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Not an accountant, real estate expert, nor a NYC landowner, but (as ever) the NY Post is juxtaposing topics that could genuinely use some reform, with good-old FUD that is thin on analysis. Here's some info I found useful: [1]

- It seems that the $6.5 million on $100 market value is par for the course for smaller units. [1] suggests that this is the "level of assessment" typical for Tax Class 1 properties. Despite the condo being in a massive high-rise, the condo itself is only a duplex. Perhaps this is how the individual unit becomes classified as being eligible for taxation on 6% of market value, rather than 45%.

- [2] is a link that describes the 421a tax abatement program. Perhaps fittingly so, the link to the FAQ is broken. (Yay transparency!) A working link is [3].

It seems that the people quoted are spouting non-sequiturs or truisms. The cynic in me says that a lawyer at a big law firm makes out well no matter what real estate law looks like: there will always be classification and finance structuring to optimize to the fullest extent allowed by law. By the time the letter of the law catches up to the spirit of the law, private lawyers and their rich clients will have found new ways to minimize their burden. The people most equipped to afford a tax burden undoubtedly are the best at minimizing it to the extents described in the article.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/property_val_gloss...

[2] http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/421a.shtml

[3] http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/hpd/downloads/pdf/421a-FAQ.pdf
So what you're saying is we've found a way to fund education without debt to students or taxes, and the school has an incentive to get you internships so that you graduate with work experience AND incentive to place you at the highest paying job after college?

Consider my interest piqued.
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Ironically, while google web search _thinks_ it has that URL in it's cache... the google cache is completely unable to quote with the JS-heavy Google Plus, so it isn't.

But I guess the author took it down on purpose. It is not hard to guess why, based on the nature of _this_ comment thread.
Yeah, but the type is pretty regular and and the alphabet is small. I bet you could just use convolution.
He tried to get six murders for hire:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-d...

>about government entrapping him

Quote from your hero while setting up a hit on FriendlyChemist:

"Don't want to be a pain here, but the price seems high. Not long ago, I had a clean hit
done for $80k. "

and

"Thank you R&W. I've only ever commissioned the one other hit, so I'm still learning this
market. "

Everyone is a victim right? I thought you libertarians were big on personal responsibility and law and order. Oh right, these things matter only when it serves you.
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I don't think laptops have SODIMM memory these days.
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It just hit me that Phil Schiller is dadcore.
Through the paywall...

https://www.google.com/search?q=Netflix+Recants+on+Obamanet&...
I had to learn how to use gulp and npm and browserify and and and ohmygodthelistgoeson, and I tell you I feel exactly the opposite.

Trying to bolt tooling onto an existing project is daunting, especially when you're not sure how it works yet. When I started with a fresh skeleton project, two source files, the whole shebang set-up, it was super easy. Just add my extra source files in the dir, and it's picked up.

I love it when a skeleton project includes the entire toolset. I can easily remove stuff I don't need, even when I don't know how it works. But adding JS tooling myself? What a disaster.

Now, I look at my first project, the one I had to add gulp and everything to myself, and it's a complete mess. A lot of time and effort would have been saved if I had just started with a good directory structure right away.
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It still does seem unlikely that a nation state would hack a film company specifically because of a scene featuring their leader being assassinated and immediately publicly dump exactly that clip in a load of stolen email data, so that it ends up all over reddit while still in the process of demanding that it is not released in any format ever.

That said, from another point of view, monumental fuck-up is a consistent feature of many human endeavours.
You're imposing your personal conservative standards on others. What if I told you that you can't talk about rap music because it offends me? That'd be incredibly arrogant. I think the problem is you.
It's calculated. Reception would be distinctly negative if something as crucial as health research were closed source—here, the utility is in the transparency as well as apple's traditional offers of usability and reliability.
Yes, it would, as would overvoltage, and reducing the refresh interval. The latter reduces memory subsystem performance, however.
It's not quite there yet, but they've made a lot of progress in the last few months:

https://github.com/sass/libsass/wiki/The-LibSass-Compatibili...

https://github.com/sass/libsass/milestones/3.2

http://sass-compatibility.github.io/

It's at the point where I can use node-sass and Ruby Sass interchangeably for our (very large) Sass code base at my company, but we also don't rely very heavily on the newest features. Worth a try, anyway.

If node-sass doesn't work for you though, there's also a webpack loader for Ruby Sass: https://github.com/ddelbondio/ruby-sass-loader
I respect your contrarian tendency, and have only anecdotal evidence to offer.

