skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that in property taxes we should include not only real estate, but all property. Stocks, shares, securities, art, patents, IP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10252308
How about low property taxes for the 65+ crowd on their primary residence?
What the upper class would never say and the middle class never realized is that "globalization" was nothing more than relaunching and outsourcing slavery and improving on it by making it far more efficient than having take care of slaves.
Taxes on housing are very likely regressive. Even if you rent you are still paying the property tax implicitly via higher rents. And given that your need for housing is independent of your income, it's likely that low earners spend a much higher % of their income on housing (and hence on property tax).
That text can be translated is not an advantage, images can't be translated because they don't need to.
The twitter image is expensive to store but also contains a different kind of information, that would be very hard to convey over text with the same precision and accuracy - how does one describe it pixel by pixel?
I could go on - I agree with the idea but text is only king when text is the best tool, or you have the mind to fill the gaps (like in a novel) and you don't mind variance between readers, or the data is high structure but low resolution like concepts. Images are high resolution and it's important to recall them exactly, with perfect accuracy, thus they require a lot of information. Plus I'm not sure the best storage was used for that icon.
Text also compresses very well, so it must not be quite the densest.
Like I said, I could go on.
My day job / team uses YouTrack. We'd love to replace it (because the admin side of running an instance is pretty terrible), but it's been by far easier for people to use than anything else we compared to.

Huge downsides:

- Doing centralized authentication in a large-organization environment is basically impossible. Its LDAP implementation is broken for anything else than a couple very standard schemas that they've tested against & you can't make it authenticate using a Windows domain. They've recently split out the user management, etc., components into a separate product called Hub, but it's the same code and suffers from the same problems. [NB: Hilariously enough, other JetBrains products work just fine in this regard.]

- The thing uses some custom proprietary database. Integrating backups into your normal workflow is painful. Upgrades are VERY painful (oops, the old version had a database that didn't enforce some constraints that the new one does, please go fix all your issues by hand), although there's some auxiliary API and tools for exporting individual issues as -- if I recall correctly -- JSON objects that was an 80% solution.

Upsides:

- The UI does the expected thing by default in all cases we could find. It is also fast & responsive, relatively uncluttered, and doesn't have a bunch of extra things to click in order to create/comment on/edit issues.

- Searching for issues is very fast and powerful.

- Batch updating issues (which we tend to do a lot) is extremely easy. Make a custom search describing the issues to update, then update all of them with a couple clicks.

The admin downsides were (for us at least) bad enough that I'm not sure I'd recommend deploying it if you already have a working, integrated system. If you're starting from scratch, though, or committed to replacing another system for whatever reason, it's a pretty good choice.
The suffix -gate isn’t entirely a function word—it still retains the meaning of “scandal.” But it could one day undergo what linguists call “grammaticalization,” when content words because function words.

It's already happening. A few days ago I encountered the sentence "We need to gate this issue", meaning "We need to draw attention to this issue and turn it into a political scandal".
> We've probably had less of a need for legal painkillers than ever - surgery and medical technology keeps getting better and better - minimally invasive and the like - and yet we have more legal painkillers than ever.

The vast majority of prescription painkillers go not to surgical patients, who usually take a week or two course and are done, but to patients suffering from crippling nerve disorders and cancers, who take the medication for long periods of time, and who are little helped by our advances in surgical technology. Absent narcotic painkillers, cancer and diseases like chronic shingles and trigeminal neuralgia ("the suicide disease") are just as painful as they were 100 years ago.
I haven't read good writing like this in a long time.
Granted, I've been had a lot of those same feelings earlier in life and managed them in similar ways. But still, the writing made you feel what he felt.
"A popular subject for a tiny, passionate minority that has little relevance relative to the huge number of everyday users out there."

Linux did take over Windows. You realize Android is Linux, right? That's 80% of the mobile market right here https://twitter.com/BIIntelligence/status/605748823709859840... And now Microsoft is building Android apps. So that tiny, passionate minority was right ;-)
I also worked with him before I left FB a year ago and agree with this completely. It's also generally incorrect to credit one single person with any large-scale success. Many people worked hard on the ads product and contributed meaningfully. I doubt that it would have gone significantly worse without Boz.
> When someone is prescribed drugs they will not be prescribed 2 drugs that cause harm when taken together (such as sleep meds and pain meds) but when people have their prescription cut off and turn to the black market they're doing it in a completely unsupervised environment.

In an ideal world, yes. But realistically patients will often be prescribed both.

> What we need is to start prescribing opiates for recreational use and eliminate the black market.

