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I mostly agree with your post. As a financial planner by trade, I'd like to add to it.

In the proposals floating around to repeal the estate tax, there is at least one that suggests repealing the tax entirely but then not giving estates the step up in cost basis.

This has a set of interesting results, including paying no tax until an asset is sold. For instance, if your parents bought at&t stock at $10, and it's worth $20 when you inherit it, you pay no tax. But when you sell it, let's say at $25, you will pay capital gains tax on the difference between the sell price and the _original_ buy price. Estate tax right now gives a step up in the cost basis regardless of whether the tax limit (roughly $10million) is ever hit.

And just to cover the topic, there are two main reasons against the estate tax. The first is that the state has no right to that money. The second, thought, is much more problematic. If you inherit a business, valued at $20 million, you'd have to pay estate tax of roughly $5 million upon your inheritance. If you just owned the at&t stock I referred to above, no big deal - sell some, pay the tax, and walk away with your remaining $15 million.

But if you have a family business, the effects can kill the business. For instance, if your parents own a retail outlet or manufacturing facility, you can't easily sell part of it.

The US has never had an issue with permanent wealth like Europe has, even for the hundreds of years before the estate tax was put in place.
Here, see slides 24, 43, 44 in particular. RISC-V cores run about half the area and power of the competition.

https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Wed1345-RISCV-W...

The SiFive chip is >300MHz on a 180nm process, but the higher end rise-v chips while having competitive perf/clock still have lower clock speeds than the big guys. That is probably just a matter of time though.
If you take any finite subset of N prisoners, it's easy to see that they won't do better than chance, so the expectation is for N/2 of them to guess wrongly. Since N can be arbitrarily large, your intuition is correct.
"Good" and "bad" aren't really useful descriptors without additional context. And what do you mean by "mid-quality" developers? That seems gratuitously insulting.
> I always felt the GUI changes in Linux were extremely gratuitous after Gnome 2.

You would like the MATE desktop.

Http://ubuntu-mate.com
you read this with chrome. they could port that to bsd or even their new os magenta and you wouldnt notice. the linux part of that is tightly constrained. honestly,thats why itworks.
Really really great book, not particularly long but very engrossing (and pretty depressing!)
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I don't think it's the gui. I'm a relatively savvy user running Debian on a Thinkpad for more than five years now. Printing is still touch and go. I spent countless hours to get sleep working correctly. It is broken now and I don't have the energy to fix it knowing that nothing I do is guaranteed to last through the next apt update. Wifi will mysteriously refuse to connect with some routers (a daily struggle at the uni).

Most of my frustrations come down to these three basic things: printing, power management, and wifi.

I was excited to delve deep into OS internals to troubleshoot in the beginning, bit now I'm just annoyed.
I was born in 1980 in East Berlin, seeing the photo and reading the first paragraphs gave me goosebumps.

“Gibt’s doch gar nicht” is usually meant ironically. If you loose your coat-check ticket, you're supposed to describe where your stuff is and maybe what's in one of the pockets, so they are sure you don't steal it. But to be fair, even little kids in Germany learn they have to store there stuff at a place where it should be impossible to loose. Even more when it is important like your passport.

There is also a system in place where you can throw stuff you found (like wallets, id cards, etc) in the yellow Post boxes and it will be sorted in Bonn and mailed to the right people.
The frequency response of microphones generally plummets at (or below) 20 kilohertz.

Digital sampling can capture 20 kilohertz just fine. An analog recording pathway isn't really going to capture much more information than a digital one.
Panic is pretty much never used (so you don't really have to think if the previous statement can panic. If it does it means something is SO wrong that your application can't continue anyways because it's broken)

You should really use a library like github.com/pkg/errors so you get to wrap the error you return with additional information. Errors are just a worse Either monad after allm they're much more pleasant to use than exceptions.
This is the premise of 'disrupt', isn't it? That the existing business models or technological solutions are so thoroughly shaken by the appearance of something new that doesn't pass for a mere iteration of the same. Electricity was not directly comparable to steam, despite having some of the same uses at first, cars were quite different from horses, and the packet-switched internet behaves differently from circuit-switched telephone lines.

Part of this phenomenon of even experts unable to predict the new is that often our current technology is capped by our societal understanding of physics. Before the Wrights and other early pioneers, we knew that powered heavier-than-air flying was possible for light things like birds, but weren't sure whether the same applied to large, heavy frames, or how we'd be able to deliver enough power to the machine while keeping the weight down. But after a couple of early success, a vibrant field of haphazard experimentation and serious scientific research opened up, and we learned a lot about aerodynamic lift.

