skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking about pollution, we should definitely create a way to pollute web traffic. When the enemy has heat-seeking technology, we have to start using chaff/ECM.

VPNs are a tool, but it's easier for users to install a plugin that pollutes their data than to enable VPN.
Samsung to Include Its Bixby AI Assistant on Galaxy S8 Phones
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Actual most of us: I let Google and Facebook rummage through my underwear and dick pics in exchange for 50 cents worth of free server usage a month. I also stare at hours of advertising a week to get free TV.
Me too. I liked Deck and Carbon ads.
It's a long valley!
That is the same reason many Seattle startups picked being in Seattle. Software engineers, cost efficient to run a startup (office space), a great startup ecosystem, 2 hours from the valley, and decent ability to raise capital.
Latex still is the least bad option for technical writing. I never get used to Word's figure captioning, numbering and referencing, and although the equation editor is vastly improved, multiline alignment is still tricky. And version control of documents of course! I hate those report_v23_JohnReview.docx systems.

Also, +1 for TexStudio!
How do you mean? Seems to work for me. Please file a bug report with how to reproduce!
>Basically, getting tested regularly is probably enough precaution.

Maybe I'm reading your comment entirely wrong, but this sounds ridiculous? What even is regular testing anyway? I should suddenly be just fine going on tinder or taking men from bars home and not require any condoms, instead just check myself every month and take a bunch of medication if things did go wrong? Or do you mean me and my partner can have sex in our monogamous relationship without condom but instead a regular checkup?

I see the first idea as a terrible idea, and the second as - while safe - a little excessive after the initial checkup when you both are ready for it.
Not surprisingly both left New Mexico and set up shop somewhere more civilized.
Very impressive.

It seems to rely strongly on common *NIX CLI patterns though. It really doesn't like dd, for example[1].

[1]: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=dd+if%3D%2Fdev%2Fsda+of%...

Edit:

Also, it doesn't understand that the token after `-p` for netcat is actually the port argument[2]. I guess it is parsing manpages internally?

[2]: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=nc+127.0.0.1+-p+80
Yes, but it also doubles up as a fairly reliable source of baseline power.

It's a great energy source. It's also incredibly dangerous, and cannot replace coal.
265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost
In my early 20s, I once ate a 32 oz porterhouse plus all the trimmings of the meal, plus desert. My wife couldn't finish her prime rib, so I ate that, too - plus whatever else that was on the plate left over.

I kinda fancied myself as John Candy in the Great Outdoors.

Today - things are different; I try to be a little more selective in my meals.
Google’s Plan to Engineer the Next Silicon Valleys
Apparently cannot edit comments after they are made anymore within two hours (it used to be three I believe), but I was going to add a point to the analogy in the second paragraph, since I know things are easily taken incorrectly: I am not trying to make equivalent fat <-> racist (there is nothing wrong with being fat, and yes there are things wrong with being racist), the equivalence I am trying to point out is that if we attack / look down on people, for whatever reason, we are not being helpful.
I use Panasonic Ergofit earbuds: http://www.ebay.com/itm/322284263220?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.... (really ergonomic, have kept them for 12+ hours/day (fell asleep))

Also have Sennheiser 380 Pro but am looking for something that blocks a lot more.
Information-related activities have far more in common with epidemiology -- and at all kinds of levels -- than pretty much anything else.

Whether it's concern of your data going out, or bad genetics patterns coming in, your best bet is to cut off the routes of transmission.

In a plague-infested land, it's practicing exceedingly good hygiene which is in your best interest. If that means walling yourself off from the rest of society for a few years (as one royal household in Europe did), so be it.

Keep in mind that the Black Death even eventually reached Iceland, though some years after it scorched over the rest of Europe (4-5 years as I recall).

There are domains of problems which are intrinsically personal. Though rather more which manifestly are not.

(Though you've also got me thinking about what equivalents to own information spreading out there are, epidemiologically.)
I read somewhere that it was related to tax optimization. That is, if you sell a book from California, you have to apply state tax to California residents (38M) but if you sell it from Washington, you don't. So the fact that Washington had fewer potential customers than California (or New York, where Jeff Bezos was working previously), meant a smaller tax bill for its country-wide customer base.
Advertisement can not exist in a planned economy. Everyhthing belongs to the state and there is no competition. No point in avertising then.
> My time is split between finishing my novel, learning German, and trying to catch up on tech that came out while I was writing.

Thanks for sharing!
In the UK each pay-as-you-earn taxpayer ( I.e. tax calculated automatically and deducted from net income ) receives an annual statement of their tax and figuratively how it was spent e.g. £800 on health, £105 on defence etc
When those fortunes split 3-5 ways again they'll be diluted down to 80th or so.
Candidates need to be able to reach voters in the best way they see fit. Online favors candidates that appeal to younger voters. This includes giving speeches, debating, advertising, etc., which takes funding. So we allow candidates to collect donations up to a reasonable limit.

