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So if I start my own company I have to give away 10% of that company every year? Because I own shares in my company. And those shares have value. Which contribute to my wealth. That seems terrible!

I don't see how a wealth tax is a good idea at all. If you could recommend a good article that argues why it's good and how it would work I'd love to read it.
Location: Miami, FL

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes, oh please, yes

Technologies: Mostly experienced with C# and Java, but I'm more interested in C/C++. I have some OpenCV experience and have worked on frameworks built atop it and Selenium.

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfkw1md73yz1ebu/Resume.pdf

Email: ian.herbig@gmail.com

I'm the kind of guy that's interested in how things work. My biggest questions when working on a given project tend to be related to the language itself and its implementation. I'm not interested in web technologies. I'm looking for a junior position in which I can continue to learn and expand.
I can't see why. The tech just needs to be designed to handle malicious input a bit better and isolate certain aspects on a per-user basis. That people could pollute the recognition system's data set should've been assumed. Especially if marketing to the Internet crowd. ;)
Malaria parasites are capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction.

While the only reproduce asexually within the secondary host the reproduce sexually within the primary host (mosquitoes) this means that if you have parasites that individually develop a resistance to different drugs within the secondary host (humans) could result in combined resistance once they sexually mate back within the primary host.

Malaria is also one of the most polymorphic single cell organisms in existence which is one of the main reasons why vaccination attempts were pretty futile so far which might give it a much better chance to develop resistance.
Sure, I am insecure.

I do have an issue with people who are mean or rude. Your comment was not just rude, as in not agile; it appeared as if you wanted to say something to hurt someone.

If you father/spouse/best friend asked the same question, would you say "Get your nose back on to your plate." If not, then you should not give the same answer to someone you do not know.

Listen friend life is too long to go on being not sensitive to how you talk to people.

By the way I upvoted all your comments, because I want you to be enlightened. The world is a better place when you are nicer. You sound frank, so I assume you do not even know you were being impolite.
Do any presidents actually follow through with what they say during pre-election? Plus a president doesn't even have the power to lower corporate tax by himself anyway.
Improved Facade Design Pattern in Automation Testing V.2.0
I've held an 8-4 developer job the last 3 years and hit up 36 different states. Right now I'm chilling at a most peaceful National Forest Campground in eastern Kentucky.

http://www.watsonswander.com/assets/2015/10/IMG_6288.jpg
Dive into Machine Learning with ipython notebook
The idea of "notation as intelligence augmentation" is the reason (or one of them) that Haskell programmers are so enthusiastic about things like functors and monads; type theory is its own branch of mathematics that could be appended in the list of things like calculus and vector analysis [1], and might bring in the same kind of new levels of thought and abstraction.

[1] Disclaimer; I am not a mathematician.
Maybe it's because of coming from a European background, but this kind of questions are quite baffling for me. I know you mean well, but I find that the idea that corporations do this kind of thing doesn't need any more proof than the fact that the earth is round.

If one follows the news, there are constant reminders of this kind of lobbying going on (corporations asking for special treatment, especially when it comes to taxes) for a whole century. Besides a lot of this is done right out in the open. I mean coorporate lobbying was invented exactly for that -- to push governments for favorable laws, special treatment, laxer environmental and other protections, etc. On top of that, there are all kinds of under-the-table deals (with lots of them exposed frequently) with politicians and corporations.

That said, here are some pointers to the issue. First the general Wikipedia article:

A number of published studies showed lobbying expenditures can yield great financial returns. For example, a study of the 50 firms that spent the most on lobbying relative to their assets compared their financial performance against that of the S&P 500 in the stock market concluded that spending on lobbying was a "spectacular investment" yielding "blistering" returns comparable to a high-flying hedge fund, even despite the financial downturn of the past few years. A 2011 meta-analysis of previous research findings found a positive correlation between corporate political activity and firm performance. Finally, a 2009 study found that lobbying brought a substantial return on investment, as much as 22,000% in some cases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying#United_States

And the US specific one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States

The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-corp...

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/12/lobbying-10-...

National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421664/corporate-lobby...

Fortune: http://fortune.com/2015/09/04/lobbying-corporate-washington/

Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/21553020

Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2011/12/14/29-compani...

Oxford University Press: http://www.amazon.com/The-Business-America-Lobbying-Corporat...

Lawrence Lessig: http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/...

The Influence Machine: The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Capture of American Life

Lobbying America: http://www.amazon.com/Lobbying-America-Politics-Business-Twe...

And those are "establishment" sources -- you'd get far better coverage in more outspoken and critical voices.

Regarding Apple in particular:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/21/us-tech-tax-...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/30/apple-repa...
This is a by-beginner, for-beginner's guide. Can you help me make it more legitimate, if you are an expert?

