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> The best investment adivce I ever got was from my father. and I quote.... "Don't fuck around with your taxes any more than an H&R block adviser would let you. Getting a million dollar tax bills 7 years after you earned the money isn't worth it."

This depends on the situation. If you get a bill in Y7 that is not significantly higher than the bill in Y1, it in fact would be worth it, because that capital could have compounded for 7 years.

Focusing on optimising your taxes is actually often worth it. I would dare say not enough people do it. But the more you optimise, the higher the risk becomes you have to pay it back. As with anything, it's risk vs reward.

At the returns this guy was making, it actually makes sense to defer paying taxes as long as possible.
Hey JTxt, I think Firebase is crying. Trying to see what's going on!
How do you know if you are breaking copyright or patent law?

Well, copyright law is easy... if you haven't seen or copied the code of your competitor's product, there's no way you could be violating your copyright. Presumably you know if you've done that or not.

Patent is different, and I don't know that there's any easy answer to that one. But realistically speaking, anything you do has the potential to be a violation of someone's existing patent, so if you try for 100% upfront assurance that you're not violating any patents, you'd have to constrain yourself from ever building anything.

If you're really interested, you can search the various patent databases for patents owned by known competitors, but a lot of people avoid doing this because of the rules that make damages for "knowing patent infringement" stiffer than the ones for "accidental" (not a legal term, but you get the idea) patent infringement.

If the competitor is using PHP, and I use Python is that a different product in the view of the "patent"?

IANAL, but as I understand it, the answer is "not necessarily". I think if possible patent violations are a big concern, you have to just bite the bullet, hire patent attorneys, have them research the existing body of patents, and give you an opinion. I've never done it, but I'm guessing that doing that is not cheap. :-(
The military is famous for using busy work to occupy people's time during the long periods of waiting. Do you think in that context busy work has value aside from the actual work? If so, then maybe the same principle applies generally.
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A lot of people at the lower end of the income scale are already paying no taxes. So they can't be reduced without going negative right away.
Yes both sides have their conspiracy theories. The issue is is that the scale of conspiracies imagined by the left just doesn't compare to what is imagined on the right. Imagining that "a group largely ruled by the same people we have been playing spy-games with for a century might be playing spy-games with us" is distinctly different from, "A large part of the US ruling class is part of a satanic cult with food based code to cover up massive child abuse." These differences include both the scope of the claims, and the number of imagined conspirators required to keep the claims a secret.
If they've abandoned part time/low income people then how come they care if those same people have a means to survive? They should welcome them as potential, new consumers of goods/services that their members provide.
A news report of his death: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mathematician-puzzle-maker-raymond-...
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Honest questions from someone who is only slightly educated on market making:

Is there a law that stated/states all trades need to be with real intention to buy?

How can they prove that intention? Even if an indicator is actually having the amount of cash to finance the trades, that could be covered as well.

Lastly, is it not the responsibility of the people receiving the trade orders to not let the new trade information out or do anything with that information themselves which would affect the market until the actual trade takes place?
That sounds just like Freenet or IPFS.
1. Undergrads who are exceptional in one field: Imagine applying this "undergrads aren't skilled workers" to Linus Trovalds in 1990.

2. Masters students with specialized skills and possible prior experience before their Masters.
I don't understand the principle behind UBI. If everyone makes +$X amount more doesn't everything just raise by +$Y?
Interestingly enough, 12% of Computer and Information Science degrees in the US are awarded to Blacks [1][2]. That is in contrast to 9% that are awarded to Asians. But also, 13% of the population is Black, and 5% of the population is Asian [3]. So, it would be expected that more Asians than Blacks are employed at Tech companies. However, the high ratio of Asians (vs. Whites, Blacks, and Latinos) employed at Bay Area tech companies shows some discrepancies. But, it may only be that Asians are more willing to relocate.

[1]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_301.asp

[2]: I could only find 2010 data, but I expect it's generally consistent.

[3]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045216/00
In the end it all seems like a no-win situation.

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.

Thing is that going the other way and freezing the amount of currency in the economy, like say with a gold standard, will do crap all as well. As that just means things will be prices fractions of fractions, and the pay will be likewise.

In the end the only thing that can really solve things is massively, and i mean Star Trek scale massively, crank up supply of goods and services.

And unless we have something like Deuterium (aka the handwaved wonderfuel of every space age sci-fi) and replicators to go with, thats not going to happen as we run into an energy crunch sooner than we like to think.

