skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Impose tax on corporate revenues, not profits

2. Regulate market capitalization of corporations
>And heaven forbid you should be so well off that you have to save for retirement with after-tax dollars and/or in taxable accounts!

Well, this is where the distortion comes in. The employer uses pre-tax money when funding pensions. The employee doesn't have the ability to do this. It's the same situation with other benefits.

So it's optimal to take a lower salary and more benefits. But this is strictly worse than if the taxation regime was the same for both employees and employers.
Not just the incremental additions, there basically are no other generation sources below few KWs. Gasoline or diesel generators can be used as a backup only requires a lot of maintenance.
Why do you describe it as a vanity business? She collected pencils and then decided to create a business selling them. How is this any different than someone deciding to open a shop that sells Teddy bears? Or someone who decides to make an app that does some niche thing? Isn't the entire point of the HN community to take your passion or interest and turn it into a business? Describing her business, where she has 3 employees and is making a profit, as a vanity business is awfully dismissive.
Brilliant write up;
It seems like your major objection is persistence of your session (which is more than just editor instances) but it includes your shells, their position on filesystem, your terminal splits, their position and color etc. There is a tool that handles exactly that and its called tmux. It allows you to create a session (or multiple sessions), create windows, position them exactly the way you like, open your editor of choice in one or more of them, or have other tools display useful information etc. And these session survive restarts, and you can connect to them through ssh etc. And you can navigate those windows with keyboard or mouse etc.

This is useful for long running work, but more often it is not necessary. If you are just exploring the code base or making small edits here and there you don't really need persistent tmux session for that.
Legitimate question, outside of WebRTC, plugins which are icky, and Flash which I hope dies a fiery death in a chlorine triflouride fire, is there any other options for doing browser based audio and video chat? It'd be cool to know of alternatives.

Rhetorical follow up, if it's the only wagon in town that doesn't either require you to maintain several different plugins for several different browsers (plus having users install them), or doesn't run on my OS (Thanks Adoma/be), how is it a bandwagon instead of a future standard? That makes about as much sense to me as talking about the CSS bandwagon, or the http bandwagon, or the TCIP bandwagon.
LinkedIn is a great networking tool no matter where you are in your career. You can make connections that wouldn't other otherwise. I know it sounds like a cliche answer, but it is true.
From the photos, it seems you can flip it around and it works for lefties.
... except for power. Damn Apple for replacing the MagSafe with USB Type-C.
Hold it upside down. The pages will flip orientation if you do that, and all the weight will be on the left side.
Interesting that Turkey isn't depicted as part of Europe in either the author's traditional or contemporary view.
Well except for the code cleanup and the more extensive scripting options ;)

I've been a happy neovim user for a few months now, but I'm still glad to see that vim is keeping itself up to date.
Argg, thar be tahrs, matey!
https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/720062942960623616
And just to throw another wrench in there, because it sorts by Unicode code points, capitals come before lowercase.

So this:

['Banana', 'cherry', 'bagel', 'apple'].sort()

Will produce this order:

["Banana", "apple", "bagel", "cherry"]
Turn it upside-down.
Some types of lasers (e.g. free electron lasers) can be tuned to arbitrary wavelengths, so you could maybe adjust the frequency of the laser as the craft accelerates.
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The New Yorker is meant to be read and savored, along with a glass of fine wine on a rainy day sitting in a comfortable chair by the fireplace, while jazz plays in the background. Or on a commuter train while trying to forget stresses of the world for a while. It's about "flow" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29) while reading.

A "Reader's Digest" abridged version of the New Yorker misses the point.

If your attention span is in a TL;DR mood, don't read the New Yorker.

My favorite articles in past years:

- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-o...
- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya
Saigon where I'm back from is building a light rail to the center with twenty odd 30-40 story residential blocks along it. The whole thing is taking about 2 years to build.

That kind of thing is good for preserving historic buildings too - the blocks are all in nondescript areas 1-4 miles from the center.
The thing that I have found about point and click however is that some issues can't be solved with this method. I really like the idea of positioning it as a starter and you can augment that script from this point. So are you thinking about them being able to edit the output as well?
No and does it really matter? I find that interviewers are open to seeing candidates who don't have experience exactly in the range they are looking for as long as you can impress them with your knowledge. The ones who do are the places you probably shouldn't work anyway.
Without looking it up, I'm guessing its rotatable?
You don't know what you're missing without a background in calculus. Calculus is the mathematics underlying human-scale physics, and therefore all of engineering, art, and design. It is the fundamental mathematical theory alongside statistics underlying most of economics and biology. I tell kids going into calculus to pay extra attention: it will change the way they view the entire world. And it will. It is absolutely no accident that the enlightenment, industrial revolution, and modern era began with the discovery of calculus.

