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> No mention of unions.

Amazon is anti-union.

>No concept that Amazon should be held responsible as the seller when they resell a counterfeit item.

Amazon disagrees.

>No mention of antitrust or monopoly issues.

Amazon has no issues with being a monopoly, at all.
Think it depends on your use case. For web stuff, I've used Stripe. For personal stuff I used crypto, or Cash App.
Is that from a performance benchmark, or is it from any of the ways where Python and Ruby are actually used?

In processing large data sets, Fortran and Python are often used, and if you write similar code in Fortran and Python, you'll get much better performance in Fortran. But if you write Python using PANDAS, you can achieve comparable speeds, with much less developer effort because you're using a much higher-level language with more modern tools for all the glue, while calling out to highly-optimized loops for the heavy lifting.

Similarly, for web scaling: the speed of Python isn't nearly as relevant, because you're running your Python in a WSGI web server that is written in highly-optimized C.

And if your application is so specialized that a C-wrapper doesn't exist that handles the parts that need optimization, you can profile your Python code, and use the very good C integration to optimize the bottlenecks.

Language choice based on performance is a premature optimization.

I'm not espousing Python, either, necessarily: it's just a good example for this case because it's a slow language where its slowness doesn't really matter.
> On GNOME, everything just works

This is far from true. Gnome shell itself is mostly OK (if buggy), but only a minority of real apps work properly. The standard Gnome apps (Nautilus, Gnome Shell etc) are fine, but that's where the support pretty much stops.
Yes, please share! How did you deal with the window title bars?
I would switch to a 2.5 day work week or possible even less, with proportional cut in pay, if I could.
Off-topic: I'm having trouble reading this site on mobile, the font color is far too light, my eyes kept losing focus. Desktop it seems much more readable.

Font-weight: 300 with Open Sans + light color is the problem. Font-weight 500 solves it.
Dyson may recommnend a new filter but our's has run for 18 years with no extra purchases of that kind (we clean the filters ourselves. No problem). Brilliant machine and easily the most impressive domestic product we've ever purchased. Greater suction power would likely be dangerous in some circumstances. Not having to replace bags is such a bonus.
To throw my own (admittedly niche) Catalina anecdote into the mix:

In El Capitan, Apple introduced something called System Integrity Protection (SIP). This is a security layer that prevents you from doing certain things, like modifying system directories, even as root. The idea is that malicious software could gain root permissions and still be unable to do the most egregious stuff.

Okay, fine. You can turn it off by booting into recovery mode and running a command. I'd done this in the past because most of my company runs Linux desktops and some of our core software and scripts explicitly refer to network directories normally mounted in the root dir (yes, really). So since macOS mounts remote volumes under /Volumes, I had symlinks pointing from /foo to /Volumes/Foo.

Updating to Catalina removed all of these symlinks. Okay, sure, it's a system directory and they probably just overwrote it in the process. So I went back and turned off SIP, but afterward I still couldn't "sudo ln". What gives?

An extensive Google search turned up the fact that in Catalina, system directories are now mounted as a separate, read-only volume, at startup. So even with both admin permissions and SIP turned off, there is zero way whatsoever to write to them.

An even more extensive Google search revealed someone who'd figured out you can re-mount the root dir after boot (and after turning off SIP, of course) as a writable drive, at which point I was able to finally re-create my symlinks.

This took me about an hour to sort out. If there hadn't been a workaround on that random forum (which by the way feels like a loophole, as it only required root permissions), I would've been forced to stop using a Mac altogether.
Watching from the US, I agree that it is unreasonably being called confusing.

However, you are leaving out the part where Labor has said they will end freedom of movement and the EU has said they will not agree to single market but no freedom of movement. So while the Labor position seems clear, it doesn't seem realistic and it is also unpopular with a large portion of the party (as would be any brexit position).

Antisemitism is also a major issue in Labor (not just Labor), although I get the strong sense that fewer UK voters care about that than one might hope. It still seems likely that some people who might otherwise be strong supporters of Corbyn do not enthusiasitically support him because of this.

Corby also seems to have a bit of an authoritarian streak, although it is hard for me to tell for sure since UK politics seem to be structurally more publicly heavy handed from the party leadership than US politics. It seems to affect how he responds to various issues and might make them have more negative effect than they might otherwise.

Another huge issue seems to be the raging battle between the human friendly side vs the business friendly side of Labor that should really be two different parties but can't because of the voting system (same issue in the US). I would agree that much of the vitrol against Corbyn seems to be due to him being on the human friendly side.
What terrible analysis.

"Saez and Zucman train much of their focus on the 400 wealthiest Americans. This group makes up 0.0003% of households. The New York Times column describing the Saez-Zucman estimates reports that last year this group had a 23% combined federal, state and local tax rate.

