skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about cities/towns in the middle of nowhere? Meaning cities, and towns that business left years ago?

I've found small towns overly red tag heppy, and these small towns realized they could make a lot of income by enforcing building codes--to the Teee.

In my small town, we have building inspectors who are literally looking for errors in the permitting process. Why--the extra fees it brings in. Oh, they will always claim it was Safety, and just following procedure, but these fees are outragious. The average person has no idea how the permitting process works, or just how difficult/expensive it has become to do any building.

Let's talk about small town zoning. In my little town, it's tight. Fine--we have a way fight the rigid system. You fine a Variance! You pay $1000 fee. That's if you can fill out the paperwork. In my small town, since the invention of the internet, I don't believe they have ever passed a variance. They look at it, and deny it, but keep the fee. A fee for what? Five minutes of their time?

People don't realize how little towns keep bringing in money. A lot of it is fees/fines--and is going up yearly? No inflation, but constantly going up?

Don't get me started on our little town Revenue Squad--also know as public safety, or the people in blue. They are literally just collecting revenue now. Crime has never been a big problem here, and they will always claim they are the reason. The real reason is it's too expensive to live here, but you can't argue. Just pay the ticket! It's not about the ticket, it's the financial punishment you take.

(I got off topic on that last paragraph--sorry, this is an important topic. I just see it getting worse. Every new law/regulation adds to the problem. I've lost hope actually.)
Could this model work in tropical countries (warm waters) ?
Honestly... this doesn't sound that expensive.

I think those who don't work at a tiny four-person startup but don't generally touch the money should spend a bit of time at this site: https://tobytripp.github.io/meeting-ticker/ But rather than using it as a meeting ticker, use it to show how quick a team of 5 or 10 reasonably-well-paid people burn through the money over the course of even a day or three. Business is generally a lot more expensive than I think people often realize. I've sat through "all hands" meetings that clock in distressingly close to $350K by that calculator's reckoning (though rather a lot of engineering is really only half-listening and still working...). If you think about the expense all the time you can end up paralyzed but if you never acknowledge it you can end up with very skewed priorities.

To make this line of thought appealing to those who are probably the ones reading this, when your manager asks you for that stupid-ass feature that's going to take two or three days to implement, you've actually got a really big stick if you work the math and give them the numeric figure on what that's actually going to cost. Managers themselves often don't really think about this properly either. You can help them. If you happen to do it, shall we say, a bit "selectively", well that's their own darned fault for not thinking that way themselves more often....
This has all the enforceability of prohibiting your workers from thinking about what they're working on, or practicing in their spare time.

Tests you write for your own benefit are not a deliverable. They're part of your work process.

As I said before, it's not ridiculous at all to require that deliverable tests be written by some other party than the developer whose code needs to pass them.
Who did what and how – power players in the panama papers
So that doesn't really answer any of the scenarios I posed. You do manage to imply that I'm a jerk for wanting a nicer house/vacation/recreational vehicle than I'm allocated by the state, so that tells me something...

Sounds to me like if I wanted to buy a jet-ski in your world, I'd have to find a bunch of people to 'delegate' their 'surplus' to me. Perhaps I could perform some function for them in return? Say, that sounds a lot like labor... So I could work for money. Got it.
Shame shaming
I don't think there need be any cognitive dissonance between the ideas that A) anyone running a business is going to skirt/avoid any regulation they can get away with and B) existing regulation is not designed to be reasonable for the realities of the app-economy.

In other words, new startups pushing the envelope should be expected, and there's nothing wrong with that. We just have to decide as a society how far they should be able to code and adapt the regulation accordingly.
Clearly that's what OP was trying to say, and they said it very wrongly.
This is a tragic tale. I think I would have enjoyed a Cardiac to learn machine code. I first learned code from copying listings on Teletext, they called it Telesoftware [1] into a book. I had no access to any computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesoftware
Sueddeutsche is one of the major papers in Germany. It is worth being aware of major papers in large countries if you pay attention to foreign affairs.
My guess is more than one IT person is not going to show up to work tomorrow.
Also, the margins on restaurants are miniscule. The margins on rental real estate are huge. It's easy to compete with hotels but hard to compete with restaurants.

And as the owner of a AirBNB-style "restaurant", you actually have to buy groceries and do a good deal of work. Without volume there's no good way for you to pipeline the food preparation process as most restaurants do. Every time you have "customers", you can't work that day. You probably make nowhere near a day's worth of salary preparing meals for a couple of people, so it can't be your main source of income.

As an AirBNB owner you can have a full-time job elsewhere AND some side income by renting out that extra bedroom, making it attractive to a lot of people.
Which usually isn't cryptographically secure. So now you need to audit the random number generator and make sure that it has no known holes, including obscure edge cases. And then you need to confirm that any implementation is correct and audited.

