skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are myriad ways to make obscene sums without doing anything for the world, as there are myriad ways to make an incredible impact while making relatively little.

PS: the 'spend too much' situation is the one where the poster spends $500,000 on Bengal Tigers and blow.
If they were freshly printed from the central bank it would be more palatable...
> If your objective is to encounter the limits of your strength less often

Less often in day-to-day life. Hitting your limits in the gym means that you don't hit your limits in day-to-day life as easily, so when you need to move a loaded bookshelf, or pick up your spouse and carry them across a threshold, or whatever, it's not a problem.

It's exactly like running so that when you need to run, you can. Want to make it easier to sprint when you need to catch the bus? Sprint more in general. Want to make it easier to climb the 5 floors of stairs to your office? Climb 50 on the weekends.

It's also exactly like anything else you would ever practice for. Need to do complex math at work that you don't understand? You should probably study. Annoyed that you suck at the piano? Spend time practicing at night. Is your broken Italian not satisfactory to you? Spend time speaking Italian.

It's not absurd to spend time and effort improving an area you want to improve. We practice specifically so we can perform when we need to.

(Also, the muscle mass put on when younger has a huge impact on quality of life when older. Strong people hold up better to aging in general. You might not have trouble lifting a 45lb jug of water now. Do you want to have trouble with that when you're 65, 75, 85? Putting on additional muscle early makes it easier to retain a healthy amount of muscle later in life.)
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Why Detroit Is Moving to Silicon Valley
We're talking about a people that share a common origin, physical traits, and genetic patterns. Not a religious doctrine.

The other commenter thinks that race doesn't exist. Most stuff I've read implied it did. Nobody doubts the existence of Christian religion.
It's a terrible idea, a sales tax taxes spending instead of earning which automatically is a huge tax cut to the wealthy who by definition spend a far smaller percentage of their income than the middle classes who basically spend it all. Taxes belong on income, not on spending; sales taxes are incredibly regressive.
Same here, which is why I'm a proponent of market anarchism. Central planning does not have an effective price discovery mechanism, which is one reason why we've been getting much less for much more. Just look at our shitty education system or our police, which both seem to get worse and worse the more we spend on them.

Markets allow experimentation and level the playing field, whereas states ossify corporate power and centralize wealth. Not to mention, they're based on mutually beneficial transactions between consenting individuals rather than a monopoly on violence.
Because claiming "a decentralized ride solicitation tool with a reputation system, maybe blockchain-based, could kill off Uber and Lyft almost overnight" shows you don't know what you're talking about. You don't know what Uber does or the value it adds in keeping the critical mass of drivers and customers necessary to have a functional and high performing marketplace.
I know this is about US taxes only, ( And i am not from US ). But shouldn't mortgage reduction only be acceptable if you have one property only? If you have multiple property, then you are basically accumulating asset over a long period of time.
> As a data point, my family paid 28% average federal tax

You made the mistake of earning that money by working. I am making the same mistake.

If you factor in sales taxes, property taxes, state income taxes, etc. I'm pretty sure you're giving half of what you earn to the government.
Slightly off-topic: What did you think of FB's 'Free Basics' campaign?
> What Apple owes is clear to me: pay the standard U.S. corporate tax on the standard U.S. profits.

This is exactly what they pay currently.

> Do the same for all countries.

This is what they just settled with the Italian government about; previously they thought they were legally in the clear paying Irish corporate taxes for profits from across the EU.

> The Apple problem is that its lawyers are deliberately avoiding using current tax codes, and instead essentially claiming that Apple is based in Ireland, then playing shell games with what counts as U.S. sales, U.S. profits, and also U.S. property. Apple ends up paying ~10% U.S. tax, rather than ~35%.

