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> All kinds of small businesses are routinely run out of residential zoned properties.

Yup. And they typically have something in common - they don't bother the neighbors or create an atmosphere that is noticeably different than that of a residential neighborhood without the home business.

Work from a home office? No one will notice (other than the fact that you're home a lot). Teach piano lessons? As long as your students' parents don't park in front of other houses, probably not a big deal. (But people will notice.)

Want to run a metal shop out of your garage M-F? You'll get shut down because it's a disruption. Want to do metal shop projects on the weekend? No big deal, as long as you don't start too early and bother the neighbors.

> "Renting a room" seems like the kind of small business that's ideal for this situation - it takes no more infrastructure to house a vacation rental than it does to house a longer-term resident.

It's not about the "infrastructure" (when reduced to simply "a place to stay"), but about the externalities of everything that comes with frequent turnover of for-pay visitors. A vacation rental inherently means frequent turnover of residents, whereas "renting a room" means having a long(er) term resident with much less turnover.

> Leaseholders can also throw parties and be disruptive; there is an existing legal process to deal with noise complaints.

Yup, and it's easy to do because a leaseholder, well, lives there so the law can take its course. A vacation renter is gone pretty much before you can pursue any existing legal processes apart from calling the cops to come by and tell them to turn the music down. So, the AirBnB renter doesn't have to live with much/any consequences; the AirBnB "host" doesn't necessarily have consequences since they'll say "I won't rent to them again"; but the folks in the neighborhood do suffer from it.
> You clearly haven't read the links from the UN itself that comprehensively debunk these kind of uninformed propaganda.

I've been all over un.org. I can't find any of these links. I don't think the UN has even investigated the elections yet, and they never actually sent observers. Proposals to start an investigation seem to be stuck in the security council.

I have to comment on that first link you provided. This appears to be the most biased article I've come across with regards to the elections.

There is no mention of candidates that were banned from running (including, but not limited to Henrique Capriles, Leopoldo López, Antonio Ledezma, Freddy Guevara, David Smolansky, María Corina Machado, and Miguel Rodríguez Torres);

No mention of unconstitutional spending of public funds on maduro's campaign;

No mention of parties being disqualified and forced to re-register weeks before the election;

No mention of the fact that some political parties refused to run because of all of this;

No mention of the limitations placed on international observers, OR the fact that no international observers were reported to be present

No mention of protests rejecting the election;

No mention that Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Saint Lucia, stated prior to the elections that they would not recognize the results;

etc.

Instead, the article focuses on accusing the "western media" of being propaganda... because English-speaking news outlets use the word "amid" (why this is bad is never established). Yet it's not just the media that cast doubt on the election. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, refused to recognize the election results and called for new, democratic elections.

I also love how MacLeod made a claim about an unnamed originator of a story about how expensive condoms were... and then linked to a reddit AMA featuring none other than MacLeod himself. In the AMA he makes the same claim with the same wording. He actually makes a few of the same claims as he answers questions that were never asked.

This whole article seems to be nonsense. I haven't previously heard of "Fair", but they seem to be named ironically.

If you want a less biased view of the elections, I'd start with the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Venezuelan_presidential_e...
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>There were 50 people that all had lives, but we picked on the tech guy. It ends up feeling mildly disrespectful.

Let's be realistic - there being a "tech guy" is the only reason this story is on topic. Hacker News is not supposed to be a place to discuss mainstream events, however tragic they may be, or the deaths of people not relevant to the tech community.
> First and foremost, the money went to Brazilian companies that built that infrastructure.

In every loan that got investigated, the money seems to have gone into corrupt politicians pockets, both inside and outside of Brazil.
I've only used it with a static set of options, not pulling data from ajax and it's been awesome for that.
Depends on what you like. For traditional shooters there's Onward and Pavlov, with a new AAA title from Respawn Entertainment coming later this year. For sports there's Rec Room, Echo Arena, Racket NX, Eleven: Table Tennis, etc. For single player experiences Lone Echo, Budget Cuts, Robo Recall, and coming later this year Defector, Stormlands, Lone Echo 2, Boneworks... honestly there's a lot.
Nope, deterrence is still only required proportionally. If someone parks on a crosswalk and the cost of that to society is $200 and the fine is $500 then the fact that they're paying $500 means you're still coming out ahead. And if the cost to society is more than $500 then you've set the fine wrong regardless of who is paying it.
> isn't tethered to a PC

Can I tether it to a PC if I want to? My primary use case is PC gaming.
Your anecdote created a very strange comment string with a lot of comments from people who seem to be strongly defending libertarianism, except for the part about honoring contracts.
One funny part of the implementation of reciprocity is that you could pay a visa expediter to actually deliver the passport and visa request without going to the consulate in person, whereas the U.S. consulates abroad don't allow this option. That means that the reciprocity was often more financial than, well, experiential.
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Your mischaracterization of why people are getting angry is quite funny to me.
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What happens if domains have conflicting policies set?
It doesn't ship on it anymore. It used to a number of years ago.
I don't feel like digging too deep into the annals of time, but here's their original kickstarter page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121130044529/http://www.kickst...

