skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd have to construct a model where you guess the impact of the taxes vs. the impact of potential investment of the same money otherwise. I suspect this is harder than it looks because it isn't discussed much ( although it could be that people simply repeat their ideology rather than trying to make it empirical ).

Not all bridges and roads are equally valuable. And in some areas, the dominant method of financing new roads is through tolls. I once estimated the number of man-years per day lost to congestion on I75 in Dallas around 1985 . It was quite the figure.
NoSQL databases have as many schemas as there have been changes to the model. Everytime you make a change, and are keeping old data, you have another schema. Your code then has to be aware of every schema that has ever existed. Over time this becomes more and more painful and error-prone.

In a relational database, you have one schema and you have to convert/update your data to match that schema whenever it changes.

I've done one big project many years ago that used NoSQL storage of heterogeneous "document" types -- a perfectly reasonable use-case for the technology -- and I wouldn't do it again. Although at the time it seemed crazy to create different tables to hold this data it would have made that code so much simpler now.
Europe is very regional in many things, this is one of them. Southern Germany would be a very different (more friendly) experience than Northern Germany (in particular Berlin). [Waiting for fellow Germans to kick my butt for that ^^]

I've had similarly very nice experiences in France at the German border (south west that is).
SQL migrations may seem tedious, but the process of planning your data model and having rigid definitions for your data types saves you huge amounts of time in the long run.

Your reasoning seems too black and white, most the of the time, you can't know your data model ahead of time, that's why prototypes are so useful, so just using your language data structures or some less rigid datastore lets you get quicker to your data model.
I'm for eliminating tipping in favor of just paying the people as part of the service. That said, there's one angle these kind of articles never mention: the oft-repeated claim that black people don't tip as often, which would hurt drivers too. Almost every waiter or waitress I know down here says this. A good chunk are black men or women. Rather than never tip, they say they're less likely to tip and often for less money. The exceptions (and job security) keep them delivering good service where they can. They just don't expect anything to come out of it. Strange that I never see that angle on public sites covering discrimination but hear it from black waiters all the time.

I'd like to see a survey of various areas with careful questions on the subject to see how true it is, in what areas, and what combinations of race/gender for both waiter and table. Also, if it's more or less likely with groups vs single seats. Anyone know a study or hear similar things from your waiters locally? Or is it better in your area?
Airline Safety : Ten ways to tell you might be sitting next to an economist
What's wrong with seniors getting hit with a slightly larger tax bill? Besides, you could alwaysexclude the primary residence from the wealth tax to lessen the burden.

It would either generate additional revenue or have them move to an area with cheaper houses/properties to avoid paying it, which would make space for young professionals who otherwise would not be able to afford it.

I'm also venturing to speculate that a lot of seniors are NIMBYs, facilitating the lack of affordable development and re-zoning, in which case that's another argument to get them the hell out of their expensive suburbia.
HN,
Jira,
Gmail,
Drudge Report,
Reddit,
Gizmodo,
Youtube,
GitHub's explore section
So, one should spend a few minutes before bed meditating on the important events of the day?
I prefer <angle brackets>, but these brake in some places.

RFCs have some useful info.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 Appendix C

Appendix C. Delimiting a URI in Context

URIs are often transmitted through formats that do not provide a
clear context for their interpretation. For example, there are many
occasions when a URI is included in plain text; examples include text
sent in email, USENET news, and on printed paper. In such cases, it
is important to be able to delimit the URI from the rest of the text,
and in particular from punctuation marks that might be mistaken for
part of the URI.

In practice, URIs are delimited in a variety of ways, but usually
within double-quotes "http://example.com/", angle brackets
<http://example.com/>, or just by using whitespace:

http://example.com/

These wrappers do not form part of the URI.

In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, line-breaks, tabs, etc.) may
have to be added to break a long URI across lines. The whitespace
should be ignored when the URI is extracted.

No whitespace should be introduced after a hyphen ("-") character.
Because some typesetters and printers may (erroneously) introduce a
hyphen at the end of line when breaking it, the interpreter of a URI
containing a line break immediately after a hyphen should ignore all
whitespace around the line break and should be aware that the hyphen
may or may not actually be part of the URI.

Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as
a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace.

The prefix "URL:" (with or without a trailing space) was formerly
recommended as a way to help distinguish a URI from other bracketed
designators, though it is not commonly used in practice and is no
longer recommended.

For robustness, software that accepts user-typed URI should attempt
to recognize and strip both delimiters and embedded whitespace.

