skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this should be pointed out but this includes all Android App Stores in one category. Meaning Google Play, Amazon, and several of china's are all lumped together.
Also, people buying carrying furniture from IKEA or large amounts of groceries.
Knowing quite little about the technicalities behind CT, I'm interested in the scalability of this. If CT were to be piggybacked upon by a large number of open source binary software distributions, I assume this wouldn't be problematic in any way. CT is already designed - I guess - to handle theoretically all domains. Plus, Firefox is a pretty big, popular distribution to be starting with.
The weather isn't that bad here. It's overcast a lot and there are a lot of "rainy" days but it's usually a light mist or sprinkle. It rarely drops below freezing in the winter and the summers, while short, have long days and are quite dry. Maybe the bay area has better weather but I'd take Seattle weather over most of the US (Chicago, Austin, NY, DC, etc)
Yes, American unions are very destructive. They have devastated industries by sapping the very last bit of juice out of them. German unions have a cooperative relationship with the business. They understand that killing it off isn't an intelligent strategy.
To follow up on this with a point that's been made here on HN before: the problem with the tax is not so much the backend complexity as the user interface. Dealing with the kind of situations @rayiner describes above explains why we are where we are. But that's inevitable with a progressive tax code.

The UI problem itself has largely been solved by TurboTax. It could be solved by government itself with a simple free web interface but that's not how America works, for better or worse.

And, on review of the article itself, I see it's about simplifying tax filing, not the tax code itself.

I'm not against the idea of cleaning up the tax code, removing the outdated cruft and making it more transparent, if that's possible. But simplifying taxes in the way flat-tax-proponents want will only make sure the rich get richer.
If it had a standard deduction and all investment income was counted the same as wages, it might actually be more progressive than the current system, depending on the exact numbers. Payroll taxes are mainly what affects people at the lowest income levels.
> His annual salary is $100K

I would have guessed 160.
Multi Context TLS allows endpoints to incorporate middleboxes into TLS sessions
If a candidate makes a speech in the woods...

You proposal is a recipe for electing only celebrities, who don't need money to be amplified.
1) Campaigning is restricted to a short time period, perhaps 6 months.

2) Every candidate gets a (small) fixed budget, paid for by tax-payers. (This is already the practice in some countries.)

3) Ads are subject to the same laws that govern ads for products: say whatever you want, but you can be sued for lying.

Any of those ideas sound good?
Intuit and HR block are a bunch of crooks.

They have lobbied for a variety of anti-tax payer causes. Namely stuff like: https://psmag.com/h-r-block-and-intuit-are-still-lobbying-to....

There is a really good reason to think that the government would do a better job -- most peoples tax situation is dead simple. Even if H&R block found deductions every once and a while that the IRS didn't -- which I doubt would happen realistically -- H&R block charges something like 200 dollars. It seems incredibly unlikely that they would save more than 200 dollars on average.

And if that was the case, let the market sort it. H&R block could say bring in the returns, and if the IRS messed up we'll find it and split it with you in some fashion.
The Rise of AI Makes Emotional Intelligence More Important
I bought my house through Redfin and I think Twilio and Box originally started in Seattle.
Pitch to some VCs then.
I was thinking on my morning walk about making a small drone that could fly through an area looking for trash it can pick up.

It could potentially go places that are difficult for humans to get to pick up some litter, like trash in streams or thickets.
This article paints a pretty negative view of it, but looking at the numbers, that might not be the case:

425 stations total
92 stations accessible

Boston has 53 stations, with "90% wheelchair accessible", sounds like 48 to me.

So "lousy" NYC has almost double the number of wheelchair accessible stations as "great" Boston, and 8 times the total number of stations.

Sadly, retrofitting more elevators into existing stations, especially many of the smaller ones, is a tough sell. It would at least be nice if they could do a better job of maintaining them and keeping track of the ones that are down and what the best alternative route is.

And the program, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, to provide discounted van service, is probably much better, considering the challenge of getting to and between stations when disabled.
What should be step 1: it's 2017, you want XeLaTeX or LuaTeX, both capable of native unicode handling, using fonts by name, etc. Traditional LaTeX (and I use "traditional" with scorn as we've had XeLaTeX for almost 15 years now), relying on the ancient pdftex engine, might be "easier to google" (let alone remember), but is also not an acceptable thing to recommend to people if all they want to do is control their typesetting.

It's like talking about how hard it is to work with browsers and then telling people the best way to set up IE8, instead of using a modern browser.

