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>Otherwise, every December 31, every Wall St banker would change residence to New Hampshire to avoid bonus taxation.

Don't allow them to change residence when they don't live there then.

It should not have anything to do with the tax department as soon as you're are registered as resident somewhere, nor should the tax department care about your whereabouts.
Or that they've all colluded. How many subprime lenders are there? How much competition is in that market?
They're easy enough to find using a good interactive map.

First, search for "title loan", "payday loan", and "check loan" businesses. This anchors your search areas to places where predatory lending is profitable. Then search for "car dealership" and ignore any results that have a brand name or a large lot, as those are the new car dealers. You will find the used car dealers with smaller inventories.

If you can get a street-level view of the lot, and see signage about "buy here pay here" or "no credit check", you have a winner. These types of businesses are literally everywhere, from downtown in a big city to the no-name dealer set up on the largest highway passing through a semi-rural town in the middle of nowhere. You can find them wherever poor people are to be found in North America, because having a mostly reliable personal vehicle is often the unavoidable first step to climbing out of abject, destitute, hopeless poverty into a more comfortable (but still bleak) working-class existence.

It is not entirely clear to me whether anti-usury laws would help or hurt more. Clearly, these businesses are providing a vital service to the poor. But they are also providing it in such a way that their customers are more likely to remain poor.

Put into a metaphor, imagine you have 10 flotation rings. That's all you can afford to keep in inventory, but you're going to make a business of reselling them. Now, you could check satellite maps, and go door-to-door, selling them one at a time to confirmed pool owners as a prophylactic safety device. But those people have no pressure to buy. You'll get a lower price. So instead, you can go to public aquatic recreation hot spots, with no lifeguards--that is, no one else around to compete with your service--and wait. When someone starts drowning, someone will call out to you, "Hey! You! We need that, right now!" And you will say, "Certainly. That will be $15000. Don't worry, it's payable with no money down and 120 easy monthly installments of $100, with a final balloon payment of $3000. Sign here." Faced with the choice between paying it and letting someone drown, they pay. If a buoyancy-hawker was not there, that swimmer would drown. But since you were there, you just put someone in debt-slavery to you for the next decade or so. Profit! And then when that 10 years is up, they still don't have that $3000 all at once, so you can stick them again on their way out. Profit again!

Obviously, the best solution all around would be for the parks department to provide prepaid lifeguards for everyone at fair prices. But the people who can afford to pay for that would rather swim at their private club than at a nasty river bank with a bunch of poor people. "Why don't they just learn how to swim better?" they say. "If a $50 annual pool club membership is too much, maybe they shouldn't swim at all," they say. And so the situation persists.
Page load performance is still a top focus of the company. While page load has improved significantly over the last six months, we know it has a long way to go. Our two largest performance issues are initial HTML time and bundle evaluation time. We're actively working on a solution to both of them.
Looks more like drunk posting to me, a bot would spell better.
It's rather bizarre isn't it? Not just the failure to maneuver safely in the presence of another ship, but also the fact that whatever sensor technology they have didn't alert them or was ignored. Pretty much every modern commercial vessel these days has AIS and collision avoidance, I'd imagine naval vessels have _at least_ that. Just an odd thing all around, and to have it happen twice is either a hell of a coincidence or there is indeed something systemic at work.
I don't think you can judge Microsoft's approach on update management based on the failure of the platform. The platform failed because there's a monopolist in the space with an 85% market share and huge network effects regarding app development.

Microsoft hit update handling for Windows Mobile spot on. A 2014 Windows Phone today[1] is a safer bet if you value security than any Android on the market right now. May not run the apps you want, but it is going to have the latest security updates.

[1]My Lumia 929 currently is running Windows 14393.1593, released August 8th, 2017. I can safely expect to receive the next update on September 12th.
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Very curious how they pitched this to investors... “We’re building a platform geared to low end devices that will become obsolete within a couple of years. Invest now, and be part of our team’s amazing journey towards acquihire!”
> they didn't have a right to request the sum.

Why do all discussions like this on hacker news come down to debating what they legally do and do not have the right to do.

Wouldn't it be more productive to talk about whether they _should_ or _shouldn't_ have the right to do something?
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Sounds like you have a lot going on and each issue may be contributing to it. Keep trying to work on changing one at a time, and see if anything helps.

If you aren't mentally or physically prepared to put in a full day of work, you are starting out on the wrong foot. Here are some things I would think about:

- Is it time to make a change? A new job, new problem to solve, new team and new culture might be more aligned with your success.

- Is coaching available? A mentor / coach can help change your perspective, hold you accountable to execute on a plan or just provide a sounding board; all of which could be useful.