In fact, the jury is still out on that number, which is based on a forecast of what income might have been last year. (The data for 2018 aren’t in. If you filed for an extension, your taxes for 2018 aren’t due until next week.) Even if it turns out to be correct, it doesn’t follow that the U.S. system is not progressive."

Basically saying "sure, by their metric they're right, but whatever, so there. I win!!"
FANN – Fast Artificial Neural Network Library
> This is not possible for many (and I suspect the majority of) android phones.

But it is.

You can install APKs from anyone on any phone. It's a feature of the OS.

> I can wipe my phone and unlock the bootloader to literally replace and de-Google the entire OS.

I've never had an Android phone I couldn't unlock and flash. From the original Evo to Pixel 2.

I have an iPhone as of two months ago. I just wanted to try something new. The amount of restricted access to things is boggling. I can't even download an mp3 on Safari or Chrome. I thought I was doing something wrong and spent 2 hours trying to figure out what. Then I learned it was just the phone.
Unfortunately it’s also daycare for the unwashed masses and unmotivated.
All the nightmares are nightmares until they're not nightmares. Weird launch day bugs like the I bug on iOS 11 are distant memories.

Yeah, these bugs are bad, but to me articles like this really feel a lot like a broken record. Every September and October, when the major releases come out, there are bugs. And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory.

If you don't want bugs, don't upgrade right away. That's not an Apple-only phenomenon - remember the Windows 10 October 2018 update that had to be entirely retracted?

10.14 is still supported. 10.13 is still supported. 10.12 is still supported. Keep using those if you want.
Here's a link to buy them: https://www.amazon.com/Nestle-KitKat-Dark-Chocolate-Flavor/d...
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
“ Apple has never been good at anything involving the internet. I feel like they could have all the money and engineers in the world (which they basically already do) and still never completely get their services right because it’s just not in their DNA. Applications are. Hardware is. But put a network layer in there and they crap themselves. (Ok, not in every case. I’m obviously exaggerating to make a point. But the overall track record is iffy at best.)”

Haven’t tested it in Catalina yet, but I doubt my Contacts in MacOS is still able to sync with iCloud
What evidence do you have to support that the article was false?

Additionally, what in the world does it have to do with the OP?

Bloomberg is a relatively moderate news source with a strong track record.
This is possible for pretty much all android phones. What's not necessarily possible for all phones is to root the phone but yes most android phones allow you to install apks downloaded via the browser after toggling "allow installation of apps from unknown sources" in the settings.
That's still so unbelievable. No evidence and no retraction.
This is amazing! It might be a personal feeling, but my opinion is that Facebook is SO much better than Google at delivering open source libraries that people want, and support them in the best way.

React vs Angular, Pytorch vs Tensorflow. These are just two examples among many where the Facebook framework arrives a bit later on the market but is then supported awesomely and improved continuously while the Google framework arrives earlier but then becomes a hot mess of non retro compatible upgrades and deprecations...

My “loyalty” to Facebook open source libraries just keep growing.
The naming confused me. I love the name though. "Back End for HN" made me think it was another HN-clone. It's an Emacs client for HN if anybody is wondering.
AFAIK FoxPro is part of the xBase family of database systems and while these aren't as popular as they used to be, there is still a lot of information about them out there (and they were meant to be easy to learn and use). There are even some open source implementations (Harbour). So it shouldn't be that hard to fix things, at least for a good programmer.

The hard part would be convincing said programmer to work on it :-P.
Gotcha, what is preventing you? Have you tried talking to your current company? Asking out of curiosity :)
You are misrepresenting the message either deliberately or through a misunderstanding of it.

Nowhere is it mentioned that the app was removes because it allowed avoiding police. It was removed because it violated the clauses on personal harm.

> we received credible information, from the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau, as well as from users in Hong Kong, that the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present. This use put the app in violation of Hong Kong law. Similarly, widespread abuse clearly violates our App Store guidelines barring personal harm.

When waze starts advertising that it will show you police-stops so you can drop by and beat up the police they would find themselves in a similar category.
Why isn't it fair that they pay the same tax rate? That's called a flat tax rate and I'm actually in favor of it because of its simplicity.

