skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your example of the yacht is already handled by the tax code (at least in Canada, likely everywhere else too). That is, if you take the yacht for weekend excursions that is a personal benefit and you should be paying tax on that.

A tax accountant might try to hide that, but if you get caught that's lying on your taxes and not looked kindly on.

These areas are likely why the rich, like Trump, are often under audit. Because there are so many ways they can play the system to avoid taxes. Hmm, maybe I just made your point.
They also have the giant spinny rust instance type, which is nice for some needs.
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This piece really frustrates me because it pretends to be neutral, but actually has a very clear viewpoint of denigrating experimentation. It's very clear that she actually thinks tech (not her) should change.
Of course it is crazy. Reasonable people will disagree, but most will acknowledge that S. Korea did much, much better under Park Chung Hee than N. Korea under Kim Il Sung during the same period, starting from a worse industrial and economical base. Many Singaporeans rate LKY's legacy hugely net positive, despite dictatorial qualities.
A repo for exploring the software quality of electronic voting machines
Different people don't get along very well. Something "technologists" prefer to pretend isn't so.
"Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric" that's the socialist rhetoric. The part where Hitler was against communism is the part where he saw communists occupying his own socialism-based plans. Stalin, total strategy genius, let the guy go destroy Europe for him and then he kept half of it for himself.
I'd say they have very large advertising budgets for a fairly bad reason: advertisers for the most part throw shit at the wall to see what sticks.

There's some science, but the advertising here is a perfect example that many people have no idea how to spend their ad money in a way that meaningfully engages some target audience.
This kind of vacuous, meandering, self-indulgent drivel would be torn to shreds if it had been written by a man.
I prefer external caching/distributed solutions like ccache/sccache/sndbs than these private forks of clang. Less risky and up-to-date.
The tax change I would like to see is a better way to support bootstrapped small companies whose working capital requirements are increasing as they grow.

You start on Day 1 with $100 and sweat equity and grow your business. Year one you have $100k of revenue and $90k of expenses. You need that $10k in the bank as its now your monthly burn.

Year 2 you grow to $400k and have $40k of net income. You need that $40k in the bank because it's now your monthly burn.

Year 3 you grow to $1.2m and have $200k of net income. You need that $200k in the bank because... Ok, you get it.

If you're funded you can burn those funds in the beginning and carry forward the losses as your capital requirements are growing.

Otherwise you are stuck paying at least 40%, but can be much more depending on the states you do business in, not to mention the CPA cost is substantial just to make all the filings.

It's really hard to bootstrap from $0 when every dollar you need to keep in the bank just to have 3 months expenses on hand, actually costs you $2.

It's also really hard to get a line of credit that early in the business lifecycle, so it's quite a trap for bootstrapping companies.

It would be really great if there was a way to defer the taxes on that early profit that is staying as working capital.

Almost like the money shouldn't be taxed at the corporate level as long as the company is not holding more than X months of expenses.

I've read there are taxes for holding "too much" money at the corporate level and not paying dividends, but apparently it's not really applied in practice? Or, again, only targeting smaller businesses who can't afford to play the necessary games.
And no one who read it cared or was confused.
> There's always a way of solving things.

Except, not really.

You can’t put any app using any encryption technology up on the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store, if you also distribute anything to Cuba.

For the first you need to get an approval from the US DoD, which requires that you never interact with Cuba.
That is a way to do it. However, if you look at it, something like scientific knowledge isn't easily 'bought' by people.. so the 'market' for scientific advancements is skewed, the incentives aren't there.

It would have been impossible to have iPhones or the likes without scientific advancement. Yet, the scientific community reaped 0 benefits and got 0% of share from Apple's profit.. and even tax wise, which could be a way to subsidize scientific grants from the government, we both know that they dodge those and lobby with success for them to not pay them.

So, there are problems with the way of our point system.

Another case:

Investigative journalism. The journalists or even the companies that pay the salaries to the journalists that make those hard strives reap almost 0 benefits, and other outlets just pickup the news and get all of the benefits.. yet these are crucial for change/improvement and progress in our institutions and way of life (think the catholic church scandal, the contras and crack scandal, etc)
I didn't say that Putin is Right Wing although he has all the markings of a Right Wing authoritarian. What I want to understand is our Right Wing's infatuation with Putin.
The comment which originated this subthread was about telling a bot to get a sandwich and clean the toilet. This implies a single bot and the verbiage implies an agent with strong autonomy.

