skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hence the idea of progressive capital gains. In the same way you would not tax normal income up to an approximation of the happiness threshold you would do the same with capital gains.

Progressive consumption taxes do nothing to ablate the central problem of the argument, the centralization of wealth as a means to distort society to your whims. The wealthier you are the less you spend on goods and services as a percentage of income and the more you save. Eventually most of your income just goes back into reinvestment to make you more money. The current model basically lets anyone business savvy enough just make perpetually more money, increasing their wealth... just for the sake of having more wealth. The majority of billionaires are not rich with a purpose of how they want to use that money, they just control incredible amounts of capital for the purposes of accumulating more. The Bill Gates are the exception, not the rule, and even then while Bill spends tremendous amounts of money for good he only spends money he is already making off a considerable fortune to begin with.

And those kinds of fortunes are what I am talking about.

> Oh, and there is no happiness threshold. Or more precisely, more money doesn't necessarily buy more happiness, but it does tend to buy less unhappiness (which is not the same thing!), albeit not linearly.

More money buys less unhappiness up to a limit[1]. It is simply the fulfillment of base needs in Maslow's heirarchy, and once you have enough not to worry about starving, homelessness, or sickness ruining you, you have a much better quality of life, less stress, and more importantly, peak productivity.

My argument is not that everyone has the same limit, or that it is constant regardless of inflation - it is of course a function of the real cost of needs, and varies from place to place. But that is why I argue to start taxation at a normalized threshold like this, to potentially extract the most revenue in the least harmful way possible.

[1]http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/Happi...
Don't know why you couldn't replant trees then. There are many types trees that do well in saltier soil. For example, White Ash, Red Cedar, Black Walnut, Japanese Black Pine, Pin Oak and Red Oak. Doubt it'd take much to get something estabilshed, and it'd probably take over on it's own gradually.
Show HN: iOS Code to add 3d objects to your photos
Corrected link: https://www.teamwork.com/blog/peter-coppinger-developerceo-r...
I live in Madison so I visit this website pretty often. I actually like the survey. I think it's a very fair way to compensate the site without paying for a subscription, and I find my opinion on a few questions (different each time) far preferable to, say, watching a 30 second unskippable video.
> I saw snail on the road, everything was blurry around him, but he was visible, so sharp, i could feel him as part of me, connected, in this journey called life.

This happened to me on psilocybin. I could just see snails everywhere in the grass. While nature usually feels somewhat alive, didn't feel any special connection with snails though. Just seemed odd that I could notice them so easily, from fairly far distance. Must be the vortex shape of their shell.
The Log: Real-Time Data's Unifying Abstraction (2013)
The Blessing of Interactive Development
The right to delete your own data
Surely the energy demands for such a simulation would be... astronomical.
how does this compare to grammarly/rocker?
We do something similar with compressing integers. Unlike the article we pick from 3 different compression schemes: SIMD FastPFOR, Bitpack (max value) and delta encoding.

Which one we pick depends on the distribution of the integers. FastPFOR we use when the values are mostly smallish but there's an occasional large value. Works great. Bitpack we use when there is a tight band (ex. all values are ~5 -> ~7 bits). Delta works well for (mono) increasing values.

Also, we've adapted most of these to 64bit integers since we work with those more commonly.
Docker Caveats – A Breakdown of “Hitler Uses Docker”
Obligatory post that you can make healthier, tastier meals for marginally more cost if you buy and boil frozen vegetables. If it doesn't taste good enough then add salt or whatever other freebies you can find.

You can eat for $3 a day!

EDIT: forgot to add, garlic is like 49 cents and will make the cheapest, tastiest, oil/salt free flavoring you've ever had. Chop very thin and throw it in. This isn't marketing BS, not many people are out there making money off of something that costs 49 cents and makes your breath smell like you've been warding off vampires!
Hey there, I think the url you submitted is wrong. You're missing a w in www. Here's a correct link:

https://www.teamwork.com/blog/peter-coppinger-developerceo-r...

Haven't read it yet, but I'm about to :)
> But rather that this was a skill imparted to the Africans by the Europeans.

Well, wow. Nope. Africans have been reading and writing before there even was such a thing as Europe. They had Aramaic and Arabic by way of Egypt and Ethiopia alone.
But we're humans and our foremost means of communication is language. Who cares if it's clumsy and imprecise? Try us, it's the best we've got. Saying it's ineffable is lazy. Unless you're talking about the centerpiece of your religion, I suppose, so I thought parent was suggesting that this person had stumbled upon the Tao.

