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I have had heated debates over inheritance taxes. I'm strongly against them because I don't like the signaling effect (if you work really hard, the government will take half of it) and it's a strange form of multi-taxation which is also questionable from my POV. I'm very family driven and I think "working hard to make the life of your children better" is a very strong motivator that should not be underestimated.

The counterargument is usually "well let's set the cap at X million" which I find very problematic because I don't see an ethically sound way of defining these lines in the sand. Additionally in the age of webscale(tm) it's reasonably possible to start a "new dynasty" from scratch. Unfortunately most of these debates tend to boil down to "the rich are evil" which is usually when I use interest in them.

I've only roughly browsed the study but the effects aren't that big compared to compound interest from 1427 to now. If anything I'd argue the rich are still rich but not as rich as expected is the take away message.
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All of the below is factually true and can be verified but was censored from HN. Criticism of Israel != anti-semitism.

>Don't Helen Thomas your career, dont you know mentioning that is a thought crime? Obama promised another 38 billion over ten years, and the real cost including all military and other aid has been estimated at 15 billion per year. Never mind their wall, occupied territory and treatment of Palestinians in their war for a racially pure nation state. The UN actually ruled Zionism a racist institution but now we know you can only be racist if you're a white European. Jews occupying, displacing and killing Palestinians and Arabs is fine.
"Format on Paste" could convert me from Coda, but it doesn't seem to work. macOS, HTML mode, enabled the option, restarted, doesn't format until I manually execute the Format Document command.
What did you chose at the end? The best ending is only if you chose destroy iirc.
I was so confused because I thought we were talkin about Nation State's developed after WWII as the parent said
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Are engineers preferring SF because the quality of life is higher?

Or is it that the perceived access to the next, more lucrative opportunity is greatest there?
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Hi Krishna, welcome to "Who is hiring?"

Just FYI, applying directly here in the thread isn't how it's done. Imagine if everyone did that! :-)

Of course if you have a question about a company or position, and you think the answer may be of interest to others, it's good to ask here.

Otherwise, to apply for a job, contact the employer through the links they provide.

Best of luck!

p.s. In your last sentence, the word you're looking for is "reply", not "revert".
Didn't Snap appear first? Why is FlatPak not an example of NIH?
The green ending isn't the best it was control I think Shepard surviving was tied to destroy which is why you see the smoldering armor move at the end.
From buffer's faq. [1]

> example, Facebook recommend 5 posts per day as the limit, but 25 is really the upper limit that they allow without decreasing the reach of your posts.

So I can only assume that these people have found out that the actual hard limit for non penalised posts is 250.

1. https://faq.buffer.com/article/482-what-are-daily-posting-li...
It is part of the curriculum in France.

The problem I got with philosophy is that it's supposed to be applied knowledge. But it's always consumed as an intellectual one.

As a result, the smartest philosophy lovers that I know are incredibly unhappy. They know so many things. But knowing something doesn't mean you are able to do anything about it.

Some becomes cynical. Other become depressed. Other procrastinate to hell.

But only those who actually take the knowledge and try to act on it, improving themself in the process, ends up happy. And once they get there, they usually don't quote much philosophy anymore, except for humorous purpose or make someone feel better.

Bottom line: it's interesting to look for the meaning of life. But it's necessary to actually stop and live your life unless you want to have the joy of Sartre, the energy of Rilke, the sense of purpose of Kant and drive of Schopenhauer. Hint: you really don't.
$50K for a company I was working for. It's a 7 letter english word, animal, and was the brand for an ecommerce company that was shutting down but had a lot of history behind it.
You can do that right now if you use Azure ARM templates and set up project-level actions to run them through the Azure CLI. It's just a matter of someone bundling it together as an extension (I've been working on one, but solely for template snippets).
Gah. "Throw", not "through".
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Bear Stearns didn't fail due to fraud, it failed due to not adequately tracking and assessing the risk of its assets. It is worth noting that there have been serious allegations made a few weeks ago against Snap that they are lying on the S-1.
Diaper-beer syndrome (1998)
That last sentence strikes a chord. Most IDEs are basically heavy-weight plug-in platforms (especially Eclipse and IntelliJ), built with the intent of being heavyweight IDEs. The currently popular editors - ST, Atom, VS Code - and the console-based editors that are still popular - Vim, Emacs, etc - approach it from the other side, putting text editing (including search etc) first, then adding plugins on top of that.

