skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of it is that measuring the vibrations of large structures, like buildings or bridges, can be inconvenient and expensive. There are limited cases where you can measure new stuff with video simply because you don't have to touch the object or shine a laser at it, but the big win is that by making vibration measurement cheap and simple/convenient, it means you can do a lot more of it. We can start taking more measurements on more structures, which will tell us where we should put resources to rebuild infrastructure.

It might also make quality assurance/ product testing cheaper but that's less save-the-world :-p
Financial education isn't taught in school. I recommend showing your kids Rich Dad Poor Dad as well.
Sure, washington state power is mostly not from coal, and you can pay a slight extra amount to use only non-renewable sources, like I do. So my ev has 0% coal, gas, nuclear. Search for green power. It costs about $10 extra per month. It's easier here, almost 50% of power uses renewable for all customers. So you pay a little extra.

Anyway, there's the obvious notion that capturing pollution from one central energy source (a coal or gas plant) is far more likely to reduce pollution than trying to reduce pollution from every car.
That's an example of rational choice theory btw.
Sublime Text doesn't do this by default although there's an extension[1] to do that.

[1] https://github.com/alienhard/SublimeAllAutocomplete
Tell me more. Why do you feel this way? What is your story?
Add mass transit infrastructure. Strip rent control. Strip zoning that limits density. This dramatically increases supply over a wide geographical range, giving broad choice. Stop focusing on social programs, let market competition itself drive down prices.

These things are pretty well understood at this point.
I didn't suggest that the government should own Facebook over the long term. It should simply impose a tax on the estate, which would require that stock be liquidated to meet that obligation.

There's already a 40% inheritance tax. How do you think it works in the status quo?
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I agree is it overly simplistic, but even factoring in your list of factors, spending habits are very key. See my other remark up top about financial literacy.
The U.S. ranks 6th worldwide in wages, but 25th in wealth, since so many in the US live off of credit, and don't save as much as their Chinese counterparts for one example.
Irrespective of populist banter, the top 0.1% pay about 40% of the tax revenue the Federal government collects. I think our tax system is more progressive than popular opinion makes it out to be.
If you earn over $450,000 a year, you are in the top 1% by wage.
Answer the question "Does your editor support autocomplete?" isn't very useful, since autocomplete only means, can the editor feedback some choices (wherever those choices may come) into your typing experience? We really need a better vocabulary to describe and differentiate between the many kinds of auto-completions, or we might just talk past each other when comparing the powers of our editing experiences.
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It seems incredibly hard to get real information about actual snowfall. I'm interested in historical averages over very recent years i.e. how much snow was there in 2012 2013 2014 2015.

It seems that solid data is hard to find because the ski resorts don't want it known when there is not much snow.

Is there any way to get really trustworthy snowfall information for common skiing locations?
You are using an apostrophe incorrectly.
"Let's say you run a restaurant. Facebook decides that they aren't getting enough money from local restaurants, and thus choose to greatly reduce the exposure of content that users share with their friends about restaurants that aren't paying them. You aren't even a Facebook user, but your competitors are and do pay them. Mentions of their restaurants actually get higher visibility than normal content and go viral, while mentions of your restaurant get no exposure at all. Your restaurant dies, while your competitors thrive."

This is no different to word-of-mouth reviews, that came from people who found out about a restaurant from a paid advert in a newspaper in 1950. If your restaurant didn't list in the paper (i.e. you didn't want to pay the premium for the advert) then you were at an immediate disadvantage.
Chrome's PDF renderer is a PPAPI plugin written in C++.

Firefox is the one with the Javascript-based PDF renderer.
That's pretty neat. I'll have a better look at it later. Thanks!
> people who have mid-level skills and salary expectations.

The really difficult homeless population doesn't have either of those.

That aside, to make Bendigo attractive, you need to move/duplicate all of the social services infrastructure and family connections that people have in Melbourne (which are the 'amenities' that are important to the borderline homeless group). If their kids are in high school in Frankston then many people would rather stay homeless in Melbourne than move to Bendigo. Then if they have existing food bank connections, court dates, legal clinics, etc - it's a big risk to leave this for some temporary housing and a theoretical job.
To take a stab at it, parent was talking about the difference between wisdom and intelligence. Or that there may be many facts which are applicable to a situation -- indeed, so many that various subsets can be used to justify a multitude of different responses!

