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There is a reason to hate "trains" when it's fucking Caltrain with at-grade crossings and retarded federal rules about fucking horns all night long. Half the fucking Peninsula is unusable for sleeping as it is.
Was it updated? I spent my whole evening yesterday planning the trip.
Agreed. Gremlin was written for geniuses by geniuses-- Cypher is for the rest of us. That said, I'd much rather use Cypher for most of my queries, especially when I'm doing more exploratory probing into my information (simply because I'm lazy and would rather say what I want from my db than how to get it), and the Java API when I need more granular control with a complex traversal.
"Or you can stay and enjoy your new-found wealth."

In most places, if your $200,000 house now has a value of $1 million, you cannot stay since property taxes will increase. So, you can sell and leave, but staying is often not an option particularly for people on a fixed income.
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Large urban centers in coastal California have very low per-capita environmental impact compared to sub/exurban development of farmland that the anti-density crowd substitutes for responsible infill development and upzoning. They absolutely don't care about the environment. Groups like the Sierra Club are just fronts for NIMBYs at the local level in the bay area.
While technically true, this is not pure logic, and his statement is more nuanced. To note:

> Capitalism as a system may well work best in the absence of democracy.

That's written in English, and it is reasonably interpreted to mean more than \not(capitalism-works-well \implies democracy). The author suggests capitalism-works-well \implies \not democracy.
This one is disgusting http://stoprobotabuse.com/images/gif9.mp4

He's patting the robot, not pushing him. See? This is all that's wrong with robot-rights activists. They take everything personally and try to manipulate public opinion (whether intentionally or subconsciously, seeing harm where there isn't).

In fact I think the robot is knowingly feigning to get the human punished. I'd totally sue him.
This is a good presentation about the complexities in creating and pricing itineraries:

http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

Most companies don't want to take on this complexity, so they outsource it. The companies that provide this service, like ITA, tend to charge more money for more expensive queries, like multi-day searches, so most online search companies will only let you do the cheaper kinds of searches.
Well, I had an old Sony PR-505 eReader and while it could read PDF's it ccertainly wasn't ideally suited to it. I did usually preprocess them by at least cropping the margins as much as I could (a program called briss makes this easy). But I think modern eReaders are much better and might be able to zoom in on PDFs.

Every other format I came across I converted to ePub using Calibre, which is fairly painless.
His argument is that she should have followed the rules. It was not about suffering.

My argument somewhere else in this thread is that the system has become an insane one.
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I actually was thinking of CAHSR, but then again the streets are at-grade and nobody seems to mind those. I do sympathize about the horns, though.
Yes, Google employees have never held different views than their employer 


Basically, they are afraid the majority of the people they represent may actually make their voice heard in government.

What's next, complaining that if we build too much senior living, the old people might vote for what they want?
Lots of things work, but not all things are legal or ethical. You don't have an automatic right to inflict yourself on others, or to take up the time of others. Learn to live with that and find something that works and is consistent with it.
> many examples where states economically failed/are failing and assumingly because of the absence of democracy

Can you list some of these "many examples"? And in particular, can you list some examples of states that don't have democracies but do have capitalism and are still failing?
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It's probably a 1st year lecture, those students that are actually concentrating in biology or a related-field already took an AP in high-school, and the rest need to fill graduation requirements with a science course. It's a test to see if you read a textbook for 20 hours.
Minor complaint: the first thing I tried to do was try to find a flight from anywhere in the UK to anywhere in Slovenia. Whilst it lets me be vague about my destination, it doesn't seem to about my starting point... Skyscanner lets me do this
This seems to be the tired old "you are a part of this society so you can't criticise it without being a hypocrite" argument.

Do you have evidence that Leonard M. Siegel supports "sprawling office parks miles away from public transit" other than the fact that office parks exist and Leonard M. Siegel exists?
Apparently none of the people responding to this with property tax arguments know about Proposition 13 ...
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Prop 13 did quite a bit to prevent this from being an issue.
What word do you use instead? "Exam Administrator"?
Presumably illegal alien. Only a court of law can say what's legal or not. #Democracy
I just use Notepad++ for note taking, synced via Syncthing with phone and pi. Finally got a decent, cross-platform and open notes system with this set up.

Happy to encourage any creative use of Notepad++, it's great software!
Of course there isn't. Capitalism guarantees no such system is allowed to exist.

But capitalism is based on jam today and famine tomorrow.

This works just fine for people - as long as they're not thinking straight.

