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Holy shit, how can the city regulate private property like this?
Walmart is bringing 'thousands' of internal business apps to Microsoft's Azure
To be fair, the city attorney doesn’t get to set zoning laws
There will be a desktop pack that extends Core with windows desktop application technologies. Bear in mind these are really .NET API wrappers round the underlying Windows systems, so since those underlying libraries and such don’t exist on Mac or Linux .NET APIs won’t have anything to provide access to.

Think if it this way. Someone could write a .NET Core wrapper round the MacOS GUI libraries and platform APIs, but you couldn’t run that on Windows.
What's the danger?
Ariana Grande Conquers the Breakup Song
What books can you recommend?
What are you talking about? The article is clear in that this was a flagrant violation, reiterated multiple times.

I have no sympathy for these landlords.
I'd argue that the standatd of proof required for "man should go to prison" should be higher than then for "man shouldn't be trusted with one of the most powerful judicial positions in the country"...
> Even Trump isn't homophobic.

This is a bunch of malarkey. For a person who's supposedly not homophobic, he's appointed a lot of homophobic judges, has a homophobic Attorney General, is gutting a lot of executive orders and regulations on homophobia in the workplace, etc. And this is before we get into anything transgender. https://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/11/09/trumps-14-most-...
I think there is another perspective here. Consumer vs Developers. When we speak of the ongoing cloud vendor wars between AWS, Google, Azure and the likes of Digital Ocean, we mean cloud platforms for others to build and host things on, not consumer apps delivered through the cloud. If that was the case, we would have to count something like Dropbox or Google Photos as well, right?

To me cloud provider in this context means a vendor that provides cloud platform for others to develop on top of. RDS counts, Office doesn't.

That's how I look at it and I'm sure that's how MS looks at it. Certainly they wouldn't be blinded by Office revenue and think Azure is close to beating AWS. Office competes with Google Work Suite which isn't even part of GCP (even though it's linked).
Why don’t they don’t let people build housing? Voters in the city.
Maybe they shouldn't be making money? Advertising allows otherwise unviable businesses to survive. This is true of other things besides the internet, yet nobody wonders how TV shows are supposed to make money without advertising when we pay to watch shows with no interruptions. Streaming television contrasted with cable TV illustrates perfectly how advertising lowers the quality of content. Likewise, it lowers the quality of the audience; if you don't have to pay for something, you're more likely to view said thing, but you probably aren't going value it very much or be a valuable customer in the long run.

Advertising is much worse on the internet because it's a lot easier to propagate, not being constrained by time slots in a broadcast. That means that an overwhelming amount of trash is allowed to survive, drowning out a lot of the things that are worthwhile and building up an audience that is low-value and perhaps even dangerous to society in some regards; I would argue such for the amount of "viral" tripe that sways how people view politics, science, religion, etc.
Code2vec: learning distributed representations of code
The amazing thing about Microsoft is that once developers drink the kool-aid they will bend over backwards to evangelize whatever MS serves them. This is an example of that. Azure could not pay for better marketing.

Not sure I read this one correctly but I think he said he was opposed to VMs in the cloud. Lol.
Why should they be prioritized? That seems rather subjective and dependent on who you are. An argument could be made that it takes supply from the short term side and artificially drives up the cost of hotels. Why not let supply / demand decide?
If my bank appears to switch to a CA with a record of issuing fraudulent certificates or enabling same (cf. Comodo, Symantec), that's exactly what I want to happen!

I realize the desire to control my own security is thought by browser-makers to be the death of ecommerce.

I still want it.
Haters gonna hate. I have no affiliation with that link, as I said, I have no idea if my path has much relevance, all I know is that my path worked for me. I didn't even explain until two people asked me for more details.

In addition, what you are suggesting is that I violate the copyright of the hypntotists I have learned from.

I never claimed that hypnosis was a cure all for everyone in every situation, I was just curious if someone else with auto immune disorder had attempted this path.

Furthermore, I hope you don’t trust me or you or anything you read on the internet at face value. Do your own research always. That doesn’t mean you have the right to go around accusing everyone of being a lying thief.
The intuition of conflict comes from the two person case. The slave is in chains, the master wields his bloody whip. The master determines that the slave will pick cotton. The slave is not free to refuse.

The single person case has two descriptions of the person. The chatty, social person, who tells us of his thoughts and feelings and why he chose tea instead of coffee. Contrast that with the account in terms of atoms and molecules. Neurons fire, muscles contract, etc.

Where have we seen this before? In the kinetic theory of gasses. The pressure of the hot gas in a heat engine pushes the piston down. Alternatively the molecules bounce off the top of the piston, hammering it down with countless tiny hammer blows. Which account is true? Why not both?

