skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest criticism with Stripe and Square's response is that Jack Dorsey admitted over Twitter today that a major reason both companies officially oppose Prop C is because it disproportionately impacts payment companies since they would be effectively "double taxed" since by definition a tax on "gross receipts" would be a tax on the entire transaction amount once and on the ~2.9% transaction fee again.

Jack Dorsey's tweet on this "unfairness" today was the very first time I heard that as part of their argument against this tax. Why not explicitly say that up front long ago instead of hiding behind the singular argument that "we just support the mayor's judgement on the issue?" Seems disingenuous.
+1 for the Bernstein ref. Had it mind, but couldn't remember the deets.
i can't exactly tell you what to do because I personally suffer from the same problem in essentially every corporate endeavor i seek. however, that being said, i can give you a lot of things not to do:

-don't not admit that you're overwhelmed when you are. if you keep it inside it'll just compound your feelings.

-if you don't know what to do, don't just not do anything or waste your time on social media. bite the bullet and ask someone.

-don't ever discourage the way you feel entirely. that sense of shame and anxiety does serve a purpose: it motivates you to want to change. for me, i just took it for granted and assumed it couldn't be changed.

-don't actively hide from seeking feedback from your higher ups. if you're that worried about your progress and your contributions, then it only makes sense to seek further information.

-beyond that, don't hide from seeking feedback from fellow employees. they've been there longer than you chances are and they're a lot easier to approach than a supervisor or a boss because it's easy to convince yourself that everything is on the line if you admit to the person who hired you that you're struggling to integrate. the point is: find someone you're comfortable opening up to and do it.

i managed to ride a wonderful job as a software developer for cpanel into the ground after only three months because I just couldn't let myself integrate (not to mention that was the midge of my severe drug addiction period so that also contributed to my downfall). i know how you feel now may suck but it'll be infinitely worse if you let it define you and become the reason you no longer have a job. you clearly have some potential to do it otherwise you wouldn't be there. all you have to do is accept that and understand that growing pains are natural. u got this :^)
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That is a misrepresentation of a lot of pro Prop C people (probably most) who advocate for more affordable housing. What they fight for is higher affordable housing requirements, as they don’t see market rate development in tech boomtowns as a realistic way to solve affordability for the working class.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-expensive...
xcrun just locates tools inside the current $DEVELOPER_DIR, which is inside the Xcode.app bundle (based on which Xcode is selected with xcode-select). You can think of xcode-select as virtualenv or similar systems: you select which version of the tools you want to use.

Fun fact: If you symlink xcrun as a different name, it will assume that is the name of the tool you wish to run. So "ln -s /usr/bin/xcrun altool" will make altool an alias to run the version of altool bundled with the currently selected Xcode.
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I don’t see how you get that at all. The comment starts out expressly criticizing when organizations consider migrating to microservices from existing monolith projects.
You can call me racist all you want but I do think that'd suck and meeting people from different and similar backgrounds to me has been a tremendous boon to me in my life.

Getting out of your bubble is important, being challenged by others beliefs is important, and learning to have empathy for others situations is important.

And universities should strive to be places where those things happen.
I agree, people and private (non-government) businesses should be able to discriminate however they want on whatever factors they want.

However, that is not what the law says.
So many apps just seem like Excel with a better UI.
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The publishers really worked hard to find good translators it seems. I had the English and French ones as a kid, and read them both (missed most of the jokes which meant reading them as I got older continued to be novel and exciting). My kid read them in German, and then had the same amazement in reading them in English, which got me to go read the German ones -- hilarious!

The translations are much better than the more workmanlike translations of Tintin (though Hergé's text never reached the madcap level of Asterix).