Intelligent resource allocation understands that famine ten years from now is a bad thing and should be avoided, even if it means lower short-term profits.

Any system that thinks ahead like that would be much more innovative than capitalism, because it would be able to make long term plans and invest in long term projects with pay-off times measured in decades or even centuries - something capitalism is manifestly unable to do.

It would also be better at avoiding the usual capitalist kooky idiocies like poisoned water tables, avoidable drought, accidental anti-terraforming, and the rest.
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"If you can't afford to replace it, can you afford to own it?"

With that logic I'd own two fields with a tent in each (o; I'm not an apple fan but I do like the ability to talk to a "genius" in person.

And I guess that's the difference between REI and an ebay seller, Apple and some no name Chinese equivalent. It's the premium you pay to get the comfort in knowing there's going to be no hassles IF something goes wrong.

The build quality & specs on the oneplus is definitely that of a $600 flagship. The $300 price tag does not mean I ought to buy two to make up for the lack of support.
I work for a YC company that is 100% remote. Works very well.
If Palo Alto/etc would get off their asses and support an economically feasible grade separation plan this could be fixed in under a decade.
The main thing I like about SourceTree is that it makes it easy to stage 'hunks', or select lines to stage. I also like that (as with UIs in general) it makes it a bit harder to make mistakes (by, for example, typing the wrong flag on the command line).

But it's become unbearably slow. I really wish they'd fix this.
Not really.

Having too many jobs in Mountain View means many commuters, and super high housing prices meaning most workers (even Google employees) must commute from different places. So it's not making anyone less dependent on the car.

However, the situation for long-term resident (especially home owners) is not that bad because if they don't care about the tech industry and just want a quiet place to live, they can easily flip their house for a couple millions and buy a small castle somewhere else.
I mostly agree with the axioms as stated, but there's an obvious subtext that is more questionable and that carries a few unstated assumptions

- Democracy, or more generally giving political power to the people is a good thing, maybe an end in itself.

- Increases in inequalities between capital and labor are intrinsically a bad thing.

If your focus is on people being able to live happy, fulfilling lives, the whole Maslow hierarchy of need thing, it's not clear at all that these assumptions are warranted.
Back in the pre-civil-robot-rights era, I committed various such acts, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCEZhxFa8Bk
This illustrates something that might be a significant future problem for law enforcement, etc. - how to enforce anti-drone laws. Perhaps this will lead to an anti-drone technology industry with drone-tracking equipment and drone-capture drones. With radio-controlled devices, direction-finding equipment could work but with autonomous drones...?
In the States, as a contractor you have to pay your own health insurance,which can be ruinous. Large corporation can provide a much better package than what you could afford on your own,because they get discounts. Obviously here in the UK it doesn't matter, because you get NHS coverage either way.
I think you mean "pedantic nonsense".
Not to mention a home equity line of credit could almost indefinably pay for property taxes. Reality is its only renters who are negatively impacted.
Yes, people in California often forget others have real property tax :)

That said, the 5x increase in property taxes from 200k to 1 mill may really mean going from 2k a year to 10k a year.

That is probably not at the "can't stay" level for most people, not to mention it being tax-deductible
It would be interesting to read a case study on how a small cultural change such as this is pushed. The fact that this wording change is being pushed is, in itself, a signal that a societal power seeks to change how we think of illegal immigration. As with many pushes, such as the push to accept the idea of globalization, a moral argument is used to convince the petite bourgeoisie of the worth of something that members of the ruling class want.
I've been using Virgin Mobile happily for coming on two years. $35/month for LTE on my iPhone 5s is pretty much impossible to beat. Plus, I can get tethering for $5/day if I need it while traveling.

Yes, it's Sprint, and their network isn't the best, but since I don't live in San Francisco I've rarely had problems.
Thank you for your sympathy. There's actually very little leeway in the immigration process for a lawyer to work any magic -- they mainly just help with processing applications and making sure you comply with the rules.
That was my first thought as well, and my first answer to the question of "What do they fear exactly?" was "Democracy".