Before the transistor, it was difficult to seriously posit that electricity-powered, non-mechanical computers would be ubiquitous not just to the point of every government and large enterprise having them, but also every single person possessing multiple miniaturized versions on their person. The invention of integrated circuits was a transformational achievement: it enabled us to go from having very scarce computing capacity to having a slight excess, and so new programs emerged to harness that ability to do calculation. VR and AR in turn aren't that transformative yet: they're simply video games where a portion of the input comes from the 'real world'.

Today, we're at a UI/UX/AI/ML crisis, where we have immense computing resources at our disposal and still lack an effective ability to communicate our intent with the machine. We dip down to the ancient metaphor of manipulating a pre-set UI with a pointer like a mouse or our fingers or our eyes, or we have to speak audibly to those within earshot so a microphone can capture our command, ascertain some meaning, then map it to one of many predefined actions. These seem like the dark ages. It's not hard to guess that something revolutionary is going to happen in this arena, and will require actual scientific discoveries to make it possible.
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Paywalls with workarounds are ok.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

The WSJ workarounds have stopped working for many people.

For people who don't know what the workaround is: open the [web] link (under the HN submission title) in an incognito window; open the first search result.
Maps and folds are implicit loops. For some explicit is simpler.
And the difference between "expressing why" and "ranting" is..?

This is a comment system. I had a comment.
This is why systemd's natural dominance of system orchestration and device initialization, and PulseAudio's natural dominance of consumer audio configuration could not be more welcome.

The big threat right now, as ever I suppose, is fragmentation in consumer desktop systems; the worst problem being Canonical's decision to develop Mir for reasons they later admitted were fabricated. The point is that all major toolkits now support Wayland quite well, but Canonical has to fight to maintain Mir support in just a subset of toolkits.

If we can get all of the system services standardized in a way which doesn't completely alienate the community; then we can move on to having standards for consumers.
Yup. I manually use par2 for my family photos on my Mac and it's a bit of a hassle.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but for δ I think the hack is using the word "function"; as a measure or distribution it's a pedestrian object.
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It's worth noting that this is a research prototype, and that the team is anticipating rapid progress towards a better form factor. From the utah.edu link posted by maxerickson above:

Mastrangelo said a lighter, more attractive pair could hit the marketplace in as early as three years and that a startup company, Sharpeyes LLC, has been created to commercialize the glasses.
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This is a great list, thanks for putting this together. As a small feature request it would be great if I could see more of the apps at once, I think infinite scroll or just more apps per page would be nice.
There's a pretty good iOS (and maybe Android?) game called PsyCard [1] that's a card-based variant of Minesweeper. It's from Ludosity, so the art is insane and the difficulty is substantial.

I'll be interested to see if these techniques help.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/psycard/id1078267846?mt=8
Also, both Picasso and Hemingway spent lots of time socializing, especially with other artists. At the most distilled level, that's what people use all this new-fangled technology for.
mind linking to the blog?
Yes! Stanford has started (at least) two radiology imaging companies. Heartflow and iSchemView (formerly RAPID): http://www.ischemaview.com/

These are examples of next-generation radiology companies. The current generation of products are focused on image storage and display. These new companies offer automated image analysis before the radiologist even looks at the image. iSchemaView does hemorrhage maps as soon as new head CT or head MRI is acquired.
Container as in "Docker container"
Yes, Office.

Office compatibility still a problem for Macs in 2017. Either from FUD or in actual functionality, Office prevents people from switching from Win10 to MacOS.

Two people asked me about moving to Macs. They repeatedly asked me about Office compatibility (the FUD). For one of the users, I wasn't sure if it was OK for functionality. She is a lawyer (ie. power user of Word) and I know in Mac Excel for me is not usable.

Both of them didn't need to buy new hardware (they are fed up with Windows, not the hardware), but I couldn't even mention Linux as a alternative for them.
Unfortunately, that's just the DB itself, it doesn't include the boards at all.
You need to draw a line between mathematical entities that have "a basis in physical reality" or not. For most people, performing an infinite computation is what puts the axiom of choice firmly on the fiction side, as an impossible procedure, regardless of the application and the outcome.
None - I enjoy the web just the way it is without any additional functionality. There some applications I use that still need an extension- appear.in but that is it. I suspect screen share will be standard some day soon making it unnecessary to use an extension for this too which will be awesome.
Archiveteam does not give a flying fuck about some corporation's IP if it means that people's creations can be saved for them and future generations.

Future generations are likely to be disappointed already, since it seems, sadly, that IMDB has had a rolling expiry of message posts.

http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardswhydeleted

If you are certain that the post has been deleted and you didn't do it, then there are two possible reasons: the message has been removed by a moderator or it has expired. Our boards are not designed to store messages indefinitely: after a certain amount of time older threads are removed from the board automatically. This process is called "expiry".