I spent about 10 years abroad as a foreign correspondent and editor for some major publications. During that time, I saw the foreign bureaux of most major US news organizations eviscerated. Staff was chopped, layoffs every year, offices consolidated, many newspapers simply gave up on covering foreign news with people on the ground. That was a really disappointing time.

There's always been a lot of trash in journalism. And there's still a lot of high-quality stuff.

But as the news changes, there's a structural problem is measuring how good it is.

Only newsmakers (the people behind the closed doors negotiating and making decisions) know what's really going on. Only they possess the test set to measure the reporting against. And unless there's an investigative reporter who has built relationships with them and convinces them to talk, the public will never know what actually happened, or know what public figures are hiding.

The substitute for great investigative reporting isn't necessarily bad journalism. It's usually silence. How do you measure that? How do you know that no one wrote a story about something that you weren't conscious of? You don't. You're simply unaware. And that makes the parasitic special interests undermining the general welfare of this country and every other incredibly happy.

There's a reason why investigative reporting is the first to fall: It's incredibly costly in terms of time, money, effort and even social relationships.

News organizations and publishers put their reputations and networks on the line every time they blow the lid off a huge story. Reporters work for months cultivating sources' trust and learning where to look for and understand obscure documents. This kind of reporting doesn't make sense now that ad dollars have moved to Google. It doesn't have a place at Buzzfeed or Upworthy, because it's a huge risk and doesn't necessarily drive traffic, even if it impacts policy and elections.
This is my fear too, and I'm pretty convinced we'll get there at some point, if and when the *nix-on-desktop scene gets more competetive.

This seems to be a common pattern - after you delivered all the value you could and you still have competition, eventually you and everyone else will start one-up each other on abusing your users for additional profit.
Or if you are Australian you can get sponsored on the E-3 visa
OVH quality seems to be changing dramatically. I tested one of the new vps offers and it was totally laggy, with freezes and disconnects. But what really disappointed me was the fact that I got zero reaction from OVH support, even after three emails - seriously, no reaction. This is new to me, they have always played very well, but this was very bad.
Wow, whoever did the "artists renderings" of the new MacBook was 100% on the money.
Not a super great argument for a $700bn company and when Safari has a < %5 browser market share. It's definitely intentional and definitely lame.
I came here to say, as someone who's done a little work on kalman filters for robot localization, this seemed like a good introduction to what they are and what they mean. I would have loved to find this back in 2009 when I was finishing my bachelors! Thanks.
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Government says cyber to differentiate from traditional "security", which means "establishing or maintaining control by putting people in cages or killing them". When talking with someone who can launch missiles, order soldiers to kill, or dispatch law enforcement officers to assault a crowd of students holding a protest, then saying cyber isn't ridiculous.

Computer security people just say "security" without any qualifiers, because none are required. When a salesman pitching an anti spam product says cyber, he's failing the shibboleth
Google likely pays Oracle quite a bit for the default bundleware installations of Chrome. It's a way for Oracle to profit off the userbase installing Java for free and for Google to increase Chrome's share. Fun fact, Google pays Adobe a lot of money to bundle default installations of Chrome with Flash downloads as well.
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Summary for those of us who don't have access to a mac right now?
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In finance, at least, it is common to get an offer with a salary of X and a first year guaranteed bonus of Y.
That's the one thing I miss from Pascal.
I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement?

>Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you.

Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
I've heard some horror stories of mistakenly nested extends resulting in CSS files that were in the megabyte+ range at the local Sass meetup. I've shyed away from extends mostly from a sanity perspective as I've found mixins more sane.
We plan on only giving access to accounts with @company.com emails (where company will be researched ideally by our staff to be a legit tech company). Can you think of any other mechanisms we should have in place?
Well, technically, JSON is just a Plain Old Javascript Object, with restrictions (no expressions, quoted keys).
Great question. The biggest value employers get is significantly higher response rate from developers. Compare it with linkedin inmails where most of the interview offers are considered spam because developers don't see the incremental monetary value in offers.
Plus, these are all academic partners - that code usually needs to be open source to publish.
They are streaming it on twit, that's what I've been using: http://live.twit.tv/
Ahhh I just got it. Cheers
Errors can be used as part or all of an exploit. Exploiting a system requires that ethereal value of "intent", and I don't think anyone would (currently) argue that computers can have intent. Without that intent, it's just an error.
So everyone who said "Windows just has all these problems. Just get a Mac instead! Nobody creates viruses or crapware for mac"... Guess what you just did?

Yup. You gave Mac enough market-share for it to be profitable to bundle crapware there as well. This is probably just the start and more will follow.

