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>>Just because I type in yourdomain.com does not mean I want you to be able to start playing death metal from my speakers.

>Given the way HTTP works, I think it kind of does. It means you want the server at yourdomain.com to send you whatever content that URL points to, if anything.

I think the issue is really that the client (web browser) shouldn't try to interpret whatever was sent back if it isn't considered safe. In other words, there should be limits of what the browser will do with whatever is send back over HTTP.
This is wrong twice I'm afraid.

First: a graph with two infinite dimensions doesn't have a top right point, it has a top right extent.

Second: when graphing, you don't get to pick what the normal is. That's a property of the graph. It is not the (impossible) property you've described.
> I don't think it's wild Silicon Valley chatter to say that public transportation along fixed routes WILL decline as a result of new technology, and this is a great thing.

I do.

People are leaving rural and suburbs for cities. Cities are becoming more dense. Fixed line transportation offers significantly more passengers/area/hour than roads. Tokyo supplies 40M daily train rides. Nothing Lyft/Uber/Didi is doing suggests anything close to that amount of density.

Hyperloops are going to push maximum passenger density of fixed route paths even higher.
I think cost has to be the biggest one. Our world is more dominated than ever by cost consideration to the exclusion of other concerns.
With a looming trade war feature the US and China as primary actors, it's pretty understandable.

I also don't think this article really has too much of a negative bias, aside from the title itself.
I don't think the article makes any sort of objective point.

The author essentially says "I don't like it, it's cheesy."

Well, I can just as easily say "I like some of these facadist buildings." And I do.

If the author spoke with some more concrete reasoning about why these buildings are such abominations, perhaps I could be convinced. Until then, it's hard not to consider this just another example of every design feature having good and bad executions.

There are timeless Brutalist, Modernist, Classical, and Contemporary buildings just like there are ugly, unremarkable, bad examples. The same is probably true of Facadism.

I think the only argument that comes close (which the author didn't get into enough) might be the destruction of historic buildings as an alternative to full restoration. I wish more effort was taken to quantify this concept. In other words, present a particular example of a building project and demonstrate to the reader with real data why it would have worked better as a restoration project, complete tear-down, or otherwise handle the project differently.

There must often be a functional desire to build a modern building, perhaps one that provides more comfort, natural light, safety, accessibility, flexibility, square footage, etc.

Finally, it should be mentioned that buildings are owned by private companies and individuals, who generally have a right to do whatever they want to them!
I suspect the speed issues are more a result of implementation details than of being in Python. Last year, I created a config language for my own use that supports some syntax very similar to YAML. My pure Python library can load simple dict/list/string data 10x as fast as PyYAML, and nearly within 1.5x the speed of libyaml (https://bespon.org/#benchmarks). That's while building an AST with source information to allow round-tripping and supporting my own version of anchors and tags, so there's significant room for improvement. I expect that a pure Python YAML library might be able to match or beat the current performance of libyaml in at least some cases, particularly for a restricted subset of YAML.
What is likely to happen is Congress will finally pass the Marketplace Fairness Act which requires states to comply with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement before they can collect the sales tax. 23 states already fully comply with the agreement.

As part of the agreement those entities without a physical presence in the state pay only a single state agency all sales tax and not have to pay tax to individual localities within the state. For each state the type of products subject to tax and the rates of tax on them are uniform across the state.

The states are also required to make available free of charge databases with boundaries and the tax rate on goods within each boundary. States must not hold any businesses liable for the under or over collection of taxes based upon any errors in their database. In addition the Streamlined Sales Tax Board of Governors certifies service providers. If a busines uses a certified service provider they are not liable for under or over collection of taxes based upon an error by the service provider. There are currently 7 certified providers. The certified service providers provide data regarding what taxes need to be collected on a transaction, will collect the tax on behalf of the business and submit it to the state on behalf of the business. Many e-commerce platforms already integrate with one or more CSPs. I imagine those that don't today will quickly do so or if large enough become a CSP themselves.
> Should we go back to glass bottles and paper bags?

If you put a price (read: tax) on plastic, I'm sure many folks would jump at the opportunity of replacing plastic-heavy stuff with no/minimal plastic options possibly using glass or paper (or metal where things are disposable that shouldn't be).

Thing is, plastic has a subsidized price right now due to petroleum supply chain being subsidized - plastic is a byproduct (we even fight wars to keep the price low).
The article does mention home work. It's probably a combination of factors as the piece suggests. There are certainly enough anecdotal stories of people switching to UberPool from transit because the price works out to be about the same. And biking infrastructure has tended to get better however incrementally. And you have bike share services too.
What’s the value of the company if not assets + all future earnings?
http://fortune.com/2016/03/03/us-cities-average-commute-time... (2014) 16% of commutes in New York state are over an hour one-way.
You aren't being forced though. You can just choose not to sell to anyone in that state if you don't like the terms. The only place you can't do that is the place where your business actually is, and in theory you get to vote there.

