skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is for CPP/OAS which is the equivalent of US Social Security. You don't get access to your own cash - that goes to current retirees. You pay to current retirees for longer and start getting access to current workers' cash later.

Canada's RRSPs are actually a much better system. They are straight up tax deferral. You can put money into your RRSP at any age up to 70 so long as you have contribution room (ie: you're employed). Later, if you wind up unemployed and therefore in a lower tax bracket than when you put money in, you can take the money out.

If the Canadian government instituted some sort of tax on RRSPs, they wouldn't be able to act fast enough to prevent people from massively draining their RRSPs before new rules took effect.

In the US, you have to wait until you are 59.5, or you begin collecting periodic payments (ie: as if it were a pension), or you pay a 10% penalty.
BlackBerry’s last in-house QWERTY phone, the “Mercury”
Also, Mozilla, the way it is setup, does not have the same incentives as its competitors do, all of which are publicly traded firms.
51? Most men die at 25... we just don't bury them until they are 70. -- Benjamin Franklin
This data could also be very dangerous. You can be tracked in everything you do by the power that be and this will be used for nefarious purposes.

So I think it is not unlikely that people revolt against the progressively erosion of liberties and freedoms.
I'm at a startup that works with big enterprisey customers, maybe 50% of the time I have a ton of freedom and "agility", and the other half of the time it's like what you describe. Just insanely frustrating and painful.

And because our customers know us as being agile, there's a huge double standard to all of it. We can request changes, or even write all the code for them and send it, but won't see it live for 3-12 months. Even for critical bugs. However, when they request anything for our services, features require like a 1 month deadline from conception to deployment, and critical bugs is something like 72 hours.

A little ranty because 2016 for me was more like 90% "dealing with enterprise", 10% freedom. Thankfully next month I'm being switched to a team dealing more with internal services, so there's a lot less BS (because my boss says he's noticed how stressed it has made me, so that's nice).
Don't be ridiculous. It's misleading to not warn people that you have exceptionally long shipping times, far beyond any standard and several times longer than what 96% of customers expect (5-7 days).

If you ordered a cheeseburger at a takeout place and they said "Thanks for your order!" then took 3 hours to make it, would you say "Oops, it was my fault for assuming it would be ready in a reasonable amount of time!"

No, you'd be frustrated and asking where your food was, especially since you'd paid for it 2 hours ago and they never warned you about how long it would take.
> presuming the second will go like the first, and they run things fat and expensive from the start: high headcount, expensive office, high salaries, over the top perks

Nailed it. It's tough to resist, though. In the moment, it feels like "doing things right this time" rather than running fat.
> there are a few A-players and a ton of C-players.

So I am certain to suffer from C-players, and my browser may never encounter an A-player.

If there were a way for me to a) believe that ad network X is non-malicious A-player, b) for me on my side of the browser to set and forget whitelisting that A-player, c) to know that the A-player hasn't been acquired by a malicious C-player, and d) that a publisher was only using non-malicious A-players, THEN I would enable (some) ads.

But it's too much work on my side. A-players need to be talking to publishers and C-players, and driving the C-players OUT. Until then, I block indiscriminately.

I'm not against ads, I'm against unnecessary risk.
You should see my three-year-old on his coaster bike. I can no longer keep up with him, even running. I haven't transitioned him to pedals yet, but I have to feel there's something to the idea that the balance is the hard part and once you're confident in that you can pedal while you do it.

Edit: He became proficient with it slightly after his second birthday. He walked fairly late, too, after 16 months or so. I don't think he could have learned to pedal this early, but he's got the balance, steering, and speed control (braking and accelerating as needed) out of the way. Even knows how to ring a bell when passing people on jogging trails.
>The Fed can buy the bonds and hold them in perpetuity.

