skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the middle of selling/buying here in Scotland and energy performance certificates are mandatory and actually very useful - this was a significant factor in helping us choose a property.

Similarly sellers have to get a professional surveyor to do a survey which is that available to all potential buyers.
Pizzaware. Order a large Hawaiian pizza and a 2-liter diet coke delivered to the following address, and we'll unlock your computer.
Is 18F a money loser?
Current greek government is far from left.
If that were true, all but the most expensive apartments would be tax-free. Btw 200k is about 12 times the average annual income.
When I gave up FB a good while ago I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing. Many thought I was being paranoid. As the months roll by I feel nore and more vindicated.
2015 US plastic bottle recycling rate shows no growth
While I respect your line of thinking, I believe that advertising does improve a product substantially. It improves how you are perceived using it, it can change your experience with the product, and it can reduce the amount of time you need and give you better information about products -- especially when there are no obvious benchmarks for the industry. (E.g. clothing)

Part of advertising is educating customers on what features your product has, and doing so in an easy to understand way.

Imagine a world with no advertising. You want to buy a coat, so you search Google. There are no ads, so you just click the first link (which has done no SEO). What do you see? A picture of a coat? A list of coat 'specs'? A description of the coat?

All of these could be considered advertising (People "wasting" money on putting coats on models of different body sizes, creating different standards for clothing 'specs', and copywriting product descriptions) yet they also provide value to the customer.

So I would say that advertising has to be considered part of the product that can enhance its value.
It's not an Android phone. Android has either on screen Navigation Bar or Physical Navigation Bar not both.
CPU's don't show up from thin air. Partners can release compatible boards on day 1 making the official release date kind of irrelevant.
Not trying to get into an off-topic political discussion, but the AWB I'm familiar with is almost entirely cosmetic in nature and would not have prevented any of the tragedies that are often used to prop it up. There are many effective things that could be done to lessen gun violence without needlessly restricting something that has no connection to that violence. Barrel shrouds are cosmetic but they make something an assault weapon, as does a pistol grip on a shotgun (which makes it less accurate for 99.9% of users).

Comprehensive, mandatory background checks? Of course.

"This gun looks scary and is therefore dangerous?" Nonsense.
Let's get facts straight:

The state property tax in Greece is 0% for property up to €200K. Then 0.2 to 1% from €200K to €5M. Then 2% above €2M.

Property taxes are hardly killing the Greek economy and especially not for the poor or the middle class. On the contrary, Greeks are paying very little. The problem is that Greeks used to have much more property than for example Northern Europeans.

For comparison, in Denmark the property tax is 1% up to €406,961. Then 3% for values above that. In addition to this there is a local tax on land value, which is generally 1.6-3.4%.
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lol right, I expect them to move to QT anyway ... /s
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> Why do you say it hasn't worked out for the Palestinians?

I suppose because I am comparing post-Oslo Palestinian terrorism to early 20th Century Zionist terrorism. Fair point. I'm not sure I agree that Palestine kinda sorta having statehood counts as much a victory, compared to the concrete losses suffered by Palestinians. It's not like Palestinians actually have much control over the territory their state claims.
Nobody in this world is gonna fight for you other than yourself.

Don't bring up the termination without being asked if you were fired (in which case it may be better to just admit it), when you're talking about work experience just say after working there for some time you then decided to pursue other opportunities.

Maybe 3 out 4 companies will still figure it out, but all you need is that one success.
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First question is are you sure you were fired with cause and not laid off?

If you're sure it's the first you might want to consult a lawyer. Usually a company needs a pretty strong paper trail and a lot of evidence of you screwing up royally before they can fire with cause.
An assault weapons ban is something that everyone agrees with, unless they know something about guns and have seen what the ban actually looks like. Once you see the list that is banned vs the list that is not banned, you realize that it usually isn't useful (at best) and is actively problematic for some people (at worst).

Its the same problem as we have with a lot of laws in the US. It sounds like a good idea, but ultimately addresses the wrong problem.
You cannot reasonably charge high property taxes and then stop people from sell property they do not want.
The author says all the same things in the article - are you sure you disagree with it?
If you get lucky with your particular combination of hardware and drivers, yes this can be true for some people.
They were contemplating purchasing a license I know. I left before anything happened.

