skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you don't have ambitions besides friends/family, this is very sad. At least I couldn't imagine living like that."

Why is it sad that other people have different wants and needs than you do?
I like it. I would love this for local politics. Good work.
Australia does this through the use of "franking credits" attached to dividends.
Also preliminary. There are a number of hypotheses. The real answer could be one of them, or a combination of them, or something we haven't thought of yet. We simply don't know.

The problem is, it's hard to diagnose early stage Alzheimer's and it's hard to look inside the brain of a living person and see what's going on. Combine those two things and there is just so so much we don't know about the disease.
OVH does VPS's and they have their own Anti-DDoS network setup that is pretty amazing:

https://www.ovh.com/us/anti-ddos/
You could first ask if the topic is important to the voter.

AS there are thousands of topics most candidates do not express a preference for things. Each preference they do have also eliminates voters.

"Taxes for wealthy people"
[important] [not important]

"War with Iran"
[important] [not important]

"Militart spending"
[important] [not important]

etc
A mobile/web app maybe meteor stack w/ cordova if you wanted to go cross-platform. I'd build a calculator to end all calculators -- normal basic calculator, but have tabs for other types of calculators like Mortgage, Retirement Savings, etc... Basically take every type of financial calculator and bottle it up into a single app.
how to define "picture", can I hide my files into some picture then upload it and essentially use amazon-picture-unlimited as an unlimited file storage?
Here's a little taste of how things have turned out since SCE and SDGE decided to give up fixing and maintaining San Onofre:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/aug/03/counting-customer-costs...
I come from a lower-middle/working class family and have always wanted a BMW. Everyone has said it's a waste of money, and intellectually I agree 100%. And I know with 90% certainty that when I eventually buy one at some point I'll think "Oh, that's it?" and get rid of it for another Toyota or VW.

But until then I will probably continue building BMWs, Benzes and Porsches online every few months :)
Posits on the Internet of Things
Not really.

Didi has multiple products already aside from taxis. limo/black-car, ride-share, valet which is far more than illegal-taxi-only in Uber China.

China explicitly requires license for commercial taxi operations. So UberX's business model is at great regulation risk.
I wonder if this is correlated to the extortion thread on NANOG I saw the other day.
Heh, someone should tell BitDeli[1]. They had to effectively shut down due to this, but if the fix is a simple as that then they will be hitting themselves.

Edit: Would it not be possible/better to just serve the SVG image direct from nginx? There is a LUA plugin, or even some direct redis stuff you could use.

1. https://bitdeli.com/
I'm with Temporal that this will be negatively biased against the police. There will be some good ratings of good cops at least while this is a fad. There might be a percentage that do it consistently. Yet, most people are going to make this the goto app for ranting against the police. These rants will vary in accuracy.

Overall, I mainly see it being an app for collecting negative claims about police rather than truly holding them accountable. Body cams and attorney's present are accountability. This isn't.
There's no need to be rude.

I believe the article was about the rising costs to society that come from expecting everyone to get their post-secondary education through formal schooling to get a job. The truth is, a university really isn't a good fit for a lot of people. It's painful both in terms of the many years it can take and the massive financial burden.

One of my closest childhood friends has been buried in student debt for years and is still taking part time classes while working a full-time job (which often forces poor performance in the classes). But debt deferral doesn't last long if you stop taking classes. Talk about poor alignment of incentives! Both the initial decision to seek a degree and the expectation of one from so many downright elitist gatekeepers ended up creating a vicious cycle of increasing debt for a good person who has a great work ethic but poor study habits.

Statistics make it clear that this is far from uncommon. Perhaps some social circles are insulated from the reality but facts are facts.

At most public universities, only 19 percent of full-time students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years. http://completecollege.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/4-Year...

The system is broken and getting worse.
I don't make nearly that much (I wish!) but as a middle-class taxpayer in CT, here are my feelings on the matter.

I am most certainly not opposed to the idea of taxes since society cannot function without the government providing some essential services. That said, I am opposed to paying a dime more than entirely necessary as it stands today because I see so much of my tax contributions being wasted.

* Medicare ineligibility to negotiate rates

* Military projects that are vastly over budget

* Government budgeting practices that promote blowing your entire budget at the end of the year so that it's not cut the next

* Excessive and abusive pension amounts for public employees

* Refusal to appropriately discipline public employees (police) for wrongful conduct

I can keep listing more, however before I am asked or required to send in another penny to be spent, I personally would expect at least some of these issues to be addressed, at least where spending is concerned. Until progress is made in these areas, then I will continue to be staunchly opposed to any tax increases and will do whatever I can to lower my own tax bill. If I feel my money is being wasted, then I may as well be the one wasting it rather than the government.
Joint Statement Rejecting FB’s ‘Free Basics’ Proposal Signed by IIT Professors
The risk of social unrest grows in approximate proportion to the amount of economic inequality, so the tax policy of a democratic government must be calibrated to redistribute enough wealth to prevent this from happening. That's the practical argument for progressive taxation.