For example, the text

Yes, Jim, I found it under "http://www.w3.org/Addressing/",
but you can probably pick it up from <ftp://foo.example.
com/rfc/>. Note the warning in <http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/
ietf/uri/historical.html#WARNING>.

contains the URI references

http://www.w3.org/Addressing/
ftp://foo.example.com/rfc/
http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/historical.html#WARNING
Wow, lots of goodies. Erlang team has been unstoppable in the last few years.

Some changes:

* New state machine module: gen_statem (ssh module uses it as a first example).

* 3-5x times faster open_port(spawn, ...)

* Must faster and better tracing (also lttng support)

* Keeping messages off heap for processes

* mnesia-ext : pluggable storage for Mnesia. This removes the 2GB per shard limit.

* Allow limiting process's max heap usage

* Observer tool allows configuration update frequency and length of graph windows

* crypto uses EVP calls so should be accelerated by hardware were supported

* Parallel/faster module code loading
Yes, because central government always allocates money more efficiently and with less wastage.
> We have social network customers who are much smaller than FB, yet have gotten their fake account rates far below FB's.

The incentive to make fake accounts on Facebook is orders of magnitude greater than almost any other social network.

> One effective strategy we've employed not mentioned here is category mapping: if an account of type A, only targets accounts of type B for likes (especially if they ignore categories C, D, etc.), this is usually a high indicator of fraud. For example, one very common strategy is to create a fake account for an attractive female to friend many male accounts (especially relatively new accounts unaware of these tactic). This can be easily detected by analyzing the gender and account age of all targets and coming up with a diversity score. Low diversity score = likely fraudster.

Facebook has methods that radically exceed this method in both complexity, precision, and recall.
Are you sure? I've been using Uber since April 2011, and they launched in July 2010, and I remember when I signed up having heard about how you don't have to tip. There certainly wasn't that option when I joined.
They also give themselves away when they stop for minorities.
They do use Kontakt reactive armor but what's the APS?
You seem to be getting down voted, but honestly I agree with you. If there was an option to limit the amount of tabs I can have open, I totally would use it and limit it all to 10, maybe even just 5. Thing is, this isn't so much a conscious choice – it just happens!

I read something, there's an interesting link. I open a tab in the background and continue reading. Maybe I go back to the tab, find a couple more interesting links and open those in the background. Of course, there's also the link that's so obviously just bait, but I'm a weak man so I click it, then feel bad, like I just had a whole big bag of candy on my own or something. Anyway, rinse and repeat and hey presto – 150 tabs are open in no time.

I fundamentally agree with you, but I'm like a chain smoker, except my vice is the humble HTML anchor...
But the "base" tip is still kind of mandatory even if the waiter just does the very very bare minimum. Why should I have to give a tip at all just for someone bringing a dish to my table? That's what you are paid for, it's not like I can opt out of your service anyway so why not just include it in the price. And if your service is very good then I might give a tip.
the incumbents have no advantage in these fields relative to a newcomer.

Except their distribution network, reputation/brand value, and marketing reach. And their IP in the non-powertrain components. And their manufacturing knowledge which makes the cars more reliable.

And they can fund the move to electric (or whatever) using existing profits. Whereas any newcomer has to raise money and spend time doing all of these things.

While this is probably the best time for someone to attempt to do those things.. the incumbents definitely aren't starting from scratch.. they still have advantages.
Is there something specifically interesting in the 9.6 release that makes it more noteworthy than other releases? I enjoy reading PostgreSQL release announcements, as I myself haven't used it but have plans to do some testing with is when some time free up, but I'm a bit confused as to why a beta release announcement is getting so much attention.
Because it's harder to track the people you want to track when they know you're doing it.
In my experience, if you have the relational database model fully defined and correct then the rest of the application is pretty much designed. All the screens and elements you need are obvious.
The higher the tax rate, the more worthwhile it is to expend effort to avoid them.
> Which is contrary to common sense, IMO

Its not contrary to common sense - ramps are needed at crosswalks so people can cross the street. A ramp in the middle of the street, with no crosswalk around, is not needed.
The idea is that you are there to be served, not babied. So yes, you are expected to flag them down. It is a signal that says you are willing to temporarily suspend your unassailable privacy. It is up to you to decide when to order and when you are done with your meal (if it's not too busy).

If you want to read a book quietly at your table, nobody will make you leave. If you want to chat with your friends after the meal because you like sitting down where you are, nobody will bug you to buy a dessert (and conveniently up the gratuity).

I can see how Americans may perceive it as rude, but to me it's an affirmation of personal space, both to the waiter that does not feel compelled to ask how things are going (always when I have a mouth full of food), and to the customer that can enjoy dining in peace.
> The "driving" component of getting from point A to point B in a safe manner, without making incompetent U-turns, etc is the baseline. The tipping isn't for that.

