skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are included in the OECD total tax wedge numbers.

EDIT: The reason your numbers don't add up is that you can't just add those numbers together with income tax numbers - you also then need to add the amount paid by the employer to the salary to get the gross amount paid for a worker, and recalculate the percentage from the total base.
The BBC is complying with the law. The law is not being enforced unevenly, because there's no enforcement action required there.

> Either you are allowed to discriminate based on race/creed/sexuality/politics or you aren't.

That's not what the law says. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents

The Equality Act allows people to discriminate if it's a proportionate way to achieve a legitimate aim.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/discrimination/what-are-th...
> He held an unpopular view, acted on it, and people weren't happy with him.

Isn't this the plot to every dystopian story ever told ("conform, or else")?

As a lefty, I understand the motivation, but disagree with it- it will never work; you will never change a persons values (positive or negative) via public shaming, all you will do is force the 'undesirable attitudes' underground. As a member of a 'disadvantaged minority', I'd rather have bigotry out in the open and act accordingly. If Trump has as a silver lining, it is dragging all the latent bigotry into the light.

edit: I always like to compare Mozilla to Dropbox. In the immediate aftermath of Eich being forced out, the same boycott mob tried to pressure Dropbox into removing Condoleezza Rice from its board for being a 'war criminal'. In contrast, Dropbox's board didn't blink- they called the bluff and showed unequivocal support for Ms. Rice with a firm "No" and that was the end of it.
The CEO of Dot and Bo explains why the furniture startup failed
Atm does not close anymore at 6pm. You are 10 years behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#Usage_in_North_Ame...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound
Don't make time to untangle. Stay untangled. Live your life. Enjoy it. Have fun. If you have any time left after that, then may be do some of that inconsequential stuff like earning money or achievements. These are nice, if you enjoy doing them, but are not important. Unlike what you've been brainwashed to believe, your life does not depend on those things. Your well-being does not depend on those things. The well-being of your family and children does not depend on those things. It's the other way around.
Ordered one myself too. 8 bucks is way cheap enough just to look at the thing. Assuming it works (no reason to think it wont) I'd pay more.
Would anyone here be interested in a Q&A with the author of this article? I may or may not be able to hook that up if there's enough interest.
False. Its easy to do bank transfers but you have to pay fees even for domestic transfers.
You forgot Kobe in Kansai.
That's incredibly impressive, and well done. I'm glad there is at least one organisation out there protecting even the speech they don't like.
To be fair, we talk about it every time a link from sqlite.org is posted here (/testing.html comes up frequently). What I also like about this project is how well written their documentation is. Thanks to it, it's very easy to read and understand how a particular command or property work and how to use it.
I have no interest in my urls being sent to google for "security checking" (I am aware of the hashing)
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See my comment above about which factual information was never discussed, and which information was misrepresented, and which was omitted.
Most books I've seen use C rather than C#. Bad editor if they don't.
> If you return something that can be moved, it will be moved, always.

How about the example I gave in my reply to your sibling? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12578621
I know the definition. I also know that just the "hidden" cost not presented to people as "tax" is 31.42% of the salary.

The tax rate in itself is generally around 30%.

So something is rotten in Den.. Swedish data. :-)

Anyway, it doesn't change my original argument really. I ignored lots of other costs per employee to sell repair time.

Edit: It is probably that the lowest amount to pay taxes on have been raised a lot since I lived in Sweden. Your data might be correct, at least for people with a low income. (The numbers are too big with 31.42% added to the sum and 30% tax for that to result in 41%.)

Edit 2: Regarding total tax and calculation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Sweden#Example_of_...
And they had no competition because they had it destroyed with illegal practices. And all they got fined with was a slap on the wrist while earning billions.

More ontopic...
IE6 was slightly better than Netscape 4, so almost everyone switched to IE6. Just as now Chrome is only slightly better than Firefox to a lot of people (not to me though). And a lot of people are switching to Chrome.
If you trust Google (an advertising company) to not play the same tricks as MS did, then good luck with your Google Chrome :).
Once Google has a lock on the browser market, who knows what will happen. Another lock-in, and more years of stagnation.
Yes, more conspiracy :).
> most japanese prefer it as a speculative investment.

Lol, you mean the 0.0001 percent of Most Japanese actually.
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My impression is that it was a vote spurned by desire for security and stability, before anything else.
This guy comes up quite often and can we just say that this is very impressive and not everybody could do this.

