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Have you looked at the zoning code in Bellevue or Sammamish? Its likely much worse than Seattle's, I know Kent's zoning is positively wretched, mandating that more than half of any commercially zoned property be paved for parking. How can you have density when you zone it away?
All of AWS' "zones" are very close to each other based on measured network latency between zone resources.
Which is why anti-trust laws exist, and why 'dumping' is an activity that is usually prohibited.
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If you have the right tracking variables, it's great for the job: "console.write(currentNodeID, parentNodeID, depthLevel, nodeVisitCount);" And one can wrap that into a conditional if they don't want to echo the entire journey. It's usually good to create such tracking variables in non-trivial systems anyhow. Bleep happens.
Sure, if you do not have the debugger you use the logging, but you will miss the main features of a debugger like see the entire call stack, all the variables and parameters at each call stack level, you can evaluate expressions in that context.

I use logging to log problems that would happen on a user machine or server where I can't open the debugger and see it. When an error happens on a server or a customer machine and I can't use the debugger I have to guess the problematic section and put lots of logging and try to reproduce, then add more logging and so on until I find the problem.

Debugger are much better but I notice my other colleagues do not use them and prefer the console.log or similar
Even if a case is shown to be baseless, just being sued can hurt a tenant’s ability to rent a new apartment.

We have this list, we have credit score lists, CLUE, and even sex offenders lists... How about one more:

The "I'm a cartoon villain" list. If you, for example, evict a little old lady in your greed for more rent even though your net worth exceeds some given amount, you get added straight to the list. Because that's cartoon level villainy right there. That should follow you for life.
They do marry other Jews or descendants of converts from other courts, they just don't marry converts or convert using their own courts. Therefore they are not a real endogamous population.

Also, the edict is only since 1937, they were accepting converts earlier than that. So fundamentally they aren't a success story - they haven't been doing this very long.
I have not and I haven't been looking for one either.

I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here. If you're trying to point out that I haven't done my homework on this and that I don't have a sufficiently specific/workable plan how to approach it - that is accurate. I don't have exploits to sell.

In my previous comment I already stated the assumption that I made, if you feel it's incorrect, which clearly you do, feel free to correct/fill in whatever you think is missing. I'm not getting into a debate about something with which I don't have in-depth experience with someone who does.
Reality is a harsh mistress. The state of our current society, and the world, can be almost entirely explained by a near-universal ignorance and lack of critical thinking skills.

We have spent rougly $5.1 billion dollars via USAAID and other governmental and quasi-governmental agencies over decades to build our influence and work towards installing a friendly regime. This is not up for debate among anyone, in any country, that is even barely aware of the facts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/politics/dollars-for-demo...

Assistant Secy. of State Victoria Nuland (and wife of arch neo-con Robert Kagan) was literally recorded discussing the coup with US ambassador to the Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt about who to install as Prime Minister before the coup happened. The veracity of this recording is not disputed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxZ8t3V_bk

Nobody remotely reasonable and intelligent can understand the history and the actions taken (let alone listen to the smoking-gun recording) and not be absolutely certain what took place here. That is even without considering the long, long history we have of toppling governments and regimes we deem "unfriendly".

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
We live in the UK. I have a child who was diagnosed with ALL and successfully treated. He is now 18 months post treatment. He did have a very serious infection at the time of diagnoses that was a major threat to his life at the time. However, we don't fit this proposed model. This was our third child. We don't run a "clean" household - we don't use antibiotic soap, we skip meat raised with antibiotics and we did not run to the GP for antibiotics for every sniffle. My wife breast fed all our children from birth past one year of age. We allowed the children to play in the dirt, eat a bit of sand in the sand box and just generally have fun outside. We don't doubt that gut priming is important but this theory does not explain every case. I understand that the researcher does not claim it explains every ALL case. I just share this for those who are wondering what they could have done. I think we ticked all the boxes of gut priming and our child still got ALL. Be at peace.
Ads cpm has been falling year to year, for anyone who isnt google. I do not think personalization made it better. It very well may have made it worse.
Listening to the Audible version right now. Even as someone who read every story the WSJ published on Theranos, I'm still finding the book version to be very worthwhile. Lots of interesting detail, including on what it was like on the engineering front to hack together the machines for what turned out to be a pipe dream.

edit: for example, the second chapter focuses on the "Gluebot", a robot originally designed for glue-dispensing that became the core of Theranos's "Edison" machine. The author goes into decent detail about how this robot differed from Elizabeth Holmes's original vision of a wildly unrealistic microfluidic processor. And how Holmes/Theranos hired a new separate engineering team (which came up with the Gluebot idea) to pit against Theranos's own engineering department after the then lead engineer refused Holmes's request to run his team on a 24/7 schedule.
Calais was a massive trading center during the English occupation, 1350 onward. It wasn't necessarily the port itself, but where most of the trade took place.

