skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the rich make a choice: Would I rather donate or pay taxes?

I don't understand why people confuse this so much. It's not "should I pay this $100 in taxes or donate it?". It's "Should I pay this $100 in taxes or donate the $300 I made that the tax is for?".

Why does everyone make it sound like you can choose whether to pay taxes or donate? It's "pay taxes or donate 3-4x that amount".
Great point and great analogy. I'm going to start using it.
Linux support for ObjC is great on the compiler side (GCC supports the full language), but none of the core libraries are available. You can get some stuff (NSString, NSDictionary and so on) through GNUstep, but last I checked it was an uphill battle to be truly productive with ObjC on Linux.
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No. This is a childish joke, and inappropriate. As a community of professionals, we should do everything we can to discourage this kind of crap.

Joe Cumbo (mooman219), I hope you never apply for a job I'm the hiring manager for, because I would never hire you after seeing this kind of unprofessionalism in your Github profile.
Money is a measure of wealth -- not wealth per se.
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It's not an oxymoron so much as the sort of thing Monty Python could have done a great sketch about :)
I am not a tax expert, but my understanding is that it isn't as simple as you imply. Assuming it's income tax being avoided, for example, due to high income the Pease rule may mean that someone in this situation is actually only seeing a deduction of around 8% (80% reduction of the deduction times current top rate). That doesn't seem like much of a subsidy for billionaires to do tax planning around. For people with lower (but still high enough to be taxed at the top rate) incomes the number is more like 40% which makes sense, but I would guess that most or all billionaires are in the 8% situation - unless I misunderstand the tax law or they have some strange income structure I'm not aware of. The Pease rule was suspended for a few years during George W Bush's presidency, but is currently the law again.
It does support both actually. Apple Watch supports Bluetooth Headsets [2] and untethered music playback using the 2GB internal memory [1].

[1] http://m.imore.com/how-add-apple-music-playlists-your-apple-...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204218
Deliver funding on the day of the public opening. Get some of the PR; some may perceive you (a fictional, corporate entity) as the primary driver of the project.
In general, the simpler the language, the more complex the code to implement the solution in that language, and so the harder it is to understand the code. But the more complex the language, the simpler (and easier to understand) the code, but the language itself is harder to understand.
It's almost like you want the language to have the square root of the complexity of the problem.

(This is in general. The big way around this is to pick a language that is well-suited for your particular problem.)
given that even with instructions the build quality of the womens furniture was still worse than the build quality of mens furniture without reading the instructions at all... I'd find it pretty hard to correlate patience and understanding to the women. The more likely conclusion is the construction already was pretty obvious to the men and the instructions clarified little extra information vs the women who barely understood how to construct the furniture and the instructions allowed them to get up to an almost passable construction after careful consideration.
Just curious, by extension are you saying nobody/nothing forces people to accept the wages they're given?
I would love to see Swift for Android programing. I'm already using Kotlin, a language very close to Swift, for programming our Android apps. But I find Swift niftier than Kotlin.
It's simple: they don't like him and wish he'd go away, but anything they could do to force him to go away would make him into a martyr, and he'd be even more a pain to them as a martyr than not.
> Everyone is compensated in the building of a business, in exactly the amounts they demand to be compensated.

No, they are compensated in what is agreed to by both sides - which is not necessarily fair or representative of the part they played in building the business.
Sometimes it's useful to be able to prove a file was created /before/ a given time.

For example, if you download a signed executable, but the signing certificate expired a while ago, does that mean you don't trust the executable? If you don't trust it, every executable would eventually break when the signing certificate went out of date. The solution is to require a cryptographic timestamp proving the executable was generated at a time when the code signing certificate was valid.

That's how you can download Java applets that were published and signed in 2005 and still know the signature is valid. Not that many people are using that technology these days!
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I like this, and have used it in the past. I love having all my software (data & configuration) in plain text.

That said, I have found Emacs' org-mode better to suit my rather simple needs---structuring my tasks in a kanban-like format. There's even a Trello to org-mode sync system, just in case you collaborate with people.

In general, I find kanban a very good way to structure work because it defines the next task very clearly and limits work in progress.
"Wouldn't it be nice to live in a society where "everyone" enjoyed the gift of giving?"

I fully agree with this, even though I completely disagree with the concept of taxation. If you have to have taxation to somehow collectively pay for the things society supposedly "needs", then have everyone pay for it. We are, after all, in the same boat, so we should all pay for it. And when I say everyone, I really mean everyone that has any income.

