skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Georgist ideal is problematic because it exalts "land" as being this special component of the general welfare over another factor of production. Yet, all production of capital goods and consumer goods must start from nature-given resources (thus land) mixed with labor. A land value tax would then be a penalty on the entire time structure of production.

I'd wager a government levying an LVT would negate its benefits since such an undertaking would give it sufficient velocity to expand its actions and thus be able to collude with the private sector in all the other, more damaging I'd think, forms of rent-seeking.

The progressive income tax has become a failure due to the wealth elasticity of demand being higher amongst those with more assets (thus being least sensitive to it), along with them finding it easier to avoid it. I don't see an LVT as faring much better.
When it said turn off all the lights, i was thinking, what a thing to say.... the whole room would go dark :D
How lottery insider allegedly fixed jackpots
a milder example in the west: Atlanta cheating scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheat...

Maybe the nsa can help... This is at least a little terror.
If you believe the Sanders camp, this sounds a lot like the Instagram bug bounty issue [1] that appeared on HN recently. Someone from the Sanders campaign identified a bug and to prove their was an issue grabbed private data that they should have never had the ability to access. That is questionable ethically whether they looked at the data or not. The DNC also can't immediately tell if it is the truth or if the data was taken maliciously. Given that, I don't think it is unreasonable to temporarily shut out the Sander campaign until it was fixed. Although if I was in charge, I would shut out all campaigns until the matter is fully investigated. It isn't fair to disable one campaign if there was nothing malicious happening. (Never mind, see edit)

EDIT: Actually on seconding reading the Sander's lockout was not for security reasons and was only done by the DNC in awaiting full details from the campaign. In that instance it wouldn't make sense to suspend any other campaign's access. They are punishing the Sanders campaign in hopes that it causes a quick confession of the exact details of what data the campaign accessed and retained. I still don't think that response is as unreasonable as some Sander supporters are alleging.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194
I started at device control. Once I get device control where I want it on my home server, I'll expand out to being able to reach it elsewhere, and then voice.
He treats all women with a common courtesy... and all men with that same courtesy.

Did you misread the bit about "holding the door open for a lady"? Hint: the reason he does so is not because of her gender, has nothing to do with "being a gentleman" or anything else your parents taught you that you're dragging into this thread before anyone else did. The reason I know is because he calls it a "common courtesy" in a "similar light" to his position on being respectful with your language regardless of the gender of your listeners, and disavows one sexist justification for holding the door for women specifically. He probably brought up the door thing because some people have the idea that women are offended by having a man hold a door for them, precisely because it used to be chivalrous. And a counter-meme is that few real women are like that, so who knows, but this swearing anecdote seems a point in favor of the first idea. Did you see that he used the word "lady" and your chivalry detectors flared up and refuse to take anything else he says at face value? Was the comment edited after your reply? I was there around that time and it seems unlikely.

Since I had to dig a bit to justify it above, I can understand how you've misinterpreted it. The comment may have been sloppily written, or has a certain subtle sense of humor/sarcasm/analogy, or maybe even trolling by appearing sexist but being technically not.. but if you read it carefully and maybe a bit charitably I really believe it means pretty much the opposite of what you thought.

You probably still hold back on some "bad language" to men and women you don't know well, or you wouldn't call it "bad language." That was the main point.
That's why Go succeeds too.
Attempting to be fair and objective isn't a delusion, it's an effort. Similarly, I try to be kind to people, but sometimes I'll get a little irritated — this doesn't mean I'm deluded into thinking I'm perfectly kind, and it also doesn't mean I'm just as mean as somebody who revels in other people's pain.

Put another way: Just because no software is 100% error-free doesn't mean it's better to go with software that has had no QA whatsoever and is known to be very buggy.
Right? Bernie just got some endorsements (which he has been sorely lacking), and all of a sudden this company (the CEO of which is a public Clinton supporter) has a problem that affects the Sanders campaign but not the Clinton campaign, on word from the company that there was a bad actor in the Sanders campaign but not the Clinton campaign.

Sure it's possible that the Sanders campaign did exploit this and the Clinton campaign did not. But I'm skeptical as hell given the political allegiances of the company's leadership.
Not recreational dosages. At serious addiction levels yes.

It would be like saying having a couple of recreational beers on a Friday causes liver failure. It doesn't. Drinking a bottle of whiskey every day for an extended period of time, perhaps.