But if you're looking at before that, then Calais was less relevant.
I don't find anything in your postings to be reassuring. To say that the regulators will be too busy to mess with my blog won't be of use to me the day they do choose to mess with my blog.
I didn't work on GAE, but I know a fair amount about how it ran and, as I read, too, I could think of quite a few things I would have done, had I been a malicious actor. Denial of service is the first to come to mind. I'm sure a real security person could do a lot more.
> Maybe that's what vgo needs, a way to specify a conflict bound

This is a valid idea; you should make a proposal or issue for it. Alternatively, it seems like something that would be easy to add separately - I personally like the idea of vgo as more of a simple, unix-like building block that you'd build on top of. Adding a small utility CLI checks incompatibilities with `vgo list` + some incompatibilities.txt file would be pretty easy.
> I think you don't realize how evil a law like GDPR is.

I've read the law end-to-end several times, I do not think it is evil.

> Many small projects will get killed while privacy abusers will just find a way to avoid the law.

This is Europe, not the United States.

> You still have to point to one example where this law will make someone['s] life better.

It's already making my life better.

For instance, this email I just received:

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Let's stay in touch!

As many of you know, the new General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") requirements go into effect on 25 May 2018. Your privacy is very important to us, so please consent by clicking the button below if you would like to continue receiving updates from YouPic on announcements, insights and potential opportunities.
Yes, let's stay in touch!

Sent with from YouPic
Viktor Rydbergsgatam 14, Gothenburg, Sweden

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From a company that I've never done business with, that has absolutely no right to spam me and that I've tried many times to get them to stop spamming me with zero result.

So no, let's not stay in touch, fuck off with the spam, the targeted advertising, the profiles, the retargeting, the selling of profiles, the stealing of contact lists and so on.
They spent $1.5 billion reusing existing track and still couldn’t get ATC? :-(
> Once I earn the money it is my money and no longer taxpayer money. I fund the union with my money. The union does not receive money apportioned by the government.

You can't have it both ways. If it's the employee's money, they have the right to do what they want with it, whether that means giving a portion to a union or keeping it for themselves.

If they don't have that legal right, then the money isn't theirs, and it's coming from taxpayers, because it's paid by the government.
Indeed. Or similarly, allow indexes to not be partitioned at all - i.e. your records and most indexes could be partitioned by date, but you could also declare indexes that apply to the entire logical table (very useful for things like primary keys).
Last time I interacted with Magento, one of their customer service people verified my plain text login password over the phone.

edit: (it was about 5 years ago)
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Evictions destabilize neighborhoods and ruin lives.

Evicted by Matthew Desmond is a great book on this issue. It is infuriating some of the predatory, senseless, ruthless, scumbag business practices that slum lords use and crazy to discover that this is a recent development starting from the 60s.

Also shout out to Justfix.nyc, a startup using tech to tackle this issue. One of their projects is this website they made to help.

https://www.evictionfreenyc.org
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That's true, but they are sadly moving to open plan too in many instances which is appalling.
> don't automatically upgrade

You've missed the point; code neither automatically upgrades with MVS or with a lockfile. In both cases, it's a conscious decision to do so.

Helm likely had to update its dependencies (e.g. k8s dependency for k8s version compatibility) to solve a business problem, which makes it difficult to trivially downgrade that dependency (and thus break the business)

> A good test suite will catch when things break so you don't find out in production

helm has a good test suite; it wasn't good enough. A test suite is rarely, if ever, "good enough" to catch all bugs. That being the case, we must design in such a way that when a bug does occur, it can be easily resolved.

vgo reduces how many knobs we can twiddle to resolve a bug.

> After trying out a ton of dependency management tools (python, ruby, node, go, java)

None of those are dependency management tools. python has easy_install and two versions of pip. ruby has gem, bundler, and the mess that predated that. node has npm and yarn. go has dep, glide, gb, go get, and dozens of others. Java has maven, gradle, and others.

> I think Yarn is the nicest solution i've worked with so far

Totally irrelevant information without any additional data on that conclusion.
"Does that merit financial compensation?"

