skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mayor Duggan has been aggressively attacking Detroit's problems almost in a Google Project X way.

City residents pay double the insurance rates of anywhere in the state. So Mayor Duggan got with insurance people and crafted a new form of Detroit insurance that would be half the cost by capping damage reimbursement at $250K. State legislators liked the idea so well that they're adding a few other Michigan cities to the plan.

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2015/06/03/revised-cut...
I don't think you are quite understanding remittances. If someone uses an ATM on one side and another person uses an ATM on the other side, the endpoints are there and the middle man taking an extravagant cut is gone. Even without ATMs endpoints are not difficult. A stall in a mall that is frequented by Indians, Sri Lankans, or Filipinos is cheap. A tiny stall in a mall in Mumbai or Manilla is cheap too.

>There is also the problem that as its usage increases the difficulty in offloading the bitcoins for the remittance company increases which means their costs increase.

I don't understand what you are trying to say or how increased usage would make dealing with bitcoins more difficult.

It doesn't suck for micropayments, I know this because I actually use it frequently. It's great. Have you actually used bitcoin? Visa defines micropayments and anything below $23 The core devs don't recommend doing that off chain, that is 100% not true.

Credit card fraud is a massive problem no matter who you blaim. Credit cards are inherently insecure since you have to give someone all the information necessary to charge your card to use it at all! It makes no sense. Many businesses lose enormous amounts of money to credit card fraud. I buy many things with bitcoin, it's amazing how much easier it is than dealing with credit card transactions, the bank's false positive fraud protections, the banks not catching actual fraud, the vendor's false positive fraud protections (for using a vpn or ghostery), waiting for the transaction to go through, etc. Never mind putting all sorts of unnecessary information in. Bitcoin is literally two clicks.

You can say 'it won't work'. The truth is, it IS working right now.
Off topic, but why are the other two frontend teams replicating your work? Is it for other target platforms?
Doesn't seem super serious, given that it's Turtle-based :)
All of this will be colored by how long you have actually been there and the work you actually do, but-

I wonder if you are ready for more responsibility? As the scope of your work naturally broadens, and you get better at what you do, that can be an opportunity to move to working on bigger, harder problems that intrinsically have greater scope.

Also, don't forget that while it may feel like you are working your butt off, that doesn't mean your work is necessarily irreplaceable or core to the business's success. You put in tons of hours, attention, and energy, yes, but that alone does not make the work you do highly valuable.
CM is a damn nice typeface, far better than Times in my opinion. Just because people started using bad typography in order to appeal to some silly rule doesn't mean CM is any worse of a face.
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I'd take an email address that goes to someone who can help instead of a phone number that goes to someone in a call center reading from a script any day. And a mailing address? I can't remember the last time one was useful for interacting with a company.
The top post [1] mentions the "Meditations on Moloch" post, which is basically a generalization of the PD/Tragedy of the Commons/arms race. I assume most posters are aware of the relevant dynamic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671686
"Due to planned maintenance/a defective signal/ a computer error/ a tree on the tracks (or a leaf, or snow)/a collision with a person no connection is possible between Utrecht Central and Amsterdam Central"

Are you joking? Utrecht to Amsterdam is a local train. That's like saying that CalTrain is frequently delayed, therefore we shouldn't build any high-speed lines. Appels en Peren.
Right. Also isn't this bill like an annual one? Which means this amendment would have to be passed every year?
I think the argument that people accept it is disingenuous. If it was broadly acceptable, why would businesses and governments often hide what they are doing? Why wouldn't they clearly inform consumers up front?

In fact, if consumers like it so much then why not advertise it, to attract more customers? Why haven't I seen this ad on TV?

At Acme, we collect your personal information and build an intimate profile of you -- everything you do, from your emails and web usage, to who your friends and family are, to your income, wealth and debts, to your medical and driving histories, to your interests in culture, religion and politics. You'd be amazed by what we've learned about you! The more we know about you, the better we can serve you!
Let me first say I am nto an expert in this area but have been in a similar position. These kinds of problems are frustrating. I cant tell by your initial description how many other things you have tried. Maybe the following is obvious for you.

What else have you tried?

To get more information - look at "mtr" - I find it sometimes shows me where in the path things are going wrong.

This is a decent intro to it:

https://www.linode.com/docs/networking/diagnostics/diagnosin...

Did you notice that the final IP addr is in level3?

It looks
dig -x 209.244.104.134

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
244.209.in-addr.arpa.	3600	IN	SOA	ns2.Level3.net. dns.Level3.net. 2015052900 7200 600 2592000 3600
Not to be the cynical one of the bunch but...

