jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a kind of "market will solve all" naivety.

In a functioning market, this might work, but it overlooks the ability of corporations to game the system via one or two self-interested jurisdictions.

The key problem is that corporations can avail themselves of the public goods (infrastructure, public education, public order) and then use accounting maneuvers to shift profits to jurisdictions that will not tax them.

Some jurisdictions don't provide much in the way of public goods (small island states) or see an opportunity to raise some modest taxes on money they would otherwise never see (eg the Netherlands).

So you end up with the (individual) taxpayers of some countries subsidising these corporations, other countries profiting modestly and the corporations keeping most of the tax money.

Is this what an efficient market would deliver? An unfair and unsustainable situation? According to your theory the countries should compete with each other until their taxes are very low and their subsidies are very high, because that would reflect "efficiency". But what is the incentive for countries to do this? A rational country in the this market would set taxes to balance out the public goods provided. But because of profit shifting this is impossible, no matter how efficient they are. Yellen's plan is a rational response to this.
"America drops the corporate income tax to 0% ..."

Both your proposal (corp rate of 0%) and the objections to your proposal (that individual income will be shifted onto corporate ledgers) are already extant, and addressed, in US tax code.

Any business can incorporate under subchapter-S, or as a form of LLC/LLP and pay zero taxes. Very common. Happens all the time.

The catch is, you cannot carry income on the books arbitrarily. For the most part, you are forced to distribute the proceeds among the shareholders/partners before the end of the year - thus subjecting it to regular and frequent taxation.

On the other hand, if you want to carry proceeds forward in the business and park them there, for whatever reason, you need to be a C-Corporation and are subject to double-taxation: corporate taxes and then, later, individual taxes once the monies are finally distributed.

So you have that choice. If you want the flexibility and fewer shareholder restrictions of a "C" corporation, you need to pay corporate taxes.

Personally, I prefer the simplicity of an S-corp and, as a bonus, the income is not double taxed.
Also I was wondering what 'do-not-run-me' would be so my first try was 'file do-not-run-me', but alas, that command didn't exist.
That's definitely fair. I think I tend to see at least a small move in this direction as something of an inevitability, although the India-style approach still tends to respect regional cultures and languages with repression of minority groups usually not based on regional affinity (which obviously doesn't make it better in any way). France also went along a path more similar to China's with its minority languages and communities, but that's not necessarily a sign of what will happen to pan-Europeanism.
When someone's rude my instinct is to be rude back to take care of the problem.

Need to step back, take some breaths, and say 'Serenity Now' until Im relaxed.
people often forget that subtlety of reality is NOT something every individual HAS to prioritize, and any amount of namecalling is really a refusal to open a dialogue and an excuse to grandstand.

glad you feel safe enough to echo your opinions. it's important in championing dialogue.
Heavy Linux user here, and I'm more than willing to pay for good software that provides a vital service for me. That being said, there definitely is a fine line, as if the software doesn't provide value over a similar oss/foss tool, then it's not justifying it's price.

PyCharm is a well-know paid software that has a strong Linux/OSX presence, as well as almost all other JetBrains software. Sublime Text is another.
I'm a Linux user, and I pay for software without hesitation. In some cases I even go out of my way to try to pay for something, which isn't always accepted by the developer(s).
> https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

Wow, super nice website, gonna use it to try to see some satellites from now on! Thanks for creating and sharing it.
> That night, I bent it because I accidentally sat on it in my back pocket.

Do people really keep phones in their back pockets?

For that matter, do people really still keep anything in their back pockets, except as an ephemeral thing that you take out after a few seconds? Sitting with things in your back pockets is known to create spinal problems.
Well, I wrote a large chunk of the system and am still on the pager rotation along with the rest of the eng team. At some point we'll hand off pager duty to the SRE team.
This is late but I regard jobs as a talentless, opportunistic hack that got lucky, piggybacking and exploiting truly gifted people like Woz and Ives. He was an exploitative bastard that could see and cash in on other peoples talent, but was vacant in those categories himself. And the Mac classic was the shittiest computer placed on this planet.
In terms of accuracy of reproduction, vinyl is just simply not going to do better than a CD.

The audiophile community may disagree, but read some of their reviews and articles and you'll see how reliable their analyses are.
how's the battery life? Being able to go long periods without a charger is really important to me.

