skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Double taxation" is actually taxing two different - though related - events:

The first is when the company makes profit, whether it is distributed to shareholders or not.

The second is when the shareholders receive their income.

If we did away with the first of these and raised the rate of the second, companies would no longer be paying any taxes on money they accumulate without disbursing. This would make them comparatively less likely to invest it in the short term in ways they can write off. I'm not going to make any particular case here as to whether that's good or bad (and for whom) but it's clearly a change.

Allowing companies to count disbursal of profits as an expense and raising the income tax on those receiving those funds would, I think, leave things more-or-less unchanged but that means there's also no particular reason to do it. It wouldn't simplify paperwork any - both corporations and individuals would still need to be accounting for their income and paying taxes.
http://vpri.org/html/writings.php has some suggestions of practical things we can do today.
Neat!
We also have shell as part of our free tool: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io
You can use 24 bytes of "true" randomness (16 for key and 8 for nonce) and then get 2^64 16-byte blocks of randomness before re-keying at better than 1Gbps per core using AESNI. How much more do you need?

EDIT: How is what I wrote wrong?
A small number of humans, at first, maybe.

AI will conquer the world, one niche at a time, as soon as moneyed interests realize it is cheaper that way.

At some point, the masses won't have any economic power anymore, and billions of meatbags will be left to starve. No need for gun wielding robots, just cut the power for a while.
Discrimination is a pretty good word. That's the one they use for things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-discrimination_law
The Portuguese Miracle: Young Entrepreneurs Lead Country Out of Crisis
And if you live in the PNW, mariners (boats, not baseball) here find that the "superforecast" from windfinder.com is consistently far more accurate that the government forecasts, especially for wind on the water. The only big change to the government forecasts seems to have been putting some lipstick on their web pages, while the models don't seem to have changed in years.
This might be an interesting project to turn into a SaaS business where the setup difficulty (Ubuntu vs. Alpine) is not as relevant as when just an end user. Price it under the utility model or a simple $50/yr, and add mobile apps/ browser extensions to allow for some tweaking.

Also, for those others that don't care for medium:

https://github.com/rdsubhas/docker-tor-privoxy-alpine
Time to make sure all my relatives have upgraded. I haven't used Windows in years but it'd be great for everyone if Windows 10 became a quick standard: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-everyone-should-...
Two books come to mind almost immedatley one fiction, the other non-fiction.

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, this really shook my belief in the meaning of ordered data.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, I read this right after I finished high-school, and it turned a math-hating young man into a math obsessed man.
Social media with purpose:Connect with the world around you
No, it's painfully obvious when applications are using a full-panel WebView with UI elements and transitions that aren't system-defined. It's also pretty obvious when you have no network and the app suddenly doesn't load.
Your government shouldn't care what form of money you're using, as long as it gets its fair taxes.
Part of the brilliance of idleword's approach in this talk is in his avoidance of Godwin-level rhetoric. You don't need to posit an authoritarian dictatorship to see big data as hazardous. "Nixon in your datacenter" is the perfect image for this purpose, because it's funny in a way that "Hitler in your datacenter" never could be, and also easier to imagine.
Sorry, not sure if I was clear. What I meant was: Techcrunch shouldn't proudly point out that everyone else is making reading on a mobile device unenjoyable by asking if you want to install an app, because they themselves crap so much non-content on your screen and make their own mobile experience an unenjoyable one.
* it's just that they don't have the true deep awareness of doing that you do... You do have that, right? You sure? Really sure?*

Actually, I don't find such concepts even interesting, so I'm neither sure nor not-sure.

The belief in a conscious defined as a quality-with-no-testable-attributes seems like an extension of the idea of a soul and this lines of philosophical seems like the very ghost of belief in a dead god.
doesn't look like it's on OSM - should that be fixed? :) http://osm.org/go/Zc3OxgB0-
I was about to add Blindsight to my own list, but you beat me to it. I think it's the best book with the worst synopsis on the jacket.
I think the revision of the NSFNet AUP in 1994 (?) to allow commercial use, and the decommissioning of the NSFNet in 1995, was what made the internet into a "monster". Even if people were "only" running NNTP, email, and anonymous FTP, the internet would have taken off massively at that point. This was obvious to me from the time I joined the internet in 1992.
The War on Sex Trafficking Is the New War on Drugs
Well if you wanted a ban on advertising sugary cereal to kids, you would have to pass the "Central Hudson" test. You would have to prove a compelling government interest to ban the ads to children. The ADA chief medical scientist has already said there is no conclusive proof that sugary food causes diabetes. Also I don't know if you've seen any kids cereal commercials recently, but they're not making deceptive claims (like "eating this cereal will make you healthier").

