skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will also allow returning raw strings (TextNodes), which will allow for some very light i18n libraries.
> The U.S. retirement system looks more even-handed if you include in the analysis all government benefits received and all taxes paid by Americans after age 50.

This graph shows a roughly flat benefits-less-revenue per quintile, but is still disingenuous because it ignores revenue from under age 50. Social security payouts start as early as 62 — so this only factors in 12-20 working years and ignores the first 28-32 working years. I would guess the higher quintiles at 50 also paid more in Social Security taxes during their younger working years.

I suspect a lifetime graph of benefits less revenue would show the system is still progressive, if not as progressive as it was 30 years ago.

Either way — the headline statement, "Wealthy Americans Consumer Disproportionately More Social Security," is false.
Also: The new UI freezes up a lot.

And when I try to log in from my linux laptop, it tells me I need a more modern browser (because my Chrome is a single year out of date?).

But it's correct in telling me to use a different browser: LinkedIn (and only LinkedIn) crashes constantly otherwise.
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> US police are highly trained to stop a criminal with force, and rarely focus on de-escalation.

I think this has the largest part of the blame, even though I agree with a lot of the rest you wrote too.

I live in the UK. We called the police in conjunction with an ongoing assault near our house. About five minutes later there were at least 8 police officers on the scene, slowly and calmly surrounding the suspect. Nobody ever raised a hand, and he quickly surrendered.

It always stands out to me in stark contrast whenever I see reports about US police.
Genuinely confused about this morality. Why is it more correct that the officers "went home to their families" than that this innocent guy died in front of his?

I mean, I can understand arguing that sometimes protective violence is necessary and accepting that tragedies happen. But you're literally taking a side here and saying that police lives are more important than ours. Why?
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Every stimulator drug always backfires. I won't be surprised if the subjects of research will go into deep depression and productivity slump once they stop microdosing therapy.
Agreeing with ajross above. Indeed, Chris disclosing his legal strategy may prove unwise to his own case, but his experience is becoming common enough to be relevant to anyone who may observe (what they think to be) police misconduct.
>If you want to go around pointing your phone at everything, you need to stop and think about the consequences.

You should be embarassed of this comment.

>I'd prefer the officers went home to their families.

I'd prefer that unarmed, innocent civilians went home to their families.
There are no good people, only good systems. The German people didn't turn into monsters in 1938 and become decent people at the end of 1945, they were just participants in a broken system. The Rwandans didn't suddenly become the worst people in the world for a few months in 1994. Perfectly decent people are capable of utterly abhorrent things if their environment is sufficiently toxic.

US police officers aren't bad people, they're just poorly trained and held to very low standards of accountability. They do bad things because they're operating in a system that incentivises them to do bad things.
$125000 is above the 90th percentile for individual income.

People making that are doing pretty well in relative terms.

I guess the cutoff for 'wealthy' is often higher than that though.
Thank you for the references.
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I worked for one of these outfits for a summer job. I needed the money and they seemed alright on the outside.

There was a strange obsession regarding looking official and academically legitimate, to the point where they would attempt to recruit professors to do the peer-reviewing, then override what they said in the final "edit" stage of the review and approve the submission anyway. Since it was anonymous, there was no way to tell if "Reviewer 3" was actually bumped or just that someone else got to that submission first.

That said, their business model was a bit different. They weren't open-access: they made their money selling conferences (which were mandatory to attend if you wanted your paper to actually get published in the journal).

Often, they would resell gifts from the venue such as comped hotel rooms and airport shuttles at above market prices to the attendees as well as part of a "package." As well, the venues usually also matched where-ever the founder wanted to go on vacation.

Out of paranoia as much as cost-cutting, they ran the offices very lean and centralized authority in the founder and his family. They probably would have had a more successful operation had they gotten good lieutenants who were better capable of maintaining the facade. My local university used to warn people off of publishing with them by name, which I thought was a remarkable step considering the precarious state of Canadian libel law.

