is a specious claim. See http://www.mvcconf.com/ http://www.aspconf.net/ http://www.dotnetconf.net/ Those were inspired by another online-only conference whose name is escaping me.
Thanks for that differentiator, Transmeta kept popping into my thoughts every time I would read about Mill as well.
I'm sorry but this is not "great stuff", it's just a fork of Ripple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272
The only thing I can't get over is how work focused all of the letters are. Sure, they all have family struggles, but they're less concerned about the particular struggles and more concerned about how that impacts their work.

This article is phrased as if the entire Japanese culture is based on a disproportionate work-life balance to the extreme.
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What's this written in?
received and transferred 2000 back :)

edit: didn't get the 1000 bonus yet though, does that only work if I send exactly 1000?

edit 2: I got the bonus now. 34 times. I've 39000 STR total now :O
I totally agree with you that many of us could be more productive at their workplace, but they still could be less productive. In fact, let's say that someone productivity goes between 0 and 1, productivity 0 means that you don't do anything at all and just waste your time. Productivity 1 means being as efficient Carmack.

I would say that the current productivity is quite low for the employed people, maybe 0.1 in average, and follows some kind of log-normal distribution (all of this are super rough approximation). If we adopt BIG, we would have lots of people who will have 0 productivity (maybe 95% of the population, much more IMHO), and the rest will have a higher productivity.

Would we be better off? It's not clear to me, especially at the beginning - maybe after one generation people will get used to work on what they really like - but I would really like to see some experimentation in that direction.
It should increase linearly.
Stellar is just a fork of Ripple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272
This looks really interesting. I'm always curious about new techniques to improve my habits and time management, but I've never really found a system that "clicks", so to speak. This looks promising.

Problem is, it requires you to sign up with an account to use the app. This, for an app that I would likely be inputting my entire life into. It raises a lot of questions about data privacy, especially given the app's current $0 price tag. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that.
connected with FB and not sure if I verified my email, I get some "server errors" and logouts and can't change my settings
In Michigan, a speeding ticket is a civil infraction, not a criminal offense, so the legal standard is preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt, as the slide deck says. I suspect it's the same in California.
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Is anyone else having trouble with the client? My whole team is trying to sign up and are having a myriad of issues, but I can't submit to the forum because my username and password keep not working even when I make new ones.
Folks interested in reading more about the Prisoner's Dilemma might want to read Robert Axelrods' The Evolution of Cooperation.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Cooperation-Revised-Edit...

He also wrote a follow-up book, The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

http://www.amazon.com/The-Complexity-Cooperation-Agent-Based...
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Hi everyone, this is our second iteration of machine designed website templates. Currently we're only generating WordPress themes, but we're also testing static & Drupal templates for a given design.

Our goal is to do creative visual design using machine learning and AI algorithms and to provide diverse creative elements with minimal configuration or customization.

It's a bit hard to separate sample content from theme characteristics, and we're aware we must show fancier preview content.

Anyway, I appreciate any feedback on what we're doing, what we've done, and what we could do better.
This is a Bitcoin-like, distributed, secure payment system WITH a federated protocol for gateways/exchanges. A federated exchange network allows anyone to participate, similar to email servers. But since trust is so much more important in this case, I think that network effects will result in a relatively small set of gateways that anyone will actually interact with.
Ya, that was a bad idea on their part.
Bug report: I was unable to get the 5000 initial coins. (The facebook auth failed twice, so I reloaded the page -- and was then unable to find the "free coins" page.)
They probably take all of these things into account.

If they didn't, I suspect Google's self driving cars wouldn't use LIDAR.
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Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096936
I've spoken at 2 other events (one hosted by O'Reilly and I can't remember the other one...), so yeah the "first ever" claim is fairly dishonest.
Site seems to have broken. It never finished connecting to Facebook, and now when I go to the dashboard the steps are missing entirely. When I go to Settings and try and enable password recovery I get "Server error". In the Console it says it got a 502 from api.stellar.org.

That's in Chrome. In Safari, I don't even get a response to clicking on a settings toggle. Merely loading the dashboard gives me a CORS error.
This engine does not change the energy needed for interstelar travel, only reaction mass, and reaction mass is often free with an energy generator, because all of them waste some mass. If this thing is confirmed, it will be a much more significative scientific breakthrough than a technological one.

That said, there is no reason for interestelar travel not to be viable. It's just too expensive for us with our current tech.
Be careful with your average speeds. I often drive in excess of 70mph on the (65mph limit) freeway in LA, and I am far from the fastest car. The key difference is that I don't drive in rush hour. A 25mph speed limit would be absurd.
Nothing, it's just a fork of Ripple.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272
I agree it was stupid of the author to not have realized his presentation to a captive audience would be linked to the public and made it a more compelling title for casual consumption
Nothing loads for me anymore, looks like their API could not handle the interest :)
I think 'bane' is perfectly aware of your point, that Perl 5/6 are very different languages and even Perl 5's incredibly backwards compatibility.