Unrelated to that there are private citizens, unaffiliated with the candidates, that want to exercise their free speech by publicly endorsing a candidate. They do not collaborate with the candidate. They just speak through any medium they like. How do you suppress that without suppressing free speech?
I've only previewed vue at this point so I can only say this about why it's "better": preference.

When I looked at vue2 I saw a lot of the same features as angular2 except the binding syntax looks better to my eyes and way of thinking.

When I look at jsx I go cross-eyed.

When I look at HTML, I want to "see" the view and construct it in my head. I don't want JavaScript mixed in it.

Note: I realize vue and angular bindings are essentially JavaScript in attributes, but they can (and should) be minimal and fade into the background IME.
One reason is that it's impossible to enforce. If sales tax were that high, it would give retailers a huge incentive to under-report sales on the billions (trillions?) of transactions in the US each year. The same way it's hard to catch drug dealers for tax evasion, it's hard to catch retailers who want to avoid charging/paying sales tax.

With the income tax, you have employers reporting and a far small surface area of cheaters to police. It's still a massive effort to police it, but not nearly as large as FairTax would be. FairTax is essentially a scheme to eliminate enforceable taxes, although I'm not sure its creators intended it that way.
i think (based on the patterns of life/work/commuting around here) that palo alto should not count so much as a town as the rich neighbourhood of the bay area.
"Bootcamps leave graduates with not enough skills to find a job or to find only a low-paid position." -- Bootcamps get students in the front door with entry level jobs. They then have an opportunity to acquire new skills by learning on the job and through additional study which can lead to successful careers.

I would argue that universities aim teach their students how to think which has the result of producing graduates that are "creative problem solvers, able to evolve to take on new skills."

I'm not saying that progressive education, done well, cannot also produce great results.

Three different paths open to anyone with an aptitude for programming. All require effort and persistence.
Try my earphones from my comment in the thread and maybe you'll like them.
The biggest argument against it is that it is incredibly regressive. Poor people generally spend higher percentages of their income on stuff where rich people save higher percentages of their incomes. So for example, Joe makes 51k/year but spends 50k/year. At the 23% tax rate that FairTax proposes, he pays $11.5k - a $2.5k "prebate". This works out to an effective tax rate of ~18% (with today's tax plan Joe's effective rate would likely be about 7.5% for income taxes and 7.5% for Social Security and Medicare. I.e. a lower tax burden.)

Compare that to a rich person. Susan makes 250k per year but only spends 150k/year and saves the other 100k. She pays 23% on the 150k = 34.5k minus the 2.5k prebate which makes for an effective tax rate of 12.8%. I.e. Susan makes more each year but pays a lower rate of taxes. These numbers get even more insane when you have 10 million in income but only spend 1 million a year. We basically are subsidizing investing and rich people are the biggest investors.
Very cool! Although it has some problems if there isn't a space between a flag and its value: http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=gcc+-I%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fi...
> I think you missed my point, which is you are legally unable to do this

You missed my point, which is it's 100% legal to do this, it's not unreasonably difficult to do this, and people do this right now.

> Small businesses operating in the UK are required to pay tax within the UK

So, incorporated in the Netherlands (or elsewhere) and do business there, but subcontract the work to yourself through a UK company that is paid stuff-all (to avoid income/corporate tax). Then take the profits as dividends.

> your SMB cannot take afvantage of the same complex legal structures

Individuals can take advantage of these loopholes; e.g. most media celebrities do work as an employee of an off-shore incorporated business. Heck, you can get them with a UK business and UK employee (sole trading/contracting), if you can show non-habitual employment (i.e. more than one employer).
I said Front end as an example could apply to most developer jobs really.

Anyway, this guy you placed as a "lower mid", this is your judgement, how do you know it's correct? Did other people say the same? Perhaps he didn't have the skills you were looking for but was good at other things. Saying the other company didn't do their diligence is easy but is that really what happened?

If you are hiring developers and placing them as lower, mid, lead etc. you are going to get flak anyway as you're just jailing them and hiring a load of people who only agree with what you think.

You're going to get people who are good at developing software who don't care about math(s) or machine learning, give them 2 seconds and Google and they can answer your Modulo question.

Is it not about the willingness and enthusiasm to learn? Or do they have to go through "hard" tests to prove they can work out some academic nonsense they are never going to need to use. To prove themselves to the frat. I'd argue a lot of really clever people good at the hardcore Computer science and data analysis type subjects aren't always as good at writing decent code.
I disagree that the media has done anywhere near its best to bring privacy issues to people's attention. At the same time, many stories that do get published offer lots of vague scares and no practical suggestions, which fuels people's sense that there's nothing they can do.