The rate of expiry is adjusted dynamically according to the posting traffic for each board. Threads are removed sooner from a board that attracts a lot of posts than they would be from a board with less activity.

Please keep in mind that the boards system is not meant to be an archival medium, and all posts are subject to expire and disappear sooner or later. This is intended to allow us to manage the resources consumed by each board effectively, and also to promote the ever changing flow of discussion.
A Godel sentence claims that itself cannot be proven in its axiomatic system. If you add another axiom, you have a new axiomatic system that can prove the Godel sentence in the original axiomatic system, but the new axiomatic system will have its own new Godel sentence.
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For anyone interested: There's an enjoyable radio adaptation of 'A Logic Named Joe' from X Minus One in 1955 https://archive.org/details/XMinusOne55122831ALogicNamedJoe
Thanks for the link. This was a great read.
It's no coincidence. Libre software devs saw what MS and Apple were doing and went "oh no we have to do the same to stay relevant!" Couple that with the rampant egos typical for an OSS project lead and you have today's situation. Of the big 3 (or is it 4 now) DEs, I feel KDE has stayed the most sane and provides the same desktop metaphors. Then again, they mostly bet on the "semantic desktop" direction, which was thankfully stillborn and didn't impact the actual GUI much.
CubeSats and small satellites are changing the game for spacecraft. Now scientists can get experiments launched for a few million dollars instead of campaigning much of their career for a mission costing hundreds of millions.
Other comments have pointed out the prestige issue. My real issue with this is that academic findings need to be freed from the whole "paper" format: a static, discrete document. New findings compliment and invalidate older ones. In the old days there was no way to reflect this due to the static nature of print. The paper and its physical constraints do not need to exist with today's technology. One more thing -- How many times have you wondered if some journal somewhere has the answer to the question you're trying to answer (but don't know how to look it up)? The disparate, static content of journals resists the formation of a cohesive corpus of knowledge.

Github has no barrier to entry, yet does not have a prestige issue. People get hired based on the content of their github account. I can't see why funding agencies couldn't use a similar system to track the academic contributions of researchers.

It's ironic that the rest of the world has moved on to connected, consistent experiences while academics are still stuck with papers. I've been thinking after I submit my thesis that I should find other people that are likewise frustrated and try to build a better system for academic collaboration and dissemination. Perhaps something more like Wikipedia than a journal.
Two problems in the article analysis

One is the classic hard vs soft sci fi. A classic example in book form is Stranger in a Strange Land reads like a story about 60s boomer hippies from India who meditate and get high and die in an allegory of Jesus, because it is. There's a very thin wrap of search and replace science fiction over that hippie story most famously a giant plot hole where the author wrote in video telephone video conferencing without following up on the hole in the plot generated by being able to see the other party. In comparison, hard sci fi takes into account and weaves a story about the human effects of technology...

The other problem is in the "The authors polled a range of experts". Asking my plumber about theology or my lawyer about physics is obviously dumb, and in pop culture we accept that asking a 50s dude about the 70s is pretty much a waste of time. However in all fields of human activity if you want an intelligent commentary on contemporary computer programming you have to either hatch or grow a contemporary computer programmer. The opinions of a dude in another field from decades ago are only accidentally going to be correct. Regardless who was an expert in automation in the 60s, I'm pretty sure they weren't being asked because they almost certainly didn't have cool authoritarian credentials because the topic wasn't cool enough at that time, so by definition they were talking to the wrong people. The history of many present day trends and concepts shows they were not very cool before they became cool, therefore asking contemporary experts on the topic of cool will mostly not work.
Mathematical genius is fragile
When you defer to men and interrupt women, it's sexist. They were talking amongst themselves and ignoring the woman there, who happened to have actually spoken with the player.
What kind of information would this provide that I can't get for free already?
It has to be zero though, not "sparse" or "slow" as that just means I'll not see Cuba but instead see the inside of that lobby with WiFi :)
That's how bad thus illness is.

Unfortunately I think before I get a change to go the island will be blanketed in 4G (fortunately for them though... I think).
I'm not convinced that using startups as a metric for anything programming related is a good idea. At least not startups here in the Bay Area, which seem to me to be very fad driven.
It's called genetic diversity. Look at traditional methods of potatoe farming in Peru and the Andes. They breed thousands of varieties. Look up some pictures, it's crazy. Our modern method of high input, high petroleum leveraged mono cropping is highly susceptible to blight.
Shouldn't namespacing be just 'ip netns add wireguard && ip link set dev wg0 netns wireguard && ip netns exec wireguard <myapp>'? Seems simple enough.
+1 for letterboxd. It offers both great value as a "single player" and a "multi player" website, and is in my eyes a model for what a social network centered around a hobby/interest should be like.
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Actually designing an ISA is voodoo, but doing the mircrocode is fairly easy. On a tiny little 4-bit design with only a few control lines you can do it by hand. Past a certain point, though, it is essentially impossible to do manually without going insane.

