skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the actual quote from the CDC report linked above:

"Meille village hosted a MINUSTAH camp, which was set up just above a stream flowing into the Artibonite River. Newly incoming Nepalese soldiers arrived there on October 9, 12, and 16. The Haitian epidemiologists observed sanitary deficiencies, including a pipe discharging sewage from the camp into the river. Villagers used water from this stream for cooking and drinking.

On October 21, the epidemic was also investigated in several wards of Mirebalais. Inhabitants of Mirebalais drew water from the rivers because the water supply network was being repaired. Notably, prisoners drank water from the same river, downstream from Meille. No other cause was found for the 34 cases and 4 deaths reported in the prison.

On October 31, it was observed that sanitary deficiencies in the camp had been corrected. At the same time, daily incidence of cholera tended to decrease. Afterwards, incidence rose again to reach a second peak on November 10 "
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I think the person you are responding to was referencing my city/town as "not the market" more than anything, though I could be wrong. Seattle has many stories of cash markets from foreign investment too, but not many venture as far south of Seattle as Tacoma. That might be changing, but my house isn't in a desirable neighborhood either.
Oh, come on. I know you get it.

Taxation is a generally accepted necessary evil way to fund projects and services for the common good. A progressive tax policy recognises that a person with a high income can bear a greater burden; taxing a minimum wage earner 30% of their income would have a much higher proportional effect on quality of life that someone earning, say, 200k. We seem to accept progressive taxation as fair, in the sense that it causes no more inconvenience to low earners than high earners.

The comparison with a private commercial service is flawed, in the sense that engagement with it is an entirely personal choice.
Some of the difference in nominal price appreciation is currency driven -- the US dollar has been strong and the loonie has been (relatively) weak.
But learning is always slow. What is the point of machine learning if you disable learning?
Either way, the difference is how much capital you start with.
Developers are finally building in SF..

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/04/san-franciscos-hu...

This is very good news, my prediction is that this wave of supply is going to reduce the prices for a while. There is actually still a lot of space in SOMA/Mission Bay/Central Waterfront to build. New construction is all going to be condos rather than single family homes, people who want to live in single family homes and drive to Costco on the weekends (nothing wrong with that) will continue to move to Seattle or Portland.

Money is flocking to SF from all over the world through VC companies and mutual funds, still. It used to be VCs with previous exits who already live in the region but in the last 2 years a lot of dumb money coming in. At some point in the next 5 years Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, Lyft, Dropbox, Slack, Palantir and Stripe are going to have exits, even if 3 out of 8 lives up to their potentials these exits are going to create a lot of potential home buyers. Facebook, Google, Apple and Netflix (yes, netflix) are going to continue growing their empires. If SF's city officials can pull it off, with the increased investments in public transportation eventually San Francisco is going to become a global A+ city. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city)

Only a 'black swan' event can stop SF's medium term growth. We already had a 'black swan' event in tech in the recent history, burst of 2000, everyone is expecting a similar story here. It's the nature of 'black swan' events that if people are already expecting things to fall apart, the magnitude is much less.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory)
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A secret kept in a URL is less likely to be treated as confidential, both by people and machines. For example, compared to a cookie, they're more likely to be shared or logged.
Banks? Any order system? Screenshots are very often used in customer problem resolution.
... and the solution is what? Punitive tax rates? Wage caps? Re-education camps?

I don't see anything broken, other than a state government that taxes people too much for too little value in return. (Either add value, or tax lower).
The title is inaccurate. The article says that the top 1% of earners pay 45% of income taxes. It says nothing about what percent of total taxes that they pay. Since income tax is 68% of California's taxes, they could pay anywhere from 30% to 62% of the taxes.
Really? Thanks, I haven' ever heard of it. You don't have a link do you? I can't find anything on Google.
Income disequilibrium is the expected and natural result of capitalism. You're not going to solve it with band-aids.
CA prop 13 fear monger much?
Totally agree and the "write-only" nature of SQL is something that makes me crazy. Sounds like you're more of a dev. I'm an analyst, but same problem. For any analytic SQL I wrote more than a couple weeks ago, I end up throwing it out and starting from scratch because it's so hard to understand anything I wrote.

ORMs were a huge step forward for devs, but there wasn't really anything similar for analysts. Looker (where I now work after three years as a customer) is, in many ways, the equivalent of an ORM for analytics.
[citation needed], again. Mosiah 8:9 is about a different set of plates that part of the Book of Mormon was abridged from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Ether#Provenance

My goal isn't to "get you"; I just don't want incorrect information passed off as truth. You clearly think the Book of Mormon is bogus. That's fine, but please use better researched arguments against it.

