skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And targeting "regular joes" is a terrible way to make money. The vast majority of govt income comes from the wealthy, in particular because wealth distribution is so unbalanced.

And therein lies the problem. You can hire 10,000 "regular Joe" agents to go after "regular Joe" offenders and make far less than if you could somehow successfully hire 100 genius agents to go after the top 100 suspected cases.

The issue lies in the fact that most people simply are not capable of going toe to toe with some of the best legal tax frameworks money can buy, and so like with all law enforcement the "hard" targets tend to get largely ignored while the soft targets are exploited mercilessly.

That's all I see an IRS hiring program doing - bringing the hammer down on people for rather trivial things, while continuing to ignore the elephant in the room simply due human nature being what it is. They want to show wins, not 6 years on the same 3 billion dollar case.
Most of the infrastructure was built on taking out debt based on optimistic projections of future growth. Flint and Detroit are poster children for this.
Agreed, though it may well be worth the trade off if we could eliminate huge layers of bureaucracy.. there are also a lot of ancillary programs and subsidies that this could be in place of. Reducing military expenditures would help a lot too.

I keep thinking as well that switching to a VAT/tariff/excise system that included money transfers would be beneficial... Even allow (re)patriation of funds without taxes, while funds leaving the country are taxed.
I like Sumatra PDF, very lightweight.

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org
But you see the Host header after the TLS handshake, after the certificate was sent. The poitn of SNI is to indicate the host header during the TLS handshake so that you get the right certificate. HTTP with the host header is one layer up. Again, this is for transparent proxy where no CONNECT is being sent.
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Yeah well we trolled the whole world on that one, sorry you got sucked in

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/social-networking/63642145...
pv is available on at least FreeBSD as a package like it is in Linux. I'd be quite shocked if the other BSD's didn't have a port of it as well. There is also mbuffer.

SIGINFO works on gnu dd last I tried it.
Fuck Bernie Sanders and fuck the Democratic party. Round them up and put them in FEMA camps.
Being someone who uses Qubes OS, seeing cracks that allows a virtualised system to break out to the is scary. After all, the entire security model of Qubes OSis based on the fact that it's not possible to break out from the VM's.

I'm really glad these guys valued their reputation higher than the extra money they could have gotten from selling these exploits on the blank market, but this makes me wonder how many such vulnerabilities are available that hasn't been published.
python based Static site generator Nikola hosted on digitalocean along with a few other sites.

The advantage over pelican:

1. python notebook (Jupyter) is a first class citizen

2. I can set custom urls for each post. same as the previous blog system from which I am migrating
I know, they ended up catching him and I had to identify him in a lineup. He ended up pleading guilty.

Identifying a mugshot isn't "nothing". It can be used as evidence for probable cause in getting a search warrant or at least paying the suspect a visit.
individuals and communities have different relationships to competition
Fuck the less fortunate. Nobody is entitled to anything. They can eat the crumbs off the bottom of my jack boots.
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I think I get it. So 1) the computing power happens on hardware in China, but then 2) the message can, if need be, relay the message of, say, a new mined block to non-internet points that are able to escape The Great Firewall, then 3) outside of China it connects those messages to the internet. Is that right?
Short sellers exist. As do elections, but voters have far less incentive to gather and analyze relevant information.
The only things I'm missing are the points from the downvotes I keep getting in this thread.

See, the thing here is that you and I are operating with completely different definitions of the word "value". I'm insisting to you that clean water is intrinsically valuable.

Yet you impose a restriction on the supposedly free market, claiming that: "a job rebuilding the infrastructure of an area is only valuable if there are other jobs from which you can tax to justify that".

But I maintain that it needs no such justification. It's clean water.

"When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money"
If it had worked, yes.
Many museums in NYC do this as well. There is a line to get in and prices on a board, but you can pay anything you want or nothing at all.

They don't advertise this fact so locals only seem to know it.
Isn't the current trump administration plan exactly the same regarding infrastructure, with wildly unrealistic growth numbers being used to support the spending?
+1 if the Americans are unhappy because it's not a wasteland like America can be then I'm sure there's other places to go.
Lets say you get $500/month to every adult citizen... and $100-300/month (varies by number/age of children) for every dependent child., for a family of four, that winds up being lets say $1500/month. For a year, that would be $18,000/year. The average U.S. income is $52k.. meaning that a flat tax rate of at least 40% would be needed to cover such a system, as well as what's left of the govt.

I might be persuaded to do that, if it meant that pretty much all social programs go away, and that a lot of laws, agencies, regulation, subsidies and even military spending were cut. With a target of cutting the federal budget by 70%. If course it feels like I have that much coming out of my paycheck already.
> but I cannot imagine what mechanism would drive, or what evidence would support, the average individual gamer preferring less complex games over time.

