skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't that many countries with sales tax, most of them use VAT which is considerably worse than sales tax as far as tax burden distribution goes.

VAT is added to the price of the goods and is an intrinsic part of their price which means when they are resold VAT affects the final resell price even tho it's only collected on the initial sale.
Say a car costs 50K, US uses sales tax Atlantia uses VAT both countries tax at 10% in the US one buys a car pays 50K for the car and 5K in additional sales taxes, a person in Atlantia pays 55K "sticker price" which includes VAT both paid 55K.

Both of them decide to sell the car after 2 years the resell price in both countries is calculated based on 50% of the original sticker price so in the US the car is sold for 25K and in Atlantia the car is sold for 27.5K.

Additionally since sales tax in most us states (iirc all but like 2 or 3) is only applied to tangible goods this means that most services tend also be considerably cheaper to the end consumer than in countries with VAT/GST.
Side A: I use http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html to quickly check the fonts on a page with Safari, other browsers may have similar tools too.
Mostly serial or usb interface speed and driver issues when running windows hosts. Virtualbox is certainly getting better and better in that regard though.

There is also better gpu support from anedotal experience.
Virtual reality is perhaps an unfortunate moniker, because it encourages a dichotomisation of reality into "virtual" and "real", and conceiving of these as opposing, or at least orthogonal forces. Thought of in this way, virtual reality seems to promise a compelling-but-ultimately-empty facsimile of reality, the ultimate fulfilment of the escapist dream.

There's a repeating motif in reactions to disruptive technology, where the technology is first viewed from an oppositional mindset, which makes sense, because any disruptive technology will steal time away from other Old Activities that existed before the technology, and people who aren't early adopters only look at the decrease in the time spent on Old Activities.

We saw this motif of oppositional reaction in how people viewed the internet: people are spending so much time in cyberspace that they won't know how to effectively navigate the real world; people are having fantasy cyber-lives instead of spending time in the real world; he's meeting someone he met online, he must not know how to interact with people, etc. But social networks descended on society in an incredibly short period of time, and worked their way into the furthest corners of our lives. The oppositional mindset gave way to an integrative one, where the notion of a "cyberlife", as distinct from a "life", is simply misplaced- the internet is simply a part of Reality, sans prefix and with a capital R, instead of being boxed up in the conceptual category of "the Cyber".

There was another motifical recurrence when smartphones entered the fray. The oppositional critiques were voluminous and eloquent: we're spending so much time texting we're forgetting how to speak to each other; every crack in every interaction is plastered over with the ritualized and mutually fraudulent "notification check", signposting the way to the unravelling of the social fabric..., etc.; you can find the Real World up there, when you hold your head high, with dignity, and not down there, with your head bowed, staring transfixed at a shining rectangle, face ghost-like, bathed in the soft pearlescent glow of vapidity. But at some point, the integrative mindset arrived. It's hard to maintain the oppositional mindset when you're sitting in a restaurant that you just found on Yelp, and are chatting to your friend on WhatsApp, only to have them sit down in front of you. The handoff between "smartphone life" and "real life" is seamless. Smartphones have inextricably woven themselves so far into our lives, that if you ask someone how their smartphone life compares to their real life, they'll just give you a strange look. Smartphones are just a part of life.

I think VR/AR could go in this direction, as just another arrow in our technological quiver. If we start looking at things like social VR, which has the potential to reshape the way we interact remotely, or how architects are today routinely using VR to demo to clients, it's not impossible to believe that the integrative mindset could eventually overcome the oppositional mindset in terms of how we think about VR.
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What does accepting to be a speaker "under protest" accomplish? Clearly he would be told he is not allowed to make this protest public while speaking. If he cannot make his point public during the conference, then there is no noticeable impact from the so-called "protest".

The conference organizers want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to get all the speakers (and have them not make any waves), while also bowing to the almighty dollar from any sponsor willing to open their bank account.

The only ways to protest are to a) get the sponsor kicked, or b) refuse to attend. As he has been turned down regarding the first option, the only way for him to maintain his integrity is to not attend. Good for him for sticking to his principles and not caving in to the pressure to be an ass kisser.
I've got a 6 and didn't bother with the 6s yet but the shortcuts provided by 3D Touch apps would save me a good few minutes every day.
You can look at census information if you are curious.

I was curious about my victorian house. These days it is a typical 3 bedroom detached semi, constructed circa 1890.

A check of the census revealed that back in 1901, there was a married couple, the husband working for the Pearl Insurance company, 8 children and a grandmother living in it. The toilet was outside (but at least they had their own!) and there was only one dedicated bedroom as upstairs had not been converted.

