skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think it's interesting Reubens developed an entire plan to resurrect his career from what is typically an irrecoverable disaster.

Performing his stage show in L.A. so that someone from a movie studio will "discover" him again and get psyched about a movie project? That's really really clever.
It is short-sighted to celebrate the economic returns of women having no/fewer children. Consider the average contribution to the furthering of mankind over one woman's lifetime (without children, her lineage stops there), versus the potential contribution from her 100 descendants in 3 generations' time, or 1000 descendants in 5 generations' time.

Unfortunately, this myopic fascination for short-term economic gain and "equality" persists, and yet we wonder why the developed world's economies are stagnating and teetering closer to failure. It's our birth rates, stupid!

Besides, people are so much more than economic units, despite what our media tells us. Each part of the world has its own unique history, philosophy, art, ethnicity, food -- all handed down from our respective ancestors. And yet, we continue to march into the abyss and throw it all away for the sake of the economy; individualism and consumerism is the name of the game nowadays.

There's no reason for this; we have to stop before we lose everything.

(I wrote some more on this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076964)
In Vancouver, property tax is based on calculating the cost of the provided services, then dividing the cost over all the homes based on home price and adjusted for and a few factors such as location. Every home is assessed annually, which becomes the basis for how much tax you pay. Theoretically, if the cost of providing the services were constant and all home values increased at the same rate, your property tax would never change.
Seems down at the moment. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oivr__r...
I agree. This is one of those cases where I think regulation over markets is warranted. The free market won't solve this problem because it's cheaper to make junk that breaks and people are too focused on the now to care if their stove will work in 10 years.

It's one of those greater-good problems that the market ignores but would benefit society as a whole. As a consumer, it would be nice to have protection against shoddy craftsmanship as well.

Something like this might even have the side effect of moving more production jobs back to in-country factories where quality can be controlled much better than in a foreign country.

EDIT: Thought about this more. There has to be some body that regulates what constitutes an appliance worth warranting. Maybe this could be done on a cost basis, but then would you have to have a warranty on an expensive piece of art? If you did have some sort of department deciding these things, would that allow for corruption? Would the microwave lobby somehow worm their way out of having a microwave being included as a warranty-guaranteed appliance? No easy answers, unless I'm missing something.
You forgot that, with the exception of 2008-2013, the CAD has been and is very cheap.
Thanks for the feedback, good point. That must be plotly plotting the room modes. I don't really know how to make that not jam up the browser... I'll look into it.
What about an EB-5 visa? Isn't that somewhat similar? This doesn't directly buy a US passport, but it does allow for citizenship within a few years (and then, by extension, an American passport).
No developed country supports anything remotely like squatter's rights.
True, but that's GitLab's business strategy anyway.
HomeJoy closed down because it couldn't drum up repeat business from its customers. At least according to this article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2015/07/23/what-really...
See also: None of us is as dumb as all of us.
The Oil Industry got together and decided things may never get better
I had a conversation with a coworker who used to build software for the criminal justice system. To make a long story short, it turned out to be impossible to make a good software system for the criminal justice system. Between the courts, police departments, and government, nobody was willing to give up any data, fearing they would lose their own value in the system.

I fear that healthcare will suffer the same fate. Between insurance companies, doctors, hospitals, patients, governments, and every middleman inbetween, nobody is going to want a system that makes one of them irrelevant.
Ok, we'll mark this one as a dupe and put the other one into the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926 and the other links there).
Both are correct. It applies to men 10fold, however. Women are far more harsh critics when it comes to determining attractiveness of men [0]

Your average woman will still have a slew of options and general choice in their partner from online dating.
Your average man simply does not.

<parent>'s point still stands.

[0] Evidence, of course: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...
Yes—that's certainly our long-term goal.

This analysis is a first step, but before providing personalized recommendations, I think we'd want to do a lot more validation. There are a lot of corner cases in the real world, and particularly in the wake of what's been happening with Theranos and Zenefits, I think it's on startups to really do things right in healthcare.

In the meantime, if you have an Apple Watch and want the graphs + metrics, feel free to take Cardiogram for a spin:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardiogram/id1000017994?ls=1...

(Android Wear is coming soon.)
https://gitlab.com/explore should be viewable when you're signed out. There are not many projects there yet, but when I just looked I saw that iterm2 moved their issues to GitLab.com https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2

Projects fully on GitLab.com include F-droid and Mailman.
Yes I was just wondering if there was a possibility of it after the point which this study has been released not prior to it.
Even the current taxes are over 1.5x what my mortgage is (including not only escrow payments for taxes but also PMI). Nuts
> Maybe it's looking at my heart rate and extrapolating?

Yes. At least that's what I hope/assume mine is doing.

