jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem with an LVT isn't when it's too low. Even a low LVT can prevent empty parking lots and abandoned properties. The problem with LVTs start when the LVT is too high as everyone abandons the land and nobody wants to acquire it. That is a real nightmare because of the extremely high valuations of land fueled by low land value and property taxes.

Transitioning to a steep LVT is difficult because the assumption is that the LVT drops the value of the land if the yearly tax payment is too high. A $1 million dollar plot of land isn't supposed to pay $50k in taxes. The payment you are willing to make is say $10k per year which means the value of the land drops to $200k. Making that jump is extremely difficult. It's only really viable if you started with the LVT from the beginning.

The reason why Germany can transition to an LVT is because the property taxes it charges are laughably low to begin with. Around 200€ to 1000€ per year. There is no plan to increase taxes to lower the value of land and put pressure to solving the housing problem.
Well, Uber is more exploitative for the drivers and less safe for the riders, so the choice seems clear.

On the other hand Uber has a flashy logo and an app and is sometimes cheaper.
If you don't do it from the beginning chances are you'll never do it. Testing isn't an after thought, I mean, it ends up being one for most companies and it shows...
Fast and slow are relative. We have planck time as a limit, but what if we were hundreds of orders of magnitude slower (and energy-capable)? Or there was no limit at all? A simulation running on small enough quants could be even faster than we could perceive. A single flash and the simulated universe is over. Repeat and try to get better pics of it, until you find something interesting in it.

Or try it the other way: simulator’s universe has 13 time axis and they can fast-forward on one by slowing down on one of the others, then reporting final results to all dimensions (and putting sinful souls in a special eternal suffering simulation supervised by worst criminals ever¹³).
"That means they drop launch costs to $20/kg at scale..."

Yeah, probably not in your lifetime, buddy:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/...

"NASA’s goal is to reduce the cost of getting to space to hundreds of dollars per pound within 25 years and tens of dollars per pound within 40 years."

Starting a business based on that _now_ seems to be a bit... premature :)

"...start building permanent installations on Mars and the Moon."

Not in this century, unless there is a very high incentive for doing so (think: WW3 or something equally disruptive).
Out of the entertainment categories you just listed (porn, movies, music, books, games, sports) I think the porn can have the worst side effects on your life because it directly interfere with a relationship with your partner (many people go for porn rather then for sex with partner) or can demotivate one from searching for real relationships because porn is easier. And that can ultimately lead to worsening one's quality of life.
Not a dupe, a completely different news site (Bloomberg v. BBC).
I read a series of articles by a historian about it. The common view most people have about the issue apparently comes from Voltaire and is riddled with misrepresentations in order to make some points Voltaire wanted to make.

History is often much more complicated than suits us.
Typically endowment, programmatic expenses, and operational overhead are the big three. You might also see a reserve (emergency) fund or a capital campaign.

If you a interested, in the details of any given 501c3 look for the tax form “990”. It’s where the 501c3 report income, governance, and expenditure out to the IRS. Any nonprofit worth their salt will have a copy published on their website. They typically run 2, 3 years behind the calendar year, so right now expect 2017.

Example 990: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/icann-fy-2017-fo...
Sure but there are places like Berlin in Germany where network coverage is absolutely broken. Wifi works though. This is why the preference over SMS/GSM call.
Relevant updated from NY Times interview with Weird Al: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/weird-al-yankov...
While Perl is an eclectic language and has the kitchen-sink nature, the only thing it really bolted on without much forethought was its object system, which it borrowed from circa-1994 Python. Unfortunately for Perl, this wasn't just bolted on (bad in and of itself), but was also a bad object system, which is a nasty flaw; Python had a much smaller user base and was able to transition from its old-style classes to much better new-style classes without a horrible hubbub, but Perl's much larger userbase (at the time) made it very difficult to switch to something better, which the community mostly only got around to in the last two years (incidentally, Perl's much better replacement for its old object system was by and large another borrowing, this time from Common Lisp).
That depends on use. For working on or reading papers, it's great: I've significantly cut down on the number of drafts and papers I print, as the screen's ppi is high enough that figures will appear at a similar resolution to what most researchers will have on their printers when adjusted to the correct size on the screen.
People in the US have called the cops on parties since time immemorial. I would say it depends 90% on how old your neighbors are.
With a sane legal framework surrounding driving, the driver would need to be sure they were not going to hit you, rather than you needing to be sure you wouldn't be hit.
I don't agree at all. Mixed content was once the primary use case for XML. XML and SGML before it was made for marking up documents and documents contain mixed content. They're not databases and they're not message formats containing structured data.
I have a feeling that those were by far the four most formative years for the company, and that his impact on the company's identity and so on was probably comparable to anyone other than Jobs's.

