skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So his claim that the us has a higher standard of living is based on it having a higher AIC. But does this take into account that countries with higher taxation and hence public expenditure could reduce the need for households to spend money on public goods/services?
Coporations need to make a profit. I don't think this necessarily makes them evil. The ones that you mention make a profit at the expense of people's wellbeing and happiness, so their profit motive definitely puts them in conflict with the better good of people.

I would say corporations are generally amoral, not evil. This is why regulations for corporations are so important; they guarantee an appropriate way to make profit without say polluting all the drinking water in the country.

In the case of the prisons and medical insurance, the profit motive is directly in conflict with the actual positive desired outcome. In cases like this it's clear that the government should be the service provider, where the desire is to reduce costs, not see them increase for profit.
I assume they're referring to biologics, another name for monoclonal antibodies such as adalimumab (Humira), infliximab (Remicade), etanercept (Enbrel), ustekinumab (Stelara), etc.

Most of these are TFA inhibitors, but there are some newer ones that target other things, such as ixekizumab (Taltz) and brodalumab (Siliq), both approved very recently.

Common to biologics is that they're all fairly new, so their long-time safety is not established. They are more precisely targeted than immune-system therapies such as methotrexate (a chemotherapy drug that also works on psoriasis), but they do interfere with your immune system in scary ways. There's evidence that they increase the risk of cancer as well as other diseases. Brodalumab has been associated with an elevated risk of suicidal ideation and behavior (!), so there's that.
“Artificial Intelligence” has become meaningless
I think I agree that includes-within-includes are probably a necessity.

But I am not that it allows things to be broken into
"simple headers with easy-to-read APIs". That is true for headers that are small and only #include system headers and other basic dependencies. But if your own code has a nest of interelated headers, then a single big header file is probably easier to read.
> It may be reasonable, but it's not OO.

Says who? I.e., do you have any references?

It is easy to give examples arguing either side. I agree that your bus example is best modeled as a mutable object. The same bus can have different passengers over time. But a complex number is an example that I think is better thought of as immutable.

You really lost me with your discussion of Strings. Why does "immutability tend to oppose OO in the strictest sense"? I like the distinction between String and StringBuilder, because I want to be able to share a String without worrying about the possibility of an update through some other reference. (This is not an argument about whether String/StringBuilder is OO or not, just a comment on the design of the classes.) Just because it is possible to define mutable objects, it does not follow that all objects should be mutable. By your logic, Integer should also be mutable?
I'm left-leaning, but this was a "hack"--at worst a petty crime--not some evil action. Mr. LeBeouf proposed a challenge, and was defeated. It's also a good lesson on how hard it is to be anonymous. I got a good chuckle out of this, even if I'd rather not hear from the "frog" people!
Taking Money from the Poor and Giving to the Rich
One thing that is not 1040EZ is charity donations. I mean we could kill all charity deductions but not sure NGOs would be happy about it.
The poster is likely referring to track-trump.com.
I messed with this for years. This app recently solved it all for me without root :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.netpatch.fi...

You can use the custom rules to add any of the adblocker lists such as HP hosts, etc.

Also whitelists play nice with voip apps too.
Society doesn't seem to take issue with screwing over kids who go to law-school (outside the top 3) with asinine levels of debt and low salaries. All salaries should be subject to market forces.
The more recent results referenced in this thread were with viable embryos:

"The latest study is the first to describe the results of using CRISPR in viable human embryos, New Scientist can reveal."
> Yet the article goes out of it's way to portend (in sometimes subtle ways) that it's a partisan issue.

One thing perhaps they forgot to mention, is that attorney general Jeff Sessions really likes civil asset forfeiture. And since his support / opposition was down party lines, maybe it is somewhat partisan.
You forgot to mention the waterfall of caveats and trip hazards associated with any of those supposed free offerings.
I have been following the dev of PicoLisp for a long time; Alexander is great. He keeps going strong for decades. He keeps the PicoLisp platform going with additions like this. Impressive.
If you have a rough area, you can guestimate and T&E with fitting.

As long as the building had a congruent area, it would be one way to go about it.

Think about it like you just finished a jig-saw puzzle, but there's an extra piece and for fun you decide to try and find its twin.
If there's a single effective treatment for Hep C that's a different question. This article is about an injector for naloxone. Are we really saying there's no market for a cheaper syringe?

I hear your point that some treatments are difficult to make subject to market forces.
The anti-adblock paywall makes this site unusable for me. Would someone please post the text of the article here?
In what way do you believe they were not ordinary?