Keep in mind they were paying a fortune for support for another ada compiler (Rational APEX) on obsolete hardware (Solaris/ HPUX). I suspect they were evaluating if it was cheaper than migrating a huge codebase to another language.
Migrating platforms can be a pain in the endian.
Why do macOS users seem to want to migrate to elementary?

I mean why elementary as your choice for a Linux distro?
WebGL is sufficient for 3D buildings in Google Maps but insufficient for Facebook's clash-of-three-in-a-rows?
I should probably reply on the overall issue.

The economic troubles of Greece have been similar to those of the eastern european countries. The issue with Greece is that the politicians did not take tough measures early in the crisis and the recovery is too far ahead.

While other countries reduced their headcount in the public sector, in Greece the headcount remains much the same. I blame the politicians, though the political party that manages to win, is the one that offers not to reduce the public sector headcount.

This inability of the politicians is also reflected in the enforcement of the smoking ban. While in public transport there is no smoking, in most restaurants, cafes and elsewhere, the ban is not enforced. Even in the Greek parliament there is smoking, and even the Minister of Health is regularly seen smoking.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/52dif3/the_sad_real... and weep.

Frankly, investors should use the smoking issue in Greece as an indicator whether the country is actually recovering. As long as the smoking ban is not enforced, the recovery is not happening.
elementary should automatically handle your hidpi quite well.
Upon second reading, you're correct, I don't know; the comment sounded off to me, but it shouldn't have and I apologise. (with an upvote at least :-)
Still less than the property tax on a similar sized apartment in the UK (not in London).
GTK has been fairly hostile to non-Gnome usage since the GTK 3 era; they keep on breaking backwards compatibility for applications that use it, don't care about whether apps can be used on non-Gnome desktop environments, etc. I don't think it's all that polished either.
Personally, USB-C is the least of my problem. I care about having a fast, powerful laptop with 32 or 64GB ram (I run a lot of VMs for my work, I could offload it to the cloud but then it's more of a hassle).

I complain because Apple decided to make the macbook pro 15 inch lighter and thinner resulting in 25% less battery (going from 99.5 watt-hour to 76.0-watt-hour), this means that they have to make more compromises to keep a good battery life and instead of having a decent graphic card like the nvidia gtx 1080 or 32GB ram, the new macbook pros are underpowered.

Since, apple is unlikely to decide to go back to the previous form factor, they are unlikely to ever sell a laptop with decent performances compared to their competitors.

And to add insult to the injury, switching to usb-c forces users (at least for a year or two) to carry a lot of extra adapters which makes the weight loss moot.
Oh, I just realized that 'tagging' in this way is kind of an implementation of Minsky's k-lines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intellige...

Cool!
How naive one government agency has to be to think backdoors are for them only.

How pissed was the FBI when the learned that now the Russians also have access to the voting machines.

They're using next decade technology with a 60 year old mindset.
There could be a bug in the OAuth server, where tokens are issued. Credentials could be logged there.
I agree with the article. Vala is a wonderful language, but it doesn't have the necessary tooling built around it.
The fourth reason for compromise is their continued insistence on 'adding thinness', which apparently resulted in a significant reduction in battery capacity and hence forced the compromise on RAM type.

I've yet to meet a 'pro' who would consider reducing a laptop battery from 10397 mAh to 7600 to be sane, let alone considering any compromises that follow.
Agree with you. I am finishing up my PhD, and while I am glad I am not planning on pursuing academia further, I have met many wonderful scientists that are driven to continue furthering their science.
Which unique id? I thought the point of sending it via Signal was to not include any user id or any other id.
I am not sure why you think that Pantheon is the only one in this category. Have you not seen the Cinnamon DE?
Its a form of clickbait in that I assumed the article would explain why the lead time has increased continuously since 1985 or so.

Instead there isn't really a story at all.

For utter noobs to modern technology: If the pipeline from daydream to press day is X months and a new widget was released Y months ago then if X > Y you don't see the widget on press day. Don't matter if its a jet plane or a nuclear reactor or a laptop.
I hear the excuse that the chips are too new, but the Razer Stealth has 7th gen Intel. There once was a time when Apple literally purchased the entire world's supply of a part, and everyone else had to wait for more. Apple just doesn't care anymore.
First link that came up at google WITHOUT A PAYWALL:

http://betanews.com/2016/11/02/russian-hackers-exploit-windo...

