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A trivial example of LLCs being more efficient than C corporations for a sole proprietor is that, if you make a loss your first partial year running an LLC, you can deduct it against your personal income taxes incident to e.g. your employment for part of that year, whereas if you make a loss running a C corp, you would have to carryforward that to get a tax benefit from the loss.

I have to stay clear from giving tax/legal advice regarding particular situations, so I'm going to politely decline to answer the second question. Knock on wood, we'll have a better answer than that at some point.
I think people are reading rather too much into the phrase "sourcing". Read it as "assumed he'd probably wind up marrying a coworker" and the boss in question is just observing the obvious - workplace marriages are quite common in Japan, especially considering that company employees around that age tend to socialize a lot within the company.

One can think of such things as non-pecuniary benefits of a job but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a boss who's ever considered it in those terms. More likely they're just acting on the "truth universally acknowledged" that young single employees must be in want of a spouse.

(Of course, the reverse of this is one of the ways Japanese companies are rough on women - if you're 23 and single people will tend to assume you're going to marry someone and quit in a few years, and treat you accordingly.)
There's thousands of people like me checking every minute if we can deposit bch to sell. There's millions waiting and I'm hoping to be the first..
I don't believe this to be true; feel free to run it by your accountant or attorney. (Our accountants/attorneys reviewed the parts of the above guide which carry their imprimatur.)
You're usually on-call for a fairly humane shift, not 24h a day.
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I guess my question would be, why should I care about isolated feral honey bee colonies? They're not a native species; they don't "belong" here. As long as beekeepers can cost-effectively maintain their pollination capabilities (perhaps at marginally higher cost), what's the public policy implication of CCD?
Spain qualifies as a poor country? Damn...
There's thousands of people like me checking every minute if we can deposit bch to sell. There's millions waiting and I'm hoping to be the first...
What is the syntax used in the third example of "This in an object method"? I have never seen it, looks like an error to me.
> Instagram: Stories are autoplay. You click once and it's a slideshow. So you can assume metric here are orders of magnitude higher than what it should be.

If autoplay means people watch more stories, then so be it. I don't understand what you're trying to say or suggest here.

Also fun fact: Snapchat used to have auto-play before they redesigned their app.

> Instagram: Stories at the top of the app is a very bad user experience. If an users spends more time in story, he spends less time in scrolling instagram feed. (Nobody in Instagram wants to talk about that).

Classic example of HN hubris. You have no numbers but yet are so quick to make such a bold claim. Do you really think Instagram doesn't know what the feed engagement numbers are before and after adding stories at the top? Do you honestly in your heart believe that this number wasn't very closely tracked and tested over and over again with different designs, prototypes, and user research?

If so, I think that's an incredibly naive notion and anyone who's worked at one of these high growth consumer internet companies can attest to that.

> Snapchat: People post whenever they feel like posting. Instagram: People post when they feel something is of very high quality.

This isn't remotely true even from a pure eye-test perspective. Instagram's stories cover Snapchat's usecase pretty well.

I've been a user of both products and many of my friend groups use one of these products at least. I have a lot of personal experiences and industry knowledge to draw from but I prefer to talk numbers (which speak for themselves quite honestly).

> Snapchat: Doesn't want to grow the number of users as it doesn't matter to company's revenue. FB makes 75-80% of revenue with just it's 10-20% of users which snapchat already own.

This is just silly. Of course Snap wants to grow its userbase. Perhaps they're not concerned with growth rate in the near future but you can sure as hell bet that the market is closely watching. To believe otherwise is naive.

I mean just look at analyst expectation quarter over quarter for companies in a similar category (see: Twitter). The market wants to see consistent growth. Their whole value is predicated on growth and engagement. There are pretty simple levers that Snapchat can pull to grow its business and all of those levers fall under two categories: Growth and Engagement.

Just look at their massive Google Cloud deal to see if they care about growth or not. They pre-committed billions over the course of a couple of years for cloud services alone.
The whole point of Snapchat is that it's not about sitting down, taking a high quality photo, editing it, etc. It's a messaging app meant for quick replies. You send someone something and they reply back. That's fundamentally different from Instagram's model of user interaction. It's like comparing time spent in iMessage to time spent on YouTube: it doesn't make sense.
That's hilarious but did the comment even need a reply?
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Agreed. It’s extremely poorly explained and quite misleading
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When you say "looks like an error", did you try running it? I assume you have a web browser handy.

All the examples in that section both look correct to me, and run as I'd expect in the JS environment I have closest-to-hand.

