skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact the strongest theory I've seen argues for a dichotomy of plough vs hoe civilizations: men are better equipped to plough, women are better equipped to hoe.

Whether accurate or not, this emphasizes that there are very small and often unintended details in society that give power to one gender or another.
yes.. we are adding more apps to it soon.
thanks for checking it out
I've checked the website and I think it offers an ideal solution to gauge the cost of app development.
> Take more from the rich and give more to the poor.

What are you going to do when the rich dedicate their resources to avoiding that taking (which they already do for the current taxation policies)? I don't think you have a reasonable solution for that.

For real-world examples of that, look at FBAR and FATCA and related legislation. They were meant to help the IRS tax rich people, but they had some insane side effects.

For one, all US citizens and permanent residents have to file a tax return every year, even if they haven't lived in the US for years and don't owe anything to the IRS. This is a significant hassle for many people. Because of FATCA, anyone who qualifies as a "US resident for tax purposes" also has to report foreign assets and income over a certain value ($50000 if I'm not mistaken).

Another "fun" effect (of FBAR this time) is that foreign banks now have to report accounts of US citizens to the IRS, which has made many foreign banks refuse to deal with US citizens or permanent residents. I would not want to be an American expat if I had to deal with that.

Idealistic plans like "let's tax the rich and give all that money to the poor" have, in practice, significant negative consequences on people they never intended to harm (such as the middle class). How do you propose to eliminate or mitigate such unintended consequences?
They can use anything as Long as the code meets the requirements. But having one official tool makes it easy to work together (in our case).
You don't have to say no... Talk to whoever you report to, tell them the things you are working on and align your goals with theirs and prioritize what you should be working on.

When people ask you to do something, tell them where it will fall in your priority list and ask them if they would still like you to come back to them at that point.

I general this works for me, I have product managers come and ask me if I can work out a feature, I say, 'Yeah, I can do that, but i'll have to put off x in order to get to it... is this task more important than x?'

Also, in a similar but different note, at one point as a team lead, I did say no to a project which I felt didn't make sense for our company. It immediately went back up the ladder and turned into career growth for me. So there can be incentive for saying no also!
If Mark Zuckerberg and his wife is hit by a truck tomorrow. Is the US government taking over FB? Cause I don't see the kid getting $50 billion to pay the tax bill.
thanks noman.. are you working on any apps right now?
More to stop Oculus from dominating VR with its own platform and blocking out or disadvantaging Steam. Valve was very friendly with Oculus until the Facebook acquisition (or maybe shortly before).
I have one. Don't use it at all.

Anybody offer open source software? Cloud service?

The watches are probably not dangerous, just too much trouble for the low amount of revenue they bring in.
As mentioned earlier, you're going to have to completely ban (ie tax 100%) gift-giving too. Or any sale of property that government auditors haven't determined is completely equitable. A trustee would have to be appointed immediately upon diagnosis of terminal disease - someone might "give away the farm" so to speak.

I don't want to live in your world.
Implying that the only difference between rich and poor is spending habits.

Where in the real world we have confounding factors such as racism, sexism, cultural norms, differing costs of transit and habitation, limited opportunities and limits on resources.
Taxation is not thievery. You and I are living in a society which have been created by the collective work of our forefathers. You aren't responsible for 100% of the value you create since a lot of the value of the work you perform are supported by things others have created for you and which aren't reflected in your salary.

Taxation is just that taxation. If you want to be free of the "thievery" just don't participate in the economy created by the rest of society. Don't use computers which fundamental development have been largely funded by government. Don't use the internet which was largely funded by governments.

You can't have your cake and eat it.
Note that Clinton's published tax plan calls for increasing the rate to 45% and lowering the threshold to $3.5m. No matter who wins the election I'd expect this tax to at best remain static and more likely to increase over time.
...much less start a business on the other side.
Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
Is there a chrome plugin for that? activate JS with a key binding and automatically refresh the page.
Facebook shouldn't be deciding what people read which they seem to be trying to do and people don't find it odd.

If people click on clickbait, it genuinely means they are interested in it. The people who don't could just visit news site like Al Jazzera, NBC etc.

It like banning ads because people are clicking in irrelevant things. I'm going Facebook applies click bait algorithm to there Facebook ads ;)
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If I remember correctly, it was a lockout shortened season with multiple back to back to backs, Thibs had a habit of playing his players too many minutes, and Rose was gimpy going in.