That quickly takes you down a rabbit hole, which may be why the contract was so expensive.
Finger crossed for some dirt on Hillary.
Looks like Twitter fixed an old trick people used to pull to make misleading usernames. Scammers used to take advantage of the fact that lowercase L and uppercase I are indistinguishable in sans serif fonts, so you'd end up with people registering names like TWlTTER or StephenCoIbert to gin up followers for spamming and the like.

(And to reiterate another poster, that's not Banksy in any case.)
I wonder what is stopping accessibility from being as popular as backwards compatibility... none of the resources I used when I started learning web development ever mentioned it (aside from alt text in the image tag). You really have to seek out information about it purposely.
Ask HN: Containers and network access?
Tuning for any high load, the first thing you need to do is turn off conntrack. But then you lose DNAT. Yet every container network guide depends on iptables and DNAT?!

What's the docker approved way to flatten the network and get routing directly to the container services? Or are people actually running with conntrack and DNAT in production? It seems like it can have a significant impact, which is why I'm seeking alternatives...

On another note... It seems like the ECMP fix is going to be coming to the kernel soon, there's a lot of hardware which will be ECMP capable, so that should hit the masses. I wish it were here sooner!
Texas has a lot of very low value real estate. US real estate is cheap if you're willing to live in Outer Nowhere.
Software developers these days can move to many other major cities and find a job instantly. They are in very high demand. They don't have to live in the Silicon Valley area and pay 3x the price for rent.

If I was a property investor, I wouldn't want to build properties there either. The risk would be extremely high that property values are going to come crashing back down to reality at some point. There is a serious property value bubble out there.
We use a mix approach.
In most case, we do OTS as stage 1 and then developer can merge their individual branch to develop branch.
And then later reviewer will do a in depth review independently.

For complex/critical logic kind of code, on the other hand, the reviewer will try to think over a general solution before look at the code. And then trying to poke around the code to find flaws.
I hate taxes, plain and simple. This is in part for the same reasons I hated cable TV (and cancelled it): I don't like paying a lot of money for things I don't want, need, or support. But then there's the issue of fairness. We live in Southern California and pay every form of tax there is. And does the IRS do a cost of living adjustment? Of course not. So my $73k here gets taxed at a higher level... Even though we pay a lot more for everything here. So I think I'd be less pissy about it if they'd adjust the tax owed by the local cost of living. But yeah, it does chafe that we spend trillions of dollars on the albatross we call our modern government.
Maybe this is off topic, but while reading this article it occurred to me that wouldn't it be useful if the ownership transfer is syntax highlighted?

e.g. in

let new_owner = original_owner;
println!("{}", original_owner);

we could have original_owner on the second line have a different color signifying it doesn't own anything.

Or, does such a syntax highlighter already exist?
You're choosing your neighbour's level of risk too, though. Even a house built to regs has a hard time staying not on fire when the one right beside it is going up like a pile of tinder.
It's interesting to see how leak disclosure has changed over the years. Leakers/reporters are increasingly sophisticated at maximizing the impact of their information through titrated disclosure.

Someone, somewhere, is building the theory of the optimal leak.
That does seem extremely odd, considering the alleged size of the leak. Waiting to see what the explanation is there.

The "Oh this is the biggest leak ever because it's lots of TB" is also stupid. For all we know it's huge because it contains a bunch of scanned faxes.
Maybe you should take that as a sign about the viability of Express for serious projects?
Definitely agree—boot camps are pools of self-selecting risk-takers.
It pleases me greatly that the firm is located in Panama, and therefore has a strange sounding name to native English ears and a menacing looking logo that looks like something that walked right on out of a Bond movie.

I guess the real world isn't so boring afterall.
You are not paying for Earthquake proofing your house and space is more limited because of mountains and hills. Plus, houses in the middle of BFE California are cheap too.
A former colleague of mine wrote a great article on this topic which summarized how the infrastructure group at Twitter thought/thinks about code review: http://glen.nu/ramblings/oncodereview.php
That's a straw man. No one has said you should be offended. They're just saying that there are really good reasons that "mom" in the title is problematic.
In "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters", Bob Lutz describes the day he killed voice input for GM cars in the 1990s. He tried the demo, and decided that working through the voice menus was just too clunky. So he killed the project.
> decidedly public

If that were true then the concept of registered agents wouldn't be tolerated, but in reality they're commonly used - even by the lowly working class setting up their LLCs. In any case, an appeal to the tyranny of the majority isn't a strong argument - I certainly wasn't a part of that decision... unless we're talking about the social contract I implicitly agreed to upon emerging from the birth canal.
Big data in the cloud – welcome to cost oriented design (slides and video)
If you are arguing from the perspective of low income people, most of whom rent, they aren't looking in detail at how the building was built, just the price.