Or maybe put differently, IDE's are enterprise software, editors are agile startups?
Interesting. Might not be related, but once upon a time, Facebook had an API for pulling data on a feed that was limited to 250 posts (now documented as 100 posts) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27760273/how-to-get-avera...

Googling around, it looks like a lot of outlets appear to write 200-350 posts per week, and since they are aiming for a certain number, it could just be that these four tend to aim for 250 worth sharing each week? Hmm. Doesn't seem right either.

Basically... I've no idea. I'm curious too! :)
Thank you for sharing. I have tried completing probmods twice, but gone sour in the syntax twice.

Third times the charm :)
Sure, the Native Americans would have gotten along fine with bows and horses

To be pedantic, horses were extinct in the Americas until the Spaniards brought them.
The issue is that tearing down such a "neutral source" by accusing it of being biased is one very effective way to draw attention to your views and gather followers to your opinions.

This can gradually erode the perception of neutrality and foster a slow progression by the neutral source "away from" the group that is claimed them to not be neutral.
Conservatively, the people in this conversation make $5 million per year total, the software (git) contributes billions, and we are discussing how to better allocate $230 per month. Open source economics is fascinating.
One wild guess...

(7 * 24 * 60)/250 = 40.3 minutes per post.

"Zuckerberg said on the call that Facebook continues to engage its users, with the average U.S. consumer spending 40 minutes on the social network each day." [0]

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-23/facebook-...

...
Are these places really posting every 40 minutes? I guess I don't know how Facebook filters things out to keep us sane, but I'd unfollow them in a heartbeat if I saw new posts that often.
Difference is that a comment that simply states "bad move" is voted down in short order. This comment makes a cogent point about scales and infrastructure. This might be valuable. I love Hacker News too, just without the snark.
Yes, but you can only get student subsidies/loans for a couple of years.
Hi Caleb, welcome to "Who is hiring?"

Applying to a company by replying here in the thread isn't how it's done. Imagine if everyone did that! The thread would be even longer than it already is. :-)

Of course if you have a question about a company or position, and you think the answer may be of interest to others, it's good to ask here.

Otherwise, to apply for a job, contact the employer through the links they provide.

Best of luck!
That sounds incredibly similar, so much so that I've just had a breakfast wrap and I'm partway through a large coffee...

But, at the docs the other day because I'm slightly depressed, and my blood tests come back with elevated liver enzymes so from Monday I'm back to walking in (only 2 miles / 30 mins) that will also block my mcd's addiction. Hopefully.
http://www.aiel.it/cms/cms-files/submission/all2015061418365... - link to the actual paper
This is hard to believe.

Over 600 years, a family of 4 becomes a family of thousands. Take any reasonable sum of money and divide it by 20,000 and its not that big of a sum of money anymore.
Have you ever written a commandlet ? This is my point, regardless of how you feel in PS vs Bash or Python vs C# - exposing your application logic trough commandlets is incredibly simple and powerful - much simpler than doing a CLI app in other languages even with argument parsing frameworks in python and likes, commandlets let you pipe and return/accept .NET objects.

So my comment isn't PS everything or C# everything, it's if you're using C# to write a big fat monolithic app that has multiple isolated functionalities you can expose those fairly easily with PS.
I have several WordPress sites (mostly "abandoned"/no longer updated) that I would love to convert to static sites. I would happily pay a decent sum for a tool that could completely handle that conversion/migration.
Are you sure the numbers are correct and it's not just capping at 250?