I think all income, regardless of source, should be taxed at a flat rate. It's how it works for tithing in a lot of churches, and it's a very simple but effective system.
Without planning permission! Oh my, how utterly evil. However it would seem this appalling transgression might not have been so despicable after all.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3870830/Billionaire...
No Oracle dependencies?
"We are a business that needs to project a progressive, left-leaning front in the face of criticism from the party our CEO donates to, heading into an election cycle, in order to protect share prices and avoid antitrust rhetoric."
There is a female MMA fighter, Cat Zingano, who is vocal about her Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments. She did a Joe Rogan podcast and spoke about it very positively. Very anecdotal but very interesting.
xpt is an abstraction over whatever package managers you have installed in your system. No need to run different commands based on the distro you're running anymore!

xpt can install software based on custom recipes. This allows you to add a custom behavior to a install script or to add a fallback in case no compatible package manager was found.
Uhm I would think that the tf.keras API is a clone of Keras (I mean, Keras was made by a Google Engineer!!)... which came before Pytorch
Is the effective tax rate is _primarily_ a function of income, or rather on how much you pay on tax professionals?
CNN Reporter Abruptly Muzzled While Asking NBA Stars About China
Been running WP for god knows how long for my personal site, while my company website is built with Jekyll.

In June I migrated to Ghost simply to try it and learn more about Node. It was _fine_, but never really fit my mental model of how a blog should operate or a web app should be structured. For better or worse, I'm an ex-Yahoo and a PHP guy through and through.
Insane! But in a good way. I've been very slowly working towards refactoring Gnus to use real OO classes to implement backends, and I always thought I'd know I was done when I could implement a HN backend without too much trouble. Both sad and happy to see that someone got there first. I will give this a try.
The exact same problem happens when you use launchd.
Some Tech Internship Hiring Statistics from Thousands of Data Points
We've banned this account for obvious reasons. Could you please not create accounts to break HN's guidelines with? It's not hard to use the site as intended, if you want to, and it's in your interest to do that, since breaking down the threads with comments like this will just lead it to informational heat death.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The top 1% tend to have significant income that is not wage based. The rich pay less as a percentage thanks to long term capital gains being taxed at 20%.

Note, the truly rich would consider anyone (no matter how much they make) as a poor wage slave if their primary source of income was wage based.
This is looking purely at income tax rate, not rate based on actual taxes paid. Article is misleading at best.
That seems like an intentionally uncharitable reading of the email. “the app was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence and to victimize individuals and property where no police are present“ is the purported problem, the app having information about the location of police checkpoints (like waze) is specifically called “benign”.
Salaries aren't paid out of earnings?
I've run Linux (i3 window manager) on UHD screen since around 2015 when I bought this laptop:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/msi-ws60-running-linux/

It isn't simple? no. You have different env variables for QT, GTK and xrander can set its own DPI as well. It is kinda a mess, but I use i3 so I figure I'm in for whatever pain I put myself into.

I've been running Linux on HiDPI devices for a couple of years now and I've got things sorted to where it's no an issue on any new device. I need to give Wayland/Sway another shot at some point. I hope it has better native zoom support than X11.
Capital gains are included in these numbers.

Source: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-07/55413-CBO-distribut...

ctrl+f "Definitions"
I was young and am a mere hardware and server nerd at heart so I wound up down the cloud / DevOps / SRE or whatnot path unfortunately a little too early and it's been quite fun.

Embedded has been consolidated into a bunch of huge multinationals like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, etc. and they're doing alright financially. It's just a very innovation-lacking industry compared to software, so you have a chicken-egg problem with investors. It'd be like trying to start a CPU company now when we've got Intel, AMD, IBM, and maybe one or two more boutique makers teetering on the edge of bankruptcy constantly.
X locking is notoriously difficult.
Not exactly, capital gains also cover things like passively growing trees as a land barron.
From a health perspective what's wrong with Chipotle? They have lots of veggies, beans, etc. You can eat fairly healthy there.
I pay taxes on my income and again at the point of sale.
Can it do "bulletproof", repeatable incremental builds? I'm asking because I don't see how it would be able to, unless the toolchain is wired into your build system _at least_ as deeply as it is in Bazel.
> Why does it have to be Android? It's another commercial closed-source OS

What do you mean? Android is FOSS not closed-source.
> I don't understand how you can begin with a somewhat rational argument about overpopulation and then jump to the completely irrational conclusion that for some reason global warming (as a root cause) will kill us, rather than overpopulation.

Global warming is almost certainly already killing us. If a hurricane, flooding, heat waves, or drought is more severe than normal due to climate change, that means people are dying due to climate change.

In the decades to come, droughts, crop failures, and fishery collapses means people will starve. Extreme weather and sea level rise will create climate refugees. In unstable parts of the world, climate change-induced stressors will cause armed conflict and probable massacres. It also means previously stable parts of the world will become unstable.