1) Become Fleetzen driver in Atherton or Beverly Hills using stolen identity (post my own Criagslist ad soliciting drivers for my fictional startup VanZen asking candidates for all the info that Fleetzen asks for, then just forward the info from an unlucky applicant to Fleetzen to get my driver credentials).

2) Wait for expensive item to be given to me, sell it, and profit.

Am I missing something here?
I agree that planes are faster over longer distances, and cheaper too. The amount of hassle involved in planes is definitely more though, more waiting, you're supposed to be there earlier, more transit time to and from the airport. I think a 3h train and 1h flight are pretty comparable in the end.
People pick that "web host" because the platform you think is so great sucks ass.
People have said this morass of nonsense was sorting itself out since gmail came on the scene. Things have been sorting out for web apps before mobile was even a viable thing.
Fashion and style have their own internal logic.
Extreme example: "pointy boots" in Mexico.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/03/26/395391623/...
Also of note is that you mention the Netherlands, which for routes like the one you mentioned still has the option for alternative routes with, in that particular case, at most a 30-60 minute delay from your original travel plan. At a larger scale / longer distances, that's no longer the case; if the track between Meppel and Zwolle has an issue, it'd be better comparable; that basically severs the north from the south. Compare NL with France, too: http://www.fairriqh.nl/stations/Spoorkaart/Spoorkaart%20Nede..., http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/france-trains/images/france-t..., NL looks more like a subway system.
The bit you've quoted from Cato is not a solid point, in my opinion. It is conflating two different things - local / commuter rail, which is in competition with cars, and high speed rail, which is not.

Clearly there has been a massive long term trend towards increasing dominance of the car over the last sixty years, but there has never been any expectation that high speed rail could reverse that trend - after all, the vast majority of journeys and of journey miles are not between cities, but everyday local transport, which has nothing to do with high speed rail.

The benefits are really to do with bringing city centres closer together, to be able to get on a train in London and arrive in Paris (220 miles away, and across a sea) within two and a half hours, or in Manchester (170 miles away) within an hour - the latter is the subject of the next high speed line project in the UK.

It would take four hours to drive London to Manchester, on excellent motorways, and an hour would hardly get you from the city centre to the start of Heathrow airport security. Having another city within an hour of two of hassle free travel just alters fundamentally the sense of distance between those cities. Bridge building is also often not profitable, but has a long term effect on interconnectedness and the development of the area around.
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> get lots and lots of folders and just keep creating new folders in a flat hierarchy to organize things all the time.

That's the most persistently useful thing I got from GTD. I have a cabinet full of plain, labeled paper folders for filling. 90% of them I don't really check at all, but I whenever I need that random document, booklet, photo, or whatever, I can always find it there quickly.
I remember pimps in 'C'town in the late 60's when they walked at night sometimes sparks would fly off their high heels from the metal protectors..
That's a totally different analogy altogether. The argument expressed on that page isn't that there is a lack of choices, but that the choices are inherently flawed (and somehow "fixed" by frameworks that lie on top).
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Most train systems I've taken don't have to stop at stop lights, but the buses I've ridden, even with a dedicated lane, still stop at the lights. This means twice as many stops and starts. Big negative in my mind. But then again, maybe this is another small improvement which could be made.
That's really not a fair comparison.

Virgin Trains, running only long-distance intercity journeys, is compared to London Overground, which runs trains within London every 4-6 minutes for commuters. I'd also guess the average Which? reader is much more likely to rely on a train for work if they live in the south east.

If we compare local services, the south east is much better: much more frequent service, newer trains, generally staffed stations, better value fares within London.

If we compare long-distance services, the trains often start or end in the south east anyway.
I'd also imagine that since the contest is framed as getting around code reviews the code would be inspected using some other source code display tool. These tools certainly wouldn't do any kind of context-sensitive reasoning.
The airport in Tokyo was an hour to our hotel. I remember the Shinkansen being close to the hotel. We took it to Kyoto then to Osaka. The train was packed so even if it was expensive, it was full.
I hope the next logical step implied here after this is NOT going back to native applications for everything.

Out of curiosity, why? I always thought the model of static documents was a conceptual fit for the web, thinking of it as a file server. The move towards SPAs and real-time apps is really showing the browser's inner-platform effect, and the rough edges of the APIs thereof.

Since we are using techniques to create a full parallel OS runtime inside the browser, I wouldn't be surprised if a surge of interest from web developers emerged into simply using the host OS again.

By and large I believe the ideal of the browser as being the universal WORA platform to be largely bunk, in that cross-browser compatibility has always been grueling, with the reliance on polyfills and all sorts of ECMAScript and browser API incompatibilities persisting to the point where entire tables and guides are being drawn about them.

