skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's money that was paid into social security with the explicit promise that you'd get it all back upon retirement"

That's not even close to true; there is no legal connection that requires you "get it all back" or that the government can't arbitrarily adjust benefits up and down.

In practical terms the program is a transfer from present workers to past workers, it doesn't fundamentally operate as a savings account.
Interesting article!

The title as posted is a bit misleading, as the article covers not just gifts the era considered appropriate for men but gifts for both men and women of varying degrees of relation (married, family, courting/engaged, etc.) I'd suggest changing to the title on the article itself, "A Victorian Lady’s Christmas Gift Guide."
Small and medium-sized companies everywhere pay their taxes just fine without feeling "noble". They're not the exception, Apple and other giants are.
Or you could buy Apple and deal with all the inherent drawbacks but enjoy how it usually just works. And compared to Windows or Linux laptops it does mostly just work.

Of course the list of drawbacks gets longer and longer…
Totally agree.

I also think Uber's move is advancing its own lead at the risk of slowing down the overall self-driving car transition. Their move, as you described, when go wrong, not only damage the company, but also general public's acceptance of self-driving technology. That damage could be more profound and harmful in the long run.
There are versions based on risc-v (zScale , and something by elkim roa's group) that include APB and AXI bridges . They might be released as open-source.
A friend of mine had to become his wife's driver, because after working double shifts across two hospitals, she could barely keep her eyes open.
I agree with this, but there has to be some kind of reasonable time limit where bankruptcy doesn't apply. Otherwise every cunning student will just apply for bankruptcy right after graduation (made very easy because they don't yet have a job and have almost no assets).

I'd be OK with bankruptcy ending student debt after a time frame of 5-7 years.
It has things called "encrypt" and "decrypt", but it does not do anything a programmer could reasonably consider "encrypt" and "decrypt". If you don't authenticate your ciphertext, there's a decent chance your ciphertext won't remain secret. It doesn't give you an option for randomized encryption. Compare with Fernet: you get the same API, but you get to encrypt any message, and it's securely authenticated such that it stays secret. (secretbox is fine too; but it makes you pick a nonce).

Additionally, "bigger is better" is not a reasonable way to pick primitives. Defaults matter. Perf matters. From experience and stats, people pick according those two vectors a lot more often than they pick along the "bigger is better" axis. When's the last time you saw an RSA-16384 signature? AES-256 might have twice as big a number as AES-128, but how much faith do you have in that extended key expansion? You use AES-128 a lot more often than you use AES-256, and you definitely use RSA-2048 a lot more often than RSA-16384.

I don't think you can responsibly insist that this was an answer to the question. It is not a secure way to encrypt messages.
Honestly, I'd leverage it to purchase real estate split between some rentals and rehabs when the right opportunity came up. For me the passive income of rentals and being able to leverage the $500k into far more is just to attractive. If you just put $500k into the market or business ideas, your level of risk varies more and the payoff is far into the future if ever. People are scared of real estate still some because of the last bust, but the reality is it is the single greatest generator of sustained wealth. Even people that make their money in other places like a startup, eventually find out that leveraging liquidity to enter the real estate market pays back in huge ways.

Real estate isn't risk free, but even in down cycles you don't lose all your value, e.g. a $200k house doesn't become worth $0. The key wealth generator (not get rich quick scheme) in the history of the US and most Countries is real estate (land/property etc). This means finding and buying in the right areas and not being afraid to cross state lines etc. Leveraging the $500k in California won't get you really far, but doing it most other places will let you really do quite well and you can have passive income coming in within a few months.

Also, done right, you'll still have a significant amount of the money to invest into other things like the stock market to diversify yourself.
My thoughts exactly. We could have put that money towards an impressive rail system, or even a metro Hyperloop.
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Transit and cycling would be awesome. I'd also like to see cities build more houses where the jobs are. And conversely, don't allow cities to build office space if there is not enough residential zoning to support those jobs.

It seems the root cause of traffic is a mismatch between jobs and housing, leading to sprawl and traffic.
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Depends on what you're trying to forecast and what you want to use the forecast for. If you're just curious, go for it. If you're planning on trading NG futures, well... go for it, but expect to be disappointed.

I'd bet the biggest hurdle you'll face is getting quality data.
I can't help but feel this situation would be different if we did more to steer students away from low-demand degrees, or if employability factored more into the funding process.
In the long run that'll solve the problem. In the short run, however, there will be bad side effects. My hope would be to change the law with a 5-10 year roll-out period so that people who just started high school know what kind of deal they're getting sooner rather than later. That way they and their parents can have time to plan intelligently even if they don't really like the new rules, at least they won't be ambushed by them.
Talking completely out of my ass, we don't know what kind of package they were offering him. 10 mill isn't all for one person. Maybe he could make more over the coming years at FB than he would from a share of 10 mill after investors cash out.

