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The puking has, for the most part, already occurred. Bay Area cities are now constrained by urban growth boundaries and required to provide jobs and housing in proportion, not just one or the other.

Unfortunately if you take the entire Bay Area as a whole, proper urban structure with walkable mixed use takes up perhaps 1% or less of the developed area. Everything else is sprawl. Even in the city of SF itself less than 1/3rd of the built area (not counting parks and lakes and whatnot) is decent walk/bike territory with amenities nearby. And you only have to go as far as Concord or Antioch to find the real deal: all-out suburban sprawl with neighborhood streets wider than I-5 and nary a pedestrian in sight.

Now when you compare to Oklahoma City, the Antioch brand of sprawl looks like it might be Hong Kong compared to some of the developments that are within the OKC's limits. For example here is a typical scene where someone took a quarter section of some field or farm and said fuck it, let's put a subdivision here.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oklahoma+City,+OK/@35.6276...

Now that's just a shame. This article isn't talking about the far-flung farms that happen to be inside OKC's city limits, though. They're talking about areas like Heritage Hills where the original housing stock wasn't bulldozed to build freeways (yet). I remember before I bought my house in Oakland I looked at what I could get for the same price in that neighborhood. As I recall there was a huge-ass mansion with a separate building constituting servants' quarters.
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Ansible seems to have more traction: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ansible%2C%20saltsta...
I'd found one story that linked to another that linked to this one. I think _this_ is the original.
The B-2 bomber pilots are closer to computer hackers... Hacking is long hours spent quietly trolling for marks and acquiring programs and contacts for your "bag of tricks".. With a few hours of frantic planting the hooks and grabbing what you can before the connection is cut.
Ideally, you're like the bomber pilots.. The first time you get noticed is when the bombs are going off and you're already got the data.
i dont see how that would introduce you to someone influential. yes, someone influential is 6 degrees away from someone you know, but there are like 5 billion people in those 6 degrees.

no?

with what is said above, it would seem to suggest that after enough people, the person you are introduced to is irrelevant to the first person who started introducing you to people.
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The problem with Cython, in this case, is that in order to get close to C/C++ speed, you end up having to write code that looks an awful lot like C/C++. All of the Python black magic that let's you write this in 111 lines goes away.
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For the last three years or so, I've been telling anyone who asked that ORM is an antipattern, to be avoided at all costs. I've settled into wrapping all queries in classes, with any parameters exposed as public properties. The SQL is written inside the class, essentially in a template. When necessary, the generated query can change based on the values assigned to the properties. All the mechanics of how the query is executed and passed to the database get rolled up in the base class, with a public method that returns the dataset returned by execution. Then I just run the dataset through transformation functions to get the data structures I actually need - combining multiple result sets if necessary to build really complicated objects when I have to.

I've been building this approach for a couple years now, and I haven't regretted it for a minute. I don't have to fit my databases to the vagaries of the ORM layer, and I have full control over my queries. I NEVER want to go back to ORM :)
This whole XOR scheme seems destined to fail! Why not just use a 64b/66b (or similar) encoding scheme?
They do sell wallets and cellphone cases that can easily fit cards. You should be blocking any always-on RF signals when in public IMO.
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> If we were smart, we'd drop the delta tunnel idea and start investing in desalinization plants, at the very least investing in some test sites using some of the newer desal technologies which are showing promise.

The surfer lobby has made desalinization plants a political impossibility. I'm only half-joking.
To be fair, how many internationally famous designers does the average person know? Ives and maybe Norman?
It sounds rather strange actually: "And I won't let you call it civil war" As I've said, you may call it whatever you want, it is civil war. I bet in every civil conflict people tend to think that the other side of conflict is some kind of rogues, bandits, terrorists, mercenaries, foreign agents(hello 1917). It still doesnt change anything.

I'll use public definitions: "Civil war is a violent conflict within a country fought by organized groups that aim to take power at the center or in a region, or to change government policies". Ring anything?
I hate slippery-slope arguments, but I feel that if you are going to advocate the scenario you seem to have advocated, then you can take it a lot further. For example I feel that anyone whose car stalls while crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge should be banned from driving for life. Because every time someone stalls on the bridge at rush hour there's a traffic jam clear back to Reno.
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Australian traffic camera tolerances are also set ridiculously low, and there are far too many variations in limits.

