skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While depending on background, that may be what some people think of as defining progressive and regressive taxes, and may indeed describe at a low level the concept that most people think of and even be the origination of the term, it's not the definition generally put forth currently[1][2] (which is, admittedly, very simplistic). That just goes to my point, which is that people aren't even necessarily in agreement on the terms, and might not even be aware of that.

1: https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/glossary...

2: https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/whys_thm...
>That's completely ignoring the fact that if you have cheaper workers, you end up being underpaid and/or doing a job you'd rather not be doing.

It's exactly why I think the H-1B limits might be a bad idea, but equal market pay for the migrant workers is more sensible regulation. (I'm ignoring the obvious cheat, companies can do, i.e: lower the job grade/title and then ask the hire to do the higher work too, but assuming that'll eventually get evened out with cultural assimilation and the hired workers getting upto speed about market rates vs roles vs responsibilities.)
Who is 'you guys'? :-)
I personally know some of the Clojure devs at WL who came in via the Runa acquisition from my ThoughtWorks days.
The bright color hurts my eyes :(.
Thought experiment.

Imagine you have a class full of studious and competent students, they do well on exams and generally display the performance characteristics and output you'd expect from a class full of studious and competent students.

Then the rules change. From here on in, plagiarism is no longer a code violation. The obvious happens, everyone copies from the smartest kid in the class, measured by the heretofore pretty reliable indicators of proficiency built up in the previous system.

But the next year comes along, and everyone's just that little bit less certain who the smartest kid in the actual class is, so instead they start measuring by how rich his father is, or how confident he sounds when he makes his declarations.

Iterate the system a few generations, and although the first iteration will indeed result in better results across the board for all students, as people become more and more unhinged from the underlying realities of scholastic performance for students as they come and go through the system, would it not stand to reason that eventually you're just going to have a bunch of idiots copying people who yell the loudest, and seem the most like they're successful?
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Yeah, I would love me some maven...
>I don't give away my right to object when a black army moves into my neighborhood on the pretense of just wanting a better life. And yet I do demand strong evidence that this is a likely scenario before essentially banning black people from my neighborhood.

People moving into your neighborhood to conduct a violent overthrow is not a risk because the national borders have already filtered out people who could draw in a bottomless resources from a foreign power. And you can in fact form neighborhood orgs that restrict who can move there. If anything, you have fewer rights to filter it by race than in an ancap world.

>The correct analogy is not that you're being forced to accept a homeless person into your property. Its that if I want to accept a homeless person into my property, you shouldn't be allowed to prevent me from doing so. Unless you make a convincing case that they're going to invade you. Which I don't think you have.

Sure, admittance to your neighborhood is not admittance to any one person's house. But it is admittance to the public part of it and whoever lets them in. Allowing a foreign army to fill up your country without impediment until their first overt acts is still pretty questionable. But then, once you see why an "immigration policy" against that attack vector is justified, you have to accept the whole regime necessary for trivial permutations of that plan, like rate throttling, a requirement to assimilate, etc.
Yes in the sense that the prior generation enjoyed tremendous social/government benefits, that they then systematically dismantled when they came into power.

Of course our neoliberal, hyper capitalistic society doesn't help either...
It's not just the proletariat's savings. It's eveyone's. Some places have negative rates. You pay the bank. This means that money had to go some where. We have it in the market. As a result smart people and dumb people like me have waited for the market to adjust down 25% or more. I lost 2k on a market short ETN.

Given the amount of money just looking for a home the market has no where else to go but up until that money stops.
I'd read that book. Maybe put it into a blog form first, then edit to book taste?

Homelessness in Seattle(in particular) is a very fraught topic, with many cherry picked examples for discussion when it comes up. It's certain that a wide range of behaviors from anti-social to pro-social have been observed, often depending on the specific camp.

There's a certain lure of living in a tent in the woods, playing mountain man.
No. It's "things are changing for no other reason than some overpaid FB brogrammers with too much time on their hands require Internet attention and need something to gloat over for the next conference."
There's nothing "not actual XMLish" about HTML. HTML is formally describable in its entirety using SGML (see my project at http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html), just not by the XML fragment of SGML.
I disagree with this. Infosys and TCS are the real culprits here. They are bringing extremely bad quality people on low wages to displace American workers. They are the ones abusing the system.

Did you know that any employee at these companies can claim to be a Multi national manager and get a Green Card within six months. That person might not have the qualification to pass high school.

They knowingly bring people with fake degrees. They knowingly break the laws. They claim that people are working at their site while they are really working at the client site. The list goes on and on.
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Actually, it's exciting, pretty much like getting a new life after death. This really changes my attitude towards my life.