So your idea of a "victorian gentlement" sitting alone in the room is probably wrong. Likely the house would have been teeming with children, who would be employed after the age of 12 or so. Multiple people would sleep in each room. The kitchen would have a bed recess. Constant work would be done all day every day for everyday tasks now like keeping dishes clean, heating water, cooking etc.

The husband probably spends his occasional free time at the pub to avoid the endless activity of home.

It is surprising how much more poverty-stricken and arduous even middle class life was then, compared to now.
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I left a company because the code I'd written generated 600k in extra revenue (it hooked up their sales system to Amazon) and got a 2% pay rise "just like everyone else". When it came to the review, I did ask, what more I could have done to get recognised.
Clearing history and website data resolved this problem as well. However all open tabs will be closed.
Whats the purpose of a conference in the youtube era?

It's fun and rewarding to get together with your peers and talk shop over coffee or beers.
> What is rightfully "put down" is incitement to ethnic or racial hatred (which is also illegal in most Europe countries).

In my opinion, this is not the case. Even criticism based on reason and facts with legitimate concerns tend to get flogged for being racist and hate speech. The climate seems to be changing now, though, with major news corps and public figures starting to express more concern than they ever have (also claiming they always have been critical, so it's quite pathetic in my view).

> I assume what you call "large part of the general public" are the usual 20% that vote for far right parties.

I may have a clouded memory, but I don't think 20% voting far right is anywhere near usual when speaking of Scandinavia in a historical context.

Also, even what's considered to be right wing politics in Scandinavia has traditionally been quite socialist.
Do not skip the comments on this post. Priceless.
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GnuPG 2.1.11 released
Apple's mission isn't privacy advocacy, or serving as a platform for debate on privacy or human rights.

Yeah, they advertise some kind of privacy protection as a product feature, and you can debate whether or not those advertising claims have merit, but it's a long way off from the CPDP conflict of interest that Aral describes.
My money is on the fact that ad blockers save several times the bandwidth per user that could possibly be saved by a switch away from JSON/XML.

Ignoring everything else there are much lower hanging fruit to save bandwidth.
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Ad Blocking is wearing a condom while being raped by a pimp.
> he is one of the best developers I know

But then, we'd need to know how good your assessment skill/method is. Maybe you misjudge all the developers you work with? What feedback do you get?
Fair point. I usually terminate on an ELB.
sadly it's precisely what business are not gonna doing.

I've spent much of my career doing close to nothing, with pay increasing each year. Many businesses seem to recognize it and reward it. I've never had an employer who measured contributions by LoC (though unless you've proven yourself of course there is some measure of productivity, such as stories completed, etc. Everyone knows what everyone else did).

As stated in the root of this thread, this article completely misses the point of the 10x engineer, to the point of almost parody. The 10x engineer is the one who builds the tiny core of an app that makes everything else easily possible. Or who moves the whole team from one derlict, no longer useful technology to another. And so on. It has never, ever, been "the guy who spits out 10x the lines of code".
Thanks, I read the post but missed the comments first time.
I develop on linux vm running on a windows host, I've found VMWare to be considerably more stable and slightly more performant than virtualbox.
They collect health and financial data on people to help health insurance companies deny claim to people who want their medical expense reimbursed. And they are suspected to be in the chain of data (probably phone data collection and mining) to drone people in Yemen and Afghanistan.
Yes, I'm in IRC channels for a LUG (general social chat) and a hosting provider (low-priority support things, plus more technical-based chat), plus I idle and am in the top-10 "idlers" for IdleRPG (#G7 on Slashnet) http://idlerpg.net/
His note [5] links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4i9M3y0ew which is a demonstration of a siphon in a vacuum, so he's covered :)
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I dont always post links to my blog, but when i do. I post on localhost
Just to clarify I'm talking about scientific research in the area of privacy/crypto etc.

The argument would be "this nation state is an evil eavesdropper thus I won't work for it when my area of expertise is privacy/crypto etc.". I think that's taking it a bit too far because "the state" is pretty big and its sole purpose isn't to eavesdrop (I'd hope) but I wouldn't say that position is unreasonable.
That's why I said "bounds".
Maybe every HN post linking to something Wolfram has written needs an Official Wolfram Ego Bitching subthread, where everyone can say "Wow, guys, I just noticed that Wolfram has a really big ego and does a lot of inappropriate self-promotion!!!!". Then everyone can enjoy complaining about Wolfram's ego there, without it taking over the rest of the discussion. (This would work better if HN offered a way to "collapse" subthreads.)

