skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Netherlands, government is actually incentivising people who drive a lot to buy diesel cars, but not those who drive only a little, and that is going on for quite a while already. Here is how it's done:

- Diesel fuel is considerably cheaper at the pump [0], plus diesel cars have better per-liter mileage. Thus per-mile expense for a diesel car is roughly 1/2 of that for a benzine car.

- Diesel car is roughly twice as expensive in yearly road tax (EUR 1580 / year for a 1500kg diesel car vs. EUR 808 / year for a 1500kg bezine car in Amsterdam) [1], plus a diesel car would typically be slightly heavier. Thus per-year expense is much higher for diesel.

Two observations above combine in a well-known locally rule of thumb - if you drive >20000km/year, buy a diesel; otherwise you're better off with a benzine car. This matches perfectly with the inherent technical requirement for a diesel car to be driven mostly in long trips to be efficient or relatively clean.

[0] http://www.anwb.nl/vakantie/reisvoorbereiding/brandstofprijz...

[1] http://www.belastingdienst.nl/rekenhulpen/motorrijtuigenbela...
That's a different case. I was simply saying _tech_ corporations often operate at a loss for a very long time. I'm reasonably sure Amazon didn't make a profit for decades, assuming it does now. This is not paperwork hand-waving, they're actually reinvesting all income, plus as much extra they can raise.
To anyone interested in the subject, I'd strongly recommend playing the Redistricting Game [0] which takes you through many of the processes outlined in the article

[0] - http://www.redistrictinggame.org/
Neat one! Not sure it will work too great for a hacker audience -- all sorts of content blockers, and they probably aren't logged into Linkedin 24/7 anyway -- but I really like the idea.

The only issue I have with this is that it tracks people on yet another part of the Internet. Same reason as why I don't have Google Analytics or Youtube embedded videos or embedded Google Maps on my website (let alone Google Ads).
Why can't we collaborate?
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It's why I won't refinance my student debt since all of it comes under an income based repayment. At worse, I will get dinged in 25 years for the remaining as a tax bracket jump, but I hope by then Congress will be forced to even drop that provision since it would literally sink quite a few people's fortunes who would be eligible and active voters.
True, but I'm concerning Wordpress are popular and Drupal 8 have revamped for the better or worst.

On the Node.js side, Coffeescript or Typescript write less code if confidence enough to be careful, won't it be better if PHP have a way to write less and more secure?
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When I was looking at this last year, there were several paid options to get direct access to datasets and/or API's, without having to scrape.

Out of curiosity, what sport(s) were you modeling?
The conclusions you've reached are not uncontroversial in the academic literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmet...
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[1]: Selfish mining may be a problem, and only big miners can profit from it. This has nothing to do with IBLTs though, other than that big miners may withhold them just as they would withhold a full block. The rest of us (small miners) can still use IBLTs to decrease our orphan rate.

"providing value-added services": Yes, it's up to each and every miner to decide how and when blocks are transmitted. If they want fast propagation, use IBLT. If not, use full block. Any relay node may as well chose to relay it as an IBLT or as a full block.

"Beyond a certain point there are many false positives and worst case all transactions might be needed to sent anyways": Definately yes! I will present some stats on that in future blog posts. Meanwhile you can look at https://github.com/kallerosenbaum/bitcoin-iblt/wiki for some data on this.
Sorry what is this RSU you speak of? tax on employee share options is quite different in the UK to the USA.

With a HMRC approved scheme CGT effectively goes away and you only pay CGT after your yearly allowance and only on a real gain - no massive tax bill on underwater share options.
No, they use every trick in the book not to, ending up paying less than your local frozen yogurt place (exaggerating a little, but still).
Except that the reason the loopholes exist is because of the lobbying of companies that take advantage of them.
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Yes. The only reason I can think of that you would do this is to build some kind of hybrid airship that generated some lift from wings to increase MTOW (lifting capacity) but still has all the energy efficiency of low speed and therefore low drag.
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Corporations don't pay tax even when they do. The tax is a cost passed on to the end consumer. I'd rather see a combination of a progressive consumption tax (necessities < luxuries) combined with trade tariffs that's appropriate for the country being traded with. This would circumvent the shell company trick.
Are we really still stuck on the saturated fat being 'evil' thing ? Even the mainstream guidelines are backing down on this now.
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> First of all, that's Facebook employees paying tax. Not Facebook. That's their money that they are taxed on and they pay it.

Why is this distinction even relevant? Facebook then needs to pay its employees more to make up for the difference. No matter who the government taxes, everyone involved will shift their habits to compensate for it.
No one is forced to bet on fantasy sports, so I hope the government does not get involved trying to make it "fair".
The loopholes exist because corporations like Apple (but even more so others), lobby for them to exist.

