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I agree. But having enough space is what lets you adapt in the first place. You can't, for example, partition a space into two rooms when there isn't enough space to do that.

This is an excerpt from the last national housing space standard published in the UK in 1961 (the national space standards were scrapped in the 1980s by the Conservative government). This report was written over 60 years ago, and yet what is says is still relevant today (at least in the UK)

"…a good house or flat can never be be made out of premises which are too small...additional space is also an important long-term investment, for if a house or flat is large enough it can usually be brought up-to-date as it gets older; but if there is not enough space the improvements can be impossible, or at least unduly expensive. Homes are being built at the present time which not only are too small to provide adequately for family life but also are too small to hold the possessions in which so much of the new affluence is expressed...Such places cannot be expected to meet the needs of their occupiers today, still less hold their value in the long term."

(From a government report called Homes for Today and Tomorrow, published in the UK in 1961)
By the way, they are also online: you can find them both on skygo[0,1] and on skyonline[2] websites (why sky italy has two websites is a story for another day...)

[0] http://skygo.sky.it/ondemand/categorie/serie-tv/serie-in-ond... (in italian)

[1] http://skygo.sky.it/ondemand/categorie/serie-tv/serie-in-ond... (in english)

[2] http://www.skyonline.it/intrattenimento/serie-in-onda/il-tro... (both italian and english versions)
The Ionic team applied to YC before we were Ionic (back w/ Codiqa, our visual design tool for jQuery Mobile apps). I was freaking out since they didn't email us until the day after the interview! I guess we were right on the edge.

Oh well, was a fun experience and we've been successful w/o it.

(for reference: http://ionicframework.com/)
So that's fascinating. Having no expertise whatsoever on the topic of domestic Japanese transportation my immediate response is "Strong competition from fast rail means that air travel is a superior experience"

It breaks my heart we don't have fast rail in the US. Even if it was just the North Eastern corridor (extended maybe to Chicago and Atlanta) it would have a huge impact on air travel. Of course the cost and final date to roll this out means it's probably not worth buying into.
I downvoted you not because of your disagreement, though I think you're wrong, but because of your peculiar insistence on self-martyrdom. It doesn't improve your argument and leads only to meta-complaint threads that generally don't go anywhere.
And also associated with your probably-unique 150 degree of freedom browser fingerprint.
Spotted thanks to this tweet: https://twitter.com/liantze/status/590175356784631808
Incognito from an IP that you have associated with one or more google accounts?
As an Indian, I guess the difference between you and me would be...

you don't lick your fingers and complement food while I will lick my fingers but instead of complement, I will pay.
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Many medium to low density counties in the US operate on demand bus services that get anyone from A to B while dynamically routing and picking up others in-between.

They are usually subsidized (the county spends more than the service makes, so taxpayers are paying for the service) but still don't see the ridership it would take to justify higher service levels (these places generally don't have traffic jams, just short periods where you might have to wait for the second green to pass through a busy light).

These counties already tend to be depopulating, which is the main way to reduce car traffic levels in such situations. Broader economic change has left them geographically uncompetitive, or automation has destroyed jobs in whatever extraction industry pulled in the population in the past.

I think one of the best ways to improve the availability of public transport would be to treat rising housing prices as a government failure (it's currently considered a success when the value of someones home increases).
Upon signup Uber should present options, like "user is accompained by a guide dog"

Then drivers are informed and free to accept or refuse such requests.

Edit: I don't get the hate, when you buy a plane ticket it's the same thing, it has nothing to do with discrimination, it has to deal with being able to accommodate them.

So if the person can't fit a service dog in their car, they won't have them service that call but send another car that is better for the guide dog.
n its motion to dismiss, Uber argued that the plaintiffs lacked standing, and that as a private company, it is not bound by the provisions of the ADA

That doesn't even make sense. Any place that accommodates the public is bound by the ADA. Most buildings are owned by private companies, but they are still required to be ADA-compliant.
A similar result, which appears to have been reached independently and roughly contemporaneously:

Dennis Upper. 1974. The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7 (3): 497.

(Unfortunately it's paywalled: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a/...)
Am I the only one waiting for this link?
You are not describing how democracies work. You're describing how we would both like them to work. You haven't yet given examples of major social change achieved through rational argument. You ignore the evidence that interracial marriage happened through the mechanism of bigots slowly dying off, not through rational argument. You ignore the example of slavery, the US's greatest perpetration of injustice. These problems were not sustained through reason alone, and neither were they solved that way.

