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I searched through the schedule and didn't find State of the Onion. That's unfortunate.

Security Nightmares seems to be still going. That's always a good talk.
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I tried doing that in the first place, but it goes above 80 characters!
Copying and pasting wouldn't work, because many times you need to customize things.

Also, what a nightmare would be to look it up every time you need to use a component!

Of course learning it means to learn components by heart, just like you don't look up built-in functions every time when you use a programming language.
I don't understand, can't they slowly empty the lake behind the dam?
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Not at all - that would be implementation defined behavior.

These days, compilers quite often speculate on undefined behavior, generating code as if the undefined part cannot happen - the result is that your code is going to do stuff you pretty much can not know or expect.
In Europe, or everywhere in the world except for the states?
This Freakonomics episode from 2013 is well worth spending 37 minutes on before commenting. Or tipping...

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/should-tipping-be-banned-a-n...
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If they earn less than minimum wage, the restaurant has to actually compensate them up to the minimum wage. They only earn a lower nominal wage because it's expected they get more from tips.
Wow, this looks awesome, will definitely check it out, thanks.
What's the point of even having a price sticker if what's charged is more than what it says? Are some people exempt from the sales tax added? Is it dynamic depdending on the total amount charged?
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How do you know he plans to not learn CSS, or he doesn't know it already?
That happens all the time at many restaurants for larger groups.
No tipping is tricky when it's not mandated, because prices always look and feel more expensive comparatively, even if it works out the same in the end. People are very impressionable to their initial sub-conscious impressions. Hence pricing like $9.99. It seems marketers have been aggressively going the other way over the last few years: do whatever it takes to minimize the sticker shock, then siphon as much as possible from the relationship.

- new car for only $149! (every two weeks)

- cheap tickets, but charge for seat-choice, blankets, bags, etc.

- collect hundreds of tiny taxes instead of one equivalent (simpler) income tax

- loss lead then recoup on servicing and insurance

- cheap plans with punitive overages

- access fee, upgrade fee, change fee introduced at the cash

I'm personally finding it more and more difficult to calculate total cost of ownership of products and services.

If your prices are advertised at 20% higher than everyone else's, I can't see this working except at the most inelastic high-end restaurants.
slightly related: I've never been to the US but have been aware of the mandatory tipping situation for a fair while. I'm curious though; when I was first made aware of it (2 or 3 decades ago), I am sure that the 'standard' tip was supposed to be closer to 10% than 20%. Is this correct? Has the actual % amount changed?
You should take a look at Semantic UI if you want bloated.
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> What's the point of even having a price sticker if what's charged is more than what it says?

It's because cities can have local sales tax, but advertising campaigns are national, or at last wider than a single city. So it's impossible to advertise the final price unless you micro-target a single area.

Because of this it became the custom not to include tax on any prices.

Unlike Europe there is no sales tax on a national level in the US (except for gasoline), so there is no tax that could be listed that applies to everyone.

(And gasoline, it should be noted, is always advertised with all taxes included.)

> Are some people exempt from the sales tax added?

Yes, certain non profits do not pay sales tax. You can show the sales person a document with your tax free status and it won't be added. (You'll have to sign something attesting you will not use it for personal use, but only for the purposes of the non-profit.)

> Is it dynamic depdending on the total amount charged?

Only for some luxury items, where below a certain amount it's not considered a luxury and the tax is lower.
> With a tax on land value only, the single lot with two stories is preferred.

Yes, but that's because tax on land + improved value distorts incentives (by discouraging improvements).

Usually when we say the LVT doesn't affect incentives, the baseline of comparison is against no land taxes of any form. In that world, you would prefer to develop the single lot because you need to buy less land, so the result is the same as with LVT.
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I know, I was a waiter for years. We had to get rid of that policy because we were losing business.
Presumably it A) benefits the worker, since they make extra if they provide good service, B) benefits the employer, because the worker is motivated to provide good service, and C) the service level is highly visible to the customer, who they interact closely with.

I tip my hair cutter, but not my car mechanic, mostly due to C, I guess.
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If you do, please share your feedback. Thanks for your time.

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I usually just reserve a table a couple of days in advance … (Germany)

Being able to talk and enjoy your time even after you’ve finished your meal is a feature, not a bug.

