skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, just for a different perspective, Taiwan has a relatively simple tax filing experience, and the government invests significant resources to make as simple as possible (which does result in many people paying their taxes properly, on time).

While their digital tools for filing taxes make the telegraph feel modern, the "in person" experience is full of helpful people and takes about 90 minutes including travel time.

My main criticisms of the filing process:

1. Tax bureau has a one month timeframe where you can go, in person, to file "on time", but only during business hours. Any 9-5 worker must take time off to go file in person. It's a pretty nice customer experience - The volunteers in the bureau help you file your taxes with highest deductions possible, it gets crosschecked by a government tax clerk, and you're done.

2. Make the software work better on a modern OS and give it modern usability. It's _really_ crap UI, and I only run it in a VM just in case because the download site is also shady looking.

3. Locals gaming the system can make your life harder as a working-from-home small business owner. Many landlords don't pay income taxes on their properties, which means tenants cannot register business addresses at their homes, and must "rent" an address for about $100 / month.

4. Withholdings on foreigners, by default, are artificially high as a "precaution".

5. Refunds process in August after filing in May. Because they still process every return much by hand.

6. Double taxation on people like US citizens. The tax clerk has asked friends of mine, while filing, to show their US tax return to make sure there are not more taxes owed. They can ask, but it's not enforceable. So why do it? Because the tax rate on that income earned elsewhere can be as high as 30-40%! The tax clerk gets to decide how bad of an offender you are. GLHF.

7. If your income goes down compared to the year before as a foreigner, you will probably pay a penalty for "making less money" because they suspect tax evasion. Pay the fine (less than $USD 100) and walk away, or they dig your records hard and you could wind up in a situation like #6 above.
one might be that people are not fond of obsolescence and would prefer to keep putting food on the table.
You can tell PyCharm to only run a single instance of python by going to Run -> Edit Configurations -> Tick 'Single Instance Only' in the top right.
Solving this problem doesn't require a huge amount of imagination. In fact the solution is rather obvious.

Let's just say that portable nukes are a very, very bad thing. A single 1kT nuke in the centre of a city would be very bad news on its own, and would make 9-11 look like a footnote. (1kT is a realistic yield for the ultra-portable Mk-54 warhead.)

Strategically, tiny nukes in small numbers are far more worrying than ICBMs, because unlike ICBMs they don't come with a built-in warning time or a sender's address.
Here, there and everywhere Quantum technology is beginning to come into its own
15 years ago, only the super wealthy had big flatscreen TVs. Now everyone's got them. If it takes 15 years to go from only the super wealthy having gene enhancements to everyone having them, that would be fine by me.
To start with, eliminate the massive subsidies for low deductible health insurance, and eliminate the regulations which mandate the provision of specific services. Then the high cost of low deductible health insurance will induce consumers to choose high-deductible plans, making them more price sensitive.

As a non-libertarian, regulator friendly way to achieve this, you could also ban first dollar coverage.
I think this is a bit overly cynical. The devil wasn't openly agitating for nuclear war and trying to inflame Middle East tensions until he was Donald Trump. Perhaps all politicians are bad, but they are not all equally bad.
The Cracked article on them is fairly informative, funny, and terrifying. http://www.cracked.com/article_19719_6-terrifying-new-creatu...
“I’ve told you before, Daniel: roach isn’t an insult. We’re the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we’re the ones with the stripped-down OS’s so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We’re the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.”

― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
One thing I don't like about the Australian system is I think it is wasteful in someways. For example under my private cover I'm subsidized for ~$300 a year in optical expenses (split between lenses and frames).

From anecdotal conversations I know there are many people who purchase a new pair of glasses every year just because the system is basically set up to encourage this which smells like very wasteful consumption to me. I don't need a pair of glasses every year. I have gone through 3 sets of glasses in 15 years.

If I wanted to I could opt to exclude optical from my cover and save some money every month but then I'd worry about what happens if I lose my glasses or sit on them and I'd end up out of pocket so I keep paying for optical cover I don't use and feel like a sucker every year for not taking advantage of subsidized glasses.

Same thing with trips to dentist I know people who insist on general dental (unnecessary cleaning etc) because they are subsidized so they "need to take advantage to get their money's worth".
> or a sender's address.

That maybe not, but the radioactive signature may give away the origin of the material.

That doesn't mean that's the party that planted it but it is at least going to provide a hint as to who initially put the warhead together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_attribution
Frequent? No. Occasional? Yes. And fingers pinched in swing chains, someone biting through their tongue, sand in eyes, skin ripped from palms, and other minor incidents.
Having been physically present at ground zero of this thing, and having spent quite a bit of time trying to understand it, let me offer one piece of missing information.

This group is well aware of the prevailing doctrine that truth comes from dispassionate investigation and rigorous argument.