And what cash will they give to the SSA in exchange for those bonds? Where will that come from?
Micro Compact Home 016 by Richard Horden (2012)
I built my SBC without any prior experience. You pretty much just have to connect all the adress and data lines, and then figure out the chip selection logic. I used an MC68B50 for the UART, which can still be found very cheaply on eBay.
I'm so happy to read this and all I can say is I hope they succeed - the faster, the better. I used to run Firefox and loved it so much, but it started falling behind in performance so much that I had to switch out of necessity. I haven't really seen it improve much over the years. On the contrary, Safari, while it always felt a bit slower than Chrome, is feeling faster and faster with each update.

Working at a company where I occasionally create presentational sites, I often have to create and optimise animations that some designer thought would be so very radical and the two browsers that are extremely painful to support are usually Firefox and Internet Edge-splorer (pardon the pun).

I have animations that run at a smooth 60fps in Chrome and Safari effortlessly, quite often producing 1-2 FPS in Firefox. Their updates are quite weird too, between the last 3 updates, I've seen the project I was working on run bad enough that I had to fallback to the mobile-lite version on FF to running acceptably (30+ fps) to running like crap again.

And maybe we'll see 16 year old style rendering bugs get fixed finally, too? Please, pretty, please?

After ripping on it a bit, tho, I have to say: I'm looking forward to running Firefox again in the future, as much as I like Safari at the moment, it's closed source and I don't like being exposed to Apple's whims (especially lately), where if they decide to destroy by making it unusable I'm left out to dry and quite frankly Google Chrome just creeps me out now.
I sure did, I'll see myself out
> Either you're on Windows wishing you were using Linux, or you're on macOS wishing you were on Windows wishing you were using Linux

Hahaha so good. So true. One thing that's totally crazy is Linux on Windows what a world. Why? So you can run Photoshop?
But it didn't provide enough USB power I thought for the Yubikey. I'd heard this changed, but I have a feeling you'd know better than me there! ;)

(Long time no chat btw!)
Seasteading: tech leaders' plans for floating city trouble French Polynesians
According to PayScale[1] and Glassdoor[2], average/median salary for software engineer in the Bay Area is around $110K. Caveat: Self-reported data and base salary only.

1: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

2: https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-en...
Damn, hope you filed a patent!
Ok yes. An accuracy issue then as it's probably using a simple algo for the projection. Stand corrected.
It's not that people aren't willing to put in the effort to optimize games for Linux, it's the reality of graphics drivers being effectively a massive collection of bugs and special cases for specific titles or common programmer errors. If you have a direct line to the manufacturers like Valve does, you can ask for bugs to be fixed, for specific optimizations, or even for engineers to fly over and tune your shaders. For regular developers, you're happy if your game just works.
Those voters saw a bigot and didn't let that stop them for voting for him despite what their other reasons may be. That is enough.
I always thought Stallman's ideas were _too_ crazy. Until I struggled with Chrome for 10 minutes trying (and failing) to install this extension in a way that wouldn't bother me. And then I realised that Chrome is dictating what can I do on _my_ computer and what I can't.

This year I will try to fix the rough edges in any FF plugins I use instead of switching back to Chrome.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computin...
Edith Ramirez on CES, the future of the FTC and how you can win $25,000
> Doing that which is good is moral, so if good is real then morals are real, unless you're a non-cognitivist.

Yep, but that's not a biconditional. If morals are real, that doesn't necessarily mean good is real.

> It's not nonsense in the sense that evolution can explain our predilection for developing moral beliefs, but the idea that this fact then disproves moral realism is dubious.

Dawkins doesn't believe evolution merely explains our predilection for developing moral beliefs, he believes morality is driven by certain evolutionary processes. For example, anti-social behavior (e.g. going on a murdering spree) might be "immoral" because it hurts the population as a whole (thereby hurting its propagation), or something along those lines. I think that's a very reductive position, and although analytically satisfying, it doesn't quite capture the intuitive meaning of "good" and "bad".
That's correct. There's one exception to the encryption rule, which is when sending commands to a space station. (That does not allow you to encrypt the responses, though.) See 47 CFR 97.211, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/97.211
How about "Scientists in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ?

