skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's impossible to know each employee's tax situation, and better to withhold too little than too much. In most cases it works out, but early employees and executives can easily be affected.
I'm sure she did. Perhaps that's a mitigation, and perhaps it's not. Assuming you're right about the extent to which using blessed IT would have made it impossible for Clinton to discharge her diplomatic office, she might have resigned, rather than choose between being derelict in her duty and being derelict in the responsibility she accepted with her oath of office. A high-profile resignation like that, in a preeminent department like State, might have been a cause for real change. Or it might not; we'll never know. In any case, it would've been the principled thing for anyone in such a position to do.

Sticking around at the expense of her oath of office doesn't seem to have worked out all that poorly for her, since she's still apparently a serious contender for the presidency. Should she end up in it, one hopes she'll take that oath a little more seriously than she did the last one.
Not sure what the snark here is supposed to address, but in general we don't speak a "weird bastardisation of German, French, Latin, and who knows what else" when we speak English.

We speak the english language, for which dictionaries that cover almost all of its vocabulary (spare some neologisms) do exist.

That English has borrowed words from other/older languages (and incorporated them into its own syntactic scheme and vocabulary) does not mean those words are still German, Latin etc in the context of English.

They are just english words of German, Latin, etc etymology. And more often than not, even their spelling and meaning has changed from their originating language.
God dammit, jwz.

Haha JWZ has done that to me before [0], as well. I think his method is to see an HN Referer, and then pounce with his Tinder profile pic.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11031074
Prior to that you can find the same thoughts during Romantic era.
Yes. I wish that VirtualBox would enable CMPXCHG16B unconditionally.
I'm similar -- I'll probably be self employed at some point. I highly value my autonomy.

However, I suspect your poll would be biased towards those who prefer self-employment, as those who are certain it is not for them wouldn't bother trying it.
I don't reap any benefits. The level of education would have been far higher if the state did not impose an income tax and did not provide government education or social welfare payments.

Per capita wealth and GDP would be substantially higher, making for a more prosperous society.

Moreover, you can't justify imposing a debt on someone by the fact that you provided something to them without their asking for it. If I mow your lawn without you agreeing to pay me for it, I can't take you to court to demand you pay for the service on the basis that you benefited from having your lawn mowed.

Somehow you think all principles of justice and basic fairness go out the door if the holy government is the one behind the action.
Such as parenthood?
Why do people keep bringing up this point. Even blood tests are not perfect tools but we still make use of them. There are always some false positives and negatives. It is a combination of all the available results that a doctor will use to make a determination. If your BMI is high but you look muscular, have normal BP and cholesterol and no other concerns, they may feel that you are in good health.
Same day as comey clear's clinton guciffer dead of apparent suicide
In general conversation, "if X" often says a lot about "if not X". "If you're a white male on America, you have entrenched institutional benefits" actually does imply something about non-white/non-males. It implies that non-white/non-males do not have the same entrenched institutional benefits. General conversations do not follow the rules of prepositional logic.

When you repeatedly refer to being single, you imply that it's the better way to save, whether you intend that or not. And when someone asks about it, brushing off the question by pretending they should have applied rigorous logic to the statement is somewhat... let's say silly. Ability to control a spouse's spending and willingness to relocate are legitimate answers that you make weaker with the attempted logical refutation.

Having 500k in the bank also isn't really life changing if your plan is to spend it on a house. With a high income, you could theoretically save for 10ish years and buy a pretty nice home outright. You could also just take a loan out immediately and live in the same home for those ten years, acquiring equity and tax benefits along the way.

Saving to buy outright or mostly outright only makes sense if you are either extremely risk averse or you believe that non-real assets will appreciate much faster than real assets over the medium term. Right now you can get a super jumbo loan at less than 4%. If you want buy a million dollar home and have a million dollars in cash, it's really not a given that you should buy the house in cash. That implies that you believe the stock market will do worse than, say, 3% (reduced due to tax advantages of mortgages and disadvantages of capital gains) for many years.
You know, I didn't realize Myrtle Beach was so close to Wilmington, as someone who's never been. (I'm in Raleigh)
Who considered you obese? Also is it healthy to even have <5% body fat?
Well, it seems like once you learn the ins and outs of the framework, things will go more smoothly? I've avoided complex frameworks (or ones that have too much magic baked in) for this reason over the years.
The point of labster's comment is that if oil were required to reflect its total cost to society, consumption would fall greatly. Do you really disagree?
tesla's stock price has nothing to do with the company. it is a ponzi scheme. the company's stock price will continue to stay at a ridiculous level as long as the manipulations can continue.