Iirc, he has trolled in Perl discussions before.
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It's a fork of Ripple, lol.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8115272
Probably the same thing that turned "L.A.S.E.R." into "laser".
You can farm Facebook accounts to farm Stellar $$ if you wanted is the flaw in that logic. People already farm Facebook accounts :/
I'm experiencing the same issue.
Staying sane with small incremental releases
Maybe they are doing floating point math in Javascript! :-)

(which would be silly, so there must be another reason! :-)
just FYI - none of the sliders on the settings page work for me. The first one gives me a "Server Error" tooltip and the other 2 just do nothing.

Also, I linked my Facebook and didn't get any indication of whether it worked or not. Now when I log in I have 0 stellars and the welcome panel doesn't show up. did this happen to anyone else?
> We've rewritten Excel's computational engine from scratch. Our hand-optimized code blows Excel's native engine out of the water.

Does the rewrite incorporate all of Excel's important native functions? (e.g. the ones that would most likely be used with 10^5 rows of data)
Anecdotal evidence, but it also makes intuitive sense if you consider that vehicles travelling at a range of speeds and particularly changing lanes to overtake the slower drivers is effectively a turbulent flow. If that flow can be smoothed, as a body it travels faster.
No offense, but making trip to Japan and eating at Joyful is like going to the Bay area and eating at Denny's.
This is not a myth. The government wants people to think this because they don't want the veracity of the camera being questioned. That would be too fair for a system based on cash-register justice.
TLDR: Windows XP
From FAQs: To prevent spam, each transaction burns 10 microstellars (that is, 0.00001 stellars).
Anyone who needs help calculating how much they will pay after the year is up can ask me, and it will also be shown on the invoice each month.
Colombia is in what could be called a civil war without exaggerating too much, it's not like a FARC like organization controls large swath of Argentina. Why do you call Colombia more stable?
He/she should normally write it on the ticket(pretty sure they have to, it's always been there on tickets I've seen), but if you can get him/her to say it out loud, it's evidence that you can probably use against him/her. Also you should record your interactions with all officers. My final not a lawyer advice on beating speeding tickets: shut your mouth and don't answer the officers questions. If the officer asks how fast you were going, nothing you can say helps you, especially "I don't know". Just do your best to be polite, but firm, and don't give him anything more than a nice attitude
Dark net drugs adverts 'double in less than a year'
Cool makes sense. Maybe some messaging on the login form would be helpful.
Net Neutrality issues aside (even though they scare me), it bothers me that they'd produce this in English as only 16% of the population speaks English.[0] A tiny percentage of Zambians claim English as their first language, what about the rest of the people who either don't have access to schools (where English is taught[1]) or don't have the level of comprehension required to navigate.

I would venture a guess that by filtering the numbers of English speakers by those who own mobile phones you'd jack up the percentage of English speakers, still.. this feels like it was designed more as a play to drive new users to sites than to genuinely get good information into the hands of those who need it.

Of course, I can't actually find the app anywhere, so if it were to come out that the app actually includes Bemba or Nyanja localizations.. I'd be taking a different tone. (FWIW, Facebook doesn't appear to support either [2])

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Zambia

[2] https://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml
Common yes, but not as common as it has been in recent years.

Three title-character Hikikomoris in a single anime season? Especially sine most of the examples before 2009 are not title characters. IE: You get stuff like a specific client for one episode of xxxHolic in older animes... or Haruhi who insulted normal people by calling them Hikikomoris.

But in contrast to say, Spring 2014 animes, there are three title character Hikikomoris that play major roles in the anime.

The concept has always been in anime, but very rarely has it been used so often for main characters.
Sorry, our web client is currently down under the load. We're on it.
This sounds like a stable currency that is well worth my time and interest
My company hosted with Rackspace Cloud for nearly 3 years ($1k/mo average) but recently switched to AWS. Too much frustration and technical issues.

My biggest suggestion? Drop your 24/7 support or hire competent people. We had to contact support numerous times (a point I'll get to in a minute) and the experience was infuriating each and every time. It was the equivalent of talking to Comcast's tier-1 tech support. You guys would have blatant network outages and your "fanatical" support would be asking if I could ping servers (I had to point out the status page presence to them). We always had to waste time dealing with your ticket-jockeys before we'd get escalated and someone would actually solve the issue. I'd rather wait on a response than deal with an incompetent person asking for ping logs or suggesting I reboot a server.