> Anyway, I'd be very much interested in some kind of fitness tracker that can provide better estimates on caloric burn.

The 2nd most accurate formula involves weight and heart rate. http://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/12435/is-it-possi...

Your Charge HR knows both of those, so I would hope it uses them. That's the whole reason I bought one in the first place.

It looks like measuring VO2max is even more accurate. But that's very annoying and invasive to measure as it involves breathing through a tube.
I've always thought the killer healthcare app would be some sort of way to automatically track calorie and nutritional macro intake without manual data entry. No idea how that would actually work, though.
A Canadian who invests in single-family homes recently told me that the U.S. state of Indiana charges double real-estate taxes if the home is not owner-occupied. As a Californian who owns rental property in Arizona, I am all in favor of this, provided that means my primary residence would be taxed less.

Real-estate taxes on your primary residence is the equivalent of paying rent. It has become so high in some states (e.g. Oregon) that it discourages home ownership.
He's correct that a lot of stuff is destroyed in the process. But the synapses are preserved, and many people believe that is all that is necessary. If you get your brain preserved with this method, there is some chance it can be revived in the future. The synapses contain a huge amount of information about you. It's quite probable the rest of the information can be inferred from that.
The simplest explanation which covers both reported lesbian premiums and gay male penalties on earnings is that social pressure exists for the man in a heterosexual relationship to take on the responsibility of being the main earner. Even without kids, the bias is towards the woman being the most likely person to cut back on their hours, take time out of work or at least not push their career quite so hard if the household doesn't need two full time incomes, and the man being the person to take on additional workload or push for a higher-paying role if the household is struggling to make ends meet.
Whose Opportunity Is It?
> why do the choices that women (or any given group) make result in them being paid less overall?

If you pick a low-valued career, you will probably be paid less. No need to bring in gender here... movers are mostly men, and they're also low-value.

> Should they essentially be punished for those choices, particularly when you consider the power that money buys?

It's not punishment. They willingly give up the power of money by picking a career that earns less. If someone wants the power of money, pick a different career. Again, gender doesn't matter.

> Are some of the occupations that are dominated by women undervalued and underpaid, such as teaching and nursing?

Yes, but it has nothing to do with the dominating gender. Those fields are just under appreciated... it's a societal problem if we under value those professions, but (again) gender doesn't matter. Male nurses suffer the same problem.

It seem what you should be asking is: Are women inherently biased to pick these nurturing roles, and is this because of societal or biological pressures? If it's biological, is society responsible for correcting the economic imbalance by effectively subsidizing those roles? Should we accept that some careers are valued less, make this very obvious during formative years (highschool/college), encourage rational decision making, and accept any natural gender imbalances that result?
Zenefits’s Regulatory Headaches Are All Too Common in Silicon Valley
I was merely suggesting there may be a chance of that happening never suggested it "follows".

Also unable to reply to "JumpCrisscross" above, perhaps because he has so many points? Any ideas why?
I heard from a real estate agent in Vancouver that 52% of real estate is owned by foreign investors, mainly buyers from Hong Kong.

They leave the buildings empty. One building was flooded because the fire sprinklers went off and there was no one living there to spot and report the problem.
Some lesbians are very open and obvious. I am not stereotyping.
If you are not interested in learning French you'll have a hard time finding a job in Montreal.
Interesting, checking this up.
> Someone is organizing the system to pay the lowest possible wages.

For everyone.

The rest of your comment seems to be about ancient history - what did you mean to say about society today?
What's the point of the comic?
If you're wondering, try forcing yourself to sincerely be attracted to a different sex than the one you're currently attracted to.
Good stuff. Something similar in case you want to process the data further in node: https://github.com/maxthyen/table-scraper

I'm a big x-ray fan (https://github.com/lapwinglabs/x-ray), makes scraping super easy
Spoke too soon, it's now even deleting files on sign in https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/698235688941187075
But with backdoored encrypted communications the government would have instant access to ALL enciphered letters at once, regardless of the seeming guilt or innocence of the sender or recipient.

To me that seems like the key difference. If all but face-to-face communications are electronic, and no electronic communications can be strongly encrypted, then the private sphere is greatly reduced and many things once considered private become public.

But on the other side of things, with strong crypto many things once considered public would become private.

There doesn't seem to be an easy way around this choice.
I don't think people don't care. It's just like sales/marketing - you need to communicate the value of artistic games to the people.

No one cared about quality in the early days of film/tv either. But, eventually, some people saw value in them as an art form, and started helping others understand how.

I think we should start doing this for games.
Definitely agree that there's an opportunity to modernise unions and remove potential corruption.