If nothing else, he created the expectation that superhuman technical feats would be performed on a daily basis, which exists to this day, and might well have stayed true to some degree even during the between-Jobs years, even if said feats were not in particularly productive directions.
Why should the US make this plane more transparent? What makes this author think that if the US takes the high road, that China, Russia and other countries will follow? Sure this plane could be use for weapons, but intelligence is one area of our expenditures that actually makes more sense.
You're right, but there's not much to show really. Should I ever pick it up again I'll put my code on github for sure.

Would you say that FP has should be altered to better suit game development? I for my part am pretty happy with the functional features that made it into mainstream languages so far.
I think it was meant to be a joke…
+ more uber jobs
- less taxi jobs

What's the point for an European city to change regulation?
> I've a friend who spent a good deal of time recently in Khazakhstan, and she was very amused by my attempts to express my fears of the United States becoming an authoritarian police state. She laughed and said that no, I did not understand what it was to have secret police following you about and all these other sorts of issues.

And she is right — the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state. But it is on a slippery slope, and those of us who have experienced a police state and can detect certain symptoms are deeply worried.

What's even more worrying is that this quiet (it is quiet, Hacker News represents at a first approximation 0% of the voting population) change takes place in a country which is the #1 military, financial and political world power.
>A method and system for attenuating a shockwave propagating through a first medium by heating a selected region of the first fluid medium rapidly to create a second, transient medium that intercepts the shockwave and attenuates its energy density before it reaches a protected asset

RPG protection on tanks works on similar principle. Americans have it for decades, Russians for past 15 years.
I always validate the article link by reading some of the top comments first. It's easy to see if or not even opening the article would be a waste of time. I've even responded to comments without reading the article...

Edit: I just read what you actually wrote. See, I even do it when it's not a link. I go off headlines then.
I wonder if the tax situation is any easier if you're dealing with US companies & employees who are citizens, but living elsewhere. At least the SSN number would be already dealt with, but there would still be tax implications that would be affected by any tax treaty between the US and the other country.
It can be a good approach. Make sure you have a good source of historic price data to come up with the best strategies.
I strongly believe that Game Mechanics are going to be huge on the order of magnitude of social or mobile.

Can you imagine what would happen if Zynga took their playbook and decided to build a weight-loss startup (the market for weight loss products in the US alone is $35 billion/year). Not to mentions the dozen of other billion-dollar self-help industries that can be transformed with game mechanics.

Sooner or later life is going to be like a MUD with standardized ways of measuring skills and comparing yourself against your friends. In a couple of generations time kids will grow up talking about "levelling up" in real life skills.

The application of game mechanics to real-life is only just beginning and it's going to have a huge transformative effect on how people live their lives.
Precisely because they understand "intellectual property" well enough, for example, not to uncritically accept that violating license terms = theft.
Flagged for framing.
I'm sorry people copy your stuff.

I'm not one to tell someone else how to run their business but could it be that relying on fragile concepts such as "Intellectual Property" are not a good method for gaining the ability to control and profit from your labors?

Personally I've always relied largely on the reputation I've built up for being able to solve the problems of my clients but your mileage may vary.

I hope you find a solution to your problems, it's not fair if you work really hard at something and get nothing back for your effort.
That's exactly what I said, they need more data.
Aside from the expense, I don't think it's more foolish than e.g. styling your hair or wearing a tie: both completely useless except for their effect on your appearance. Older people would probably buy modifications to new cars if marketers invented a way for them to be classy.
At first I didn't think I had any, so I did a quick scan of my bookshelves:

_Anatomy of LISP_.

I also did SiCP cover to cover in a few months when it first came out.

_SmallTalk 80: Bits of History, Words of Advice_. Fantastic stuff; reading about making those early 80s processors run ST efficiently is like watching early rocketry.

_The Unix Programming Environment_. This should date me.

_Threaded Interpretive Languages_ (during the FORTH craze of the early 80s). Cured me of FORTH.

Tannenbaum's book on MINIX (bought it the day it came out, had it signed by Tannenbaum at Computer Literacy in San Jose. What a crowd. I miss that store).

That's about it. Of course there are many other computer-related books that I couldn't put down, such as _A Few Good Men from Univac_ and _The Soul of a New Machine_. But these are not about programming.
> Even in the world of PEV there is a trade off between fuel economy and performance, so this has nothing to do with transmissions.

CVTs are not efficient because they control the rate of acceleration. You can over-rev a CVT and get as much acceleration as your engine (and it's transmissions losses) will allow. CVTs are efficient because they allow the engine of the car to operate in its most efficient power range more of the time.

