jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> How do you effectively tax actual rich people without squashing the middle class?

Here's some ideas:

1. Tax stock buybacks similar to dividends. Or eliminate them entirely. This leads to...

2. Let unearned income tax brackets go up to the same % levels as earned income, only for different income levels. For example, if $400k in earned income is 38%, then maybe $2m in unearned income should also be 38%. Right now long term cap gains tops out at 15%, which is bullshit.

3. Since wealthy people borrow against their assets to spend, instead of selling assets and incurring taxes, place limits on interest deductions when doing this. There are already similar limits in place for mortgage interest deductions.
I did pretty much the same thing with https://github.com/kragen/peg-bootstrap/blob/master/peg.md, although admittedly hand-compiling to JS was noticeably less work than hand-compiling to assembly language would have taken. My friend Dave did something similar with Val Schorre's META-II: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2724586 (missing the figures for some reason, so see:) doi:10.1145/2697401
the problem is when you over-simplify to the point of just being wrong. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle where you adequately describe the variety of positions available without being verbose. That's true of all mental models.
Yes, the electronics, including imaging sensors are all radiation hardened.

This can involve things such as using digital circuits that are radiation resistant (e.g. look up radiation resistant flip flop). Using multiple computers running the same thing that all "vote" for the correct result, so if one computer has an error from radiation you don't suffer. Using semiconductors that are more resistant to radiation (larger band gaps mean more energy required to flip a bit).

Physical shielding is key as well. The infrared imager on the Cassini probe had a case made out of tantalum, as tantalum is a very dense material which prevents a lot of radiation from going through it.
Perhaps you interpreted me a bit too literally. Of course it takes time for internalizing new and foreign concepts. The lecture, lesson or exercise might only take an hour but it may take days or weeks to grok the concepts. And this might mean a lot of practice.

I certainly remember having a hard time understanding this years ago, and my problem was probably the same as yours - the lack of nice books and tutorials (but things are a bit better now) as well as it all being new and foreign. I don't regret putting in the effort, though.

I also do not like the inconsistency in let-in vs. let (do notation), but I guess there's a good reason for that. <- is not strictly "variable assignment" but it seems superficially similar, though (if comparing to imperative languages).

But I don't think these issues can be "fixed" without turning Haskell into something completely different (e.g. something more like ML). Or do you have a good suggestion how to simplify this without making it worse?
Pretty sure they'd just charge you with attempted murder of a federal agent then x the numbers of agents in the area.
Total agree -- I was temporarily disabled by injury earlier this year and was recently given the all-clear to start lifting again -- was feeling hopelessly atrophied + weak at first and dubious that I'd ever get back to where I was [nothing to write home about, but OK] --

Within six weeks, I was back to most of my original routine, after almost a year not lifting -- and as you say, my overall pain level has been much reduced and my posture improved
This is brilliant. Super easy mental model. Super easy to use (just drag and drop!). No friction. This is going to be big, whether it's you guys (hopefully!) or someone else that steals this idea (boo!)

And I wouldn't pay too much attention to the Windows/Linux users in the very early days if it's too much of a development burden. There are tons of tech forward companies that are mac-only that are a large enough market to build momentum.

If the windows/linux people want it make them put their money where their mouth is and charge them in some way. It costs nothing for them to say "Build this for me!" but they already have enough info from the demos and mac app to make a purchasing decision. So if they're serious get some money from them. If you do a pre-order and say "if it's not released in 3 months you get your money back" that should be enough signal to know if they really want it or not.

Congrats! Not many people make something this good. Now don't screw it up :)

And if you're not part of YC already you should do a late application for the W20 batch.
I micro dose with psilocybin, and order on zamnesia in amsterdam since i'm in europe.
> It’d be like asking years hence, the Americans had been to the moon, why wasn’t anyone else curious about the moon, why hadn’t others put people on the moon?

I'm asking that question now. Even for Americans, the majority never had a moon landing in their lifetime. And with each passing day, it gets a little bit easier to believe the whole thing was a hoax. Hollywood can deepfake better moon footage than the historical record these days.
This is a very serious security concern, in my mind. I regularly type into the "wrong" window, due to (pick one) poorly designed UI or my stupidity.

This is mostly harmless in my solo environment, although one does have to be careful about things like .bash_history and websites that might actually be listening for keystrokes and sending them upstream. Having a team window seems like it would make this a greater risk.

On a different topic, I'm one of those people that can't stand pair programming and related--it destroys my ability to concentrate deeply on the problem in front of me.
Turns out people have different learning styles. I claim both of you are right!