Edit: My comments are getting hammered into oblivion, forbid somebody should try to hold something up to the light and expect an answer other than "you have to use psychedelics to get it." Maybe it's bad to care about objectivity when in the company of psychonauts? Sorry, but I have a hard time distinguishing what I read here from a host of other woo, and I'm left with questions, not answers. My questions are not meant to be dismissive in any way, but they are deliberately prying.
This is a delightful article. I love that the scientists are arguing whether bacteria or microscopic fungi are the best places to look for increased diversity. It's so rare to avoid our biases toward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_megafauna
It's really unclear to me why a Ford would try to compete in SV given the level of competition and CoL. Sure, maybe establish an innovation center somewhere other than Michigan if only to send a signal that this is something new.But if you're trying to get good people, offer premiums in other locations that have a lot of good people--or even figure out some innovative remote work/travel work programs. You don't take on the Googles head-on.
Thanks for the feedback!

Mean and Clean was very controversial before publication -- two advisors disliked it and two really loved it.
A Massachusetts legislator has a big, simple idea to ease the urban rent crisis
+1
In London worked from 10 to 6 and went home.
Canada 9 to 6 with 1hour of lunch (unpaid)
Brazil same as Canada.
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Slightly off-topic, but it's surprising to me that they have this blog that is up-to-date with their latest brand, yet they've still let large portions of Paypal.com go without an update to line up with their latest brand.
This is exactly why tolerance as called for in this thread is not a virtue.

The only people I see being tolerant in any of these threads are the ones saying "I find his views disgusting but I think he should speak".
which makes collision with the incrimination intent described above much easier.
I know this will get downvoted but clouds suck and this is just one more manifestation of why they suck. Unless you have very spiky workload save yourself long term pain and don't go this route (applies if your monthly AWS/GCE/Azure bill
is over few K)
Obviously, it's always ok to vilify others
What do you recommend? I figure that if you're working on something without oncall no one probably cares about it any way. I prefer to have a good rotation than no rotation.
It's very uncommon. In my experience the database becomes the issue.
On libunwind and dynamically generated code on x86-64
To quote @DEVOPS_BORAT:

To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is devops.
The article seems to have been edited, previously it ended with "It makes me want to not keep living" or something to that effect, instead of the quote from Ecclesiastes.
Africa has more than its fair share of important historical achievements, and given time to recover from the mess that colonial influence has caused, it may likely contribute a whole lot more.

You really need to read Guns, Germs and Steel to realize how handicapped Africa has been historically speaking. Going forward they're very well situated. The economic power of sub-saharan Africa could very well eclipse Europe if it has a chance to develop.
That's an interesting thought. It immediately made me think of some fast moving contraption that buried seeds into the ground. Obvious difficulties would be navigating, and being small while being able to force something into the ground.
I've been overall very impressed with the direction of Google Cloud over the last year. I feel like their container strategy is much better than Amazon's ECS in that the core is built on open source technology.

This can wipe away a lot of goodwill, though. A worldwide outage is catastrophic and embarrassing. AWS has had some pretty spectacular failures in us-east (which has a huge chunk of the web running within it), but I'm not sure that I can recall a global outage. To my understanding, these systems are built specifically not to let failures spill over to other regions.

Ah well. Godspeed to anyone affected by this, including the SREs over at Google!
Game Day Exercises at Stripe: Learning from `kill -9`
Why Startups Need Employee Handbooks
Place responsibility back on the party with the most to lose in the situation- the one risking something.

Don't want to have to evict your tenant? Don't sign them for an overpriced lease with expensive ammenities if you can't afford the risk.

Does your potential employee seem a bit off? Why are you considering hiring them?

Sure, you can stick with the current method of pullinh credit reports, but then why do companies turn away good people, AND continue to get burned by wolves in sheep's clothing?
So in all seriousness, how do folks deal with this?

In this case, it ended up being a multi-region failure, so your only real solution is to spread it across providers, not just regions.

But I imagine it's a similar issue to scaling across regions, even within a provider. We can spin up machines in each region to provide fault tolerance, but we're at the mercy of our Postgres database.

What do others do?
Haha, I know the feeling well. So much to do. Hard to really get through one thing before finding an awesome next story or idea.

I don't think I've personally ever "gotten over" existential angst. I don't think I've ever tried because it's been with me for a while and I somehow came about experiencing it without hitting a deep depression. It's just there. Could have been the sets of fantasy books I read as a child/teenager allowing me to step outside myself mentally, or maybe it's a quirk of my upbringing. I was able to, and still am able to, think about suicide, the meaning of life, and how pointless it all is, while maintaining a relatively normal life.

I often explain to friends and/or family about how my logical/conscious self defaults to existential nihilism and they either go, "Uhhh, ok..." or say, "That's impossible. You care. You can't act the way you do and not care."

They're confused that I chose to live, I guess. So many people bias themselves towards a positive answer of the question: Does life have a meaning?

