skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you expect everyone that rides in the back of your car to have read your owner's manual?

That's a rather misleading statement, given that you acknowledge that the people in the back of the car are actually the owners.

And yes, I do expect the owners of the car to be at least aware of what to do in an emergency. The fact that they didn't bother to educate themselves about emergency procedures doesn't mean they get to blame the car manufacturer.
That's an old version of Python source from a mirror. It uses functools.lru_cache with a maxsize of 256 now: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/fcfe80ec2592fed8b3941...
Less so when you get $100 million dumped on your head first, though.
Summary: "Economists are divided on the issue. Some (including Gregory Mankiw) are persuaded that the corporate income tax ultimately falls mainly on labor, rather than on the presumably wealthier owners of capital. One can actually make a case for cutting the tax in the name of a more progressive income-tax structure, which should appeal to voters and politicians left of center.

Other economists, including the authors of the surveys cited above (Jane Gravelle, Jennifer Gravelle and Thomas Hungerford), are persuaded by the available empirical evidence on the five factors I note that the burden of the corporate tax ultimately rests mainly on the owners of capital. That also appears to be the operative assumption of the Congressional Budget Office, the Treasury and other agencies when they analyze the distributional impact of various forms of taxation."

Source: https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/who-ultimately...
You own a license to play the game on the medium you purchased.

Copyright law in the US includes the concept of fair use, which includes rights that the owner doesn't get a say in.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
This app just makes me keep thinking of the protege Seinfeld episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQQuwuoHpQ
Hey hey - thanks for the feedback.

Can totally be done with a <video> but maybe not as much fun on mobile... And "back button" issue... could be solved with another line of JS.
Come on Adam, can you please not post like this here? It's obviously against https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14184277 and marked it off-topic.
This is one of those rare cases where one's immediate intuition isn't so far off. Globular clusters are very dense stellar environments. For context, the radius of a globular cluster is roughly the distance to the nearest star to our Sun (a few light-years). In this space there are packed roughly a million stars. So dynamical interactions are frequent.

A consequence of this is that stars exchange energy with each other frequently, and when you have frequent energy exchanges, you end up with a system that is in energy equipartition --- i.e., every star has about the same amount of energy as every other. Since more massive stars have the same energy as lighter stars, they must move slower, and consequently sink to the center of the cluster. Ultimately energy equipartition is the same reason that there is gravitational settling in a gas or a liquid on Earth.
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She was going to kill them anyway, they're a virulent pest.
Sounds like Romain was at least making a few hundred euros per month. The volumes on some of these things can get really, really high.
AFAICT (it's not in the digital version of the manual) the speaker-grill door release cable isn't even documented as an "emergency procedure", it's in the section of the manual about locks and keyless entry and stuff like that.
My first thought in a car crash where the doors didn't open (which happens on regular doors, too, if they get physically damaged), would be to smash out the window with a glass breaker. Are Tesla windows particularly challenging to break?
'The average pay for a Software Engineer is $80,825 per year.'
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
> and not even properly documented.

It's documented in the physical owner's manual, and in the emergency guide. It appears the only place it isn't documented is the online manual.

> A reasonable person who has not pored over every page of the instruction manual or the first responder guide would not think to try to remove the speaker grill when they're sitting on a battery fire.

No, but a reasonable person who buys a car like this should at least skim the manual once, looking for info on what to do in an emergency, precisely because in an emergency they won't have time to look up such info.
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Not OP but I'm a software engineer working for a startup in ATL. I'm not sure how we have a reputation for being "dominated by business types", but we do have a relatively high contingent of fintech and b2b companies here (our only unicorn, Kabbage, plus several others like Square, Salesloft, Salesforce). I think though that our pool of engineering talent is relatively high - I'd guess it's the most likely landing spot for good engineers from the southeast.
Back when Intel first announced their crosspoint memory they predicted that it would have a much longer operational life than traditional SSDs. Now that they've finally managed to create a working product with it they're only saying that it has a lifetime a few times longer than SLC NAND.