Tux 3/4 of the way down.
I look forward to the fake meat getting cheaper than the real meat so it's economically less attractive to pass off real meat as fake, however unlikely someone doing that would be in the first place.
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>I feel that many of these pseudo-secure, proprietary enhancements to email create a false sense of security for non-tech-savvy users.

OTOH, circumventing a security measure means deliberately violating someone's boundaries.

For example, I communicate with my friends and partnets with Signal often. We usually keep the disappearing messages setting on so that over time, our ephermeral conversations drift away. (Especially useful since even if someone is not malicious, a stolen or compromised device could leak sensitive conversations).

I suppose someone could capture and save an embarasing conversation. But if they did that, I would turn around and shame them - for violating my boundaries, for breaking my trust, and using that trust to bully me.

I suspect that given how the conversation on privacy has shifted, it would be viewed worse to steal someone's nudees, gripes about friends/coworkers, or jokes made in poor taste than it was to do the original communication.

Total security is impossible, but I can ensure that it will be abundantly evident you are an untrustworthy, phony, and malicious person if you circumvent access controls to leak my communications.
Tracer code is "The Pragmatic Programmer" approach to applying Gall's Law:

Tracer code is not disposable: you write it for keeps. It contains all the error checking, structuring, documentation, and self-checking that any piece of production code has. It simply is not fully functional. However, once you have achieved an end-to-end connection among the components of your system, you can check how close to the target you are, adjusting if necessary.

What I'm describing is also how one can incrementally get to the Tracer Code. First, write something stupid. Perhaps it's fragile and hardcoded and only sends one particular query and gets the answer back. Then correct the hardcoding and start filling in the missing pieces.
I think Garvey has it right. My use of 'fake' does not mean nutritionally vacant. It means "an animal did not die to provide it".

It is also the same reason I believe it is wrong to waste meat.
Can't we just buy more AK-47s.
>Penalizing people for doing what they have to do in order to go about their lives is a recipe for a populist uprising that undoes all of your changes and sets the effort back a decade

True. The yellow vest riots in France were ignited by a gas tax. Of course, probably anything would've set them off since they have a completely different political climate.
Just because you are allowed to build 100 stories into the heavens doesn't mean you will when its cheaper to build flat across an empty swath of land. When you hit capacity on that empty swath of land, like in the LA basin, but aren't allowed to build high to meet demand, like in the LA basin, then you have a supply problem.

Imagine the mess that NY would have looked like if Manhattan was limited to single family homes. The city would sprawl across half of NY, NJ, and CT easy.
Your reply seems equally ideological to me. The reality is that it's a complex situation, and that there is a non-trivial political concession in dropping reciprocity.

I think dropping it makes sense, because pragmatically the damage outweighs the benefits. But simplistic, partisan tarring of existing policy doesn't help us learn anything new.
Media giants who own the US networks
Brazil doesn't belong to Bolsonaro.

Also, presuming you're also not a fan of Trump, would you then advocate for all tourism to the USA to cease?

I don't think that's a rational position.
Thanks ! yes that's the one. I knew HN wouldn't let me down :))
Note that even at relatively low volumes, sleeping while listening to something can cause hearing damage. There's an interaction between both the volume and the duration of sound exposure. If you're using your device to drown out other sounds, that might be too loud.
Doesn't XQuartz come with xterm?
You can develop apps in C/C++ with the NDK, cutting out Java almost entirely and avoiding its associated latencies. This is what all serious games do.

However, the lack of a widely-supported low-latency audio stack is still a killer.
Speaking for myself, I generally prefer to learn at my own pace studying from books than from lectures and a standardized curriculum. But the issue here is value vs. risk: Lambda provides greater value (instructors, curriculum, etc...), but their income share amount is similar because it needn't account for the (presumably) higher risk of failure with self-study.
I agree, but in many cases sterility is a very nice feature. For grapes and banana people managed to breed seedless varieties long time ago, and for other things like peppers or watermelon many would be prepared to pay extra.
are all your gmail and facebook messages from 10 years ago not still available? I think youd have to go back more than 15 years to get to services where communications are now faded.
Yeah, you get me. It's been a while since I had to Latin in anger.
By this reasoning, Google Ads is a different product from Google Search and as such gets preferential treatment by being the only one presented in Google's search results.