- Setting micro goals. Wins of any kind build a sense of accomplishment and momentum. Can you establish small goals, which beget small victories, which can be used to change your mentality, situation, productivity, etc.

I caution people that are approaching 'f^ck it' with work to hold on. If you aren't in a financial position to walk away, especially if you don't have a next opportunity lined up, an emotional rage quit feels good for a second and can set you up for a world of pain (additional pain). It's 10x harder to get a job when you don't have one, even if you are a developer.

Good luck and I hope things turn around.
I don't think this would work out. Think of it, most of what we do (fighting each other) makes sense on a nihilistic basis.

If we are peaceful, suddenly existence doesn't make any sense. And we are just better off killing our existence.

Fighting for existence is what pushed humans (or living creatures) to exist up to this day.
I appreciate that you're not trying to advertise for their competitor, so I'll be that guy... What did you switch to?
I've gone down the rabbit hole of trying to protect my privacy. Basically, unless you move to the mountains with no cell phone, no internet access, and grow your own food, someone somewhere will be tracking you. You'll go crazy trying to close all the loopholes (ready to fry the RFID chips on your car tires?)
Thanks - this is what I asked for in my first comment. Any hardware companies?
In my personal experience Asana is still the snappiest. I've tried Trello, Basecamp and daily use the monstrosity called JIRA. Asana initial load takes a little while, but it hasn't created any problems for me. I always have Asana pinned in my Firefox.
12k tons of food waste transformed a barren landscape into something surprising
I don't believe Uber's component works in React Native, so I don't think your claim is correct.
Not an expert on Canadian law, but common sense suggests it's more complex than that.

You cannot simply throw money at a lease provider and gain title of a vehicle.

The lease provider can impose other conditions on title transfer (e.g. early repayment fees)

If you're throwing large sums of money at them, they should probably perform some anti-money laundering checks before accepting the money.

If you're paying cash, they may justifiably not want to handle large amounts of cash.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that return of the dealer's GPS tracker (and possible payment for removal) could also be conditions on them transferring the title.

The article is unclear on whether the title was actually transferred before the disagreement over return of the tracker.
Because they weren't necessary because the legal system worked just fine in this case?
Yeah, I don't think shipping for all Androids would have been realistic. AR requires pretty tight tuning for the available hardware stack and I guess Googlers just tuned it for their own phone and the most popular flagship for start.

Apple has significantly easier job here - especially since it doesn't need to get OEM buy-in for these kind of things :/
You asked what it is, and then asserted it was a priority for you. Which is it?
Those may be your biggest challenges but he is suggesting that even once it is all loaded it is slow. That should probably take priority over initial load time for an application people are likely to keep open all day. Just look at how long gmail takes to load, it is like forever but doesn't matter nearly as much as how quick it is once loaded.
What about using them as guides to realizing you enjoy this work? Even if you don't understand all the details? What about if you come from a different field of research and are interested in the bigger ideas---even if you have the mathematical background? What about just wanting to know a little more than you did before?

This is a pedantic comment that isn't useful for anyone. I do research in an intersection of these fields (photonics, statistical learning, and optimization theory) and I often find myself expending a lot of effort reading a paper in a field that's just outside of that reach. Reading this isn't "trying to find a shortcut," yeah I can put in the work to understand Shor's algorithm[0] from the original paper, or I can read a post with the bigger ideas and then go through a formal proof on a textbook on the original if I'm actively interested, instead of spending 5-10 hours of my time reading through the paper, understanding the complete notation and then filling in all of the missing steps that appear in such texts just to find out that it's not that interesting to me, in general.

Posts like these are the reason I've learned about fields I didn't know about before---sometimes they've also been the reason I've realized some of my work has analogues in different fields than my own.

Don't just put other people down for the sake of doing it; if people read this and pretend they're experts on the topic, then, like being an 'armchair expert' in any other topic, it'll be evident from a single conversation with them. Apart from that: who gives a damn?

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[0] This is a poor personal example since part of my undergrad focus was quantum information theory, but take the general case, here.
They should be careful about that, they didn't vote for Trump.
While I have no particular stake in whether you rewrite, presumably in the Postgres rewrite, you'd break the monolithic JSON file up to be one row per key you write.

But that on its own would hardly be a reason to change.

"Forgot to add that it does the same for users. Users are one collection which reads the document on login and saves the same way as the global state does on every update. How would that work with Postgre?"

Well, that boils down to "how do relational databases work?", which is not really a suitable HN comment topic. Relational databases are designed fundamentally differently.

