skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of practice is common in government work. Hire a dozen teams to make a thing by some deadline, and award the best result with a contract.

It seems wasteful, but as we can see here, clearly the Nest work style couldn't compete with Google, and so no need to waste further R&D. But until you didn't the contest, how could you know?
Just because they did Ads Search, GMail and Android right, doesn't mean they know how run or integrate a company into their ecosystem. It take a different culture / management / skills to do that.

In fact one can argue there is an inverse correlation there. The more efficient they are at developing new products with moonshot ideas, the less efficient they'd be at managing integrating a newly acquired company.
$ sudo yum install -y ca && /usr/bin/whoami

youworkforacertificateauthority
There is no division. Unless you include flat earthers dividing opinion on the earth is round.

It natural. Probably a concretion.
I did this on my current project. Basically:

- Set up your TypeScript config

- Set up Typings (or some other type def manager)

- Rename all ".js" files to ".ts"

- Replace all "var x = require()" calls to "import x = require()"

- Gradually refactor components (controllers, directives, services) to classes, or at least add type annotations to everything.

Because TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, you can work on an untyped system and add gradual typing until the codebase starts looking nicer. Any new functionality can be implemented in TypeScript; any existing functionality can be slowly refactored when it is touched by changes.
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Antenna towers.
The article quotes the cheapest smartphones in stores as being ~1000 rupees. That's about ~15 USD at the retail level.

How does one go about sourcing that sort of low end phone? If I could order 100 of almost any smartphone at that price I would be very excited.
If this kind of reporting were done on a topic HN is generally critical of, you can bet there would be lots of disparaging comments as to the quality of the journalism.

The fact that the sentiment amongst those on HN is generally, to look at Snowden's disclosures as a positive thing ( I agree ) should not be used as an excuse to adopt a position that is impervious to criticism.

While the culture for raising concerns in government organizations (especially ones dealing with security) may be bad, and the protections afforded to whistle-blowers lacking - to report on these without calling into doubt the claims that Snowden actually did make is dishonest. The litmus test for this is as with scientific publishing which has commercial/political purpose; what would they have published if evidence showed the opposite? Without a doubt it would be numerous media headlines with Snowden's formal complaints suppressed in government conspiracy or something along those lines. Even worse they wrote a title which actually suggests the later, even when the current evidence would point to Snowden's claims lacking foundation.

> I understand your point, but I think you're misreading the situation a bit.

I don't know if this argument is an example of planned deception or spontaneous, but I can give you the general logical form of the type of argument that is being made.

1) A is a True. Evidence will show that...

2) Evidence does not support A.

3) B is True. Why are we talking about A!? B is the crucial issue at hand!
We have interest rates at record lows and a risk of deflation. There is way too much asset holding and too little consumption.

Taxing assets more (and taxing production less) will result in few people holding onto assets that could be more productively used by others people. We want to get our limited resources into the hands of the people that can make the most of the assets.
Semi related to this, is it possible to run multiple CPython interpreters in the same process, but with restrictions on shared memory? The idea being that each interpreter would still have its own GIL, each interpreter would have restrictions on shared memory (like sharing immutable structures only through message passing). Note, I'm not a big Python user so if this already exists, has been discussed, etc I am not aware.
UX people, of everybody, could stop messing with the scrolling behavior.

I'm usually not bothered by it. But an article about UX should not disrupt the main form of interaction readers will have with it. I couldn't scroll at all until I disable JavaScript.

And this time it's for not gain at all. There's no fancy slide deck, no overlays blocking the view, nothing.
Some JVM do exactly that. The optimisation is called biased locking and would likely work in python as well.
What tax advantage does this provide? I'm curious to learn more. Are we talking about tax avoidance, or tax evasion?
> I noticed the discussion on natural resources so I just wanted to point out the obvious

While what you said is certainly obvious, it had nothing to do with what I said.

> That's why it's pretty natural to have corporate taxes too.

It is absolutely idiotic to have corporate taxes. Corporations are nothing more than proxies for the shareholders. All profits are passed to the shareholders. Once they are, those shareholders then have to pay taxes on those profits.

You end up with double taxation.

In recognition of this, we create something called a capital gains tax, which is less than the normal tax rate ... and then tax corporations to compensate for that. Nice.

You end up with a situation where most of the taxes the corporations pay end up being passed to the consumer and the rich get a tax break. Is that what you support?

