skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have yet to hear any concrete ways a corporate tax hike impacts business decisions. I tried doing some research, I found this snippet that attempts to explain it:

"Therefore, when a corporation is forced to pay high amounts of income tax, the company may not be able to grow and offer employment to new employees. In fact, one of the most common ways that corporations respond to large corporate tax hikes or new types of corporate taxes is to begin to lay off workers or employees in order to cut costs and maintain profit margins."

http://www.finweb.com/taxes/how-does-a-corporate-income-tax-...

Let's say company ABC makes lawn mowers. Corporate tax rate is 20%. They sell their lawn mowers for $200 each and cost to manufacture each unit is $150 for a $50 profit. They sell 100,000 units in a year, making $5M in profit for the year. At 20% tax, they get to keep $4 million of that. If the tax rate is suddenly bumped to 40%, then they only keep $3 million. But I don't see how that impacts any of their business decisions related to building and selling lawn mowers. Their goal is to maximize profit by building the lawn mowers as efficiently as possible and then selling as many of them at they can at some price point. Expenses and wages to do all of that are all tax deductible. The tax rate does not figure into any of these decisions. That only comes into effect at the end of the year after they've made as much profit as possible from their sales. If they respond by laying off employees, then they should have done so before the tax break, and are probably just using the tax break as an easy excuse to get rid of people they don't want working there anymore. What part of this do I have wrong?
Well, that tells us something about you. But it doesn't exactly get to the heart of why people like writing libraries for Python.

My theory: it was the first language to take a human factors approach to language design. Not the best, but the first. This design philosophy has the simple consequence that Python programs are by and large incredibly easy to read, understand, and modify, compared to its contemporaries. "Network effects" did the rest.
Thanks for sharing! Are you using this method yourself? If yes, how often, what are your impressions and results?
Pump and dump. Coins with a higher market cap feed the buying of coins with a lower market cap. As the founder of a coin you have all the initial coins since you were the only one mining (if your coin is premined, even better). Once your coin starts gaining traction, you pump up the price and then dump. Cha-ching.
But can you add DRM to your juicer if you use a manual crank!
Bold claims are dangerous.
Why was the party designation omitted from Manchin? Had he been a Republican, I'm fairly certain it would have been included.
Better would be "We securely[1] store your passwords"

blah blah...We take your privacy very seriously...blah blah...

[1] Technically, we use bcrypt with a random salt.
> I have always had great experience reaching directly to Googlers when needing connections or technical advice.

Mind sharing how you've achieved this? I haven't had the same level of success, with my couple of attempts (thus far) to try to resolve various issues falling flat.
I postulate that many more companies do this type of behavior than you realize, and the heightened attention, and entrenched competition are sure to surface every little screwup. So basically its a bit of both.
How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer (2013)
He actually did lead a project which took this on: STEPS. (I think this is the last annual report on the project: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf) They did build a functional proof of concept which was significantly smaller/less complex than Smalltalk/Squeak which were predecessor projects he and his team worked on. Unfortunately, it's not based on the trinity of files, curly brackets and semicolons so it's not likely to take the mainstream computing world by storm.
Ballmer ruined the company, not turned it around. He took something amazing and tanked it. Nadella is the example here.
What's being suggested is still a significant increase in spend for infrastructure. Self-hosting is not free. You lose economies of scale on the services. You need to hire an inhouse IT and/or infrastructure/ops team to support them. Your probability of downtime increases significantly, which comes with a cost. It's the same tradeoff you're talking about, with the only difference being the scale of cost.
I'm 52, started writing code professionally in 1985. Started my career on 68K assembler. In the 90's I was a Windows SDK developer (then COM/ATL, etc.), In 1999 started a company but chose Linux and embraced FOSS and built a company on a Lamp stack (sold it in 2014).

The only thing that can hurt you in this industry is that you stop learning and stop growing. I tell my employees to always learn something new every month. Pick something cool, learn it. This industry changes too fast to stick in one area of technology. Two years ago, nobody was talking about Node.js as being "important", now you can't see a company or startup not looking for Node/MEAN stack developers -- that's how quick this industry moves.

But hey. I am old... I use Emacs (still), but have moved to Visual Code on my Mac (with Emacs bindings of course...). I do most of my work in the ZSH, but use Bullet Train and Powerline Shell... So I embrace "new" and am open to things that make it easier and better.