Many say, "Of course it does. If you really thought otherwise you wouldn't be alive."

For them it's:
"Life has meaning... so I must live"
"Life has no meaning... so I must die"

I think there's a funny middle:

"Life has no meaning... I... Well, I've got no idea, but I'm sure as hell not going to make a choice with no idea... I guess I'll see how it goes."
You have such a ridiculously warped view of history it's both shocking and hilarious simultaneously. I'm sure your views on slavery are similarly enlightening.

Don't look at me trying to blame anyone for anything. I'm simply refusing to ignore historical fact. As far as I'm concerned what's done is done, we can move on, that the more we try and pin blame the more of a mess we'll end up in.

White-washing history and pretending it resulted in "mutual benefit" is absolutely monstrous, though. The colonial powers differed in their attitudes from country to country, from era to era, but on the whole they were belligerent, greedy, and utterly indifferent to the people they were subjugating.

If there's one reason why it's hard to paint a picture of how brutal colonial powers treated the people it's because they often erased the other side of the story. We're only just beginning to put together the pieces of the true story of what happened.
except most of those are 1 weekend a year (Temp Street Courses). the only exception I can think of for that is Imola.
grayclhn, you might find Rob Hyndman's article on cross validation helpful.
http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/crossvalidation/

" Asymptotically, minimizing the AIC is equivalent to minimizing the CV value. This is true for any model (Stone 1977), not just linear models. It is this property that makes the AIC so useful in model selection when the purpose is prediction."
Just for future people who see this: the shared binary heap is not garbage collected, it's reference counted. When the process heap is GC'ed any references to the binary heap that didn't survive GC will be removed and refcounts updated. (Also when a process exits, all the binary heap references will be updated)
Thanks for posting this. It was a great read. There are a ton of what I know are hard learned lessons in there. I recognize many of them from my own (failed) adventure.
I received mine last week. I've been concerned over the linux development as that was the primary reason I bought the board. It's coming along nicely due to a few key members of the community. If I had the ability to do it over again, I'd still probably buy it. If the Pi 3 had a 2GB RAM option, I'd reverse that decision.
How is your laptop spec ? please
There was a late night TV show. 80s Twilight Zone or something of similar vintage.

Height of the Cold War, on the brink of Nuclear War which after a series of cock-ups arrives and MAD results. Camera pulls back to reveal "Game Over", then further to show two alien teens at an arcade machine. A short exchange and another coin in the slot to start at pre-life. Show ends.

Was refreshingly well done.
Google provides 99.95% - https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla

That is like 17 of such 15 minutes breaks per year, i.e. an allowance for one small (or a large fixed quickly) screwdup/month :)
D'oh. Seems there's no way to edit the link. Might resubmit.
Update: HN doesn't let us edit or submit too fast but I did a bit of hackedy hack and the link with "ww." works now. Thanks for the heads up!
Ask HN: R or Python for Data Science?
Hey all, I'm a ruby/js convert from PHP/C/Java world. I'm really interested in Data Science now and am learning D3.js for data visualization. I'm wondering which open source community is better right now for Data Science: R or Python?

I'm looking for a large number of interesting projects to learn from but also a welcoming and happy community where I could make new friends.
They seem to be working on enabling tech for smallsat asteroid missions. I hear they're selling propulsion that run on water.
A friend that went through the R/GA Techstars '15 batch with my startup is solving a related problem of home air quality monitoring.

You may find their approach interesting or if nothing else it's similar validation.

Awair (previously Bitfinder) - https://getawair.com/
It seems to be working fine, I just tested.
Thanks - UI was the primary consideration in its creation.
So what Google services went down with this? looks like they are not eating their own dog food?
Ask HN: What would you ask target audience to build a recruiting website?
Imagine you are building a recruiting website and target audience could be recruiters/hiring managers/candidates. What would you ask them in the user survey?
Thanks!
Hypothetical Outcome Plots: Experiencing the Uncertain
Lytro's first professional cinema camera
I see your point. Based on @SpotifyStatus [0], it wasn't uncommon for Spotify to have service disruptions before they did the move though.

[0]: https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus
Why is there never a research project to search for console access and cheat codes?
Just curious, what made you think you weren't a good admin?
Depends entirely on your business, but what I do is just tolerate the occasional 15-minute outage. There's increasing cost to getting more 9's on your uptime, and for me, engineering a system that has better uptime than Google Cloud does, by doing multi-cloud failover, is way out of favorable cost/benefit territory.
The fact that you created a new anonymous account to do nothing more than name call stands as a simple enough way you discredited...you.

McCarthyism was intolerance, not an intolerance of intolerance. It's ironic to have to explain simple type theory here.

