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> but it can probably do 2013, use that to compile 2014, use that to compile 2015 use that to compile 2016.

Clearly you aren't aware of Rust's history :)

proto-Rust has been under so many rapid changes that each compiler usually only compiles with a specific hash. Now stuff works with a numbered Rust release, but that's a relatively new phenomenon. This process will likely need to go through hundreds of compilation steps. Doable, but not as simple as a year-by-year process.
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I don't think you are looking at the same thing I am.

https://www.amazon.com/XFINITY-High-Speed-Internet-Exclusive...

There are over 900 reviews.
http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

There you go, straight from the source. Convert that to whatever your scanning tool wants and you can update your list as often as you feel necessary.

No need to make assumptions about unknowns when you can just make them known.
Only upper-middle class people live in bubbles? Charles Murray exhibits a bit of confirmation bias here.
So even if we do have an accurate usage count, say 10 millions, so what? What's the Foundation's plan to get funding?

I think they should run annual campaign like Mozilla and Wikipedia. The spend of the money should be 100% transparent. I am not really sure why we need a Foundation. I get the hosting cost, and rewarding people to work on very difficult features and enhancements, but what else? Conference cost & scholarship? What else.
How does it help? By creating a competitive market in housing, it should ensure that the housing stock is full enough to create new affordable living for the person to move to.

But... does that still mean people might be taxed out of their home?

I hope it would be rare, because it is a bummer, but I am convinced that there is no sustainable system in which people wouldn't be "taxed out of their home" in some cases. However, consider that they'd still get a sizeable payout, and plenty of available options in their community.

It's the sad truth about land-- if someone is using it inefficiently (which is the case with the single-family households having trouble with property taxes), it's a market signal that the land should be developed more densely...
It doesn't, which is part of the fairness of it.
You can quantify how much the value of gold is through actual physical use value and how much is through mere speculation. So yes, 'using it in jewellery and circuits' is a perfectly fine explanation.

It's not a binary choice. Things don't have to be pure speculation or pure 'real' value.
Which is a great use case for something like ipfs, I think.
> There is only one rule to follow: The min and max heap must be the EXACT SAME number. (Basically, the heap must be fixed size).
If they're not, the GC will resize the heap during the program execution, which is a very expensive process that will freeze the application and ruin performances.

I doubt this is true of the JVM GC. Adaptive heap size tuning is also in V8 and it doesn't require an expensive operation like a full GC to accomplish (e.g. the whole heap is not copied during this operation). The GC can simply add more pages of memory after a minor GC and promote some of the objects from the young gen to the old gen. So it doesn't have to be more expensive than a young gen (minor) GC.
> How does that help in the situation of a homeowner not being able to afford their tax bill because their property increased in value?

If you cant afford the tax, you should move out and sell/rent out. This whole premise is absurd.

Sorry down voter. But this is a fact. We have property tax to discourage under utilization of scarce resources. If you can't afford the tax rate, you should you should find some way to increase your income. This is a prime example of why we don't need the 0.001% to screw over the rest of us. We the 99% are perfectly capable of screwing over ourselves!

The "community" doesn't owe long time residents or new residents anything just because they decided to buy instead of renting. Let's be rational here.
Build your own: https://www.seeedstudio.com/RePhone-Kit-Create-p-2552.html#
Sure you can. Think out of the box. A small speaker that sticks over the microphone opening and constantly plays a recording with two voices overlaid, one reading the Gettysburg address and the other reading the declaration of independence, constitution and amendments. You would have to be shouting to be intelligible over top of that.
Yeah, but if you look at just the verified ones, they break out like the parent commenter wrote.
I would guess: a policy against installing unapproved software on production servers, systems that don't have compilers installed (for security, jq appears to be C code), or debugging on client/customer machines
IBM JSONata is another open source alternative. Check it out: https://developer.ibm.com/open/jsonata/
Bah! Why JSON not XML?
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The only currently reliable off-chain transactions that are non-vapourware are selling the bitcoins for cash and then buying stuff with the cash!

Lightning network doesn't exist yet!
Wondering why they aren't using their own data format(Amazon Ion - https://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/spec.html) instead of JSON.
Would it not be possible to defer these taxes for people over a certain age and make it work like a lien on the house when it is sold and collected from their estate? Sure, it probably makes the income for the government less regular, but surely there could be some sort of financial instrument that could be created to smooth out these inflows, no?
Seems to me that Consumer Reports should implement a new program whereby customers that prove themselves to be trustworthy can submit a receipt and a review for a product, and if it is voted helpful enough (by other shoppers), that reviewer gets one free month of Consumer Reports subscription.

