skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mountineer22 points out, this is a strategy to concentrate serious offers and play them against one another. The lower you set the price, the more initial interest you get, the greater chance two or more potential buyers get excited. With competitive bids, you can find the true 'market' price pretty quickly.

In a hot market this apparently works well.

Anecdotally, when my wife and I were looking for our eventual home in Cambridge a few years ago, we went to more than a couple of "open houses" which were pro forma: Despite being listed on Wednesday, by Saturday the sellers already had an offer they were prepared to accept without even waiting for competitive bids!
If you dont' want to start from scratch you can use http://api.ai or http://wit.ai
So you’re thinking about a “things to do” app
I've played a few hours of TIS-100 (Jeff is super late to the party). There's a line between "this is a fun intellectual puzzle" and "this is actually just work" and TIS-100 crosses that line for me. I really enjoyed SpaceChem and Infinifactory (the two Zachtronics games that preceded TIS-100) and they are on the good side of the line. Very enjoyable puzzle games, and vastly better than any of the games mentioned in the article.
It's my understanding that dietary cholesterol consumption is not correlated with blood cholesterol levels.
How is that a benefit for the person using the link shortener service?
Now that I think about it, a few years after 9/11 I was
in Sweden taking a Swedish course. It was a 9/11, so the
teacher thought it would be an interesting topic for the
class. Completely out of the blue, I started thinking
about what happened again, and broke out crying.

This is normal, and a part of life. You don't need to be protected from it by being given a trigger warning or given a safe space. Crying about the events of 9/11 is probably something that you needed to do. Would protecting you from that moment really have been protecting you, or would it have just delayed the healing process?

Having an emotional response is not the thing that is being criticised as childish; blaming the person who triggered it is.
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> In comparison, The Human Resource Machine has far better production values, but it's really an assembly class in disguise. The end level is to write a sort, so I see it a lot more as an educational tool for kids than a game that could be fun for programmers.

I found it to be a good "ideal assembly" playground. It definitely could use more depth, but more often than not I didn't meet the cycle count or code size bonus criteria after finishing a level, which turns into its own challenge.
Similar things are happening in Sweden. Dan Park is a Swedish street artist who has actually done jailtime for his works, some of which have also, by order of the court, been destroyed. Both Dan and his gallerist have been subject to nightly police raids.

Lars Vilks is another Swedish artist. He is not being hunted by a police force, but by private, less rulebound actors. He can no longer live on a fixed address, and travels under constant police protection.

What a glorious time for free speech.
And how much is their income compared to the total? 80%?

What matters if the percentage, not the total amount. Of course someone who earns $1 million a year would pay "more" in taxes than someone who earns $100,000 (at least I would hope they do).
Only pay 45% of the taxes? What do you want?? Should they pay 70% of the taxes??? At which point will you be happy precisely???? 90%?????

When the top 1% pays for about 50% of the infrastructure, it is time for them to think about seceding. I mean, the top 50% move together, poof they can have something like half of what is provided by the state, without the 99% bothering them anymore.
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Actually, no.
Tel Aviv Coffee shops are ideal for tech workers. And being in tech and commenting on hacker news, I obviously state that first of all.
But Tel Aviv coffee shops are packed with people of all types and shapes.
Whether it's a social worker unwinding after a long week at work, a photographer who can't afford an office, so he meets the engaged couple to discuss terms at a coffee shop, or the Tel Aviv University student with her low-wage blue collar immigrant parents who came to visit her in the city over the weekend.

I can understand and relate to the fear of tech becoming "a social club". But that's much more of an American thing. Being a warm Mediterranean country in the middle of the Levant, Israelis don't like "closed social clubs". They have much more of a "Melting pot" mentality.
Email me kespindler at gmail. I have relevant work that you'd be interested to hear about.
What fraction of income do the top 1% of earners actually earn?
This has absolutely nothing to do with a pardon (which would happen after a verdict anyway). For this particular law the prosecution needs the approval of the federal government to go forward. That is all that happened.
Student debts in USA are ridiculous. If I were an American student and really want to study, I would have moved to Europe. Many universities are very good at an incomparable price.
"Flappy Bird" on an... e-cigarette?
East Bay - My neighbors on either side sold their homes recently (last week). The house on the right sold for 75K above asking price. The one one the left sold for 90K above asking price (around 20 offers for each house). Listing price for both houses were already high.
It's a simple trick, hotel comes with a proxy.pac file https://github.com/typicode/hotel/tree/master/docs

You can use it to tell that .dev domains should be handled by hotel :)

So there's no magic (which is often better).