So he's totally wrong -- you're not being forced to do anything. You're choosing to pay the tax.
More than happy to offer my thoughts if you want to reach out: andrew@rainway.io
how is this a negative article? If I had to decide it's positive. No more imported trash means a certain level of development
Self driving vehicles will solve all of this. You don't need centralized routes, it can be door-to-door, it can be tiered for comfort, it can be high density transport, it can be on demand, it can be safe and secure, it can be automated, it can be taxed to incentivize density or usage patterns or demand as needed.
They do.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/sweden-...

Of course healthcare isn't the only factor, but it's a huge boon for anyone considering starting a business.

The reality is that health extortion - let's not call it health insurance - in the US has a massively depressive effect on small business opportunity.

Generally opportunity increases as cost of entry decreases. It's easy to start a spare-time online micro-business in the US, but it's incredibly hard, dangerous, and expensive to start a full-time company now - unless you're already independently wealthy, or can do the investor dance with sufficient credibility.

The combination of high costs and investor demand for the next unicorn means there are far fewer unspectacular but profitable small businesses in the US than there might be.
I think you've got it kind of backwards. The absence of tax collection is what allowed Amazon to become Amazon and this change is now a barrier to a new entity challenging Amazon.

Amazon voluntarily started collecting taxes nationwide without a blip to its bottom line.

The new law will in fact put Amazon's first-party goods in parity with 3rd party sales. Third party sellers could often undercut Amazon's own pricing due to the disparity.

This tax change is a huge win for Amazon on many fronts. Any protests they make to the contrary are strategic, imo.
Yeah, but "facadism," as described in the article, is essentially hollowing out some old, architecturally significant building, and making a different, mismatched building inside the remains.
The problem with switching to alternatives like "compostable plastics" is they need to be composted in a special facility that most people aren't going to have easy access to so they'll either throw them in with their recycling (which contaminates the recycling stream) or they put them in with their garbage (which, in a oxygen starved environment like a landfill, causes them to release a lot of methane as they decompose).

So now the consumer often has to to decide if they want more greenhouse gases or more microplastics in the environment.
Yep and some is already being used as landfills.
Or wrinkle free clothes
All those concrete buildings on college campuses seem like a good example.
As the sibling comment from androider says, after 6gigs is free, but after 15gigs you operate at reduced speeds.

Edit: here are the details: https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#plan-and-pricing-extra-high...
I'll go ahead and say what everyone else is thinking: Donald Trump saved Twitter.
Mine was for personal. The bank payment system has myriads of complicated rules/methods determining how they will charge you on a transfer, where the bank is located, wire vs ACH vs direct deposit vs other clearing mechanisms, international vs domestic, individual bank's progressiveness, your account type, etc.
I feel like this is one of the most important underreported stories today. It's a massive, sudden change that is having ripple affects on the entire global supply chain.

We've written quite a bit about it on Waste Dive: https://www.wastedive.com/news/what-chinese-import-policies-... California is particularly hard hit and is likely to relax laws about how much recyclable material is allowed to be sent to landfills. There's nowhere else for it to go.
I've done some serious reflecting on exactly what you've said. I'm on that "safe" route. I went through the college anxiety, the GPA worries -- all of that was my mantra. To this day, I still admit to being a "resume" builder. I want things on a paper for a sense of achievement.

This scares me, though. I'm starting to realize that is not what it's about. It's about making a difference. Sure, you can indeed make a difference doing what you and I have described. A company needs people like that. But I always wonder, could I have made an even bigger difference doing something else? I'm not even talking about my education. I've even thought about this for sports.

For instance, I grew up playing baseball religiously because I had already invested a lot of my time with it. I didn't want to adhere to anything else for the fear of wasting my time. Here I am, years later, realizing I would've been an even better tennis player had I actually been open to trying something that would've given me more success, but potentially been less safe (starting a new sport in the middle of being so devoted to one already). Here I am, hitting with racquet on every volley, wishing that I had bought into the sport earlier because I know I could've been better at it than I was baseball.
Quarried stone lasts longer than steel and glass construction. For example, the glass is held in place by rubber gaskets which harden and crack in less than a century. Concrete exposed to the elements crumbles, and the rebar inside rusts.

http://www.witoldrybczynski.com/architecture/short-life/
Show HN: Is It Okay to Make a Selfie?
Robotic fast food is basically inevitable. It's the same exact process, rarely do menus really change. Burger actually looks pretty dang good, and for $6? Heck yes.
This sounds like quite the Rube Goldberg machine; if it becomes a reality and is economical, that's great news.