Or maybe "Librarians in Germany, Peru and Taiwan to Rightfully Dump Elsevier Journals" ?
The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware
Thank you for this. I'm in my mid-30s and terrified that when I get older I'll turn into the beaten & defeated type that I myself have observed in some older people. I guess maybe my fear of losing my mojo is a hopeful indicator that I'll avoid such a fate. :)
I just had a picture of a Google self driving car taking you to your destination via "sponsored routes", past businesses who have "paid per view".
> I will simply link to the Nirvana fallacy and ask them to point me to a microcontroller that is more Free and Open Source.

What? To me this reads like: "Here's a pink unicorn! If you argue it's a brown horse with a cardboard corn I dare you to show me a horse that is more unicorn!". Is it open source or not?
Awesome! I'm glad you appreciate it. No currently I am not, and articles are returned based on relevancy of your search.

This is really just an MVP, I wanted to get the project out there to get some initial feedback before I start building more. Tagging, filtering, ordering etc are definitely in the road map along with other features!
Yes, I found the usage odd. He equates "unpredictable" with "random", which is not how I have usually heard the term in strategic contexts. That means unpredictable, even assuming perfect information. The usual meaning of "unpredictable" is more like the author's use of "secrecy", meaning "denying the ability for competitors to confidently predict the next move".
I am beaten at 30, sigh.
Yeah. Amen.

I've not seen a single PC with the Apple build quality. Combine that with Apple Stores providing excellent, best in industry support for a good price: I'd love to go Linux, but someone needs to build a good Linux notebook with Apple grade support for that to happen. I have no time for tinkering or downtime.
There's nothing wrong with "firing up the printing press."

The US government will be in debt for the rest of its existence and the balance of that debt will likely increase every year. The Federal Reserve openly targets a 3% inflation rate and that inflation is going to come from ye olde printing press.

IMHO, better this inflation come in the form of SS payments than payouts to military contractors.
Love the piece on Work-Life balance being a fractal.

I think you can generalize it for variety of "subjects" for your mind - sometimes work feels better than holiday, and sometimes that book at a coffee shop is exactly the perspective you needed to keep going.
Are you guys actually getting enough sales to live off that business? Your site is on the 2nd page of Google results even when I type the exact address in, your Instagram was last active 13 weeks ago, and your Facebook page only has 50 likes.

Something just seems... off.
At Russian Hacking Hearing, Most Republican Senators Express No Outrage
> From a skills perspective, I think doing a SaaS as a solo founder is only practical if you have extremely broad skillsets

I think this is what's changed from a few years ago. Expectations of usability, design, support, number of platforms, etc. have all gone up even from casual users.

37signals, probably the most-celebrated bootstrapper shop, grew up in the 90s. Imagine getting started today. You need a responsive, high-design website. You need to navigate an incredibly complex web of user acquisition channels spanning web search, paid and earned social, community, etc. You need some kind of mobile support (even if just an optimized website), real-time synchronization features, etc. It just doesn't end.

I'm not sure it's possible at all to build something yourself these days. You pretty much have to have a team, and pay them in stock/revenue share, or cash upfront, to get a real revenue-producing company going.

I think the one-man software shop is really on the decline.
H1-B visa reform Bill reintroduced in U.S. Congress
Bitcoin plunges as much as 20 percent as Chinese yuan soars
You're being highly disingenuous with your reply, to the point that I agree with the other comment that it is snarky. Assuming your audience already knows HTML and Python is perfectly acceptable if the focus is on building the application, not on teaching how to type HTML and Python from scratch one character at a time. A video could then say "Now we enter in this page of HTML [cut from blank editor to already typed in text]. Note the following sections: [brief explanation of important parts with highlights]" etc. which the audience can follow along via section-by-section downloads. This is a very standard style, and that you seem unaware makes you appear ill-suited for teaching anybody.
Proxysite.com
It doesn't need six-sigma, just to be significantly better than humans, and for the manufacturer to take on the liability.
Acorn System 1 for the Win

http://imgur.com/a/f7zZR

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3286&hilit=acorn+...

