skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Sunrun got started, no one wanted to issue loans for residential solar. It was a new unproven technology, and the accounting departments at places big enough to provide these kinds of loans at scale just didn't know how to factor the risk.

The article calls these TPO's, but in the industry the more common term is PPA's -- Power Purchase Agreements. That's more how large solar farms work -- they find a buyer willing to pay a fixed price over 20 years and use that contract to raise money in the capital markets. Sunrun kinda took that model and applied it residential, because that's what the financial industry that could supply the capital knew.

Now that we're a few more years into this grand energy transition, PPA's are falling out of favor. Now that the capital markets see this home solar thing is more or less as reliable as promised, has expected depreciation, etc., personal loans are becoming the more common way of buying home solar.
If these states are so flush in cash that they can give tax breaks, they should go to small business... not the richest guy in the world. Why should government intervene in in a free market and give one business a massive advantage over everybody else?
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That's really cool. Thanks for sharing.
Even then, no. If a city wants businesses there, they should make it easier for everybody, not just big companies like Amazon.
You can get past the paywall by playing with the stop/refresh buttons so the page never fully loads. Or just use outline.com.
It's a matter of principle. NYC (or any municipality) shouldn't be bending over for massive multinationals. It's a form of corruption, one that's depressingly widespread, and it's a race to the bottom that, from a 30,000 foot view, accomplishes nothing but screwing over the taxpayers and smaller competitors lacking the leverage for these antics, and benefiting the corporations that are already enormous and powerful.
> You can make a simple framework of 3-4 neurons and observe how it works. Then you make it bigger and it works differently. No one properly explained why this happens.
Snapping oneononemeeting.com will be hard I think. I am considering renaming my project. My main driver for that name was SEO, but today I do not consider SEO my major growth channel anymore.

I give the price for individual accounts, I will just reuse that price with a "per user" for enterprise and disclaim that are possible discounts for large accounts.

Thanks for your comments!
Open the file, parse its content, deal with any errors. SQLite is simpler.
Still not bullish on Bitcoin but he likes blockchain - is the official by-line
What are you talking about? In my area of downtown Brooklyn there's a glut of luxury residential towers recently completed or still going up. As far as I know there's so much supply now that prices are actually decreasing, but again this is a decrease on luxury apartments so whether it's $4400 a month for a two bedroom, or $4000 a month, that's not very helpful to most people. What we need are new non-luxury buildings where normal middle-income earners can afford to live (ex. $2000 for a 2 bedroom). Amazon would've just led to the filling of luxury towers in LIC and encourage developers to build even more luxury towers for the new Amazon transplants.
It's not impossible, it's just highly unlikely. Muggsy Bogues is the extreme outlier. Most NBA players in the history of the game are above average height, despite tons of shorter people having similar access to playing the sport.
I'm pretty confident in claiming macOS and many Linux desktop environments natively support virtual desktops. It's really only Windows that doesn't.
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I imagine they're getting decent bang for their buck when hiring in NYC. Really the COL adjusted wages in NYC are some of the lowest for all American tech cities.
I don't necessarily feel bad for Amazon - I guess I just hate how disappointing the result was. Transparency lost.

They likely could have avoided it if they had just selected one of the dark horses like Indianapolis or Saint Louis.
There 2014 Princeton study that showed only the top 10% of income earners political opinions are reflected in the political leanings of the elected representatives in the US. I did a short video on this: https://youtu.be/sD8KtaNzI8o
If I am reading this right (and I am a newb at e currencies),
JP coin is basically a payment processor, where balance is kept on blockchain.

The coin value itself is linked with almost no flux to USD.

But then, I do not see how it is different than

https://www.bitrail.io/ (and its new freedom coin: https://freedomcoin.cc/#more )

or

tether with 2bln market cap
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

what makes JP's offer more useful to B2B transactions than the above two examples ?
You have to host your content somewhere. On my own dedicated servers I've personally been hit with requests to remove content that were sent directly to my data center.

So you're just wrong about no need for no 'safe harbor' for personally-hosted Internet. You always have to host somewhere or get your connection from someone. And that if that someone isn't as safe harbor they will filter or block you.
But you're just proving my point: if 95% is boilerplate, 5% is not. Plus you have to consider the circumstances. The same exact document might have vastly different ramifications depending on what else is involved - the work, product, other parties, etc.

I'm very happy for folks who haven't run into issues by not using a lawyer. But having had documents reviewed and realizing that things are pretty much never what they appear on the surface to a layman, I would never consider signing a legal document without having it reviewed by a lawyer. Nor would I assume some "boilerplate" document is going to cover what I, as a non-lawyer, assume it will.
Big slap in the face to the other cities filing bids. They also made attractive offers, but Amazon wasn't interested in them, just in wringing tax breaks out of NYC.
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As much as the anti-gentrification politicians would claim a small victory, this is a loss for NYC and the future development / resilience of its economic base.

