skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Medicare and social security, the two biggest non-discretionary expenditures by the federal government, come out of entirely different piles of money than discretionary expenditures do. Were you not aware of that?

Medicare and social security are paid for through income taxes. The trust fund is entirely a work of accounting fiction. It contains only IOUs from the government to itself.

The system is built on a lie.

When the system was originally put into place, benefits were paid out to people who never paid the tax. From day one the money collected from taxpayers went to paying the previous generation's benefits. It wasn't saved in a trust fund, it was spent. The only reason there is any surplus money at all is that the population has been expanding, so they collected tax from more people than collected benefits. If we allowed people to opt out of social security and everybody below retirement age did so then the "trust fund" would run out of money long before it paid out as much as it ostensibly owes to people, because most of the money those people paid has already been spent on previous retirees.

But the remaining "trust fund" money was also spent. It's gone. They didn't invest it in real estate or shares of HP, they lent it to themselves and then spent it. The "trust fund" is a piece of paper that says the government owes itself money.

> Your income taxes are not funding social security.

My social security income taxes are funding social security for existing retirees. My federal withholding income taxes would fund social security in any year that the "trust fund" decreases in size, because that's where the rest of the money actually comes from.

> Your social security taxes are not funding things that come out of the general budget.

They do in any year that the "trust fund" increases in size.

> Legally, that isn't true.

The people who decide where the money goes are the people who make the law. A law can't be illegal. It could be unconstitutional, but I don't see any obvious reason why changing social security or medicare benefits would be unconstitutional.

> Cutting social security benefits would not free up more money to fund the things you think government should be doing.

It certainly would. Even if we keep the charade of separate accounting, reducing social security benefits would increase the size of the "trust fund" which serves as a long-term/perpetual debt sink for the rest of the government which allows the rest of the government to spend the money in present day and pay it back arbitrarily long in the future (or, as has historically been the case, never). Or if you prefer to look at it more directly, reducing both social security benefits and social security taxes would allow withholding taxes to be increased in the same amount without changing the total amount of money the government takes out of the taxpayer's paycheck.

You can't actually borrow money from yourself. You can do all the paperwork you like but at the end of the day the credit and the debit cancel out.
>"What do you mean my eighteen-month-old car has been end-of-lifed?"

FTFY
Notifications are necessary for many applications, they are not for traditional websites although sadly that doesn't stop them from requesting permission. Imo the notification feature really should require at least https, like many other intended-for-applications browser features like service worker and location. On mobile you could replace most native apps (twitter, facebook, mail etc) with a web app if they supported notifications and save gigabytes of space for stuff that actually needs to be native.
Tweeting during live events is pretty much how my regular (don't work in tech) friends use Twitter. I would wager that many/most people use Twitter this way.
Regarding HSL vs RGB, I find this article a good introduction to HSL: http://thenewcode.com/61/An-Easy-Guide-To-HSL-Color-In-CSS3
Publishing your name and photo on Tinder isn't exactly hiding in the first place. You are putting it out there for any stranger at all to see.
100% agreed, there's varying degrees of neccessary involvedness, but there's no way to make "barely no sacrifices" there (and the ones I know who state that either let their spouse make the sacrifices or lock the kids up in day care more often than not).

On the other hand, maybe people should stop making so many sacrifices for work and simply be more efficient. With one newborn at home and another one in the making, I cofounded an early stage startup. Difference was, we got 6 seasoned industry veterans as founders and validated product-market fit before even starting out. That way, none of us really killed themselves (pretty normal 45-50h focused work weeks and weekends off), and we still have growth that's through the roof. I really like that I can have both.
It's a single certificate that never leaves CloudFlare's hands so revocation seems unlikely and they'd manage it for you if anything came up.
thanks for the hint. that solved it for me too.

what I'm wondering: My WhatsApp tells me it can't encrypt because the other person uses an outdated version. But the other person gets told the chat is encrypted. What is the truth then? Is it still doing crypto but my UI is denying it? Or is it not encrypted and the other person has a false sense of security? That's at least a bit strange...
I have multiple images loaded through javascript. Any thoughts on how these could be included? https://pageweight.imgix.com/jobs/aaa64e22-5ce8-48ae-905c-7e...
Naw, it was just to give users "friendlier" directory names like "Program Files" and "Documents and Settings".
Opera Co-Founder Launches Vivaldi Browser for Power Users
It will increase tax revenue.
"Nice"? The whole world will be running on solar and wind electricity in 20 years. "Nice" is a bit of an understatement.
The Next Rembrandt
Yes, I can't help to compare this to what happened with Parse. They are shutting down but they released the backend as open source and customers could keep going on.