In the past 8 years, I have 2-4 grand mal epilepsy seizures each year. Happy to be still alive, haha. Every time after a seizure, I lost one small period of memory, about 10-30 minutes, it's amazing somehow, refreshing your brain like reinstalling the macOS and restarting, though it can also cause some depression because of deep fear for uncontrolled and unpredictable seizures.

After I get back my conscious gradually after a seizure, I can hardly call back the scenarios right before my brain blows up, I can only remember roughly what I was doing then, about 5-10 minutes before the seizure, and as babies, the first sight of the world when I get my conscious will leave very strong impression in my memory, extremely clear and cut.

Now I have not had a seizure for about a whole year, in fact, I miss it to some extent:-). On the other hand, I hope I will never have it until death.

You know, humans are always full of contradictions.
You've got to take in to account that Vanguard doesn't actually do much - just buy stocks on your behalf and charge 0.12% for doing so. If it stopped doing that because some other operator was doing it for 0.08% it wouldn't be a big deal.

The bigger deal would be if the general market collapsed for some reason but that would affect everyone, not just Vanguard.
I'm hopefully that things will eventually work out as you outline, but I'm afraid that an entire generation (at least) will be lost in the transition.
Senator Warren fulfills the primary qualification for being an elected official: being able to lie out of both sides of her mouth at the same time.
I'd offer the alternative theory that the VSCode team learnt everything they could from Atom's past mistakes.

Speed is only one of the issues–I'm actually quite happy with Atom in that regard. VSCode has a much more restricted API, and a more robust extension system. With Atom, I always felt like extensions started interfering with each other, and with the 'vanilla' experience. OTOH, I was exploring a few ideas, such as inline rendering of comments in markdown, and that's really only possible in Atom.
The anti-Glass
Other white people in my neighborhood don't want to accept a black person into the neighborhood. And, I am part of a social contract between these other people I live with (e.g. by fellow neighbors) where I can't just override them.

If you respond by saying that the social contract of the country (which bans discrimination based on race) supercedes the social contract of my neighborhood then I'll say that the social contract of the world supercedes even that.
Right. But if you don't join, you still have to pay union dues, right? That requirement kind of blurs things in my mind.
I think you need to be able to debug a crash of the web server or kernel. This means C and at least a bit of a clue about assembly.

I suppose it's OK to not be able to debug a hypervisor.

On the other side of things, probably you also ought to be a competent artist and writer.
I am workng for one, we are called Apixio and we are hiring if anybody is interested.

We have access to one of the cooliest data sets ever - health records of millions of patians, and we too are aiming to predict conditions (among other things) and save lives.

Our corp website is crap, but we are doing interesting things out there.
It's a dual-intent visa. Which means H1B holders are allowed to apply for a green card (permanent residence) and continue to hold the H1B. This is unlike non-immigrant visas like F1, which you will lose the moment you apply for a green card.
You are the problem, not the solution.
I think we need to rename AI. It's not really intelligent. It probably won't be for a long while. The machines don't know, in an existential sense, what they are looking at or making. We need to call it Artificial Insight.

They spot facts in byte streams that we don't see. We can then contextualize the info into another part of the domain, or drive it deeper.
Active traders will have an outsized impact on the movement of stocks. Which could allow for fun games in the derivatives market. E.g. force a stock up and short it in a derivative. This kind of activity was much easier in the past so its not unprecedented.
Almost makes you think we only have terrorism just so the countermeasures can be exploited to keep the masses under total control. ;)
If all vanguard does is buy (not pick) stocks for you, why wouldn't you just skip the fee and buy the stocks yourself?
Incorrect. They contribute _zero_ to our understanding of science. Its easier to build a bridge after someone else has already figured out what does and doesn't work. I don't blame them completely for using public domain information since there is no point reinventing the wheel. But after they've built their company on the backs of taxpayers who funded the research, we'd be fine if they just said thank-you and went on their way, instead of turning back and gouging everyone.
Could vanguard become too big too fail? Is that a legitimate risk?
Deal with both of these shitshows on a regular basis. They are exactly this bad. It's almost never worth it in the long run when they come in as opportunities to resell software.
I actually don't like the way they present or treat the data so I guess I still have time.
Would you mind elaborating on some of those practices (specifically, the problems that made working on the first codebase abhorrent)?
I have a gtx 1070 and a gtx 1060 system and things "just work". On linux I have bluray playback, various older games on steam, random webGL games or demos, various desktop effects (standard unity).

Do things like that work with the AMD? Do the AMD drivers still have issues with playback? Or leaving yourself logged into for a week with 100 windows that triggers a mem leak so that all new windows are a black rectangle? Pixel corruption? Performance worse than a 3 generation old nvidia?
show me where I can buy stocks for free ?