Personally? How do I keep pace being the old man? I take 3-6 months off and learn a new technology. What I mean about "learn" is that I actually build an app that's useful or used by customers (people). I don't just play with something, I learn it to become productive and then move to the next thing...

Right now, I've just got to the point of feeling "productive" in Elixir. Which I think is going to be the "game changer" on the full stack side and love functional programming (after being an OO guy for what, 25 years!?)... Elixir is my new love and haven't been this excited about a stack in a long time.

Learn, learn, learn... write code, keep your brain active. Age means nothing in this field other than when you show up for an interview and the rest of the employees are wearing Skinny Jeans and you've got Dockers on.

I like to call it "Dad coding".
Yeah, but if you're reinvesting in your company, then you might be better of at 15%, even with double-taxation.

Currently, pass-through taxation applies to shareholders even if they don't take a distribution. So, rather than have shareholders pay taxes out of pocket, the company pays the dividend just to cover taxes. That's essentially a ~30% tax on the company.

If I switch to a C-corp at 15% then I can minimize dividends while in growth mode to minimize double-taxation. I then pay the much lower 15% corporate rate, leaving me with ~15% more to reinvest.
>This doesn't address the fact that pigs are no less capable of experiencing pain and distress than dogs and cats.

No but it addresses the fact that there's no underlying grand principle beyond it all.

Some animals we grew to like more, because they were useful, and we kept them around. That's all.

It's no more strange than caring for some people because they are relatives, and not caring as much (or at all) for other people.
If you have multiple ssh keys, that can easily make you run out of login attempts. I have a key per server/client pair (because I'm weird), all stuffed into my ssh-agent, so that breaks basically all logins for me.
The fool complicate the simple, while the wise simplify the complex.
as someone who can get up, walk across the room, turn off the clock, go back to bed, and not remember it, peeling off a sock that's bothering me is not going to be a challenge.
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Yes, I should have said current tax law, not tax rate, but the getting a lower rate abroad is clearly the main driver.
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To me DevOps means a shift of the traditional responsibilities of System Administrators to Software Engineers. Either Software Engineers take on all those responsibilities replacing Sysadmins or Sysadmins become programmers in order to be able to design and implement software which does what they used to do.

The point is that the Designer of the Software, now has full responsibility right through deployment and continuing while the software operates in production. This means that you can no longer fob off these responsibilities on other people and say that you are "just" a full-stack developer. It means that you must understand how your code makes use of computer hardware and virtualization systems, and design something that can reliably and smoothly be deployed into production (changes) and operated ongoing (monitoring, health boosts, etc).

AWS is just one of the ways in which code can be used to provision hardware and deploy code.

Google has a role called SRE which is really the heart of DevOps. They HAVE TO do this due to scale, but even smaller organizations should learn from Google SRE best practices because this is the future of ALL computing.

In fact, it is already at the point where software engineers who have never handled hardware (IOT, Raspberry Pi, Micro:Bit) are obsolete even if you are just graduating from college in June.

Multicore CPUs with multiple cache levels, shared RAM, control over which cores are active and how fast they run. GPUs. The Von Neuman model of a computer is long past.

Today there is a new definition of computer. It is a network of processing units, storage units, and communication links which can be made to work together to do useful work.

Note that this definition includes a single 4-core Intel i7 chip, and all of AWS. Distributed computing is no longer something that happens between your computers, it also happens inside them.
I agree, the doubt plays an important role.
You're plainly misinformed. According to the most recent Go developer survey, only 12% of respondents use an IDE; the rest use text editors (in fact, more people use vim specifically than all IDEs combined). Developing Go without an IDE is quite feasible. The particularities of IDEs which make them more productive than text editors are artifacts of the poor project system found in most languages. If you fix the problem at its root, you're free to reap the efficiencies of a proper editor instead of the mediocre one that comes bundled with your IDE.

Of course your conclusion that IDEs are more somehow productive than text editors is completely baseless (or perhaps only based on experience with Java and the like).
You know it can be both...
Maybe they will, maybe not.

Before it happened, software developers need to choose whichever GPU API works best for their particular project.

Personally, I have not developed games for several years.