That learning style thing has horrible consequences for about 40% of students in the American one size fits all public education model.
I've been working on juju (http://jujucharms.com) for 18 months and have not missed generics. I have 16 years of development experience in C++ and C#, so it's not like I don't know what they're good for.
The problem was, code written for J++ wouldn't run on "regular" Java outside of Windows, effectively killing the cross-platform aspect of Java and turning it into another Visual Basic.
> The idea that to fix a security issue you should install an additional program which "increases" security is dubious.

For some reasons it often works for Windows and MacOS, why wouldn't it work for Linux?

> The problems listed on the page are real and we should tackle them.

Considering the number of breaches of NPM/Ruby repos and other projects hosted on github/gitlab, it surely looks like no one really does anything to tackle them.

> Instead security should be treated in a systematic way

As the article mentions even distro maintainers do not actually care about the issue that much - often because the maintainers do not get paid for their work and do it in their spare time. You cannot expect much from that while a basic AV could provide at least a modicum of additional protection and safety.

> Security is not an app to be installed. It's an architectural problem.

Android solves it by not allowing the user to get root permissions and completely isolating apps. That's unlikely to ever happen to Linux on the desktop.

> Namely, are distro maintainers qualified to verify antivirus code?

AV vendors have a reputation to keep. There are not that many of them actually, and a lot fewer than software packages in an average Linux disto (to the tune of many thousands).

> They also commonly run with elevated privileges (the point about sudo).

That's absolutely true but they work this way to fight off low level malware/rootkits. You can't have it any other way. The same applies to Linux unfortunately - in order to protect against malicious kernel modules you need to hook into the kernel.
JFC talk about a "you're with us or against us" mentality. I tend to be somewhat neutral on unions (depending on the context I think they're sometimes good and sometimes bad), but your rhetoric has pushed me further towards unions being bad.
Editors are not necessarily investigators.

(metaphor/similar example follows)

In the same sense that someone who reviews a (IT) technical procedure is not necessarily a systems administrator, but someone who sees things from an angle to ensure RACI model is followed throughout without any generalizations such as "backup is taken" (by who? using which tools? which systems/data are backed up? how often? how long do we keep the tapes? how often do we trash the tapes? where do we store the tapes?). I haven't taken a backup for more than a decade, but I would shred a backup procedure to pieces. If you remove me from the review cycle, I won't go back to writing procedures.
Great idea!

Social media and cloud providers are like telephones, mail, and electricity.

They should provide a service for any legal use, even if they don’t agree with the content.
It's not about rights, it's about ability. If Panama wants to trade with the US or it's vassals, it will do what the US says. China doesn't have to listen to the US, if Panama wants to defy Yellen, it can deal with China - although China may not see Panama as worth it, I don't think that tax breaks are an export that China is desperate for.

edit: think of it like this - you have the "right" to eat meat. But if I refuse to be friends with people who eat meat and you need my friendship, you can't eat meat.
But the monetary aspect exists, there’s no way to ignore how little Uber drivers are paid. Full time drivers earn about $30k/year without any benefits in San Francisco. That’s less than half of the poverty line for an individual and less than a third for a family of four. A person earning that little money in SF is likely to be in a really really desperate financial situation - possibly homeless.

Yes, doing that to someone is wrong. It’s absolutely wrong. But I just can’t ignore the people who put the driver in that situation and the culpability they have here.
The review is great, it contains all the interesting points and counterpoints, in a much more succinct format than the article itself.
It sounds like you're just saying "pareto happens in any resource allocation scheme" which isn't specifically inherit to capitalism and is kinda just what happens when people have resources. I'm not convinced that people can live without resources. Sure, there are concerns when the distribution becomes too long tailed, but what you're describing is inherit to any system (we haven't seen a system where this hasn't happened). Stop creating a boogieman, let's have a good faith conversation instead.
which will be provided by Honest Achmed's Auto Insurance and Audits
Bones steakhouse in Atlanta (a landmark) gives every table an iPad instead of a printed wine list. Very cool, and it actually increased their sales immediately.

http://whatnowatlanta.com/2010/09/14/bones-steakhouse-uses-i...
"A hash function is any well-defined procedure or mathematical function that converts a large, possibly variable-sized amount of data into a small datum"

Hashify is not really a hash, is it?
Most software engineers do not need a deep understanding of Human Factors as a working tool, it is a broad term covering multiple disciplines and mediums - particularly focused on physical forms. HCI is focused on computer interaction; you are discussing user interface design.
I'm currently working with Yii. I was pretty sure I was going to go into Rails development, and we were planning on doing the next project in Rails, but Yii is actually very good.

It's not built around creating DSLs, it's built around using solid OO principles to build a very extensible system. Yii's use of behaviors (much like mixins in Ruby) allow you to easily encapsulate behavior and share it among many models and projects, and of course it's built on a solid foundation of classes and interactions, including ActiveRecord.

