skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go out a county in any direction and the culture leans racist. But in Allegheny County, with a few exceptions, the level of racism seems more-or-less passive, a.k.a. Wendy Bell Racism (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wendy+bell).

I'm not saying that it's not a problem where it happens, but I guess I have the fortune/privilege of observing it so rarely despite living in an suburban borough that is 29.25% White, 66.51% African American according to the 2010 census. I admit that I don't patronize its lone business district very often.

In the city, though, I don't have incidents in my memory that I can cite as evidence that racism is "huge" in Pittsburgh. Big incidents are in the minds of many, e.g. Jordan Miles incident (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jordan+miles) and to my knowledge and memory, are the exception, not the rule. Then again, I spend most of my time in the East End, which is pretty segregated.

I do concede the lack of diversity in Pittsburgh's tech scene though. The only quantification I have of it is C&S's meetup attendance, which is approximately 10% people of color on average (women = 20%). The number of PoC attending have been slowly but steadily increasing but the number of women fluctuates. We're working on encouraging both demographics to attend!
Google had fail safes which failed. What if a million cars pull over to the left instead of the right as a failed failsafe? Willing to risk your life?
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I don't think that paper clearly shows that. It could also be that the low hanging fruit has been taken, and that, as we reach for ever more hard to reach fruits, the effort needed per unit of health improvement necessarily increases.

Another explanation could be that the money givers haven't gotten as much health improvements as they would want because they haven't directly asked for them, as this paper acknowledges:

"A recent focus on productivity has dominated the competitive evaluation of scientists, creating incentives to maximize publication numbers, citation counts, and publications in high-impact journals. [...] The efficiency of society’s investments in biomedical research, in terms of improved health outcomes, has not been studied."

Computer programmers do not produce more profitable programs if you pay programmers by lines of code, either.
> I'd assume the more severe the change the more they'd want to test in the real world.

I'm sorry but the important point is: how are we going to agree what needs more testing, and what can be updated without testing? If we let those big companies decide about those issues, then I'm afraid we will soon see another scandal like VW, except possibly with deadly consequences.

I can already predict the reasoning of those companies: last quarter our cars were safer than average, so we can afford some failures now.
Bummer--makes sense though. Thanks for the explanation.
If the government could take on Standard Oil it probably has a chance at Intuit.
This reminds me of a couple years back, when an entire sidequest was discovered in Final Fantasy IX (thirteen years after the fact!):

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/28/obscure-final-fantasy-ix-...
> This would just paper over the fact that the US tax code is an abomination of deductions and credits.

I understand the point you're making and it's a valid one, but that sentence really isn't actually true for most people.

If you get your income from one job during the year there's an excellent chance you have almost no variables to work with. Maybe owning one piece of real estate or a dependent or two, but the standard deduction tends to wash out almost everything else for most people.

What you're saying is somewhat true for most people who itemize deductions, but most people don't and have no reason to itemize deductions.
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It would also provide a additional small incentive to the IRS to lobby harder to get the code simplified. Now they have to update another set of systems for each crazy change.
The $24,000 is per "stimulated" car, the 125,000 sales that Edmunds.com decided were added by the program, not per rebated car.

The actual spend on the 690,000 rebated vehicles was much closer to $4,000 per.
I think the average $200 figure is for folks paying a tax preparation service, not using HR Block software or TurboTax (both cost around $49 and give free fed e-files and usually 4 "free" state-files.)
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Hi, my name is Andrew and I'm part of the team that just released a new open source tool from Facebook called Remodel.

It's a tool for people who write Objective-c and want to use immutable value objects in their code, which can be a pain to manage.

This is a tool we've had around for a long time in our fbobjc codebase and it's something we've found very useful.

I've lurked on HN for a while, but am new to posting and commenting, so I'm looking forward to answering some questions.
The problem is the complexity and inherent unfairness of the tax code (in the US anyway).

Until we resolve that root cause anything else is like applying a bandaid to a severed vein.

There are /many/ discussion threads about what such a resolution might be, some of which include Basic Income Guarantee / Universal Basic Income.
>The lack of support very likely has more to do with who is presenting it and the approach used.

No, it's because they think that will end up with the Government sending you a tax bill at the end of year, which they're philosophically opposed to.

And of course companies like TurboTax spend a lot of money feeding that.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Normally a short sale/walking away from a house results in a 1099 for the unpaid mortgage principle.

Heh! If only! It depends on whether your equity is positive. If by chance you owe more on your house than it's worth (i.e. the outstanding principal is not satisfied by the foreclosure sale), there are only about ~11 states in which one can simply walk away. The rest allow a lender to sue you for the difference:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/whats-the-difference-...