Redistribution doesn't have to mean taking cash from one person and handing it to another. Instead taxes pay for investments like national security, scientific research, infrastructure, education, health care, environmental health, etc. These raise the overall living standard, and if the rich pay a larger proportion of these costs, it is a form of redistribution.
So, let me get this straight--people will choose to "work less" and make less money if their tax rate was higher? In what universe? That makes zero sense. If anything, a higher tax rate will incentivize one to increase their pre-tax income in order to maintain their post-tax take-home.
The papercliper would know you didn't program it the way you intended to, but it wouldn't care. That wouldn't bring about more paperclips.
> Ok, fine, you don't see how it's possible. That's not an argument that it isn't possible

Anything is possible. That's not an argument that everything likely.

> For decades people have been happy with video being controlled by a small number of media conglomerates. For decades more they were happy with an oligopoly of 3 TV networks.

And now, they are not happy with that.

The trend is that people want and demand choice, and rolling it back in any significant way will make consumers push back. The genie is out of the bottle, as they say.

Does the absence of Net Neutrality permit ISPs to charge on both ends of a Netflix stream? Yes. Does it inevitably result in me not being able to post a video of my band's new music? (the original argument) Highly doubtful.
The Amazon pricing is sufficiently cheap it probably comes with caveats similar to Glacier. Rather than as convoluted as Glacier they probably just have fixed retrieval amounts and rates, rather than the "get more or faster, pay more" Glacier sliding scale. Whereas Google is probably their nearline service. I have no idea what Microsoft's is. Backblaze also has $0.005/GB/mo which puts it in the $60/year for 1TB range using B2 Cloud service, but it's more like Google Nearline I think.

All of these have different retrieval rules and rates, so it's not just the annual.
No. Crime rate is correlated with amount of situations where use of lethal force is necessary.

How is it not obvious?
Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (2003)
Aren't?
On poetry and translation
The article doesn't mention anything about imports so I'm wondering what is the situation in India.

Here in Brazil, I don't have a lot to complain about the e-commerce websites, they do a good job. The import taxes on the other hand are ridiculous.

Amazon.in seems to have very competitive prices compared to Amazon.com. A LG Nexus 5X sells for $348 vs. $329 in the US. In Brazil, the same phone costs around $580 USD. That would've been around $775 in the beginning of the year (BRL depreciated quickly this year due to internal turmoil).

I initially hoped Amazon would disrupt the Brazilian market but it seems the taxes are the biggest problem and they can't do much to fix that. In the retail area, they will get fierce competition since that are many entrenched players already. That might be a reason they have limited themselves to selling books and Kindles for now.
I apologize for the misunderstanding and thanks for the explanation.

But I hope you can understand how this misunderstanding would happen since it was never explained. From an outsiders perspective, I don't think the conclusion I came to was a stretch. You looked like the bad guy, and Leo looks like victim. I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Congrats on getting funding.
§5 speaks in broad hypotheticals and apologetics of efficiently administrated policy, and is unsurprisingly very weak relative to the accounting and qualitative statements in the previous four sections.

If anything, you've convinced me more that MMTers believe in a perfect State. Post-Keynesian ideas seem to emanate from it. Kalecki and Robinson were outright Marxists, the former basing their economics on class conflict and the latter praising North Korea and Maoist China. The entire Post-Keynesian literature is devoid of public choice considerations, sans one weak paper from ~2004.
It does extend to GCE, to an extent. The reason for this is that if someone is DDOSing your GCE VMs, they're going to be affecting the network performance of unrelated projects. So, Google has to provide some protection so that, at a minimum, other customers are not affected.
This is why we need a land value tax. It's the only form of tax that can actually legitimately be enforced and doesn't lead to economic activity being moved offshore or under the table.
> We've got crumbling infrastructure, cash-strapped schools, students loaded with debt, and the fallout from a housing bubble, but Mark Zuckerberg really needs that new yacht.

It's interesting that you mention education and infrastructure as the big problems, because this is an article about federal taxation, while those are largely state and municipal areas of responsibility.

We spend more on education per capita than every developed country except Switzerland. And while our infrastructure is crumbling, it's because states and cities choose to pay for it through regressive means such as user fees instead of taxes. That's probably because they're in competition with other states and cities to attract residents and businesses.
The article seemed to imply that the dealer owns the inventory, where as I was just saying that the lines aren't always so cut and dried.

It's not uncommon for a dealer to buy a vehicle at auction without getting the title at the time of the auction purchase, floor it, then sell it with outside financing before the title is even in hand.