In other words, in this future poor neighbourhoods would collapse like 3rd world countries while rich neighbourhoods would get hairline cracks in the drywall.
Yes, there's a lot of wide open spaces in Texas, but there's tons of sub $200K houses in decent subdivisions sub $200k, and within 15 minutes of downtowns $200k-300k. I live in an older area midway between downtown Houston and the upscale Woodlands area in North Houston; my house is value at $105k. (3 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner lot, 1600 sq ft, big fenced yard)
Updating regedit probably moved just a tiny bit higher on some engineer's priority list :)
Sure, since, in government contracts, "legally binding quote" doesn't mean you actually start losing money or have a judgment issued against you that you're personally liable for if there are time or budget overruns.
Insulting anonymous people based on their behavior (and using curse words) isn't harming anyone, especially because they're anonymous.

Perpetuating stereotypes does harm people, because it degrades people based on the way that they were born (or, in this case, also based on the fact that they decided to have a child).

No one is on the verge of electing Trump, by the way. More than 70% of women dislike him. More than 60% of the country actively dislikes him[1].

1. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorabl...
Of course they're Panasonic. Tesla's battery factory is really a Panasonic cell plant, with Panasonic employees, plus a packaging plant which assembles the cells into Tesla's packs.
I have broadly libertarian leanings too. But this isn't just about _you_. This is about your guests, your children, the person that buys your house next, the person that lives next door (in the event of a fire). I agree that the housing situation sucks right now, but the solution is to embrace smaller residences and lots of tallish buildings. I'm currently vacationing in Vietnam. It's a terrible annoyance dealing with exposed wires and crappy houses. Someone didn't have money for a drain, so they threw their (still very hot) excess soup from their pot out the window and it got all over me.
Property investors aren't the ones building properties. It's the property developers. I read this in an article explaining Miami's development boom, in spite of the possibility that rising sea levels could inundate much of the new construction in the next century. The property developer's only concern is selling the property. Once it's out of their hands, they are no longer exposed to risk on that property. As long as they can continue convincing property investors that the boom will continue, developers will continue building right up till the moment that property values come crashing down.
Pull up Zillow for Houston or Dallas, pick a home a random - sub $200k is pretty easy to find.
Note that these links are talking about total greenhouse gas production, not just CO2 as was originally stated in pitchka's comment and questioned in mine. Pitchka's "18%/51%" estimates are not actually talking about literal CO2 output, but rather about general "GHG" (greenhouse gas) emissions, including gases like methane.
This is iOS we're talking about. The CSPRNG provided as part of Swift or Obj-C's standard library has likely already been audited for use on other govt. projects.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9234686/generating-random...
The Western practice of using a house as an investment vehicle and a bank account is partly to blame. Once a person buys a home they instantly become a NIMBY as they are now leveraged into a scarce asset and have a vested interest in keeping it scarce.
Data Driven Rethinkdb Clojure Library
This sentance caught my attention:

"What is most important, we guarantee to purchase 80 percent of their crops for the first five years at triple the market rate."

I assume 5 years at today's market rates. That would give them 5 years to stimulate a demand for the products? If that demand doesn't materialise, then we just end up with another crushing defeat for the worlds fishermen.

I'm extremely sympathetic to many of the ideas (though, maybe not the forward contracts), but I fear that if they are not profitable with a smaller, shorter, purchase support scheme, this is doomed.
We do ton of govt work for state agencies, transportation agencies, local govt, etc. That price is messed up.
I'd be happy to have GM's might pushing an electric car. In the end, the more eyeballs pointed towards electric vehicles the better.

I don't think Tesla will be suffering with more people looking at and buying electric cars.

And if we can push renewable energy to produce power for all those cars, then we all win so I'm rooting for everybody.
Buybacks at $46B a Month Dwarf Everything in U.S. Market (2015)
I did find it peculiar that the focus of the leak was Russian wealthy associated with Putin. Curious to see if further leaks expose western wealthy.
>excess supply collapses housing prices

If this motivation was held by anyone other than random individuals and families, it would be regarded with scorn.
I lease a home in North Houston owned by an attorney in LA - all of his real estate investments are here and Brownsville, Tx. (And I pay $1150 for 1600 sq ft with a giant yard, stand-alone home, not an apartment)
Ben Thompson's “laddering-up” and building bigger moats
There aren't very many fully electric cars. I think the Renault Zoe looks ok[1] though.