Has anyone explored trying it with a private membership app?
Now that I think we can find some interesting findings. Homophobic males are usually more tolerate of gay women.
Court says Facebook nude painting case can be tried in France
Internet access has become a humanitarian right. Saying it is less important than a different tax subsidy would be interesting given most tax subsidies impact things of far less importance.
The website (features section) says that the library will be open-source.
Not from that era, but I love BBC's "Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtp51eZkwoI
We have to close the hetero pay gap.
I don't know about this particular issue, but the Internet Archive actually has a special exemption from the DMCA for bypassing copyright protection in the games it holds. It's actually designated a library in California and no doubt has a few lawyers who would happily represent them if something untoward happens.

Most likely, at worst, the Archive will be notified that it can't host the material and take it down (and I strongly suspect that Burke wouldn't do that). I find it hard to think there will be any major assault on it after all these years and it's long-standing reputation.
Somewhat related, the highest-paid female CEO is transgender.
I think this is good advice, and you're hitting on one aspect of my aforementioned 'productive mania'. When I started programming, I almost immediately went into building projects I was interested in, would use personally, and friends would use. That probably hard a big impact on why I was SO driven, SO productive, and SO energetic.

I try and work on projects like that nowadays, but I can't hit that extreme level of productivity and excitement. It seems that another aspect of that mind state, was that the 'newness' of programming coupled with the success I was having at it BUILDING something, brought heightened mental activity.

I just wish I could tap into that nowadays. Unfortunately, it seems like the brain comes alive most, in a novel environment.
Maybe sales tax (VAT) is higher, but overall its about the same - except in the UK I get free healthcare.
The ghosts are cute.
Adobe Creative Cloud Deleting Files on Sign in [video]
Note: Exempt the University of Pittsburg web site, in web browser extension "HTTPS Everywhere", to prevent redirection, from http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/, to https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook. The latter seems to generate error "Page Not Found"...possibly due to mixed content http/https HTML (?) Browser: Google Chrome, 48.0.2564.109 m.
There's a bit more religion. I haven't been able to walk through Seattle downtown without some angry person with a sign and a megaphone threatening infidels with hellfire, unless they repent, and accept the Lord as their saviour.

Other then that, it's not too bad.
450M data points is cool, but without knowing how many people that represents, it's hard to say how meaningful this is.
We use Teletraan heavily. Currently we have about 500 deploys per day, including the auto deploys.

Slightly off topic, I'm a big fan of continuous deployments, but 500 deployments a day seems excessive. Assuming an 8 hour work day, thats more than 1 deploy every minute. Its great that this system works that seamlessly, but are there really benefits with deploying that frequently?
I suppose it's anecdotal, but I had a desktop machine with 4GB of ram that was bought for Windows XP. It dealt well with Windows 7, but the moment I upgraded to Windows 8 I noticed it was very slow. Unwilling to spend time tweaking it, I downgraded immediately.

Now I'm a developer.

My mother on the other hand kept a Windows XP laptop running on a Celeron M processor and 1GB of memory. It felt snappy enough; but I wouldn't trust it to run Windows 10 applications because while Windows itself might dial down enough, something like Chrome will happily gobble 500GB of memory because it thinks it can.
Urgh. He didn't 'hack his reality' any more than he knitted, cooked or birthed it.

Stop misappropriating words because they sound cool, there are whole dictionaries jam packed full of superb words, and its a lazy shame to lean on tedious zeitgeisty phrases.
Could this have something to do with the nutrition science community's reversal of a decades old vilification of saturated fats, which tended to get replaced with much worse trans fats? Saturated fats are absolutely necessary for brain function, and for a long while the standard recommendation was to avoid them like the plague.
Ha ha, actually, I'm in a "foreign" country (Poland, biggest producer of home applicances in Europe due to proximity to West EU markets and low cost of labor), so moving back is not what I would consider a good thing :)
Seriously, screw this. We pay for a service. They don't get to take that information and derive additional revenue.
I agree. Do you think we're in disagreement?
This bill doesn't change anything about local sales tax, on internet purchases, other than prohibiting something punative...like where buying something over the internet would incur a tax HIGHER than buying it locally.

There is a separate fight going on around local taxes for items bought on the internet. At the moment, an online business is able to charge sales tax only for sales that are shipped to a state that it has a presence in.

Amazon, being what it is, has a presence in every US state...so they tack on the appropriate sales tax for wherever you live.

And, Amazon is lobbying for legislation that would push every online retailer to do the same, even if they don't have a presence in the shipping destination state.

Edit: It's pretty complex: http://blog.taxjar.com/charging-sales-tax-rates/
I know Google is making large bets but I am not sure they can make so much of progress that doctors and insurance companies need to worry about their survival. If we ever reach that point, everyone in the population will face the heat.
No, Keynes' prideful workers certainly count as unemployed. They are actively seeking work, they just refuse to take work at wages that offend them.

