skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the rich (defined here as anyone with enough wealth that, if they don't spend it down, they will face estate taxes) they either have to realize the gains (and be taxed) and spend down or leave an estate which will be subject to estate taxes, giving them a maximum time window on taxation equal to their lifespan.

It would be if not for the "estate tax holiday" we have periodically which together with a bunch of other ways of avoiding the estate tax is why it only constitutes a negligible amount (0.6%) of federal revenue.

The fundamental problem with the estate tax is that it's a huge tax that happens with semi-unpredictable timing, which induces rich families to do estate tax planning to avoid having liquidity problems when it happens. But "estate tax planning" means paying fifty million dollars to tax lawyers and lobbyists to avoid paying a billion dollars in estate taxes.

In practice what it means is that rich families will do much more to avoid and lobby against the estate tax than they would against a tax that collected the same amount of money from them but more predictably over a longer period of time. Which makes it a losing proposition if your goal is to get the rich to pay taxes.

> Because it also changes the cost structures on which debt is occurred, this only is meaningful as a one-time effect on debts that exist at the time of the transition to a predominantly-consumption-tax system, not as durable feature.

It applies equally to the interest paid on the existing debt. And given that the total interest generally exceeds the principal (and exceeds it moreso for poorer people paying higher interest rates), the "one time effect" would be with us for a generation or more.
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Pretty awesome stuff. Do you think aiohttp's http parsing would benefit much on a hypothetical pypy3 interpreter?
The touted "native" is not what it is all cracked up to be. Maybe windows is a plus that brings a few souls into the fold, but I've been looking for OSX performance ratings and only found some comments here and there that are like my experience.

At my El Capitano, the exact same setup in Docker Beta takes roughly ten times to do its thing than my more flexible vbox setup did. A java stack (Jenkins) starts in about 1.5 minutes, but with Docker Beta it takes 15 minutes or about!

So, my docker-machine setup lets me see my hosts with vbox, manage them with docker-machine, and get the NFS tweaked with docker-machine-nfs. boot2docker OS is nice and small and works.

So for me this is quite a contrast with the 'native' Alpine images based Beta. Which in my 5-hour stint with it did not show much way to overview or inspect it without getting new/more gear.
Assertiveness isn't some superpower that only extroverts have. You can't expect things to happen for you, you need to stand up for yourself and explain why you're worth more to your company than they are paying you.
> Also, as much as I like Rust, they still need to sort out some usability issues like non-lexical ownership.

I'd rather take the inconvenience of declaring the occasional use-once temporary variable, which takes at most 10 seconds of my time, than the inconvenience of tracking object lifetime bugs, which can take days or weeks to fix. Correctness is non-negotiable.
So... when the first third of the questions in the 'general questions' section is asking about what the applicant has done, how, and why, it's "lousy layman psychology", but when you ask for the same thing, it's "the only way to do it"?
hah, those have been turning up cheap on craigslist lately
I hate this "branding of security issues" trend, I don't think it adds anything at all to the security process; but there you are.
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Why are Flywheels not more common as an energy storage? Based on the Wikipedia article they seem pretty amazing if magnetic bearings are used.
Ist just remembered only "xvzf" 20 years ago, not knowing the meaning of each switch back then.
"Startups pay up to $2,300 for a high-end Butterfly-brand table."

Oh shit we've been doing it wrong. When PacketZoom moved to it's current office space (with a bit of spare room), we plonked down ~$130 for something like this bad boy..
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productI... and put it on top of an ikea table we inherited from the previous occupants. Perfectly good playing surface with decent bounce and no obvious defects after a year of use:
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Free food is also a recruitment tool. All things being equal, I'll go with the free food place. It's at least $2500 a year to buy lunch.
That ping pong table chart is largely useless
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It also seems kind of like voodoo; scores change up and down over time with zero change in behavior.
There are several differences, eg pledge is not inherited by exec, while seccomp is. Also seccomp is vastly more complex and it is not really possible to filter by eg filename, so you need additional tools.
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That's only one of the functions a truly open source smart plug can do. I don't want to advertise, but these are the functions we have been working on:

The <redacted> has many functions that can help you around the house. Device recognition is an important enabler for this. Think about:

1) Identification of an electric kettle: fire can be prevented if somehow the kettle stays on (this happens with a lot of them if you forget to close the lid).

