skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not handle changes in land value the same way we handle changes in value of personal property?

Suppose I hire a young, unknown artist to paint a portrait for me, for $100. Thirty years later, the artist is very famous and recognized as one of the most talented and important artists of his generation, and his early works (such as my portrait) sell for tens of millions of dollars.

The way we handle taxing that tens of millions of value that my painting gained is that when I sell it, the difference between the sales price and what I paid counts as income (probably long term capital gains income in this case), and I pay tax on it.

Property taxes are usually used to fund local government and the services it provides. Those don't really correlate well with the value of property. My house and land are assessed about twice as much as that of my neighbor two houses away for instance, and about half of my neighbor across the street, but we are all provide about the same burden on the city for services and all reap about the same benefits.

Thus, I wonder if the way we should do this is that property taxes to fund local government should simply be per lot (or maybe per family, or something like that), and not be tied to the market value of the property. The value of the property would figure into income taxes, when those changes are realized during a sale of the property, using the same rules that we now use for personal property.
No, I'm implying that people are either too egotistical or that they overestimate their insights, or both, when they create a new language. These days it seems like there is a new language every 15 minutes. It's getting to be ridiculous.

And the worst part of it is, no such language covers all problems effectively; they all have flaws in one way or another... so the next guy comes along thinking he can do it better, and just repeats the mistake of his or her predecessor(s).

Instead of realizing that this would just exacerbate the problem, they go ahead and make it worse.

I guess they're actually implying that people who have felt that pain are just not smart enough.

It is extremely difficult to solve a complex problem in a simple manner. One literally has to be a genius with a lifetime of experience and insights from that experience in order to be able to pull that off, and even then, it doesn't always work and requires multiple iterations, and lots and lots of experimentation. Case in point: Go, still a work in progress by exactly such people. That should be instructive, but it seems that it isn't.
> In particular, relational database theory does not require tables to have homogeneous table rows that consist entirely of scalar values.

Are you sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_normal_form

Homogenous values are not required, but having atomic/scalars as a fundamental unit of a relation is a pretty core concept in database normalization theory.

Or are you saying database normalization is a performance optimization and we should judge RDBMS' by their support for relational algebra/calculus and not normalization theory?
I don't think so. I do a bit of AutoCAD at work, mainly for pressurized vessels (i.e. pretty simple stuff, just has to follow the regulations). 95% of the time, you're working with a 2D sketch in either the x, y or z plane and extruding from that. The other 4.9% of the time, you make some other plane based on those extrusions and do 2D sketches in that plane. 0.1% is reserved for 3D splines.
I'm not sure I'd hold out a stub of a story like that as a model of Times reporting. For what it's worth, here's a more in-depth story on coffee temperature from a few months later that mentions the case, although it doesn't go into detail on the case itself:

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/12/garden/coffee-tea-or-ouch....

On the other hand, this article from 1995 on lawsuits against restaurants, which also mentions it, is quite sympathetic to the restaurants:

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/12/weekinreview/the-nation-he...

But not unreasonably so, I think. There are two sides to every story.
> And while putting better more interesting potential opportunities on hold.

Yeah, news here is Sacks thinks this is no longer the number one opportunity in the valley. Probably when they turned their back on the enterprise market. And now internal numbers might not show rocket ship growth in SMB market. Can't "push" into 20 employee companies, and the "pull" must not be there.
> wdsl

* correction: wsdl
I would like to learn more! Can you email me at tom.bielecki@gmail.com?
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This is excellent advice and I think it also applies to fields outside of mathematics.
This is what I keep saying, history has proven that languages that eschew complexity and happen to enjoy mainstream adoption, end up turning into the thing they were fighting against.
I checked all of the brands at the store today. Oberto, Krave, Matador, Golden Island, Jack Links, Tillamook, and World Kitchens all list sugar as the 2nd agreement.

I haven't looked at them in years, evidently they've switched from corn syrup to sugar.
I was thinking the same thing. With only four categories, there's no excuse for the colors being so difficult to discern.
R with Rstudio is making some major progress in using R for presenting. Rmarkdown, ReportRs for PowerPoint and now this.
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After hearing about these stories on Canada, why would I ever want to go back there? They sound atrocious.
Home 3D printing is not worth it for most people in the developed world, but in developing countries it can be.

When I lived in the UK, I would default to trying to 3D print anything I needed around the house. But manufacturing is cheap enough, and availability of products so ubiquitous in the UK, that it was almost always cheaper to just buy the thing on Amazon instead of print it. The only thing I printed that I couldn't have bought cheaply was custom plumbing parts.