(But there are tips in Germany, though the average tip is probably well below ten percent.)
As is this one from March 2016: "The No-Tipping Point" http://freakonomics.com/podcast/danny-meyer/
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Two or three decades ago 15% was modal (and it might still be), but I hear the mean crept up to 18% sometime in the past five years.
>HFT strategies can have ridiculous sharpe ratios of like 100

Yeah, I've heard similar and it explains their basically linear equity curves...
States have different sale tax in the US, you can't realistically know where your goods end up when manufacturing them.
I'll actually answer your question.

I've been using Bootstrap 4, since it's already stable and will come out in a few months anyway, so I won't have to upgrade anytime soon.

If you use libraries that depend on Bootstrap, you might want to check compatibility. I was using Bootswatch and the developer didn't upgrade the code to Bootstrap 4 until a few weeks ago. Other than that, I see no reason not to use the latest version.

I'm surprised by all the comments saying that you don't have to learn Bootstrap but you can just look up the components every time you need to use them, suggesting you use Skeleton, or that if you use Bootstrap you don't want to learn/know CSS. Nonsense.
Interesting. I wonder why. Maybe compensating for stagnating wages? Or maybe falling food and beverage costs (in relative terms)?
Maybe yes, You can not learn Haskell in one day, if that was your point. My point is learning Haskell takes time and it's hard and it is totally understandable if for some people that is not a good investment.
I released the app in Play Store and made a Show HN too. If you can, please try it out and please share your thoughts. Thanks for your time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13262155
https://barnacl.es/ is similar but targeted to self-funded founders
Tax-free sticker price is good for making you aware how much you are paying for the product and how much goes to the tax man.
I much prefer "everyone pays the same" rather than "(the most aggressive and able-to-rationalize why they can tip less this time) get subsidized by people with qualms".

The case of Walmart would seem to go against your point; they're much closer to the tip-free model. "You see this price? That's what you pay." (With the caveat that some items are taxed.)

If anything, modern/Western retail stores closely parallel the transition that tipless restaraunts are making: there used to be an ad-hoc, inefficient, confusing, anti-introvert system for vending goods. It was called "haggling". It was replaced by a higher-volume, fixed price system that provided greater assurance that customers weren't getting ripped off or subsidizing those who were better at the dance.

Lots of parallels to how tipping works.

Edit: A closer parallel would be if Walmart replaced pretax prices and "you just have to know that some of these are taxed at whatever-the-current-local-rate is" with tax-inclusive prices.
As much as I want Python 3 to replace Python 2, you can't recommend 2to3 while saying "Enough with the bullshit". 2to3 is abandonware that never worked.

Now you can use python-future instead, a third-party solution, but the 2to3 part of the PEP was a false promise that gave ammo to Python 2 fans.
I think Uber realizes if someone else has autonomous tech first, that company will cut out the drivers and they will all be out of jobs. So either way, it doesn't really matter who does it first.

And it's also why Uber is probably running towards getting autonomous tech developed, because ultimately its a fight for it's survival.

In the mean time, they will run transport markets that need people to run it until that tech comes. And it could take 5 years to 20 years for all we know.
Do you mean with the 'little book of OS dev'? Or one of the other resources?

In general, my experience has been that OS dev is a topic that is best approached through the study of a variety of different documents, simultaneously. For example, you would do well to read both the originally posted 'little book...', as well as the University of Birmingham text. Then it might be a good idea to look at the OSdev wiki pages for the specific tasks that you want to work on.

> but it seems dead and no one has taken the time to fix such issues

Unfortunately, there seem to be few /completed/, and high-quality texts available. It is certainly a shame that there is not a modern, high-quality book about OS development (that I know of), but the motivated student can certainly find the needed information. Good luck and have fun!
No pictures is just silly.

I'm not at all technical by nature. I learned from the ARDX kit (but I still don't know much). It's what I recommend to other women. Work on it like a jigsaw puzzle in front of the TV at night for as many nights as it takes to finish.

One project per kit is a problem because you can't just move on to the next project. You get stuck and frustrated. I find dealing with that frustration is a big part of technical learning for beginners that lack confidence. with a kit that gives you a lot of projects you don't go to bed feeling dumb like you can't do this. This matters. At least to me.
I really really dont like being called "Joseph" in long form. I know there are some Matthews, Benjamins and a Sybille who agree...
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IBM (Oracle, too, I would guess).

http://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/ezine/IBMBackwardCompati... has a very good observation, though:

"The reality is that backward compatibility is only possible if there are enough users paying […] for it."

It is the same for Microsoft. If, for example, several big customers would want 16 bit support on x64, I'm sure they would provide it.
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It is very hard. Development community are quasi-non-existent. I tried to build one but did not succeed. Getting contact with responsible of enterprises will not be easy but I will try and they are not many.
But when you realise that tipping is bribing public officials to get service that regular taxpayers do not get, doesn't that take the shine off?
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I don't consider a hotel bellman to be a public official, despite the Pinochetian uniform.