I have to think there is lower hanging fruit in the fast food industry, though. I just really want McDonald's or Dunkin Donuts to turn their POS machine around so I can key in my own order, or maybe they could cut a deal with Amazon or Apple to start using Siri or Alexa. The failure rate on the biological natural language processors currently in use are shockingly high.
The data from Camelyon '16 and '17 apparat to be available without registration on GigaScience:

http://gigadb.org/dataset/100439
The problem with all of this is that using these kinds of emotional reactions to evaluate research can lead to making some significant errors that can cause real harm.

As an example, facilitated communication was once touted as a way in which non-verbal autistic people could communicate with the outside world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication). The facilitators thought it worked. Parents thought it worked. It felt great to be able to talk to your kids who you could never talk to before.

The problem is, it was complete bunk. If you did any kind of actually blinded test, such as showing one picture to the facilitator and another to the subject, they would write out what the facilitator saw. The facilitators themselves weren't even aware they were doing this.

But on the basis of this completely pseudoscientific method, there had been parents who had been accused of sexual assault of their children and kicked out of their house because of it, when in reality the abuse had just been imagined by the facilitator.

Emotions are definitely important in communication, and communicating emotions with animals is definitely possible.

But there are real reasons for demanding better evidence before claiming that you are interpreting language on behalf of some other person or animal.

> quantifiable, numerical data we are used to in engineering and computer science

You make it sound like quantifiable, numerical data is a fairly niche thing, but of course it's used in pretty much every field of scientific inquiry.

Science is the practice of using the best tools we have to better understand the world around us. Subjective description of interactions with the world around us is just a very basic baseline from which to start inquiry, not something that you can say has led to meaningful results.

In this case, it doesn't even necessarily require substantial numerical data to evaluate these claims; just basic blinding procedures, like evaluating the results of Koko describing something that she saw that her handler did not, and getting some basic statistics over a number of interactions to see if they do better than chance.
2 hours for 20-24 miles? Just.. wow. You'd be faster with a bike if the infrastructure was there.. (e-bike for no sweat)
If I were looking to invest in one of those, the biggest questions I'd have are around reliability, cleaning routines, and maintenance. For example I could pay minimum wage for someone to cut veggies, or pay significantly more for an engineer to repair the unit because it isn't dispensing tomato right.

Their demo unit is very fun, and adds to the gimmick, but like most industrial equipment ease of access is more important than appearances. I'd hate to have to take apart what they demoed for routine cleaning.

And while it is laudable that they're taking the savings and using them on better ingredients, that only lasts until a competitor appears who is going to just lower the price (e.g. "50c burgers here!").
Yes, Russia has awesome public transportation.

Source: here now

Why? Cities are built at human scale (i.e., vertical)
Our IT people were apparently incapable of creating a way to receive emails which didn't flag zip or tar files as security threats and block it. We've had to sometimes ask people stick things in dropbox and share it with us that way.

We've had similar issues with people submitting code for remote interviews.
I always question what "last minute" really means in these stories.
Usually, when i go and look up the legislative calendar, the committee was scheduled to meet and do mark up of that bill, well in advance.
So it usually not "last minute" in that sense, only in the sense that "it happened before the vote".

There have been cases where the committee meeting/etc was scheduled last minute, but that's super-rare (and not allowed in a lot of legislatures, actually).

Here, i believe it was scheduled a week ahead of time, from the data i can find.
Seriously, if it makes a serious dent in my laptop, imagine what it would do to a mobile device...
> I don't think the solution in Stockholm is nearly universal. It might solve the specific problems of that specific city but would fail in many ways if applied blindly in many other places.

Or it may work even better in other cities. What differences between London and Stockholm makes you think that it is going to work worse?

> All these affect commute times and congestion.

And that is why London needs it more than Stockholm. And that is why London already does it. (https://www.visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-ar...)
I believe most of the ancient Roman and Greek texts have survived not because we preserved the originals but because of the numerous copies and translations that all the following generations made. I can only dream of the storage capacity of a hard drive (or whatever will have replaced it) in 50 years, I am sure that preserving a substantial part of this data will be a modest burden.
Before building industry and infrastructure to support it this is how my SimCities made money.
Is this what we're seeing here?
In-n-out double-double is $3.45, and they don’t use frozen or prepackaged patties. Automation isn’t doing much for consumers here.
Been a bit since I last looked into the problem, but I was mistaken. You can't receive texts from shortcode numbers (though the majority of those use twilio), but that has the same effect - no 2FA codes many places.
> For example Apple allows their users to bring kindle books purchased outside their platform even though they didn't get a 30% cut of sales

They also don't allow you to purchase books within their ecosystem. On PC, you're using Epic's payment platform. Same way you can pay for your kindle books on the web in Amazon's ecosystem and then read them on an iPad.