Effectively humanity can't win.
I don't recommend it; it doesn't actually implement HTTP, and the stdlib package net/http is extremely fast on its own.
Having been across the US, I would say that the right-on-red rule is so consistent that you can say it's legal in the US. It's just a rule with an exception.
How does it compare to SICP?
I dislike poor working and visa condition as much as, if not more than, anyone else. But other than that I don't really see the problem. You're saying that the people you're hiring aren't particularly talented and get payed less. Not everyone can go to the right school, learn the right languages and get accepted to companies that pay $100k with perks.

It sound like, other than fixing some of the things with H-1B, what really should happen is some sort of easier O (-1A) visa with mainly a salary requirement.
NYC has no right on red. After getting used to I loved it. Now I live in another city with right on red and a fair amount of bike and pedestrian traffic.

Turning right on red means looking out for cars, people, bikes and having the pressure of a car behind you - perhaps honking because it wants you to go.
Writing and using a program not "using a script".
I suspect if you want to do a partially remote team the best way would be to make an entire team of remote employees and then treat that team like a satellite office. We know those work for most companies, so as long as the team can communicate well amongst themselves I don't think them being remote will ultimately be any different for the in office workers than if they all went to an office in a different city.
My first project as an investment banker was refinancing the turbine barges in Brooklyn briefly mentioned at the beginning the article.

The article should have gone into capacity auctions. It's an interesting process; generators participate in Dutch auctions to win contracts to be ready to provide a certain number of MWs onto the grid. The entire winning side of the market gets paid at the market-clearing price when the ISO gets enough MWs allocated. The capacity is auctioned off over three time horizons: a "strip" auction for the six-month winter period and the six-month summer period that happens about a quarter before the period starts; a monthly auction that clears a few months out; and a monthly auction that clears on the eve of the start of the month.

I was initially surprised to learn that clearing bidders are not even paid to generate; they're paid to be ready to generate, which means they have to stay inspection-compliant and periodically fire up the plant to ensure everything's in good working order. If they generate, they get paid for the MWs that go onto the grid.

For an asset like the Brooklyn barges, they might get spun up 20 days a year on a hot year, and actually put meaningful MW's on the grid for 10 of those days. All in July/August when it's hot out and people are blasting AC. The capacity market is highly seasonal.

The NYISO website has lots of data if you want to learn more: http://www.nyiso.com/public/markets_operations/market_data/i...
It is, but the state is accelerating the shutdown of the major plant feeding NYC.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/nyregion/indian-point-nuc...
And also very often: those who don't do it can't get to have successful sex.
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It's also a sure way to inoculate them against every news in general... which wouldn't be a very positive outcome.
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Love reading hn comments straight out of a movie.

If you don't know how the NSA works why on earth pretend like you do?
That's less than $800 US isn't it? To compare a year of school here probably averages 10K USD a year or 668,325 INR.
Ask HN: How do you increase the connections in your community?
Hello!

Do anyone have a tip about growing communities? Or how to increase the connections between the community?

Vigo (North-west of Spain) is a small city with a 300K population, and we get quite impressive large tech community, nowadays our monthly meetups are around 70 attendees and more than 150 different persons that attend at least two meetups.

Make this group was pretty easy, I use to call to few R&D companies in the town per each meetup and explained the idea, as soon one employee attend to one of our meetups, they use to repeat. The meetups are always full (limited space) and in the last meetup I did some research, and we have more 34 companies represented, that it's a good number regarding R&D businesses in the town.

These talks are running ok, but I tried to make more connections across the attendees, for future R&D projects, and share more knowledge outside the meetup. But after each meetup, we use to go to do some networking, but always are the groups of the same 3-4 guys that are already friends. So no new networking across them.

We've run these meetups for a year, and we are focused in IoT and some industrial technology(Best fit for the town). All the people ask me for things, new projects, etc.. but no to other people into the group.

- How can I improve this? Does it happen this in another country? is it only in Galician context? How do you increase the feedback in the meetups? Any idea?

It's quite crazy, but now I have the feeling that all related with this meetup is routed by me, and I want to have a fully distributed people, any idea how can I improve this?

Best Regards and thanks!
You are missing a key point of what makes a conspiracy theory different from a normal lie. The theory has just enough evidence to pull some fraction of vulnerable non-believers into examining it.

From there social pressure, motivated reasoning, and the usual garden of cognitive biases lead people to believe there is more evidence than there actually is.
Saying "nobody cares" about your data is not a good security policy.
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I think he did a fantastic job, modern WP is a great product, it was just too late and by then the situation was unrecoverable.
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Related-ish-ly, I've had a notion bouncing around in my head that it should be possible to build a fairly complete social networking interface on top of email and ical (or similar), and some kind of contact-management standard, such that the whole thing (or at least enough of it) could be rebuilt from e.g. your (possibly dedicated to this purpose?) email account when necessary, possibly in stages—say, a new installation of the application builds what it can from the last 30 days in a few seconds, then displays a populated interface while it continues digging to some arbitrary point in the past (until it exhausts caching resources it has been allotted on a given platform, basically).