I think that companies should be more careful at offering "lifetime subscriptions" or similar stuff. You shouldn't be allowed to take back that. Can the people in their boards be sued for damages even if the company closes? I don't know about the USA but in other countries board members are personally responsible in some cases, for example frauds.
It is kind of funny that we discussed here a service few weeks back with life time usage granted to the users and my argument was that I cannot take anything like that seriously from a company that was not around 10+ years at the very least. This move from Nest/Google just confirms that we cannot trust these companies with "lifetime" promises.
The collaborative effort between TU Delft, Microsoft, the Mauritshuis, and the Rembrandthuis yields this beautiful project. Really impressive.
another way to 'use' github I guess :D or plain git?
If you hook up an oscilloscope to a physical button, you will see that there's not a nice clean on/off when you press it [1]. The signal bounces on and off for quite some time after. This is a problem in a lot of situations. If, for example, a momentary push button is used as a power button on a device, it might be connected to an interrupt on a microcontroller. Without debouncing the device will rapidly switch on and off dozens of times over a millisecond. While there are easy ways of debouncing in hardware, most don't bother, as it's very simple to do in software. The simplest is just to ignore or disable the interrupt for a short period (a few milliseconds, perhaps).

Here's an Arduino sketch showing a simple way of doing it. https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Debounce

[1] http://www.labbookpages.co.uk/electronics/files/debounce/bou...
Anecdotal data point: my father was an entrepreneur for 100% of my childhood. It was rare for him to miss dinner with us, and he attended easily more than 60% of our extracurricular events. He'd often work from home late after we went to sleep, sometimes sleeping next to the phone to take customer support calls 12-5am. He had freedom to spend time with family and worked sufficient hours to achieve successful outcomes for his businesses. I think this form of scheduling is effective. Another anecdote: apparently Sheryl Sandberg also eats dinner with her family every day but works from home late at night and early in the morning.
Vivaldi 1.0 Launches
> Zero. If you're lucky, someone will pick that source up and deploy servers to run it, but again, no guarantees.

I know this sounds crazy but maybe the owner of the device could host the server themselves on a Raspberry Pi.

By the way if everything was opensource then vendors would try to make their hubs compatible with as much devices of other vendors as possible. Now you don't have to replace everything in your home only the hub.
> Can you recommend any other resources that've helped you along the way?

Everything you need is available in the meta-documentation[0] and on project-specific DocStatus pages (for example, the one for the Glossary[1] and the more general one for the Learning Area[2]). Also, as a corollary to what Sheppy says in the other reply to your post, ping on #mdn, people are there to help you.

Finally, you can join on the bi-weekly meeting on IRC [3]

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Contribute
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status/Glos...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status/Lear...
[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/MDN/Meetings/Community
Of the top 25, only two American companies are not in the Bay Area, and one of those is still in California.

For an area with less than 2% of the country's population, that is overwhelmingly dominant. I'm not sure if you could have underscored my point any more succinctly.
As long as it is just a quick search, what's wrong with it? I'm confised by US views on this: I go through pat down search every time I enter club or a mall, I'm quite happy to comply and never have any problems with it. I don't own the car, so I don't know how inconvenient and long a search can be, but if the police are aware that this factors are weak and give a lot of false positives, I don't think they treat every fitting individual as a deug mule.
Nest should be sued into oblivion over this. If they get away with this, it will destroy a whole market.
For more background on the idea of "universal tax rebate," apparently the correct term may be "indirect subsidy." See the original proposal by McChesney and Nichols at http://www.thenation.com/article/death-and-life-great-americ...

An excerpt: "We begin with the notion that journalism is a public good, that it has broad social benefits far beyond that between buyer and seller. Like all public goods, we need the resources to get it produced. [...]

Just as there came a moment when policy-makers recognized the necessity of investing tax dollars to create a public education system to teach our children, so a moment has arrived at which we must recognize the need to invest tax dollars to create and maintain news gathering, reporting and writing with the purpose of informing all our citizens.

[...] Let’s give all Americans an annual tax credit for the first $200 they spend on daily newspapers. [...] In effect, this means the government will pay for every citizen who so desires to get a free daily newspaper subscription, but the taxpayer gets to pick the newspaper–this is an indirect subsidy, because the government does not control who gets the money. [...]

None of these proposed subsidies favor or censor any particular viewpoint. The primary condition on media recipients of this stimulus subsidy would be a mild one: that they make at least 90 percent of their content immediately available free online. In this way, the subsidies would benefit citizens and taxpayers, expanding the public domain and providing the Internet with a rich vein of material available to all."