I strongly disagree with this concept. Opiates for recreational use is basically legalising heroin. The addictive potential is simply too great. I don't know what you are basing this argument on but my first-hand experience working with patients with opiate addictions, as well as a close friend and colleague who started using (pharmacological grade) opiates and rapidly had his life spiral into a shambles.
The fact is that these debates have been had in the past. They are the basis of the harm minimisation strategies already in place by governments all over the world - Methadone, Suboxone and Buprenorphine programs, which bind opiate receptors with a long half-life meaning that users are not constantly bouncing from a crazy high to the physical sensation of pain which results from withdrawal of opioid agonism in the context of dependence.

> Opiates cause no harm (the worst side effect is constipation) so there is no reason that we should be trying to stop people from using them recreationally other than knee jerk moral panic and conservatism.

Again, I strongly disagree. Opiates cannot be used recreationally by the masses in a way which is consistent with normal societal functioning. This would be a disaster of epic proportions.
Natural language is a great querying tool for quickly combining existing knowledge in order to generate moderately intricate thoughts. It feels easy, but don't forget that it took many lifetimes of experience to accumulate the database you are drawing upon. It's similarly easy to throw together a Smalltalk prototype as it is to have a casual conversation. Not so easy is to construct a language--natural or artificial--from scratch (let alone try to teach it to somebody).

On the other hand, in advanced mathematics, diagrams are used all over the place (look at category theory). When they're not used, the reader is essentially forced to imagine spatially what is being said, often down a blind alley (to use the phrase almost literally).

Diagrams are essential to communicating non-obvious abstract ideas in an efficient manner. In addition, given a domain-specific technical language, there are many possible permutations of words in a sentence, whereas the space of sensibly drawn diagrams is much smaller. Often, after fully comprehending an idea that was previously expressed in words, the final step in congealing the idea in your mind (and convincing yourself of its soundness) is to draw a definitive diagram which covers all the cases, and can be understood in a glance.

I should also mention that many of the worst typographical errors in mathematics completely change the meaning and jumble the thought, something which is far more difficult to do when using a diagram.

Also, as I remarked in my other comment, diagrams complement text, with either one enhancing the other. Neither should completely replace the other.
"Prescription drug abuse and addiction kill far more people in the U.S. every year than all illegal drugs combined."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201404/pre...
Double helix of words and images: Narrative Design
JIRA offered a good compromise between closed and open source: full source code was available, which enabled local custom modifications to prove out the viability of enhancement requests. Atlassian also provides free JIRA to open-source projects, e.g. keep code on Github, move issue tracking to cloud-hosted JIRA for workflow not supported by Github issues.

It is encouraging to see a bootstrapped company reach IPO, even if it took them a decade to reach their $3B valuation compared to Github's attainment of a $2B valuation in a much shorter time. Atlassian's forward-thinking private investors provided liquidity to employees, which supported their long road to the public market. From a 2014 interview, http://fortune.com/2014/04/10/atlassian-the-3-3-billion-soft...

"The $150 million it recently raised isn’t going into its bank account — instead, its new investors are buying shares from past and present employees in an effort to offer workers some liquidity and retain talent ... 'the Accel Partners round was mostly about founders, and this [T. Rowe Price] one is about employees. Now neither of the founders are selling anything. So this is a little different. We’ve been profitable for 10 years, so we don’t need the cash, we have a lot of cash in the bank. It’s more a case of wanting to get a partner [that knows about public markets] on board..'"

From a 2011 review of Atlassian culture and self-service sales, http://www.managementexchange.com/story/its-culture-stupid-h..., with a talk about internal systems: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mALn4nyi7Qs

"Atlassian CEOs have instilled an information culture throughout the company with the core value of "Open Company, No Bullshit". The result is a bottom-up democracy of information where information sharing is the norm and information hoarding is a foreign concept ... Product pricing is public, including discount policies. Prospective customers can download software and try it free for 30 days. All documentation is public and available for anyone to access. Bug reports and feature requests are public, allowing people to 'vote' on their preferred features."
Nationalism is arbitrary, accumulation of knowledge isn't. It seems like we will still benefit so what's the difference?
> This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain.

Do you have severe, chronic long-term pain?* Just curious on what basis you are making this remark.

I can tell you that since the DEA crackdown, no one is handing our narcotic painkillers for any condition that could be reasonably treated with rest and tylenol. Doctors value their licenses and freedom far too much, and so meticulously document their narcotic treatments, and give them only to patients with severe pain (and even then, they undertreat).

I've had two relatives die from cancer from in the past 5 years, who were terminal and over 70, and yet who were cruelly denied narcotic pain relief until their last week because doctors are scared shitless about getting arrested by the DEA. Far from what you're claiming (which was maybe the case with certain doctors a decade ago), doctors now undertreat most patients.

