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> Businesses open to support the new residents and are taxed.

But why? Why should mom-n-pop have a higher fiscal hurdle than MegaCorp? If tax breaks are so good, why not give them to everyone?

> What the city may lose in corporate taxes is more than regained through the increase in revenue from middle class population growth

Then MegaCorp shouldn't have any qualms about entering into a binding agreement that the economic bounty will come, or else MegaCorp pays a penalty equal to that bounty. I wonder why they don't do that?
Needs satellite link as a backup-backup!
That’s basically what I expect out of it, but if it’s well written that’s fine. I’ve mostly been reading Sci-Fi lately so I’m up for the change of pace.

I’m not expecting it to be the next great literary work of the world.
they have been for 30 years, NeXTstep and non-NeXTstep MacOS. I think Larry Teslar of Apple (long ago now) was part of that. Also, TextFields in the NeXT and now Apple codebase know various Emacs key bindings by default.
I run several mailservers but my main email addresses go to fastmail.

the OP wants "low-maintenance". that's fastmail, it just works.

I ran with protonmail too for a while, it's good, but costs about the same as FM. Unless all your friends are on proton it will go out decrypted anyhow, so not so much advantage. proton worked with the bridge to my regular email client. it worked, but clunky. My main gripe with proton is they only let you have one domain for the standard deal.

FM let's you have many. This is exactly what i want. Providing i keep within the overall limits I've paid for, i can't see why i can't have multiple domains with providers.

my owns servers often have email bounced back. outlook.com and yahoo are notoriously bad. Microsoft actually operate a whitelist you have to get on, which is nasty. gmail also bounces sometimes.

So these are for side projects. not for real work.

another big+ for FM is you can connect over port 80 via their proxy. my VPN blocks outgoing email which is a PITA, but it works with FM in this way. That was really nice to have working again.
Caleb here (SRE at Chick-Fil-A)... we actually just did it because we thought it would look cool :-P .

Hah... no, but seriously... we wrote this article for QCon attendees, and gave a lot more context during our talk at that conference. We didn't realize it was going to be on here, otherwise we would have explained the "why" and not just dived in.

What we were trying to solve for was; 1) Low latency 2) High Availability 3) Container based, zero-downtime deployments 4) Continued operations even in an internet-down event

Also, as an interesting side note, the equivalent hardware has about a 6 month ROI if we put the entire load on AWS... granted it would be more efficient, so that's not an entirely fair comparison, but the hardware is unbelievably inexpensive from a cost perspective.
But it is partisan. I can understand wanting to escape from politics from time to time, but unfortunately it is and continues to be a major force in our lives.
Word from the wise - those certificates are pieces of paper that nobody in your future job search will ever ask or care about.
A really interesting take on what was going on. Also, it isn’t surprising at all that Python’s default handling of object arguments could lead to disaster. :)
It's pretty easy to add typed holes to a statically typed language in many cases, which will simply cause the program to panic if they end up being instantiated. I'm not really sure what issue the author takes with inserting panics / bottom until you're ready to actually deal with the problematic cases--the only way to make it more ergonomic would be to make it the default behavior, which pretty much means you're not getting any benefits out of type checking.
Now that you mention it I think that was it. Another great word. Thanks!
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Most countries have at least 4 weeks holiday, so that would be 1920 hours. In the UK the standard week varies between 35 and 40 hours (9-5 with hour lunch, 9-5.30 with hour lunch, 9-5:30 with half hour lunch), and the 4 weeks is in addition to the 9ish bank holidays, so that's about 1700 hours, and sure enough 1681 is the magic number.

Greece surprised me. They have 20% unemployment, meaning that if they spread the work evenly, rather than having 80 people working 2010 hours, they could have 95 working 1692 hours, same as Canada and Spain. The work is there in Greece, so why isn't it being shared more equally?
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This is in the context of an upstream comment (softly) claiming that now browser has 100% SVG support.

I think sometimes this is because the full spec is infeasible to implement, at least in a performant manner, and rather than implement a fully compliant but slow mess, they implement a partially compliant but usefully fast subset.