Same with Ketamine
Right? I thought I was still asleep when I opened the news to see a Sanders headline, until I read the story
>However, they were relatively few in number and there is no evidence they were silenced as the original post I was replying to implied.

Yeah I think there is a little miscommunication, you are limiting the silence to economists and not extending it to people in finance which is what I did in OP. It was more the finance people with evidence were silenced, in the whistle-blower sense of the word, and economists who did acknowledge what was occurring were ignored.

As OP, I never qualified my statement as "large scale", I simply stated the article ignored the reality that economists and financial insiders did make attempts blow the whistle. Now since neither of us knows the exact numbers, I'm not going to bicker over qualifications I never invoked such as "large scale", what ever "large scale" means to you subjectively.

Scale aside, silencing happened all the same, just look at the whistle blower lawsuits against the big banks: BOA; JP Morgan Chase; Countrywide; etc...

All of them had employees/investigators who discovered fraud and they were subsequently fired for blowing the whistle. Perhaps these examples fall more under the financial insiders I noted rather than economists, though I assume more economists would have got it right had the whistle blowers not been silenced.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/09/22/6687/countrywide-p...

>the investigators were able to uncover what they believed was evidence that branch employees had used scissors, tape and Wite-Out to create fake bank statements, inflated property appraisals and other phony paperwork. Inside the heaps of paper, for example, they found mock-ups that indicated to investigators that workers had, as a matter of routine, literally cut and pasted the address for one home onto an appraisal for a completely different piece of property.

>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witn...

>A few months into her tenure, Fleischmann would later testify in a DOJ deposition, the bank hired a new manager for diligence, the group in charge of reviewing and clearing loans. Fleischmann quickly ran into a problem with this manager, technically one of her superiors. She says he told her and other employees to stop sending him e-mails. The department, it seemed, was wary of putting anything in writing when it came to its mortgage deals.
In this specific case yes, but so is the await await as shown at https://youtu.be/4OCUEgSNIAY?t=3545 in your linked talk.

The nice thing is that join is recursive in the quicksort example and that means its equivalent to the await await syntax in practical terms. Which also means when both are finished it will return.

let mid = partition(v);
let (lo, hi) = v.split_at_mut(mid);
Future:of(|| quick_sort::<J,T>(lo)).await(),
Future:of(|| quick_sort::<J,T>(hi)).await());

Is exactly the same in parallelism as this

let mid = partition(v);
let (lo, hi) = v.split_at_mut(mid);
J::join(|| quick_sort::<J,T>(lo),
|| quick_sort::<J,T>(hi));

Except that join gives better scheduling due to work stealing which will avoid unbalanced cpu usage.

My Rust is non existent but conceptually Rayon is similar to java9 parallel streams which I know well.
I guess you can look at it that way. But the "rent" that Uber and AirBnB are demanding, is actually from a very tangible service that they provide: Uber, for finding a cab, AirBnB, for finding a place to live. I would gladly pay this "rent" to make use of their service.

Software patents on the other hand, don't seem to do anyone a service, and yet we have to pay a price for them.
"Trading of private property rights" is redundant, because it's literally just trade. That's not rent-seeking.
10,000 sq ft home

average home owner

Seems like you're targeting multimillionaires. Just looking at the Portland metro area (nowhere near the largest target market), there are about 6 homes currently for sale that are over 10k sqft. Ranging from 1.5M way out in the burbs to 8M+. It's likely going to need quite a lot of polish to have a large uptick for such a small total audience.
A pull request or filing and following up on an issue with an existing project in Github is just as valuable (maybe more so) then writing something of your own/new and releasing it out there.

And with PHP, it isn't a sexy language, but a lot of the web still uses it despite the hype on more popular languages and tools.
Because of the audit, they were quickly able to identify who was accessing data they shouldn't have been able to access. Presumably the temporary lockout is not to prevent further data breaches, as that bug was already fixed, but to minimize the potential damage of the data breach they did identify.
I expected this anecdote to be from the person responsible for "smart quotes".
Wikipedia says:

> Tacitus relates a rumour that 80,000 Britons fell for the loss of only 400 Romans.[12] However the figures quoted for the campaign in the ancient sources are regarded by modern historians as extravagant.[21][22]
It can also lead to attempts to actually be more objective. Remember, you're contrasting them to authors who attempt to advance an agenda, and are almost certainly therefore deliberately being less objective.
Here is his TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/manu_prakash_a_50_cent_microscope_...
Would you work for the government? A lot of people don't even show up in December, let alone Fridays. Let me know if you're interested in swapping desks ;)
Pledge is much easier to user that seccomp-bpf and is now forced in more than half of the binary distribuited in the base system.
Also, there is a big difference between having a technology and enforcing the technology: Seccomp has been included in linux for a very long time, but is ignored by most developers and not used except in specific instances (ie chrome as you pointed out)
All I can say is good luck with that project.
By the normal definition companies running a matching service or a platform for advertisers aren't engaged in rent seeking because they're providing a service.
> and also most other rich countries subsidize the training of doctors.