I've seen tons of articles on HN and reddit about "how he did it and you can too" with different study techniques, such as skim, then re-read thoroughly and write a synopsis line for each paragraph and then at the end of a chapter write an explanation of the stuff. If you can't write a simple explanation (without referring to notes), then redo the reading. Or something along those lines and I don't see how this makes you get through the curriculum faster, or makes it easier to push yourself to study alone for hours everyday.

There are literally 1.000s of students completing this or similar curriculum every year, and basically none of them do it in less than 4 years.

Maybe it is this guy who is just really good at studying.
That's not at all how I understand it, though I am not a lawyer.

Art. 38 basically says that the Nachrichtendienst can intercept data, unless sender and receiver are Swiss (those are indeed defined broadly). Paragraph 2 of Art. 38 basically excludes all swiss-to-swiss cable-communication for the remainder of the text.

Art. 39 then says there needs to be a court order (though there are emergency provisions).

It is my understanding of those laws that a Swiss to Swiss sender/receiver connection may never be intercepted, while all other connections may be intercepted by following Art. 40. and 41.
It's because I have never actually seen happen, hence I went with what I was familiar with.
I wouldn't say near impossible but I think it's definitely much more inconvenient than in other countries. Just the other day I had to move some money between my bank accounts and did exactly that with the ATMs. Because online banking here is a atrocious and I didn't want to deal with any transfer fees.
> So onto my 4th brain scan in the past few years

You really, really need to talk to a different doctor.
I don't find any of your arguments convincing. Despite the off-putting tone of your comment I will address the points you raise.

You suggest that the publication of this article has been timed to coincide with the US election, but the catalyst is clearly the release of the US census data. I don't see any evidence to suggest that the US Census Bureau has a political agenda.

You say that increasing income is going up 'in large part' due to increases in the minimum wage. But this ignores the article's claim that "a main driver behind the impressive 1.2 percentage point decline in the poverty rate ... was that the economy finally hit a tipping point after years of steady, if lukewarm, improvement". Even if we look only at increases in the minimum wage, it seems obvious to me that minimum-wage labour represents a small fraction of total business costs, so such wage increases will only have a small affect on inflation. And the bond market seems to agree: 30-year treasury bonds currently pay 2.33% while the inflation-protected version pays 0.56% [1] so Wall Street expects inflation for the next 30 years will average only 1.77% per year.

You say that the unemployment numbers do not include 2.2 million potential workers who are no longer looking for work. But even if we include these numbers the unemployment rate has still gone from about 11% in 2010 to 6.2% now [2]. That seems perfectly consistent with pulling millions of people out of poverty.

You suggest that 'most' people who have gained insurance under Obamacare cannot afford the high deductibles except for ER visits. But where is the data to back this up?

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bond...

[2] The page
http://www.epi.org/publication/missing-workers/ says that the 'missing workers' would add 1.3% to the current unemployment rate. Since the number of 'missing workers' is roughly unchanged between 2010 and now I would expect that the difference was also about 1.3% in 2010.
Wasn't that sh (aka Bourne shell)? With the infamous "Pascal macros":

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/...

Or is bash just as bad?
Do you mean it's only a matter of preference rather than limited resources?
If my stuff got held for bitcoin ransom, I would definitely consider that to be a novel experience.
This may be silly question but what is behind the interest of developing new Linux desktops?

I have been using Unix/Linux from early 90's and desktops have always been fine most of the time. twm was fine, UDE was fine, FVWM was fine, I would be using them even today except that I'm lazy and satisfied with what comes out of the box. There is different types of eye candy and taskbars etc. but why are they so important? Interaction is not faster or easier than it was before. Configuration is easier but you don't need new desktop for that.
Do they still charge a modest (150 yen'ish) fee after hours? ;)
Are you sure about that? Pounds weight has its own symbol, ℔ (U+2114, http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2114/index.htm if HN won't show it).

I've always known # as representing "number", which is why you see it in lists: #1, #2, #3 etc.
In my experience, while Firefox does lose with Chromium when it comes to slowness (e10s and APZ helps a lot, but still doesn't win), it definitely wins when it comes to power usage and leaves Chromium in dust.
The results of this image editing tool would be a great starting point for matte paintings and for similar applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
Nope. Even if there's adoption due to a possible central bank induced currency collapse, it'll be a small small minority for some time.
And just to add another layer to your observation: the effect you describe is accelerated depending on the technology or programming language if those things are specific to the question. So, for instance, if it's a Perl-related question (we never did it this way, there's 3,827 other ways to do it and your answer is not one of them so I'm voting to close) the Soup Nazi-ism is gonna be worse than, say, a TCP/IP question.
Works on contingency? No, money down!
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I keep hearing about Bitcoin being used to pay for commodities, but will this actually ever scale? With a maximum transaction rate of ~3.5 transactions per second, won't any practical application of Bitcoin for the masses eventually have to be implemented by a bunch of trusted third parties operating off the blockchain and bundling transactions? At that point, we seem to be back to using credit card companies who just happen to use the blockchain for clearing transactions with each other.
> What did email do right that chat did wrong?