In hindsight this should have been unsurprising. Just like the Unixes diverge, so do the browsers.
Yes, but train tracks are often a more direct line, and they rarely have to stop or slow down for anything; when driving, your speed is generally reduced severely once you get off the highway. Of course, it also depends heavily on where you're coming from / going to; the train commuters often live and work nearby a train station (I do).
Good discussion of this sort of thing in a series of recorded Hangouts between Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and DHH:

http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/

The takeaway is that the usefulness of tests is the feedback it gives you about your code (and confidence, a subtype or result of feedback). All of the BDD vs. TDD vs. Test First vs. Test Whenever can get wrapped up in too much zealotry, and is ultimately secondary to the goal of getting feedback.
Yeah, I've read the death penalties studies, but I was hoping for something more general. Instinctually, I agree with your opinion, but I think this is teh kind of thing that really needs to be verfied. We are basing a very important part of our society in this assumption, and it could just be wrong. Maybe people who don't do crimes do it simply because they believe it's wrong.
It's too bad this article didn't get more discussion. The circumvention of the blood brain barrier is a big deal. I wish someone more knowledgable than me had a go at explaining the implications.
"This specification is about the 6th version of HТML (HyperTurtle Markup Language), not HTML"
I doubt it's as ridiculous as the article makes it sound, but I'm not familiar with this story. It sounds like hired security was told what the dress code was and was overzealous.

Evening dress at Cannes is black tie. Women's formal shoes tend to be heels. Rhinestone flats really are not black tie appropriate.

I think a sensible analogy, for men, is straight tie vs. bowtie. You're asking for trouble if you forego the bowtie.

Likewise, I think a man wearing heels will also be turned away.

If folks have a problem with this, then I can think of no better crowd to dictate what is appropriate dress than the Hollywood elite, so I suspect this will resolve itself without much ado.
With CSS, the concept of differentiated HTML tags basically became obsolete. The purpose of HTML now is just to break apart and identify the content fields in an XML format. The only tags I really use in the HTML body are div and a - and I only use a because I can't add a href attribute into a div. Some people have tried to argue against this way of doing things ("divitus") but as far as I can tell their criticisms are pedantic, not practical. If some one has a good practical argument for specialized HTML tag names, I'd love to hear it.
The axiom of foundation forbids cycles in the membership relation, you are of course allowed to talk about other relations that do have cycles. For example, R={(1,2),(2,3),(3,1)} is a relation defined in ZFC that relates 1 to 2, 2 to 3 and 3 to 1. If you want to study cycles in directed graphs it never matters that you can't have membership cycles and I'm confused about why anyone would think it does.
Being profitable shouldn't be the only measure to implement or improve a public transit system TBF; faster transit times, cleaner fuel, lower highway usage, less stress from driving, working on the go (if people work in coffee shops they can work in the train), tax benefits, cheaper commute costs, all of those should be taken into consideration too. It's not a crime for a government to fund an unprofitable business if said business does good things.
"it costs TONS of money to built. - you need to buy tons of land. - to keep straight lines in a place like Europe, it often means you have to go through places where people live, and you need to have villages partly destroyed by it. Yay, democracy.... if there is one incident on the main railways, your subsequent trains are delayed or blocked. Yay for flexibility and 'reliability'"

Yes, because highways are free, require no land, never go through places where people live (/self warily eyes the massive elevated freeway overpass system lurking near my home...), and never have congestion.

With the exception of "trains aren't good for all distances", none of your arguments make much sense. They apply equally to all forms of mass transit.
How "last-minute" are we talking here? I booked the ticket on May 24, for the trip to Cardiff on May 30.

In the US, where intercity trips above a couple hundred miles are typically by air, six days out would be "last-minute" for most people, so that's my frame of reference.

Also, the return to London corresponded with the hordes of One Direction fans (whose suddenly-announced concert in Cardiff forced a shuffling of the conference schedule since every hotel in town sold out instantly).
I don't appreciate you putting words into my mouth.

Also, are you seriously arguing that showing butt cracks at public events should be an acceptable thing? I suppose you also think that people should be allowed to eat with their feet on the table, or cough without covering their mouths?
So, what is the current system that you are using for GTD? I need to be more organized and productive but I really don't have the time/patience to read the book. So, if you can give the tldr; of your system or a web app that forces one to use GTD without all the theory would help as well.
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> For some reason I cannot reply to your reply, so my apologies, here's a sibling.

If you had waited a few minutes you could have responded. Patience, its a virtue or something.
It is not so clear, actually, and the example of the K-12 public schools actaully shows it. Nominally, anyone can go to "the government school", but some are better run than others, and bestow more benefits on the students, and you end up moving the bidding war/arms race right over to "whatever mechanism the school uses to decide who goes there".

In the US, that usually means it spills over onto home prices in the best school districts. So, you get the same sorting of students, the same differential education, but people blow their budgets a different way.

