skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone wants to improve the usability, data files are:

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/job-...

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/pair...
Why? Are startups paying huge salaries? Looking through his tax plan, if you make under $250k/year, your dividends/capital gains will be taxed at a low rate. The rate only increases if your income is above $250k, which doesn't seem unreasonable.

Most of his corporate tax plans also seem to centre around preventing tax evasion and closing loopholes for massive businesses. If he's really modelling his system after European states, that likely means subsidies for small businesses.
I love what these conclusions entail: female programmers are either lesbians, or so turned off by their male colleagues that they'll marry anyone else with a spread so wide to be statistically insignificant.
Have you actually read the data? Your statement is just absurd - the 55% rate is for people who make TEN MILLION DOLLARS a year.
> Income tax is a tax on personal, individual income and should have no impact on startups.

No, just because a tax is levied on individuals doesn't mean the effects of the tax are limited to individuals.

(In fact, just because a tax is levied on one party doesn't even mean that party is the one really paying for it, in the end! This is the concept of tax incidence, which determines the entities who really feel the burden of any individual tax, independently of where it's collected).
First part is lan second part is ai. It could be something to do with artificial intelligence.
The original press release here:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-researchers-release-o...
Doesn't seem to be normalized? Lots of folks marry mostly teachers etc. Perhaps because there are lots of teachers out there?
There's still going to be a person who is reviewing the footage and deciding whether or not to prosecute. It's not as if the camera is just emailing the DA and saying "you need to prosecute this guy"
Yeah it is toxic. You can tell he's being sarcastic by praising Dear Leader. Just read back on the mailing list and you will find plenty of back and forth that quickly gets out of control. You don't even need to venture out far to find this kind of toxic culture in SV.

So, criticizing people based on sex, race, and politics shouldn't be perceived as taboo? We blame Marissa for buying Tumblr? What kind of logic is that?
It's not just about how much in taxes you would pay; it's about the risk of you actually getting quality care for what you are forced to pay in taxes. The risk of that care not being adequate is significant...consider that Bernie Sanders is Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee which oversaw people dying in waiting room floors of VA hospitals. Sanders originally tried to blame the Koch brothers for this episode instead of fixing it. The voters had very little recourse like they do in the free market where they can just go to a different healthcare provider, because they are forced to pay taxes for the VA hospitals either way. The same goes for the Flint water issue in Michigan as well. The citizens of Flint are being forced to pay for water that they can't drink or use, and they were lied to about the risks it posed to their health for almost a year before the truth came out. This is the real risk you face with any government program, regardless of how little a tax calculator website will tell you it is going to cost you.
On the one hand, proof that a candidate's tax idea won't affect you might forestall FUD. On the other hand, I am absolutely disgusted by evaluating policy changes based solely on the impact to one's own pocket book.
Western and Northern Europe seem to be doing fine with their socialist schemes.
Does this bring us any closer to warp drives?
ViaSat 3 Satellites Will Have More Capacity Than the Rest of the World Combined
Teaching as a career gets a lot of flak for being underpaid, but in many cases it's actually paid pretty well on top of having solid retirement benefits, an incredible schedule, and a lot of stability. The pay, if it's low, is also not as much of an issue if the other partner makes a large amount of money, as is often the case right now for software developers. It can be an incredibly family friendly career.

My SO is going into teaching, at least temporarily for a few years, in a medium-COL city. She'll be making $55k-$65k in base salary, depending on if she teaches 10 months or 12 months out of the year, plus full retirement benefits, and they also provided her with enough scholarships just for taking the job that she has no college debt at all. Meanwhile I know engineering graduates (not necessarily software) who started in roughly the same range, with considerable debt, not as much stability, no retirement beyond a 401(k) with a pitiful match, and just a week or two off per year.
or the balance of empathy/emotional intelligence
Yeah! A couple of years ago I thought JavaScript was hard, and I couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted. Somebody posted a teeny tiny code editor here on Hacker News and seeing the source code sparked something, and now I'm writing and releasing my own HTML apps and tools that help me and others.

I listed these here (with the source) to show how small and how LITTLE code you need. Each of these files are single-file apps - icon included! Many of these I either started or created on my iPad, showing that building HTML apps can be so simple that you can execute on the device itself.

I'm just putting it here hoping it can help somebody else. If that's no you, that's fine - but if it is I'm glad I took the time to write them out :)
Lots of people seemed opposed to ACA and a single-payer in the US but I never hear anyone talk about free market alternatives. What we have right now in the US is nothing like a market. Markets are supposed to provide price discovery. How can they do that when no one knows the price until after the work is done? It's insane and no one should be surprised that people want change.