> What you seem to be arguing for is that certain parties be shut out of the dialogue altogether, because their opinions deviate too far from those of your group

Mostly incorrect. It's not mainly about opinion for me; it's about behavior and intent. For example, the Westboro Baptist Church and the Aryan Brotherhood aren't writing carefully reasoned position papers. I'm ok with other people using their right of free speech to shout down their garbage. The problem is not their deviance from mainstream opinion, but the dangerousness of their propaganda and their drive to intimidate vulnerable groups. But if I discovered that a young cousin had come across some of their propaganda and wanted to talk it through, I'd be perfectly happy to do so, because it would be an actual discussion.

The problem you're not acknowledging is that speech has other purposes than carefully reasoned dialog. To the extent that people come open-minded to a topic and truly seek the truth, I think that's great. But that's a pretty small percentage of actual dialog.

I also think this objection is a little rich in that one of the major ways social injustice happens is by dominant groups suppressing minority voices. If you're all that concerned about people not being heard, it's not the voices of dominant groups that need such dogged protection from you.

> your opinion does not necessarily require rational underpinnings, so long as you feel certain enough of the righteousness of your cause.

Also mostly incorrect. I'd agree a bit in that our moral sense is prerational (see, e.g., deWaal's work on moral sense in animals), and values can't be established through pure reason. But I think it's important to have a reasoned understanding of those values and how to make them happen in the world. That said, I also don't think it's necessary to have a complete understanding before taking action; when someone is bleeding, the paramedics don't wait for the detectives to finish their work.

What I am saying (over and over) is that rational discussion is not enough to change unjust social structures. It would be nice, sure, but we are made out of meat, and we have to deal with our consequent lack of conformance to ideals.

I think you should also note the false objectivity in the "you seem" phrase. Unless you've shown what I wrote to a few thousand people and carefully measured responses, then I think you mean, "I interpret you as saying". That's not a minor nit here; a lot of the way social injustice happens is false conflation of personal or dominant-group views with objective truths.
I don't click 'accidentally' on anything and the same thing has happened to me.
In the US we really don't have any rail alternative to flying. I'd love to know how European travellers thinks and weigh up rail (which seems relatively fast and efficient) vs flying. Do you think the two are interchangeable services? Is there a magical breaking point (more than 500km's distance etc) ?
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"Unsafe PHP"

Isn't that a bit redundant?
The Principality of Hutt River in Australia is a micro nation in an interesting position. It seems as though it may be legally valid due to an administrative mistake and clever use of some obscure laws. Its continued existence seems to be largely due to the Australian government refusing to get involved any more than it really has to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hutt_River
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Some friends of mine started www.overleaf.com, and were rejected by YC a while later. They haven't had an exit yet, but as far as I can tell they're doing exceptionally well.
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That's strange, I flew from Toronto to Budapest through Munich, and Munich was by far the strictest security I encountered. They made my take off my shoes and sweatshirt.

So it's maybe not "outside the US" just "in some places."
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People with disabilities already face significant discrimination. Why should we make that discrimination easier?

(Edit: I meant to upvote you, but it seems I accidentally downvoted. Sorry. )
This would be the first country where registration comes with a password.
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Except refusing the request on those grounds is against the law.
"Argumentum ad populum is a fallacy."

Yes, but when choosing tech it can be a good dimension of analysis if paired with other variables. Popular tools that are maintained if not bug-free can have a better understood bug-portfolio than a more elegant-but-still less used ones.

Choosing the devil one knows over the one one don't know and all that.
>But there are many rich people out in the world who would hire armies to kill for such a spot.

This is tribalism (or our modern version - nation states) in a nutshell. For all the hand wringing here about NSA SIGINT, defense spending, etc the reality is that the world is dangerous place. Not too long ago "liberal intellectuals", "russophiles," and "policy experts" were telling us how Russia was just going to eventually become a defacto if not outright EU member, would never invade a neighbor, never target civilians explicitly, never annex land, etc. These people forgot the golden rule of civilization: war happens.
Well, they more or less are, but in a VM. It's what I do from my Windows desktop dev box. When I'm working at my Fedora workstation, again, everything lives inside a VM so that I don't accidentally pollute my target environment, or my workstations.
At the same time, it seems like marriage is much more costly and difficult for men to achieve in much of the Middle East/South Asia. So you still have a larger population of unmarried men without many marriage prospects.
I'm on the same boat as you. I feel your pain. The only exception is that in my case only FPS make me motion sickness. Race sims, 3rd person, and such, I can handle them very well...but FPS I can only play for like 15m.

