skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could see how a publicly-traded REIT would argue that the property it owns changes owners every second, and in that case it makes little sense to include rental properties under Prop 13 umbrella.

Couple of arguments against such exemption that I can see are

* major real estate property owners can make a case (in court of necessary) that their property prices have not increased as much as single-family residential prices, due to the nature of the commercial market (fewer buyers, larger amounts, larger variety of the market to find decent comparables)

* as property tax is deductible, the revenue would just restructure - what will be collected via property tax would then be deducted at the end of the year from income tax. I guess even in that case owners would be supportive, as property taxes typically go directly to the municipalities, while income taxes are spent by some politicians in Sacramento, but then why would Sacramento be in favor of the exemption that would lower its collected revenue?
That's a strange attitude. Immigration is not some weird form of corporate welfare, where corporations have some right to get employee-immigrants at prices they can afford.

Honestly, I'd like it if the Kentucky logistics company were forced to pay SF wages. It might help drive up wages for skilled workers in Kentucky.
True true, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt though.
Is a digital numeric approximation of a real number called "floating comma" in those countries? Or "floating full stop" in the UK?
Indeed, I think brackets would be more explicit than parenthesis.
According to the FAQ, medical benefits and some retirement contributions.

Here's a retired SJ police chief. $230K/year pension.

http://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/2014/san-jose-poli...
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Taking the circumstance that a half of STEM university graduates fail to find a job as evidence that there is no "STEM shortage" seems to be based on a misunderstanding about what it means to be qualified for a STEM job, or perhaps the quality of a university education. In CS, at least, which seems to be their go-to example field, my experience is that it is pretty much impossible to fail to graduate due to incompetence - I have seen the system bend over backwards to ensure that people who barely got 40% in a course with plenty of freebies in its marking scheme get passing grades, and the reason given was actually "they want to graduate this year". Considering also the number of people who flock into the relevant programs hoping for a slice of the startup cake every year, it does not seem at all surprising that half of the US graduates are simply objectively unqualified for any job in the field they graduate in.
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>It's easier for you. For me the reverse is true.

What I mean is it's easier for you not to say "sucks" than it is for them not to feel upset. Speech is active, but emotions are passive.

>I don't need to actively suppress negative feelings when people give me factual feedback.

I have no problem with merely "factual" feedback. What you're talking about goes beyond the facts to put a negative and personal spin on it. Moreover, it suppresses the actual facts ("this SQL is bad because...") in favour of that negativity.

>If I'm interpreting your posts right, it sounds like you feel your personality profile should be privileged over others and that all organizations should adapt to suit you

I think the personality trait of "upset by strongly worded negative language" is incredibly common, so being able to communicate with people who share it is part of basic social literacy. To me, your saying it's too much effort sounds like those people who say using correct spelling and grammar is too much effort. If you can't do it without thinking, you should learn, because it's a widely applicable skill.
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Reads/sec on a Kinesis shard is capped at 5 and can't be adjusted.
I think the idea is to use 4 scoops if you want 200mg, rather than making 200mg the minimum measurable amount.
yeah, but to fix a road, you've gotta pay market rates for labor.

median income in Jacksonville FL: $47,424

median income in Dallas, TX: $56,498

Median income in San Jose, CA: $77,000

So... you're gonna pay more to get anything done in San Jose... not just for the guy with the shovel, but for the whole bureaucracy.

>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.

The thing to understand about pensions is that they are essentially annuities. Promising someone a pension in the '80s, when you could simply back such things up with T-bills or inflation protected T-bills, was a pretty reasonable thing to do. Interest rates were high. The real return on investment was high. You would get a reasonable return from buying an annuity, it was not a crazy thing to do at all.

The problem is that the risk-corrected rate of return of money is dramatically lower now, as one would expect in a situation with negative interest rates, so pension promises made to people like my parents, who worked for the state and negotiated those pensions in the '80s, look ridiculous now. I actually looked into getting the same jobs they had... I could do the job, but the pensions they'd offer me if I signed up now are shit compared to what my dad got.

I guess my point is that at least for the jobs I have researched (state-funded computer-nerd gigs) their new promises line up with the current economic reality.