Cities will keep on losing this kind of battle until some form of government or policy arises to counter the power of corporations (which are de facto increasingly taking the role of governments). Under our current regulations and incentives, I'm actually glad to see Amazon flex its political capability and teach NYC a lesson in what happens when you let vocal minority dictate public policy. Let examples like this teach us how broken our laws are.

Note I am equally glad to see some day that government (federal, state) come up with policies that stop cities and states from undercutting each other to get a temporary revenue / population / popularity boost at the expense of giving away the farm just to get it (until you find out it wasn't worth it, and get to try and remember that at the next election). Or god forbid, actually create policies that in the long-term stimulate as many jobs as a corporation might in a single swoop.
Yeah but they will get that tax break regardless at least this we can continue to make NYC a powerhouse tech center.

And it's in Long island City not in Manhattan like Facebook and Google.
Same. This seems to be remarkably common.
So who are the 'State and local politicians who refuse to work with us"?

Ocasio-Cortez, Gianaris, van Bramer...?
Um, no, that's not a "need", that's just an addiction. You don't need to feed an addiction and maintain it. Instead, a better alternative is to break the addiction.
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The NYTimes article falsely claims that there was "a moment when women began to be forced out of programming" when in fact the absolute number of women kept increasing (in the 80's/90's). The percentage dropped because of vastly higher numbers of men, for reasons the article described.

When I was a student (2004-2007) there was a huge contingent of males that played video games, watched anime, wanted to make video games, and badly needed haircuts, and spent all their time on computers, thus majored in CS. (Especially at my 3:1 ratio engineering school.) I don't think there was a big female version of that demographic.
What facade? CEOs? I don’t think Dems or Repubs would like to see that. Definitely not independents.

We’d get the most pro-business candidate every time. Not that any candidate has been anti/business, but can you imagine, it’d be pro-business on steroids. Schultz, One of the Waltons, corporate raiders?
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I wonder if Cuomo and De Blasio will try to save face by letting other companies bid on the space instead.
One incident that happened almost 20 years ago, in one of the worst-governed states in the union, in a way that immediately inspired one of the biggest landmark examples of corporate regulation in history.
This Amazon process has been complete shit for every idiot city who jumped on (my city included). I call the mayor's line here to leave messages about stuff like this every time it happens and say "see, you dummies this was a bad deal"

This has happened with Amazon, Casinos, GE, The Olympics, F1 racing... cities need to not be so fucking desperate to sell out their residents to the highest bidder.

I'd be more amenable to a property tax increase than any of this garbage.
Uh, pretty sure I don't have a soul anymore, but okay.
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They didn't. NY State offers a 'package' to all companies that move in. That's all they really got in terms of tax breaks. NYC only allowed it to bypass some building reviews/regulations.
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The problem is Prop13. Corporations (and the wealthy who shelter their wealth in them) use the ol' board of directors shuffle to bypass tax reevaluations.

Getting Corps out of Prop13 would massive increase state revenues by taxing the rich.

Trickle-down theory is a sham that tries to justify not taxing the rich. It has been proven time and time again to be unsupported by the data.
A loan is a better option than a lease, IMO. The terms are generally less obfuscated with loan agreements as well.
The market value (i.e. the big bucks) I think will shift into Data Engineering and the role that's abstractly called "Machine Learning Engineer".

Reliably getting any data science analysis or model running in a real world setting is a demand that's naturally going to follow from the Data Science glut.
What is the orchestration layer for this? I saw a few DO people at the FoundationDB Summit, but that probably wasn’t related and you’re just using ZooKeeper ;)
It's pretty well known that these BigCorp crypto/blockchain plays are just smoke and mirrors. There is no actual differential value gained here (unless as @dwiel says,they get some sort of loophole crypto tax break). It's a bit saddening to see that the tech has been picked up by the exact institution(s) that the tech was meant to combat. But if anything that just proves that there's meaning behind the concept (regardless of a f'ing coin price).

I look forward to the day where the JPM's and the like are put out of business for this sort of thing due superior, user-friendly technology.
Wow, that's gold, thanks a lot!!

I have thought about this "individual managers as user/champions in company" before, but the path was not very clear in my head. Thanks for laying it out for me.

I do have a day-job, so this is a totally valid strategy for me.
> this is a loss for NYC and the future development / resilience of its economic base.

I don't see any reason to prioritize the "economic base" over the people currently living there. Those things do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. They can, but often do not. Those elected officials seem, to me, to be representing the best interests of the people who voted for them. What's best for the tax base of a certain geography is often at odds with the people currently living somewhere.
I don't see how this is a useful question, I don't have millions of dollars at my disposal.
So if anything, Amazon will make the market worse for all other companies by sucking up a lot of the talent and causing a rise in wages. It might be good short term for software devs, but like Seattle and The Valley, it hurts absolutely every other industry. The person in your IGA or Starbucks often has to commute via bus or train or (god forbid) car over an hour out just so they can afford to barely make it, while tech people can pay the $2k ~ $4k a month for a 1 bedroom within 15 minutes of work.

