skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we won't call it a wash because it's only people like those in this thread, who gravitate towards contrarian arguments every single time something about Uber comes up, who are saying such egregious and hyperbolic false criticisms of taxis.

Dozens of your connections did not say that 80% of the time the card reader is broken, or that they have never traveled in a single clean taxi ever in their lives. These are patently ridiculous ideas being passed off as if they are in some way accurate portrayals of taxi services when they are just cartoonish fictions meant to inflame and cast Uber in an unrealistically positive light.

As I've said repeatedly, none of what I am saying is in any way a criticism of Uber, nor is it a suggestion that anyone should not use Uber if they want to.

All I am saying is that taxi rides are overwhelmingly normal and most everyone already knows this and accepts it and happily uses taxis plenty of the time, even if they also use Uber too.

The people here are trying to make it seem like I'm saying that taxis are made out of gold and you get a free Swedish massage while you ride. Hardly! I'm claiming that most credit card readers are functional and most taxis are fairly modern and clean -- these are not controversial, and to disagree with them is solely a symptom of unrealistic bias, and in this thread anyway seemingly also irrational hatred, towards the taxi business.
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"It is absolutely normal they contribute back to society."

OP never said that companies shouldn't contribute back to society, only that it not be done in the form of an income tax.
One is potentially destructive, the other is potentially annoying. I know for certain which one I would choose as the default action.
Connecting something like this to github and other large public repos would be fun.

Similarly for pseudocode rather than only ins/outs.

Maybe code analysis for similar implementations to (or optimizations of) what you're in the middle of developing.

Have long wondered about this, but never got around to dinking with it at all. Cool to see things along these lines.
Except the market doesn't let society prioritize. In CA, a big part of the water issue was what goes to humans vs farmers. That's not something that the market should be solving, that's for policy, because things like almonds being a status symbol in China cause major issues locally and distort the picture of supply & demand.
A sewage plant smells. What does a radio tower do?
This is especially frustrating when importing Java libraries. Even more so when your project uses Scala's `Future`, but the Java library uses something like RxJava and suddenly you're writing a huge wrapper library and realize you might be better off writing a Scala lib from scratch.
"If you really want you can tax companies' revenue (not profits)."

How would that work if a company isn't profitable? Sounds like taxing profit makes more sense, although I agree that it does give ambiguity. But then, it also allows the government to incentivize certain kinds of spending over others by allowing it to be counted (or not) towards the tax bill.
Most EU countries spend at most a few percent on defense, yet they have high taxes!
The "let's move where schools are good" is just a self sustaining effect of some sprawling cities. In most countries "inner city kids" or "inner city schools" means the best schools with the richest kids.

If the inner city is attractive then schools will be too.

Not sure if you referred to nature as a net positive or negative? I have a forest an beach nearby (with the commute to suit my very reasonable price point). I think most wildlife is a positive.
Eh, I'd say this is sane and understandable compared to typical "Gnome things".
That is true, but there are similarities. The American lenders went beyond simple 'reckless lending' by disguising the subprime loans as healthy assets. This is similar to what the Irish bankers did when they created fictitious assets to give the false impression that the banks were not financially in trouble.
Your algorithm had a bit of a typo--you want to subtract (resp. add) to calculate the odd and even parts of a function.

If you don't have a nearly symmetric span of x values, you may need to do extrapolation to obtain one, which may be difficult.

I brought up Fourier analysis not as a means to replace the decomposition described in the blog, but to connect it. I think it's neat that Fourier transformations can be viewed as a parity decomposition.
Are there any recent, up-to-date and comprehensive tutorials that show how to use React with Rails while following the conventions of both frameworks? Every tutorial I've seen focuses on either one, but I haven't found one that focuses on both.
Normally for e-mails, if you're sending out any large volume, I always use a cloud service that has already solved all the problems of sending e-mail without getting blacklisted, and in this case it's simply using something like the fantastic Servant library to send HTTP requests.
Unless the parent commenter was the one who did that lobbying, the argument stands.
> By pooling four incomes (two six figure tech salaries and two low five figure academia/architecture) we can afford places with enough living space to be comfortable.

I'm surprised people with six-figure salaries are sharing. Is that common?
That's an unfortunate viewpoint. The point of higher level languages is to provide abstractions. To say PHP is just the right combo of not too high level enough but not too low level is some kind of mental gymnastics to justify its existence. The same argument could be made for using C over PHP.

Also, consider that some languages' ecosystems have preferences for smaller vs larger standard libraries. Clearly most of the dependencies you listed are not actually required; they're made to be stripped out if you're not using them. It's disingenious to state that those are the minumum needed for a toy app.
Yes, as someone who doesn't use Ubuntu and complains loudly about it my biggest annoyance is I really want to use it, I just don't want to fight something as basic as alt-tab every time I use my computer.