I've wondered if many of the other translations were likewise locally funny.
That new Palm phone sounds like exactly what I've been looking for for two years, except for the carrier exclusive and the part where it only goes with another phone, not on its own-which might not be so bad, except for the extra $20/mo.
Complaining about any kind of race composition does seem oddly racist to me, even when the poster is trying to reduce racism. I wouldn't go to a university in Africa and say "wow it sucks that there's so many black people here, you need some white people for diversity. Maybe we should tweak the admissions system".
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Yea, this sounds like a great idea. If I got a major sickness, I know I'm financially screwed anyway, even with insurance, because I have no idea how to navigate the insurance/hospital/doctor bureaucracy. I'd rather hire someone like OP to be my "health care agent" and do all this paperwork and chasing people down, in hopes he might be able to make my out of pocket bill $100K rather than $1M. That kind of service would be worth more than lawyers charge.
Two of my favourite authors mentioned in the first paragraph: Mark Twain and Kipling. They were telling their stories. And it is only theirs to tell. I am saddened to hear that kids in India don’t know Kipling anymore. (I was raised in India) I sometimes like to claim at least a part of Kipling as one of our own. He was Indian too, as far as I am concerned. He didn’t just write..he created phrases that we use to this day..I do all the time! Kipling and Twain nee Samuel Clemens met when he was traveling in America. This was right after Tom Sawyer. He was said to have given Kipling some literary advice... paraphrasing..to get all the facts right so they can be distorted later. I was also surprised to learn that Kipling wrote speculative fiction(I haven’t read those) using the literary device of narrative exposition that was picked up by Robert Heinlein. Then I wasn’t surprised because Heinlein is one of my favourites too. But back to Twain..he was a satirist and maybe an eccentric..but does it matter? Everyone has their own story to tell and they speak for themselves. I enjoy Samuel Clemens’ Mark Twain. There are professional reviewers and then there are creative writers. The article was written by and about the former. Samuel Clemens was a genius.
They've already got some responses, there's a link to the answers at the top of the article.
Impeccable timing as I witness my iPhone 6 crash opening the phone app. You had one job, iPhone.....
That's the point of Federalism - local autonomy where it makes sense, coordinated direction from above where it makes sense.

Small countries don't have much leverage on their own on the world stage. CA and NY are almost certainly better off as part of the greater whole.
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> they would be effectively "double taxed" since by definition a tax on "gross receipts" would be a tax on the entire transaction amount once and on the ~2.9% transaction fee again.

Citation please? Dorsey said they’d be taxed more than Salesforce but I assumed that’s because of where geographically they book their revenue.
Isn't it ironic that what Gaudi intended to be a monument to God has become a monument to Gaudi?
See: https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/Briggs_Theeffe...

"When researchers have estimated the effect of commercial test preparation programs on the SAT while taking the above factors into account, the effect of commercial test preparation has appeared relatively small"
Quite aside from the question of whether or not its okay to discriminate as long as it is principally whites who are harmed, I find this statement from the ACLU to be bizarre. I think it is fairly obviously wrong.

Moreover, the plaintiffs commissioned a study on the effect color blind admissions would have on the racial distribution of Harvard's undergraduate population. It should be taken with a grain of salt, as should the materials offered by the defense, and I suspect it overestimates the effect a bit, but it conforms fairly closely with anecdotal evidence I've seen and so sounds much more plausible to me than the ACLU's take.

It claims the share of black students would shrink from ~15% to ~0.9% and the share of hispanic students from ~15% to ~3%. Meanwhile, the share of white students would shrink slightly from ~37% to ~35%. The proportion of Asian students would roughly double, from ~25% to ~50%.

Again, the specific numbers might be a bit off, but it generally agrees with a lot of anecdotal evidence I've seen --- being black or Hispanic gives one a large advantage, being white is close to neutral, and being Asian is a large disadvantage.
There's an oss alternative called librespot https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot
It's actually a big change. One issue is that Apple may not approve you(for whatever reason) or keep you on the waitlist for weeks(happened to me). Not to mention that there won't be any competition. Next would be to make Safari and any browser running on osx accept only Apple tls certificates. That would be "awesome"! Finally Apple "secures" the internet
Seems like Harvard is trying to add confusion to the issue. There's a strong possibility that asian applicants are penalized relative to white students, which has nothing to do with affirmative action.
The say they are Christians. Some even teach science at Christian colleges. I'm not sure why you think you know science (and theology) better than them given that it's their life's work.

Also, your argument from that chunk of Genesis is weak. Created "in his own image" could mean quite a lot of things. Imagine that tomorrow humans get the ability to create new universes where they can speed up the flow of time. Pretty much the first thing we'd do is to run a bunch of universes along the lines of our own to see if intelligent life like ourselves turns up.

If we succeed, did we create life? Yes. In our own image? Yes, definitely, as long as your reading of "image" is not extremely literal. Did we design it? No way. And a similar argument would apply if we jumped in further and directed evolution toward particular ends by artificial selection. We would create, but not design.

If, on the other hand, you're very literal about "image", then it requires all sorts of questions. Does your god have a nose? Does it have boogers? If not, why do I have a nose and or boogers? Is he not good at designing in his image? Et cetera.

And regardless, an approach to biblical hermeneutics that boils everything down to one sentence is generally quite weak. It's a big book. Hinging a conclusion about a complicated topic on a single verse is like doing interior decorating while looking through a toilet paper tube: an excessively narrow focus means you're going to miss things, and you're very unlikely to get the whole thing in balance.
Move to somewhere that has warmth and blue skies. The blue skies help more than the warmth, so if you have to choose between them, take the blue skies.