Apple does pay standard US corporate tax on profit from all US sales, the same 35% as any other company, and makes no claim that Apple, Inc. is located in Ireland. The Irish subsidiaries are money pools that collect Apple’s foreign profits, so that e.g. in Europe Apple pays VAT in each country but only small amounts of corporate taxes. They can then take that money and use it to acquire foreign companies, run their foreign retail/support operations, invest in manufacturing capital, fund overseas R&D offices, et cetera, or just hoard a pile of cash. In the US, Apple has simultaneously taken out big loans (because they currently get ridiculously low interest rates) which money they can use for capital expenditures in the US or dividends or whatever.

But Apple isn’t playing any shell games about US sales, profits, or property, per se. In my opinion you should do some basic research before making such obviously false accusations.

There’s plenty about the Irish tax setup that is questionable, and arguably Apple should repatriate more of its foreign profits back to the US and pay US corporate taxes on them. However, the discussion should be focused on what they currently do vs. what they should be forced to do by an improved tax code, not on some imaginary scenario based on what some other companies do.
SATA doesn't give you direct access to the DMA engine, the host decides where the data from the drive goes. If anything USB is probably more exploitable.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...

Bad copy/paste
Using open-source firmware won't get you much in the way of performance benefits if it's not using recent Linux kernels and well-maintained in-tree drivers.

And it was only recently that any routers started including CPUs that are powerful enough for high-speed packet processing. Prior to 802.11ac, basically everything was based off '90s-era single-core MIPS and the only hope of 100+Mbps throughput was to use hardware offloads that severely curtail the kinds of packet processing you can accomplish (and usually isn't supported by any open-source driver). Now we've got 1+GHz multi-core ARM processors in wireless router SoCs, but no mature drivers for them.
Regressive taxes are inherently economically destructive.

I'm sorry but its just a terrible idea.

You can get a 0 deductions system with a progressive tax system too, it isn't some magical property of a flat tax.
I'll try to explain a little bit of the history of the OS, to help explain the various factions in the Amiga community...

When Commodore was producing Amigas, the Amiga OS that ran on top of them ran from the Amiga OS 1.x series to the Amiga OS 3.x series, with Amiga 3.1 being the last version that was produced before Commodore went bankrupt.

After Commodore went bankrupt, the future of the Amiga was uncertain. Some Amiga users began debating how to take the platform forward. After a lot of debate, this culminated in the decision to start by creating an open-source OS based on the design of Amiga OS 3.1, which could be used as a platform for future improvements. This became the AROS project.

Ownership to the official Amiga assets (OS, patents and hardware) changed hands a number of times. The common pattern seemed to be a purchase by a PC manufacturer, who would then outsource the development of the platform through a dedicated subsidiary. First owners were Escom. Second owners were Gateway. Gateway was purchased by Acer at one point, so I believe the current owners are Acer. However, as mentioned previously, official development of the platform was managed by subcontractors, that went under names like 'Amiga Technologies' and 'Amiga Inc'.

Another OS split would happen because of the lack of new hardware coming from official sources. During the time when the official owners of the Amiga appeared increasingly incapable of bringing new hardware to market, a series of PowerPC accelerators appeared for classic Amigas (classic Amigas are based on the 68k family of processors). At first, these PPC accelerators would run on software designed to work alongside Amiga OS 3.x, but in time this evolved into a dedicated PPC-based OS for Amigas. This became MorphOS.

What about the official developments? So after Amiga OS 3.1 there were two additional releases in the 3.x series, 3.5 and 3.9. IIRC of these releases were developed by a company called H&P (Hauge & Partner, or something like that). At one point, it looked like MorphOS would become AmigaOS 4.0, however a couple of the H&P developers formed a new company called Hyperion and convinced Amiga Inc to let them develop the PPC version of Amiga OS, which became the Amiga 4.x that exists today.

There were various other twists to this tale that I've glossed over, but notable mention should go out to Amithlon (sp?), which was an unofficial AmigaOS port/emulator for x86 hardware. At one point there was some hope that this could've been used to pushed the Amiga forward, but it never got the official backing it needed.