The US actually does subsidize the training of doctors, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year through Medicare alone.

That said, most people don't realize how heavy of a debt load doctors carry. Doctors reported incomes are much larger than their actual take-home pay due to things like malpractice insurance, which means that in the end, it's not unusual for a doctor these days to plan to make their last payment on these loans in their forties.

Put another way: most doctors are literally past what is thought of as childbearing age by the time their "investment" has broken even, and that's not even counting things like a mortgage, etc. that many people would want to have when starting a family.
4 Months of serious coding, tutorial request site is finally complete (the beta)
The idea behind this site is to let a self-moderated community vote on tutorial requests themselves. This would give teachers a better idea of what to blog about or vlog about etc. This could also improve the quality of tutorials. . After posting this on reddit and linkedin, we received 4k pageviews and a lot of criticism. I put in a ton of fixes and am planning on completely refactoring the backend to use graphql, which i must say is really really sweet. It does have a few shortcomings though, but that might jsut be me being new to it.

At any rate, the project ended up spurring me into creating a handful of react components. One is a markdown preview editor, another is an avatar uploader, and I released the website (both server and client) as open source, not to mention I recored myself the entire time making it while on livecoding.tv .

The real fun was being a part of open source and learning a ton about es6, react, nodejs, and more. My only regret is not unit testing enough.
The red light cameras I've seen trigger when someone approaches a red light without slowing down quickly enough. Sometimes, late at night, I make a game of setting them off on purpose, by waiting til the last minute to brake. They wouldn't fire if you stopped, waited, then continued after determining that the detector hadn't noticed you.
lol, this existed since dos 3.2, back when windows 1.0 was a command-line executable really.
Having actually used NGP-VAN, I think it's far more likely that this was a bug, not a conspiracy. The VAN is a real clunker in many ways, so it's not surprising that a bug like this would appear; and public exposure of a conspiracy to sabotage Sanders would be so catastrophic to the Clinton campaign that I think it's highly unlikely that NGP-VAN would do it.
I suspect its pretty certain, it certainly held true when I was working there and that was before Google was 50K employees. The flip side though is you may not make it to 5 years. A lot of employees don't (which is less commonly talked about) but Google has always tried pretty hard to not retain people who weren't providing what they considered an appropriate level of contribution.

So if you start working at Google, and you make it to 5 years, then yes I'm sure you'll be making $250k+ total compensation.
Competition is generally a good thing, just saying.
No. The things I was responding to were gone. Other than questioning 5+ edits in 15 minutes that kept changing the majority of your post my other replies didn't make sense. Now that I'm home from my drive I'll take a look at what you've got and see if I can still make another relevant reply.
At FB, my first job out of college, my W2 income was: 110k (started midway through the year), 300k, 350k.
Unfortunately, there are two types of depression, neither of which seemingly have anything to do with one-another. One is situational depression, where you're unhappy because, well, shit sucks. The other is clinical depression which can happen completely independent of your life circumstances.
If she happened to take a quantitative methods focus for her PhD in Poli-Sci she could possibly head for the data science segment. Even better if she already knows R.
Thanks, this is helpful. I'm a seasoned muddler myself, so I'm sure I can figure it out.
...and the slides and linked presentation address this. Here is the slide: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00011.h...

And here is a link into the presentation video: https://youtu.be/F_7S1eqKsFk?t=13m2s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10758333
I don't think NGP-VAN is involved. I believe the DNC is using this "crisis" (never let one go to waste, am I right?) in order to discredit Sanders' campaign (as the DNC is cozy with the Clintons).
Maybe a distinction should be made between people who are aware of their source of depression and people who are not? Like it makes sense to be depressed if you're living in abject poverty. People can point to it and say I know why I'm depressed. That seems different from someone who lives in a secure environment, feels valued, has meaningful relationships, engages in rewarding work, etc. All these things that should lead to a happy life but this person still feels bad. That's definitely a different thing, no?
That is pretty clearly sexism. You don't have to apologize for it; people will just think you're an asshole.
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But the paper in question included "patent and copyright protection" and the entire financial sector in its definition of rents. That's just odd.
Nice! How long have you been there? It'd be interesting to hear how things have gone running Haskell in prod (and hiring, and such) since your guys' blog post in March of 2014.