Its cheaper to buy via vanguard.
Vanguard seems to have gone a bit too far with cost-cutting in the customer services department. One of my most frustrating recent experiences was dealing with Vanguard's website and customer service. There were all kinds of issues, some minor annoyances, others serious time sinks.

Here's an excerpt from a long and boring story:

... One day, I couldn't log in to their website. Attempting to go through "forgot my password" had me fill out a long form with security question. I filled it out, pressed submit, and was presented with the same form, but blank. No error message, nothing else. I thought their website must be broken that day, tried again the next day with the same result. After doing this a few times, I called them. Turns out, my account got into some invalid state. It took them more than a week after that to figure out what was wrong with the account and fix it.

Then, my account fixed, I tired to buy some eft-s. Website replies: "Cannot perform this transaction, call us for assistance". I think that's a temporary outage, try again the next day. I called them again, waited a while to get an agent, found out they needed some more documents from me. I sent them in, but there was no way to find out if they were happy with the documents on their website ...
> clearly bad ideas

That's the problem - there isn't an objective definition of what counts as a "bad idea". The patriot, rebel, atheist, religious fundamentalist, Marxist, market fundamentalist, civil rights activist, and white nationalist each have very different ideas about which ideas are "bad".

> I don't want you speaking anywhere near anyone you might convince.

I'm sure the religious fundamentalist has a similar opinion about any rhetoric that advocates for legal abortions, teaching evolution, or separation of church and state. Should they be allowed to suppress speakers that advocate "clearly bad ideas"?

> One of them is indefensible

Without a clear and narrow definition - "I know it when I see it" doesn't count - of the types of speech that are "indefensible", that's just an opinion.
this hasn't been true since 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject#After_1983
Talk to your advisor about that. Everybody is pretty sure that journals are to support your academic curriculum: good luck getting postdoc positions without Q1's under your belt.

Of course if you are in one of the Ivy league universities this may be different. Otherwise... yeah, you can feel research moves too fast for journals, but curricular evaluation practices moves even slower.
Indentured Servitude is exactly the relationship that exists for many on H1-B. It's not even hyperbole.

This is especially true for people trying to get a green card. The employer can use the green card process to ensure the worker has no career mobility. And this process can take many years.

Interestingly it is NOT Tata/Infosys/WIPRO who are using the green card trick. They don't sponsor green cards. They just rotate people to and from the US and are very upfront about it. It's MSFT, Google, Apple, etc who are using the green card process to indenture their employees.
>140 char limit is artificial and doesn't serve a point except to mimic sms

...And to actively encourage witty, retweetable "hot takes" instead of in-depth discussions on issues. If someone espouses a "political opinion" in a 140-character tweet, whether or not said opinion actually stands up to scrutiny doesn't matter as long as it's emotionally resonant.

This is why Twitter has any value at all, to be honest. It's a highly efficient means of propagating memes (actual sense of the word) from famous people to non-famous people with short attention spans (nearly everyone). The non-famous-people then spread the brief, succinct memes to their non-famous friends, etc. etc.
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its not.
> If anything, the tuition would be higher.

It is higher, but for out-of-state and international students. That's how public universities have been able to offset low in-state tuition and raise more financial aid.
> In fact, the selection process is already such that only the really pliant ones are sent to the US.
Indian working in India. Can second that. I used to work for the Big Blue in India, it's the yes-guys that got the visa processing approval from managers.
You can't sell without having someone buying.
I work for the company, mostly use a Mac, sometimes use X11, and started laughing when I read X11 server on WSL/Linux on Windows. Things have come a long way. I don't know if there is X11 support, but when I have some time later this week, I am going to look based off this question and see. I'm having visions of Hummingbird Exceed from back in the day at the moment.

I'm not being flip, I'm actually curious as well and will try figuring out when I have a spare few moments.
You need to be careful of the "holiday effect" with these kinds of comparisons. It's ruined many a biology paper...
>That is, academia has zero to do with the discovery all the way up to the approval of the drug.

Please don't insult our intelligence.The context for this discussion is about greedy companies using existing research for free and contributing nothing back. The linked article doesn't show which scientific research contributed to the product development. Universities are not all primarily engaged in drug discovery.
Once you graduate and get a job, the marginal value of a dollar will be a lot less. Having missed out on some piddly student discount won't matter to you.
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But why not just use Linux?
Well at least if you do get your H1B, you can get a green card rather quickly (within a year or so). Most Indian and Chinese nationals have to wait for more than 10 years in the queue before they are even eligible to apply.
Socialism has been attempted many many times and never succeeded in peace time without degrading into a hellish dystopia - it also almost always seems to be pushed by middle class people rather than the working class, who are generally somewhere between social democrat and nationalist.