And what's great is that it's optional. Hotel can still help you in your day to day development workflow even if you don't use local domains (simply go to localhost:2000 instead of hotel.dev).
well the issue here is that the right will fight against a national id card on the basis of big brother and privacy and the left will claim it leads to disenfranchisement.

both sides need to recognize that if absolute indemnification is required for tax purposes it is as well for voting rights because it protects both equally. the challenge is how to keep confirm the card is really held by the person holding it. pin numbers don't cut it
Pardons require that there be a court decision first. The point of a pardon is to decide that someone has somehow paid their debt to society, but you can't reasonably make such a decision without first having a decision whether or not a crime occurred, and if so, what the legal punishment should be.

If these people are convicted, then it might be reasonable for her to pardon them after the facts have been documented by the court.

In this case it is not about a pardon, but about an archaic law that requires consent from the government before prosecution, allowing the government to prevent someone from having their case heard based on political considerations.
And that's valuable, sure. My point is more a question of if it's truly a "Universal Basic Income" experiment, it should be done so that it's paid for by the taxpayers of that same system. My suspicion is that such a program would dissolve fairly quickly because the tax burden falls squarely on people who have worked the hardest to pay their own bills and to provide for their own family. If they suddenly have to lower their quality of life, or their kids' quality of life to pay for someone who they perceive as not working very hard, then the system gets difficult.

It's much simpler to make money appear out of thin air (as it effectively is when you take millions of dollars from rich folks in California) and distribute it in Africa. But if you have to take money some folks' pockets in Africa to give to their neighbors, that to me is a more 1-to-1 comparison at what happens for a UBI.
> there are LOTS of people out there who think creating a new logical database for every new customer is a good idea, resulting in 2000+ databases on a system when there should be 4.

I'm genuinely curious as to why you feel this way?
Not to detract from the achievement, but the transition to NT wasn't quite as rosy at that.

It took many years for apps written for Windows 3.x/95/98/etc. to catch up and run correctly on NT. In the early years, app and game producers had a distinct bias in favour of Win9x (popular consumer OS) and to the detriment of NT (esoteric, less shiny business/server OS).

The game compatibility situation, in particular, was quite miserable until Windows 2000 ("NT 5.0"). 4.0 had adopted the Win9x UI, but Win2k was arguably the first version that managed to match the consumer-oriented experience of Win9x, in particular with regard to DirectX.
Yes that is a common workaround as well.

By the way: there is an open request for contributions to help improve this. The core Docker team very much wants to improve squashing in build, but it's a matter of time and resources.

If somebody cares enough to take the time to carry a design proposal then a patch, we would be happy to support that effort!
I'll use the shortened Google Maps link over the full URL param mess every single time. Why wouldn't I, article aside?

And bit.ly gives you analytics. That's their service.
Short sighted, I think.

She is allowing the court system of Germany to correct its laws in a legal way. She is trusting the German process to get rid of the law, which arguably is an elegant and even more powerful statement on freedom than high handed executive posturing.
Wow, not linked in the comments, but user Silvia mentioned the Austrian architect Hundertwasser with an interesting photo, and more the architect's work can be seen here:

http://www.inspirationgreen.com/hundertwasser-architecture.h...

I would love to live in a city designed by him.
This is grossly misleading. What I'd love to see is a chart that shows tax-paid-per-dollar-earned. I know it won't tell the whole story, but it'll tell a straight story.
The good old days! After using edlin to write BASIC on my parents' 80286, we got a Pentium with a modem, and I used it to download Ralf Brown's Interrupt List and an assembler. Both downloads, I started before I went to bed and they were done by morning. (So as not to tie up the phone line during daytime.) Rbinter wasy my guide to causing a whole new world of exciting crashy behavior. Ultimately I wrote a paint program in assembly before I gave in and started using high level languages like C.

And kids these days, they just don't understand!
see? LOTS.
I think you're wrong, because the government interfering with what is primarily a judicial process is exactly how autocracies work, and exactly how democracies do not work, even if in this case the end result is the one we would prefer.

Process matters. A lot.

Now where the government (legislative) has every right to have a say is that this law needs to be removed.
> Not allowing the prosecution to go ahead would have sent the message that autocratic decisions by the executive in judicial matters is the correct way to proceed

As many others have pointed out, the relevant law [0] explicitly requires an autocratic decision by the executive before prosecution can start.

So in this situation, you are a country of laws being mediated by an autocratic president. It is the task of an autocratic president, and possibly the judiciary, to decide this matter.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/obscure-german-...
> How can Germany, an ostensibly free nation, have such a law?

In Austria you be jailed for 6 months for ridiculing religious customs or leaders, or flags and symbols of foreign states...
Some googling indicates that Laundersol liquid detergent for commercial laundries can be had for $534.95/55 gallon drum (about $9.73/gallon). At walmart.com, Liquid Tide costs $17.97 for a 150 ounce container (about $15.33/gallon). So the markup is indeed substantial.
There's ten people in a room and you are tasked with distributing $1000 among them. The catch is you have to get everyone to vote on the distribution. Seems easy right? Everyone get's $100. But wait somebody has a suggestion. Why don't we give $500 to the two handsomest people in the room? Everybody votes yes. Eight people leave shocked and angry.