The real reason our model really liked Philly because they were one of the top teams in eFG% on defense, defReb% and off TOV%. Basically, they were dominant in several of the 4 factors that aren't obvious to most casual observers.
I think the macro system looks really interesting. The main ideas seem to be that meta programming can be done anywhere and that everything is quoted by default in macros. What are thes kind of macros called, and where do they come from?
"A city cannot just give every resident more money”

So the answer then is some sort of "rebates", which are basically stamps under a different name (food stamps, "energy stamps", "transportation stamps").
Is preventing wealth transfer from parent to child not their goal? In that case one would expect that transferring house from parent to child not being allowed isn't an unwanted side effect but part of the intended one.
Financial numeracy is definitely an issue which should be focused on.
There was a story recently by the local NPR station where an organization which was teaching people new to the workforce about savings accounts, etc., found that many people used payday loans and were basically giving 30% - 40% or so of their paycheck to these high interest loan places because they just didn't know how to use a bank and set-up a savings account. These people just didn't have a better example to follow --their friends and mates had done the same so they just followed not knowing there are alternatives.
Not sure. There's a FF plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript/?sr... and if you disable JS by default it's a quick way to enable it per domain.
> UB is simply the latest stick to hit C with. In day-to-day working nobody worries about UB at all as you generally don't notice it.

I agree that in day-to-day working nobody worries about it, and I see odd behaviors all the time because of it. In particular as fewer applications are using C, a much higher fraction of C becomes systems and embedded where you are more likely to accidentally run afoul of choices that were made to compete with FORTRAN on numerical performance.

A read from NULL will crash on most unixen, but will not crash on some targets without an MPU and when running in kernel mode, so may be left lurking (see the linux kernel).

The C89 aliasing rules in particular are completely at odds with a lot of kernel and device driver code, and in addition where the int size was 2 bytes previously but is now 4 bytes you can have signed overflow where before the behavior was well defined:

UINT2 x; // 16 bit integer
...
x+=2; // addition mod 2**16 on 16 bit targets, undefined behavior on 32 bit targets.

These are some real-world bugs I've dealt with.

> (and yes, I do have plenty of experience in it, I've been using it for the past 20 years, have you?).

I've been using it professionally for only about 15 years, but I started using C at home in '92.

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> Same with lack of a GC; this is a plus point for C for most applications, not a negative.

This is a bit of a non-sequitur, as I didn't mention memory management at all. C doesn't need a GC. It could use more memory safety though. There's been plenty of academic research on improving C's memory safety without significant runtime overhead; a lot of those techniques were used in rust. There are plenty of tools that can catch a large fraction of memory errors at compile time, which is a good thing.
Yes, we would have to tax cumulative gifts aggressively as well. To deal with things like real estate gifts, we could force the recipient to pay taxes on the difference between the grand list price and the purchase price.

I don't particularly like living in a world where my hard work is confiscated at a high rate while someone who just has the good fortune of wealthy parents can receive millions tax free.
This anecdote is dumb and wrong, but is a handy way to call poor people trash when you're afraid to say so directly, I guess.
There's plenty of work in the regional centres (for example Bendigo) for people who have mid-level skills and salary expectations. These cities are hardly the sticks. The truth is people like living in the capital cities because of the amenities, but the amenities are what drives up the housing prices!

So, while I agree that the housing prices in Melbourne and Sydney are insane, currently, they would still be quite expensive even in an ideal situation, so wouldn't it make more sense to make regional centres better able to handle / more attractive to lower socio-economic groups / homeless people who can't afford to live in the capital cities?

Bendigo, for example, is two hours from Melbourne on the train (which costs less than $20). Seems to me like an ideal place to offer low-cost housing...
I'm giving my house to my nephew ... and it just happens that my brother is giving his house to my kid.

How many generations out do you plan to ban? Cause it might be a good time for me to start getting to know my extended cousins. ;)
Obviously, he can sell stock to pay the tax bill. Or the government could directly take ownership and sell the stock.

We have an existing estate tax. It's not a novel concept.
That's more a question of entanglement between the runtime and the language, than a question of GC performance. Most of our projects, at work, are in D, and we never wished for a "higher quality GC" (except at the very start, when we started to use D, and were lured into thinking that "now that we have a GC, we don't need to be cautious with our allocations anymore").

Bare-metal in C and C++ is relatively easy, because the compiler doesn't insert runtime-dependent code to implement language constructions.

Avoiding this in D is a lot more subtle, as you have to know which language features require the runtime.
For example, array copy (dest[0 .. 8] = src[0 .. 8]) will generate a call to the runtime. Almost every operation on associative arrays will also generate such calls.
Class declaration will also generate references to the runtime (for dynamic type information).

However, there are lots of non-runtime things already making D a better C, like array slices and CTFE.

Which means that D is a good systems language, you just have to use it as a better C, and restrict yourself to language features not requiring the runtime.
> We already know how to cut poverty, based on other countries like the Nordics where poverty is lower: Take more from the rich and give more to the poor.

