skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with many of the sentiments here, as a non-American coming from a dispotic regim. I spend months in the US to explore setting up my startup here and to talk to investors and possible clients -

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I was put off by the tax system.
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The taxes are too high, and too complex.

With such high taxes I'm surprised the gov has so much debt.

Sure there are places with higher taxes.

But I thought America was the land of opportunity, the mecca of Capitalism.

It stil was all that - I would love to have the option to stay there - an amazing experience - the quality of life and the level of consumer choice is fantastic.

However America should consider copying the tax codes of places like Singapore, Hong Kong or Taiwan.

The biggest challenge is of course the federal system which imposes taxes seperately at the state and central gov/federal level - making things complicated - but of course in return creates stronger local alignment and more choice. (Better for democratic freedom)

But especially business taxes need to top out at lower level at the federal level.

In my opinion, as an outsider.

We ended up NOT registering our business in the US and would only do so if forced by investors - but we'll be bootstrapping for a while so not a consideration.

The US as a place to register a startup for an outsider, is a seriously unattractive proposition.

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On top of this the US has this batshit crazy policy of double taxation for international people.

Most other countries have double taxation treatiea so that you aren't taxed twice on the same income!

The US does not.
original document: DC is a No Drone Zone

https://www.faa.gov/uas/no_drone_zone/dc/
I'd argue that the end networks really aren't the best place to be implementing this. If the big transit providers (Level3, NTT, etc) started enforcing it, it would significantly reduce the effectiveness of spoofed traffic pretty much overnight.
Honestly, I don't think it's that useful to eliminate candidates after one disagreeing stance. While ideal, there will never be a candidate with who I fully agree with. It would be much more useful to ask multiple questions and report back with which candidate's views align most closely with mine.
That's right. And it's an outdated, racist and ethnocentric way of thinking. We know better now than to dehumanize other civilizations.
I'm not sure about warehouse conditions, but from my experience in the home office, this sounds completely untrue. I'm not going back, but there were a ton of friendly people there. They treated interns really well, I think. My coworkers were a really good bunch.
San Francisco's Self-Defeating Housing Activists
AI has fairly consistently overpromised and underdelivered. That's one reason the field crashed in the 80s/90s. Marvin Minsky thought we'd have human level AI in the 1970s. None of the people you mentioned are neuroscientists either. I consider Kurzweil a crackpot.
Interesting side point: I wonder if emergent-MI systems will be more resistant to attack?

From a biological standpoint, what we're basically doing with deploying code currently is creating and propagating generations of clones. Which, didn't work out so well for bananas...

"The single bug that causes all smart-fridges to murder their owners in a pique of crushed-ice-producing rage" would be less of a concern as we move towards more exogenous (with respect to the base code) processing systems.
Yeah, I had no idea people still appealed to that nonsense as acceptable economic theory.
I agree. Last year I ended up spending lots of time following Michael's tracks.
Creating Custom UIViewController Transitions
> If you make 8 figures year then it's worth your while to spend alot of money to structure your finances so you pay as little tax as legally required.

I understand what you're saying. If you make $50,000,000 per year, then at some point it's worth spending $500,000 on an accountant who will manage to avoid you paying $10,000,000 in taxes. The math clearly works out, and that's why people do it. I get it.

But man, does it really need to be that way? Is it really so bad to "only" gain $40,000,000 per year instead of $49,500,000? Can you really not get by without that $9.5MM? 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.

Anyway, I can't say I wouldn't do the same in his situation. I understand the motivations. I'm just griping.