EVs run into this same issue, but the way Tesla anyhow solved for it is pretty wild. Dual motor Teslas have 2 different motor/ drivetrain gear ratios. The rear wheels are most efficient at lower speeds and when you are driving slower, they get most of the power. The front wheels are most efficient at higher speeds and when you are driving faster, they get the most power. This way the most efficient motor is always doing the most work at any time. This is likely why the AWD Teslas have so much more range than the single engine/ RWD models.

There is a good article talking about EV transmissions here, the bit about Tesla's 2 gear ratio setup is about 12 paragraphs in.

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/07/22/ev-transmissions-are-co...
Philosophically even truth is an opinion. There is no such thing as truth, just a frame that you are objectively reporting from. Say you cover news about a certain group but don't cover news from another group. Or you report the facts only in the rhetoric of commonly held norms, like so and so nation committed atrocities, while our nation bombed insurgents backed by so and so and accidentally killed a bunch of children. You always report in frame even if done objectively, otherwise your journalism would be considered inflammatory and you would find yourself without a job. So yes there is pure propaganda, etc, but in general news is propaganda of stuff as they, whoever they may be, want you to know it.

If you want real news, then go to the country they are talking about and observe it for yourself. You will find things a lot more mundane than they are made out to be for the vast majority of people living there, until that passive propaganda gets them bombed or economic sanctions destroy their livelihoods. The justification of which is made in the objective reporting, even if journalists don't want to change they do so every time they report something. It's in the nature of the frame and the rhetoric they are writing from.
You seem to know a lot about NBA Top Shot, so I'm hopeful that you can clarify some things for me that I couldn't quite understand from the documentation on the web or from reading the smart contracts on GitHub.

If I own a Moment, how do I download the associated video, archive it, and view it offline? Do I get the rights to do that, or does the moment only consist of the metadata that allows me to view the content? Is it even that? Is the Moment really just a way to hang a tag that says "I've got this one and this one" on a website that hosts all the actual content?
Ever since ios 5 I think, there has been permission control behind a separate password. Why cant android replicate that? Nowadays, there seems to be one "permissions protection" but sadly all apps say "you seem to have contacts protection enabled. Please disable for best results". Whats the point?
Tangential, but I am amazed by the Bluetooth range I get out of my AirPod pro and iPhone 12. What the hell are they doing? My laptop doesn’t even get to 1/4 of the range. I’ve walked into a vault (like a bank vault) with my phone outside of it, and the music never stopped. I’ve walked a good 20ft and everything was still smooth.
Thank you to both of you for showing where I was going wrong :)
I use a custom AMI. I started with a base image a long time ago. Since then I have been upgrading and tweaking. There are several tutorials on creating the image. API tools are available for the whole process if you are on an instance-store image. It creates an image of the instance filesystem in /mnt and then breaks it into chunks to upload to s3 with a manifest and registers the manifest as a new private ami.
Nonsensically he blames the two mail apps on Android's openness.
Ugh, why does paypal care about sexual orientation?

For future reference, seems that a merchant account with Visa or Mastercard is fine even for hate groups like the KKK. http://www.christianconcepts.net/informat.htm

If those douchebags can charge cards, Im sure you can figure something out.
And embedded ARM processors outnumber desktop x86s by a large margin. I carry at least three of them with me at all times.

And Visual C++ targets ARM also, and has for years. One of the reasons I've heard bandied about as to why WP7 first party apps are so fast and responsive is because of the quality of the Visual C++ compiler. :-)
I've noticed the same thing with audio amplifiers. I just moved into a relatively small apartment, and have been shopping around for a compact stereo amplifier that apparently doesn't exist—good-sounding audio seems to exist in this weird market niche where the hugeness of the black metal box that used to house vacuum tubes and now is just ICs and empty space is a feature, not a bug.

Frustrating!
3 had a video phone in Australia. Never really took off. People don't want video calling for a number of reasons.
Ken lives in California. Climate, dress code, public transport availability, security - all are decisive factors when choosing a mode of transportation.

Car is just like another family member in terms of expenditure and long distance commute by car can be a real time sink baring audio books and pod casts.
What Google background images? I haven't seen one in any of the four browsers I used today ...
This might be of interest: Next week there is a MongoDB conference in London. I'm giving a talk and they've given me the discount code "ocw" that will give 20% off on registration.

Details: http://www.10gen.com/conferences/event_mongouk_18june10
You're spot on about bundled hardware utilities having the corniest GUIs. What is it with these guys and non-rectangular windows (transparency mask) and reinvention of the native window control buttons?
1) A smartphone. I use it to record notes and random ideas as they strike me, read & answer emails, find directions, and all that other good stuff. The note taking is a huge advantage though.

