skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest problem with ORMs is that you have an object graph that may or may not contain proxies. When you hit a proxy, the ORM will either do a lazy-load or throw an exception. Neither of these is a good default. Either way, the type system becomes useless, and I have to manually check all the call stacks to make sure the object graph is actually loaded.

... but I'm still getting good use out of an ORM right now. I use Entity Framework for the write operations (with lazy-loading) but hand-written SQL for the reads. It works better than anything else I've tried in the past.
I don't see why audio manipulation would be any more nefarious than photo manipulation or video manipulation.

Plus, it doesn't even matter. You can write an article with fake quotes and people will believe it without even caring if there is an accompanying sound byte or not.
> Globular clusters undergo a phenomenon called mass segregation, where the most massive stars settle to the center of the cluster and lighter stars occupy the outer regions.

Intuitively, this seems simple, since "heavier objects" should sink further down, no?

But thinking about this for a while, it doesn't seem so simple anymore. No matter what's the mass of the star, if it's already on a given orbit around the cluster, it will tend to stay on that orbit, unless there are close interactions with other stars of comparable mass.

So what would be an intuitive explanation for this phenomenon?
>electric

Hard problem.

>personal aircraft

Much harder problem, if by that they mean "flyable without a pilot's license". You need to tackle reliability, then AI on the order of self-driving cars, then regulators, then infrastructure. Even Tesla is having a hard time making a slightly different kind of car.

Why tackle all the hard problems at once? Why not make a self-landing helicopter, or a "normal" electric aircraft (like Tesla but for planes), or a reliable and cheap (!) experimental VTOL craft? I can't help but think that the only reason to do it this way is because you're selling sizzle, not steak.
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While some companies indeed return profits back with stock buybacks or increased divvys, lots of companies do expand and grow their hiring and R&D.

Here is the problem, without corporations and small/medium businesses this entire world that we live in ceases to exist. Jobs are what make this all possible.
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The primary way that wealthy people bring down their marginal tax rates is buy earning more of their income as capital gains not through the creation of phony businesses to pay for their personal expenses.
Lonely operator, eh? What are your thoughts?
I've seen earth beams sparkle between the rings of Saturn.
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Do you have examples that aren't long term capital gains?

(which enjoy a low rate but are not really sophisticated financial engineering)
I know someone who is about to launch a very niche "box of the month" type service, where a box of items are mailed out each month. This would have been great as she could just have an amazon subscriptions page and a static website that links to it.

But no, it's for "digital app, website, or software" only.

Why would I go to amazon.com to sign up for dropbox? I'm not getting it.
It's just greed. They're likely to do the reverse.
Arguably, you could breed worms in a landfill, provided the detritus weren't packed so tightly; Living creatures are usually pretty good at finding foodstuffs among non-edibles.
I might be wrong, so thanks for engaging. You might be naive, but I might be an asshole. :)

But seriously, if I were doing a Y Combinator application, I would make sure that my testimonials were spot on. I would do so because one of Y Combinators' most enduring bits of advice is 'build something people want.'

I'd even equate that to grammatical errors in a website. You're competing for an interview against thousands of the best minds around. Proofread your copy!
Wel thats entirely your opinion. Yale has loads of students who do not know perfect english. There are international students as well. Is your point really about "proper English"? Really?
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I expect one contributing factor to this statistic is the proliferation of software development over the past decade. As millennials get older, so too will this generation of coders and hackers. The mid-twenties image "software engineer" conjures, will keep getting older. I'm fascinated to see how this will make software engineering a less sexy job / will change tech culture among deveopers
The economy doesn't 'support' business owners - business owners (and their customers and employees) are the economy.
Thats a bad analogy.

More apt would be "The main doors are manual, but the electric garage doors will not function" ... which is actually a common case in buildings...
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If the goal is to repatriate earnings why not incentivize repatriation instead? Bring it back tax-free if you invest it in R&D on needed projects, x many new jobs, etc.
Well, some of them do.

And also a lot of people with "grit" don't amount to anything. They lack networks, capital or the right idea. Or they have something else that they feel is more important than building a startup: a family, work flexibility, or a hobby that consumes them.
They come with a ton of downsides... I'm European, I don't think that the benefits outweigh the downsides.

If my country is at the point where there's enough popular support for a tyrannical government to take root, things are already lost. In 1989 in Romania not even our generals had the guts to shoot our own citizens, despite being drilled for it during 40 years of very oppressive Communist dictatorships. Why? Because they knew that the government didn't really have popular support.