For a collection of more "subsidy" options see: http://www.freepress.net/resource/98570/public-subsidies-and... . I'd love to see a free market succeed here, and maybe we should give it some more time — but I'm worried we may have already run out.
As I said, it is not clear to me that the women were attacked for their gender. Maybe they were, maybe they weren't, I don't have enough information.
Private talks made easy, 2.22.17 released
20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)
Molten salts. The world's biggest solar installation being built in Morocco generates energy at night.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/11/technology/solar-power-elect...
As usual, the best storage solution is first to avoid storage. It applies also to network communication, database access, etc. Often used as a first slide of a presentation, but you still need a follow up.
Comparing Obama with monkeys and bananas is a bit unfortunate considering it's a common racist stereotype.
Thank you very much for the explanation!

I knew I could get away with using forward slashes in Perl and PowerShell, but I had assumed these were hacks in Perl and Powershell respectively, in order to make Unix-people feel slightly more at home.

> Now, MAX_PATH, that's something else. That should die in a fire and it blows my mind that it hasn't been addressed yet.

In a way, it has. AFAIK, internally Windows can handle paths that are far longer than MAX_PATH, but since so many applications have been written with the assumption that a path can never be longer than MAX_PATH, apparently Microsoft felt if somebody passed a longer path to an API function, that probably indicated some programming error, a buffer overflow or something like that.

But apparently, if you write a path like \\?\C:\Some\Really\Long\Path\With\Lots\Of\Nested\Subdirectories\And\A_Ridiculously_Long_Filename_In_It.RandomLongFileExtension then the path can be fairly long. I think there still is a limit of something like 64KB, but that should, as they say, be enough for anyone. ;-)

Still, I agree, MAX_PATH and network shares have given me a lot of pain - if you have have file server with a folder like D:\Network_Shares\Accounting that is mapped to, say, the drive E: on some client, the client can create files whose local path on the server will exceed MAX_PATH, causing e.g. backup software to choke.

And this happens quite a bit, because our project engineers store project-related files in an elaborate, very deep folder hierarchy; I appreciate they want to organize their files, but sometimes I just want to slap them.
Vivaldi Browser 1.0
Optimizing Large Scenes in Unity
Agricultural Drones Market Worth $3.69B by 2022
There is no national sales tax.
It's always nice to see the author of such serious articles is in fact human. Can we use this as a way of detecting the robot writers? (is being actually fun hard for AI?)

> Customers likely didn't expect that, 18 months after the last Revolv Hubs were sold, instead of getting more upgrades, the device would be intentionally, permanently, and completely disabled. (To be fair, the Revolv Hub design resembles HAL from Space Odyssey: 2001, so perhaps someone saw this betrayal coming).
When they give you those options and if you exercise right away they are taxed at whatever the current market value of the stock is, as income. It's only once you exercise and hold that you get the LTCG tax rate on the rise of price of the stock when you sell.

If they are structured as ISO options, then you will hit the AMT tax rate very very quickly and at the minimum pay %28 tax. If you live in CA, there is another %8 CA AMT tax that will apply on top of that I think. And if you start hitting the AMT tax rate, the 'tax credit' you get from paying state taxes starts going away too! So I guess if you play a lot of AMT shenanigans with ISO stock options, you can reduce the tax load to %28-36, which is an improvement I guess. But ISO stock options are golden handcuffs and pretty bad when your in a private company.

If I'm wrong, me and whole bunch of stock compensated engineers would be very interested to learn how we are wrong.
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption for calls, messages
No.. you can get huge dedicated servers for like $50/month.
Flywheels sound exciting but their energy density is about the same as Li Ion batteries (even when carbon composites are used). There are very few large scale deployments of flywheel energy storage systems in the world despite lots of active interest in them. Safety is also a huge concern since if there is a mechanical failure, a huge amount of kinetic energy will have to be safely disposed or you are going to have shrapnels flying everywhere.
Your account has also taken a wrong turn into using this site exclusively for ideological ranting. We haven't banned you because I don't think you're doing it on purpose, but please stop doing it. It's really tedious.

The enemies who blast this stuff at each other resemble no one so much as each other. Meanwhile the rest of us just want to get away from it. It isn't productive, and it spoils HN for things that are actually interesting, which spoils its whole purpose.
How do we know the NSA wan't compromised? They would never admit it voluntarily.
We actually already do accept less police efficiency in favor of personal liberty in many areas. This is an American tradition.

E.g. The Fourth Amendment warrant requirement. No one doubts that we'd find more criminals and contraband if police could make impromptu home searches of anyone at any time. But that's how a police state functions.

And we've decided to exchange efficiency in crime reduction for civil rights.
When we first heard about how Snowden actually got access to the files which he leaked, I remember being astounded that the USG was so incompetent about information security. My next thought was, how could Snowden be the first to get this stuff when there are professional spies from several nations, not to mention organized crime, who also want access to the info.

