skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're forgetting Social Security, which is a regressive tax system as it is not taxed on income over ~$118k. You're also forgetting things like Medicare. Both SS and Medicare carry an employer contributed tax, which is a hidden tax on the employee (employers just adjust wages to accommodate the extra taxation).

Finally, within the context of comparison to other nation's benefits structures, you're forgetting health care expenses which are included in most western tax systems.

Health care is also regressive in that it comprises a greater proportion of expense for lower income earners and carries a 'hidden cost' in the form of employer supplemental payments. It's perfectly valid to include these costs when comparing to other nations or to alternative tax & benefits proposals which include expanded health care.

By including or excluding varying costs and expenses, the cost to earnings curves bend dramatically....even with the AMT. The fact is, the answer to this question is not a single acronym. And the discussion can't even legitimately begin until some ground truth on what services and benefits are and/or should be included.
Wait for the french/german TV miniseries remake in a few years (not anything announced yet, but you just know one will be made), it will likely have a higher quality and accuracy.
The solution is to make it extremely difficult/costly for them. It is never democratization and lobbying, because for a person to see any kind of change in the direction he wishes, it may take years. And even then it's just asking your masters for permission. Technology gives us a quick way to bypass government, make it irrelevant.
What text-based things do you think it has replaced?

I'm still very curious as to what binary blobs you are referring to though.
Ok that's it, enough internet for me today.
You can access it on desktop/laptop too.
Aside from the fact that there's a hefty fee for that, the US government will not let you relinquish citizenship solely for taxation reasons.

You could make up a reason, but that's stretching even your definition of "voluntary" under the law.
The Speed Cube has the removable center tiles to allow the tension to be adjusted:

https://rubiks.com/blog/how-to-customise-the-rubiks-speed-cu...
FYI, gradient descent is covered in one of the very first weeks of Andrew Ng's Coursera machine learning class, so perhaps just watch those lessons (free)

Gradient descent is the approximation solution basically because getting the exact solution requires a good computation of inverse matrices which is apparently not yet doable (it's too slow)
Poor are often uneducated and ignorant of how they are being taken advantage of, yes.
For anyone that likes Gibson; I hope you caught this earlier (2015) story too:

"I mine for 100-year-old jeans"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10284638
a) be thankful that banknotes are not being withdrawn altogether, but...

b) mention of the 50 suspicious by its absence.
CLI to generate reports for Gitlab. Userful for Project Managers
That's the opposite of reality. Users hate it. Overwhelmingly. You did do it for a reason, but the reason was "look I think this is cool!". Users suffer for the fashion driven choices of the web development world.
Looking at life through an abstract lens
you're right... it was never tested. ever. they just sent up of bunch of bolted together junk and prayed to japanese jesus that it did something.

you should be asking which physical component failed and how it failed. software is no good if the CPU is half melted with a hole through it.
So people keep telling me, but I've been building this stuff for a couple of decades now, including maintaining certain projects for at least as long as most of the modern JS frameworks have existed, and I'm still waiting. The only way these generalisations about everything becoming a framework hold is if you conveniently define framework to mean something like "having any sort of systematic or uniform software architecture".
The OSI definition includes the four freedoms, just stated in different ways:

"The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose" - "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor."

"The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish" - "The program must include source code (...) The license must allow modifications and derived works"

"The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor" - "The program (...) must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form."

"The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others" - "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software."

That's why almost all software considered "open source" is also "free software" and vice-versa.
Have you ever tried using an Apple AirPort Extreme? That's the router we're running with at home and it's been damn amazing. I haven't had to touch the thing since I bought it 1.5 years ago, and it's only been off three times during the time I've had it (all due to power outages). It's also ridiculously fast; I get almost all of my allocated throughput over Wi-Fi. It's amazing.
I think you're post-rationalizing. The kernel is an exception today, true, but that doesn't mean it needs to be special.

The established Unix philosophy of everything being "one program that does one thing" would be hugely beneficial if applied to an OS kernel. Wouldn't it be great you could just run different drivers and file system in userspace rather than having to compile a big kernel?

Not to mention that it could be much easier to develop them if they could just run as processes and die if they failed, as opposed to inducing a kernel panic.
I do. I've got the server counterpart set up on a Linode and sync my task lists across all devices. That's quite nifty because I usually think of things that I should be doing while I'm on the go. At the moment I need this kind of organization to get anything done, and out of all the solutions I've tried this one is by far the best. The feature I use the most is probably the scheduling feature. After dinner I'll sit down for a moment and contemplate which of the tasks I've still got open I will do the next day and schedule them accordingly. The next morning I do a `scheduled:today` query and I've basically got half the day laid out in front of me already. The best part of it though is that by running my own task server (at no additional cost because the same box doubles as my mail server), all the data belongs to me instead of relying on a third party.
I would imagine people have a hard time lumping: service management, logging, login, network management, etc together as 'one thing'. As a CentOS 7 user, I certainly wouldn't describe it as 'doing it well'.