All of those things means lots of dead people within the lifetimes of people alive today. Maybe we'll be able to change course and lessen the impact of climate change, but if we don't succeed the outlook is grim.
I think things will improve as more Linux devs get HiDPI monitors (ones with good IPS panels are still quite expensive). Ubuntu has some beta-level support for fractional scaling but it looked awful when I tried it. But I live in hope that it'll all be sorted out soon!
I'm talking about evolution of different species, a much more significant change than variation within a species. Despite morphological and behavioral differences, wolves and dogs are still the same species. It took millions of years for fungi to evolve into decomposing wood.
I guess it is this https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present
it should be illegal to display any LEO logo in a way that insinuates police or trooper involvment, when there is none, precisely because of this potential incident.
From my experience part of what sucked about middle school was all of the responsibilities with none of the privledges and a seeming determination to make things suck as much as possible.

Also exacerbated by things like overcrowded halls, air conditioning only in the library the faculty office, and a goddamn obsession with collective punishment.
Japanese humidity is a bit of nonsense. Places like Florida, India, Singapore, and Brazil all have much higher humidity.
My work laptop is in this situation and it got to the point where I just ran the eDP display in 1080p instead. Honestly on a 15 in screen where I'm only doing code and not editing photos, there's no point in running it in UHD.
At work, we use cmake; i've never seen a technology with so little 'traction'; I know one guy who is good with cmake all the other (including me) avoid touching this thing as much as possible!

Sigh, I remember debugging a complex makefile generation issue (it took me 3 days, two guys before me failed) and it didn't make me hate the make tool, I just wished it had better tracing/debugging but cmake that's a different story..
Are the societal effects of a flat tax worth the simplicity?

If you optimize for simplicity, but at some greater cost to having a society that functions for all its citizens and residents, is it worth focusing on simplicity?
Yes, chron is just a very simple, single-node, low-time-resolution, system-level scheduler. While it may be good at that, that is very often (always would be an exaggeration, probably) not a great tool to be used (at least as an exposed component) in automation of modern production systems.
What the poster means is that official tax rate before all of the tax breaks, etc.

Maybe the top do officially pay 33%, but if they're able to get that number down to 16%, then their effective tax rate is 16%.
U.S. Semiconductor Industry Veterans Keep Wary Eyes on China
Update on Data Security Issue – StockX News
If the information they have recieved is indeed credible as they state. Then the users who would be grateful are the police officers who were targeted in violent assaults and the locations that where vandalized.

Apple is not in a unique position to judge who’s “the good guys” and who’s the “bad guys” they recognized the app was being used as a tool of violence and removed it because they did not wish to distribute tools used for violence.
I found another winner, this might be the best one yet. Guess USAFE ain't the best post.

https://assets.rbl.ms/17219578/origin.jpg
I don't work in Java, but just so you know, you can define Maven deps in your WORKSPACE file, and Bazel will automatically download and cache them (and their dependencies) much like Maven would. The rest of the build is trivial to set up.
The burden of proof is on Bloomberg to show that the article has basis in fact, not the other way around.

It is relevant to the OP because it gives an idea of how reliable other articles from the same source might be.

> with a strong track record.

This is what they are disputing.
The math in this article is much more correct than Leonhardt’s but they're both kind of missing the real issue. Yes, income taxes are very progressive, but that's going to need to change if we want to raise a meaningful amount of more revenue. There just isn't enough income at the highest percentiles to move the needle very far.
Malthusian insanity. Population will decline globally w/in 75 years. Advances in natural power generation will make it economical for humans to align electric consumption with natural resources. As usual, even HN'ers are temporally ego-centric. Hakuna Matata.
Isn't it just a wrapped website? You can just browse it directly at:

https://hkmap.live
They lost me at ancient robot assassins chasing robot makers who tried to escape.
This also mirrors Chinese vs. American values perfectly.

The Chinese believe in the Apple model of safety, greater good, social harmony, and the ends justifying the means over individual liberties. The concentration camps, great firewall, IP theft, everything we see as dysfunctional about China stems from this belief system.

Americans don't believe in the "greater good" or "the ends justify the means" and it results in uniquely American dysfunctions like mass shootings and homeless people shitting in the street in SF.

Still, like you, I have no interest in switching to the other camp. It is a basic value system ingrained in me.
Alan Webinar to add voice to iOS apps
1. Yes I totally would love it and think all Americans should go to a 10-hour, 4-day work week. Two days off is not enough. The Europeans have far more vacation time than us. What's disheartening is that we spend more days at work than not - at least this would even the playing field a little. It feels like your whole life is there then. I would be in favor of someone starting a movement to change this across the U.S.
2. Officially my answer is yes because I value the time off with my family. However, I would argue that a 4-day work weeks can save companies money (i.e. don't have to pay utilities on the 5th day the business is closed) and therefore the cut isn't needed. And I'm still working the same amount of hours, so why cut?
Yeah, I think the heuristic should be "Am I forced to migrate to bazel to solve real problems my company is having?"

Vs.

"Can I migrate because bazel is the new thing"