I find it equally preposterous that the mass of Google employees operate as some sort of a hive-mind too, abandoning their own personal politics in favor of their employer's, but at the same time, would be foolish not to acknowledge that Google employees are likely going to favor Google-centric endeavors like Google Fiber, self-driving cars and that sort of thing at polling stations.
Same here. I love the Android feature that will display the company name (if it can find it/it's linked to a Google business listing) of whichever number is calling. Saves me Googling at least half the time.
I've never paid property taxes in California, but my understanding is that Prop 13: 1) limits increased in assessed value to 2% per year (under the rate of inflation historically); and 2) prevents re-valuation of property except on ownership transfer or new construction.
Apple are too sick with lock-in mentality, so of course they'd sabotage any effort if that helps them retaining some grip on the market. The fact that they ban competing browsers on their mobile systems clearly demonstrates the point. And their negative attitude to free codecs is known as well. They are too stuck in their petty hate for interoperability.
Reading it put a smile in my face. Looking forward to the final release.
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Is there the office space available for Google to house say 3,000 people in one building or even 1 block in SF? I'm sure there's no room to build a new building that would be big enough to hold that many people.

There are quite a few high-rises in the financial district but are they vacant?
To me, it's pretty obvious that the supposedly "dual" mission of NSA, that of both anti-terrorism and cybersecurity, are completely incompatible. They are at the extreme ends of the spectrum.

One seems to need the abolishing of (true) secure systems and privacy (although, so far there is no evidence that mass surveillance actually helps thwart terrorist plots - and it may never be able to do so [1] [2]), and the other is supposed to be about having super-secure systems and strong encryption.

However, since the NSA is in charge of both, it seems the anti-terrorism side has won, and it now causes the NSA to make terrible cyber-policy.

To Schneier's new post, I believe the EU is already getting ready to propose that a civil agency (not one that is run in secret) should be in charge of cybersecurity in EU nations. Although, I think the NSA is working hard to convince EU spy agencies to push legislation that makes them responsible for cybersecurity, at least in some EU countries that are more easily "persuaded".

EDIT: So I actually disagree with Scheneir here. I see no reason why a secretive unaccountable agency should be in charge of cybersecurity. Why should it be a state secret that a hacker hacked into a US company? Just because the NSA has the "expertise" in cybersecurity? If you want to keep the experts, fine, but then turn the NSA into a civil agency.

I agree with his suggestion that surveillance (not mass surveillance, though - that should be banned for all agencies) should only be the domain of FBI.

To recap:

1) Cybersecurity = civil agency

2) Surveillance of local citizens = civil agency (FBI in US, I guess. Mind you, this is what already happens, when referring to targeted surveillance, so the real proposal here is that the NSA or anyone else shouldn't be spying on local citizens, too - only the FBI and with warrants. This is not, or should not be about giving the FBI "mass surveillance powers". If that's what Schneier is proposing, then I completely disagree with this, too)

3) Cyber-offense/cyber-war = military/Pentagon/whatever

4) I'm unsure whether we need another agency for spying on "world leaders", but right now I'm strongly inclined to give this one to the military too. Also, it would be best if this wasn't actually targeted at allies (like Merkel), but actual rival (Russia) or rival-like (China) countries. I think it's just good foreign policy not to do nasty stuff to your allies, just to be slightly "ahead" in negotiations.

[1] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_f...

[2] - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/07/terrorists_da...
The lower the standard of your team, the more you will appreciate idiomatic code. I don't work in SV, blue chips, or anywhere that could use Scala. A couple of us at my last place had a hard time moving the team from Source Safe to SVN, Git was out of the question. "What's the point of commit messages if you only commit every three months?" - not kidding, not a junior. Lines thousands of characters long, literally. I saw a pattern once. Once. CIO was one of these copy/paste VB devs, common in London, an unfair generalisation, but necessary as a warning sign. Some people become developers without any interest in development, completely oblivious to *nix/open source world, simply as a job, 9 - 5, and might have flipped a coin between development and accountancy. Some places don't give a shit about software development, or the idea of engineering - "just get it done!". Resharper, fxcop? Yeah, right. Degrees don't all teach compiler design, some just Java OO and a bit of Glassfish. If Go replaced C# in all of these arbitrary SMEs there would be far fewer WTFs. But people would struggle without Visual Studio debugging and a big run button. I'm being harsh, and seriously, not suggesting anything about MS devs, who include the world's best as well as the world's worst, but I find people on this site are often, to their fortune, oblivious to what working in the 99% can be like (the figurative 99%). Long live idioms, gofmt, golint.
But I am not sure if I would agree with the OP since there many examples where states economically failed/are failing and assumingly because of the absence of democracy.

From a logic point of view "X does not require Y" does not entail "X must universally succeed when Y is absent". So a counterexample to the latter statement is not a counterexample to the former.
I find Sourcetree to be a pretty great product, with some negative marks here and there. I use it on W7 and OSX and find the "tabbed" interface of Windows versus the separate windows of OSX much easier to work with, especially on large products.