Your Turkish example isn't fully representative since Turkey hasn't ever had a stable democratic regime for more than ~15 years. Even Atatürk, who was a great man in most regards, was more of a benevolent dictator for life than a fully democratic figure head.
Another voice for separating the two to separate servers -- separate hosting providers, even, if that ends up making sense.
I used Zappa[0] and AWS Lambda to host a Flask application recently. After years of deploying Flask applications to VPSs behind Apache, I was pretty impressed by how simple it was to deploy a serverless app. Nice that there's no need to worry about security patches, OS updates, HTTPS cert renewals, etc. And so far it's waay cheaper for my usage too. If your Django app doesn't have too many dependencies, it might be worth considering. Then you can use AWS Simple Email Service (or any of the many third-party services already recommended) for the email needs.

[0] https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa
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It does not work correctly when hitting back button :(
Isn't the correct tax dodge here to use an S-corp and take all your payments through that, since Trump has also promised to slash the passthrough rate to 15%? This way would even be completely legal as far as I can tell.
The opening of the modal is being pushed to Browser history. This confuses me as I don't expect modals to be in the history.

Is this caused the way it is achieved with CSS only or is this actually wanted?
What you call a loophole most every other country in the world calls "territorial taxation." If a good is produced outside the US and sold for a profit outside the US then the US shouldn't collect taxes on the transaction.
A modern landfill is not like a landfill back then either, there's a lot of engineering that goes into it, it's not just a hole in the ground. You make it sound like no thought was given to the problem but municipal solid waste disposal is an entire science and engineering discipline.

There is room for improvement but I'm pretty ok with modern landfills. Methane capture IMO is the biggest lack. It's such a waste to let it pollute the atmosphere (at 30x the GHG potential of CO2) when you can capture it, scrub it and burn it for energy. Google says landfill gases account for about 10% of global GHG emissions.

(That's in North America, probably most of the world has woefully inadequate waste management solutions.)

It's clear there's not enough thought and resources going into preventing environmental problems but IMO landfills are not at the top of the list.

> I've recently move to the Netherlands from the UK and was amazed to discover they don't recycle household metal items

Wikipedia says metal cans are separated from regular trash (at the plant) to be recycled. It also says recycling in handled by municipalities so YMMV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling_in_the_Netherlands
Implying "Greedy companies are greedy" is bad makes little sense...

Greed is defined as:

> intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.

I've never met a person who wasn't greedy, seriously even a pastor has the intense desire for followers.

Further, it's literally only possible for a company to exist if it is greedy. How else will they pay their employees, investors, etc?

Now, we can argue some companies are "excessively greedy". However, I think that's still probably not the correct way to describe companies that shaft their employees for the bottom line. By definition being "greedy" implies "intense" or "excessive", I think a better term would be "short sighted".

A company which harms it's employees, customers, etc. and tries to get the most value is "greedy" (just as all companies are), but what makes it "bad" is the poor management.

I think the whole point of this new proposed system (aka 15% tax), is that it tips the pro's vs con's list of companies keeping money here to "pro". That's how economies work.
Hmm, I haven't built the site yet (not my expertise so somewhat putting it off) and am working on a base set of posts that cover each small topic. After that I'll throw together a site on wordpress and get them all posted.

Send me an email (in my profile) and I'll send you an update when I finish the posts (few weeks). I'd love to have someone to bounce ideas off of - and judging by your profile and comments you may be able to offer good feedback!
> Never claimed to be an expert on kernels, Rust or C.

You made strong opinion about comparing rust and c in kernel space, without knowing anything about it then? Then don't do it next time/write a disclaimer that you are not an expert like many people do or make it in form of a question.

> My position was simply that "Google does it" is not an argument in of itself.

In many cases it is, especially in highly complicated low level projects like operating system you can be sure that one of the most talented engineers in the world will work on it, ones that have required expertise, like in this case. In frontend or less "demanding" google projects quality is not always top notch but fuchsia is not one of those projects.

> That escalated to ad-hominem attacks quickly.