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/commerc...
OP's argument was that mobile apps are only popular because the mobile web is not good enough. Obviously when the mobile web is used for it's original intent -- pages of information, mostly text, some images -- and not full web applications with heavy JavaScript dependencies and animation and share buttons and shit, it's a pleasure to use.
As a fellow lover of Brutalist architecture and Novi Beograd in particular, I'm looking forward to the game! [0]

[0]: http://brutalism.rs/2015/09/22/spomenik/
Sure, but this discussion isn't about the value of bootstrapped versus funded companies, even though you seem intent on making it about that. This discussion is about startups that are truly trying to do something new (as opposed to a company that is new).
RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan
Erlang/OTP architectures: Cowboy
I have seen you post this several times so I am curious now. Why is this better than the others out there?
Physics is a description, maths is the best method of describing things in physics, but when things head to infinity it's a sign that the descriptive system is breaking down.

Time real, neither the past nor future exist.
"Our freedom of speech is actually greater now than it ever was, but to little avail."

It is but it's orthogonal to avail. ;) The freedoms are necessary, the press part has to be solid, and the people have to take action. The press and action are the problems. Freedoms are doing their job of producing opportunities, which I act on regularly.

"People forget, but the United States had strict censorship codes for all of the television, film and comic book industries"

And through the democratic process these were fought and freedoms expanded. This is less likely to work in a monarchy, communist state, theocracy, or dictatorship. That the people's input matters and with bloodless avenues of it creating change is a pre-requisite to major reforms benefiting the people without full-on revolt. So, what systems and countries are you talking about where people did similar stuff within their system while dissident speech, publishing, and organizations were all illegal?

Note: Let's add voting integrity to the list of pre-requisites. The ability to speak about or publish the problems would be a pre-requisite to accountability. If you didn't have that, then privacy in property or communications would help you get word out discretely. Without any of the three, situation starts to sound like like certain South American and Asian countries.
Regarding Kellogg's , they also started the whole "Breakfast is healthy and most important meal in the morning" BS. Since I've started intermittent fasting 16/8 (from 20.00 to 12.00) I've been loosing fat easily.
A small number of reposts is ok if a story hasn't had significant attention yet [1]. After that, we bury reposts as dupes.

This is the main device for migitating the randomness that otherwise dominates which stories make it off /newest [2]. Basically, it's ok to roll the dice a few times.

If we see a good-by-HN's-standard story that fell through the cracks, we've been emailing the submitters and inviting them to repost it. We invited coloneltcb to repost this one. This is the latest in a series of experiments that I've written about at [3] and [4] if anyone's interested.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828818

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140
That's probably a 20 floz container, which gets you halfway or so.
That's not true. There is a scientific consensus on cigarettes and lung cancer. There is certainly no scientific consensus on sugar and diabetes/cancer.

If the first amendment should apply to corporations, should the New York Times be restricted on what articles it can print? What about the movie documentaries you see on Netflix?
> Redecentralize the web!

Redecentralize all internet services!

Shameless plug ahead, I believe in this idea so much I co-founded a company to help spread the idea and see it through.

Every person should have their own domain name and have the ability to run arbitrary services in the cloud. The price of computing power and bandwidth has come down so much that it's completely practical to do this now.

Would love feedback/thoughts: https://portal.cloud?invite=hn (invite code is just there so free domain discount is applied).

The most important thing is that no company (including mine) should ever have the ability to dominate the internet the way Google, Facebook, and Twitter do today.

We should be able to move from cloud provider to cloud provider with very little friction. If we truly control our own domain names, apps, and data this isn't even hard to do.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter could be just apps we run (webmail, web search, photo sharing, status updates). We shouldn't have to give up our privacy and be locked into a service that feeds us a hundred ads a day just to be able to check our email, search the web, share photos, or post 140 characters to the web.
Mercedes Tests Self Driving Truck on German Highway
What gets measured gets managed. - Peter Drucker.
And then the politicians go on TV and lament that people should better listen to authorities, that they were the wise ones. My point is that an unpredictable offshore threat advantages local elected officials. Their careers are advanced by both the false alarms and the disasters.
If man made it, don't eat it.
oops!,sorry. I didn't realize it that way. I don't think I can edit it now. Will remember this in mind for future posts.

URL: chrome-extension://gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom/pages/acceptable-ads-announcement.html
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory- A Search Engine that Thinks, Almost http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2005/03/31/a-search-engine-that-th...
Point Break – not coming to a cinema near you
Sorry about the confusion, Please see my reply to dang.
Excel can handle TSV's if you name them .txt
idlewords: This talk is fantastic. Thank you.