1) Does this solution scale to countries that have no rich? Forbes billionaires list is heavily concentrated around a dozen or so countries, what rich targets are there to take from in large portions of African continent, for example?

2) Does this solution work long-term? How do you expect not to run out of rich after three or more iterations of the same?
it depends if one is set out to dominate; in this case the mode of discussion will probably be adversary.

maybe understanding the motives of your peer is one of the requirements for domination (you can't dominate someone who you don't understand at all), but understanding does not imply domination.

there is another problem: your peer will probably not be ready to share much of his background for fear of your motives; if you know that your words can be used against yourself, then you will not be ready to talk too much.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate that :)
And, in fact, I'm not at all upset about the original comment - I totally get where the skepticism comes from. Polish and substance are too often uncorrelated when it comes to science in the media. I think it's important not to assume they are anti-correlated though, because then we start discouraging scientists from trying to reach people beyond the academic community.
Obviously the article is not targeted to a technical audience. A quick summary:

- guifi.net (you can visit the website for more info) is a non-profit foundation to support the development of an open, user-owned network.

- Users, alone or by groups buy networking gear (nodes) that connects them to other nodes.

- The result is a mesh network between all those nodes. Guifi.net develops and mantains (free-software based) software to manage the network. They have a website that centralizes information, manages the private IP space, and provides firmwares for the supported gear.

- The network may be used for any purpose. If you want to build a VPN between two physical locations that both have guifi.net connevtivity you don't need to go to public internet. Aside from maintaining the networking gear, there are no fees either.

- Getting internet connectivity is possible. You "just" need someone giving you an "exit gateway. This can be a friend with guifi.net connectivity AND a traditional telefonica/comcast connection. You can also buy internet access directly from the carriers at the CatNIX peering center (the foundation has laid out fiber connecting to that exchange). I don't know the fees.

It is a cool project, but I can see how users can get unhappy if they pay for a node under the premise of "free connectivity" only to find themselves on a (quite large) private mesh network.
Because she can make $70k as a cleaning lady by living in a city where a lot of households make $500k+ and can afford to pay more than the average for cleaning services. I suspect cleaning ladies in Nebraska don't make $70k...
Norway has a giant sovereign wealth fund. Denmark, Finland and Sweden don't.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
Please don't post garden-variety political stories to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Its most direct influence is lambda calculus itself, yes I'd consider it a functional programming language.

It doesn't even support OOP unless you layer CLOS on top of it, and you won't get anywhere if you try imperative programming with it.
That's interesting. I'm going to look into this. Thanks!
It seems to me like it's the only one that matters because it's the one that an individual has the most control over. Other confounding factors are externalities that as an individual you cannot always control but guess what you can always do? Save, save, save and if you can, innovate and reap the fruits of your discipline and hard work.

Collectivism should be avoided.
You're proposing that a) Selling $50 billion worth of stock in a company, b) Government takes ownership of Facebook, or some combination thereof of the two actions.

Yes, it is novel to do that.
> and ask him what should be cut

Or her.
"Governing a large country
is like frying a small fish.
You spoil it with too much poking."

- http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...
ATT leases space since they built out more recently. Comcast I have no idea, it was probably built out long ago and they have some agreement. I did find an interesting case of a HOA that is doing their own fiber via Paxio in Milpitas. I will certainly contact them.
There are a lot of ways to look at contribution of natural resources. Per capita the military is disproportionately made up of recruits from poorer rural states. Alaska, Texas and Louisiana contribute oil and gas. The Midwest allowed tens of millions of immigrants to move to the US, assimilate, and raise large families which then fueled the economies of larger states like California. Most importantly the diversity of viewpoints represented by 50 states introduces some modicum of competition into the political sphere allowing the United States to remain a real life laboratory of democracy wherein citizens are able to observe different approaches and vote with their feet to promote good governance.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Collecting data to improve the software is a great virtue, but not providing a reliably way to turn it off is definitely not cool.
DevOps solutions for continuous agile delivery,Integration
"For Philadelphia, the biggest-ticket poverty-reduction item is expanding transportation access"

It looks like cities need to focus more on subsidized mass transportation. I live in Atlanta where the bottom line is ALWAYS scrutinized. Our mass transportation system, MARTA, must be profitable. When it's not profitable, a certain segment of society always criticizes it. They don't think of the impacts to society of providing cheap, reliable and convenient transportation.

The only impact they think when MARTA is up and running, or expanded, is that the 'unwanted' (of certain skin color) have the opportunity to come to their neighborhood to loot and plunder.

