skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Focusing on optimising your taxes is actually often worth it. I would dare say not enough people do it.

I'd largely agree, people don't optimise their tax enough but large companies/corporations get away with it far too much.

It's a pretty big issue in the UK, the last figures I saw where Tax Evasion costs us 67bn a year (HMRC figures iirc) vs 1.8bn for all benefit errors (not fraud, that figure is errors and fraud).

We cracked down on benefit fraud massively... If I where a cynic.
For whom?

I agree it's a huge feature for me, and I wish someone would let me pay for it.
I've seen this posted here before...but its still always cool to see.
Devops here who has to deal with the AWS status page frequently. Is someone's bonus or performance metrics tied to how often a service goes to "non-green" on the status page?
Do we know who qgyh2 is? Because unless they're a shared account or a bot, I don't see how one person could possibly moderate so many highly active subreddits, let alone do so in a way to promote whatever agenda you think is being promoted.
Something that really presses my buttons is this mentality of lots of people to just jump on the complain-train and blame the world that certain technologies for beeing not "as good" as others. And even worse are the people using that to create cheap articles to generate clicks.

"Javasript is sooo broken.. the world is unfair",
"Iot is sooo shit...",
"Language X is soo bad.. thanks Obama",
"Framework Y is soo 2016...".

Thousand people are trying to make a difference in the world and the ones just writing articles about "XY is shit" do mostly nothing. News about bad, bad "IoT", are so low hanging fruits to click-bait. There is almost never a constructive appraoch. Just complain and generate clicks.

Where are the leading ideas to make "IoT" better?
Where is the differentiation, that open printers installed by stupid users are not a prove how "shit" IoT is?

You might also say the "internet is shit" because there is major dataleak happens every week.

... just my 2 cents...
Also don't forget to add the ~$10-$20k in legal fees for sponsoring an H1b on top of that.
Well, unlike housing debt this one is more or less un-avoidable. If you add another 20 to 30 years of progress to software and automation in general there will be a lot more people out of job and if they don't have money to spend the whole machine will grind to a halt. Either that or you can welcome a new generation of Luddites.
Make Donald Trump say anything
Interesting.

On the Right, we see the same thing with your side. Total blind faith in blank slate theories of human equality, and uninterested in the piles of twin studies and metastudies that clearly demonstrate innate differences between demographic groups, even actively conspiratorial. It's hard to talk to a Hillary voter when it veers into "Conservatives are all anti-science but the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study and the vast consensus of geneticists on MAOA-L gene expression is a racist conspiracy by white men."
Along the same tone, httprouter doesn't allow defining these routes simultaneously

users/:id
users/watching

Was kind of surprised as we have many routes like that. Like gorilla/mux, I think it was just first (trie-based mux). Isn't gin based on httprouter?

There are even better muxes now. `pressly/chi` is used by heavy hitters in production and takes advantage of Go 1.7 HTTP context. `labstack/echo` is another highly recommended by others but I don't like the non-idiomatic echo.Context in handler signatures.

Back on topic, I hope the go web examples only imports built-in packages. The gorilla/mux example could easily be written to use built-in packages.
Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
Geoff Huston – Let's Encrypt with Dane [video]
For a large class of cases — though not for all — in
which we employ the word meaning it can be explained
thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
---Ludwig Wittgenstein
Presidents speak to most of the country
The market as a whole is going up. Are your seeing above market average returns?
This has to be a joke, surely? A good example of the Tragedy of the Commons...

As ProfessorGuy succinctly commented:
> Why not an article on how you can get a bed for yourself in the local hospital so you won't have to pay rent? Hey, if they're going to build a public institution like a bunch of suckers, they deserve to be taken advantage of!
Locus debugger 2.0 is out for Node.js
If my income is $10, and your income is $100, you can buy 10x the stuff I can buy. If you add a basic income of $20, (ignoring taxes lol) now you can buy 4x the stuff I can. It might not affect high end luxury items, but I can probably afford some staple items like socks now.
It is called BitTorrent. Generate the backup file as described in the parent article, give it a saucy name involving a (female) celebrity and let it out into the wild. As disk space is effectively free and people tend to hoard files, I suspect you'd have no problems recovering your file a year or two down the line.

(I tried this way back when using WinMX (anyone remember THAT?) to see whether it would work. It did.)

We dubbed it 'hardcore backups.'
Unless you consider giving money to the counter party on your losing trades as well as the brokerage to which you pay commissions to be charitable contributions, you would be better off just giving the 10k straight to a good cause.
Jupiter's axial tilt is only 3 degrees, so it's difficult to get a good photo of the poles regardless of the Jovian season. They will pretty much always be on the terminator (edge of shadow).
The design intended for random strangers to be able to print angry robots?
By this definition what does require talent? Sports? Singing?