If you make such a bold claims, what did you expected? That I will not ask about your expertise ? You interpret asking about expertise as attack on yourself? On job interview after you are asked about experience/expertise you also say "That escalated to ad-hominem attacks" ? This is ridiculous.
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Speaking of, don't they use plastic liners to keep the pollutants out of the groundwater? Filling landfills with a chemical to break down plastic could backfire badly.
All of the bits with the exception of the customer-facing portal are already open-source:

SmartOS: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent and https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live

Triton (the orchestration around it): https://github.com/joyent/triton - this is the root repository of the project, there are many services which are linked to here: https://github.com/joyent/triton/blob/master/docs/developer-...
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I never understood this argument. I am a business owner. I optimize for personal profit, which is the profit from my business, with some percentage cut out for taxes. When I optimize my business profit, the tax rate is not part of the equation. If I find that hiring someone for $100k / year is a good thing to do for the long term profitably of the company, I will do that. If I need to spend $50k on a machine because it will save me $80k a year in costs, I'll do that. The tax rate is never an issue. It's just some fraction of my already optimized business income that I was able to bring in for the year. Whether that fraction is 15%, 25%, 50% etc makes no difference in any business decision I have previously made. (Unless of course the tax rate is 100%, then there would be no reason for me to work).
Generally speaking we have done a fairly decent job of not thinking too linearly. Eg. Moore's Law, Kurzweil's Accelerating Returns Law, Engelbart's Law...to name a few.
IIRC the Russians tried a 13% rate for a major tax and found that it worked fairly well. If you hassle enough you can get below 13% (or 15%), but hassle has its own cost.
Money that a corporation spends on hiring, buying new equipment or anything like that is completely tax deductible and always has been. Not a cent of corporate income tax has ever been paid on such things, and reducing the corporate tax rate actively DISCOURAGES such things. It encourages disinvestment in expansion, by rewarding not growing.
It's just another case of aesthetics coming before function or safety.

See airplane doors for a comparison:
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DK7AW8/airplane-door-cabin-door-on-...

Of course, there is no need to have such "ugly" or big notices, but certainly a small text "Remove cover here and pull lever to open" is doable.
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Could be the same bacteria mentioned in the Caterpillar article here:

> Scientists say that the degradation rate is extremely fast compared to other recent discoveries, such as bacteria reported last year to biodegrade some plastics at a rate of just 0.13mg a day.
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The trainers at my gym are exceptionally watchful and careful. Due to the two problems I mentioned, I'm using extremely light weights. So while I may be slowly getting more flexible, I'm not getting any kind of a workout.
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The other side of that argument is that you need people for the jobs to exist.

The idea that a "job" isn't mutually beneficial is such a preposterous talking point. America!
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i can't read this without shaking my head. boo hoo. when CEOs' compensation starts to mirror their output/tangible contribution to the company, i'll be able to take stories like this more seriously. i.e., i agree that CEOs are given far too much credit and cannot possibly be looped in on everything that leads to the successes or failures of a company, but they certainly pay themselves as if this was the case.
Yes, quite easy! I have very little android dev experience. Android integration was excellent, I had zero issues. It was easy to ship to the play store (faster and less painful than iOS. And if you need to modify something, you don't need to wait days to get it re-approved).

If you're playing "within the bounds" of what React Native provides, it's wonderful. If you're doing some fairly custom things you may need to drop down and write Native Modules ( https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/native-modules-... ), but the ecosystem is growing so fast that there are so many third party libraries that cover many of the custom things you'd want to do ( https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native )
>unborn children

The Orwellianness of this turn-of-phrase never ceases to amaze.
I imagine a lot of these sites are setup by people in developing countries. Spending a few hours a week for an extra $10/month is good money for some people.
Keep in mind that the industry is aging as a whole (and hopefully maturing in the process). So if you ask the question 10 years later, there will be a lot more developers in the 40+, 50+, 60+ buckets than today.
Thanks! That explains why the Economist here is so keen on signing up people via direct debit.
Sure, go create an S-Corp. And, to the extent that it's real business you can expense the costs of that business. But don't go try buying a boat or a snowboard or whatever and writing that off as an expense. That would be tax fraud and if you do it at a big scale you will get caught.
I think material science has advanced enough that in 99% of cases, we could find some other suitable replacement (e.g., glass, aluminum, cloth, leather), albeit at a higher cost (although perhaps lower when you account for environmental impact). I'm guessing the remaining 1% of cases are in medicine or some other advanced science.
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1. I find your app's design distracting. It is outdated and it gives me waaay too much info. Both the colors and the blurred background bug my eyes.

2. Your website shows testimonials first, then has a short banner, yadayada, then I have to watch a short video on how it works which is just a video of app in use. I'd love to know what it is first, then read testimonials, then see a demo.

3. Looking at your instagram and you should definitely hire a designer. Instagram is where your audience is and where you should be targeting with ads and growing your userbase.

4. Your "Chat" tab has some nice view numbers! That's great - maybe organise it a bit more? This could be a potential goldmine. Here's an idea. Take quotes from those essays, put them on a blank colored canvas and post on IG. Example:

"NYU is fucking amazing when you get here because it's free, interesting, the teachers are hella cool" and hashtag it with proper tags. You'll probably get some attention and when user arrives to your profile he should see what you are and how you can help him.