Lack of time is a strong driver for some gamers opting towards simpler games, or at least games whose complexity does not translate into requiring additional time for mastery/understanding. In my circle of gaming friends, as our available time is under greater pressure we've purposely moved away from games that require significant investment of time to those that perhaps retain some complexity but reward a casual time investment.

Another factor I've seen that affects is the demand of contiguous blocks of time to game properly. Some games do not permit breaking up game sessions arbitrarily, so while one might have ample leisure time, there might be multiple interruptions in between which make playing certain games impossible or a burden.
How do short sellers punish the executives of the company? Even if they lose their jobs, they'll get millions of dollars in "performance" bonuses and millions more in severance in return for running the company into the ground.
"Matching funds" is an established term of art in government (and some other) finance for contribution with some proportionality factor required by the granting agency to be spent toward the same goal by some other agency (often the recipient themselves) as a condition of the granted funds.

The term was used correctly in the sentence, and since the exact funding split was specified, there was nothing to be clarified.
Whereas startups are inherently good at long-term sustainability.
Tesla will discontinue least expensive Model S
OK, but what does it do? The README is pretty sparse. Some examples would really help.

Edit: the header from the script is good, toss it into the README for great success.
The hard part here is not finding a set of programs that always halt (primitive recursive functions can compute anything you'd ever want to run on large inputs), but proving that they are correct (I'm pretty sure equivalence of primitive recursive functions is undecidable).

Edit: but if someone gives you the primitive recursive Kolmogorov complexity of a program, you can check it by running all shorter programs on all inputs until you found a counterexample for each of them. So it is semi-decidable.

Edit to edit: This would even work for the general Turing-machine definition of Kolmogorov complexity.
Same here, RT2 was one of my favorite games as a kid. I would love to see a modern remaster or, better yet, a new Railroad Tycoon game that preserves the simulation aspects of its predecessor.
Income tax would need to be 40-60% flat to cover such a system.
I like the koan. But the point should be an additional process.

In a UUOC avoidance case, it's the current process which reads, generally via stdin. Say, the shell, or dd itself with an 'if=' parameter.

Which I strongly suspect you know.
There is no anti-tourist feelings in New Zealand at all. You were just experiencing New Zealand like a local. It's an expensive country with not many people. If a shop can price gouge because of no competition it will. Customer service is terrible in general and you might be overcharged.

A "backpacking" is a traveler that's seen positively In New Zealand. Most NZs have gone traveling with a backpack at some point in their lives.
I think a big part of the problem with .NET is just that it's a big confusing mess of confusingly-named components.

MS managed to take their own excellent technology and turn it into a legacy nightmare. Am I targeting C#, the CLR, the CLI, or making a PCL, or what? Which PCL profile(s)? It's way worse than Java in that respect and Java's already pretty bad (not that anyone uses J2ME much any more).
Looks like Trump administration is really doing something for the poor of flint.
Your second sentence is (deliberately?) ambiguous. ;)
Most of those are just FreeBSD. Pulling from the FreeBSD tree for their base.
So why does Absolute Vodka freeze when no other brands do?
we would hear stories about kids in the US leaving their homes at 15 and trying to figure things out

I think that's a pre-WW2 concept at best. With the advent of child labor laws, a child has restraints on numbers of hours and time of day, especially during the school year.

When I was 16, we needed school-issued Work Permits to work at all and were limited to 4 hour shifts on "school nights" with a 10PM limit.
To clarify, the author uses CDNs to indicate the content silos that are goog, appl, amzn, fb, etc., which is not traditional usage.

But in light of this, I see him as essentially correct. Any one of them could demand payment from ISPs for their content (their endusers would revolt otherwise). The new willingness to dismantle "net neutrality" does not hurt any of them, only startups. And, as for the carriers, cablecos, telcos, etc, their window of monopoly is over, they should have invested in content when they had the chance.
Except it was Obama pressuring congress. The legislation was passed in December

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/epa-100-million-flint...
This feels like it has potential. Can someone give me a specific use-case where this should shine?

The major worry I have is that it will turn out like the Citrix system at my university. It's hard to give all the reasons why Citrix is annoying, but the top three are: 1. speed (horbito seems fast though), 2. awkward feeling of two operating systems, 3. pesky, unanticipated clunkiness when saving and retrieving data.

I'm not knocking this, just curious.
As is the Nintendo Switch.
They'd have to stop pandering to minorities and the lefty elite and get back to their roots. At least their post 70s roots... At one point,
Dems owned the house and Senate
The western world is very obsessed with face time. Likely because those at the top are very good at it.
Agreed.. the main benefit to such a system would be simple rules that apply to everyone, that you can't cheat (other than potentially non-citizens getting benefits). It there's any complexity, including COL, that makes it easier to cheat said system.
Another bullet point for you: We're distributed in 6 time zones and haven't had problems with funding.
Seriously, if my ISP was forced to have no Gmail tomorrow, I'd flip out, and change ISPs (thankfully I have that option).
> All sorts of achievements and connections are possible to a much greater extent virtually than physically.