I learned Python by hacking first, and getting serious later. I've scratched the surface with Machine Learning in this same way and now I'm encouraged to get serious with it. This guide is meant to help other developers do the same :) I hope it'll have the same effect for someone else.

I'm sure I've gotten things wrong. I'm sure I'm missing key points. All I can hope for now is that I've captured some "beginner's mind" in approaching the topic. So maybe we can preserve that form, while improving the content.

So please, if you are a beginner, student, or already an expert ... I hope you'll open issues and submit pull requests! Thank you!

This is my first submission to HackerNews, please go easy on me :) Cheers.
That might be one of the scariest things I've looked at all day.
The nomenclator is an interesting example. Far as Glass, I agree use cases like that. protomyth's had a lot of potential, too. The effect my brain injury had on memory, long-term and short-term, means I'd probably benefit. Quite an advance from the "cyborgs" wearing primitive stuff that just let them take notes and look ridiculsou at the same time.
Newer style NEMA 5-15 plugs are polarized. The neutral pin is larger than the live pin. You must have some very old 2 pin plugs, or you got hold of a plug made in China. The Chinese plugs have pins of the same size and are even more dangerous.

Also chances are the sparking isn't due to the way the plug is inserted in the socket. It's more likely due to the fact you have connected a capacitive load such as a computer power supply, and the fact the the mating parts of the receptacle are very close to the front making a spark more visible.
And if antibiotics are so great, why do we keep needing new kinds?
Quite well known issue: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4797968/chrome-for-ios-inc...

Even the chrome support page mentions it[0]:

>Note: Your iPhone or iPad might store information about some websites you visit in incognito mode, even though Google Chrome doesn't. This is because regular and incognito mode tabs share HTML5 local storage in iOS devices. HTML5 websites can get this information about your visit in this storage area.

[0]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en
I recommend the book "Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation" by Michael Zielenziger. The main topic is Hikikomori, a group of (mostly young, mostly male) Japanese people who, unable to handle to immense pressure to conform to Japanese society, shut themselves in their rooms 24/7 and depend on their parents.
Why are Lisps excellent, is a better question. They work well with structure editors, and they allow for very powerful metaprogramming of the language to add in any needed features.

Those forms of excellence do not put Lisp on the JVM, nor give emphasis to multi-threaded, functional programming. Hence, Clojure.
Apple very strongly advises that actions available via 3D Touch must also be available via some other mechanism. 3D Touch right now is used for shortcuts (e.g. on the home screen), or previewing things (e.g. Peek) where the Commit behavior is the same as what you get when you actually tap on the item instead of 3D Touching it.
Immutable Data Structures in PHP
Pythagoras Tree with Elm
The major contribution of Clojure is not that it's a Lisp; it's that its model of immutability-by-default eliminates whole categories of errors due to shared mutable state. I personally also enjoy having non-parenthesized literals for things like maps and sets, but those are incidental benefits.
Redactor II WYSIWYG editor released
You don't have to picture it, you just have to visit the loci in sequence. Can you write down a description of your morning routine (wake up, wash, eat, commute, etc) or execute your morning routine with your eyes closed? (ignoring safety concens, so please don't try driving with your eyes closed!)

As you do so, how many specific objects could you identify, in the order you handle them? Quite many, I bet.
Loved the story :) it was nice to learn that ferd has studied in the same program as I did! I could relate a lot.
If there is a need, then they should be made.
If there is no need, then they can still be made (maybe even revealing a new need in the process).

I guess it seems like a non-issue to me.

Then again, applying my own reasoning:

There is no need to ask this question, but it's fine to ask it anyways.
The most likely explanation is evidence contamination.
Yes, goy. No matter how complete your company is, give us equity for doing nothing! :^)
> And why hasn’t the C world turned into a similar Tower of Babel?

Because it's much harder to produce a variant of C than it is to produce a variant of Lisp. Producing a variant of Lisp in Lisp (a.k.a. writing a macro) is a trivial exercise that anyone can do in a matter of minutes. Producing a variant of Lisp from scratch is an elementary exercise that an undergrad can do in a couple of hours. Producing a variant of C is an advanced exercise that would take even the most skilled programmer many days.
Some professions shouldn't treat introversion equally. Software engineering is probably one where it doesn't matter so much but sales and marketing are probably the opposite. (Though interestingly when looking for an appartment a couple of years back, I found the less pushy people far easier to deal with).
I have to agree. It's been my experience at least among certain circles of atheism (Graveyard of the Gods forums) and even social activism (Twitter has a bit of this nonsense going on) where X group is special and isolated from the rest of human kind terms of suffering and/or significance. Frankly, I think it's a lack of empathy that drives this sort of thinking. It's easy to symbolically scream and cluck your pearl necklace than it is to actually do something or to reach out to others when in need. It just seems to me that the Internet just makes it easier to be angry or outraged than to be helpful and empathetic.
Not sure I'd say new variants are 'needed'. But the fact that Lisp languages are so easy to write encourages people to write them.