I agree that Lovecraft was racist, xenophobic and opposed to "hybridization" (both cultural and racial). But by the standard of his time he seems pretty mild. Concretely, why do you believe he was worse than average?
ASk HN: How to test dating app idea with potential customers?
Hi all, I only have an idea and am following https://www.udemy.com/1-day-mvp-find-the-right-idea-and-build-a-demo-in-1-day/ to test it out, something like this https://kenzensoft.com/him.

I was thinking to put up Facebook ads but it doesn't allow dating ads without lengthy approval process. What other venue do I have to "test the water" here? Any suggestion welcome. Thanks,
Do other countries have nicknames for their coins?

In Poland, if you want to talk about a particular coin, you use its denomination.
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See, thats the thing though. There's so many ways to do something, with multiple competing standards on how to do it, along with plenty of quirks and ways of working with it you only understand by experience. This is good, when you already know exactly what you need and what that provides, but its impossible to keep up unless you're spending a lot of time testing and researching, and even still, at the end of the day you've gotta make the application.

One of those 'it takes a village' to make a good JS app.
John Maeda's "Design in Tech Report 2017"
While I don't mean it as a counter-point to your particular situation, on a broad scale US homeownership rate has been overall rising, in some areas more than another https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/census/historic/owne...
I'd exchange MI deduction for equivalent reduction in income tax. But the government wants to keep power to induce people into doing what it thinks is better, taxes and deductions are a major tool in this. Without explicitly giving up that power, nothing would change, so homeowners are not the main thing to blame it, they just do what the government wants them to do and makes profitable for them to do.
here in NZ most people don't even have to file taxes - we have NO exemptions, if you have one job your boss will have gotten your tax right, your bank will withhold tax on interest at your declared marginal rate - if you have multiple jobs filing a one page web form might get you a refund (with interest!).

less than 5% of us, those with complex financial lives who can likely afford it, have to file a more formal return
are you on IndieHackers?
You may also want to add the amazon IP ranges: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.h...
Reddit is leaking
In my experience it is taken as a given that people will continue needing medical care of one sort or another, so doctors at the microlevel don't worry too much about patients getting _too well_. The exception to this would be some corners of medical care with a lot of discretionary spending like cosmetic surgery, dentistry, etc. and even there a doctor doing work which doesn't need to be done is not looked upon favorably.
HMOs? - maybe.

Why would an HMO want you to be sick? They spend most of their time not covering medical claims. In fact, they'd make more money if you never used your insurance.

And your claim that people are generally good makes no sense. Corporations don't make decisions, people do.
Reading your own reference:

Dodge is often misread or mistaught as setting a legal rule of shareholder wealth maximization. This was not and is not the law. Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate.
Probably the lowest in the fun/danger ratio were the teeter-totters. Playing on them the way they were meant to be played on was no fun, so almost immediately people started doing dangerous things, like jumping off to watch the other person fall to the ground. Also, giant chunks of swinging metal....imagine absent-mindedly walking too close to one of those.
I don't know what you mean by "land use reform", but I'm a reluctant supporter of zoning laws. One of their redeeming features is that they tend to be enacted at the most local level. So the people affected by them are in a better position to change them if they don't like them, or they don't have to move far if they can't tolerate them and absolutely have to get out from under them.
I think hashish actually used to be more popular in the old days. Cultural references to it were certainly more common in mid-20th-century contexts. After the brief decriminalization movement of the 1970s, many states had reduced penalties for marijuana while lumping hashish in with harder drugs which may have shifted consumer demand towards the green stuff.

These days you see dabs, which serve the different purpose of being easy to conceal while being used, which was never true of hashish.
Foxconn said they'd replace about a million workers around ~2007. They employ more people now than they did back then.

Robots are a convenient villain.
I did say it, but I didn't say that. "Magically there was a record" meaning they had it all along and that customer service departments of that size are routinely slow to update or make simple mistakes, not that it fell from the sky as a small sliver of corroboration for OP's story. You'd sooner believe a stranger is lying from a throwaway account on a random forum than a phone jockey making a mistake...but at least you're happy.
This is our first year, so we don't currently support filing as an LLC (just individual income/loss as a result of a small business): https://help.creditkarma.com/hc/en-us/articles/216489263-Cre...
"The problem, he adds, is one of incentives. Ship owners, who would normally borrow for such upgrades, do not benefit from lower fuel bills. It is the firms chartering the vessels that enjoy the savings. But their contracts are not long enough to make it worthwhile to invest in green upgrades. The average retrofit has a payback time of three years, whereas 80% of ship charters are for two years or less."

"Hence the interest in new green-lending structures. ... The idea is to share the fuel savings between the shipowner and the charterer over a longer contract, giving both an incentive to make the upgrades. Such schemes used to be thwarted by the difficulty of measuring exact fuel consumption on ships. New technologies allow more accurate readings."