Consumption must grow at the same rate as production, right? So either can be the limiting factor on economic growth, and investing at a rate that doesn't match consumption growth is wasteful (it would be better for the economy if that money were expended on consumption instead), no?

Yes, it's more or less true that consumption + investment = production. Investment is taking resources from consumption today in order to increase production in the future.

Let me make a software engineering analogy. Consumption = building cool, user visible features that product can show to upper management.

Investment = cleaning up tech debt, refactoring the code, or building massive infrastructure that (once complete) will enable many new features.

Product always wants new features. Whatever engineering can create, product will insist on deploying. If product insists on ignoring tech debt and refuses to invest in any infrastructure project, then eventually the rate at which new features are built will slow to a crawl. This is what happens when you shift from investment to consumption.

The idea of consumption increasing future wealth only applies in cases where production is below potential - where people could work but refuse to do so. The closest thing to stimulus I can cook up in my analogy is tricking lazy developers who refuse to work into actually working because you allow them to use node.js.
If you hard-fork the Bitcoin blockchain, but users continue to run implementations of both, then you have two separate blockchains that are both called "Bitcoin". We could call one of these "XT" or "Bitcoin Prime" I suppose.
Piezo Exits the Mac App Store
Google Is Finally Killing Picasa
I don't know what confusion of ideas created your current state of mind, but a reduction in tax is not a subsidy.

The maximum benefit to the economy is achieved when economic distortion due to tax or subsidy is zero.

Consider the traditional supply vs demand plot:

$| \D S/ In an undistorted market,
| \ / the equilibrium point where
| \ / D and S intersect determine
A|----X the price (A) and quantity (B)
| /|\ that will be sold.
| / | \
| / | \
+---------
B #

The consumer benefit to trade is the area below D and above A. The producer benefit to trade is the area below A and above S.

$| \D S/ In a taxed market, the tax
C|--\ / creates a difference between
| |\ / what the consumer pays (C) and
A| | X what the producer gets (E).
| |/ \ As a result, the quantity sold
E|--/ \ drops to a lower value (F).
| /| \
+---------
F B #

The tax revenue is the area above E, below C, and left of F. It is possible this can be returned to the economy intact, if the government spends it wisely. The triangle of the former benefit of trade to the right of F and left of B is deadweight loss, and is lost forever. The new consumer benefit is above C and below D, while the new producer benefit is below E and above S.

$| \D S/ In a subsidized market, the subsidy
G|--\---/ creates a difference between
| \ /| what the consumer pays (H) and
A| X | what the producer gets (G).
| / \| As a result, the quantity sold
H|--/---\ increases to a higher value (I).
| / |\
+---------
B I #

The cost of the subsidy is the area below G, above H, and left of I. This produces an additional consumer benefit below A and D, and above H, and additional producer benefit above A and S, and below G. Note that this produces another triangular area of deadweight loss that the government spends to produce zero additional economic benefit.

In conclusion, a reduction in tax cannot in any way be reasonably considered equivalent to a subsidy.
As an ex-support guy, lemme tell ya: like most low-paying low-skills jobs, it's very rarely a vocation. It is also eminently a "people skills" job, not unlike hairdressing or waiting tables. Of course supporting developers is different from supporting Joe Sixpack, but any random bugzilla record will show how tech support without people skills is a huge bag of fail.

Btw, when talking about being repressed, i referred more to conferences and other gatherings, including twitter. We go from "SURPRISE- PORN SLIDE!" to "OMG THAT GUY CRACKED A SEXIST JOKE LETS RUIN HIS LIFE" with nothing in between. That's repression in action: since nobody is supposed to talk about it, nobody knows how to talk about it, or how to react in ways the rest of the world would find normal.
In this case democracy and capitalism are at odds.
The significance of this is that if you're offering a public platform for self-expression you may not have the right to unilaterally set the terms of how it is used in line with American norms of property law, insofar as your terms differ significantly from modes of expression accepted by society at large. This has some potentially large economic implications.
I read somewhere (and after 30 minutes of searching, can't find the original source but will keep trying) that at IQ 130, the correlation between parental IQ and child IQ was pretty high (ie. the mean parental IQ was ~127). But for kids at IQ 160, the mean parental IQ was only slightly above average (I think it was ~102). This suggests that there is a mass of upper-middle class professionals who have similar children, but that true genius (as measured by IQ) is rare and unusual, and usually more of a burden than a gift, given the lack of a suitable environment around that individual. So the success-comes-easily IQ 130 cohort are actually not the geniuses people laud them for being, and the IQ 160 cohort is probably just deeply misunderstood and comes from a (relatively) darker, more normal childhood.
Approximation in Mechanism Design [pdf]