skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes do not finance the US government. The US government creates money to finance itself.

Taxes destroy money (and create demand for dollars, which is important :)

Hyperinflation doesn't happen when there is too much money, it happens when there isn't enough stuff to buy with it.

Lots of ignorance of monetary theory on HN!
It looks like the SVG's style block[0] applies a black background to the svg element:

svg {background: rgb(1.0,1.0,1.0)}

which fails to render in chrome due to the floats but renders fine in firefox. If set to white or removed entirely, it will display correctly in Firefox.

0: http://beautifulracket.com/img/polboxes16.svg
Couple of weeks back, I was discussing this with some friends.

The one with my real name and known to my employer and all with a link to my twitter account. Here I am cautious of what I saw and remember I can be help accountable for this. I learned this from personal experience, where my manager started questioning me about my interactions online. Also, my employer did not want to talk tech in online forums as they worry that competition will be helped. I was even barred from sharing the modifications I made to an open-source project. Plus a stranger can easily track me.

Then I have an id that only people close to me are aware of.
Or proxy the dictionary entry in the ISP DNS at the test site. No need to corrupt the dictionary for everybody.
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Same thing happens every time. They offer a free service, it gains popularity, becomes the de facto host, costs increase, they gain few paying customers (or other revenue sources), they try to add value in various ways, it doesn't work, they go bust, someone says "hey, it only takes a weekend to throw together an image host. I could do that...", and the cycle begins again.
In English, a lot of standardized exams look for knowledge of lesser-known synonyms or variants of words; it's quite possible we're getting an article here which translates the words to a more common English variant for easier understanding.

For example, a similar article translated to Romanian might claim English-language students were tested on knowing a word for "rural" (simplified translation) but the exam actually used "bucolic" (a word which I know has been part of the GRE vocabulary in the past).
I feel like the Hacker News hive mind is short-circuiting here, the "anti-censorship" impulse is overriding rationality. This isn't some Orwellian conspiracy to compromise language, it was a three-hour redefinition of a small handful of obscure words.

Obviously schools already try to curtail cheating, it's not useful to just say "be more vigilant instead". This is a clever way to identify cheats from an unexpected angle; and obviously if they're cheating on one section of the test, they're likely to be cheating on others.
Tipping has been abused by employers to allow them to pay less than a living wage.

People who refuse to tip are trying to prevent this abuse. Asking for employees to get a fair wage for the work they do should not be dismaying.
This is where the kubernetes pod model really shines. You can create a "nano service" sidecar container everywhere it is needed. They can communicate over http and be easily updated if needed across the cluster. Since it's just http they also are language agnostic.
A Google Exec Just Claimed the Singularity Will Happen by 2029
The difference is that judges said it was OK for Google because Google is super cool. See Perfect 10 v. Amazon.
Whether they mean to or not, Uber has been making the drivers less and less human. Now it's backfiring.

Lyft includes tipping in the UI, after the ride. As a result, their drivers don't have as much of a reason to hustle for tips.
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Near-ubiquitous floating headers (and even footers) have made full-page spacebar scrolling practically useless on most pages for me now, at least under Chrome on OSX. You always have to scroll back a little bit to see a line or two of content.
> my effective tax rate is 50%

For this to be true, your income must be in the realm of $10 Million / year. If that's the case, congratulations—that is phenomenal. But pardon me for not crying you a river ;-)
These aren't commonly-used words, these are very obscure words the students are being asked to define. If a bunch of students all settle on the same completely-wrong definition, it's a fair guess they were cheating.
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They should just hire a psychometrician. They have PhDs specifically for this sort of analysis.
I guess you could rationalize that with:

During my 60 minutes of work I was able to: breath clean air, have potable water, be surrounded by an orderly society, and in the event of danger have access to emergency services.
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It seems reasonable to me. Certainly, even if you don't get all of the questions correctly, this exam tells you more about the proficiency of a candidate than a standard graduate school exam like the GRE (in the US) does. Especially if a student can explain some reasoning for incomplete problems.
Alternatively, SCADE which write in Swift and run native app in iOS and Android. They are partner with Perfect web framework team that are developing Server-side Swift.

We think it will be more performant with Swift 4 release soon this year. The benefits for using Swift over RN is first-class support and optimized with LLVM and Clang.

Useful for intensive processing, gaming and AI that RN is not a suitable choice. Likewise, LinkedIn iOS app is written in Swift.

http://scade.io or chat with the team at http://perfect.ly
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As a followup: does anyone know the last year that YC accepted a company without a prototype?

(To OP: Can't hurt to apply. Maybe you have another competitive advantage: unique access, founder track record etc)
Soaking the exceedingly rich doesn't solve the budget deficit, true. Erasing the entire debt would be a slow and expensive process that would spread much higher taxes across most or all earners.