I'm not sure what reasoning you're using, but it appears you aren't grasping the complexity of the argument.

For starters, Google search placement is a fundamental part of the search product, and is a wholly different product from Google Ads (which don't show up alongside search results). Search results and display ads aren't just different products--they're different markets (for example, print ads and tv ads are also advertising but are wholly separate forms of advertising from each other and from display ads and from search placement). So paying for placement in search results isn't an antitrust issue.

On the other hand, if buying search placement was contingent on also buying Google Ads, that would be a textbook example of antitrust abuse because Google's dominance in the search engine market is being used to leverage and interfere with the display ads market.
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10 expensive:

Singapore Singapore
France Paris
China Hong Kong
Switzerland Zurich
Switzerland Geneva
Japan Osaka
South Korea Seoul
Denmark Copenhagen
US New York
Israel Tel Aviv
US Los Angeles

10 Cheapest:

Venezuela Caracas
Syria Damascus
Uzbekistan Tashkent
Kazakhstan Almaty
India Bangalore
Pakistan Karachi
Nigeria Lagos
Argentina Buenos Aires
India Chennai
India New Delhi
I'm really concerned about this setting a lower standard that software will be designed to. The inability to track hands behind you in particular.

But maybe we lost that battle already...
>or do people just like the strawman fallacy a bit too much?

Well, strawmen are often involved in the invocation of slippery slope arguments, so yes, probably.
>The target audience for this feature are CIOs of organizations Google sells G-Suite to. Companies do need IRM on emails, to prevent leaks that could happen by accident or intentionally

I encourage anyone with a Gmail to take a lot back 1, 5, 10 years. There's a lot of data there. Setting up an automated deletion policy can be a great risk mitigation feature.

It won't stop malicious insiders, but it will help make sure run of the mill compromises won't be total disasters.
What's more, this software fix depends on 1 out of 1 sensor inputs. There's no redundancy or conflict detection, if the pilot is flying the plane it uses the sensor on the left, if the copilot is flying the plane it uses the sensor on the right. This is a safety-critical system with absolutely no redundancy at all.

(Boeing would sell you a third AoA sensor and the AoA Disagree readout as an optional upgrade though! So it's not like they didn't think about it, they just didn't care enough to include it in the base spec.)

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/inves...
Yes, the software library is very good, continues to improve, and 2019 will see significant new releases approaching AAA quality (according the the vendors, of course).

Naturally, it depends on your interests. But my issue is lack of time to work through my library, not lack of compelling software.
"Earbuds without a wire" is a reductive characterization of the AirPods. The audio delivery mechanism leads to a bunch of quality-of-life changes:

- You don't need your device on your person. I leave my iPhone around the house somewhere and use these while cooking, or run with AirPods + Apple Watch (cellular not required, I just download podcasts or audiobooks).

- You are not tethered to a listening device. I don't worry about the cable catching on kitchen drawer handles or gym equipment (this happened to me way more often than every 6 months). I can jump from phone podcasts to a video call with a few clicks or taps, instead of changing headphones or transferring cables.

- Your call quality improves dramatically from wired headphones. Others are complaining about background noise, but wired headphones are far worse, with their microphones on their remotes (IIRC). I hated "speaking up" by holding the little remote to my mouth.

The concerns you mention are also minimal in practice. The case has excellent battery life, requiring a charge only weekly or so. If you're on a streak of calls, you can charge one AirPod at a time to stay connected. I have also used mine for over 18 months almost daily, and the battery has been fine.

Are AirPods a convenience? Yes. But there's always a market for convenience.
> A policy that gets created when you let people with diplomatic passports decide who needs a visa.

That would be most government officials, won't it? How do you propose handling visas then? Just not have reciprocity and have mandatory visas for every country? Sell visas on entry (some places do that, as a form of tax)?
> I also think airline training is a factor--both Boeing for the new systems and the airliners because runaway stabilizer trim has been in the aircraft emergency checklist for over 50 years and every pilot should know it. That same procedure would have saved these planes.

While training is absolutely one (of many) factors in these crashes, it's worth noting that while the runaway stabilizer checklist response would save this plane, the symptoms of this runaway MCAS issue DO NOT MATCH those of a "normal" runaway stabilizer as pilots train on it in simulator.

Essentially, pilots are being called upon to recall a trained response based on input which is significantly different from any that they've seen in training. Other flight logs on Lion Air prior to the crash show that even when the pilots correctly hit upon flipping the stabilizer trim cut out, it took them minutes to realize that was the solution, and they only fully confirmed that when they tried turning it back on, experienced another pushover, and then cut it out for good.