I think people initially were pretty stoked for the revamped init process, and then it started heaping on a lot more stuff. Poettering's communication style and other history didn't help either.
That's like claiming binutils collections is monolithic..
10% tax on the self-employed? That is devestating, especially when you consider that 1099's also pay 100% of of their own payroll tax.

Why is it that those who have managed to escape from the slavery of employment always get thrown under the bus by those who haven't?
Yes, they provide the tension when you rotate the cube. The speed cubes come with different springs that can make it looser or tighter - in the center is this white ball that houses the springs where you screw in the center tiles. If it wasn't such a pain to open back up, I'd take some pics of that part of it. You can see the white ball on the official site here: https://rubiks.com/store/product/rubiks-speed-cube (disclaimer - the original article is mine)
Having purchased a computer in 1990 along with WordPerfect ($300 then - $540 in today's dollars) and Lotus 123 (another $300/$540), this makes me smile ;-)
They said conservatives but they meant Republicans. It's exactly the sort of manufactured outrage they've excelled at milking recently- create a scandal, claim the "patriotic"/change-resistant side, and use it to create fear of the enemy.

(Switch in Democrat instead of Republican, and "progressive"/faux-scientific, and I'm sure you can think of some recent examples on "the other side." It's a disease of politics, not of a particular viewpoint.)

Want hard examples? Look at Ben Carson's statement regarding putting Harriet Tubman on the 20, and the fact that it's turned into a big deal at all.
>Teacher is one that immediately comes to mind. Nurse? Probably. Soldier? If you're deployed, certainly.

No, no and yes. Teaching is an incredibly easy job, you barely have to do anything, and you get paid very well. Nursing is more stressful, but still pays quite well.
Also to make it much easier to grease the cube - if you do it as you stack the rows, you can get much more even distribution (and the cube will fly afterwards).
These numbers are picked over to distort the conclusion. They include in total tax burden the estate tax but not the sales tax. That's funny in a "haha I dropped my monocle in my brandy again" sort of way but not in a way that's useful for evaluating tax policy.
Link to paper full text?
Really? How do you figure that? It shouldn't be that hard to replace most of the components that come with systemd with replacements.

Do those utilities use only well-defined, simple interfaces both to the system and between utilities? Can I replace one or more of those utilities with something else that implements those simple, stable, and well-defined interfaces? This what we mean by modularity; each piece of the complex system can be considered in isolation, with only minimal dependencies.

Um, yes - you can.

When I can remove systemd-PID-1, OR keep using systemd-PID-1 but replace those utilities with other tools, only then will systemd be a "modular" set of tools. If I have to recompile daemons to remove systemd dependencies (libsystemd-journal0, libsystemd-login0), those daemons are now part of the systemd monolith.

There is no factual basis to this claim. There is only really one component that can't be easily replaced, and that's journald.

I challenge you to tell me which component of systemd other than journald can't be swapped out if you so desired.
You mean "here's a curriculum, download the lessons and tests".
Hm. Mirakel 3.0 apparently doesn’t work, but 2.8.2 is still on F-Droid. Compared to the "Taskwarrior" app there, it seems much more polished, with the Taskwarrior app, I have a hard time figuring out how to e.g. add subtasks to a problem (or even hide existing subtasks from cluttering everything). Do you have an even better alternative?
Every journalist who reports on what they believe to be excessive executive compensation (or even what they believe to be shareholder-friendly pay) should be clearly identifying (a) the members and Chair of the Board's Compensation Committee, and (b) the Board's Compensation Consultant. Although the whole Board is responsible for CEO pay, the Compensation Committee and the Board's compensation consultant are primarily decision-makers and influencers, respectively.

In Yahoo's case, Maynard Webb, Jr. is Chairman of the Board and member of the Compensation Committee. Jane Shaw (Intel) is Chair of the Compensation Committee. And Fred Cook is the Board's Compensation Consultant. Regardless of whether you think her package excessive or reasonable, these are the people who ought to receive credit or blame.
Writing a toy ray tracer is something that I'd recommend to everyone who's interesting in becoming a better programmer. Once you get deep enough into it you'll encounter so many interesting problems (e.g. data structures, software architecture, some linear algebra, etc.) to hone your skills on. It's almost up there with "write your own compiler" as a learning experience in my opinion and you get the added benefit of creating some pretty pictures in the process.
T0 explain the difference. Let me take a example of a problem that i am myself trying to figure out "learning-the-basics-of-promoting-content-on-twitter".

