skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And getting rid of capital gains tax would increase economic efficiency because it currently prevents people from selling shares in order to buy better shares unless the advantage of the new shares can overcome the taxes due from selling the existing ones.

Getting rid of capital gains tax to encourage reinvestment is kind of silly. Heck, you could tax capital gains as regular income, and still eliminate any drag on reinvestment by allowing deductions for investment so long as the investments for which such deductions were taken were treated as having a zero basis value.

> It's conceivable that a consumption tax would cause the super-rich to pay more taxes, because if you want the yacht you have to pay the tax

Not really. You just structure the transactions to avoid what is taxable, e.g., you buy the yacht at a low nominal price and simultaneously (and completely coincidentally) by some financial investment not subject to consumption tax from the same party at an inflated price.

Anyone who can avoid paying taxes on their income in an income tax system can avoid paying taxes on it in a consumption tax system. (If you have an "unconditionally tax every transfer of money between two parties" system, it gets harder, but that has all kinds of downsides.)

> but there are currently a lot of tricks you can play to convert stock into stuff without paying tax, like selling only the shares that have decreased in value.

Sure, if you only ever sell shares that have lost value, you can avoid paying the (low) capital gains tax, at the expense of always losing money.

That's not a way to maximize your net, after taxes, utility, but if you want to lose money just to avoid paying a small portion of the gain in taxes...

> The best way to think of a basic income is as a fixed tax refund.

I think you mean "fixed refundable credit" rather than a "fixed refund".
"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. "

-Donald Knuth [1]

[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=SJHvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT471&lpg=...
Step 2 seldom happens. Judges have an extreme amount of power.
They do need to make a higher tax bracket to distinguish the 150-300k a year people from the 500k+ a year households.
Those job titles are literally nauseating.
Actually, a lot of California is going to turn into some sort of desert. There are several borderline ecosystems that used to support mature trees but once we lost them to disease or fire no trees of any kind appear to be growing back; just chaparral.

Yes, Life (capital L) moves on, but perhaps not the kind of life that we'd prefer. We can just shrug and say, "Oh well" or we can take a moment to reflect on what, if anything, we might do to steer natural selection in directions we find more pleasant.
You can also take the same software that you'd use in a public blockchain and put a lock on it. For instance, the Consensys folks set things like that up for banks.
Postel's law has two parts. Be gracious in what you receive is what most people are talking about, but be cautious in what you send is just as important. If people are using broken markup that's the problem that needs fixing. How many web devs bother with validation anymore? (And not for app like functionality, but for what should be simple text and images with a few menus - why are so many newspaper websites so awful?)

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793

2.10. Robustness Principle

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be
conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
others.
How is "There are all these gotchas when you have stuff running in the same OS and it just takes one little mistake and your adversary has root" not saying that the Unix security model is too hard to use?
Yes, for your first point, you seem to be considering behavioral monitoring where we attempt to characterize the behavior of a healthy or normal system and decree and declare everything else a sick system or an anomaly.

Yes, of your second, an example seems to be detecting malware in communications data streams or hard disk files by looking for specific, characterizing patterns of bits, that is, signatures extracted from earlier detections of such malware.

In behavioral monitoring, we might have challenges with false alarm rate.
I'm glad that humans fall so neatly into a few distinct categories.
I think most people are somewhat grateful that we have stopped selling unprivileged people.
Depends. There's been lots of studies linking page speed to revenue. I would imagine it doesn't manifest much in lower traffic sites where there's too much noise for it to play out, but as you grow in your userbase, working fast starts to become necessary for it to work well.
That sounds worth a go, although Shannon's system was analogue rather than digital which might have made a difference to the point where signal is unrecoverable from noise.

Then there is the noise from the transatlantic cable.
I'm also from Iowa. The value of farmland is complex, and I'd venture that a farmer is very lucky to be "sitting on millions of dollars of land" if that is indeed the case. (Our farm sold for very well less than a million dollars a few years ago.)
Old repost from January 2013
Bitcon: What benefit comes from the latest Satoshi outing? Part 1
FPGA programming? Surely not. If you've got a nicely supported dev board then it's simply a case of loading up a board support package, selecting some pins, and your first program can be three lines long. I will admit the toolchain can be a pain to set up but that's an entirely different problem.
I've been doing full remote for two years and I'd never go back to an office.
Smart Card Alliance forms new IoT security council
Looking for Beta testers for Sneakster
Hi we released a new messaging app called Sneakster on itunes. Anyone interested in beta testing it? We also want to grow the team...
Have you tried to outsource this kind of work through crowdworking sites like Amazon's Mechanical Turk, or Fiverr.com?
Twilio introduces end-to-end encryption for developers. Are we there yet?
"we're right back to where we came from within 1 year -- the lowest class still has the lowest quality apartments with the lowest class slumlord landlords!!"

