skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the pizzagate stuff is stupid and unfounded. It does a great disservice to people that were victims of real sexual abuse.

But can't you see the vast amount of corruption? The DNC rigged the primary for one candidate. We need to hold our political parties accountable for their actions.
Your first point is illogical. It was a violation of basic human rights then and it still is now. The underlying tenet (liberty) is independent of "not being a slave" and has nothing to do with whether slavery has been invented yet/is being practiced. Make sense?

That's a nice fantasy, but it's also a fantasy. If you think Canada has equal healthcare for all, then please explain why various prime ministers and EU dignitaries come to the US for major operations.

On a tangent, I do think the US has an arguably worse healthcare system than some of these socialist countries, but not because the socialist system is good -- it's because we have such a distorted market. We have Medicare/Medicaid which basically social healthcare, almost any prescription for $5, but it's even worse than social healthcare because it only applies to some of the population, driving prices up for those who don't yet qualify. We have overbearing occupational licensing. It is TOO hard to become a doctor. We have overbearing malpractice regulation -- a huge percentage of a doctor's salary goes to malpractice insurance, making regulators/lawyers richer. We have a stifling FDA, which combined with our over-powered IP system grants monopolies to drug companies and enables price gouging.

We have nothing resembling a free healthcare market, my friend, so don't blame capitalism for America's problems.
"but one of the things that makes it immensely difficult to start a software tools company is the unwillingness of developers to use hosted tools, particularly if those tools are new and/or different"

Rather than see this as a fault with developers, perhaps this is an indication that hosted services aren't the best model for development tools. (or really any tools that are "mission critical" to someone's daily operations, whatever they may be.)

For that reason, when I choose dev tools I strongly prefer to stick with open source when it exists, or if purchasing something, a product that is perpetually licensed and runs locally. There are occasional exceptions, but they have to provide some notable benefit from being a service. (Github is a good example)

I get why SaaS is nice from a startup's perspective (not to mention being the trendy thing, and probably what investors expect to see), but if it doesn't work for your customers, maybe it's time to look at other approaches.
Please show me the math on how you are going to give everyone a pension greater than the GDP per capita by changing tax law.
Agreed. I wrote this on FB last year when people were calling hacks 'cyberwar':

I’m still not sure what to think of the Sony hack. I instantly rejected the idea that it amounted to “cyber war”, but beyond that, I think governments can take a legitimate interest in digital attacks on private companies, same as law enforcement would get involved in a physical attack on a corporate building.

I think the main response to IT breaches has to be “defensive”; secure code and networks. You can’t find and retaliate towards every hacker. And the benefit is that unlike retaliatory policy responses, good network security is designed to protect against all third parties, whether it’s your own government, random financial criminals, James Bond villains, whatever the entity or motive.
> Won't someone give us the option of a 10+mm thick phone with a huge battery in it.

This option exists in the form of battery cases.
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I have an X1 Yoga (a touchscreen equivalent of the X1 Carbon) with an OLED display and it's absolutely gorgeous. It's much better than the ~1 year old Mac Book Pro I have for work. The colors and contrast are incredible—it can even render a black that doesn't glow at all.
I have recently upgraded form 4 year old X1 Carbon to new X1 Yoga.
Bottom line is I'd recommend the X1 Yoga over the Carbon.

Here is my original X1 Carbon review: http://blog.itaysk.com/2013/05/04/lenovo-x1-carbon-touch-rev...
And here are my thoughts on the X1 Yoga: http://blog.itaysk.com/2016/12/30/from-lenovo-x1-carbon-to-l...
They could hardly be more different. See:

https://www.apple.com/privacy/
Thank you. I had come here just to say this.

Who cares if Zuckerberg believes in God or not?

Seriously.
Make 2017 a great year
The PM's who have impressed me (as a dev) are the ones who have allowed me to talk to customers directly, so that I can have that exact same conversation.
It also can be seen as a meaningful signal of attribution capability to certain parties. Think of the form - an official document intended for public consumption - as not really being intended for consumption by the general public.
> the other $170k would be taxed at 15%

Huh? Where did you get 15% from? The other $170k would be taxed at ordinary income rates, so most of that income would fall in the 28% or 33% bracket.
For data on elephant populations and the effect of ivory bans or increased demand, check out: https://elephant-atlas.org/ - including an API. The counts come from an awesome program called the Great Elephant Census (http://www.greatelephantcensus.com/).

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Because we need to think realistically, and economically. Improving, and incrementing familiar technology now. Not introducing another mess in the air. We haven't even got self-driving land vehicles, and we're just going to make the jump to aircraft that NO ONE is familiar with? We still rely on primitive controlled explosions to get off our planet. Sure it's a neat idea, but this isn't the Fifth Element world yet.