If you want help on the syntax, you should pose a more-specific question. Exactly what code looks like an error, and why do you think it's an error, and so on?
Ah I see, thanks. Hopefully you don't need to use the bathroom too badly during that shift I guess :)
Now you need 100 WordPress blogs on individual ipv4 addrs on SWIP'd blocks hosting AI-generated content about a keyword (which search engines can't distinguish from legit content) and have those rank well enough to get real SERP CTR so you can sell your eBook about how to get rich from the Internet (which is itself just generated from a Markov chain PHP script running against Wikipedia articles).

In summary:

shadow one since this at all boils down to index.
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It’s using object shorthand.

Rather than:

{foo: foo, bar: function(){}}

You can just do:

{foo, bar(){}}
Very cool. I hope the commercial version is a great success for you.
It's no different than all the third world countries inventing phantom cash every time they trot out a new currency because the old one suffered astronomical inflation.

All money is funny money. The US government regularly invents phantom cash out of thin air in order to maintain the desired 3% annual inflation. That's hundreds of billions of dollars every year that just poof into existence.

I'm basically with you though, but just out of having not had any need for it yet.

If a need arises, I'll get some just like I had to get 8 different currencies while traveling Europe before the EU. Those leftover bills feel pretty much like funny money to me. There are lots of people who would trade me US currency for them, but I still subjectively value them as basically worthless because ... well it doesn't really matter why (truth is, I'm too lazy/"busy" to go to the bank).

The value of a currency, any currency, (like any other object) is subjective to the holder.
Peanut butter is even cheaper than that -- 10 people can smell the same peanut butter but they can't fit in the same Pet scanner.
Except for businesses that compete on price.
It's possible to write javascript without `this`, a style preferred e.g. by Douglas Crockford, explained in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0

I've also started to write my code mostly without `this`, `class` or `new`, not looking back.

Another related, highly recommend reading: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-two-pillars-of-javas...
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If you work for a "normal" company, your company's lawyer will spend a day or so prepping you for deposition before the actual thing.

And the deposition is very tiring.
I kind of agree.

In a way it is great the work being done by the Rust team, as many companies wouldn't bother with it.

It is already influencing the design decisions of other languages.

However it really needs to be more ergonomic, I for example have been bitten trying to call a method into self from inside a closure.

From logical point of view it was clear, the closure wouldn't outlive the object that owned it, but the borrow checker thought otherwise.

This is one of the use cases being solved by non-lexical lifetimes.
He has denied that allegation.

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/app-for-all-says-snapchat-aft...
It's new syntactic sugar for declaring object literals. Google "es6 object literals".
I can hardly read the stuff below the button (http://i.imgur.com/D5tS8LT.png)

Also you should add examples of emails sent.
FB are the best at creating and controlling the narrative. Since the start. They'll push out numbers that always favor them.
So do we then assume that people who commit crimes can never be rehabilitated? If committing a crime makes you effectively unemployable except for the lowest common denominator jobs, then once you're convicted of a felony you will be punished for the rest of your life. You're at least implicitly asserting that that is "the right thing to do."

Are you sure you've deeply examined that concept?
This is inherent. A code can only unambiguously correct errors at half the distance of the code.

Visualize a lattice of possible input words: https://people.xiph.org/~greg/temp/lattice.png lets say that we are using a code where the valid codewords (dark dots) are at least 4 moves apart. If you use this code for error correction, you'll take a received word and move to the nearest codeword, but this is only unambiguous if you correct errors at up to half the distance between any two words.

RS codes are optimal in that they achieve the best possible distance for their size (they are MDS codes).

They may not be what you want to use in some applications because of the computational complexity of decoding with errors, or because the application can make use of list decoding which can be more efficiently achieved with other codes, or because they need different sizes in particular, the symbol size constraint with RS is burdensome for many applications.

The symbol size issue is a particular driver for other choices. Say your HDD codes data with 4-bit symbols but to get good performance you want a code that is a whole sector wide. If you use a 10 bit RS code to code in blocks of 10240 bits, then a single 4-bit symbol error potentially corrupts 20 bits of input.

Codes with large input symbols also don't lend themselves well to soft-input. (because instead of propagating around a single 1 or 0 probability you need to propagate around a probability distribution function equal in size to the field). So they're generally much less attractive for noisy channel coding since modems can easily give soft-outputs.
The lack of ANT+ is bad, but it's not the end of the world. Of the sensors I have currently (HRM, power meter, Stryd, speed sensor), the only one that doesn't have Bluetooth LE is the speed sensor. I note the electronic groupsets as an issue though.

The next WatchOS update will also add the ability to connect to 2 Bluetooth LE devices directly, rather than requiring the phone to do so. (Not sure if this is on top of the existing support for an external HRM or not.)