They just reject it. They reject that it's conducted in good faith, and they reject that the sacred constructs of the ideology are subject to any microscope. That intellectual ideal is seen as something by and for the powerful old white men who control power structures, including and especially academia. It's seen as just as much a tool of oppression as phrenology, eugenics, and other racist pseudoscience, and they're hoping to push it towards the same fate.

Some of the more extreme protestors will tell you that advocating for traditional academic inquiry is fundamentally white supremacist, in that a mode of understanding the world favored by the ruling class is seen as more legitimate than others. There is no objectivity, the reasoning goes, so we ought to put the traditionally opppressed in control of the narrative for a while.

The article is spot on that the right way to think about it is as a religion. There are articles of faith: the world works in terms of identity-based groups; certain groups hold and actively maintain power over others; it's time to depose those groups and let others have a turn at authority, particularly over what constitutes truth. There is testimony: the "lived experiences" - anecdotes - of members of oppresssd groups are gospel. Obedience is paramount - the first and last step of being an Ally is to accept, believe unquestioningly, and evangelize what you are told.

These people aren't coddled and they aren't weak. Appeals to psychological safety are attempts to weaponize empathy, not genuine fragility. They are fierce warriors for what they believe to be justice.
(One topic I see being brought up when it comes to runtimes, python 2 and 3 is C API stuff. It still bubbles up to the top now and then. This isn't related to grumpy specifically, but the FUD I've been witnessing)

Maybe I'm far underestimating the amount of custom C API being used in production at places or been hanging out in the wrong places. I just doubt that intention is to kill off anything. Even by unintended side effect.

A great deal of the python code I see with C extensions already is Python 3 compatible and even has wheels for them. I think it used to be numpy and libraries that pulled it in as a dependency. We're at the point where compatibility from 2 and 3 is so darn good in libraries we pull in I hardly notice it anymore. [1]

I do write Python 2 + 3 compatible code. The differences in the syntax itself are trivial. A compat module [2] will do the trick assuming you have your own custom C extensions, which most don't.

(Going off on a bit of a tangent) There has been some deliberation of what has to be done to get around GIL: The other thing is I haven't been convinced of is the idea being thrown around at conferences and on mailing lists that breaking the C API is this world-ending scenario. Yeah I understand the disruption, but what % of the code, assuming you're in the minority of python developers doing custom c extensions, that you can't update some API signatures?

[1] https://python3wos.appspot.com/

[2] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/...
I think you have some good points, but it seems you're against a straw-man version of city life that doesn't match what most city folks experience every day:

* "a home that was built during or since the 1950s"... is supposed to be preferable? A home built in the 80s will be considered old-fashioned in places like Seoul. (Besides, what's that got to do with city-versus-rural difference?)

* "I prefer to live in an area where I can leave my doors unlocked..." Some cities have crime problem. Others don't. Also, I have the impression it's always the (Americal) rural dwellers who say "You urbanite liberals have no idea why guns are necessary!" So I'm taking your argument with a grain of salt.

* "...rather than an environment where I have to be careful not to step in human feces when I walk between two parked cars." Well... then don't live in SF, I guess?
Which in this case would mean keeping people sick. What's the difference?
What's necessary is a downvote /placebo/ button. Make it look downvoted to the user that's downvoting.

Have a separated (UI distance is important) button for reporting abuse/too far off topic.
Technology will eventually give us another way for verifying fact from fake. Just as photographs did for hearsay, and videos did for photographs, now we'll have to wait for some memory-reading tech. :)

(Yes, that too will in turn be offset by memory-altering tech. After that we wait for time-travel tech.)
That just sounds like a situation where the bank needs to supply information to the IRS for you so come tax time they already know about it.
Most of their official examples do not work in Python 3. https://github.com/tensorflow/models
With almost any autoimmune disease, there are a thousand remedies that haven't yet been proven to be effective. It might be... or not, but if you can find other ways to manage it through more traditional channels (doctor, surgery, etc.), then I'd go that route.

Have had Crohn's since 2003, have had every drug that has been medically approved by the FDA, and had first surgery last year.

Beware of anecdotal data, and always get a second (and sometimes third!) opinion before changing any kind of treatment.
Don't have citations handy, but the first generation of playground equipment actually was incredibly lethal (1930-1940s).
Just signed up for an account. This looks like just what I was looking for, as I block Twitter in my hosts file, and on my iPhone with https://freedom.to, but I still want to know if I do get a DM or mention.
The hard thing about product analytics
(a) it probably won't therefore (b) the "bad guy" is going to be most/all processes.
Pretty fascinating. But just based on this comment, I reckon that these 1500+ bad sectors drives aren't worth your time. So, why? Is it just that you wanted to play with all these options and don't really care about the data on these drives, or do you actually believe it's reasonable bang for the buck?
As someone with an autoimmune illness that is currently incurable, yes, I do lack access to medical care so to speak. No amount of money in the world can buy me a cure right now.