Providing a reference implementation allows a standards body to learn early that what they are speccing is counterproductive in one manner or another, prior to releasing it and getting vendor feedback.
But contracts aren't supposed to have provisions in them that are against the law.
A bit of a side-topic but I am sure many people will resonate with this. My company has been considering making many internal projects open source - these are the foundations of our products. Why have we not done it yet? Well, it takes a lot of effort to go open source - more than people realise. We can't just dump bunch of sources out there - there is no point in doing that. We need to open them so that they are well documented, understood, have good support around the build system any many other things you don't need to consider when developing in-house products. So while open source is great and I love it as much as the next person it is not easy.
Caleb with CFA here - random sleeps aren't exactly the most elegant solution... this was our MVP, and we'll definitely be improving on it.
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Fyi: you come across as condescending and elitist. Not sure if that is what you are aiming for, but I don't think that's the best way to convince someone of your opinions.
I never understood that narrative. Glass's camera was never "always on" (the puny battery would never have been able to mange that) and even if it was, glass is the last tool anyone would use to take unconsenting video. Turns out staring at someone with your head perfectly still is uncomfortable for all parties involved and most people aren't worth burning your battery for.

Given that you can buy button cams for a tenth of the price, the fact that CCTV cams dominate public spaces in most everywhere people had these concerns, and it's far more comfortable, economical, and practical to record video on a cell phone anyway the privacy panic over glass seems to have been mostly constructed for page views.
> Of course they can. The user happily works on their computer. They open your site. Their browser (or entire computer) starts to lag shortly after. Doesn't take a genius to connect the dots, especially after this happening several times.

Most users have 20 and more websites/tabs open at the same time. Most users do not even know what is a memory. Funny enough for most users, after initial load JavaScript rich SPA will be perceived as more snappy than a server-side rendered page but it will use more resources on the client side.

> Those are metrics for maximizing amount of people not closing your site immediately; not for minimizing the misery they have to suffer through.

These metrics are what is important for users. Users do not care how much resources your application consumes. What matter is performance perceived by the users.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/u...
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I wonder how many people running smaller non commercial sites (or SME's with < $1M a year income, or sites aiming for non-EU audiences) will just end up blocking all EU IP ranges from accessing their servers. Between the EU and China and various other governments the net could just continue to become more and more fragmented.
I interviewed there. It is not as dark as you put it. They admit they have certain problems with how they display ads, and how they draw in more people. They're acutely aware that they've yet to figure out a mature way to monetize the site without irritating the users. These are trials. Different teams come up different ideas and they want to try them out and see if it works out. Their CEO is very aware of criticisms like these.
> but to argue that Europe is falling behind you need to provide some evidence which is greater than all cultural differences.

The parent post does provide evidence: no EU tech companies have hit Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft scale. That's not a cultural difference, it shows that EU has not been as successful economically on the internet.
Adding a responsive subdomain to any domain you control is trivial and isn't registered anywhere (necessarily). I'm not sure you can achieve this, without additional requirements.
I made an app that distracts me to help me focus
Java 11 in September is going to be the first stable version supporting inference for locals, and IMHO that's when it starts to be reasonable to write code that doesn't run on today's LTS.
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You know I feel a bit funny about this.

These hit-job news articles remind me of Samsung-Apple lawsuits which just ended last week. There were numerous anti-Samsung pieces (eg, the infamous Vanity Fair article comes to my mind which was rumored to have been influenced/paid for by Apple's lawyers at MOFO)_trying to sway the public opinion against Samsung during the course of the lawsuit. Samsung had a couple of opportunities to overturn the case, but the Obama administration actually stepped in in the name of "public interest" and reversed their win, effectively protecting Apple from getting punished for stealing Samsung's IPs.

Now, I'm going to wear a tin-foil hat and speculate that these blown-out-of-proportion articles are influenced and/or paid for by Micron and the US trade commission in anticipation of adversarial ruling from China. Micron is a politically well connected company and is also one of the last semi manufacturers in the US. It's important to develop and win public approval before making drastic public/trade policy -- not that Trump would care, but Micron certainly does.

I have no problem with this, BTW. I think it's fair to put nation's interest before IPs and other commercial activity -- as the Obama administration did. China likewise can do whatever they see as necessary to protect and nurture their own.
Two weeks is common in the US; however, it tends to be all-or-nothing with regard to hours.
While I understand the gist of your post, the people residing in WA are violating their state's tax law by not paying sales tax on their purchased in OR, whereas subsidies offered to businesses are legal(ized).
There is a huge difference - a monopoly on violence and control over public places.
> There is a bigger force behind those recent major changes that can break the internet as we know. But who ?