What's the alternative to socialized healthcare? Everything staying the same? That's not going to fly.
Just to specify, I already have ST3, but there has been a new update since the past few days.
you can do metaprogramming - invent new methods or class on the run
Is it possible for a robot to have emotions?
I have. There is just so much out there...

On the other hand, it's nice to know the world really does appear to be boundless. I mean in terms of the possible.

We aren't much, but we are here and it's a pretty awesome experience.

Maybe we need to be here, otherwise what is the point?

I like to think there are others too, thinking thoughts like we are. Maybe that is necessary too. Maybe nobody has reached a point in their development for more, or contact to make sense.

I find our time here and now bittersweet. So much is yet to be experienced and understood. But, then again, here and now isn't all bad. We have great science, new frontiers opening up all the time. Our stories of the future are fantastic, and there is still a lot of magic and wonder about us, the world, reality...

We may not see the best. In fact, I say none of us will, but right now is never dull.

I feel like we are just beginning to get a real grasp on reality. That seems powerful and exciting. We could have lived in much darker, harder, ignorant times.

These times may be seen that way too, or they may be a peak, with a decline to come. Nobody knows, and I like it that way.
Most of us on the other side of the pond probably didn't get the joke (I didn't). And frankly, it's annoying. I like HN especially because it has insightful comments and not a lot of nonsense, memes and whatnot. Let's keep it that way :).
One thing I've gotten into the habit of doing is looking around the commit history and issue list for any package I import. Was it something somebody wrote in a hurry and hasn't really touched since? Is it something that has a solid set of regular contributors? Are there a lot of outstanding issues relative to how heavily used it is?

I also spend more time actually reading through specs to see how well they exercise the code.

That's probably standard procedure for a lot of people, but it's something that I had to learn to always do.
Did that actually sound good to you before you posted it?
India's problem was never socialism vs capitalism. India's fundamental problem is systemic corruption and heavy bureaucracy. Those things can arise under a capitalist or socialist system.
I'd recommend you actually read about the differences; one of them still has Capitalism, the other doesn't. It's a massive difference.
Also things like having clear ownership rules, using containment instead of pointers, not copying data around that doesn't need to be copied, operating on slices & views of large collections instead of creating a whole new collection, etc.

C++ devs who work in high-performance industries (like games or finance) know how to write fast code. C++ is not used in most consumer software these days, and even if it is used, you often see slow practices like chasing pointers everywhere, using inheritance instead of generics, etc. Even in big-data, an industry that you'd think would really benefit from fast code, the primary open-source tools are in Java. You could probably recover a 2-4x speedup - two generations of Moore's Law - by rewriting Hadoop in C++, but nobody (besides Google, who is happily crunching data with MapReduce etc.) has bothered.

That's because writing fast, correct C++ code is hard, and it tends to be more economical to write in Python or Node.js and then rent more VMs. If it is no longer economical to rent more VMs, you can certainly recover a lot of that performance, but until we get languages that let you use the performance tricks of C++ but have the safety & ease of use of Python (I have high hopes for you, Rust), it probably won't happen.
You just serve as an example of what I mean by 'toxic' behavior. You shouldn't be browsing reddit or tumblr by any means when you are working.
Nothing a regular passerby nailed to a utility pole couldn't observe.
That is possible. But I do freelance writing for a service I really like. My experience convinces me that it is not inevitable that it go that way. I hope that someday I can spell out some best practices for how to set up a good service that doesn't go that way.
As long as its a webcam-per-suspect-per-place-of-business basis and not a mass grab to do this across entire geographical areas it seems fine.

That's the problem right there though. The FISC has already ruled that if there is no constitutional issue with a single targeted act, then adding more and more acts together can't create a constitutional issue out of whole cloth.

In other words, if it's OK to do it with one person as a target, then it's OK to do it to everyone as a target.

"Put another way, where one individual does not have a
Fourth Amendment interest, grouping together a large number of similarly-situated
individuals cannot result in a Fourth Amendment interest springing into existence ex
nihilo. "[0]

[0] - http://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/BR%2013-109... page 9, paragraph 1
Maybe there is no chip, could be they are implementing on FPGA or virtual machines.
Another Thing Andreessen Got Wrong on India: It’s the Techies Who Are Against FB
You've posted several rude comments to Hacker News in political threads. That's against the site guidelines. Please (re)read them, and post civilly and substantively (or not at all) from now on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
This. If you read the comments here seems like I've been stuck in analysis paralisis because I didn't use Redux, Webpack, Clojurescript, Ember. Guess what? Maybe I should investigate those four, right? This surely solves the problem. /s
> What you're proposing is no different from saving the contents of a web page to your hard drive.