I had just read an article that my county is adding more toll lanes (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/work-begins-i-85-express-...). That is exactly the opposite of what this proposal is recommending. My county is charging money for express lanes to bypass traffic - essentially a privilege of the wealthy - rather than create a long term solution for everyone (and the construction is using tax payer money!)
The largest producer of mayo in the USA and UK, Hellman's, uses only free-range eggs
I seldom say no, I say "Yeh I can do that it might take so and so, I'm doing this at the moment, do you want me to put that on hold?" - if they're for the same person. If they're for different people then - "Yah I can do that, I'm doing this for fred at the moment, so have a talk to him if you like" (or to who ever else pays the bills). Seems to work. If it's a client, "I'll add it to the list and talk to (whoever's in charge) and see when we can do it for you". It gives an idea that there's a list and things are getting done as an added bonus.
This cybersecurity company kills Pokemon
Those are very cool, and functional too!

> As it turns out, after I implemented the fractal tree, I spoke with a former employee of Tokutek, a company that commercialized fractal tree indices. That person told me that we’d actually implemented fractal reads identically!

That's not necessarily a good thing. Last I heard Tokutek patented that. Not a laywer, from what I understand patents specifically pertain to "implementation".

Not sure what happened after they were acquired by Percona, but, as I am in US I would personally stay away from it. Even if current owner doesn't want to enforce the patent, the next one might.
España el paraiso del maíz transgénico – ROOSTERGNN
It's pretty straightforward. Apple wants to start off slow, with a small group of people, and develop the quality of the program. By being explicitly closed, but implicitly open, they can focus their energy on the invited researchers, and ensure a high-level of support/response.

If they had explicitly said that it was an open program, they would have had to scale up their efforts to support the entire world of vulnerability researchers, or risk disappointing people for not responding quickly enough.

Put another way - if you are not part of the invited group, and you submit an issue, but do so poorly, or without a clear Proof-of-Concept, and concise description, you can reasonably expect to hear no response from Apple, with no grounds to complain that they ignored you. But, at the same time, if you have a clear exploit, well documented, with impact and proof-of-concept, then their is still an avenue to submit it to Apple, but it's up to Apple to decide how they wish to prioritize.
"Coleman said his cybersecurity company is in a unique position to help eliminate Pokemon, because he's friends with a member of Niantic's board of directors: Gilman Louie."

I didn't realize it was cool now to crow about nepotism on international news sites? Pretty brazen.
I don't know what your comment means, but I'm intrigued by it. Which turtle are you talking about?
Facebook shouldn't be deciding what people read which they seem to be trying to do and people don't find it odd.

If people click on clickbait, it genuinely means they are interested in it. The people who don't could just visit news site like Al Jazzera, NBC etc.

It like banning ads because people are clicking in irrelevant things.

I think it's save to assume Facebook will apply click bait algorithm to there Facebook ads considering they want their users to have a positive experience ;)
If it was a salaried job you would have to sign a Non-Disclosure, assign all intellectual property rights to Apple, ensure that you have good work attendance, be responsive to what your manager tells you to do, etc, etc...

I'm sure there are a lot of security researchers who would like to dabble in dozens of companies products, without being told what they had to do every day, yet still be compensated.
If this was the genuine cause of economic distortions, and wealthy people are mutually exclusive with economic mobility, wouldn't the states with high amount of wealthy people (NY, CA) slowly but surely lose any economic advantages to the states with low amount of wealthy people, but extremely high potentials of economic mobility (MS, WV)?
Hasn't Nissan sold more Leafs than Tesla has Model S?
Huh? Per-site Javascript is controlled through the site permissions UI like everything else in Chrome-- that's the popover that comes up when you click the page or lock icon in the address bar.

There's even an icon that appears on the right side of the address bar when Javascript is blocked, giving the option to add an exception if clicked.
I don't know the numbers for Australia since we don't have the same healthcare issues, but there are a lot of studies in the US that have said that: this article contains several examples http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/housing-first-so...
Find agreement on priorities with short meetings on a regular basis. This can be done in a structured as part of Agile, or just as regular meetings to get everyone on the same page.

The approach I take is that I don't care what the order of the list should be (save for dependencies), so I give collective control over that to other stakeholders.

If someone then comes to me a few days later with an "urgent" request that will take a non-trivial amount of time, I simply put the pressure back on them to seek agreement on the change of priorities. They can make their case to the other stakeholders about why their project or task is more urgent or important than others on the list, and come back to me if/when they have that.

The extra benefit to this is that when other tasks are not finished when they were originally expected to be and you are called on this by a stakeholder, you can point out that they agreed to add new higher priority tasks into the queue, so the original time estimates were no longer applicable.