I have a friend who has a zenbook, was pretty unimpressed by the build quality, but that might have been a lower end model.
It might not be practical to send information as light. You'd need a powerful transmitter so your signal can be detected among the noise from stars. It might turn out that sending a spaceship is actually cheaper and just about as fast. The spaceship can steer itself and doesn't spread out the further it goes.
I'll offer a hypothesis to explain #1:

It's because Chicago's culture is excessively risk averse. There seems to be a tendency to seek permission or acceptance from peers and others before taking a risk (either in business, fashion, life, whatever).

This is actually great for bootstrapping, because it keeps you in touch with the real world and immediate customer demand.

But it leads to fewer qualified, technical people there with no history of 'business' thinking that striking off on their own and starting a company is a good idea.

The people who do start companies there are often the ones who have gone through some kind of training program (MBA, work experience, etc.) that in their minds has qualified them to start a company.

So I propose that it's not that the MBA types are overrepresented, it's that technical folks and others are underrepresented, because they're tending to not start companies.

Disclaimer: totally conjecture, based on living in Chicago for eight years, but being from California and now living in NYC. In moving from Chicago to NYC the most striking difference (for me), other than the diversity, was the spirit that no one cares about you or what you do, so you might as well do whatever you want or think you can. For some that means starting companies.
Now I'm imagining pointing this thing not at a proxy that accesses the live web but one which picks a date in the wayback machine and relays the state of the web at the time the browser came out...
The bandwidth chart I get from my colo (where I don't own the router that measures my bandwidth usage) works the way I described. The article mentions a single server, and nothing about owning the router also. If they did, that's probably where they'd null-route the traffic they don't want.

It seemed backwards to me too, when I first saw it.
Vinyl is absolutely not lossless, there's the crackle and hiss, not to mention the fact that the needle digs into the surface as it's played.
I don't know about safe, but investing in some kind of Asian development fund doesn't sound too crazy right now. Things are definitely booming over here.
Oh man.

Don't make me start on South African salaries. You'll cry.
I think you are wrong, thinking that exchanges are unimportant part of attracting traders. To attract sellers, bitcoin market needs high volume trades on exchanges (because currently most costs for sellers are in USD and they need to hedge that costs on exchange).

Spreading awareness is the most right thing to achieve this.
I'm seeing documentcloud listed for new york?
I was lucky enough to see him in Manchester a few months ago, and the people who weren't expecting the stuttering were quite put off. Still, it was an incredible experience.
for example, underscore is on the list: http://www.githits.me/NewYorkCity

Is that what you mean?
Currency devaluation is a way for governments to tax their populations surreptitiously. All governments that have control of the money devalue it to some extent, but generally not too much for the same reason they don't directly overtax or over-regulate: too much state looting discourages production and investment.

If China is over-looting (relative to other countries), then investors should be leaving China, not queuing to get in.
Against whom?

It is anonymous, is it not?
The thing is, you do not always want to find a median of a set of integers -- not even most of the time. Frequently you want to find a median of floats, or use a custom ordering. Real life is not so simple.
It’s because the standard product doesn’t have autopilot, they sell a driver assistance tool. The tool they sell does not have autopilot.

The device is open, and you can flash with their open source code from GitHub to give you hacky autopilot. This is how they get around the legal issue.

It’s like a “we sell you a legal product. We advise you don’t flash this code on it which we are hosting on GitHub wink wink”
> But it's still "racist" to say "Indians can't drive."

Sorry, I think you're reading something into GP's post that just isn't there.

What I got from GP's post was because of low standards of drive testing, weak or non-existent enforcement of traffic laws, a general lack of education on how to drive safely, drivers on roads in India are generally unsafe. Having once been one of those drivers myself, I agree wholeheartedly. I don't think GP ever said or implied anything like what you think. If India were to adopt higher licensing standards and better traffic enforcement (in addition to better roads, signage, signaling equipment etc), I'm quite certain the quality of our driving, and our fatality numbers would improve over time.

> I know what you mean about driving in India. I watch video of Indian traffic. It's fascinating.

It's not "fascinating", it's horrifying. People blithely zooming around, always a hairsbreadth from tragedy, all for very little gain. It breaks my heart to see it whenever I go back home for a visit.

> I live in CA, and I've met a lot of folks from India and they seem to drive here just fine.

I was one of those folks (don't live in CA anymore). I learned how to drive better after coming to the US. The reason all the Indian people you know drive fine is because they learned (or re-learned) driving in the US and have gone through American licensing tests.
Thanks. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve.
But why are we treating fertility as exogenous, rather than as a choice? Fertility is not exogenous. Demographers are predicting a 15% decline in live births in 2021 in the US, because women are choosing against pregnancy. It is long-studied and well-known that unemployment also depresses fertility. The idea that people will have children and buy houses just because they turn 30 is silly. They will not have children and they will not buy houses unless the environment in which those appear to be rational choices is established.
lombok is the holy grail of java boilerplate removal.