It started out decentralised and became ubiquitous and mission-critical before any giants could gain enough market share to control it.

The only thing chat had close to it was IRC, but that has never been ubiquitous nor mission critical, and it's less attractive to newcomers than the proprietary alternatives.
It's the feudalism age of the internet. Everyone needs a lord for protection.
I'm not sure if this is news or not.

You can pay for anything you can buy online (PayPal, Skrill and most payment processors) and with Credit Card using Bitcoin.

In fact, you can create virtual credit cards with bitcoin without any verification for amounts smaller than $2,500.

However, here is the catch: It comes with around 5-10% premium to the Bitcoin spot prices on major exchanges (Coinbase, circle, etc..)

So unless you are buying with something like Gemini (where bank transfers are free) and you are not getting any premium on the bitcoin price, this is not a novelty.

I don't know how accessible Bitcoin is for Japanese consumers; and how much it'd cost (premium over spot) to buy it. But if it is, indeed, easy; this can be huge.

If you are a heavy consumer (say $5,000 per month), 5% will make around $250/month in savings, or $3,000/year. That's something worth the hassle.
I scroll full pages or with the mouse. But I'd really like to have a scroll marker. My not quite working attempt at one: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/20937-red-read-line

With that in working I wouldn't need smoothing much anymore and could scroll half pages without confusion.

I'm currently stuck to pentadactyl, would try vimperator again, but don't want to set it up. Would have to see how to port my pocket script and such.
Are there email servers aimed at Linux noobs?
Try giving VimFx a go. It's a Firefox port of Vimium. Has less features than Vimperator but doesn't alter the browser UI as much. It's also compatible with multiprocess Firefox.
Very cool! Lots of questions!

Could this be used for inverse kinematics?

Would this approach work in 3d?

Could you use it for reverse model binding with DOM elements?
"Everything after "Basically" is misleading and inaccurate.

The conclusions here are not logical: The existence of some restrictions does not imply "Transactions are a lie", since that makes us think ALL transaction semantics are suspended, which is very far from the case.

There are good reasons for the design and restrictions in the BDR design, offering performance about x100 what is possible with eager consensus. Real world pragmatism, with production tools to ensure no inconsistencies exist in the database. The BDR tools allow you to trap and handle run-time issues, so it is not a theoretical debate or a mysterious issue, just a practical task for application authors to check their apps work.

"Consistent reads are a lie". Reads from multiple nodes at the same time are not guaranteed to be consistent - but this is multi-master - why would you read two nodes when all the data is on one node? The whole point is to put the data you need near the users who need it, so this is designed to avoid multiple node reads.

I could go on, and will do in a longer post elsewhere, but the main purpose of my retort is to show that the conclusions drawn here are not valid. Let's see how the hacker news method of consensus decides what is correct in this case.
Markets can fix the issue. But the market may need regulation to ensure externalities are captured. E.g. taxing energy and recycling costs, and taxing based on expected lifetime (e.g. a tax that reduces the longer full repair warranty you offer).

For the "taxing recycling cost" we have an example in the case of bottles. Norway for example has a reducing bottle tax that starts at a certain rate for non-recyclable drinks containers or containers that are recyclable but aren't. The tax rate then drops proportional to your proven recycling rates, and falls away completely if your rate is high enough. Having distributors take back failed products is great, but it's insufficient in that they have no reason to encourage consumers to return broken products, and often have a strong disincentive to (they end up having to pay or the transport and recycling).

Basically, we should expect companies to either make society good for environmental externalities related to their products, or pay what it costs society to make other arrangements, so that these costs end up getting priced into the products so we can make our buying decisions accordingly.
If Mining in Space Is Possible, Why Aren’t We Doing It?
Hm, when we evaluated Cassandra not long ago, a simple full disk error managed to get it into an unusable state, and even external experts couldn't recover it. I know it is used extensively by many companies, but this was not exactly encouraging.
Yes, Sierra is the first one that is not compatible.
I think I used the wrong word. Perhaps "hold reserves" of Bitcoin. There are some with large stashes who accumulated it in the early days.

And like you said, there are also people who see holding BTC as an investment. But they are probably not paying for their leccy with it.
>Think PHP vs. Python, PHP may cut few corners but it's not ideal language for teaching generic concepts.