Web pages are intended to be copied by the user - it's pretty much impossible to use them otherwise. Books are not.
$251,429

I was curious.

http://www.bernietax.com/#251429;4955
An appeal to authority? To Patrick Walton?
A giant [citation required] is needed for your comment, but outside of that, taking this single claim at face value:

I heard him in an interview that the upper federal tax bracket will be 55%. This combined with state and local taxes means it will be closer to 75% (not including sales tax and countless other taxes that are paid).

It's just like in Norway and Sweden (the countries he wants to emulate). On paper, it looks like a small amount. But when it actually comes down to it, it makes it nearly impossible for even things like startups to thrive.

I'm wondering how many startup founders and employees you think are anywhere near the top tax bracket and would be negatively impacted.
It's Federal income tax for a reason. Are you suggesting people get a cost-of-living adjustment for federal taxes?
Postman for Teams
It'd also be useful to see comparisons between what they promised and what they actually delivered (particularly relevant for jurisdictions like the UK where lack of bipartisan agreement is rarely ever a factor in whether campaign promises get implemented)
In fact startups wouldn't have to worry about the cost of providing healthcare benefits and people wouldn't opt to not work for a startup, due to lack of healthcare.

If you want to focus on things that hurt startups, focus on the lack of investors outside Silicon Vally.
Our power generation stations are the black hole equivalent to the caveman with only access to generating fire through rubbing stones.

Based on what level of civilization you are. Rubbing two black holes in for a ping, might be the same as rubbing two stones for a spark. Advanced civilization go really advanced, to a point their activities would be undetectable to us or would appear to us the nature of reality itself.
> You have to admit, it's a fucked up system when your employer is basically paying you not to use your insurance.

That's not what an HSA plan is.

I'm not OP, but OP's situation is pretty common, and it's more equivalent to employers offering 401(k) matching. They deposit a certain amount of money each month into your HSA account, though by law, you can only have an HSA account if you're on a high-deductible plan.

Generally, the only employers who offer this are the ones who have the money to offer very attractive benefits (ie, tech companies). This usually includes covering part or all of employees' premiums, so their employees usually don't pick the government-mandated HMO plan option (it ends up not being any cheaper for them to choose the more restrictive plan).
I noticed that too. It amuses me that it just takes a couple of tasteful red and blue stripes to make something look official!
An echo is a reflection. I don't know whether gravitational waves can be reflected even in principle, but even if they can, space is so empty that in practice there's nothing to reflect them. So even a single massive event, like the one described in the article, will just send out a single expanding spherical wavefront; if you're not listening at the right moment, you'll miss it.
Profession is literally 'a paid occupation' and homemakers aren't paid - so homemaking would be an occupation but not a profession. Furthermore, as the parent mentioned, there aren't really unmarried homemakers, except those who are independently wealthy. Someone may be a physicist or nurse and then _become_ a homemaker.

All this isn't to to say that homemaking isn't challenging or exhausting (it can be), just that it doesn't really qualify as a profession. I don't think the parent poster was implying it wasn't difficult, just that it doesn't fit within the framework of professions.
Very minor nitpick: It shows "higher", even the difference is exactly $0.00. Inputs: 251429 (Income) and 4955 (Health Insurance).
String Parsing in SQL
The US is substantially wealthier than almost all of those countries, except Norway with its oil riches. They have massive youth unemployment, disincentives to investment and entrepreneurship, and the lack of innovation to prove it.
This is amazing, just played Desert Storm: The Air Campaign for a few minutes. The collection of software here is such an important reminder that even seemingly unimportant software has historical context and is worth preserving. The Internet Archive is good people.
“Fuuu”, a Ruby gem to automate Stack Overflow debuging
Perhaps you could explain the difference, because I don't see it.
Croatia is beautiful, but I think it can get a little bit too hot. However, 300-400 GBP is indeed extremely cheap.
> I have it on good authority that you need to pay for snacks at IBM.

I work for the State of Oregon. It's pretty much illegal to give employees free food without a business justification. Buying my own snacks and coffee is the default, and not a huge deal; I'd rather have money to spend as I deem fit than more calories. Complaining about not having a mini fridge full of Red Bull and a cabinet stocked with Doritos is a great way to make yourself look tone deaf and selfish when the vast, vast majority of American society doesn't have these fringe benefits.

Far, far worse is the series of things IBM's been doing to benefits. They've shifted the 401k match to the end of the year, so you have to survive any layoffs and stack ranking system to earn your contribution. Early retirement has been slashed from 6 months pay to 1 month.
you can pay a spotify-type premium for it, if you want to support them just upload to a pro account (even if you don't upload any music). I am going to do that myself as I just realized pretty much 90+% of the listening I do at work while coding is on soundcloud (I also have a subscription to google music, but don't use it as much for EDM)
FTA:

"at the direction of the ATF and without a warrant, the utility company installed a surveillance camera on a public utility pole located roughly 200 yards from Leon’s trailer."

