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Housing prices are whatever people are able to pay. If everyone's able to take up a bigger loan thanks to mortgage interest deduction, then house prices will rise to meet the increased demand. End result: We have to effectively pay the same (bigger loan but with tax deduction), but because everyone takes up bigger loans the national economy becomes more brittle.

Yay? It's just the government pushing money into the construction industry, which really is the only beneficient, and it's all disguised as a gift to the middle class. It's just dumb.
Heh, I've yet to work for a company where management stayed stabled for 2 years, 4 would be a pipe dream.
There's definitely an overhead to tax breaks.

There's a difference between simplifying the tax code, which would theoretically reduce overhead, and providing an itemized tax break, which actually increases complexity (and yes, there's enforcement of that tax break too).

Treating a tax break like government spending seems completely rational.
Yeah, they did open source their server design though for the betterment of mankind
On occasion you do that. But usually it's just a couple if statements in a couple places with very little code duplicated.

Also, again, it's expected that after it's tested you delete the old path. It's a short lived transitional situation.

Sometimes it's annoying. Overall it's safer when you're on a massive scale.
To my knowledge you can only do that if it's COBRA or a few other fairly unusual situations.
I agree 100% that we should get rid of this deduction. I owned a 3 bedroom, 1 bath house in Manhattan, KS (an affordable part of the country). I never qualified for this deduction. The house was too cheap and the interest on the mortgage was too low.

I was solidly middle class.

This deduction benefits people spending substantial amounts on mortgage interest, thus it mostly benefits people buying McMansions (or actual mansions). In theory, middle class individuals in large cities are helped to qualify for homes because housing prices are so steep in the big city. In practice, it encourages "house inflation" where The Haves buy and build bigger and bigger houses and The Have Nots are piled up in rentals like cord wood or out in the street. If you can afford a house at all, this deduction actively encourages you to buy as much house as possible. It deepens the divide between The Haves and The Have Nots, thereby shrinking the middle class, not helping it. It helps ensure that you are either rich or poor in this country, not middle class.
>Oculus was their first, real consumer hardware release and effort.

Remember the Facebook phone? Oh wait, right, no one does...
> One problem with simple chargers is they only draw power during a small part of the AC cycle.[5] If too many devices do this, it causes problems for the power company.

What kind of problem?
You could just add this pattern to something like https://github.com/landscapeio/dodgy -- Looks at Python code to search for things which look "dodgy" such as passwords or diffs"
> Do I need to atomically update the logic of all the instances of the application to modify both maps instead of just one? Or do I keep the second map (the hair color index) in a separate index database and update the index whenever I pull changes from a remote database? (What does the API look like for getting notified of new changes that haven't been indexed yet?)

Currently, you have to manually keep an index up to date. But keep in mind that internally this is what all databases are doing -- manually reflecting changes into indexes -- they just hide it from you.

Eventually, we imagine that there will be tools to declare indexes you want to maintain and we'd do it for you. Note that because Noms is good at diffing, calculating the changes that need to be re-indexed comes for free!
Now that I think about it a little more, this seems like a red herring. Just because the budgeting office says two numbers are the same on paper, doesn't mean anything about the efficacy of the policy, for or against.
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>>What a puny number that benefits such an enormous amount of regular people.

Well, I guess that depends on your definitions of "puny" and "regular". Since 75% of the benefit goes to people making over $100k/year, that must be your definition of "regular people." Which isn't really statistically defensible, but might be your personal experience. I'm not sure $100bn really counts as "puny" even to the Feds, though. Granted 3% of last years' revenues isn't a huge number, but neither is it a rounding error.

Personally, I think it's absolutely silly to forego tax dollars to encourage people to go into debt. Not that I'm above taking advantage of it every year, and probably deriving more benefit from it than most.

I'm still trying to figure out what any of this has to do with the Iraq war, though.
Thank you for the context!
This is kinda fair play, if you have seen what Google does to Edge users. Every Google website (including Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, etc.) has a bar claiming "Chrome is faster" at the top, with Download Chrome and Not Interested buttons.

Of course, the "Not Interested" button only suppresses the bar on that one Google site you're presently on, and only for a couple weeks. You'll get pestered about it more later. This stupid Google Chrome ad bar has been annoying me for over a year now.

So, suffice to say, this is a shoddy notification, but in the war of FUD spam, Google started it.
Ideally want to keep them as separate as possible as some are for personal and others for various businesses/ventures.
Sure. They create friction in a release process.