Discerning which facts and therefore which course of action to take often involves a judgement call, a portion of which is attempting to know all applicable parties as individuals.

The portion in the original journal entry about filter bubbles and excising dissent from our daily experience speaks to this.

We cannot make wise decisions without knowing as much as possible about both those who disagree with us as well as those who agree with us. Because sometimes the "why" or "how" is as intellectually valuable as the "what".

(Not always, but more than none by a bunch!)
I wonder what that looks like when your factor out military expenditures (which most conservatives would say is one of the few legitimate federal expenditures).
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I argue JS broke the internet. Executing a provided program to read content mixes the layers in a anti-user way.
There's a provision in RFC 7541 that applies here. There's a way to indicate that a header field must not be compressed. Security-critical header fields such as keys and nonces should not be compressed. The RFC notes: "Note that these criteria for deciding to use a never-indexed literal representation will evolve over time as new attacks are discovered."

So the protocol has a feature for this. Everything that sends HTTP2 needs to update the list of fields not to compress, but that can be done by the sending end without any change to the receiving end.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541#section-7.1.3
Cities in general have higher costs, so it's not too surprising that the only entry in the data that is just city is going to have the highest costs.
First of all, I never said "wealthy people are mutually exclusive with economic mobility." For one thing, I think earned wealth is actually very helpful for economic mobility and is actually a huge part of why places like NY/CA succeed—successful entrepreneurs continue to invest in the ecosystem and funnel money towards new entrepreneurs. Moreover, something could be a depressant on economic mobility without eliminating economic mobility entirely.

The stability of capital is in fact a huge part of how NY/CA remain successful—if you're ambitious, you have to move towards the capital to access it.

Also, keep in mind we're in the context of a thread where people are already discussing how to soak the rich. I'd much rather tax estates than dramatically increase taxes for people who have earned their money.
If I say the anecdote is perceptive and right you'd expect me to give reasons wouldn't you especially if I add an unpleasantly tendentious opinion?
The newer dev builds of Sublime Text introduced a way to render popups (that hover over text) using a subset of html (minihtml). It's already being used to show a list of references under the cursor as well as better build errors. I imagine there will be extensions taking advantage of this soon.
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Don't be afraid to break stuff yeah, as long as breaking something is a deliberate decision. Many times the root source of your technical debt is the design of your public API, it might be so bad it's hard even to create a wrapper for it. In order to ever get rid of that debt you must remove the entry point to it which means unhappy customers, make sure you have a new api ready and a transitioning path before depreciating the old one.

Unfortunately big test suites won't help for this type of refactoring though, on the contrary they might even be in your way.
About $165 million: http://fortune.com/2015/08/07/this-is-why-elon-musks-spacex-...

Which will soon be $165 million Tesla owns to SpaceX.
The difference is in the number. 40% means that I can realistically leverage my own share of the stock to get money and pay the tax. 100% means that I walk away and the government can figure out what to deal with the ownership.
That is not what the article says -- it is criticizing Denmark for being as bad as or almost as bad as the US (i.e. NOT worse). This about sums it up:

"Social mobility in Denmark and the U.S. seem to be remarkably similar when looking exclusively at wages—that is, before including taxes and transfers."
No, agile doesn't. It's not a process problem, it's a people problem. People still overcommit in agile, or commit for the wrong reasons.
The economic incentives that come with high estate tax encourage rent-seeking and quick cash-outs versus long-term building.

Russian oligarchy is an illustration of this - the inheritance tax is effectively 100%, with the understanding that the property can be taken and re-gifted away any day, so most enterprises are stripped of their cash as soon as possible with money redirected towards conspicuous consumption.
The reason I use it: It's the only Editor that supports debugging JS in Firefox with this extension https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hbenl.vs...

AFAIK the only editor that really supports the Firefox Debugging Protocol so far.
I haven't seen flash on the web in years, because I've uninstalled it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
In Sydney where the cost of living is high, a typical non-skilled wage is ~$20. The result is all service based industries, cafes to full service laundromats, are relatively expensive. However if one is willing to forego the luxuries, it is a livable wage.

In this way, a higher minimum wage ultimately leads to a fairer redistribution of income and is in my opinion a possible solution.

Reducing the cost of living implies downward wage pressures, which has the opposite effect.
At one company, the way it worked was a PM would come to you and say something like, can you install the database on the new servers for project X? And you would say something like, no, because those servers haven't been delivered by the vendor yet.