If you don't have calculus under your belt, I'd definitely suggest starting there.
This is no fun to talk about without permalinks to uploaded images/results.
A strange opinion: Do you also think that programming languages should be taught in the historical context? If not: How do you think mathematics should be taught this way.

My opinion is clear: One should teach the material in the best modern understanding that is possible. If this is more complicated but worth it this is perfectly fine and even necessary.
And you're hardly alone in doing Magic Things in org-mode. Org-mode is like the storied elephant being groped by blind men, all finding a different piece of anatomy, and each concluding that the elephant is something different.

Org-mode is a best-of-breed outlining application. It's a dead-simple workflow management and time tracking application. Org-mode is a better Markdown than Markdown integrated with a multi-format publication generation capability. Org-mode is a literate programming environment facilitating reproducible research that allows embedding code inside documentation, but unlike some alternatives supports a zillion languages and lets you pass values between them.

I haven't found anything that I like as well as org-mode for any of those individual tasks, much ALL of them. Org-mode somehow does all these things and manages simplicity. It's all plain text that I never have to fret compatibility or corruption.
I made an extensive prototype with it and definitely do not recommend it.

It's really just a UI clone of the Medium editor. It doesn't work at all the same way under the hood and instead tries to use ContentEditable as the store of a document.

Any approach which works that way is doomed to failure. ContentEditable works fine as an input but you need to have a pure mapping from all inputs to an internal structure which only your editor controls.
Yes, that's the whole point: LTS only recieves security updates and nothing else.

There are two products here, for two kinds of people:

LTS is a product for people who want security updates but absolutely no other changes.

The next release is a product for people who want bug fixes and new features, in addition to security updates.

Your comment is essentially asking "but why didn't they make the spicy flavor taste like the mild flavor?". They didn't make the spicy flavor taste like the mild flavor because it's the spicy flavor, not the mild flavor.
Ask HN: State of information security industry
With the advent of Correctness in software, the rise of "safe" languages like Rust, and the move to higher level languages in general, a wide variety of exploits targeting the memory can be effectively avoided. Most of the exploits released are buffer overflows (or any kind of overflow of memory). Cryptography is top notch (Obviously ignoring the human politics), and technically hard and virtually impossible to break. With the advent of systems like SeL4, will the art of breaking/hacking software go extinct?
Avoid using class names in Swift's #selector
So, it's miserable, steals weeks of productivity, and the author has no evidence of anything but a detriment to his typing speed after hours and hours of practice? :)
Not in my case, but some people might be blocking ads to remove the temptation to buy?
Two other resources I've used are:

this OSU / Coursera Calculus course:

https://mooculus.osu.edu/

and these Youtube videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/mathbff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWsDwg1XwM
For anyone who hasn't read Dick's Paycheck, it's an important read on the kind of world we're moving to. I don't believe we can throw off international corporations without some sort of massive socialist revolution (fat chance). The future is bleak, but it's going to be more bleak for the people who pretend that the global power structure isn't changing, and for the people who are ignorant of the amount of power international corporations have held as far back as 400 years ago.
Metafilter. Which works by charging a one-time only $5 membership and a one-week waiting period before you can post. Small enough for someone interested not to worry, large enough to make the trolls go bye-bye.
Disappointed this isn't about velociraptors :(
> The second is far more interesting. Strong AI. The distant future of 30 years, and maybe sooner. I think it's very likely this will happen in our lifetime

Why? I'd genuinely like to know.
I've yet to read anything to convince me this is true.
I gave this image - https://i.imwx.com/images/maps/truvu/map_specnewsdct-109_lts...

and I got this result "I am not really confident, but I think it's a couple of glass vases with flowers on top of a surfboard."
> I’ve used it a couple times to solve complex scenarios

I would love to know what those scenarios were.
Neither, so no offense implied or taken, I'm a regular churchgoer mysel. All I was saying is when confronted by new science, weak or overstreched churches will deny obvious truths (example:evolution) while churches that are actually focused on the orignal mission of Christ will simply say 'thats cool'.
Actually, zero profit is guaranteed only if the market exhibits perfect competition or monopolistic competition.

Those that are not (which the wireline business should be in, given its very high barrier to entry and low number of competitors) do not go to zero in the long run because of the market power they control and tacit collusion with other players in the market. The 'razor thin margin' likely exists not because of competition, but because of inefficiency in the way the business is run.
Why Linux is still not ready for desktop (2015)
> Do you also think that programming languages should be taught in the historical context?

Not the OP, but: yes, absolutely.
His description of the problem is brilliant. One might disagree with the axioms presented, but the conclusion is spot on: << It’s impossible to build what ContentEditable wants to be, because they have conflicting requirements. >>

Brilliantly simple.
Ebook files are generally not very large - my entire extensive collection takes up less size than one 30 minute h264 television show.

