skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"but the world becomes a better place when we push tribalism to the sidelines."

It seems we're putting the cart before the horse however - allowing immigration first, and trying (unsuccessfully) to get rid of tribalism second. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
> Needless to say, for a nearly $3,000 machine, this list is hard to accept. So much so that I’m seriously considering returning the machine.

It seems, "wonderful", wouldn't be the author's word of choice to describe this new laptop. I kind of share his point of view, as we've just order a new set of 2013 MBP at work. Those are great machines and I will probably buy the next one if Apple starts making laptops for developers again. Otherwise, it will be Lenovo or Dell xps.
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Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich–Then Vegas Made Them Pay (2014)
Not all corporations are domestically owned and the owners that you propose to tax may reside outside US tax jurisdiction. Lowering corporate tax rates and raising domestic taxes would effectively mean that foreign owners of US corporations would effectively have a profit advantage over domestic owners.

Also corporations have a lot of discretion in when they distribute profits. A zero tax rate would effectively create the equivalent of an unlimited 401K/IRA. The corporate tax rates the US has today are in many ways the result of the high personal tax rates in the 70's that resulted in a lot of people creating what the IRS called "personal holding corporations" to defer taxes.

Does it make sense that a guy working for a $150K wage would be limited to deferring $16K in income while a consultant working for the same amount could defer taxes on any amount over what he chose to spend?
You think AppNexus ceasing to do business with Breitbart is a sign of a totalitarian society? And you're not being hyperbolic? Genuine question, not trying be clever.

Arguably it's a sign of a free society, free association and all that. What would a society where people and firms weren't free to boycott and disassociate from firms they didn't like be like?
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Uhm can someone explain to nonUS audience what exactly is this Cards Against Humanity?
There is no such thing as empty land. From the billions of microbes to the insects, worms; the fungi, the grass... something just lost their home or food
Dodge v. Ford is garbage and has been understood to be garbage for a long time. If you need convincing, please provide a link to the shareholder lawsuit filed against Costco management for not paying Sam's Club wages.
Full disclosure: I'm not a full-time remote worker, but my team has VoIP conference calls if someone's working from home on a particular day (so whenever someone's sick, or if the weather's too bad for someone to make a distant commute). I've been on both sides of these calls.

My personal preference is a combination of the Blue Yeti[0] and a pair of Sony MDR-7506[1] phones. This is a really comfortable setup since I can have the Yeti a bit off to the side (not blocking my monitor) while still picking up good quality sound, and I can also step away from my desk (e.g. to look for some files) without worrying that the headphone cable's going to be too short.

I've also got the headphones plugged directly into the mic's 3.5mm jack, which means I can control output volume from the microphone (which I find more comfortable than a keyboard).

[0] http://www.bluemic.com/products/yeti/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_MDR-V6
You really think it became peaceful ca 1100? :-)

Please read some history. It was no better, it was just not internationally infamous clan societies for a while. Then we had violent national states (check e.g. Polish deluge or the 30 year war).
I just got an alert like this yesterday, did not understand what it was until I saw this.
Decent quality earbuds for hearing, and the built-in stereo mic on my Logitech webcam (I'm usually docked when conferencing). Never heard any complaints about clarity of my voice.

* Used this for 4 years a a remote developer with multiple meetings per day. The conferencing software is where everything usually falls apart.
So why don't you pay more? Is there a law in your country that prevents you from paying more than your are forced to? Aren't you allowed to donate money to your government? Sounds like this is the best investment a person can make.
I agree that Fidel Castro made many mistakes and is responsible for many atrocities. But the plight of Cuba is not his doing alone.

He leaves behind a Cuba that was embargoed by the US, their closest and largest trade partner after the US had staged a failed invasion to overthrow the government. This forced them into the Soviet sphere of influence for supplies and trade.

Then, when the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the cold war, it could no longer support Cuba. The island nation was driven further into poverty and essential goods like food and medicine became scarce.

And what did the US do at that point? Did they reopen diplomatic relations and try to find some rapprochement after an era of high tensions? No. Instead they decided that now was an excellent time to extend their embargo to include food and medicine as well, which were up to that point exempt from the trade ban.

To point to a single man and his inner circle as the sole cause for the sad state Cuba is in today is just as absurd as to deny the wrongs of the Castro regime, nor did he only do bad things for the Cuban people. The "trope" of education and healthcare being available to all is not some straw man. It is a legitimate achievement, and one that many nations the world around have not been able to match, no matter their affluence.
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Yep, I got the rayban one yesterday.
Hasta siempre, Comandante Fidel Castro. It was a huge victory succeed in a revolution, survive hundreds of kill attempts coming from USA and then, die of natural causes at 90.
"...most likely got away with paying these people below-minimum-wage..."