* Numbers all fabricated to illustrate my point.
Sadly, the government will go along with the rate increase; just as the PUC allowed PG&E to raise rates after razing San Bruno with a pipeline explosion.
> The media ... demonize the wealthy

What a joke! The media OCCASIONALLY reports on their activities. But most of the time they just don't. NYT has become moderately more adversarial in recent years, though not consistently. Most of the press not counting explicitly left-wing outlets operate as uncritical stenographers, the credulous, fawning tech press especially.
I've known minorities who got more in free financial assistance in terms of loans and grants than the middle class white kids, and they had a much easier time affording college when it came down to funding due to the abundance of loans and grants for those who met the low-income and minority criteria. I got much less than the minorities because while being crap-poor from a single mother environment in the ghetto, I am not from what's considered an ethic minority. I do not buy the crap or the "poor me, poor me!" sob stories about how minorities are so disadvantaged when they had a HUGE advantage over me, and were better off than middle class kids when it came to college funding. Seen it, lived it, been there, done that. Oh and we're not talking community college or state university, we're talking the most difficult of all scenarios: a private university where your yearly tuition (just tuition) was just under 30k per year at the time, it is now over 36k.

While my family stressed the importance of education while growing up and the ghetto provided a great example of what I didn't want for my life, I didn't have familial support in steering me towards intelligent decisions- in fact I had numerous family members actively trying to sabotage my endeavors to go to college because they wanted me to start a family. I was 100% on my own in all respects, it sucked but hard work and smart decisions paid off for me.
Because most people have been mercilessly been beaten into obedience, and the belief that they aren't actually able to think by themselves, that they're inferior to the oligarchs in command.

I don't agree. I've read quite a bit of economics, I read serious newspapers from a range of political viewpoints, and I have a technical degree. All of this merely helps me to appreciate just how ignorant I am, and how complicated the world is.

Imagine that my local council asked its residents how much money this year should be dedicated to renewing the sewerage system, which is a typical example of the small but important decisions that have to be taken on behalf of the public. I don't know the first thing about sewerage engineering. If the council tells me that they recommend $10M then I have literally no idea whether this is the right number, even to an order of magnitude.

The Pointy Haired Boss is a character in the Dilbert cartoons. He doesn't understand the technology Dilbert is working on, but that doesn't stop him from telling Dilbert how to do his job. Direct democracy puts the public in the role of the PHB, and the results would be very similar.
> They sure did learn their lesson.

Is there any relevant reading material? I would have assumed diversification to be a good idea for such critical infra.
FYI that's how we implemented MVM in CDC mobile which isn't necessarily applicable for hotspot.

The MVM RFE for hotspot has been something desktop developers have asked for since JDK 1.2 days. It sort of got sidelined when the JDK started sharing loaded classes (the rt.jar) which is important but not quite MVM. Even the weakest of Android devices is probably more powerful than our "smartphone" targets in terms of heap. Using process isolation was often not an option back then since common OS's at the time (symbian) didn't really have isolation.
Given the goal, that still counts as style. That thought patterns are reflected in code just makes it easier to tell who wrote it.
Tax consumption.

#ProblemSolved
It might seem that way, but they can't scale that, as you might know. It's tougher for DFZ transit to do it because they must know, and programmatically configure, all downstream space to be whitelisted. Now you have a similar conversation to BGP filtering when downstream networks change space, and that's huge administrative overhead (which is why announcements are just trusted without filtering at the higher levels, to avoid this overhead for the larger AS). Your end network is a better place because you know your assigned space better, as well as how you number it; you might be holding half an /18 and not assigning it, whereas your peer would whitelist it all, for example.

If the technicals of the Internet were programmatically available in a sane way (PeeringDB doesn't count here, since it just automates manual work), the Tier 1s could potentially automate against their downstream AS' space and enable your (mostly correct) point. However, we pretty much fly blind in this respect and rely on emails and ticketing and decentralized systems to manage the control plane of the Internet. Which honestly continues to shock me, even though it makes sense since the Internet is designed as "decentralized" despite being anything but in usage.

Edit: While in the car, I realized that Paul Vixie's paper on this discusses the CPE source-filtering angle in great detail, which might illustrate my opinion a little better for you than I ever could: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2578510
This seems like a good resource: http://callanbrown.com/index.php/basic-nes-reproduction
Public Choice journal, I would prefer a more specific link to a good critic of MMT but I take note, thanks.