* "Bad back" and "aching knee" do not count. I mean things like cancer and severe nerve diseases.

Edit: By the way, I didn't downvote you.
It's up to them to decide to seek treatment. Until they feel they need or want to stop being a junky, restricting their access to pills will just push them to heroin.

They're not going to throw their hands up and go 'whelp, can't get any more legal oxy, time to quit drugs'.
Indian PM in Silicon Valley: Digital India and Digital Technology Dinner
Ok, pretty sure I know what the home folder is on the Mac. Basically you click on Finder --> Go --> Home , which takes you to the "home folder". Correct me if I am wrong.

As for the next chapter(Database setup), I opened up mysite/settings.py as per the instructions on the manual.

However, when I try to run the following command : $ python manage.py migrate to create the tables in the database, I get the following error message ---

CaiGengYangs-MacBook-Pro:Weiqi CaiGengYang$ python manage.py migrate ---- input

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory ---- output

Any idea how to solve this ?
Nice video:
https://youtu.be/krcLNgLcF9Q
The masses have no interest in being junkies. I wouldn't take oxy or heroin if you gave it to me legally for free. But preventing junkies from getting high safely just makes sure they'll get high unsafely, not that they'll quit.
Absolutely fantastic idea and execution. Props to the video producer(s) as well.

One question: what sort of power consumption is required to maintain the digit positions inside of the enclosure?
Wow... how... how do you fix a place like this? How do you move such a medieval religious society into freedom? This sounds so dystopian.

Is there a simple explanation for why the Christian West moved to relative secularism a couple centuries ago while Saudi Arabia has remained so medieval, despite oil-powered industrialisation?
IIRC UK used to do this I think until the 1970s or so. It was stopped when it was discovered that some doctors were selling the heroin.

Very effective at actually slashing drug addiction, though.
This is a meaningless argument if you don't normalize for usage rates. Many times more people are on legal drugs than illegal drugs. I doubt OxyContin kills a higher percentage of its users than heroin.
The problem with our capitalism is our money.

Currency is a means for us to socialize debts so we can make trade more efficient. When you give Steve money, you're saying, "my people, Steve has provided me $30 of value, so please reward him in kind." Instead of having to give Steve $30 of value directly in return, we communicate that $30 debt to the rest of society with our money.

The problem with our currency is that it forces everyone to honor the debts of every other person on the planet. There are people who destroy our environment, manipulate our politics, and deceive our people in order to earn rewards, and we're all forced to reward them because we can't identify whose socialized debt we're honoring when we reward people in exchange for money.

If we always knew whose debts were being honored, any individual could refuse to honor the debts of people they believe are harming society. You could effectively turn off people's money if they're behaving poorly. No one would work for you if they think others won't honor your debts. If you don't honor the debts of polluters, polluters lose their purchasing power and go out of business. Similarly, pharmaceutical price gougers, war profiteers, and harbingers of financial crises would have powerful disincentives.

This enforcement mechanism would incentivize socially harmonious behavior without requiring consensus on what socially harmonious behavior is. We'd have a market mechanism for social behavior, which would prevent many of capitalism's failures.

We could also prevent wealth accumulation by deciding that recent value transfers are worth more than older value transfers. This is something that people actually believe, but there's no way for our money to express that the work you did twenty years ago doesn't mean as much as the work you do today. A pleasant side effect of codifying this truth is that we could avoid the zero lower bound on interest rates that's making it hard for the world to reach full employment. If unemployment is high, just increase the value of recent work so there's a bigger incentive to put people to work.

Instead of paying people based on how much money they have, you'd pay them based on their merit, calculated however you decide as an individual.

All we need to implement merit capitalism is a ledger of who has provided value for whom to replace our currencies that obfuscate that data. Blockchains give us the power to build this ledger.
Why the need for a quantum leap? Evolution has worked okay for its little steps.
Step 4 is the only part that hurts anyone. They could keep doing the legal oxy forever with minimal health problems to themselves and zero effect to you or me.
Ugh, I'll just continue to buy drugs on the black market and use them at home. No one wants to go lay in a hospital bed after shooting up. Addicts can safely manage their own addictions, if they are provided consistent doses and clean needles.

Legalize it, tax it, and use the proceeds of the taxation for needle exchanges and rehab clinics.
Why don't retired people "reverse mortgage" their house? They have no use for it after they're dead.

If they do, then someone who's going to get that house should foot the taxes.
Also surveillance bias is a problem in these data.