IMHO what's lacking is purely apps. For someone used to a Garmin or similar, the built-in workout tracking is a joke, and you don't get any useful exports or imports.

If there was a decent app that could give me data screens and a GPX file when done (and auto-upload to Strava probably), I'd use it for 4/5 of my runs/rides and just bring out the Garmin (920XT here) for the longer workouts where battery life is an issue.
Certain truths have to be told with a throwaway...
Technically true, but I mean c'mon... Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, PHP... You have to get down to into the Go/Swift neighborhood before you'll find mandatory braces.
Looks great. As a parent of a 2yo I value this more than at $10/mo and since my kid only uses one tablet I would qualify for free so you probably should increase the prices. Wonder what you think the ideal age is to introduce this?
The big question with Rust lifetimes was "can you tighten the screws down that tight and still do anything"? Rust managed to get it to work reasonably well. This lightens it up a bit.

It's not clear to me how far this goes. One annoying Rust idiom is having to allocate something, then pass it into a function so the function can return it. There's no way to give a return value the lifetime of the caller, not the callee. Will this change allow that? It doesn't look like it.

This is more in the other direction. "In the new proposal, the lifetime of a reference lasts only for those portions of the function in which the reference may later be used (where the reference is live, in compiler speak)." In modern compilers, when a local variable has been used for the last time in its scope, it's dead, and its storage can be reused. This is mostly done to free up registers. It seems to be exposing liveness analysis at the source level.

The use cases aren't that convincing. This may be more of a "because we can" feature.
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Like with other tech, they tend to keep on working just fine, but you want to replace them because the new model has better features.

I upgraded from the 910 to the 920 to get the Bluetooth upload. That said, I'm not particularly tempted by the 935 over the 920, and I know people still using the 310XT which was released in 2009...
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Here is how I would write that expression in Hy.

(-> 1 (+ 3) (+ 88) (/ 2) (- 8))

Here is how I would write the assignment, using my definition of def2.

(defmacro def2 [value variable] `(def ~variable ~value))
(-> 1 (+ 3) (+ 88) (/ 2) (- 8) (def2 result))
Snap's target market's unemployment rate is somewhere around 40% in Spain.
Ugly stuff. I'm glad it ended up as a miss.

This incident as well as the previous ones shows that pilots need better support in these conditions. Lots of airports are set up with multiple parallel runway configs. It wouldn't be all that difficult to add computer driven confirmations of the runway an aircraft is approaching on. Given the frequency of these incidents as well as the cost of the consequences it seems like a reasonable addition. Such an addition won't end the problem, but will add another safety catch.
And not being on Strava is as much as a social faux pas as is not being on Facebook is for society at large? :)
1) In New York, union rules say I'm not allowed to plug anything into an outlet. I literally have to call an electrician to do that for me. Makes it a pain to work in the data center that way. So I sit there for an hour twiddling my thumbs waiting for a dude (or lady) to come plug in my rack/router/server for me. Feels like a waste of my time and his or hers, but hey, what does he care? He's hourly. Except it really is a waste of time, read inefficient, read reduced productivity. So people who might be critical of unions? People who are affected by and annoyed by inefficiency.

2) Next time you're in New Orleans read the passenger "rights" placard in a taxi. It's absurd and laughable. Protectionist rules there protect drivers behaving badly. You will be scammed every time you go there, if they don't try to get you on the way in they'll try on the way out. You get bonus points if they try both times. People who might oppose unions? People who've been burned by unions protecting bad behavior.

3) Police unions protect Police officers behaving badly. This prevents conversations about proper and improper behavior, which fosters bad behavior, which damages public trust and safety. Who supports public safety and trustworthy armed public servants? Hopefully everyone.

I'm all for workers rights but sometimes worker protections protect bad behavior which can lead to negative emotions about the process.
They're not the ones using it though
Maybe taxiways parallel to runways shouldn't be a thing.
+1. Also, it's a plus for apple if people would buy 128gb version of iphones instead of 8gb ones...
What do you think the pay-to-win mobile apps qualify as? Specifically, the games engineered as Skinner boxes?
He's responsible for not answering questions if he might misremember and contradict the record.
In Australia. Only one of the major 4 banks support Apple Pay, and I only have one friend I know who uses it. I could switch banks, but lazy.

Are you talking about contactless payments a la PayPass/PayWave?
> This is a really amateurish attempt to smear Gore and the renewable energy movement in general.

I'd be more inclined to call it warranted criticism - he fully deserves to be called on this. As for a 'smear' of renewable energy, Gore has done that all by himself by spending who knows how much on renewable energy sources for his own home only to have them provide around 12.5% of his power "needs".