It doesn't matter as much as long as you stay under a scaling limit where reading and writing the entire state all the time isn't a problem for you, and there's no need to do any sort of query like "Tell me the last login time for all users in a fraction of a second, please". What is probably the best thing for you to do is A: budget some time to read about and maybe even do some playing with relational databases so that B: when you encounter a problem for which they are the best solution, you realize that you've done so, and can take appropriate action. "Appropriate action" doesn't always mean "rewrite the entire website in Postgres"; sometimes it can be "denormalize the data into a Postgres db, run the queries I need, and throw the database away", which can, in some circumstances, still be faster than trying to convince a NoSQL to do queries it really doesn't want to do. Especially on a production database that's busy trying to do the real work.

The idea here is to make sure you don't get sucked into the tarpit of accidentally trying to replicate relational database features at your application level, which starts so beguilingly small and grows to consume your entire development budget if you start down that road accidentally and don't turn away soon enough, rather than to do things the "right" way for the abstract sake of doing it right.

Oh, and here's a tip that can save your job and/or career: If you ever find yourself in a position where you're trying to implement "transactions" in your application code, immediately stop and go get an appropriate database on the backend. The horrifying thing about this case isn't that you'll fail... it's that you will totally produce a solution that works perfectly in QA, and fails miserably with data destruction and angry (if not actively litigious) customers in production, and the road of "temporary fixes that seem to fix the problem but actually make it worse" is basically never ending. Learn what this looks like so you know it when you see it!
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[step through the demo yourself](https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/blob/0.1.x/docs/demo.md...)
I think you missed the analogy. Firstly, it isn't about the amount of work required, because growing good tomatoes requires work as well. Yes, a tomato seed will produce tomatoes on its own, but so will cannabis produce flowers. But in both cases the product might not be as satisfactory as you'd like. You may lose some tomatoes to bugs, and they may not be very big. Same with cannabis, it may be seeded out if there are males around.

Secondly, I think the analogy was more about the enthusiasm a home gardener has, where tomatoes are often something they would grow. So the poster above meant that they'd rather cannabis to be regulated in the same way tomatoes are: you can grow them without regulation at your house, but if you want to sell them commercially (to stores and restaurants) then further licensing is required.
There is a nascent organization called the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting [0] that some bootcamps / code schools belong to. This is probably the best resource for such data. I think Flatiron School's jobs reports [1] come closest to setting a good example. No affiliation, just researching schools.
[0] http://cirr.org
[1] https://flatironschool.com/outcomes
Yes it absolutely doesnt. I was talking about things when you have to reach beyond Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikits. For C or Fortran libraries and tools like those that are already there, Python is very pleasant to use.
The benefits people colloquially explain as due to an "alkaline" diet are mostly related to consumption of potassium. The thing is that "alkaline" does not accurately describe what is going on with these diets, because eating food is not at all like mixing chemicals in a jar. Furthermore, as any chemist knows, the K+ ion is actually an acid, but because it acts as a counterion for stronger bases, higher potassium leads to higher blood pH. The idea is basically folk wisdom which is transmitting the findings of studies like this one:

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/87/5/2008/2846608

Because consumption of K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ decreases calcium excretion, whereas consumption of Na+ and sulfur increases it, and because calcium is more soluble in acidic solutions and less soluble in alkaline solutions, there was a tendency to refer to the former as "alkaline" and the latter as "acidic". This is infuriating to people who know enough chemistry to know that Mg2+ is in fact much more acidic than Na+.

I am an amateur, but I've put a decent amount of time towards making sense of this, and it appears to me that it's mostly potassium, and to a lesser extent calcium and magnesium, that explains what is really going on here.
If you are planning on sleeping with them I find it quite curious that you do not want them to know who you are.
>And I say this a linguist and lexicographer who has written three language-related books.

Sounds like you're exactly the opposite of the target audience.

Besides, Grammarly would have suggested a missing "as".
Sure, if the only tangible thing that the parent poster said wasn't that he's been on the platform for 9 years. The brain's an amazing thing - it can get used to almost anything, given enough time!
Not one ship, dozens of them, month after month after month.

But that was mostly a silly suggestion, the idea is to try to think of a way to make the idea that things are better elsewhere more available to the broader population. No idea if it is possible, but I think trying to do that might be more humane than ever harsher economic sanctions.
I find tools like Grammarly, Hemingway App & MS Word are best used to highlight items you should take a 2nd look at after you've finished writing. Sometimes they point out flaws & other times I disagree with them.

I would hope none of their authors argue that any of those tools could replace a professional copywriter.
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I'm no lawyer, but I think the wrongdoing was when they remotely disabled a car that was owned by someone else. If I think my neighbor owes me $200, I can't just lock him out of his house.