I really want to try VR, but if this motion sickness is not fixed it's gonna be a deal(heart) breaker for me :(
I agree with you 100%. But I also understand that self-promotion might be uncomfortable for some people, so I just try to be respectful with them.
But containers aren't completely isolated. In particular, they share a kernel with the host OS. (And the file system, I think?) So you need to have software built with the right system calls, not to mention compiled for the right hardware architecture.
The biggest bias in the discussion that occurs on HN, is that most people commenting are engineers. Programming is inherently heads down, whereas a large number of professional jobs are not.

If you want to run a sales team, open office is almost mandatory. The energy you hear from others closing deals causes you to become energized, creating a compounding effect. An ops/customer success team needs to be open office so that agents can quickly exchange off the cuff conversations with each other in real time.

The point is, there are different office layouts that work for different types of people & workers.
Yeah, the filesystem for VBox got significantly better (use to have to use a custom ISO to get volume shares to work properly).

We haven't had a problem since the Docker 1.3 update.
You don't even have to build the package. You just create a source package and upload it with "dput" or similar. Then the PPA servers will build your package for multiple architectures (usually x86 and x86_64, but a Debian PPA might build for all Debian architectures, which are many more). It is also possible to build for multiple versions easily by changing the target distribution in the changelog file.

I've done the above both with and without a PPA for Ubuntu. Without a PPA you need to have separate virtual machines for each architecture (and if you don't have physical machines and/or hardware virtualization, this will be really really slow). And you also need a VM (or perhaps a chroot/pbuilder environment) for each distribution version, if you target more than one version.
Its still a good service and their ability to turn around disks so quickly was a huge advantage to them for years. They wisely realized, however, that the DVD business would die slowly and got very competitive about streaming. I'm sure you can enjoy the dvd mailing for at least a few more years before they begin closing those large warehouses down one by one.
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Both, but I will watch a repo if it's more for bookmarking something I plan to use.
Are you sure? I'm not finding anything about this.

The TGV record is about half the speed of sound, which means the wheel rims are bordering on supersonic, so it's not a simple thing to talk about exceeding it.
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I think the guys from https://www.Pay4Bugs.com did. I'm a user of theirs (crowdsourced bug testing for apps / websites / software)...

They've been developing tons of new features and seem to be getting more and more major positive press every week.

But if nothing else, this is definitely one of those 'invest in the founders' situations... Larry and CS are crazy smart and are now at that solid experienced-but-not-too-old age.
>would take almost a minute to load each page

VirtualBox filesystem performance isn't amazing, but it isn't anywhere near that bad. There was probably another issue involved here.
Imagine the possibilities! You can now pick your own virtual nose! With virtual avatars in social apps, you can pick your friends' noses, too! Or their hair, or their ears, or their pets. You can make your friends look exactly like you want.
Race is simply a salient category in American life, that shapes people's social experiences in a wide variety of ways.

It's also pretty ordinary for people to prefer mates that have a broadly similar life experience and perspective as themselves. It's easier to sustain a relationship when you have more common ground.
you can even bring your own bottled drinks/liquid on Japan domestic flights. they have a machine specifically for "scanning" drink/liquid. put your bottle on it, green light, then off you go. not sure how it works
No, people are downvoting you because your first comment was about dismissing the article outright when you got to rpm+yum.

You haven't made any useful comments regarding the article, just continuing on about how you have personally had non-specific problems with yum and rpm.
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I'll take the Eurostar from London to Paris even if it's slightly slower because it's just a nicer experience. But much further and I'll probably fly unless I'm making a point of taking a train for fun. The only other case would be if I'm taking a lot of luggage as that's much easier to do on a train. Back when I only had a big bulky laptop I might prefer a train to work on but these days my ultrabook is usable on a plane.
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I know somebody who used to buy Monster, but only because he worked at Best Buy (this was years ago: he quit Best Buy in 2007), and his employee discount was so good that he was paying considerably less for Monster than he would've paid for dirt-cheap cables anywhere else.

He would show off, too: dude had his apartment wired with Monster outdoor cables, just because he wanted to show off that his employee discount was so good that even a broke-ass college student can afford to buy Monster outdoor cables on it and use them everywhere.
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What about anarchist states? Does that make them an oxymoron?
"Economists have been crying out "bubble bubble !" on china for 10 years. The science of capital as applied to western countries do not apply to a system like china where there are so many SOE."