I still dislike the syntax a bit, and I understand how the syntax affects the design of the framework, but really it is very similar to Rails.
Paraphrasing "The Rock Warrior's Way" (_the_ book on mental training for rock climbers, IMO) the comfort zone is where your Ego wants to keep you, because you won't fail and you won't let yourself down. The only way to improve yourself is through learning, which is done outside of the comfort zone. When you get scared or uncomfortable, your Ego works to push you back into that comfort zone. By countering that force, trying things you're not sure of, you learn. In the longer run, you expand your comfort zone, and become capable of more.

This of course doesn't mean ignore fear, but analyze the risks you will take, decide what are acceptable risks that still make you comfortable, and then wholly commit to a path of action outside of your familiar comfort zone.
This and the earlier GPS case, Jones, aren't based on some broad idea that the government can't track you without a warrant. They're based on the fact that placing the GPS on your vehicle violates your property right. You don't have any property right in phone metadata--it's the phone companies data collected for its own purposes. This doesn't apply to Stingray either. In the GPS cases, the government is putting a device on your car that broadcasts your position. With a stingray, your cell phone is reaching out into the world and giving you away.
I'm playing deep, interesting video games.

Kerbal Space Program is one of my favourite.

Also I walk a lot in Paris and around.
Such a handy tool for app developers. Simple and easy to use.
I wish them mediocrity.

Hm, but maybe mediocrity led them to where they are now.
We used to help guys get contracting jobs in the 100k-120k range in D.C. (300k for afghanistan).

Now the same contracts are hiring people on at 40-50k, and people are taking the jobs because they already gave up their government spot. The contracting world has pretty much turned inside out because of the upheavals over recent years. Most of the contractors I know are aiming for government jobs now.
It's essentially fail of Apache Foundation. OpenOffice is essentially dead now (check the commits rate and piling unfixed bugs). The best they can do is to declare its decease, and link/redirect to LibreOffice instead.
>If it's indeed so hard to find a good Uber driver, you'd expect them to be driven out of the market by customers themselves.

I doubt that there are many Uber drivers that do it long term. Eventually at some point they have to realize that they're making peanuts (if not operating at a loss) after they factor in routine AND long-term maintenance costs of their vehicle. Or they simply get 'real' jobs and were using Uber between jobs or to supplement income temporarily.

The people I know that have personally done driving for these services has done it in addition to full-time work, largely hoping to earn decent extra money from tips.
Nothing.

For me, black friday is a day to lay low and avoid all retail establishments to the greatest degree possible.
Predatory pricing like that ought to be illegal.
I actually thought of one a while later: (city) skyline shaped.
Interesting thought.

Some calculations that make this sound viable (anyone able to verify?): https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/100684
The OP pays a market-rate rent and local taxes for the accommodation.

What "everybody else" is doing?
As a long time subscriber to the Risks mailing list, I would have to note the extensive discussion of this incident:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/search?query=therac
Tesla and SpaceX seem to be doing ok.
My home is majority open concept on 2 of 3 floors with high ceilings and even with 3 kids I can say it's more appealing than those 1-room-per-100sqft 80s/90s layouts. Turns out kids are people too and enjoy nice spaces just the same.
I got my AZ jab two weeks ago. Knocked me for a six for a day and that's about all it did. I do believe the AZ vaccine is very safe, millions of doses have been given out and only a few had issues with it. But clearly more research should be conducted to work out why it causes blood clots in the unfortunate few so we can make better vaccines in future.
Practical, literal-minded solutions are not the kind of thing that typically inspires theoretical insight into mathematics, though. That's like saying Euler could have just swum across some of the rivers in Koenigsberg.
That may be hard, since DF is under constant development.

Being more ambitious in the sim department will be excruciatingly hard, since DF already has an almost silly level of simulation:

http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/23/5926447/dwarf-fortress-will...

That said, yeah, it's a cool genre which could use some real love.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927539
I would bet that there's some studies out there that are like that. I only have a passing interest in the topic, but I'm sure there's various journals and thinktanks where such a study must have been performed at some time.
thats not true, Coke and McDonalds have barriers to entry - supply chains, buildings etc. Even if you're saying the taste of the food is not unique. Uber has no products/supply chains except for their app, its just randos signing up on the internet and driving with their own car. There are three local apps competing with Uber, and fairly successfully.
I like how they talk about how RARE mint coins from before 1880 are, and how there are several one of a kind finds, and many from before 1880... And then they show a coin from 1886
"Missing" seems to imply that they used to, or should, know where they are. It seems unsurprising that they don't have definitive location of most of their currency, it is traded by individuals with little to no tracking other than when it touches a bank.

It seems like all of these numbers are just estimations, so it's more like they can't guess, and get people to confirm, where the rest of these notes are or how they are being "used".
> So where does that leave people looking for honest web hosting reviews? Here at Review Signal. Of course. We have a vested interest in telling this story.

