skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this process well documented?

This is like leaving the front door off the law, not like putting a back door into it, so I wonder if it is more of an internet rumor than an actual way to avoid change of ownership. Maybe people do it but it is fraud?
Why? What did they change to make it easier to upgrade? (Obviously adding a 15 to the name doesn't change anything)
Voters would have to approve such income tax. Considering they would be the ones affected, the proposition is unlikely to pass.

I doubt it's the income situation though, from the article:

"Visit the main street of Palo Alto, where Stanford and numerous startups are located, and you’ll see dozens of fancy restaurants and stores and may not be able to snag a parking spot among the luxury cars parked there. Castro Street in downtown Mountain View has a slightly more relaxed vibe, with candy stores and book shops and restaurants and bars."

Palo Alto and Mountain View don't collect any income taxes and are subject to the same Prop 13 restrictions as every other city in California.

For San Jose troubles, you'd have to look towards its pension obligations. For a while the pension system for municipal workers allowed the pension to be pro-rated to the last salary mark, not average salary over the years of service.

That does not seem so bad, but the union contracts had a fairly generous allowance for sick days. That does not sound so bad either (who wants to deal with a sick coworker?) but it also allowed unlimited accumulation of those sick days throughout the years of service. At retirement the accumulated sick hours would be paid out pro-rated at last salary mark.

You can see what incentives this provided for city workers (of a fairly large city): never take a sick day, accumulate the maximum amount of them, push for promotions as you're closer to retirement age, retire the week after you get promotion and salary bump.

Many did play the system that way http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_21438816/bay-areas-250k-club-g... and considering it's a major city San Jose has a lot of former employees that it owns six-figure pensions until the rest of their lives.
Regardless of dynamic or static linking there's the fact that "users dont upgrade" so you've lost either way.
>#1 they can sell their homes at huge profits (otherwise the taxes would not be hurting them).

I don't know... The spirit of this reminds me too much of landlords paying off tenants to move out of their rental units so that they can reprice rent controlled units to market.

You often can't afford to live In another place in the area even after reaping those profits, in both the ownership and rental situations. Sometimes, all you want to do is keep living in the place you call home.
Thats so neat
Well, except they don't have to live in Kentucky.
Mercedes-Benz replaces robots with more capable humans
I used to love Engadget but with recent redesigns it had become too hard to navigate and find what you're looking for. A simple blog format was just fine in my opinion.
Not really - in my experience it works quite well.
Why do any of our captured regulatory agencies fail to regulate? Many times it's because senior staff will get their pension within the next five years, and they want to make sure they have a nice private position to transfer into when that happens. If a large firm fails really egregiously in meeting standards, it will get a series of phone calls and private meetings as the prospective junior exec demonstrates how "helpful" she can be. If OTOH some small manufacturer with forty employees (executive positions available: 0) has the safety info signs installed too far from the equipment, the regulatory hammer is sure to hit it hard.
San Jose budget: $3,190,187,604
Pop: 1,016,479
$3138/cap

Dallas TX budget: $2,806,427,228
Pop: 1,281,047
$2190/cap

Jacksonville FL budget: $2,166,068,795
Pop: 861,252
$2515/cap

Closest cities I could find on wikipedia.

San Jose gets plenty of money from its citizens. Like most of CA, it has fallen into a pension liability trap. Wringing more money out of people who have lived there for decades will only drag it on for a few more years until they have to stop making fully-funded pension promises they can not keep long-term.
Do I believe that? You phrased it in kind of a confusing way, can you refine it?

If you're asking why I'm okay with Nguyen Dinh Phong being killed--- it's because I'm pretty okay with the justice that was delivered. More dirtbags should have dirtnaps.
>Most people who buy their homes for long-term buy it to settle in their neighborhoods and have kids go to the same school, not speculate on price increases and profit from them.