Your private networking at ORD was problematic. We had our internal subnet at ORD which would very often just straight up fail. Server A could route to B, but the reverse was not possible. It appeared to be some sort of ARP fuck up, I dunno. We ran into issues every couple weeks and most often would resolve itself by the time we actually got a tech response. Which of course was closed with an equivalent of "could not reproduce"

Your MySQL-as-a-service is abysmal. It's running 5.1 (Do you have any idea how old that is?) and the performance is beyond horrible, I don't think the config was tuned whatsoever. Cloudfiles we routinely broke due to our write concurrency being too high (we were told you use sqlite?). This caused us to simply to manage our own software and completely avoid your pre-packaged SaaS offerings.

Since we switched to AWS we couldn't be happier and with reserved instance pricing we're actually saving money (annualized) on a superior platform.
Don't forget that when Feinstein accused the CIA of doing this, the director replied that it was simply absurd that the CIA would do so.
>>She says people who commit suicide are losers can't apologize properly and work hard to make up for their mistake, or people who don't have the guts to weather through the hard times.

My understanding is that at least some of the people who commit suicide have done things beyond apology.

I mean, let's say a bridge collapses and kills tens of people, and it turns out this was due to the architect's gross negligence and/or incompetence. Are you saying he can simply apologize and work hard to make up for his mistake?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrobus

Motorsport is arguably a latecomer to mechanical batteries, which have been used in vehicular, transport, industrial, and aerospace applications for a long, long time.
No source code? How are we supposed to make any use of this? What is the point of an email signup?
I guess I understand where you're coming from, but I don't think it's dishonest -- those events were much smaller scale and on narrow topics.
Is there a way in iOS for one app to trigger the opening of another app? I was thinking more in an alarm clock situation but perhaps also in a timer situation. For example, "start my Spotify in 1 hour".
I used to write spreadsheets that were 50mb and sometimes took a few minutes to compute (native computational stuff, not macros and not circular references).

I'd be very interested to know some generalised (non-IP) background on how you've achieved this speed increase.

Also, under what circumstances is this speed increase achievable? How have you measured the 100x?
One of the founders here - it's written in a combination of C, Python and Numpy. We had to go low-level to make it fast, but it's still portable.
What are the key differences between Stellar and Ripple?
Dude looks like Gandalf
I'm hosting a talk on Meteor.js and what I've learned from my year+ time using it. I am pretty excited and I think the lineup looks amazing!
Just for fun:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2100490/floating-point-in...
I actually try to do some calisthenics before I start work and make sure I drink lots of water. I will also do some pushups throughout the day to keep my blood flowing. But then again. I work from home and have that luxury. Suppose you can do some exercise in an office to if you got the right culture? Anyone else do exercise in the office? (Sans gym)
See, it't not a yearly free trial - and that's why I avoided saying that completely. Other providers have a free tier with a specific instance type, or # of api calls that you're "limited to" per month, if you exceed those, you're charged. That's not free.

The same applies here, except we don't dictate which products or APIs you use; you will get the credit, for one year, applied to the services you need for your application.

Also, if any time you're writing OSS bindings to our APIs, or openstack, let us know. We'll hook you up for free to get that support in there.
Y2K was a specific class of bugs, which was easy to define and focus on. I'm afraid "things that are there for backwards-compat and have been deprecated by standards" is quite a bit more vague.
I'm curious about why my balance becomes 6000.
I water the plants every couple of nights in summer, takes 10 minutes. Mowing the lawn takes 30 minutes every couple of weeks. A small exchange of time to have a backyard for the dogs to play in and to have fresh tomatoes. As a bonus, I refuse to water grass, so I rarely mow in the dry Seattle summers (worry not, it comes back just fine when the rain starts in November). This Indiana boy feels kind of stupid mowing in December, though.

Outsource? Bah, I grew up mowing acres so I can manage my lot that is measured in square feet. I'm not paying someone for a task that takes 30 minutes. What's next, pay to have someone load the dishwasher? There is no mower maintenance: it's battery-powered.

Pools? I know of one house within a several mile radius of my own house that has a pool. It's right down the street, the dogs and I walk past it all the time. I've never seen anyone in it, and I'm not even sure that they fill it with water anymore. It's Seattle, you'll never use a pool.

Playgrounds? The park 400m from my house always has someone using it even in the dark and rainy Seattle winter. The wide gravel trail a block from my house always has traffic. Even during a run at 5 a. m. on a dark, rainy December morning, the mutt and I will see someone out there on the trail.

Maybe it's Seattle, maybe it's just my neighborhood, but folks do get outside and utilize what's available to them.
lol refresh logs you out!