But you don't pay for the national debt, mostly. Recent payments on the national debt are around $420 billion - about 11% of the federal budget. God knows that's not small, but it's far from 'mostly', and 2/3 of the debt is even held inside the US.
A lot of idiots on that forum. "Hey, in just two minutes of casual thinking about this, I've identified a flaw which a professional working on this for years has been unable to see!"

Um, yeah, not so much. The concept may have problems, but that's not how it'll be debunked.
I think Bank of America has an online service like this. My friend pays for everything online with single-use credit card numbers with a limit exactly equal to what he's buying.
ARM has actually a lot more modularity in its opcodes, in particular it has a whole bunch of different addressing modes for its ALU operands (register and register, register and immediate, register shifted by a register, register shifted by an immediate, register rotated by a register, etc...).

There's also the "flag set" bit which says if the instruction is supposed to update the CPSR status flags or not. And then there's the conditional execution flags I talked in my previous post.

So with all these combinations you can easily end up with hundreds of possible encodings for an "add" mnemonic.

And you have similar shenanigans for memory access instructions (load word, load word and increment after, load word and increment before, load word and increment before, load byte and sign extend...)

So you'll probably end up using a combination of multiple LUTs and a bit of code to put it all together.
Call me a pessimist, but as a content creator this piece came off as extremely out of touch. Yes: NYT is booming in subscriptions, and Patreon has carved out a nice little niche for supporting podcasters and YouTubers. But it's nowhere near the level of support artists have had for the last hundred years.

Before, if you were a writer, you could write for the neighbourhood paper or magazine and carve out a decent living (see: Hemingway, DFW, etc.) Now, unless you're a staff writer for the NYT or maybe 10 other 1%er sites, there's no way to make a living off subscription sites. They have killed local markets that have supported writers. Book sales are down. Newspaper sales are down. Literary magazine sales are non-existent. Anecdatum: I wrote a series of Medium posts this month with a Patreon link at the bottom: 70k hits, $0 donations. It's hard for me to imagine reaching 70k people with my writing in 1910 and still being a pauper.

Two things: this isn't necessarily all doom and gloom. There are probably more artists living than at any point in history. And the internet helps us reach more people than ever before.

However, bragging that the world's most popular newspaper is adding subscriptions and that another couple of creators are making $10,000 on Patreon does not a Renaissance make. Patreon's PR team is trying to spin something that—at least for writers—isn't happening. The needle is not moving.
Hehehe it does. But that's more a historical artefact as BSD originally started life as a distribution of UNIX.

We are talking decades ago though. Long before FreeBSDs grandparents, let alone Dragonfly.

edit: Wikipedia has an interesting piece on the history of BSD:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution...
>Before the advent of radio and recorded music there were many more musicians and bands.

That's just incorrect due to the sheer exponential increase of humans alive, not to mention the many cultural factors you are ignoring. Thousands of bands were started because kids heard old blues music over the radio and became inspired.

I'd wager there's more bands and venues than ever now and if anything, I'm seeing more and more people make a living off their music thanks to the network effects of social media combined with touring. I've watched two of my friend's bands - pretty weirdo stoner pop music - go on national tours supporting major acts (Of Montreal was one) and it most likely would've never happened if not for the exposure and channels of the internet.
No, these aren't common words at all. The definitions the site is giving here are their more commonly-used analogues. In the same way that "domicile" in English means "home", but it doesn't mean you don't know what a home is because you have to go to the dictionary for "domicile".
Start by researching this: http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/250000-slingatron-kicks...
It seems there's only a small overlap between the people suffering and the people being able to solve this.

If a "normal" web developer struggles with that, they can provide JavaScript workarounds, perhaps many, but they usually aren't that intimate with C/C++ and the whole framework on which Firefox is based.

Also, as with most projects, if a webdev can solve this problem with a workaround now, they don't invest time to provide a proper long-term solution. If if they are capable of improving Firefox, they'd still need to create the JS workaround, because short-term is what they are paid for.
The original term in romanian is pretty uncommon. It was used in a poem written by this author Ion Pillat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Pillat

The poem is at least 70 years old.
The dictionnary in question: www.dexonline.ro
If a new number were used every millisecond, they would last 300 million years. So maybe not run out soon.
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> Wait, so you didn't have to get them all right?

I am not sure when this would even be desirable. If a student fails a question regarding a definition (simple, memorisation) and succeeds in proving the complexity of a novel algorithm (complex, innovation). Why would I emphasise the former? Besides, there are your grades and the presentation/interview as well -- at least for the PhD.