IF this is the true purpose of Proposition 13, then it would be written far differently. (Greater than 2%, no commercial real estate included, no passing on to children). People are also allowed to sell their home for more than the assessed tax value, precisely because people speculate on price increases of their homes. If that wasn't one of the primary reasons behind Proposition 13 then people would have been OK with only being able to sell their home at the assessed value.

Really though the point of Proposition 13 was to just pay less taxes, "staying in your home" doesn't really come into play. Defending it along those lines is deceptive, and propagates a false narrative.
Yeah, he says that a single day lost isn't really a big deal, although he knows it's going to happen again.

The point of the article is that (to take his example) in Java world, as you get used to the ecosystem, things get easier and easier. It becomes comfortable.

au contraire in the web/javascript world, things keep changing but they're still just as hard.
ThoughtWorks of course...
https://www.thoughtworks.com/blogs
What does 'benefits' mean here? Also looking at that link, it's $152k base, which doesn't seem unreasonable for a 'deputy chief', and $77k overtime, which also seems reasonable if he's putting in the hours.
He is lucky. All of you without mental problems are quite lucky.

Kenneth, if you are reading this: I feel you man.

I had a similar experience to you. Similar fleeting views... without a crazy chick. I was the crazy one. What I did not say so far is that I too am lucky. My psychiatrist said that I was in the 1% of the 1% (I am not sure of the percentages). Those who recover among those who suffer from schizophrenia. Now, 4 years later, it seems that I made a full recovery. Yet I lost 2 years of my life to it. Two years of my life where I did not take medication. You are older than me, you accomplished so much more. I still have to get my C.S. degree. I am in my last semester. I now somewhat look up to you. Before reading this article, I had no idea of your existence. Now I found an inspiration I can relate to.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm guessing most people don't know much or care much about the Library Of Congress, glad to see this year. The TechDirt post does a really good job of explaining why it's an important position, and why librarians are pretty excited about her.
I am 22, and I have used jQuery. I loved jQuery, and it was a fascinating library that solved a lot of problems. It is still a great library, if one needs to support legacy browsers.I also think that jQuery influenced the DOM API to some extent; good things were adopted, bad ones were improved.

However today, I don't think it's as useful—I am not saying it isn't useful—as it once was. The overhead to support multiple modern browsers is usually very low, and often it's even none.

I also believe most of the problems people point about jQuery is that at some point a lot of confident, but bad developers, started using it and somehow jQurey unjustly gained that bad reputation.
Id also want to know which hotspots I can actually use safely.
Nihil means nothing in latin. The punchline is a pun on Battle of the Nile (see wikipedia). It may seem bizarre, but is less so because Nelson is already associated with latin in victorian popular culture because of his supposed final words. Can someone explain #2 for me?
How a person I never met had the biggest impact on my career
>Considering California has a pretty robust real estate market with properties changing hands often

Says who?

>The biggest beneficiary of Prop 13 would be someone who bought his home in 1970s and never sold it since then. Does that describe a lot of the neighbors?

This describes huge chunks of many many neighborhoods. When I bought a house in 2010, >75% of the homes on the market were the original owner from the 60s or 70s.
Timeless Debugging
Doesn't Starbucks use BTOpenzone?
TUNISIE FREELANCE
How is it ironic? How many people were saved from burning buildings in your city last year?

The truth is, technology and building codes in the US–and especially California–have significantly reduced the loss of life and property due to fires. That's a great thing. Unfortunately, fire department budgets have increased at the same time. Partly due to pensions, partly due to the fact that cutting a fire budget is political suicide.

Have you noticed how 30-foot, $1 million+ fire engines show up to minor traffic accidents and first aid calls? There's a reason (they need to look busy).

Fun fact: 8% of calls to fire departments are false alarms and 64% are for non-fire medical support.
Your experience isn't representative, so there were probably other confounding factors, like the C++ wasn't very well written, or you weren't dealing with petabytes of data or something like that.
I think dash would be more intuitive to represent a range here.

