skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh well thats easy fix: require companies to be employee owned if they want the legal protection limited liability incorporation.

Now the workers are the share holders and reinvesting in other businesses is called consuming.

God I'm good at this.
I think you are seeing what isn't there. Of course that's the definition of a hole.

"Is there some sort of deeper meaning or purpose to the hole?

No."
> Which healthcare subsidy would result in riots in the streets?

Off the top of my head, Medicare and veteran's health benefits. I don't know that ceasing flexible spending accounts (money put in an account, pre-tax, just for medical/health expenses) and the tax deduction for medical expenses above a certain amount would be riot-worthy.
Are we sure this isn't some ruse to fund a fallout shelter?
The multiplier effect exists, but in the broken window fallacy all it does is multiply the wasted effort.

The company mining sand is wasting sand and people's time mining the sand for the broken window.

The company that melts the sand into glass is wasting time and energy making the glass for that window.

The company that transports the window to the distributor is wasting storage space, energy(gas), and salary transporting it to the retail location(Home Depot).

The retail company is wasting storage space on the window, and perhaps a couple minutes of a salesperson's time.

The handyman is wasting his time when he installs a window to no benefit.

The insurance company is wasting their time handling the claim, and is implicitly costing everyone else in their client pool time with increased premiums.

And the person whose window was broken has their time wasted working in order to pay for the new window.

Any property that any of these people use is wasted, because if your office processes claims for broken windows the portion of the rent used for office space is wasted. (For example, if you spend enough time on broken windows, you might need extra staff and therefore a larger property.)

In each of these, maybe only a few minutes, seconds, or milliseconds(in the case of the sand needed) is wasted. But the entire ripple effect is ultimately a waste. In some cases, there appears to be no effect because a company may have additional capacity already available. But if you make a complete accounting of all effects, it is all a waste.

When I look at issues in economics, I like to erase the money entirely, since money is often nothing more than an accounting tool to make a graph reduction problem easier. In the case of a broken window, all you've done when you eliminate the money is waste resources, land usage, and many people's time.

Contrast this with a new window for a brand new building: Presumably that building is being used for some productive purpose, so the entire supply chain is implicitly being used for a productive purpose.
2011-x chips contain custom and undisclosed additions for these biggest customers ("Big seven") already. These are in all 2011-x SKUs made from the same chip, but are said to be disabled through fusing, just like other feature fuses.
That's the whole point! Reread the opening sentence -- "the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society."
Yea, but we get a hole out of this, so I'd say it's a net win.
No, but neither was Batista.
Obviously this ad network can do what they want. They can work with or not work with any website they desire. But I do worry about companies who control money becoming vigilantes attempting to support points of view they agree with and squash points of view they disagree with.

I would be more interested in these networks dropping clickbait and known fake news websites (maybe they do, I just haven't seen the equivalent news story on that).
>But now learning of the extent of the horrors of oppression, those outweigh any social welfare "results".

>Castro should be remembered for the suffering he caused - all of it preventable.

>"distinguished legacy"

Isn't all the same true about Obama[0][1][2], perhaps to a lesser degree but still true? Will we eulogize him in the same way?

[0]http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/06/07/obamas-surveillance-stat...

[1]http://www.mintpressnews.com/barack-obama-the-nobel-peace-pr...

[2]http://warisacrime.org/content/why-obama-torturing-private-b...
No, most companies cannot organize as partnerships, because corporate structure also governs the way equity is distributed.
Looks like this is just clickbait article. It beats Intel on price alone from what we can see.
The keyboard on my 2013 MBP had too much play in the keys, and the new keyboard is better in that respect. In general, I'm not fussy about keyboards -- I usually adapt to a new one quickly. I'd recommend that you try out the new keyboard at an Apple Store and decide for yourself.
I've written an introductory book on Go http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook, it taught hoe to write a webapp in Go without using a framework.

Earlier, it taught basic html, now I am rewriting the Tasks app, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks/, to use the front end framework http://vuejs.org, using the learning of my experiment, I'm putting together anther series of tutorials, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs.

Thid is because I wanted an easy to understand tutorial which doesn't expect the user to have anything more than basic html/css/js knowledge.

edit: links
One tidbit is Google themselves saying they'll roll skylake out in cloud early next year.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-G...
For sure. Buy to let landlords are definitely enjoying the 500% increase in house prices and skyrocketing rents that came after that.

The shift in wealth from people who do things to people who own things has been palpable.
I think what he meant was, be like me, and to do that, quit those services.
CAH would never admit it, but I feel like at least part of this can be seen as political commentary.

From the top of their page: "The holidays are here, and everything in America is going really well" (emphasis mine).