This is the exact same problem that arises in landlord/tenant relationships when it comes to things like insulating a property. Insulation might be relatively cheap and pay itself back in a few years. But the landlord doesn't have an incentive to insulate because the benefit goes to the tenant. The current tenant also won't insulate because they'll probably leave before they can realise all the benefit of their investment.

In theory, landlords or shipowners should have an incentive to invest, since it should improve their property and therefore allow them to increase their rents or charter fees, but for some reason this doesn't happen. Possibly consumers can't accurately assess the value of improvements so they are reluctant to pay more.

The measurement devices mentioned should allow both parties to have a more accurate way to share in the benefits.

It's a complicated dance of incentives and information...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_asymmetry
Google and Levi’s connected smart jacket will come out this fall
I know companies often issue promo offers. I had signed up for Instacart 3 weeks ago for $149. I got to know about the offer from a friend. I called the customer service.They asked me for the phone number of the friend who signed up. I denied saying how does it matter. In addition they denied offering the $99 /year price, implying that I was a liar.I believe they wanted proof that I knew about the offer before refunding me. I love their service but this is disappointing. To the users who have recently signed up I would suggest you to cancel and just sign up again. It would be great if Instcart decides to refund the users who joined recently but I highly doubt it.

Promo offer : http://imgur.com/VGHhLiU
Going from prototype to tested code is possible.

Here's how I'm doing it, for command line tool that provides local development environment for remote Kubernetes cluster (https://datawire.github.io/telepresence/):

1. Build prototype, test manually.

2. Have coworkers try it out.

3. Fix UX based on feedback, test manually.

4. Once initial UX was nailed down, write end-to-end tests.

Beyond adding features, next I will rewrite the core using test-driven development (TDD), so that the internals are maintainable. and the end-to-end tests will ensure the basic functionality continues to work.

The UI is fairly simple, and at this point I have confidence that it won't change multiple times in a day, so it's worth the effort to stop relying solely on manual testing and write some automated UI tests.
Nope, not sure what that is even.
For the last 9 years, I've been filing tax returns on money I've earned abroad: no 1099 and definitely no W2. One year somehow they blew away my foreign tax credit and said I owed $30K (note: they were really nice about it and I eventually was able to fix the mistake).

Taxes get complicated REALLY quickly as you move beyond single W2 earnings.
The issue here is that taxes have been over complicated with deductions. If it was just simply based off earnings and there were no deductions it would be simple.

Obviously taxes would need to be reduced if all deductions were removed. I for one would love to see a zero deduction tax law, and simple validation of earnings.
It's bad that the runtime is fragmented. Google will fix it by creating a new runtime
I think you are misunderstanding the point of a sweep account here.

Paypal gets "swept" into the sweep account at your bank, and then that account gets "swept" into another account at your bank that paypal does not have access to.

Your sweep account should get a very low balance, and only acts a sortof public-facing proxy for your bank accounts.
Lmao, bullshit.

I have had quite enough of these constant talks down to ordinary people.

When we do not value our people well enough to find a reasonable standard of living, nearly all of us lose.
He doesn't actually say censorship. He says "by encouraging gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook to continue their efforts to combat the problem." Just putting fake stories at 50th place in the search results say rather than #1 is not censorship.
Exactly: unit tests provides Stable Functionality... and if you're rewriting everything once a week that's not useful.

If you have library code that won't get rewritten it should have unit tests, of course, since you want that to be stable.
> excludes almost half of the US population

It does not. They are free and encouraged to join in (AFAIK).

Those who embrace racial and religious discrimination, of course, might not choose the join, as the message contradicts their beliefs. But that is an old issue and red herring, the paradox of tolerance. Tolerate everyone but the intolerant, who are parasites on the social contract of tolerance.
I gave Credit Karma Tax a try this year. I mostly liked it, but did find one serious deficiency compared to others I've used. It did not handle the deduction for state income tax nearly as well.

The IRS allows deducting either the actual sales taxes you have paid, or you can use a standard amount based on your AGI and your state and local tax rates.

Most other software I've used knows about this. If you enter your actual amount (or 0 if you do not know the actual amount) they compare to the standard amount and go with which is higher.

CKT just goes with what you enter. If you ask for help on that item it doesn't even mention the existence of a standard amount. It just says fill in the amount you get from adding your receipts.

At the very least the help for that item should mention the option for deducting a standard amount, and should link to the IRS' online calculator for this: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/sales-tax-deduction-calculat...
Hey, just wanna say I appreciate the time you've taken to reply, even though you're putting yourself out there. It would be really great if more CEO's and personnel could come here to have honest discussions and respond to information about things they're particularly knowledgeable about.
I don't think I've seen anyone buy groceries with a check in about 20 years, although it doesn't surprise me that it still happens.
HR Block's online filing system is pretty good. I have used it every year since 2005. I only started recently in the past few years paying for the upgraded services(about $50) due to mortgages and other income.
If you're a remotely rational government, why would you not subsidize it? The dividends you could reap from a population with greater health, intelligence, self-control, low time-preference, etc., would be ridiculous.