Then the PM would go to your manager and say engineer Y REFUSED to help me with my project. All the PMs did this at that company, so I assume it was a technique taught on whatever training courses they were sent on. Well we all soon got wise to it, and after we started saying no to them in ever more "creative" ways, they soon learned a new technique...
Prevent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_evasion
@grownseed - Sorry about the confusion, NodeRT was actually tested with Electron. We also added a "Building for Electron" section in the doc.
The issue was updated to refer to a tool that wraps Electron apps for the Windows Store.
> when the rich dedicate their resources to avoiding that taking

As professor of economics Mark Blyth explains[1], "The Hamptons are not a defensible position."

Similar to the problem with the Martingale betting system where (it works great until your bankroll runs out), all of that theory about taxes is suddenly irrelevant when hungry people decide that taking your stuff directly is a better solution.

> How do you propose to eliminate or mitigate such unintended consequences?

I don't. Everything has unintended consequences and no plan is perfect. We will always have to manage problems as they arise.

How do you propose to keep people from burning your house down because they are hungry, angry, and see no alternative?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvZil0qWPg#t=506

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_%28betting_system%2...
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> Ethics aside, that is an objective fact.

It's actually not an objective fact. Compare two scenarios:

10 acres of rainforest were clearcut to grow palm oil to make the mayo

1/2 acre of grassland in Iowa that was previously used for corn is allocated to raise pastured happy chickens, rotated with market heirloom grains. They are allowed to live out their natural life, and are fed even after they stop producing eggs.

Which of those scenarios has more animal cruelty? In one situation you are essentially committing genocide of an entire microecology, in the other you are giving some animals an incredible life, and eating part of their waste stream, eggs which are not necessary for their survival or happiness, and in fact are over-budgeted in their genetics to allow for predation.

Veganism is an OK heuristic for animal cruelty, but it's far from perfect. It's often better than nothing, but a vegan Whole Foods diet may well cause more animal harm than someone living near the poverty level in, say, Korea, eating some animal products, but also making much more efficient use of land. Vegans love to pretend land use doesn't matter, but land use = animal displacement.

Eating more plants can be a great way to reduce cruelty. But Vegan\ism\ as a hard rule is more about religious purity than it is about animal cruelty.

Signed,

Someone who ate entirely vegan today and most days
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The benefits of California are vastly overstated.

Almost nothing about the climate (I like winter) or culture appeals to me, yet I'm pulled towards there to succeed in a tech career. This is simply network effects in action, except that unfortunately this network has been built in one of the locales in the US with some of the most aggressively anti-growth policies possible. Things would be much better if tech was centered around somewhere like Chicago or even New York.
I think rent control is not very relevant to this discussion of poverty. Most cities in the US do not have rent control. This includes high-rent cities like Boston and Seattle.

Getting rid of rent control in SF would decrease market rates, but market rates are so high it's hard to see how they could go down enough that anyone near what we define as "poverty" could afford to live there. I think current low-income residents would be evicted en-masse (because their rent just went from $1000 to $3000), while medium-income and more frugal high-income people would relocate from the suburbs to the city (because market rate went from $4000 to $3000). As a software developer I could afford a better house but you might not be able to get the world's best burrito in the Mission anymore.

Obviously there is an ideological split over whether that would be a good change or a bad one. The living expenses of current residents are currently subsidized at the expense of landlords. It's a microcosm of wealth redistribution in general and pretty much zero-sum.

However, increasing supply is not zero sum. It increases the total number of people that get a place to live. It's more attachment vs. progress than poor vs. rich. I think we have a chance to build a winning coallition on this issue.

Rent control does not prevent development, at least in SF, because it does not apply to new construction. If we can get enough construction going that market rates are decreasing, maybe then it will be time to figure out how to keep Mr. "I've lived in this apartment in the Pacific Heights since I graduated from law school and am richer than my landlord" (Esq.) from saving fat stacks of cash for the rest of his life, without screwing that family who runs a tacqueria in the Mission.
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I guess it's a reference to the "it's turtles all the way down" expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
Can't stress enough that only listening to the ones with the same view is very dangerous.
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I was looking for a comment just like this!