Flags set via config files require constant updates to said files, not a problem in a small team.

Work in a secure environment where config is controlled? You now need a process for controlling all these new flags.

Have hard dependencies on config (this flag MUST exist)?
You tie your application to your config, both now need to be released at the same time.

Code clutter?
Yes and it is avoidable. Also flags are not suitable to every type of feature so you're in a half way house anyway. Something which requires a DB change COULD be done via a flag but not worth the effort.

My experiences are mostly around CD pipelines that start breaking because of complexity. Feature flags might suit some application deployments and that's great. In everything I've worked on, they can be replaced by incremental (non-breaking) updates. In that situation anyone can do the release, no deep-feature knowledge required.
I keep thinking that capitalism, the pursuit of money above all else, can't be the correct way forward. Not with weak governments that refuse to correctly TAX pollution and non-recyclable items.

[edit] Down votes, OK. But why do you disagree? I can't think of a solution other than having Guido van Rossum as our benevolent dictator for life for the entire globe.
No, I was just going by what ma2rten said. But I think it is a fair comparison in the context of "show we allow this?". People drive in the rain at night without anyone considering banning it, so if we can make good-weather autonomous cars safer than that then it's good enough to start.
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I wonder whether she actually used the word "frolicking" when reporting. I mean, imagine calling the police b/c someone is frolicking.
I'd argue this has the same problems as many existing interview questions: It relies on arcane knowledge that won't be used day to day at the job in question, and rewards the candidate who is lucky to know the answer or answers.

Can we stop with the silly/trick/arbitrary interview questions? I know we cannot, but I dream for the day.
The attempt to rob a bank, even a failed attempt as most are = federal prison. You don't need to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from a bank for it to become a federal case, which was my original point.
If you ever look into the internals of how Git works, it is beautiful. Yeah, the UI is kinda a mess, but the idea is inspired.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor#Importance_of_pow...
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My reading of IRS publication 502 is that you can pay COBRA premiums, medicare, and premiums if you are on unemployment, but not otherwise.
> That process literally involves living your life on sites like TopCoder, HackerRank etc. You will likely be spending any time you can spare on such sites, to 'prepare'.

In the same way that keeping up with current events means living your life on sites like CNN, Reuters, NPR? The same way learning a language means staring at DuoLingo all day?

Most people don't require 100% time allocation to learn something.
Almost every time that something is subsidized, it will go up in price. A person's marginal propensity to consume means that if a deduction leads to money being saved, that money will actually be put toward the same product. But instead of bigger houses, we get the same house, just priced higher.

Housing prices will be lower without the deduction, actually helping first time buyers more since the down payment will be more achievable. Alas, eliminating the deduction will never happen.
But once they have accident rates that compare favorably with accident rates for human drivers, they'll have a saleable product. Self-driving cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than people.
I think this is referencing what is known as "power factor":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor#Importance_of_pow...
"Not taxing" also includes overhead for ensuring that people aren't abusing the deduction or exemption, or the societal/political costs involved in the perception that select few get a free pass (i.e. overshore tax shelters).
I suggest reaching out and asking those companies why they didn't hire you. The recruiters might tell you something. Are you asking too much salary, or too little? There might be something setting you off. In seattle, there is still huge demand for devs.
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Yes, It would take a very long time for global warming to cause the sea levels to rise such that cities are underwater.

But the primary way that global warming manifests itself is by causing severe weather events to be more frequent and more severe.
(This happens mainly because warmer air holds more water vapor.)
So the next Katrina will happen sooner, and it will be worse - because of global warming.

Another problem is that warming will cause lots of problems for agriculture.
Those of us growing corn in the Midwest will be okay - but places with marginally fertile land will have famines.

Another problem is that insect-borne illnesses (which already kill millions) are helped in a huge way by warming, even just a few degrees' worth.

These are all bad.
But the civilization-threatening part is what happens politically with the people displaced by floods, famine, and plagues of malaria/etc.
This kind of stuff causes refugee migrations, political upheaval, revolutions, dictators, etc.
The U.S. government is legitimately worried about this stuff [1].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/National...
the definition of impressive resume depends on the purpose you want to achieve. There is not such a thing as THE impressive resume.

If you are looking for a certain job, you don't want a resume with a bunch of empty titles. You need a strong resume addressing the specific requirements of that particular job, in terms of skills and relevant experience.