With proper usage of spring-data, spring-cloud-stream, spring-* lomboked java code can be very terse. If you follow conventions repositories, rest clients, mappers etc. are often defined only by interfaces and annotations - actual implementations are generated.

The downside is that the entrance to the full blown spring-* world has a step learning curve - there is a lot to read at spring.io.
I have been debating whether to learn Scala or F# in my spare time. F# seems to be the more pragmatic choice. Doesn't go the insane way of FP that Scala does with complicated libraries or convoluted inheritance hierarchies. The Scala community seems more divided than the F# one with multiple competing ecosystems/libraries for achieving the same thing. My interest lies in webdev/backend and F# seems to be an obvious choice with asp.net and it's supplanting libraries. Not sure how Scala fares, but i guess it's not the primary use case for it. On the surface I kind of like the syntax of Scala, it's very familiar but I fear that I would get more frustrated the deeper I would dig because eventually you have to integrate other people's code and the way most of it is written looks to be like haskell in disguise. Not really sure about the pros/cons.
It depends entirely on your time horizon. USD might be more stable day-to-day, but has lost 32.3% of its value in the past 20 years. This is just with CPI, if you're comparing to asset prices this is probably much worse.
True, but I think he may have had some fun with the interviewer, and thought it may be worth taking him down a peg or two.

Feynman was amazingly good at giving serious smackdowns in a convivial way. He would be cheerful, accepting and charming while creating a logical argument that was almost always faultless.

He had some negatives, but I think he was one of the most amazing people to have ever lived. I encourage everyone out there to read and watch his publications and lectures. From grad student til death, he forced people to rethink the hardest and most important problems around, and he had fun doing it.

He was also a prankster, a lock-picker and safe-cracker, and apparently a pretty good musician.

</hero_worship>
The difference is the plane did fly without the understanding after little research, but we are trying to make the machines intelligent since decades.

Something is missing, imo.
What universe is that? One where all the foaming-at-the-mouth misogynists trolls have had their Internet license of abusing people protected by long distance and anonymity revoked?

The fact that you "keep hearing about them" should give you a hint. Women who come to the attention of a subsection of Internet trolls do find themselves harassed online (death threats, rape threats, etc.). See Gamergate or Adria Richards for recent examples. It's pretty well documented.
I can confirm this happens in high end hairdressers.

I have never spent a lot on haircuts, and a few years ago when I was going from long to short hair (for a job interview), my mum offered to pay for an expensive haircut for me. The haircut was not really any "better" than many of the cheap ones I had paid for myself, but the hairdresser spent a lot more time, and there seemed to be a lot more faffing about, with no real purpose as far as I could see.

Most of the places I had gone to obviously needed a bit higher throughput to keep the money coming in.
Yes.

It was called the gold standard. It worked quite well for a very long time.

No respectable academic economist takes it seriously.

Which is why you should.
It would be cool if there was a lynx like browser extension.
Looks like MVC3 is definitely on the table then too...
Tried http://www.goosh.org/ ?

If you really just want text results, with no shinies (shineys? shinys?), there's gotta be something out there that does this. If not, maybe a browser extension is in order? It'd have an easier time cleaning stuff up. I could add it to my ever-lengthening todo list...
> The teacher needs to foster an environment that will generate curiosity and interest. The teacher needs to respect the students and their views through meeting regularly with them, listening to their ideas, goals, and dreams, and discuss it with them and provide feedback. Lastly the teacher needs to provide verbal and written evaluations on how each student is doing in their own journey in learning about anthropology.

None of these things, in my opinion, have anything in particular to do with education. Education is an action you take (upon yourself) because of your goals; you're talking about the meta-process that causes you to set your goals in the first place, and to revise them as you go.

As an analogy, think of something every teenager is driven to do on their own: learn to drive. They will study, take the exam, study some more if they've failed, etc., because they have an actionable goal in mind (driving around, easily getting to friends' houses, etc.) and learning is a means to achieving this goal.

What students need are role models who can give them, and demonstrate to them, actionable goals. Some of the sciences make this easy—a paleontologist just has to point at a bone exhibit in a museum and say "kids, study and then you'll not only be finding these, but you'll know why it's important that we find them"—but every field can be reduced in a similar way with a clear, big-picture-focused mind (except maybe mathematics: that's pure blue-sky fun that only gets purposed after-the-fact.)