It's hard for me not to read the last part of that as sarcasm, given many people's reaction to the recent US election.

Perhaps CAH is saying that the US is digging itself a hole by electing Trump and a Republican Senate.
The whole digging holes theory of aggregate demand is what's called "vulgar Keynesianism"
Should police be able to force you to hand over your digital passwords?
The thing is, I live in Hong Kong. And if you tried to pull off this kind of thing here, even on land that you own, it's possibly illegal unless you have other paperwork done because you may damage fibre optics cables or rupture a cooking gas pipe or whatever.
I'm actually a little terrified that this is not the first comment I have seen on HN today that is praising Castro.

This is NOT ok, and I'm shocked that it's even a thought to entertain here on HN.
In theory the compiled output should be the same as clang (if there are no bugs) being that this is just an optimized clang where compile structures are cached.
If we were to abolish corporate taxes, would this make it trivial to avoid paying taxes on any money above what you need for consumption by routing all your pay through a shell company where you keep it until you need it? Seems like it would be essentially the equivalent of removing contribution caps on 401ks.

Interested to hear if there is a reason people couldn't do this, or why it doesn't matter.
And Eritrea
I've been teaching myself web development and recently completed a project I started on that's a website/jobs board for remote jobs: https://remotefriendly.work.
Jim Simons funds a lot of basic research with his gains. Not sure whether the others do anything as useful or interesting.

There are billionaires who do more useful things than just buying more houses, planes, etc. E.g. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, etc.
I used to live in Buffalo, NY. There are things there I never saw throughout my travels of South America.
I think what's interesting about this, is how you can manipulate online users by creating the perception that something is awesome and popular even if it actually isn't, using the magic of online marketing.

The only reason people think CAH is worth it, is because they think other people think it is funny and not stupid. If nobody cared about it, you wouldn't either.
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Salesforce CEO is telling an odd story about how Microsoft tricked him
Or is it more likely they found someone who was already digging a hole and asked to be able to video it?
The subsidies probably overall increase the cost that the consumer is paying. The federal government pays farmers to not plant or reduce the overall supply thus leading to higher prices. There tend to be more tariffs in the US on food stuffs as well which prevents cheaper imports that would benefit the consumer.

One item in consumer's favor is that food items are usually exempt or treated at a lower sales tax rate.
Mhm. I'm confused.

The value of a caching compiler should really become apparent in incremental builds, as in rebuilding after changing a single file. Yet the author talks about "not seeing any improvements".

Like he said, he might be doing something wrong.

The speedup observed anyway might come from the compilers having to rebuild/instantiate templated code everytime it's included.
Described above (and gave examples of two mainstream libraries; with smaller one its much more serious). If there is a new package, its likely to be either totally not working on Python 3, or be undertested. So there is a delay, before I can use something with Python 3. (Nothing about the Python 3 itself, but about its ecosystem.)

At the same time, I hardy see any strong points, in which Python 3 is much better for data science. (Examples?)
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You can't redefine words to mean what you want them to mean. Some taxes are progressive, some are regressive.

A progressive tax means you pay a greater % of taxes, the more money you have -- like income tax in the US. That's just the definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax
Rolling my own ergonomic back-up tools atm (implementing incremental, secure backups of MySQL dbs, IMAP Emails and Filesystem) because solutions already exist and I'm a silly person who hates himself and the safety of his data.
So I'd actually have to share my profits? I'm being incentivized to create value for others already. Damn, you're good at this.
I'm working on a GitLab CI tutorial. :)
I will never describe sluggish software as "running like molasses" again.
If I'm purchasing a physical item where quality matters and I don't want to end up with a shoddy product or cheap knockoff, I don't buy from Amazon. Exceptions are books and the occasional AmazonBasics cable.

It's a shame, because they had a great service, and their delivery infrastructure remains great. But I don't need same day delivery if you're delivering junk.
Life is not fair, nor a meritocracy. I'd love U.K. Or Canadian citizenship. Even as a US citizen, I need to get in line like everyone else.
In my opinion the whole reason people think it's fraud is because a lot of voters seems to think we're in a direct democracy and have no understanding whatsoever what a representative democracy is, what Electorate College is and what purpose it serves. Seriously, stop a random person on the streets and ask them. Everything else is just adding fuel to the fire.
> Are you really wanting to ask "is it fair" or "is it just" or "is it good for society"?

Yes, of course that's what the eevilspock is asking.
> Customers which the article goes on to name as Google and Facebook. Although, I cannot find any corroborating evidence to support this claim. Supercomuting 16 is now over, and I see no other articles detailing how "Intel is playing favorites with Skylake Xeons in a way that will shatter the industry status quo." SemiAccurate is literally the only site I can find professing this scenario.