Besides, Clojure has some fairly modern and novel stuff going on when it comes to concurrency, in addition to being a wholly modern Lisp.
I can't find a reference now, but I read about a women who had a debilitating mental illness -- she could remember very many of the mundane details of her days, and it crowded out her ability to perform other mental tasks.
Also wondering about this. Interviewing at Pivotal this week. Should I be reconsidering?
It only gets better. https://github.com/foam-framework/foam/blob/master/apps/todo...
In iOS 8 it became a public API. But the problem is that this didn't actually directly measure pressure, it just measured touch radius. Pressure affects touch radius, but so do a lot of other things (finger size, what part of the finger is used, which finger is used, etc) and so it's not particularly effective at extracting pressure.
Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma (2006) [pdf]
>The only way to fix it is to remove the loopholes.

Or you know, to have the people running the business have a sense of ethics.
>As far as I can tell, the primary reason none of this has been implemented is that no one at Twitter has had the authority to tamper with the sacred 140-character limit

This is a very perceptive comment and reminds me of Steve Huffman recently making the kind of changes at Reddit that only a founder would have the guts to do.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/reddit-founder-...
Sub One-Second Page Loads with Rails
IANAB. It's strange that the seeds have more radioactivity than the pulp. Do you know the explanation?
Mancy: JavaScript REPL Application Based on Electron and React
Mammalian pregnancy has a really complicated evolutionary history with lots of parallel and convergent evolution. Conflict between genes of paternal and maternal origin leads to trade-offs that are resolved in different ways that end up being repeated across lineages.
This advice is obviously correct, but it is kind of like stating that you're never too rich to apply to Harvard.

What I mean is that obviously YC is a structured program that is very, very well-connected, and unlocks vast, unlimited potential for any company. Anyone given this opportunity gets huge benefits from it, even the people - companies - who are starting with the most advantages.
A very popular idea, and one that emacs has done quite a bit with. Vim is coming along (the original vi was not the scriptable machine like emacs so emacs had a head start)

This was also the basis for some 'glue' languages, the one I'm most familar with was REXX (and later NetREXX) which created a "port" in an application that could be driven by another application. So the text editor could connect to the compiler or debugger's Rexx port and drive it remotely using the editor screen's resources for i/o. A good place to look at that was the Amiga back in the mid 90's.
Thats exactly what I was thinkng. I have read on here that Sweden is a very humble country in term of bragging about achivements in job intervews. It would be interesting to see some data on numbers of women in tech there.
Could Li-Fi be the new Wi-Fi? [video]
4 Signs That Silicon Valley's Tech Bubble Is Bursting
It's not even speculation: your point has tons of evidence backing it. I remember when I did AI that "automatic programming" was something we wanted. My research led to a project called The Programmer's Apprentice from MIT. The idea, since auto prog wasn't working, was a more limited A.I. that became an extension of programmer's mind to automate some work, analyse others, optimize even more, and so on. Not sure where that went but a Java programmer's explanation of NetBeans was deja vu. ;) A programmer with a text editor vs one with modern tools (I.A. + A.I.) is a game-changing difference that did effectively increase intelligence of the work.

Likewise, people not so smart with numbers had calculators. People needing conversions have Google and Frick. There's financial and accounting packages that can convert lots of numerical assessments into simpler forms to aid the user's understanding. ERP and BPM, done right, let a person ignore inconsequential details to focus on high-level aspects of business operation. Wikipedia for summaries + Google for details and verification let one amass expertise in a new domain rapidly.

And so on and so forth. Intelligence Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence both have proven value. Both are used today. So, we can keep both. :)
That was beautiful. Recently I was feeling really, really lonely. This letter helped me remember what great feeling is to have someone you can love and care for. It's the little things like sending "Hello" texts in the morning to each other that I'm missing the most. Love is great.
Teambased AI in Unreal Engine 4
> A major problem is that there's no political unit of the correct size: San Francisco is too small and California is too big.

If only there was a political unit -- say, maybe, a "district" -- of larger geographical scope than San Francisco, but smaller than California, focused on providing rapid transit for the San Francisco Bay Area...
A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior (1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdqtMdcNkE
...and when you live in an apartment, they repair everything with the lowest-cost thing from said home improvement stores, so many people have no choice but to live with whatever garbage they make.
... Because so many languages are made in a matter of hours or days. Can we please drop the machismo? Making a language takes about a decade, with multiple people involved. A prototype one without a library can be made in a matter of months, but nobody would want to use those. I find it plausible that making a lisp is easier, especially if it's interpreted, but it's not that easy.
Measuring Poverty in a Growing World or Measuring Growth in a Poor World (2003) [pdf]
This seems like a good way to teach about a product or tool (as you promote its use, or in other words, sell it). I can see such advice being useful on today's HN, which is full of people who need to sell tech.