I fully support 50kmh urban street limits, but the open road sections should have a day/night limit, where the day limit is 130, like most of Europe and some parts of the US. There should also be limits to how often a speed limit can change in a single stretch of road, and highway speed zone changes should have a minimum of three signs at even spacing to indicate the change approaching, at the spot and one more reminder.

There should also be a ban on concealed traffic cameras - getting a fine long after the event has very little effect on the behaviour, apart from generating feelings of injustice.
USAF cares quite a bit about PT, as they're using it as a force-shaping tool (a way to get rid of people as they downsize).

For years there was debate between the weightlifters and the runners in Air Force leadership over the best way to ensure a fit force. The runners won, which is why a waist measurement is now included in the PT standards.
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Cool game. Would be great if it gave a quick summary of why it was a right answer and maybe some additional resources to learn more.
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>Traditional Windows folks don't really use configuration management or even have any clue about it.

That's a tad unfair, I could say just as easily say the same thing about some of the Linux admins I've worked (and interviewed) with but that's not taking the discussion down a constructive road.

CM/DSC methodology is about awareness of the technologies available. There are a lot of admins out there, regardless of OS expertise, who've never heard of it full stop. I learned about it whilst working as a developer in the banking sector 12 years ago but using eye-wateringly expensive tooling from the likes of IBM and CA.

We have a 65/35 Windows/Linux environment, I have for years wanted to "CM-ize" our environments but we have two different silos of scripts and tomfoolery that get stuff done, we have a lot of friction points because of this. But one of the problems with CM tooling such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible and Salt has been the lack of sane support for Windows. Puppet seems to be getting better at it compared to the other three contenders. For example handling reboots sensibly [0] (and you know how Windows loves its reboots, and in the right order after some MSI or MSU has executed).

There is also a somewhat blinkered world view with regards to Windows i.e. "yuk, windows, not touching that", and at the risk of offending some, it's snobbery and cargo-cultism. A lot of the young folks around here have probably never tried modern Windows server management, it ain't that bad these days. If you can be bothered to learn bash and all this clever stuff on Unix, you can get a handle on learning Windows config management with Powershell which is very bloody good now.

The result is that we have silos of C/VBscript and Powershell code that go and built Windows environments in their own special Windows way because previously tools such as Chef, Ansible et al and their respective development teams don't (rightly but mostly wrongly) don't see any value in Windows support.

I speak as a platform agnostic devops person who has to live in both worlds and has supported Windows and Linux/Unix for longer than most of you have been alive :)

[0]: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/reboot
The important thing to keep in mind is that the Chinese do not aim to copy complete designs - they reproduce the aspects that they like, omit what they don't, and then improve upon them with what consumers want. It's a very practical and pragmatic way to innovate. A lot of Chinese like the "Apple style", in terms of appearance, but not the price nor lock-in. This is why cloners have been successful in producing iPhone-lookalikes with removable batteries, dual SIM, expandable storage, larger displays, microUSB, and Android (look at e.g. the Jiayu G5) - the users are not after the complete Apple experience, they just want something that looks like an iPhone with all the standard features found on many other handsets that a real iPhone doesn't have.

Also, the concept of vendor lock-in doesn't take hold as easily in a culture where copying is the norm - attempts to create new, incompatible proprietary standards will either fail if there is no significant advantage (the users will just avoid your product), or if there is a clear advantage, everyone else will soon have copied it. Some will say this limits innovation but I see it more as innovation happening slowly and more naturally to meet user's needs, as opposed to being forced.
The tradeoff for speeding is stupidly small.

Average US worker spends 25 minutes on a one-way trip to work. Lets assume an average speed of 60mph (hint: it's slower). If you went at 70 instead of 60, then you'll save a whole 3.5 minutes.

Here(http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jWbI1mK...) is a link to a NHTSA presentation on speed limit changes and its effects on crashes. Notably, when states were given control of speed limits, we saw raises from 60-65 to 70-75 mph in some situations, and a 35% increase in fatalities.

if we do the whole "life is worth $3M dollars" argument, divide by two because I'm trying to make this favorable to you (even though car fatalities disproportionately affect young people), letting people go 70 instead of 60 could still end up causing almost 10k more deaths per year, so there's $15B in lost value per year. At least I'll get to sleep in for 3.5 more minutes.
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The base pay is the same, but don't they have all kinds of extra pay they can tack on for various reasons? There is combat pay, but I'm sure there must be more than that.
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Well, there seems to be this myth that its OK to speed 5 miles above the posted speed limit, so the speed limit is still useful. It'll just be limiting the speed to 60 instead of 55.