SemiAccurate has a pretty good track record with these kinds of rumors and analysis. They're not right 100% of the time, but they're right enough that it's clear they aren't just making things up.
In my personal time I'm building a nice way to have all my "watch later" videos on youtube in one list, for fast access. At work I am building a react native application that does video streaming.
Both nice and challenging. :)
>I think the main argument for abolishing corporate taxes is that they're inherently regressive, if we assume that the taxes get passed on to either consumers (who may be poor) in the form of higher prices, or investors (like grandma holding retirement shares) in the form of lower stock prices.

You can assume anything you like but in reality, grandma doesn't own the majority of US stocks, the 1% does and the tax incidence doesn't land on consumers it lands almost entirely on shareholders.

Sales tax is an example of a tax incidence that lands mostly just on consumers.
> Have to be careful with definitions.

OK, so let's spell it out explicitly. The term "alt-right" was created by Richard Spencer, who is often described as a white supremacist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Spencer

> Spencer advocates for a white homeland for a "dispossessed white race" and calls for "peaceful ethnic cleansing" to halt the "deconstruction" of European culture.[16][22][23]
As far as I know, Trump paid all the taxes that he was legally required to pay.
I don't know if this is manipulation, CAH has a history of mocking Black Friday and making "in your face" jokes. I bet most people who send the money did it because they share the sentiment behind the joke, or just to have something fun to say to friends next time.
Congrats to the CaH team for privatizing this public need. That's entrepreneurship at its finest.
So you're saying it's a logical impossibility for a dictator to act in the best interest of the people? Does some switch flip where all of a sudden they have no free will?

Don't get me wrong, I think the circumstances that lead to a dictator becoming a dictator make it very unlikely, but to call it impossible just seems crazy to me.
I have several courses on Udemy.com. They sometimes go slightly out of date as frameworks release breaking changes.
Right now, I'm just about to upload some updates to my most popular course on React/Redux: https://www.udemy.com/react-redux/?couponCode=HAOW8983
Swift's Magic Behind Custom Operators
So, eliminate corporate tax but at the same time increase capital gains tax, i.e. stop taxing it differently (less) than earned income? My concern with that is people shifting their wealth to be held by a private corporation instead of personally held; "it's not my yacht, it belongs to Extra88 Inc." I think additional changes would need to be made to the nature of corporations to avoid abuse.
Reddit has infamously tried to be a free speech platform. They've allowed misogynists, nazis, rabid Trump devotees, and fat-haters a place to spew. The result of that spewing has been an enormous amount of trolling and harassment which ends up silencing people and making Reddit less diverse.

At some point you have to choose whose free speech you value more. Reddit has made some small attempts to stop the harassment, which in turn has made Reddit somewhat more diverse. Because misogyny has become a little less prevalent, I'm seeing more women on the site.

Free speech, as far as internet forums go, is not a black and white issue.
Self hosted, low footprint system health monitoring for the .NET world. Which actually serves as a good test bed for a couple of open-source projects of mine. One released, one isn't yet.
So if you execute one person, you may as well keep going, because you're already evil and there's no scale?
My point still stands. (1) All of those support jobs are still tiny compared to the employment of other industries. (2) Many of those support jobs can be either automated away, or barely pay minimum wage. (3) Most of the support jobs that DO pay well still have the dynamic where a top tiny percent make the lion's share of income. The best CGI artists make multiples more than good ones. Same thing with Hollywood personal trainers, same thing with lighting directors.
There’s nothing to prevent taxing foreign owners of domestic corporations separately to make up for that -- taxation across borders is a separate issue.

As for deferrals, it's the same as with capital gains -- if you have a $1 stock that grows to $1,000, your taxes are deferred until you sell it. A greater harmonization of tax deferral period is a good idea. Either everybody should get to do it, or nobody. But this is a separate issue, that should be totally divorced from corporate tax.
Changing the headline on HN doesn't redeem this; you'll still being linking the boingboing story with the same false headline. Just delete it and be more careful in the future.

As for my username, that's your call: ban it or don't. I'll call out fake stories with this account or some other either way.
Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower
I think a good example of this is tcc, one of the fastest C compilers I've seen --- because it doesn't do much optimisation at all and is single-pass, it can generate code as it parses, but the output is dismally inefficient.