2) An online calendar. For better or worse, I've freed up my brain space in favor of an online calendar to track my meetings, appointments, events, etc. I don't have to keep those in mind anymore. Personally, I love this, but it does make me overly dependent on the online calendar.

3) Goldtouch keyword. I love this thing. I was trying to stay away from brand names in my list, but I didn't know how else to describe it. It folds down from the middle allows you to touch-type in a very ergonomic position, at least for me.

4) Duct tape. It truly can repair anything physical. Just fixed my fan with it.

5) A towel. You always need to have a towel ;)
> The Apple bid might be real?

Feels weird. What sense would it make precisely? ARM only does basic code design, they already have a fabless constructor or two, what would Apple gain by buying ARM, shutting it down and making designs only for Apple themselves?
For anyone in the UK, going to google.com gives you 'original' google without the background. A redirect sends you back to the UK version but if you set your homepage to google.com/ncr it should stick
The US is definitely doing better than most developing worlds. Except of course for minor things like lifespan, health, crime etc. However doing better than developing worlds is quite a low bar.
I imagine they should be, they're still just strings.

It's possible that Git Tower does some local validation that might complain, but I think they are in the same set of characters.

You could always write a crack for the local validation, too.
There are possible reasons but it’s important to remember that there are also costs: empty buildings don’t contribute to the local culture or economy, and can become an eyesore or attract crime.

A tax helps encourage owners to minimize those negatives and could easily be phased in or have an appeal process (e.g. show that you have building permits for a 6 month waiver).
Some foreign owners want their money out of 'wherever' and are willing to pay a premium as a store of value. They're not interested in the hassle of 'renting'. Or, the price is not a big deal, they want a home in LA/NYC much the same as the rest of us might want a cottage/second home on the lake.
Joking, right? Google's average tenure is like 18 months, it's doubtful that anybody even understands 90% of their products any more.
None of my social media accounts can be used to identify me. Even when young and stupid I never used my real name on any account. If you're not educated and smart enough to realize what internet is and to protect yourself well then you really shouldn't be on internet. I can't fathom why people connect their social media accounts to their real identity. Is it some kind of ego/narcissism thing? I've never felt the need to make sure my real identity gets credit for doing good things like helping people going through stuff to being a developer member on open source projects.

It would be interesting if someone researched that need. Would be a good addition to OPSEC education.
This sounds very good until you actually read the fact that is or has been sold as an antidepressant.
Apologies for the giant wall of text. I just sat here on my phone swiping back and forth relating how I’ve experienced each item and didn’t pay any attention to formatting or structure.
If you choose the Yahoo Answers project, it will only be downloading stuff from Yahoo Answers
The fundamental difference, according to the FAA, is being in control of the aircraft at all times.

You can do drones in the US, but you have to have line of sight to it at all times, and you have to be able to take control of it at any time.
If Google were smart, they'd come out with their own Android tablet. That way people would stop being enticed by this absolute crap.
Agree. I think it's more likely someone like newscorp would buy it.
I’m sad to see this happen. I don’t know what the right answer is for undercover and hidden cameras, but exposing possible corruption should be a mainstay of all journalistic endeavors.
Why did you turn down the offer? You are in a MUCH stronger position to ask for a raise with another offer in hand.
True, it does save time and thought. How much of depends primarily on location. The benefit is greater at something like a Google or Facebook campus, and much smaller at a small office in a downtown area with 20 restaurants in a 5min walk radius.

But one too often sees perks like these offered as "Well, we're a startup, we can't pay you market rate, but we feed you". And that shit ain't right.
Next to using `xargs -P 8 -n 1` to parallellize jobs locally, take a look at paexec, GNU parallel replacement that just works.

See https://github.com/cheusov/paexec
To generate lift. It's most certainly not to shield the helicopter from attacks from above.
The trinity test was in july 1945, two months after the surrender of Germany.

We don't know whether atomic bombs would have been used on, say, Berlin or the Ruhr area (maybe even tactically, to speed up the allied advance in the west), but I think the USA would have used one, if only to send a message to the soviets.
Good job. That sounds like a pretty uncomfortable position to be in, but you handled it well.
I do business pretty exclusively through referrals in my network. Every now and again someone will find me through my site, but I do 0 outbound marketing/sales. Caveat: if I were consulting full-time, I would be doing content marketing and have an autoresponder series.

Actionable tip #1: whenever you do work for someone, be sure to get a testimonial. If possible, do a full case-study on your engagement. Feature these prominently on your site. Then, just keep in touch with everyone you do business with. DON'T directly ask for referrals. Just ask how their business is doing. Make it about them. They'll remember this and like you for it, and you'll be at the front of their mind when the topic of consultants comes up.

Actionable tip #2: read this blog post by Patrick McKenzie, the man's advice is pure gold. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...