skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eye tracking study on the topic:

http://cdn.theladders.net/static/images/basicSite/pdfs/TheLa...

People typically read ~200-300 words per minute. 100 words is a lot more than what you end up reading on most CVs when you go through a pile. You basically scan a CV for a few seconds and move on to the next unless something caught your interest. When so you actually spend a few minutes reading the whole thing - bringing the average to, indeed, under 10s per CV. If HR did its job before sending CVs your way the average is much higher of course.
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My argument isn't necessarily an economic one. I don't particularly think that a high estate tax will stimulate the economy, but I also don't think it will hurt.

The advantage of a high estate tax is more a social one of removing unearned wealth and freeing up some money to spend on social programs.

But you're right that it might be more efficient to make the tax 95% so the beneficiary has an incentive to handle the liquidation so they can get their 5%.
That day will be long after all the non-modal heathens are converted.
I don't know why you think it would be so hard for the government to deal with the ownership. There are plenty of people who would be interested in buying Facebook stock.

Plenty of estates have to be liquidated to settle debts and taxes today. It's hardly unprecedented.
The author likely interviewed public university Humanities professors about it all, and they defend PT and its failed policies above everything. They are even still in denial about Venezuela. Maybe they want us to become like it.

I'm very poor (my only comfort in life is my computer; have been using the same clothes for almost 10 years, commute for almost 2 hours on trains and buses to get to the "good parts" of my city etc.) and am I'm hit hard by Dilma and PT, because their policies ruined our economy and even fucking rice and beans (our staple food) is terribly expensive now (the dollar exchange rate is high as ever, so producers now prefer to export everything they can than selling locally).
Who is talking about xenophobia? She basically hijacked legitimate issue (people held for several hours at airport) to propagate a book and herself. And when I present valid arguments, you just start personal attack.

No I do not watch Fox/Sky, it does not even broadcast in here. And maybe I should give you ring next time I travel to US, because I think your immigration service is profiling non-americans for extra questioning.
I think the feeling is more a result of the perception. I.e someone forcefully communicates an idea you find painful to think about thus causing you pain. Better to confront the idea - understand and heal the trauma - rather than fixating on the mechanism of how you were reminded of it. You might find that the idea can no longer harm you - much less by someone trying to force it upon you - because you, at that point, understand it far better than they do.
The best thing I heard about dealing with poverty, is to half the maximum allowed work week. If you made full time 20h a week for a lot more jobs, forcing employers to pay double or triple for extra, then you'd inevitably force people to share jobs. Employers would need to employ twice as many employees, but it would not cost them more. It's an easier sell then higher tax, since people get to have more free time. It also adapts better, since all the offer and demand and market laws would apply. No unjust or artificial taking more from some but not others.
> Firefox is the one with the Javascript-based PDF renderer.

And it shows, hence why I always disable it.
Which tech was it?
For me at least, it still lacks this 'perceived' reactiveness, that millisecond of delay that I don't have with Sublime or vim. I don't know if it's placebo but I have got to use what _feels_ right to me.
Wait, you actually look at the keys? You can use whatever keyboard but keep it mapped out to your favourite layout. I personally use a Canadian bilingual layout but haven't owned such a keyboard in quite a while, since work doesn't look fondly in buying a MacBook Pro with a layout that a future inheritor would bristle at...

Now if you mean that you really hate the layout, it's really anti-programming, and sometimes I wonder why I stick to it. :) It's so easy to use a layout switching keyboard shortcut...
My former employer acquired their 53rd company, at the end of 2015. They laid off 20% of staff. ~1600 jobs.
... Or Apple could just be like every other bug bounty and pay out regardless of if you're on a white list or not.
I am not sure this is ever a soluble problem - it is one of those things that demands perfect actions from all players in a "hierarchy".

If any person in your reporting chain does the very human thing of "trying to please", and undercuts your promises, you have a problem. Telling your boss "well I told you so, and I am not going to alter my activities to try and fix it" is a short cut to P45 land.

No matter how much lip service is paid to Agile, the sprint concept is not protected

Agile : it will be done when it's done, there are no schedules, only estimates.

very very few organisations accept this. Everyone has milestones on the board report and if you slip, others slip and lots of pain happens.

It is good to have your own schedule and to feed that out professionally, but it only seems to work in areas where your personal influence (your professionalism) reflects to the top of the decision chain.