Whatever you do, please don't tell people to install Linux. I like it the way it is and I don't want any of this shit coming here.
> But now there's no "prior condition" issue

Right now there isn't, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which the party controlling the Congressional majority has repeatedly committed to repealing in its totality (and has voted repeatedly to do) and is actively backing repeated challenges to through the courts.

Policies can change, and information that is made public in a time of favorable policy can't retroactively be made unpublic to protect it from abuse when that policy changes.

Further, insurance discrimination isn't the only area where harmful (economically or otherwise) discrimination on the basis of medical information is a concern, and while there may be some areas where this is restricted by law, people can break laws and pursuing legal remedies is an after the fact solution that is neither guaranteed effective nor free of its own costs, but people can't discriminate based on information they don't have.
By your definition, the spam bots in that article are not bots either because an actual human being created that bot, and made it follow other spam bots.
Lemme guess, you for cymetica?
After 3 years and $64M in funding, Onshape launches the mother of all products
Also digging the color scheme, any one know what it is?
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Cyber means to steer and cybernetics is self-steering systems based on feedback and goes back to Norbert Wiener in the the 1940s.
The cops and the doctors.

I'm glad some of them are doing the right thing now, but what the hell took so long? USA has been drug-war-crazy since the 1970s, and pot had been prohibited in slightly saner fashion much longer than that. Millions of lives have been destroyed by our drug prohibition, both here and abroad.

This is a slightly rhetorical question. Of course there were incentives at work. Few medical researchers are so committed to the truth that they would do research for which grants are unavailable. Asking cops not to enforce unjust laws is like asking a fish not to swim. If they could do that, they wouldn't be cops. That's why nearly everyone in LEAP is a retired cop. Generous pensions for municipal employees have afforded them some time to assuage their guilty consciences through activism.
I think that the point is so that it looks like you are really a student for tax purposes. It is a small amount that isn't ever directly billed to you - but it does count as a taxable benefit.
> even though he was talking about the applied side, it goes perfectly for the more abstract areas too.

This is where Bret Victor and I disagree: interactive documents for visualizing circuit diagrams do not generalize perfectly to all of mathematics. If you want to develop a generic tool that allows any mathematician to build interactive documents for tinkering with concepts, you need to see how deep the mathematical rabbit hole goes. Victor's tools are a proof of concept for very limited systems.
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Fanless Macbook? I mean, how it is going to handle the heat? Anyone have any idea about this? Current MBPs already heat a lot.
>"The state does not take money. We no longer live under feudalism, friend. We no longer labor under the unquestionable divine right of kings. The modern democratic state is, by the free association and choice of its underlying organizational units, and the continued consent of its citizens, asked to assume the role and responsibilities, at least in the US, of the following:"

And what if we do not consent? I certainly don't, and yet I have no where to go. You call it freedom of association, I call it compliance under the threat of imprisonment.

Make no mistake about it, you can use fancy words and ideas to make it noble. However, if you choose to gloss over those that do no consent to your wonderful little 'union' of 'domestic tranquility' then you are not at all better than the feudal kings/lords that you use as a counter-example to democracy.

You know what was the big thing about the Feudal system? Absolute ownership of all land by kings/lords, where the peasants had to rent it by virtue of being born on the land. Oh so very analogous to what we have now where people have very little choice but to live in the state that they are born with. There is simply no alternative, no place where free people can go to pursue actual free-association through peaceful means. You just have to replace 'lords/kings' with 'state/government' and you quickly see the picture.

But of course, I am "free". I am free to move to Somalia, apparently. Either that, or more to another King/Lords piece of land.
Compartment syndrome is no joke. Losing a limb is absolutely possible, as are such wonderful complications as rhabdomyolysis and kidney failure. You're often lucky "just" to end up with a fasciotomy scar.
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I loved my fraternity experience and still hold friendships established there as the ones I can count on the most. Fraternities at their best are like sports, they make good men better and bring out the best qualities. At their worst they're binge drinking clubs with little more than mysoginistic, homophobic and racist behavior to bond over. Very tribal, which seems to be the default nature of us.

That said, I know my experience was very different than most. We had a dry house, we had white, black, indian and plenty of others. We were mostly straight, but had a few brothers come out as gay during or after college, to encouragement and support. We ran our own house, doing any repairs and improvements ourselves, we cooked for ourselves, at one point I ran a kitchen that served nearly 100 people a night.

It wasn't perfect, there were plenty of disagreements about how involved we should or shouldn't be on campus, what kind of budget we should have for a band party, how often we should have meetings and a million other things. I can look back and see that these things, and the different ways of thought I was exposed to, made me a better person. I wish others had the same experience but I feel it was far too rare.
Depends what goes into "total compensation".