Or maybe he was genuinely more excited about working at FB.
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>There's something to the idea that comments are "letters to the editor", as I believe that the biggest incentive for people to comment is when they feel that they have something to contribute.

I don't think that analogy holds up, though. People are free to sit down and write a well thought out email to the author of an article if they have a specific point of disagreement. The problem with comment sections is that people often times aren't even reading the story or providing constructive commentary on it. The page just becomes a platform for them to go off on whatever nonsensical theories they have and troll people.
I'm assuming your "nobody" is rhetorical and not literal, since folks like Warren Buffet have been advocating for higher taxes for years.
It wasn't iCloud specific, although that didn't help. More just a general sense that with every iteration of OSX, the operating system got just a little bit slower, just a little bit more unstable, the human interface standards just a little more inconsistent and unclear, and you'd have to wrestle with more built-in systems like the Mac App Store that locked things down for Apple's convenience.
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Please don't, though, be snarky about divisive topics. Or any topics really, but there's a harm multiplier on divisive ones.
So lawyers demanding 250k for malpractice is what's causing malpractice? OK...

Next you're going to be blaming the patients.
I don't know, but it sounds like it would be fun to try. Other than that, all I can add is that I saw this come across my inbox a while back, and it seems like something you might find interesting:

https://climate.apache.org/
Practical terms or not, that's the founding principle of the social security program. People can't/won't save for retirements, so we (the government) will take money from them now and pay it back later when they retire.

If the government can say "we took all this money from you in the past but won't give it back now", there was literally no point in paying social security taxes.
I think at this point you are abusing terminology such that it's meaningless.

I am not just talking about putting copies of things on the stack, but having few copies to begin with, etc.
> Either the tools we have to measure these things are inadequate, and must be improved.

I think that's the kind of point he's getting at. Dismissing people entirely as not relevant because their conversational norms differ from yours is the kind of things that leads to shocking events. This doesn't imply you should feel any more positively or negatively about these people, just that their comments may add explanatory power to your model of the world. When reality doesn't match your model, don't blame reality.
Great idea CarolineW! We will focus our presentation on the problem and then connect the points (where the solution proposed by us can solve this problem).
Regarding #3, I'm personally 100% against any online advertising in any form. So this punishes those who support it. Ditto for #2. As for #1, I'm not gaining anything, and no one is being deprived for their rights. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there?

If anything prosecutors should start with the rampant fraud being committed by companies in the online advertising space before they even think about looking at consumers.

FTR: I don't use AdNauseam because I'd prefer to nuke trackers and ads alltogether, but I'm supportive of the project.
They do whitelist. MethBot was faking URLs though so it's hard for platforms to detect that in milliseconds. This goes to the IP level at this point with that list posted online.

Our company is already getting asked to provide full reports by IP address to see how far this goes.
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Had the pleasure of working with Ryan when he was at FB--he's one of the best.
Yes, although I'd point out that a dependence on a low dose of Suboxone is really not that big of a deal; it being a partial agonist means that it doesn't really have adverse side effects over the long term unlike full agonists like traditional opioids or methadone. It may prevent relapse over the longer term much more effectively than abstinence.

I definitely agree with a point you raise however about the availability of lower doses - 2mg is far too high to jump off of, or even 0.25mg for that matter. Suboxone is commonly prescribed at FAR too high a dosage, 8 to 16mg or even 24mg, when in reality 4mg is plenty for almost everyone, and 2mg will work in many cases.

The withdrawal of Suboxone can at first glance seem not all that bad compared to traditional opioids, BUT - it lasts for at least a month, if not 2 or even 3. Suffering over a long time period is a LOT harder than people think. So, I think the pragmatic - and humane, for that matter - is simply to let the dependent person choose. Many may choose to discontinue it of their own volition if they are given the space to determine their own tapering plan and see how it goes. Forcing them into something is likely to cause far more harm than any perceived (to say nothing of actual) benefit.
Yes, I'm sure there is maybe 1% of the population that wants to pay more. Actually, I'll bet 1% is too high.
Yeah....

The 300x250 un-muted video in the upper left really irks me big time.

Garbage publishers are garbage.
The good I am referring to is the service provided by the extra freeway space. Imagine an auto-body shop decided it would give a free engine oil top-up to anyone who drove up. You'd still need a car to take advantage of the deal, but it does mean that consumption of that engine oil will probably rise.
Isn't your point that there are now old people that don't use feet or stone? (-:
So, my main issue is with you claiming that you have a monopoly on "common sense and general decency". It's like saying: "hey, my thoughts are also the majority's and they're _nice_!" The majority is commonly wrong, and things that seem "nice" often have nasty second & third-order consequences.