Of course it's still you in the typesetting driving seat, it's never going to be as easy as Word, but I'm writing a novella in XeLaTeX right now, not even maths papers, and it's almost child's play to make it do what I want with minimal effort. My entire "complicated setup" is five lines plus one line that's me being completely unreasonable, with XeTeX going "sure, be that way":

\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage[b5paper, bindingoffset=0mm, inner=23mm, outer=23mm, top=21mm, bottom=24mm]{geometry}
\input{quotation-rules.tex}

And that's it, the rest of the document is basically just a giant text file of paragraph after paragraph of normal text, using normal as-per-unicode accented letters saved in UTF8. The doc's certainly interspersed with \part{} and \chapter{} markers because that's how a story works, but there is nothing I couldn't explain to my mom in there: I'm writing a "book" with a table of content, a reasonable looking page header but otherwise plain styling, with some explicit page dimensions (which is no different from using Word for a specific page size).

(the only unreasonable demand being that "\input" line, which imports a set of rules for using "Palatino Linotype" as main font, but then pulling the punctuation glyphs from "Sylfaen". So stuff like full stops, apostrophes, commas, double quotes, etc. And even for something seemingly as complex as that, is just a few more lines using modern XeLaTeX)
The OP was using statistics of wheelchair accessible stations to get that 25% number.
Nobody has to explain why a strawman is wrong. The simple history is, minimum wage used to have regular hikes. This stopped for decades. Now the most vulnerable among us are given a shamefully low wage for work most of us wouldn't do.

Its wrong or immoral to say America's economy rides on the premise that we must pay laborers a miserable below-poverty wage. If that were so, what an obvious truth Economists have missed all this time! All we have to do is have a sub-population we treat miserably and the rest of us can have it nice. Economics solved!
I have not studied Chaos Theory, but I think you might be misunderstanding something in my post.

I'm unhappy with people rejecting the accuracy of the models, when the models are going to be inaccurate regardless of the knowledge of the starting conditions. A model is not a simulation. Modelling the Earth is not the same as simulating the Earth.
Intel is keeping Moore’s Law alive by making bigger improvements less often
see: Frasier.
Needing all that "tooling" for a word processor is embarrassing.
Individual people already have a limit: https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/limits.php

That said, allowing only individual entities to donate would be an improvement.
But money would still find its way through, in unlimited amounts, through

1. SuperPACs, which are not allowed to communicate with a candidate, technically, but can receieve an infinite amount of money to further interests that are functionally identical to the candidate's interests (i.e. running pro-candidate ads), and

2. Lobbying. TurboTax can still spend millions to hire people to engage with politicians and bribe/convince them to see it TurboTax's way.
I'm sorry if I came off as critical of your work. I did see you commenting on the extension support page and talked about it here[1]. I was pointing out the permission model. I went into a little more detail here[2]. It's just how things are I guess.

Please don't let us security paranoid people stop you from contributing to open source software. And 6k+ users are using it with great reviews so you must already know your work is much appreciated. My gripe was about security practices, not about doubting the security of your specific extension. It is same problem with the way chrome handles all of the extensions' auto-updates.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984773
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984661
The MTA is currently working on a solution that doesn't use barriers. [1] The short of it is that it will use thermal cameras and other sensors to determine if a human (and not a rat, for instance) has entered the tracks and is in danger.

It won't kill the trains but slow them down considerably and of course if it's a last second jumper or someone who falls right as the train is entering the station it won't work. But I imagine it will help solve a majority of the issues.

If you're nervous for your safety then I would recommend to stand on the far end of the platform where the front of the train stops at the station.

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mta-testing-systems-save...
I think "save 10%" is the rule-of-thumb and a more inclusive way to state it.
I think, in this case, it would seem the company founder(s?) might be likely to care, given their apparent reasons for starting the company. Jon left Opera when it started to go south in terms of serving it's existing user-base, and very clearly started Vivaldi explicitly to serve that orphaned user-base. It does seem like he would/should care if history repeats itself with Vivaldi the company.
Google has 567.60 Billion reasons why the government would never pass that a similar rule vis a vis email.
Although this result sets up in some way a baseline, n (the number of choices) should be a random variable N in order to make things a bit more realistic.

Edit: A brief comment on this case is mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem#Unknown_numb...
And it doesn't seem very exact? Wikipedia says an AK-47 weighs 7.7 lb without the magazine.
Nice! Bottle or organic is usually easy. Coffee cup harder; cup goes in green, lid in blue, and sleeve in grey.
Resident bsd hero
I won't deny that FB has a huge userbase, but no, that's still not most of us. In addition, broadcast tv isn't shitting the bed because people aren't tired of the deal you've described; they're just cutting the cord.
The same thing happened in Australia decades ago.
There is a 1988 documentary called "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" that tells that story.
Any information on the extend of the problem today?
>What size do you think is the best for a democracy then? 10,000 people? 1000,000? The US is as big as the EU and certainly has a lot more centralized legislation.