Same goes for Mac: So much polish, so much attention to detail, so much goodwill, - all ruined by a few IMO weird choices.
IIRC Ctrl shift e is export as, and ctrl e exports with no questions.
Bending isn't required, and the transparency of the jacket doesn't matter if it's thin enough. The term to Google is "evanescent wave coupling."
PHP has a lot less "magic" in it, so using it will force you to learn a lot of concepts and conventions that Rails takes care of for you (which can have its negatives).
There isn't a single 60Tb/sec datastream though so it is quite feasible (and I'd be shocked if people aren't doing it, especially after the post-Snowden rush to MACsec).

Undersea cables are DWDM systems where you have N x 10G,40G,100G waves. 100G MACsec is available in merchant silicon and out of the box on switches from Cisco & Arista (off the top of my head, I'm sure there are others).

You wouldn't even encrypt the undersea cables specifically, you'd encrypt your transport links before they leave your datacenter, that way you don't need to trust your carrier, the cable consortium, or anyone else (aside from your switch vendor...)
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People think of these issues too much in terms of black and white.

You should think of it as a negotiation. Many transactions, even on a smaller scale, are complex, and deciding on the "true value" is often impossible. So the tax authorities are negotiating with Facebook, and Facebook's report is simply its opening offer. You wouldn't consider a salesmen who overpriced his product to be doing something necessarily unethical (assuming they weren't outright committing fraud or otherwise doing something illegal).

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer or accountant, and I'm totally generalizing here from other transactions I know more about. I actually know almost nothing specific about the US tax system or this situation with Facebook, I'm trying to convey the general attitude that most companies have.
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I mentioned civil war because the people will see that the government who is supposed to be there for them is powerless. Combine that with the economic conditions (job shortages, which will even rise with automation), loss of middle class and higher taxes for pensions/welfare (add the uncontrolled immigration to the mix). The history has shown where all this ends.
On this thread about 'reducing flash usage in Firefox' [1] a few days ago, I articulated a point that I've been witnessing for a while: Mozilla products have three distinct audiences, and their wants and needs are often contradictory.

These audiences are, in increasing order of vocalness:

[a] the impressionable; the next-wave of web user who has recently gotten online

[b] the alternative-seeker; the average web user who is uneasy with Google

[c] the idealist; the open web, open-source advocate

There is, of course, some amount of overlap between the audiences. But Chrome (despite Chromium), Edge, and Safari are largely missing audience [c] entirely; some of audience [b] will try to avoid any Chromium-derived product.

These and other interactions create conflicting pressures between people who want Firefox have close feature-parity with Chrome, and people who want Firefox to stick closer to the mission of providing an open, elegant, minimalist browser open to user customization.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129691
Indeed, the only absurd thing about the law is when people try to flirt with it by treating it mathematically.
Same in India, there are signs and rules against such usage.

But like many such things in India, very few actually care: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/you-may-be-f....
Very cool! I hacked the exact same thing a while ago. Also with soundcloud integration (and some filters and stuff). I'll take a peek at the code when i get to my computer in the next days. Maybe there is something where i could contribute.
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You're using the word "theft" in a way that's unlike what almost anyone else means. And you're trying to convey a complex philosophical point in two sentences by doing it.
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Mozilla did take money from Pocket, just not up front.

"Although the company emphasizes that Pocket and Telefonica didn’t pay for placement in the Firefox browser, Mozilla Corp. chief legal and business officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer told WIRED that Mozilla has revenue sharing arrangements with both companies."

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/mozilla-is-flailing-when-the-we...
Linux. Ah I see what happened. There is no such thing an Apple logo Unicode character. Whatever sits in the Private Use Area is only defined within the context of a specific font. You are using a font that has Apple's logo in it on that position. You may want to avoid using it in normal text.

This page explains it neatly:

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/OSX/unicode_apple_logo.html
It depends on the design of your building. Good quality apartment buildings, like the steel and concrete one I currently live in, are approximately soundproof. I never hear my neighbors (side, above, and below) and they don't hear me. Same with space -- how much do you think you need such that you can't rent or buy a place with that much?

It seems like you are improperly projecting your limited experience to the general case. Neither sound nor space are inherently a problem with apartments.
"Where are you having troubles with the interview process?"

It's random. I pass resume screens, and I fail them. I'm just going to talk about phone screens for now. On-sites are an entirely different story, where a lot of them have been tech trivia or just entirely behavorial.

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PHONE SCREENS
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Random unknown, non-tech company -- easily pass.

Jet -- I passed. Easily. Because of my connections. I failed the 2nd phone screen when they saw I lacked professional experience.