The disadvantage of the specialized machines you speak of is their limited to no adaptability, inflexibility to novel situations and obsolescence upon changing environments. There's need for actually smart appliances (which is what the kind of robots you spoke would be) but they'd be best suited to easily circumscribable tasks. Not what many have in mind when they think robots.
Can I connect multiple computers with PCIe?
Interesting lack of response. I suspect your parent simply isn't familiar with the legacies of people like Lee Kuan Yew or Park Chung Hee, because they haven't been depicted as much in western pop culture and propaganda.
I agree with the gist of this article, but it feels like the details are trying too hard. Books are great, and do add value to your life and help you educate yourself. But the improvements they make in your life are not automatic - you need to actively engage with the content. Neither are they unique - if you engage with meaningful content, of any kind, you can learn and improve yourself.

Books are wonderful. But they are not magic. Nevertheless, I do fully agree with the larger point that people should keep reading them.
If it's going to be controlled by the U.N. why leave its asset value in the hands of shareholders? Why not take away the existing shares from the shareholders, split the shares (roughly 2.5x per) and give every person on the planet one share. And then see what happens. Maybe people vote to turn over control to the U.N. or some other organization. Maybe they just sell their 1 share.

This is not advocacy, it's mental gymnastics. If you're going to say take away control from shareholders and invest it in some other body; it's hardly more controversial to also take away the asset value from (existing) shareholders also. If you only take away the control portion, the share price is going to implode anyway.
Shouldn't the capital-losses that you can book against future taxes compensate for this enough?
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It's not so much that software is "cheap" (it's not, software is notoriously expensive) but that it's incrementally improvable.

If I build a house with a bad frame, it's really hard to make it better over time. If I build a quick MVP, I can easily incrementally improve it.
I'm not a moderator! I just wanted to welcome you to our community - I agree with what you've written, and I hope you'll stick around and play by our rules: this is why this place is great, because people engage in civil discourse (for the most part). I agree with the gist of what you wrote above - but you could have said it without the demeaning tone and it would be taken seriously (including changing the headline as necessary - or even burying the whole story). I agree with you and hope you'll stay and contribute here, I recommend under a neutral name.

see also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> There are probably more conservatives/libertarians in tech than you think, but don't speak their views for fear of being outcast (e.g. not getting hired, invited, funded, etc.)

Personally, I don't hold anyone's personal beliefs (political or not) against them...BUT how they arrived at those beliefs and maintain them in the face of challenges to them does provide evidence for how they think, which has some relevance in predicting how they will think in other situations.

Take the very contentious issue of abortion. Whether you are for or against legal abortion, it doesn't matter to me because there are thoughtful, well-reasoned arguments that can be made for both sides. Absent any other evidence, I would assume your position on abortion is based on such arguments.

The more extreme political beliefs, right or left, that are inconsistent with the expert opinion of the vast majority of industry and academic experts in economics, science, history, ethics, foreign affairs, and military tactics would raise a big warning flag for me, because I have not been able to find anyone able to explain a way to hold those beliefs that does not require accepting vast conspiracy theories that are way too big to be even remotely feasible.
I've been meaning to do this forever using LastPass. If they'd integrate something similar that'd be nice and more likely to trust it.
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It already has. Which is doubly unfortunate since there is no evidence whatsoever of monkey business anyway.
Where your analogy starts to break down is that it is increasingly hard to find those top quality craftsfolk as many people aren't willing to pay the prices they command and instead go to cheaper labor who don't do as great of a job.
Ask HN: What are the best tech gifts this season?
How would a phone manufacturer tell the difference between a driver and a passenger?
Sorry, these jokes aren't funny anymore.
Lockless Programming Considerations
The proposed changes to using the popular vote would not increase the campaigning in Wyoming or Montana either.
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> I'm a white male - a right-wing white male - and I agree with her.

Why do you need to include that?

She very deliberately said that this is not an article about race, gender, or politics.
Totally seconding this.

Just trying to "quick fix" apparent bugs, without having understood the complex problem in its entirety beforehand, is a pretty bad approach in quite some areas of the tech world. This is true for most server-side work, for example - you just can't put a band-aid type solution on a problem created by a weird race condition between different requests processed in parallel, because you most likely either ruin the performance or don't catch all the cases in which the bug appears, or even worse: create new bugs, deadlock situations or similar catastrophes as a result.

I personally work on cash register software. In that area, it's basically this way for the server and client side of the equation, because if this highly business-critical piece of technology fails, the user really has a problem and typically can't do any business anymore. And the software release cycles on those machines also don't allow for continuous-deployment-we'll-just-test-the-fix-in-production-so-it-doesn't-matter-if-your-first-attempts-fail-miserably-style of work, so you have to get your bugs fixed thoroughly, which requires fully understanding the nature of the problem first.
It is so sad to read comments from uneducated educated americans about Fidel Castro. Cuba under Fidel had the best education and health system in the world. Maybe you should apologized for the 600+ tries of assassinations launched by Americans towards a country that was communist. I would rather live in Cuba than in the States/Europe where everything is measured by you stinking paper you call money and autocratic ways of governing people. I mean, what the fk. Does England has a constitution? No it does not? I am disgusted that these comments come from the VCs and other people who think capitalism was the best thing that came around. Look at you inner cities and homeless people you create. Look at the murderous ways your country has been involved in toppling governments in Latin America financing dictators. By eh, Castro was a dictator and your Saudi Arabians friends are doves of freedome and democracy.
I just want puke.