I want to return the courtesy, this a reply to critics or MMT: http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/modern-money-theor...

I have not problem with a lot of post-keynesian ideas by the way.
Wow, how does somebody get all that reading/working done in a year?
It's confusing that he listed $370k as his salary (really, combined salary) followed by saying $120k of it is his partner's.

I don't know the percentile, but $250k in SF is not even top 5% per an article someone else shared in comments. [0]

0: http://www.businessinsider.com/san-franciscos-top-5-of-earne...
I didn't leave because of core.async being exclusively CSP. That was a big annoyance (and couldnt find the promise library) I left because ES7 and next year ES8 and year after ES9 are bound to give us what we need from a modern language without resorting to coding in a Lisp-like labguage, ClojureScript is extremely expressive but something about the Lisp form makes me spend too much time thinking about the code rather than the problem domain (product features) It does produce tight code so it is a better medium for expressing algorithms but I found that it moves my focus from thinking about features to thinking about algorithms (a strange attractor?) and in the end very few people (Lisp users mostly) will be able to maintain the code... So what am I doing writing a web app in a Lisp like language unless i really enjoy thinking about algorithms more than UX... What matters to me is having a good modern language with large enough eco system and that I could use to build kick ass UX. Modern JS and React-Flux-Immutable suffice. When i want to do heavy data processing I would probably miss ClojureScript and Clojure but the UI is not where I would want to do heavy data processing... I really thought about it based on all these factors and decided to jump back to JS. That was my choice. I don't expect it to be everyone else' choice...
It is NSFW.

Saw that picture and the one of the couple in the hot spring. Then I remembered, Nat Geo was recently taken over by Fox.

Ah, I thought. Explains everything.
It's a free trials. It costs $11.99/year.
There's a difference between illustrating a qualitative economic phenomenon (which the Laffer curve does) and actually building policy proposals based on it.

It doesn't get more laissez-faire than Rothbard, and here's him ripping apart Reaganomics from 1987: https://mises.org/library/myths-reaganomics

That said, one should be careful on quantifying "incomes" since it's a multifaceted idea.
From what I can tell actual economists across the political spectrum don't take it seriously in any way.
I wonder if Obama got a drone for Xmas.
Yes, that's a big part of the problem. The problems with white society are blasted as far as the eye can see on nearly every mainstream media outlet, bazillions of blogs, etc. Meanwhile, it's tough to find any discussion of the problems with black culture outside of openly racist websites and some niche black-run news pages and blogs.
I'm sure someone somewhere is working on code to break up large files into multiple images.

$1/month for image hosting is dirt cheap though if you can do public url access to images.
How does this deal with GitHub's caching of images?

https://github.com/blog/1766-proxying-user-images

They refer to it as "proxying", but they also call out that it proxies using their CDN, which seems to imply there isn't a 1:1 relationship between user requests and hits on the backend server
That cuts both ways. The more complex you claim the curve's shape is, the less confidence you have in "tax cuts reduce revenue" as well.

So what's the bottom line? "hey, we shouldn't cut taxes because we might just be moving to a different sweet spot"?
The Inca empire lasted for about 100 years, we can might as well use "Sparta" as they've also allegedly were forbidden from possessing gold and silver (although in ancient world in many places commoners were not allowed to posses gold or silver as they could be used to buy favors ;)).
First, simply invoking the Laffer curve is irrelevant. I think most of us implicitly understand that there is a maximum revenue somewhere above 0% and below 100% taxation. What's not obvious is where that is, ie whether current tax rates put us above or below maximum revenue.

Second, people will always avoid tax, period. If one can spend $1 to save $10, then people will, no matter how low the tax rate is. The bare existence of tax avoidance is not a sufficient indication that the tax rate is too high.