[1] https://www.renault.co.uk/vehicles/new-vehicles/zoe.html
Easier yet, just remotely activate the microphone on one of your smartphones or other devices. Most people have already accepted internet connected listening devices into their homes.
I second these comments. It feels like they want to put A-grade designers for electric cars. Same can be said for BMW i3 and (NotSo)SmartFor2. They are joke to say the least.
Bees can be caffeine addicted
Agreed, but if we move the conversation back to electric cars - they might not have the same weight distribution, right? The Tesla uses direct drive on the wheels (the Leaf seems to use a more traditional "one motor in the front" configuration though), and then you have the huge battery spread out over the floor
The Tesla won't get a tax credit because Tesla's won't have one by the time the Model 3 ships. That's why Tesla never quotes a tax-credited price. It is fair to compare the after-credit price of the Bolt to the no-credit price of the Model 3.
but the organic molecules that make up the organic compounds that make up that cytoplasm sure are

i would suppose one could extrapolate then that the cytoplasm must be too

just significantly more multidimensional

i'd also add it is my intended inference that you can also go the other direction, and say the elements and atoms and on that make up those organic molecules are as well
There are lots of other things. The most important thing is that they should have learnt a tonne of things!
Party true. But don't be surprised when Tesla revamp their user inputs with Siri-like interface. It's easier to go from touchscreen to voice then nobs-&-bolts to voice. The later is few layers closer to the traditional interfaces.
I don't have children. I can't afford them.

I think the solution is to move away from cities. I'm planning to do so. I'm just going to be sad if it means leaving my country because you don't want me anywhere near you, even if it means I'm on the horizon from your window.
Homemade meals is a much more crowded market and much less profitable. Look at Asia.
(Assuming you are a US citizen from your previous comments)

Why are you hoping one of your presidential candidates is corrupt? Shouldn't you be crossing your fingers not to find dirt?
“Nobody is going to be making a pathogen with E.coli and Crispr,” she later told me. “And even if they wanted to, it would be easier to just go to Chipotle and get the pathogen itself. Science is not having a Ph.D. That’s just snobbery.”
And yet nothing I said was untrue nor out of the realm of possibility.
Idle mem 500Mb for a gnome based desktop. That's impressive. Trying out tonight!
I think this is simplifying it a little too much and not considering the cons of the inflation that comes with this system. It's an interesting thought though.
But can't this Mossack Fonseca firm now go ahead and send a legal request to these journalists to delete these confidential documents and journalists will have to comply with it? It's just so hard to believe for me that company confidential information is not protected by any law and these leaks can happen with no punishment for those who possess this confidential information. It's a great success that this leak had some information to bring public's attention to individuals who evade taxes, but what if there was no compromising data in it - does it mean you can get away with just reading people's confidential data?
Writing a Text Adventure in Go – Part 3
You can now install a GSM network using apt-get
Sorry, which literature in particular? That page has a variety of posted papers, most of which cover things unrelated to practical autonomous road vehicles.

You also don't seem to have addressed my point that there are cars on the road right now with no driver behind the wheel. We are long past the point of mostly working and very close to the point of autonomous door-to-door in favorable cities.
Heh. In my first big OOP project the business objects had something like seven layers of inheritance, with each layer a more fine grained abstraction of the final object. It was utterly, completely, and in all other ways unmaintainable.

To figure out what was actually going on you had to go through seven different classes and glean which methods were overridden, and which were new. When you needed to change something three layers up you realized what you were changing was a base class used by half the code, all of it unrelated, so even tiny changes required meticulous regression testing.

I'm not as dogmatic as the author, but over the years I decided if you have a clean-sheet design with inheritance you've done something wrong.
EMART HYPERMARKET (KOREA) OFFICIALLY JOINS VIETNAM MARKET
Based on these links which we traded, while you appear to be incorrect in your claims about literal CO2 emissions (which was what I originally commented on), perhaps what is more important is that you are correctly alluding to the effect of greenhouse gases besides CO2, such as methane.
There has never been any indication they are using anything other than standard cells. These cells are produced for loads of industrial and consumer uses. The chemistry is well known.

http://news.panasonic.com/global/topics/2011/6971.html

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1084682_what-goes-into-a...
EDIT: I am assuming you meant "Why verilog as opposed to go/ruby/c/etc?" rather than "Why verilog as opposed to system verilog / VHDL / etc." If not, hopefully someone else finds the explanation useful anyway.

Because at the physical layer everything "executes" simultaneously, all the time, in parallel, and verilog/vhdl/etc embrace that type/level of abstraction while sequential languages don't. Sequential execution of "instructions" is one level higher than the "everything is parallel" layer -- you put it in place if it makes sense to impose strict reliability requirements and sacrifice raw parallel computational power for the simplicity and versatility of your favorite Turing machine. Unfortunately, biology isn't nearly as reliable or as fast as silicon, even "early" silicon, so the tradeoff won't make sense for some time to come if ever.
Open Source mobile communications, security research and contributions
Python lib to download YouTube videos
Eh? There are a lot of legit medical uses in automation of senior care, etc. There are products out there based on beacons.
Something to compare this crap to:

https://github.com/golang/blog
The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV seems like it's finally filling the niche of a bigger plug-in hybrid car. I know a friend with one and he's happy with it.