It's probably good enough
USB-C adds authentication protocol
You could generate 7k images at a resolution of 4096x2160 pixels by walking around the vehicle for just under four minutes while shooting 4k video at 30 FPS, something of which modern phones are capable.
Ideally, your CMS shouldn't even store HTML at all. It's not a pure system and makes changes hard to make in the future.

You're much better off storing an internal representation of documents and then outputting that as HTML where necessary.
Thanks for the response, I asked it out of genuine interest in how we discover new ideas, sometimes ignore or are unable to see their importance, adopt them and then share them. Even forget those ideas and perhaps have to re-discover them later. I personally empathize with the stuff you listed. In particular, I had trouble accepting at first why matrix multiplication is defined the way that it is.

As someone who feels "closer" at this point to applied math than pure math - largely, because it is literally more tangible - I admit a fascination with pure math, as if it were the human pursuit of universal beauty, in its ineffable, permanent and probably unattainable form. And that same pursuit of reason and order has brought renown & fame to some, but mania, loss to many. It's both the pride of humanity and terrifying, in equal measure. Like staring at a Van Gogh, and finally perhaps realizing how marvelous, impactful, insightful the statement the artist may have intended to make, yet from such humble circumstances, and with so few tools.
Yes, but many will not pass that mic back to the phone until you are on a "phone call".

Why, i'm not sure, but it's infuriating whenever i get in my Mazda that voice recognition won't work any more (the phone ignores it's mic because it's connected to bluetooth that identifies as being able to handle that, and the car won't send that info back to the phone).
>Building a community is a difficult endeavour even under perfect conditions, and changing the way a community works once it has been established is even more difficult.

Very interesting - a friend forwarded me a piece about another online community, The AV Club, which is quite relevant to this discussion. It looks at the nature of Community, Cliques, and Cesspool behavior. Might be a good companion, informal study to consider:

https://medium.com/@LongTimeLurker1stTimePoster/the-av-club-...
This American Life is produced by WBEZ Chicago, which is an NPR affiliate. It airs on stations other than WBEZ. To me, that makes it "an NPR program".
Why would you be interested? Why debate anything? Just jump in and make a comment and then leave because that is the way it should be. I mean that is how all things accomplished right?

The point is that believing that all problems can be solved in non-violent ways is unrealistic. The terrorists who will gladly murder any man, woman, or child to further whatever the hell it is that they are trying to further have never and will never just stop being violent to negotiate. The only way to deal with people who are that radical is through violent means.

Oh and maybe you should get your facts straight. America did not attack Iraq in retaliation for 9/11. America attacked Al Qaeda in Afghanistan in retaliation. America attacked Iraq because in theory there were WMDs there (I will not argue the legitimacy of that because clearly that wasn't the case and in hindsight that was an awful move).
Ars unfortunately suffers from the hivemind problem. They attached voting buttons a few years back, and unpopular enough opinions will be buried under a torrent of votes and be hidden.

But the idea of promoting useful comments is a good one, so long as the promotion is a mark of insight, not agreement with the author's politics. Ars doesn't suffer much from this, but given some of the polemic I've read on Guardian, I believe they may
What specifically, in your opinion, makes it great? How is having it better than networking in person at, say, a MeetUp?
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I bought the Voyage when it first came out (moving form a paperwhite gen 1) and I thought it was _barely_ worth the upgrade then. Now that the paperwhite 3 is out with all of the features that I bought the voyage for, I don't see any reason to pay the extra for it.
wow... first time I have my mind blown wide open by a HN comment.
Formula One Deployment Model
It is still much better than Micro-USB for power.
This blog post sums up my feelings on LinkedIn pretty well:

https://evertpot.com/10-years-of-linkedin/

My only issue is that I feel, as an independent contractor, I’m obligated to maximize my potential in acquiring new customers. I don’t yet have the luxury to shut down an entire channel for new leads, despite the fact that LinkedIn has actually done very little for me in that regard. On top of that LinkedIn has become so ubiquitous that it’s actually become a standard question during some interview processes to ask for my profile. I feel that “I don’t have one” because of “principles” is never a great opener when you just made a new connection with someone.