Certainly, if the city is still offering defined-benefit pensions, that ought to be stopped, because annuities are simply something that aren't supportable in the current economic situation... but considering the situation at the state, I kinda doubt that the city is offering defined-benefit pensions.
If one can't build a server app from source then one shouldn't be connecting it to the internet all by oneself. There are any number of companies who are happy to host WordPress for reasonable fees. Keeping software updated is hard work, and those who do it for free will keep their own schedules. I'm sure it's frustrating to maintain a package that's "in the middle": too popular to just say "install with pip", not enough volunteers to maintain the Debian package in-house. Perhaps that means that Debian is too accepting of packages. I don't think it's an indictment of the idea of a package manager. I also doubt that lots more free labor will appear now that there is yet another new zipfile format to keep maintained.
There was a bug in the contract. The developer's post-mortem [1] is interesting if you want to see what Ethereum dev is like.

1 http://www.kingoftheether.com/postmortem.html
Walking in to a Southeastern CT convenience store off I-95, there was a hairy young man playing the guitar. You never see buskers at a place like this.

I dug it, and told the guy he made my day. We got to talking, he told me he had grown up in CT, and just got back from his trip discovering America.

The owner of the store was trying to chase him out. "I'm a regular customer here, this man is bringing culture to this rest stop, let him stay" I said.

He had gone west on I-80, stopped in Colorado for a couple years, then headed down to New Orleans, living in his hatchback and playing the guitar.

"I've been all over the country" He said. "But this is the place to be!"

I knew how he felt, because I had made a very similar trip in my car upon college graduation, and felt the same way. I had gone to Austin, TX after Colorado.

I however had to pay high rents, and obsessively scale online dating campaigns taking big risk to keep the money monster constantly fed.

This guy claimed to love living in the car. He said he slept very comfortably in the front seat. He seemed really happy.

I thought I was pretty free, working for myself. But this guy was free in a way I will probably never know.

You just have to be comfortable sleeping in the reclined front seat of a 1995 hatchback and be pretty good at the guitar I guess, or have a trust fund.
So a good fraction of Stanford CS grads should never be allowed to work in a normal company again?

They're in their early 20's and got swept up by the recruiting machine. It's like brandishing all Goldman Sachs analysts who joined the firm pre-2008 as having evil intent rather than just having been ill informed.
There's a similar one by Tadeu Zagallo of Facebook. Pretty nifty!
http://tadeuzagallo.com/GithubPulse/
Please explain, I don't understand what you are talking about. What does SEC and Wall Street have to do with me not wanting my phone hacked?
Break it out by state?
Memory spend on executables isn't a bottleneck even on mobile. You are getting into embedded territory for this to become an issue.
> 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.

I am not sure what you're describing is correct - each time I bought a property in California the assessed tax value next year was precisely the sale price.

Here's what California has to say on it:

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-1...

The process that county assessors use to determine the value of real property was established by Proposition 13. Under this system, when real property is purchased, the county assessor assigns it an assessed value that is equal to its purchase price, or “acquisition value.”
Reminds me of the PhD degrees being handed out based on pity despite gross incompetence of the candidates.
I read the comment as sarcasm.
Um, no. You could try using google.

"The most significant portion of the act is the first paragraph, which limited the tax rate for real estate:

Section 1. (a) The maximum amount of any ad valorem tax on real property shall not exceed one percent (1%) of the full cash value of such property. The one percent (1%) tax to be collected by the counties and apportioned according to law to the districts within the counties."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(197...

Just a suggestion. No pressure.
Show HN: HackerMoods – Trend analysis of HN sentiment
Wow, these jokes are as dry as day old toast. Would people have really laughed at these back then? I read 5 or 6 of them and many of them don't even make sense, let alone are funny.

Still, I'm glad to have them preserved, it's a window into the past :)
As a Medium user, I understand that they have to make money. Medium can set a great example here and share revenue with the creators that have made them into an influential tech company.

Please do the right thing Medium, share the wealth with the influencers that have helped create your your brand. You would be out of business without the hundreds of authors that believed in your platform.
>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.

Just about everyone I know in the computer industry did better than that in terms of raises and bonuses last year. I think the labor market here might just be hot.
You are wrong. The assessed value is the sale price of the house.
One question I have always wondered about Californian residential property is why more people don't move their property into a holding company like is done for commercial real estate. This way when you go to sell you should get a premium as the buyer won't have the valuation reset?
"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)."

(Disclaimer: I am a volunteer firefighter in California)

They do that because they can't be caught without the engine if they get an actual fire call. They would leave directly from the accident/medical/CatInTree in the engine and go directly to the fire.