I probably have benefited from some public subsidy (Oregon public schools, and the lack of income tax in WA), but I can still argue against the system, can't I? :)
> and so the result is more traffic.

Sure. Freeways aren't art installations -- the freeway is built to service drivers. A newly expanded freeway can now service even more drivers before getting congested.

It would be pretty pointless to build a freeway, just for no one to use it.

> If you want to reduce traffic and get people to their destination faster you need to halt and/or reverse road network expansion

Those are two different things, one of which is inherently untrue by definition, for the same reason that "If you want faster internet, you need to halt or reverse fiber deployment" is untrue.

Traffic is transportation. If your goal is to reduce transportation, then sure, tear down roads and it will be much harder for people to move around. But that's going to suck for most of the people living there.

If your goal is to improve transportation, a freeway is one method of doing that. Improvements to public transit and/or bicycling infrastructure is another method of accomplishing that (obviously one you would prefer), but that doesn't make investments in freeways bad too.

It's possible to be pro-public-transit without being anti-personal-transit. LA can need a new freeway and more light rail, those two things are not actually in any conflict.
If you make more space for cars, and thus reduce congestion, the improved traffic conditions will attract more drivers until the congestion reaches some boundary threshold again where the majority of the remaining drivers are no longer willing to spend their time on the route.

The problem is that the demand is virtually indefinite for a nominally free supply.

The only cost involved is time―time that is wasted in congestion―which limits the amount of drivers willing to use the route during congested times.

Dynamic tolls would make the cost explicit.

If the cost of using the road at any given time would be high enough that there's barely no congestion on the road, i.e. practically everyone can cruise at the limit, then people could choose to pay for the privilege, postpone their trip to a later/earlier time slot when there's less congestion and the toll would be lower or zero, or omit the trip all together. Obviously, people wouldn't like this because they've used to getting free access, or "free" if you don't count the billions of tax dollars that go into widening and extending this utopia of endless freeway capacity.
> the [..] difference between the "thinking" programmers and the "shipping" programmers grows larger

That certainly seems true, but does that mean it should be that way? FWIW I see "thinking" programmer as a senior engineer, and "shipping" programmers as juniors. The latter will eventually become the former, but they require training and nurturing to do so.

In my experience, that's very hard to find. I've worked for many companies and in my experience, the ones with a "sane" programmer culture are very, very rare. Most are dominated by the business and sales structures, and see the techs as a necessary evil that they'd rather ship overseas where the wages are lower.

Where are the companies that are committed to technical excellence?
In the past I worked for a UK company from the UK which was owned by a US parent, where employees in the UK were granted options in the US company under the HMRC Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) scheme: https://www.gov.uk/tax-employee-share-schemes/enterprise-man... . I think without the scheme if I had exercised an option (whether to hold onto the share or to sell immediately) then I would have owed income tax on the difference between the strike price and the current value i.e. the discount my employer effectively gave me. I think I would have owed the tax even if I was forbidden to sell the stock (e.g. if the company had stayed private). With EMI there was no income tax on exercise and I only owed capital gains tax when I eventually sold the stock.
No, those are only seen as "ways to solve the problem" by the functional-style programmers who created the problem in the first place.

Stack allocation is what your computer is built from the ground up to do. It is not some kind of workaround or optimization, it is how software was originally designed to work.
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The issue is states trending towards the "mythical" free market have a track record of prosperity, while states tending towards mythical communism have a disastrous and bloody track record.

East and West Germany, North and South Korea, Maoist Guangzhou and Unregulated Hong Kong. Time and time again it has been shown that a large collectivist state does not deliver on any of its promises, but instead creates poverty and misery.

Now social democratic states can be relatively effective with a smaller population, and when administered by efficient, civic minded and hard-working people. The US Federal Government does not qualify.
You don't seem to understand how performance benchmarking works.

Unless you seek to optimize a single application, a benchmark is meant to be broadly representative of a wide category of applications whose performance is dominated by the component being benchmarked.

For instance, an application which allocates no memory is a poor benchmark of the memory allocator, and it is also a poor general representative of program performance if most programs' performance is dominated by memory management.
It's not impossible to have a low debt degree today.

I've worked interesting jobs part-time during the school year and full time during breaks and will graduate without a dime of debt. I've met many students with a similar financial background.
Funny that I saw Ghost in the Shell when it was originally released in the cinema but for some reason didn't think of it as cyberpunk!