2) Identification of the television: if someone unplugs the television at night or when you’re not at home, you might want to know.

3) Identification of phone chargers: remind someone to recharge their phone (especially useful if you use your phone as a wake-up alarm).

4) Identification of a modem: automatically reset modem when anomalous behavior is detected.

5) Identification of the fridge: when you leave the house, everything will be turned off except for the fridge!

6) Identification of devices such as vacuums: if you want to know the power consumption of a vacuum, this should be monitored over multiple power outlets.

7) Identification of lamps: not all lights can be dimmed, your power outlet can automatically detect this for you. The <redacted> can dim both LED lights and normal lights.

8) Identification of electric furnaces and heaters: a furnace or heater uses a lot of energy and shouldn't be on when you're not home.

9) Identification of no device at all: child-lock protect your power outlets; sockets don’t need to be on when you're not nearby.

This proximity/presence detection of this device is through BLE.

I think only open-source smart plugs have the future. Let's hope I won't be wrong. :-)
The job was one for my father to use some CAD tools, and he switched to 1920x1080 (for other reasons) - and kept switching between Window 7, 9, 10. I thought it would please him better, but he just complained :), and then for my son - I just couldn't find same laptop with lesser resolution (after having exp with my father).

First was from Fry's, and the deal there (few years ago) was to get a laptop with dedicated GPU (8GB) + 12GB RAM, current one is only with 4GB but enough for gaming, but comes with 16GB RAM.

I myself am using an old ACER Chromebook (the one with PageUp/PageDown buttons), and crouton on it. It was the reason I started this conversation. I love chromebooks, croutonized or not, but I fail to see the reason for bigger resolution. I might come to my senses :)

The only monitor that works correctly with resolutions, is the OSX laptop my company gave me, out of choices for chromebook, linux, or maybe even windows (rare).
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My design is 5 years old. I changed a few small things, and while I'd love to make a redesign, I also know that users HATE such changes.

Also, a few new users even compliment me on the great design. I guess it isn't that bad ;)
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I don't want to sound negative, but this is why I don't use external APIs. You never know when they will suddenly shut down.
The term iptables is also commonly used to inclusively refer to the kernel-level components. x_tables is the name of the kernel module carrying the shared code portion used by all four modules that also provides the API used for extensions; subsequently, Xtables is more or less used to refer to the entire firewall (v4, v6, arp, and eb) architecture.
iptables requires elevated privileges to operate and must be executed by user root, otherwise it fails to function. On most Linux systems, iptables is installed as /usr/sbin/iptables and documented in its man pages, which can be opened using man iptables when installed. It may also be found in /sbin/iptables, but since iptables is more like a service rather than an "essential binary", the preferred location remains /usr/sbin.
iptables is a user-space application program that allows a system administrator to configure the tables provided by the Linux kernel firewall (implemented as different Netfilter modules) and the chains and rules it stores. Different kernel modules and programs are currently used for different protocols; iptables applies to IPv4, ip6tables to IPv6, arptables to ARP, and ebtables to Ethernet frames.
There are numerous third-party software applications for iptables that try to facilitate setting up rules. Front-ends in textual or graphical fashion allow users to click-generate simple rulesets; scripts usually refer to shell scripts (but other scripting languages are possible too) that call iptables or (the faster) iptables-restore with a set of predefined rules, or rules expanded from a template with the help of a simple configuration file. Linux distributions commonly employ the latter scheme of using templates. Such a template-based approach is practically a limited form of a rule generator, and such generators also exist in standalone fashion, for example, as PHP web pages.
I'm just saying I think people take his brash no-bullshit no-filter style and run with it too far...

His "no-filter style" frequently results in him saying things that are factually incorrect, based on mistaken beliefs, describing illegal policies, or in contradiction to things he's already stated.

His words describe his vision, and by extension, his vision lacks integrity and stability. A company with a CEO like that would not last long, and the CEO of a country could cause a lot of damage.
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Paging Buckminster Fuller.
> Imagine what C++ would look like if all compilers had to accept all different variations of it, and the result of compiling 100 almost valid C++ files should, as far as possible, be a program that runs in some sense.

C++ is still a lot more permissive than it could and should be.

> Most of the web pages I have ever written have probably been ill-formed because browsers don't tell me what's wrong, and instead show me a (nearly) working web page.