It's not like corporations are exploiting some totally neutral loophole they discovered -- those are there on purpose.
You could load it as an image, as cross-origin policies are not enforced for images. Not sure if their tracker is server-side or requires loading JS.
Modern day "nerd" culture teaches us that we are special snowflakes who are the only rational ones in a land full of sheep, persecuted and looked down upon for our virtue.

You are the thing you think you are criticizing.
I need to apologise to Facebook then. Sorry, Facebook.

EDIT: This looks like snark, but it's not. If I'm wrong I'm sorry.
If you're paid $100 in cash as wages and use it to buy food and pay rent, then your effective tax rate is equal to the sales tax rate.

If you or your company is earning $1m in profit, and use half of that for spending and buying goods (that are taxed by sales tax) and the other half to buy revenue-producing assets - shares of other companies, real estate, bonds - then half of your income isn't taxed at all, your effective tax rate is twice as small as the tax rate on poor people.

This introduces an even stronger rich-get-richer mechanic to the society, as accumulating wealth generation (not just wealth) is tax-free.
Yep, reads much better now.
But of course Starbucks claims VAT back so the net VAT paid to the UK government is not the same as the gross
Creepy. I hope LinkedIn breaks this soon.
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Yep.. here's a pic of an L-39 Albatros being shipped from Germany to the US after a nice restoration:

http://imgur.com/FfkBMjC

It was probably just cheaper and less risky to put it in a box. (The L-39's range is only about 550 nautical miles, maybe 700 on a good day).

That said, here's an article written by a pilot who ferried an L-39 across the Atlantic. It talks about all the details that had to be taken care of (even more so since it was a former military jet):
http://www.internationaljets.com/overtheocean.html
http://www.internationaljets.com/overtheocean2.html
The moment I finished my comment I actually thought to myself - "hmmm, FPTP is the problem here" (which I was saying even well before the last election).

The gerrymandering is interesting though, and there's another video link in this thread that explains how you can use it to try to fix this issue (as you said).
Thank God too since only those with the wherewithal would bother with building trading toons. I did it for fun on the side while I missioned for the bulk of my ISK (boring as hell).
They control their citizen's access to information, but from outside it's not difficult to get a relatively accurate picture. This book [0] for instance was quite helpful in understanding how the CCP controls the country and, as a result, how many things work in China.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Party-Secret-Chinas-Communist/dp/0...
Startups are the penny stocks of the 21ht century. Buy 4% of a company for 40 M$, talk a lot about how this company is valued at 1 B$, wait until enought people belive it, make an IPO, take the money and run (a.k.a. pump and dumping). Would Jordan Belfort still be in business he would high probably be a VC.
WinDirStat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat

Started out as kDirStat for KDE in Linux.

I use ncdu and Ranger file manager 95%+ of the time.
Best CBT books you can recommend?
>"It's not idle. Those carribean virtual banks buy a lot of empty condos in big cities with tight housing markets all around the world."

And who do they buy it from? And what do those individuals do with that money?
It's complicated.

Network stations buy an exclusive franchise to network content in an area, so they don't like the idea of you streaming another affiliate.

Also you find different games playing on different stations so if you are a sports fan you might not need NFL Sunday ticket or ESPN if you could stream from anywhere.

It is real fun to watch local TV from far away places because you get to catch network programming in multiple time zones, watch the news in distant cities, etc.
I'd rather it sit in a Caribbean bank than be spent killing people in foreign conflicts. Also, what's wrong with saving money? Not all money needs to be constantly spent.
I'm not saying they wouldn't - I'm sure they probably would - but that wouldn't stop there being 362 fewer roles in the UK.

If the industry in the UK continues to grow then yes we would be better off, but the fear is that more companies would learn from Facebook's example and relocate, taking the growth with them.
>here we are engaging in social-engineering through votes.

Engineering implies some kind of plan. This is just people projecting their individual opinions in aggregate. It looks like social engineering because the majority of people's opinions in a group like this don't differ all that much.

It's all a stupid game. People say "I know I'll be downvoted but..." to make themselves seem brave against the overwhelming oppression of people on the internet disagreeing with their opinions. Then other people see that and think "that is a brave person, have an upvote." All of this relies on implicit buy-in of the notion that bad things happen if people know how your opinions are different.

Especially in the West, it's very easy to opt out of this game. Just stop worrying if people in your network like you. The people close to you will love you regardless of your stupid opinions and character flaws. There's not much reason to worry about anyone else, especially with how fast people cycle in and out of social networks.
Also it would be be cool if the density of the lattice could be varied. Bone structure is a great example of this, it's a 3D Voroni diagram where areas of smaller cells are indicative of stress concentrations.
This is terri(fic|ble).
In the US, at least, you can call the gas company if you suspect a carbon monoxide leak. If you have reason to suspect a real emergency, you might also consider calling the fire department or emergency services.