Source?

(Having the majority of your workers off the books tends to look funny.)
Tech companies complain there aren't enough high-skilled workers. Small businesses lament there are too few low-skilled workers. In the end, they are both saying the same thing: they want more workers for less money.
> Yes, it's wrong for a candidate who is down in the polls to start screaming "rigged" before a single vote is cast.

Even if the polls are rigged?
I doubt that pointing out this mistake will result in anal rape.
This is one of the greatest things I have ever seen. Much better than the laser cutting of a Picasso. CAH is the OK Go of postmodern satire and have outdone themselves. Really incredible art.

I imagine many people not getting this is the same feeling I had growing up and being dragged to museums.
I think they're required to do it that way if they're preparing their financial statements in accordance with IFRS or U.S. GAAP.

In the case of processing fees, I'd expect those to be what makes up most of the 'Cost of Revenue' line on the statement. In a company selling physical goods, it would be called 'Cost of Good Sold'. Basically, the cost of the raw materials you had to acquire to build your products. Because of this, they tend to scale in proportion with revenue, and it looks like this is the case for Shopify. Their cost of revenue is a little under 50% of revenue, so I don't think it's fair to say their revenue can never be profitable.

In terms of profitability, their net loss isn't that big as a percentage of revenue. They could probably, if they wanted to, let revenue grow for a while without increasing staffing levels or advertising spend too much - it wouldn't take long for them to be profitable. But if you've got enough cash on hand to run a relatively small loss in order to continue growing, solidify your position in the market, and expand into new markets (like they've been doing recently with Shopify POS) it makes sense to do so. They have

Right now, they have $409.39 in cash and short term investments. That money isn't going to help you much just sitting in the bank, and using it to grow the company will probably result in a significantly higher ROI than other things they could invest the money in. The way it looks to me, they're not running a loss because they have to. It looks like they've made a conscious decision to do so, and it looks like that decision is a good one based on the company's financial position.
You should have posted that reply to toomuchtodo, who was the one saying that Mexico should be emulating China, who's dependent on the lack of those trade barriers.
> Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages.

Can someone explain this to me? I was under the impression that wages were expenses and non-taxable. So if they paid higher wages so they ended up with no profits they would have to pay no tax.
They make some party card games where you win by coming up with the funniest combination of the cards you are dealt.
> However, the man has committed grievous crimes, keeps 'his people' in abject poverty, on an 'island prison'.

I didn't really want to comment in this thread but to be clear, the US embargo has kept Cuba in abject economic poverty not Castro.
A card game about combining cards to funny/offensive combinations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cards_Against_Humanity
They're not just ceasing to do business. They're making baseless accusations.

A totalitarian world view is one in which someone no longer feels obliged to just offer their services or goods in free exchange, but to also insist that those they do business with also subscribe to their way of thinking.

These things are rarely related.
As a former member of the non-US audience who don't know what exactly is this Cards Against Humanity, I can confirm it's better to remain under the bliss of ignorance.
I think the interesting thing about this is to think how weird our economy functions, because at the end of this, all we will have is a net gain for the economy and an empty hole.
I've worked with smart domestic and immigrant workers. I've also worked with incompetent domestic and immigrant workers. There is a shortage of talent and there is abuse of immigrant worker vidas. These are both indisputable.

Even I, an American expat, is an immigrant worker. I'm well compensated for my work. And that's how it should be. But there are employers m that abuse h1b, E, and L visa schemes and they prefer the system just he way it is. Abusing immigrant workers and undermining domestic wages.
I got curious about how CPU-intensive it would be to run a server for a game like agar.io or diep.io. In these games there are a lot of circles moving around on a 2D map, and you have to check collisions between them.

First was a naive Python version. Test every circle against every other circle for collision, O(N^2). This way I managed only 200 circles on my playing field. I wanted to see how much faster it would be rewritten in C. That got me to 1500 circles.

Now obviously the way I was checking for collisions is silly, some kind of subdivision of space is required to avoid having to check everything against everything. I split the playing field into a grid, and only test collisions between circles in nearby grid cells. That got me to 3000 circles running in Python.

Next I want to write that in C as well, to see how fast it would go.
Stripe has raised $150M at a $9B valuation
There's 4 examples of headlines that might just display the kind of speech that a company really doesn't want to be associated with.