but the previous lowest class slumlords have been run out of business, because no everyone's trying to move out of their apartments and no one's trying to move in.
I was arguing from the standpoint of an Effective Altruist, but like you a few years ago, I'm in the process of leaving the camp. I'm currently unsure of which moral philosophy to base the rest of my life on, though luckily I'm at a stage in my life when I can take my time to make an informed decision (early 20's). Also, bear with me, as I'm not very well-versed in the nomenclature. EA-styled morality is beginning to seem a silly set of rules society has taught us to enjoy following, like an owner would teach their dog Fetch. I've grown out of one such set of rules before when I rejected my family's fervent Catholicism, but the idea that there is no set-in-stone validity of rules underpinning my entire value system has proven much more harrowing. Gtg right now, but I might look up the book you recommended after I read up on some of these things on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Feels like the beginning of an interesting journey.
communism. everybody was forced to have a job, hence income. once you leave market forces driving the direction and try to force some righteous system down the throat of whole society, no exceptions taken, many bad things will happen. a lot of very unfair situations will occur in the system that aims to do the opposite.

I mean, by all means, do it, experiment on your society, take all the risks foreseen and unforeseen. if you manage to make first 50 years in glory (or 100 to be sure), you have my attention. just please, please don't shove it down my throat in country where me or my family lives. Please. Thank you.

where is the push for better education and more accessible healthcare? Fixing those guarantees a brighter future for mankind, period. this is roulette where you can lose a lot, gain a lot too.
That still works? Cool.

Off the top of your head, do you remember any examples of sites that expose paywalled content like this?
How TechCrunch gets to 100% clickbait.
Stanford CS231n deep learning for vision videos taken down due to legal concerns
TLDR; Oh hello there! I've come up with a faultless way to manage inventive people out of organisations by pitching them as being troublemakers.
One file per C function is an old practice you can still see in many libc implementations and in other pieces of code designed to be used as a static library. Since a traditional Unix static library is nothing but an archive of .o files, and a traditional Unix linker makes its include-or-omit decisions on the granularity of an .o file, putting each function in a separate source file maximizes the linker's ability to strip unused functions out of a static library.
They are accountable to shareholders they are not accountable to farmers and are not bound by what farmers think is a fair compensation.
Awesome UI/UX: Resource List for UI/UX
Using Events to Leverage Legacy System Investments
> If this comes to pass in America, you're going to have a large chunk of the population COMPLETELY dependent on the government's teat.

You won't, without substantial productivity improvements, because economics; UBI at any level that would, in the short term, make people willing to accept it and not seek outside income will rapidly lead to inflation from the increased cost of labor from the mass workforce exodus, rendering it no longer adequate to such lavish support.

In the long-run, with massive improvements in productivity and automation, sure, its conceivable that a well-designed (I mean this in terms of sustainability and stability) UBI could eventually result in a large portion of the population relying on it for their main source of income, but that's essentially a post-singularity economy by that point.
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Yeah! What's wi...wait, what?
How can J&J cover that up? Do they control that research? Were they interfering somehow (hush money, that sort of thing)?

Talc is an ancient, traditional material. They never hid the fact that their powder is made of talc. (And that is the selling point. I wouldn't buy some starch-based substitute myself.)

Alcohol turns to acetaldehyde, which is carcinogenic. Thus, sue the fuck everyone who produces wine, whisky, beer, sauerkraut or fermented anything. They are all covering it up by not mentioning cancer on their label!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Food_grade : The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers talc (magnesium silicate) to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use as an anti-caking agent in table salt in concentrations smaller than 2%.
the center of society: human relationships.

edit: at least that's what i assume they're talking about.
Webhooks didn't used to work well for many builds off a single repo, but I think this changed very recently in TeamCity. Thanks for the reminder - I'll take another look this week at adding web hooks. We'd still want the poll in case of any hook failures.

At the moment, Gitlab knows nothing about our builds - and we'd want to keep it simple in that regard. If we can generically configure a hook to hit TeamCity to alert of any repo updates though, that's tractable...I need to see if that's possible now.
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The tone of your comment sounds like you think I said one should never look at performance. I do this professionally, I should hope folks out there need performance. Let me be clear: A developer should place performance priority in the Right Place, and a good dev will know where that is.