Anyway, I'm going to drop this thread here, since a post about Paul Le Roux if the wrong place to have this discussion.
Wealth is not distributed by some wealth fairy. It is created by productive activity. One person's wealth does not come at the expense of another's.
That's when you know NJ spends way too much money.

"Hey, look, this rich guy moved in to NJ! Let's hire more bureaucrats!... Oh, now he left! What should we do!?"
> still very much resembling the original atmosphere and graphics of doom 1 and 2.

If you haven't already, you should check out Brutal Doom[0]. It improves upon the graphics and gameplay a lot -- but still manages to keep much of the original atmosphere

[0]: http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
The idea is actually to do something similar to a heroku buildpack where you have a container with build tools that generates binary assets. You then inject the built binary into a new image that has only runtime dependencies installed.

I've experimented (and use) a variant of this workflow myself built around my marina tool [1]. The basic idea is to define a file that uses a dev/builder image to build, then exports a tarball into a runner image.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/marina
I love Flickr's HTML: [span class="facade-of-protection-neue" style="width:618px;height:400px;"]

...this seems similar.
I'd point out though that the oft-cited '1%' is often shorthand for '0.1%' – that maybe lazy, but a different figure.
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It's cool, but I guess I don't see the point because I'm not sure how big the intersection is between users that can use Chrome developer tools, and those who can't disable this [0].

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/jvExNWT.png
Still, using the term "hiding" makes little sense to me. It's money that not connected to the US or the IRS in anyway, and the information is readily available anyways. Are citizens of other countries "hiding" their income from the IRS then? That makes about as much sense to me as claiming that companies operating in other countries are hiding money from the IRS.
Great point! More precisely, each state transition in a system should report the old state, the new state, and the triggering event (cause) to a monitoring system (possibly just a log).
You can remove the DOMSubtreeModified event listener first, then you are free to modify "locked" content as desired. I hope to not see a day where the Web Inspector lacks proper facilities to inspect and modify a page.
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I am a US citizen who moved to Sweden. I am in my 40s and have no children.

I am not frustrated by the move. I find it easier to work on my business (I am self-employed) when I don't have to also worry about things like insurance. In the US, my rates kept going up, and I didn't really know what covered. It's a specialized topic I don't care to know, and rigged against self-employed people.

Now I don't have that worry.

The essay talks about transportation. I live in a small city. The nearest big city is about 50 miles away. I can get to the big city center on the (subsidized) train for $12, in 38 minutes. That's faster than driving. Which means I don't need a car, so don't need a garage, so can live in the center of town.

The essay talks about accessibility to nature. Last summer went hiking for several days. I didn't need to arrange travel to/from the end points because I knew there would be bus service. The summer before I went on a 10 day cycling trip. At every point, if there was a serious problem could take a train or bus to get back home on my own. Also, "no trespassing" doesn't really exist in Sweden, so I was free to pitch a tent anywhere. And the trails have some very nice lean-tos.

I can also underscore how easy it is to do Swedish taxes. The national, state, and city taxes are all filled in for me, in a simple form, vs. the many pages of my US federal taxes which I still have to file every year even though I make less than the overseas exemption so don't actually pay any taxes to the US.

Also, just because I've been healthy and making decent money doesn't mean that my friends are all healthy and making money. In the US some people don't have the money for medical treatments which here are part of the social system. Not only do I think it's wrong for basic health care to be based on income, but I don't like the popularity-based back-up solution of personal fund-raisers for treatment.

Were my parent Swedish, I wouldn't have to worry so much if my retired parents could support themselves, especially as they need to get more at-home help.

Sure, it's possible to game the system, and only move to Sweden for retirement. But should everyone do that, the system wouldn't work. I think Kant would have something to say about the morality of that proposal.
Reminds me of this: http://southpark.cc.com/clips/103759/not-a-big-deal
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Disposable income would be a better metric in this case. They may earn only 24% of the income, but how much of that is excess? ie. beyond providing their needs.

For the other 76%, all of that income may be spent on just food/rent/other essentials. Whereas the 1% have excess that they can save, or spend on luxuries. That's why tiered tax regimes exist.

NB. The definition of "needs" is obviously very debatable. The top 1% in California is defined as ~$90k, but given a median rent of >$4000/mth in SF, that skews the needs/excess taxable money argument considerably.
Greenland is melting much faster than scientists expected
Equal is unfair. http://www.amazon.com/Equal-Is-Unfair-Misguided-Inequality/d...
This stat be based on the marginal utility. Tax paid on 100k is much more painful for a family than tax paid on 1 million.
Many of these "smart" devices are actually very dump, are of bad quality and actually harm the end users privacy. Some negative examples from recent news: "smart meters", "smart thermostats", "smart refrigerators", "smart TVs".