That's currently happening to me here in Atlanta. I bought a $160K condo at the top of the bubble in May 2007, right before the first wave of subprime-related Fed rate cuts. Because it was a relatively high-interest loan (good for May 2007, when Fed rates were at their peak, but laughable three months later), I still owed $140K on it when I chose to default in 2014-15, and when it was foreclosed in summer 2015, it was sold for $85K. I'm currently being sued by the lender(s) for the $55K.
Because gamers sometimes attract the attention of sociopathic teenagers [1] in a way that programmers typically don't.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/teen-pleads-guilt...
>US tax code is an abomination of deductions and credits

Funny, I thought the part where they take your money was the evil part.
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The point I was making is that Republicans do support tax simplification, both at the filing and tax code levels. I'd go so far as to say that every Republican candidate has at one time or another publicly supported simplification across the board when it comes to both the code and filing. If you simplify the tax code - which is desperately needed - the filing simplification is a logical extension of that. For decades Republican candidates have been talking about the idea of being able to file your taxes on a single index card.

Simplifying the filing without simplifying the tax code, is putting a bandaid on a gushing wound that is getting worse every year.
A lot of fairly high income people pay for TurboTax. Billionaires of course have tax preparers -- but TurboTax moves the bar a LOT higher.

> This bill would save them the $200.

First, most people pay turbotax $50-100. $200 would be deluxe + 3 states, which is highly uncommon.

And it's highly likely it would cost them MORE than $200 in credits they are not automatically given by the IRS. The IRS does not know what you donated to charity, properties you own which get credits for, educational tax credits etc.

It will spit out a number with a refund, sure. But this change will take more from the lower-income and middle-income proportionately than from the wealthy.
The tax code is this way because in practice everyone wants it to be this way. We spend through the tax code instead of directly paying for things because it's a lot easier to sell politically. People say some variation of, "Make my tax code simpler, but don't get rid of that deduction over there, it's important to me." There are literally billions of dollars spent making sure deductions stay exactly where they are every single year.

Given that complexity and what I firmly believe to be its intractability, this is a hacky but OK solution to make taxes less awful for most people.
I wonder if there are any statistics on which deductions are used by what percentage of people? I don't think any of them apply to me, as far as I can tell from the million questions the tax software asks.
OK, it's broken and doesn't work. I'm getting over 10 hours battery on a Skylake laptop, but it's broken and doesn't work.
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I'm not certain the availability of infections-resistant materials is the problem. Most majority-copper alloys are naturally antibacterial, but most hospitals still stick with stainless steel and things that can be bleached or autoclaved.

Your product will not only require extensive marketing to make it into a major hospital system, it will also need to be cheaper than brasses and bronzes.
I'd like it simpler than that--0% for all incomes less than infinity.
It feels like there's a lot missing here. A lot of people, myself included, just don't have the luxury of being able to take the time required to recover from burnout. And if you think being unemployed and depressed for months is an adequate substitute for that recovery period then you're sorely mistaken.

Speaking for myself, I have the added burden of having to deal with a sleep disorder plus several other issues (including ADHD) that exacerbate the problem of burnout significantly. I imagine there are lots of people in similar situations who don't have the ability to recover properly. Sometimes I hate the inhumanity of this industry. In some ways it's great, but in other ways it's just as brutal as working 70 hours a week at a steel mill.
You're missing the forest for the trees. What are ''the true costs of school''? Someone who loves to teach sitting in a classroom teaching. It can be dirt cheap or it can be very expensive. Supply and demand sorts out the details. As more money flowed into the system, administration bloated and became its own entrenched interest group, with very little connection to actual education.[1] Does the UC system need 500 administrators making >$500k year each?[2] As it stands, college for most of my friends was a 4 year social safari interrupted by infrequent periods of intense cramming in between high school and joining the work force. Do you think the average 18-21 year old at a state school is a scholar passionately indulging their love of learning? Almost all education is self education at the end of the day. As soon as we solve for the credentialing/pedigree/signaling problem, online education will destroy a huge amount of offline education and rightly so.

As for the mortgage interest deduction, how wouldn't it boost housing prices? It effectively lowers the mortage rate by your marginal tax bracket which is close to 50% in California. So instead of a 3.5% 30 year rate I'm now below 2%. Cheaper money stimulates borrowing. It doesn't matter how low NIMBYism pushes supply in the face of overwhelming demand, each individual still has a maximum price they can pay, and subsidized interest rates raise that price point.

[1] http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/2011/09/senior-administrators-...