In principle, you're right, and just not doing it at all would be a cleaner solution, but what are the actual chances of that?
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I never wrote this kind article. Hence it cannot be found on my machine.
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And only one class the Alfa fast attack submarine the titanium hull was used more to reduce weight (Half the displacement of a comparable Los Angeles class US attack submarine) to allow it to be the fastest submarine ever constructed (double the reported speed of US attack submarines and most likely at least 25% faster than their actual speed) rather than because titanium is non-magnetic.
All Alfa subs were decommissioned in 1990 and sold as scrap.
There's also Haxe, which has a lot of great 2D and 3D frameworks, and compiles to minimal javascript really well.
I'm not sure "brain health" is as good a synonym of "intelligence" as you seem to be implying it is. As one possible example of divergence between the two measures, a handful of mental illnesses are mentioned that are associated with intelligence.
In other words, your team doesn't have an effective lead dev, and you'd prefer to fill that gap rather than just build build build. Fair enough.

With a decent lead to direct them to the right tasks I'd much rather a 10x than an 0.1x
I've been saying this for a couple of years now. When wealth/wage inequality gaps widen and more and more money is funneled into the top .5%, those people and orgs simply do what they do best: financial, industry, and market manipulation in order to strengthen their positions.

Its very dangerous because it makes the already wealthy and powerful even more so, and reduces choices for the consumer, while actually driving up costs because less competition.

While its a very simplistic point, the oil industry is a good example of this. Ignoring the greater geopolitical/strategic game around the petrodollar as a reserve currency, what is happening right now is all the strappy young startup oil companies are being gobbled up by the big guys. I'm pretty sure as soon as all the m&a's are done oil ppb will rocket back up.
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For those interested in modular implicits, see http://www.lpw25.net/ml2014.pdf
This is why water is pumped from below pushing up rather than pulling from the top. But perhaps this will open up new ways to make water pumping more efficient.
> If a HFT firm buy them at other exchanges quicker than your order arrives there,

The crux of my complaint about Flash Boys is that it leaves the reader with this impression, which is usually an incorrect representation of what is happening.

A better simplification of what is happening is that the HFT firm is racing to update the price on shares they are already offering (or on buy orders they've already placed).

That is, they are more like a shop keeper changing their prices when they notice demand than a ticket scalper racing you to the ticket window.
yet but no..

1. bottom of siphon outlet has to be sealed by the surface of water held in a container.. and

2. and height of long side must less that atmospheric pressure in height from said surface of water

or water column on down side will break and draw will be lost
Also known as "degaussing," which brings me back to my school days when I would sometimes degauss the school's CRT monitors when I got bored just for fun. Looks like this, if you didn't live through those times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9nOtX-CJg
Ask HN: Any Tech Events/meetups in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
I'll be heading over in the first week of February and am wondering if there are any upcoming tech events there. Thinking about checking it out.
Interesting. I knew the US used it in airframes and assumed they just used it a lot less in submarines but you appear to be right, thanks.
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Good article. One thing to make clear here is a memory leak is not occurring on a retain cycle. The correct terminology is abandoned memory. When memory actually isn't freed and no longer usable as there are potentially no references anymore. It has been discussed on occasion at WWDC. I believe it was in 2011, around the time they introduced ARC.
You can serve static html and progressive JavaScript and still couple the html and JavaScript into components.

The structure of your code does not have to dictate the result that is served to the user.
> Everything just feels way oversized, in a Fisher-Price kind of way

I'd also recommend getting rid of the icons on the main menu and replacing them with text (with a small icon next to them if you must). I had to hover over the icons to figure out what they do.

This is one of the things I like about Bootstrap, as a developer I can now focus on building stuff without having to care about making it look nice (which I'm not good at). I just add Bootstrap and for 90% of things (I usually do business web apps) that's good enough.
Interestingly the new P8 Poseidon doesn't have Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) equipment on the US variant, though the Indian one has had it fitted. You need to fly low for it to work which is less efficient for the jet powered P8 compared to the older P3. So if you're generally flying higher and up against submarines which have been demagnetised there's less need to fit MAD.

Surface warships are also degaussed to help avoid magnetically triggered mines.
Number of tickets closed is a great example.
In cca 2005 timeframe we used to ship py2exe-d windows desktop application (using wxwidgets framework), with exactly zero issues. The target was a wide range of windows releases, from 95(!) to XP.

I haven't seen any of problems mentioned in the blog post.
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What does accommodating for a new skillset make a difference to the cost?

There will still be a minimum effort (e.g. in hours) that cannot be reduced by the nature of the employer. A dev will still have to put in the hours to learn a new language.