It isn't very sophisticated, but the project I mentioned above might satisfy some of your curiosity: https://hackaday.io/project/18859-risk-vee / https://github.com/cadpnq/risk-vee

My methodology was to define each microinstruction that made up every instruction (such as "move pc to memory address register"). I then took all of the control lines in my design and assigned them a bit position in the control store. From there it was just a matter of defining each control line symbolically and "assembling" each microinstruction by ORing the appropriate things together.
They were implementing a rolling expiry of posts already, so the battle for posterity has probably already been lost (unless IMDB itself has historic records that it will release):

http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardswhydeleted
Are you suggesting there are no mental equivalents to your statements?
Adding either the Godel sentence or its complement would ruin the consistency of the axiomatic system, because the whole point of the Godel sentence is that it claims that itself cannot be proven to be true in its axiomatic system. But you don't get to add axioms to an axiomatic system anyway, because doing so yields a new axiomatic system to which the original Godel sentence does not refer.
I have no idea why this was down voted, it seems like it was a calculated decision. Litigation can destroy a company (just ask Gawker). Being responsible, legally with consequences, for monitoring the entirety of your site for age disclosure is expensive. Not only to do it, but the cost of litigation for when you miss one. That's probably a big part of the calculation.

Someone suggested that it's because moderating is expensive, which is true, but IMDB has been moderating their site for a long time. I don't think the cost of standard moderation was a big part in the calculation, simply because they have been doing it successfully for years. I think they are also aware of the value of their message boards simply by tracking page hits.

Having said that, public figures are excluded from privacies generally granted to the public. There are plenty of public records of everyone that discloses their age, even though they are not a public figure. To pass a law requiring IMDB remove age disclosure with consequences is very bad law. Not only that, the people that are the "victims" have the financial ability to litigate. It's even worse if other publications like tabloids are excluded from this requirement.
The linux kernel is hard-core into not breaking backwards compatibility. 2/3 of Linus's rants targeting a kernel developer tend to be because they broke userspace.

On the other hand, there is approximately zero chance that a dynamically linked executable from 10 years ago will run on my current system because the system libraries break backwards compatibility all the time. Drepper takes a lot of flak for this, but glibc is not even remotely the only library at fault for this.

Many core userspace libraries broke not only binary compatibility regularly but often source compatibility. Inspect a steam install sometime. It installs dozens of DLLs just so games will have a stable base to work from.

Also, have I just gotten lucky or something? This is the second time that someone mentions audio not working on linux as the norm, but from the mainlining of ALSA in 2.6 on, I've had zero issues with audio working for all but the most obscure audio devices.
Maybe. Personally, I've come to think that you need the right tool for the right job.

If you spend more time writing / running tests that you would fixing the bugs they find, you may be doing it wrong. If you're writing documentation no one will read, you may be doing it wrong.

They clearly do have a place though. As for maintaining a set of requirements... I appreciate there must be some environments where what is required is well understood and relatively stable. I'm not quite sure if I should look forward to working in such a place or not!
uh... why is a native bank app unavoidable?

you're all idiots.
That was my reaction as well, but it turns out that most movies don't have messages going back very far. This was by design, it seems: http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardswhydeleted
You don't seem to understand what "canonical" means; it's a certain preferred alternative from among correct alternative forms. Often, the canonical form provides some base definition and the other forms can be understood in terms of equivalence to the canonical form. Do we not understand that a body element is added to the document if it is missing? Is there not a body element in the resulting DOM? 　If so, then the source syntax which has that body can be considered canonical.
They probably mean you can use interface{} and create a typing black hole if you really wanted to. Otherwise, I don't know.
It's [2016], here is the original source:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/springfield-business-ow...
I know those things. OP does not claim that the set of functions from N to N is uncountable. One gives up things if only countable things are considered. For instance those things that I mentioned.
Huh. That's a super simple and affordable approach. I'm somewhat surprised that they're able to do that without problematic distortions though.
Agree. Libreoffice works quite well, and although their presentation software isn't as pretty as powerpoint, I actually prefer their slideshow mode on multiple monitors. Quite sexy, in fact.

There's no reason for any government office or public school system at any level to be paying for office licenses IMHO. We can communicate and teach quite well with L.O.- and donate a share of the saved budget to FOSS.