Your comment about Germans intrigued me so I googled it. If you were referring to a comma as a digit separator, there's about 70 countries that use the comma as a decimal point: most of Europe, Africa, and South America, many more than just Germans :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Countries_using...
The issue is that companies won't take on the risk and hassle of sponsoring a visa. Employees will arbitrage this by taking any job they can get until they can get sponsored, then leave.

It's not necessarily about pay, it's about wanting to work for a big name like Google.

I think the best solution, as others have suggested, is that the new employer has to buy out the visa costs. This is the deal I made when my employer paid to relocate me to the Bay Area -- if I left in the first two years, I would have had to repay my moving costs.
I thought most of Europe used commas. They do in Holland.
Calling sleep cumulative is slightly dangerous, you can't recover lost sleep or stock up on it. But Sleep deprivation and its adverse effects could be describe as cumulative, with a slow rebound.
IIRC there is an exception in the law for ISPs and Airfy registered as an ISP.
Would you criticize his pay if it was 1 million, or 100 million. His job is the same.
Not sure where you are based, I am an MIT alum and founder of a company in Machine Vision + Deep learning. I have posted job postings for Deep learning engineer on Angelist, every forum I could think of, including attending AI meetups here in Boston, and...and guess how many responses I got? zero, zippo, zilch....

p.s. BTW we are more open to Masters/Bachelor's (less researchy) than Phds.
Tldr: sbt made it difficult.
> But it sure can help in a lot of ways on a lot of projects.

On modern browsers? Can you give me an example?
Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird
Mozilla Gives a Security Pass to the People It Shouldn't
This is of course complete myth.

First off, California property taxes are high already. Why is it that Vancouver, BC property taxes are 1/3 those of San Jose, with much higher property prices? And their schools are 100 times better, as are most services. It's government waste.

From the deal with police officers in 2015: "The one-year pay agreement, tentatively reached earlier in the week, calls for 8 percent raises, plus a 5-percent, one-time "retention" bonus and return incentive for officers who have left the force for other jobs. The current police contract expires at the end of the year." 13 percent is pretty good for a city that is purportedly suffering from money problems for the last decade.

Also, there are more than enough property sales in the last decade to equalize any "losses" from people who stayed in their houses, who are the far minority these days anyway. In my neighborhood, there is so much turnover and so many young couples moving in, it's crazy. And for those couples who have stayed in their house for a few decades, I'm glad they have prop 13 to protect them. There is no way that a retiree could afford to pay the $25k annual taxes that the rest of us do. They deserve to live in their houses until they deem fit to leave, not because they are priced out of the market.
A herd of sufficiently smart enough self-driving cars should be able to use their network of sensors to allow "manual" drivers to move freely through, should it not?

I would think that one should be able to drive even more freely; as the reaction time of the herd, and the individual cars, could accommodate situations that even highly trained human drivers would fail at.
It's also a job far far overcompensated if you are saying job risk is what should determine pay. By your reckoning, soliders and construction workers should be the ones with the highest compensation. See http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-dangerous-jobs/

Lifetime cost of living increases, raises and medical coverage for you and your family for life, and that on top of any additional public safety job pension you get makes it really sad that police and fire who are supposed to be protecting and improving society are instead bankrupting it and making it worse by preventing funds from being used for much needed infrastructure improvements.
I don't think you'd have to assume that's a dystopian scenario. The Copernican Revolution and associated existential crises -- that we're not in a privileged location at the center of the universe -- changed human culture mostly for the good.
Of course using software at version 0.x is unsustainable. It's why Oracle launched @ v2. Survival of the fittest, etc.
I'm pretty sure more countries in the world use a decimal comma than a decimal point. Certainly more than use Fahrenheit, anyway.
what about home owners that couldn't keep up with rising taxes after purchasing their home?

Estate taxes also has this kind of concern trolling.

What about family farmers?! This will improverish those hard working Americans!