Other than that m, saying yes or no is just squeaking of the wheels.
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Interesting perspective, but I don't think selling technology directly should be the requirement. I think a company is a "Tech Company" when the core product is technology produced by the company. I consider Facebook and Twitter to be tech companies, even though they don't sell technology directly. AirBnB and Uber have some decent open source contributions and have the ability to contribute back huge advances but probably won't focus as much on that until they're profitable.
Pick a niche market. Talk with 5 businesses in that niche market about their pain points. Discuss with them their painpoints, repeating tasks or reports. Then crystalize a problem that all of these businesses have in common.
Find a freelancer that creates a quick&dirty prototype that solves the problem to some extend. Show them the prototype and have them subscribe to a 50-100$ plan. Fix all bugs in a reasonable timeframe. Now either automate more of their work, or find more people in that niche to buy your software.

Niche markets: Pick any existing popular SaaS that non techies use that have an API and some community (discussion board or forum) you can reach out to. Ecommerce: Shopify, bigcommerce, magento. Payments: stripe, wordpress, stripe, braintree. Accounting: xero, quickbooks.

- Do not code yourself, it requires great discipline. It's always more fun to code than to talk with customers.
- Businesses are happy paying money even for a terrible product if it makes their lives easier.
- People love to talk about their problems (aka how you can extract money from them).
- There's multiple ways to start a business, this approach is just one of them.
- Don't read too much blog posts and business books about online businesses. They are confusing you and holding you back. Business is a skill like programming, you learn more actually coding, than reading about how to code.
Other comments have good points, but the main thing IMO is that tax receipts are low in the midwest / south is that what they produce (food) is incredibly cheap now days.

The US produces a ridiculous surplus of food with a tiny portion of the population because we're incredibly good at doing it cheaply. High volume and low cost == low prices == low tax revenue. It doesn't mean low real-world value or produced value.

You could "fix" it by trying to balance revenues by playing with tax rates, but all you'll accomplish is making food expensive in CA/NY, shifting dollars around, and making everything more complicated than it is now.

There are plenty of other reasons tax revenue registers in NY/CA; anyone -- from anywhere in the country -- with a retirement account is funneling it through some NY mutual fund, and entertainment is still mostly produced in CA. If NY didn't exist, it would be managed somewhere else; it's not that NY is producing magical value nobody else understands. It's just most convenient.

If Hollywood stopped producing movies... we'd all be a bit more bored temporarily, but it's again going to get bought from somewhere else.
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Income can also be chosen to a large extent. You can work more, work less, do a harder job, do an easier job. Basing taxes on income suffers from the problem you describe.

A flat annual fee, as suggested by Proudhon, would be much more fair. I do not mean a "flat tax", which actually scales linearly with income, but a flat dollar amount.

The federal government could replace all of its taxes, all of them (income, corporate, capital gain, etc) with a simple $500 a month per person payment.

This would also make a lot of people reconsider their voting priorities. Let's see how likely they'd be to support trillion dollar wars.
> Not a laywer, from what I understand patents specifically pertain to "implementation".

There should be identical blocks of code which I doubt they have. I think by "identically" they mean the same thought/method.
Maybe FedEx could at least test the idea of hyperloop for freight --a lot more forgiving in terms of safety than moving people. Of course does not make it that cheaper to build, but right of way with present-day rail
Her job was to increase shareholder value. She did exactly that, and very well.
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> faster than Atom, etc
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I found the article premise pretty convincing. If I want top talent, I usually try to find a software engineer from Eastern Europe.
This continual transfer of wealth between different regions and cultures is what allows the U.S. to be successful while the EU is a quagmire. Federalism ftw. Federalism even works great in Germany.

And yes, I'm pretty much OK with my portion of California taxes going to Alabama, because society is not a zero-sum game.
My initial reaction was to question their growing levels of vertical integration, but their volume is so huge that they will probably rival UPS/Fedex if you included all of Amazons shipments across carriers.

It would cost Amazon 40-50b to buy Fedex, probably twice as much for UPS. If they really plan to run their own fleet they probably have a plan beyond just doing Prime deliveries.
You can actually knock that down to 8 moves (maybe less?) as the max required for a solution. You never have to press the middle square, since it flips every square, inverting the board. Inversion doesn't bring you closer to the checkered pattern of the chessboard. (An inverted chessboard... is a chessboard!)
Yeah, tried that a bunch of time only to find it sooo annoying that I go back to JS. It's just not worth it clicking on "enable JS" for every new page you open.
I can't remember if a friend working at Amazon told me this, or if I read it online.

Supposedly, Amazon does tons of backend real world optimization on shipping.