Other staff was mostly early-stage "green card"-esque workers who they would hold the threat of dismissal over their heads (forcing those workers to rush to get a new job before they timed out and had to leave the country) and students like myself.

The year before I got there, they had a major publicity crisis in which they took substantial heat in academic circles for basically auto-publishing plagiarized articles from anybody with an email address. Part of my work was integrating one those "turn it in" style plagiarism detectors into their submission funnel.

By the end of the summer they were in deep with the tax authorities from a backlog of unpaid taxes; the founder bragged to me that he considered paying corporate income tax a kind of "game" in which the penalties for losing were insubstantial. I'm sure by now the penalties have grown in seriousness, though the last time I looked them up they still seem to be publishing journals and hosting conferences.

It was a good lesson for me about what to look out for in the future when trying to select a small business/team to work for.
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That also misses the point since benefits are directly tied to lifetime contributions, not earnings. Double the cutoff and you would double someone's contributions.

The feature that does make social security progressive it's the diminishing contribution to benefit ratio a lifetime contributions increase.
Or is it because the school allows us to force kids to listen to things that adults would walk away from? These classes are never aimed at university students or other young people, just the captive audience of a gradeschool classroom. I question the effectiveness of any scheme that can only fly in such controlled environments.
Single income of $127,000 is 93rd percentile in the US.

Given that, sure, the top 7% or 1% or the 0.1% don't fund SS proportionately (but they also do not receive higher benefits than the people at exactly $127,000).

The article isn't really talking about the 0.1% or 1%, though, which is a tiny portion of SS payouts, but instead the top 20% or 40% (top quintiles).
Yes and no -- you could also get away with passing the state down from a higher-level component. This does break down quickly, but if your app isn't too complicated, it can be enough for the first version. (Certainly, if I was unfamiliar with React, I would try this before integrating another library like Redux.)
She already started asking tough questions about mortality at a disturbingly-young age (like: two). Fortunately she's decided all on her own that reaching old age leads to some kind of reincarnation (she seems certain that at some point after I get old I'll be a kid again and can play with toys and go to school and such, for instance), so her psyche is safe for now. No need to throw any more curveballs her way. We're right on the edge as it is, haha.
I don't know. It just doesn't. If I vote offline, go online and then refresh the page, I can see that it did not count the votes.
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There is a bit of truth to that. England and Wales had about 10 murders per million people last year, versus 50 per million for the U.S. The cities that show up in the news, like Baltimore, are at about 500 per million people.

To put that into perspective: Baltimore, a city of just 620,000 people, had a roughly comparable number of homicides as the entirety of England and Wales, a country of 56 million people.
I'm fairly sure you're being ironic, but I don't think it comes through in text very well.
If a paper is published after 2010 and the corresponding author's email is from a free service (gmail, yahoo, yandex) or is not from an institution that is a university or firm with an R&D department, you shouldn't trust the journal or the paper.

It's a simple litmus test and while it generates many false negatives, there are almost zero false positives.

EDIT: At least, for biomedical papers... can't speak for other fields
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Many states/counties have a property tax on airplanes. But compared to other costs (insurance, maintenance, fuel) it's a drop in the bucket.
you're describing the American cultural wasteland that is the suburbs and exurbs. These communities are drowning because their local vitality has been subsumed by giant national corporations that clone themselves over and over again into every community they operate in. The result is a national monoculture where everyone is worse off. On the plus side, though, your toilet paper costs about 15% less than it used to.
Erlang itself is pretty hard to find work in, though not impossible.

That said, it's an interesting platform that is a lot of fun, and its concepts can be applied to a lot of different platforms. Its inherent "treat everything as a self-contained service" turns out to be a fairly useful way to structure applications.
>To be fair, it probably looked like a gun from a distance.