I can play Basketball. I don't have a talent for it though and I sure as heck am not going to do it professionally. And if I did, I'd quit after a while because I don't have the passion.

However, the author does make a point in that having a passion or talent for problem solving is better. Programming is after all just the tool to do that.

I do take a little offense at some of the other posters saying "programming isn't hard"

I know many people who have tried to learn it and say differently. And saying it isn't hard just makes those people feel like shit. There must be something wrong with you if you can't learn it. I've been told that playing piano is easy. Yet I've spent many hours trying to learn it and I am still terrible at piano and every time someone says it is easy I want to smack them. I imagine people who are told programming is easy feel the same way.

Also, it is weird that I've spent 20 years mastering something that is so easy.
I cannot recommend enough Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano as a great thought provoking material on the UBI topic. It made me rethink its potential implications.
> basic income, much like housing debt, will just set a new price floor. This any merchant worth their salt will price things at that point plus a markup.

And immediately afterwards any merchant worth their salt will price things slightly lower and grab the market. (Or rather not, as someone else will again price it slightly lower, and it'll reach the equilibrium at the old cost + markup).
I was just thinking the same thing. Not just for datacenter planning, mind you, but even for a neat representation of which cities are more likely to have high-speed Internet connectivity; there are probably significant differences in expected speeds and costs between some city way out in the middle of nowhere and some city sitting right on top of a major data artery.
TL;DR - Sell BTC on Shapeshift for XMR, Sell XMR on XMR.TO for BTC.

You're basically tumbling the coins through third parties. In reality this has little to do with BTC/XMR but more of a generalized strategy to obfuscate via alt-shifting. You could do the same via Changer, Coinigy, or any other similar service.
I think you're getting downvoted because you made the claim that "Some of those emails are clearly trying to hide something" without providing any references to such emails. Maybe post some links to the emails you're referring to so others not in on the loop can join in
Parchives. Great for adding recovery to any file. :) I use them [now par2cmdline-tbb] religiously for archives. I started doing this years ago after having CD-R's burned on a drive (Plextor, no less) that I started having a hard time reading on any other drive.
This describes me though I have a reasonable social circle I pretty much don't care about any of the things on your list.

I rent a flat (apartment), I only own jeans, t-shirts and pullovers, don't own a car, own second hand (but good) furniture.

I'm trying to remember the last time I spent over £50 on anything that wasn't a gift for someone else and I really can't, perhaps my weight set about 18mths ago.

I'm just not attracted to stuff or to signalling via it.

Social pressure is often largely self-inflicted.
Many hedge funds do the same thing. This guy's crime is doing it without being associated with the in-crowd.
> It's good to see this analysed

This article is just a great description of the network of people discussing the idea, not an an actual analysis of this theory in light of Merkel's actions.

We can't know what the intentions in her heart are, but if she's not deliberately trying to destroy Europe she's certainly running it into the ground.
thanks... an extra 10 weeks off for summer.
it's 2000 hours per year that is typical.
hm. Security policies is something you can break with one way or another. You cannot break mathematics that way.
> . Yes Mr. or Ms. French, you too.

> Ignorant people always think facts are lies.

You're answer to raitom is uninformed bullshit, with a patronizing and insulting tone on the top. I'm well aware of the process, I went through it. I'm telling you Europeans need H1b as much as Indians or Chinese do in order to work in US.
Library author here. I would love if people took it for a spin and gave me feedback. Also contributions are welcome, I'm currently trying to figure out ways of testing deeper into the library.
I don't think I follow.

I believe the purpose of basic income is to provide the guarantee that everyone will be able to afford the bare minimum of shelter and sustenance (sustenance including necessary utilities which in addition to power+water includes internet access).

Are you saying that the effect of introducing a basic universal income would be that the current price of shelter+sustenance will increase beyond affordability from just basic income alone?
The economist proposes getting rid of the rule that requires H1B workers remain within the company that sponsors them

That sounds reasonable, but why then require that a company sponsor an immigrant in the first place? Why not let that immigrant choose where he or she will work?

In fact, why not let the immigrant choose what to study, where to work, where to live, all in response to market signals?

People have posted various lists for the average H1-B salary at what they consider top companies, like Google. $130k. Is that the salary in mountain view?

You know, I actually think that salary is somewhat low for what a talented and well educated person can earn in the Bay Area. Why force these people to get hired as developers? Why make them study what google says they should study, take interview exams on second year data structures and algorithms the way google says they should? Why on earth should google get to have this power, over anyone?

Let's just have immigration. All immigrants arrive in the US free, free to choose what they will study, where they will work, how they will go about it. They can sell real estate, install drywall, write python code, write novels, paint portraits, or whatever they wish to pursue. Nobody owes them success, but in the US, they should have the freedom to pursue happiness as they define it.

