skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incorrect. "Regressive" does not just mean "bad" according to some arbitrary definition of bad. If the poor pay more of a tax than the rich as a percentage of their income or wealth, then the tax is regressive. Otherwise, it is progressive. The word regressive is used to describe the incidence of a tax on a population.

A property tax is generally progressive because the poor do not own real property. The rich pay more property tax as a percentage of their income/wealth than the poor.

A sales tax is the prototypical example of a regressive tax because the rich consume less (as a percentage of their income) than the poor. Therefore, the rich pay of a lower percentage of their total income to sales taxes than the poor.

An income tax with higher marginal tax rates for higher incomes is the classic example of a progressive tax. Since Reagan, income taxes approximate a flat tax more than a progressive one.
> Also, do you really believe that it's the legality of ivory sales that's stopping the people who would become elephant farmers from being farmers?

Yes. This isn't like growing marijuana where your investment is relatively small, and you can just quickly grow it hydroponically in your shed under lights.

No one is going to grow and hide an elephant in their shed. It takes years and investment and if you know you can't sell it at the end of that no one will try.

I'll give you an example of someone who was trying to farm rhino, but then these kinds of bans kick in and make it unviable: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/SAs-ban-on-trade-of-r...

> If someone wants to buy heroin, the only thing that will scratch that itch is heroin. That is not the same with ivory as the potential customers can buy something else.

But they don't. They want ivory and they're prepared to pay for ivory. And they'll pay $1500+ for their little ivory figurines. Are they paying that for a hit of heroin? Because if you can't even stop the financial might of street bums from buying drugs, how are you planning to stop the relatively rich Chinese buyers of ivory?
Here in Canada, the post 9/11 climate in the U.S. has sent a lot of top talent our way. In general, the international perception is that the U.S. is much more hostile to foreigners than it used to be, especially muslims. This is backed up by the fact that it's so difficult to stay in the U.S. after earning a degree there. If someone is good enough to grab a spot in a top U.S. university, why would you turn them away when they want to stay?

The main thing holding Canada back is a similar increasing focus on "commercializable" research at the expense of basic science. Long-term commitment to excellence in basic science is what opens up new fields. Preferentially funding research with the latest buzz-words tends to make a country a follower of trends.
Starting from the second sentence:

"there’s a burgeoning, alternative model of programming and computation that sidesteps the limitations of the classic model, embracing uncertainty, variability, self-correction, and overall messiness. It’s called machine learning"

All the way through the end: there is nothing there which is even remotely within the realm of being even partially correct. It's sort of like when Gladwell yammered on about "Igon values" in a New Yorker article, except worse.
We have the exact same line-drawing question in the real world. All kind of infrastructure and different levels over ownership go into a place like a bar, but that doesn't mean the bar owner isn't responsible.

There is a similarly clear difference between an ISP (how the customer gets to the bar), a web host (the landlord, maybe), and the website itself (the bar).

On the other hand, investigating whether someone committed a crime is a little bit different online vs in the real world. Part of what websites could do is make it easier to run those investigations by making reporting easier- Twitter reporting, for example, is relatively hostile to people trying to report bad behavior.
I think copwatch.com is/was trying for something like this.
I'm not sure if I would call them "not that high", the CAPE is still fairly high by historical comparison. [1] Just not absolute lunacy like around 2000.

[1] http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/
No mention of beneficial microbes, which is what I imagine the primary benefit of this practice is. Soil is loaded with the local microfona.
> they know the economy works in a cyclical fashion with alternating booms and busts.

It's a chaotic system with an upward bias. Cyclical implies temporal predictability, and good luck with that :-)
It is also absurd to insist more investment in baisc science. Modern physics has too much to be consumed in applied science.
I'm curious how the alternative strategy would play out: farming rhinos and elephants for their horns.
Obvious problems with elephant farming, as an industry:

1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in.

2. Elephants eat a lot.

3. Elephants take about fifteen years to grow to full size.

4. Elephants don't breed very often.

5. You only get one pair of tusks per elephant.
"Sorry mate, I was having a laugh with the social network bit,"

I kind of got that. Picturing "move fast and break stuff" applied to security would be a hilarious concept. So long as it was the competition doing it. :)

"Regardless, I have 9 invites so I am considering allocating a few to some non-technical friends now to get their take."

Now that's a good idea. Might help so long as they're the kind of people that go through extra trouble for privacy or control of their data. You'll know it's the case if they ask "what is a" or "how do you" on something everyone assumed was obvious. If that moment doesn't come, the UX team was really good. ;)
It's a safe bet that most blue-chip companies with stable revenues and time-tested business models will be just as big, if not bigger in 10-20 years. They'll take a hit when the economy inevitably enters the bust phase of the business cycle, but people will still be buying shoes and coke.