On the otherhand, devices and products that are not advertises as "smart" are often better and actually use very sophisticated algorithm.
At my company we did it reasonably well, we just released our product to the market. We do have the advantage of having an app-based model, which means that every app the user installs on our product improves the speech recognition and the amount of actions installed.

Getting started is not that hard, getting good is. It's a hard problem to parse speech correctly, take numbers for example: Nineteen-Eightyfour can be parsed as 19 and 84, or as 1948, or as 9 10 80 4. There are challenges, certainly, but creating a simple program with things like wit.ai is do-able. Prepare to write a lot of speech parsing logic, and implement every piece of functionality by hand. Magic as Siri, Google Now, and Cortana may seem, most of it is just hardcoded responses and actions. That need not be a problem, but I can promise you, smart assistants will lose a lot of their magic once your realize it's just a bunch of responses and actions hard coded.

Anyway, I don't want to discourage you from trying, because it's really interesting to try and see what challenges you're going to encounter. The getting started pack for speech recognition is mostly wit.ai, or the Google STT engine. Keep in mind: none of the big companies are doing everything from scratch. Sure, Google has their own speech recognition, but recognizing the trigger phrase (jargon for 'OK Google', or 'Hey Siri') is outsourced. Every piece of software that has such a trigger uses the same library. Remember: using libraries is not cheating, it's just focusing on your core task, which is writing the parsing and actions.
Basically, this is a data format like YAML and JSON, but it's cleaner and more readable than even YAML! And doesn't have the bloat either.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11503910.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

This is someone not taking a stand for justice when they could. They had the power and option to make the right choice and they chose the politically expedient one.

This is worse than "I was only following orders" this is actively choosing the wrong thing.
Wealth and income are denominated in dollars, or other bank currency generally, so they are bound by their availability.

For example, you cannot have $2,000,000,000,000,000 in annual income, simply because $2,000,000,000,000,000 do not exist.

>I got it by trading with someone else.

If you examine the transaction in its historical context, there will be a chain of trades going back to a bank loan (or multiple).

You seem fixated on the trade of dollars, while seeming unconcerned about how dollars come to exist.
California taxes capital gains at the same rate that they tax income as you can see in the table on the following page: http://taxfoundation.org/article/high-burden-state-and-feder...
If you work in state without high state / local income taxes you're a lot less likely to trigger AMT. So really the federal government subsidize wealthy residents of those places the most.

If you're like a middle class family in NYC where two parents work. One person is a cop (detective) the other person is a teacher both with experience you're prob pulling $100k + $80k + overtime in the cop case. Congrats your family is probably paying AMT every year.
> the 1% are freeloading devils

Some are. Some aren't.
Password reset links are the widespread rebuttal to your statement.
The link says "adjusted gross income," which is "gross income" minus deductions.

"Gross income in United States tax law is receipts and gains from all sources" [0] This includes wages, interest, gains etc.

I'd like to see the same data with un-adjusted gross income.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_income
You can also block the script. Really - most people who'd know to modify the content via the DOM inspector tools can probably figure out trivial ways around the script.

http://i.imgur.com/CHkLlR4.png
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You don't understand. 45% of 1 million means nothing. Maybe skimp on the next vacation to Paris. 20% income tax on 60k means someone might never be able to retire or help pay for his kids college degree.
But how can they do that? Effort is one thing, but this? If we use the story of the greatest such behavior in history - that of Marcus Licinus Crassus of Rome, who would not allow certain ships to land to manipulate commodity prices - I'd defy anyone to say that's even possible in the modern economy. Compared to the world now, Rome en toto was one small town. We have thousands of years of improvement on the mechanisms of Rome.

The first step may be realizing that there may not be any disequilibrium per se.

I'm still thinking about it, but I watched "All Watched Over For By Machines Of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis and it totally appealed to my skepticism fetish about these things. If our models are wrong ( and to some limit, all models are wrong ) , the it's (solopsistic) Hubris to complain that the world is incorrect.

(ObDisclosure: I have a child who did graduate work in ecology and left it in disgust, so I'm extremely biased. I also believe firmly in Adam Smith's "Man of System" to keep myself from thinking I can solve certain problems, as a self-defense mechanism ).

