skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes, when your customer has your CEO's e-mail address, it takes a while to figure out your customer has experienced so much of Tae Kwan Leap so soon.

-or-

The why the customer believes it to be a bug can be more important than the bug's description.
I think that's only true in a very academic sense.

Ideally you would want to exclude the expenses incurred to sustain a reasonable minimum quality of life and only consider taxation on income in excess of that. A truly flat tax rate is still regressive in the sense that it is a significantly higher burden on that expendable income at the lower end of the scale.
Most likely not, as it's supposed to be backwards compatible.
It's a mystery, and I have no compelling reason to try to figure it out on my own.
Bangkok's the same size as London, both in area and population.

London doesn't have many pedestrian streets, but there are plenty of barriers to traffic which still allow pedestrians to pass, and campaigns to make more streets pedestrian-only.
Insurance is the tip of the iceberg compared to the very existence of lobbying. You could completely remove the concept of insurance, and lobbying as it exists today in the US would still find a way to reign as the controlling interest. I recommend to all to watch the 2016 film "Miss Sloane". It does a fairly reasonable job of trying to showcase how corrupt lobbying is, though it's still a pathetically naive view of the situation actually in play. The film is far too gentle and not nearly vicious enough in portraying just how corrupt the system really is.

At the end of the day, if everyone truly understood exactly how lobbying works, most citizens would send every single lobbyist, senator, and politician directly to jail for life without parole (I'd say death penalty, but I don't believe in that). The very concept of supposed "democracy" in the US would fail and require replacing it with something else. Every single political actor is in it for their own career, pure and simple. There is no such thing as a "politician for the people". It just doesn't exist. Stop trying to contradict me as you read this; Democrats, Republicans, and all third parties do not have your interests at heart. Corruption isn't just rampant, it is the very definition of the political institution that reigns today.

Every single election I almost want to commit suicide, when I see the majority of your citizens having an apparent IQ of 10, fighting amongst themselves as if their choice of vote makes a single goddamn difference. The US is going to be the sole reason World War 3 happens in the next 50 years, and it will happen regardless of whether the Republicans or Democrats are in power. The party currently in control has absolutely no effect on how policies are put into action. They may publicly declare different views, but they all continue to perpetuate the exact same system of power. We are doomed to destroy ourselves, and it doesn't matter who you vote into power - we will get there regardless of any "democratic choice" the public tries to elect.

Aside: Trump is a fucking joke and should have never had a chance of ever being elected. The same would have been true of Clinton. What the fuck is wrong with you people, that they were the two you wound up pitting against each other? Trump and Clinton were both pathetic choices, with neither of them having a single positive attribute. The country should have gone into civil war during the last election based on those candidates. Fuck the US and their politics. You are dooming the entire planet into becoming a pile of ashes.

tldr; Fuck all Americans. You collectively make excuses to perpetuate your politicians' careers, pretending you don't have the power to change the way your country operates. Your country is the single reason our species is going to exterminate itself, and all you can offer is bullshit reasons to exclude yourselves from personally taking on any responsibility. Seriously, fuck Americans for resulting in 4+ billion deaths by the year 3000. Please incite a civil war in an election before 2028 so our species as a whole has a chance to survive.
Notably, meth labs, bike crime rings, fires. I think I recall something about a prostitution ring? It's a significant public health and safety issue here. A lot of crime and grief is localized around the RV encampments here.

Broadly, you also have to consider trash, sewage, water, electricity, and heating.

Plus some of the RVs are kinda dumps, but that's less relevant.
There are SSA offices all over the country that actually meet people. Lots of older voting public that demands this.

Same reason why we still have post offices in tiny towns.
> The quote says a specific group pays 51% of all tax revenue and says it's way too much. Well did they collect 51% of all income?

Did they get 51% of all the benefits of how that money was spent?
Guess I must be blind then. Are there any sync programs which work with it?
Preach it! Humor should be disallowed on HN. I come here for uberserious discussion only.
The point that the businessman was trying to make is not that he misunderstands how marginal tax rates work, but for the next dollar I'm going to earn, I now get to keep less. My incentive to earn the NEXT dollar is therefore less.

This is exactly why we don't have a tax rate on the top bracket of 90% like in the Eisenhower era. It's not about being taxed on all your money when you make over that amount, it is, where is the incentive to grow my self or my company if I only get to keep $0.10 of the next dollar I make.

Most people who pay multiple tax rates across brackets understand how it works.
It's easier to say it can be done than to do it. ;)
Totally this. Funny story, but if it's real this only talks of Microsoft's incompetence rather than the customers.
"Bigger than Google" isn't an interesting metric. A better comparison would be to other insurance companies: Progressive Insurance has ~30k, Allstate ~43k, and State Farm ~70k.