It seems the cost being described here is cost to the employer, not to the developer.
Quick idea: rotate the ship 360 degrees, integrating the magnetic forces. What remains is the magnetic force of the ship itself. In subsequent measurements, subtract this magnetic force to get the component of the magnetic field of the Earth.
Safari url bar crashes
Is anyone experiencing the same crash when clicking url bar in Safari?
Turned out to be connection issues on my end! (Gmail on Android doesn't seem to really report those)
There are lots of reasons. But I looked at your comment history and decided not to jump on the "interpreting discussion threads as logic statements" train with you. Apologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Felix d'Hérelle "quickly learned that bacteriophages are found wherever bacteria thrive: in sewers, in rivers that catch waste runoff from pipes, and in the stools of convalescent patients."
What you are talking about is more about the eternal discussion of "buy vs build", but this is not what I am talking about. It seems like you are just looking for a rationalization of NIH. There is a lot of middle ground between "let's build something that depends on a dozen different frameworks" and "let's build everything ourselves".

What I am talking about that if you have a good solution to the problem that we (as software engineers) are supposed to solve, then by all means take that solution instead of focusing on re-implementing it. "The exercise is left as an exercise to the reader" is fun and all when we are still in college, but when we start talking about the progress of your career, the industry and society in general, please don't waste your precious brain cycles working on something that has already been done.
4,000 Amps is a ridiculous amount of current. Though when you have a nuclear power plant nearby...

Also, this line made me shudder:

> "...stringing an electric cable the length of the ship and pulsing 2,000 amps through the cable."

EDIT: Okay maybe not that ridiculous, apparently the Luxor hotel has higher-amp lightbulbs http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4000+amps
Simmer down comment section. So what if it's not the most perfect thing ever. This is neat. Good job by all that worked on it. I'll bet they learned a lot in the process and had fun doing it. thanks for sharing it with us.
> it works with W3C standards instead of going off on a tangent and hacking the DOM entirely

While this sounds good on the surface (standards!) I think it is missing part the bigger picture. React, and more generally, the whole ecosystem of related libraries/frameworks it has spawned, is most importantly defined by a move to describing components using pure functions. The virtual DOM diffing is, in my view, just an implementation detail; a means towards achieving the end goal of a simpler program design via pure functions.

On a different but closely related note: Angular and Polymer both use template systems which have to reinvent control structures (looping, filtering, conditionals, ...) embedded into HTML via tag attributes (eg, `<li repeat="{{todoItems}}">`). Contrast this with React (and especially ClojureScript's Om or Reagent), where any such logic is implemented directly using the languages normal mechanisms for it (map/filter, loops and if statements, etc.). Using HTML template languages is realy just raising up HTML and treating it as some special class of data, whereas React-style libraries recognize that it's all just trees (AKA lists of lists), and programming languages are already very good at building them up and manipulating them. Programming languages are designed for manipulating data; HTML isn't.
Fault no, responsibility yes. Owners of vessels like these are responsible for the damage they do, just like any other employer.
I almost agree. From the article:

> Scientists and religious leaders alike believe that human brain interacts with the environment and every brain has an energy wave associated with it which interferes with other brain waves and stranded waves to produce an outcome (something like a “placebo” effect).

But you could try to express the disagreement without using "stupid shit". From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> In Comments

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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It's more than fair enough. Why would you want to build build build?

Most of the ideas coming from the business side aren't that good. I think that's what he's saying.
Was interested to see the discussion here. I've never liked big phones. I find the iPhone 6 just about possible to use but I need two hands to do most things. The plus device is just impossible for me. The rumours about the potential '5se' (upgraded iPhone 5s) are very exciting and this article shows there is a potential market for it. If Apple can build a phone that's as powerful as the larger devices but with a 4" screen I would definitely go for it. The iPhone 5s screen size was perfect for me. It was pretty much the largest screen I could possibly use with one hand. I'm even willing to give up some features for it (3D Touch for example, which I really like but isn't necessary). As long as performance and the camera are on par with the larger device I'd be happy. I'm sure I'd lose a little battery life but I was always able to get through the day on the older iPhone's so that should still be fine.
It was also used in the K-278 nuclear attack subs, but only in the inner hull so wouldn't have had so much effect on reducing magnetic signature. It seems I was somewhat miss-informed. Thanks for helping clear that up.
Variable and function names can be just as misleading as comments. I am not aware of any language which guarantees the semantics implied by your choice of identifiers.
I think that's a bit of a chicken egg problem, the large game engines need to be everything to everybody, and trimming the executable size down probably wasn't a priority in the past since mostly you'll have a big upfront download anyway.

However, I remember that the first Unity HTML5/WebGL demos a few years ago were much smaller, a complete zombie FPS had a 3.5MB upfront download which is actually pretty decent.