Same here. The idea that JavaScript ought to be permissive and forgiving because its target audience doesn't know what they're doing turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy on the part of its designers.
No, no, no, don't use ISAAC.
That's a good pool of questions to choose from. How long do you think would not take an applicant to fill all of the questions?

My questionnaire for the same purpose (hiring) has 30 similar questions, yet including some that query soft skills.

E.g.: "you got the following email from a customer, please write down your answer to her inquiry".

Or: "the CFO, the CEO and the CTO are approaching you with the following different requests, how do you react to them and in which order would you process them".
Well, at least Microsoft is doing their little bit by making C++ and .NET Native the way to go forward in the UWP world, with driver verification tools derived from theorem provers (Z3).

Apple by pushing Swift down developer throats that wish to target their platform (last year only Objective-C specific talks had Objective-C code on their slides).

Google, by making the Android NDK so anemic, that unless one really needs to use it for portable code or that extra performance step missing from ART, no one does it.

But I do concede that this will take a few decades to sort out, even if the IT world suddenly decided to go Ada/Spark/Rust today.
There is a TCP and a HTTP benchmark.
Are there any plans to support archiving Web 2.0 pages?

More and more people are starting to rely on "archive.is" as it handles Web 2.0 content without issue. But I'm concerned about the survivability of that survice, and whether it can handle big growth.
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I've heard the claim it's indespensible but that's not true from a chemical point of view. But possibly from an economic point of view.
the law sees the first as a small negligence, and the counterfeiter as soneone undermining State power.
It reminds me of https://twitter.com/php_ceo/status/492089140201406465
Ask HN: What are your monitoring data retention policies, and why?
I'm in the process of putting in place a monitoring solution which, to begin with, will collection information on:

* CPU, RAM, disk, and networking;
* The system's load (averages, # of procs, etc);
* User information (logged in, and so);
* HAProxy, MariaDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch;

I'm wondering what a good retention policy would be for a generic monitoring solution like this? And Why?

What policies does your business mandate and what is the reasoning behind them?
I am waiting for a compilation now. Here I am.
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Its much easier and less error prone to just replace the device node.
Well that depends. If you are operating under the same business model it's not scary at all. Say you need 3 calls to external apis to produce one api reply that you can sell. You just have to make sure that the total cost for the 3 calls is lower than what you earn when you sell a reply.

There could be another company that is in the business of risk management. It could sell unlimited or quotad amounts of api calls for a fixed price. There is no reason for these two to be the same company.
> Either it's a for profit private company (and it can do things like that), or it's an important communication medium for a democracy (and access should be open).

Blocking telegram is classic bone-headed stupidity. It's like an invitation for government lawyers to burrow under your skin and lay their eggs.

But inconsistency only shows that one of their positions is wrong, and it's that one.
In my current company, ping pong table is the strongest day-by-day teambuilding activity — something that different team members do together, not related to work, something that builds positive relationships between anyone. Most of interactions with some people in the company are intense and have potential for conflict (just because our respective roles), and ping pong offers us a chance to have a different kind of interaction.

In previous company, it was a pool table and game room with Rocket League. In one before that, foosball. Regardless of the game, having some game that is played regularly by coworkers together really helps to build positive relationships and create a team. Definitely worth investor's money.
They're terrible chairs. A mesh back is nice but you need a proper seat. The Aeron cuts off circulation to the legs. It's also about 5x overpriced. I just upgraded to a low end model from a no-name brand. [1] It's honestly a better chair.

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that is ok - but there is a representative library that works. Loosely decoupled but definitively working is beautiful... and this is why I use Flask in my startup.

what frequently happens is a web framework without a thought for any kind of DB interaction (or as you put it... a routing library). In things like an async web framework, that could leave users hanging. For example, psycopg vs psycopg2 vs psycogreen vs psycopg2-cffi . Tell me which one to use and benchmark it.

I agree, its a fine line. And we can keep going back and forth whether a framework should "recommend" or not recommend. But in case like this - I think there will NOT be a lot of libraries that will be compliant with the async usecase. I would hope that this framework will recommend... but not ship "batteries included".
You do have choice to go completely against your government. If some unpopular dictator enacts draft, there is going to be loads of guerrilla fighters around. Because now they have to fight anyhow, why not fight for themselves.
"Use" != "depend". What's your alternative in this case, run your own search behemoth?
Both don't exist on non-POSIX systems, like NT. ImageMagick supports those natively, however.
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Most companies I work for, many in Fortune 500 roster, don't ever do code reviews.