The result: verified, honest, reliable, helpful reviews. It would boost CR's value and give the world something it badly needs.

I suppose Amazon could do this with gift certificates or a month of free Prime or something.
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> It's money (a currency). Money has value because someone says it has value and someone else agrees. Congrats, bitcoin has value!

Commodities have value. Until 1971 in the US, US currency had implied value because it could be exchanged for a commodity - gold, which the US has thousands of tons of in Fort Knox and other places. Then in 1971, Nixon stopped the exchange of currency for that gold.

But the tons of gold are still in Fort Knox. Why? Why store thousands of tons of gold? Obviously it is still backing the currency. Any currency panic can be ended by starting the conversion back up. US currency went from an implied conversion to an implication of an implication. It is still backed by those thousands of tons of gold though, although not explicitly.

Bitcoin is backed neither explicitly nor implicitly by an useful commodity.
Same for me. I do rock-climbing (bouldering) and weight-lifting. I used to follow a bunch of "fit men" and "fit women" which were both fun to look at and a little inspirational.

These days the vast majority of the "fitness model"-type accounts exist solely to sell their diet/workout plans, along with supplements. Sometimes this is subtle, but mostly it is not.
We just published full job descriptions on LinkedIn:

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(the SRE description is coming soon)
Right, that's exactly my point. Bitcoin's only value is in the transactions it can make. If there are no transactions, there's no way for it to be a store of value, contra the GP.

Fiat currencies aren't technically any different, but you can use them to pay taxes and their value is insisted on by armies, which does count for something.
I didn't get a good feeling from your comment's contrast between "a woman from Jamaica" and "normal folks".

Surely being from Jamaica is a thing that normal folks do, if that's where they're from.
The problem with this logic is that it assumes that Bitcoin mining security is still sufficient once we're close to the 21 mil limit- This is starting to become a tenuous assumption and likely some sort of currency demurrage will need to be instituted within the next decade.
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Because it's a direct screen capture from Google Trends, and for me, it's pretty clear which are they: CVS, SVN, Hg, Git. Here, I've re-created it for you: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F05vq...
It's a textbook case of populism. The people voting are, by definition, the current residents of the state, and many of them are homeowners. Capping their tax rate and pushing any increase off on newcomers looks like a wonderful idea.
... what is a single reason to use XML over JSON beyond legacy purposes?
Yes, some have outlined a deferement, roll-up option that would work to do this.[0]

Another option would be a Community Land Trust[1], which would take the responsibility of land ownership away, and allow residents to have more stability at the cost of not directly being responsible for land stewardship.

[0] http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/a-poor-widow-bogey.htm...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust
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It's ok to try tackling a big problem, as long as you know when pause for a while and come back to it later.

What if Ramanujan had been told by Hardy to stay home and stop working on big things that he hadn't had sufficient experience in? While there will ever only be one Ramanujan, he wouldn't have developed into what he did had he restricted himself. He made a lot of mistakes, and that didn't kill his career nor did it stop him from producing many great works.

Similarly, Bezos obsessed about a simple online bookstore website. Jobs obsessed over details for a small number of devices. Torvalds obsessed over an operating system he wrote. DHH obsessed over a web application framework open source project for his company. If you obsess over something, it has a much better chance for success.

If you believe in it, and you see a path to it, don't give up.
There are over 100 verified reviews, it doesn't seem like we re seeing the same thing.
By chance you want to buy some bubble sort for $5/month? that's less then .005 per sort. I also have some 24 bit IEEE floating points as a service (IEEEFPaSS), on sale as well.
Already exists, it's called SCXML and is a W3C standard.

https://www.w3.org/TR/scxml/
If Google can't stop SPAM abusers
How can small time operators hope to do better than Google when spammers (especially Indian ones abusing info@ addresses) keep sending SPAM.
'Step up and be a parent'. That's the best thing I read today. Thanks.
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Schema. Validation.
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I see the author's point, but having lived in MA, which strives to keep assessed property values very accurate and very much in line with the market value, people there were just as rabid about keeping out new development. Ultimately, any increase in property tax is offset 100-fold by increases in home value, and both are probably eclipsed by the emotional desire to live in "a nice neighborhood"

In short, while I would fully support the repeal of Prop 13, I don't think it would suddenly result in an about-face on zoning policy to limit home price appreciation.
Come on.

I have never been to Russia or studied the political structure in a systematic way. But I can still assert that this is patently false.

If it were not, the oligarchs would have absolute control, as it is they writhe (rightly, imo) under the jackboot of Putin. What about local regional and ethnic interests and loyalties? How do you account for state security and other sensitive sectors if you sell all your positions to the highest bidder?