Though, to be fair, I live in a society where something close to 90% (the bottom-most earners) don't pay any income-tax at all. And stuff, society and government function. Sort of.
Wikipedia is a great resource, though if you ever build a climate model you will find it wrong in this case. For clarity, one of the really important effects is reducing peak temperature as black body radiation is T^4. Thus nitrogen prevents IR radiation instead of absorbing it, though in either case it's still increasing average temperature.

PS: Sorry, you could not find the reply button and feel the need for sock puppets.
I consider that I'm entitled to keep talking to you, as long as you keep talking to me. It chafes to be told otherwise. On top of that, you're asking me to do something that you could have accomplished yourself, by simply not asking me to do it. That feels like some kind of bizarre power grab.

These things make me want to push back and do the opposite of what you want, just to annoy you.

However, very well: I will not reply to you again in this thread, even if you choose to reply to me.

I don't intend to deliberately avoid replying to you in future.
So Ballmer is the ultimate PHB?

This is a great way to build a career, but if you look at his track record at Microsoft, I'm not sure Ballmer is the guy we want to be emulating. He was hard-headed, amazingly risk-averse when it came to Microsoft's core platforms, and was not a great manager (he was unable to control a lot of the culture problems that plagued Microsoft in the early 2000s).

It's fine to make bold moves that fail, but Ballmer's failed moves weren't really all that bold. They were big, but not incredibly bold, and were often doubling down on a failing business inside Microsoft.
The legal structure has nothing to do with the principal here, stop obfuscating the argument.
Someone in Ireland rubber stamps the paperwork so that Google can avoid paying US taxes on that London based transaction. Not British taxes.
But for writing actual programs, the complexity of using matters as much as the complexity of understanding.

(I recognize that this doesn't invalidate the point you are trying to make in the parent post. They aren't incompatible with human understanding. They're incompatible with writing programs in a reasonable amount of time, though.)
Maybe when you're worth $40bn or whatever and you plan to give 99% of it away for philanthropic purposes, you don't need to live life with such a miserly attitude?
One thing to note is that the trolley they assembled is made of steel and assembled with machine screws and a funny stud/"nut" combination. People's experience with your typical dowel/screw/quarter-turn connector wooden furniture might not have helped them that much.

However, because the trolley is pretty light (~14 kg) and its fasteners don't require much strength to screw in (vs. the larger screws in wood furniture), it might have mitigated the strength difference between men and women.
Hey, did you know that's 95% of the private sector, too?
You're 100% sure? I would expect to see registry diffs before/after FileZilla was installed, disassembled code of the subroutine accessing your passwords in the malicious program, and a network packet capture of your data being sent over the wire.
No, iirc the religion was constructed pretty much wholesale during the opium wars to convince people that the Chinese were an intelligent people with a rich cultural history who we shouldn't be genociding. There are a bunch of books about it, this blog post gives an overview of the situation and links to a bunch of the books: https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/a-new-world-rel...

I haven't really spent any time reading up on it, but they talk about it all the time on the Buddhist Geeks podcast, and presumably they'd be in the know since they are/were students at Naropa.
It is ironic that school reform efforts focus so much on metrics to rate teachers and "hold them accountable." Yet, when the school reform efforts themselves fail horribly, they suddenly tell us that the metrics don't tell the whole story as they rush to find whatever scapegoat they can.

"Accountability for you, not for me" seems to be the motto of the movement.
I actually read this PR as trolling against GPL folks, in the vein of making fun of their license of choice. Seeing that people have also thought differently, it would perhaps be better not to blame a group at all.
Because I can't walk up to a stranger, do something (for them or otherwise), and demand payment.

Why does anyone else?
Females produce considerably (orders of magnitude) less testosterone (as well as other androgens) than males why is this surprising?
http://www.healthline.com/health/low-testosterone/testostero...

That said if it has any actual effect on Women varies, females would be in general much less sensitive to androgens to begin with (females have considerably less androgen receptors most of which will be present in the ovarian cells) so the effect on them will not be even close to the effect on males.
Yes, I'm sure GWB staffed his cabinet with "experts." Yes.
Folks donating to the common good are well advised to do it in a way that minimizes taxes. They go together; no conflict at all.
This is my case exactly. What else can it possibly do? It tells me the time, wiggles my wrist for all my appts, reminders, messages, slacks, and even answer phone calls. Oh and it tracks my pathetic exercise and motion as a bonus.

I can now leave my iPhone6 on my desk at work, and on a table and home and never have to carry it around with me (at those locations). It does exactly what a >Watch< should do. It's not a computer it's a 2nd screen for my phone.
"It uses human-readable text files for storage. It imports and exports JSON, so your data is never held captive"

I'm a really, really big fan of this.
http://genius.com/ has a literature section and allows you to annotate and discuss arbitrary web pages.