But really, teaching is not selling. The objectives are different. There may be some overlaps of technique, but it's easy to overstate that. It is correspondingly easy to take this advice much too far.

For example, teaching which bundles exhortations and moral value judgements might help to improve recall, but it might also be misleading or intensely annoying, and might encourage teachers to suppress facts that don't match the intended emotion or message.

When you're teaching, it's just unethical not to strive for some degree of objectivity and encouragement of critical thinking. I won't remark on what the ethics are for salesmen because that battle is unwinnable, but surely we can agree that teachers have certain professional obligations.
Fair enough. I'm not sure why I was downvoted. I'm not suggesting regulation or the EPA is bad.

I saw a turtle with tumors, in person, and a local suggested that it was suspected that some sort of runoff was the cause of the issue. My thought was that there may not be enough regulation and accountability.
The leadership of the Greens are/were most closely aligned with my values – certainly at the time when the Blairites were still heading up the Labour party. So I wanted to vote Green as the party.

My local Labour representative, however, is a pretty good person to have looking out for the area. He was born and raised in the estates opposite my house - to a working class immigrant family, no less. In his time representing the area he's done a lot of good and he has a lot of experience. For me, that's all good - but his party values of continued austerity and benefit cuts don't sit well with me.

You see my conundrum? :)
Order anything on-demand,using Twitter and Snapchat
You versus Bell Tests and the No Communication Theorem
Note that the article, as I read it, only refers to UK taxes. Presumably Facebook also pays taxes in other jurisdictions. (Also note that the headline refers only to corporation taxes. Facebook will also be subject to many other sorts of taxes in the U.K. and a multitude of jurisdictions.

This is not to say, though, that Facebook on the whole pays its fair share of taxes. It probably doesn't, but a person can't draw many reliable conclusions about this on the basis of this article alone.
> Is there any plan to improve the public transport?

Yes, including, among others, the Silicon Valley BART Extension (which will provide a BART/Caltrain/Amtrak connection), and the Transbay Transit Center development (which ultimately is planned to provide a BART/Caltrain/Cal High Speed Rail/Many Bus systems connection in downtown SF.
Who started it?

Who is the group X that started the routine of saying "we are group X and we are special and isolated from the rest of human kind because of our unique suffering and/or significance"?

I'll give you a chance to answer.
This has been here before (not surprisingly) I used it as a way to get better at mechanical CAD, building the movements as models and then trying to animate them. It was quite instructive.
Some of the best engineers I know don't have their degree in Engineering even, but in Mathematics or Physics, but they have a passion for learning and bettering themselves, so don't let the lack of a degree in CS/CE discourage you.

that being said, I'll diverge here and say you should learn a lower level language (C, C++, Assembly, ADA).

You'd have a world of opportunity in more regulated industries, such as Vehicle Manufacturing, Industrial Controllers, Aviation, weapons, etc. You'd have a leg up on anyone coming directly from CS or computer engineering with a background in Physics/ME.

And in that case, I'd say get yourself a Raspberry Pi and jump-in to the world of Embedded controllers & OS. It will be a very steep learning curve, but you'll develop great chops and a lot of knowledge.

and, on a side-note: People still get paid to develop new trash-cans? I thought that was like... a solved problem.
Did anybody read this and just feel sort of sad?
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Even taking your skepticism about Chinese investment at face value, having LP involvement is tremendously different from operational involvement or investment committee involvement.

Having been involved in LP reporting at a seed fund, I can say that it happens regularly but infrequently (quarterly, or at most monthly) and at a 30,000 foot level. I've really never seen LPs interact with portfolio companies at a seed stage, beyond chatting at a cocktail party after the annual meeting.

Besides, given the nature of the platform, if they're looking into trends and products, isn't that information publicly available (this is just adding money behind the top syndicate deals on AngelList)?
Spiegelman's Monster
Clojure isn't a lisp, it doesn't have conses.
It Finally Occurred to Someone to Crowdsource the Weather
What I wish I had known before getting into YC
I think you are so many degrees of separation away that you should be fine. EMC has always been very hands off with VMware, and VMware is relatively hands off with Pivotal.

The most possible disruptive outcome is that Pivotal spins out entirely, but I don't see that happening for a while, or even being influenced one way or the other by the Dell/EMC deal.

I wouldn't worry about it assuming you've got a timeline for the next 12-24 months.
HN's focus is on the content. If the content is good, it doesn't much matter what the source is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10328538