A society run like you imply, would soon collapse. Competing money from oligarchs,the mafia, foreign intelligence agencies, rich corporations and so on, would rip it apart.

I get the western obsession with Russia bashing but HN readers should have a higher standard.
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You could call it a form of generational theft, from the 1978 population of California against all future generations to move there.

Nordlinger v Hahn (1992)[0] challenged the Constitutionality of this under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. They ruled 8-1 that it was (John Paul Stevens dissenting)[1]. Stevens' dissent is worth reading. To excerpt:

> These property owners (hereinafter Squires) are guaranteed that, so long as they retain their property and do not improve it, their taxes will not increase more than 2% in any given year. As a direct result of this windfall for the Squires, later purchasers must pay far more than their fair share of property taxes.

[0] https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/90-1912

[1] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/1/case.html
While in my optimistic moments I imagine we'll be programming visually in the not too distant future, and am doing all I can to bring this about, I still would prefer to turn on light bulbs by flicking switches, which simply close electrical circuits rather than call methods. For that, some might consider me a Luddite.
The one thing that I have done is criticize in a way that makes the person look terrible if they ban you for it. I don't know how well this does for the bigger picture. Sometimes it is quite scary doing this though. My apologies for not replying earlier. I think spreading awareness like you were in your comment is also great, at least for people who have experienced this before, because they say 'oh yeah, that's true'.
I think this article casts some doubt on whether the one-child policy was actually successful at reducing population growth. It certainly reduced the birth rate in urban areas where enforcement was stronger. But it seems like rural families had just as many kids as they would otherwise.
Interesting point. Out of curiosity, what's the property tax rate in these communities?
Rotaries and roundabouts are different, though I wouldn't be surprised that people refer to some of one by the other's name.

http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/round/Differences_...
No. The biggest issue is the enormous and growing transfer of wealth from people engaged in productive economic activity to a caste of rentiers who extract money while producing nothing. This is what is meant by feudalism, and it manages to be bad both in terms of justice and in terms of economic efficiency.

From this point of view, commercial property is at least used for economic activity. Exempting it from Prop 13 would reduce inequitable treatment of different commercial property owners, yes, but it would also impose yet another burden on productive activity, and ultimately on the overtaxed serfs. Instead of reducing feudalism, it would exacerbate it.

No, the biggest problem is precisely residential property.
What is a major open source project that is Python 2 only?
> Start thinking there's something wrong with my app, that's "just" about to launch, and is "just" using plain old Redux

Why would you think this? What problem are you having? What is your app supposed to be delivering that your current technology choice is preventing?
Today after fighting with Kibana all morning, I decided to tweak our scripts to build Grafana dashboards against our existing ElasticSearch data store. Very fast to get up and running and the the features and speed are amazing.

Very glad I saw this announcement on HN.
Factor is a great for playing around with. When Slava was still pushing it , it felt more alive but it is an impressive effort still.
I can't take any credit for the site's content (aside from the time I live-tweeted a Palo Alto City Council meeting)[0]-- my hat is certainly off to the journalism that site has come to provide, covering stories one won't find anywhere else.

[0] http://sfbamo.com/news/tweets-from-the-front-palo-alto-city-...
People may target him if they know he has money.
I think Warren Buffet would suggest that without ethics, a person is an untrustworthy liability bound to sabotage themselves or someone else, eventually. History is littered with case-studies and it will be another scalp on display in the museum of lapses of character.
I'm a fan of pycharm
mental illness (though I think someone did and is doing this to me)

With apologies to patio11 [1], we really do need a word for "A denial which is phrased in such a fashion as to make listening observers think it is more likely, not less likely, that the thing being denied actually happened."

That said, very insightful comment otherwise!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13034011
This. This. This.

In both places I've lived in the Bay Area, there were vacant houses on the block. In the old town, apparently the house was owned by an old widow who is in a nursing home and who refuses to sell. In the new neighborhood, the house has fire damage. The owner apparently has several properties around the Bay, and just isn't in a hurry to do anything -- the house has been that way for five years or more.

I hear from people living in Palo Alto that their neighborhoods are dotted with vacant homes owned by overseas investors.

Meanwhile, people making $200k a year are commuting an hour each way because they can't afford to live any closer.

Market rate property taxation would provide a strong incentive for these owners to either sell or rent out their properties.
Whoa, that's some practical syntax. Suddenly I'm filled with envy that none of the C-family languages have that.
Very good to hear that. Started to try influxdb as my tsdb for iot and looks very promising.
I think this is confirmation bias at work here.
Prop 13 is one of the most Regressive Taxes (not progressive) in the history of housing. You have 2 people living next to each, both got exactly the same house, but one purchased it 20 years ago for 200K, the guy who purchases it today, has to pay 10 times more for the SAME house: 2 million dollars and then to add insult to injury has to pay nearly 10 times more taxes too.