[2] http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-spending-201...
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It already costs about $200 to do my taxes and deductions aren't worth the time it would cost me to itemize them.

I'd much rather the government just give me a tax bill and then I could only worry about doing taxes myself if and only if it was actually worthwhile to do so.
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Imagine two teams in a competitive game, who each use an IRC channel to coordinate. Each team has a strong incentive to get access to the other team's channel. Programming/systems administration has no similar competitive format that would incentivize MITMing.

Some individual programmers might have a state adversary or somesuch after them—but that's one adversary attempting to MITM one user. In a competitive game with computer-savvy players, you could potentially see every player becoming an adversary against half the other users on the service.
Yeah, Atom is really my favorite editor at the moment in terms of features and add-ons but is totally unusable for me due to various performance issues. Not only does it choke on large files but something like a full-project search can take upwards of 30s to finish while Sublime Text finishes it in about 2-3s. I'd like to switch personally, but I can't until some major performance improvements happen. YMMV.
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Hi lvp3, that use case is quite close to what we're building our platform for. It's still early beta and probably not ready for production yet but we are looking for feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11491383.

Our focus is on the business logic of things so that the data input gets easier. Spreadsheets tend to become messy and require a lot of repetition of data and maintenance.

I am aware of a few "spreadsheet-on-line" that work wonderfully as well. With our platform (Simitless) we are trying to get away from the spreadsheet metaphor. We want to give niche businesses requiring custom apps but with little investment an opportunity to define their data app little by little. That way you can build it as it should be: focused on the input tool and the data exploitation.
> This would just paper over the fact that the US tax code is an abomination of deductions and credits. It would not simplify any of the magic math; it would just make most people think they are getting the right credits.

> It would probably put turbo-tax out of business though, this is true. The default, free, option is going to win against a paid product.

That is largely what this is:

https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/free-editi...
I received a letter from the IRS asking for some money because my 1099 didn't match what my brokerage submitted...

If you have the data already then why am I also calculating it by hand and sending it? Why don't you just tell me what I owe you!?
> Yeah i guess i got that mixed up with DRI, though.

DRI only comes into play if you're creating a direct OpenGL context running one of the open source OpenGL drivers (Mesa + DRM).

It does nothing for regular X11 clients, that don't use OpenGL. Actually DRI does not do drawing at all, it's mostly just a way for bypassing the X11 server for direct OpenGL contexts as specified in the GLX specification. Essentially it's shared memory plus mmaping certain regions of the video device into clients' address spaces.

You can't draw shit using DRI.

Again: This neither KMS, nor DRI/DRM, nor OpenGL have anything to do with the braindeadness of "modern" X11 toolkits.

What does have something to do with it is reinventing the wheel and to all the rasterization work in software client side in code contained in the toolkit (Cairo in the case of GTK+, "raster" in the case of Qt). Why these custom rasterization engines have been implemented?

Well, mostly to be able to use the toolkits in an embedded environment that lacks a display server with drawing primitives (for example DirectFB). Eventually the scope expanded to draw single widgets for X11 and at some point it was decided that it would be easier to just render the whole thing in software and then blit.

People were dissatisfied with the graphics primitives offered by X11 / XRender. Yes, I admit, rectangles, triangles, polygons, lines, arcs and ellipses are not that much (/s); there's still the desire for Bezier curves. And yes, I admit that the X11 graphics model may be somewhat limiting when it comes to composing drawing layers, as you need it for, say CSS.

However I consider it mostly a lack of creativity and determination. XRender can be quite powerful if you know how to use it. And with Glamor at last it will be GPU accelerated.
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Great recommendation, I'll look to try one of those out soon. I'm hoping to wrap up my current project in the next couple of months and after that should be the perfect time for experimenting with new tools.
I'm glad the buttons are back!
"can't drive to safety" seems a very poor catchphrase.

What they appear to be saying is you "can't drive your actually safe cars enough to prove, before release to the public, using certain methods, that they are as safe as they actually are".
Yoga is pretty fantastic. It sucks that it's fallen victim to standard American sport competitiveness. Yoga isn't about bragging rights, it's just about slow and steady self-improvement and relaxation.
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I thought the charities reported donations over $X to the IRS. Am I mistaken?
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~ 1/3 of people itemize. And this doesn't mean it's the richest 1/3 -- it's the 1/3 who have homes, children, and other real responsibilities which get credits. Middle class.

The people who don't itemize have almost no burden right now; you can fill out a 1040EZ or use TurboTax free edition.

