jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Except that basic income has to be paid for with taxes. So everyone that works has a higher tax that they pay. Now below a given yearly earned income, the money you get from BI exceeds the additional increase in taxes. But above that threshold, you would be paying more in taxes than what you get back from BI. The real question, is where do you draw that line? At 50K a year? 100K? Or do you get it from property tax (and include all assets someone owns, including foreign holdings, as taxable)?
FWIW that's why Meteor, which is nodejs based, is using fibers to have thread per request.

Also hot pushes give automatic restart and browser updates out of the box.

Also having optional synchronous api on server, makes a lot of things easier to write.

I like NodeJs, but a lot of aspects will likely prevent it became a mainstream platform.
Cloudflare.net is behind Cloudflare, but the actual site is hosted by Q4. They provide hosted investor relations portals for a bunch of publicly traded companies.

Putting it on a non-cloudflare.com domain puts it outside the security context of the main site and they don't have to worry if it gets hacked. Google does something similar by hosting third-party stuff on withgoogle.com and a handful of other domains.
That's fair. There's no silver bullet for security. But we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Everyone writing non-trivial systems should have some understanding of security; but the more components we make secure-by-default, the less those developers need to learn.
> buy their own stock with debt?

why not? What's wrong with altering a company's capital structure to be more efficient?

Stocks have a cost (aka, cost of equity), just like debt. Sometimes, cost of equity is higher than cost of debt (aka, the interest rate). Sometimes, the cost of debt is higher than cost of equity. This is determined by the general market conditions and economic environment.

A company may find itself in a situation where the cost of equity is very high, and cost of debt is very low. In this case, it makes a lot of sense for the company to borrow to reduce the amount of outstanding equity on the market. There is an equalizing point, where the total cost of capital is lowest, and that is where the company's money source is most efficient.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with company buying back stocks, if this is the case. The only problem, really, is that buybacks gives capital gains for stockholders, and this is taxed lower than normal income. This is a question of taxation policy, not stock buybacks. Is it fair that capital gains are taxed less than earned income?
Can confirm. I used to fly from City to Schiphol on a regular basis, the reality is a 2-3 hour journey on each end once you factor in travel to the airport (even from Docklands), hanging about, security (and this was before 9/11), late flights, and then just getting out of Schiphol into a taxi to start your journey to the financial centre. Amsterdam being "just an hour away" is a complete myth, much like any other flying for business in Europe.
Do you have anything to back this up?
I haven't done any scientific comparison, but my personal feeling is that Go is terser.
I don't see how this is any different from jquery style development from eons ago except instead of jquery you now use react components that can SSR a nonempty initial state. Which you could do before too, few people just cared enough to do the extra work.

Seeing buzzword labels on every little variation of age old techniques every other week is exhausting. This "Islands Architecture" is pretty much what everyone was doing before SPAs came along.
My comment isn't for her; it's for everyone here. I don't know you, but I know me: a well-educated, middle-class white man, aged 25-44 y.o. in a Western country. I'll bet that demographic covers a majority of contributors on HN. We're mostly playing life on Easy Mode, and this woman is mostly playing life on Hard Mode. I'm happy to call out comments here when I think that they're punching down. That should be socially acceptable.
There is no reason you can't do this now, Inter process communication is a thing.
No it doesn't, it has syntax to make them look more like a language feature but they're actually still just implicits.
Actually, they could line up a couple dozen WP7 phone manufacturers and still fail. What they need is not manufacturers, but people buying and using the phones. This is not happening.
Code review takes too much time. You can take a painting that took 100 hours to make, and start delivering useful criticism after a minute or so. Giving useful feedback on a programming project that took 100 hours will take much, much longer.

Also, art is meant to be examined - that is its primary purpose. Source code, not so much.
I agree feverishly with you post.

I've been a dev for 10 years and worked in Sydney, London, New York & San Francisco. What I noticed is that San Francisco has a very different "technical" interview approach that is very CS focused. I studied a CS degree (7 years ago) and think it's stupid that I have to dig into knowledge that I have not needed professionally over my whole career.

I've built successful startups, coded mamoth apps used by millions of people, but failed interviews at companies like Yammer.

I wrote a post about how I conduct technical interviews for my company airpair.

http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/43661666180/how-i-conduc...

Pair Programming is KEY.

Also, side plug we've been getting lots of business both around preparing for interviews and helping to interview candidates when you don't have in-house knowledge to vet skills you don't have.

Here are some examples:

http://airpa.ir/1d5sqR6 (Need help reviewing candidates code)

http://airpa.ir/1dteU8H (Need help interviewing an iOS
candiate)

http://airpa.ir/173ily2 (Needed help preparing for JavaScript interview)
Even if deterrence had a significant effect, surely it's totally immoral to punish one person for the potential future crimes of others? I don't understand how anyone can accept the idea of deterrence when deciding sentencing terms. Either the crime is bad enough to warrant a significant punishment, or it's not and therefore unnecessary to deter anyone else from committing the same crime.
They are not conceptually distinct, to the vast majority of users.