If it wanted to be fair, Prop 13 should be exactly the opposite of what it is: it should tax the one who bought the house 10 times cheaper more and the new guy less.
> Can you sue for wrongful termination if you get fired for refusing to sign such a waiver?

It seems unlikely, because the Supreme Court has ruled it's permissible for employers to compel employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment.
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hello sir/madam can you help me sir i want to know how to recoginized the text in ocr .
There are a few other games out there like this, but what you described reminded me of Glitchspace[0]. There was a post about zachtronics some time ago that listed similar games.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/app/290060/
[1] http://www.zachtronics.com/
Extensibility.
I'm excited to see @minimaxir (http://minimaxir.com/) comes up with based on this data.
I agree: I personally find Rust more expressive than Go. I don't think it has any more "semantic overhead" than any other language with a highly featured type system.

To tie it back to the article a bit, Rust also seems like a relatively natural choice for a team considering switching from Haskell if their reason for switching is performance. The niche Rust fills for me personally is that it has a very robust type system (putting it in a similar camp as Haskell) with an explicit focus on fast, performant code (which Haskell does not have).
TL;DR: If you're running a third party AV+firewall like Kaspersky or Bitdefender, you may find that the shell has no Internet access.

Until today I've had problems with doing apt-get update / apt-get upgrade, but I finally took the time to track down some fixes.

First, apt-get was attempting to use IPv6 and having issues. Fixing problem 2 might have also resolved this, but I didn't go back to check it. The fix for this is to force it to IPv4, probably with a file "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99force-ipv4" containing the text:

Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";

You can also specify that as a one-time thing on the apt-get command line with -o

The second issue was lack of Internet connectivity from within the shell. The most notable thing initially with this was inability to run apt-get update, but even after a workaround let me do updates this remains an issue so you may be able to edit local documents but not do anything requiring a connection. Apparently there are known issues with some firewalls - not clear if it's only third-party ones, but I've seen Kaspersky mentioned and I had problems with Bitdefender. The workaround is to disable the firewall (on a trusted network obviously) but that's only good for updating and doesn't resolve the issue. I saw a development post from early November, 2016 about changes to how some things are changing to allow better compatibility, but I'm not sure how long those changes will take to propagate or whether they're a fix or just something to let firewall makers do their own better fixes.

Hopefully this info will help some folks - even if not now, just by remembering later "there was something about firewalls....."
A guy from Venezuela is now a US citizen and he works at Home Depot. On the side he created a website that publishes black market prices for USD/Bolivar currency exchange rates.

How does he get these Venezuela street prices? People are calling him everyday? Emailing him?
Why is 'sudo' required? Just curious.

I moved away from homebrew, to compiling my own software on macOS which I just put in ~/build. I don't use sudo make install since I own the ~/build folder.

What am I doing wrong in this case?
(I think that all of prop 13 is quite bad, but) I hugely agree on the commercial properties allowance.

It's comical in an ironic sort of way walking around SOMA. You find yourself treading what is literally some of the most valuable land on the entire planet, and yet you're surrounded by automechanics, private parking garages, old warehouses, and frequently — even empty lots. In a world without prop 13 the development of this sort of low value use would be highly incentivized because your tax bill would go up with the surrounding land, but in modern day California these things can stay ~forever (or at least until a developer comes along with an offer so preposterous that the owner cannot refuse it).

I do have to add the caveat that it's mostly bad, but not _all_ bad: some of my favorite spots in town would have almost certainly had to evacuate the city by now if they weren't grandfathered into a certain tax rate (usually cafes/restaurants/bars).
Thanks for that. Very much a rabbit hole for Situationism which I had only ever barely interacted with when I was more active in Anarchist philosophy.
Normally, no, but if you want to dtruss uptime, or any other bog standard system utility, then, yes you do.
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Beyond the usual "email / write / call your state congressperson," are there any effective ways to lobby for changes to Prop 13?
Still seems totally ridiculous that it would go to court. 180F is 82C. If you're stupid enough to burn yourself with it (and I am) blaming someone else for your stupidity and suing is not moronic, it's amoral. The problem of medical bills is one to take up with your elected representatives rather than blaming coffee for being coffee ffs.
I completely agree. Digging deep in the weeds and pulling yourself out over an over again is how most impactful problems get solved. It's time consuming and the truest test of patience. It's very fulfilling to live this way, even if it seems like world is moving at a much faster pace
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