The idea that inequality can be solved by handing all property to the government, the single biggest source of corruption in existence, is ludicrous and the sooner the ideas of socialism and communism die out the closer we'll be to an actual approach to raising up the working poor.
Ask HN: How to launch an app international on day one?
We often hear that a startup should focus on one geographic location at a time for the best results, but I haven't been able to find any examples of startups attempting the opposite approach to know whether or not this is true. I often wonder if focusing on a specific niche internationally may be a better strategy to ward off copycats and being blocked out of international markets.

For Example, if launching a clothing app, I believe it may be more beneficial to focus on a specific niche (like shoes) and expanding the app internationally. Then, after international expansion, expanding into clothing, jewelry, accessories, etc. For startup founders in locations with small populations or in competition with large corporations, this strategy may better than focusing on geography.

Since starting this way isn’t the norm, it is difficult to find information on doing so. It seems that courses and guides that teach “best practices” often only really teach most-used practices.

Anyway, I to try this strategy to see if it’ll work. With that being said, how do we launch an app international from day one? Has any startup launched in multiple countries at one time? If so, how? Did it workout for them?

What to Consider?
1. Language/Culture translation
2. Tailored app store listings
3. Government Regulation
4. ?
5. ?

Thanks :-)
Not sure why, but I had a flashback to watching Eraserhead in college while watching this.
That was one of the reasons I ran as fast as possible to Apollo after trying to understand Relay for a bit (that and more or less no tutorials for Relay). The other one was that Relay seems to be one of these "my way or the highway" frameworks, while I prefer libraries which follow my needs and don't force me to do all things the way they want.
How does control/governance for Vanguard actually work? It's apparently owned by the investors in the funds, but I own some ETFs through Vanguard and I've never seen a proxy form.

Very happy with the service, just curious about that aspect.
You're comparing Vanguard to Enron & MCI / WorldCom. Would you mind explaining your analogy? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't think, for example, my investments in Vanguard funds are precarious because they are over-leveraged in bespoke weather derivatives.
As a content creator a small monthly fee can be better. Otherwise you risk everything to turn into a "gifrecipe" format. Monthly income can make it possible to make more in depth content.
The food won't disappear as long as there is a demand for it. In all likelihood Singapore-like hawker stalls and hawker centres will crop up and replace them, with the same set of offerings.

It will be a pity because of temporary loss of jobs and the emotional attachment to street food, but I imagine over time it will all end in better sanitation and less disposable waste.
Well. Gives you a good idea of how massive Tokyo SkyTree is.

https://earth.google.com/web/@35.71013838,139.81057456,323.8...
>> If you're an experience aerospace engineer working on large commerical jets, where else do you go in the US besides Boeing and maybe Lockheed Martin?

You're kidding[1], right? Beyond the aerospace industry, I can think of more than a few places where the skillset of a talented aerospace engineer would be very much desireable.

[1] https://www.artillerymarketing.com/fs/top-100-aerospace-comp...
I had a beer with a B-1 Lancer pilot who was here on exercises many years ago. He said that on low level flight infiltration exercises, his normal method to go over ridge lines and small hills is to pull the aircraft gently up, roll it inverted and pull back while cresting the ridge, then roll upright once over.

He said he is experienced enough to maintain 1.0 to 1.5G throughout the manoeuvre, and the most of the time, the weapons guys in the back of the plane who are usually 'heads down' and don't have big windows to look out of, don't even realise they were inverted for 10 to 15 seconds.

He said he has a standing wager with them when they land, and if the back seaters can accurately tell him how many ridgelines they crested inverted correctly, he buys them a beer. He told me he hardly ever has to buy.
How do you define "okay with it"? I think you're purely looking at the it from an economic exchange / personal "consent" perspective, and removed from any sort of greater societal or economic context.

> f the "young, lithe, Thai girl" (what a very creepy way to put it) is okay with such a (financial or otherwise) arrangement, why should it even concern you?

No, what's creepy are the flocks of western men who travel each year to southeast asia for sex. Why not just spend it on local escorts? You ever think of that?

Way to resort to ad hominem and totally miss the broader point. Like as if a comment on HN is more creepy than traveling thousands of miles to bed economically disadvantaged women/men/girls/boys.

It concerns me because maybe I'm human and not a douche? I hope it concerns you to, but I guess as long as all parties are "okay" with it, anything goes.

Fuck the global sex tourism industry, especially in third world countries.