> And this is admission to Graduate School, so the equivalent of a M.Sc. or Phd in the US, right? (i.e. Is the term graduate school the same or is this entrance to college?)

Yes, that is correct. If I remember correctly, they use the same exam for the MSc and PhD.
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Orbital velocity is about Mach 25. You would need to be going much faster than that, if your only power is applied in the atmosphere (you'd need enough additional speed to get above the atmosphere, and enough to overcome air resistance. And after the cable lets go, the the orbit will be elliptical, which means that at the end of one orbit you come right back to the launch site. So you need to bring enough fuel with you to flatten out the orbit once you are at the highest altitude. Oh, and then you have the weight and tensile strength of the cable, so similar issues to that faced by building a space elevator.

A better idea is the launch loop, but again you have to deal with cable weight and tensile strength.
I agree with your closing point, but I think there's a distinction to be drawn between labeling for pesticide/herbicide residue rates, and labeling for GMO. There's nothing about GMO that requires the use of pesticide, and some GMOs are intended to eliminate the need for pesticide application. If they change the microbiome or gross chemical composition of the plant, then that's a different matter altogether.
Many of us here have English as a second or third language.
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I wonder if this was another case of engineering/marketing disconnect, and by the time everything got sorted out they were in over their head.

Engineer: "It can use supercooled qubits to solve certain kinds of annealing problems and-"

Marketing (and management): "It's a quantum computer?"

Engineer: "Well, no, it sort of uses quantum mechanics to to operate, but it doesn't-"

Marketing: "For immediate release: D-Wave builds quantum computer!"
Living in Vancouver, I know several people who have/do work at D-Wave, and I am certain that they are not a company of shysters. There are a lot of smart people working to make the thing do the thing, and I think the majority aren't concerned with proving it at every step, they're just trying to make it happen (because they believe that it's possible given current knowledge and technology).

It wouldn't surprise me if there's a bit of a PR / Tech disconnect.
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right. so basically a greasemonkey script is scoped to the current page? Is there any scripting solution that is not scoped to current page? In chrome maybe?
Government is an inextricable component of the marketplace in which these earnings occur. Money is an emergent effect of economic activity, not an a priori fixed quantity. So, yes, we do have more money because of government.

Furthermore, the idea that private charity is inherently more efficient than government is far from self-evident. A basic income policy, for example, could be a far more comprehensive and efficient way of directly addressing poverty than a patchwork of charities targeted specific symptoms of poverty. This is one reason that many pragmatic libertarians are actually favorable toward basic income.
> Private charities come nowhere near modern government levels of welfare, and never have

Neither does the government, if you measure it that way.

The amount of government money that goes to the homeless or the bottom 5% is fairly modest, because they aren't a large percentage of the population.

Most actual government "welfare" spending is the government taking $5000 from you in taxes and then offering you the $5000 back but only if you submit to their conditions on how to spend it.
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Is this a submarine post ? This article gets regurgitated every year .
> Hate the trend of dynamically loading content when scrolling down.

Yep, this sucks. Typical use case: I load a few articles in background tabs to read later offline. Too late, I realize they either load dynamically, or have a useless periodic refresh (I'm looking at you, NY Times), so they're useless when I go to read them. I've mostly learned to quickly scroll all the way through tabs to make sure they're loaded, but this is a poor solution to a self-imposed problem (too-heavy pages).
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How did they keep these tests secret? Surely you could see these clouds from far away?
That quote makes it so clear how weak film is as an archival method.

Yet I still hear people talking about how digitally shot films have an archival problem. I really can't see how any well thought out digital archive wouldn't be significantly safer than film in a can.
If i am your user, i will hate your second scroll bar. 1. Too small, 2. don't know were click. 3. First one clean scroll bar second waste thinking cycle to know it is scroll bar
There are probably 2-3 of them in any major affluent suburb in the south. They are typically built into a strip center or on a pad site near one (because of the cheap land.) Most of them are emergency rooms by the letter of the law only meaning they don't have an operating theater, mri/ct machines, huge amounts of trained staff. They typically have a few stabilization tools and a nurse practitioner on staff.