The following is in the context of a representative democracy/republic:

Interesting question, as far as elected representatives and their number of constituents, I certainly support a maximum threshold, in the range of 10's of thousands at most. When groups larger than this are directly represented by single elected officials, it seems to increase the likelihood of the represented feeling removed or effectively excluded from the political process, which results in the sentiment (I suppose it's a leaning toward anti-globalist ideals) towards abstract, large centralized governance we see in many Brexit supporters as well as a portion of the supporters for Donald Trump in my home country the USA.

Interesting notes regarding American law on this topic:

"The U.S. Constitution called for at least one Representative per state and that no more than one for every 30,000 persons." [1]

The Appointment Act of 1911 and subsequent Permanent Appointment Act of 1929 capped the total number of House congressional representatives at 435 [2], so the degree of seperation between an individual elector and their representative in any given congressional district continues to grow as population increases. This also has an effect on the Electoral College, as it's membership numbers are based on the number of congress persons. Furthermore, I will assume this limit, combined with a growing population will increase the chances of a Presidential Candidate winning election without also winning the national popular vote, as we have seen on multiple occasions in recent decades.

[1] http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/The...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
Yeah, but the point is correct. Progressive tax rates are fine, but there are tons of weird deductions/tax breaks that can be applied
> VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1842: Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3rd 78 BC

So, they were already counting down to the birth of Christ 78 years in advance?
I'd still be using my N9 today if it wasn't for two major bugs that never got a proper fix:

- #1 There's a bug where any text messages received with emoji in them are silently ignored. Not just the emoji part - I don't mind the lack of emoji support - but the whole message.

- #2 Sometimes text messages show up under the wrong person. This is a bug that won't happen for six months and then will suddenly start happening all the time. There are some arcane things you can do to fix it but then eventually it comes back and just gets frustrating. Luckily it's only a visual issue at least and sent messages always go to the right person.

Instead I'm using a Jolla phone which is nice (and has the same alarm clock app design!), although the hardware and software don't work quite so seamlessly as they did with the N9. The curved screen on the N9 worked really well with the swipe system and unfortunately the Jolla's screen is flat.
I love programming with computers still (and have so for the past 34 years); the ideas set forward in these videos and implementations do give the feeling we might get somewhere. I myself only write tools for specific projects. I hope I get a chance of distilling something more generic from that some day but that might be simply too hard. As for Alarming Development, I much liked Subtext & Coherence (where did that site go? [0]); from what I have seen Chorus is a more high level approach and very curious to try that out even though we have not seen much yet.

[0] https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20130810132017/coherence-la...
AutoX has built a Self-Driving Car that cost 400$
Drone Wall-E?
Sure, I get that. Grandparent mentioned fairness as driving factor though.
In our current system, people with money will always have outsize political power. The only coherent solution to this problem is to abandon capitalism.
Everytime I see these types of articles I wonder if we're still in feudalism. Should we really be celebrating that a single individual is worth more than hundreds of millions of people[1]? I dunno, it seems dystopian, like we're enslaved to the system.

[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2017-01-16/...
Why should things that can't be created by automation become more scarce hence more rare?

A cleaning lady is more likely to be a job than a radiologist for longer time as cleaning is actually using almost the entire human spectrum of abilities while radiologist primarily utilizes two.

That doesn't make cleaning more scarce or rare and more expensive it just means there is going to be more people who fight to get the job.
Next level: Coffee cup with lid and sleeve
Cup goes in green organics
Plastic lid goes in blue recycle
Cardboard sleeve goes in grey paper
It wouldn't be regressive, it just wouldn't be progressive either.
I wonder if efforts similar to mosquito control would work. Release sterilized males. Dry up breeding holes. Spray.
Sort of a tangent but have you seen the iBot chairs? They can climb stairs. It's pretty cool to watch!
> We basically are subsidizing investing and rich people are the biggest investors.

What's wrong with subsidizing investing? Without investment in capital we'd all be subsistence farmers tending the fields for 12h a day.

If some rich guy wants to make $100 billion and spend 1% on himself and 99% on improving the world for future generations through investment, that's great, no?

I guess it comes down to whether you believe the government can invest those same dollars more productively than rich individuals.
This is the tip of the iceberg with John Deere. They're squeezing sales franchises hard too, punishing sellers for doing business with anyone but Deere. Deere is basically trying to get complete control over the chain from sales to use to repair, and push out any and all competition anywhere along that chain.
In 2013 151 were struck and 53 died. Those are rather consistent numbers.

However, when you consider the millions that ride the Subway each day and the hundreds of millions each year it's a very small number.