If you are interested in building such a product yourself and want to approach it more from the multiplayer document annotation platform angle than the specialized book forum angle the Memex, Ted Nelson's writing (especially Literary Machines) and Wikipedia's reference templates are also worthwhile sources of inspiration.
Thank you for stating what the literature on this topic actually suggests.
Before the skeptical comments rush in, can we for a moment take a step back and appreciate this. Facebook has a lot of leaders who has worked in the industry for long and I am sure they understand the value as much as we do. There’s a very strong possibility that FB did this without any motives.
> > Something may well be formally simple but at the same time incompatible with human cognition.

> Do you have a concrete example?

Brainfuck?
The only people who care about free SSL certs would know enough about Let's Encrypt to know facebook didn't do much. LE isn't something most people find interesting.
I believe I saw Lattner once describe a self-hosting compiler for Swift as an anti-goal, at least before the design had stabilized.

Aside from the value of maintaining LLVM as a shared codebase, the concern was that writing a compiler in Swift could bias early language design tradeoffs towards decisions that would make it easier to write a compiler at the expense of the larger universe of potential applications.
The Dalai Lama is the head of Tibetan Buddhism, because Tibet is (was) a theocracy, much like the Pope is the head of the Papal State and the Catholic Church. (Though this is not an exact parallel due to to the distributed nature of the Tibetan Schools)

And, if you read the article, you would see that one of the major points is that the Dalai Lama has dissolved that connection (head of religion - head of state) only relatively recently.

Calling Tibet a 'tribe' is also a little bit strange, and smacks of the way Chinese propaganda reduces the legitimacy of Tibet's claim to nationhood (and even legitimate personhood), despite Tibet's governmental and territorial sovereignty from at least 1200 AD onward. Your claim that the "[Dalai Lama] is succeeding...at conflating religion and politics" is the direct Communist Party line, even though that is being directly contradicted by the source article.

My personal reading of the article is that the Dalai Lama gave up on statehood in the 80s, and is primarily focused on preserving Tibetan culture, despite the persistent claim that he is a "wolf in sheep's clothing", and that "every word he speaks is a lie".
Chuckles. I am 165 with 15% body fat at 5'6" which puts me at overweight based on BMI.

You can be "heavier" as long as the weight is in muscle rather than lipids (fat).
Public beta of LetsEncrypt is on
Youtube Red comes with Google Play Music (and vice versa) so it's more like Netflix + Spotify.
Each individual knows what's best for themselves and also what's best for the people, duh. And the more money you have the more you know what's bester.
You trust the guy? Well, I don't. How about we vote on it.
Can we get Adobe to open source the flash player plugin as well? Can anyone think of a reason Adobe continues to refuse?
Works flawlessly on my site. SSLLabs recognises the cert. Super easy to setup.
Simple bundling is not a GPL violation, only linking.
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Linked press release from China's Institute of High Energy Physics: http://english.ihep.cas.cn/prs/Rfo/201507/t20150702_149515.h...
Facebook, the company, is planning on giving away their entire net worth? Where are you getting this from? Also isn't Facebook worth somewhere in the region of $245 billion?
One thing that significantly improved my IKEA-assembly skills:

For its cross-head screws, IKEA generally uses Pozidriv rather than Phillips screws. They're subtly different - but if you use a Phillips driver on a Pozidriv screw (or vice versa) you tend to wreck the screw head. Use the IKEA-sold screwdriver (or get a better Pozidriv set).
with that said, that forum is certainly blazing fast for page views
"Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without."
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That is because you are gaining muscle mass. Which is not bad at all.

I think BMI should be correlated with the the body fat percentage in order to estimate how many calories one should eat daily (because you are right, you cannot outrun the fork, but you can adjust a bit how many calories you can eat based on how many you burn). And, by extension, have a good indicator of a healthy energy balance.
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Just use plain directories and files. One task per file (or directory, if task has attachments).
See the part re: piecework. Furniture assemblers are not paid by the hour. They are paid by the number of items they build to an acceptable standard. Assemblers whose assembly speed is zero don't get paid. Unless your furniture shop exists only in a hypothetical math universe at the extreme end of a graph, there will be assemblers available who can build furniture adequately fast for the company to stay in business.
I think the same could be said for the vast majority of what HN contributors get up to, no need to point it out every time.
Yea that's great; he's has a clear understanding of what it means to write and maintain a third party package[1] and he's also exceptionally good at writing documentation and code samples[2].