It merits Google being punished. And really, the only way to punish a large company is by fining them.
The proposal for 250 employee limit was a request from Poland that got rejected.
Chance of incidence times size of the risk is a good way to do risk management. In this case the chance is tiny and the size of the risk is too. If this worries you then I am afraid I will not be able to reduce your fears but please read up on the actions EU data protection agencies have taken in the past. I'm sure you will agree that the risk to a blog is not quite zero but very close to it and besides, you could simply try to comply with the law and then there won't be a problem at all.

It's the armchair lawyers doing sneaky stuff that they will try to continue to do that should be worried here.
oh right, I understand what you mean now.

I guess most people should know that going in. Are their good master-master systems out there with local transactions?
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I would say it is clear safety hazard and should prevent such a car from being given the ok by the DOT.

But then again Tesla assumes their cars will be driving themselves anyway so getting distracted trying to adjust the AC should not be a problem...
If you listen to the latest Techdirt podcast where they discuss this game, they actually talk about exactly that: that the game feels somewhat inspired by Munchkin, even if it's not explicitly cited.
I've been in the same boat (gsuite for education, for free) and have had top notch customer support on the couple of occasions something has gone wrong.
You can't really compare owning a M3 to riding Uber though.
If you are a type of person who cares about how fun your car is, Uber is not an alternative for a M3.
If you're the type of person who only cares about going from point A to B, you shouldn't have bought a M3 in the first place.
But they have significantly less neural connections overall, and you already have whole sets of neural connections available to reuse at a very high level - there’s no evidence yet that the neural connections children are making are stronger or more flexible than the adult ones in your brain right now. In fact given how most humans become more intelligent as they age (compare a 20 year old to a 40 year old) it’s likely that the brain continues to improve.
You'd want to be very careful with that. Shooting a gun in the air isn't the most wise choice. Not to mention that you should expect a law suit. My understanding is the results have been mixed.
Link for reference: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180518/22191239865/techd...
I didn't assume that. My hunch is Adobe wants to create something similar to Shopify but for larger mid-sized and true enterprise entities. Sure many use Shopify but not necessarily because they want to.
Everyone gets so outraged about this, and yet one glance on Stackoverflow shows it was a common concern at the time: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=Set+3rd+party+cookies+saf...

Not arguing that Google was right to do this, but some of the “pessimistic about our civilisation” arguments on this page seem slightly overblown IMHO.
It sounds like a level of Hell that Dante forgot to mention.
>The `vgo` proposal was something like a hundred pages of dense technical details

Which document are you referring to? The one linked in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 is only about 600 lines: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/24301-...
Source? Is there really no authentication around it?
Sorry, I'm interested in anyone's response to this, since the HN community reaction to any price paid in a bug bounty by a big company always seems to be "people can make more money on the black market". Rather than recapitulating all the previous debates about why that's not true, I'm interested in seeing someone --- doesn't have to be you --- work their way to an educated guess at a black market price for a bug like this one.

I think a lot of HN'ers believe that there's a market for high-severity bugs of any ilk, when, in reality, there's really only a liquid market for a pretty specific subset of those bugs.
You're being down-voted, but this is very similar to the US's policy on agricultural goods -- they provide "aid" (read: dump cheap staple goods like corn and wheat) into markets, which forces the domestic industries to grow produce that doesn't grow well in the US and export it at favorable rates.

These countries are then dependent upon the US for staple crops. And when international prices for staples rise relative to exports, then their citizens are the first in line to starve, as the aid is conveniently just enough to eliminate domestic industries but not enough to feed everyone. See: Mexican Tortilla Riots & Arab Spring.
> It is law that everyone gets the benefit from a union’s collective bargaining.

No, it's not. It's the law that unions must represent anyone whom they claim as part of their bargaining unit.

However, unions have great freedom to define bargaining units how they like. They already take advantage of that ability, in order to invalidate decertification elections (by retroactively choosing a differently-sized unit from the one that was eligible for the election).

The law you are citing exists because unions are authorized to collect dues from all members of a bargaining unit, including those who don't belong to the union. The law ensures that unions don't extract money from non-members while also refusing them representation. Otherwise, they would literally be allowed to charge as much as they want, and people who don't join would simply be paying for the benefits of the people who do.

There is no free-rider problem, because those members are only included in the bargaining unit because unions want to use them to pad their numbers. If they weren't able to collect dues from them, they would simply redefine their units and walk away with the same net revenue from their members.
Ah, Magento.

It's "smart" EAV[0] Database schema gave my colleagues so much good time. I do not know how it became in more recent versions, but at the time I distinctly remember them dealing with abysmal DB performances and completely gibberish auto-generated queries.