Would you mind linking a few of these studies? I'm curious as to what the point of diminishing returns is.

nngroup [0] says that 100ms feels instantaneous. A good digest cycle run (the basic unit of Angular performance) is 16ms, a mediocre one is 20ms. So a mediocre application has 5x space to grow before the app stops feeling instantaneous.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-response-times/
in a market, no one sets prices. at least if a market is free, people only take prices.
The invisible hand, that lifts all boats, right?
The more sun, the more water in the pool. Win-win!
Why would there be inflation? No new money is being printed to accommodate the extra income for the recipient, those funds are distributed by reallocating money already in circulation
Here. 64-bit addition on RV32I.

; input 1 (msb r1, lsb r2)
; input 2 (r3, r4)
; output (r5, r6)
xori r5, r4, -1
sltu r5, r5, r2
add r6, r4, r2
add r5, r5, r3
add r5, r5, r1

This is what I mean. Outside a few applications (mostly asymmetric crypto) nobody cares that it takes five instructions instead of two. Remember that this is the same processor that outright omits multiplication from the core spec.
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When did everybody decide that chatbots were the new hotness for deployments?
> I've heard of groups of people in the Southeast talk about how the mentality of the people in the Northeast is different

Being born in the capital and lived in the Northeast for 3 decades, I can attest that the mentality is indeed different.

For instance: the biggest A-holes usually come from the Southeast. See what I did there? I have many examples to back this up, but they prove nothing. Generalizations are harmful.

This is just a stupid judge overstepping his authority. If anything, that's judge mentality for you.

Instead of "hearing from groups of people", catch a plane and see for yourself. I bet some of your beliefs are going to change.

Caption for non Brazilians: there's this prejudice from people from the Southeast against people from the Northeast. Some of it is historical, as the Northeast suffered for centuries with severe drought (California's current situation is better than their best case, no mountains storing ice). So, people would migrate to the Southeast, in search of jobs. Usually poor, uneducated people.

Since then, the Northeast has developed and, while the drought is still a problem, most people are in cities now. Still, the stereotype persists, specially among the elitist in the South/Southeast.
Full story by one of the 2 finders on the oss-security@openwall mailing list: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/03/18
Given the condescending tone of this article, you'd think the author has some data to back himself up.
European countries that are quite to the left of the US also tend to have higher (both nominal and effective) income taxes and more sharply progressive income taxes than the US (especially when all taxes on income, including social security taxes, are considered); supporting a consumption tax in such a regime can still leave the aggregate more progressive than the US.

What liberals aren't likely to support is replacing the current federal tax system with a consumption tax. Making it much more progressive and including a consumption tax alongside, they might, but probably not (just because that might look like what exists in some more leftish European states, there are path dependencies.)
Widespread deflation would mean everyone on basic income just got wealthier in real terms.
> Do you think an average person can afford a steak but for very rare of occasions here or something? No. The average person buys "on deal" cheap food from "discount store" - quality on par with average dog food. Fruit (except for apples) is almost luxury.

It is the same for the poor here. I know, I grew up experiencing it.

Would you be happy with that life knowing that the opportunity for more was available and within your reach?

Not many would be content with such stagnation when they could (relatively) flourish.
If you can generate arbitrary content downstream, you can use this as a stage to a larger multi-stage attack.

And that assumes your unikernel environment has no subtle tricks to escape the jail.
No. Didn't even think of that option. The last time I wanted to automate via a service like that I found it to be quite difficult, because for example Mechanical Turk was blocked for european users. And there are pretty much always decisions to be made that are not easy to outsource. Still, the idea to consider it is good, thank you.
Out of curiosity, what did Brazil use before WhatsApp existed?

It seems strange to me that 1 app can capture such an overwhelming majority, because it's just a client, of which there have always been dozens if not hundreds.
HVDC lines work very well even if they are quite expensive.
> everything she does feels far from genuine.

> I just hate this type of opportunistic people

Your comment crosses into personal attack. That is not allowed here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it.
SpaceX looks to future with new pad, USAF contract, and boost for Falcon
"Lets not move forward until every conceivable issue is solved" - said every entrenched interest ever.
I'm Brazilian, my phone got bombarded with "<user> just joined Telegram" notifications today.
Why We Count the Days (And Why This Matters to Our Company)
This is how Craigslist posts work. You can create a password if you want but you by no means need one. You don't even have to "create an account."
That's a pretty ridiculous answer considering the volume of C code and rust being a new language.
I wonder if the same issue exist in GraphicsMagick.