And the Microsoft blog post:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/11/01/our-comm...
It would have been quite stupid, though, to reveal the plan too early.
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No, it is ₹1500000 which is $22500 (yearly).
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Who knows, IIRC planes are dedicated C++ frameworks that spit out tons of intermediate representations and then compiled.
Energy performance certificate, non-toxicity certificate, surface certificate, non-pledge certificate... The basics of a real estate sale in France - they make the transaction more transparent and I'm glad they are mandatory, both as a former buyer and a former seller... They remove a lot of the friction that distrust creates. Framing it as "red tape" that “threaten to turn the country into an endless ‘property graveyard’ where nothing will be sold, nothing will be bought and nothing will be rented” is laughable !
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I find that when I force myself to focus for long periods of time, I'm exhausted at the end of the day (I never make it a whole day). I too need to bounce between code and email and HN constantly.
I swim a mile. I've been doing it for about 15 years so it's automatic and almost meditative, plus a full-body workout. Surprising how much head work I can do in that half hour.

I also paint, but you can probably insert any totally immersive creative pursuit here (music is probably more common amongst hackers). It completely switches brain hemispheres and unlike programming, my mind does not wander at all when painting, and I can literally go to another place for hours. Unlike when swimming, I can't think about programming or anything at the same time, I am completely absorbed in the painting. Paul Graham has lots to say on the subject.
"Our parents and our politicians"

And Goldman Sachs as well!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greek-debt-cr...
The next frontier for startups is urban tech
Right-to-work states still distinguish between firing for cause and a layoff for unemployment purposes. If you just get rid of somebody because you don't like them or whatever, that's legally considered a layoff because they did nothing wrong and thus can still collect unemployment.

If you let somebody go just because you didn't like them but you lied and said it was for performance reasons, they'll have to fight to get unemployment, and they may very well sue you for their troubles. On a similar note, if you do want to fire someone for performance reasons, you better have that lack of performance well documented.

Because of this, a lot of companies don't bother claiming cause: they classify all firings as layoffs and don't contest anyone's unemployment. I worked for a company like that once.
The elementary community would love feedback on how to solve pains with mac. There's a subreddit or you could post bug reports on launchpad.
Do we want the fruits of scientific progress to be made publicly available and shared by all of society (one must grant that even public universities have already begun privatizing their work, which is sad) or for it to end up privatized as part of patent portfolios to go to the highest bidder and to serve those with the most capital?

I already know what the answer is if we look at the current incentives in place, but what do we want?
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Let's get facts straight. The state property tax in Greece is calculated on a nominal value far removed from market value. This means that a 300K nominal value property cannot sell today for 150K (I know, I have tried.) In practice, as the article mentions property value approaches zero as the market is incredibly shallow. Recalculate on the basis of that and then make the comparison.
You're too easily accepting the premise of the article at face value. It's likely the premise just was made up as a rhetorical device to promote the OP's favorite Linux distribution.
is there a second bubble?
As far as I know the GPL does not allow trial periods and asking for money later on, but feel free to correct me. That's why elementary cannot do such a thing.
I'm not sure what toolkit Adobe use but I have a feeling it's not easily portable to Linux.

Inkscape and Gimp are the stalwarts, but for someone coming from Sketch or Photoshop they feel quite ancient and somewhat messy.

https://www.figma.com is cross-platform (web based), and a pretty good Sketch competitor

For a Lightroom replacement, Darktable is actually quite good (though I really miss the high quality shadows/highlights algorithm from ACR)
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You don't have any way of defending against that stupid scenario, with or
without centralized passwords.

Additionally, most of the users would probably use the same password for each
of the services anyway, so you have pretty much the same situation in both
cases, only you don't have a quick and reliable way to invalidate all the
passwords.
Maybe 5h is enough for you, but Apple fans are used to a 10h minimum, likely more. And very thin hardware.
Isn't constructive dismissal supposed to protect you from being put on a failing project/team just so they can fire you?
You can always pay for Ubuntu. BTW, that is probably the one closest to what you're describing, not elementary, but they have a tendency to focus in fixing not the broken things.
If you're a developer, almost all the killer apps support Linux first. But you're right that this is the deal breaker
I didn't. I didn't tell them anything.

I just don't have any interest in installing it full. Instead I went with KDE Neon.
> I do not see how banning assault weapons is a "crap" solution. Sure, other guns may still be available but at least it's something.

This is exactly parent post's point. Something must be done, even if it is going to have little or no discernible effect on the problem.