Maybe not even Python, suggest go or rust. My generation we started learning CS with Pascal and moved to C, when we had a bit more understanding.
> they force me to use the insecure and terribe flash plugin that crashes every time

You mean Adobe's terrible plugin. It's a totally black box. Mozilla has nothing to do with the plugin development.
It's the same for Asia. If USA had no mimimum wage and it wasn't a faux pas to have a working relation that involved somebody working nearby without acknowledging them, I'm sure many many people would also have maids. (The weirdest part is going to a home and seeing your host confused as to why you thank or interact with their maid!)
Granted, it's a niche.
>However, this is a very favorable interpretation of the data. Incomes are going up in large part due to increases in the minimum wage

This is largely attributable to the fight for 15:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food_worker_strikes
> I really would like to see bi-temporal table support eventually come to PG

> Is anybody aware somebody working on that for PG?

Not that I am aware of.

Postgres is a fantastic database, and with zero licensing headaches, but when people ask why companies are still paying for commercial DBMS engines, some features that they have which Postgres does not have, and which I often miss are :

1)"temporal" / versioned tables / time consistent views of data . Oracle has a lot of "flashback" related options at the DB and table levels which can be really useful.

2) Easy, built-in partitioning for large datasets. (This is being worked on and will probably start to be released in Postgres 10).

3) Better backup options for large databases, such as incremental/differential backups.

In the Yandex migration from Oracle to Postgres I recall that this, ie incremental backups, is one of the things they mentioned it would be great to have.

4) Along with backups, the built-in recovery options in Postgres are fairly basic compared to what you can do regarding single table recovery, corruption repair etc that other DBs have.
How would Glass-Steagall have prevented, or even affected, the events of 2008?
I cannot up-vote you enough for your response. Thanks for filling in the gaps.
Not really and the whole thing is a huge pain the ass if you want your emails to be received by Gmail/Yahoo/etc. recipients.
Numeric age for D: Mir GLAS is faster than OpenBLAS and Eigen
Postgres-R is dead. No need to look.

Postgres-XC has never implemented multi-master, so don't look there. Postgres-XZ, if it exists, is a closed-source fork of XC by a Chinese company.

Postgres-XL implements cluster scaling for queries and transactions. It is alive and well.
http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/when-to-use-postgres-bdr-or-post...

X2 is the developers of XL and XC working together to see if we can help each other; there is no separate code from that initiative.
And simultaneously, my government (Germany) is only capable of thinking about how to make immigration even harder.
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I'm guessing the lack of APIs is due to the Assistant being in a preview state, and that we'll see the start of a slew of them on Oct 4, when things like Google Home are released (and are also powered by the Assistant, according to the assistant if you ask it what Google Home is).

Right now, you can ask the assistant to turn on/off lights, call a taxi, etc, and it just responds with "I can't do that yet."
Email allows just enough delay for antispam to do its work in, plus a whole range of antispam solutions involving backoff. Chat requires much lower latency.

Any federated/distributed chat system would have to deal with spam and abuse upfront in its design, or people would just migrate back towards controlled systems without those problems.

There's a second issue of where the chat continuity should be kept across devices, which favours hosted systems.

(There's no fundamental reason why you couldn't build an SMTP-based chat system by imposing convention on top of the protocol, favouring short messages with no Subject header. It's just that, as implemented, email is a little too slow.)
It's simply easier to determine when an object ends with a delimiter...

{"dtm":"2016-...",...,meta:{...}}

That requires more complicated input processing/streaming than read until '\n' then parse the record...
As a non-German: Please do explain the etymology here
Why we moved our team 1,500 miles away for a month
KDE Connect is easily the one desktop application that adds the most value for me in day-to-day use, on the scale of "How could I ever live without this?"

(Although it would be nicer if it were a desktop-agnostic "Linux Connect", but the sad state of XDG means that this might never happen.)
I don't know about transfer between banks, but I do remember that when I left Japan in 2007 I withdrew all my money in cash, walked to the post office, and sent it to my Swedish bank. That saved me several days and a whole lot of transfer fees.
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I really can't agree - one major area is CSS 3D transforms. Firefox recently broke stacking order (again) context in 3D in the 49 release, and continues to have very poor aliasing artifacts. Chrome/Safari/Edge have pretty solid implementations.

Here's just one of the many bugs filed on the topic: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187209. Firefox can have major (breaking) paint bugs filed and have "Status: NEW" for basically an entire year.
Don't forget to add their 25% VAT rate if you actually want to spend your money.. so you end up with 42.7% + 25%. That's nuts.