Also, I am surprised how few people have switched from ImageMagick to graphocksMagic, given that the fork happened back in 2002 and that it offers significant improvements.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
Maybe he lost his job because it's just not a good comic. It's seriously just a written statement of fact needlessly wrapped in a drawing of two (identical?) people standing by a fence.
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I'm just so amazed at how much fucked up devastation the Spanish are responsible for.

It's impressive.
SMS. It was a big focus for a lot of telcos until recently.

WhatsApp usage seem to have gone hand in hand with increased availability of smartphones (Android, mostly).

I don't remember any other mobile messaging app that had widespread usage before that.
When I first read your idea I thought this is the dumbest thing ever. Then as I read your responses and saw that you had an absolutely well thought out answer for every objection I questioned my own sanity. I think your experiment is worth a go, and I think you would make a good founder. Inface the only problem I see is how YC will make any money from you other than investing in future dollars (which anyone else can do). Perhaps I need to read your thread again to see if that was answered. But my point is you sound like you could make a good founder and I don't think there is a magic formula but desire, drive, ambition and humility will be up there in my opinion.
Any redistribution is going to have some upward pressure on prices of goods demanded more by those receiving the redistribution than those who are, in net, paying it, and downward pressure on prices of goods demanded more by those paying the redistribution than by those who are receiving it.

For most goods, the ratio of the new to old price should be less than the ratio of the post-distribution to pre-distribution income of the group demanding the item, though this may not be the case for, e.g., goods where there are monopoly rents being extracted.
I hope the govt sees the reliance on this service and does something positive about it (for example, build their own or tie up with some company). Such massive dependence on a company with no contracts is going to end up in a mess later.
Not that I think it's an invalid argument, but almost all of our outages have been either a database issue or (far more often) CloudFlare's inability to reach us (the origin) across the internet. Deploying code rapidly very, very rarely causes an issue.

To us, the speed of deployment and overhead savings we get 24/7 is also absolutely worth those very rare issues.
this is something to be found out
Orkut

(SCNR)
what about cisco, oracle, juniper, fireeye, palo alto, etc.? There are more companies who don't than do, hopefully it changes in the near future though.
"but also faster, because the lack of accidents and assurance about other's likely actions on the road allow for mostly smooth operation."

Yes, yes. It would seem so. There was a counter-point here that showed eliminating traffic controls reduced crashes and congrestion because people paid more attention. Was done in quite a few cities. I'd agree some standardization on behavior and design definitely improves things, though, as you know what to expect while driving.

"how much less (less, because it would never be none) hardware, software, CPU time and memory would need to be devoted security (firewalls, IDS, malware/virus detection and cleanup) if we had sacrificed a small amount of performance to ensure a more secure operating environment most the time?"

BOOM! Same message I've been preaching. My counterpoint to Dan Geer gave a summary of examples with links to more specific details.

"We've had little to nothing like this for software engineering, which has led to great advancements in short times, but I think we are nearing the point (if we haven't already passed it) when our past decisions to prioritize efficiency and performance over safety are resulting in a poorer relative outcome than if we have made different choices in the past."

Total agreement again. It's time we change it. We did have results with Walker's Computer Security Initiative and are getting them through DO-178B. Clear standards with CompSci- and industry-proven practices plus financial incentives led to many products on the market. The Bell paper below describes the start, middle, and end of that process. Short version: NSA killed market by competing with it and forcing unnecessary re-certifications.

Anyway, I've worked on the problem a bit. One thing is a modern list of techniques that work and could be in a certification. Below, I have a list I produced during an argument about no real engineering or empirical methods in software. Most were in the Orange Book but each were proven in real-world scenarios. Some combo of them would be a nice baseline. Far as evaluation itself, I wrote up an essay on that based on my private experience and problems with government certifications. I think I have solid proposals that industry would resist only because they work. :) The DO-178B/C success makes me think it could happen, though, because they already do it piece by piece with a whole ecosystem formed aroud re-usable components.

Of course, I'd be interested in your thoughts on the empiracle stuff and security evaluations for further improvement. For fun, you might try to apply my security framework or empirical methods to your own systems to see what you find. Only for the brave, though. ;)

Counter point to Dan Geer: Hardware architecture is the problem
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/dan_geer_on_h...

Bell Looking Back
http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...

Essay on how to re-design security evaluations to work
http://pastebin.com/9AwDLSTY

List of empirically-proven methods for robust, software engineering
http://pastebin.com/xZ6m4T8Z
It already is political suicide to mention cutting any entitlement. This is the fundamental flaw of democracy.