That's how it should work, yes, but once tips become an option, tipping culture takes over in awful ways. Consider that the expectation in US restaurants is a 10-15% tip at minimum, for baseline competent service, and anything less suggests that your food came with extra saliva. That's not a healthy process.
That's a good point. I honestly haven't thought enough about the virtues of rating vs tipping. One potential issue that comes to mind is that people might be more frivolous with a rating than with real money.

I guess you could do an experiment at a restaurant. Give half the tables standard receipts with tip lines, and the other half a receipt that lets you choose a rating.
This reminds me of AppEngine's ndb tasklets.
It's probably intentional. From skimming the paper[1] they basically sequenced the organism and failed to find traditional mitochondrial DNA protein-coding sequences. They found a separate mechanism, but this alone doesn't prove the non-existance of a mitochondria, just that the typical machinery isn't there. As they say,

"In principle, we cannot exclude the possibility that a mitochondrion exists in Monocercomonoides sp. whose protein composition has been altered entirely. However, such a hypothetical organelle could not be recognized as a mitochondrion homolog by any available means. Without any positive evidence for the latter scenario, we suggest that the complete absence of mitochondrial markers and pathways points to the bona fide absence of the organelle."

Science probably could've gotten away with "First eukaryotes found without normal mitochondria" but that may be fudging a little too much.

1: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2816...
an issue comes up though when someone is a net consumer in their country, but exports their taxability to some other country. its No big deal for CountryX to have tax rate of 1% on assets it has no liabilities against. Meanwhile CountryY (of origin) is spending lots.
Registered Apple developer here.

I visit the following sites to keep myself up-to-date on Apple ecosystem:

http://www.macrumors.com (Covers news relevant to developers, entrepreneurs and consumers alike. The only blog one needs to follow to get updates on happenings in the Apple ecosystem)

http://daringfireball.net (John Gruber personal blog. For the quality of its editorial and views on happenings in Apple and Tech world. He is also the created of Markdown)

http://www.loopinsight.com (Jim Dalrymple's views on happenings in Apple ecosystem, the widely renowned Apple insider)

P.S.: Not for a regular visit, but Macrumors also maintains a very insightful buyer's guide at http://buyersguide.macrumors.com
>That's interesting, because I get maybe 1 fake Facebook friend request per year?

Maybe he does too
It's a bit sad how many misconceptions about .. just about everything. I wish people would like to unfold origins, history with precision. Not sure if they don't care, prefer to be fed a nice story, or just don't have the time.
I wish there was an easy way to get consistent sound quality in 2016. It clips constantly.
Thanks for that, I'll take a look.
all tax is economic friction. But, no one has figured out better ways to fix certain problems with markets, like the free rider problem, monopolies, transaction side effects.
thank you very much for your advice!
The trust issue comes down to the voter understanding their vote intent contributes to the tally.

When the voter expresses this on a physical ballot, that chain of trust is intact. They know the record of their vote is accurate.

Audits of this, taking the vote to court, etc... is all possible. Machine assists work well from there, and do not generally present a problem.

Oregon and other states do this with vote by mail. It works, and electronic means help with registration, and the state does auto registration too. Changes, ballot tracking, validation, party registration are all super easy and robust.

When we move that vote to a machine captured intent, the voter lacks that chain of trust. They cannot know their vote contributed to the tally, unless votes are personally identifiable somehow.

Bringing records into court, etc... are all problematic as well.

That chain of trust is foundational to the overall validity of the process.

We don't really need e voting. What we do need is improved focus on transparent, efficient, trustworthy processes.
Unfortunately, this always runs into the problem of the elites influencing politics and policy, so all the loopholes will never be closed and there never will be 100% effective enforcement (as the Panama papers shed some light on).

I bet there were people in the 1850s saying the exact same thing.
Yes, it scales like this -> "That's a handicappped-access point, I should park somewhere else." See? Easy.
Not a fruit basket, but I've been wined and dined by recruiters during the frothy 2011-2012 years. I did not take the job but the dinner was nice.
That's an interesting perspective on the fact that gun rights and lower taxes for the wealthy are currently part of the same political movement.
Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights [pdf]
Prepared statements are actually worse than escaping in Postgres because prepared statements can sometimes use the wrong query plan. Refer to the documentation:

> In some situations, the query plan produced for a prepared statement will be inferior to the query plan that would have been chosen if the statement had been submitted and executed normally. This is because when the statement is planned and the planner attempts to determine the optimal query plan, the actual values of any parameters specified in the statement are unavailable. PostgreSQL collects statistics on the distribution of data in the table, and can use constant values in a statement to make guesses about the likely result of executing the statement. Since this data is unavailable when planning prepared statements with parameters, the chosen plan might be suboptimal.

