skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does a negative income tax subsidize any of that? If anything, it's much more neutral regarding wage labor (since it's based on the broader definition of income in tax codes) than, obviously, minimum wage mandates.
Why use node on a large project instead of something like java/spring? Serious question btw
It wasn't always that way - it was originally intended to be a thriving area (see the office buildings in the area), but during development, the economy went sideways.
It stops on my xbox after a couple of episodes whether or not I turn the TV off
This girl was really onto something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyrFWbGiGOc
Yeah, who cares about the small brained poor kids as long as there are some big brained poor kids that make it. /s
> 120k may seem like a lot, but it isn't in several parts of the US now (e.g SF Bay Area, New York).

And national tax policy shouldn't be dictated by ~2 major urban metros.

I agree that tax policy needs to encompass more than just the salary of the working class, but let's not joke ourselves. Medicare already taxes your entire wage base, there's no reason Social Security shouldn't.

We keep kicking the can down the road, and its time to own up to the liabilities we've created.
> Sure, there are plenty of situations where that doesn't work, but as the "web as a platform" advances, and as office products on the web advance, the reasons for sticking with installed apps will continue to decline.

This is true, but it doesn't have to be one or the other. Office 365 lets you have full-strength desktop programs as well as web apps and smartphone apps, at one low price.

This may be why Office 365 seems to be growing faster than Google Docs, and why it has overtaken it, according to one survey. (1)

Of course, there are other considerations. First, most real businesses need something much more powerful than today's web apps. Second, Microsoft Office is a programmable platform with a huge range of third-party add-ons. Third, a lot of big companies have two decades of Office programming and Office documents. Even if they really want to move everything to the cloud, they're going to run hybrid and in-house cloud systems for a long time....

(1) http://www.computerworld.com/article/2974016/enterprise-appl...
I'd still always take NodeJS over Ruby when I'm stuck on Windows though. Ruby on Windows is a dumpster fire...
Simple workaround. Copy the article title and paste it into a Google search. When Google is the referrer, they drop the paywall [1]. For NYTimes and WSJ articles, this works almost every time.

[1] http://www.techtimes.com/articles/38718/20150310/7-ways-to-g...
I believe the parent has posted and explained exactly what he meant.

But here's how I understood it:
He was exaggerating a bit for the purpose of making his argument a little more punchy, and phrases like "most of whom can't even swap a tire for a donut without calling AAA" are clearly meant to have an element of humor to them. You took his words at absolute face value without stopping to think that they might be meant as something else.
I'm still trying to get past the idea that any significant number of people would rather SELL a broken iPod that was still under warranty, rather than get a warranty replacement themselves.
> I'm from the South and can't go home without being made fun of for "doing computers".

I'm from the South and have never heard of an adult being made fun of for working with computers. And my family on both paternal and maternal sides is very Southern, having been in SC/NC since before the Revolutionary War.

I have noticed that some family tease a lot about anything and everything, but this seems to cross regions and countries.
I'm from the Deep South, I work with computers, and I've never encountered anyone with that attitude. My minority friends on the other hand...
Powell's in Portland temporarily had a separate Technical Annex, but it only lasted a short time (a year?) before being absorbed back into the main building.
Actually Microsoft has a patent on something similar [1]. It uses Kinect to sense your mood before delivering an appropriate ad.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2012/happy-sad-microsoft-system-targ...
>Look up the term dead weight losses to get an idea of how bad government spending is for the economy versus private spending.

Look up the term Fiscal Multiplier to get an idea how good government spending is for the economy vs private spending.
Really? Because I don't see OP making that generalization; I see OP talking about "snobs". The one generalizing from "snobs" to the entire East Coast, and/or everyone with a tertiary education, is you. I wonder why.
I like to think one of my better skills as a developer is asking a lot of dumb questions, and one rule in particular is to always ask what new acronyms stand for. Sounds like it wouldn't help me much in government. . . . :-)
Spaceballs was not supposed to be a documentary.
...Isn't one of the tropes of the left that you can't just reject the experiences of others offhand in such a manner? Maybe the parent has been run out of places when his views were known. Who are you to just reject that and say that's wrong?
Speaking as someone who does: Those of us who do are often raised in a very religious place among very religious people, it's a big part of our lives. Rationally, I have no reason to believe in any God. That's why it's called a belief.

It's a lot more to do with the culture one grows up with than the belief itself, and anything you learn at such a young age is difficult to shake loose of completely.

Personally, I used to be a strong Lutheran, I'd say I'm now 20% Lutheran and 80% agnostic, but even that has far less to do with me intellectually not recognizing my God and a lot more to do with frustrations over the behaviors of organized religions.