My point is that weird technical and legal hurdles, when followed lazily, can lead to anti-consumer practices. I don't think it's deflecting from the issue to discuss the underlying technical and legal constraints. It's Hacker News. If you want to rage against Sony for not allowing cross-play go to Polygon.
I'd go for it as long as they use fresh undamaged and proper ingredients completely devoid of preservatives, corn starch etc. The cleaning of the machine has to be top notch too and done several times a day I think.

If done properly it could be great, nothing turns me off food more than seeing a sweaty cook drip sweat onto the food while making it (yes it has happened, the food went into the garbage).
I always thought the entire point of architecture was to create a building/structure/space that looks like it was actually there all along.

You choose readily available materials to build it out of, you try to match the "style" of structure to the environment and culture of the space.

Has modern architecture just thrown Vitruvius out the window?
I get your point. But my point is that I doubt a hedge fund would have been performing better than the 20% loss of the S&P. Maybe it would have incurred a 40% loss. I think that in the investment world, action bias is very strong and literally doing nothing is not seen as a good thing.

We both agree that if you could have foreseen that decade, you would have sold all your stocks in 1998, put it on a savings account, and only have taken it out again in 2008.
> hollowing out some old, architecturally significant building, and making a different, mismatched building inside the remains

One could argue the Hearst Tower does just that. Most beloved architecture was derided when it was built.

Furthermore, one must consider the broader economic context within which renovation occurrs. Is full renovation a realistic alternative? Or would the building simply fall into disrepair, caught between preservationists' costly demands and the reality of modern residential and commercial buyers' requirements.
So what if you split your company:

1) A US based warehouse/shipping company.
2) An offshore entity that owns the products and sells them - but the products never leave the US.

Company 2 sells the products to consumer, company 1 ships them. Company 2 is, presumably, beyond the enforceable jurisdiction of the states and therefore can't be forced to pay the taxes?
No, not everywhere.
Oracle has a reputation for being the place you go after a scandal that precludes you from employment at most tech companies.

Kinda like the Oakland Raiders. Sorry Oakland fans.
Pretty easy to be negative on China when all the news come out of there are: dictatorship, imprisonment millions in concentration camps and brainwashes them, builds artificial islands and claim ownership of seas not even close to their land, blatantly disregards WTO rules and closes off its market to others, hacks and steals other countries and their companies IP, threatens to attack a democratic Taiwan every day, censorship of their citizens, threatening censorship of other countries about China or its concentration camps, depletes fishing supplies in other countries, floods the ocean with plastics, props up dictatorships in other countries, etc etc etc.
I think it's a pendalum swinging issue, the medical industry has economical (insurance/govt healthcare) and political strangle hold on our society. The constitution almost had a clause protecting us from the medical industry.

I appreciate the need for give-and-take and the pull between parties to ultimately end up finding the best result. Sometimes things have to be tried before they can be fixed. I think forward progress only happens by taking risks, and this seems like a pretty mild one in the grand scheme of life.

I have an uncle that spends over a 1k _per pill_ to help him with his disease, I think he's already being ripped off by someone. Maybe this law change will give him an alternative previously unavailable. Or possibly add competition so the prices for his medication go down.
Agreed! And perhaps very difficult to automate.
Unfortunately, this probably wouldn't work.

Most plastic waste does not come from rich countries with decent waste infrastructure. It comes from shipping and fishing and industrial vessels who dump their garbage into the ocean, and developing countries who dispose of all of their waste by throwing it into a river or the ocean to be washed away.

You can't tax them because they are not in your country. You would have to stop the plastic being created at it's source, and prevent it from ever being released into the environment.
Works great in my experience. It comes out way cheaper than our business banking for paying our workers in Europe from the US.

It's also really easy and convenient, while setting up wire transfers with our Major Bank in the US was complicated and arcane. To date, Major Bank doesn't offer us online wire transfers, for a business account!

We also use TransferWise to accept customer bank payments in Europe, without having an actual presence there.
Just because Jacky Chan does kungfu, doesn't mean all Chinese do. The amount of Chinese who invest serious effort into kungfu is quite small. I wouldn't be surprised if hip-hop has a bigger hobby base in China.

However almost all Chinese I know have at least some interest in soccer. Of course they bet on European teams in lack of having own strong teams. But they are more into it than most Europeans I know (who mostly only care in special seasons like World Cup).