Since write endurance is spread over the whole SSD you can easily get a cache four as big as the Optane equivalent for I presume the same amount of money and end up with the same endurance, higher throughput, slightly more latency, and a much higher cache hit rate.
A heavier star pulls the cluster towards it, as well. For an individual star this effect is small, but for many stars in a cluster this causes the heavier ones to begin to clump together.
Just meant to be simple for prototype purposes... And I agree that typically you wouldn't want a UI event like a modal to be part of the history().
I'd say the CEO acts as the primary role model and the employees/company often reflect the attitude of the CEO. Think of the workplace stereotypes of amazon - customer focused, google - side projects, spacex - mission, uber/oracle - aholes, apple - design, microsoft - developers , facebook - hackers, etc.. the CEO sets the tone and if you agree with it you'd probably like working there :)
Landfills are basically now the worlds largest plastic bags. Basically a least a foot of clay at the bottom (which liquids flow slowing through), then sheets of HDPE plastic welded together to make a (hopefully) watertight surface. Usually they have pipes to collect whatever leaches through the trash. In NY being not trusting sorts... they double line their landfills with 2 layers of liner.

Then when its filled you put a layer of plastic and soil on the top to stop water from getting in.

Its not perfect, but it seems to be ok. Nothing rots in there since there is hardly any moisture and the off gassing is who knows what (sometimes they burn it, so it has some methane).
Sometimes a company has matured, where it's captured most of it's market and it's been around so long that it's not very innovative. A company can be good at just "doing it's thing", and that's okay. But that means that--- if there is not more of the market that a company can efficiently capture, then it's time for the shareholders to reap their ROI.

I'm sure you've seen lots of instances of failed innovation in big companies. This is a way to avoid it, and put money where it'll have better odds.
how it used to be: you fight, win and get some rewards or loose and leave with a bleeding nose. How it is now: you fight and everybody dies from nuclear / bio / nano / .. weapon.
Oops, maybe I wasn't clear - the tax dodge here is you form an S-corp, and take all your payments through said S-corp (the S-corp doesn't hold onto any more cash than is necessary). Before, a top earner would pay ~39% marginal income tax. But by routing all your income through the S-corp your effective income tax rate drops to 15%, a nearly 25% marginal tax rate cut for top earners. Or am I missing something?
your comment on the surface seems right but let's be real, languages are created (or evolved in the case of natural languages) to suit a purpose. The Eskimos have 50 different words for snow, so when conversing about snow I'd say using the Eskimo language makes you much more intelligent or at least more articulate... now I'd also image that the amount of content that went into evolving a language differs from language to language and given this obvious fact some are more "smart" than others ... now I am not on the side of any one language, just making an observation.
Right but just giving more money to companies regardless of size doesn't create jobs. Businesses try to be as efficient as possible with their capital. Hiring people just because is inefficient. However companies will hire more people if they are unable to meet their current demand.

What is one way to increase demand? Increase the number of people who can afford the goods and services which can be accomplished far more effectively by reducing tax on the middle class and poor. If you do that businesses will have no choice but to create jobs in order to meet demand.
I think there is very little evidence to support such a claim and certainly by the time you're arguing that Asians are biologically disposed to favor certain kinds of government you've veered into writing total nonsense.
GP does have a point. A 4 month old or whatever is the latest you can perform an abortion is certainly bigger than a fly, or even many mammals.

I am pro-choice by the way.
Because the risk calculation looks different when one has a bank account that can support one's family while working for free for a x% chance of a payout.
IDK, the Ford Pinto got handed it's ass some decades back.

Ralph Nader made a name for himself writing a book about car companies selling death-traps.

This is how the industry changes — Tesla is not the first.

Or maybe their owners, paying $100K or so a car, feel a little more entitled to receive a safe car for all that dosh?
I don't think it works this way.

If it's a "legitimate" expense it gets deducted from profits, so the tax rate is zero, even under today's rules.

If it's not a "legitimate" expense, e.g. a vacation paid by the company, the beneficiary gets taxed as if he got this much money in salary.

The part of your list that will be taxed differently under new rules is assets - jets, boats, etc. Even so, usage of the boat for leisure should get taxed to the beneficiary at customary boat rental rates.

There is room for creating accounting, as always. But it doesn't look like this is the key change here.

A bigger deal is the double-taxed income. If your C Corp earns $1m, it then pays taxes at ~ 35%, with $650k left in the coffers. Then you pay yourself a dividend of $650k and you get taxed at the dividend tax rate which is also 20%, so now you have $520k left, for a combined effective tax rate of 48%. If the corp rate is cut from 35% to to 15% then your have 680k left, for a combined effective tax rate of 32%.

Going from 48% to 32% is the real prize here.
Crypto would still work, and this tech isn't going to work face-to-face.
> I really think from set-design, costume, and setting perspectives this movie on par with visual feasts from the 70s/80s like Bladerunner, Dune, Star Wars, or Alien.

For those who haven't seen the live-action movie, Kotaku just put up an article showcasing some of the concept art:

http://kotaku.com/the-incredible-art-of-the-ghost-in-the-she...