Get rid of capital gains, tax all income at the same level, and get rid of the corporate tax.
Remember that the federal tax deductibility isn't only on state income tax, but all state taxes. I live in TX, and many of us deduct our very high state property taxes. So yes, there's there's an implicit subsidy, but it's fairly complex how it works out, depending not only on state, but income levels within the state. Generally, TX works out better for the very wealthy, and not necessarily great for lower-to-mid-income homeowners, because the latter tend to have higher ratios of property value to income, where TX's incredibly high property taxes hit them harder. For example, if you make $50k and live in a $150k house, your overall state taxes are higher in TX than in CA. But if you make $50m, you probably don't live in a $150m house; if you lived in say, a $5m house while making $50m, your TX taxes would be much lower than your CA taxes.

In addition, many people take advantage of a nice loophole with TX property taxes, in that you get to choose when to pay them. TX allows tax year 2016 property taxes to be paid in any month between January 2016 and January 2017, inclusive. So what many people do is pay their property tax every other year, two years at a time. For example, you pay no property taxes in calendar year 2016, and pay both your 2016 and 2017 taxes in January 2017 (the last month in which to pay the 2016 taxes, and the first month in which to pay the 2017 taxes). Then on your federal taxes, take the standard deduction in 2016, and report two years' worth of state property tax deductions for tax year 2017. Works out as a pretty big win.
I think the fundamental problem with this type of approach is that the ugly, sausage making, competition ends up getting aired too much with the public which creates market confusion and drives potential customers to places with a better, simpler story.

My understand is that great product companies, like Apple, also have a kind of Darwinian development practice, but only ever reveal the "winner" once it's clear that it's the winner.

As an outsider, Apple looks like it has strategy and vision, while Google looks completely baffling, even releasing and pulling products from the market within weeks or releasing clearly incomplete, barely beta level products with no real vision and just expecting the public to sort it out.

I mean, how many chat apps is google up to now?
The only real lasting solution is the decentralization of power. If all it takes to buy the violence of the state is owning a handful of senators, that is a bargain few can resist. If it took thousands of individuals to be under your influence, it gets harder. Make it millions and even the richest oligarchs cannot command absolute loyalty with their measly fortunes.

Of course, they have to be accountable millions, which means you want to try to respect Dunbar's Number in relation to how many individuals any one representative actually represents.
It's disturbing that so many tech communities these days seem to be incapable of handling such things without some kind of public showdown that involves social media.

If the accusations are false, I wouldn't want to be at a conference where a bunch of people would pile onto someone (for whatever reason) to ruin the person's reputation. If accusations are true, I wouldn't want to be at a conference where someone can be that abusive towards others -- for years -- with impunity. Either way, sounds like a bad place to be at.
I also agree, both Nick and Meredith are incredibly stand-up decent people. But this is the danger of accepting "a story" based solely on your impression of a person. Jake's been around a long time, and people respect his work, so they either didn't believe or didn't care about the stories about him. Now Nick has a story, and because we know and like Nick, we choose to believe that. In the end, we're all just taking sides.

Here's the other problem with this whole scenario: there are accusations of everything from "he made fun of me" to "he harassed and intimidated me" to straight up rape. Now it just looks like people just don't like him, removing credibility from the most serious accusations. And to be fair, i've known of him being a douchebag for over 10 years. But that also doesn't prove or disprove anything, it just makes things seem more plausible. So while I believe Nick's story, I don't know any of the other people with stories, so my opinion of them is still undecided.
1,000 times one million is a billion, is it not?

From the article:

Mossack Fonseca also had at least 2,400
United States-based clients over the past
decade, and set up at least 2,800 companies
on their behalf in the British Virgin Islands,
Panama, the Seychelles and other jurisdictions
that specialize in helping hide wealth.

Also:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/opinion/the-panama-papers-...

> With more than 14,000 clients around the
world and more than 214,000 offshore
entities involved, Mossack Fonseca, the
Panama-based law firm whose internal documents
were exposed, piously insists it violated
no laws or ethics.
If it they managed to make a constitutional amendment for basic income, I do think it would be virtually impossible to repeal, which is why I mentioned that would be an exception.
No it doesn't. San Fran has higher salaries across the board, to go with the higher cost of living. It doesn't mean other areas don't need devs.
I disagree. In fact, the topic of whether or not HN is biased towards YC / favors YC falls into the endlessly debated category.
I am not sure where your figures come, but as someone who looked seriously at eight houses in various neighborhoods of Chicago, you can find quite suitable houses in the $200-250k range.
> Web Forms abstracted away the core technologies of the Web with mixed results

Understatement of the century.
In the theoretical anarchist paradise, the person threatening the florist (I think is what you meant) breaks all the non-violence contracts with the rest of society by doing so, and if the florist (or witnesses) can prove the aggression in contract courts agreed upon in all participants contracts, then the aggressor is either fined to rejoin or outright removed from participating in the economy.