(In the case of Beijing, the police were just friendly and no tip was expected. The hotel staff I'd tipped (concierge, etc) were the preparation; it was the #4 guy at hotel (director of guest experience; reports to GM) who helped me. He is senior enough that I didn't tip him, but did get him rewarded through Starwood, and will bring him a suitable gift next time I'm in Beijing -- presumably a bottle of alcohol of some kind not commonly available in China, or some other US thing)
Maybe a high end specialty restaurant that is selling an experience, but I'd be surprised if you could actually compete with a place like McDonalds on cost.

Fries and a hamburger are about the easiest thing to make, requiring no special equipment. The ingredients are a lot cheaper than buying at McDonald's, too.

If you have more than one person eating, then the cost savings can really add up.
If you view tipping as an obligation it sucks, but once you view it as a chance to get what you want it is great.

If you have the money to tip for such amounts. All others will just the lower quality service.

Coming from a Western European country that does not have much tipping, I think I like egalitarian customer service more ;).

(Not meant as a personal attack, just to point out that it's not feasible for everyone to do this.)
So in those cases you're tipping to get service beyond their job. Or we could call it "actual tipping". That's fine by itself. The problem is when "tipping" replaces wages and becomes obligatory. But, annoyingly, the former tends to lead to the latter. It's a hard problem to solve.
Based on what I've seen in the US, tipping doesn't encourage good service, it encourages noticeable service.

I'd rather be served by a slightly inattentive sullen teenager in the UK, than a perky waitress with a fake smile pestering me all the time in the US.
IIRC with a few extra clicks on Square you can find a menu that will give you a "no tip" option. It's definitely hidden on purpose.
Usually the service is worse in 'tip expected' industries.
> and asked you to stop abusing HN this way.

> There are other comments in this thread making a similar point about class but more in the form of inchoate rage. Obviously, inchoate rage is not thoughtful discussion

You've warned those accounts before too, fwiw.
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My problem with mandatory tip (usually I see 18%), especially when it is just applied to people redeeming a groupon or something and not everyone, is that I then view it as both a floor and a ceiling, and so does the waiter.
On the other side, it reduces cognitive overhead. For this, see unlimited plans (e.g. all you can eat, all inclusive holidays, unlimited streaming like netflix, etc) which may or may not be more expensive than paying as you go. Even bags of veg costing more than individual items in the UK is common.

It reduces the effort of making the decision, and so makes it the easiest path.

All you can eat restaurants are probably the simplest counterexample for your list.

It can remove the decision between places from "Well X is a bit less than Y but then the service is better, what's 20% of that vs 15% of ... added..." to just "It costs $X".
If you really like your server, pay the bill with a credit card, but leave no tip on the card, then pay the tip with cash.
>so it seems to me that (&arr + 1) dereferences the pointer to the array

It doesn't. Because an array is already a pointer, in (&arr + 1) &arr is a pointer to a pointer (ie, a handle) so *(&arr) is dereferencing the handle to the pointer. So it's still one pointer level deep - it doesn't dereference it completely.
If you go to a popular spot for dinner that happens to be completely full and ask for a table, the waiter will usually shrug their shoulders and say 'Sorry, try again tomorrow.'

Or better yet, when the waiter at a cafe says very politely, "Oh yes, sit anywhere!" when there isn't an empty chair in the place.
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I heard it's "double sales tax" as 'normal' tip, or at least that's what NYC waiters were telling me.
Hi,

I just wrote a book on breaking into freelance programming consulting (link in bio). I do 90% of my work remotely and often for countries outside USA.

My guess is the number one thing holding you back is your grammar and punctuation. Especially at startup firms, your irregular style is going to hold you back for two reasons.

1) The founders of startups tend to be supremely pedigreed and set a culture of grammatical excellence; you need good grammar to get into a top university.

2) HR and management professionals who screen resumes and may nothing about how to separate a good developer from a bad developer instead rely on false cues, like "is their spelling and grammar obviously correct" or rather, "is their spelling and grammar somewhat abnormal from the standard conventions of American English writing" – in which case they reject.

So the question is: how do you improve your grammar? Start by reading the book The Elements of Style. Its contents are largely available online for free.
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Service in Spain is also much better than The Netherlands, I'd say on par with US service.