The only other real tangible benefit I get from it is knowing about job changes my friends have made. I'm in my mid-30s and most of my good friends from University are spread across the continent. I'm lucky if we talk to each other a few times a year. So having the ability to passively learn "Oh hey, Jonny is now at Google" is valuable to me because I now know I have good contact at Google.
It seems that you're implying that the Book of Mormon is a work of fiction just like Star Wars.
This is strange to me, coming from the Unix philosophy of ‘do one thing well’. I don't expect a text editor to manage windows; I use a window manager for that. Then my (highly personalized) window management works the same for everything, not just text editing.
No, they use a bunch of nonstandard extensions to WebRTC that basically amounts to the plugin. This is why the plugin is required on Firefox, even though it supports WebRTC.

https://webrtchacks.com/hangout-analysis-philipp-hancke/
I hope this wave will kill Skype (or Skype will adpot WebRTC)
> For example, how many stories have we heard about data leaks involving complete incompetence or negligence by the company involved? How many of them have ended up in jail or even with a fine?

Jail is a bit much for a negligence-caused data leak, but I certainly would welcome large fines against companies with shoddy systems. It might incentivize c-level execs to invest in properly securing their systems and the rest of the organization to take security seriously.

These financial crimes weren't the result of negligence. They were committed by people who knew what they were doing and profited handsomely from it.
An interesting project, but it fared pretty poorly on all of the images I gave it - the suggestions were wildly outlandish.
Haptics and Emotion: How Touch Communicates Feelings
Like Microsoft, Canonical should also hire couple of psychologists
I got the best job offer of my life on LinkedIn from a recruiter who obviously read my profile and visited my website.
For me, the biggest benefit is being able to see if I know anyone at a company I'm interested in for a job, sales opportunity, conference invite, etc. and also to be able to easily connect in a professional way to people I meet without pulling them into fb (which I've basically abandoned). It might not seem like you need any of those things today, but in 5 years you might change your mind and getting that info back again without having something like LinkedIn is difficult.
The guardian comment section used to be excellent (10 or so years ago), there was a community of admittedly left-leaning commenters and the odd article would get ridicule but there was more discussion.

It started to go downhill when they changed their commenting software so that you saw far fewer comments (about 10 per page rather than 50) and for a time would only sort most-recent or least-recent.

It was then very hard to actually have a discussion.
It suggested that two of the images I uploaded also had something to do with surfing. Maybe it was trained on a lot of surfing images.
Usual caveats apply: U.S. sales tax is still to be added to that £204 figure, so it's not actually £204 for an American buying it.

Adding vat to your £204 figure takes us to about £245, so even if we assume that an American does pay just £204 for it, it's only a £25 difference (~10%). It's not ideal, but it's actually not bad either --- I've seen that difference being much, much bigger in the past.
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"we can get a utopia so advanced we can't even imagine it"

I think one possible vision for that utopia is the Culture - the "post scarcity" part of it is obviously based on fantasy physics but way it portrays humans (OK engineered humans-like beings) human level AIs and godlike Minds running things is quite satisfying. Particularly that the only thing that a godlike AI is likely to worry about is the opinion of other godlike AIs - and fiddling with the impossibly slow, stupid, but still loveable, meat beasties is definitely frowned on (see the reputation of the Grey Area).
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I would definitely expect calling `sort` on plain old integers to work exactly how I want.

That said, they probably should have read the documentation as I doubt that was the only use case.
It went from 18GB to 600MB! That's awesome, thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
Mostly because they still have tons of competitors in the messaging space and they're not leveraging their success in social networking to force success in messaging. I'm personally reachable from 10-15 different forms of messaging (and neither WhatsApp nor FB messenger), and most people probably have at least 4-5 so it's a really tough argument that because of Facebook users have to use WhatsApp or FB messenger.
I'll echo everything else: far too much money.

I felt like a chump for buying the Voyage weeks before the new Paperwhite came out with the same screen. The voyage is nice, but I would have gladly saved money with the PW3.

And that's at $200! The Oasis is definitely a tool for the really hardcore reader, or otherwise for the wealthy.

And frankly, I really like the Voyage case for setting it on tables or laying in bed.
Probably because there's no one at Facebook or no infrastructure that is specifically setup for hosting stuff like this. Facebook is a product company, not a hosting company, so this makes perfect sense.

I work in the marketing department of a late stage technology start up and we face the same problem. We have lots of excellent people all over the company, but it's a tradeoff in terms of asking people to work on Wordpress hosting infra vs. just paying a service like Wordpress VIP to handle it.
Seriously?

It significantly lighter without the cover. And is charging every few weeks really so burdensome that you'll pay an additional $170 (compared to the Paperwhite) to avoid it?

That figure really bears repeating: ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DOLLARS more. They're charging over twice the price of the Paperwhite, for a device with the same screen size, same resolution, same connectivity, etc.

Madness.
I was under the impression that the Marcellus fracking boom (not tech) drove up prices and scarcity. It's only in the past year or so that I've seen for rent and for sale signs springing up everywhere. Now that fossil fuels collapsed, the housing market pressure is being released.