I'd love to hear about reactions you got from other attendees at the conference. Was there interest, serious thought, skepticism?
I agree completely, and I would rather see prostitution legalized.
running chrome on android right now. One of the 3 of 4 mobile apps I use.
Exactly. Aside from my larger post, I'll add that I hear it from people that moved away from China, Cuba, etc. A recent one was a Cuban guy I know whose family immigrated here to get away from propaganda, abusive state, etc. I asked him what they thought and he said his mother totally agreed U.S. was transforming into something similar. He said she calls him up every so often after seeing something on the news, freaking out. She commonly says (paraphrased), "They were promoting (police state-style stuff here) on the news. They said it's for (benefit here). That's what Castro said! They did the same thing in Cuba! It's happening all over again!"

My friend just nods his head and calms her down as he knows it's true. They figure they still have it better in a hybrid, quasi-police state rather than a full one. Russians and Chinese usually just tell me of the media and surveillance actions that it's the same crap as they saw/heard over there. It's just way safer here as enforcement is weaker, our protections are stronger, and private parties are more independent. So, they all encourage us to keep it that way and push back against the advances. Sounds good to me. :)
And I expect juice drinks are part of it as well. Same high levels of sugar and low levels of fiber. The calories aren't as empty, but they're still much easier to consume than whole fruit.
Ideas come when you are in a really difficult position and need something urgently. You try to find solutions for that problem by trying to see if there is a solution for your particular problem out there. If the solutions out there don't solve your problem, then you come up with your own. Because if the current solutions are not working for you, you can bet it is not working for someone also.

Don't look for an idea just because... If you do that, your enthusiasm for it will/can wane. But if what you are creating solves your own problem, wakes you up at 3am because you are too excited to finally figure it out then you may be unto something.
Twitter possibly ditching the 140 character limit
The font used for the interviewer's text is striking. What is it?
If you like this kind of thing go read this write-up of predicting hands in online poker due to bad implementations of shuffling and PRNG algorithms! Its quite a fun read.

https://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.p...
Niching down doesn't eliminate the background noise. You have to convince the users why the localized or targeted version is better than the generalized options, and that's assuming you've already gotten past the hurdle of convincing someone they needed anyone's version of what you're selling.
I bought a cheap SDR off of Amazon that I've been happy with: http://amzn.com/B00D3GRU24

I started with listening to NOAA weather stations[1], and now I'm tracking aircraft with PiAware[2]

[1]: https://jaredharley.com/2015/08/25/software-defined-radio-sd...

[2]: https://jaredharley.com/2015/08/31/tracking-aircraft-with-pi...
ElloBEE: Redefining Business Card Professional Networking
Freight Micro Pro: https://typekit.com/fonts/freight-micro-pro
Calling All Math Geeks and Puzzle Lovers
I just released a new game called REquate for both iOS and Android. I describe it as the math addicted love child of Tetris, Sudoku and a crossword puzzle.

The game is simple, just rearrange the blocks by dragging and rotating them so that they all form valid equations.

It's perfect for all ages and skill levels. Easy puzzles are a great way to occupy a few spare seconds and keep your mind sharp at the same time. Challenge yourself a bit with the harder puzzles. If you're really up for a real challenge try to solve the "Migraine" level puzzles, they'll make your brain hurt so good.

A new free puzzle is added everyday and new puzzle packs are released once or twice a month.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/requate-math-addicted-love/id1031089368?ls=1&mt=8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blakgeek.games.requate
Yep. Once enough zeros are tacked to a number, the human mind blanks out on the scale of things.
> Edit: OK, HN doesn't actually use JS, so mea culpa on that rhetorical flourish.

Hey now, I'm probably using JS to post this comment because apparently Firefox is made with it!
Evernote is in deep trouble
Monarchy is not opposed to democracy, even if it's not a constitutional/ceremonial monarchy. Liechtenstein and Monaco are two countries with politically active monarchs, which are nevertheless democratic.

Theocracies in practice are dictatorial, but nominally it just means your "constitution" would be a religious text. I agree those are undesirable.

"Communist state" is an oxymoron, surely you mean Marxist-Leninist state. Dictatorship is too vague.

I'm not really objecting to the democratic process being a vehicle for change, so much as contemporary implementations of it being riddled with inefficiencies and fallacies, as well as the fact that most people completely overlook the crucially important meta-theory of how democracy operates and assume it's all good because the word "democracy" gives them warm, fuzzy feelings.
> And all they really do is show that you should have money and the real problems aren't the drugs but finances and society.

I think many socio-economists would agree with that statement.
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However, they did not come to the "conclusion" that notNow accused them of coming to. "Behavioral measures are increasingly used to infer cross-national differences in social preferences or to assess aid effectiveness — our results suggest that we should be cautious in these uses."
There's the rub, I think.