In the single person case the differences between the two accounts are so large that we are sucked into seeing them as rival accounts. But philosophers have never managed to clarify why the accounts are incompatible. Both accounts run out of steam. We don't really know the secrets of our own hearts and often resort to rationalizing the choices that we freely make, after the event. The atoms and molecules account asserts that those choices are in principal determined, and offers a wonderful excuse, in the exponential sensitivity to initial conditions, for why determinists cannot be expected to make predictions.

Sure, we can say that our free choices are determined by atoms and molecules following the laws of physics. But take the prediction problem more seriously. Imagine that I have a gadget that predicts whether you will chose tea or coffee. If I tell you in advance, you can chose the other way, defeating the prediction. The philosophical problem arises due to viewing the atoms and molecules that make up your body as the gadget that predicts your choices. You cannot escape their power over your actions. On the other hand the point seems fatuous. Those atoms and molecules are you. "You cannot do other than what you do" is just a triviality because the two accounts are two accounts of a single underlying reality. They are bound to be compatible, no matter how much the customary language jars and creates the appearance of conflict.
It wouldn't have ruined his career, it just would've said "maybe we shouldn't give him a promotion to a lifelong job until we thoroughly investigate whether or not he's a rapist".
Because people's day to day ability to live in shelter is more important than tourists.
The distinction between hotels and residences is pretty standard across the world and is hardly arbitrary.
This is what I'm thinking too. It's pretty clear (at least to me) that Apple is trying to make the future of computing look more like iOS, albeit very slowly, instead of making today's tablets look more like OS X, despite everyone saying that this is what they want. This would explain iPads that are faster than today's MacBooks that don't have a proper filesystem yet. It's like they are redoing computing from the ground up, hence the "What's a computer" commercial.
Tangent, but are traceroutes spoofable (barring timing differences), or would they break too many other things to be practical? I'm wondering if anyone might do that to hide their tracks.
The execs probably know but are also victims of the same perverse incentives.

It's not their fault it's worse, they did an excellent job of launching the update!
Spanish scientists: EnChroma glasses won’t fix your color blindness
"Never let a crisis go to waste."
What makea you say that? I consider the internet a utility. I'm pretty sure the governments of many countries (including the UK where I live) do too.
I started reading things that were related to programming but weren't textbooks (i.e. The Pragmatic Programmer and The Mythical Man-Month).

Then I started reading books on skills I wanted to acquire (i.e. Traction for marketing and SPIN Selling for sales).

All of those books lead to recommendations into other books.

Listening to podcasts that recommend books increase the breadth of books I'm reading.

My wife brings home books from the library and I read whatever she reads (i.e. Hillbilly Elegy and The People vs Democracy), and those lead to other nonfiction books I become interested in. And then there are the "classic" novels I interleave from time to time (i.e. Siddhartha and Meditations).

It just starts with maybe a handful of books you are dying to read, try to read for 15 min before bed, and before you know it, you're 50 books into the year!
How do you pick those books?
> Throughout history adults have always looked down on children, yet the upcoming generation always ends up surpassing their parents achievements.

So far. There is some evidence that IQ has actually peaked.

Some studies suggest a highly distracted, unfocused mind is actually measurably worse at important tasks:

http://www.talentsmart.com/articles/Multitasking-Damages-You...
Nice question. That's what I want to know.
If they cared about their users then they would follow suite with Firefox, Safari, Opera, and even IE to block intrusive tracking [1]. Instead they take this anti-competitive action and increase the amount of tracking by auto-logging users into their browsers.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/google-chromes-users-t...
> These days businesses are looking to be located in areas where their employees will feel safe and welcomed, which excludes states that fight against gay marriage, for example.

This. Gay marriage is a good litmus test if you're a minority of any kind trying not to get discriminated against or shot.
While that's true, they don't have to bend over backwards for those voters. SF supervisors have a lot of leniency in clearing out the construction approval backlog.
For those docs that require more finesse (This is OCR :D), was there a massive manual effort involved?
Mahabharat Range Nepal
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially not flamebaity ones.
The mistery of the Kibbutz
This is nothing new. There are many zoning laws restricting what you can do with your land: What can you build? Is commercial and/or residential use allowed? It's very much in line to say if a unit can be used as a hotel-like or not.
The actual dissent[1] seems fairly reasonable at first glance. It's based on two objections:

* "First, Congress did not clearly authorize the FCC to issue the net neutrality rule."

* "Under the Supreme Court's landmark decisions in [cites 2 precedents], the First Amendment bars the Government from restricting the editorial discretion of Internet service providers, absent a showing that an Internet service provider possesses market power in a relevant geographic market."