Walmart Technology -- failed within 10 minutes. I was referred to it by an HN user, who said they were looking for entry people with no tech requirements. The recruiter randomly called me. She saw I had no experience with Java frameworks (I use mainly C# for projects). She couldn't read the between the lines, so I was rejected.

Wayfair Labs -- failed within 10 minutes. No explanation given. The recruiter didn't even allow me to ask any questions.

Quick Loans -- passed phone screen, but the tech team wasn't interested in me.

I rarely get tech phone screens. I did get one last week, but I have no idea how it went. It involved general questions about how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, frameworks and my projects worked.

"Where are you located? Where do you want to work?"

Like I said, I'm located right by NYC. I want to work anywhere with some sort of public transportation (even if I can only rely on a bicycle), because I have permanent blindness in my left eye (no 3D vision, and get nauseous in cars).
https://gist.github.com/scneptune/7498000
It quite disgusting that some people think Islam is above criticism, satire, and derision. People who over mockery are not worthy of respect and ought to be mocked and shunned. We have the moral authority to mock Mohammed, Jesus, and any other figure people have killed for. No one should be willing to kill over satire.
Suspect it's just that the devices are a generic component, the application for projecting digits is just one possible application of a projection indicator. The physical constraints of the design require a rectangular projection array. 12 projectors, a 3x4 array, fits in a reasonable aspect ratio area. A 3x3 array would not suffice for this application, a 4x4 array would be overkill, and a 5x2 array, while optimal, would not fit well in the space available.
That's prime argument for taxing revenue actually.
Imagine you have two companies doing the same thing. They have the same product, use the same amount of resources, infrastructure, pollute at the same rate etc.

The only difference is that one operates under famous trademark from country X which it licenses for 100M/year and brings 0$ profits while the other one developed its own trademark which it owns therefore making 100M/year in profit.

What kind of justification (moral, utilitarian, economic) do you see for charging 2nd company 100M * tax rate more than the first company?
Pedantic: C++ code should generally have a .cpp extension.
When living in Boston/Cambridge between 2008 and 2015, every apartment I lived in had serious noise issues, and it wasn't just being able to hear too much from neighboring apartments ... it was also hearing people blast music out of their open windows from other buildings or in shared parking areas.

Reporting these noise violations never did anything. The police showed up, asked people to stop, they stopped for 30
minutes then just started up again.

After months and months of this at two totally different apartments, I finally just stopped reporting the egregious noise violations, because what's the use? Probably some disruptively loud neighbor started thinking what you thought -- that if no one is actively complaining then it must be OK, when really it was just worse: the mechanism of complaining doesn't actually help solve the problem so it's of no use.

It's especially bad in older buildings that have been converted into apartments -- which represents a lot of the inventory in Cambridge and Somerville.

Edit: Forgot to add -- city construction noise is also a huge problem, and most cities have specific laws about how much noise construction crews can make and at what times. Inside the permitted limits (even if the limits are actually unreasonable from a human health and well-being point of view) you have no recourse of any kind.

For instance, I usually go on very long runs on Friday nights -- it's one of my weekly exercise and meditation habits. So I tend to sleep in on Saturdays to let my body recover. Being woken up by jackhammers at 9 am on every Saturday for an entire summer was a very miserable experience for me.
The rule of law is important -- which criminal law specifically applies to ratings agencies giving incorrect ratings to CMOs?
Very pure water is corrosive.

I built a CVD lab that had aluminum deposition chambers plumbed into a DI water cooling system. The water was fed from a purifier that provided 18MΩ-cm water.

The water corroded the aluminum chamber cooling passages, leaving aluminum hydroxide behind. This conversion of metallic aluminum to a gelatinous, clogging hydroxide was what alerted us to the problem. Feed pressure (regulated) was fine, but flow rates fell and chambers heated up.

We had to wire brush all cooling channels, a total pain. We ran on tap water for a couple of weeks while we researched the issue, and had very little corrosion but had other issues (mineral deposits).

Finally, we reverted to 18MΩ water and added ~10% volume of ethylene glycol (antifreeze, basically). Once we "degraded" the water purity with glycol, our corrosion problems stopped. It was very counterintuitive.

Here's an industry source that has a little bit to say about the corrosive properties of pure water:

http://www.lytron.com/Tools-and-Technical-Reference/Applicat....