The specialist I currently see is considered the best doctor in the world for my illness because he's the foremost researcher in the world studying it. He's French. He's in the US because the system here provides him with the resources to study it and come up with better treatments.
If they have no key how come I can login and download files from the web UI without providing my key?
Notwithstanding the irony of one google service hurting another, the free tier only has 1GB of free egress traffic right?
Just as the parent poster says, the U.S. chooses not to maintain its infrastructure. The infrastructure is not affordable by many municipalities, but that same infrastructure is affordable by U.S. as a whole.

They could subsidize the infrastructure required to integrate the country and keep the non-dense areas viable even if these areas don't have the local tax base to pay for that infrastructure, just as they did with federal highway dollars when they were built, just as many other countries are doing. It's a choice to do so or not. The rules of who pays for maintenance of which parts of infrastructure are essentially arbitrary and the U.S. can alter them if they choose to.
Ports have certain capacities, they can't simply double their volume in 1 or two years... In addition countries can implement something like "certificates of clean transportation" or similar to ensure their overseas voyage consisted of approved methods. Cheating could be diminished via container tracking, etc.
PayPal won't accept a charge back from a user until the user has contacted the merchant first. So user complaint? issue a refund.
Latest thinking is that a broken arm for kids is within acceptable limits for learning about risk. It's the fatal injuries from boring old teeter totters that's been nixed.
FDIC insurance is not only for financial meltdowns and saving customers money out of assets that deemed to be too risky. It would protect money if the whole PayPal would go down too. Which realistically probably wouldn't happen, but still insurance is insurance
This advice is probably not explicitly given by the IRS, but it is what any decent tax attorney will tell you. They got Al Capone not for his other crimes, but for tax evasion.
How I automate all of the boring parts of my job with Create React App DevOps
Interesting, I thought I heard of a 25 hour sleep cycle before so I looked it up.

>>

Over the first two years, 25 subjects stayed in the bunker and were monitored. The researchers noted that the majority of them woke up slightly later every day.

Their average days were no longer 24 hours, but soon lengthened to between 24.7 and 25.2 hours.

However, this length then remained constant, and their bodily functions basically followed this new rhythm.

As this rhythm does not correspond to conventional
day and night, it is called the circadian rhythm (lat. circa = approximate,
dies = day).

<<

courtesy of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology

https://www.mpg.de/943613/S003_Flashback_060_061.pdf
HTTP 1.1 also does not open a new connection for each file.
Woah, Proxomitron, that's a blast from the distant past!

Has anyone picked up development of anything similar these days?
What you are pretty much saying is that first we need to put a lot more financial pain on patients so the high cost will force them to become more price sensitive. And somehow doctors and hospitals will then quote accurate prices?
> One of the core principles of the OOP is encapsulation - your object does not appear in inconsistent state to the outside world.

This is not a defining feature of OOP, because it's a characteristic of abstract data types which predate OO. William Cook managed to distill the essence quite clearly I think [1].

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
AT&T allegedly “discriminated” against poor people in broadband upgrades
Does this just come down to a difference in the assessment of the protagonists chances? I came away from the movie thinking there was a ~75% chance he'd die en route.
Exactly. The feeling of being in a 'house of cards' is never so strong as when I'm around my own, rather hipster neighborhood - where you have a lot of handsomely paid 'creatives' doing jobs that seem like the frothiest portion of our current economy and spending their money on ridiculously priced burgers, etc. These folks have jobs that are about as far as you could get from being automated, but I would be very surprised to see any of them keep their jobs if there was a nasty crunch.
It's an IRS issue, not a bank issue. Box 6 on form 1098 is for purchase/origination points only, not for refinance points.

Refinance points (and you'd also need to know the refinance term) are not currently collected by the IRS.
It is still a problem, I just had one of my personal servers hit issues where I couldn't even manually re-balance because the metadata was full. Had to apply weird workarounds to be able to write to that filesystem again...
> As an anecdote, I have been using react and react router with no jsx or transpiling for 6 months now and it works just fine. Dependencies are in index.html order

Any boilerplates on GH you can point out / something you could publish?
Do we count the millions that have already been killed by US fought wars overseas in the last decade or so? Do we count the gun deaths?
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Roadblocks Sequencing of Black Rhino Due to NGO Lobbying
There's a fascinating article linked from this one: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-...

See the final paragraphs, which I've copied below - it's essentially a version of the Citogenesis effect.

-----------------------------

"Dennis Huang, executive director of the L.A.-based Asian Business Association, also told ProPublica he was solicited by a lobbyist to write about return-free filing. When the lobbyist sent him a suggested op-ed last summer and told him the proposal would hurt small businesses, Huang wrote an op-ed in the Asian Journal that claimed Asian-owned businesses would not only spend more time paying taxes, but they'd also get less of a refund each year.