Update ground infrastructure, improve public transportation, make renewable energy a priority, get our cars driving themselves.
Lenovo is infamous for shipping shitty RAM / Disk options. You often can't buy appropriately maxed out hardware from them. A few years ago, I was procuring a few Thinkpad W520 for a new team and at no point did they offer a 500gb or larger SSD. The 384GB drive they had was an extra grand. I bought the machines in max cpu/graphics config and ordered ram and disks separately. Nobody on the team had an issue using a screwdriver for 5 minutes of their life.
Your position is that all civil servants are overpaid for the work they do? That's a rather bold claim.
No idea why you're bringing politics into this. All I said was no evidence has been made public by the government.
He could, of course, say that nobody is forced to share their beliefs on Facebook. (My own "religion" is currently blank, for instance.)

Still I get the impression that Facebook does so much tracking of users via embedded wotsits that they know your religion / politics / sexuality et cetera...
Can you explain how you would optimise an expression like "a + b" at compile-time when the types are ambiguous? Surely you have to fall back to generic code, which is slower than a JIT that can observe that both types are e.g. a number and emit the ideal instructions for it.
Ask HN: In the US, what is a direct reference?
I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13285995 and this comment:

"Now, for the first time in 16 years I find myself looking for a job in SV without a direct reference"

What is a direct refernce?
I don't think the people who use the robo-advisors are the same kind of people who have been using hedge funds.
On the plus side: flying cars actually exist while self-driving ones do not.
It's worth noting that thanks to a clever configuration, the X1's 14" screen and keyboard are a bit bigger than the MacBook—enough so that it feels significantly more roomy while only being a little bit bigger. (It barely fits into my bag designed for 13" laptops—but it fits!)
The Sony hack is a great example. The shareholders, employees and other stakeholders should have enjoyed legal remedies that could have rocked the corporate world into enacting meaningful INFOSEC practices. Instead I've seen reports they paid only $8m USD in a class action settlement. Its not enough to serve the public policy need.
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Not one of the mentioned languages has dynamic typing, they are all statically typed.
I found this article on how jail in the Netherlands is focused on giving prisoners whatever they need to go back into society and not reoffend interesting. They claim that under 10% of prisoners reoffend, compared to about 50% in England and the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37904263
But by your own argument, that's just a meaning that you made up. Why should the rest of us view it as having any validity whatsoever? Why should the human race decide that that goal is the one they should have, as opposed to, for example, destroying all life on earth? (That's the problem with existentialism - you can pick anything as your meaning.)
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self-employment taxes are only applied to a capped part of your profits ($118,500 in 2015) [0]

s-corp distributions are taxed as ordinary income (not capital gains) [1]

even though long term capital gains rates don't apply in this case, you cited an incorrect number. they peak at 23.8% not 15% [2]

[0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[1] https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Busines...

[2] http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-are-capital...
> The United States is fantastically violent in comparison to Europe, and always has been

Homicide != all violence. The US in fact is not fantastically more violent than Europe outside of the murder rate, which is primarily made possible by the mass distribution of guns. Europe today has twice the non-homicide crime rate that the US does. Europe's largest nation - Russia - has a homicide rate over three times that of the US.

"Contrary to common perceptions, today both property and violent crimes (with the exception of homicides) are more widespread in Europe than in the United States, while the opposite was true thirty years ago."

"In 1970 the aggregate crime rate in the seven European countries we consider was 63% of the corresponding US ﬁgure, but by 2007 it was 85% higher than in the United States."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1889952
White House stated pretty clearly why the Grizzly Steppe report went out: "to better help network defenders in the United States and abroad identify, detect, and disrupt Russia’s global campaign of malicious cyber activities."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/29/fact-...

Attribution is sexy and the media likes to talk about it. I don't believe the confusion was intentional. The White House is pretty bad at PR and 'never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence'
Until everyone has a flying car?
> There is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad

Your criticisms are pretty almost all a matter of taste, and we're in disagreement just about throughout.

> I wonder if it's the Valley culture?

I'm not in the valley. I've never found any non-apple laptop with a good (or even decent) trackpad, and I like that OSX has a community of indie developers who actually care.

> the keyboard

I don't enjoy thinkpad keyboard.

> the UltraNav

Same as above but much stronger, I absolutely hate this thing, and I love Apple trackpad. In fact the trackpad is one a huge reason for remaining on Apple laptops despite other shortcomings: I can and even enjoy using MBPs without a mouse.

> the swappable batteries

have never been something I've needed, plus that requires carrying additional batteries.

> a nice docking station

Meh. "nice" is in the eye of the beholder, the thing's ugly as sin. And with type C/TB3, you can actually replicate it without being beholden to Apple (!).

> upgradeable storage/memory

That is indeed a really annoying "feature" of Apple over the last few years. Though of course you can get a maxed-out MBP.

> Linux distro

and I don't see that as an advantage.