Sometimes this can be more than "suboptimal" but actually an entirely different index and orders of magnitude worse performance.
yes..bad. Very, very bad.

I expect Google lawsuits to also be hitting them very soon. (Liable maybe? It leads one to believe google is working with them, giving a bad representation to Google.)

On another note: This kind of "passive" plate reading has got to stop. It's a huge snowball waiting to happen. Next they put it on highways...traffic lights...at which point any governmental agency will know where you went..., when you went..., anytime..., ALL without a warrant....

How do we stop this encroachment on our liberties??

Note: Only speaking about the U.S.A., where this activity IS highly illegal and violates our constitutional rights.
Another option could be to charge a reasonable tax rate and make it as easy as possible to pay. This would reduce incentives to find ways to avoid tax, as those alternatives have costs as well. Wealthy people are the most mobile in society.

I think it's good that countries compete on things like tax rates and good governance. No person or company should be beholden to any one government.
An easy one is just acknowledging that you heard the person. Mix and match: oh, ok, huh!, (rephrase what the person just said), I had/hadn't thought of that, cool, interesting, that's an option.
Jon Stewart on Donald Trump
Solar Powered De-Salination Is Being Explored by Several Countries
Could you possibly quickly explain what a freeze map is?
Awesome stuff. http://erlang.org/download/OTP-19.0-rc1.README has the complete list.

It's so beautiful to read such CHANGELOGs. The developers clearly love their product and have put in the effort to clearly explain each change, background and it's purpose.
Youtube/Twitch for vidya needs

Yahoo Sports / Esports for keeping up with my teams

reddit/insta/twittter for the rest
a lot of the loops holes are for the "jobs" they are going to create.
I tried that, but it ended up just being a dump of oh so many bookmarks and I'd spend more time searching, finding all sorts of interesting stuff in my dumps of bookmarks, open those up, and then all of a sudden I'm back to having loads and loads of tabs open.

Seriously, I'm like a tab addict. I need help.
Don't think phone; think "car". Every computer-driven car will also be an ANPR/face-recognition vehicle that records and collects data about every single human and vehicle that it passes during the day, and sends that data back to its owner (which isn't you, it's Apple/Google/Tesla/Uber/Ford/whoever).

Companies with a self-driving car fleet will have fantastic amounts of information, considerably exceeding the U.S. spy agencies and law enforcement, about the movements of U.S. persons.
Except that it doesn't explain how somebody who makes $60k could be taxed at 30%. That's just not how taxes work. It doesn't work even if he's only talking about marginal tax rates, and that would also mean he's switching from total tax rate for himself to marginal tax rate for his secretary.

So unless his secretary is sending in extra voluntary donations, it's hard to to imagine how both of these things can be true.
Don't forget "Gait DNA"[0] for tracking your movement through a crowd, even when your face can't be seen.

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspon...
Along those same lines, you can - in principle - have a relational database that doesn't use SQL (although there aren't many in practice), and plenty of "NoSQL" databases use SQL (or a VERY SQL-like language). You can layer SQL on top of a lot of different data models, although the mapping will be cleaner in some cases than others.
Let sterile robots do the spelunking!
Exactly! Also, tipping (actually the lack of tipping) allows the customer to provide monetary feedback on the quality of the service.

I can choose to tip nothing as a "fuck you" for bad service.

In fact, I actually once deducted 18% from a bill I got at a restaurant where the service was so poor, we had to carry our own drinks and food from the kitchen to where we were sitting.

I left a note and explained that I was tipping myself for that experience and left 18% less than the bill was.

That actually worked and the service we have had from them since has been stellar!
Lyft will eventually have to speak to the reality that how much money you make per ride as a Lyft driver can be predicted by skin tone and sex.
> Just think about the amount of resources the US spends on the "war on terror" or the "war on drugs" compared to the "war on tax evasion."

Not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic but many consider the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs" complete failures and a poor allocation of resources.
We can and need and should do the basic work needed to operate our democracy in an inclusive, trustworthy way.

Cost is not a factor in this. It never is, unless hostile interests are successful in making it an issue. They have done so, and untrustworthy election processes dominate US elections too.

E voting does nothing to resolve what is a human corruption problem.
Facebook generates money from ad views, even if they're fake accounts. There's very little incentive for Facebook to mass remove fake accounts.