Things like startup options are basically monopoly money. If the salary is $30,000 but they offer two ten-thousandths of a company which is currently worth nothing, but they plan for it to be worth five billion dollars in five years, is that a $230,000 salary?

Recruiters will post bullshit if there's no downside; to avoid this you need concrete measures that can't be manipulated and can be audited.
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First of all, there are different types of bots.

Some are (or virtually indistinguishable from) real people, typically in Asia, performing simple tasks a la Mechanical Turk.

The bigger networks though appear to be completely automated, and what's really important is that they they don't look "fake" in a sense that they look, and act, like a typical user.

Spam is a grey area, since automation is so wide-spread now. Should be noted that some of the top marketers on Twitter are very prolific. Guy Kawasaki has posted 138,000 tweets since 2007 - that's more than 60 tweets a day, every day. Don't mean to pick on him, there are hundreds like him. I've seen accounts posting thousands of messages a day. Simple act of promoting something very actively from the same address isn't enough, it's done by legitimate marketers all the time.

Keep in mind there are different sources of ad revenue, and there are multiple parties involved. Twitter will count an ad impression when the message is viewed "above the fold", for example your iPhone Twitter app displays the promoted message in the active portion of the screen, which implies you can "see" it. I believe that bots do not have a significant effect on this particular type of revenue. However, many commercial deals involve a different definition of 'impressions':

Number of tweets promoting the product x number of followers the promoting accounts have

... and that's where bots play a huge role.

So, this is getting too big for posting here, if anyone is interested in this, I can blog. This topic is surprisingly complex.
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I would pitch this as outsourced technology team for sales / marketing oriented entrepreneurs, startups and other companies without a dev team that does not want to recruit, hire, train, manage. It's the opposed of sales and marketing outsourcing, which we do, which is in demand and quite lucrative when done correctly.
Looks like SMYCK to me, which I love: http://color.smyck.org/
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Sadly true, the 'thin is in' crowd is more often than not soldering in the memory.
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Well said. I think this is what the author of the OP was also getting at - it's better to grow the culture (while sharing responsibility) where it belongs rather than purchasing it wholesale and shoving it down dev throats.

As an employee of a large software focused corporation that does many of these things right, I had no idea how bad things can get for smaller, newer companies that haven't figured all of this out.
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USB-C as the "one connector to rule them all" is the big news. That's the end of MagSafe and the exploding era of USB-C docking stations that work for multiple devices.

I think we'll start to see an era of expandable computing coming up soon: USB-C is a perfect connector to push your data and state into a larger desktop experience. Why not carry around your laptop in tablet form when you are mobile? [1]

[1] https://grack.com/blog/2015/01/16/usb-31-ara-are-the-converg...
This type of testing is not new. I used something like this 8 years ago.

There are pros and cons to screenshot testing... the biggest downside is that it catches EVERYTHING. Most websites have a header, sidebar, and other shared modules used throughout the entire site. If the developers change anything in these modules, all of your screenshots will break... and if the developers do this constantly, your tests are basically useless.
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In Stallman's days it was about the code. Open source was a form of freedom. Now it's all about the data. Who cares if anyone self-hosts "OpenResearchKit" when a single entity has the health-related data of everyone else?
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This would be huge. Having both used recruiters to find work and to find candidates, from the employer side it's one thing for a recruiter to say "You need to raise your salary range by $20k to attract what you're looking for" - after all they get paid a percentage of base salary.

It'd be something else entirely we had a tool where increasing base salary by $20k showed us that it doubled the number of interested candidates within a given skill set.
You might want to add this blog post : https://t37.net/is-docker-ready-for-production-feedbacks-of-... to your see also section.
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It's not about outrage politics. I honestly believe there is a relationship between two and that this is a big problem.

Of course getting slapped in the face by a crapware-bundling Java update won't make you skip your kid's vaccination, but where do you think the lack of trust for doctors comes from? It's from living in a society where almost every organization you interact with tries to pull a fast one on you (if you don't believe that, go and talk with some antivaxxers - you'll quickly realized that they're not stupid - they're afraid and don't trust authorities because they see themselves getting constantly abused by them). So if you decide to abuse your user's trust for a quick buck because "it's a common practice", you're part of the problem - just like the girl who sold you that twice washed meat or the guy who insists that it's the factory that mislabeled the lightbulbs, even though your handy multimeter confirms what's on the label (EDIT: both are real examples I have direct knowledge of; heck, because I'm nice to the people working in my local grocery store, they discreetly signal me to pick something different when I want to buy meat that is old and was washed).