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I don't but this argument about risk. If you risk your capital and lose it (long-term), you get a deductible loss, which, due to the oddities of the US tax code, is mostly only deductible against long-term gains. If capital gains were just ordinary income, then you'd get an ordinary loss if you lost money and could use it as a deduction against any income whatsoever.

In any event, from memory, the idea of long-term capital gains was to incentivize the long-term holding of stocks, and it sounded like a good idea, but as I seem to recall no one ever found any real evidence that it provided a benefit.

So I'll re-ask my question: why does the government need to give a specific incentive for long-term holding of equities and similar instruments?

I can give reasons that it's a bad idea:

1. It's very hard to define "long-term capital gains" in a coherent manner. Witness, for example, carried interest. Look at section 1256 for another strange example.

2. The combination of low long-term capital gains rate and the general inability of the IRS to collect corporate taxes from large companies means that US persons who own a stake in a large company can have turn their company's pre-tax profits into post-tax cash in the back at a very low effective rate.

3. It gives people a perverse incentive to hold on to stocks they don't like until they've had them for a year. Similarly, it gives a perverse incentive to do things that aren't quite a wash sale to hedge risks. I'm glad that there's a demand for creative financial engineering that exists solely because of an overcomplicated tax code.

I would much rather see a system in which the US didn't try to heavily tax corporate profits and instead taxed the money when it was recieved by people, which could be achieved by taxing the gains as ordinary income.
Usually a tech and a non-tech co-founder partnership works really well because you cannot scale up if the person building the technology/product is also building the marketing and sales machinery.

Single co-founders only work in domains where either of those two - technology/product and sales/marketing - are much less resource consuming than the other so that one person is able to focus on both. That model breaks at scale.
>Past performance does not necessarily indicate future performance, and it should not be the only predictor, but to dismiss a fund's history as inconsequential to its future is silly.

I'm not dismissing it unconditionally, but I'm not going to believe it unless I see the data. What's the probability of a fund outperforming given it has outperformed the year before?
Not all types need to have induction principles. The ones that do are nicer, of course, precisely because they correspond to values.
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Who is representing your cause politically? Sounds like a good case for a political action committee
Why start a business from scratch when you can buy a running business for sale?
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The same problem does not apply.

I understand that spooky action-at-a-distance magic can really ruin a codebase's maintainability. But what you've developed here is not a judicious appreciation of its danger and its power, but a blanket aversion to both its risks and its benefits.

An apt metaphor would be, let's say: toast. If you try to make some toast, but accidentally burn your house down, it's understandable that you might want to have your bread un-toasted for a while. But it doesn't make sense to switch your diet to be entirely raw as a result, especially if you eat a lot of chicken.

In python, metaprogramming is like fire. People who haven't seen it before are fascinated before it, and try to touch it. This always goes badly. But that doesn't mean it's useless or we shouldn't have it. There are many things it's good for, if it's carefully and thoughtfully applied.

attrs goes out of its way to avoid any behind-the-scenes effects. It even generates Python code, rather than using setattr(), so that if any error happens in the constructor, you can step through it normally in the debugger, and see it in the traceback. Its semantics are clear and direct. It doesn't have these problems.
And, thanks for the P.S. Always nice to see people enjoy my work :)
Reading and thinking are one thing, actually building something is another. Suggest getting a soldering iron or a breadboard and make anything.
To your point everyone who has ever worked a reasonable length of time in restaurants has had the experience of their work environment permeating their nightmares and dealt with stress about work outside of it. It's perfectly normal in every industry to have a constant stream of thought going about work.

However, in many engineering and scientific fields, that constant stream of thought is frequently productive due to the nature of the work being based in problem solving - and solving problems while physically checked out happens a lot.

That's not to say other positions don't do productive work outside the office, I'm only emphasizing that with engineering and science the phenomena of productive offline time is more frequent.

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There are a lot of ways to look at wages and job titles in order to justify both higher and lower wages, but at the end of the day pay scale is determined by the market.

Software developers/engineers generally make more money than a lot of other careers. It's hard work. It's stressful. It takes a good deal of training/education. And it takes a particular kind of mind in order to both manage doing it long term and do it will long term.

They don't get paid well for any of those reasons. They get paid well because the industry is relatively young, tasks related to software are deemed important, and there is a constant shortage of people who do it well.

Not all people get paid exceedingly well. There are sub-industries that pay very poorly for essentially the same level of work. If you look at a senior software engineer at Netflix and compare salary to a senior software engineer at Infosys working a project in small town Tenessee, you'll find one person who is in the top 1% of earners globally, and one who doesn't hope to save a down payment on a house anytime soon. Same job title, very similar work, enormous discrepancy in pay.