I don't know many people who have stopped using Facebook. I do know a lot of people who don't post things they would've 5 years ago.

Uber miscalculated, simple as that.

For targeting, I'm talking more about direct advertising. I think most people know by now that the sites they visit don't directly control the ads they see. Seeing the same ads everywhere is annoying but doesn't prove anything. A company you've never given your email address sending you offers for only items you looked at is creepy.
https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-...
This is the correct answer to American's "That won't work because ..." on this thread. Turn your head to the right and take a look at Europe where it is plainly working just fine. Turn your head back left and look at how F'd up taxes are in the U.S. and it's pretty clear that objectively we have no excuse other than "some small minority of people are profiting from a broken system and are going to keep it that way."
Locked doors and a shotgun fails when a) the perpetrators have more guns than you and b) when your shotgun "misfires" and causes more damage than the threat.

But it's a false dichotomy. We need (the rights to have) both. Defense in depth.
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API Design Aesthetics
When you're embezzling money the last thing you want is to reveal enough information about your stash to show up on these lists.

Saddam Hussein obviously had tons of liquid assets but the totality of them was never truly known. It was all squirreled away, and likely stolen by the caretakers when his regime imploded and the threat of retribution was removed.

How much did Pablo Esbobar have at his peak? We can only guess, but given the staggering cash-flow rate of an estimated $500 million per week, perhaps as much as $30 billion. This is 1980s dollars, too. Adjusted for inflation that's absolutely nuts.
QUnit 2.3.0 released (introducing CLI support)
If I'm understanding correctly, the plan is to piggy-back on top of the existing Certificate Transparency [0] infrastructure by issuing a regular X509 certificate per Firefox release, but for a special domain name that includes a Merkle tree hash for the files in that release, with a known suffix (".fx-trans.net").

In that manner they can piggy-back on top of the CT ecosystem (including existing logs, including existing search / monitoring tools, and presumably gossip if/when that's solved).

This seems like a really cool hack! The state of binary software distribution is really pretty scary when you think about it - techniques like this have the potential to restore a lot of confidence.

[0] http://www.certificate-transparency.org/
This isn't even close to being clear.
Including women in CS at Whitman
SQL is an overloaded term these days.

There are plenty of SQL queries happening on non-database platforms e.g. Spark, Impala all of which are entirely CPU bound.
Unrelated, but I wonder what the sweet spot is height/floor wisefor developing affordable units. That is, given zero pushback from local citizenry and groups, if a locality wanted dense housing due to lack of space, at what point does adding a story make average cost per unit slightly more expensive instead of slightly less expensive (assuming it actually is cheaper to add a second or third story than a single story complex).
I'm going to argue something a bit different: the overall tax revenue is roughly equal to government spending. The complexity of the tax code is to some extent a distraction. It's complex, and has winners and losers, but ultimately you'd need to raise the same amount whatever you did.

If you really want lower taxes, you need to be honest: you'll be taking that money from someone else. Even then, it's amazing how many politicians trailblaze cuts in spending that don't really make a difference.

Want to make a huge difference to the US tax base? Take a look at defence spending. And don't pretend it won't cost some people dearly if you cut it.
Abandoned Soviet Architecture
scrambled eggs + (one of: spam, bacon, smoked salmon, or sausage) and 1 cup of whole milk

Before that I used to eat unsweetened shredded wheat + skim milk for breakfast. Boy what a rube I was.

I was pretty frustrated to find out that shredded wheat has a higher glycemic index than plain table sugar.
Honestly, I need to retract my above comment completely. You're absolutely right.

The fact it took a second explanation/clarification is a pretty good insight into how accepting we've become of advertising as a thing tbh.
Show me where to buy a 1000 uF 50V ceramic cap for a reasonable price.
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A more important question I never see addressed is how you prevent "money in politics" from unfixing itself as soon as you're done with the fixing? Money and political influence are two sides of the same coin - power. Money gives more influence, which attracts more money, and so on, in a positive feedback loop. How do we break, or at least control, that loop? Is it even possible?
I don't want this to come off as harsh but it's a huge city with lots of money that has a pretty large disabled community. They've been really slow upgrading their train stations but their lack of action doesn't make it OK to never fix the problem.

Keeping people from riding the subway because they're disabled is a form of discrimination under ADA. IANAL but I think cities like NYC need to have a plan for upgrading accessibility features and show progress month over month. Failure to make any progress would probably leave them liable for violations of the ADA + Rehabilitation Act (that's what happened to Boston's MBTA). With the threat of a lawsuit, it's probably cheaper to just get a plan and start upgrading stations. Plus, it helps people.
In this case, Google and FB should host an all-out attack against the telecoms.

Expect more of FB's "internet.org" and Google's wifi balloons.