Banning assault weapons won't stop the next lunatic from committing a mass shooting because:

A. You can easily kill dozens of people with handguns like the VT shooter did.

B. Millions of assault weapons are already in circulation. Trying to confiscate those weapons would likely cause violence.

Not to say that an assault weapons ban would not prevent some would-be shooters from getting a more powerful firearm, but it won't reduce the incidence of these shootings and you're still going to have a lot of people dead or injured if a shooter is forced to use a handgun.

And that's assuming that mass shootings are the most important problem to be solved in terms of gun violence. Mass shootings still make up something like 1 or 2 percent of all gun homicides in the US. If we really care about people being killed by gun violence, we would focus our efforts on the vast majority of gun crime that is committed by people with prior violent felony convictions with illegal firearms. We would also take serious steps towards ending the drug war and all of the violence associated with the black market for drugs.

Spending a ton of effort and political capital on getting a law passed that has very little effect on reducing gun homicides is silly. Because when a new AWB inevitably doesn't solve the problem, it's going to be all but impossible to pass another gun control law. If Hillary Clinton wins and forces through a new assault weapons ban she will have a tough time getting re-elected and Democrats will certainly lose Congress. Why not spend that political capital on something that will actually make a measurable difference.
Running Python and virtualenv, using Python 2.7 and 3.5 and Macports. No issues whatsoever.
Presumably the clients cache GIFs, maybe even search results, instead of re-fetching them every single time.
> Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Exploited Flaw In Windows
> (And Blames Google)

Jedd Says Microsoft Should Have Fixed The Exploit

Yes, it sounds like a short notice period (5 days or so?).

But ... from the chronology it's sounding like this particular exploit was performed long before Google revealed the vulnerability, and indeed a goodly time before Google reported that vulnerability on the hush to Microsoft, so I can't see how it's Google's fault.

EDIT: And, as per sentiment expressed by world+dog in previous threads about this particular event, Google's observation that exploits were already in the wild is the most important aspect of this story. If a vulnerability exists for some software I'm using, and I don't know about it but the bad guys do ... I want to be told. I may not be able to patch, but I can mitigate.
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But you have to realize that those applications on Macs are not for everyone. Which basically means that if Mac were to continue having their monopoly, developers like YOU would never look to provide the same kinds of services to people who prefer something else. Not everyone uses software that just because they look pretty.
1. I believe you got the first point wrong. The claim is that they needed more than 100W to go to 32GB, and not going for 16GB, they didn't need the extra 26W.
2. You are partially right. Yes, 4.5 pounds is very different from 18kg, but if you care about portability, it is still a big different from 3 pounds.
3. The argument he presents is that you need dongles for now, but in the long term, you will need less dongles. So a bit different from what you are arguing.
Socialism is a spectrum. Are you talking about full-on soviet communism? The Scandinavian model? Venezuela? The national health service in the UK?

I'm don't really think that socialism == bureaucracy == failure is a cogent argument.
Can you make 6 figures in Berlin? (In London, it's doable)

I hope you're not saying "low pay" because you compare to the USA. The Europe and the USA are not in the same league, they shouldnt be compared.
This seems to be a return to accountability from the excesses of the oughts (the 2000s).

It's guys like Ken Lay (Enron) and Rich McGinn (Lucent), not to mention John Stumpf (Wells Fargo) who set up the expectation that executives should be freewheeling, and that living high was the best way to signal to shareholders that the company was in good shape.

The days when the CEO drove himself to work in a Buick and showed up in a rumpled suit just off the red-eye at customer offices when there were problems delivering value seemed to have faded away.

Anybody pulling down a seven-figure salary ought to be wise enough to salt a lot of it away. Baseball players and bigshot executives are both out there on the firing line. When they stop delivering their expected value, they should expect to be cut. Reversion to the mean makes this more likely than not for superstars.

It's entirely positive that shareholders are paying attention to one of the biggest expense items - exec compensation - in their companies' budgets.

It would help if shareholders were better at understanding long-term strategies. A good CEO (Jobs, Apple; Musk, Tesla; Welch, GE) is capable of persuading them.
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I'm right there with you. The only thing that keeps me on a Mac is the combination of Unix + Half decent UX. If someone built a paid Unix/Linux distro that could run Mac Apps, I'd give away my extra kidney for it.

Windows almost has me sold with their new Ubuntu subsystem.
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