It's the PE of companies like Facebook and Twitter, who derive their earnings from questionable business models (notoriously hard to measure ROI on advertising, millions of fake/spam accounts, possibility of disruption ala Myspace) that I would be concerned about.
I don't think that's what dandare meant. They were asking for an app that uploads the video _as it's being recorded_.

If you have to stop recording before having the video backed up, all a bad actor needs to do is physically destroy your device, and you'll lose your evidence.

As it happens, such apps seem to already exist. Another comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284629
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Are you saying that these women subconsciously set the bar for being a good mother unreasonably high by judging their own behavior worse than it is, and thus signal a superior ability to care for a child to the other mothers?

Couldn't it instead rather be signaling to conforming to the modern idea that child raising is an oh so important task?
Where do you see him "unhappy with Python 3 to the point he seems to be ditching Python"? I only see him saying he can't use Python 3 at work. That's fairly common and frustrating, but it's not unhappiness in Python 3.
No.

Imagine, if you can, a world in which programs are things designed to help their authors/users, not adversaries to be exploited or defeated.
That huge outcry isn't going to go away no matter how patiently a censor explains that censorship is good for everyone
I remember using Qik[0] way back in like 2008 or 2009 and back then you could stream video in real-time to your public profile and it also saved the video for playback later. Looks like they were bought by Skype and I don't know if it still has those features.

[0] - https://www.skype.com/en/qik/
What's your use-case?
Hm... well, as "rights" I understand things like freedom of speech, including the ability to criticize the government, justice, no persecution, democracy, accessible healthcare, low corruption, etc... I think without these, there's little use for maternity leave or reproductive rights
Can I ask why? The original site has a good discussion, explanation and summary of the pdf. It's not like the site is clickbait with a "here's the pdf" line and nothing else.
It is worth sharing this old post here while we talk about facebook ads
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4312731

Facebook and Google are running a big fraud using lot of bots to suck out your dollars. I have used both the platforms to running digital ads. By now, I have completely lost trust on digital advertising.
> Fewer US based students are going into graduate STEM programs

Because if you're a US citizen, getting a PhD for the money is a racket. Just take your BS in CS over to Silicon Valley and start making bank working on Tinder for Dogs. Want to make six figures and have a shot at a billion dollars? The surest way to NOT do that is to go to grad school.

If you're NOT a US citizen, getting a graduate degree is a great way to get into the US, do work that gets you noticed by big companies or labs, and then get a job at those companies or labs once you graduate. Many of those jobs will be in the US, and having a PhD will make your visa application smoother (so I hear) because you have an advanced degree.

Foreign students have more to gain, so more apply. That's not hard.

p.s. for the US overall, in 2013[1] 47% of the students enrolled in math & CS were permanent residents, so it seems unlikely that your statement "The percentage of students of Asian ethnicity will probably outnumber all other groups combined" is true.

[1] http://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/GED_report_2013.p...
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We could also reintroduce elephants to North America
If your land is fertile, so that you do not need huge areas for your cattle, hedgerows (which the Wikipedia article mentions), stone walls or water ditches (depending on local circumstances) work reasonably well.
Trolls gonna troll. I really don't know what else to say to you except "don't feed the trolls". I don't oppose you calling these "harassment" and I don't deny it happens. But I cannot take it seriously, it is far from "violence" and I wouldn't take it seriously even if it happened to me and even if I was annoyed by it, and I don't think these require or deserve any kind of police intervention.
The SIO bus used by Atari 400/800 computers (shipped in 1978 or 1979) looks like it could be prior art. SIO was only 19200 bits/sec, but who cares? :-)
Everything you said mirrors my thoughts. I may get a little downvoted but whatever, well said.
Well I sincerely hope that people like you don't start writing laws.
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Oooh gotcha. You might be right, and that would definitely be awesome! Although, living in Canada, I'd be afraid of any associated cellular data costs if uploaded over GSM.
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> Ah, I didn't realize "ethical" just meant things you don't like.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are unaware of what was going on. I've attached references so that you can educate yourself. If you think they are wrong, please have the courtesy to provide references that counter these.

> However, on balance, it was a good thing to do.

What exactly was a good thing to do? Stacking ISO committees with inactive members[0], that took years to clear so the committees went back to function? (No, that's not standard practice). Or was the good thing ignoring requests to join the OASIS ODF standardization process? Or was it the actual OOXML "standard" itself, which is so convoluted that at the time it was published, no software (Including Microsoft Office) supported it, and in general, no software CAN really support it because it has settings like[1] "auto space like word 95", which is not specified anywhere except in the Word 95 source code? It's not a standard, it's a joke, and it's a mockery any community process. And I've been on committees before - politics is rampant, but what Microsoft did is not.