In short: For a lot of people that I know and myself, religion is far less believing that God is going to help you in some way (frankly, if you know your Bible, you know God's help tends to come in rather rough and leaves a lot of things broken so you don't really want it anyway) and lot more in believing that it's just a nicer universe to live in if you assume that you simply cease to exist at the point of death and there is nothing but...well, nothing awaiting you over that line.
You really need an example on the front page
They used to use dns, i think. Not sure if they still use that.

I read about it some time ago.
They are not - this is exactly the problem I am alluding to.
I would be happy to deep dive on this one, as I several of my 1000-level poltical science courses covered what we think of and how we classify and rank countries.

The most basic thought is to begin at the lowest common denominator. What is it that all countries will agree to when placed into comparison. That is the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI). It contains Life expectancy at birth.
Education index: Mean years of schooling and Expected years of schooling.
A decent standard of living: GNI per capita (PPP US$).

Now from here you could rank GROSS DOMESTIC HAPPINESS, but that is a garbage index if you ask me as a political scientist and a champion of the free world. The top grossing country on that list is a country that imprisons and tortures.

But I gather it makes sense to triangulate the facts from the CIA World Factbook, Heritage Foundation Freedom Index which covers press freedom and the extent of freedom of speech, and a sprinkle of transparency thus the Corruptions Perception Index from Transparency International. Now whether you're east thinking or west thinking you might also want to include another sprinkle of Amnesty International and quantify or qualitatively add its reportings to the mix.

What you will find that the initial HDI gives a pretty darn clear and precise estimate of where you would want to live and where in the world could be deemed as "developing" as in not yet reached the top-end of the list.

This is a scientific endavour, and it is not meant to hurt anybody's feelings.

Also: You can downvote me or upvote me as much as you want. This is how the real world approached this problem.
I'm curious, how exactly were you forced to pray at school events?

Regardless, maybe the intellectuals should stop being hostile, have an honest dialogue with such people, and maybe they'll get somewhere.
To an American it's always amusing when a European tells us our political system is unsatisfactory. Over and over and over again. Never gets old. No, really. Keep it up.
And E is for Elon... woops, wrong driver-less car company.
I don't know, I'm not a leftist. Though what you seem to be describing are postmodernism and moral relativism, and I know plenty of left-wing people who reject both.

Again, the term "left" is useless without defining it first. I have no idea what the hell you actually mean when you say "left".
There's a lot of gray in the requirement that design be "functional". The helix in Gates hall at CMU is a great example. Technically it allows people to traverse from the bottom to top of the building, but it's a really shitty way that happens to look pretty.
> the affordability and draw of public UC Berkley where Jobs and Wozniaki met.

Didn't Jobs quit college because it was too expensive?
that is only true if you know the name in advance.
Considering List::Util I can look at the module documentation for a function that returns the first element for each pair in a list and fine "pairkeys" but I would probably not make the name up and match what the package author thought.
Futurama and the Simpsons are really the main shows this applies to, as in both the opening credits have been made to be a feature of the episode.

Simpsons have of course taken it far more extreme than Futurama, by making the sofa gag into an at time extremely elaborate part of the show.
they might have a "binge-ness" score for every show. If they know people usually don't binge more than three episodes of Scandal then they can safely assume that the TV has been left on when the fourth episode kicks in.

They may even construct segmented binge patterns where they know episodes 3 to 6 of House Of Cards usually gets binged where as episodes 1 and 2 usually do not.

Building and training these segments would appear random to the end user but after awhile should be good at guessing when the TV has been left on or the user is binge watching.
CGI Animation Tech Demo
JS is a programming language not an implementation.
> like Tesla, which loses ~$4K on every Model S they sell

Could we please stop parroting this blatant falsehood? Their net loss for a particular operating period, when amortized over all the vehicles they sold in that period, came out to ~$4,000 per vehicle. That is not, in any way, shape, or form, the same as losing that money on each vehicle sold.
The great song by NOFX, Eat the Meek comes to mind.

The factory mass producing fear, bottled capped
Distributed near and far sold for a reasonable price
The people, they love it, they feed it
Brush with it, bathe with it, breathe it
Inject it direct to the blood
It seems to be replacing love

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=93cVK8Zaxss
> Or increase taxes? Social security taxation is limited to the first ~$120K of someone's income. Why?

The theory, I believe, is that this is tied to the maximum amount of income that is counted in the benefits formula for SS. OTOH, there's no reason you couldn't count more income toward benefits (there's already at least one bend point where the amount of benefits for each additional dollar of lifetime qualifying income/contributions is reduced, so if you are concerned with the distribution of benefits if more income is counted, you could also add additional bend points.)

