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> Regardless, the gov should not be in the job buying biz

Says you. I think they do a better job buying that biz than many of the other biz's they buy with public funds. If you want to see pockets being lined, look to things that don't have returns on investment or are poorly managed in real corrupt ways (ala many public pension plans). Not comparing dollar spent to dollar spent of tax money compared to benefits makes it clear some are just anti-private-sector.

> "Each one of these $150k jobs..." Pardon me, I know this type of reply is frowned upon on HN, but...wanna buy a bridge?

Are you implying that the average salary to get the incentives isn't going to be 150k/yr as stated their agreement?
Why would they pay more tax than they are required to? Why would they not argue that their properties are overvalued if they believe them to be?

Seems to me that it might be a good idea to issue retroactive tax bills (or refunds!) based on the actual price when a property finally does sell. So if they're honestly right that these properties are worth less, then they'll see for less someday, and they don't need to worry about a retroactive bill. OTOH, if they're wrong — there'd be principal & interest to pay.

This might even help keep property prices low, which is (I think) generally a good thing, since there are so many forces acting to keep them high.

I dunno — maybe someone can point out the flaws.
For one you can now use this page to spam other services.
What I showed up to Uber headquaets to pick something up that was left in an Uber they wanted to me stand in line behind all drivers.

I was told, "we are all customers here."

I left, but found out later that they tried to do the same thing to the driver dropping it off. He left too.
Unfortunately, Go still insists on using syscalls on the BSDs, despite them not being a stable (between major releases) API there either.

I hope they're planning to fix that...
Do you complain about the general internet's negative effect on the world too, where anybody can make their own personal stormfront, or only these big companies because the media makes it trendy to do so?
I said the same thing. I'm sad it didn't catch on more.
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Yes, if you get 25k fresh new employees into NY. Chances are a good amount of these employees are already living in NY and paying payroll and property taxes.
a container is not about security, I don't think docker made any claim that you can't easily escape from a container.
Still trying to get my bearings, so bear with me...

Here are two different types of backward compatibility:

1. will old binary work with the new version?

2. will old code build and run correctly with the new version?

So when I talk about extant interface changes, I'm speculating that old code that leverages the public Linux interface is more likely to work and work correctly vs. old code that leverages the public glibc interface.

For example: suppose foodev built a Linux driver for a very popular piece of hardware in 2003, abandoned it, and in 2018 there are problems getting it to run correctly. Are those problems more likely due to Linux public interface churn or glibc public interface churn?
Many of the applications at my workplace use flat text files in CSV format for logs and configuration. For new development I've been using Sqlite to replace some of these usages. Sometimes when I need to analyze legacy log files I import the CSV data into Sqlite tables. After doing this a few times I hit upon the idea of why not skip the import (which balloons my otherwise-small db files) and write an Sqlite plugin that allows treating the flat CSV file as a virtual table? It's neat to see there's some existing work here!
Morality is a central part of politics though. We like to think that the environment can be scientific and apolitical. But that is not the case. Caring about the rainforest or whatever is a political choice. We don't have to do anything. And environmental politics is always about projecting that morality onto other people who may not agree with you. That is why it is necessary to observe the niceties of democratic society. And really the politicisation of these kind of issues ia better than apathy.
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$50 buys you a very beefy VPS, IMO overkill if you're just trying to learn Linux. Digital Ocean and Linode both have $5/mo VPSes with 1GB of RAM and 25GB of SSD storage.

But yes, as the other commenter said, your experience might be different if you tried Crostini. I use a Pixelbook at work (I'm one of the speakers) daily and have abandoned the MBP.
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> Homelessness != Substance Use Disorder

True, but a very large portion of the homeledd population has such a disorder, and an overlapping very large portion has at least one mental health disorder; they are deeply intertwined problems.

> The reality is that people want to receive treatment

The reality is that they often don't.
They help distribute low-priced goods. Lower priced goods broaden accessibility and thus help the poor. If you're not poor or don't interact with the poor much that might be easy to miss.
If the stores are hurting and channel that into destroying the communities that support them, something is going to change.

Communities vanish, big stores are destroyed, the old smaller outfits come back, Amazon takes over, whatever???
The unfairness is to raise such a minor issue compared to the issues this holiday gift list is intended to address.
Except NY state won't gain any income tax from people who fill these jobs but live out of state (NJ or CT). If you've ever worked in NYC, you know that this will be a non-trivial proportion of people. Factoring that into account, it's not clear at all that NY state will see a positive return on this.
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This is a good point. But that aside, I like that it's a simple platform for reading/writing. Its drawback, I suppose, is content/topic discovery.
Do you not see the irony in calling something toxic? Your not saying its merely wrong - but that its on par with poison.
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Converse to this, I get a lot of bad behavior when I try to book Uber, especially late at night or in odd areas. Drivers who cancel, intentionally drive in the wrong direction to force you to cancel, who don’t wait or drive to the wrong place to pick you up, who don’t know where to go, who are rude, who refuse to turn off music...