Edit: this wasn't intended to be a 1:1 analogy of wealth distribution. It's just something interesting I think of about human nature when the topic is brought up. A lot of people outside the 1% will defend the 1%, there's nothing wrong with that, but I wonder if those people count themselves among the future 1% or even feel some connection to it for one reason or the other. I wonder if this skews our perception of wealth inequality and if wealth inequality is actually a graver threat because of such a shroud.
Did you read the article? If anything it talks far more than it should about income inequality. Frankly I find the tax disparities astounding: 45% paid by 1%? 90% paid by 20%? That is crazy.
My prediction of what most people will do if they receive a basic income and have no hope of getting a job is that they will do drugs all the time.
Xamarin is not the only game in town, if one is doing game apps.

Assuming one is ok with a little dosis of JNI pain on Android, given that C++ is a first class language in iOS (via Objective-C++) and Windows (C++/CX and or via WRL).
"earn an absolutely massive portion of all income in the state" - it's not as if the money is just sitting there and 1% are taking most of it. Wealth is _created_. The top 1% _create_ most of the wealth in California. How is it just that they are required to pay so much in taxes? Before I left California, my marginal tax rate (including Federal) was over 52%. Super-high earners in California have marginal rates over 60%. How is that just?
> where do you store long term the key

I know this is clunky, but I'd print out the key (or possible laser-cut the key!) onto durable media and store it in a safe / safety deposit box etc.

It's going to be annoying to manually type it in, but it's a reliable method of last-resort.
Not against anything, just think it's fair to label those seeking large amounts of money as dick'ish and greedy.

If money is your goal great, more power to ya, but I'm gonna call you a dick and not want to work with you.
I think he meant that if the top 1% has 99% of the wealth, we should expect them to pay 99% of the taxes. However, that wealth is not just income, so the argument is not quite correct.

This is a democracy, so how much ones owes in taxes is decided by the people. As far as seceding is concerned, good luck with that.
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It is a surprisingly common fallacy to believe that income is generated in a way that is not deeply coupled to the system in which it was generated. This is just muddy thinking if you are talking about the "1%" or your own IRS bill.

I think that the comment you were responding to was suggesting that the tax load should be directly proportional to the income fraction, which I suppose you could make a cogent argument of.
Whether or not he loses the case in Germany, Erdogan's getting insulted around the world for being a thin-skinned authoritarian.
Microservice websites - Mechanical Turk and Fiverr

Crowdfunding - GoFundMe and Kickstarter

Live Streaming - Twitch, adult (if you're into that)

Online markets - stock/day trading, auctions

Cryptocurrency mining

Bing points - (shameless referral link -> https://www.bing.com/explore/rewards?PUBL=REFERAFRIEND&CREA=... ) yes, I earn enough points every few weeks to redeem for Amazon gift cards.

AdSense - putting ads on your website. I earn ~400/yr on my different websites, which more than pays for the hosting and domain registration fees.
It's theft. People don't explicitly agree to it. It's forced on you. And most taxes don't go towards the advancement of society. Advancement comes from the people and businesses.
Looks like in 2013 the top 1% earned 21% and paid 41% of California's taxes.

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/Tax_Statistics/Reports/2013/...
Realpolitik at its finest.
Indeed, I agree with you.

Object-orientation support on OCaml also sets it far apart from SML, for instance. Which can lead to a lengthy discussion, but that's beside the point.

This reasoning, however, is exactly my point: depending on where emphasis is placed, they can be argued to be similar or completely different languages.
How would the alternative look like? Erdogan referring to "even in germany, the head of state interferes". Mind you, there'd still be a court case, just under a different paragraph. The whole situation was not salvageable. I don't like the decision, but I can see the reasons. This way at least everybody can point to the independence of the courts.
I didn't want to, but I'd admit: I have been spotting ambiguities a lot more since taking NLP classes :) This one actually bothered me enough to ask.
Is it a misinterpretation of the article or does the chancellor actually have to "allow" or "disallow" an investigation? Aren't prosecutors completely independent in Germany?
Someone's been vigorously rubbing Ayn Rand novels against his privates again.

The real question is how does wealth manage to concentrate so highly so quickly and by those who actually contribute so little.

edit: this guy is literally pulling an Atlas Shrugged. If you think you as the owner of the company 'make all of the money', I heartily suggest you try going it alone.
Most markets in Canada are in slow decline, which reflects reality. Then you have the two special markets of Vancouver, which needs no introduction, and Toronto, which fits somewhere between Vancouver and reality.

It would be interesting to examine the fundamentals of each separately.
He had a Chromebook Pixel before the Vaio. Wonder what made him switch.
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Diversification can include real estate.