I mean, I'm sorry you feel that way. But it's an indefensible position.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/section/49
I take it you've never heard the word "overconfident"?
I've always assumed those companies are weeding out older applicants. They are going after fresh graduates who are smart. That's all they want.
http://qz.com/367310/how-to-kill-a-doctor/

You really think being a doctor is easy?
one would assume thought that that thundering herd would have to go through some kind of queue to avoid resources-starveing/dos-ing yourself...

i hope that the postmortem they promise will shed some light onto the architecture.
Great idea - I'd be interested.
Also, to consider, (maybe echoing some of the themes from other comments): setting up core deployment environment that 'works'. Often tiptoeing in, I get tripped up on some detail of config that is obvious to the experienced. Also best way to connect for mentor help on-demand for problems or design best practices.
from what i remember, tcl's popularity waned long before lua caught on in a big way. people were looking to ruby and python as extension languages, even though they had a far higher impedance mismatch than tcl, simply because they were vastly more popular as languages by then
Many instance types have 2 or 4 virtual disks (presumably on different physical disks).
I'm sure Twilio is hoping this sounds impressive but it sounds pathetic to me. Services are supposed to stay up after all.
OP's complaint is that he's not getting a ringside seat. There's a difference between asking for minute technical updates (where I made the analogy with interfering management) and getting general, high-level status reports.
So are you saying you try before you buy? The concept is sound but it falls apart the moment you get something free. How likely is it that after pirating a movie or an album someone goes back and buys it so they can vote with their wallet? I think pirating can be voting just the same except you're hurting the creator or distributors ability to make or distribute more of it. I Don't think that this is about whether something is worth paying for. It's about whether it's worth consuming. You wouldn't go to a restaurant, order a dish, then only pay if you think the meal was worth paying for. The meal has already been made, the effort to cook it was expended, and if enough people get their meals for free the restaurant goes out of business. It didn't go out of business because it made bad food necessarily, it only shuts down because their patrons were the type of people who thought it was okay to not pay based on their arbitrary standards of what's worth paying for. After all, by consuming the meal they've already implicitly voted that the meals were worth eating. Just not paying for.
Engineers undercut each other all the time, implicitly, by going for the "do what you love and be paid for it!" nonsense companies throw, by feverishly working on unsupported open source projects for notoriety or to participate in the new culture of "github profile required or we won't consider you," and other ways I'm not listing here.

Those recruiters wouldn't be able to do what they do without at least some tacit approval or participation of labor.
- Flat design will evolve into thin design

- Facebook will lobby for a national voting system that requires a Facebook account.

- ISPs will either merge with or be bought up by some of the world's largest media companies.

- Instead of phones getting thinner or having bigger screens, they'll start having multiple screens.

- The next big thing in the mobile software world will probably come out of Africa or India.

- Cooking and food related devices will become popular in the hacking community.

- Clojure and Rust will gain a great amount of new adopters.
My mind...
1. Tensions rise and the west and the east continue to grow further apart.

2. More hacking scandals come to light and they are used as cover to restrict privacy and empower the intelligence community.

3. The world will continue to do close to nothing about the environment.

4. More steps are taken to protect children online from piracy, porn and controversial opinions.

5. A major critical vulnerability will be exposed in Tor.

6. Magic Leap will turn out to be a massive.. leap forward in technology.

7. Consumer VR will take the world by storm.

8. All the new encrypted email alternatives will fail.

9. eSports will continue to grow and the League of Legends Worlds final will have over 20 million concurrent viewers.

10. An application of AI will blow everyone away.
Doesn't seem genuine; the TV ads show all kinds of girls. The in-store ads feature only a subset of the models, principally because the movie actress refused to be in the Target print ads.
There is serious money in labor arbitrage for the top financial and executive class. We've had decades of heavy lobbying for these kinds of asymmetries to break the back of domestic labor and smaller competitors.
Certainly, I would have some sort of lint to enforce naming conventions. I don't like it at all. Searching for a function becomes a nightmare.
This attack "closes the door behind it" so that you can't use the same vector to undo it. Specifically it completely disables loading option ROMs.
Pessimist! Carbon emissions are way down; VR has been about to take the world for a decade
I remember left-antiglobalisation (against free movement of goods) being huge in the late 90s and early 00s. The days of huge clashes at the G20 meetings. This eventually got suppressed by the police, and now we've shifted to "right"-antiglobalisation with a very different focus against free movement of people and the use of trade policy against national enemies.
How about instead of endless discussions about gray areas and ambiguities we simply worry only about two categories:

- Clearly a lie and criminally so.