As to whether things are enforced that way, that's a different story.
On beginner difficulty single player, I got the same question again and again. After the game ended, new game, still the same question.

IE11 FWIW.
I mean no disrespect to the soldiery, but why use soldiers for this, and not the DIA/NSA/CIA/various other TLAs? I guess that's what I'm confused about. Grunts wearing camouflage sitting in front of a laptop trying to outbrain someone seems humorously perverse. It's like some high-level bureaucrat has it in his mind that 'cyberattack' necessarily means that the military has to do it, because we obviously use the military for attacking things.
Just wanted to point out grepcode.com for comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law perhaps. Single threaded speed is most relevant to software because it's difficult to make it take advantage of multiple cores.
The problem with raw SQL queries is that they don't compose. Using an ORM, I can do two things.

1. Pass around query objects, and build queries derived from others. I can also combine multiple queries into one and split the results.

2. Update model records in multiple places passing them through several layers of business logic before serializing.

This is on top of the other obvious benefits of ORMs, such as abstraction over my storage engine. I can write a single 'query' that be be executed against a variety of SQL servers, Salesforce, MonoDB, an in-memory cache, or whatever else I want to do with it.

As a real-world example of why this matters - On my current project, I have a heuristic algorithm that allocates pending jobs to workers that meet the required skillset. As part of this, I have individually defined rules that must be met. As part of the operation, each rule can query the database for relevant results.

Each rule is a standalone module, and by design cannot have any knowledge of other rules. Rules can be written by third parties and are plugged in and loaded at runtime. To make this work, we can either

1. Run one query per rule, hitting the database more than needed
2. Compose all the rules into one query, hitting the database once.

Using an ORM, I'm able to take a base query and fold it through all the available rules, allowing each one to return an updated query to be merged. Some rules conflict - they may require results that another rule has filtered out. To solve this, the ORM will automatically detect the conflict and build a single 'Query' object that compiles to a broader query behind the scenes, takes the results, stores them in an in-memory cache, and then runs the individual rules in-memory against them to get a final resultset. In the worst case scenario where this is not possible, it will compile to the minimum possible number of SQL queries to satisfy all of the individual callers.

As a result, each rule can run a different query against the database, getting the individual resultset it wanted, while not hitting the database so heavily.

Why not just query multiple times? In this case, we're running this against a Salesforce database. On top of the fact that you pay per API call, there's anywhere up to 2 seconds of latency before getting a result. Composing the queries means we take an operation that might have taken a few minutes and used a lot of expensive API calls into an operation that takes a few seconds and uses 1 API call.

At the end of this I get a resulting immutable object. I can perform business logic on this in multiple places, accumulating changes, at the end of which I have an `update` object containing an original version and a delta. I can then just update the things that actually need updating, and can run additional business rules intelligently based on which fields were changed. If there are multiple records that need updating, the ORM will batch them for me to further reduce API calls.

Using raw SQL, it would be possible to implement a rough hack that approximates this, but it would be nowhere near as efficient or scalable.
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> for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit

Well, that's not a great start to the article. There are dozens of different ORM's, so unless you get more specific, this makes as much sense as saying "For me, programming languages are more detriment than benefit".

All ORM's are not equal and they all operate at various levels of abstraction. Some are very close to SQL, others sit very high on the abstraction chain, and each project might benefit from a different one based on a lot of criteria.
Why not both? These CMS/Shop communities offer distribution for a service. It fits well with the theme. I mentioned WordPress because it's the obvious 800 lb gorilla in the space.
I been following xiaomi ever since the first MI phone but the company seems to be losing its mojo. Its not the appleism thing because that was always there, ever since they made that android fork that emulates a lot of iOS UX.

No, the company seems to be at a crossroads: other firms like Oppo have overtaken it in breaking into the international market, which is ironic since xiaomi was the first chinese electronic firm anyone outside China cared about. At the same time they keep delaying a proper international rollout while trying to compete in the cutthroat bargain phone market in Asia were you have literally hundreds of brands making all kinds of stuff at incredible prices and very thin profits.