I feel much better, and I have fewer chest problems.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Cathedral building has always been about temporal prestige, with patrons, cardinals, cities, and nations competing to build the most elaborate house of worship. There's no unexpected element in your claim, therefore it is not ironic.
Not arguing that it isn't better. I'm arguing laws don't always change things, and it probably isn't as good as you think it is (unless you live in a south deep-red place and know first hand, I'll take your word for it over what I've read). Actually, I'd argue that they rarely have the impact we'd like. I'd argue a lot of Jim Crow still exists, even though it is illegal.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-17/after-brown-...

Schools are still segregated. We're still enslaving people in prisons.

Sure. There aren't LAWS that say segregation MUST exist. That's a step in the right direction, I suppose...
It is a US practice that property rights include the right to exclude others. That is not internationally held view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

That points out that "Ancient traces provide evidence of the freedom to roam in many European countries, suggesting such a freedom was once a common norm."

It's also been noted that the freedom to roam is strongest in those areas which didn't have feudalism and serfdom.

Just like feudalism and serfdom, company towns have a history of being controlling and exploitative .. and un-democratic. That's what's wrong with them.
Id argue it 1) primarily depends on the topic 2) also primarily depends on a specific persons brain
9/10 I hate video results.

For 1 if I want information I don't need logos/animations, I don't need "hello fellow YouTubers", etc.

Event the "repair car" example. Suppose need to make some action to repair a vacuum pump. Unless I just don't know where it is in the engine bay (or some other location/orientation information) what value is looking at anything?
Gun. Foot. Bang.
So if Apple won't like my app it won't renew my developer account so that I cannot sign it anymore. Seems quite "fair" and I sense no lock-down or censorship. Let's be happy for making the internet "safer". As some have said this is good news for ...(fill the gap)
I experienced something a bit similar during a migraine episode whilst in University.

Normal day occurs and I rent a movie from the school library; 'M' [1931] starring Peter Lorre. German spoken, English subtitles. I functionally don't know German; English is my native language. All is well.

Partway through the film I notice my migraine symptoms coming on [grey-green soup-static eating into my vision from my optical peripheral, tingly numbness spreading up from my fingers, &c]. I know I'm screwed for the night, the best I can do is take pills and hope to "sleep it off" at this point. I decide to trooper it out and keep going with the movie 'cause I'm at a loss either way and I know this dance.

But then I realize that I could no longer understand the English subtitles, a new symptom for me at the time. I could read the subtitles, I knew they were English, I knew I knew I should be able to understand them, but I couldn't take their meaning. So here I am watching a movie where I don't understand the spoken or written language at all. All I had was my enjoyment of Peter Lorre, my appreciation of film noir, my love of film, and the inherent fundamental understanding of body language and facial expression.

About 75% through the film, one of my roommates comes in and sits down. "So, what're you watching?"

I swear he thought I was drunk.

Me: "This guy ... kill kids ... whistle. People ... not like guy."

Him: "Take your time."

Me: "This ... the people. Police ... no nothing. People ... this! ... these! ... people ... get guy."

Him: "OK."

Me: "The town... guy on trial. No police. Him! Bad guy. Whistles. Dead ... kids. City people ... guy on trial. No police."

Him: "I think I understand. Are you ok? Had too much?"

Me: "OK. Migraine. Watching movie. See? This ... Peter L-L-Lorre. Buggy eyes. Actor. Like a bug."

Him: "... yes. He's in this movie."

Me: "Famous actor! Now ... guilty from ... mob. The city. Death no police but ... dead whistling."

Him: "OK. Sounds like a good movie. See you tomorrow."

Me: "Yes. Tomorrow good ... movie."

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I'm not kidding, I actually did talk like a drunken over-acted dramatization of Shatner. My actual language skills were out the window that night. I can't tell you how many times I dropped my Imitrex pills onto the floor before dropping myself into bed.

Yes, I'm better now against the migraines so I have little worries there on that matter but back then it was a going concern.
If there isn't intelligence involved, then it definitely isn't designed. Or crafted, for that matter.

I suppose it could be perfect, by some particular criteria. But it seems unlikely. And in the case of the human brain, it's definitely untrue. The selection criteria for the human brain have been shifting wildly over the last few million years, so it's guaranteed not to be perfect.

Note, for example the long list of cognitive biases that we've so far discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
"But if you’re lucky, sometimes a stranger will instantly become a friend and tell you everything."

Damn! doesn't sound like luck to me ... and I'm far from Finnish. (At least I think so, even though I did once dive from sauna into ice-covered water.)
In the U.S. rural communities get to elect the Senate and President.

That should be enough.
Jack Dorsey complains about 'unfairness' in SF homeless tax on corporations
With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router.

Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but that’s the price of Intel. Great to see a well-known boardmaker coming out with an up-to-date x86 option.
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Odd that they would choose a bunny, given that the Energizer mascot is a bunny.
Amazing! I've been looking for this for so long and even considered copying over all my playlists and manually doing this but this is a life saver.
How is this not lock-down? If Apple doesn't like VLC or whatever software competes with their interests they can simply not renew their membership.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Dorsey-tweetsto...

Square has said that a quirk of the proposed tax could harm it and other San Francisco payments companies like Stripe. Gross receipts taxes are applied to a company’s total revenue generated from business activities in the city. In Square’s case, those include fees it splits with banks and Visa and MasterCard when it processes credit-card transactions.

Square, which is publicly traded, reports both net revenue, which includes those fees, and adjusted revenue, which excludes them. In the second quarter, those figures were $815 million and $385 million respectively. In Square’s view, imposing a tax on the higher revenue measure hurts it disproportionately.

If I'm reading this correctly, basically payment companies like Square and Stripe are disproportionately hurt because they would pay the tax on the ~2.9% + 10 cent fee they collect even though in reality both companies only keep a small fraction of that fee since most of that fee goes to the networks like Visa/MC/Amex.
Likely Bloomberg is wrong. There is enough time for them to offer concrete evidence just for the sake of spinning more drama and hype. The attention they are getting by proving Apple/Amazon is lying would be incredible.

Yet, there is nothing except denial and then silence.

Without going too far into the conspiracy realm, the answer right now is that they can't. The longer they still quiet, the bigger joke they will become.
I'm with Freedome purely based on Troy Hunt's recommendation. Pick someone you trust and listen to them, I reckon.

Every "VPN review" website just seems shady as all hell.
I think the problem is there is no "good" recommendation. At the end of the day, you're trusting the VPN provider to play it straight.

Now if the VPN provider goes on record as saying they don't do any of these shady things, at least you'll have some grounds to go after them legally if they actually do them. I suspect this is why the questionnaire also has a bit about ownership.
If you calculated the equivalent income by converting dollars to pounds, that isn't a good measure of equivalence. £61k is a huge salary, especially outside London. It's even high for a programmer 5 years in. Whereas there are plenty of roles that pay $80k, and it would be insulting for most programmers out of uni.
Your reply is a bit confusing, because multimethods are not an alternative to classes. Common Lisp and Dylan, for instance, offer both multimethods and classes.

Regardless, Julia does offer user-defined composite types. Can I redefine a composite type without halting the program in which it's being used? If so, what becomes of existing instances of the type?

If the answer to the first question is "yes," and if the answer to the second one is "the language runtime arranges for the existing instances to be updated to be instances of the redefined type," then Julia offers the kind of support for redefinition that I am accustomed to in Common Lisp. If not, then it doesn't.

EDIT: I dug around and answered my own question: Julia doesn't support redefining structs in the repl.

There's a project in progress (Tim Holy's Revise.jl) to add support for redefining functions in a session, and that project contains some discussion of how they might approach redefining structs.

Of course, the existence of the project and those comments implies that Julia does not currently support such redefinitions, and that answers my questions.

I did notice from the comments on some issues that those folks are aware that supporting redefinition of structs in the repl implies that existing instances may become orphans when their types are redefined, and there's some discussion of what to do about it. Common Lisp's solution--updating the existing instances to conform to the new definition--does not seem to have occurred to anyone.

That's not a big surprise. Why would such a feature occur to you unless you were consciously designing a system for building programs by modifying them as they run? Of course, that's exactly what old-fashioned Lisp and Smalltalk systems are designed for, but most people don't get much exposure to that style of programming.

I always end up missing those features when I don't have them, though, which is one reason I always end up going back to Common Lisp.
I interpreted the statement as a tongue in cheek joke. One of the ever present dangers of the printed word, we can look at one sentence and come away with different meanings.
Wtf is hyperledger
The people I trust say not to use VPN services; look in past HN discussions of the subject.
Wordstar clone.

(Frightening, isn't it? That's what happens when key-sequences get imprinted.)
It's an odd coincidence that someone would submit an article that's a year old that was already submitted just eight hours earlier today.

Another odd coincidence is that the submitter did the same earlier today with another nautil.us article ("The Robot Economy Will Run on Blockchain").
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Gmail : pick your client and add integrations for an online business app suite or combination of apps integrated together. The email itself is easy to replace, what's stalling adoption is integration to services like drive, and sheets. Replace those integrations with something like a self hosted open office.
YouTube : probably the hardest to replace. The most likely companies to be able to provide the raw capital to compete in this space are porn companies.
Maps : in a word, waze.
The rest of the app makers will follow like a dog to a bone.