I just counted the number of posts on Business insider in the last 24 hours [1]. I got about 157 posts, which suggests significantly more than 250 per week.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/pg/businessinsider/posts/?ref=page_in...
Wake up naturally, no alarm clock. 7ish in winter, 6ish in summer.

Shower and think about the work days problems.

Drive to work, picking breakfast up on way. In the summer, I bike to work a few days a week.

Work on mentally challenging stuff and try to ignore email until lunch.

Eat lunch in my office (takeout) or go out to lunch with a friend.

After lunch, read email, write clients back, sometimes take a nap.

Then work until dinner time and go home.

(I'm a software developer, consultant/contractor.)
Ohhhh I love the new 'Synchonized Markdown" feature. This will in the end replace the need for iA writer (that I happily paid for) on my machine. As I do have a workflow already setup to (Semi-)automate creation of files from .md I now can do this inside VSC and do not need to open another application.
without them, 10s of millions of dollars would disappear from the local economy

The positions would disappear, and the company fold, rather than the company offer enough to attract domestic talent (including Resident Aliens)? That's odd.
I'm not a a massive fan of Windows 10, so I'm certainly not trying to sell it, but here are some takeaways:

1. After holding out until December 2016, and only really using Windows 10 on dev machines/VMs , I finally threw caution to the wind an attempted to upgrade my very heavily loaded (software wise) main Windows 7 machine to Windows 10. Upgrade went fine, absolutely zero issues, and everything still worked 100% afterwards. No-one was more surprised than I was about this. I actually think it's because the hardware is a brand name (HP) desktop, and not a self build.

2. I've turned everything off I don't wont, all the privacy snoops; Cortana is gone completely; and the OneDrive icon does nothing.

3. Since early Windows 7, I switched to a menu bar type launcher that sits on-top at the top edge of the screen, it's populated with links to everything I use. I never click on the start menu, so it's bad behavior and stupid tiles don't really bother me. Screenshot: https://www.weegeeks.com/upload/ApplicationBar-2014-09-29.pn...

4. The forced updates really irritate me. It's my PC why am I being dictated to on this?

5. VB6 apps still work without issue! (LOL!)

6. By comparison, whose bright idea was it not to include .NET runtime 2.0-3.5 by default? This leaves a schism for older apps - Run fine on Windows 7 and 8.1, but needs the runtime to (try) and auto install on Windows 10, or recompile the app targeting .NET 4.0+ and run fine on Windows 10, but completely fail on Windows 7/8.1 with a dialog saying the runtime is missing. Arrrgh.

Overall, I'm living with it, mainly because I've banished all the bad bits, so now it's doing what a good OS should - support me, but also not get in my way. I'm not sure I could use Windows 10 in it's default state though, which is why I'm slowly moving towards a completely customised shell (once I find/write one I like).

Edit: Forgot to mention - if you can lay your hands on it, have a look at 'Windows 10 2016 LTSB' edition - it's designed for corporates who don't want all the consumer crap, so a lot of the stupid stuff is not installed by default. It also ONLY accepts security updates, and refuses any updated that are 'feature updates'. Downside, it needs a KMS keyserver for activation.
See my other comment where I explain in details what I mean.

I met some people that are both good at maths and with people skills. They are, however, adults. They started as nerds, and worked their people skills on the way up.

But starting with both, I never met one.
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Snap’s IPO will be the largest in years
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

PS, I read the news today, oh boy.
I prefer this one (no MIDI in action to see, though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnb7EqfykF4
Yes I think Snap empowers the app vendor at the expense of the sysadmin. I think Nix is a much better approach for servers.
The entire GitLab team is remote, as far as I understand their company model.

https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/08/the-remote-manifesto/

But maybe you meant part-time?
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On HN nobody knows if you're a dog, or if you run infrastructure at Facebook...
I wish I could use a tool like this and know that it won't affect my rankings negatively, but I feel that Google will eventually punish sites that do a lot of A/B testing.
I remarked this to my colleagues; part of me wishes they'd do faster releases, if only so that the changelog is smaller. Big lists of changes scare me. Big lists of changes that were apparently all done in a month and work without being horribly broken or half-assed, on the other hand, impress me.