I started using Uber because it was worth paying more to not deal with taxis. Now Uber is the cheap, bad option. I really wish there was a “middle of market” ridesharing service. Cheaper than a black car from whatever service, but still with good quality control. Uber used to be that but isn’t anymore. Lyft is kind of that but isn’t quite there.

Anyway, it feels like Uber is trading goodwill for volume. I only use it for free rides with Amex platinum or when I need a car ASAP and no taxis are available. Otherwise I use Lyft (and sometimes Lyft is cheaper anyway). It feels like Uber is shorting quality control and trading long-term profitablility for short-term volume with more, cheaper drivers.
Thanks for the advice patrickg_zill! It happens to me all the time!
Heh, statisticians invented machine learning (Breiman, Hastie, Tibshirani, etc.).
Are you saying that it would be good for Facebook to monitor and censor everything in real time and the only thing stopping them is their darn business model?
> There's a simple solution here. You tell me what you think your property is worth. And I can force you to move out today for that price. This might still be a loss for the county tax assessors, but it will at least keep these stores honest.

It might not even cost the county tax assessors much, some of these abuses are so blatant that even a private citizen could buy out the building under that policy:

https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/14/apple-hq-200-dollars-sant...

> Apple, history’s first trillion-dollar company, is arguing that a cluster of new buildings at its headquarters is worth only $200 in order to lower its tax burden.

> The trillion-dollar tech giant claimed in an appeal the value of the “cluster of properties” is worth $200, not the $1 billion value given by the Santa Clara County’s tax assessor — elected officials who determine property value for tax purposes.

I'd call it "disruptive innovation" to buy out Apple's headquarters buildings for the $200 it thinks they're worth, rent them back to Apple at the maximum price the market will bear, and pay Santa Clara County it's fair share in taxes.
If the Great Filter is ahead of us, becoming a space-faring civilization sooner increases the odds of surviving it.

(And that's the main argument for the Great Filter being behind us, it is hard to imagine that we are fighting against astronomical odds to become space-faring.)
the effects of a +2C climate will wildly, massively, unspeakably eclipse that of a hundred chernobyls.

we are on course for at least a +4C world.
WSL serves different scenarios - it is for running Linux software on Windows. It's all or nothing - if you want Linux, you get Linux. If you want Windows, you get Windows. You can't mix and match.

So it doesn't help you if you want to, say, write a cross-platform library in C that needs threads, and that can be used from both Unix console apps and Win32 desktop apps. For that, you actually need a cross-platform threading API. In C++, that actually exists, in form of std::thread and friends. In C, you have to rely on third-party libraries, and those libraries have to wrap the various platform-specific APIs - so your program is only as portable as those third-party libraries. If you could just #include <pthread.h> everywhere, it would have been so much easier.
The roadblocks for Apache Groovy migrating to version 3 are imposed by Groovy's backers themselves. They want to keep it as is for as long as possible to keep Gradle users hooked. If a non-compatible Groovy 3.0 comes out, then Gradle users would more likely upgrade from Groovy 2.x to Kotlin instead of to Groovy 3.0 for their build scripting language. The ASF Groovy project managers want to keep their consulting-and-conferences gravy train running for as long as they can.
It's a poll because this way Mozilla wont have to, be held responsible for, not defend any of the opinions presented there.

> We created this guide to help you buy safe, secure products this holiday season.

Because "we created this poll so you can see what other people think is safe, secure products this holiday season" doesn't sound nearly as good.

So they made a guide, that's really a poll. What do you mean you can have your cake and eat it too?
Ignoring the other facts as guff, this is a common misunderstanding:

> The abatements in __your__ community came out of someone else's pocket. That money had to come from somewhere.

Abatements are not gifts, they are reductions. The money that was not taken did not have to come from anywhere. The reductions did not amount to a negative total (not even close in my case), and therefore the abatements essentially amount to a sale price, not below cost. In other cases, such as sports teams, the benefits of the trade-offs are not as easily recognized because they are not purely financial. But here, it is simpler to understand the bulk discounts in exchange for economic growth.
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> I'm just pointing out how ridiculous Uber is by trying to charge me significantly more than a yellow cab

They charge more... for a better service.

It's not some kind of con or scheme or a rip-off.
No, NYC doesn't have a housing crisis. Rents are certainly higher in NYC than the average for the nation, but there are plenty of relatively affordable areas within an hour's commute of downtown, and the only transportation cost you'd pay is $116.50/month for a MetroCard. Subtract out all the substantial costs of paying for an automobile and NYC can even compare favorably in cost of living to some other cities that have less rent but still effectively require car ownership.