Time to dive into it again it seems!
On paper I'm worth enough to pay off my mortgage. In reality I'm most likely never going to see a liquidity event for the startup from which I bought options.

The only time stock was worth something tangible for me was when I was a bootstrapped founder.
It's been a long time since I read that. After posting the link, I reread it, and it seems I misinterpreted it somewhere along the way. I thought that it develops an opposition between "matters of fact" and "matters of concern", and that it breaks along the same lines of the discussion here, but it doesn't.
Cycling is good for short commutes. In the context of a longer commute, consider it as a potential solution to the last mile problem (ie. transit for 30 minutes to move between towns, then take the bike share at the station for 5 minutes).

Importantly every person that uses a car alternative for travel is one less car on the road. This frees up space on the existing road network for people who, for whatever reason, must use a car for their trip. With less traffic, their trip may now be faster, and no road expansion was necessary to accomplish this.

Personally there is no real difference in my 20 minute commuting time whether I choose rapid transit, cycling or car. Cycling speed is the slowest, but when one factors in the congestion on the road and walking and transfer times of transit, my cycling commute is competitive.
Any kind of thing that you can apply to your personal life, or a family member or friend. Something you care enough about that you'll get excited of doing it.

Off the top of my head, a tool for measuring your favorite sport or activity, for example (say, a website that sends you info about your team's schedule or scores).

Or something for your schedule. Or a weight tracker. Something to organize a collection (music, movies, whatever).
Proposal: Have doctors always work in pairs like we do when pair programming. The shifts of each partner consists of 8 hours but are shifted by half a phase. This way the maximum time of sleep deprivation is 4 hours and the handoff is also a process that takes 4 hours giving maximum information transfer and always a fresh mind to catch errors.
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I'm glad to pay my fair share too (I don't look for every single deduction I can possibly find). However, it doesn't mean I want to pay any more than what I'm paying now. There is a definite limit.
Your empathy is contingent on someone's wallet?

Not a martyr, that's a silly religious concept. He's just not served by the law and neither are we. He was denied protection despite not hurting people, and yet we are no safer because of the actions of law enforcement.

Anyways, as long as we create this class of people (criminals whose crimes don't hurt anyone) and deny them protection, they will protect themselves. That's not further criminality, it's humanity. You would defend yourself, and so do they. We can stick our heads in the sand and say "It's wrong, they're criminal" or we can stop with the ridiculous laws.
If your cause is to decrease advertising on the web, and these actions diminish its effectiveness and potentially lead to decreased advertising in search of a better revenue stream, well that sounds like effective activism to me.
Wow...that was a terrible, over-sensationalized, long, useless ran. TL;DR don't bother.
have you given the lenovo x1 carbon a look? the x1 yoga is currently at the top of my short list, mostly due to lenovo's amazing keyboards, followed by the dell xps13 developer edition for the significantly longer battery life.
This doesn't even make financial sense for the government. If you are guaranteeing that federal student loan debts will be deducted from social security payments, why not let me make those payments pre-tax before retirement? Why would you take one third of my paycheck into social security, which may or not pay out for me in decades, rather than just sending it straight to my loan balance?
A smart pointer is just a way to add custom behavior when it's created and destroyed. The question is what the smart pointer does. Usually the answer is update a reference count, which happens so frequently that it ends up being a lot more expensive (especially in bus bandwidth) than occasionally tracing live objects between long periods of useful work.
Uber's is laying the groundwork to make the legal case that Tesla owners using autopilot are in fact 'testers', presumably in hopes of tangling Tesla up.

'Levandowski compared Uber’s technology to Tesla’s autopilot feature, saying: “It’s hard to understand why the DMV would seek to require self-driving Ubers to get permits when it accepts that Tesla’s autopilot technology does not need them."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/uber-defi...
Are you designing a game, or throwing one together?
> This is an obvious failure of the tax system. The solution is quite simple

Yes, it is indeed: 1) if a company does local business, they should pay local tax, and, 2) by making sure the company has physical presence instead of being a P.O. box. Ie. by flagging those companies who claim they are in the middle of the Caribbean Sea while they're clearly not as tax evaders who ought to be prosecuted 3) use whitelists on companies who are honest, and for those who are not: immediately distract the corporate income tax from their transactions (it is 2016, after all). EDIT: 4) the construction with fake companies who the companies deal with should also be pretty easy to catch with some ML/AI :)

Your solution:

> get rid of corporate income tax, focus on consumption taxes.

Would give corporations a free ride at the expense of consumers. It'd stimulate consumers to start fake corporations just to avoid tax. Finally, it'd lower the value of the money the consumer has as it is. Hardly a fair solution.