This comment is a long-winded compliment.
Not surprisingly, the qz.com article distorts the meaning of the original paper and looking at the comments, they seem to follow the false, but suggested interpretation of the paper that qz gives.

It's useful to note the title of the paper: What’s your (sur)name? Intergenerational mobility over six centuries. This paper is not tracking wealth, it's tracking income via tax records. It notes things like people who are lawyers or bankers now were more likely to share surnames with people in similar professions in the 15th century. It is not tracking inter-generation transfers of wealth.

In fact, qz even drops the most interesting conclusion in the article, which is their measurement of changing intergenerational income mobility overtime. They measure inelasticity at > .8 in Renaissance Florence and a generally static society until the industrial revolution, with inelasticity coming down starting in the 20th century.

The article isn't about secret trusts set up by the Medici, but the more prosaic fact that if you father and grandfather were lawyers, you're more likely to be one too. Still interesting, but it's not evidence that families were "able to maintain their wealth" through revolutions at all.
I don't think money works that way? Think of the family wealth as starting capital that gives decendants better education, an environment that simulates growth, etc. They take a piece of the family wealth and grow it bigger through good jobs, investments, companies, etc.
True, but that's a one time cost. Once EVs have a significant market share, everything will probably be recycled.

And if we play this game, to get it even, maybe we should compare the whole car since gasoline requires a big engine too.

My impression is that analysis which takes everything into account puts EVs far ahead in environmental impact, and I think they're slightly ahead in terms of total ownership costs.
Like I said above, my point was that PS lets you expose your app logic a lot easier than writing a CLI for it.
To be fair, I had a strange life. I changed school 11 times, and rebuilt my social circle every time. My father also worked for an airline company, so I traveled the world most of my life.

Because I was a geek, I was mostly surrounded by geeks. It gave me a huge and diverse sample to observe. Granted, it's not something you can consider scientific, since I'm the common ground and so the bias in all those observations.
That's a really good example. They talk a lot about AWS, and nearly every service they run is in AWS. If you don't pay close attention, you might think they're all-AWS. I expect that Netflix' AWS pricing reflects that perception.

The exception is serving films. If you watch a film, you receive bytes served by hardware built to Netflix' specification, running in leased space at a mixture of colos and ISPs. That's a really big exception. The third of internet traffic is that exception.
Exactly. Snaps grew out of the work to make Ubuntu mobile phone apps secure and easy to update. They are a great way to publish software, worth creating regardless of all the anti-canonical trolling. And they work fine across distros except where RH has actively tried to cripple them. That's their right, but wow, toxic.
They're filing for IPO, I think that ship has sailed
FlatPak is intended for Desktop only. "is not a good match for a server" http://flatpak.org/faq.html

In contrast, Snappy aims for much more "Package any app for every Linux desktop, server, cloud or device" https://snapcraft.io/

I cannot find how many packages they have currently. I hope that FlatPak has more than the 11 applications listed on the website. http://flatpak.org/apps.html

FlatPak does not provide a central repository, while Snap has https://uappexplorer.com/. After install flatpak, it takes three (!) commands (on cli) to install LibreOffice. http://flatpak.org/apps.html

Snap has stuff like pulseaudio (audio daemon) or ogre (rendering engine) in the repo. That seems weird, because these are not applications. The first belongs into the base system, the second into a development environment.
now i know why facebook has been doin this. http://i.imgur.com/zPapJHM.png
The author of this wrote Akka.net first, then wrote GAM (the original name of this project, supporting only go), then implemented the net counterpart
How does this perform on larger tables?
This is not what I expect to read on HN.
Take your anti-Ubuntu zealotry elsewhere.
would you agree that the way this is being handled shakes confidence for visitors

I (for one) would agree that the way this is being reported in the mainstream media can shake confidence for visitors.
cr0sh posited that the application being packaged was not in source form. So perhaps the hugely misleading thing is to argue against xem based upon how one packages up things that are in source form. (-:
A couple of years ago I went to a party at a neighbour's house. We ate pancakes and drank beer. Unlike me, most of the other people there were physicists or similar academics, so there was a lot of interesting talk going on. I'm not a particularly gregarious person - certainly not in a large group of people - so I mainly listened.