> The gap is huge! If a Thinkpad is a 100, the prev. gen Macbook Pro would be 60

If you like thinkpads more power to you, but all my experiences with them were disappointing, I'd put the 2015 rMBP at 70 and the average thinkpad at 40, maybe 50.
>Not much to run into up there :)

So far. In a future where people commute in flying cars while delivery drones descend from some flying warehouse I'm not so sure this stays true.

The saving grace is probably that up there we don't have to accommodate legacy vehicles. We can just force all airborne vehicles to talk to each other with some universal collision avoidance/traffic routing protocol.
This is what should be scary. If this "crisis" is just because we know the numbers now, and there's a hidden crisis in the public sector where people don't even realize how screwed they will be a decade into their retirement? 401k plans are way more opaque than pensions.
Are those also considered anti-patterns, or simply "bad practices"? The examples in the article seem to have a wider scale than the ones mentioned in your collection.

My question is, where is the line the line between an anti-pattern or simply a "bad practice", or if they are the same?
Or maybe they should just get rid of the subsidies.

Maybe you should visit India or the Philippines and let me know how soon you expect that cultural shift to hit them. Something happening in your world does not equal global paradigm shift. The western world is not "the world." I do agree that it's happening in western Europe, though.

I was speaking for myself (in case you missed the use of "I"). You go ahead and believe all the promises that strongmen tell you in exchange for little bits of freedom. The NSA, FDA, etc. will take care of you. Sleep easy champ.
What is wrong with living in an old house? Old wiring, depending on when it was put in, isn't necessarily bad. Knob and tube wiring (a really old style) can probably never start an electrical fire (assuming the outlets are periodically replaced) because the conductors are separated by 18 inches or more. A roof needs to be replaced every 20 years or so. Paint, more often. If the house you own has peeling paint or a leaking roof, look in the mirror and blame that person. Don't blame the age of the house.
It's not necessarily my job, but in many cases, there's still a good chance that I'm going to be the one yelled at, or have to deal with the consequences (having to work late nights to put out the fires caused by those decisions).
They preferred a candidate, but 'rigging' implies fraudulently manipulating the votes, which didn't happen.

I'd like to see the RNC's emails now. What kind of dirt do the republicans have? Is it not being released because it's being used to blackmail them?
When I made the switch from developer to product/program/project management, the biggest mistake I made was still trying to write code.

It's one thing to keep your coding skills sharp, but there is so much to do as a PM other than writing code that will more than make up for the 40 hours a week you gave up by switching jobs. In theory your role as a PM at your company exists because the developers and designers are no longer able to sustain the managerial/organizational overhead coming from team and scope growth.

This really depends on the needs of the organization, but my rule of thumb is to only write code if (1) it's to get data you need or (2) you're bored and can't find anything to do.
I am in the same situation. People tell me all the time how lucky I am to work remotely, and I was excited when it started. But it definitely has some drawbacks that I didn't expect, especially in the mental health department.

Webex/Hangouts/GTM is fine for 90% of the banal, communication meetings. But it really fails for any design meetings that need a whiteboard. I have tried getting my team to use some alternatives, but there is always some eye rolling, and it never sticks around. It doesn't help that the majority of our team is onsite, so any alternative is 100% for my benefit. Also I haven't found an app that can compete with the tactile feeling of a physical board.

Also I feel like I miss out on the "water cooler" talk. Any sort of communication I have is very formal. My team doesn't like using chat casually, so it really hampers my ability to form relationships with them.

Finally, time management is an issue. When you have an office, its much easier to turn on and off. When I am at home too many mornings start late, and too many evenings run long.
Sure, sometimes it is. When I doubt my career skills, I can (usually, eventually) recognize it as insecurity / impostor syndrome / whatever.

When I doubt my dancing skills, it's a rational evaluation.
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Polish the resume and bail out. You're working for Bill Lumbergh. You can't win against that sort of managerial talent.
The article says that El Monte did this - they abolished the supplemental top-up pension in 2008; but paying just those few who qualified for it from 2000-2008 is devastatingly expensive.

I agree though - cancelling plum benefits while grandfathering existing recipients is the only politically tractable approach.
Alright, so you spend $800 for a phone, and you're complaining that you can't spare $10?

I'm not saying removing the headphone jack to make the phone a mm thinner wasn't a retarded move, but... Really? $10?
It's an unfortunate consequence of the ridiculous markups on hardware add-ons, but if you're willing to apply a little elbow grease and look at resellers, it's not too hard to get what you're looking for for 1000$.