Cars create more deaths per capita I believe.
Very nice. However I find myself trying to decipher regular expressions more often than shell commands. A tool like this for regular expressions would have been more useful.
In college I bought an HP42S. It was a wonderful calculator that like the 15C had RPN and could do statistics and matrices. It also had a display with two lines instead of just one. According to wikipedia, it's still highly in demand with used calculators selling for ~$400 on eBay.
I looked at the competitors, the fact that there were many told me there's other people making money.

I tried their products out and decided I could do better myself.

I gave myself a fixed amount of time to get an MVP out in the wild.

In my opinion, you'll never "justify" the time. The only thing you can do is make your best guess, look at the evidence and just give it a shot.

If you're worried about time, sand box it. If you can't make it work, re-evaluate the project (move on or keep trying).
CT logs are designed to be able to handle queries from all web browsers on a daily / more frequent basis, and the output from queries is easily cacheable (and the logs can be mirrored in a read-only manner).

If FF is already doing any log inclusion proofs for certificates, then I think including one more (for the FF release itself) would be pretty much line noise.

I think an interesting question arises as to how well with the CT logs themselves would scale to handle the same kinds of certificates for all binaries, if this ends up taking off as a good idea in general. They've had to handle quite an explosion in X509 certificates over the past year or two due to Let's Encrypt. Some of Google's logs now show more than 80,000,000 certificates [0] in there - IIRC 2 years ago it was a low single digit million.

[0] https://crt.sh/monitored-logs
I painted a super simple business scenario. I'd like to understand how you would manage that scenario, that company, if it were your own.

Show me the math. Not the words.

Your reply sounds good but it provides zero analytical information, even at a simple level, to support anything at all.

BTW, "free market" does not mean people make "dirt" wages. It does not work that way at all. People will accept pay in the context of their reality. People in the US can't work for Chinese wages, it's simply impossible. This doomsday scenario people like to paint isn't real.
It was a major change but not too bad. We put away the bread maker and rice cooker which took some adjustment and we got rid of skim milk and margarine.

These days it is rare to find any bread products at our house, pasta and rice are found sometimes since the teenager eats that stuff every now and then. And pizza is fair game the weekend.

Though, now it is not uncommon to hear my daughter complain that she has been eating too many carbs. (e.g., during after robotics build sessions where other parents bring food for the team.)

Generally you can just add another vegetable side to replace the carb sides. At restaurants you can often substitute a vegetable/salad for the carb-side.

Another trick for sustaining healthier diet is not be too orthodox about carbs. For us, weekends are wide-open and occasional weekday cheating is okay too.

I also pretty much don't drink beer anymore, just whisky or gin.
Sorry, but $20K per door is still ridiculous. This is not new technology, automatically operated doors are used in many different settings. It's pure gov't waste to pay that much. It would be wasteful if it was 1/4 that much.
The problem I have with the popular "simplify" US tax proposals is that they mostly do it by repealing whole sections of the tax code, ending up super regressive and/or hurting the poor and middle class and helping the already rich.

Flat tax @ a high rate: Neutral or slightly helpful to the rich, crushing to the poor and middle class

Flat tax @ a low rate: Windfall to the rich, the resulting gutting of government programs hurt the poor and middle class

Eliminate taxes on dividends: Windfall to the rich, neutral to the poor and middle class who don't benefit from dividends

Eliminate many deductions and loopholes and reduce top tax rate (one of Trump's proposals): Rich are likely better off, no help to the poor and middle class

Reform AMT: Helpful to the rich and people with stock options, no effect for the poor and middle class

Eliminate income phaseouts: Helpful to the rich, no help to the poor and middle class

Eliminate estate or gift taxes: Helpful to the rich, no help to the poor and middle class

Eliminate income tax in favor of sales tax or VAT: Windfall to the rich, crushing to the poor, probably negative for the middle class

The ability to file your taxes on a postcard isn't worth it if it means advantaging the already advantaged.
You carry the buggy up the stairs together and if you're on your own a stranger will help you. It's very common to see this (and to help people when you see they need help) in NYC.

Beside our reputation, we're a friendly bunch here.
Ends and Coends
> todays society would probably collapse

Probably not; reasonable doubts would emerge and in the end people pick what they want to thing and ignore quickly the rest of facts, as Wikileaks releases or climate change shown us. If everybody is caught seeing porn, people will just shrug, say something like 'mind your own bussiness' to other, and in the end nobody will care about porn. Maybe is just a question of time that this happens; so... better evil than stupid.
You don't "need" it. Install your favourite latex distribution and use an editor and latexmk. Works fine. Still better than every office suite or web app for academic articles, at least in STEM fields.
Sounds like taking a single step into the jungle would now be very dangerous.
Carbon is still there… owned by BuySellAds who also bought Fusion and absorbed it into Carbon, or something. (Fusion's website redirects to Carbon.)
Someone did it already: martinbenson/deep-photo-styletransfer