Now I've moved to Kenya where Amazon doesn't deliver, import duty is extremely high, and availability of low throughput items is non-existent. I 3D print everything from spare parts for my truck to basic DIY supplies like rawl plugs and cable tidies - things I just cant get cheaply. Of course the fact that 3D printing is so useful in this environment is offset by the fact that hardly anyone here can afford it. I'm planning to set up a community makespace where people can print cheaply, but I don't expect it to cause a revolution.
The "web" link allows you to access WSJ w/o any subscription.
McDonald's were serving coffee hotter than most other places. (And hotter than coffee made at home.) McDonalds had already settled on previous cases (700 or so) where customers had been burned by hot coffee. McDonalds decided that this number of injuries is insufficient to cause them to change their practice. (Remember that some of these people also had full thickness burns, which is a significant injury with life long scaring.)

The coffee was hot enough to cause full thickness ("3rd degree") burns. It remained hot enough to cause these burns after they left the restaurant, and after a short drive.

Warning labels do not work - if warning labels worked no-one would ever get a speeding ticket. A warning label on the side of coffee is ignored by the people making it and the people drinking it.

A jury looked at the facts of this case and decided McDonalds was negligent and that the woman deserved punitive damages.

Although, if you hate this lawsuit, most of them (and they continue to happen, McDonalds didn't change the temperature of their coffee after the case) get thrown out of courts.
I predicted in 2014 that within 3 years majority of upper middle class
households will have 3D printer just like they have paper printer.

I don't have a paper printer anymore, and I wonder how many households still do. I'd wager that more households got rid of their paper printers in the past 3 years than bought 3D printers.
Tao follows this advice well himself. He seems to be working on the millennium problem of Navier-Stokes, but works on many other things simultaneously and published partial results.
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No, the claim had no qualification that they were omitting all other candidates from the totals and stating the percentages of the total votes for just those two candidates (a contortion they had never used before, not even in 2000). They simply stated that Clinton had won 50.4% of the popular vote (exact wording: "Popular vote For Clinton 50.4% ... For Trump 49.6%").

It wasn't until sometime after the 16th that it was accurately restated.

Perhaps the original edition can be found on the Wayback Machine, but this page was pointed out on HN at the time.
> I’ve always found it ridiculous that the content of devices is fair game.

Even more important to me is the fact that once you lose exclusive physical control over your hardware, you must consider it compromised, and therefor have it recycled (it is enough to simply connect a prepared USB device to your device for a couple of seconds in order for you to lose total control over it and be under permanent and total remote surveillance).

To me, this is more than enough of a reason to simply not travel to countries like the US (and now apparently Canada as well) anymore. And any such country certainly doesn't deserve us.
They sometimes release the driver blobs so you don't have to rip them off the device, but rarely have I heard of drivers being open sourced outside of a few scattered instances.
It's pretty amazing that her initial week in the hospital only racked up 10k in bills. I had a hernia repair recently and it was ~7k for a few hours in-and-out. Wouldn't want to see the bill for spending a week in the hospital these days.
No what you should do is realise you live in a democracy, which was passed on to you by the blood and sweat of previous generations, recognize that our generation in its complacency and greed has allowed it to be be hijacked by a bunch of despots and accept the responsibility to secure it for future generations.

You should not acknowledge, recognize or legitimise these 'unnatural rights'.
lvh was until very recently an employee at Rackspace and Rackspace provides the hosting for the project.
Agreed, When conducting user feedback we always try to identify what the users frustrations are and then our team will work on coming up with solutions based off our findings.
I can't say about YUL, but ORD is very organized and very prepared for where you may travel to.
McDonalds made this claim during the court case. they said holding coffee at 180f to 190f maintained optimum taste.
It's amazing how hardware manufacturers still can't do software.

I know, crap happens, but gosh darn it.

And here's the thing: bureaucracy doesn't help because it prevents people from raising issues unless they're big enough.

Every monotonically increasing counter needs to be reviewed for overflow behaviour and time to overflow
Unfortunately I cannot find the link now, but recently I have found a funny article related to these vulnurabilities:

If you set up VPN on Windows 10 Mobile for some reason MS has decided to remove the option to resolve DNS at the far end of the VPN. (AFAIK this was present on WP 8.1)

I have found a guide how to enable it: Create a symlink on an NTFS sd card pointing to a specific location (an ini file which is hidden in Windows 10 Mobile from you), insert the card, open the file in file browser with an editor, and change a setting.
...She didn't win 50.4% of the popular vote. She won 48.2% to Trump's 46.3%, as of the latest count. But I'd like a citation for New York Times reporting that she did.
*Cyanogen Inc.
I'll take some a kick at provisioning this via GPO on Monday.

I suppose the issue at hand here is that - at minimum - it appears that use of symbolic links requires a Group Policy that specifies both support for mklink and fsutil to be configured, the former requiring admin-equivilency to enable symbolic links to work for a non-admin user.