Roughly half of Social Security's workforce consists of insurance administrators, who respond to and adjudicate claims and set individual citizens up with their benefits. Unlike State Farm, basically every American interfaces in some way with Social Security.

Again, an example of how a site full of numbers and line graphs can mislead by failing to provide context, while pretending to present a complete picture.
Because the end user shouldn't have any debug access, only the developer. Errors should be handled in application. In worst case (total exit of process from an error) Most people don't have error handling anyway. (And I don't want the only tool required to evade the license check to be notepad + asar)
Not 100% sure, but I don't think there is any other than the "ask" and "show" which are official categorized (into each section) by hand and out of the submitters's control.
This is why people should not put all their eggs in one basket. He can get sponsors. He can drive people to other places like Facebook and his own site. That way when some company needs to change something to be better for them it does tank your business. If you have a show you are a business. If you want to keep it then learn business.
When Facebook bought Instagram, there were fewer than 20 people working there. Twitter has 3,000 employees. I'm thinking Twitter can do a lot to cut their SG&A expenses.
Did you just copy and paste the top comment from the youtube video?
Not at all, nothing incompatible changes on the surface. There are more features and no breaking changes. It's mostly all under the hood!

There will be new public api's to build your own custom rendering engine, ex how there is react-dom for browsers, react-native for mobile, and it will get easier to target new platforms thanks to fiber.
I think so too. I've been in one. Once the non-internet generation goes away, those offices can go away. Or fold it into the Postal system like they have done with passport applications.
He's only using government provided data for this site, so it's not like the data isn't available.
I like javascript. It makes development faster. I'd like to prevent people from editing plain text (!!!) to evade my licensing check!
"The customer is frequently misinformed." - More realistic variation I came across, can't remember attribution, paraphrased anyway.
My experience is that VSCode is much more responsive than Atom.

Just a lot "snappier". Startup is not much of a problem, I don't open ordinary files in VSCode or Atom by default (I use gedit for that)
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Nope! Second top comment!
I agree with you.

I've come a long way in my entrepreneurial journey, and one thing I've come to realize is that elements like YC are just factors for success. They are nice to have but ultimately won't determine the fate of my plan.

It was a milestone in my personal development to reach this insight and very liberating.
I think C++'s const is one of the strongest consts I know of. Java/C#'s const on the other hand...
It's true, there is a price for some API requests, but it's actually quite low if you're using the cloud storage to populate a local cache! Backblaze categorizes download as a "class B" transaction with 2500 free per day and $0.004/10k. I fully admit it's not a suitable solution for many workloads, but I've been playing with a VM using B2 as slow additional disk (as an additional volume, not suggesting putting / or /usr..) and am yet to exceed the free tier.
I agree with the idea that anything can be reverse engineered. However electron by default has plain text javascript code. I'd like to prevent people from editing plain text (!!!) to evade my licensing check!
SigFox and wifi aren't really comparable at all. SigFox is ultra low power, ultra long range (up to 50km, they claim) and sends only 12 bytes of data per message.
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I'd be interested to see if you can find any evidence for this in human populations. From my undergraduate classes (and in my admittedly limited exposure to plant biology), it sounds like you're referring to increased fitness of plant hybrids.

In this case, you're falling into the mindset I outlined in my other comment. At least in the simple examples presented at the college biology level, hybrids often combine true-breeding traits (hypothetically, good growth in a certain climate, resistance to a certain temperature, etc). It seems reasonable that an individual with a mixture of such traits would fare better than its true-bred counterparts.

In humans, our race labels don't correspond to true-bred traits. While some genetic conditions are most common in certain racial groups, I cannot think of any set of genes where heterozygotes are only formed by mating across racial groups.

Note that I'm writing in the US - these points may be less true in homogeneous countries like Norway. But in such groups, we're not seeing the effect of race as much as the effect of small groups of human founders.

One interesting point, which could buttress OP's observation, is the finding that immigrants are often healthier than native born individuals[1]. This phenomenon occurs across many measures of health; unfortunately for America, a nation of immigrants, the phenomenon regresses over successive generations.