If you look at the Bay Area specifically, salaries are high, but cost of living is also high. While there are many jobs available, at the higher salary levels companies are not just looking for good software people, they are looking for good software people with experience in very specific areas - shrinking the available pool of potential workers significantly and increasing the amount of training and education that's required to attain one of those positions.

Apologies. I've gone off on a long tangent here mostly directed at the general discussion in this thread and not to your points.
I'm not sure that the portion under AGPL actually has exemptions. They say in their LICENSE.txt file:

We promise that we will not enforce the copyleft provisions
in AGPL v3.0 against you if your application (a) does not
link to the Mattermost Platform directly, but exclusively
uses the Mattermost Admin Tools and Configuration Files, and
(b) you have not modified, added to or adapted the source code
of Mattermost in a way that results in the creation of a “modified
version” or “work based on” Mattermost as these terms are defined
in the AGPL v3.0 license.

Note that the two conditions necessary to receive the exemption are connected by "and", not "or". The second condition is that you not create a modified work or a work based upon the program as defined in AGPL v3.0.

But by the terms of AGPL itself its copyleft provisions are only applicable to modified versions, so it doesn't appear that there are any circumstances where Mattermost's exemption will actually exempt you from anything.
Usable CPU's do not need caches, branch prediction and pipelining, and IO can be memory mapped.

There are other bits you need to make a usable CPU (for instance: registers, instruction decoder, instruction pointer and a stack pointer and some more glue), but the ones you mention are totally optional.
You can stream to Chromecast, what else do you need? A different app for each of the dozen platforms out there? Google Music All Access is one of the few streaming services that got it right.
I wrote a very large app in Knockout back in the day, and ran into significant problems with Knockout's computeds and the two way data binding.

It was great to start with, but as the app got larger and more involved, performance started to suffer (from all the different observables and computed triggering and retrigger on a change), memory leaks started to creep in, and eventually I started noticing weird glitches where bits of the UI wouldn't by entirely in-sync. Worse, there was very little I could do to fix it, because the bug was deep in Knockout's "magic". My models had correct data, but sometimes my UI would not.

The lesson I picked up from that was that that sort of magic was bad news, and for my next major project I used React, and when I needed state management I eventually ended up with Redux. I won't lie: There's been some pain points, there's a lot less hand holding, more boilerplate, etc. But performance has been amazing and there's been no issues where something other than my poor coding has caused a bug. Redux code is very, very deterministic: You state looks like X, then you have an event Y, and now your state looks like Z. That state is fed into your component hierarchy, and DOM elements come out the end. If you don't like the result, you can quickly narrow it down to being a bug in your render methods, your reducers, or your actions. No magic.

MobX...looks great. But it looks great in the specific ways that Knockout burned me in the past. Does anyone have any input on that? If I go all-in on Redux and write a very large and interconnected app, I have confidence that:

1) Writing all the reducers and selectors will be pretty big pain

2) Once I do it it'll work just as smoothly as a hello world app will.

If I go all in on MobX, it looks like it'll be easier to write, but...how's it going to run? Saying "inspired by Knockout" gives me distinctly mixed feelings, seeing as how I started using React to get away from Knockout. :)
The question that most people are interested in is

P(Success | Number of Founders)

but what the article has answered is

P(Number of Founders | Success)

for a couple of different metrics of "success".

They are not the same question! In particular, the average number of founders for a successful startup might be low, but the chances could still be better with more founders.
Is this mattermost's hosted offering ? https://about.mattermost.com/pricing/

they need to fix their feature set for pricing. For example, Google Apps Signon is pretty basic - but it is only available at the "Enterprise E20" level... where you have to actually call for pricing.
They're generally paid both. They often charge "two and twenty" meaning 2% yearly of the assets under management and 20% of the profit. (Of course they don't absorb 20% of the losses in a bad year)
That's my impression.

The optics were horrible, it sounds like he had a fairly strong case, and for those of us who knew of him starting from his works like Scribe way way back when, well, we're inclined to believe his story.