- Might be a lie or not, but out of the scope of this law.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Switched from Slicehost to Linode for my own VPS and haven't looked back. Reliable, speedy, better pricing, and an awesome control panel.
August 17-21, paired with LinuxCon North America; see http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-amer... for the first half. Info about Plumbers will likely show up in the next couple of months.
I thought the list was good without having any intention of looking at the software mentioned. Also, if I were to write a similar list I would probably mention a bunch of software in a similar tone as the author does, except I would obviously not be the author of any of the software.
I dunno. Between off-site contract work and a good design discussion afterwards, I think this would be a good solution. You could make an argument that a candidate that is effectively able to contract the work out and be able to competently discuss the solution (and other approaches) would be a great candidate for the job.
I stopped reading after the first sentence. The author takes some liberties with the definition of "eventual consistency.". Either he doesn't know what it means, or he likes to demolish terms which used to be defined precisely.
Unfortunately, these HTML/CSS/Javascript tests tend not to be about correctness on the large. ACID3 was probably the best example of something that was meant to specifically show how IE was poor. It tested specifically those items that IE was deficient at. It didn't weigh all aspects of the standard equally.

An ideal test would go through and enumerate the standard and attempt to weigh each feature with expected usage and potential to workaround. I've yet to see anyone even attempt it.
Why should Larry Page (a billionaire many times over) have to answer the questions of some loser $100K analysts? I commend Google for not estimating their earnings, offering "guidance", or any of the other bullshit that these analysts need to justify their useless jobs.
I've found that I've learned the most about "programming" from working on projects. Imagine something you want to build, design it, and then code it. You'll learn tons, I promise. Plus, you'll have something to show for your trouble at the end of it (which is a great motivator to get you going on your next project). Rinse and repeat.
There's more info at one of the co-authors website:
http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/

I submitted this earlier, with the title of the paper, I guess it was too technical to catch people's attention :)
Calling this an HTML5 test seems overstated. Of the 400 possible total points, 131 are from "related standards". Seems like you'd want to break those out to have 269 for HTML and 131 for related.
I'm pretty sure the example in this article wouldn't confuse git: weirdness like this is the reason git has the "recursive" merge algorithm instead of just doing a plain three-way merge. A recursive merge basically tries to merge some of the parents together before doing the final merge, which resolves this sort of case.

I do criss-cross merges between git branches all the time with no ill effects. Maybe non-git VCSes can't handle this sort of thing.
Perhaps the US/Israel discovered the prospect for this particular kind of software-based functional sabotage in defensive analysis of their own similar industrial systems. That analysis would have deserved vendor technical cooperation, perhaps even source code and engineering design documents, for wholly legitimate reasons, as a matter of course.

It shouldn't be surprising that any especially insidious risks discovered during that process could then be shared with the more covert and offensive branches. That wouldn't be Siemens' fault at all.
What I found pretty disturbing is that this type of reinvesting (keeping everything in startups, reinvesting 100%), is very similar to the patterns seen in Ponzi schemes.

(The basic idea is that if everyone reinvests everything, then bubbles are VERY easy to sustain)

Now, I don't have a clue on whether this is a bubble or not, just pointing out this curious pattern
And probably an NDA so that you can't reveal the kickback
It's a reply to the claim that "a society consisting exclusively of highly specialized welders and accountants can't operate." I don't think it's bad that labour has a market value, but I do think it's bad that we can't imagine a future where most or all of the jobs are higher paid.

Again, this isn't an attempt to dunk on anyone who gets a package delivered. It's a defence of the market's ability to stretch to accommodate rising wages in a sector, and an attack on the idea that a low-paid underclass is necessary.
No, what I mean is that an additional key comes in (with the json or similar hash) and we now need to do some thing with it, or something different than we thought we were supposed to with it. Typing is not going to fix it because the full cases were unknown at development time.
It's not the *ism, it's the people.
I remember those ads. IIRC, they were two full page spreads in the most popular magazines for the Commodore, and I'd assume for Atari too. As a kid, I was confused why they were showing these people because no other company did this. From that time on, it stuck in my head from that computer games weren't some kind of magic that came down from the heavens but were created by actual humans. While I never wrote games that got published, I started experimenting and playing around with making them myself, which lead to a career in software development.
Sounds like the way that Windows Storage Spaces works as well.
Woah, really? That's super exciting.
wasn't a grammar issue, it was that the middle of the sentence seemed to be missing and that it was confusing enough that I thought it useful to point out, and now it is fixed and makes sense to people, yayy :)
I was seeing it as gee-wit. jwit also comes to mind.