Of course maybe people will want to use it for more zero-sum things like height or looks, so maybe you ban or don't subsidize that, but inequality in more positive-sum traits is unlikely.
The flip side of US denominational conservativism that appeared starting in, oh, the 1950s or so is that $20 bills are effectively the maximum value you can depend on being routinely accepted.

I get $100 bills to travel overseas (and they're routinely accepted if I'm using US currency for something). But I'd in no way depend on getting a $50 or $100 accepted in a US store. I admit that I see fewer signs to that effect these days than I maybe did in the past but I do have to go int to a bank teller if I want to get $100 bills for travelling.
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Yes it does. This is explained in the fifth paragraph, pretty close to the top of the article.

(Unfortunately that's an embedded image of text, so I can't quote it. But here's a link: https://randomcriticalanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/s... )
Doesn't every compiler support '#pragma once' these days too, making include guards largely pointless (and like most copy/paste patterns, error-prone) boilerplate?
H&R Block is a ripoff. Get yourself a real accountant. Or do your taxes yourself (it's really not difficult).
I've seen it way more recently than that but it's not all that common.
Was the diagnosis hemochromatosis?
I write 5 or 6 checks per month for various things like paying the vet (horses), paying the farrier (horses), paying an instructor of mine, paying board (horses again), etc. Also rent - my apartment complex supports ePay, but adds a surcharge. No surcharge with checks.
Ignore. Deleted. I thought the linked-to article was from a third party. Please enjoy HN frontpage without our butting in.
Just clarifying on that encryption bit - they do indeed encrypt the data, but when restoring (e.g. logging into the web view & selecting files to restore) you're handing over your passphrase in plain text, as the decryption is done on their side.
But we won't all be "fed, clothed, housed, but simply bored.." we will be surplus to requirements. A comparatively tiny elite will own the robots to feed, clothe and house themselves and also to protect what they have from the horde. So no change there really.
I think you're still stuck on W-2 employees (which is a pretty large and common case, I admit, and I'd love to see that simplified).

You will always need accounting for businesses (IMO).

Suppose you ran a lemonade stand. You bought some equipment, some raw materials, you used some utilities, you used some space, you bought a banner and some flyers to advertise your stand, you hired a lawyer to help set it up, you bought a business license, you bought cups and napkins, you took in some receipts. Let's presume you turned a profit.

On what figure should you pay taxes? The gross receipts (every dollar you took in)? Or just the profit (receipts minus expenses)?

And that's just a lemonade stand; imagine the complexity of a larger scale business...
Nobody's ever gonna convince me that "maxphysaddr" is a good example of a well-named variable.
What can evil ever mean then? Like by that logic, slave-owners were not evil because they wanted to make a profit.
I'm not so sure this particular example of collective aggression for the sake of silencing someone's project is harmless or inspirational. It's just black hat trolling. It is the opposite of the civility of social order you're trying to espouse.
Ask HN: How should high schoolers look for CS project sponsorships?
I am hosting an online cybersecurity competition, for middle and high school students, with a team at school. What types of organizations would typically consider sponsoring projects like this?
There's a market for cheaper syringes, but nobody is serving it.. possibly due to what appears to be blatant and wide-scale price fixing in the pharmaceutical industry (including the generic manufacturers).

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/business/generic-drug-pri...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/14/feds-...
No it's not. As it relates to this article, the relevant metric is whether healthcare is a superior good relative to GDP/capita. Those measurements are based on country data, including countries that have socialized medicine.

Here's a link to the embedded image of text that explains this (which you can also find in the 3rd paragraph or so):
https://randomcriticalanalysis.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/s...
How many people do you know?
It is worth noting that the trend in migration from Mexico to the USA has actually reversed lately.

No, it hasn't.

The only study that even claimed that misinterpreted the two studies that produced the raw numbers.

The inbound figures counted only working-age adults. It ignored all children and infants, including the huge number of unaccompanied infants.

The outbound figures counted everybody, including children and infants.

There was a net increase overall.
> The choice is not 3 or 3,000,000.

More than 200 million people in the US identify as Christians. Even three million people would be less than two percent. Three orders of magnitude less than that is background noise.
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I'm 100% owner of the LLC, so all income is mixed with my personal. Just need the ability to do itemized deductions including rent.
I'd be happy if prices were set such that tips weren't a necessary part of many workers' incomes, but annoyed if I had to carry around coins for the specific purpose of showing my especial appreciation of something.