So in terms of the remaining factions, it's arguable that four remain:

1. Classic Amiga (68k-based AmigaOS, running on either real or emulated hardware).

2. AROS.

3. AmigaOS 4.x.

4. MorphOS.

In terms of software releases, there's still a small amount of new releases, but killer apps that would be worth investing in the platform for are thin on the ground. Closest to that you'll probably find is Hollywood, but it's available for non-Amiga platforms now too:

http://www.hollywood-mal.com/
It should be common knowledge at this point, but just in case:

If you're doing regex or any other text manipulation on user input when you ask them to set a password, you're doing it wrong.
What you're describing sounds good, but it is not realistic, sustainable or healthy. The way to improve and grow is to fail early and often, and learn from it. If you create a company culture where failure is not tolerated, people will burn themselves out trying to prevent failure, and when it does happen, they will deny responsibility, break the rules, and sometimes even break the law in order to cover it up.

This is almost certainly what happened in the Volkswagen scandal, for example. Someone (probably a large group of someones) fucked up and shipped a car that didn't pass emissions tests, so they covered up their mistake rather than admit it.

In your example, what could happen is that they have an outage and your data is lost anyway, but they just don't even tell you--maybe you find out after complaining, or from the media.
TLDR;
Micah Lee writes an article that takes an in-depth look at how various encryption policies work by default on Windows platforms. No good deed in netsec goes unpunished, so of course Micah is attacked by Ars P.Bright and @SwitftOnSecurity (you know, really reliable people compared to The Intercept :-p).
I've used websockets in several projects now. They are more problematic than I originally thought they would be.

On my current project I'm using server-sent-events (SSE) for single-duplex pushing to the client. I'm using AJAX calls for the other direction. So far the experience has been awesome. Very light-weight and performant. Just a dozen lines of code on the client with no framework.

Caveat: Doesn't work with IE. A polyfill is required. I am very lucky on this project that I don't need to support IE.
> punishes the poor by not recognizing the marginal utility of money

What does this have to do with the poor? Are you under the impression your federal tax dollars get redistributed to the poor? Government contractors aren't poor.

Do you have any idea what percentage of government proceeds are redistributed to the poor? Do not include social security. That money was taken from them to begin with.
Translation itself is not a linear transformation. To simply translate a vertex is a matrix addition(subtraction) problem.

The only reason that it is possible in the transformation matrix is because of the addition of the fourth parameter in a vertex [x y z 1] to create a homogenous linear system. This allows the translation to become a part of the transformation matrix.
Try FreeCAD. It's a true solid modeler, like Autodesk Inventor. The solid modelling has roughly the same functionality as Inventor or SolidWorks, but the user interface is far worse. It's so open source. There's a pane which shows you the standard output from Python, in case something happens to print something. (This is mostly useful for people writing extensions to the program in Python, and, in typical open-source style, it's far too prominent.) There are panes in which dialogs appear, but they don't fit properly; they may be higher or wider than the pane. They're all QT-ugly, of course. There's no visibility in the UI of what's important and what isn't. Everything has a large number of properties, most of which are irrelevant unless you're developing. And, of course, the program has a huge number of modal hotkeys.

Basically, someone slapped the UI of an integrated development environment onto a CAD program. That's so open source.

This is a rather good program, too. The underlying solid modeler seems to have all the right stuff. That's the hard part. Then they blew the UI.

3D content generation UIs are very hard. Some of the issues:

- Things may be very cluttered. Selecting can be difficult.

- Some systems allow you to select volumes, faces, edges, or vertices. In tight spots, selection needs smarts.

- For some operations, you need to select a subject and an object. But you may need to pan, zoom, or rotate between those two selections. Exactly when thing get deselected is a big issue.