Historically the big managed platforms have offered some real advantages. JIT compilation has been a part of that, since it helps to some of the reflective features that have in turn supported some useful tools for increasing developer productivity such as aspect-oriented programming, object-relational mapping and mocking.

These gains may have come at the cost of raw execution times, but most of the core consumers of the technology measure their success in terms of dollars, and are in the privileged position of being able to offset the performance losses by upgrading their servers. For them this is a perfectly sensible decision. Developers are much more expensive than computers, so they were simply being pound wise and penny foolish.

In other environments the calculus has been different. Console games have always had constrained resources, a homogeneous target environment, and high performance demands. Correspondingly, AOT's always been how things are done int hat domain.

Sometimes it's even changed over time. Bytecode made a lot of sense for mobile development a decade ago, back when there were relatively many competing hardware platforms and people interacted with their phones differently. Nowadays there are fewer more homogeneous platforms and do more task switching, so the cost of AOT compilation has gone down and the potential benefits have gone up. Hence this shift in .NET, which perhaps seems even more sudden since .NET itself was primarily targeted at enterprise development until relatively recently.
I believe there is much more to it than meets the eye. For example, a culture that biased hiring based on gender/skin colour encourages hiring and protecting of incompetent staff. My wife dislikes one (one) of her female colleagues because she's incompetent and protected (ala political correctness). This red forces the notion of incompetence.

When I go to Asia, I may be given preferential treatment, I may not be. I have also been treated badly - other locals apologised and excused those people as racist, and I would agree.

There are many shades of distinction in these discussions. The link to Julie Ann's Article strict me as superficial, anecdotal and selective in its assessments. Like the "black doll vs white doll" tests, these are a very flimsy basis to make an assessment. How did the children go with black vs white covered books? What about black vs white rocks?

Q: why is everyone saying white man when it should be white person? I think that statement says a lot about how people think.
Tab? You mean two spaces right? :)
That's a pleasant thought, but it seems unlikely. Food advertising gets circa 1000x as much money as healthy eating [1].

I think the simple step here would just be to ban advertising of unhealthy food the same way we've banned advertising of tobacco products. Citizens would still be free to produce and consume junk food, but corporations would no longer be allowed to indulge in industrial-scale manipulation of consumers' habits.

That won't happen either, of course, because there's an enormous amount of lobbying money from those industries (and from the advertising/PR/marketing industries). But I can dream.

[1] http://consumersunion.org/news/food-industry-advertising-ove...
What's the novel technology behind running an unlicensed minicab firm? Or subletting a room in your house against the terms of your lease?
It's selfish to ask us to overlook the needs of the people who make their homes in a place for the benefit of some few who choose to pass through. People adapt. If a person decides that a trip is too expensive, they will find another trip that meets their needs. If a business loses some customers from outside it's neighborhood, then perhaps there will be an offset from within.
That is complete and utter nonsense. No one is basically ever happy with the government response to severe weather events. Leave aside hurricanes. Ask any number of Massachusetts officials who are no longer in their positions because of transit and other failures during blizzards last winter.
"If this were true, one would have expected reforms and curtailment to have lasted at least a few generations. This situation seems more akin to a misbehaving child who apologizes only to appease, and carries right on with their activities."

Not at all: preserving liberty "requires eternal vigilance." Old lesson. ;) Existing elites and people wanting that for themselves never stop. So, the public has to be watchful. It has to stay on them via every branch of government. That shake-up happened when the public had maximum attention on them while defenders, esp CIA media manipulators, were acting in full force. The result was half-ass justice but made them a lot more careful in what they do domestically and a little more in foreign. Had American voters and media stayed on their ass we would've gotten even better results. But, it brings us to another issue...

"Also, please note that pure democracy - people voting with their time/money/attention/data - is what has brought us this modern surveillance nightmare of Google/Facebook/etc."

...tyranny of the majority. Didn't realize back in school how fundamentally bad that problem was and how pervasively it would affect us. Your illustration is excellent although remember that willing, private surveillance to sell analysis to advertisers and unwilling, government surveillance of all data to be used in convictions or murder aren't the same. ;)

You're right, though, about how majority makes our situation worse by where they put their time and money. They seem to be hardwired to go with whatever will screw them up in the long-run for the smallest, immediate gain. I'm at a loss for how to handle this except to practice CYA to max degree, stay out of dragnets where possible, and invest my own energy/money into better things that might get big.

One example was getting people off of scheming SMS and Facebook messenger for IM clients like WhatApp. It was one of best for usability and incremental step in right direction so I used to recommend it. Actually made it in a huge way. Then Facebook bought it. Well, we have the Whisper apps... (Twitter acquisition) (explitives) I'm not naming any more of them lol. Need these jokers all in non-profits or public-benefit companies with charters protecting the future of the app's security or source.