Gotcha. It also doesn't help that many of the canonical learning materials (e.g. LYAH, or Real World Haskell) are slowly drifting out of date.
fnmatch () { case "$2" in $1) return 0 ;; *) return 1 ;; esac ; }
So much for needing Bash’s “[[” command...

I've bookmarked this article. However, I think the author advocates too strongly for custom functions which "know better" than native functionality. It seems to be written more for the situation of "my personal shell scripts" than a "codebase". I wouldn't, for example, want to work in a codebase where people have redefined `echo` using the shell function he suggests. With a different name, perhaps.
Oh having used enough "enterprise" software in my day, I have very few doubts that this was a bug. I only have doubts that Sanders' campaign would have discovered this while the Clinton campaign did not. Both have presumably talented people working for them, it strikes me as unlikely that both sides were not a party to malfeasance. As such, it would not surprise me if the company leadership were covering for the Clinton campaign.
Strangely enough, the Department of Defense doesn't drug test (most) new employees.
They might have a good life now, but experienced bad things in their first 6 years - left alone too long, suppressed by relatives, outcast at kindergarten... We are so formable in those years, and dents are easy to be made that don't go away all by themself.
What you're looking for is Scheme, or perhaps Javascript as it existed in 1995.

The problem with the MVL approach is that ultimately people pay us to solve their problems, and don't care how complicated it makes our lives. That complexity has to go somewhere, and usually the best place for it is in the code, else you're just doing your customer's problem manually. Eventually people realize that they're writing the same code over and over again, and that they could save a lot of time as programmers if those features were just built into the language.

I'd really encourage you to study Scheme and write a few programs in it. It's famous for being the language where you can implement all the other language features in it. So for example, it's pretty common to implement your own object system in it; your programs won't be compatible with libraries that use any other object systems (which is a major reason why it's not used industrially), but you can play around with classical inheritance, prototypes, access control, multimethods, virtual dispatch, and so on all within the language. Similarly, promises, async, green threads, collections, list comprehensions, type systems, and many other language features can all be done as libraries, using the basic features of closures, continuations, macros, cons cells, and arrays. Even things like if-statements, exceptions, and loops don't need special language features, although they're standardized across implementations.
> Out of uni salary for example seems to be around 38k in Europe, whereas in US everything under 90k seems very low.

Part of that may be because your view of the US is distorted by being limited to a particularly highly-paid slice of the field in a highly-paid geographical region; 90k is close to the median salary for the highest of the non-management programming occupation titles (software engineer -- software developer and computer programmer pay less) in the BLS salary survey, and therefore pretty high paying for the technology field as a whole, rather than the level where anything under it is low for the field.
Then sign up for one then. Or don't sign up for OpenHunt. It's really that easy.
One creature can survive for millennia in the so-called 'Sea of Death'
I see plenty of jobs in QA, a lot of those remote as well. This is good for someone that is organized, thoughtful and sometimes ideally not a programmer. Writing test cases, automation, documentation of bugs, etc. This would be a pretty quick way I believe, not to minimize the role of a good QA person in anyway.
Java's Cover (2001)
FreeBSD on the desktop used be take a fair amount of fiddling. If that's no longer true then that's awesome! :)
But there is a looming population crisis, right?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=japan+birth+rate
If that's the case then the guidelines should either be changed or actually be enforced. Although I've seen dang remove the "Show HN" from posts before. To me it's misleading given the current guidelines.

I don't buy the argument that "sometimes a presentation is the only viable option." In this case and any other, the viable option is to keep working on the product until it's ready for people to test.
Depends on your definition of poor. By the official poverty standards, which except income from government programs, poor people in the US can be quite comfortable in the material sense.
"... This may not be easy, and I will expect no help from Microsoft in finding out who this person (or persons) was that made this decision, but….eventually I will find out who made this decision, and I will kill them..."

This comment was evidently submitted in 1996, 12 years before Taken was released in theatres.

edit I couldn't help but read this quote in Liam Neeson's voice.