Not as Facebook defines it. If working as a dev in an open office so big it has a horizon line for a CEO who says things like "young people are just smarter" for $152m a year doesn't sound as appealing as the flexibility and stability of working as a dental hygienist for $110 a year (roughly the median salary in SF), then that's the market's answer.

I still maintain this - any immigrant system that allows corporations to decide who gets to come here is flawed. Allowing immigrants to quit once they're here would be an improvement, but it still allows corporations to decide who does and doesn't get to come here.
> Is there a law that stated/states all trades need to be with real intention to buy?

We're not talking about trades, but rather the illusion of an intent to trade, when really there is no intent, and pushing that illusion onto the world to give the market the impression you will trade that amount, causing other market participants to react accordingly, which causes the market to move in the direction you wanted. Then you cancel your planned trade and profit off the move you manipulated.

That's the gist of it, and yes there are laws against it.
Well that's told me! I'll have a think about this and see what I can come up with.
Depends on how long you want your data to be private, though. There's no guarantee that the encryption won't be broken in a decade or three. And, even if it's not mathematically broken, increased computing power (quantum?) could make brute-forcing fairly trivial.
Thanks for linking also a great read!
H1B is dual intent. Meaning that it is absolutely within the law to apply for permanent residency via the normal EB2/EB3 process.
nftables (the iptables successor) is really close to the pf syntax. It's awesome.
Nice to see this work being shared with others.
The lack of land connections on the map threw me for a loop, too; it makes it look like there are no direct connections between North America and Iceland (or Greenland, for that matter) due to the apparent gaps where there are (hopefully) overland cables.
Not necessarily. It would depend on whether you receive UBI while on strike. If you do then strikers could threaten much longer strikes because the UBI would stretch their savings a lot longer. That would give the unions more leverage. Possibly too much leverage.
Can you please provide that evidence, then, so we can evaluate it ourselves?
Who knows? Your private backups might even end up being conveniently available test data for nascent quantum decryption software.
What bends?
Without offering an opinion about their behavior I want to point out that a compliance with a license or laws has nothing to do with morals or ethics.
> This any merchant worth their salt will price things at that point plus a markup

Couldn't any other merchant then undercut that merchant?
Some years ago I had a reef tank. Most people start a reef tank by adding live rock. Those are rocks straight out of the sea.

It's amazing what live rock realy means. Every cm³ is covered with some form of live. Worms, crabs, starfish, anemones, you name it.

We know so little about this world. It's a shame we are busy destoying large areas of the ocean.
He's saying the price of socks will rise to eat your new income, no?
This article does a really nice job of laying out this issue, but avoids an explanation that is difficult to show in data, I think. Many of these issues he addresses - healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and education, are enabled by federally assumed debt.

The core problem, I believe, is that federal debt is like a blank check that nobody is personally accountable to repay. The result is that people in charge of spending simply do not bargain well. There is no immediate incentive to drive cost down by forcing suppliers to deliver at a lower cost, or find the the real market equilibrium where nobody will offer a service.

Loose spending from the government is a different problem than government spending in general. If the government were interested in getting the best deal, it has more bargaining power than most entities in the world. However, they frequently pay MORE for the same services. That alone should be a trigger. I think most people intuitively know this and rail against it when confronted by examples like student loans being spent on predatory for-profit colleges, but, in aggregate, I blame most of the problem here.

The government has a nearly infinite potential for more debt, and as a result they have no incentive to get a good price. Things have spiraled out of control.
Yes you may be right. I guess a positive outcome would involve people using their brain more and checking their sources (of information) and just generally being less credulous.
"Violence against Trump supporters is justified because he is literally Hitler",

"Even though everyone knew the rules of the game up front, Trump is not actually the legitimate president because his popular vote tally was lower",

"Trump is not a legitimate president because the Russians may have been involved in releasing some 'routine, not interesting' emails",

"Even though the U.S. has interfered in over 80 elections in the last 20 years (including Russia in 1996), and even though a significant percentage of the mainstream media is foreign owned, and even though there is significant foreign money and foreign influence involved in every election, this election is not legitimate because Russia may have helped release some emails",

"Enforcing existing immigration laws (and shoring up abused immigration laws) to protect American jobs and wages is racist"

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I could go on for days, but the point is that people in general will say and believe a lot of stupid stuff if it helps their team. Pretending only people on the other team do it is pretty out there.
it's interesting how there are so many things to be solved/discovered. Giving the amount of precision that robots can achieve today, or how advanced robotic vision has become, even if the "sewing problem" was already solved using multi-million dollars, the given solution would be interesting (and cheaper) anyway.
I sometimes wonder if BIG is counterintuitively more popular with libertarians than with liberals/socialists. There seem to be four solutions to the automation will require hardly anyone to work problem.