(Except for die-hard fans of GitS, I would not recommend the new movie.)
What did you earn and how much mobile development did you previously do?
You really need to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI if you think that because corporations have to pay less in taxes that they will suddenly spend more on R&D and jobs.
Thanks for the info. I was talking about using it on Windows. Been using Firefox on Linux.
Emergency measures should never be hidden. That's just plain stupid on the part of the designer. The best spot for such a handle would be on the fucking door, and in bright red.
It wasn't really on my mind. I did occassionally think about it (and maybe even acted accordingly), but I don't think it really affected my work flow.
Feel free to leave any feedback on the PR. https://github.com/AndyStabler/andystabler.co.uk/pull/9
These are good questions. Thanks for asking them.
1. Why not go to r/nyu - I never said Mentr is the only place to get into but Mentr makes sure the students are real, and we verify their identities. Not sure if reddit does that?
2. Money is made when mentor renders a service like reviewing someone's college essay, or hosting someone for a campus tour. They make 70% of the transaction
3. They are qualified because they made it to their school. Also as I mentioned, the platform is for peer to peer communication. As long as the mentors have relevant experience to share, and are willing to help someone we will accept them as mentors. We also personally interview every mentor to make sure they are a good fit.
4. Thanks for the input on the website. We are struggling for resources to make a top notch site and that's one of the reasons we really wanted to be in YC so we can fix these loose ends.
Really appreciate you asking me these questions!
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I'd liked to add that there are aspects of mutualism underlying how much we value dogs. We used to hunt alongside dogs, there exists a special bond between man and dog that does not exist between any other species, to my knowledge. They know our emotions, our smells, our noises, our physiological needs, they are even aware of fragility of our bodies compared to other animals.

Dogs are pretty amazing
This page explains why the Spectre x2 (and I thought the x360 too? but maybe not) is locked to a proprietary charger, while the Elite x2 isn't https://www.tapatalk.com/topic/69523-34990

I have a phone with a USB-C port, but when it came to buying a laptop, ended up skipping the USB-C port. For the same specs, a laptop with USB-C 3.1+Power Delivery is almost twice the price. Acer's budget line include USB-C, but not necessarily USB 3.1 or power delivery (so basically it's just a more cumbersome usb 3.0).
Did not know these guys did Python hosting. Thanks for posting!
Do you eat animal products?

I find it much stranger that violence towards farm animals is ok but not pets.

At least there are principled reasons to care less about insects (much less complex nervous system), I can find no principled reason to care more for dogs than pigs.
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The thrust of Sagan's monologue was to encourage re-evaluation of religiously-motivated anthropocentrism.

To me, at least, it's less of "how could anything here matter when Saturn is so big?" and more of "does it really seem plausible that this vast universe was created for the benefit of some creatures on the surface of this little speck? Do you really think we're that special?"

Certainly it's possible to ride the Overview Effect all the way to nihilism, but it seems clear to me that unexamined anthropocentrism is at least as incorrect.
No.
I drove some refugees around in germany, to bureaucrats and back home. No warm and fuzzy feeling. No lvl up on kharma. No everlasting friendships. Just strangers, going to strange places and then home (which is now germany)- basically another day in germany. Very anticlimatic. Just humans.
In the end it where just wasted days, in which i could have done open source stuff. Build something.
Created anything.
I volunteer with two organizations--one group serves mostly privileged high achievers (kids on track to be lawyers, architects, etc.) while the other is made up of kids who are probably only 50/50 to graduate high school. In both groups, most of the kids are TERRIBLE writers. Their vocabulary is usually fairly limited and their writing is stilted and repetitive.

Being a good writer generally doesn't matter in high school. Most classes don't require much writing and for those that do, they just require students to convey the right number of facts and avoid most grammar mistakes.

Kids also engage in far more code-switching than adults, I think. When asked for a recommendation, It's possible that this particular kid just dashed off a quick email rather than really sit down to write something engaging.
It's good enough for Nintendo: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-do...
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All S-Corp earnings are passed through to individuals and taxed at individual tax rates.

Corporate tax rates are for C-Corps.
I don't think you want to work in a place where they care about such things.
My knee-jerk reaction is to be in favor of tax cuts, but with these things I try to find relevant survey questions on IGMChicago Economic Experts panel: http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel

Here's one that's close, although it focuses on repatriated profits http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/repatriated-profits

> Question B: Permanently lowering the effective marginal tax rate on US corporations’ repatriated profits, such as by moving to a territorial-based tax system, would boost US capital investment significantly.