Of course, its theoretical, and only works so long as the economy of good actors and voluntary participants is sufficiently larger than the economy of violent aggressors to prevent them from rising to power. If the violent aggressors can accumulate enough capital and power, they influence the rest of the economy and can rapidly usurp it because they aren't working by the same ethics as everyone else.
I don't believe /r/the_donald is a good source for unbiased experiments.
This work is outdated. More recent work shows that deep nets actually do need to be deep.
You bring up great points, honestly.

It's hard for me to look past Nick's pattern of being awesome and past Jake's pattern of being a dick.
How did you conclude based on this article that you need to bribe everyone to do anything in India?
You can set up the structure, but you won't be able to defend it in court without bankrupting yourself when the IRS comes knocking. And that's exactly where the problem lies.
o.O i love angular 1. and probably would like 2 as well, havent started any new major projects lately though
Well, as a person who moved to a new state and worked remotely for three years, I can attest that email, texts, and voice chat are no substitute for in-person visits. Just getting out among people or the environment can help. If you stay indoors and just work all the time, you'll get even more depressed and go a bit nutty. I know this from personal experience.

I can't comment on video chat, could never get that working at the other site because their machines were locked down to the point of uselessness without special permission from ITS requiring 5 pints of blood and a signature from god. I'd be interested to see whether actual VR could fill a void.
Eh I don't know. When I was in Paris, going to concerts alone was fine but the days when my friends were there to chat and interact with me we're far more happy and full.
Your causality is backwards. San Francisco doesn't pay high salaries because the cost of living is high; if that model obtained, San Francisco would immediately turn into a ghost town. The cost of living is high in San Francisco because of the high salaries.
> I have much less experience in European cities, but my experience in Dublin, Amsterdam and Frankfort are not much different than this.

I only visited cities which don’t really have high-margin businesses, so that’s maybe why I never noticed that.
I barely disagree. In that that 'way' is not dying, it's just that other languages spread the fundamental layer away just enough so that what people have for free in lisp/st/forth/ml takes a whole new organ (IDE) to reinvent flatly, but it's constantly reinvented.

These systems are so coherent they solve themselves in and out, but if you mess a few things it's now compounded interests fueling your technological debt.
- Documentation. You don't need to have free-text comments saying "@param myArg must be a string", you can just look at the type signature, and immediately know how to use a function. Attempting to pass in a number will fail at the time of writing, not at runtime (of your test). This is a huge benefit when using third party libraries. For a JS lib, you need to read the documentation, and if something is undocumented you need access to the source code and the time to analyse it, to understand exactly how to use the lib. Compare this to making the type interface available.

- It's easier for a machine to read, which means the possibility for better tooling. e.g. linters and checkers, automatic refactoring.

- It's actually faster to write, due to the ease of making changes. If you move a function out to a new module, the compiler will immediately tell you all of the invocation sites that are now broken. (If you rely on tests, you have to make sure you have tests in every invoking module, rather than just the module you are actually changing. [Ignoring mocking issues...])
In highly competitive environments, humans tend to adopt a "single executive" type organizational structure. In short, there needs to be a single decision maker who can set strategy, make decisions, approve direction and so on at at least the rate of the competition. Committee systems work fine when things are more steady state and there's less existential threat.

Nations almost all adopt an executive system because nations compete. The U.N. doesn't because Earth doesn't have to compete with anything else. Imagine a competitive interplanetary situation and you can bet the Secretary General of the U.N. would quickly gain significant decision making powers.

Collectivist market philosophies tend to be built on the assumption that there will be no competition internally and thus can be run by various committees. However, even countries trying to follow various types of collectivist ideologies ended up with single executive-types at the top, again because countries compete.

On the small scale, many indigenous tribal systems rely on a council during times of peace, and elect an executive (sometimes called a "war chief") during times of war.

The phrase "business is war" is particularly appropriate since most businesses operate like they're at war.
Well, I agree the correct behaviour is to either swallow or throw, but I'd argue it is more like:

try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (final InterruptedException e) {
//never happens
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}

or

try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
} catch (final InterruptedException e) {
LOG.info("Woken up early", e);
}
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> Dr Sam Osmangich, a proponent of the theory that an "ancient civilisation that was once present here, dating back more than 1,500 years."

Wait, what? It's not like Bosnia is some unknown place - 1500 years ago would put you at the tail end of the Western Roman Empire, with the Byzantines still in full swing. There's a very well attested historical record of who was living there then. If there was some ancient Balkan civilization obsessed with creating massive iron balls, we'd know about it. Hell, it'd probably have been a tourist attraction.
Yeah, Durian pretty much saves my life.
I think importantly, not all approaches requires equal time to achieve. Some approaches might have been more viable in the market if the PMs had simply been given more time to achieve the product rather than just tossing out the first thing to cross the finish line.