> Disclaimer: Review Signal LLC is compensated by some companies for referring new customers.
How do I format text like that on HN? Use <pre> tags?
> A subculture, yes. An "entire generation", absolutely not

If you're not just being pedantic:

http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-millenials-have-historic...
This service looks hinky and it's not clear what sets it apart from other time-tracking apps.
It is, by his own admission, heavily curated. Both in what he exfiltrated and what selections from that have actually been published.
That doesn't really matter though because these people as a group take actions that led to these stereotypes in the first place.

I don't care that not everyone working for / at the NSA is small-minded or not because in the end, the sum of all those individuals failed at being moral.
> Microsoft isn't as good at collecting and reselling all of your personal information, so have to charge the actual cost of the hardware.

Google does not sell your personal information in any way. They use it for their own advertising purposes, but they don't sell it to anyone, in any form.
Sabatticode? Ah well, too late now.
I'm noticing a good deal of BBS references lately in HN stories, and I can't help being amused by this...because, as it happens, the company I started in 1989 when I was fresh out of school wrote realtime interactive BBS software.

If you are so inclined, check out page 6 of this "ancient" scan of a newsletter (yes, advertising for online software used to be done by newsletter :) produced around 1993...my company, MagiComm, wrote an online search engine, very nice ANSII realtime interactive games like Sub Striker and Backgammon (with ELO ratings no less), and other pretty cool stuff.

http://pdf.textfiles.com/zines/MAJORNEWS/majornewsv4i1.pdf

Code was straight C, with BTREE tables (no SQL) on 386/486s and, in the beginning, a 640k memory limit.

You may not approve of my development choices but you sure can't say I was behind the times.

Anyway, it's super gratifying to read about kids being inspired by BBS software, knowing I created a tiny part of it.
I can't imagine the branding looks as good for Chrome 23.0 as it does for single digits. Maybe they'll switch to code names.
The HN community has long used footnotes to help with readability [1].

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=%22[1]%20http%22+site:ycombin...
"All your spellcheck algorithms are belong to us"
It happened to me the first time I tried to look at pinboard today. I'm on a satellite modem out in the middle of nowhere -- maybe a latency bug? Problem was gone when I tried a little later.
It's all fun and games until all of your users are locked out one day because facebook isn't happy with you or has decided to enter your space. http://www.lamebook.com/

It's bad for the website. It's bad for the user (versus, say, an independent universal id). All of this because you don't want to use a password manager and are frightened about hackers? Meh.
Java developer here, I like it so far. Your post got me quite excited but I'm not really sure where to go from here.
Hi Paul,

Great project and great UI/UX ! I just have one question can I have this form and only be Facebook Connect only (desactivate the option to log without facebook on the first line) ?
As opposed to entire marine fisheries destroyed by industrialized fishing that puts tins of tuna on grocery shelves.
Over-fishing using nets is done on an industrial scale backed by capital from wealthy industrial and post-industrial economies. The family that fishes in the swamp is not the critical actor.
We solved other diseases without solving the food problem.
I can't take credit for the great work, I came across this work and wanted to share it. :) However, according to their website it seems it was a mix of using an automated algorithm and manual checking. Their website says this:

"In the resulting set of selfie images, we ran automatic face analysis, supplying us with algorithmic estimations of eye, nose and mouth positions, the degrees of different emotional expressions, etc."

"As the final step, one or two members of the project team examined all these photos manually. While most photos were tagged correctly, we found some mistakes."

See the section at http://selfiecity.net/#dataset .
You are fear-mongering and your argument is pure pathos. If the guy was cooking, he probably wasn't doing LSD at the time of death. LSD is notoriously difficult to homebrew and it was more likely he was doing something that we actually have reason to believe is bad for you.

All drugs aren't the same and blanketing them all as negative because somebody died on a specific drug is ridiculous.
Can someone respond to these points instead of just downvoting?
Update: It looks like the author of the article, found the deal via slickdeals and used it on Techcrunch without realizing it was an affiliate link.

It's been removed with an attribution link to slickdeals added at the bottom of the article.
I don't think individual companies have such a responsibility. It's better to have the state pay for these costs.
Its not just the title. There is a story about them going to meet you guys for the interview and then getting rejected.
Well there's FOAF (RDF Ontology for Social Networking). You may want to use a proprietary backend to manage your data as a social networking provider, but the w3c schema already exists to share your graph.

Here's Tim's foaf data as an example:
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/card
I loved the blog article the other day about the guy who had to create a Facebook account for his granny to see his pictures, then delete it again after a while. I think the same person mentioned going through their privacy settings in Facebook once per day. What pain point is FB solving that people willingly go through so much pain?

Are there no other photo sharing services out there?