I think Dutch service is just particularly bad, and tipping clearly doesn't explain the difference since Spanish service is so much better without the expectation of tipping.
> But you have to delete the copy when you give the original back so what's the advantage?

You do in the USA? Why? AFAIK, not in The Netherlands. The copy was made from a legal source and in a legal way, and is therefore legal regardless if you do or do not possess the original copy.
The USA power usage is actually closer to 4x10^15 W-hr per year, not per day. Source: http://www.eia.gov/state/seds/sep_sum/html/pdf/sum_btu_1.pdf ; 1 btu is 10^3 joules so 10^5 tbtu = 10^19 j ~= 4x10^15 W*hr. So your land coverage requirement is off by a factor of a few hundred.

For battery space, the same factor of a few hundred still applies. Also I'm not sure where you looked up the volume of the Trump tower but wikipedia claims a floor area of 240,000 m^2 and I doubt people can walk in an area a foot tall. With a more realistic ceiling height of 3m, you'd be off by another factor of 10 there.

--> Closer to 1/1000 of land area for coverage and 100 trump towers for storage.

Your claim on it taking more energy to make a solar panel than it produces is likely untrue, but I don't have enough scientific background to quantitatively refute it. (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy99osti/24619.pdf claims a breakeven period of 2-4 years)
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> It's because cities can have local sales tax, but advertising campaigns are national, or at last wider than a single city. So it's impossible to advertise the final price unless you micro-target a single area.

Yeah I was thinking about actual price tags on products or store shelves. Not billboards or tv ads etc. Doesn't explain why something would be marked $1.00 and charged $1.10 at the register (for example). I see how it could be advertised as $1.00 (+VAT) in a national ad though.

> Yes, certain non profits do not pay sales tax.

If 99% of the customers do pay the tax, wouldn't it help the customers most to mark the products and store shelves with what they will be charged?
That depends what you mean by "good service"?

If you mean responding quickly when we want something, and dealing with problems professionally, then yes.

If you mean constant attention and fake smiles then no.
You could shorten your title:

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Different people and different Ag subsidies. Eliminating subsidy in the west isn't going to make much of a difference to subsistence farming in Africa.
Yeah, I can see how it would be useful just like the regular price is informative if you have a sale. But still - if I want to see one price I want to see what I'm being charged at the register.
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Probably 90% of port jobs are automated away compared to 50 years ago.
Then don't print the price on at manufacture time.

In any case, why is it any more reasonable to presume or mandate that the price be the same everywhere before tax and different after tax, than it would be to presume or mandate that the price before tax be adjusted to be the same after tax? Surely sales tax is not the only cost that varies between sales channels.
The thing is tipping is usually after service, so if it is single round game, you can free ride.

I'm actually glad that people visually like me (techie upper middle class white American business traveler) seem to have a good reputation worldwide for tipping well -- it means I get service as if I'd tip well even beforehand.

What would suck is being a black guy or otherwise profile as not likely to tip (French?) but being personally willing to tip. In that case, you probably tip initially before service.
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Tried Ubuntu for my great-grandpa. Having to redownload 100s of MB because of prebundled DE was stupid (was coming from SuSe/KDE). Also the upgrade story was not so good at that time, switched him to Debian and never looked back.
The fundamental problem with cloud in the current era is that hardware is actually pretty good, and has plateaued in many meaningful ways. If you're an IT manager working a 3-year depreciation/refresh cycle, you can look at your estate and think, well actually the headroom we put in at the beginning of this cycle was more than plenty, we can sweat the assets for an extra year or perhaps an entire cycle and reallocate that budget or return the money to the business. Maybe you can even avoid layoffs. Same with upgrading software, you can say version X does what we want and save the money on new licenses, training, etc etc.

Cloud robs you of the ability to manage your business in this way. You pay the vig or the lights are switched off - no ifs, no buts. I personally am a huge fan of cloud as a technology, but as a business model, it seems to heavily favour vendors over customers, in a way that makes even Oracle's licensing terms look fluffy and benign.
That's the reason you don't put prices on products, you put a bar code. The price is usually displayed on the shelf where the product is.
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You make this sound like the best thing ever and not like a problem. Glad to live in europe where it is exactly like that.
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What it needs is something of that scale to galvanize the population around an idea of progress. Doesn't have to be a new moon mission (which might have the opposite effect).

An intense dedicated national effort toward the goal of a fusion power plant is one possibility.
There are other similar sites that might be worth checking out too, like topcoder, for example.
Because that facilities tax evasion?
Because that would not make as good headline.