To wit: the free speech clause of the first amendment is designed to forbid the government from passing laws that abridge free speech. It's human nature and literally unenforcable for that to mean that people must be tolerable of all forms of speech, and that companies must provide equal footing to all forms of speech. Even if this ad network was "biased", it's a function of the downpressure on crazy speech that people be allowed to not associate themselves with speech that's unrepresentative of their views
> stash trillions of income overseas

You mean, if you went abroad, produced trillions of income, left said income there and came back to your country?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/08/wesley-snipes-r...
This U.S. election has been an important inflection point in displaying the bias and application of bias by "apparently" disinterested entities like Twitter, reddit and the like - places that claim to advocate diversity and openness, yet struggle to do so in the face of conflict. I hope this spawns a renewed push for education into why things like freedom of speech and tolerance are so important.

It all goes back to people being people. For us humans it's too easy to break the rules because we think we know what's best, etc. As the saying goes, history too easily repeats itself. Castro's passing is perhaps ironic in the timing.
I just found the site 5 minutes a go.

I still can't stop laughing.

This is so marvelously stupid, I love it.

What do I get for contributing money to the hole?
A deeper hole. What else are you going to buy, an iPod?
After using it off and on for several years, I ended up paying for it. I hardly regret it; it's a drop in the bucket for the number of times it's helped me.
I hope that next year they will fill it back in. Or maybe even this holiday season if they can get enough funds.
It is legal to declare war.
To their credit, neither Clinton or Obama are participating in this sh*tshow.

It's sponsored by their much less reasonable voting base.
this is awesome. geeks are humans only chance against hopelessness & despair. fixing global warming, improving democracy, transportation, space travel... are all here because of us geeks. Rise up & be proud. We have a voice. A strong voice. (& in america unfortunately we must overstate our voice due to the non-representation of congress, the electoral college and hence the supreme court)
> complete free speech is not good

That's more of a general European rhetoric. We (unfortunately) don't have free speech even in democratic capitalism!
Obamacare is quite recent, and Medicaid has only been available in all states since 1982. There are some tax deductions for medical care, though those usually only apply to middle-class workers with benefits anyways.

Which healthcare subsidy would result in riots in the streets?

Also keep in mind that the US has been without the 16th amendment longer than it has been with it, so anything based off of an income tax must not be intrinsically important enough to automatically result in street riots. Though of course an irresponsible and sudden withdrawal could certainly cause problems.
Not entirely true (expat from 2011 to 2013, please seek qualified tax professional advice).

The US grants an exemption of something like $60K/year for income earned entirely outside the US. It has to be paid by a non US entity in local currency. And, IIRC, there were a few other requirements.

They will also credit you with any income tax you may have paid in your country of residence.

You are correct that you're pretty well screwed in a high cost-of-living country as the base exemption won't go far. But then, you're pretty well screwed by the IRS sticking its nose into the bank accounts of US citizens looking for transactions of $10,001.
No one said they were constrained by money for current products. You can always take on more projects and spend more money.

Apple, for example, is always extremely focused. Their products fit on one table.

Google's moonshots could get very expensive, especially if they venture farther into healthcare.

$20 billion R&D budgets can't be too hard to achieve.
http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/
Prenuptial agreements may not be the best example for your argument. Ask any divorce lawyer, and you'll learn that they're basically a legal fiction used to fool the rich that they can safely marry the poor.
There are lots of very legitimate reasons, but a very common example might be vendor upgrades of core software for coding, integrations, dictation, etc. Fairly standard procedure to do (at least) a one off just in case backup of a database before running a big code update.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cards_Against_Humanity

It's a card game where a group of people piece together sentences with cards with phrases and words. One of the funniest "party games" I've played.
why is it every dissenting opinion is equal. I could say crazy stuff does that make it even? Breitbait is a tabloid. It does some news but not "hard" news. I have seen a few things obviously sensitization on it and some really bad news. I wouldn't advertise on it and I have a massive budget to do so. I love customers but I wouldn't want to associate my brand with them.
who says I haven't?
Businesses can split in two a lot more easily than people.
Ad exchange is a generic term for a bunch of different products from different companies.

If you mean AppNexus specifically took an investment from News Corp, then sure.
He isn't a normal user. He's someone who claims to be a software architect and Microsoft MVP -- yet doesn't know/can't care enough to use the correct terminology when he's writing a blog post from his "developer's point of view"?
who defines 'fake news' and 'hate speech' when it comes to mass-media? - I don't invoke Orwell lightly - but there seems to be no consideration of how such concepts could be (mis)used in 4 or 14 years time - against the very people who think they are on the side rightfulness today
If real news can't make money then how long will fake news be able to? Fabricating stories are easier than investigative reporting so I predict the race to the bottom will be even faster.
It is interesting that Iran blamed the United States for that, and mobs burned down a US embassy because of the propaganda. Does anything actually point to US involvement?
I get the joke. I also find it stupid. But YMMV.
I would not be fine with that, no, but then, I'm not fine either with killing other apes and other self-reflecting animals ; my standard vs modern society's accepted standard.