New York doesn't need that too.
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A clarification: NYC didn't offer Amazon subsidies. New York State did. That's really the core of the tension - the whole deal was negotiated in secret then announced to the world as a finished product. That tends not to earn you goodwill with city politicians you deliberately excluded from the process.
Obligatory reminder that London != City of London
reCAPTCHA is horrible. I am almost certain that some tests are intentionally marked as failed even if they are correct, simply so they can get more training in. And if you take any anonymizing measures, reCAPTCHA makes much of the web nigh impossible to use.

It's easily the worst UX I encounter online. I can't describe the relief I feel when I come across a "normal" CAPTCHA. It's coming to the point that if I could pay a few cents to outsource every reCAPTCHA, I gladly would simply to avoid this atrocity.
This is pointless. The gatekeeper to the private network is a centralized authority.
> Also, assuming that the lower home value came true

It did, the estate paid off the cost of the contract.

> the original purchaser of the solar installation did put his money where his mouth is

He did not. He was dead, as you've noted, and the inheritors of his estate paid that price instead.
Not just a 20 year contract, but a 20 year contract that holds a lien on your home. This lien is great for sunrun. It has near zero risk profit backed by a lien on a home. The financial engineering at the expense of the public is quite good.
The subsidies were very contingent on Amazon delivering all of their promised uplift. But I think people scoffed at the top-line best case subsidies.

I forget where, but I remember seeing someone dig into the details of the offer and Amazon was not actually getting that much better of a deal than any other NYC business.
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The AA upgrade is available to all Mz3 vehicles starting with the 2014 model year, since that's when they came out with the MazdaConnect system. The Mz6 is similar.

As for foglamps, I have the factory foglamps on mine and they're completely useless; I can't see them at all. Maybe it's because my xenons are so bright, but regardless, I never use them.

It should be possible for you to swap in the factory xenons if you want, though you might have to set something with ForScan to allow it to work. Not really sure about that.
Here's a quick solution: find a client that has an office outside of CA.
They won't. Much of the reason for their two-year missionary requirement is to solidify the "us vs. them" mentality at that critical age when young adults often abandon the faith they were raised with. The main strategy for growth of the Mormon church is still raising children as Mormon, retention of young adults, marriage within the church, procreation at higher than replacement rate.
i was curious about this as well
I can sort by price on eBay. On Amazon, I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to finally be able to sort by price, and the results I get are far from exhaustive.
Exactly. The 25k number was just to make a splash and notice they aren't doing that again. Because there aren't really any other areas that could give them 25k skilled employees. They will scale up in Nashville which is expected since it is a growing area, and they will still be in NY due to the talent. The "HQ2" show was primarily to extract large concessions which almost worked. My initial reaction as a NY'er was "well that didn't go well" but now I think it was great that we did not fall for it.
Surely you must be joking? If command line tools were so unstable Linux wouldn't be possible...
A brief math overview can be found here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cardioid.html
In part, when you buy a ticket you also agree to their terms. The terms say you cannot do this, so this is a pretty simple case of contract law. If you don’t agree you don’t have to do business with them.
Yea, it definitely has limited immediate value compared to a database as long as it is on a closed network. However it does allow them to experiment with the technology in a controlled fashion. They could have done so quietly but, you know, marketing.

I think there is still value in Blockchain networks like Stellar[1] that are not fully decentralized, but are federated and diverse. If this is a first step towards them issuing a stable coin on a network like that then I welcome it.

1. https://www.stellar.org
I wonder how the real investors who purchased Queens apartments are taking this. Those apartments tripled in price.
It's not just superconductivity that you need. You also need to reduce thermal noise to maintain coherence between qubits. mill-Kelvin is the typical temperature range D-Wave computers go to [1], for instance.

In fact, when you see large mainframe-like pictures of quantum computers, the big box mostly contains cooling equipment. The actual circuitry is pretty small.

[1] https://www.dwavesys.com/tutorials/background-reading-series...
Well, the tooling to do that is available open source [1][2][3]. Barman[1] is more suitable for on-premises, while wal-e[2] and wal-g[3] are more suitable for the cloud. The wal-e[2] actually comes from Heroku.

[1] https://www.pgbarman.org/

[2] https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e

[3] https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g
> Transparency lost.

The process was anything but transparent. "Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/amazon-headqua...
Amazon projected to pay 0 federal income tax, second year in a row
Couple of notes.

Be prepared for most of your data scientist work to not be data science. Adjust your skillset for that.