Over a long period of time he;

1. Consumed an absurd amount of energy, whilst simultaneously telling people worldwide not to do that exact thing.

2. He was called on that, and as a result took all sorts of (very positive) steps to reduce his consumption - solar panels, all sorts of crazy insulation, even geothermal heating.

3. Several years later, he's somehow managed to consume even more energy whilst living in the same house and AFTER taking all sorts of steps to reduce his consumption.

If it was one month, or a couple of months even (maybe he's billed quarterly?) then I'd say that's fair enough. I get surprise power bills every now and then as well. But this is years worth of him getting ever increasing bills and saying "Yep, that's fine no problems here".

Imagine if some other "famous" person went around telling people how to live their lives, and then did the exact opposite. Beatles throwing a fundraising concert for the NRA? Mandela taking up recreational racial segregation? Dr Phil going around punching people he disagreed with etc etc
Pay someone else to handle it. It might actually cost you quite a bit early on, but a relative or friend might be happy to help.
Something doesn't add up then, the listed elevation for SFO is 13.1 ft MSL.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KSFO

UPDATE: tolerances around GL are 20 ft
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/retrieveECFR?gp=&SID=&r=PART&n=...
Nit > 'this thing lives this long and it can reference other things that live this long, or shorter'.

should be '... or longer '.

The reference only remains valid if the referent hasn't been dropped in the meantime, so it can only reference things that outlive it.
Disgusting. Shame on you Googlers for deciding what is "hate speech".

What the fuck is that? What's "hate speech" in USA is not the same as Turkey or Australia.

SHAME
Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense?
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Uber spent more money campaigning to prevent a law requiring background checks on drivers in one city than it would have cost to do background checks for all their drivers in the entire country.

These companies can try to claim it's about making things better all they want. It's clearly just about money to them. I learnt that the hard way trying to deal with AirBnB.

Tip: companies "doing the right thing" don't charge your credit card then require you to login with Facebook (which I don't have) or upload a video explaining why I want to rent a house.
I would argue that the app is morally ambiguous unless you know what habits it teaches the user.

What if it teaches users the habit of selling crack cocaine? (stupid example, but you get the point)
Our actual system has the requirements of an existing DB schema that can't be changed, that's already using an events table, and that needs to be analyzed. I wrote some more about it here [1]. The FSMs are also cyclic, which can't be handled by your approach as I pointed out earlier.

Anyway, coming back to the example from the post, if I change the FSM (e.g. add a state/event) I need to make sure all existing data conforms to it one way or another (by making the change backwards compatible or by migrating the data). But the same problem exists for any other invariant you're trying to enforce/add to your DB (FKs, Checks, etc.). It's just the cost of enforcing an invariant.

I'm also confused at this point how you jump between saying it's okay to have a transactions table and then later backtrace and say it's a huge mistake because it's not storing the actual state. I already pointed out that the two are not mutually exclusive, and that the trigger could maintain an accumulated snapshot in addition to the order_events table. In fact, the trigger could event derive the new state based on the latest value from the accumulating snapshot table which may also address some of your concerns about adding new states.

Also, I haven't created a house of cards. I had the novel idea of for leveraging user defined aggregates as finite state machines and decided to share it with the PostgreSQL community. I couldn't use my companies business domain as an example, so I had to come up with a bogus one that people would understand easily. Now don't get me wrong, I'm totally enjoying the discussion around this bogus example, but I'm not enjoying your unwavering faith in the absolute correctness of your ideas and the HUGE mistakes you claim I'm making. So is is probably my last reply unless you're cool with toning it down a bit.

[1] http://disq.us/p/1l10by0
you can unambiguously recover from floor((k-e)/2) errors in the presence of e erasures.
I kind of feel the same way. I read "Age of Spiritual Machines" 15 years ago and thought it was interesting. But now I don't believe most of what he says or predicts. Some of the stuff will come true, but we won't be Matrix-like entities. I also don't like how he downplays (or completely neglects) social backpressure to technology adoption.

Edit: His health regimen is also completely ridiculous.

Edit 2: He actually sells his pill buffet: http://www.rayandterry.com/
the cftc has ruled that bitcoin is a commodity.
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Oh, they knew it was being released as open source. There was a clear boundary between the open source and the proprietary code - I worked on both. The open source thing was just a convenient excuse for some political bullshit - either that or they thought they could buy out a GPL project and take it proprietary, which is just insane. I mean, half the copyright was Google.
But those "top talent" engineers will be starting their own company so you don't have to worry about that.
Garbage article
One question that immediately pops up in my mind:
If he raped a guest - why didn't he get arrested?

I don't know the backgrounds and can't judge what happened here, but it seems to me first and foremost rape is something that you'd expect normal law enforcement to handle and not rely on a company to react on it.