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You don't seem to have succeeded in debunking anything relevant to this post. This post is simply pointing out that, in part because the Super Bowl is organized by a nonprofit that is exempt from taxes on its local economic activity (purchases, hotel usage, etc.), its benefit to the city/region hosting the Super Bowl is quite limited. For example, it may generate more hotel usage, but it may also displace some tax-paying hotel usage with non-tax-paying hotel usage, which cancels out some of that added activity.

But more generally, the Super Bowl, a for-profit activity mainly aiming to enrich the teams who are NFL members, has structured much of its activity such that the NFL itself, a nonprofit organization, is doing all the organization and purchasing, thereby exempting most of the local economic activity from sales taxes, hotel occupancy taxes, and similar. A proper arrangement would be that the for-profit corporations profiting from the Super Bowl should be organizing it, rather than laundering their signature product through a nonprofit organization.

I can't think of another case where a group of companies' main product is run by an umbrella nonprofit. Chamber-of-commerce organizations usually do pretty minor coordinating and lobbying activity, not actual production operations. To get something analogous in tech you'd have to imagine something silly like all the cloud-computing companies getting together and setting up a Cloud Services Association, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit that operates all their datacenters jointly, rather than e.g. Amazon or Microsoft operating their own datacenters on a for-profit basis.
> Also, instead of passing any arguments to "git-log", I usually just use "tig", an ncurses display of the commits: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/

+1 for tig. Definitely my favourite git interface. Its status view is also very handy for viewing diffs, and adding/removing files to the index, as well as reverting changes.

Also, it now has mouse support. I know this, cos I added it :)
the American way!
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Thanks, that's really nice to hear.

I'm kind of going the same route, filling the gaps that other people skip over because they're chasing the big dream. I'm just hoping to make enough income so I can work on my own projects full-time, and have the flexibility of self-employment.
Dogecoiners will try to stay afloat with whatever "feature" they can come up with, even if it's the result of a bug.
Weird, wasn't expecting to find that it was by my brother in law!
Thanks for your comment!

1. I would actually completely agree with you that evening deliveries is not enough to sustain a business. Our roadmap consists of many other delivery/shipping services that will be rolled out. We just thought the concept of night deliveries was a good way to introduce the consumer side of our company, building off from there. Especially as it helps polish our internal system methods before we offer 24/7 delivery.

2. Indeed, London also has other services like Collect+ where you can get your item at your local corner shop. We do plan on introducing our own locker system now in the spring, so we are on board and in support of the locker system as existing in harmony with a dedicated delivery system too.
What do you mean "liquid"? I hear this a lot from Americans, who don't understand the concept of decimals and units based on powers of ten.
Jim Belk was my math professor in college -- we always knew he was a much better programmer than he let on!
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You have an incredible lack of compassion.

Pray that you nor someone you love rots in a dungeon like this.

Pray that you never have to eat those words as you sit in silent darkness slowly losing your mind.

It can happen to anyone.

It can happen to you.
Your explanation makes no sense.

Since 1928, the S&P has risen 5506%[1]. Over the same period, the dollar has lost 93% of its purchasing power. If you put a dollar on the market in 1928, it would be worth $808 (1928 dollars). A dollar under the mattress is instead worth $0.07 (1928 dollars). Investing had a return 11500-fold greater than hoarding cash.

[1]http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...

[2]http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Thanks, very helpful. One upvote, sincerely not enough.
> it's a degenerate solution!

Well, there you go. :-)
Unintentionally. It was a bug, but now dogecoiners are claiming it was designed that way by geniuses, like they always do.
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I asserted that both explanations are possible, which is an obvious fact to me, until it is shown that one of the explanations is wrong.

I didn't notice I was replying to you, not aestra, who implicitly explained the results of the study in the way I described, when they used that study as evidence that "sexism is alive and well". Even though in this particular study, the authors (incorrectly) ignored my alternate explanation, it is in fact often discussed in this context (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_discrimination).

And I am sick of your side of the argument swearing at your opponents while constantly playing the victim card. Fuck you.
Not sure what this is trying to state, but most seem to think that because the word "non profit" is there, it means they should be broke, operating on a shoestring budget, be poor unknown non-profit corps dedicated to human interest campaigns, but this isn't the case.