Given the industrial importance of the problem, I'm sure there are in-depth chemistry explanations. Haven't pursued them.
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It is deterministic. If there is no priority difference between units, the first to be loaded will be the first to be executed.
You should wait for the ask HN: who's hiring coming at the first of the month.
One advantage the far east has over Europe and north America (south America has no such problems either) is that they don't vacillate when it comes to their culture and whether its morality is weak. For them, you either buy in, or you're out. There is little in the form oh, but what about those whose morals conflict with ours. No, adapt. That's not to say it's not problematic in other ways --like Russia, there is the shadow of the strongman or strongwoman in their psyche and the state has greater control over the individual and there is more paternalism but also there is less social division and had wringing over whether their culture is good or bad. They just are. There is less of good vs bad.
The extensions page has "My Account" as a title, seems wrong.
> if encrypted information is actually published at all

Given the arguments surrounding searches of "private papers", I'd analogize 'publishing' an encrypted SSN to be somewhat like putting a document in the public square... in a safe.
You can write your UI in QML and only use c++ to wrap your c code in qobjects that you can access from QML.

This requires you to write a class that derives from QObject but that's almost it.

Your UI logic in QML is written in JavaScript but you don't usually need much and it's pretty straightforward to pick up as you go.
It's possible to find the approximate location of a break by looking at its influence on reflections. A double break, as you're suggesting, would eventually be noticed.

(If that wasn't possible, then repairing cable breaks would be insanely expensive.)
It would definitely need a lot of careful though to get the balance right. As it stands, the UK's maximum capital gains tax rate is 28% vs. 45% for the top rate of income tax.

This leads to the situation, not at all uncommon or illegal, where a lot of highly paid professionals are the directors of their own limited companies, take no salary, and get all of their remuneration in the form of dividends taxed a maximum rate of 28%.

For reference, anything over £31,786 per year is taxed at 40% -- before that it's 20% (national insurance is extra). It's usually the case that freelancers or contractors are able to invoice via their own limited companies, whereas employees are not normally able to do it this way and have to go the income tax route.

Doing this is entirely legal, and many people argue that it's perfectly 'fair', but it definitely doesn't look fair to those unable to take advantage of that setup who earn, say, £60,000.

Some figures, very rough and rounded to whole pounds:

Earning £60,000 and paying
income tax:
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£10,800 - 0% = £10,800 Tax free allowance
£31,700 - 20% = £25,360 'Basic Rate' tax
£17,500 - 40% = £10,500 'Higher Rate' tax
===========================
£60,000 gross = £37,210 net
(before national insurance
contributions are taken)

Earning £60,000 and paying
capital gains tax:
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£11,000 - 0% = £11,000 Tax free allowance
£49,000 - 28% = £35,280 Highest CGT rate
===========================
£60,000 gross = £46,280 net
(before national insurance
contributions are taken)

So under that setup, someone who can't use the limited company method is nearly £10,000 a year worse off before national insurance contributions are taken into account. Even assuming some costs for accounting, that still leaves the second person significantly better off.

(Edited to remove duplicated calculations at top of comment.)
"Did you teach yourself most of what you know before going to college?"

No. It was during college. I transferred from community college, then graduated in 1.5 years. Outside of classes, I spent time on improving.

"Go to a company hosted meetup event, mingle with the employees and if your interested let them know."

This has worked twice for me already. The hardest part is usually everyone has 10+ years of experience, so it's tough to connect myself to them.

"Look for events that require participation from those attending and help others when they are stuck."

Good idea.
The main thing I am looking for is privacy. I find that if I have access to private property big enough to take a short walk in nature, maybe a 10-20 minute walk, then my physical and cognitive health improves by huge amounts.

When I lived in urban Boston, and I would go for long runs on the street and through parks, or I would use a rental car to go out to the Middlesex Fells for geocaching, it was like a poor bastardization of what I needed. There were always people around. I could not get into a meditative mood and access any of the cognitively rejuvenating effects that the activities were for.

It saddens me very much that human culture is moving to agglomerative cities, because I believe I am personally extremely maladapted to be able to handle that, so I constantly feel like I'm being squeezed and stressed, even just by my ambient environment, even on a pleasant sunny day when I just take a walk to relax.

It's a very maddening way to live, but I have not found any solution that would let me live with a better compromise that allows me to have private access to nature on my own property and still successfully interface with the industries I work in.
Love this tutorial. Michael is one of the best teachers I've encountered. It's such a great tutorial that I hesitate to ask, but I'm not the biggest fan of the Cloud9 IDE stuff that was added in the later versions, though. Anyone else?
It's the same instinct that leads to things like the sovereign citizen movement that thinks they can avoid going to prison for tax evasion by referring to themselves as JOHN SMITH, INC. in court documents.

It also has something in common with the well known xkcd comic with the punchline "why does your field need a whole journal".

It is possible to for clever legal arguments to do fairly amazing things. When Richard Covey invented the Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT) he all but repealed the estate tax for large estates. But it takes a hell of a lot of knowledge, hard work, and luck to come up with something like that. It's not the type of thing that's at all likely to happen when you haven't even bothered to study the area of law and learn the terms of art or read the case law and instead just google up some statutes and apply "common sense".