Also, NYC doesn't have nearly as much of a NIMBY problem as many other American cities. We continue to build lots of housing here.
That is hardly true except for a small select few. Where are you getting your numbers?
You mean the PP?

https://www.publico.es/espana/gobierno-rajoy-vendio-venezuel...
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I think fission fragment rockets might be more promising. Doable with current tech, they can have exhaust velocities of a few percent the speed of light (specific impulse in the 6 figures), comparable or better than fusion engines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket
> sometimes they don't speak portuguese or english

Isn't that a good thing? At least you don't have to talk to them... The point of Uber (and similar apps) is that they abstract the human interaction through the app (although in London very annoyingly many drivers still ask me where I'm going, despite me having entered the destination into the app).
I wonder what would make people happy. Amazon should have opened their HQ2 in Bangalore. They wouldn't face this much criticism there and people would welcome it.
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There's also the question of a more manual implementation, rather than a self-initiated statement.

If someone just so happens to ask me on Twitter each day if I received an order, and I say no, but on day 99 I don't reply or say "I'd rather not answer", does that muddy the waters a little?
You're really trying to make your point here with examples from 3 years ago?

Things change fast in these cloud services - so would be good to know specifically which parts of GCP IAM are missing.
They are not putting $2bn into Bezos's pocket. Rather they are receiving several times that in new tax revenue and maybe out of that they will put some into the MTA or similar.
> Lyft is kind of that but isn’t quite there.

Since my impression is a large population of drivers drive for both I don't think you would find different behavior in Uber or Lyft. A dickhead is doing to be a dickhead whether driving for Uber or Lyft right?
The division is real and worsening. It's not an imaginary concept that we can choose not to discuss.
I wouldn't call this a "loophole"; I'd call it property taxes working exactly the way they're supposed to work.

I mean, they're property taxes, not business taxes -- isn't it obvious that they should be based on the value of the property, not based on the success of the business which uses the property.
What's wrong about that? My golden rule in hiring is that if there is no sense of enthusiasm for the product - don't hire.
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Yeah, that's not even "slashing", that's "never being related to profit to begin with".

Edit: On skimming the article, the taxes are going down, but for the (justifiable) reason that their value is rightly being reassessed in light of the declining market.
They will match Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon/Google's 110k salary + bonus + stock that you can get in Seattle (As a college grad)?

Even smaller firms are giving away jobs for 150k salary for just a couple years of experience.
> Not sure my i7 or extra SSD space has really been worth it.

.. worth it for what purposes, it would depend. I write Haskell and compile that to JavaScript (using GHCJS), so i7 with 16 GB memory (more would be better here) would help.
Sadly it's not the peace-lovers that keep the peace.

Peace is kept through a balance of power.
Sure, let's say I'm pretty aware of the habits of the poor.

Selling cheap stuff, however, doesn't actually build an area.

The poor today in the US are not saving anything. Money for infrastructure and other improvements to an area is not going to come from Wallmart's low prices.
When you're selling dollar bills for $0.75, 38% revenue growth is not that impressive.
That seems strangely appropriate for Facebook.
This is reminding me of the dotcom boom, the markets are badly overvaluing a lot of tech companies in my opinion anyways.
Sorry, seems that similar sensors doesn't need filters and detect particle size ranges by intensity of scattered light. However, I can't find information about what sizes this sensor detects.
Just let people build more housing so rents don't rise.
The distinction between direct and indirect deaths is completely irrelevant. The decision to evacuate will always be taken under conditions of uncertainty, when it is impossible to know the eventual scale of the disaster.

It is also irrelevant to compare the earthquake and tsunami to the nuclear disaster. Earthquake and tsunamis are unavoidable natural disasters, but the Fukushima Daichi disaster could have been easily avoided.

You're also ignoring the massive costs of the disaster and the monumental scale of the cleanup. The official costs put it at $188B and counting.
Phrased that way... what isn't concerning? Maybe enjoy Blue Apron for a year and skip an iPhone upgrade?
I propose a more descriptive title: "Intel's new Bfloat16 floating-point format: 8 bit exponent, 7 bit mantissa"
In openSUSE our build system can be configured to auto-check the signatures of the source archives used for building, so you can check the builds to make sure that we are building from an official source releases (assuming the GPG detach-sign their source tarballs -- something I recommend any software release manager do).

But most distributions do their own builds, and without reproducible builds being universally available -- not to mention that distributions usually have minimal compiler hardening flag requirements as well as patches in some cases -- you couldn't reuse signatures for the final binary. Also the entire package is getting signed, so the binary's signature wouldn't be sufficient (and checking it on-install would be quite complicated as well).