Feel free to read the multiple thread top comments on the various times on /r/politics this topic has been brought up. Also the NFL filing signed by Goodell last year operated at a loss.
My utmost favourite technique for centering unknown width and height DIV's/elements perfectly center in the page is using 2dtransforms. I've created a Codepen here that shows off the technique, it's simple and well supported IE9+: http://codepen.io/Figurated/pen/zcypx — if you don't need to support IE8 any more, it's a perfect solution.
Am I the only one who is on the computer because there literally is nothing else to do? I live in the middle of nowhere, the place I live is not my fit at all and I can't afford to move somewhere else.

Once I get to where I want to be, I'm only going to be using this thing for work.
Well no, the issue is that we're getting close to 20 years since CSS was introduced and they only got around to introducing something that makes this basic simple task 'easy'[1] relatively recently. It's not even like this was some basic part of CSS2 that got ignored by vendors, it became a candidate recommendation for CSS3 in 2012.

[1] It makes it 'easy' by introducing yet another weird box modelism that doesn't really fit anything else that's already there. It's really as much a symptom of these problems as a solution, imo.
There's a lot of potential in those gaps. Have you read the Long Tail?
Such wow. So animosity. Doge let Bitcoin have moon too. Many room.
So this guy discovered $scope.$apply 3 days ago? It's very old news.
What does the pattern of motion look like once they start bouncing off walls?

What about if the table is frictionless?
You and me both, you and me both....
The US should be aiming higher than some developing nation hellhole for its prisons. "We're not as bad as that poor nation, with the dictatorship, and all the corruption" isn't a ringing endorsement of the freedoms that the US wants the rest of the world to have.
cough Macbeth cough
What is a "phone"? Is it a device with a rotary dial? Or is a device capable of making voice/video calls. A cellular iPad mini, IMO, is simply a mobile iOS device with a 7.9" screen. It can make/receive calls similarly to the 4" screen iOS device (think FaceTime audio, Skype, VoIP, etc.).
Ive used trello before. As far as I know it has no realtime irc-style chat or chatrooms and thats one of the main features I'm looking for.
Or maybe it is because Kevin Spacey is a fantastic actor and it has an excellent screenplay? Is the USA a meth addicted society because Breaking Bad has been one of the most celebrated cable tv shows as of late? Trying to pin the success of a well written show on Netflix to America's total hopelessness because Obama hasn't changed the world is a stretch.
Not really. Launchpad was introduced in 10.7 as an additional way to browse and launch apps, making things more familiar to people who'd only used iOS. The previous methods, like apps in the dock (introduced with OS X) the applications folder (every Mac OS ever) still work fine.

If, at Lion's launch, Apple had said 'we think launchpad is so good we're going to take away all the other ways of launching apps', there would have been a full-scale riot.

The problem with the start menu is that millions of people, people who don't really know much about computers, or want to know much but have to use one anyway, grew up thinking a start menu is what a computer has. It's been there and worked in a similar way since 95 and it's disconcerting to find it's suddenly disappeared.

It's not special hate, I love the design language and it's great to see Microsoft taking the lead in design values - it's just that it is not good enough yet.
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It's pretty neat seeing someone from Bard on HN
I always feel like I get the most done, both in terms of what I'm paid to do and what I have to offer, on my weekly volunteer day. I slam through as much programming and meetings/conversations as possible in 5 hours, then head out of the office and teach robotics to kids for an hour or so. Time typically spent dorking around on the internet is reallocated to doing better things in the real world.
Nothing actually, US has always been like that, only that now people can see how absurd it all is.

But ask anyone that got "democracy" by the United States, not only in middle east, but for example in South America during the cold war, several african countries, and so on, and they will tell you that this behaviour from the US government is not unexpected, and that the US population approval (even if implicit and indirect) of it, is not unexpected either.
That's a whole 47 seconds revenue! I'm sure they'll be suitably chastened.
Ask HN: Please adjust score threshold for /best
10 days ago, news.ycombinator.com/best 's rss was feeding about 10-15 stories a day. Now there is only about 1 new entry a day.

This was perfect for people who don't have the time to parse the regular frontpage.

Please adjust the score threshold for /best.
I would have to ask though, if you didn't have your MVP would you have known to add the functionality that the teachers requested?

Its possible you would have spent months building things only to discover later you built the wrong things.
Yeah, MathOverflow was a SE 1.0 site (when we had white-label Stack Exchange networks rather than internally made ones) which has since been added into the real network with the SE 2.0 rollout. Math.SE and MathOverflow seem to function well together even they though have similar areas of interests.
Thank you for warning me about this. I am now going to sell my dollars for gold and potatoes to avoid using something I don't understand.
Fuel is the principle cost of aviation, and fuel prices have climbed markedly.