In short, its trying to be premium and affordable at the same time, and differentiate from regular android while still being android because it lacks the capacity to develop and support its own OS.

I don't care about how they copy apple because lets be honest everybody does, even apple copies other companies, because you have to be a stubborn idiot to miss a business opportunity for the sake of originality. If you that you go broke, and businesses are constantly doing and imitating whatever is successful. Does a dubstep BGM in an ad help sales? then we are using dubstep, end of story.
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Here's how to hack the hacking game. Pretty simple (in your console):

app.sendAnswer({answer: 1,time: -999999999999})

(I added the instructions on the leaderboard itself)
China has a cheaper labor force, but Japan and South Korea? And how does this fit with their intensive use of robots, which are presumably meant to reduce labor costs?
What do you mean by "Network effect"?

I don't really see how it applies in this situation. (e.g. you can use uber today and a taxi tomorrow and suffer no loss of value).
Unless you have an infinite regress on priors for your priors, and uncomputable Komolgorov penalties on the structure of your model, I think you need a test set. (This means you need a test set.)
"All I want is an acre of suburban land"

Maybe slightly OT, but wtf do you do with an acre of land? Have horses or an orchard? 'An acre' seems like many people's ideal size, but 1/5th of an acre would already be too much work for me.
Yeah, it inspires a reaction of "these numbers look surprisingly good" followed by "the only evidence I have for its performance is that a person who is clearly crazy claimed they got these results".

I would like to see some independent testing, by somebody who is alert for benchmark-cheating hacks.
Neat but I'm skeptical. Perhaps this is simply a measure of activity on reddit over the course of 2 hours? I'd like to see graphs for all posts.
The odds of any particular mutation are small. The odds of any mutation are high. The odds of a meaningful mutation, somewhere between the two. The fact that we're seeing more spread than usual is already some evidence that this strain has some relevant mutation - though I don't know enough to quantify how much evidence.
TBH I'm surprised OP didn't ask for 50% after seeing how crappy/amateur the entire operation was, and how bad his compensation was.

BTW OP, did you get a signed agreement? were there any clauses that might be relevant to this?
Silly; you don't have to eat meat. Obviously the point.
Let's just be honest, ORMs add a lot more weight than just "p.username = 'Carl'". You do not always have a type checker, besides, there are unit tests. It is not just masochistic to use pure SQL.
What SQL has taught me: just use an ORM
Since this is HN, what about technological solutions? Better speeding cameras could enforce speed limits universally. Self driving cars would obey speed limits automatically, however they could safely drive at much faster speeds than humans (albeit with significantly reduced fuel efficiency, which I think will be an issue.)
Ah, yeah, that is a bit of a different angle on it. Truth be told, I'm not sure whether or not we're underrating the risk. On the one hand, increased travel and population density should see faster spread.

On the other hand we have a lot of changes in our favor: understanding how diseases are spread (starting with germ theory, all the way up through population models), understanding how many more diseases are treated, an astoundingly better ability to communicate, probably a better ability to coordinate...

I don't know how it nets out. The streak we've had should be taken as some evidence that it breaks in our favor. Certainly we should not succumb to the gambler's fallacy, there. However, I think we're well served to keep an eye on things.
220 ft square is not a lot. Take out house, garage, driveway, fences. Leaves - not much. Maybe a big garden, a couple of trees.
> I NEVER want to go back to ORM

Except that you just invented your own ORM.

Think about it: you are encapsulating SQL data into classes, in other words, mapping relational data to objects.

That's an ORM.
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You can get extra money for all kinds of things. Knowing another language, certain career fields (i.e. special forces and contracting) still have re-enlistment bonuses, etc. etc. None of the "cyber" career fields, in the Air Force at least, get any sort of extra money that I'm aware of.
You probably don't realize how much crossover there is between the military and intel. For example, the CSS in NSA/CSS - http://www.nsa.gov/about/central_security_service/
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Odd to see a direct link to iTunes here. Is there a project page?
Modal popups on websites, just say no.
> "online learning" ... and the subject is unfortunately un-googleable

That's not a surprise; "online learning" is a pretty misleading name. Here are some better alternatives:

* incremental learning / training
* stream-based learning / training

So, let's use these terms instead -- then it will be easier to find in your favorite search engine.

Here is one example using the term "stream-based learning":

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1.79...