It really disturbs me how few people bother to look -- even a cursory glance -- before developing a profanity-laden opinion on the subject.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=608357842885836...
The living arrangements in the video are absolutely co-ops. I'm not sure I get how the context is different, other than that there exists other mediocre (or worse) cohousing co-ops.
For most people, (read spreadsheets, word processors, etc ) computers make their jobs easier or more productive. It is hard to say the same for medical software, mainly because it is not designed to help medical providers, but to help administrators.
Also discussed on the Econtalk podcast: http://www.econtalk.org/ran-abramitzky-on-the-mystery-of-the...
It's not the city. The residents of the municipalities do not want to build new buildings.
It seems...foolish to not bend over backwards for those who control your destiny through democratic actions. Property owners have the most to lose, and therefore the most incentive to keep their neighborhood as-is. I find it hard to fault them for their actions (especially when you're investing seven figures into your home's purchase).

The core problem is that SF property owners value their homes, communities, and property values over the inclusion of additional residents, and that won't change without stripping this constituency of their property and voting rights (which is of course untenable in a functioning democracy).
I didn't oppose introducing iPads per se. I opposed it at a certain AGE. Introduction should happen later for all sorts of reasons.
Have since talked with UBM's security team, they are currently working on fixes.
Can I ask what browsers? If you've disabled Javascript, I'd argue that's the anachronism.
Airbnb is suing NY right now because the city wants the names and addresses of those who are illegally renting without registering their apartments. I believe it's called "disruption"
Thank goodness you said that. I thought we had a time traveler among us, but then I read your comment! Luckily I was able to cancel the sell order I issued in a panic.
What should be the standard for the latter?
The tangible benefits:

1. Increased vocabulary

2. Practice and improvement of skills I'm specifically reading about (as many of the books I'm reading are for acquiring skills related to my job)

3. Simply reading about new topics encourages me to read books further exploring on that peripheral knowledge

The intangibles:

1. The momentum for reading begets more reading, which makes me feel good about spending my time reading over watching TV/movies/surfing the net.

2. I feel more knowledgeable and empathetic. In this past year I read stories about impoverished refugees from North Korea, American politics, and stories of overcoming seemingly impossible odds. These are topics I never get to explore in my day job, and it helps me feel more well-rounded.
We changed the link. The pdf is at https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/draft-paper_1.pdf.
That, and access points/routers aren't things you buy every year or two. Our AirPort Extreme worked for five years before I replaced it with a Google Wifi mesh (and it was still working when I did so). If it were $1500 or so, then keeping it would make sense (and nobody would buy it), but it was $250. I think Apple got into the AirPort game because they were one of the first companies to push Wi-Fi on everything (a great strategy too, as it's a big reason behind why iPhones are so successful now), and because most ISPs provided crappy access points/routers, they could step in and fill the void.
Property owners are responsible for the housing crisis. The city is at their whim.

But that’s beside the point, because this is a case about an unlicensed Airbnb. I don’t know what the laws are where you come from, but someone illegally turning their multi-tenant property in a residential neighborhood into a 24-hour motel isn’t someone I have any sympathy for.

Besides, Airbnb is no answer to the dearth of housing in any city. The lawyer is spouting facts. Those are 45 units that would be going to people who would live or work in SF and instead are used to price gouge visitors (relative to the going rent/mortgage rates) who want to save $50 on a hotel room.
The paper is here: https://www.ru.nl/publish/pages/909275/draft-paper_1.pdf.

(That was the submitted URL but download links don't work so well for HN stories.)
"Sell the sizzle, not the sausage"
> It's rare that a city like San Diego refuses to buckle under.

While we're listing these cities, we should add Oakland to the list.
That's might sound like persuasive way to phrase it but it doesn't represent the reality of the situation fairly or provide adequate context.

Most importantly being a Supreme Court justice doesn't protect you from going to jail or from law enforcement from investigating your past behaviour... justices can be impeached.

On the inverse of your position we also shouldn't prevent the promotion of people to important roles (this goes well beyond SC justices), having followed every legal rule correctly up to that point, merely because of a last minute allegation. Let alone an allegation that wasn't even brought directly to the attention of law enforcement requesting investigation first but rather to a political opponent of the judge in question.

Even if the accusers sound persuasive it sets a very dangerous precedent that would make it easy to game the system and prevent any quality promotions merely based on unfounded allegations. This would almost certainly be open to abuse and hurt ALL political parties during future nominations, for any role, for decades to come.

Absent at a very minimum a law enforcement decision to bring charges, the hearings should continue and the matters should be investigated afterwards should they warrant it.
Thats most SF politicians unfortunately.
Coliving
That and a devastating attack against socialism (from which they never recovered) which is the very reason you felt the need to engage in ad hominem attacks...