New:

* 818$: cheapest T460 on the website
* +270$ for i3-6100u => i7-6600u
* +390$ for 500GB HDD => 512GB SSD upgrade
* +470$ for 4GB RAM => 32GB RAM

Here's your 1000$ build:

* 700$ for a T460 with an i5 on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Sold=1&_udlo=700&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1&_sop=15&_nkw=t460%20i5)
* 170$ for a 500GB 850 EVO (https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE)
* 108$ to 170$ for Crucial's 16GB RAM kits (depending on specific specs)

If you're willing to part with another 200$-300$:

* <800$ for a T460 with an i7 on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_Sold=1&_udlo=700&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1&_sop=15&_nkw=t460%20i7)
* 340$ for Crucial's 32GB RAM kit (http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/thinkpad-t460/CT8304418)
anti-pattern would be: "commonly reinvented bad solution to a recurring problem" (paraphrasing wikipedia)
Two things:

1. Personal experience: businesses and products don't always last. Your product that is pulling in great money might last, or it might not. You could be down to $100k next year, or 50k, or $0. Tech moves fast. You are almost certainly overpaying taxes significantly, say, $50k+ a year.

I've had a product that pulled in $100k a year for many years on autopilot, and it just died one year.

2. $50k a year could be invested and compounded annually for many many years. Life isn't about income, it's about net worth. Having a higher net worth is like borrowing years from the future. You don't need to (just) build income, you need to build up net worth and income from different sources.

That will allow you to build a new product, or just keep enjoying life once your income stream shuts down.

Maybe I'm a jerk for minimising my taxes, but I'd prefer more money in the bank now vs later.
If you want to invest in Didi, which hasn't had an IPO yet, you can invest in Apple and Alibaba, which have invested a lot of money in Didi.

Given that Apple is the largest holding in most S&P 500 and total stock market index funds, anyone who has invested in those funds will benefit somewhat from the success of Didi.

Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard, goes so far as to argue that a broad US-market index fund is all you need for international exposure, because many US companies will benefit from the success of the international companies they have invested in and do business with.

I don't quite buy that argument, but it's something to keep in mind when you construct a portfolio: index funds that appear to be distinct often overlap.
> Someone needs to take a new approach to educating citizens about issues in an objective, non-biased manner

Not just issues, but even just positions. I honestly have no idea what several of these people's jobs are let alone their personal character and values. Would be handy for this site to link to a description of the position on wikipedia to find out what ways this person would be in a position to effect change in my life.
Saying that they don't is a little over reaching. And by a little I mean a lot.
Just follow freeways. Though that gives up point to point efficiency.
At the risk of significant downvoting, it's important for HNers to realize that all their little named terms for the Blah-Blah Effect and so forth are a lot like the early days of psychology and related fields. More often than not, these named effects and "patterns" are data-free and mechanism-free attempts model human behavior into a science arising from little more than lay observation and anecdote. These attempts should be considered no more intellectually authoritative and citable than what a guy tells you from an airport bar stool.
The interestesting part of all this is how would a machine know how to stop and take a shower?

Right now if I notice one of my programs is doing something silly I come along and stop it, find out why it didn't work and start it again.

What if AI get's stuck on a (silly?) problem for an eternity, who will be there to help it out? Obviously I'm making some generationalisations about how The Singularity could potentially work. But maybe only being able to spend a certain amount of time on something is an important feature of our brains?
That was my first thought as well. The page just looks awful, even more so on mobile.
Presumably they think pensions should be funded and aren't stupid enough to think the money can just be invented from nowhere for it.
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You are just as likely to pick a loser as a winner over that duration unless you have insider information. Just own the whole market and settle for average returns, which are a lot better than what you would get if you bet on the wrong sector or companies.
Yes, I actually did that with my SSD and memory. One of the things I miss of Thinkpads is the GPU. It seems like in the past two or three years it's been increasingly hard to find a Thinkpad T with GPU. I'm aware that the W have them, but those are beasts. I read somewhere that you could buy them through other countries, like Japan, but didn't look much into it.
Just designate all (currently free) parking spaces as drop zones, and all roads as emergency drop zones.

Since ground-based cars will in all probability continue to be a thing, roads are not guaranteed to be empty, but are guaranteed to be plentiful and nearly everywhere. Autonomous cars can be signaled as some road strip is reserved for emergency landing, and within seconds they can vacate the road strip and block it from conventional vehicles (assuming a sufficient portion of ground vehicles becomes autonomous).
If the output comes out nice and the argument passing semantics is sensable I'll try and rewrite my OS kernel in this. I want to do it in JS or something similar as it would be a great teaching tool to students as the language is very simple and they need no other testing utilites then their web browser.
It could be well-crafted, or it could just be part of Zuckerberg growing up. A lot of big changes happen between one's 20s and 30s, and having children, in particular, tends to change one's outlook dramatically.
Same in the US. While I can't speak for Japan, where credit cards are rare, I'd imagine it's the same. You pay for the convenience of instant credit.
Do you have any example of such a campaign? I'm only aware of things like "drugs aren't cool", which isn't going to sway anyone. I wonder what an effective example of a public awareness campaign looks like.