For the last 1.5 years, I’ve been working on a CAD/CAM software. Traditionally people use OpenGL for this area. I have picked D3D 11 instead. The renderer is reasonably sophisticated; there are many complex shaders in there. The software is now used by thousands customers worldwide, and yet there were very few rendering-related bugs so far.
It just shows it is a low priority, and they don't want people to see the footage because it makes BART look bad.
Using Sequences in PostgreSQL
I noticed you replied to me twice (once here and once in another subthread), saying you'd spent time looking and "wasted [your] life". You also seem to be going further down the road of ad-hominem, describing the author of the first article I wrote as an "NRA spokesman". You seem ideologically driven and therefore unlikely to listen. But here goes anyway:

"Vigilante Mobilization and Local Order: Evidence from Mexico"

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/522fc0aee4b06bf96fa60...

> Our empirical approach traces the sources of recent self-defense groups to the early twentieth cen- tury Cristero rebellion and, using an instrumental variables approach, we show that contemporary community mobilization has succeeded in reducing a broad range of crimes.

Also I note that you're pushing back against my statement regarding things being swept under the rug (e.g., your statements about "somehow" this making it to the news). Did you also notice that the link to this article is gone from the HN front page? My intuition is that the public in general is going to turn a blind eye to this topic, until they can't any more (that's usually when something really bad happens). Note again that I am very unhappy with that idea and wish it were not so, but it strikes me as unfortunately very likely. I'd love to be wrong, but I see nothing to indicate otherwise. There is always hope I suppose.
Sounds like a good approach
It makes the world better by not attempting to draw a legal distinction based on somebody's internal motives.

That's called mens rea and it's how, for example, various types of murder and accidental death are distinguished. It's kind of a core element of western jurisprudence...
There's several nerves in your foot and the shell sits below the arch of your foot, it wakes you up immediately!
What loopholes exactly?
Trump's got your fingerprints, homeboy!
His critical error is evident in his comparative analysis that places Physics and Programming on the same level. The systems that underly natural sciences are givens. The entire kettle of soup of software complexity boils on the fact that software engineering must first create the 'terra firma' of computing. That is the root cause of the complexity in software: it lacks a physics.
The $400 is fine. I got a factory refurb model but Vitamixes are in that sort of range. However Vitamixes can just use random fruit and vegetables including prepared versions from the produce department and freezer section of the grocery store.

I agree that it's the $400 + juice packs + nanny scans. Making smoothies isn't a big deal. And if you're willing to trade off a few $$ for a little prep effort savings there are tons of options--including ingredient subscription services.
Who are these hiring managers who demand certifications? I feel like I'm missing something.
In other words, every hack is legal?
Personally identifiable using unique Lyft identifiers.
Molding parts with uniform thickness is tricky enough - without great tooling design and the perfect temperature/pressure settings, you'll get hot spots, flow lines and all sorts of visual defects in your part. Varying thicknesses make achieving these "Apple-like" levels of perfection in the plastics even more difficult, thanks to the fact that the material will cool and change shape at different rates.
Most men would rather shock themselves than be alone with their thoughts (2014)
Ha, this was one of the last sites I expected a link to the Netherlands Bach Society. They are a very nice group and doing great work!
It starts with "M" and ends with "oney."
There will always be specialties because humans naturally gravitate towards subsets of any field of endeavor, and because computing has grown too vast for one person to master all of it. The real change over the past couple of decades is that we have developed enough of the technical tools and libraries to automate system admin and operations, that the foundations of the whole field have shifted. We need to start out as being DevOps Engineers and specialize on that base.
It's a voronoi + boids visualization that flocks around the mouse (and each other).

In honesty though, it's literally eye cancer ;P
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Lyft should have a good case. A few years ago, there was case where one company had their employees calling the support line of another company (think it was the cable industry) to tie up support and resources that were meant for real customers.
So, the title does say these are examples of structure & algorithms, and doesn't claim to be "pythonic". But why do you feel like using iterators makes it more "pythonic" than not using iterators? Is your list implementation more concise or better expressed? Does it handle cases the article doesn't?

The code in the repo looks pythonic to me. This one looks pythonic to me. http://stackoverflow.com/a/283630/1424242
Couldn't he have compiled his go code with assembly output and edited the resulting file? Wouldn't that have saved a lot of struggle with the format?

go tool compile -S -S file.go
I think a series-wound motor would be cheaper than a custom high voltage DC motor. I'm not sure about the power output tradeoffs, though.
> I made art obsessively.

It's amazes me how the more control over the creation process someone gets, the more passionate he usually becomes. I've observed this and vice versa in myself and others so many times.
God says...
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Put all your RFID access cards into one (2012)
From the code name of these projects from Uber: Heaven(God View) / Hell, you can pretty much tell this company thinks it's playing god.