Large organizations need both people that take care of the "ordinary business" and people that take care of "special projects", that are the doers, that figure things out by themselves: your startup experience automatically qualifies you for all the activities that require this second type of people.
What about phasing it out over 20 years?

The deduction related to the purchase decision you just made will be a lot smaller by then and you would know what the new rules were for future decisions.
$77-$100B is equal to $618 - $800 per US household.
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We hear a lot about Google, Apple, Microsoft & Facebook, since most people use one or more products from these companies. Yet we never hear about Visa & MasterCard, even though their use is equally widespread. After reading Wikipedia I got curious, so I am wondering if anyone on HN has ever worked at any of these two companies.
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Interesting, though it doesn't seem to discuss much of the actual benefits of Silicene. Not sure how easy it's compared to other material production but this technique requires
* ultrahigh vacuum conditions
* Injecting Oxygen molecules at 200C to cut the Silicene from the substrate using a scanning tunnelling microscope
* A gold substrate (the picture is wrong)
It really does not matter if they're tax exempt at payroll disbursement time or as a deduction on filings.

The trouble with employer-based health care is much more about the fact that employers get a volume discount that individuals or small businesses do not. Even then when Ive worked W2 contract, I've had health care offered by the contracting company for reasonable amounts.
I've seen a few feature flags turn into ways that a company/developer can gloss over fixing a really hard problem.

A personal example: we were developing a new insurance billing workflow. Since it was a huge change, and very risky, and not all health insurance companies make it easy to test, we rolled it out practitioner by practitioner or customer by customer.

We got to about 95% 'enable_improved_billing_flow=True'. The remaining 5% were turning into a huge project to migrate due to the specifics of their practice / their primary insurance companies / multitude of business reasons (those ~5% were an outsized percentage of our revenue). In the end, we ended up having to maintain two billing flows.
Building 8 != Area 404. One is a team and the other is a place.
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As the article say: "The lab will be a space for engineers to design energy-efficient servers for Facebook data centers ...". Those servers are open compute servers that are totally open source. You can get the blue prints online
As climate change leads to more frequent and intense natural hazards, it is expected that climate displacement will only increase in Bangladesh. The best estimates suggest that up to 18 million people may be displaced by sea level rise alone.

I don't think people can comprehend re-housing 18 million souls.
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Sweden has a higher percentage of English speakers than Canada. Germany not so much.
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It can make good investment sense too. Remember, someone with a lot more money than you decided that they couldn't make a better return than financing your home loan. Paying off a loan is an illiquid investment, but it's the highest guaranteed return you're going to find. And so what if you lose the tax deduction for interest? You'd pay taxes on any alternative investment anyway, so it's a wash.
No, it's not close enough. You're acting like the low representation in tech companies is strictly because there are a lot more male white/asian/indian candidates, but that's not correct. A big reason why there are a lot fewer candidates from other demographics is in a large part because of the low representation. Lack of representation both means lack of role models, and it also serves as a big signal that someone in an underrepresented demographic is going to have a hard time succeeding in that industry. It also means that people of underrepresented groups who go into the industry anyway are not going to find very many people like themselves, which will make them less comfortable (which leads to fewer people going into the industry in the first place).

On a different note, why did you use ℅ instead of %? ℅ is U+2105 CARE OF, but you used it like a percentage.
I also have 2 decades of exp and I'm over 50. I had no problem recently switching jobs but I also had good experience, and I'm a dev and have recent dev experience. I wonder if part of your problem is not being a dev but being pm of one type or another. PMs can have a rep as not being so technical. It might be painful but try to contact the people that didn't hire you and see what they can say.
Fine, but then it's only helping to the extent that the taxpayer is over the standard deduction. If their mortgage interest was $1000, but they end up just $1 over the standard deduction then technically it helped - but only by 15 cents (depending on their marginal rate).
> Such a language should have ASLR enabled

Or, you know, just be memory safe.
I'd like to note that this release contains some virtio driver fixes that mean you should be able to run DragonflyBSD safely on a VPS that allows you to upload custom ISOs (vultr seems to be the most popular). Previously there would be rare hard lock ups, but that
should be fixed now.
It'd be interesting to see how the 128-bit Murmur versions compare.

Something not mentioned in the "Quality" section is that FNV and djb2 produce may produce decent results on words/filenames/source code, but they can fail catastrophically (produce far more collisions than expected) on certain patterns of keys - SMHasher is designed not just to check performance, but to try and find patterns of keys that 'break' a hash function.