Or maybe not.
Actually there are more trees in the US now than in the 1800s [1]. However, the downside is that there is relatively little age difference in them, since they were planted in the last 50 years or more. This means less diversity of habitat, and it takes a while for the critters to build up biosystems in them. Still, I'll take the positive away from it. The quick effect of actually warming the Earth was surprising to me, because if we plant so many new trees we lower the albedo, and it takes a while for the trees to scrub the CO2 to make it a net win.

[1] http://www.greenoptimistic.com/united-states-trees/#.VwxsqybSqHs
Right? His speech is really good. Not a lot of engineer (or people, as the matter of fact) can give a speech that fluently.
Obviously this sounds a lot like Segment.

One friend who went through a top 10 accelerator pivoted their startup into your idea exactly about a year ago. On the surface it sounds great.

It didn't work out for a few reasons, but one of the most prominent was: When you abstract an API over several services you end with the lowest common denominator of features (losing anything that makes one better/unique... not every category is a commodity).
As a counter point, my experience has been that once the thesis proposal is complete, the PhD graduation is practically guaranteed.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing your experience.
The way I see it, self-driving cars are going to decimate car sales. When self driving cars can operate 24/7 and be shared among all users of transportation network companies, there will be far fewer cars sold. So many car assets sit parked and unused for most of the day. Slowing down progress, lets car manufacturers sell more cars for more years.
> That summary jumps seamlessly from a literal use of "the richest 1%" to "A global network of tax havens" without any indication that they've suddenly begun talking about a much smaller set of people.

Hint: It's because they haven't suddenly begun talking about a much smaller set of people.

None of the links you posted are talking about the literal 1% as the problem. They'll reference statistics about the literal 1%, but only because the literal 1% includes the figurative 1%.

> It's a rare political term that actually has a pretty clear meaning. It's a bit vague in that it could refer to income or net worth, and nationally or worldwide, but it's way better than stuff like "liberal" or "conservative" or "terrorist." Using such a precise term as a lazy synonym for "the ultra rich" is ridiculous.

I totally agree with you, and personally I try not to use the term because I think using it shows poor communication skills: I think it's exemplary of everything that made the occupy movement largely unsuccessful. But it also shows poor communication skills to derail a discussion just to enforce the usage of your terminology, even if your terminology is more accurate.

There is no movement to overthrow doctors. Stop defending people who aren't under attack.
I can't even prove to you that I myself am sentient. And as far as I know I might be the only sentient being on earth and everyone else are just faking it. There's just no way to know right now since we don't know what sentience really is.

Therefore it's a bit of a moot point when talking about simulations, since you're asking about something we can't do in ANY universe right now.
Coq. Mathematical proof it works then generates the Haskell.
Not exactly a rapid application development tool though.
Really inspiring. I really loved his comment about how there are always new opportunities and new waves for people to ride. This is something I've always personally struggled with, the feeling that everything has already been done and that I've missed the boat.

I guess a lot of these things are only obvious in hindsight. People are exploring all sorts of ideas right now, but it won't be obvious which ones are the winners and the losers until 10 years from now.
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Most people just deal with it and accept that their site will go down for 20 minutes every 3-4 years or so, even when hosting on a major cloud, because:

1) the cost of mitigating that risk is much higher than the cost of just eating the outage, and

2) their high traffic production site is routinely down for that long anyway, for unrelated reasons.

If you really, really can't bear the business costs of an entire provider ever going down, even that rarely (e.g. you're doing life support, military systems, big finance), then you just pay a lot of money to rework your entire system into a fully redundant infrastructure that runs on multiple providers simultaneously.

There really aren't any other options besides these two.
may be the things like gmail have multicloud failover, say to AWS?
Python Programming for Hackers – Part 6 – Dictionaries Concept
Both.

I use R for plotting/processing, Python for scripting and getting external data.
Free speech that doesn't protect what you find loathsome is ineffective to the point of being worthless.
That's amazing. How do you do it?
I like this naming philosophy too. I once named a feature "VLAN splinters" to discourage people from using it; after all, who likes splinters? Unfortunately, people did use it and I'm only now getting to the point where I think it can be removed. I suspect that naming is, in the end, not very effective, but it still feels good.
There are still a few things in the world that aren't internet services.
You may be remembering incorrectly, the great plains were grasslands many millions of years before humans arrived on the scene. Remember we only left Africa ~100,000 years ago.
d3-ternary: Reusable charts in barycentric coordinates
They'd probably answer, "With Haskell."
To be fair, AWS has some significant down time in the second half of last year.
>for them to study

For them to study, or for them to destroy the evidence so that you absolutely could not take them to court.
I would be satisfied with that answer.
By pretending it's the still the golden age of the internet and use physical servers in those locations. You might have to hire some admins, though ;).