You're framing it as a conspiracy theory, but the answer is simple: business interests.

The internet is no longer about personal stuff-- your Geocities page, sharing 128kb MP3s with your friends, and blogging on LiveJournal. It's a platform to influence people and sell shit, and everybody who likes money wants to get in on that action.

And yes, these disparate interests are totally content to exploit it by lobbying for changes in their favor until it's too fragmented, restrictive and worthless to be useful to anybody, yet like cable television we'll treat it as something essential to life and pay the monthly bill through retirement just the same.
>> Thais mostly drink bottled water, which is clean. They aren't drinking river water or something.Most of Thailand lacks drinkable tap water.

Thanks for the inside info. But do they brush their teeth with bottled water? Do they wash their dishes, tomatoes with bottled water or with "dirty" tap water?
I mean, that's not wrong. That is kinda how it is.
What are those factories producing? You have to continue developing and building products to drive factory demand.

Silicon Valley certainly didn't do everything (or maybe even most things) right, but to claim it has created no economic value is silly.
I gather from this thread that LA has a lot of stadiums now.
We haven't open sourced how we do this yet... we have an MVP way of doing it by using Ansible to provision the NUCs, and nmap (please don't laugh!) so that they can find each other on a specific virtual network at the restaurants.

We're replacing a lot of these solutions with "better ways" over the next weeks and months, but I'd be happy to share how we went about it. You can contact me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebrhurd/

The biggest key was that we use RKE for the clustering/certs on bare metal. That's definitely our secret sauce (pun intended).
>There's only 38 countries on here

It's from the OCED, which is literally a club of rich (mostly) first world countries.
Who the hell wants to ship stuff 9AU plus or minus just to freeze it?

No one. So if you're already out near Titan delta-V wise, Titan is the best place with lots of resources.

Why not just build a sun shield in orbit with a bunch of black body radiators on the back?

That would work. However, the cooling will be of much greater value if it's near other things of value.

Or you know, use conventional refrigeration on Earth.

Which will happen a lot, because there are lots of things of value on Earth.

Pretty much anything is better than shipping it out or back from Saturn.

If you're in the outer solar system, then pretty much anything is better than shipping it from Earth.
Hey Hirundo,

the former GraphCMS was built on top of Graphcool, with the new system, we also move to Graphcool's new product, Prisma, which is a setting we enjoy a lot. Prisma runs at the core for CRUD and then we add an additional API layer to it to add the features we think make sense in a CMS context.

The value add depends on perspective. If you are looking for a tool to build a content database, then GraphCMS brings definitely a lot to the table. While you get the content management interface and tools, we add just enough opinion to the APIs that makes sense in a context of building a content database.

Graphcool is also not actively maintained anymore as the team is now focusing on Prisma.

The Demo-API on the landing page is from the former stack. We will soon add a new example to showcase all the new API utils.
Hi, Thanks everyone for amazing response.

I just updated it with some most common issues fixed.

1) Now select letters in any order, if its a valid word then it will disappear.

2) Now showing next letter in upper right corner

3) Fix issue which was blocking keyboard events

4) Fixed it on Firefox.

And added some colors to buttons:)

Thank you once again. Cheers!
> There are a half dozen manufacturers all over the world making exactly this same junk.

Not in the densities required for modern uses.
Take a look at the chart in this article from HumanProgress.Org

https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=597

Your statement is only true if you move a significant number of items like "Dishwasher" from want to need.

Clothing, Food, Appliances are all now significantly cheaper comparability. Housing is a serious issue that has not followed the progress made in other areas, but there is hope for the future even in that area.
So he was elected by a majority of the European Council. One of whom is the national head of government in my country. Who is there by virtue of being the leader of the party which had the most MPs in the last election, when factoring in an alliance with another party. And the MPs elected by a majority of votes in their constituencies, no matter how slim.

You can say "that's democracy", but it's so diluted it's almost homeopathic.
There are so many things I could argue with here but I'm tired so I'll just pick one.

> If anything we should welcome higher and higher energy use because it means higher standard of living for the humankind.