Murmur3 tries to be short, simple, portable, and efficient on small keys while still passing SMHasher. xxHash, Spooky, and the Farm/City/Metro suite all use a lot of loop unrolling and/or platform-specific optimizations to get the highest possible performance when hashing large chunks of data.

-Austin (author of Murmur and SMHasher)
This study has ruined is ability to be reproduced, as whenever you attempt any of the searches, you get the study and many articles about the study, in the results, which reinforces the findings of the study.

It's a self-reinforcing study! The more you test it, the stronger its validity becomes!
Facebook's hardware also includes the open compute project, which is quite the opposite of locked hardware
Wait, don't you want minimum acceptable throughput on security-related hashing, so that it becomes less likely that somebody can just brute-force it?
Well they definitely have the resources to create something amazing, but only time will tell if those resources actually mean anything. From the basis of what they are currently building, the lab is overkill. They must have something secret/bigger hardware projects going on.
Once your power supply is capable of delivering >=75W, european norm 61000-3-2 requires you to implement power factor correction (PFC), which makes complexity balloon.

All name-brand laptop chargers will usually have it.
Yes, this.

Check out the West Oakland BART stop for a good example. There is an ambulance there nearly every day for several hours dealing with the same mentally ill addicted woman. Imagine what it costs to tie up a couple cop cars, an ambulance, and a full ambulance crew. Plus the ER services.

Now compare that to the cost of dealing properly with one mentally ill person.

Cutting mental health services doesn't save us money; it magnifies both the root problem, and the costs.
The reason most people tell me they use todos is, "you can't do everything up front."

I agree, but I hate TODOs. They're the worst form of keeping track of technical debt.

Just open a ticket! I like to have a tag/label called "debt" that I put these "TODO, bad implementation" type of problems under.

That way at least it's tracked.
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No, every call to check a flag is not making any sort of network connection. The flag ruleset (includes details like specific users that should get each variation, or particular user attributes that should indicate a specific variation, or a percentage rollout) is streamed to the SDK in a long-lived background connection.

The SDK maintains these rulesets in memory, and when you need to evaluate a flag for a given user, the ruleset is evaluated. This way, there is no I/O at the time that a rule is evaluated, so there is no real performance impact. At the same time, because of the way we stream the rulesets to the SDK, any rule changes take effect immediately.

https://launchdarkly.com/performance.html has some diagrams, etc, detailing this (sorry for the marketing fluff :)
The full amount above the line only if you are self employed, and otherwise below the line and only the amount the it exceeds 10% of your adjusted gross income. Unless I am missing something?
Just do a "functional" resume. instead of titles "from 2010-2016", do "Selected Accomplishments" and categorize them.

Technical

* Implemented xyz process to reduce pdq by x%

Leadership

* Developed market strategy for team of y teams to improve market share by z% in 3 months

etc
I, too, am curious though I suspect I'm imagining worse than it is. My best guess is vitriolic raging against the modern state of technology and/or particular individuals. Though it could just as easily be sordid tales of his exploits or maybe just semi-incoherent ramblings going nowhere in particular.
I know, and it's not like it's just a simple date picker, so I'm sort of surprised they don't break it out into a standalone app to compete with Google Calendar. I wouldn't use MS's calendar either but if they made one I think LO would follow suit and then I'd get my libre calendar :)
> But instead of bigger houses, we get the same house, just priced higher.

This seems to assume a monopoly supplier charging monopoly rents, but is an untenable conclusion if housing is supplied in a competitive market. (It also neglects the fact that its not a flat subsidy, but one where the subsidy rate is positively correlated with income, so that -- within the limits of the deduction -- higher income earners get a higher subsidy rate, and thus the spread in buying power between them and lower-income earners is increased by the existence of the deduction, which even in a monopoly-supply situation would mean that the effect across the market was not "everyone gets the same houses as they would without the subsidy, just at higher prices".)
Depends on your nationality and current visa. If you are from India and China, there is a long wait.

You could be "saved" if you (or your spouse) were not born in India or China.

L1 is a non-transferable visa. Is there a possibility of getting a green card through employment?
Edit: Added last statement.
> Housing prices are whatever people are able to pay.

I fail to see the justification for concluding that housing prices are set by demand alone, not the usual interaction of supply of demand.
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After twelve years at the same company, I must be some type of ultra grand wizard unicorn.
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