In looking at the "Boeing biofuel breakthrough" a couple of days ago, I happened to look at what actual fuel consumption for the US airline industry has been. Turns out that, although total passenger miles is up since 2000, the fuel consumption for the commercial aviation industry (which may include cargo flights) peaked in 2000. The actual fuel usage for 2012 -52.3% of the 2000 FAA estimated consumption -- they'd predicted 3-4% annual growth over the next 10 years, it turned out to be a 15.9% reduction over the period.

Increased load factors (the seats filled on a flight -- increased from 70-83%) and reduced seat pitch (more seats, and passengers, per plane) seem to have staved off an actual reduction in the passenger-miles, but I strongly suspect that by plane-miles flown, we're down net.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1wo2hl/boeings_...
"If you want to start with multiplayer try to code a simple chat"
ok, what is your advice for choosing technology?
Absolutely hilarious. Obviously, if you allow the TV cameras inside your "Secret, First-of-it's kind Command Centre", it might be good practice to make sure you don't have any wall-sized notes with your password scribbled on it.
I had a similar issue with a project I was working on, but AFTER adding a few of the requested features, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't the lack of features that was the barrier to purchasing, it was an excuse to not purchase. I'm convinced that even if I had built every requested feature, there still wouldn't have been a sale at the end of the day. I was doing more than the current system the had in place, and yet, they always wanted more.

You have to consider not only the product/feature fit but also the market you're selling into.
> Which shouldn't be such a problem if you're already writing an OS?

I guess that could've used more context. I was trying to point out that in the larger landscape of GC algorithms, the one used by .NET is not that advanced, even though it's better than the GC used by common scripting languages.

> Also AIUI the only "hard part" of C4 is making sure objects don't get modified while they're being moved (that's what the barrier's there to detect) - which isn't a problem if everything's immutable.

Would absolutely everything be immutable? How would you implement lazy evaluation with the correct time complexity?

The expensive part of any garbage collector with short pause times is bound to be the read barrier, which is still needed with only immutable data. If the GC is compacting and wants to relocate an object, it has to rewrite all references to point to the new copy of the object.

C4 uses a read barrier to enforce the invariant that all references point to the up-to-date copy on a load of a reference, not just on a use of a reference. It relies on its ability to immediately update all references to reuse compacted pages during compaction, which means that gratuitous amounts of free memory are not required (a common problem with moving collectors).

You might be able to come up with alternate collector design that uses some of the same ideas as C4 while exploiting immutability, but if you loosen the healing read barrier you weaken your ability to reuse memory and put a bound on memory growth, since a reference to an old copy might always escape to the next round of collection.
"They have every reason to exaggerate and lie..."

As opposed to the US Government.
"It's amazing that we get solutions for things that no-one really needs (animated 3d transitions...)"

I believe you will see some really amazing animated 3d ransitions used in production very soon, and they happen to be necessarily for the user experience, reducing needed document space for larger amounts of visual blocks.. at least in the projects I know they are being developed on.
I'm pretty sure it's quite possible and easy to create an email address, be it from gmail or another email provider.

That email address will be valid and accessible as long as you have internet access. You can travel, use Wi-Fi or cellular data, and it will work.

You can create a new email address for free.

In that context, getting a phone number is much more limited and not free (you need to pay for a voice plan, etc.). And your ability to use said number from other countries (roaming) is limited and expensive.
Non-profit also doesn't mean it has to be tax-exempt. The NFL doesn't smell to me like something that should have tax-exempt status.
SMS is specified by industry standards. Just do a search on http://www.3gpp.org/specifications for "SMS".
The type of message sent should not matter at all. (I realize that's not what you're saying.)

And people have their own individual and transient needs. If a text message makes it easier to say you're sorry, then there's nothing wrong with it. Particular if that's already an accepted and normal way to communicate between the parties.

The problem wasn't that he sent it by text, the problem was that the relationship was too weak to withstand N hours of no communication. It was going to break anyway.
Do you own a trademark in Europe? Your lawyers won't necessarily be much help if not.
`git gui blame` is actually pretty great. You can click around to parent commits and everything.
Perhaps that's true, but I have no way of knowing what the conditions are like. I'd have more confidence that my country is operating such facilities in a manner that meets at least basic standards if they didn't seem to be taking overt steps to avoid our own legal system's oversight. Congress has been generally sympathetic, and passed laws giving law-enforcement agencies and the military substantial deference, so it's not as if they risk oversight by some hostile foreign power, or the UN or something. And yet still the military is operating some kind of weird extra-territorial prison, which it's trying to keep our country's own courts from overseeing. What are they hiding, and why?