An initial search has revealed a couple abandoned partially-complete efforts, but that's it.
You still have to either create a template from scratch or modify existing ones to your needs, configure the generator, set up hosting, domain and many other things. Things that take time which could be otherwise used for something better than devops if that is not your are of work :).
>Lots of doctors and automotive engineers just do their job and then come home, in fact most employees don't come home and continue to work on semi work related things on their spare time. My wife is a civil engineer and yet she doesn't build a 1/16 scale bridge in our basement when she comes home. Does that make her a bad civil engineer?

Perhaps not the best example you could have chosen: Physicians and licensed engineers do have mandatory continuing education requirements that more or less require them to be learning for a lifetime.
That is the dream yes.

Maybe with:
https://ipfs.io
Tesla is not a startup. It's a big company with real products. Their startup days are long gone.
My opinion is evolving on this matter. I've seen a more than a couple of developer introduced bugs in our application that cause data loss (improper error handling, swallowing errors instead of retrying, etc.) We use RDS with automatic failover and redislabs cluster with automatic failover. I'm 99% positive we have lost data before, and it makes me very uncomfortable to think about. But since we lose data from buggy code, I really can't really justify a huge amount of engineering effort to avoid the chance of loss in DB failover.
The most convincing lies are based on some truth, then interpreted in a completely wrong fashion. Yes, Angela Merkel, and other European heads of state are pushing for an European Army. That is, an army to defend Europe against aggression from the outside, and have even less national armies who could potentially fight against each other inside Europe. So the idea is to have less dangers of "unleashing" any forces against fellow EU member states.
Yeah, Ballmer is responsible for the 2001 tech crash!
The game is only fair if you play to outsmart the other animals in the herd. Not if you actively harm them by misdirecting them with false signals.
Ok, now take a look at the same overlap for reddit powermods.

/u/qgyh2 , for example, mods a ton of default subs in addition to the following country subs: canada, australia, greece, israel, malaysia, pakistan, england, srilanka.

How are we so sure that this is isolated to only shaping a far right narrative?
Message passing has its place, some of the most impressive software projects ever built use it at their core.

That smalltalk does this at the object level is quite possibly not the most useful thing (though it is interesting), but at other levels in an architecture it can be an extremely powerful tool.

You can make spaghetti designs with any architecture, that's nothing to do with message passing per-se.
How is this possible? If random restaurants are able to assign a public IPV4 address to every POS printer they have, do they all have their own /24 net? Why wouldn't they all use NAT?
"Sisu" in Finnish means "Strength of Will" roughly equivalent to the idiom "taking guts" in English.

Oddly potent coincidence.
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Discussion from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538316
Why don't we just stop accepting visa applications from Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys for one year and see how it unfolds? It will resolve the ongoing debate -- at lease prove it one way or another. From a candidate's point of view, I am all in for finding new opportunities in a foreign prosperous land. But gaming the system is not great for the local US economy. Maybe having a new visa category with temp status and easy renewals every six-months. If those candidates are good enough, they can easily find regular H1-B jobs with regular American companies. Some foreigners spend a lot of money and go through severe hardships to get educated at American universities adhering to American socio-economic values. If they are good enough, they get hired by American companies with regular pays. I think it is unfair for them to get categorized under the same blanket rhetoric of "Abusing of H1-B visas".
Not really. In the situation you've described, the printing of money is what causes inflation. Wages may change as a result of that, but then again, they may not. What happens with wages depends on other economic factors.
"But today, as crossing borders becomes ever more fraught, it’s worth remembering that with the right support, even a humble epiphyte can make it pretty far."

This hurts right in the realities.
Or you could just use Tarsnap, where you can trust the math and have private backups for cheap.
Yes. They are the fear of most aquarists because they are real killers.
And larger ones can even break the glass.
I am not sure how he "revived" Microsoft.

1. They've completely dropped the Phone market under him. As in gave up.

2. They are not in the personal assistant game at all. Alexa & Google have that market all to themselves.

3. The educational market is steadily switching to Chromebooks. The new generation of kids will likely not even know how to use MS Office.

4. On the back end, they've made .NET work on Mac and Linux. This is great for me, since I don't have to worry about Windows Server licenses, but doesn't this eat into their large cash cow?