Also, these data include things like acetaminophen overdoses (estimates run from 100 to 1000 deaths per year).
The point about content blockers working in apps like Chrome and ESPN is wrong. Only Safari and the new SafariWebBiewController.
Funny -- I find Pivotal to be hands down the best tracking tool I've ever used. You have to conform to it a little more than Jira can conform to you though, but it's not bloated.
There are lots of ways to make sure junkies get high safely without legalising recreational opiates.

For instance, heroin injecting rooms are government or health-service funded clinics which provide a safe place to shoot, needle exchange, medical supervision should patients have reactions or overdoses, and the ability to seek out further harm minimisation through enabling access to treatment programs, should the addict wish.

The united states scores poorly on access to these services anyway, the rest of the world does substantially better, including my home (Australia)

again, the answer to harm minimisation is not legal recreational opiates
This is an interesting generalization of my use of progressive/regressive. However, I would not go so far as to say that my definition is a "popular corruption". My restricted definition is frequently applied in the tax law, tax policy, and tax economics literature.

According to the OED, the earliest noted use of "regressive" in the context of taxation is from Richard T. Ely's writings on political economy in 1891. He was the leader of the progressive movement. His use of the terms progressive/regressive would certainly have meant reform/acting in a backward direction.

Do you have an earlier citation for your definition? I wonder if it is in fact a mathematical generalization of a progressive/populist definition.
It had me gripped.
How about taxes paid for them by the bank that takes this residence once they pass away?

Can also be a nice buff to pension.
You're absolutely right. James Surowieki wrote a great (research-based) article on this recently.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/the-short-termi...
Funny. I like it but I think it's only possible in advance country/society but again, people are there smart enough to avoid/prevent to be an addict on it own. As long as enough people dumb, uneducated on this earth, there are greedy, dangerous enough people like Cartel to provide they dumb people what they want. In the end, cartels still survive as long as there are enough people with enough power want their survive to do their dirty work for them, or being used by them.
There are many degrees other than math and CS, y'know. Physical sciences (and engineering, to some degree) are probably more important when doing the kind of research the article's talking about, and a BS in those fields in by no means a guarantee of a six-figure job.
I have a very different experience, having run my own email server for the past few months with no trouble communicating with many others on Gmail. Is your SMTP server on a blacklist or something?
Why. You can. Line up suppliers, round-robin contracts between them, assess after completion. Then downrank ones who did bad work and uprank those who did good job on good money. For new companies, give them a few contracts, maybe backed by insurance in case they fail horribly.

And then you can literally left suppliers to their own devices.
Thanks, good to get some real impressions from someone who has used it. We already use TeamCity, which is why I was looking at it in the first place. I guess they haven't quite rolled the two together yet, so I might wait on that.

Upsource also looks very interesting, is that also something you have used? We don't really have a good tool for doing code review at the moment. Also, the VCS browsing capabilities look to be miles ahead of what our current setup offers (almost completely unusable, hijacks the browser back button, no searching, definitely no chance of static analysis, links sent out in email notifications constantly pointed at the wrong thing, etc.).
I agree, diagrams are great -- in their place. But to the author's point, can you draw me a diagram that conveys the same information as the sample sentence from the article:

"Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour, and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law."

I don't think you can, but if you could, it would likely be very large and complex. This speaks to flexibility and information density inherent in text.
You're absolutely right that you can't make someone accept treatment. But enabling someone by giving them access to a drug of abuse when they are clearly abusing it is not the answer.

The answer is to get them onto treatment programs, not further their addiction with access to drugs they are abusing
Given the crap they make today, it's no wonder people will pay more for older stuff.
The problem is not the supply, it's the demand. Why do so many people feel the urge to abuse drugs?
How a Driverless Car Sees the Road (Google Self-Driving Car)
To be truthful I was not referring to Bash. ;)

Bash is much larger and more complex than the shell I use.
> Is that a good thing?

A very good thing, actually. For starters, nobody minds ads. They subsidize content. Without ads, the internet wouldn't exist in its current iteration.

What people are against are malicious ads and the like. If an ad is a simple gif or jpg (picture), there can be no maliciousness. It makes ads relatively safe again. And content creators actually make money, incentivizing better and more content. Everyone wins.
This is never brought up with any kind of seriousness, and the lack of discussion baffles me. I don't understand how we talk about salaries when the top 5% usually do not draw a major salary. They live off capital gains from selling stocks and bonds. It just seems to be a 3rd rail that is untouchable, neither here nor in conservative or liberal blogosphere. It's always about that progressive 1040 taxation.

That, or perhaps, instituting a 3% transaction tax for every damn unit of debt or equity sold. Whether its a broker or bot, tax it.

But, of course, most of the ruling class wants to talk about "skin in the game" and advocating regressive sales or property tax.
I've been reading about this for years, when are they actually going to do it?