The utility company installed the camera voluntarily.
But the reason why you're being paid 150k is _because_ of the high cost of living in the Bay Area. That's why people doing the same job in Kansas are not making as much money as you.
> The lower court ruled in Houston's case that, even if the long-term warrantless surveillance breached Houston's Fourth Amendment rights, the video evidence of his carrying weapons on the property would not be excluded at trial because the authorities said they held a good-faith belief that the spying was constitutional.

Ignorance of the law is no defense, unless your job is to defend the law?
After going to a few hackathons, I observed a trend of mostly useless, tech-bubble oriented products developed. So I had the idea of a marketplace style site where people would talk about their problems, and simultaneously provide ideas for hackathon hackers. Then hackers would visit the site for ideas, and if they build a solution, they get users immediately--the people who were subscribed to that problem. This would also hopefully channel all that hacker power into useful products. Does anyone think that's worth building?
FWIW, my employer's high-deductible plan comes out a wash because my daughter has an allergy. On high-deductible plans prescription drug coverage is verboten and consequently EpiPens cost $350 and you have to buy at lest two pair (one set for home and one set for the elementary school nurse) rather than $0 (manufacturer coupon designed for prescription plans). So... yes you save the $1k in premiums but all your drugs come out of the higher $4k deductible (vs being limited to $75 yearly deductible + copay).
The tax code already (unfortunately) subsidizes high state and local taxes by making them deductible.

Bay Area living is expensive because lots of people want to live there: There are more dollars chasing limited real estate and other resources. Making it "cheaper" by shifting around tax brackets based on how expensive it is will only make it more desirable to more people.
It went down a few months back I think, came back up for a while and then went missing again.
The downside is that you bring in another layer of indirection and, as a result, greater cognitive load for yourself.

Mycode -> facade -> library

Navigating code becomes more cumbersome and stack traces longer.
I do like this approach too but it isn't free.
> Anyone who thinks being a homemaker is not a profession has no clue what it entails.

Or just has one of the many common definitions of profession, for which homemaker doesn't qualify. E.g., the first definition in most dictionaries tends to be something like this "a paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification."

Homemaker is not, generally, a paid occupation, nor is it an occupation that requires prolonged training and a formal qualification.

I think the desire to characterize it as a "profession" is that the social perception of the social value of professions has led to a desire to characterize any vocation with perceived social value as a "profession", and a perception that a judgement that something is not a profession implies that it is not a worthwhile vocation.

> If it doesn't include homemaker as an option then you've excluded all married single income households.

No, it doesn't. Its possible to have a married single-income household where neither partner is a homemaker. (Single income households where homemaking tasks are either shared or contracted out, and the non-income-earning partner devotes their bulk of their time to tasks that are neither income-earning nor homemaking exist -- my perception is that they are more common among higher income groups, but that's not the result of any systematic study.)
The 6.2% health care premium currently slated to be paid by employers would have an impact on startups.
The Adam Smith argument is that everyone should advocate for what is in their own best interest.

Personally between this calculator and the more in-depth calculator it links to, I'm not going to vote for any candidate that promise to cause me to lose ~$300/mo in disposable income.
How many startups have you seen come out of Finland or Norway lately?
Changing the font color to black helps usability a lot. Just enter this snippet in the url bar

javascript:jQuery('.job-text').css('color', 'black');

With chrome, you might have to re-enter the 'javascript:' part.
>The voters had very little recourse like they do in the free market where they can just go to a different healthcare provider, because they are forced to pay taxes for the VA hospitals either way.

The average voter does not have enough income to have an actual choice. The way it goes is that you pick your GP from a list (so you have a little bit of choice there), and when you have a significant issue, your GP works with a specialist and your insurance company to decide if you qualify for any further care. You can get it without the insurance helping you, but you are risking bankruptcy doing such.

As it stands, other countries spend less on health care with better outcomes. So we can definitely improve the system.

That being said, I'll support privatized healthcare if we can get the same done for police care and CPS. If you don't like the people protecting you, then you can get seek out new ones.
It's not open source.
Thank you very much for the suggestion. However, I'm a big introvert, and a slight recluse even.
Metaforkically speaking you're correct.
Teachers have very, very predictable schedules compared to practically everyone else. They're part of a reliable industry. They have a very clear career progression ahead of them. They have holidays, maternity leave, etc. It's very conducive to marriage and raising kids.

There are two things to consider from that.

1: people who want a stable married-with-kids life are likely to also want a stable, predictable career

2: People who happen to be in a stable, predictable career find it easier to say yes to marriage and kids
> Also, let's keep it apolitical?

Uh, it's a tax calculator from a presidential candidate. How on Earth can you discuss that apolitically?