Besides, it's the leverage. You can buy $625,500 of house with 2.5% down + a monthly payment with a ~4% vig. Nowhere else can you get that kind of money at that kind of rate with ~$16k down.

Then if you're smart you invest other money other places to diversify. You can live in house, unlike Vanguard funds. But you should have both.
I suspect that without having a 99% to take advantage of, they wouldn't earn so much.
Seems like the problem is not with the URL shorteners, but with OneDrive braindead security model. Somehow having a link to one file allows the attacker to see all the user's files? What were they thinking?
A common technique for looking at a program (not a database query) is "stack sampling". A timer goes off N times a second, and records the call stack of the process/threads. Then, statistics are gathered from the set of call stacks.

E.g. - "60% of the time is in the sequence main() -> process_unit() -> validate_input() and the things called from there" or "45% of the time is in all of the call sequences which then lead back into write_line()" or things like that. Usually, you see patterns of a small number of slow functions that everything depends upon and/or, arranging the call stacks into a sort of "tree" of calls, a branch of the tree that you spend an inordinate amount of time in.

There are newer tools that provide graphical representation of this data as well (e.g. - show the tree as sort of a topographical map, with hotspots as peaks, and the call tree as geological strata)

Of course, if your program has a giganto routine that it never leaves, you might not learn much -- "do_all_the_work_inline() is executing 95% of the time!", unless you start looking at things at the line number level. Blech.
The better analogy is you have 10 people in a room and only a few of them are producing anything yet they are forced to give a portion of their production to everyone else in the room.
Concerning German law: It is up to the judges (throughout the instances but hopefully it will be finished witht he first trial) whether or not they see this as satire.

There are no binding precedents in Germany, every case is only dealt with on the basis of the legal text (the exception being some judgements by the suppreme court). This of course gives the judges some freedom in this case, as with obscenity/pornography laws.
But still, the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Böhmermann's intention was to insult Erdogan. He is not responsible for how his performance is interpreted by the public or Erdogan.
My URL shortener makes the user come up with their own short URL so they can decide how long to make it.

http://oc9.org/<insertYourShortURLHere>
According to the data in the article, $281b out of $1,104b, or 25%.
No, as mentioned above I haven't. And yes I read the announcement on HN a few days ago. Again, I haven't tried it, just going off of Bram's comments regarding new features.

Sorry if I sounded like I was endorsing it. Did you not read my comment?

Can't say much about it, haven't upgraded yet, but the write up on it looks promising.
For those curious about how the percentage of taxes paid in relation to percentage of income earned, these statistics shed some light on the issue:

> According to a projection from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, the top 1 percent of Americans will pay 45.7 percent of the individual income taxes in 2014—up from 43 percent in 2013 and 40 percent in 2012 (the oldest period available)... In 1979, the top one percenters earned 8.9 percent of pretax income and paid 18 percent of federal income taxes. In 2011, the top 1 percent earned 14.6 percent of income and paid 25.4 percent in 2011 of federal income taxes.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/13/top-1-pay-nearly-half-of-fede...
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Before or after taxes and deductions? By some measures it's ~25% others closer to 50%.

PS: Remember if your getting information from Tax info that the information was adjusted to minimize taxable income.
Do you think tax should not be tied to income? Maybe each person should owe the same amount in tax or something?
It seems like a good idea. I think some of the friction is related to the historic decline in the quality and trustworthyness of the free Windows software. In a world where even Java comes with crapware, .exe is a problematic format for many [despite being easy to deploy and get running].

My gut is that the wind is behind open source as the successor to free-ware and shareware in the Windows world. It's certainly becoming the favored alternative when paid developer tools aren't selected.

Good luck.
Every time I start getting into f# the Roslyn team comes out with new features taken from FP (tuples, local functions, pattern matching) and narrows the gap. So I postpone the move from c# to f# to a later date .

The things I know are never coming to c# (like data providers) are not important to me.

So for me c# is the greatest block against f# adoption.
I think you misread. Revisit my original post :

> "everyone" would mean student activists who are busy decrying the tearing down of several high rise projects

The student activists, in this case, are in fact very much against the tearing down of said highrise projects. I'm surprised that wasn't clear.
Fascinating stuff, I wonder how far is bio hacking progressing these days?
For an (SQL) database, you would want to look at something called a query planner (e.g. - "explain" command).

It describes the order that tables are accessed, which indices (if any) are used for each access, "and so on".
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It's not just insults from the right to the left: it goes both ways. I remember people calling George W. Bush a smirking chimp. I remember people like Andrew Sullivan trying to prove that Sarah Palin only pretended that her son Trig is hers. I remember MoveOn.org's ad calling General Petraeus 'General Betray US.'

And that's exactly as it should be. Free citizens of a free nation have every right to insult anyone they wish.