On a basic level, we operate a prison in an area that the U.S. fully controls in perpetuity, a permanent U.S. facility that no other country exercises any control over, either now, for about 100 years into the past, or at any point in the foreseeable future. It is in effect a U.S. territory, in the sense that it is under the permanent control of the U.S., and has been for many decades. But we're claiming that it is nevertheless "in a foreign country" due a technicality, and therefore not subject to U.S. courts' jurisdiction, or indeed the jurisdiction of any other country's courts (not even those of the country that we claim has sovereignty over it). That sure seems shady, and like something is being hidden. If the USSR or any other country had claimed such an arrangement, "but look, it's not in the USSR, technically, just a perpetual lease to the USSR", we would have ridiculed it as a quasi-legalistic farce.

It doesn't necessarily prove that the people operating Guantanamo are engaged in illegal activity, but the fact that they have gone out of their way to base their activities in some kind of legal no-man's land that isn't subject to any country's domestic jurisdiction doesn't give one great confidence that they are complying with American legal and ethical norms.
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I'm not opposed to stadiums either, but I am opposed to the lies and distortions invoked to validate their construction.

I would much prefer it if the politicians just came out and said 'we're going to spend your taxes on a great big stadium, because we will get to open it and name it, and you, the voters, like bread and circuses'.

Wrapping tax-spends up as some sort of business case just muddies the waters for people when a real business case needs to be analysed.

Perhaps the answer is that, for a jurisdiction, each time there is an election, a multiple choice question could be at the bottom. We wish to take one of the below actions, please indicate your preference:

1) increase tax by x and build stadium
2) increase tax by y and build hospital
3) increase tax by z and build new water reservoir
4) decrease tax by x and you decide what you want to do with it

My remark is flippant but we seem to be entering a strange world where people believe jobs and taxes can only be created through the application of tax monies to politicians ideas.
I have definitely experienced this. Moving was a glorious release.
I was just responding to "I have hard time believing HUGE amount of people jailbreak and pirate". Someone else is contending that if a significant number of people pirate a game, it can affect their server costs/performance.
Polymath needn't mean 'makes major contributions to multiple fields' (though, of course it, it can.) It means someone has deep knowledge across a wide array of subjects, and typically draws inspiration from fields which are orthogonal to their primary field of interest. In Kay's case, it's applying the concepts of biology, genetics, mathematics, and architecture, to computer science, to create Object Oriented Programming.

A major breakthrough in his primary field (computer science) came about because of a wide (rather than narrow) field of study.
To be fair, CSS is hard even if you're only designing for one screen/device.
This kind of reminds me of the time Prince William's publicity visit to an RAF base in 2012 accidentally revealed a password on a piece of paper stuck up on the wall, it was in pictures broadcast and published everywhere. Having said that, the leaking of Wifi details in the grand scheme of things isn't all too bad as other things that could have been leaked.
That transaction is illegal. There is a difference.
It's a NAT64. 6to4 is for tunneling IPv6 packets over an IPv4 network.
TurboTax.
I think you've got the right explanation. There have been a few TV shows about the presidency since The West Wing and none of them caught on—they were all terrible shows!

The West Wing and House of Cards are popular for the same reason: exceptional writing, production and acting.
I prefer

about:blank

and some bookmarks. For email I use fastmail.fm.
Same here. It's amazing how convoluted "modern" CSS can be compared to simple, reliable tables.
Weird, that portion of the screen looks more like something out of a Hollywood hacker film than something I'd imagine in real life. I'm trying to imagine what circumstances would result in that particular panel, plaintext password and all, ending up broadcast on a wall.
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I voted for TurboTax because I've been doing my own bookkeeping throughout the year in Quickbooks and then using TurboTax each year for years now. I'm hiring an accountant this year though.
H&R Block personal software, except for the years I have more unusual situations (AMT, non-qualifying options, etc), then I hire a CPA.
Dependency injection: A more hip way to say "function parameters".

Angular is pretty cool overall, but I strongly dislike this part of the library. Inspecting the names of function parameters and matching them up with registered services is insane. In practice, you have to specify the dependencies manually anyhow:

foo.service('Bar', ['Baz', function(Baz) { ... }]);

This way, parameter names are irrelevant outside of the context of that function, like they should be. I wish this "feature" was dropped entirely.