(No I haven't built the replica yet - darn work/life balance)
If there wasn't a fertility decline in the Western world, there wouldn't be a lopsided ratio of retirees to new incoming workers.

That future probably wasn't terribly obvious to the politicians who created them (given that most public pension plans were created roughly between World War I and a bit after World War II).

In fact, based on some of the literature of the time (eg The Population Bomb -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb -- etc.) I'd say it's more like people were fearing the reverse.
Ah, I see your concern. Right, if you called a function that took locks and then faulted, the thread handling the fault can't attempt to take the same locks. That should result in far fewer restrictions than "async-signal-safe", though.
> Both Clinton and Bush 2 tried to privatize Social Security.

That shows a grave misunderstanding of both proposed solutions to the SA insolvency problem.
Moving down the corporate ladder
A Brief History of GPS–from James Bond to Pokémon Go
Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187315
Cool. What is the monitization strategy? Affiliate from Datacamp?
I'm no expert, but selling off the Craftsman brand strikes me as a bit of a dodgy decision. I would argue that the Craftsman brand is one of the most valuable things Sears owns, and one of a small number of very valuable brands they have. Selling that feels to me like "eating your seed corn".

Granted, they say they'll still sell the Craftsman brand, but this still seems very short-sighted (along with selling, or trying to sell, the Kenmore and Diehard brands).

Closing stores makes sense, as less purchasing is done at meatspace retail stores. But I'd think you would want to double down on your strong brands, not get rid of them.
Bundling in .NET MVC Applications with Webpack
they posted link on homepage on how to install on Chrome bypassing webstore about 7 hours ago: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...
How the Gig Economy Will Change in 2017
How are MS-13, Bloods, Crips and other various street gangs enabled by Trump's election? I am confused.
8MM
> I speculate that burnout is more psychological than physical

Since programming is mental and not physical....yes?
If you use Medicaid, you're expected to first deplete almost all of your financial resources to pay. It's not unusual to even have your home become an asset that will be eventually taken by the government.
Easy - propose a process for releasing data, and get it publicly vetted by privacy/security researchers. I'm pretty sure anyone who understands basic crypto would know that MD5 hashing low-entropy text fields is problematic. The fact that they missed this means they just handed this procedure off to a random coder who didn't know any better. That doesn't sound like at all like a sane process for releasing gigabytes of highly personal data.

Private companies have their own issues, obviously, but just because A is bad doesn't mean we should lower our standards for B.

Also, private companies have your data because consumers interact with them directly, so at least there is some implicit consent involved. But I'm less convinced that they should be forced to hand that data over to public agencies that have only a very tangential relationship with the user. If I take an NYC cab ride, why should the city government get to see that, especially if I don't live there?
If you are scared of the tax rate rising (which is reasonable, since tax rate in the US is at like an all time low historically speaking), consider Roth type stuff that is taxed now, not later. Or do both, as a hedge.
The title doesn't help you guess what you're clicking into, I might gloss it as "Wavelength, a company blog, by Asana, a time-tracking app co."
It's unfortunate that there is no Yubikey nano for USB-C yet. I really like the nano form factor, especially because I can't accidentally break a USB port like I could with the normal sized one.

I guess it's really hard to fit all of the electronics in a port as small as USB-C though.
That's it! That's the whole crux of the matter.

A ponzi scheme has an intent to defraud. That's why they're illegal.

Social security has no intent to defraud. It's not "legal cause the gubmint says so," it's legal because it's not a fraudulent money-making scheme designed to enrich the leader.
Thanks HN and NIH. Just in time too -- I have been mulling the purchase of an LED garage light.

https://www.haikuhome.com/garage-light

Color temp = 5000K. Output is 13000 lumens. The sales page assumes 10 ft x 15 ft illuminated area (install height not specified but probably 8 ft) = 250 ft^2 or ~23 m^2.