Long Live Comantade
Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden come to mind. Is the hypocrisy not palpable? Or is the world exactly as simple as America and sanctioned clique good, rest bad?
The Terms of Service appear to relate to one of Wilhelm's other ventures and the Privacy Policy is practically devoid of any useful information related to privacy. The idea itself doesn't even seem possible; maybe it's possible to obtain some of the accounts, but all, doubtful.
I think you're vastly underestimating the cost of the equipment, land, operators etc. The three pieces of heavy equipment would be >$5000/day. Plus 3 shifts of 3 skilled people would be another $1500/day. Plus the cost of the land, I'd guess they have 5-10 acres, and even super cheap land in the US is $1000/acre. Plus stripe fees. So $75k after fees - $10k in land - at least $6500/day and the current numbers will have them going for 3 days so $20k. If they make $30k in profit on this I'll be very surprised.
It should be an opensource project that people can run themselves on node or linux or whatever. They are logging in via Oauth, pulling all emails from gmail, scanning them for some keywords/patterns and then submitting removal requests to those services. It be perfect for a standalone opensource project, all someone needs to run it is their google oauth key from developer dashboard.

Otherwise we have to trust "someone" whoever it is that designed this service to not keep all the emails they pulled out of your account for processing for whatever nefarious purposes one can imagine.

I mean if I ever wanted to mass harvest peoples inboxes then this is exactly how I would approach it and hope most people just click "next" > "next" on the permissions warning that google shows, which most people would.
http://www.sensorama.org -- Open Source sensor platform for data science on iOS. I wrote code and did all the design. You get the JSON file of sensor data sampled at 100ms interval (configurable). I get a copy too!. I'm slowly improving it and adding new stuff.

Install: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sensorama/id1159788831?mt=8

Read code: https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-ios (main repo)

Going to give a talk on it: https://github.com/wkoszek/talks/tree/master/svmobiledev2016

Opinions would be welcome.
I think most replying to this comment are too young to remember that the CIA made several unsuccessful attempts to kill Castro himself, and Muammar Gaddafi. And those where the unsuccessful attempts that we know.
That's because, to those people, $1k USD is effectively nothing.
Yeah.. and the feel you get on achieiving something by your own genuine efforts is unparallel!
Thanks for sharing your opinion from experience.
If it really was a large search engine, then I imagine they would be hosted at multiple locations, so not surprising that they were mentioned at both places?
It's a condescending comment because there are many designers who have to design for the real world. It's no less condescending than saying someone should go into programming where they just have to type out code all day and not face the real world.
This was great, and well written. As the phenomenon of software and technology expands to encompass all of human activity (and thus all humans), it's also going to bring in diverse mindsets, experiences and approaches.

This is a good thing.

When I was young, tech really only existed in the hearts and minds of a very small, self-selected, few. Most of us had similar or common viewpoints and experiences. It was very easy to go someplace new, find the local group of nerds, exchange a few Star Trek quotes to prove your bona fides, and you'd be in.

But we, and the technology that came from us, was limited to what we could produce given the limited set of experiences and modes of thinking we brought to the table. But we also couldn't see this limitation, because our work was a reflection of all that we could think.

What's happened in the intervening decades is that our technology, the kind that we literally grew up imagineering, while important, has become a minority of what humanity needs technology to do for it.

Even today, the fact that somebody from a non-tech background can go take classes to learn to code, and make a successful business, or have a successful career with that knowledge feels vaguely alien to those of us from the early years.

I've come to the conclusion that the notions I had as a child about what technology was and how it was in my blood, were incredibly wrong. The world of technology is immense - bigger than just software, or hardware. Writing is technology, cheese is technology, sewing is technology... As this enlightenment continues to unroll in my mind, I'm not even sure I know how to latch a definition onto the word that doesn't ring hollow, but it seems vaguely associated with anything that uses our minds to make the human condition better.

The author above, she does belong in technology, it's our insistence on trying to limit the meaning of tech to the kind of tiny world I grew up in, that has convinced her that she doesn't belong. Yes, she doesn't belong in that microcosm of early tech. She belongs in the macrocosm of human betterment.
I'm sorry you feel that way.