Third, no one wants the "taxman" to lose money trying to reclaim taxes. There are obviously more options than the two you are strawmanning: A) lose money trying to reclaim taxes and B) lower the tax rate.
Microsoft Likely Has Your Windows 10 Recovery Key, and That's Bad
They don't have any backups, such as feedback loop to make sure that food was dispensed and if it wasn't then have a second port dispense food. My friend got one and sometimes the food falls into the dispenser in a way that it creates a supported arch so it blocks the food from actually entering the dispensing channel.
It's an interesting article as is, but these two people were already in each others circles and mutually attracted to each other. A blind date would be a better test.
Ling – High level system programming [32c3]
Justice: taking as much as possible from people who I think can live without it.
I think you're assuming there is one maximally efficient ASM product that can be known at compile time. The same program will work on different inputs, and it's possible that different ASM products will handle some inputs more efficiently than others.
Some tax systems, including some income tax systems, are more effective than others. It's true none will ever be perfect, but we'll never eliminate murder and other crimes either. However, we can do a better job.
I very much doubt it is a good idea to have "one size fits all" employment laws.
Tabellarius: A mail-sorting tool that is less annoying
Swedish Dads, the book
Exactamente.
Also, you know, the other thing he extrapolated that to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_%28The_Culture%29#Interes...
The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns
Github's proxy[1] respects Cache-Control headers, so it will just pass through since we use Etags and Cache-Control: no-cache.

[1]https://github.com/atmos/camo
I had really good luck with old school Visual Basic 6 teaching my daughter to program. It was already obsolete but still ran at that time.

It was far easier and more straight forward to get something done in that than any other language. It's probably still the case.
...if society is to be equal.

What you're missing is that people who are in favor of these kinds of shenanigans tend also to be emphatically against this "equality" rubbish.
Uranium mining is seeing a boost as the prices rise after the last climate deal: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-uranium-prices-idUSKBN0UB0...

Will you encourage her to pursue this and close the gender gap in the terribly sexist mining industry? Will you tell her that the high salary is worth the risk?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#Health_risks_of...
This seems to be structured around single-issue voting. Well there are certainly plenty of people voting that way, they are probably least likely to benefit from this sort of tool.

(Of course, only having a few questions might make it work this way too.)

Neat project regardless.
Hopefully Indian govt. can work something out with telecoms to provide wider internet access.
Yep. HN is a discussion forum, not a diary.
Everyone is put off by the tax system. It's a product of 300 years of cronyism. Want your tax break? Pay lobby Firm Jones and Smith, LLP on K-street a few million dollars, and in goes your clause as a subsection of an anti-gun hysteria bill passed right after some white elementary school kids in Connecticut get massacred. Like for-profit-prisons, there are too many people who count on the existing tax framework to see any actual alteration of it. The defense department needs their billions, as do the sub-contractors who make money charging 4x the market rate for because they're part of some GSA Alliance contract vehicle; the tax attorneys at Skadden depend on it being complicated, the hundreds of thousands of CPAs do too, as do the people employed by the IRS. If you change the tax-code to something like HK, all of those economic sub-sectors fall apart.

As someone who's a partner at a consultancy and in the highest marginal tax bracket, I'd be more than happy to pay my fair share if companies like Apple and Exxon didn't use countries like Ireland to avoid remittance taxes to the tune of 250 billion dollars a year, effectively putting the burden on the rest of us. (Well that and if we stopped spending 5x the aggregate of the next most-heavily invested countries re: defense, and re-allocate even 5% of that money to national education, STEM programs for innercity kids, the arts, and the NSF but again, fat chance of that happening.)
Fair. But having worked on both and currently working on AOT I'd say I should be biased for AOT not against it...

Startup time/warmup is obviously a well known JIT weakness but if its well written its just really hard to beat. E.g.

if(x) { invokeMethodX() } else { invokeMethodY() }

Say x is related to user details/preferences and for a specific install will never change... AOT can't do anything about that...