Another example of ultrafast compilation is Delphi, but once again the generated code looks more like a dumb line-by-line translation with plenty of redundant and unnecessary instructions (making decompiling interesting in that it easily produces something quite close to the original source.)
I've been writing this app that lets teachers group kid together based on their performance on an assessment. The idea is that you'd try putting things together in groups that answered questions differently so that they could talk about it and either reinforce their mental models (or test just how robust they are) by teaching a peer or ridding themselves of misconceptions by having a peer help them out. I wrote a GA in Python a few months ago that would take vectors of answers and would group them together and it worked surprisingly well. Now I'm designing the webapp for teachers to orchestrate the whole thing (LMS integration, seeing groups, etc.). I wrote a prototype in Angular 1.x and now that I understand what I'm trying to accomplish really well, it's become my pet project to learn React as I implement a more robust version of it.
We can simply restrict our attention to one country, as they did in the study, to eliminate that variability. What is the bias?
With three cars parked on it they might.
Thanks for your course. I was a little wary of Udemy courses because they're too cheap, but yours was the first one that I bought and I loved.
I'm writing a math book for programmers. https://jeremykun.com/2016/04/25/book-mailing-list/
Also often wastes fuel, time and other precious resources manufacturing physical swag that will end up in trash cans after the company inevitably dies. Externalities of the hole are at least related to the hole itself.
Routinely, no.

As part of the total cost of home ownership over a lifetime, a lot of people probably do spend tens of thousands of dollars on their lawns. Especially if they have an HOA telling them what their front and back yards should look like at all times. Much less fun than just digging a big hole!
A Twitter bot called @AmazonArtReview that tries to find funny 1-star reviews of media on Amazon. It's using some crude machine learning and just a fun side project.

Finding humor's tough! I've read some papers on finding humor in reviews, e.g. https://cs224d.stanford.edu/reports/OliveiraLuke.pdf. That's been helpful. It'd be great if I could use the Yelp review set for finding humor as they did but the humor doesn't translate between data sets. Mostly it's still manual curation, which is ok too.

https://www.twitter.com/AmazonArtReview
Been writing iii and extensions for it the past week.

https://github.com/Foxboron/iii

https://github.com/Foxboron/wii

iii is an reimplementation of ii (http://tools.suckless.org/ii/) with TLS support and a few misc features.

Currently adding small tools over it to make an IRC client. The plan is to have iii as the client, wii as the web-protocol-client and then write tii as a terminal app which can either communicate with wii or iii directly.

It's a neat project to learn go and write small simple programs that come together.

The end goal is to also try stream some development and see how that goes. I really enjoy it so far.
I was under the impression that the trillions in question were made here, accounting tricks (e.g. IP licensing) were used to pretend that the money was made overseas, and then it was left overseas until the political system could be bribed into allowing a tax holiday. CMV.
AWS e-learning course – interested?
We are planning to develop a MOOC for AWS. Would anybody here be interested in joining it?
I had a fiddle around with one yesterday and compared to my 2011 Air they keyboard is far more crisp and, as you said, reliable.
Something simple that I can work on when I have 20 minutes here or there: an argv parser.

https://github.com/sailormoon/flags
I'm open sourcing one small component from one webapp we have: the pull to refresh feature. It is vanilla javascript, super light and fast, and it won't require you to modify the markup.
Get to the facts and stop telling me how to think
You may be interested in the fantastic Microcorruption CTF, which uses the real-world MSP 430 microcontroller.

(Also anyone interested in TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O should at least take a look)

[1] https://microcorruption.com/
Isn't deliberate lack of purpose also a purpose?
The Camless Engine of the Future Is Almost Ready for the Real World
Citizens chose to use the law to protect gay people in those areas, and haven't done so for tabloid news organizations. That's the difference.
What do you think grandma's savings are tied up in? A significant share of it is in equities.

And it's completely irrelevant what percentage of corporations are owned by savers in the 99% vs the 1% -- corporate taxes lower the value of those shares for all of them equally. They hit grandma just as hard.
Applied for the beta program day before yesterday, hope I get in.
Created this recently: https://github.com/adtac/climate

Climate provides a huge number of command line options for developers to automate their Linux system. Learnt a lot about shell script and various unix tools.
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Working for the amazing guys at MozillaVR, preparing our next webVR demo using A-Frame (http://aframe.io), to be released very soon!

Our previous one was A-Painter, a kind of tilt brush in a browser (https://blog.mozvr.com/a-painter/). Having lots of fun doing this stuff :)
I've been working on validating my thought that country music lyrics are all about very similar (and very cliche) topics, and I realized I needed to label all the lyrics I scraped from Genius. Since there are 5000 or so, and I didn't want to have to do all of it myself or rigged with some google doc, I built an app to more easily collect training data. It's generalized to allow for different question types and different documents other than just text as well.

It's also a front in case people want to get in contact for general data scraping or ML needs that I can help with, but the main app is the platform for training data.

I don't have a name for it, which is why it's running with a Heroku url, so suggestions are welcome!

https://fierce-mountain-21498.herokuapp.com/
Double-vision? They could be the same fundraiser.