Doing the math yields 565 lumens / m^2. Should be a little more at standing (eyes ~5ft off the floor) height.
Everything is all swell now, but there have been days, weeks, months, where everything was one payment, one customer, one ..., from imploding. I got lucky.
Also, tax law requires a company to hand over information such as invoices. And since drivers are contractors (thus not employed by Uber), I only think it is consistent that the government gets information on the work performed by them.
Yes, it's a tiny program that (1) detaches the console, (2) attaches a new console, (3) closes all screen buffer handles, then (4) creates a new screen buffer. The fourth step caused a BSOD on Vista and Server 2008. AFAIK, they were up-to-date.

I did report it to Microsoft before making it public. The reply was:

> Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). I would suggest trying on a local VM to confirm BSOD. However, this currently is just a local DOS, which would would not be something we would investigate further. If you have any additional information on how this could be further used to exploit another user or a remote DOS, please let us know and we will look into it.

> For an in-depth discussion of what constitutes a product vulnerability please see the following:

> "Definition of a Security Vulnerability" <https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc751383.aspx>

>Again, we appreciate your report.
The clothing found in a luxury department store is of noticeably higher quality than that found in a Kohls. There are definitely diminishing returns in how much quality you get for your money though.
When Do You Outgrow IKEA?
I thought of building this to keep an eye on prices without any efforts from the menu bar. So with no clicks, I can see current BTC price and I can filter out cryptocurrency of my interest with just 1 click. Also, it runs in background so that keeps 1 less tab open in my browser.

Plus, I am extending this app to accommodate tracking of holdings, so that would be another reason to use it on desktop.
> When type-A started being used for charging there was a time with similar inconveniences.

Meh, that problem is still there. On top of how Apple has their own take on signaling that the charger is "dumb"...
Lab rats are brown rats, which aren't nocturnal, but active day and night. I'm not sure that's important for a test of damage to the eye, but there you go.
Does it not bother you that irccloud can see everything you type/read on IRC?
Backlights very well might; They weren't tested in this study.
Casio’s new outdoor watch is one of the first Android Wear 2.0 devices
Providing a link to the comments on hackernews itself would be kind of nice for being able to upvote stories and the like. There are a lot of these in the new sections that I'd like to be able to upvote/downvote without having to navigate to them in HN and such.
Burning Down Your Back End
You also have to love how snarky those ads are. "Yes, I want to drown in spam." "No thanks, I'm a total scumbag!"
Didn't see any mention of power. Are the TV sticks going to be able to ditch the plugs?
>>Isn't this basic market forces at work? I have a suspicion that even if 50% of these sites bloated with ads and deceptive, click-bait content were to die, society as a whole would actually be much better off, and the efforts of people building these kinds of sites and expecting a return would be better directed elsewhere.

I agree. Most news sites just regurgitate the same articles with their own click bait title which takes you to some adware bloated page. I think there's plenty of money in online ads but the market is too saturated.
Please don't hijack my back button with your annoying "subscribe" modal.
Did Snapchat Fake Growth Numbers to Boost Its IPO Value?
Personally, I have put all my extra money into property. I plan to retire way before the government says I can. I won't be kept working by an organization run by someone like Trump.
Who cares how diverse their opinions are?

If I moved out to the countryside, should I suddenly get 10x more voting power over you, for decisions about running the country?

Cause that's what's happening.
Not the best comparison. Besides being a requirement, you pay into social security based on the assumption that you'll get benefits when you're older. If you paid for 20 years and then the program went bust and you didn't receive anything, I think you'd rightly feel ripped off.
You know the one about entering the workforce hits home for me, I feel like this is about to happen to me, but I feel sort of powerless to stop it.
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