However, in that hypothetical case you describe, it might be up for discussion. My point was that by modern standards, killing other humans is not ok, and not up for discussion.
Oooh, and guess how much the wall costs? ~30 billion dollars.

Coincidence? This is how Mexico is going to pay for it!
The critique of society will probably provoke enough people into making different choices to justify the loss of a few square meters of topsoil.
This reminded me of "The Hole" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIbvlobWDM
The top contributions are baffling. Some people are donating over $1k USD.
What? No. McDonalds in the US is amongst the worst. In Australia, not only is McDonalds of better quality but there are lots of new burger places doing better American style burgers than I can find here in the center of Manhattan...
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They're going to find an aquifer any minute. Plus, some nice flowers were previously approaching the general area. All a bit noisy too.
One can consult with a tax attorney though.
What do you mean by "high" wages? Would you post your region, along with the BLS salary for a software developer, a physician, lawyer, nurse practitioner, and dentist?

For dallas, here are the numbers:

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000

Nurse Practitioner: $101,260
Software Developer: $97,930
Dentist: $177,130
Lawyer: $132,380
Physicians and Surgeons: $202,450

I understand there are some big differences here, and you could reasonably argue that software developers don't deserve such high wages (they often have graduate degrees but aren't strictly required to, for example). But this does show you the kind of options available in the US to those motivated, confident, educated people with initiative you described in an earlier post.

Personally, I think that if employers are having trouble getting people with choice to work as software developers, that's the market's answer. There are a lot of different perspectives on this - I personally don't have a problem with immigration, but I have a huge problem with coercing immigrants to work as software developers as a condition of living in the US.

That's the real appeal of these corporate controlled immigration programs - create a pool of engineers who aren't allowed to go into higher paying fields. Free people are allowed to go to law school, open a sandwich shop, sell real estate, whatever they like. In response to market signals.

You know free markets, freedom, personal choice. Corporations hate that stuff. So they've invented this fake story of a "shortage", as if this shortage isn't a rational response among free people to the pay and working conditions that are below what they can earn in other fields. And their solution is to use a coercive visa program to create a pool of workers who don't have this freedom.
yes, and now computers are cheap and devs are expensive. The money has to flow somewhere.
Google is your friend. There are dozens and dozens of articles out there on this topic. First rule of being an entrepreneur is to be resourceful!
You live in a country with population about the size of LA metro and more homogenous than it.
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What you're seeing is "creative destruction". If you focus on any one industry or sector for a short period of time, then yes, there's less work to go around. But if you widen your lens across time and industries, what you'll see is that these jobs will be reallocated to more productive uses of human effort. That is, automation has made these people's effort relatively less productive compared to a machine, so they need to find work in a different field.

I'm not saying that this process is all sugar and rainbows, losing your job to automation _is hard_. Some will never recover.

However, human society has always valued what is scarce. What will be scarce in the future is products and services made by human hands.

Already we see this happening. Visit a farmer's market - see all the hand-crafted soaps? If you could have a new desk from Ikea or made with hand hewn wood, engraved and embellished by a true craftsman, which would you prefer? It sounds trite today, but as our most basic necessities continue to be met at ever cheaper rates, we'll start trading our labor for better, higher quality things. Where quality is measured in human ingenuity and artistic beauty.

We can see this shift all around us. The rise in natural grocery chains, farmer's markets, Etsy. There are hundreds if not thousands of individuals who have quit their jobs to become full time YouTube creators.

I know that it all sounds banal, but it's because it is currently only the wealthiest in society who at this moment can afford to shop exclusivly at Whole Foods. However, in a truely vibrant economy, one that embraces change and makes reallocation of effort as smooth as possible, one with ample access to capital, one with low barriers to entry, will bring these luxuries of today to society as a whole tomorrow. And it will probably happen faster than human history has ever made it happen before. We're just impatient and spoiled by a world that's changing ever more quickly.
>Every time I learn something new about how the U.S. government is structured I shake my head a little. First-past-the-post voting of a single president that holds way too much power. A congress with life time based assignment that interpret a 200 year old document to their wishes to structure law. Case based law with uninformed juries, where the selection of the jury is optimized for maximum disinformation. It goes on.

There are problems with American government, but these are really not them. The only thing here that might hold water is the President having too much authority, and that's been a relatively recent trend.