In one case, I had to manually dig through the DB and write an ad-hoc query to extract data that was needed for reporting, otherwise the software would start doing a gazillion of round trips between a DB lookup, an AS-level computation, another DB lookup...

That DB design tasted of super-mega-premature optimization, in which the developers wanted to guarantee extensibility at all costs, foregoing in the process the design of an actual data model.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...
As the saying goes, compare Magento to the alternatives, not to the almighty.

If you're running an ecommerce operation that is too small to justify building a custom CMS, and can't justify paying for Demandware/Salesforce Commerce Cloud, your options are really limited.

Shopify and Big Commerce offer good out of the box functionality, but you are then stuck with their feature sets and pricing tables. Each platform taxes you in various ways. Shopify imposes 0.5-2.0% fees on transactions processed with external credit card processors. Big Commerce forces you to upgrade your plan after your sales exceed a certain threshold.

For even ecommerce companies doing several million dollars a year in revenue, Magento community edition (open source) is sufficient. You pay up front for development or design work, pay annual server costs, and can scale your ecommerce technology spend on your schedule.

Magento has given me extreme headaches at times, but once we had our site up and running it was easy to maintain and administer. The non-technical people, i.e. the people who are actually packing and shipping orders, quickly picked up using the admin panel. So, yeah, I like Magento just fine.
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I love cars, all kinds of cars. I bought my son a Prius, I even enjoy driving that (just for the unusual driving experience.) I like to see how long I can go on just electric power.

But I'm starting to have real doubts about Tesla. Elon talks a great game, but they've had setback after setback after setback. I have to wonder what the long-term ownership experience will be like.

Good luck to Tesla. I'd love to see them turn out well.
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Can't it be both? ;)
I did not say "can't do". I essentially said "not as well". Of course "well" can be subjective, but if enough people don't like way a given language/tool does it, they will ignore it, like they have been with FP/logical programming for several decades. Somebody needs to articulate in careful unambiguous detail how and why it's "better" and "easier", not just repeatedly claim it. That writer apparently hasn't been born yet.
... but from a legal standpoint, personal responsibility is basically a cornerstone. We throw out a lot of legal fundamentals if we re-frame the decision to purchase a product voluntarily as "the ads mind-controlled you."

There might be some precedent in the space (cigarette ad campaigns were severely curtailed during the "Big Tobacco" crackdown in the US), but ads in general? Good luck.
As it happens my full-time job is working on our COLREGS path planning and collision avoidance :) Our primary focus at the moment are the rules concerning standing on/giving way with respect to other vessels. Some of the other rules, such as the one you mention, aren't being handled at the moment. However, we do have active projects working on the vision side of things to help get us closer to full compliance.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17121721
Prolog is crazy-making and awesome in all the right ways. For some problems, it can be very concise.

https://swish.swi-prolog.org/p/xkcd287.pl
Slightly off-topic: Is there a short history of the GDPR somewhere? History might be an odd word choice given that it isn't even in effect yet, but I'm simply referring to something that documents and chronicles what parties or individuals set the regulation in motion, the public discussions around the regulation, and what third parties were consulted in the process etc.

As an EU citizen, I'd like to know what or whom I should direct my ire towards.
I would call the china situation actual conquest, rather than colonialism. Its the way the usa works as well. Hawaii did not become a colony, but a part of America.
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> I tried making the change and thought it was easier on my eyes, but I didnt feel different.

Easier on the eyes is still something of a feeling, even if you perhaps don't prize it that much.

My impression is that a) the effects vary from person to person with individual preferences/different lifestyles and environments, and b) they are subtle effects to begin with.

I think it is telling that many of the more prominent examples here are from Seattle, which has several months of weaker access to sunlight (due to overcast/cloudy skies, northern exposure, etc), and we know people there tend to have additional difficulty with things like Seasonal Affected Disorder. So the effects may be more pronounced and obvious in such an environment. As with all such things, your own mileage may vary.

I've been programming my systems and my Hue lights to take this sort of stuff into account, and while I'm not sure I see strong benefits day-to-day, every little bit seems to add up/help. There are certainly days when I come home from the fluorescent light lit multi-screen office I work in and feel subtly more relaxed by the dimmer and redder palette I use in the evenings at home. Maybe some of that is placebo effect, but certainly if it makes me happy, it's a worthwhile tool, even if it is just a placebo effect. Certainly it is subtle enough that I don't think about it most days, individually, but I feel like in the long term it does add up.