Boeing's assertion that there was no need for additional simulator training for the Max series is clearly incorrect -- even in non-fatal incidents pilots have demonstrably and in multiple cases not been able to correctly recognize the MCAS runaway as a kind of Stabilizer Runaway without spending time searching for and running multiple checklists.
If your native language isn't English, what is it? I have to know =]
Pretty sure they're referring to ambient noise cancellation using the microphones to make it so the background noise doesn't come through your microphone to the other participants while on a call.
Hey look, we found him!
The article mentions a couple of options, one of which is tombstones. In a chaining implementation, the load factor is straightforward: num_items / table_size. Adding items increases the load factor and deleting items reduces it.

With open addressing, deletions do not decrease the load factor (at least not immediately, in general), because a deleted item becomes a tombstone. So for open addressing, load factor is (num_items + num_tombstones) / table_size.

The upshot is that in a scenario where items are being repeatedly added and removed, over time the load factor will gradually increase until eventually the table has be recreated. This is true even if the average number of items remains relatively constant over time, and is unlike a chaining implementation.

In this scenario, the average insertion time might be lower with open addressing, but the worst case will be much worse than for chaining.
It also sounds like he wants to pay higher taxes but only if that means forcing others to pay higher taxes, otherwise he could simply do as you suggested and pay more via less deductions, etc. It seems like a common leftist ideal, where in example, celebrities and politicians decry fossil fuels in the name of global warming but do absolutely nothing to set an example -- even doing the opposite.
It's not about who got there first, it's about what the majority want. The greater good. People buy property in these communities with certain expectations. One of those being that they will not have to deal with people who disrupt the neighborhood.

AirBnBs bring randos into closed, private, residential areas that don't want to have to deal with people partying. Sure, it may just be fun and games for the renters who are on vacation, but for everyone else, who have to deal with it 24/7? It's not fun. It's annoying and rude.
What sets this apart from TuxGuitar?
From the website

> The image boorus are longstanding web databases which host large numbers of images which can be ‘tagged’ or labeled with an arbitrary number of textual descriptions; they were developed for and are most popular among fans of anime, who provide detailed annotations.

i.e. it's pulling from a public website which crowdsources the tagging
How long ago did you test that? I recall trying out iTerm2 some time ago and being appalled at the latency as well, but fairly recently I reconsidered it and found it to be more than quick enough for my needs.
I used to have similar issues, however they have gone away after I stopped ever clicking the bluetooth icon, and only ever paired them via the speaker icon. Not sure if our problems are related or not, but may be worth trying.
It seems to me the Rift S is targeted more at people new to VR, not at existing Rift owners. The focus seems to be mainly on making setup easier, and improving comfort and ergonomics, not on pushing the boundaries spec-wise.
>you can't just say "well buy somewhere else"

You can, for the most part, if you don't make it harder than it needs to be to build apartment complexes.
I think it's very clear that Oculus engineering efforts are dedicated to standalone devices like Quest rather than PC VR headsets. Which makes sense if you want to get 1 billion people using VR.
> ... Java’s anemic type system (which forced complex class hierarchies where, in dynamic languages ...

It just occured to me that relationship between Java and more expressive languages that do more, parallels relationship between microservices architecture and monoliths.

Because in Java it's hard to make smart classes that do everything you need, you need to create whole ecosystem of dumb classes that only through their interaction are capable of doing what you need. But the language has no tools to deal with interactions between classes. For monitoring them and reshaping them just as there's no tooling in microservices architecture to deal with complexities of inter-service interactions.

So in theory you have nice isolated units that should be easy to change and swap. But you just pushed the complexities of your problem to in-between of your units where they are no longer well visible and very hard to manage and evolve.
Perhaps in the sense that we all (indirectly) pay the tax (i.e. cost) of advertising, whether we use Google or not.
Very interesting if it works as claimed
Apple has been doing that with headphones ever since the iPod came out. iPod commercials featured black silhouetted people with the bright white headphone and cord contrasted on top[0]. Like AirPods today, it used to be a status symbol to have white headphones as that basically meant they came from Apple.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHUz99l-eo
Whats wrong with running ads for condos in a whites-only resort community? If their internal numbers show that this community has a really high chance of conversion, why should they target something else on a finite ad budget? Can't a company decide who it wants to sell to?
Me too. Lost my v1's, just ordered the new one last night. If I lose these, I'd get a third. I too forget that they're in my ear, sometimes sleeping the whole night rolling around, then waking up and their still in my ear.

Been using my wired one's waiting for this to come out. It's a work of a difference, wires are a total pain.