- Most GUIs are subject-verb. (Select something, then do operation.) That follows Macintosh and Windows practice. This doesn't always work out for CAD, where you may need to select multiple things, multiple kinds of things, deselect mistakes, and perhaps perform other operations while selecting. Bad solutions involve holding down SHIFT or CTRL or two mouse buttons at once.
Some more tweets:

jackstormwriter - wonder who owns this @ianmurdock account, 2007 no post.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https:/twitter.co...
Uber keeps dropping their prices, not raising them.
> Do you eagerly sign contracts with people you suspect would cheat you if they thought they could get away with it?

Yes, especially you include corporations as "people." Without the rule of law, I'm quite sure that corporations would find even more ways to generally break contracts and not honor their commitments.
Tax is a system of rules, codified in law. When you have a system of rules, I don't think it's reasonable to hold them accountable to some arbitrary second standard, nor expect them to unnecessarily hand over billions of extra dollars.

Apple, and the rest of them, are following these laws. If governments are unhappy with the the amount of tax Apple pays after following the rules then they should change them.
https://archive.is/4a138
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We live in a society where money is allocated with little regards to justice. Of course it doesn't matter what SlowComputer does. Agnostic to his occupation, the law should assist the poor by shaving a portion off the exorbitant sums SlowComputer makes yearly.
The author isn't remotely coming up with some sort of "work smarter not harder" plan, or some way to get actual results without large amounts of work. She's giving "permission to fail" instead of "push through the issues".
The most surprising this I find is that there is a person who is known all over the world and who announces to the whole world that he is going to commit suicide and yet there is no support system in place to help him. Is there not a single person who knew where he lived? Who could have visited him? Who could have called him? What a shameful society you guys live in?

This is where women are smart. Random women support random women but men... what a shame...
Here is "False Positives Equal False Justice" which analyzes the particular drug field tests used, showing they have an enormous false positive rate.

http://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_mat...

The judge's ruling ( https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv2... ) hinges on his statement on page 13 that "a reasonably trustworthy field test that returns a positive result for the presence of drugs is a sufficient basis, in and of itself, for probable cause."

Given the established accuracy of the field test used, no sane and honest person would ever claim it is "reasonably trustworthy", making the judge's claims moot.
Anyone looking to roll out fast service should try to get Google to sell them the routers, because Google actually bothered to do the routers and modems right in ways that almost no retail modems and routers do, and few ISPs would be able to even develop detailed product requirements for.
> I live in California. I'm not "super rich" but we earn more than $1MM/year.
> And high-salaried people are getting screwed under Obama's war against the most productive citizens.

Stop whining and blaming Obama; there's no war against productive citizens, you aren't a victim. You don't get to complain when you're among the wealthiest in the world that you don't get to keep enough money. 99.9% of the country makes less than you, have some fucking perspective and perhaps a bit of humility for gods sake.
What's the best way to deal with this problem, and what's the correct way to deal with this problem?
1) It looks like I'm mixing up the California withholding rate with the tax rate. Thanks.

2A) Granted. If I had a magical tax wand, I'd obliterate corporate taxation.

2B) It's an argument I've heard, but I'm more interested in avoiding arbitrage. My preferences might be mistaken. :)

3) If I hold the belief that we shouldn't tax income differently based on its source, Mankiw's argument doesn't have much force. His reasoning is sound, sure, but I'm not sold on the premise.
I'm curious how this is any different than Uber other than presentation? During peak hours there's peak pricing and not enough cars to go around so I have to wait.

Also, if it was legal for drivers to pick up hails I'm sure many drivers would just turn off Uber during peak and then turn it back on after, no "flakiness". Besides, their rep will go down if they bail on pickups so it seems like they'd just turn if off during peak to avoid that.
There's pretty much always a minimum amount you need to make to pay taxes, most flat tax schemes are still progressive on the low end. Very few 'flat tax' proponents want to tax the poor (not much money in it anyway).