I would suggest you stay away from Cards Against Humanity (and threads thereabout), as jokes like these are literally the game's raison d'être.
The ability to defer income through capital gains is an extremely limited vehicle to defer income when compared to being able to accumulate profits in a corporation tax free.

Assume that you have a business that generates $500,000 dollars in profits and you'd like to defer taxes. In the US under section 179 you can defer those taxes by investing in depreciating capital equipment such as computers, trucks or medical equipment. Obviously investing in depreciating capital equipment only allows you to defer taxes if it in the future allows you to expand your business and generate at least the same amount of income. In addition to being capped, and phasing out, the rules are very specific to prevent the system from being gamed. For example, you can't use those deductions to invest in real-estate.

To effectively defer taxes for 10-20 years would require that over that time you were able to find profitable ways to invest those profits to expand your business.

Trust me that finding profitable investments over a 10-20 year horizon is an extremely difficult thing to do and requires significant talent that is in limited supply. Allowing those people to defer taxes and re-invest profits is a win-win-win for the owner, the government and citizens.

Compare that to corporations that could accumulate profits tax free. Essentially unlimited amounts of funds could be accumulated in the corporation tax free with no personal obligation to find effective ways to deploy those funds. Those funds can be held and grow tax free until needed in retirement where they can be meted out at favorable tax rates or left for heirs.

They would even more favorable than traditional IRA and 401Ks because they wouldn't have required distributions.

While its true that corporate taxes in the US are out-of-line with other developed economies which has distorted the economy in some ways dramatically lowering corporate tax rates without implementing rules requiring distribution of corporate profits and implementing taxes on a foreign holders creates a tax loophole so large that you could drive a truck through it.

Of course you'll hear the Wall Street Journal talk about how this is 'good' for the US economy because it will allow corporation to 'reinvest' which will lead to all sorts of good things for everybody but the corporate owners. Oddly enough there is never talk about expanding limits on 401K's and IRAs and allowing the middle class to defer taxes.
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This is my own personal experience, but not everyone is interested in, or excellent at, education. It's not the system; it's personality.

Education shouldn't be forced on anyone either. The entire college debt bubble has been based on this thought that a barista needs a college degree.
Today's "quick MVP we can incrementally improve" is tomorrow's "unmaintainable legacy codebase."

But sure, it'll be different this time.
>I agree that Fidel Castro made many mistakes and is responsible for many atrocities. But the plight of Cuba is not his doing alone.

In American English, the phrase, "He murdered thousands," can't be followed by the word "but..."
"Done fucked up"? In what sense? You appear to have some action in mind.
Again, it's not like the phone will just shut down and not allow you to do anything, but will most likely have a "car UI" that is limited. The people coming up with these things tend to give them more than a few seconds of thought.

And how many times have you been affected by the GPS thing?
I'm not sure about that - designers have to build a UX that works in the real world, and sometimes there are really complicated processes that need to be exposed in a nice way. I imagine this has similar tradeoffs as programming (i.e. difficulty in implementation, balancing power/intuitiveness)
They literally added a fan.
Etymology of 'control' is from a medieval distributed consensus system
This site is scary. Think about it. You are giving them all your oauth credentials to just about every service. Your email. Your pictures. Your contacts. Your messages. Your favorites. Your history.

I am sure they are honest however hackers are not. This is a gold mine to be hacked.
Bargain:

- Abolish corporate taxes

- Increase minimum wage (including an automatic inflation adjustment)

- Increase estate taxes and private corporate transfer taxes (intergenerational)

- Heavily tax (90%) all corporate spending in politics, using revenues to fund educational news sources

Everybody gets something that they want.
Isn't it ironic that the system asks you to "Sign-in with Google" to clear your existence(!) ?
Not sure why it had to be prefaced with "white man" talk. Majority (all?) people in software development, who are doing it because they like it, hate to do half-ass job. Yes, even some silly-simple web widget most (all?) want to be perfect. So this has nothing to do with "feelings", being a woman or being non-white.

Trying to deliver perfect product is good in vacuum, but not so in real world. For real world perfect product is not the same as perfect product in vacuum. It takes time to truly understand, but OP, just like all other devs, will get it eventually.
I'm guessing by 'non-democratic' means, he was referring to Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Really? What did you imagine that the author meant when he said "touch pad"?
They probably would pay withholding taxes if their assets are US-domiciled. I.e. of they bought US-listed shares from a US exchange.
Please say Cards With Humynity. Thank you.
"There's also jet neutral ISPs in Germany. But they're usually local only. TNG/ennit, for example."

Actually, init7 itself is in Germany, right ? I know they have POPs there, as in France and .nl, etc.