Like what? In any case, I don't think it matters much if you can't support yourself. If the achievements and connections don't translate to scope and agency then what are they worth?

It's certainly possible to do something worthwhile, generally fail in life, and only have the value of your work recognised after your death. This has happened to many artists who are now regarded as greats in their fields. But I think the online world makes it too easy to delude yourself into thinking what you're doing is worthwhile when in fact it isn't.

So much of the online world is premised on feedback loops and empty rewards, like levels in games or even karma points on Hacker News. You get "praised" by these systems just for using them. It can become an addiction like gambling can become an addiction. It becomes easy to lose perspective and waste time pursuing something that is ultimately valueless.

You gave the example of helping others in online forums. Let's say that's, for example, helping people with Microsoft Windows. I'd say all you're doing in that case is taking on the cost of Microsoft's software support. You're making the cost of doing business cheaper for Microsoft with no real return for yourself. Altruism is good, but I think too many people do it at too much cost to themselves.

In the end, if the expansion of possibilities doesn't result in real world returns then I think they cannot be called opportunities. They must be recognised as merely distractions.
So you would just go into a 401k plan assuming 50%? My company has ZERO matching for 401k. You'd be assuming poorly, then.
Title should read "Abrupt Termination of Coinbase Support" (not "Coinable Support")
That assumes the homeless is a significant portion of the population.
Samsung S8 will use facial recognition for payments
A Y Combinator-backed startup takes a shot at being the Tuhu of India
I thought of a pulley for some reason, and on the off chance it wasn't a completely ridiculous idea googled it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator#Cross-Sec...
Agreed. But in practice, for what I have worked on, the scalability benefits matter more - and fine grain locks don't let you scale as much as lock-free techniques.
I'd just like to commend the zapier folks for promoting a remote first company like this. We're distributed across 6 timezones and have built up like this for years. I always try to hire engineers where they live. This causes some complications but it's been worth it for us. We've found you have to have the right culture for it though. It's harder to "bolt on" remote.
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Learning all of the skills necessary, even at a minimum level of competency, would take quite a long time, and I also don't think everyone is suited to development.

To boot - in a 'small scale op' devs usually do a lot of the product, interface design, aesthetic design etc. - which is definitely a competency that too many people write off as 'not a thing'. It's definitely a thing. :)
Great article. Lots of wisdom
If you're using android, have you tried outlook? I love the app. It's the best email app I've used, but I haven't used inbox much.
Clean water is only valuable if someone can get for it greater than what it costs to extract. The aspect you're missing isn't a definition of value, but a model of sustainability.

If there's industry enough in an area that there is some other way to pay for water extraction, production, cleaning (see Nevada) -- then water can be sold at a loss because it supports something else, and is sustainable so long as there a mechanism to keep it being so.

The problem in Michigan is that the other way to pay for it isn't working, and the government doesn't have the revenues or a profit model to keep it going otherwise.

Again, this would be true whether the government were capitalist, socialist, socially democratic, totalitarian or anything else.

Economics are true whether or not your ideology agrees, but it shouldn't be controversial to assert that trying to sell luxury goods to Liberia (the poorest area in the world, last I checked) is fruitless, it should be easy enough to replace "luxury goods" with "water", or any other product and still be true.
It appears to have been a design issue and not necessarily due to the time constraints placed on engineering to launch the spacecraft. Looks like there would have been a strong chance of this occurring anyway, as the initial assumptions of type of data to send back for analysis were insufficient.
I think that was the joke, but I'm not 100% sure....
"Law's Lack of ..." would maybe help, but I don't think it's necessary. I figured it was a law, or a regulation, because where else are the exact semantics of the written word so important that it could cost a company money?
I would urge caution in the assumption that 'being able to build a product' is the same thing as selling it.

Moreover, there are tons of little nuances and specific things that go into making a 'great product for the niche' and that knowledge is domain specific and can take a lot of time to learn.

This is without even considering the fact this person, having worked in the industry can probably speak with a lot of credibility on the issue to customers, and hone in on specific deficiencies, likely has a long contact list of potential clients buyers and a strong network - these things are valuable.
Fuck no! No offense but you sound like a developer trying to do Ops. Stop. Go back to what you're good at. If you want loops and control structures use the various providers APIs. The point of Terraform is to be deterministic as possible.
Sketch Aims to Become a Development Platform
> If you aren't willing to go all in, what does that say?