So the title essentially jumps from the auction seller to the outside finance company of the end buyer at some point after the time of the sale. The dealer never actually spends any money out of pocket for the vehicle, since it was floor planned.

Having a car last on your lot longer than the floor plan term usually means that it was a bad fit for your customer base (like stocking luxury cars in farm country) or you don't have good salesmen. Almost all sales are finalized before the floor plan term is up, so there is no out of pocket cost to the dealer up front.

Dealers can return vehicles to the auction in some cases (for a fee), but usually that's only in the case of the auction itself being misleading (not disclosing prior major repair, salvage title status, or things like that).
I think it would be highly unethical to create an intelligent machine to just make paperclips, the same as slavery even.
I just use Google Photos for backup which while is reduced in quality its enough for my needs. Best of all its unlimited storage and its free.
Great job, this is really well-done.

Small quibble: the link to the Spanish version of the web app links to the Italian version.
Doesn't matter. Money is created through debt on national level. Eliminate the debt and you're running risk of deflation, not to mention other economic issues associated with that, like job losses in public sectors.
See BSD run on a PIC32 microcontroller
Comcast as a company purchases from two vendors to avoid lock-in and to get the best prices. Juniper and Cisco, although last I heard Arista was also starting to be used.

Dual-sourcing makes sense in a lot of cases.
There's a common sci-fi theme about China being way ahead in the future. I've never heard a plausible explanation in book but ignoring patents is a really interesting angle.
That depends a lot on our respective definitions of "ecosystem". You can expropriate a whole lot of value from all sorts of people by reframing part or all of their products as an "ecosystem" to which you're entitled access.
And it's worth remembering, as people will try to make it a partisan argument, that Ronald Reagan signed a tax reform bill in 1986 that matched the top capital gains rate to the top income rate. It's been ratcheting back down ever since.
Got only one question.

Rand Paul is the _only_ candidate who disagrees with the notion that taxes on the wealthy should be increased?

I don't know much about american politics, but this seems to be a little bit strange. Are you sure your question/candidate database is correct?
Interesting find!
More or less... but it might be a country thing.

I am from Brazil, and my sister, and a lab partner of hers are the first persons in Brazil to develop and use a local version of CRISPR, the bugdet of their lab is not that big, and finding reagents was a bit difficult, but not too much, but I think maybe her lab didn't have to pay all the patent licenses, I am not sure.

My sister is currently at MIT learning direct from the source (it was invented at MIT) how to do "real" CRISPR (in the sense that the Brazillian version was made by her and another lab mate reading papers and replicating them, it worked, but in a inconsistant manner, sometimes it worked perfectly, sometimes it failed for no obvious reason, the Brazillian government then decided to pay to send my sister to MIT so she can learn how to do it properly and then come back and teach the others here).
A lot of the problematic behavior described here can be seen as examples of people optimizing for the most common/most likely scenario, and ignoring the potentially very large costs of unlikely but possible scenarios.

Nassim Taleb has written extensively about this subject (and the converse, where people fail to account for potentially very large rewards of unlikely but possible scenarios):

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
We've been using rclone[1] at work for automatically archiving builds from CI and other useful things, it supports S3 and other services as well.

[1]: http://rclone.org/
Many home users have managed to saturate their (unusually fast) connections sending/receiving to Amazon Cloud Drive: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/32oniv/so_how_...

And it doesn't have Glacier-like restrictions, at least in terms of retrieval delay. Nor does Backblaze. The difference with Backblaze is that it's only replicated within a single datacenter. If anything happens to that DC you're out of luck.
If you even have the slightest inkling that your site will be attacked by a DDOS (either targeted or randomly) please reconsider DigitalOcean. Their method of handling a DDOS is basically "your node is being attacked, so we're disconnecting it from the network for a few hours. Try to figure out why someone is attacking you." Then, the machine gets reconnected three hours later and the attack cycle continues. Not to mention that since the machine is offline, there is no way of logging in to check access logs, modify firewalls, etc. I've never dealt with a company like DO before. Switched to AWS last year and, even when I was getting extreme traffic, AWS never just shut down access without notice.
So why not capture it and burn it immediately in some safe way? (far enough from the plume to avoid ignition worries)

Even if they didn't manage to harness the energy for anything this would surely be better than letting the methane escape.
"Get away with" paying $56M in taxes annually? That was the average "top 400" taxpayer bill in 2012.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12intop400.pdf

Life in the U.S. is good, but nobody is getting an "unfair" allocation of all the great benefits and opportunities the federal government provides if they're paying $56M for it.
their analytics service still won't work since Github's camo proxy scrubs all cookies, referers, remote addrs, etc.