Ah, there it is... the "this time it's different!" argument.

I fear that the different that the number of "State Owned Enterprises" will have is that where the bubble would "naturally" be popped by "natural" market forces, the incentives in China will cause it to inflate even farther, even faster, until it pops even harder.

Bubbles are not created by "capitalism". Bubbles are created by feedback loops feeding on themselves, which are unavoidable (where there is any form of negative feedback, there are oscillations). A State may well keep a bubble alive where capitalism would have popped it. That it hasn't popped yet could really be a sign that this time it's different; China does have greater capacity for growth on the same tech stack than the US does. But it could also mean that the malinvestment is getting even farther than the US tech bubble ever did. Bubbles being what they are, the greater capacity for growth could even be making it worse... if the economy could support X more growth but the bubble inflates that into 10X more investment, that could mean the greater capacity for growth is itself a participant in the inflation.

The "pop" isn't caused by "capitalism" either... bad investments that can't pay for themselves are bad investments that can't pay for themselves, regardless of the economic system in which they occur.

(I fear, because no one will escape this unscathed if it happens. The Western economies still haven't recovered from their last recession and are quite rickety themselves (since the West seems to have fallen in love with centralized management once again itself, and there is perhaps not a bit of book cooking here too). If a Chinese bubble does pop and it is that bad, it's not going to be any fun for anyone.)
A country that is recognized by no one? Probably not a "great way" to get a passport that's worth anything.
So let’s pick the option that stores highscores and screen names in separate places, and brings them together only when needed in a leaderboard query.

Is that actually a good idea though? Leaderboard queries are likely to be the most common things you do with the data. You'd save a join by storing the username with the score data (as you'd never want one without the other), and it wouldn't save that much space by separating them given that usernames are only a few tens of bytes each.
That's the cause of the prison system which is privatized and beholden to shareholders to make profits. They have a large lobby used to persuade the government to protect and pass laws that serve this purpose. At some point or another, with the way things are going everyone will find themselves in a position where they have to make this decision.
Same here, got tired to try to find anything good (pay & work) to work in with Elance and Freelancer.

Then, searched HN and found something I think is worth the try, have a look at: https://gun.io/
But how will you look Appletastic down the coffeeshop when running a freetard stack?
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A potential client/employer wants to hire me to work on government contracts.

They claim I need to be an "employee" of the company, even though they can pay me an hourly rate, because "we do government contracting".

Is this a legal precedent? Are they covering their own ass? Mine?
Yeah, a guy with a username of 'balls2you' knows more about writing and computers than a professor of computer science (which the author is).
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Call me a lunatic but:

Airships! I want to see airships, zeppelins, blimps come back. They can fly passengers or cargo faster than seafaring ships or travelling on land, while being able to take off and land in a smaller area than an airport runway. The speeds of airships were around 120-200+ km/h, making it comparable with a slow flying piston powered aircraft of the same era.

A flight on the Hindenburg was more luxurious than flying in an airplane has ever been. There was a dining salon and a smoking lounge and plenty of room to walk around. Airships were capable of transporting close to 100 passengers. They can fly closer to a big city than an airplane can, reducing the total time of travel when you don't need to go to the airport, far away from the cities.

Anecdote: my home town has a futuristic art deco hotel built in the 1930s, which has a mast that was designed as a mooring point for airships, right in the middle of the city. Unfortunately that has never been used to my knowledge.

Airships might also be (partially) powered by electricity and have very large surface area that could be used for solar panels.

Unfortunately, I can't see this happening any time soon. There are some ventures into building modern airships, with mixed success. I recon modern people are too impatient to travel 4-5 times slower than what they're used to. Transporting cargo overseas is so cheap that it's difficult to compete with. And whether it makes any kind of economic sense is another question.
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Uber gets a lot of negative headlines. Are the people running it really assholes?
They currently do, but some prefer a UI to manage the containers, and since we're using OSX, making sure boot2docker and the underlying VBOX image is in a good state can sometimes cause a few wrinkles that take a developer to straiten out.

Kitematic could abstract that layer (boot2docker) away with a GUI.
Also, governments don't compete with each other in the same market. Australia and Denmark aren't trying to outdo each other in recruiting the same "customers".

We do sometimes see multiple governments competing in the same "markets". We usually call them "warlords" though, and it hasn't really worked out all that well for the people and lands being competed for.
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