That you are smart enough not to weaken your negotiation position if you don't actually have to?
I strongly concur with this comment.
I don't think there's real belief that the free market would fix it.

It's a reference to the general republican stance that if government stays out of the way then the free market will fix everything i.e. health care, banking regulations, environmental protection, et cetera.
...in America. There's lots of developed countries where municipal governments are generally well run as a rule, and while there's always grumbling things never get this out of hand. Lead is posion, for pete's sake. Where else in the developed world would poisoned drinking water be allowed for so long?

In Canada we had what we consider a big disaster 17 years ago:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/inside-walkerton-canada-s-wors...

The Premier (equivalent of a governor), was investigated by judicial inquiry, his offices searched, people went to jail, there were payouts for damages - and this is something that only affected a town of 5,000 people. More importantly, it was fixed as fast as possible.

My point being: it's not that there aren't screw-ups elsewhere, it's just that they're so rare that they cause a huge scandal and everyone runs around trying to fix things. In America everyone just seems to just get angry at each other and then do nothing.

So don't tar governments. They work well elsewhere. America's just doing it wrong.
I don't think Elon Musk's thing is risks... his thing is goals. He's not building rockets because it's risky, he's taking risks to make humankind multiplanetary. He's not starting a car company because it's risky, he's making cars to accellerate the transition to sustainable energy.

What's the goal for getting 50 tonnes of gold and platinum to Earth? Cash? Musk is just raised $1.2 billion for Tesla this week, no asteroid required.
> Most of the country doesn't bury utilities.

And they waste money in the long run as a result. It's the same situation -- pay once to put utilities underground and then you don't have to pay forever fixing the fallout from every different kind of weather.
Is the assertion that adversarial ML is a subset of correctness widely considered canonical?

That appears counterintuitive because so many ML techniques seem (for lack of a technically defined term) tautological. For example, a big hairy random forest classifier maybe can be gamed in certain cases, but it is not "correct?" After all, it is its own definition.
Except that development ostensibly originally started for WiiU in or before 2013 when the game was announced. The difference in architecture between the WiiU and Switch is significant enough to make porting it a non-trivial affair. When combined with the other evidence that the Switch was rushed to launch (e.g. lack of browser, Virtual Console, etc.) even if you consider the "hardware nuances [to be] pretty well known to the developers" it's doubtful that they had the time to work around the differences between the two platforms as well as they should have.
3BSD-4.2 sounds about right -

My thinking w/o references (enthusiast but was not 'there' at the time) is that this was introduced with either the 32Bit VM system, FFS implementation, or BSD network starck - probably the McCusick FFS papers [ed: are worth a read].

Really it's kind of nuts how 'usable' and 'current' a load of 4.3BSD on a VM load feels out of the box.
Exactly. The question now is: why is American government so broken, and the corollary is: what can we do to fix it? Is American culture simply broken, so that only utterly sociopathic people go into government? Is America just completely filled with people who have been trained from birth to be sociopathic, as evidenced by the way they vote?
Obviously. Same goes for fossil fuels and water.
Interesting. You're right in that it's not an interview -- my terminology was misleading.
It's more abouy failed leadership than failed engineering. It has to do with how Flint spread responsibility over their water source so thin that no one was to blame and no one had the full picture. Laziness gave way to corruption. I'm sure there were protests from the engineering team.
A dead-simple digital menu board display and configuration, written in Python
Thanks! It looks like I can generate a pdb from the fasta sequence they provide for the protein.
Mediacom (cable internet in Iowa) does something similar. They insert a banner on the top of every HTTP page you view telling you when you're about to go over your 350GB data cap. Will appear until you click a button to dismiss it.
In fact our very own jdreaver wrote a Haskell EDSL for generating CloudFormation templates, this seems to be not uncommon among companies who want to do infrastructure as code with that ecosystem: https://github.com/frontrowed/stratosphere
Hi Michael, as a tech person, I'm not articulate enough to sell my ideas (and I have lots of them :)) or explain problems that need to be solved.
Does YC sees that articulate founders (speech & presentation/looks) is a pre-requisite?
Looking back at recent YC allumni, there have been 'easy' problems solutions (eg, tea bot, uber condom, smart mattress etc). I have a feeling that it was not easy for Mark Z to explain what Facebook all about.
I understand that founders need to be able to sell ideas to VC. How can YC help companies with not-so-articulate founders?
Thank you.
If Government Can't Get Domain Seizures Right, Why Would Big Pharma Do Better?
Is there some kind of joke I'm missing with the "Quintilian"?
EFF, ACLU, and 45 Others Oppose AB 165, a Bill Stripping Privacy
There is no mention of gender or race in the parent comment. Here is only your opinion implying only females can be models and that being an illegal immigrant is somehow tied to a race.