1. Ignore it

2. Patch and reinforce the existing welfare system

3. Basic Income guarantee

4. Try to trying time

1 & 3 are obviously stupid solutions. But a combination of 1 & 3 seems to be what the current administration is doing. Democrats seem to like a combination of 2 & 1. I think 2 is generally the go-to solutions for all liberals/socialists world wide who are used to that approach and therefore are comfortable with it. I think libertarians who acknowledge the problem and therefore not to go with 1 will not like 2 and 4 because they both massively mess with the market. So that leaves BIG. Therefore I wouldn't be surprised if we see some form of BIG in the US before we see it in Europe. The enormous size and regional diversity in the US might prevent that though.

Edit: formatting
I have "slowed down" a fair bit, especially at the start of projects where i don't "do" a lot except think through scenarios. I write a lot better code than I used to.
Well to be more precise, I suppose my position is that if MS want to increase their product userbase, they need a vanguard of advocates who promote their products far and wide. In the early days of Apple's resurgence, this would've been the graphic designers, musicians, developers, and so on. I think that the advocates that have pushed new MS products are, again, developers and graphic designers and so on, who have transitioned to MS over the last 4 or so years due to their new products suiting their needs (digitizer etc).

My own perception is that their haphazard treatment of their product line has tarnished the sentiment in these communities. It's one thing to phase out phones, but to suddenly drop them in the same year as an amazing keynote in which they promoted the Band and Phones as being central to the platform, at the same time that you're pushing OS updates...it's not pleasant when you've bought into that vision.

Phones might not have been worth the cost in an accounting sense, but if they've lost platform advocates then it could affect their good progress.

Like you though, I'm just speculating and would love to know the politics behind it.
I'll bite. Links please?
The (sad?) truth is STEM degree is useless in most IT areas. Even the most complicated development (OS kernels, drivers, a/v processing and encoding, encryption, cv, ml, etc) is all about self-education.
It's anecdata, but I personally see zero to no correlation between GPA/how-cool-school-name-sounds and efficiency of a developer. IMO a university is good for building a network, but not for knowledge per se.
Almost all of the comments here are very dismissive of the trade union's arguments, but I think it is very important to look at the key problem UBI faces IMHO: Proper work is not just a source of money, but also a source of pride and a feeling of purpose / usefulness. And UBI alone cannot replace this.

This is not only a problem with UBI but with all welfare-focused policies, regardless of how well-intentioned and useful they might be. Put yourself into the shoes of someone on the receiving end. The story a blue-collar worker you are automating away is hearing is this: "We are sorry, but in our AI-fuelled, robot-driven world you are useless. We have no need for you anymore because you can't program deep neural networks. You just don't have what it takes to be a useful member of our society. But - don't worry! We recognize this is a problem, so we have introduced UBI / <insert other welfare programs here> to make sure you are financially covered and don't have to worry about your mortgage."

Is this something you want to hear? No. And that's why people are dismissing UBI and vote Trump - because "You are a hard-working, very capable individual whose job was unfairly stolen by an illegal immigrant" is a much, much better story for your self-esteem. And self-esteem is important [1]!

Not all people have a bucket list of things they would want to do in their spare time, like contributing to cool open source programs or writing the next Harry Potter series. Many just want to live a "regular" life and want to feel useful by providing for their families. They benefit from having a job where they feel useful and are accepted and where someone else (their boss) structures their work and tells them what to do. Taking this away and replacing it with UBI cannot be the (whole) answer. [And, no, I don't have the right answer, either.]

Money is not everything.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-esteem#Importance
But what if i am the merchant selling you socks, what then?

That is part of the problem, this at the top are invariably those that sell stuff to those at the bottom (either directly or via ownership in companies that do so).
Are you contending that changes in average income (in either direction, presumably) of the lower, say, four quintiles of society, have no real effect on quality of life? Or only when it's achieved via UBI? If the latter, why is that case special?
I'd love to know what the magic recipe that GitLab uses to be so prominently in-your-face at all times on HN.
An official investigation, no. But if you simply look at the 'evidence' that's being promoted, it falls apart pretty easily under any real scrutiny. Same goes for most vast conspiracy theories - chains of increasingly unlikely assumptions that must remain unbroken in order for the entire theory to hold any water at all.
Don't forget to include the costs of creating dummy corps, the risk of the off shore owner of the dummy corp running away with your money, the lawyer fees to keep you out of jail, etc.

There are many legal ways to minimize taxes. I might go a step beyond run of the mill tax accountant advice, but if you're getting advice from a guy who changes his phone number every week, that could be a bad sign.
> I see no more evidence being presented from their side.

UAW cannot possibly prove that they didn't pay that guy, and that guy can't possibly prove he wasn't paid.

You can't logically expect them to provide proofs.