Most fire departments also have a non-emergency line that you can just call for advice, they may even send somebody by non-emergent to check your house out and you as well. Some EMS providers (in the US most fire departments have EMS on staff also) have the ability to check for carbon monoxide in your blood.

During my time as an EMT, I saw plenty of people go crazy for various reasons from schizophrenia to completely unrelated physical issues such as diabetes, migraines, epilepsy and rhabdomyolysis. I AM NOT A DOCTOR, but you should consider consulting one. It may not be that you are not "crazy", but you may have some other medical condition affecting your mental status.

Best of luck.
Necessary services?

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” —Heinlein
Typically you'd only insert your CAC on sites already trusted by your machine, and your machine only has those DoD certs if it's been provisioned by DoD.
You already received a solid and accurate reply, but consider it as the headline equivalent of how you would structure a lengthy email you actually want the recipients to read. Firstly, you know the subject line is critical, but people will almost always glance at an email regardless. Secondly, you know you need short paragraphs or the wall of text will scare them away. Thirdly, you need to explicitly structure each paragraph with a strong subject -- either an easily parsable complete sentence or a bullet. Fourth, don't write it like you would a novel. Focus on facts and eliminate editorialization.

Finally, close it with a call to action. Frankly, with the advent of Google Drive/Docs, I've started getting in the habit of putting all the meat of an email in a separate linked document and just placing the subject, intro and call-to-action in the body of the message itself.

This is roughly how newspapers work, too.
Well, it depends on why they're taking the medication. You're correct if it's prescribed, but if they're taking it off their own back, it makes sense to suggest they ease off it.
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IMO the "Der Spiegel" changed a lot since the death of Rudolf Augstein. Consider for example that for a while their assistant editor in chief was the former assistant editor in chief of "Bild". Which is very popular and very much on the "right" side of the political spectrum.
The last time that was on the cards suddenly all the MP"s expenses got stolen then exposed by a news paper whose owners live on sark.

Not that I am saying the two are related of course Inocent Grin
The entire "Politics in the Animal Kingdom" series is great, I think... http://www.cgpgrey.com/politics-in-the-animal-kingdom/
Property development corporations I guess.
Read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haralabos_Voulgaris. I've heard him speak a few times and read some articles about his operations.

It's enough to make me not want to waste my weekends cobbling together my own system.
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I read about this over a year ago (I think it may have been on HN, though the article was different). It seemed like it might be a security flaw and that it would get resolved, but I guess not.
Water doesn't compress as far as I know, so it would be like the egg hitting concrete...
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I chose not to be a grad student in Berkeley's math department for exactly this reason. I went to a smaller school that didn't have this sort of weeding out.

(I started my PhD in 2005, and it's possible that this was not the situation at the time and I was acting on outdated information. I don't regret it, though.)
Arch, Fedora 23, FreeBSD, NixOS, and a few other lessers. http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pkg=Python&pkgver=3&distro...

Can we ever get Windows to Included it :(
Unfortunately the resulting air pressure difference crushes the structure which is what makes vacuum spheres impractical as well.

Wrapping it with carbon fiber and filling it with Hydrogen seems like a better option.
"each strut is about 100 micrometres in diameter, with a wall 100 nanometres thick"

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_microlattice
What does it mean to insert it "on" a site? I have two dozen tabs open; how should Chrome know that my authentication information should go to the government but not to Hacker News?

It seems to me like you necessarily want a custom solution and custom software here; I'm not understanding how the removal of client-cert support from public builds of Chrome or Firefox would be a problem.

(I've never used a CAC, so this might be a dumb question.)
FWIW: The Scaleway servers are not Atom, but ARM based servers.
It's sometimes used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stover

It's also probably not sufficient to just bury it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
Alternatively, by switching to popular vote, this problem, and many other problems could be avoided entirely. Above all things, is it fair that a voter in Massachusetts has exactly zero (and I mean exactly zero, not their fair 1/3.2e8 share) say over the election, while a voter in Ohio carries a lot of weight?
People often forget that a typical existence in the USSR is on par with being poor white trash in the semi-rural northern US, just swap the trailer park for the apartment complex. They weren't starving but they had been close for decades. They were working as hard as anyone else who's trying to make ends meet but getting nowhere fast. For example, if a light-bulb burnt out in their home the only way to replace it was to switch it with a working one at work. Walking a miles in negative double digit temperatures to get to work, or to go to the grocery store because you can't afford to buy gas until payday wears on you. Taking scraps of insulation from a dumpster to keep the wind from coming in around your windows isn't fun. Having to park your car on a hill so you can roll start it in the morning because you can't afford a battery that can start your car in the cold doesn't make you feel good about your life. When you're living poor like that you've got so little invested in the system that you just don't give a damn. You wouldn't care if society collapses because you know in the back of your mind that there's a chance that in the following chaos you might come out ahead. These are the kind of people that made up the working class of the USSR. Some were better off, some worse but very, very few were comfortable where they were.