It really explains the sloppy state lots of Google products ship in.
I have also heard that this is a reason why childcare is so expensive relative to a primary caregiver staying at home. I'm trying to remember the details - it was something like:

- When you purchase child care, you pay sales tax

- The childcare company pays payroll tax on salary paid to its employees.

- The childcare employees pay income tax on their salary

- The corporation also pays corporate tax

- Company owner pays income tax on any income they take, and/or capital gains tax

Every dollar you spend purchasing childcare from others is taxed multiple times before it reaches actual stakeholders who deliver the service. Since each of the actors involved seeks a certain after-tax benefit (e.g. company owner needs profit for the venture to be worthwhile; childcare worker needs sufficient salary), this means that all of the taxes must be part of the price for childcare that's charged to customers. Thus childcare is expensive relative to staying home and providing it yourself, in large part due to the multiple layers of taxation.

Someone who is familiar with the details better than I could estimate what percentage of each dollar spent on childcare goes to the government as tax - when I was reading about this, I think the number I saw was around 60-75%. When you think of it in these terms, feels extreme how much of the economic value of these transactions is taxed and captured by the government, and therefore driving up the costs for everyone.
Since it looks like the author posted this, we've added "Show HN" to the title. Normally that requires something people can try out, but when you're making something on an FPGA * that's hard to do, so a demo is fine, as long as it works.

* I originally said "making your own hardware" but that caused confusion. Sorry!
Finance has a pretty bad reputation these days though, saying finance is corrupt isn't exactly news worthy, which is why Hillary Clinton is copping so much flak for having a close relationship with Goldman Sachs. If it was Google instead I don't think it'd be as big an issue
Better yet have monitors/counters...
Well, if you define "comfortable tolerating his garbage" as "contributes to Urbit despite it being Yarvin's project", then tautological assertion is tautological.

There is certainly some self-selection for people who don't throw tech babies out with political bathwater. I count myself as one such person. I mean, I continued using Javascript and Firefox even after hearing about Brendan Eich's political contribution! Feel free to draw incorrect inferences regarding my opinion of gay marriage.

I have also toyed around with Urbit, and have (in a sense) made minor contributions. Feel free to draw incorrect inferences regarding my opinion of Yarvin's political writing.
Previous discussions at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ulam%20Spiral%20points%3E10&so....
That stuff kills me when it's marketed like that. It's not IoT! Having a tablet or a TV or Twitter in your computer isn't IoT, it's just a shitty tablet, and it still required human intervention. That's literally the Internet we have right now. IoT would be your fridge talking to the store and telling them you need more milk, and then you get a shipment of milk. But that's infinitely harder than taping a tablet to a fridge, so Samsung sells us a tablet taped to a fridge and it's called IoT.

Connected devices are not IoT. Marketing needs to learn that.
Those aren't exceptions, those are bugs.

Exceptions happen all the time because of operational errors.
Could that be because humans are more complex from a biochemical standpoint than mice?
Unfortunately, I think you've missed the point. My goal was not to complain about anything, it was to raise attention to the fact that security doesn't mean privacy. As a tech site for all types of people, it seems to be the ideal forum for targeting those interested in privacy who fall victim of assumptions and misinformation regarding security.

My guess is that you don't fall into the target audience, as you already have this knowledge.
There are things like clearances and drug tests that a lot of people in tech find prohibitive to working for a defense contractor.
Could you give links about moving types to npm? Are there any issues in a tracker or a blog?
/r/the_donald was the source of the discovery, but you can go verify the accusations yourself.
Integer division doesn't round down, it rounds towards zero.
It's great seeing more interest of this on here, hope it leads to more interest in other Ethereum projects in the future.
They can still hire devs. They just need to pay more. Total comp is not adjusted for cost of living for doctors, salesmen, traders, bankers, attorneys, and managers. Why do you expect it to be adjusted for software developers? This is less than intuitive for me.
Actually, it's better. If the core of your application has non trivial business logic, it's a good idea to write it in typed way and write ui and other support stuff with partially typed code.
Concentrate the crimes to a few places, then prosecute those places.
True, though with airplane mode they might be skirting the law as it now touches the whole interfering with FAA requirements are. Also it would seem it would be easy to verify for anyone who opens the case what the radio does.
Please, your statement is so ambiguous that it makes almost no sense.

1. Which mouse? An inbred laboratory possibly immunodeficient strain, a genetically engineered mouse to GET cancer at a high rate, or maybe a wild type free-range mouse?

2. Which cancer? Do you realize that it is almost impossible to get realistic models of prostate cancer or that mice simply live to short to get colorectal cancer - even when the relevant mutations are introduced?