5. SQL Server - the other cash cow, is great, but free alternatives will start affecting the bottom line.

6. Windows 10 rollout stalled very much short of their stated goal of being on 1 billion devices.
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My actual salary will never be reported in an H1 database.

The company has to report your actual salary. That's what in this database: http://h1bdata.info/

It's not prevailing wage, it's actual base pay.

I can remember at a previous employer that when you file for an H1-B, the company has to post the information in a public place. The form states the prevailing wage and the actual base salary.
Absolutely, but having another layer blocking access to your data is definitely a good thing. It's a good idea to encrypt your files yourself before uploading them to a public cloud.
>There's an easy answer: you can't wildly speculate when you have the facts. This is why "PizzaGate" is still being talked about. There will never be proof, because it's a ridiculous conspiracy. That leaves the conspiracy enthusiasts free to hunt for evidence and clues forever.

This. If there is a solid answer to the question then you can't have the pleasurable hobby of fitting puzzle pieces from different sets together to point to the coming apocalypse.
No, because the people that win with UBI are the poorest people, and they already pay almost no tax.
Ask HN: Why Haven't GUI Front End Editors Caught On?
WYSIWYG/GUI frontend editors have been around for years now, but the standard development process for frontend developers is still to crack out an IDE or text editor and write HTML/CSS by hand. For such a technical industry this seems like a strange trend - why wouldn't we leverage tools and technology to make building HTML/CSS less of a boilerplate activity?

It makes sense that it could be related to the widgetisation of frontends, with chunks of HTML appearing in different locations or as embedded JSX, but I see no reason why editors couldn't provide integration by allowing single documents to be sliced up into smaller components and kept in sync.

So, HN, what's your take on the lack of adoption of GUIs for building frontends?
> If prices go up then demand drops

demand exists at different price points. Demand will drop, but I think this represents persistent demand.

This is a good thing. I demand disappears at a certain cost, maybe it's not really viable?

e.g. Is there a point at which we'd no longer to pay for a garbage man, deep-sea fisherman or sewage worker?

If yes, maybe we don't really need these jobs. If no, (or the point is high) then maybe these jobs should be higher paid.
Of course investment banks do this sort of thing all of the time, this guy's crime is that he wasn't associated with one of the big incumbents.

HFT generates and cancels orders on magnitudes like this all day long, but they have to be allowed to do so because it "creates markets", whatever that means.
Exactly. I rather trust well proven math more than people or infrastructure. One famous example nowadays is Bitcoin ... nobody was able to break the fundamental math behind it.
We can't know for certain what's going on there, but you will notice that some people are desperate to declare that this has been "debunked" without there being any sort of investigation.
All the other parts should be in scare quotes.

The EU army would almost certainly be implemented by close cooperation between the existing armies of the member states, instead of being some kind of reincarnation of the Wehrmacht.

A much more plausible spin would be to frame it as an act of aggression towards Russia, but some people might even support such a thing.
In the end they are perhaps both right, but focus on only part of the picture (because of their social myopia).

Increasing corporate power begets more regulations that favor them (via minutae that their lawyers can manage, but that new entrants will run afoul) that begets increased corporate power.
Usually when people mention they run pfSense it means, "I heard pfSense is good for security so I use it". If I get that impression in an interview, GG. IMO it's an easy litmus test for netsec/secops roles. If you can't write a pf rule, there are probably bigger issues. OpenBSD is the way to go.

I also think the pfSense CEO has a massively inflated ego and pays little homage to the roots of his software. Does pf really need a GUI?

edit: clarity.
Wait, underground lines have a shorter life?

> "Buried power lines are protected from the wind, ice and tree damage that are common causes of outages, and so suffer fewer weather or vegetation-related outages," it concluded. "But buried lines are more vulnerable to flooding, and can still fail due to equipment issues or lightning."

Does flooding happen that often that it significantly decreases their life?
simply not true.

become a hiring manager and you'll see.

you don't even get applications for those jobs by American CS grads or professionals - before any salary numbers are in play.

we run analysis in our HR pipeline trackers - remove Asians and Eastern Europeans and its crickets.

walk into Google, Facebook, Salesforce offices and see for yourself.

i know this is super unpopular on HN were everyone is a superstar coder, but facts are fact. 90% of software work is undesirable and unfulfilling - and Westerners feel entitled to life-changing work.

I just had a 26 year-old US coder quit because he does not want to come to work every day anymore, he now wants to travel Nepal and do something radical. Great for him - while a 1000 less-fortunate-by- birthplace people would give a leg for his job.
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