If you wanted to go further, you could include personal capital income (perhaps with some limit, or perhaps open ended, with additional bend points, as necessary, as discussed above for increasing/removing the limit on labor income) as SS taxable (and in SS benefit calculations). Given that at least some capital returns are a result of active personal management that can become less practical with age or disability for the same reason that labor can, it makes as much sense to preserve a safety-net retirement for those retiring from such active management as for those retiring from wage labor.
"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page18.htm
Interesting footnote about Google and Facebook
Looking forward to a few years time when they rename the company Google again.
Is this why Amazon waited a day before alerting me that my card was declined (bad month/year)? Almost missed a shipping window because of it.
I use Slack often, and yes I know about the search feature.

How do I find the answer to a question that was posted two months ago, for an open source project that is not paying to keep more than 10K messages?

History vanishes with Slack. I get why this is very cool for internal communication. I just question the use of Slack for open source community driven projects.
It's amazing to me that the top-rated comment in this thread broadly generalizes both "coastal intellectuals" and "Middle America" with insulting stereotypes.

I'm embarrassed that the upvoters of this comment actually agreed with this comment. One trip to Houston or Minneapolis is enough to verify the presence of a thriving arts and culture scene. The anti-intellectual Middle America trope is not factual.

One trip to Winchester, VA or Davidsonville, MD (Washington, DC suburbs) will reveal farming communities that exude pragmatism. Hell, there's a popular trap shooting range in Greenbelt, MD.

If DC or some other bogeyman city is so hostile to "bible-thumping", how can you explain the large church attendance there?

I think this comment is a reaction to a handful of personal experiences that you had. The rest of your comments aren't as hyperbolic as this one. I agree that it is frustrating when dealing with rude people, but to generalize about similar folks is exactly the thing that bugs you!
What would your thoughts be about integrating this into an open API service? Where photos could be uploaded, and then delivered to a storage system (Flickr, S3, Dropbox) of one's choice?
> Because taxing those people won't solve the real issue? I pay more in taxes every year on my income than many millionaires do because my income is primarily salary instead of stocks, etc.

Taxing capital income like other income is another possible solution.
How is it not impressive to take bits of knowledge from multiple domains (programming, instrumentation, electrical engineering, control laws, etc) and fuse them together into a single thing?

We all take from the good work of those around us. But how many people seriously do things with that work? Not many, and disdaining people who do so is not productive or, in my view, a good thing.
In practice, you're generally fine if you're not in the office. This may be a harder distinction for remote employees, though.

But in general, "salaried" has not been construed to mean "the company owns every minute outside the office."
Thanks! Listening to the recording, I'm reasonably sure I can distinguish the two different frequencies, but there's no denying they sound very similar. They're so close there's less than a semitone between them.
Norwegian adventurer spends 6 months alone in the N.W.T. wilderness
Seconded on Strava. Having such a nice tool to record my cycling makes me want to go cycling more often.
Hyperbole serves no master. Employ it to bolster a point, and we might use our fancy coastal intelligences to reason that the point is probably weak.
Already well underway. From a patent held by Sony Computer Entertainment America Llc [0]:

http://i.imgur.com/bPz5i7A.png

[0] http://www.google.com/patents/US8246454
Good point. Perhaps someone has been busy at the trade board.
As an American I'm always confused by this kind of statement. From what I've read of European politics it really doesn't seem that different in the rhetoric, just in how the different parties and individuals refer to themselves. The laws and systems are different, but to me the politicians are roughly the same.
Put cameras on them 24/7, you get a 300 million person watchdog service and create quite a few jobs with CSPANs 4-8.
Once upon a time in a land long forgotten, before being a holding company for Alibaba investment, Yahoo was actually doing interesting stuff. You could say Yahoo was Google before Google was Google.

They did things like Yahoo webpage hyperlink connectivity graph, and tons of other research.
They want series A numbers at a seed-stage price.
> Don't forget war.

This is really the broken window fallacy.
I'm European, I just consider certain US politicians as more left or right wing than others.

But relatively speaking, the pattern holds true even in places with different political norms and what not. The media is disdain for people who don't agree with the academic/media/whatever narrative are vilified, they turn to candidates with some questionable views because they don't treat them terribly and it just starts spiraling out of control.
It's like Mariah Carey's running through a forest of wind chimes and you can just make out her voice through the chaos!
Who the truck would suggest bitcoin? Most people would suggest the services he is already using like PayPal.
I also hard-code versions, but many dependencies float their own dependency versions, so you occasionally end up with broken sub-dependencies unless you shrinkwrap. Plenty of other package managers suffer from this type of issue as well, though.
That's a baseless assumption. America discussed gun control following the shootings in Charleston, S.C., as well.
> Could just be a way to let it die without loss of face.

An odd way to save face: promoting it to a listed company whose financials they are going to have to regularly provide information on? This makes it higher profile and provides more documentation on any demise.

If they wanted to save face, the right thing to do would be to keep it as part of the research division to continue burying its expenses as part of aggregates, slash it, and a few years from now post on an obscure blog "we are pleased at the success of the many self-driving car companies which followed our groundbreaking results, and consider our goals achieved; hence, we will be deleting all our websites related to that a year from now".
Or, you might laugh? It is funny.