Meanwhile the upper middle class and above are comfortable but insecure. Sure the nation looks good on paper but even the people who are doing ok aren't going to be comfortable in a corrupt system because even if they put in the time and effort to do good work there's that chance that the next bunch of guys in charge will have someone else they'd rather give your job to or worse, by doing good work you've put yourself at odds with them and might be promoted to digging a ditch in Siberia.

IMO the statistics may have looked good there were a lot of unhappy people in the Soviet Union and in retrospect the place looks like a house of cards.
You're taking a highly subjective view and presenting it as fact. That Facebook is a "socially beneficial organization" is extremely debatable. I would argue that Facebook has actually had a detrimental effect on social cohesion.
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It's funny, I set out to learn Erlang this year, but ended up learning Elixir first. A lot of people go to great lengths to assure that Elixir is not the "CoffeeScript of Erlang" (which I do understand refers to more than just syntax improvements), but I found the opposite. After getting used to Elixir syntax, Erlang seems aesthetically much more elegant.
Also, you should be able to have a proxy on your own domain, changing nothing but the `X-Frame-Options` header.
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Yes, corporations pay tax, even when it looks like they just pass it on in prices, since they lose after tax income (except in the unusual case where price does not affect volume sold so long as competitors face the same price increase.)
To play the devil's advocate: if LinkedIn are smart they should offer this functionality (for premium users, of course). This is really useful info for businesses.
“don't care” is a value judgement for which you lack evidence. I'm sure there are a few who truly don't but you're also lumping in e.g. the parent working 3 jobs who cannot entertain the possibility of taking their kids to a school which is further away, not close to the grandparents who will be watching the kid until a parent finishes work, etc.

Study after study has shown that most of the differences in student performance are caused by poverty. Some of that manifests in e.g. challenges having clean clothing, sufficient food, etc. but many of the effects aren't as obvious – high levels of stress, very limited amounts of time, difficulty having things like Internet access to even review the options, etc.

If you look at the causes of poverty, those also tend to be related: e.g. a recent immigrant with very limited English proficiency is likely to be working crazy hours and poorly equipped to read the forms the school district is sending, much less spend time talking with other parents about how the local charter schools are working.
Great piece in New Yorker on this sort of stuff by Evgeny Morozov.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...
It's cookies in each user's browser that tell LinkedIn who's viewing a profile. They wouldn't be transmitted to your proxy, so this wouldn't work.
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I've got six hours of teaching a week plus 2 hours of office hours plus meetings related to teaching plus prep plus grading.

Plus classes, homework, exams, plus research meetings, plus doing research, plus seminars, plus commute.

My university's administration has a rule that our department can't pay us more than a fixed amount, and that amount happens to be lower than the living wage in the city I live in. In other words, by the university's own admission they don't pay us enough to live off of.
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I never understood why Erlang syntax has been so commonly maligned. I had no trouble getting through Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang in less than a week, and the syntax never required any conscious moment to "click," it just flowed right past. The only exception at first was the operator precedence rules inherited from Prolog, but those are memorized quickly.

I also didn't have in-depth prior experiences to non-ALGOL languages all that substantively. I had experimented with Scheme, OCaml and REBOL (and read documents on Prolog, but barely typed much of it) before, but nothing fancy.
The fact that companies are able to create loopholes via lobbying is the problem. When you accept corrupt government as an unchangeable fact of nature, you've already conceded defeat.
"I'm going to argue that direct public funding is the best way, and by that I mean the historical analogy of direct patronage or crowdfunding research today (e.g. experiment.com)."

I'd say there isn't a best way. The money will "corrupt"; I scare quote it because when it's just an unfixable constant you're sort of stacking the cognitive deck calling it "corruption", which usually implies a conscious choice. Therefore, the best solution is to spread your bets; government funding, corporate funding, crowd funding, startups, that thing YC is about to do, any and every other funding model you can get your hands on.

You can stop arguing about "which" is corrupted, because the answer is "all of them". But hopefully in the crossfire of all the different "corruptions" the truth will emerge. And if it still doesn't get out, well, we took our best shot.
And from the Met Police's point of view:
http://news.met.police.uk/news/covert-plan-at-ecuadorian-emb...