JIT can inline invokeMethodX() then optimize across methods and eliminate the if altogether. This isn't some theoretical exercise... Its stuff that exists today in JIT's. AOT provides consistency which is a good thing, you can write low level code (e.g. C can be handcoded to a level that's pretty great) so I'm mostly talking about higher level languages (Java etc.).
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Feedback: Preferential Voting.
I don't know, but all traffic to GCE is routed through Google's frontend, which provides in-built DDoS protections.
> I find it hard to hold a grudge against wealthy individuals who minimize tax liability. It's perfectly legal ...

What if it was made legal because they bought politicians who made the laws in their favor?

Also, the law isn't moral. Lots of things are legal but completely immoral. Slavery comes to mind as an historical example.
Let me simplify this for you: if I loan you $10, do I still have those $10 to spend on something else?
Scientists create HaptoClone, a touchable hologram
Given my ignorance of much of these issues, I probably shouldn't be commenting (take my comment with a huge grain of salt). But the idea of depeering networks on the Internet for misapplication of a voluntary protocol seems like the beginning of the end of a free Internet (if ever such a thing existed).

If BCP38 is critical to the success of the Internet, I think rather than ranting about those not implementing it, energy would be better spent petitioning to have it made a requirement of running a peer on the Internet to begin with.

Perhaps I'm off base or starting some sort of network guru flamewar. If that's the case, down vote me and I'll go away ;)
What I went through was vanishingly small compared to my grandmother and father. It cemented in my dad a resolve to self-euthanize at the first sign of a progressive mental degradation. Of course, the first sign is "too early" to be optimal as well, but no one wants to wait until it's too late. In a strange twist of fate, he experienced this fall a temporary but rapid decline in function due to a treatable (and subsequently treated) physical condition that manifested itself over a 10 day period. Now recovered, I'm sure he's glad he didn't off himself.

I don't have any easy answer, even having had these experiences. There's little question my grandfather would not have wanted to live as he did the last 18 months of his life, but still epsilon chance he prefered whatever his life was to nothingness and even if not, was 17 or 19 a "more right" answer? How do you distinguish "routine" "what did I come downstairs for again?!" from more serious progressive degenerative diseases? Who knows...
Their Anti-DDoS setup is amazing. Once they detect an attack it goes through their VAC setup, and legitimate traffic will still reach you, but illegitimate traffic won't.

Got hit with a DDoS to my DNS servers, I didn't see any external service disruption thanks to OVH's setup. I have several of their cheaper SoYouStart servers, and it's awesome.
People may, and often do, renounce citizenship for other reasons than tax.
Facebook Meets the License Raj of India
I think people should really talk more about how the government spends the collected tax money instead of taxing those wealthy more.
Reminds me of Microsoft's unlimited storage adventure

http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/3/9662414/microsoft-reduces-...
The centralized systems are more efficient. Is that a typo in your comment?

Assuming that you mean calculating the inefficiencies caused by decentralization - that is easy - it is the whole mining industry. A centralized server would not need this proof of work effort to timestamp a ledger.
Another option would be safety in numbers. Take a large executable written by someone else and wear its dead code like its your own skin. Hiding your true self in there somewhere.
Clean That Carpet
A human might know the ultimate goal of sex is to reproduce, but still choose to use contraceptives. It's defeating the purpose of the original goal and just pursuing what feels good.

The same thing could possibly (likely?) happen with an AI system. While it might be able to reason about the intent of it's design (what the code's supposed to do), it'll still pursue what "feels good", which is an artifact of it's actual design (what the code actually does, bugs and all...).
And most of Europe is more corrupt than the US.
The Nordic countries have their own issues Denmark, Norway and Sweden are currently running minority governments.
Legislation has been halted for quite some time and Sweden is on it's way to a political meltdown.