Taking this single little point and then using it to systematically reject the whole argument is an example of what the parent was ranting about.
Yeah - imagine the energy and resources needed to pack and ship bottles of air halfway around the world, all because your current country is too polluted.
How would you price 'legit' facebook accounts?
You should enable these services for the credit cards:

Verified By Visa -> https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/small-business-tools/...
MasterCard SecureCode -> https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/consumers/features-benefits/...
> and phrases like "most of whom can't even swap a tire for a donut without calling AAA" are clearly meant to have an element of humor to them.

Its seems quite likely to be (insulting) hyperbole, but I don't see the humor. (I suppose it kind of sounds funny if you aren't used to the use of the term "donut" to refer to a reduce-size, limited-speed spare tire, since talking about swapping a tire for a donut would in that case be an absurdity.)
Oops my mistake. I coulda swore.

Still wishing.
Why is this not getting massive attention here on Hackernews? Right now a post about a dude hacking together a selv driving car has garnered 5X the amount of votes on this post (not that the other post isn't interesting).

Remember that:

Apple, Reddit, Twitter, the Business Software Alliance, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and other tech firms have all publicly opposed the bill. And a coalition of 55 civil liberties groups and security experts all signed onto an open letter opposing the bill in April. Even the Department of Homeland Security itself has warned in a July letter that the bill could flood the agency with information of “dubious value” at the same time as it “sweep[s] away privacy protections.”

http://www.wired.com/2015/10/cisa-cybersecurity-information-...

Isn't this massive news?

I mean the bill in itself is horrible policy making, but the way it's being snuck in is scandalous in its own right.

Have i misunderstood something?
Yeah, I agree basically, I was just disputing your claim that (all) sentient being choose their ethical codes. I mean, maybe, but sometimes it's a bit of a forced choice.
If you're running Windows 10 I would suggest checking out the Office "mobile" apps in the Windows Store. They remind me of the clean simplicity of google doc's webapps quite a bit.
Shame, I didn't know that it's now gone. I went there once and it was heaven! In Vancouver we had a shop devoted solely to computer books, it was called "Unihall". That's where I met my first O'Reilly book (X11 manual). It's now gone. There was another chain called "Half-Price Computer Books". It was awesome too. Also gone. :-( Also Duthies Technical too. And Siliconnections. Wow, we had a whole bunch of these in Vancouver...
Microsoft deepens longstanding commitment to philanthropy
> Atom couples that with bad architecture and engineering choice

How? (Other than choosing HTML and JS in the first place)
I used to buy books at Computer Literacy ages ago, I probably still have one of their T-shirts in a box. Borders Books had a good selection of serious computer books in the stores in Silicon Valley. I would buy books there when I had a coupon. The Stanford Bookstore on campus has a great selection, including all of Don Knuth's books.

Amazon's discounting is obviously a problem. O'Reilly books has a daily email with one (or sometimes all) of their books in ebook format for half off.

There is large online marketplaces of used books, including used textbooks, which further undercuts new book sales.
Right, it would help to put $ directly into consumers hands versus buy bonds and putting it back on to bank balance sheets who will not necessarily lend it back out.
They apparently closed only last year, but I remember going there in the late 90s or so.
Yeah you misreading it because on slides there is few different things and some of them was already announced in past:

* Open source game and rendering middleware, tools and most of it is for Direct3D11/12, but some things is OpenCL / OpenGL. None of it can be AMD-only because it's all based around standard APIs. Techs that Nvidia provide with GameWorks only support hardware acceleration on top of CUDA which is proprietary.

* HSA-related stuff include compiler from CUDA. I'm not expert in this area, but HSA is also not just AMD-only thing and there is several companies backing it.

* Linux graphics stack. It's of course AMD-only, but AMD announced that they'll open source their OpenCL and Vulkan implementation so other vendors may benefit of it.

So no. They don't release things that can only be used with AMD GPUs or anything like that. What more important anyone can take MIT licensed code and turn it into the proprietary product, etc.
I was thinking about this earlier and I have a question about inflation. Could increasing the interest rate cause inflation to rise a bit in the near term?

My reasoning for this is that given that banks were borrowing at near zero, could they have had no real reason to put all the borrowed money to work since it wasn't costing them anything to hold it in reserve for later when the rates did increase? Now that the rates are increasing would they not have to use the money a bit to ensure they stay ahead of the interest rates. I was also thinking that there is a threshold at which banks wouldn't have any more money that is just sitting there and having to borrow at higher rates reduces their demand for new funds from the fed thus undoing this initial effect to the hike.

Hopefully this isn't completely naive. Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding how the fed and banks relationship works.