> Microsoft was one of the pioneers of desktop computing and desktop Unix, so I can believe it has some IP (though I don't know what it is).

You were saying microsoft has changed and has been better than most companies for the last few years. I would say this contradicts your position. It is no worse than IBM or Oracle, but that doesn't make Microsoft ethical.

> Which Microsoft didn't finance.

"The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO’s financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital.”[2]

[0] http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20080825162905... and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=OOXML+%22auto+space+like+wor...

[2] http://techrights.org/2010/05/25/microsoft-sco-and-then-acac...
My favorite "best" practice to violate is "All fields must be private."
Another great guide for procedural terrain generation:

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
I've been working on a project where we generate and synchronize view models (instead of full views like this proposal) between the server and web/app clients. We maintain (view)state in an Actor based backend, pushing updates to the clients through websockets. The client only needs to databind and render the model. This gives a really nice realtime user experience and is quite efficient.

Like SyncNinja, our architecture moves a layer of clientside code into the server. This enables more code sharing, at the cost of tight coupling between client and server (which does not matter for web but is problematic for our app clients). For use cases that need to work offline it falls apart; for that you need api's that work at the business layer and duplicate the view logic in each client.

I think SyncNinja will share difficulties we found around offline/localStorage, besides high resource usage, support for non-web clients, and all the problems you'd expect from browser differences (i.e. input prefill).
> No one is going to grow and hide an elephant in their shed. It takes years and investment and if you know you can't sell it at the end of that no one will try.

So what you are saying is that this money would not really be going to help that many people, mostly only the people who currently already own large swaths of land, is that correct?

> But they don't.

They would if ivory was harder to obtain. Again, you don't see a black market for Kinder Surprise eggs.

> They want ivory and they're prepared to pay for ivory.

No, they want an antique or an art object. Or to show their wealth. There are many other ways of achieving that. If Ferraris became illegal, people would buy Lamborghinis.
Curious, how did you go from behind 12k people asking for an invite to having 9? I figured aianus got you one but nine is some progress in a short time. ;)
2014. Has this been posted before?

Anyway, I strongly agree. And I think it takes balls to state this opinion because you will be opposed by so many.

I also think the Bourne shell, which accepts good ole text as input (as someone downthread points out), is my most powerful application. Among other things because it is everywhere, it's relatively small, fast, and seems to have an infinite lifetime; it appears forever protected from obsolescence. It's reliable.

Stating this opinion never fails to draw protest. It's just an opinion. Relax.

One time I stated it to what I thought was a sophisticated audience that I was sure could handle it. Somebody still went bananas, claiming that "make" could do everything the shell can do. I must be wrong but at the time I thought "Doesn't make just run the shell?"

There will always be people who are hell bent on arguing against plain text. And the Bourne shell. Why is anyone's guess.

Yet no matter how much internet commentators might complain, I doubt these two things are ever going to disappear. They might get buried beneath 20 layers of abstraction, but they will still be there.

Year after year, they just work. And for that I'm thankful.
It's been a few months, any implementations yet?
Here in the UK, an example is the Snowden 'blood on his hands' story in the Sunday Times: https://theintercept.com/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snow...
We have reduced the amount of resources required for every $ of GDP produced by ~80% in the past century. Why do you think this will stop in the next century?

It takes time for tech to propagate, which is why American farmers get 5x more food per acre than Indian farmers, but that's going to begin equalize (and double again) very quickly now.
> Cyclical implies temporal predictability

Sure, I can say with 99.9% certainty that the economy will contract within the next 100 years. Shorten the time frame and my confidence level will drop accordingly. I'd probably have a 0.1% probability of guessing within 30 days of when the business cycle will reverse.
A passionate defense of an unworkable mindset is a truly a sign of the munificence of our age.
I've been looking hard at JetBrains' YouTrack.

The bug/issue tracker we're currently using is not terrible, but it's a little painful. However, we've just barely gotten people trained to use the current system. I can either accept the current, somewhat clunky system, or go through another year of retraining and hope the slicker tool and the additional features are a net win.

At least JetBrains actively works on their products. Our current tool hasn't changed in three years, and that was just a reskin of the UI to a more bootstrappy css.
When a chemist makes a discovery , do they call them a "chem whizz"?
Please don't repost spam comments here.
Why does the press kit make me download a zip? I just wanted to learn more. Cool idea though.
> ...in the heyday of DES, the NSA was probably the only organization in the world that had the computing power to do so.