1. A discussion of weight and immigration. This is the first link I could easily find, but I have seen this discussed more convincingly with respect to low birth weight in African mothers vs Black American mothers: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e645/c696508ccb09cfbd476a86...
TL;DR 6000 rambling words about Arctic exploration in the 19th century. I suppose it's a decent overview of a subgenre of literature, with some history sprinkled in. But if you were expecting "what if X came true" to expound on the modern-day consequences of X happening, this is all you get:

> For the once enormous icescape ringing the North Pole, the results have been dramatic. Since 1980, sea ice in the Arctic has declined thirteen per cent each decade. The Greenland Ice Sheet, which is more than a hundred and ten thousand years old and covers six hundred and sixty thousand square miles of the Far North, has shed two hundred billion tons of water a year since 2003. These changes have already made travel in the region notably easier; in 2007, for the first time in history, a ship navigated through the Northwest Passage without help from an icebreaker. Such travel will only get easier in the future. According to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by the end of our own century the summertime Arctic will be entirely ice-free.

> From time to time during the life of our planet, roughly once every half-million years, a curious thing occurs: its geomagnetic field reverses, such that the North Pole and the South Pole swap polarities. Lately, our stories about the poles have done the same. The nineteenth century dreamed of an Arctic that was warm, accessible, and domesticated, but found a remote and frozen region indifferent to human life. Now, in the twenty-first century, as we approach an ice-free, accessible pole that has succumbed to our influence, we dream of a faraway frozen land unspoiled by humankind... Once the ice disappears, there will be nothing there. At that point, if we reach that point, the Pole will become once again what it was long ago: a place we know only through stories.

And that's how the article ends. If it wasn't for the clickbait, it would be an interesting narrative. But don't read it expecting the "what if" question to be answered in any more detail than the above. I expect better of the New Yorker than to package its reporters' work in expectation-mismanaging titles.
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Even ignoring the disposal income question, it's regressive in utilitarian terms because money, like most commodities, has declining marginal utility, so taking 20% of $1,000,000 takes a lower percentage of the utility of that $1,000,000 than taking 20% of $100,000 does of the $100,000.

(A lot of analysis gets based on the misuse of $ as a flat measure of utility, which is deeply flawed.)

EDIT: more accurately, this subsumes and generalizes the disposable income issue, rather than ignoring it, since the concept of "necessities" that come out before income is "disposable" is really a simplification of the "low hanging fruit" of high-utility spending to a binary category, rather than a continuum.
Live conversation just started, everyone's invited!

https://t.me/yc_summer_2017
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=krishnanvs got an invitation
They do a lot and in a regional, local way. Google doesn't have to have employees at every city or even in every state. Google also has a relatively narrow focus compared to the SSA. The SSA has to authoritatively interact in a timely manner to births, deaths, citizen naturalizations (term?), and probably a huge amount more. All social security payments come from them, after all.
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Yep, unlike satellites, modern UAVs can deliver a live video feed just fine.
Having worked in the industry, this is widly inaccurate. First off, a majority of drug discovered (~80%) are discovered by private companies.[1]

Of the 252 drugs approved from '97 to '05...
58% from pharmaceutical companies, 18% from biotech companies, 16% from universities, transferred to biotech
8% from universities, transferred to pharma

Second of all, discovering a drug gets you about 1/4 of the way to an approved, marketed drug. Typically the breakdown between research and development costs are 1/3 and 2/3. No academic institutions do the development part, where most of the cost is.

[1]http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/11/04/whe...
I actually needed this with it's framework electron. Unfortunately I haven't yet found a method of compiling coffeescript (or javascript) with WASM.

I'm just asking for concealing against my licensing code from being in a text file.
Is this a reference to United Airlines? It's funny its going viral in all sorts of places! There was a comment here that was since deleted https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/37169 about carpets and being dragged off the plane.
~1,230 field offices.

https://www.ssa.gov/org/
> The sloppiness of this code is really shocking, "when the Monero client chooses mixins, it does not take into account whether the potential mixins have already been spent."

That's because RingCT removed the ability to create a ring signature with those outputs, so adding a complex whitelist / blacklist mechanism would have been a massive waste of time.
"My second takeaway at a glance is the giant problem that is Social Security. [...] A $405 B shortfall on SS in 2015. If that was at least half, we would actually not be running a deficit. We would have a budget surplus if we actually made Social Security/other Gov. retirement program replacement actually sustain itself perpetually."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

yes, the first step is to remove the cap on social security withholding, which would affect the top ~6%. that would take care of over $100B of that yearly deficit.
Oh, so "Scala / C++ is too complex" again. Many people say that, but most can't name even a single thing that should be removed.
I agree about TVs and flatware, although I feel like furniture is one of those things where the reduced price has a lot of reduced quality.
IIRC they work on not releasing Bootstrap 4.
Could also lead to a type of self fulfilling prophesy, by ignoring the 'individual' in the decision making process, thusly groups being targeted will learn over time that their personal efforts to reform are a waste of time.
I doubt it; they stop serving data after the beginning of 2017 precisely because RingCT breaks their algorithms.
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I haven't heard of a method of compiling Coffeescript or Javascript with WebAssembly? Have I missed something?