Say you, a SF resident, look at a book today on Amazon.com. Based on your past actions, Amazon knows very well how likely you are to purchase right away, or tomorrow, etc.

Now imagine the book isn't in a warehouse close enough to you for prime, but Amazon's data tells them you are much more likely to buy it when you come back to Amazon tomorrow if Prime is offered.

They'll ship the book to the warehouse in case you come back tomorrow to look at that book. Of course there's tons more modeling behind it to make sure they have very accurate estimates of the cost to pre emptively ship vs the payoff of you buying it, but that's the gist of it.

That was a few years ago, and it blew my mind at the time to think of all the optimization you can do in shipping to individuals when you're working at scale.

Amazon is more and more essentially running a CDN, but for the real world.
Alot of the time, it isn't myself I need confidence in, but rather the code and the system it runs on. Sometimes this can be fixed by working with it until I understand it better. Other times, not so much.

The end result is you either get comfortable enough with what you're working on that you can figure out where it will likely break, or you move on to another project (maybe more quickly than you normally would).
> 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.

An easy way to shut up the idiots like these is to point out the extent to which miles traveled are subsidized for car drivers (invariably more than for transit, due to how horribly inefficient cars are). When they're forced to imagine a society without transport subsidies instead of one with only _their_ favored transport subsidies, they tend to quickly shut up.

Though of course this only works for people you know: the voting public is allowed to be as dumb and contradictory as it wants to be.
> [Amazon] plans to launch its first ever branded cargo plane, the Amazon One, at Seattle’s SeaFair Air Show on Friday. The plane is a a Boeing 767-300 operated by Atlas Air, an existing provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com.

Unless I'm missing something, the only new thing here is the paint on the plane.
At what point does Amazon get into monopoly territory?
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Some of the more expensive items are missing from here. Perhaps they are not commodity items.

* Irregular shaped PCB with large amount of copper on it.

* housing and heat sinks.

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

But you do, if you (or the GP) want people to support your taxation plan and go along with it. Otherwise, it will get rejected. You need to prove that your plan is effective.

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

That's not really happening even in countries much poorer than the US. Those people are much more likely to steal my stuff than burn it down.

I think you're trying to sell a "tiger-repelling rock".
A colleague uses it on OSX, and it's awful: unstable, crashes, hangs during debugging, the debugger doesn't always update the displayed values, doesn't grok auto declarations, etc. So far, Netbeans is the best free C++ IDE I've tried.
Very true.

I hope this comment thread gets all those comments from the other thread where engineers should get paid $1m+ a year.

Hahaha.
What about bacon fat mayo, which is made with bacon fat instead of the traditional olive oil?

Or how about Hellman's which almost certainly doesn't use olive oil, instead using some cheap vegetable imitation, should that be allowed to be called Mayo?

In Japan they use apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar, should that also be labelled as "rice-vinegar based mayo-like sauce"?
These comments look as legit as the Amazon reviews of products given to reviewers for free.
Both can be both a verb and a noun:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leech#English

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leach#English
Ironically, I prefer many of the joke headlines, like the ISIS one. I'm often irritated by the way 'intellectual' publications will bury the lede in non-breaking stories. Tell me what I'm about to read, damn it!!
Thanks for introducing me to aphantasia, which I hadn't heard of. For others that haven't, it means not being able to imagine images or sounds in your mind. It was only discovered recently, and I think it was popularised by this blog post by Blake Ross, which is well worth a read.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
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Identical blocks of code, I think make sense for copyright cases -- "they copied our code, look here it is lines 12 through 25". Instead I believe patents are about a particular implementation of an idea.
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This story seems to be a bit of a rorschach test. It seems that the primary rejection of what the author observed and described is preoccupied with correctness of ideas, while those of us who it touched are preoccupied with understanding why people think the way that they do.

I too reject all manner of irrational and harmful views, but I'm concerned with why so many of those views prevail. Understanding why people come to hurt one another is at the center of my attention, because I think that understanding is ammunition in reducing those tendencies.

Simply demilitarizing disagreement can go a long way toward reducing the kinds of friction that prevent people from learning and growing when they're wrong.

And more importantly, being correct is not the same as not being subject to personal growth. It's a tremendous waste to go through life knowing information that could be valuable to others and to be unable or unwilling to communicate that information to others who don't share it.

Empathy is how politics and people move together.
When Walmart, Target and Fred Meyer no longer exist in WA state would be a start
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1) Every country has its classes of "rich" and "poor". Billionaires would be an easy target to rob outright, but I suggest the GP meant something like progressive taxation, where those with more would pay more back into the society they benefit from. Also, the poor of another country are no less people to help than those in your own (and man would to well to transcend national identities anyway, but that's different can of worms).