Same in real science - for every minute you spend thinking about what nature might be doing, you spend tens of hours carrying things around, mixing things, checking things, repeating things, etc. This is how all real work is.

Most modern languages are procedural: Java, Python, Scala, R, Go, etc.

If someone has a friend who does Scala, can they read them this quote and film the reaction? Thanks.
sort has a -u option on my linux...
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-u, --unique
with -c, check for strict ordering; without -c, output only the first of an equal run
I think that 7K is just employees: "employs more than...". That is a deliberate distinction from "workers". I wouldn't be surprised if the count passed 10K once you considered contractors. They're mostly in non-engineering roles: cafe staff, recruiters, marketing, physical security (did those get converted to employees like they were doing in Mountain View?), facilities, etc.
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Love this new offering. What I don’t love is they are charging for egress bandwidth ($0.01/GB), even in the same data center [1]. I can understand it for outbound to internet or other data centers, but this is hard to swallow for the same facility.

Hopefully DO will reconsider this!

It also makes me wonder if all access to these databases is via the public network. I’m guessing so.

[1] https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/1096087824066101248
Isn't this exactly the opposite? Amazon would have destroyed the general economy in NYC like they did in Seattle. This is the city ignoring the big corporation and listening to their people. NYC doesn't need Amazon. It needs to fix it's rail system.
Absolutely. Heroku Postgres is a marvel and I use it for all my projects. If DO isn't even competing on price, then I don't know what they are competing on.
I wonder how many speculators bought property in NY based on this proposed move, and what happens next now that they leave.
The “inspired by” article is where the beef is: https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/html-slides-without-framewo...
They are almost certainly being used to train Google's self-driving/Maps/etc recognition.
What negotiation tactic? They already withdrew their plan of building a HQ there.

It would be absolutely ridiculous and absurd if they decide to come back, just because the narrative between officials and constituents changed.
You're correct - I should have been more clear on the titling - when I think head server guy, I'm thinking a VP or above level.
Yup. Most importantly, only JPM controls it's issuance, which means it's no different than a fiat currency or a gift card. One of the things Bitcoin proponents enjoy is the idea that it's a supply that cannot be printed frivolously.
It seems like China uses the higher capacity 777 for point to point travel, the way the United States uses the 737.
...except (at least for Amazon) they pay more in NYC, and of all companies Google doesn't exactly exercise frugality wrt compensation.
The app is older than Electron. The people who this tool were written for would probably dislike a big, slow Electron app anyway

And why Electron? Why not QT, or Java swing, or some other language with GTK?
>Particularly sucks for me because I'm on a kidney transplant list so may get a call any time of a potential match and they didn't specific which number will call me.

Do these robocalls harass pagers?

I had a friend in the 90s who was waiting on an organ, his mother carried a pager in case it came in. I don't recall it ever going off even though it was back when telemarketing was arguably as rampant as robocalls are now.
I know Homebrew is vetted, but I personally like to always check where this is pulling in its installer file - and it appears to match the domain as is in the Github repo.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
Okay, I was counting the nesting depth incorrectly. Here are a few more examples:

§ 3.8 Goto and labels

found = 0;
for (i = 0; i < n && !found; i++)
for (j = 0; j < m && !found; j++)
if (a[i] == b[j])
found = 1;

if (found)
/* got one: a[i-1] == b[j-1] */
...
else
/* didn't find any common element */

§ 6.3 Arrays of Structures

/* count C keywords */
main()
{
int n;
char word[MAXWORD];

while (getword(word, MAXWORD) != EOF)
if (isalpha(word[0]))
if ((n = binsearch(word, keytab, NKEYS)) >= 0)
keytab[n].count++;
for (n = 0; n < NKEYS; n++)
if (keytab[n].count > 0)
printf("%4d %s\n",
keytab[n].count, keytab[n].word);
return 0;
}
> I feel that more succinct and quicker to write does not mean simpler.

Indeed, it does not. They're design trade-offs of each other.

> Fish tries to have a cleaner syntax and probably succeeds in doing so. It may even be an attempt to bring some change to the status quo that is the POSIX shell syntax.

Indeed, it does, and it is (attempting to, though maybe not doing).

The thing is that, for shell languages, which are intended to be used more interactively for one-off things than for large scripting, I think being more succinct and quicker to write are more valuable qualities than being simpler.
Nice idea, but doesn't the fact that each letter / digit has to be in a separate box (if I understand this right) defeat the purpose?

Normally at tournaments they would hand you a score sheet that doesn't have this crossword-like layout.
Says the brave man yelling at people on the internet from his chair.
What are you talking about? LIC has lots of schools and parks. It's a very residential neighborhood.

> Whereas if you work in LIC it's not like you can really commute into the city from New Jersey or Stamford.

Why not? Take the Path to the E or the metro north to the 7.