This is sort of the difference between unit tests, and integration tests based on user stories. Your role models should be giving you goals—stories for you to complete—and also evaluating how close you are to reaching them. You should be giving yourself tasks, which you can implement through education, and which can then be algorithmically verified as complete (by the school), with regressions caught and reinforced, etc. The tasks, when summed up, should give you something that meets the goal—if not, you need new/better/more tasks.
I've been very happy with ASP.NET MVC 3's support for the new Razor view engine. I took the leap early and built a couple production apps on that platform. All has been well, thus far.

Exposing your models as RESTful endpoints that return JSON is still accomplished easily enough easy via controller actions that return JsonResult. You can return any object that JavaScriptSerializer can serialize by simply using `return Json(object);`.
Isn't A/B testing a micro-step of validating your hypothesis? You test your hypothesis and you get certain results. Then you use A/B testing to fine tune your hypothesis and test it even further. Keep tweaking them until you get your desired results. Isn't that how is supposed to work?
For those tracking the thread, current short list:

Server Frameworks

- ASP.NET MVC3 (http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3)

- OpenRasta (http://trac.caffeine-it.com/openrasta)

- Kayak (http://kayakhttp.com/)

REST Clients (not needed straight away but will be handy)

- Hammock (http://hammock.codeplex.com/)

- RestSharp (http://restsharp.org/)

Thanks for the comments so far, it's going to make things a lot simpler.

Cheers,
Damon.
This uses the face detection library here: http://badassjs.com/post/1461943420/face-detection-in-javasc...

Which has a link to upload and test your own pictures here: http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html
Thanks is, as the GitHub title says, for iot and embedded devices.

There’s a whole class of these that don’t have the resources to run C++ or rust. Source: develop on a Linux system with 7 megabyte roofs and 16 megs of ram. Oh! We have a 1 meg application partition.
A better thing to do with an old MacBook is using it for an Arcade cabinet.

I wish the person who wrote this article described what he did next with this K8s cluster. Probably nothing.
I think it’s well defined in the article - the author means behavioural advertising that has to do with targeting any information specific to the user (whether we consider that personal or not).
The proposed alternative is contextual advertising which puts the targeting emphasis entirely on the context in which the ad is shown, not on the person seeing the ad. The idea is that if it is executed correctly, contextual targeting will lead to the same person anyway, just without sacrificing his or her privacy.
Most people aren't even aware of the hardships people in underdeveloped/developing countries have to go through in order to sustain our "modern society". It's out of sight out of mind. If everyone was more acutely aware of the suffering, then there may be more of a backlash. In short, people are too busy living their lives to know and consequently empathize with what's happening on the other side of the planet. But that's not the same thing as blind acceptance.

I grew up in America, and decided to go to Southwest Asia for a while. Seeing small children work is gut wrenching and something I had never seen or thought about till I saw it on my own personally. And it has certainly made me wary and selective about hiring any sort of service, even at the expense of my own convenience.

Bottom line is empathy.
Why would an innovation like this go ignored for so incredibly long?
I think it boils down to the fact that the last 10% of any project takes at least 90% of the work. It's easier to make the 90% of a programming language that meets your need than it is to learn a more complete language.
Amen to that, after avoiding kubernetes at home for so long (run a quite a lot of clusters at work in production and while not a nightmare, it is a lot of work) - I've now moved most of my self-hosted stuff to k3s. It's been a joy to work with.

We're even looking at starting to migrate most of our edge deployments to k3s as well.

Really really awesome piece of work by Rancher.
What you refer to as the "hospital's oxygen system" is the oxygen output port on a ventilator. See also this note in the text:

"The prototype as a whole has been tested on one of our colleagues directly inside the Chiari Hospital, connected to the ventilator body, and has proven to be correctly working."
My favorite is by Samuel Beckett:

> Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
HN is text based, so it might have a bias towards people who like text.
I use the TP-Link WDR4300, because it was the best I could find here

[1]: http://www.tp-link.com/resources/images/products/large/TL-WD...
people on the internet misunderstanding a paper? Might that be because 99% of them don't have access to read the thing, since it's suck behind a paywall?

and to end a post about a paper people can't read with "Maybe I’m being naive here, but I think a major reason behind false memes is that checking sources sounds much harder and more intimidating than it actually is." -- that's just rubbing it in!
Are you able to do full atomic transactions in Cassandra now? Like the ones described in the article:

begin
val1 = read(account1)
val2 = read(account2)
newVal1 = val1 - 100
newVal2 = val2 + 100
write(account1, newVal1)
write(account2, newVal2)
commit

Last time I checked this was not possible, only light compare-and-swap operations.