Some issues I have:
- The app does have some lag at times. I really wish the app would update with local changes and remote changes much faster. Commits can also take some time.
- I know how to use the application, but it could really use some better explanation/help around some features. For example, how to set up SSH keys and how branch/merge/stash/tag work. This would make Sourcetree much easier to learn for new users.
WhatsApp fails freedom and arguably security.

Let's put things in context. Would you trust WhatsApp to be part of the US nuclear launch chain? Or talkes between the leaders of US, France, China, and North Korea.
I wonder if it would be viable to start an airline whose business model is "simple pricing". Just forget ITA altogether, sell tickets directly, and have the pricing model extremely simple. Like, total price = C/(time to departure) for some constant C, and use machine learning, or just a simple PID feedback loop on revenue to set C in order to be profitable.
I think an even better argument for breaking up the NSA is that there's a fourth category of work they (should) do that's totally unrelated to surveillance and that I'd classify as "very good:" actively working to secure the communications of US government and companies against the NSA-equivalents of other nation-states and rogue actors. Having this is on the same list as encryption sabotage is a recipe for mismanagement and bad policy.
> changing the language and country of the website changes ticket prices

That's a feature. Nothing will cost the same if you buy it in Nairobi or in London, because price is a function of demand.
OP: a question about some of your earlier work. In particular, I'm reading through your "A Monad For Reactive Programming, Part 1". https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/agocorona/a-monad-for-reacti...

I see a lot of higher-rank types, like this:

data Event = forall a. Event EvType a

as opposed to:

data Event a = Event EvType a

These mean different things. In the former, an Event has to be able to hold any a, and that doesn't really make sense (unless I'm misinterpreting something) because the only value that inhabits all types a is undefined/bottom.

Or is that what you want? Is there a reason why you use higher-rank types (which make my brain hurt, require a lot of language extensions, etc.) rather than parameterized types? If so, could you spell that out?

Another example is this:

data EventF = forall m b c. EventF (b → Transient m c)

Again, I'm not really familiar with what you're doing so it's quite possible that using higher-rank types is exactly what you want (see: ST Monad and Lenses, where rank-2 types are crucial). I'm just having a hard time seeing it.

Thanks!
The $30 price is the cost of the add-on. $50 for base service, +$30 for unlimited data so the $80 plan you found is it.
"a natural consequence of society......"

You could use this justification to rationalize any sort of unethical behavior you like. Embezzlement is a natural consequence of society putting a huge value on owning a Benz and other dullard measures of achievement!

That is to say, I disagree wholeheartedly.
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I had to look this one up too. I've always called them proctors.
I'm not really positioning TextSecure as a secure mail solution, but this article says that the TextSecure protocol can't support asynchronous operations or federated namespaces. To clarify, that's incorrect, the TextSecure protocol was actually designed from the ground up for asynchronous communication, and is designed to support a federated namespace: https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/

That leaves these points for PGP:

> It’s been around for a long time, so it’s cryptographically well understood.

Yes, but it's cryptographically well understood not to provide the properties we need.

> There are a variety of implementations and there is a small but vibrant and highly committed developer community.
> A small but active and committed user community.

Small can't be emphasized enough, and this is the most important part to me. I think people have a tendency to look at PGP and conclude that while it might be painful, we have to put up with it for backwards compatibility. The truth is that it's a protocol with few contemporary redeeming qualities, and an active user base of ~50k. So why bother with backwards compatibility?
Sadly the voices of reason like Bruce will be yelled over by the voices of "terrorism everywhere".
"I did put all 6 of them through a bit of an ordeal, though, and at least half of them deserved it."

The author sounds like a really nasty piece of work.
Why is it bad to charge people to contact you via email?
Your 93% market number is perhaps accurate in the entirely hypothetical world where most Android devices actually get swift upgrades to new versions, but not in reality.
Fair enough, though plainly, capitalism can work well in some kinds of democracy. The statement that is there to provoke thought is actually about where capitalism works best, i.e. what are the optimal conditions for capitalism or if "capitalism-works-best \implies \not democracy"

Which is now making me think of ways in which money distorts government, i.e in which capitalism and democracy are in tension. For a prime example, "Citizens United" is clearly pro-capitalistic, and anti-democratic. http://www.newsweek.com/five-years-after-citizens-united-sig...