This is terrifying and must be stopped!
You can only compress to a certain level. For example, you can't compress a sufficiently random bitstream because there are no patterns. See also information theory.

I wrote a game for programmers about 5 years ago that used a toy proof-of-storage system. It gave as many 1GB blobs to players as requested, picked random chunks and stored checksums of those. The player doesn't know which chunks have been picked.

Some hours later you could start the challenge that you still have the file and the system challenged you to send the checksum of the chunks it picked. If you could answer this, you obviously still have the file and got points.

This allowed the system to force a player to store 1GB of data while the verification only needed some bytes of storage.
Both of the example famous people could become "verbified" quite easily.
Interesting brochure coming from Southampton University today: "Please don't buy an Electric car." The brochure is for their Electronic and Electrical Engineering programme.

"Did you know that if 1/3 of us charged our current petrol cars for comparable electric vehicles and plugged them in to charge overnight, then the electricity supply network couldn't cope and we'd either have power cuts or may be told to switch everything off?"

Then it explains:
"Currently all our power stations (UK), working flat out, can generate about 70 GW electricity and this figure is dropping as older and less efficient stations are closed down.

"Imagine 10 million cars all charging at the same time - that's already 80,000 million watts - more than we can generate. We'd have to switch off everything in our houses and keep the power stations all on full power!"

Edit typo.
Any app can do that without violating Apple's rules.

Actually, no, doing so specifically violates Apple's rules. That's the entire point.

That "any app can do that" is tautological... it's not like Uber's app is special in this regard.

There are many things an app can do that violate the ToS. Normally that stuff is caught during app acceptance... Unless the vendor sneakily bypasses the rules by disguising the functionality, as Uber did here.
>700bucks for abag squeezer? Something went terribly wrong.

700 bucks for an Internet of Things bag-squeezer with analytics data generated from your consumption and easy re-use of containers.

I've seen at least three or four other start-ups that could be called "Juicero for X". The interesting question is: for what sorts of products do the economics really work out? I don't want to imply everything on this template will fail, even if Juicero... can't be expected to make a healthy profit.
> Starting a company is not really popular here

Since I'm also German, I would like offer a different reason. I frequently observe people on HN talking about their "side projects", where they build a simple app or website in their spare time, and people are willing to pay a dollar a month or so, which (when summed over maybe 1000 users) makes for a decent secondary income.

When I consider such a model for myself (just as exploratory thought because I don't have a nice side project idea ATM) it quickly devolves into a nightmare where I spend all my free time filling out tax report forms so that the Finanzamt can collect taxes on my maybe 100 euros per month.

Maybe that's a misconception and it's much easier to operate a side business as a one-man show, but that's the mental image in my head, and that's also the main reason why I would be quite reluctant to even consider just a side project.
I'm not sure that a Lyft driver suing has as much bad potential for Uber as a class action of former Uber drivers. Given the reported churn there's likely a significant pool of those drivers, and since Uber apparently considers both Lyft and McDonald's as competitors, it seems likely that many of them are not feeling wealthy.

IIRC the previous coverage noted that Uber was providing incentives to drivers who were using both systems, including both bonuses and steering passengers to the both-systems drivers to incentivize them to drop Lyft and only drive for Uber. The corollary of that is that there are a bunch of Uber-only drivers and former drivers who had their incomes hurt by Uber's redirection of profitable fares to 2-system drivers. THAT may be actionable, and a class action of former drivers seems like it wouldn't be that hard to put together.
It's so cool that you released this library. I suppose that it works better on Nvidia than your ClojureCL library?
https://m.xkcd.com/1827/
I have been very, very happy with Webfaction for about 7 years now. Great support for Django. Basically everything you could ask for in a shared hosting solution. $10/m. They also offer non-shared plans from $20/m.

SSH access (even on the shared plan) is the killer feature for me. I also really appreciate the simplicity of their approach (domains + applications = websites).

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This is a warped idea of what is actually happening. It is not about making developers take on old-style system operations tasks. It is about eliminating those old-style tasks. Nowadays, this is really possible. We can build self-healing software and even something old like Nagios can alleviate most of the on-call type work of the past.
How would you, given what you know now, do this better? Not saying you can't, just curious what your experience has taught you to do differently.
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