It seems when anyone talks about household expenses, just like this article, we get the same list: housing, food and transportation. I don't know why the cost of debt isn't right in the mix. Maybe it is assumed debt is paying for these other things, so when debt is paid off, the expense is just chalked up to the underlying housing, food or transportation costs. However, it ignores the fact debt carries its own costs which are significantly more expensive for the poor and the interest alone, especially on payday loans as you noted, could probably rival food and transportation costs of the poor.
There are some great advice in this thread. After many years of working at various levels, I have learned that behind the "Yes" answer lies many factors, when it can be done, how it can be done, does it depend on someone else etc.

This is also absolutely true for the "Yes" you get back from your requests for help as well.

So I usually say "Yes", but I would qualify it with when I can do it, or what resources I need to complete it etc.

It also comes down to managing the expectations of your requester. Is it OK for them if you complete their request by next week or you only have resource to do half of the tasks.
Have you tried Qt Creator? Its really good for normal C++ development and even better for Qt specific development.
Just curious, which parties pushed the federal policies that created those subsidies?

Having not actually researched it, I'd be interested to see the breakdown of cost-per-policy-per-party.

Based on your comment, do you find it ironic that those states seems to continuously vote "stop helping me"?
Is Prime Air the Google Fiber of the shipping world?

A way to put a fire under the ass of UPS and FedEx to get cheaper shipping rates so they can offer lower prices?
How does this affect online pricing? Assuming something bought online has the same price for all shipping locations, this would mean that people in expensive states are more likely to save money by shopping online?
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While I agree with the overall sentiment, people ought to have to earn the privilege of being listened to by meeting a higher standard of reasonableness, self-awareness, and intellectual responsibility than that.

The woman was unable herself to have children, so she latches onto the view that those who are able but choose termination are unethical killers. She manufactures further rationalization: "it's not right to go out and sleep with whoever, then just vacuum away the result like it never happened." This is just word salad. She openly throws out, "it's just not right! it's just wrong!" like that's somehow sufficient. Her view is driven by a preadolescent's petulant self-absorption and she takes no responsibility for self-correction.

I reject wholesale the idea that personal suffering gives people an excuse, a warrant, to hold petty, juvenile views that inhibit the freedom of others. Life itself consists largely of suffering. People who insist on throwing an eight year old's intellectual tantrum don't need the megaphone they're already given.

If the author's merely saying that open listening and compassion, in and of themselves, are valuable, then certainly: it's important to be open to foreign views. But petulant self-absorption isn't a view. It's not a window into any meaningful aspect of the universe. It's outright condescending to extend it sympathy.
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Good point, I misread on mutual exclusivity.

For what it's worth high estate taxes don't seem to correlate with economic growth (neither are zero estate taxes, to be fair) - I am reading this graph http://taxfoundation.org/article/estate-and-inheritance-taxe... and Japan, for example, being high on the GDP ranking is kinda dead in the water as far as economic growth ranking.

I think eventually the estates succumb to "three generations" rule, so the problem might be self-correcting.
Yet people are conditioned in schools to love the state and hate the "all evil" capitalism.

In Brazil it's political suicide to suggest cutting government expenses such as bloated programs and agencies (even though they are known to be infested by corruption). People are hit hard by our extremely high taxes but don't make the connection to the government inefficacy and corruption. They keep asking for more government services and programs. People hate our postal service (which has a monopoly on some sorts of deliveries), yet freak out at the idea of opening it to the free market.

The current president attempted to end the "ministry of culture" (which basically is a money gateway from our pockets to already-rich artists with political connections) and replace it with a smaller department. Teachers and university students brainwashed by the state-worshiping religion kept protesting until the president gave up and bought the ministry back. That has been happening to all his attempts at fixing things.
Not a lump; it's liquid anyway. Lots of tiny droplets under our floor: http://www.jefftk.com/mercury-under-floor-2x.jpg
I guess the real hurdle is getting people to understand the contradiction between

a) "schools should require financial literacy for graduation" and

b) "standardized testing is the spawn of satan".
Stripping enterprises of their cash quickly is hardly an example of rent-seeking. If money is directed towards conspicuous consumption, it recirculates into the economy. I definitely consider that superior to inflating unearned fortunes.

The Russian example seems to be more a testament to the danger of unstable political regimes, not the problems of a high inheritance tax.
Funny story: I have friends from Québec City (unilingual city) who work in Montréal who complain of always having to work in English, and I have former anglo-Montréaler friends living in Toronto because "it was impossible to find a job in Montréal as a non-native French speaker".
I think it is more of an AWS, they'll replace most of UPS and FedEx with their own infrastructure that they'll open up to others later on.