As someone who grew up using 'ln -s' in userspace to create symbolic links, this seems to be a rather high barrier to use of a very convenient user function - "Want to use symbolic links for convenience? Have your admin create GPOS to facilitate this" seems a half-assed answer....
What about a Speech-to-text solution? Don't have to take the time to pull out your notebook or type on your phone's screen. Just tap a button on a headset or tell GNow to add a log entry, and speak the entry.

Communication; the next best thing to reading minds!
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I'd appreciate a link.
Another example, the pile of switches usually available in C and C++ compilers.
I think one of the big problems we're facing is that unfiltered original sources, while not "spun", can be misleading without context.

For example, every time Trump tweets "i never said that" we need the context ("he did say that") or we're just guessing at the truth.
A 22 day memory leak...

I hope that's the earliest possible occurence, and not just the typical average observation.

Wouldn't want to see an edge case, where the system throws an OOM, at 21 days, due to a process running fast because the CPUs are kept cooler than usual, or something weird like that.
The exact quote through at least the 16th, as pointed out on HN at the time:

"Popular vote For Clinton 50.4% ... For Trump 49.6%"

Check the Wayback Machine for this page:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/10...

Then look at its accurate rewording now.
Reading the comments, it seems like the main thing missing here is multi-material 3d printing. Yes, there's no killer application for just printing plastic, but checkout, e.g., http://www.voxel8.com/
Comments from four years ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640988#5641367

I own a 2D printer and have found my use of it declined dramatically over the last five years.

Given I just became a Google Shopping Express member and I am already addicted to Amazon Prime, I anticipate my desire to make my own 3D items at home to also decline over time.

I do agree with @JDDunn9. There will be businesses that will provide 3D printing services using state of the art printers, high quality materials, and their expertise. Bay Photo is a 2D example of this kind of service. They will deliver the results quickly, cheaply, and reliably using distribution services like Prime and Express.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4594997#4595489

I'll buy a 3D printer when I can print all the pieces to build a Nerf N-Strike Elite Hail Fire for under forty dollars worth of materials and it can be printed and assembled in under three hours.

I picked this item because it was featured in the Wired magazine article right after their "3D printers are the next PC" article.
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Well, how do you measure "successful"? I mean, welding machines are pretty damn useful and they're definitely successful tech. Yet you don't exactly see one in every home.

Part of 3D printing's "success problem" IMO is that people started using a hopelessly ambitious definition of success.
WTF? I'm not excusing anything. It's entirely a crock of their own making.
Where is the companion piece "The Bitcoin Revolution that Wasn't?"
Maybe visiting a site would locally select the appropriate group that site was assigned to. For example, going to gmail.com would automatically use the "Google" Group. If a site is assigned to multiple groups, prompt the user to select a group. An unassigned site would use a default group, or create its own group for return visits, or create a temporary group.
That's pretty funny. I've been using Solidworks for somewhere around 12 to 14 years. I also run Siemens NX.

Clarification: Not saying it's impossible to learn. All I am saying is that a very, very, very, very small percentage of 3D printer buyers develop the chops.

Don't confuse an intuitive UI with mechanical design.

It's the difference between the intuitive UI of a word processor and writing a novel.

The same could be said of, say, Python. Easy to learn from a few videos on YouTube. There's a vast difference between that and actually producing good, efficient, fast, sophisticated and accurate software.

I've been programming, designing hardware and electronics for over twenty years. There is no way anyone can obtain the equivalent chops and experience from a bunch of videos on YouTube. Maybe they can learn to use Altium Designer, Solidworks, a compiler or two and Xilinx's FPGA toolset. That does not mean they can actually design products at all. That takes years or learning and dedication and is hard.

Learning to drive Solidworks from a few YouTube videos does not make that person a mechanical engineer or a mechanical designer beyond the basics.

Example, unrelated to 3D printing: Design a differential, cable-driven wrist actuator with 3 degrees of freedom. Use a combination of 3D printing, machined parts and off-the-shelf hardware. Use SW to run load analysis on the parts and assemblies.

Calculate allowable dimensional tolerances. Produce mechanical drawings with annotations for class of fit of various components as required.

Now make the entire assembly (all components) parametrically driven by a reference sketch. Automatically produce a new set of prints and revisions if any dimension is changed. In other words, if you change one gear all other components in the actuator redefine themselves based on the new gear and so does the assembly. If the new gear is large enough to accommodate four mounting holes rather than two, it should implement those changes automatically.

I still hold that creating anything truly useful for 3D printing requires background that most people don't have and are not interested obtaining through hard, self-directed work.
Dedicated video on laptops basically doesn't work for VR unless it is the NVidia 1000 series, or a select few other models, because of power saving features that routed even dedicated video through the igpu and added latency.
Meanwhile, Gusto's software is really excellent. I started using it a few months ago and it's one of the best business apps I've ever seen in terms of thoughtfulness-of-UI.
> publicly-traded pressure toward the short-term cheapest option

Boeing plays very much the long term game. It took something like several years in development and 10 years in production for the 747 to make a profit, for example. It is simply impossible to design and manufacture airliners on quarterly results.