Huang declined to disclose the lobbyist's name, but acknowledged he didn't really do his own research. "There's some homework needed," he said.

Oregon's Martin did some research on return-free filing and now supports it. She also co-published a post about the issue and the PR efforts related to it because, she says, she was alarmed that other nonprofits could easily agree to endorse a position they did not fully understand.

"You get one or two prominent nonprofits to use their name, and busy advocates will extend trust and say sure, us too," Martin said."
> These are the same people

Not sure you're understanding completely how an anonymous internet community works.
Same here. Loved in NYC and now live in a suburb of Dallas. I'm never moving back.
Fair point- if it worked for them, it worked for them. I just thought it sounded a bit sadistic, that's all.
It literally says "will not divide" and you're here making a comment that specifically divides.

I guess the flag really is wrong.
Sure. Let's focus on the individual return first.

In terms of businesses, I hold somewhat controversial belief that businesses should not be taxed. Their employees are taxed, and people recieving dividends are taxed. By not taxing businesses, we'd also balance out the unfairness in the system today, where large companies are able to offset all profits with deductions, and small companies which actually pay quite a bit. The point is to bring fairness to the tax system.
Dang, you're right, I forgot about that. So not so suitable, unfortunately.

Seems like root + a local hosts adblocker is still the best solution for Android, or a local VPN for iOS (do they have those on Android? never checked).
> miracle of transformation that is modern China

There's no miracle. It's merely the communist party stopping 40 years of criminal abuse of its own citizens, and deciding to rent them out for pennies to the foreign corporations, and making billions in the progress (then allowing its members to escape China with the money).

The miracle actually is that Communist party, with its massive debt, crashing economic policies, authoritarian policies, censorship, human rights abuse, trashing of its environment/food supplies/water supplies, is still standing.
Unix System Call Timeouts
I'm definitely a fan of the Madurai Meenakshi temple, and the Kapaleeshwarar Temple in Chennai (partly because it's so close to my grandparents' home). But at this point, most of my trips back home have been spent in temples, and I'd like to have a more, shall we say 'secular' experience. :)
You can also use ClojureScript on React Native for both iOS and Android. Lets you use things like reagent or re-frame that work well with persistent data structures. It's actually super easy with Expo, which makes it so you don't have to do any Xcode or Android Studio stuff: https://docs.expo.io/versions/v14.0.0/guides/using-clojuresc...
Yeah it's pretty cool
What kind of insane world do we live in where we can't block ads on our own devices?
.2 cpu
It's more than a book.

If you click into a section, you can run the python code and get the output.
Another one:

https://spideroak.com/manual/spideroak-on-mobile

quickly found using:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aspideroak.com+zero+kn...
A lot of the comments here are conflating two different things:

1. The complexity of the tax code

2. The complexity of filing

They are not the same thing.

You have to go through some process to file now. Let the government go through that laborious process.

For those who are not conflating the two, this point does not apply.
I learned my lessons with Dropbox, but couldn't find anything as "simple", secure with the bonus of being Canadian. So I eventually found and switched to SpiderOak but the speeds and Mac client are truly terrible, even at the end of 2016 and start of 2017. I couldn't even complete half a backup. Small files are fine but large files were impossible.

Switched to Sync.com a Toronto based company, with only Canadian servers. That means a lot to me as I've tried to remove myself from storing on American servers (just out of good practice on my part), and the service and support has been spectacular. I tried other options as well and this won me over.
I mentioned m4 before as a way of using more passes, and is how the Linux kernel approaches this, but looking deeper at make, I'm not even sure you need it.

From the manual, on implicit rules:

foo : foo.o bar.o
cc -o foo foo.o bar.o $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)

Because you mention `foo.o' but do not give a rule for it, make will automatically look for an implicit rule that tells how to update it. This happens whether or not the file `foo.o' currently exists.
This thread from a few years ago is worth a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602237
Free speech is more complex than simply taking the term "free speech" literally.
You seem to be confusing, gratis, and Taxpayer-funded.
Children tend to like some element of risk. If you try to remove all risk from play equipment children will use it in weird ways that are sometimes far riskier than if you just give them something a bit scary.

My local park had a recent rebuild, and there's some stuff up really high (over 4 meters), but it's all enclosed. And there's a 3 meter high crow's nest, but it's surrounded by netting.

They've got really good at building mostly safe but still exciting equipment.
Since you're comfortable with looking into Tarsnap, I'll recommend Borg:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
Rajasthani cuisine would surely be a match for Andhra an Goan analogues!
You lost me at Factory.
Stringer is open source, and works with Reeder2.