All we know is that Google made an offer he and his lawyer chose not to refuse, but as long as they thought they were going to win in court before a jury and all that, it had to have been generous, although I'd imagine it wasn't as generous as his original ability to to participate in the IPO and beyond.
The fact that it doesn't support major OS is a bummer
I wouldn't call this a trick. This is a staple in the data structures books when they teach how to implement queues using arrays. The same approach can be extended to implementing circular and double ended queues as well.
I guess this is a good place to ask: For someone who knows nothing about the market, what would be a good way to invest their money? From the responses here, I'm guessing "park them in an index fund", but is there a trustworthy company I can talk to that will do that?
> pick a behind-the-scenes guy if you're a visionary, or make sure you're comfortable as the behind-the-scenes guy if you're partnering with a visionary

What's your take on the situation where you are both? (Where somebody is visionary, "knows business" and codes as well.)
We had a look at first commits from various projects a while ago [1] - I like how the first commits get cleaner the newer the projects are, presumably because version control became more ubiquitous.

[1]
https://blog.wearewizards.io/first-commits
Twitch is a very interesting linguistical experiment, as the chat emotes can be used to convey very subtle nuances in meaning, unlike anything we've seen before, off- or online. For example, Kappa is a smug face denoting sarcasm, superiority, condescension and arrogance, but can imply any of those meanings subverted. Combining the emotes together, along with standard ASCII characters, can produce very complex and astoundingly compact stories[0].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/sVQr7wY.jpg
https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Deactivating_Automatic_Cha...

Type apostrophe at beginning of the gene name ('MARCH1) or format the column for gene names as text (click column letter, then Format | Cell and select text)

If people want to use a spreadsheet application for this kind of data collection (and that is a big if I think) then they perhaps need to have some agreed lab protocols for setting up and checking the spreadsheets. This is a known issue in financial circles...

http://www.eusprig.org/basic-research.htm
I've been using this recently for a pretty complex SPA and it's been great.

It's clear what's happening, without a tons of boilerplate code, and it has some nice dev tools as well (trace element updates & events, great for debugging). It also has very useful error messages in development mode (which is a godsend).

On top of that, I think the docs are pretty good, they seem to be quite active on GitHub and, from every piece of the puzzle that comes together to make a 2016 web frontend (react, web pack, babel, flow, ui kit, etc, etc), it's given the least trouble for me so far.
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Very interesting, but one more snag might be the way people will tend to react to a wolverine snout suddendly erupting through the pile of snow trapping them (like in the video). Personally, if I was ever trapped and any wild animal came near me I'm pretty sure I'd scream my lungs out and kick with all the strength left to me. Trained wolverines will have to be marked very, very clearly to avoid this sort of reaction.
The graph reveals what happened to the academic class during the darkest part of Germanys history: It looks like most of the mathematicians fled to the US! Also, I thought Russia produced many more matematicans than shown but maybe I'm just making false assumptions
And that very much was a part of the 'cold war' in that it caused the former Soviet Union to expend huge resources in Afghanistan. So the ISIS cold-war link is quite clear.
This is not applicable anymore but I do remember those days and am glad I don't have to add any elements to kernel line in grub.conf to every linux VM. Not fun.
No, this was about the exchange rate at the time.
AppLovin in talks of a $1.5B buyout by a Chinese firm
It's more similar to Blockstack: https://blockstack.org
Hey - i made that kickstarter! Unfortunately it doesn't seem there was much interest so it went nowhere. I still think it's regrettable how resource-hungry the official client is, but doesn't seem that too many people share that opinion.
I would much rather have 75% pay for 13 weeks of PTO. Highly unlikely anyone will ever offer that.
The mathematical terminology that you dislike has already been well established and well defined after decades of use in many formal publications. It will probably be continued to be used for hundreds of years. In no way is "Enterprise Java Beans" analogous.
Which, for what it's worth, how a lot of the world outside of the US operates.

Taxis are rubbish in Australia, but you also aren't expected to tip.
I wonder if it would be sufficient to set the changelog's merge strategy to union in .gitattributes.
We're working towards that by paying the mortgage of asap. Just boring old living frugally while trying to maximise income. One twist is to rent our place out and rent somewhere cheaper.
But regulation also helps in parts. For example, it (tries) to ensure taxis are available everywhere, not just the profitable areas.
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Not OP, but I'd say consider if you really are all those things. Very few people are, even Zuckerberg isn't, he was a competent coder not a great one but a visionary for sure.