they are likely to continue for far longer than people realize, because they have continued for so long despite ZERO PROFITS. the company DOESN'T NEED PROFIT to have a high stock price. this is what bubbles and ponzi's are made of. timing is everything. substance is nothing.
This Trash-Collecting Spacecraft Will Pit Giant Nets Against a Space Harpoon
One of the things that people ought to consider before trotting out that quote is that Athens fell. Socrates' culture is now long dead. The broad stroke of history may be upwards in many ways, but societies can and have fallen apart. Most of the other cultures you may trot similar quotes out from have also effectively fallen, even if they were not destroyed; Victorian England, for instance, does not rule the world anymore. Rome fell after a protracted period in which it was obvious it was becoming weaker. It doesn't take all that much imagination to look about and conclude that we're in the process of "becoming weaker" too.

I don't think this quote proves what people think it does.
Household private debt, to the extent that it is a problem, appears to be a diminishing factor: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP & https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N

It seems far more likely that yields are plunging because
1) Brexit is threatening to tank itself, the EU and their trading partners
2) US treasuries are unlikely to be affected by this ("flight to quality")
3) institutional investors are willing to lock in a 10 year rate now by buying treasuries because rates are unlikely to go higher until #1 is resolved, and might even go lower instead
Which you're not, seeing as how you're human and all.

It's certainly possible, and very much worth doing, but I wouldn't call it easy.
Same. I also hated "group work" that forced everyone to give input on every decision.

To this day I prefer "divide and conquer" style "collaboration" (if you can call it that), though I admit that brainstorming and debates are powerful if used judiciously (which leads me to believe that schools tended make group work out of work that shouldn't have been assigned to groups)
Ah, see, I get what you're thinking. But they're craftier than that. "Why" gets a response, so they'll use "why" all the time—even for questions that aren't really "why?". Or they'll ask why again for the same question, repeatedly. Or sometimes, they'll just ask "Why?" about nothing in particular.
I'm curious now to hear where you're from?
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Here's some good data: https://www.versame.com/science/
It isn't at all. Here is an overview of Keen's position:

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2012/07/22/the-crisis-in-...

And here is a video on what a modern debt jubilee would look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtSs9RIoLHQ
I like to visualize it as throwing random darts at graph-paper that has logarithmic marks on both axes.
From reading the manual I saw it was configurable to change the regexp it matches, not property's of the OP
You see the argument for this approach to cancer as being less valid because in addition to making it, I have chosen to act on it? Strange thought process.
> but untrue in the sense of what the study of history has meant and been over the centuries

Nobody is under any obligation to do things in the way it was done over the centuries. If you just want history as it was done in the past you can read old history books. Modern historians have a obligation with their own generation. Sometimes they will be more progressive than some people wish, some other times they may be more conservative than others want. Society, being multi-faceted, will frequently disagree, and that is fine.
Researchers find tattoos on 3,000-year-old remains of Egyptian woman
It might be protecting you from becoming so brain-fuzzed you can't respond appropriately to "legitimate" threats. Conserving spare capacity for when the predator shows up.
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> Being the smartest kid in your undergrad [...] motivates you to do better.

I've known a number of people to whom it did the opposite—they were always the smartest person in the room, so when they said something, people just assumed they were correct. And they began relying on it; nobody would call them on their bullshit, so they never felt the urge to think very hard about things. Whatever they came up with, they'd think "well, I'm the smartest person around, so I must be right", and that's as far as they'd get.

One guy got very argumentative about it; he'd say the stupidest things, and didn't know how to handle being wrong. Other people figured it out.
It's ironic.

I grew up on a ZX Spectrum [1] and then a Commodore 64 [2]. In those days, one of the first things you would do after hooking up a new [type of] computer was to open up its physical manual and type some of the programs in it.

In order to wow you with the technical capabilities of your shiny new toy, those first few programs almost immediately showed you how to do graphics, sound and music.

Those things quickly captivated me and other children who grew up on these things. It never took long before a curious kid would change one number to another, and instantly make different things HAPPEN.

Today the major operating systems don't even come with an IDE, let alone a graphics API that isn't convoluted or can be used without registering windows and creating contexts and whatnot first. The lack of a simple sound/music API (e.g. that will play tunes from a string of notes) is even more woeful.

It's ironic that in today's much superior (and more expensive) technology, there is such a static friction to overcome before you can Make Things Happen on a computer out-of-the-box.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
>If people do not like their government and the government does not provide peaceful ways for the people to get their way then the people can always take power by force.