1: https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire

2: http://nshipster.com
It's amusing choice of phrase, but librarians have been very vocal on privacy and civil rights historically.
Tangent:
>leave it to the billionaires to decide who rules - which is almost the case in the US, isn't it?

I realized a few years ago that this is the end result in any organization, but some German beat me to it in 1911.

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

>Michels theory states that all complex organizations, regardless of how democratic they are when started, eventually develop into oligarchies.
Yeah, I thought it was worth it just for the music. I'm ecstatic to hear all this news.
Right. And further, two months into the job the woman is still showing up on time, sober and ready to work. So there are lots of variables to consider.
And I would never want to work for you if you've such a dearth of humor :P

Exactly how is this inappropriate?
That's pretty misleading. The median net worth of a member of Congress is about $1 million: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-fo....

You also have to take into account that the average age of Congress is almost 60. I.e. they have been working and accumulating assets for decades. Adjusted for age, the net worth of the median Congressman is at the 80th percentile: http://www.census.gov/people/wealth/files/Wealth%20distribut.... Is 80th percentile "wealthy"? It's within one standard deviation of the median. I'd call that upper middle class.

Fun fact: the median doctor is worth over $1 million by age 50, and about $2 million by age 65: http://www.medicalpracticeinsider.com/news/which-doctors-sta....
On floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), from a nuclear power plant designer
It isn't necessary for iOS. It's still possible to write every part of an app in only Objective-C, as there are no Swift-only APIs. AFAIK, there are no indications of that changing any time soon.
Looks like a really good resource.
Thanks, I'll start with this.
I wish there were more resources like this.
I'm not saying he'll do great things, or that we should praise him. I just don't understand criticizing him because he's not doing it just right. Not because he's doing something bad, but merely because he's not doing something good enough.

If and when he does something bad, go wild with the criticism. But making your "charitable foundation" an LLC does not qualify, nor does any of the other stuff I've seen criticized so far.
:P

Am I doing this right?
>What is more democratic than direct voting with ones dollars?

Are you serious? How about voting with your voice. Next you'll be arguing that we should vote with bullets and that'll make a democracy.

There are things that you simply can't "vote with your dollars" for. And you sure as shit can't do it if you don't have any money.
Wouldn't caching be a big thing for libraries like jQuery? Its highly-likely that jQuery was used by one of the other most recent sites a user visited... why not still take advantage of the fact jQuery may be cached locally?
I don't get it, can you explain? I don't know much about licensing...
Some people I know previously asked this question to one of the Swift developers. I believe the reasoning was along the lines of (very liberally paraphrased/interpreted): Even aside from the problem of bootstrapping the compiler's compilation to start, performant compilation on C++ is a very mature and well-explored problem space. C++ already compiles on a ton of systems, and maintaining a C++-to-Swift(bootstrap compiler)-to-Swift(final compiler) compilation process is added complexity and invites repeated work.

From a language design point of view, the things needed to get a language to the point where it could successfully and efficiently compile itself would skew or re-order priorities in a much different fashion than if they were to focus on building and iterating on an applications and systems language.

tl;dr: LLVM and Clang and their assorted toolsets do quite a bit of valuable work; reinventing that to serve the language they're building is a feedback loop is a downside that also removes some upside from the equation, too.
I've heard that before. It's a good suggestion, thank you for reminding me. I'll roll that out soon.
I'm not touching your lawn. I'm not even in the same city. If what already exists does the job for you, good on you. It doesn't for us, and many other projects.

I'm not suggesting the existing software to change, I'm suggesting something new. Pitching something that doesn't exist today (the D-Lang forums linked here come quite close though). Our goal is to merge our current forums with our mailing list and not have to maintain both separately.

So I'll thank you to get off my damn lawn, you and the seven crates of entitlement you carry around.
Yes! I currently still use my apps.google.com account for free.
> Businesses are not built on the charity of the "system".

From where does the business get the college-educated workforce so that it can be viable in the first place?

The answer is that hundreds of years of prosperity has created a system where enough people are middle class, value education, foster happy and curious children that don't need to work, and can send them off to college for an education because they don't need to enter the labour force until they're twenty-something.

We stand on the shoulders of giants in many, many, many ways.
Reply to the above: Oh, you've built a climate model? Is it one of the ones that doesn't work? That'd be all of them. You're wrong about your correction and abuse won't substitute well. Now find an error or quitcher bloviating, bolviator.
FYI, if you don't want to install anything to try it out, you can use https://gethttpsforfree.com which is a browser-based ACME client. It doesn't ask for private keys, so you don't need to trust it.