All 40 of them.

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It's SO EASY to create easy to administrate common sense rules, so that families can stay in their homes.

Cap property taxes increases and then reassess value when a property is sold.

Provide property tax relief to seniors, handicapped, disabled, etc.

I'm sure there are other strategies.

But, you're probably right, we shouldn't do anything reasonable so long as we can use a few edges cases to create fear, uncertainty, doubt (to better protect the status quo of the money elite).
Well I figured that. I was more interested in how he moved away from jquery. I've looked into Angular many times over the years. But sadly, I find more people complaining about it than praising it. Looking into React now.
I'd be far more impressed by your analysis if you accounted for all forms of tax revenue (overall burden) balanced against societal expenses.
Well, the code is on https://github.com and my AppImages are on https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages - once https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156 is closed, appimage.org, too, can go https.
One more thing: the President has the power to make a rule saying that all H-1B visa holders receive X days of guaranteed prosecutorial discretion, if they are laid off / terminated.

We could petition the President and ask him to create such a rule, but we'd need a lot of people, and a lot of support. If you are interested in working on this, feel free to get in touch with me at the email address listed on my GitHub profile (which is linked to on my HN profile).
is 50mg the typical dose? my caffeine pills are 200mg a pop, and i think coffee is normally ~150-200mg for a 20oz drink.
This is the thing that no one mentions anymore because they lazily blame Prop 13. The real estate market has been great since at least 1999 in the entire Bay Area, except for some areas that suffered the housing crash. Even during the housing bust, there was turnover from the short sales and foreclosures. It's a myth but people like to perpetuate the myth because they don't want to do the research.
I'm not saying the logistics center should relocate. I'm saying that it's not especially deserving of government help in the form of a skilled-labor visa if it's not going to pay as much as someone else. After all, cost-of-living differences aren't accounted-for in the tax return the employee files.
Steve Jobs Demonstrated Why Businesses Need More Ceremonies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

> Since 2009,[58] Yulin, Guangxi has held an annual festival of eating dog meat. This purportedly celebrates the summer solstice, however, in 2014, the municipal government published a statement that the festival is not a cultural tradition, rather, a commercial event held by restaurants and the public.[59] Various dog meat dishes (and more recently, cats) are eaten, washed down by lychees wine. The festival in 2011 spanned 10 days, during which 15,000 dogs were consumed.[60] Estimates of the number of dogs eaten during the festival range between 10[46][61] and 15 thousand.[62] Festival organisers say that only dogs bred specifically for consumption are used, however, there are claims that some of the dogs purchased for slaughter and consumption are strays or stolen pets, as evidenced by their wearing collars.[45] Some of the dogs eaten at the festival are burnt or boiled alive[63] and there are reports that the dogs are sometimes clubbed[46] or beaten to death in the belief that the increased adrenalin circulating in the dog's body adds to the flavour of the meat.[45]

> Opponents of dog meat consumption in South Korea are critical of the eating of dog meat, as some dogs are beaten, burnt or hanged to make their meat more tender.[104]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat_consumption_in_South_...

> The controversy over dog meat consumption often centers on the slaughtering methods employed, which include electrocution, strangulation by hanging, and physically beating the dog to death. Some dogs are still alive when they are blow-torched or thrown into boiling water to remove their fur.[20]

http://askakorean.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/dog-its-whats-for-d...

> Q: Is it true that the dogs are tortured before they are killed?
> A: Again, because Livestock Processing Act does not cover dog meat, there is no restriction about how to kill a dog for meat. At the meat market, the need to slaughter the dogs quickly usually means dogs are electrocuted, similar to cattle. However, especially in rural areas where people slaughter dogs to cook and eat on their own, the common method is to hang the dog and beat it to death, in an attempt to tenderize the meat. (This, however, may be counterproductive; while beating the meat does tenderize it, an animal that dies in a stressed state generally produces tougher and less tasty meat.) A figurative expression in Korean for a severe beating is “like beating a dog on bok day.”
You really should use a scale to measure it accurately. A scoop will suffice, but if you're dosing powder of any sort you ought to pony up the ten dollars for a scale.
Sysdig vs. DTrace vs. Strace (2014)
Using that logic we should be paying him a billion dollars a year, my family's lives are worth it!
React has actually done a great job of providing clear upgrade paths, assuming you don't try to jump several major versions at a time.