Alas, that is not true. The government always has a military with weapons far more powerful than the public (and the public in a dictatorship is usually forbidden from owning guns). Furthermore, in a dictatorship there is usually a significant minority that is given money and other privileges to support it. So the government usually can simply crush any rebellion in a very bloody manner.
I went to K12 on Long Island, NY (Nassau County) (born 1978).
There's a section in The Originals (McKay) citing a study where children who were given reasons why something was right or wrong grew up to be more creative and assertive in standing by their principles.
Gossip is, by definition, unreliable secondhand (or greater) rumors. If he actually works there, it's firsthand and therefore not gossip.

Perhaps more people should have difficult conversations with their managers. Or perhaps his management supports, or at least actively doesn't care about, these sorts of posts? We have no idea.

Surely as an adult, he can decide that for himself, without being subject to sermonizy advice meant to take care of his own interests for him because he's deemed incapable of doing it himself.
There is also an app from the apple app store that has most of these mental models in book form: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/think-mental-models/id61236...
Content titled "according to science" is inappropriate click-bait, and should not get an audience. The phrase is vacuous (there is no agent called "Science," it would make as much sense as "according to Democracy"), misleading (if we replaced the term "Science" with "a majority of specialists in <relevant discipline>" the phrase changes from vacuous to almost certainly false), and disingenuous (knowing this, a journalist/user posted it anyway).
The Chrome team wrote their own UI ticket called Aura, they use that now. It is OK, but has had rendering artifact problems and has mildly broken multitouch support.
Ask HN: Do you primarily use Python 2 or 3?
I'm teaching a college course on Python in the Fall and wanted to present some data on the market penetration of Python 3 within the Python community.

Here are some things I've discovered:
- There are more monthly posts on Stack Overflow relating to Python 3 than Python 2 since April 2016.
- 57.94% of survey respondents in London use Python 2.7 for work, while 33.03% use Python 3.4.
- For personal use, 49.79% of survey respondents in London use Python 3.4, while only 44.42% use Python 2.7.

But I'd like to get firsthand data from a larger and more representative community.

So if you code in Python, do you primarily use Python 2 or 3?
Hernando De Soto addresses this issue in specific in his book "Mystery of Capital". Very good book to read about the issue of property rights and economic growth.
You are cherry-picking your graph durations. Private debt to GDP is still tremendously high by historical measures:

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2012/0...

Really, read (or at least watch) Keen. He's the only economist whose models make any sense of the Japanese experience and he's correctly predicted economic crises using only private debt to GDP ratios quite successfully.

The most interesting thing about his models are that they predict a moderation before the crisis, which is exactly what we've seen. It's revolutionary work.

But I do agree that the Brexit (and the upcoming earnings shoah) are the proximate causes of this rate dip. The private debt issue is the underlying problem keeping them so low in the first place.
You're right, it's absolutely appalling. How can that page not even mention GCTAs, or Rietveld 2013, or the Biobank results? It reads like it was written 15 years ago by rank nurturists. The heritability of IQ has been settled for years by genomics: it is mostly heritable and most of that is due to common additive SNPs.
Definitely not as feature-filled as the post, but +1 and thumb ups will change the view to show people have approved a merge request.

Works well for the team I'm on.
Tons of errors in the Thai section. I'm checking the gender vocab:

คน - Man - should be ผู้ชาย

มารดา/บิดา - Mother/Father - way too formal - should be แม่/พ่อ

Be very skeptical of language sites that have tons of languages from different families. You're better off on speciality sites/subreddits.
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According to the BMI scale, over 30 is obese and 25 to 30 is overweight.

I'm not sure of the health factors but if you're training for 2 - 2.5 hours a day and dieting it can be normalish.

Why the down votes?

Check the scales: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmic...
How would one actually use this stuff?
Most VC's get approached a lot, they use this as a filter. Most angels get less dealflow. Some famous ones (Ron Conway) have set up a team (SV Angels) to deal with it.
Related article from a week ago, with a lot of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11994286
I understood exactly what he said. But any college student knows fully well that there's nothing that is The Truth in a class, after all this is not a church. I believe that if the professor presented only the pro-Marx side of the story this is just fine, after all, this is America, everyone knows the other side of the story. For the professor to present the arguments anti-Marx in his class would in fact be just the opposite: capitalist indoctrination, where you would be lead to believe that Marx was really wrong and capitalism is the only "correct" system.
This is often impractical to the point of being impossible. Rather than doing this, perhaps designing a system where all PII is hashed through some sha method, and a a custom ID/salt for the user. If they ask you to delete you say sure, and remove that one relationship.

This will screw up searching and indexing data though.
Nothing ground breaking here - I imagine most readers here already use most of the author's models - but this is a nice comprehensive list, which I have not seen before.
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This is one of those lists that would be completely unhelpful if you don't already know how to use most of what's on the list.
I would call it respectful parenting. My sister has raised great kids because she and her husband always treated the kids with respect. They talked about things and explained the reasons why they wanted something from the kids. Otherwise they would let the kids do their own thing. Whereas my and my sister's parents never explained anything.