In fact it is entirely possible that deep cover agents within the USG had rigged the system so that info security was practically non-existent but only if you had the eyes of a UNIX system administrator like Snowden. Or some foreign spy agency operatives.

Remember that supposed cyber attack on Ukraine's power systems. It is precisely the same thing. Incompetence in security administration, nobody even caring to do the simplest things to secure systems and networks, no real security audits. Just handwaving and powerpoints and lots of impressive jargon, and no doubt, impressive checks being written.

Can we do better than this? Serious question, can we?
Digital strategy: Understanding the economics of disruption
Personally I'd rather pay that 20% human-interaction tax and sit in a nice coffee shop with fellow middle-men (previously known as 'humans').
i have a similar anecdote, when i arrived in the bay area in 2011, i was paying the exact same rent in east palo alto, when i left in 2015, my rent had gone up to $2,750. As my lease neared expiration, my landlord decided against renewing it and instead the house was sold because they were looking for a good exit.

i don't blame them, everyone has their reasons, but i want to caution you that while it's possible to find a good rental that works out for some period of time, it's not a long term assurance and being forced to move can make it difficult to acquire a place as favorable as the one you have with the combination of commute or rent or other intangibles you've grown accustomed to in your neighborhood. Or you may find one at the price, but it may take a much longer time than you have allotted, especially in this market where qualified renters are plentiful and willing (often out of necessity) to pay high rents for substandard properties.

I also asked myself the same question you did, but the conclusion i reached eventually involved me moving out of state last year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still hear "backslash" invoked in URLs once in a while, and it still bugs me to no end. It's 2016! You are a radio announcer! You should know how to pronounce URLs by now! So frustrating.
How can you call them zero-day exploits when the people who "have them" can't even keep their "top secrets" secret?

I expect the other guys have them as well.
It's a good idea if you want to catch drug mules, but a bad idea if you want a fair, free society.
The article says yes
Isn't DDC a sound countermeasure? And hasn't it been shown that up to this point that has not happened?

IMO that attack is as grandiose as it is unlikely.
http://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/

Under "Your own fork of Rails", you will see how it actually works. The answer to your question is "no, they don't store 3 copies of the same repo".
But there is no motivation to use alert. There is a huge reward for spammers to get a yes to a notifications prompt, you can then create them even when the browser is closed or when the user is not even on the website. However even so, they are so necessary for applications that this is probably worth it.
here's the open sourced result: https://github.com/AlwaysGeeky/Vox
I hope you mean nest when you said it. Occam's razor

> CEO Tony Fadell, a former Apple exec, has tried to infuse his former company’s DNA across Nest. That means a preference for only pushing polished products out the door, an antithetical approach to its sister company, Google.

> Since joining Google’s fold two years ago, Nest, the connected-device maker, has yet to release its own new connected device.*

> * Its only new hardware, the Nest Cam, was a repackaging of its acquired Dropcam product.

https://recode.net/2016/03/24/nests-next-frontier-for-the-sm...

I'd say Tony Fadell is the weakest link here. Things work differently outside the reality distortion field.

> "Larry Page is said to be a friend of Fadell, but he would do very well to stay completely out of it," remarked Mr Gwyther.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35925139

As an outsider, I think whether alphabet and Tony Fadell part ways soon or not will be indicative of things to come.
If you care about proprietary tech, it's not going to be with a product you've kicked to the curb. Besides all anyone really needs to support the hardware is a firmware version that allows net configuration and its api.
Recently he has been using gmail
Earlier discussion (989 points, 1407 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040022
$5.80 for a medium macchiato at work here in Western Australia
Scaling Data Science at Airbnb
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I don't think people are doing anything sketchy.

They're asking did your browser go

amazon.com -> search evo 850 -> evo 850 product page -> post "add to cart"

or did your browser do

evo 850 product page -> post "add to cart"

or even

post "add to cart"

those are sorted in decreasing order of naturalness. Obviously #2 can happen if you got a link directing you to the product page, but it's still less natural. You would often expect to see the referrer be an email domain or similar.
Unless it's libre, I won't even care. When will people start to give more importance to the license terms than a shiny new UI?
Absolutely. Even being 10 years old.

But it may be starting to be trapped in the same that many other older software projects are trapped; where features that one no longer would put into a framework are kept there as people are dependent on them.
I actually tried to upload my 1800 lines out of output, and GitHub fails to parse it.

Was thinking exactly the same thing wrt keyservers.
RIP OSVDB.org
Go to tech meet ups .. You could easily do one a day at least. Meetup.com

Also, check out hacker dojo in Mountain View.

If you have a car, do some fun sightseeing .. check out Muir woods, Carmel, point Lobos, etc.

Rents, hotels are crazy expensive so hope you have budgeted for that.