Ultimately no one can have it all, learn to focus on the strengths, though if truly all of those are your strengths break forward and absolutely kill it.
mumble Bayes' Rule mumble :P
"honest and effective government"

Dream on. The Yakuza simply have not been paid off.
Yes, but there's only one evolution track per pokemon (except Eevee which has 3 in gen 1). The optimal strategy for grinding experience is to catch a million pidgeys and evolve them all into Pidgeottos for the experience and then transfer them because Pidgeot isn't that powerful of a pokemon. The optimal strategy for building the pokedex is to catch enough pidgeys to get a Pidgeot and then you don't need to catch any more pidgeys.
For this kind of tool, where performances are definitely not important, I'll pick Python, Ruby and Node all the time. I assume that pip, bundle and npm already did their job and installed everything I need. Then I'm able to look at the code, change a few lines and run it again with only a text editor. The extra steps to download the source code and go through a compiler are not worth the trouble.
To build a better battery, Dyson will spend $1.4B, enlist 3,000 engineers
Looking for a remote front end developer to work together on side project ideas
I'm a hardcore backend dude who can pretty much do anything quickly on backend but working on frontend was always pain for me.

Any frontenders out there who feel the same way and would like to get acquainted and possibly start working together as a team?

Contact me on zhulikas0@gmail.com
Me and my team are planning to move to mattermost, but their Slack import just isn't 100% yet, so we've been holding off on it. For example right now it doesn't import the chat logs of any bot account.

https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-48

While we're not in the biggest rush to move to Mattermost, it does seem to offer more than Slack right now.
I can understand and respect that you're reluctant to write an endorsement of Epsilon and/or a comparison with Emacs. But I'd like to let you know that while starting to read your comment I was looking forward to just that, and now find myself a bit disappointed that you're not sharing some reasons for your enthusiasm.

I was a big fan of Epsilon back in the days when it was an alternative to WordStar and I think I still own an original (paid) copy on floppy disks, but I'm not familiar enough (any more) with its feature set to meaningfully answer the question of what qualifies it above Emacs.

Personally, I'm considering paying $250 just for the nostalgia value. And I love fast editors with an uncluttered surface. The ability to edit arbitrarily long lines and binaries is certainly a plus. But I would appreciate, if you'd reconsider, hearing more arguments to knock me off the fence.
Mostly, your initial years as an independent researcher will be spent working on problems that you had worked on during your doctorate degree. So in most cases, the Ph. D advisor tends to have a lot of influence both in the topic and the style of your research.

There are also many people who end up not working at all in actuality with their advisors, they end up working with fellow grad students etc.

In none of the cases are they from a common pool as you suggest. I think there is a lot of "school" philosophy in mathematics. Most productive groups tend to work on the same topics : analysis, algebra, number theory, probability etc. in the case of Soviet Union, for example, but not many on combinatorics.
> little description of what it does beyond saying it's like EMACS.

If you'd bother to read, instead of expecting a virtual salesman to spoonfeed you make-believe thrash, you'd notice that a summary of "what it does" ( http://www.lugaru.com/epsinfo.html ) and the damn manual, where you can find everything it does, not just "a little description" ( http://www.lugaru.com/pdf.html , http://www.lugaru.com/epsilon-manual.html ), are linked right on the frontpage.
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What are you running it on? Tens of seconds... I remember that, from back when it was rumored that EMACS was an acronym for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". 8 MB of RAM haven't been anything to brag about for a while, though, nor has emacs started in tens of seconds up to a minute.
The economics of taxation are fairly well understood, and they make it clear that not all taxes are equal. In particular, some taxes have higher "deadweight losses" than others, which mean it is much less efficient and more damaging to the economy and to society to rely on them for revenue generation.

And listing commonly discusses taxes from lowest to highest deadweight losses, it goes: Land value tax, property taxes, consumption taxes, income taxes, capital taxes.

> I don't see why the tax code should incentivize passive investment over actual work.

Because to do otherwise causes real harm to all of us, because while even a large tax on, eg, land doesn't notably change the supply of land, a small tax on investment income does reduce the supply of investment. And reduced investment lowers productivity across the industry, reducing worker compensation and making us all as a society poorer.

In short: You get less of what you tax. That makes taxing eg, CO2 production a great idea (we want less of that!), and taxing investment a pretty bad one.

(More generally: The tax code is the worst possible way to do income redistribution, and the American obsession with trying leads to really poor outcomes. If you want to help the poor, try giving them actual money. Regressive taxes funding a progressive welfare state works; the reverse does not.)
Fullstack developer here but I don't mind working on frontend. Let's get in touch!
Is calling rather then messing about with an app so much harder?

It takes me 20-30 seconds to call and order a cab in the UK
>The reason I read is to procrastinate, so the value I get out of it is actually negative (same with HN...). //

Entertainment has value doesn't it? It's not a simple financial value like the simplistic use of opportunity cost as being the price you could bill those hours at, but it's a useful and functional part of being human.

I don't have a problem with you reading something people broadcast to the public internet though.
Isn't the second one just a subset of the first (post-event and excluding the failures)?