Also, kifler asked legit questions.
I did the same, and since the majority of my sales were generated through my own site rather than directly on the app store, it was relatively successful too.

This represents a roughly 6% cut in post-Apple revenue... on sales of our own apps. Unbelievable.
Indeed, I just didn't want to presume that nothing had changed in the past 10 years (but apparently not).
I'm 10 years older than you but feel the same way.

I would be interested in hearing from people that did make the jump to management. Why did you do it? How did it turn out? Any regrets about making the jump or for not making the jump sooner?
It may certainly be a massive resource waste compared to an idealized system where everyone chooses to selflessly cooperate. But what is going to happen to the people in your scenario who choose not to compete for control over a slice of the rock when other people continue to compete for control over a slice of the rock?
I can usually get the same effect mixing a clear sativa and a low dose of amphetamine. Good for writing, designing, coding for long hours without that tingle of builtup stress behind the curtains.
So what's stopping me from checking into r/nyu and asking a multitude people to respond?

Where is the money to be made?

What makes a freshman mentor qualified to actually talk about the breadth of a program or a career when they have little to no exposure of a full 4 year program or job-track?

There are a number of questions that aren't answered succinctly on your site (at least that 'pop-out' at me) or within your post.
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I suppose we could all just ask car companies nicely to make their cars safer. At other times though, money needs to be grabbed.
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Here you go:

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Clausing2012.pdf

"At the end of the searching, I find some evidence that suggests that corporate taxation may lower wages, but the preponderance of evidence does not suggest any wage effects from corporate taxation."
@hluska if Y Combinator cannot deal with the speed that a startup needs to move, which means things cannot be perfect, then my startup is not a good fit for them really. But as far as I know YC, they love scrappy people who put together things people love. My company is already changing people's lives by helping them get to college and thats all what matters. Screw "good english"
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Is it possible to copyright even the hardware somehow?

A lay (IANAL, IANYL, TINLA) view of existing US case law would say no. Nintendo made and then withdrew a suit against the makers of UltraHLE, an early N64 emulator. Again, withdrawn, so nothing was decided.

More interestingly, Sony tried something similar against Bleem!, a commercial Playstation emulator, in 1999. Sony lost, but the legal costs drove the company out of business anyways.

So really, if you want to develop an emulator for modern hardware without getting lawyerpwned, you have to do something like:

1) Figure out a way to dump the (copyrighted) ROM that makes the various bits of the system work. The code signing involved makes this process completely illicit per DMCA, but there's apparently no standing to sue as long as you aren't distributing the results. (And then there's that fair use exemption for discussion and education besides)

2) Either clean room reverse engineer it with help, or make the dumping process easy enough that you can instruct others how to do it. PS2 emulator devs take the second option - every PS2 emulator requires a copy of the PS2 bios to work.

3) Hardware design isn't copyrightable, so you're fine with reimplementing the CPU in code.

This means that if you want to make your hardware emulator-proof, it's just like all DRM. You are doomed to fail, it's just a matter of how long.
Absolutely correct.

For others here is a nice essay on why this is a good idea:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/10/why-we-...
> The company’s reputation suffered from cases of cyber-harassment, hate speech, and threats that appeared on Yik Yak’s platform.

Angry young white men strike again. It's one thing to be threatened by anonymous mobs on Twitter or Reddit but when you know the attackers are phisically within a mile or two things can get seriously scary.
I just hacked this together today. Disqus is really heavy and apparently uses tons of tracking services. So I figured - why not build my own?

I've been learning Golang for the past month or so too, so this was a great excercise for me.
Xiaomi is the brand you're looking for. They don't have removable battery though.

I don't understand why brands (except some chinese brands like Xiaomi) continue to make phones slimmer instead of adding a bigger battery. Does it sell better ?
> The privacy policy is clear and easy to find and understand

I disagree. A casual reading of the privacy policy gives the impression that they are not selling the contents of your inbox. There's one long, awkward sentence that technically covers it, but I don't think it's obvious what they're talking about.

This is what a clear statement would look like:

We make our money by selling the contents of the emails you receive. We will make our best effort to scrub personally identifying information from your emails, though this process is difficult and maybe even impossible in some circumstances.
At the risk of sounding disgustingly crass even though I'm being literal: I'm sure those pro-insect HNers have nuanced views towards the elimination of parasitic insects.
Occasionally wonder if the "solution" could be worse than the disease. If plastic-devouring organisms became widespread would it make plastic unsuitable for widespread use because things like car-bumpers and PVC pipe would constantly be biodegrading?