That's why you see them drive to the grocery store in the fire truck. You can't wait for them to go back to the firehouse to get the engine ...
The lack of a space after the commas is throwing a lot of people off here. It's a range, not a decimal point.
> The skills shortage issue, in my experience is the inability to find someone with the specific skills and talents for a given job. It is real, as anyone who's tried to hire in certain areas can testify.

You know, you could always just hire someone with potential and put him through a training program to teach him the "specific skills" needed, or just let him learn them on-the-job.

But of course, employers are no longer willing to invest in their employees* , so we have a "skills shortage."

* They used to. It's my understanding that the first few generations of business applications programmers were taught programming from scratch by their employers.
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The biggest pain I've experienced is updating react-router. I've run into cryptic failures each time, and googling usually turns up answers for the previous (or even next/beta) version.
Why not use something more advanced like LDPC instead of basic XOR (unless I'm missing a trick)?
>But if such a cost can save you hardware and server hosting, it's worth it.

The vast majority of this discussion is miles above my head, but this made my Spidey Sense tingle. Someone somewhere has to host the data, and seemingly in more than one place. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
>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.

This is, in a nutshell, the basic populist argument in favor of inflation.
Librarians have been fighting for the right to privacy long before it was fashionable:

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

> In January 1971, Horn was contacted by the FBI, seeking evidence involving Philip Berrigan. During the trial, they were subpoenaed to testify for the prosecution, but Horn refused to testify at the trial on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom.
Um, yes. You could try understanding the issues involved, instead of googling a link that you don't understand, and then considering yourself now an expert.

What you are describing is the maximum yearly increase in property taxes when a property doesn't change hands.

When a property is sold, it is re-assessed to the sale price.

Source: Homeowner who actually pays property taxes.
> for $10 more, you can get a model with 4 gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage.

Is that still the Kangaroo? I can only find one model listed on their site and I want one...
Couldn't even make it to the end of the first page of the story could you?

He is very clear in his role and influence on the initial versions of windows, since you don't like reading I'll sum it up for you,

"There wasn’t much time to make changes."
I've had smart people complain that they couldn't figure out how to write simple programs in Haskell after days of honest effort. One problem, I believe, is that functional languages encourage more of a bottom-up approach to design, whereas many C/C++ coders naturally decompose problems in a top-down manner. So math types, who are used to building up grand structures from smaller propositions, find pure FP pretty congenial because they can write smaller independent functions and attack the parts of the problem that they know how to solve.
As it's talking about a time from 1985 to ~1995 does that matter?
UC Berkeley: 80000 staff, students compromised by hack
If you buy apple ios hardware you are forced to use apple software. You cannot install lets say Debian. Not because it could not be reversed engineered enough to be built for it, but because apple has the walled garden's keys.

Compare that to macbooks and x86 pc-s in which you could load anything you like. So apple are forcing you to use their software to be able to utilize their iDevices at all.
Also, it's worth noting that effective tax rates in California are some of the highest in the first world.

Your effective tax rate (on income) in San Jose (if you are someone who is a net tax-payer) is 50%, give or take[1].

That's more than even the nordic darling utopia countries.

[1] 39%, plus either 11.x or 12.x or 13.x, depending on your tax bracket.
Here is a docker stack that using volume: https://git.io/docker-parse-server
> You often can't afford to live In another place in the area even after reaping those profits

And so can't others. Thus you have an incentive to work on #2, from the GP.
Facebook wants to crack down against hate speech on migrants
Hopefully all the growth won't come from a few players like the combustion engine automotive industry.
Just putting a battery on a car won't help the environment, we need to rethink mobility as a circular economy.
We need to use existing facilities, we need to fight planned obsolescence with standard components and modular design to foster a distributed manufacturing ecosystem.
More players, more competition, more innovation, lower prices, less pollution.
http://www.investmentbank.barclays.com/our-insights/disrupti...
No, it's called a "floating period", like in the US.
This is a completely different approach compared to other GitHub indicators and I have to say that I like the idea!

Does anyone know of a similar Linux-compatible tool?
Not sure, sorry. I haven't written any high-performance stuff in it since 2014.
Here's an alternate POV. jQuery is fading from the spotlight not just because there are better ways of handling the DOM, but because the mindshare and code ecosystem that grew up around it got completely blindsided by modern module-loading/packaging systems. The same is true of Angular I think but to a much lesser degree.
You misunderstand what I wrote.

Right now, Prop 13 beneficees have an assessed value of, say $300,000, on a $1,000,000 house. They can sell the house for $1,000,000.