Not that I have any stake in it, but the most confusing thing to me is that it doesn't mention the words "Google Web Toolkit" until the Tutorial page. It's an abbreviation; one that describes the product quite well (a toolkit for web apps, built by Google). Silly to bury it.
North Carolina: Coinbase Exchange is not yet available in your state.
The lack of control over hardware and software on contemporary Macs is a show-stopper for me. Once they get back to Snow Leopard ideology I'll return, until then it's Linux or Windows for me
> None of this implies that this judge, who has specialised in litigation involving SV tech companies for a decade, can’t understand “basic aspects about web browsers.”

The quotes make it clear that the judge is confused about what incognito mode is supposed to do. The judge appears to think incognito mode is supposed to somehow prevent tracking scripts from loading. Like Google is supposed to add a fingerprint to web requests in incognito mode which reveals to web servers that the user has incognito mode, and then all the web tracking companies are supposed to detect this fingerprint and stop tracking when they detect it. That doesn't sound like a person who understands basic aspects about web browsers.
been using kde plasma since 5.12 on my laptop which i use for like 14 hours a day. the improvements have been phenomenal over these times. good job everyone
"Favorite code read
...
Z3 (Verilog)"

As someone working in ASIC design and verification, that code is not a good read IMO. I am stunned it even synthesized. The use of "initial" and "task" is not generally for describing hardware.
If the local election officials wanted to convince me they ran the election fairly, they would have had to have allowed observers to do their job without imposing any restrictions on them that would impair their ability to observe. If that means equipping every worker and observer with personal safety equipment suitable for use in a lab that researches ebola, so be it. Outside observers are absolutely critical.

That is not the only thing, but that is the big one for me.

Of course if Trump had won, I would have trusted that the election was not rigged in his favor by Democrats even given the restrictions on observers, because I don't know of any plausible reason why they might have done so.
That's not a function. That's a procedure.
I couldn't agree more. I vastly prefer reading either analyses of last month's news–or forecasts of next month's–much more than I do what we call coverage of developing events.

That said, with due respect I would note that I was responding to your apparently 'immediately arriving at a conclusion before the dust had settled' by calling her assessment a parroted narrative, likely before having seen that video.

We can all do better.

Hence my framing it in a very specific way to address that portion of your comment.
> Can the government seize Bitcoin directly? No.

A government could seize miners, and given that ~50% of the world's Bitcoin mining capacity appears to be located in one country, that might give them considerable leeway to rewrite the blockchain to their liking.
Called it:

"BREAKING: Apple is currently threatening to ban Parler -- the free speech alternative to Twitter -- unless the service enacts draconian censorship policies demanded by left-wing Big Tech oligarchs, according to two sources familiar with Apple's threats."

[1]: https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1347660160806825984
How was that amateurish? Acquiring and handling such a substance would not be easy.
Hmm, deplatforming...

Is that what the right calls opening the trapdoor on the gallows?
I agree - it's based on the less known parts of Catholic mythology (the riot of angels, origins of devil, "I won't go on my knees" etc). Elves and orcs are spirits more than people - they don't go to heaven, they can return from death, they don't get their sins forgotten (unlike people).

> I think that where it is racist is in that it simply does not include people or things external to the European mythos, they are seen as irrelevant and external, no one cares about them and whatever happens just doesn't include them.

I don't understand this POV, and I encounter it very often, regarding different works of art.

It's a world based on Catholic mythology (the riot of angels and origin of devil stuff), middle ages and celtic influences. It's already broad base to take ideas from. Diluting it further with influences from every other culture would make the setting less coherent, and author should be allowed to set the atmosphere of his book as he pleases.

Sometimes I think people expect every story to use the exact proportions of cultures that modern USA has. This isn't what diversity is about - if every story is set in modern USA under different disguise you won't have diversity - you will have a monoculture. Diversity is only possible when different things are missing from different stories.

EDIT: Well, Tolkien did started a monoculture, but this is not his fault - it is fault of his followers. He was original, he was just followed by carbon copies that used his works with almost no changes, repeating his choices over and over.
Yes, it's only saved on your browser (LocalStorage)
Giga-up-vote. It's too easy to slip up on security hygiene and either lose a jobs, customers, investors, reputation &| be sued. There's just too many liabilities and it's hard to pull off without being (legally) interpreted as a threat.

It is laudable to Do The Right Thing(TM), but the personal cost is likely nonzero sum.

Be aware, tread carefully, CYA.
"One of the best artists in the world." Since when do people rank artists. For me, this ruins the whole article. Maybe successful artist or artist with a high media profile. But best? Seriously?
I think it only allows contactless payments. No matter if from a card or phone or whatever that is equipped with NFC payments that is compatible with the merchant app.
Got a resume? Or a list of what type of work you'd like to do? Things you'd like to learn?