The economists' answers were very mixed and half of them answered "uncertain" or "no opinion". :-/ muh cognitive bias!

mmanfrin points at that tax havens are the problem, here's a NYTimes opinion piece advocating for 0% corporate tax rates as a way to encourage companies to repatriate their profits: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/abolish-the-corpo...
The issue was their entire app.

The exact same reason bullying could happen was the exact reason people loved it (anonymity).

Group A (parents, schools, etc) wanted complete de-masking + real-world identity while Group B (the users) wanted some anonymity with no real-world identity.

Yik-Yak could've never won as far as I can see.
S-Corp does not pay taxes, all income (minus losses) accrues as income to the shareholder(s) who then in turn pay taxes at their own rates.
well there are 1tb memory machines not sure if a 32 gb ssd cache would help.
> vulnerable to SQL injections

I put part of that blame on languages. When the wrong thing is so much more natural than the right thing, it's bound to happen.

We use relate (https://github.com/lucidsoftware/relate), a Scala lib.

sql"SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = $email"

After years and years of no ORM and dozens of junior developers, we've never had a SQL injection bug.
I'm pretty sure people are going to continue to be pissed off about some lucky assholes winning the birth lottery and cashing in their ticket to further profit off the labor of others less fortunate regardless of what kind of media spin you try to put on it.
What is the "Apple tax"?
They were passangers at the back as far as I understand. And after a crash there is much confusion and is hardly surprising that the driver didn't have time or simply in shock and forgot about the latch and in a few seconds car was on fire.
[edited summary] Apparently techniques exist to let you capital gains rather than income, increase deductions, or both. In some cases chase subsidies, which is roughly equivalent. And (cf Panama papers) obviously offshoring.

All theoretical interest on my part, so who knows. Government estimates on lost revenue from this range wildly (order 1billion to 100billion) from what I've seen, but they are at least convinced it happens in significant amounts.
How are the doors that these passengers used to enter the car not the main doors, but the "garage door" of a building?
I had never used reader mode on FF, but just gave it a whirl for this atricle and really like it. Thanks for the tip!
Are you saying startups that are from countries who don't speak english are not eligible for YC because they cannot speak perfect english?
don't use hostgator. discount hosting solutions, in general, are bad fits for django which kind of takes for granted that you have shell access to the server and know a little bout of unix sysadmin.

AWS EC2 is a great host but requires you to know how to admin the server a bit. Heroku is good for small deployments but the budget options don't scale very well. An AWS competitor like Rackspace or similar might be good too, especially if you're looking for lower prices.

as for email, get a business account (with custom domain) from gmail or something similar. you really don't want to be hosting your own email, not even for a small company. seriously that's a headache you just don't want to deal with if you don't strictly have to (legal compliance requirements, for example). it's not like it costs much to use a hosed solution for email.

the django app needs to connect to the email server? why? isn't the whole point of email that you send messages via SMTP and don't have to have a server-to-server connection? I think you may have some technical requirements you need to pin down with more rigor.
Not every person will be physically capable of manoeuvring over the seats to a working door (especially after an accident).

In this case, the passengers were able to display adaptability and get out, but had they been physically disabled or had there been clutter inside the vehicle, the two front doors and rear door might not have been viable options.

That these people were able to escape before the battery fire is, of course, a good ending, but it's not a positive statement on the engineering decisions made.
I wonder which "popular third-party library" caused the problem
Back in the day smart consulting companies would hire "consultants" and bill them at lower rates and train them on technology. within a year or 2 they became "senior" had the experience and they were able to get top dollar for them.
Great library. I use it all the time. I hope the authors the best. Can't believe they do this for free.
It's because insects have such a primitive nervous system that we don't see them as being aware in the same way that a dog is.

You draw the line somewhere, right? Drawing the line at a certain complexity of the nervous system is more sensible than drawing it at "animals" in general, IMO.
I'm missing something. Were these engineers under a transferable contract? What, specifically, did Square buy with their "less than $3 million", and from whom?
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My feedback would be to work on making your business successful, regardless of getting into an accelerator program. If you can succeed, the act of doing that will resolve any concerns any accelerator program may have.

And if you're wondering why you'd need YC if you are succeeding on your own - sometimes you don't. But the benefit of an accelerator, or even investors, is that they can take your existing growth path and increase it's speed tremendously.
Blub was about productivity features for building products, i.e. writing software faster, not arbitrary features. A decent type system in terms of productivity is certainly not Haskell, they cannot look down on anyone. So the argument is still valid. But sure, sometimes it could be Haskell, but I doubt it, it's probably always faster to not use it, even if you have to come up with a DSL.