A lawyer might or might not use fancier words like "coercion" or "extortion," couldn't say.
First of all, creating a decentralized Uber-style app is not the same as emulating your particular system in a decentralized way. Of course we cannot have a bunch of widely distributed computers chatting as quickly as your computers in your datacenter.

The essential parts are: finding nearby drivers, maps on two screens, communicating updated position between the two phones, and payment. Finding nearby drivers means that a group of devices in the same geographic area need to be able to talk to each other. I feel like this is right up the alley of distributed systems. The GPS updates really only require communication between the two devices at ordinary internet speeds and updates every few seconds. For payment I do not need to invent anything, we can use Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any of the many high-transaction solutions that are coming out built on those or other cryptocurrencies. So if you want to suppose that it is impossible to have a high transaction rate with cryptocurrency, I don't have time to get into it. But I will say that the main thing that makes people think that is that they assume zero trust and that every single computer must validate every single transaction. Those just aren't _actually_ requirements.

But give it 2 years, maybe 5 years, this stuff will get sorted out. Until then there will always be naysayers saying it is impossible.
I wish Asana had better support for Sprint cycles. Otherwise, I just love using it. The only task management tool I've actually ever liked. I've tried several popular ones - primarily Trello, JIRA, Basecamp & GitHub Issues. Kudos for the rewrite, hope you folks continue improving it!
The differential stops sliding of the rear wheels, Ackermann Steering Geometry stops sliding of the front turn wheels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_steering_geometry Tires slide during sharp low speed turns on some vehicles due to lowering, lifts, tire changes and even production defects.
Do you know about Netflix Simian Army?
It's a crypto bull market. Most of the coins are at all time highs.
Actually, MongoDB is web scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Ideally instead of a wall of text preceding the use of a service, or even worse hidden away somewhere under a fine-print footer link, I'd like to see services have to do something like this:

"You've just entered some search text. May we store this text and future search queries?

[ ] yes, anonymously to help suggest searches for other users
[ ] yes, along with your user name to help refine future searches, and to improve the targeting of our advertising
[ ] oh god no, forget I asked"

When clicking a search result:

"Before we redirect you to this page, may we record the fact that you clicked on it?

(similar choices)"

And as they build up history:

"From information you've previously allowed us to save and information we've bought from authorized third parties, we've determined that you are a 35-year old green-skinned right-wing vegetarian with the following sexual fetishes: <redacted>. May we share this information with our advertisers?"

I would hope things would change if permissions were this explicit.
Are you sure about this? I guess we should stop trying to fight crime with those outdated notions of education, upward mobility, etc and instead focus on creating more of the conditions refugees have instead, since that appears to cause less crime. All this time I thought the peaceful Scandinavian nations had it figured out, turns out Syria had the right idea.

Also I'm not sure if crime stats are right. There have been a lot of cases of covering up crimes by immigrants/refugees due to social pressure and allegations of racism. See the Rotheram incident, which set of a storm of reports all over Europe, but was covered up for years due to social pressure (56 mass rapists in one town, 53 of whom were immigrant Muslims):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

Another example from Germany, 1200 assaults in one night in one town:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve_sexual_assaul...
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It is very hard to turn privacy into a mainstream issue when billions of people actively share everything they see and do online to everyone all for a dopamine "like" fix it. Of course, they want it both ways. Share only what they want and all other things should be private.

Humorous anecdote: A few years a ago, an old colleague of mine got fired and posted all kinds of negative things about the company all over Facebook. The company got word of some of this (slander? libel?) and contacted her via an attorney to stop or be sued. This person then made a post on Facebook about how "... people need to mind their own business!". I think the irony was completely lost on them.
i haven't used asana in a couple years.

I just signed up for a new account, and it seemed pretty snappy. I might give it a try again.
There's going to be future battles, effectively DRM for automobiles. Epson has chipped their ink tanks, so you can only use their inks in their printers. Apple does this with their own iPhone spare parts. You have no right to a 3rd party repair, or authorization to hack and replace the software with something else (hence the right to repair laws in the works).

So why can't car companies chip all OEM spare parts, and disallow the car from operating if it's had any unauthorized repairs? Just put it into the sales contract. No more 3rd party repairs. Reduced competition. More profit for the car companies and dealers.
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At the risk of imaginary internet points for being too reddit-like, this is my favorite software engineering GIF and is appropriate here:

https://tenor.com/view/shipit-revert-crash-gif-4770661

EDIT: Here's an article with a full video... Which is basically the same as the GIF:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335331/Dramatic-vid...