So if i put this question on quora, I will get a subjective opinion of a person on how to learn about twitter, this might or might not include other links. Plus there will be a lot of answers to this question each hosting their own individual opinion.

In our platform we want to become a replacement of long tailed queries on google. On our platform the community can get together to figure out the 10 best resources to solve this problem. Plus, you can find insights to get a sense how the link was useful. A quora answer can be one of these resource, but there will be another layer on it telling how it was useful. When we solve problems usually we have to go to multiple links to get the required information. In our platform we want to get the list of the best links to do so.
Which only goes to show that the rich in America are far richer than their counterparts in other well-developed countries. In terms of inequality, American ratios are closer to those found in straight-up kleptocracies. When people talk about the bananafication of the republic, this is what they mean.
Apaches are great for CAS, however one of the more common things for CAS is when someone gets pinned down. You need CAS ASAP and don't always know when you'll need reinforcements. An example would be when I was in Iraq and a pair of Kiowas with .50 machine guns and missle pods were doing air support of raids. One of the kiowas took a well aimed RPG to the tail rotor and went down in the middle of a very bad part of Tall'Afar. They made a military channel episode about it which included some of the video I shot as the payload (camera) operator of a surveillance drone in it.

http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-Diaries-Episode-Kiowa-Down...

I was a Shadow 200 UAV (aka drone) pilot. We needed some heavy CAS onsite ASAP to prevent a pretty large armed crowd of insurgents doing a repeat of Blackhawk Down in Somalia. So, we radioed to the nearest airbase (in Mosul) roughly 60k away and they launched a Harrier loaded with a GBU50 (Also called an Enhanced Paveway II / 2000lb bomb). The plane was onsite in a few minutes where it would have taken an Apache much much longer to get there.

They dropped that big boy munition on a weapons cache where the insurgents were going back to re-arm. Miraculously, the single infantry platoon near the crash site managed to secure the pilots and hold their ground long enough for the engineers to send a combat wrecker, pull the burning hulk of the Kiowa onto the flatbed, and get everyone out. The only injury was one of the infantryman caught a bullet in the heel. So... to recap, you need something that can go a bit faster than a helicopter sometimes to get CAS somewhere ASAP. A warthog's top speed is 460mph compared to an Apache's top speed of 182mph. The speed will save lives at times like in that video. I know this because I was literally there. It was terrifying.

EDIT (forgot to add): Apaches in fact were almost always doing aerial overwatch of large convoys when we would be driving a batallion of Strykers from Samarrah to Tall'Afar, or to Mosul, etc. The thing is that they do catch a lot of flak by being low, loud, and slow. Helos of any type tend to "hunt in pairs" as we were told as when one starts catching flak and taking fire, the other will pound the originator while the other takes evasive maneuvers. In the above story, the 2nd Kiowa was pounding the hell out of the ground but had to leave station as it was running low on ammo and 2 down helos is a really bad place to be in the middle of a very angry city.
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So basically like every modern movie loosely based on actual real life events. Then again, movies are almost always designed to entertain and munch popcorn, not so much to inform.
There are serious problems on this world and some people just make nonsense things based on nonsense fears.
And you totally missed the point.
Yes, you can probably use these tools to get the same result but the first two are not GUI tools and the third is a kitchen sink included behemoth of a program.

What Lobo_tuerto asked is:
Is there a similar tool that does this one thing and does it well and in a friendly manner available for Linux based operating systems?

My answer is "I don't know.".
Show me a working program, for a working aircraft, that has been tested in actual combat then we can talk about replacing the A-10

Most of the conversation about the A-10 seems to focus on the fact the Airforce need to free up resources for the F-35, and the combination of the F-16, F15, and F35 can replace the A-10 completely. I believe this to be false, and doubly so when the F-15 and F16 are also suppose to be replaced with the F-35.... The worst aircraft ever designed by the US Military..
Java Memory Model Examples: Good, Bad and Ugly (2007) [pdf]
If the human brain is recursive... whats stopping it from going in infinite circles ... Chemistry?
If you inhibit that reaction..do you crash? can you canbecome a master of a field by having the specialized neurons keep there cycle support ed?
New Jersey transit buses do something similar. For light braking the amber lights come on, for harder braking the actual brakes lights do.
Here's an idea, dunno if it's a good one:

Use water as the working mass. Lift it by converting it to steam and sending it up the mountain through insulated pipes. Condense it at the top, recovering the heat as possible, and let it run down to a turbine.

You have to counter losses, of course, and if you could get the heat energy back down to the bottom to reuse it that would be great. Otherwise, just use Solar and waste energy to heat the water to steam.

I think you might be able to get more energy out by "mining" gravity this way than you had to put in to run the steam cycle. You're taking advantage of the fact that water falls while steam rises.