This is not much different from the subsidized result.

(You may object: "But the schools can just sort by merit." Well, a) your previous comment said that it's not so easy to find a test that does so, and b) that's just another mode for the arms race: spending money on ways to game/hack the tests: cf, SAT prep courses.)

The same dynamic has happened for all previous kinds of subsidies to higher education: the amount the government pays for (or provides for free) becomes the new baseline, and people have to spend more money to distinguish themselves the unwashed masses who also go that education. Previously, a high school degree was enough, but now college is. With Sanders's plan (regardless of "free school" vs "pay your tuition"), we may end up at "Sorry, everyone needs a Master's now."

Like the site argues, the result of the subsidies is that everyone has to do the same things they did without it, but you also blow a lot of money unnecessarily.
Oh the shame.

I read that after this http://html6spec.com/ and thought they were the same (except for the "distribution" side).
Do you have any examples of this type of approach being used in any projects? I'd be curious to check out how it works code-wise.
Bitcoin does literally none of these better than existing systems (including remittances - ask rebit.ph about their problems getting bitcoins turned back into pesos at the .ph end).

Literally the only use case for Bitcoin is so that libertarians can buy illicit goods without having to go to the bad part of town and talk to minorities.
> If some one has a good practical argument for specialized HTML tag names, I'd love to hear it

It can matter in ways for SEO. Having an <h1> helps the robots figure out what your page is called; using <link>s can help explain the organization of your pages; having a <nav> can help influence what your sitelinks[1] will be (if you're enough of a baller to be getting them).

[1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en
Good article but I think it misses the mark at at the end:

>The Wrong Focus (and How to Think About Money)

But it's not about money at all. It's about politics.

The original article that this article is about is mainly concerned with the political structure that the present wealth structure facilitates. That's why it is titled "Who Rules America". It has nothing to do with whether or not a $2M net worth person is happy with their lives.

If I had to guess the original author himself is at least ten times as wealthy, being a hedge fund manager, but he himself feels politically powerless (or of a much lower status) compared to his acquaintances and clients.
To me that says:

- We REALLY don't like information gathering on the sly

- We don't like blanket information gathering of everything I do

- But we might be OK with information gathering that is directly related to my interaction with your business, and used in a positive way

Which is relieving to me, as it seems like a very healthy attitude overall.
> Turned the clock forward in terms of culture

First, this presumes a linear progression and objective ranking of "quality" or "utility" of cultures, which any serious sociologist or anthropologist would reject.

Really, what you're saying is "colonialism turned Indian culture into something which more closely resembles present-day British (or perhaps Western European) culture". Phrased that way, it's easier to see that this argument is not particularly interesting. It's pretty obvious that colonialism will have that impact; that's basically the definition of hegemony.

Secondly, this ignores the immense impact that Indian culture (and other colonial cultures) have had on Britain (or their respective colonial powers). One of the well-known effects of colonialism (both in India and elsewhere) is the erasure of this influence. That is, cultural elements of the colonial subjects are appropriated by the colonial power as a "new" invention of that culture, rather than viewed (by the contemporary discourse) as an adoption of some aspect of the colonial culture. The reverse is not true; aspects of the colonial power's culture that are adopted by the colonial subjects are not viewed by either culture as being native to the colonial subjects[0].

Finally, this also overlooks the many ways that colonial rule appears to be a 'regression' even from the fallacious lens of a linear progression of culture. For example, the current criminialization of homosexuality in India is a due to a law imposed by the British during colonial rule. Before colonial rule, the concept of a nation-state didn't exist and enforcement of law was very different in practice, so we can't compare directly by looking for national legal codes. But it's very clear that homosexuality was not only not universally criminal in India, but was in fact an established and accepted cultural phenomenon in certain pockets of society. After the decriminalization of those practices, they disappeared entirely (in their then-current form; homosexuality itself obviously did not end).

[0] If anyone is interested in reading more about this, this principle is most famously explicated by Foucault. (No, the irony of referencing Foucault on cultural appropriation is not lost on me.)
MPEG, H.264, etc. are not standards?

Sure. Are they still going to be the relevant useful standards 40-50 years from now? Will software/hardware for working with them still be readily available? Will the storage media be in as good condition as film would be?

Most "classic" movies are at least that old, and many are decades older than that. Archiving and preserving them requires something other than the flavor-of-the-decade codec.
Heh so, NSA didn't break the law then, people are just too buried in their iphones to care until asked?

[Fun fact, POTUS could tell NSA to stop doing something (or anything) whenever they. 8 years, not a word. Information is power, if you are informed.]
>car is much more convenient for families with children.

How so? Kids can not travel in cars alone because they have no license. Kids can travel in trains alone.
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