Less an issue of the computing power, more an issue of the knowledge. As you noted, civilian cryptographers hadn't even discovered differential analysis yet, so hardening the cipher against it wasn't even a consideration.
You can disable some of the email spams in JIRA. For example you can disable notify anybody when a ticket is created in your Kibana board. But I find those spams really useful regardless. I read all of JIRA mentions, tickets just created in my queue, and everything coming from JIRA so I know what's going on. Well, I am in a DevOps role so maybe that's a whole different experience.
So I've been talking about "shadow IT" for a long time. When I say 'shadow IT' I mean the it jobs that get paid like retail. Like the people working at those mom n pop pc repair places for fifteen bucks an hour, or those who go on e-lance or what have you, and compete globally at similar wages.

I'm amused that the yellow press has a completely unrelated meaning for the word.
You're describing a characteristic of a chaotic system. People who have tried to make money using cyclical predictions of the stock market have terrible returns. The only things stock market cycle theories predict is the past.
It isn't about punishing monsters , it is about not trusting our personal data to someone who has professionally committed herself to stealing it.
Beautiful.

When something better comes along I'll switch away from using the UNIX shell.

But I am not sure I'll live long enough to see that day.

Meanwhile I am too busy using the shell to engage in that battle with hypertext. It could just be my perception, but after years of practice, I think I am winning.
Absolutely. What would be great is a high land value tax, used to fund a basic income and/or lower income taxes.

It would help fix inequality, reward hard work, punish idle land rentiers and punish urban sprawl, all at the same time. What's not to like?
Really nicely done!

Is all the equipment yours or did you work in a Makerspace or something?
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Her teaching at Stanford is the same sort of trophy namedropping photo op that being on the board is. You can't actually get a PhD in Hegemony from school.
There was a time (like 3 years ago), almost all companies gave Windows 7 laptops to all employees. This is due to Active directory, Exchange, Calender applications. Now same companies are giving a choice between Macs and Windows.

So, don't fret much. Run a fedora VM using hyper-V client, and deal with it.
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

Often attributed to Keynes, though may have originated with Shilling (or been in common use).
> Reddit censoring information that they find inconvenient (e.g. the fappening, r/fatpeoplehate, etc.)

Calling it information is being generous. As a private entity they simply don't have to suffer that speech. Fappening is probably illegal, and even if it were not it would be an acceptable courtesy call to remove it. Fatpeoplehate was about moderators harassing employees of imgur.
Maybe tsumigomi (gomi means garbage, so that'd imply a strong bias against collecting too many things), or perhaps tsumimono (stuff/things that stacks up)?
Google Drive doesn't even work on Linux. Linux Desktop will never be more than a VM host or Web Browser host.
What's with the ? in the HN title.
Or you could tax capital gains at the same rate as income. Poor people generally don't have capital to have gains on.
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A wonderful account of San Francisco 1967-1982 that explains the cultural context in which Biafra came forward: http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Season-of-the-Witch-by-D...
Oh shit: you work at Fox. You might be familiar with a few worthwhile concepts haha. Always good to run into others in the high-security field as there's so few these days. I did contract work that built into other's stuff but now days mostly do high-security R&D, recommendations, and evangelism. I give Fox a mention here and there on forums because they seem to know what they're doing with talented people. Hard to be sure with black boxes but seeing physical separation and a trusted path on RedFox was a good sign. Esp given most security devices don't have it. ;) Btw, is the trusted path the UART or done on GPIO's?

Note: I keep my designs and essays on Schneier's blog, etc just to get them out there in hopes of public benefit. I'll send you some of them if you want so long as I get credit for that part of whatever you or Fox does with them. Usually all I ask for although paid consulting is a bonus I don't turn down. ;)
1. You need very large fences to keep elephants in.

You just dig ditches around the farms.
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I would be glad to see something like this https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

I'm glad supporting people deserving it.
I'll stick to my whitelist on iOS for a non greedy adblocker. Sadly, this is getting about who makes more money rather than offering a better web...
> The fact that Diaspora failed at implementing this idea doesn't mean that the idea is bad.

I don't think the parent meant to imply it's a bad idea; only that Diaspora kind of sucked all the oxygen out of the "social networks done right" room, and now if you want to float an alternative you have to contend with a lot more skepticism than you would have before.
I couldn't find anywhere in the video where it was changing the time in real time....it either shows it while staying at a certain time, or shows it in fast motion. Am I looking in the wrong place?
That's funny stuff. Especially returning them unopened lol.