Like I said, I have no idea if this would actually be feasible.
Right. The OP is wrong :)

I showed a concrete example proving it. That was with an actual anti-aircraft missle. A manpad is much much smaller and the A10 was designed explicitly to take direct manpad strikes.
I think you very much underestimate the job of being a teacher. Do you know any? I do. Their jobs do not seem easy. Could you control a room of 25 inner city teenagers and get them interested in algebra?
> Want hard examples? Look at Ben Carson's statement regarding putting Harriet Tubman on the 20, and the fact that it's turned into a big deal at all.

The big deal for Tubman was putting her on the 10. Putting her on the 20 has a lot of conservative / Republican support. A current Republican meme is an action pose for a book cover should be the picture.

To the original point, I have seen no evidence in the Republican party of fear of plastic (well, polymer money). Whatever cuts the cost.
Who would you actually consider to be innovative then?
To piggyback: If your library is a single source file and spec, I'm going to vendor it. Not add a dependency on it.

I'll probably do that in my "utility" library to keep my actual application project as light as possible. But I'm not going to add a dependency for 4 lines of code, as much as I may appreciate the effort you took in providing them. See https://github.com/btomala/akka-http-twirl/blob/master/src/m... for a recent example.
I have Google cardboard too - but usually that has two views right?
How did you get this to work? Still impressive just looking 'up' with the bare phone!
I can't help but thinking about singularity.. but regardless, I believe if done right this form of art can touch the most conservative and cynical.
React-rails doesn't run JavaScript outside of a JavaScript runtime, FYI. It just provides hooks for communicating between Rails and JavaScript.
I use taskwarrior with bugwarrior [1] to automatically maintain a list of pending bugs/issues and pull requests assigned to me. The initial setup takes a couple hours, but it's a great way to track stuff spread across dozens of locations.

[1] http://bugwarrior.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It's been done before. Alex Graves achieved 1.33 bits per character using stacked LSTMs.[1] The current Hutter Prize record is 1.28 bpc. Note, however, that the 1.33 bpc value was calculated on a held-out validation set and doesn't include the network weights.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850
They implement Atkinson Dithering? I wasn't aware of that.
Ethereum, the DAO, and Berkshire Hathaway
Shift – Safe and Easy Database Migrations
I like the Canadian plastic money. The only complaint is that when working retail you have to deal with people who fold their bills ot put them in a small wallet, and the bills are so much harder to unfold than paper making them difficult to count.
How that 1 hour of playing with bare feet improved my football skills
President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy (Not the Usual Political Dreck)
Is it so difficult for you to imagine someone who doesn't have push notifications enabled? I don't like being alerted by emails, but that means I sometimes miss time-sensitive messages from my boss. I would actually like texts when my boss emails me, because that would be the only alert I get outside of normal SMS.
Usually, I avoid the comment sections on most websites, due to the alarmingly low quality...but the comments on this article are actually quite good, and provide some interesting counter arguments and additional historical context.
fascinating anecdote

my best productivity comes from dividing efforts piecemeal and then allotting an hour for each task

the relatable bit is that if the task takes me 15 or 40 or however many minutes to finish the rest of the hour is mine to do with whatever i want

i could go for a walk, make some tea, pick up a book

if the task is unfinished at the end of the hour, i move onto the next task and return to it at the next hour block

even though it creates my most productive circumstances, like you said, i still find i rarely 'force' myself to follow it
The FSF compromises when it makes sense. In the past, rms has advocated for using non-copyleft licenses when it was a more programmatic solution. And they don't have enemies; for example, the FSF has congratulated Microsoft in the past when they released some software under a Free license.

Where they don't compromise is in situations where it would go against the very purpose of the organization, and why should they?
SpaceX’s SuperDraco Thruster
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Algorithms

This particular one seems to look pretty good when the pixel size is relatively large, but would give an inferior result compared to some of the others listed above for higher dpi. Also, it's too bad he didn't just disclose the specific details of the algorithm.
Brother wrote the software.
I think people are unfair to the air force on the A-10. Obviously discontinuing it should be reconsidered, but they've made massive investment in standardizing on a handful of modern planes instead of zillion overspecialized vehicles. The F-35, for all its frustrations, is a staggering piece of technology.

Plus, consider that this is a plane expected to take fire. Everyone loves he story of the A-10 that kept flying with half a wing blown off... But imagine being the crew. I'm sure they'd rather be in a vehicle that wasn't hit in the first place, or controlling it remotely.

That said, the biggest failing has been ignoring the new role of NATO in the ME.

But yes, there should be a joint project for a fixed-wing CAS gunship drone to replace the A-10. The Avenger weapon is overkill, you could build a vehicle half its size around a Vulcan. Do the same role as an A-10, but without risking crew and the other a smaller, modern, cheaper vehicle.