The idea with a flat tax isn't to punish the poor, but to reduce tax evasion on the higher end, and to reduce to burden on the middle class.
Hiv/AIDS Testing
True... I'm still still trying to figure out in what scenario push towards App-only strategy makes sense.
Taxes should be progressive at all levels, setting a floor to exclude the poor from the unfairness doesn't make it more fair for the guy in the middle income ranges. All flat tax solutions are bad as they are all inherently unfair.
Some had argued that allowing taxes to rise would lead to an epidemic of capital flight, but this has failed to take place in the two years since tax rates went up. While I'm not hopeful, it would be nice if economic debates in the coming election year were firmly grounded in empirical evidence. With the increased computer power at our disposal it should be easier to model the impact of policy changes on wealth distribution, economic activity and so on.
Mesa doesn't work directly with hardware, it's depend on DRM and kernel driver interfaces. If they manage to get kernel driver to work then Mesa will just work. It's very unlikely that any userspace changes needed.
The input the user puts into the password prompt should by taken exactly as is, pushed into bcrypt/scrypt/etc, then stored as the user's password hash.

I'm not entirely opposed to requiring a minimum length, but imposing max lengths / character class rules / etc ends up hurting people who want to pick strong passwords more than it helps people who would pick weak ones (enforcing character classes just gets us lots of password1A! and similar)
Certainly there are ways to mitigate the effect, I was just pointing out that the universality of a sales tax isn't all positive.
Posts like this seem to presume the NRA is wrong in their assessment, but I simply can't see 140 people getting slaughtered at a French concert had a few of them been able to fight back.
> When you take into account corporate taxes, inflation, and risk the difference between tax rates on wages and cap gains aren't as big as you might think.

This doesn't make any sense. All of these things (with the exception of corporate taxes, which shouldn't exist) are priced into the return of the investment[1] and have nothing to do with taxation.

Why would you take risk into account for purposes of taxation? Should gambling income be taxed at a commensurately lower rate?

[1] More precisely, investments with a lower return are less desirable and their price tends to drop until the return (including risk, inflation, etc) is.
> Regressive taxes are inherently economically destructive.

The current system, in practice, is progressive up to the upper middle class, and regressive after that.

Flat tax rates aren't about taxing the poor (you can still build in income exemptions and most flat tax schemes do), but reducing tax evasion by the rich...
> What does this have to do with the poor?

Look up what regressive means and what marginal utility means; nothing I'm saying has anything to do with how taxes are redistributed. Flat taxes are inherently unfair, they ignore the marginal utility of money; they are regressive.
Isn't there a bigger issue that the police are tracking lawful customers of a legal business and rooting through their trash with no probable cause.
Nice straw man. I didn't even mention luxury tax, let alone promote it.
Taxes and morality have nothing to do with each other. Individuals and corporations have a legal duty to pay duly constituted taxes. Nothing more.
Don't get me wrong, Swift is a fantastic improvement over Obj-C. I am an iOS developer by trade and it makes my life much better. However, in a past life I worked with C#, and still find myself yearning for some of its features.

One area Apple has a huge leg up is its API design. All of Apple's frameworks are well thought out and easy to use. Microsoft, not so much. One glaring example is Bluetooth: CoreBluetooth is a straightforward abstraction, whereas Microsoft's is a total Frankenstein shit show.
Imagine how useful a wiretap would be if the phone company immediately notified the target.

No one would have a problem with this if there were even the vaguest semblance of due process. There isn't.
Its really sad to see someone who contributed so much to world, life ended so sudden like this.

Looking at twitter conversion. Most people speculating this tweet on suicide. He also said "The rest of my life will be devoted to fighting against police abuse".
So when you said "hard evidence" you meant: Opinion pieces. And some anecdotal evidence of yourself, which could well fall within the parameters of modern medicine as well, but you've built a narrative that your "belief" changed this?

You don't want people to dismiss it, but you give vague descriptions of what happened, what you did, and what the result was, and why you think they were related.

Seriously, if you wanted to be taken seriously, then engage the topic seriously.
Yeah this pretty much guarantees that I'll just switch to the iPhone Upgrade Program. I get my upgrade same-day, and my Apple Store always makes it right.