One of the people there was a Nobel Laureate. A cool, very down-to-earth guy - but there's not really much I can say thats going to be useful in the conversations he was having. But just being in the same room probably made me (temporarily) smarter. And I found some people who I could talk with about things like 3D printing, which I kind of get.

And thats kind of how I think of HN. Most people here may be cleverer than me, some enormously so, but I can still listen and learn and occasionally contribute something useful.
I wonder, if the oil price crashes, and the gasoline prices fall, will that become a setback for EVs? Or will people have already lost confidence in ICE by then?

I imagine that if gas stations start to shut down due to low profitability, people will start worrying about whether their local gas stations is still operating in 5 years. So even if gas becomes dirt cheap, it might not become a setback.

We'll see. Interesting times ahead.
They can't possibly. Those spectacles are unforgivable
They released Memories last year which lets you back up your sent Snapchats with them. So I'd expect some non trivial permanent storage costs, at least at their scale.

https://www.snap.com/en-US/news/post/introducing-memories/
Your comment about the Medici line confused me a bit since I believed them to have ended quite a while back, however there do appear to be two cadet lines still around.
When do you generally consider a line over for the purposes of the study ?
> They fund VSCode in order to gain the good will of developers which they hope will turn into Azure or maybe Windows sales in the future?

I think they are just trying to make Windows (and Microsoft) more relevant among web/foss developers by making sure that top-notch tools exist with first-class Windows support, so this falls to same category as Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Snaps can be 'strictly confined' which means all their reading and writing happens in a limited set of directories exclusively for their use. So 'snap remove' cleans everything up perfectly. Ask your upstream for a strictly confined snap, it's a bit more work but once they have done it everybody wins.
If the accounts are posting at different times of the day, and the reports are all for the same 7 day period it doesn't make much sense that all the accounts would show exactly 250 posts. Given that they post at different times of the day.

I think this is an API limit on the analytics. From my cound of the Business Insider posts it looks like they're actually posting nearer 650 posts a week.

It's just being capped by the API to 250.
Thinking of just how difficult this is, I'm reminded of https://xkcd.com/1425/.
I think it is the hard work of the maintainers to ensure quality that makes .deb stand out.
Thanks, I'll take a look over the weekend.

I've use qt, gtk, win32, swing, winforms, etc, right up to more modern approaches like wpf with mvvm and similar JavaScript ones. After going back to c and gtk I think we've really lost our way and made some really simple problems really complicated.
Distraction works really well in general; even without VR.

The dentist discovered that my 3 year old son has a bit of caries; but she said that filling a cavity for small kids like him is only possible under anaesthesia. I thought this sounded ridiculous.

My girlfriend found a different dentist who specialized on treating kids. She performed the procedure without any anaesthesia or sedatives by using lots of distractions, including a magic wand and elaborate stories about dwarves wandering in the forest of teeths.

I wish my dentist distracted me like that :)
I get a weekly HN retrospective email from Kale Davis's excellent Hacker Newsletter [1]. It often points me to interesting stuff that I missed. Recommended.

[1] http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
Yes, but some personality traits will make you more apt and willing to keep working on it.

There is a limit in the skills you can acquire. If you spend time and energy on flirting, learning to dress up, building social network, you will have less time to learn maths.

Because of course you'll have sport, music, games, books, movies, family and other study topics taking time as well.

Now maths incline kids, given the choice, will usually choose working on math than going to 10 groups of people to chit chat about superficial topics just to stay in the network.

Nothing wrong about it, just an observation.
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