edit: and regarding lua or nginx redis2, yes you could certainly do that. I happen to like the asynchronous nature of incrementing hit counters outside of the request cycle and just using nginx to serve the static badge files. But yeah there are a bunch of ways to do this.
From the article : "The Tata Group is launching its e-commerce platform in February!"
Facebook extraordinary Evil move: DDoSing Gov regulatory, manipulating FB users
I agree that the law isn't moral, and I don't think that 'buying politicians' is acceptable or moral. I'm not asserting that wealthy people have no moral obligations--they do--but how much tax they should pay as a percentage of wealth and how that number was derived isn't one of them.
Fortunately for all of us we can talk about both.
Found this kind of interesting, but I'm having a hard time understanding the procedure. Do both people ask each other every question or does person A ask question 1, person B asks question 2, and so on and so forth?
No, the land value tax is one of the most notoriously difficult taxes to properly implement, which is why it's so rare.

(Also, having it in addition to others, instead of making it the traditional Single Tax ruins the whole point.)
#4 and #5 are especially important.

Cars are built on an assembly line. Yes, there may be one on the lot that is exactly what you want, but that dealer is probably getting 6 identical models over the next few months. Being able to walk away is a must.

All this haggling and negotiating is great when it means 4% or 5% off MSRP for a car, free oil changes, etc. It sucks when you want a hot, very in-demand car that is trending 8-10% above MSRP and still has an 8-month wait.
That's correct. They use facility transit everywhere except their newest datacenters (Singapore and maybe Frankfurt), where they operate their own AS and use blended transit.
Is this true, though? I agree there are not that many super wealthy people. But my guess is that these people are so mind-bindingly, astoundingly wealthy, that you could adequately fund most of the government simply by focusing on the top-N (for some value N).
I'd be a bit late to that party.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8632c929c3ba4773a2e130689f4b8...

http://consumerist.com/2014/05/19/private-companies-building...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...

https://desertsnow.com/

https://bales.org/
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The definition of "love" is so vague that it can mean almost anything to anyone.

That's why "love" is popular as a concept among homo sapiens – because everyone has their own personal definition of it.

It's also why articles (& studies) like this are fundamentally misguided. Theyre jumping right ahead into forming conclusions, but they haven't even defined their terms.

...which is probably because their chosen terms are literally impossible to define.
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I was about to post the exact same question as parent. I made a similar application to keep track of who was looking at my github repos. This is very helpful info! Thanks!
> common to hear "how come they don't sit down learn to code and become full stack developers, that would be so easy."

Yep, that reminds me one of Phil Greenspun's smug blog posts from a while back: https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2011/01/26/rethinking-99-wee...
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Be careful with "raw" PE ratio. It peaks when earnings have already collapsed due to the denominator effect.

Median of S&P500 price/sales (not quite the same as median of price/earnings of course):
http://mebfaber.com/2015/03/13/stocks-are-the-most-expensive...

Median of price/earnings for the broad NYSE universe:
http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc150112.htm

I don't think it's controversial to state that high valuations in equities are more broadly carried. (Hussman's weekly column is an interesting source of opinions on where these broad valuation measures stand at any given time.)

Obviously, that doesn't automatically imply that any sort of deep loss is imminent. I believe it does say something about what you can reasonably expect in terms of long term total returns.
Improve the UI for things like recovery codes in ways that essentially force users to print them. One thing I've seen out there is asking the user for a recovery code during the login process a few days after enabling 2FA (with an option to skip it a few times, and generate new recovery codes if the user failed to print them the first time.)

Add a waiting period for affected customers, let's say a week or a month. During this period, try contacting the user on all known communication channels (email, SMS, push, robocalls; Coinbase does this quite well for Vault transactions) to inform them about the impending account change.

It's certainly not the easiest thing to get right, but it's not asking for too much from a high-profile target like PayPal.
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>You probably have a better paying job and more free time than than most people (and as a nice side effect than people who bullied you probably).

That a person was lucky enough to turn their coping mechanism for abuse into an above average career is not privilege at all.
So there is this, and there is also http://www.redox-os.org. Are there any other OS' being built in Rust?

I'm curious about the intention of these two projects, this seems to be a bottom up OS in Rust probably oriented toward unikernel or possibly a server OS. To be successful I assume it's going to allow for NetBSD or Linux drivers to be integrated into the Kernel in some way?
Poor argument. As if direct democracy or dictatorship are the only choices...

Maybe just a representative democracy like the rest of Europe.
The fact that there are diminishing revenue-returns and (socially) wasteful behavioral responses to taxation is not at all theoretical, but has tangible implications for policy. Even the very CBO you cite is implicitly recognizing these effects.

Both a $0 and a $1 million tax on shoes will raise approximately zero revenue. Why is is the former so much better? Your answer is going to make the very same points elucidated by the Laffer Curve.
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