Every time such process was put into place, it quickly faded out after a few months.
I reckon it's common for Heroku apps to be deployed as one process per dyno.
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The JET fusion reactor in Oxfordshire uses flywheels to provide very large pulses of electricity for short periods of time (a minute or two iirc). The reactor requires too much energy to run directly off the National Grid.
The main premise in my comment is that the benchmarks do not resemble real world performance, and are therefore misleading.

The comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626762) further expands on why these kinds of benchmarks, although interesting, have no real value.

Each implementation does something wildly different and responds to different inputs with completely different outputs.

To put it metaphorically, if you put a car engine in two completely different chassis and then race them on a track, you aren't gaining any real insight into relative performance of the engine in the two vehicles.

Also, just to be clear, my qualms are with the benchmarks alone, I think the library is great! Thanks for all the hard work :)
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Different films. "The World Is Not Enough" had scenes filmed at Cruachan, "GoldenEye" was at Contra.
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Google docs voice typing, which I've tried, has similar success rate for me as Siri.
After using SQL for most of my career, I'm now working on a product using MongoDB. Removing the need for schema migrations has been such a boon for productivity. You essentially push the work of migrating to the app code, where it can be done incrementally, and with a far better programming language than SQL. It's been well worth the trade offs, on my opinion.
agreed, was just commenting that some of my tech friends have joked about measuring the number of aeron dumped on CL
Their definition of a tech company is obviously not representative. Maybe only when you are 'tech' company that handles online comments, you really need a ping pong table to justify your status.
What are the benefits of using procd? And are you going to fork that also?

What's the scope of this project - really very interested...
I always thought the main purpose of ping pong tables was to make it easy for HR to find the employees that should be let off first in case of cut backs.
That said, banning certain, non-harmful links in user-to-user communication or a whole class of non-disturbing communication comes off as extremely bad form to be.

For me it's one of the main reasons, why I refuse to use Facebook
Oh, no, you're thinking of unlimited vacation policies.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy - we're now at the 6th season of hearing "winter is coming", it's bound to happen any time now.
Sure they can.

If they don't mind to yell: WE ARE TOTAL AND UTTER HYPOCRITES! to the entire world.
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A few things strike me as odd/sub-optimal:

- migration id's freeform in chat -> why not central db with an auto-increment column?
- Use chat to prevent 'migration collisions' -> Same central db/msmq/whatever to report start/stop of migrations and lock based on that...
I came to the comments to see if I was the only one.
God, page scraping is horrible at the best of times but, as anyone who's ever viewed source on one of their pages must be thinking, scraping Google markup must be hell-on-earth.
It's also a tax break in the UK. An employee and the employer aren't taxed on the provision of food but would be taxed on a bonus, so you can offer what amounts to £x worth of free food per year rather than (or in addition to) a cash bonus.
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By that logic, you can test your tesla's bioweapon defense system by putting it inside a controlled environment where the system will be put to the test - just like the car is tested to its limits in a controlled environment - ie racing track. Doesn't change the fact that we are still taking less than 1% of the customers here.
> There's also the getrandom syscall[2] which uses the /dev/urandom pool.

Sadly they just had to include GRND_RANDOM then compound that with GRND_NONBLOCK.
Agreed:

1) Playtime is for after hours, with friends and family. Ping pong's a fun game but it's noisy and disruptive when you're trying to get work done.

2) Don't care about your free food, I have a strict diet and don't usually eat lunch. Ditto free booze which is frankly a dumb idea (see 1). Free non-alcholic drinks is fine.
Who are these people who play ping pong during work hours? I want to finish my work and go home. If I have a break, I want to go outside and get some sun and air because I hate being inside all day. I'm not looking for a frat.
Correlation or Coincidence? I get how they got to this conclusion, but I think latter.
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If you can't isolate other factors the stats treatment becomes meaningless. Since there is concentration of crime in prohibition era in major urban areas you can by the same token observe a very strong correlation between number of restrooms in the city and a homicide rate or any other meaningless factor related to population size.