Anecdotally I was sent to one by my primary care doctor because she thought I was having a heart attack as a result of month long strep/sinus infection. They gave me a bag of saline and charged me $1000 (insurance ER rate) for the privilege. I think these places exist only to bilk parents with crying children in the middle of the night and people who don't know any better.
I'm afraid that as long as explicit agreement is not required to make a TOS binding we'll be dealing with this crap.
Yes, that's one strong benefit they have over chemical weapons, which are basically always going to leak given time, or biological agents, which can be smuggled in a human incubator. The downside of nukes almost exclusively has to do with when they work as intended... otherwise they really are impressive products of engineering.
Got it, here's one more -- check out Ian Altman, author of Same Side Selling > http://www.ianaltman.com/

Recommend his book, some good ideas on client discovery. Although I actually get more value out of his podcasts. His workshop training looks interesting. See schedule of dates/cities.
Heh, the HN alt-right contingent is curiously mostly absent from these comments, especially given how many of them have recently discovered their passion for hard-line epistemological skepticism. It's as if they're avoiding the information in this article...
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I'm about 5 months of part-time work in to development of a massively multiplayer online game (growhive.io, think Risk meets slither.io). Growth was great for the first 3.5 months. Stalled for month while we made, and then reversed out of, a major back-end change (more about that in a moment). It's now back up again and growing at a great pace.

My main metric, total time spent playing, went from 20 minutes per day in the first weeks, to 1.5 days/day before the big change, and is now up to 3.5 days of play per real-time day. My second metric (H-index on users actions) is also way up.

So great, right?

It would be, except the back-end change I aborted would have swapped in Postgres for Firebase, which at the time was costing $400/month and is now on pace to blow well past $1000 this month. Meanwhile, keeping up with with the website, without even adding new features, is taking a couple hours per day. I have an assistant to help with user emails and some social media promotion, but no one to help on the business or planning side. I'd like to bring in people to help with that, but adding tasks I struggle with (networking and outreach) on top an already full plate of front end dev and back end containment is daunting at best.

I feel stuck in terms of my next move. Try again to transition to Postgres to save cash? Gamble my limited energies on trying to find a co-founder? Ignore the rising costs and grind through my (long) list of bug fixes and features? Sacrifice a lamb in the name of Chris Sacca?
Another important article pointed to by this Editorial:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us/laid-off-americans-req...
The test is taken in schools national-wide. You should basically ban the entire country of Romania from accessing the dictionary.
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I know this post is old now... but here are some pictures of how Google left my neighborhood. It's been 8 months since they started construction, doesn't seem like they are done and we are told, "A cleanup crew will be by shortly..." We've been told that for 3+ months now.

Snapped these while walking my dogs... these only represent a small sample of the boxes on my street...

http://imgur.com/a/Al39Z

The work seems very sloppy... boxes not level in the lawns (means we forever can't use a lawn mower and have to bust out our edgers to trim around it), not enough dirt used, the wrong grass / sod planted (planting the wrong kind of grass is basically planting noxious weeds in a person's lawn... it's a huge pain to fix), sprinkler systems left broken (wastes water / kills the entire lawn if not fixed quickly)...

PS: Imgur is a fickle bitch this morning. Been slowly trying to add captions but it keeps spitting out errors.
Also exciting is the "Fibers" functionality for I/O as well as the updates to the vm instructions that will more naturally facilitate JIT compilation. Especially now that a 2.2 release has been cut, I wouldn't be surprised if JIT compilation makes it upstream soon:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-03/msg00...
>Tesla's YTD return more than matches the overall market

What is so significant about YTD?

You can arrange the data in any number of ways to tell a story: A Tesla investment since 2014 has lost money (and been diluted). Go back to 2013 and suddenly it's a goldmine.

Tesla having been a "good purchase" depends on what you paid. But I have a feeling that more people are sitting on a cost basis >$250 than <$100, in which case a TSLA investment has been mediocre.
Yeah - that sounded too positive, I should have said fascinating and harrowing.
If kids are looking up answers on cell phones, I don't know how well that will work.
I'm just a random programmer but if this was in my wheelhouse I would absolutely buy the full package. I may even buy it to see if it's something that could be applied to my C# brethren :)
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Is 50% your ETR if you only look at INCOME taxes (federal and state)? If so, you're probably an extreme outlier.

Or are you including payroll "taxes" (social security, medicare), sales taxes etc also?

IIUC, if you add up health insurance premiums (employer share + employee share) + all income taxes + all payroll taxes of US and compare it to the same quantity of other DEVELOPED countries, the tax burden on the US is not unreasonably high.

Keeping a developed country developed is hard/expensive. :)
How do you see them differently? In my mind they are kind of the same thing, but one is just a bit more extreme than the other.

I guess I see value in news as "here are some issues that people are talking about, go find more info if you want to learn more"
What exam is it relative to that : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Japan#School_grad... ?
What are the age of the students ?
It's bizarre how much debt advice doesn't differentiate secured from unsecured. The two have commonalities on simple things like interest calculations, but they're very different in terms of risk and I get suspicious of advice that doesn't acknowledge that.
S/He quoted the whole thing:

> > Are software companies pricing their computer programs based on location? Do folks in Ohio get to pay less than folks in New York?

> Yes?