Very sad that Google Fiber isn't viable anymore.
Encryption Won’t Stop Your Internet Provider from Spying on You
California has the initiative system that means ultimately the voters can make changes to the system without involving a recalcitrant or corrupt legislature. For better or worse, many of the big changes in government in the state were enacted through this process. For example, proposition 13, which drastically changed property taxes, proposition 14, which moved the state to a "top two" primary system, proposition 11 and 20, which changed redistricting and made it less partisan. etc. etc. Moreover the side with more money for advertising doesn't always win these proposition elections.
And the prison lobby came about because we have prisons.
Data work is dirty work
A lot of people who can't hold down a job are like that because they aren't able to be consistently productive, not because they're not able to be productive at all.
The UK does the same thing as NZ, no tax returns.

At the end of the tax year you get a P60 form that tells you how much tax you paid over the last year.

Instead of opting for the deductibles route, goods are subsidised at point of sale, so e.g. if you're buying solar panels, you don't need to cover the whole thing up front, or whatever financing deal you get, then claim money back in your tax return; instead the price you buy the panel at already has the subsidy baked in.

There is a slight difference between the UK and US, though, in that there is no per-state/county income taxes. Only UK wide. Individual counties use property tax to raise what revenues they need (counties are also responsible for a lot less things than States)
To the contrary. There were a number of mechanisms instituted over the years to protect and promote the spread and continuation of technical arts and knowledge:

1. Guilds. Frowned upon, but not without their uses, benefits, and sound arguments. (Actually, part of Watts' problem was that he was thrown out of the Hammermen's Guild -- the black-smithing union, in Scotland, from which Adam Smith had Watt installed at the University of Edinburgh.)

2. A royal charter. Rather than a patent, say, the formation of a public corporation (similar to, say, the contemporaneous British East India Corporation), to which subscribers could buy shares and steam power be distributed throughout England (this was pre-Unification).

3. A royal or parliamentary award or prize. This was offered to several other of the major inventors of industrial technology (largely in the textiles trade).

4. An obligatory license. This would have allowed Watt a share of revenues on his invention, but not limited the rights of others to enter into trade.

5. A guaranteed or favourable government contract. This is essentially what Eli Whitney secured, not with his cotton gin, but with his mass-produced arms, in the United States. And from whence he gained most his financial gains.

That's just off the top of my head.

Patents are both tremendously distortionary, and not particularly good at rewarding actual inventors.
Fried eggs, plenty of Olive oil.
Quark (sort of like yogurt).
Sometimes still healthy cereal, just not every day.
> However because it is so cheap, it's difficult for the company to make a profit.

Why does it have to be cheap for the consumer? They can charge $5k for this (honestly a bargain) even if the gel and syringe cost $5 to make. Isn't that what patents are for?
It boils down to a bunch of heuristics so there are gaps if the man page is slightly off of what it expects.
Well that is the problem: There is no good way for people to organise effectively on an European level, or at least it is much harder. By comparison is very easy for a determined few to organise at this level, which is why you have tons and tons of lobbyists in Brussels. You can partially observe this when "Wutbürger" protest against local changes like building a new railway station (months of protest, sitins, general disorder), but you barely get two days worth of protests against the ECB on the occasion of the opening of their new head quarters in Frankfurt.

Note it was not the ECJ which struck down the law first, they did it after the BGB did strike it down, partially because they did not want to get into a fight about who has primacy in decision making I believe (the BGB still claims to have the last word, changing this would be unconstitutional in Germany).

I don't think politicians "hiding behind the EU" is what is actually happening, what actually happens is collusion to shift away power from the people by obfuscation and misdirection. People like Schäuble have active contempt for democracy (According to Varoufakis he told him "Elections can't change economic policy"). See for example this discussion of ECB policies (https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2017/03/14/19258/).

I truly believe the EU has to go, in order for Europe to not further slide into a corporatist neo-liberal nightmare. It is very unfortunate that this push is lead by right-wing nationalists.
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Is it just that though? How did photography magazines look in the US around the same time? And if there was advertisement, was the ratio of content:advertisement as bad as it is today?
> With deductions, rich people end up paying very little for income tax

You're utterly wrong. The wealthiest 0.001% paid 17.6% of their income in taxes in 2012[1]. That's not "very little" -- it's likely in the tens of millions per person. The top 1% paid even more than that.

Some corporations will avoid income tax altogether, as will some small-business owners, but individuals still pay substantial amounts of income tax. The "deductions" you mention aren't structured to eliminate most people's tax bills, and the loopholes don't work for everyone.

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/04/as-th...
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We're still absolutely aware of how much we pay (it's on your payslip). There's just no end of year filing process.
I honestly have nothing to add - most of the points I want to bring up are already discussed in the comments.

But to those are actively working in a US Reactor Complex - you're working the dream I hope to achieve one day. Good job.
Why don't they just open-source it? I'm sure that'd get around the reason Apple banned it.