> Still, it would be weird that, as far as Mozilla trust goes, a signed exe from internet is better than a signed package from your preferred package manager.

I think that has always been the general case, since distributions are an additional layer of people maintaining a downstream copy of a project. But don't get me wrong, most distributions have processes that allow you to verify that the source used for builds of large projects like Firefox are built using the real sources.

There's also usually several layers of human and automated review before a package upgrade can actually land in a distribution.
Customer obsession is one of Amazon's primary focus. This isn't just for selling merchandise on retail.
PowerShell will clean up a gross CSV:

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In my opinion, the only thing that is valuable about unit tests is more appropriately captured in form of function, class and module contracts (as in "design by contract"). Unfortunately very few languages are adopting DbC.

Functional tests now, that's another matter. But a lot of TDD dogmatism is centered on unit tests specifically. And that results in a lot of code being written that doesn't actually contribute to the product, and that is there solely that you can chop up the product into tiny bits and unit test them separately. Then on the test side you have tons of mocks etc. I've seen several codebases where test code far exceeded the actual product code in complexity - and that's not a healthy state of affairs.
Cool man, thank god America The Brave saved the Western world from terrorism. Except, since 2001 terrorism related deaths have skyrocketed in the world, in Afghanistan and the middle east. They have remained mostly constant in the west. [1]

Don't pretend the US is doing this bullshit out of altruism for the world. You got hit once, 17 goddamn years ago, and you haven't stopped hitting back since then. Its just killing a 1000, 10000 people for every one of yours killed, responding so monstrously out of proportion that anyone who attacks the US will think twice.

There aren't "large sections" of Afghanistan population to target via drones either - believe it or not, most of the people there just want to live their lives like the rest of us. You think "substantial fractions of the population" are involved in terrorism in ANY country? Do you think more than 0.01% of the population is involved in terrorism? Its just a ridiculous claim.

But again, the US doesn't care about innocent bystanders killed or collateral damage or how little their efforts have reduced terrorism (they haven't). They only want to send a message - "you kill 10 of ours, we kill 10000 of yours". While pretending thats all A-OK morally and totally not terrorism. So 90% of the population of 2-3 entire countries suffer because of the 0.1% or 1% of bad apples who are terrorists. For 17 years. Entire generations of people who've known nothing but war for shit they had nothing to do with.

1 - https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism#the-war-on-terror
Because there is an abundance of a resource doesn't mean its a good time to go hog wild.
Sexual harassment cases were on the HQ, not the drivers. Also, most drivers drive for multiple companies. All they need is 'one more app' on their phones, and they're off to go. Since Lyft/Uber/everyone is monitoring their competitors' s prices, they make sure they adapt pricing to make themselves antagonistic.

Thus the drivers won't care which app is running, since they will be making (more or less) the same $$$$$. All they need it to do is ensure they are driving people around/keeping busy, and if one company is bleeding customers, they will simple start 'the other app' and continue driving.

I may be oversimplifying the above, but it's the general idea/practice.
Oh don't you know they want to IPO to cash out on gullible public investors based on hype. With accelerating losses as revenue grows means each dollar of revenue has negative return. More revenue means more negative return.

They only way to win is if they monopolize a segment enough that they can jack up prices to make up for the sustained losses. Other ways this looks like Groupon. The more they sell, the more they lose. It is like some kind of pyramid scheme.
Catch that "Silence Donald Trump!" exercise in their demo?
Facebook employees reading this, please consider quitting. I'm sure you're very talented: cash out your stock options and help build something worthwhile.

It's up to us: https://medium.com/@hondanhon/no-ones-coming-it-s-up-to-us-d...
Really? I didnt know this. Personally I switched to Lyft years ago when I heard about how scummy the company was. (Lyft will have the same problems as Uber with yesterday's Waymo announcement)
The IPC communication between WSL and native windows applications is getting better all the time. Along with the filesystem they both share you can use sockets, and named pipes.

Because of fork() you will never be able to arbitrarily use NT objects unconstrained in WSL apps, but there are lots of options. You can launch both windows and Linux programs arbitrarily from the shell now so the decision to choose one or the other is slowly coming down to preference.
One of the several reasons I never even connect a smart-TV to the network. nothanks.
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Why should they be compensated for this? Why are those individuals living in that place a status quo that ought to be maintained?
This can't be reiterated enough.

These store provide a lifeline for a certain segment of the population. Without these stores, one store in particular, there would be a lot of instability in society as we transition from a mostly middle class society to something a bit more bipolar.

Inequality is real, and these kinds of stores go a long way towards making it tolerable. Now I can't put a dollar value on that, but it has to be worth something.
Driverless could become viable in five years, ten years, or never. It's too unknown at this point to make business decisions on.