If Prop 13 were actually about keeping people in their homes, then after taking advantage of below-market taxes for so long, they wouldn't be allowed to sell for more than a small percentage more than the tax assessed value.

But Prop 13 is not about keeping people in their homes, it's a selfish grab to not pay taxes, drive up home values, and profit on both ends.
One of the many reasons I have donated to archive.org in the past. Access to magazines that I would never been possible at the convenience of my home. They had tons of computer magazines that I used to read in my childhood that bring back fond memories.
Ask HN: Monetizing Streaming Movie Search
How would you monetize streaming movie information?

If you had code that created a database of every movie ever made, it's IMDB rating and whether or not it was streamable on the big services, could you make money with it?

There already exists caniwatchit and flixfindr, but I was thinking an API service might be valuable for 3rd party apps to access.

If you had this code, how would you monetize it?
John Resig is one of the kindest, gentlest, most wonderful people I've ever met. I think this is heavily reflected in jQuery itself. Thanks for everything JR and jQ! <3
It's the people who "program" in jQuery as a way to avoid learning JavaScript who mess up its reputation.
At the high end, for skilled workers, there's a lot of people arguing what you argue, even the skilled workers who would face increased competition for jobs. And I admit, I find the argument compelling myself.

The interesting bit is that there are few who make this argument at the low end. The idea of open borders for unskilled folks is way less popular.

The net effect of this, it seems to me, is that while there's lots of support for me facing more competition, there's no support for more competition in the labor I buy.

Now, one could say that is reasonable, just because I make a lot more money than I need to live, which can't be said for less skilled workers, but it's an interesting dynamic.
I think the reason is that the computational power needed to use LDPC is much greater than that required for XOR.
Yea I never understood why there's no separation between these two. The fact that apt-get needs root password only makes sense if apt-get is meant for system packages.

User applications should not require root privileges to install.
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Why would "building from source" be a difficult way to create a package? ISTM that if you have any software at all, it's already building from source? I understand that building from source is considered difficult for users, but here you seem to be talking about maintainers. Or do you mean setting up $#%&ing autotools? In that case I agree.
“And who’s going to pay for the wall?”: A Game Theoretic Approach
What Do Jay Z and Warrenn Buffett Have in Common?
Well I've mostly reached that conclusion already. Although more from a hedonistic perspective.
I loved the idea of this Bar Widget, but I had the same issues are you @FireBeyond.

Luckily you can easily hack the plugin as there's just 1 small file you have to edit (gh.5m.js)

The way you calculate your percentage is also super weird @Shikkic. It's all about daily contributes, but yet you calculate your percentage via the total contributes? I mean common, that will just give a fucking huge numbers. Also total contributes are not a stat I care about. Either way love the idea and the execution is quite cool :) Using it right now (albeit a tiny bit modified version)

here is a screenshot of my modified version (much smaller width, and some stats that I don't care about removed): http://www.imgpaste.net/image/AQBp
I'll just offer another perspective. for me jQuery was a major stumbling block to me learning JavaScript. And without JavaScript, you can't write very much jQuery either.

I'm young enough that there's a generation of jQuery-loving developers above me, and the whole generation younger than me is enamoured with the newer frameworks. But for me it wasn't until I stopped looking at jQuery and focused on proper JavaScript that any of it made sense to me.

The thing I find remarkable the more I learn Js is that the 'level' of the language seems perfect for the problems you're working with. jQuery makes things abstract and high-level enough you'll never figure it out - and any lower level and JS would be a lot harder to learn. The more I get into it the more perfectly suited to the task it seems to be.
It would also be good for there to be a process for cleaning up the translations so they flow better in modern English.
> So, how much time did it take you to get the WiFi stack working on your RasPi? Oh? You've never actually tried to get WiFi working on a Pi? Thought so.

Wow, attitude much?

Just to counter your anecdotal data with some other anecdotal data, I have 2 different random USB wifi dongles I got from ebay for a couple of £ (different chipsets) and they were both plug-and-play.
It's really to do with the incubation of a very strong shared culture and shared experience. For example the Royal Marines has a history going back 350 years, a shared language (google jack speak), and the longest and arguably hardest basic training in the world.

I believe it is possible, albeit in a slightly different form: elite sports teams and groups of people tied together with a strong shared purpose can get there I think.

edit and yes, as marktangotango says - shared hardship and knowing you can count on the next guy because he's been through what you have and hasn't broken either is also key.