> cheapest

Boeing is very well aware that the most expensive option for them would be to acquire a reputation for cheap, unsafe, crummy airliners.

Source: am former 757 flight controls design engineer, and happy Boeing shareholder for 35 years.
> But doesn't fly if you maintain these things out of goodwill in your anyhow limited spare time.

What percentage of the total software produced and used fits that and should discussions of general good practices address this anomaly? Obviously, if you work outside the normal industry practices, then industry best-practices don't apply to you. I don't think you should take what he says too literally to mean that every line of code you should write must obey this and there are no exceptions.

> that nobody want to touch them with a ten foot pole.

If by nobody you mean almost everyone. Those happen to be the most successful software platforms in history, and most new software outside embedded (with the big exception of Windows technologies, maybe) uses at least one of those platforms to this day.

> One of the reasons why it takes so long for browser standards to be adopted is that they have to be integrated with all the cruft that is accumulating there for almost three decades now.

So what? Look, large software gets rewritten or replaced (i.e. people will use something else) every 20 years on average. If your tools and practices are not meant to be maintained for 20 years, then one of the following must be true 1. they are not meant for large, serious software, 2. you are not aware of the realities of software production and use, or 3. you are aware, but believe that, unlike many who tried before, you will actually succeed in changing them. Given the current reality of software, backward compatibility is just more important to more people than agility.

> Combinatorial complexity is not your friend.

Every additional requirement results in increased the complexity, and backward compatibility is just one more, one that seems necessary for really successful software (especially on the server side).

> "we probably grew it in a consistent way" handwaving.﻿

Why do you think it's handwaving? The spec is the spec, and if you conform with the spec then that's exactly what you want.
Problem is that we haven't been able to come up with a good alternative. Go is limited by its curse of minimalism [1] while Rust is verbose and rigid [2]. One of the reasons C became popular was that it was designed to solve real problems, not an exercise in minimalism or academic beauty. Its authors frequently sacrificed beauty and minimalism if it made sense and real world use demanded it. Unlike Rust or Go or NimRod, C is not just strongly opinionated statements on language design. One of the side effect is also that new languages often come with sub-par libraries and language designers expect others/community to figure everything else out.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-reasons-are-there-to-not-use-Go-p...

[2] https://plus.google.com/+nialldouglas/posts/AXFJRSM8u2t
Why do something like this in JSON? I don't work in javascript, but surely it would have been far simpler to use. Restrict it to a subset if you have to, but this is absurd:

"ChoiceStateX": {
"Type" : "Choice",
"Choices": [
{
"Not": {
"Variable": "$.type",
"StringEquals": "Private"
},
"Next": "Public"
},
{
"And": [
{
"Variable": "$.value",
"NumericGreaterThanEquals": 20
},
{
"Variable": "$.value",
"NumericLessThan": 30
}
],
"Next": "ValueInTwenties"
}
],
"Default": "DefaultState"
}
You might want to rethink that. That cultural value makes sense when there is broadly rising economic activity.

In my experience parents and their children are operating in two completely different economies.

To be blunt in case I risk being overly oblique: 1/3 of the female students at my university did sex work to pay the rent. That's in a place where they worked hard to get into an elite university and didn't have to pay extraordinary tuition fees.

Further down the socioeconomic ladder it gets worse. Merely surviving without debt is a success story for a millennial.

I have to say: almost everything on this subject I read from the media is a fiction. I'm not saying the stats are made up, but the overwhelming impression you get from the box on the wall is powerfully wrong.
"wood flour", as in finely ground wood?
Haha, I think you nailed it. Windows 95 had exactly the same bug, except that the counter was unsigned so it was taking 48 days to crash. I only hope these machines aren't flying some modified W95 kernel :)
To ellaborate, when you're using cad you have to give thought to how the part will be produced as well. There are a lot of shapes that 3d can't build, there are minimum angles, all sorts of restrictions. And there's the nitty gritty of actually fitting real shapes together in the real world, having the right flange sizes for holding screws, nuts, etc. And then you get into wear, balance, etc.
The headline makes it sound like he got caught with a joint. The reasonable assumption is that we aren't being told everything, and yep: This involved an 18-wheeler with more than 1000 kg of pot.
Did you see Jason try to get him into discussing politics and he wasn't having any of it? I thought he was just being diplomatic but they're friends and I am willing to bet Jason was just trying to bust his chops fully knowing what was going to happen.

What I didn't know until digging tonight was after Peter Thiel founded the Stanford Review that David Sacks was one of the editors who succeeded him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanford_Review