The middle class is who is going to get screwed out of deductions.
Hey everyone, my name is Greg. I have been working on releasing FBRetainCycleDetector, FBAllocationTracker and FBMemoryProfiler and am very excited we can share them with all of you today. These tools helped us fix a number of problems in our own codebase. I’m happy to answer any questions you might have.
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You are arguing against Last Place Aversion [0] and even if your argument makes sense, I think it simply will not succeed.

If you imagine everyone in the world has a "quality of life" score and this is distributed normally, then outsourcing jobs tends to help people in the bottom quartile, at the expense of people in the second quartile.

It is like pinching up a little bit of the probability mass living way out in the left tail, and folding it over into the second quartile region. Some of the people in the second quartile have to be displaced (in an ordinal sense) to the left, thus losing status.

We'd like to pretend like material well-being of, say, impoverished third-worlders, matters more than social pecking order status of poor-but-mostly-OK first worlders. Would you like to go first? Would you like to ensure your children have no access to decent education or a college with a social network that could raise their social status? Yeah, sure, you'll have acceptable food and someone will throw you some afterthough scraps in terms of feigned medical care. You'll have a middling life, mostly unpleasant, lots of mental health issues and lots of risk to you and your family of getting caught up in substance abuse or drugs, but you'll live into your 60s or 70s before you die.

Status really impacts health. Status affects your attitude about your own health, your willingness and access to seek help. It's not solely about material resource.

So I certainly sympathize. Why aren't we extracting wealth from the top quartile as a means for delivering aid to third world workers? Why instead are we extracting wealth from the second quartile to pay for the first quartile?

In this sense, your comment comes off as a little bit naive and insensitive. I'm sure down to brass tacks that people living in the second quartile understand what you are saying and feel compassion for people who have it even worse.

But how can you ask them to lay down and agree to be the lowest status group willingly? Yes, please outsource my already-degrading-and-menial job, reducing me into the bottom quartile of a slightly right-translated distribution. We're all slightly better off in absolute material terms, but now I'm worse off in relative status terms (which really, physically, affects my health and opportunity).

It's ... complicated.

[0] < http://www.nber.org/papers/w17234 >
I fail to see how UBI will decrease the complexity of the tax code. It might help with the unfairness, but not the complexity.
A guy I worked with that headed the IT/Windows group at my company left to start his own consulting business.

He has had a ton of success building clients from LinkedIn
The sweet spot for me is a paperback book size for the display.
Who said you need to stay in SV once you are done? 1M should allow for pretty comfortable lifestyle in low-cost area.
> It makes it easier to file online for free

That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
Anti-tax advocates are opposed to this kind of measure for 2 reasons:

1.) If we make it easy to file taxes, that means it's less painful and makes it harder to sell the cause of lower taxes as a political issue.

2.) If a citizen gets a bill from the IRS saying, "you owe X" the average person isn't going to risk fighting back with their own set of facts, and is possibly going to pay too much.

Personally I don't share the anti-tax advocate's world view or opinions, but I understand the argument and especially understand the danger of argument #2. I'd still be in favor of this law though.
TurboTax and this proposal are just a consequence of a complex, manual process that needs simplification. I'm not sure how the government would make a better product than TurboTax without spending at least as much as they have. Subsidizing private tax software would probably only succeed in widening their profit margins. It seems like the only sane way to move forward is to simplify the tax code and process.
When I compare my life to those of people who lived 50, 100, or more years ago, the majority of the things I value most came from capitalism.
Notice that while 8 gpu are 8x as effective as 1, 16 gpu are only 15x and a hundred gpu doesn't even get you 70x speedup.

I doubt your idea would prove efficient.
First off, a share in what? Is this assuming that, like most startups seeking investors, the company is formed as a Delaware corporation? Or do you want something more along the lines of a partnership agreement, to use before any of the founders form an actual entity?

The form of this agreement would heavily depend on the context.
I think it's gotten much better this year. It used to be somewhat slow (especially on large files), but it's alright now. Still room for improvement though.
Nope, this is not up for interpretation. It literally says, "politics is off-topic" in what you quoted.
It's interest rates, simple as that. Asset price = Cash flows / required rate of return ...
I think that what you're trying to express is that I might be wasting some time implementing support for some syntax highlighting and code formatting features that are already present in other editors. Thank you for your concern. It hasn't been much of a problem since (1) I don't really used much syntax highlighting other than for reserved words, string literals and comments, and paired bracketing characters, (2) I rarely need to view or edit files besides C/C++/Haskell/bash/LaTeX, which I have support for, and (3) the editor works just fine on other files without fancy-pants modes anyway.
>I don't think that there is any precedent for that sort of thing with manually driven cars.

A stroke or heart attack while driving?