So here's my solopsism on the subject:

- this state of affairs represents our collective revealed preferences to some fraction of 0...1.
- If it is much less than half, then what makes up the rest?
- we have significant policy, legal and outright cultural boilerplate to protect us from this. Why doesn't it work?
- Saying "it's because people cheat" seems to me to abdicate the field. "Double down on the rule-making." But based on what?
- Given the Pareto distribution, what can actually be done? This one scares me but it reeks of mathiniess. But what if it's true?

At the core of it, does emergent phenomena exist or is that yet another "I give up" thing?

Maybe we need a rich and operational model of rents, and base all taxation on that. Doesn't seem to even begin to address finance and financialization at all, though.
The same could be said about gambling. Are roulette players "creating wealth"?
If I were on the jury, that video would definitely make me accept Jeremy's claims.
if we had government that spent as a function of some trailing average of tax receipts (it could be a greater than 1 multiplier), we'd have built in responsibility with a counter-cyclical kicker. makes way too much sense for politicians who want control.
1) Let's say I am doing a presentation, the computer has internet connection but can't use USB drives, etc. So I would shorten the url (to, e.g., google drive file) and write down the token. Much better than logging into personal account on shared machine.

2) Analytics. I've seen many times different shortened urls used in different locations for the same campaign. I assume that makes it much easier to track your offline marketing channels.
I don't really get it. Disclosure that I work at Looker which is an analytics company, though not really in the same space as Mixpanel. But I'm just confused about this latest trend of "you can get your data out!" from analytics providers that excel at one type of analysis (as Mixpanel does with funnels).

In my mind, the whole value of these providers is that they make that one kind of analysis really easy and pretty. But if you feel like you're outgrowing that and want to slice your data in new ways, I don't think you'd choose Mixpanel for their data capture alone, right? So is it just that the cost of Mixpanel is sunk and so might as well get the data they're already recording out?
What is the scoope for your project?? I mean, emmbedded system this is?? (Hardware/software).
Do you think running on dsp/arduino/raspberry??
Exist a lot of doubts. Im working in something like that.
Good luck the road is long.
It also generally refers to the top '1%' with regards to wealth, not income.
"How you prioritize your time" reflect passion if all else is equal, but someone raising a family or commuting two hours each way is just plain not going to have as much time to spend playing a programming game as someone with no responsibilities other than themselves and a 15-minute walk to work -- no matter how "passionate" the former person is. And yet the former person may make a far better employee.

I just really think that measures like this severely distort the employment market and are a terrible measure of actual merit. Which becomes even worse when people talk about those with "merit" being more "deserving" of whatever we consider to be "success".
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Why? Because earning and hard work is wrong?

These studies also leave out all of the good jobs created by the 1% and the massive amount of taxes going back into the state from these employees.

If you counted this, they are responsible for nearly all of the taxes.
It's easier to become a naturalized Canadian for Chinese nationals, isn't it? Maybe the Chinese buying homes in the Canadian market are actually planning to move there and raise kids (as opposed to pure speculation in the US market).
> Joel implied that good programmers love programming so much they'd do it for no pay at all. I won't go quite that far, but I will note that the best programmers I've known have all had a lifelong passion for what they do. There's no way a minor economic blip would ever convince them they should do anything else. No way. No how.

This isn't just a minor economic blip, but I took a non-programming (but still technical) job out of college, because it was what I could get. I now have a few kids and pretty firm roots in a town without a lot of programming jobs. I make a six figure salary, I'm reasonably good at what I do and I like my coworkers, so I feel weird complaining about my job, as I'm better off than most people I know...

However, I really want to write software. I contribute to open source projects, and when there is something I can automate at work, I do it. I'm also somewhat concerned that if programming were to become my day job, I would lose interest in it. Has anyone else made the transition from hobbyist to professional, and have any advice to give?
So change the 1% to the 99% "takers" and you have the other indie media ( which appears to be in rapid decline ).
the top 1% earned 28% of the income and paid 45% of the taxes: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/Tax_Statistics/Reports/2013/...
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StartSSL's response: https://www.startssl.com/NewsDetails?date=20160322
> If SF's city officials can pull it off, with the increased investments in public transportation eventually San Francisco is going to become a global A+ city.

This is the most hilarious comment I've read on HN in a long time.
But... Russians did invade your country.
If you're looking to fake a screenshot you can certainly defeat this plugin to do so.
Yes. Look up vagrant for nice and easy virtualization management.
I could not imagine that statement being anything but sarcasm, dryly delivered.
Reminds me of sites that disable text selection or right clicking. Annoying enough to satisfy the client, but no actual copy protection.