2) What do you think happens to the money, that it gets burned? The money will continue in circulation (ie. the previously poor will now pay for their food instead of stealing it etc.), and if you were rich before the money will obviously keep coming back, as more people have the wealth to purchase your services.
It was a patent application:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/
I'd think Amazon would be able buy either for less than market value. They'd drop in value anyway if Amazon moved away from them and did their own thing.
While 24 hours sounds much to me I agree on the principle.

Tom Limoncelli/Christine Hogan has you covered on this one I guess: The Practice of System and Network Administration mention that you should ask politely if the other party can fire a mail to the ticket system since "that way you can be sure I won't forget".

Tada: off your mind in to a queue that can be sorted and prioritized.
I am glad that engineers are finally getting paid what they are worth.  Discuss
My friend just received an offer from SnapChat for 160k base and 1 million in stock options.

I am glad that engineers are finally getting paid for the amount of value that they create.

What are your thoughts?
William Ury, of "Getting to Yes" fame, also has a book titled "The Power of a Positive No" that directly addresses your question. It should be required reading for all software developers. http://www.williamury.com/books/the-power-of-a-positive-no/

Really, if everyone on Earth read those two books and his "Getting Past No", the world would be a much happier place.
Not a monopoly but Amazon Basics products are copies of Amazon's best selling products at a much cheaper price. This makes third-party vendor competition pretty harsh. I can buy a Rain Design mStand Laptop Stand for $40 or buy the Amazon clone for $20.
I picket it up while volunteering. It came to a point were I couldn't possibly get everything done and at some point I could tell myself with confidence that it wasn't lazyness but rather doing the right thing.

No is still not natural to me but I now master it when necessary I think.
When I lived in China, the railway in my city cost about $2.5/trip, was 99.9% on-time, and the interiors were clean and air-conditioned. And they were making $2bn/year in profits. What a world of difference.
The beauty of it for Amazon is they only need to compete in their best markets. Pure shipping companies have to go everywhere, but Amazon has the luxury of doing its own delivery only where it is easy and outsourcing it to legacy shippers where it's not. For example, I could easily see Amazon delivering directly to large condo/apartment buildings in urban areas.
There's a restaurant in Portland called Little Big Burger. It has $4 burgers that are fairly small, but are made of high quality ingredients you'd find in a fancier restaurant's big $10 burgers. And it's still enough food for a serving if you get fries with it.

It's be cool to see more places like that: small portions but using the extra cost savings for higher quality food.
Fair enough, especially this bit:

> Simply demilitarizing disagreement can go a long way toward reducing the kinds of friction that prevent people from learning and growing when they're wrong.

Here's my attempt at reconciliation. I would support all of the following: withholding hostility; understanding that understanding something is not the same as condoning it; having empathy for everyone; understanding that everyone has their own reason for how they are; and making atmospheres seem less threatening to encourage more people to come forward.

But I remain slightly suspicious of the feeling of sympathy toward the world view described in the article. Empathy, certainly. But I still say it's condescending to pity someone like that before they've taken the slightest steps toward self-correction.
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No it isn't precedented. Ownership of a company is a lot different than real estates or other physical wealth.

It would take years to sell off $50 billion of stocks without crashing the company. Even if they are patience and manage to do that, alot of people, myself included, would have trouble with the government being in de-facto control of the company.

If you dismissed either of the two reasons above, I guess I don't see a point in continuing the discussion.
Amazon impresses me in solving the problems typical stuffed shirt business people try to run from. AWS is a great example of tech execution, but courier services are probably a more impressive accomplishment objectively speaking.

Sustainability in business comes from being good at products and services you claim to provide. You can game your way up for a bit with good sales and marketing, but if you suck at execution of products and services, eventually you will suffer if someone else does marginally better.

Charlatans violating this simple principle is one of the most frustrating things I've had to deal with in my career.
Yeah but why ruin a good headline?
Other than a few Amazon specific items (Kindle) and brands (Amazon Basics) you can buy all of their products online from other vendors.
There are other large metros that support a lot of tech companies outside of California.
Meh. Not impressed by her work at Yahoo either. Most of the valuable contributions that Yahoo made from an innovation standpoint pre-dated her arrival. Also, she was largely billed as a catalyst for sparking Google-esque innovation but her tenure was marred by copy cat initiatives and ideas that were not fresh and ultimately lead to Yahoo just cashing out.
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