Really I just want my licensing code to not be in a text file so people can't just load up notepad to evade it.
In scenario 1, government collects $60 from $300 earned (20%).
In scenario 2, government collects $62 from $260 earned (~24%).

In scenario 2, government has higher revenue, not lower.

If high earners had to exert themselves twice as much or otherwise expend twice the resources to earn $20 instead of $10, maybe ending up with $9 instead of $12 would be rational. Of course in the real world it rarely works that way, only a few are in a position to work less to earn fewer commissions or work less overtime to avoid entering a higher tax bracket. The brackets are also a lot more graduated, it's not like you could earn $19 and pay $1 tax.
Or on twitter, or on github :)
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I don't understand your argument here either. "Jumps during 2000-2010 were due to 'the economic recession'. Which was during 'the Obama administration'"?

* There was more than one recession in the time period you're talking about.

* The Great Recession did not in fact start during the Obama administration.

* There was a recession at the beginning of Bush's term and at the end of it, but most of Bush's term occurred during the real estate bubble, during which there was no recession --- why would increases in benefits during that time be attributable to a recession?

* What does "despite why the recession happened" mean? The recession did not occur due to food stamps.
The top-level comment had no sources either.

I have no idea what to believe of it, if anything. Kemalists supporting AKP?! That one is hard to believe, unless they've accepted that they're out of power and want to curry some -- that's a possibility, I guess.

What is clear is that Turkey is sliding towards dictatorship with an islamist feel. Nothing good may come of it.

The Kemalists are all gone from the military, so expect nothing from that department.

We live in interesting times.
Wouldn't that be "real magic"? Re-writing the state of the universe or otherwise influencing how that state progresses? I have read stories where 'magic' causes side effects.
It really tells us a lot about their values and priorities when they celebrate (by making doodles) people like that instead of, for example, Easter.
Uh, I don't think it's a case of people being "non-internet". If the needed wires haven't been ran to your locality then you're not "going internet". Further, the postal service is still critical. We might not use it for every day letters anymore, but it service important functions that nothing else can.
Have you considered the thousands of problems those people have to solve? The many phone-calls they have do to get people to receive the benefits they are entitled to? Or prevent them from losing them? Google doesn't have to do any of that.

People working in the perimeter of "social work" for the state generally do a lot to help people, who, for whatever reason, are often sabotaging themselves.
Don't bury the lede; we get tagging too!
Because people enjoy the content provided by these creators.

For what its worth, all the ones I follow switched from ads to Patreon or ads+Patreon.
That's actually quite cool. The use case in the spec indicates a really smooth user experience while providing great security. https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/#use-cases

I'm definitely going to keep track of this standard, but as I understand it no browser has released it yet?

Edit: I didn't properly read your reply, so disregard everything after "quite cool". :)
Sorry if i missed something obvious, but from the linked page it not entirely clear to me if my monthly amount would be distributed only between the channels I actually watch or like Spotify where content producers get their revenue based on their share of total views in the pool favoring the people on top.

"New revenue from YouTube Red membership fees will be distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content."
Wait, none of these graphs are in constant dollars? How are we meant to read them?
WiFi is far too power hungry for that, AFAIK. However the Arduino itself (rather the Atmel AVR chip that powers it) should definitely be capable of running months at a time on batteries, with proper programming.
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"The majority of the country"? Did you sleep through the 200 and 2016 elections, or are you confusing people with acres?

The whole problem is the breaking it up by states, because states are quite frankly not that relevant. No one has allegiances to states. States are subordinate entities, that pretty much subsist on the largesse of the federal government. They're basically counties.

The central thesis behind the electoral college simply didn't play out, and holding up today is simply necrocracy. There's a reason why no other government on Earth has one of these things.
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Another possibility is moving forward but in a non-Left direction.
> Is a driver unreliable because they have to continuously adjust the steering wheel due to changes in the road?

Is making points and adjusting them into counterpoints means a discussion is maintenance of some idea one wants to share, or is it just weird wordplay on your part?
The site isn’t going to mean anything unless people in power use it for their decisions about policy.

I sometimes think that half the reason political polarization has gotten so bad is that politicians aren’t citing the same data. One lobbying group can provide one dataset, and that’ll get picked up by Democrats to support their idea. Another lobbying group will provide another dataset, and that’ll get used by Republicans for their counterarguments.

If this site could become the definitive source of data—the one that both sides of the aisle trust—there’d be a common data source in policy talks. That could lead to consensus much quicker.
Looking at the ubiquity of emoji, info graphics, photo filters and gifs it's pretty clear the answer is yes.