But, alas, if had ever actually read anything he wrote you would see his insights don't really apply to a barter economy at all -- unless they want to do something crazy and solve the coincidence of wants problem to evolve into an actual modern economy.
Becoming a supreme court justice is one the highest privileges the US can bestow on any one citizen. There are (legal) limits to the factors that may or may not be considered in the Senate's deliberations. It's a fallacy to believe that the presumption of innocence, a principle of criminal law applies. This is rather easy to see, just by looking at history, and vast amount of facts that have been cited in votes against nominees, only a tiny fraction of which were ever the subject of a criminal trial.

It's also intuitively obvious by considering the often-cited reasoning the the presumption of innocence:

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Because this doesn't hold for supreme court justices, where I think most would agree it's better for ten excellent judges to be passed over in lieu of the second-best alternative, than to have one criminal decide what's law and what isn't.
There are already laws and rights for tenants that are based on how long they have stayed at a place, whether they have received mail there, pay for utilities there, etc. Generally speaking, the more you are a full time tenant for a longer duration the more rights you have.
> multiple allegations

Some of them have turned out to be lies:

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/go...
I don't think the other responses adequately explain what was attempted here.

Laying down the law is an idiom. It doesn't have to do with the law. (Someone posted an example specific to laws, which confuses the rhetorical device.)

As laying down the law does NOT have to do with law (e.g. I could "lay down the law" by punching someone in the head for touching my stamp collection), they add "literally" because Dennis Herrera is, in fact, the city attorney and is specifically applying the actual law. So rather than doing something unrelated to the law, which is what the idiom "lay down the law" allows for, the idiom's loose definition now has a literal application regarding the word "law", in this case.
Hotel owners do not want competition. For a politician, it is easier to extract surplus from a limited number of hotel owners than from a large number of people renting their individual units. So, under the appropriate excuse, a law preventing competition is passed.

The foundations of all this were established in the early 20th century in cases such as Nebbia v New York[1], Munn v Illinois[2] etc.

For the record, I think these decisions, and the various laws passed by cities in an effort to protect hotel owners and taxi medallion owners and cable franchise owners etc are both horrible law and horrible economics.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/291/502

[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/94/113/
I too have accidentally run an illegal hotel by renting out dozens of units hundreds of times, who hasn’t? Wait...
The idea being: stronger market forces leading to more competition among CAs to end up on more people’s trusted list. Combined with the option to serve multiple signatures for the same cert, this might actually just work :)
There are essentially Airbnb hotels in Seattle too (e.g. JMFM+R8 Seattle, Washington), I wonder if they’re in violation as well.
White flight refers to white residents (and usually with it, investment) leaving racially-mixed American cities for the racially homogeneous suburbs en-masse during the civil rights movement and the race-riots that occurred in major cities toward the end of that era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, especially not ranty ones, regardless of how much you disagree with some quote from an article. It leads to markedly lower-quality, flamier discussion.
SF really is in a situation where a regional development council needs to come in and clear out a lot of the low-density housing, but since that's unlikely to happen this story makes me quite happy.
The video[1] in the article of the kick defense is pretty crazy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt8XoT2-qwQ

edit: remove all but the reference to the article's video
People aren't misusing the word. Hyperbole always doesn't mean what it says. The meaning of the statement "my head just exploded" is that my head just exploded. The meaning of the statement "my head just literally exploded" is the same but maybe stronger. The hyperbole applies to the whole phrase and makes the whole thing mean something other than the literal definition of the words.
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wonder if he's breaking any election laws or ethics regulations?

this is pure fud; spinning a reported security vulnerability as if it was his competitor trying to hack the election?! that's begging for a lawsuit in the least, too bad he's the controlling attorney general to boot.

this from the same guy who just recently said he didn't need any help with election security in Georgia... fire him.
You should check out The Wire Cutter and Consumer Reports. Both of them test things to provide you with best bang for your buck and it seems like they both really care that they do a good job. Consumer Reports even takes it to the next level buy I think buying things themselves secretly so they don't get specially tweaked items or take ad money from the organizations whose stuff they test. Really valuable when researching a purchase!
Nothing too extreme. A powerful wifi dongle with a few antennas. A kick-ass waterproof laser pointer. A 20,000mwh cellphone charger. Spare cellphone. Spare name/rank tags. An small aviation knife. Just problem-solving stuff for long road trips.
What benefit you think is underappreciated? It's a subjective point of view, but my experience is the contrary: that of Lisp-family languages being hyped to exhaustion.
> Brita's are pretty much unless unfortunately.

How do you figure that? They're the same carbon filters as found in the faucet systems.
No income tax?