Why would it mean that? If we were talking about households using more and more it might, but it might not. My tv uses far less energy than the one I had twenty years ago but there's no chance I'm going back to that heap of CRT junk. Likewise all my other appliances, my car etc. My life has improved as my energy usage has decreased. But even if the opposite were true, it's not households, but industry that in this case is consuming more and more power. An industry that produces no goods, provides no service, does no research, improves only the lives of the direct owners of that industry. It's as if they're building enormous, energy sucking diamond factories, but with the added chance that diamonds might be worthless by the time they have them.

Even if I'm wrong, even if higher energy usage means higher standard of living, that's a short term outlook, because over a hundred year period it will mean a much, much lower standard of living for everyone who hasn't drowned or starved yet
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Wait, what? Is it not the GNU Compiler Collection? It's part of GNU, which is a FSF project. Not sure about actual developers, but Richard Stallman himself is still on GCC's steering committee last I checked (among various other individuals, including multiple from Red Hat). The donation link on GCC's homepage also points to the FSF's general GNU donation page, which strongly implies the FSF is the one controlling the project's finances, too.

Regardless, that's even less reason to be worried about Red Hat totally collapsing, then. Plenty of other companies - large and small - to pick up the slack (and I highly suspect the various Red Hat contributors would probably continue to contribute anyway).
Yeah, I had a feeling the real 'expansion' would be more involved. I didn't know about the lookup in __dict__, that's good to know.

I'm reminded of PHP, where (at least in version 5.*) we could write:

$myObject->foo = function() { return "hello world"; };

$x = $myObject->foo;
$x(); // Hello world

$myObject->foo(); // Error: no such method 'foo'

(Taken from an old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8119419 )
Then that organization doesn't need the tax break. If you're not going to be able to bring something of value to the area, then my tax dollars should not be subsidizing you beyond what anyone else gets.
Profitability is not the same as social value. See also media critiques of high-frequency trading.
In my experience, changing the default DNS servers, enabling sch_cake, and minimizing shared spectrum interference are the most significant improvements for a home WiFi connection. Can anyone think of an additional dimension for improvement, besides upgrading the link itself?
I live in Germany as well (I'm Swiss), and people usually get free time in exchange for overtime and not money around here. I think that explains it better, because overtime is pretty prevalent - at least in some jobs. Others not so much. You usually don't have to work more than your usual 8 hours/day in a super market. As a software engineer however...
We deal with a challenge of frequent network outages or latency issues... keep in mind that we have locations out in the middle of nowhere with no QoS. There are a variety of loads at the restaurant that require low latency and high up time. On site K8s clusters were a natural fit for that solution.

Trust me, it would have been way easier to just hook this stuff up to the cloud :-P . I still dream that we will be able to some day.
Ok, but it's not like Microsoft can't discuss with W3C any problems (in their view) in the standard.

Anyway, I totally agree that there should be a reference implementation. Imho, preferably in a purely functional language, to keep it as clean as possible.
That is fair and actually goes to further support my point. I would bet almost everyone reading this has at some point failed to pay sales tax on a purchase in which the retailer didn't collect the tax. We were all committing a crime to save a few dollars here and there. That was the whole motivation behind the fight to get internet retailers to start collecting taxes. Don't blame business for responding to economic incentives the same way you personally would.
And I can't think of any other countries imposing their laws on the rest of the world like the EU is doing.
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The point of LINQ is that it isn't like java streams, it gets to decide where to "where".

Java streams read data from spinning rust and then does the selection in RAM. LINQ can send the "where" to the RDBMS and the RDBMS can use an index/btree lookup to read just the data needed where java streams would read umpty megabytes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17414383 BTW
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That sounds perfect! PR just like that will work, I like the personal touch.
You're proving my point, in that you don't see the situation holistically. You're assuming all "business" is tech. How about all the maintenance based services? Even inside tech, do you think all issue management in a giant data center is going to be handled by those 50 employees and not a slew of outside contractors?
Those Business Owners are ALSO the ones setting up this perverse game of incentive.
Checked the cvdazzle site. Why do these models - and models on "high fashion" photos in general - look always like they feel deep contempt towards the viewer? Where did this trope come from? What are they trying to suggest? I don't get it.
There is actually another alternative which is quote good called https://tildes.net/

Right now it is very closely editorialized, but conversation level is at a good point.