They generally provide deprecation warnings at least 1 major version before actually breaking/removing an existing API. They have also started providing codemod scripts to help migrate a large codebase (though I've found find/replace sufficient for a lot of them)

My bigger problem has been relying on 3rd party components that hold me back due to some incompatibility they don't address for months.
> it's a bloat, actually.

I mean, it's like less than 30kB minified+gzipped, and if you load it from a CDN, then there's a 95% your users already have it cached.

I guess it's technically a "bloat" but unless all your images are gzipped SVGs, it's almost certainly one of the smaller elements in your page.
Are things different with Go 1.5/1.6 now that GC has start to be optimized?
What I've seen based on friends' startups that brought him in people via H1B at seed stage is that I f you already have someone in mind, the time and cost of H1B is much smaller than the time and cost to find a similarly qualified applicant in the states when you are a young company that many of said candidates will find to be an unattractive option to them.
Well, this is what Linus had to say about packaging: "I've seen this firsthand with the other project I've been involved with, which is my divelog application. We make binaries for Windows and OS X. We basically don't make binaries for Linux. Why? Because binaries for Linux desktop applications is a major f*ing pain in the ass. Right. You don't make binaries for Linux. You make binaries for Fedora 19, Fedora 20, maybe there's even like RHEL 5 from ten years ago, you make binaries for debian stable, or actually you don't make binaries for debian stable because debian stable has libraries that are so old that anything that was built in the last century doesn't work. But you might make binaries for debian... whatever the codename is for unstable. And even that is a major pain because (...) debian has those rules that you are supposed to use shared libraries." (August 29, 2014 DebConf Q&A with Linus Torvalds)
> Cap property taxes increases and then reassess value when a property is sold.

Lol you just described Prop 13. Except with Prop 13, your property taxes get reassessed after remodel, etc, as well as sale.
...that sounds like a legal loophole that should be closed.
I don't know about G.709, but in general coding, including FEC, is used on link layer, as there it is possible to finely adjust it to achieve throughput close to channel capacity and nearly zero packet loss ratio. It is the problem of channel estimation and rate control. In ideal world where users don't contend and always transmit at the same rate, it would be enough.

TCP solves another problem: it adjusts source rate. It assumes that link layer works correctly and packets are not lost because incorrect rate (aka MCS) is used. Instead, packet loss is used as the indicator of congestion: users send data faster then it is possible to transmit it through bottleneck. It is hard to predict and packets are not lost with the same probability on the TCP timescale (RTT, around 50ms), so TCP can't react in time and select the code that would correct losses without adding too much overhead. Thus, coding is not used on TCP layer.

That is why Google focuses on latency, not throughput. It is the area where you can benefit from FEC on transmission layer. Another problem QUIC can solve is bad rate control, such as Wi-Fi rate control on old Windows systems, but as wireless internet usage moves to mobile, and Google controls android, it becomes less of a problem as Google can just improve Wi-Fi rate control in Linux if it fails.
To be fair, effectively every majorly popular KV store has different tradeoffs from one another, or different focuses/use-cases. Of course, there are some which are very similar and effectively only differ in implementation, but competition can also be good.
In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling had young people unable to get their hands on "old money" and thus frozen out of many interesting parts of the economy.

I wonder if in reality we will have the reverse, where young people of the future refuse to live under bonds created in the past and old money just isn't worth anything.
Fyi Yarn is also the name of the resource manager of Hadoop v2 => might be a bit confusing. http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yar...