For example we had to be nice to adults and authority figures just because. If somebody had told me that it's in general good to be nice to other people because they will treat you nicely too I think my social development had been much better.

I don't think I ever had a satisfying conversation with my dad.
You could arrange for the same while self-employed. One account could pay out to a spending account on regular intervals.
If something isn't backed by data or logical conclusions based on data, it's not science. It's just someone making crap up.
I guess we had better immediately cease all legal action against Trump then.
Sorry, but it almost seems like some weird variation of Stockholm Syndrome that people get excited about this. It is a trivial feature that should have already been there, and was actually there over 5 years ago before they removed it. If you want to feature compare, Issues is still way behind what various other issue trackers had many years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12035522
These are all details that would have to be worked out, but the gist of it would be that you shouldn't be taxed on it until you're able to sell it. But I'll give it a shot:

> Can I sell on a secondary market?

Sure, and then you get taxed on the money you made, where your basis is $0.

> Can a bank let me guarantee a loan based on my current units?

That's tricky because it would be a way for people to work around the law. What if we made you pay tax if you took out a loan with the stock as collateral?

> Can non-liquid units be transferred to my next of kin tax free?

Seems like it would be reasonable to allow that. The value would still be $0, but when it became liquid, your next of kin would have to pay taxes on the value with a basis of $0, which would make it not a good workaround for estate tax since you would save money if you transferred it under the $5M lifetime limit.
God that sounds tremendously annoying. We should just stop having kids. Future generations will thank us!
My BMI is 26+ and I run ~8 miles/day. It can be pretty far off for larger built people...

I clearly remember asking my gym teacher in middle school why my BMI suggests I was fat even though I clearly wasn't. He then proceeded to tell the entire class "he's a good example of someone who's labeled as fat, but isn't." Somewhat embarrassing.
Do you believe companies can accomplish anything they envision, without employees? Or do you think employees are entirely fungible?

Does my last employer not have a large contract with Prudential, because of my work?
Thanks. A roofing contractor told me once that putting a white reflective coating on flat roofs instead of the usual black tar would reduce the A/C bill by about 15%.
I made a similar tool using sh (tags, namespaces, etc): https://github.com/nuex/note.
There are many heads in the government. Some are worried about control, these guys are the ones who first started using the GFW to its full potential. The protectionism comes later when they realized that blocking out foreign sites had the side effect of blocking out foreign competitors. Once that cat was let out of the bag, tons of Chinese internet startups popped up to take advantage of a uniquely protected market, and the government liked this outcome a lot...even if censorship disappeared tomorrow, they might still enjoy the protectionism, but the bottleneck right now is definitely censorship. Or to say, they might keep censorship around only as an excuse to block out foreign competitors without explicitly breaking WTO rules.

Internet companies that don't enable rebellious interactions between Chinese citizens are perfectly accepted...e.g. LinkedIn. Note also that Chinese social media tech, even very successful ones, have had absolutely no significant penetration outside of their protected market...not Myanmar, not Cambodia, none of China's next door neighbors, nor Taiwan or Hong Kong. There are stuck in their own ecosystem, with those that do get to compete with foreign companies, like Alibaba, doing much better outside of China.
These guys are building a pocket-size breath analizer
Like all things parenting, Louis C.K. has that one answered perfectly: "Why?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u2ZsoYWwJA
Your heart does not care if it's supporting fat or muscle it must pump blood for both. Further skin and colorectal cancer are both surface area and don't care about fat vs. mussel.

Metabolically muscle is worse as it needs more oxygen and fuel. Which is one of the reasons body builders can often die young from a heart attack.
Actually, a lot of times I think IC's have the fullest story. If you are a backend dev at a smallish company, you probably know how the stuff works. Also, warning people against "waking up to a bad day" is spoken as someone who really values their place as a cog in a machine. If your co-workers are not being frank with you, in my opinion that company is probably not a really healthy environment, and best to move to greener pastures. I think HN is about frank talk, and let the PR people send canned releases to ars.
The German pronunciation guide also suggests ü sounds like the 'u' in 'ultra', but in reality it is more similar to Hubert[1] in English. Also 'z' is pronounced as 'ts' (not the suggested 'sea'), and 'y' is not similar to 'tea' (the Y in 'Yacht' is like the y in 'yes').

[1] http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Hubert
Heh .. I guess the first week of grad school knocked out any illusion that I was the smartest anything. But touche.
It's defined in HTML 5.1, which is still Candidate Recommendation.