Maybe we could train police to distinguish between rela guns and from the multitude of other things that people might hold. Maybe we could even give them binoculars or something.
That doesn't change the fact that people making $19k a year are paying more taxes proportionately than someone making $400k a year, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Are you suggesting someone makes less money so they pay less taxes? or are you just trying to change the subject?
> "There are no good people, only good systems."

Nice quote. Can you recommend some reading on this topic?
Here are the most recent videos in the playlist linked in that post. Parts one and two of a 'confrontation' with Officer Hans Chapman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDtsXYG9b9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWkefVqO9vw

Basically, a couple of guys looking to provoke a reaction, and a cop who interacts with them respectfully and is primarily concerned for everyone's safety.

I wonder how similar the scenario described in the post was to the videos in that playlist...
Profile viewing options > Private mode will let you do that. You lose your own "who's looked at your profile", but that seems like a fair tradeoff.
I of course use vim-javascript. This didn't fix the issue for me. An issue with the color scheme I use I suppose.
Why building live location features requires more than maps APIs
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one thing not mentioned here but hinted at is tolerance -

The 4 day window between doses hinted at is pretty much required in order to have anywhere near the same effect with the same quantity so doing this in a regular way is more like 'regular chemical therapy' a couple times a week than a 'morning pick me up' like cofee

not sure how tolerance builds over the long run - so could be wrong here if it actually plateus; that said probably not the best idea to be on LSD every single day if even in small doses..
One reporter at The Hill says it's just a scare about the government shutdown https://twitter.com/Timothy_Cama/status/856480767815421952
Can you even do that legally?

Here drug lab, I have an illegal drug. Can you test it for me and tell me if it is really the illegal drug I wanted?
In real life, there is only "do not shoot the firearm" and "shoot the firearm with the intent to kill". There is no practical aiming to disable or similar with a lethal firearm. There's no difference between the two, and no distinction to be drawn.
You realize the median income in the US is about $52k, right? For an entire household. The SS tax cutoff is more than double that for an individual earner. So yes, they really do disproportionately fund Social Security, even with the cap. They just don't fund it in direct proportion to total earnings.
I'm also in awe of the universe, but I come away encouraged. Psalm 8 looks at these same thoughts from a different perspective. We are infinitesimally small, but not unknown.
Aka NASA's gentle reminder to clean my monitor. Amazing image.
I know, I'm "holding it wrong". I don't care who's "fault" it is, I just don't have the energy to try and figure it out.
The core issue is that sugar crm uses PHP built in `unserialize` on user controlled input, and they don't want to switch to json ostensibly because of performance issues.

Why don't they hmac the payloads (with a timestamp and something tied to the user (an ID, the username, whatever)) and verify the hmac before deserializing?Verifying an hmac prevents undetected tampering, is fast, and there are libraries for it in ~every language.
Assuming that your enemy is crazy is intellectual laziness. However, there really are crazy people in the world. Some occupy positions of power. Do you deny either part of that? When the craziness is thoroughly proven it's not lazy to recognize it. You know what is lazy? Assuming that someone's not crazy, or assuming that an interlocutor is jumping to conclusions. Turn that lens on yourself first, not last.
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Here's the rub though: if you pay for premium you can turn on private mode and still see who's looked at your profile.
I volunteer at the local park with events, gardening, maintenance and cleanup and generally try to be useful. I'm there 3 times a day walking my dogs anyway so its pretty much my back yard and a good way to show my appreciation for it because it really changed my experience of New York for the better.

The best part is I've had to deal with a lot of people from all walks of life, especially during large events and it's helped me become a much better and present communicator. I've never had a knack for small-talk but this has really changed since forcing myself into situations where I have to get out from behind my computer, chat with people and build a rapport with the community. This has translated into professional benefits too and I've become much more comfortable giving presentations and speaking to audiences - something I couldn't have imagined a couple of years ago!

I'm also part of a dog rescue organization and am regularly trying to find forever homes for abused, neglected or death-row dogs. Animals don't have a voice of their own and i'm very particular about placement so its been fulfilling to know these doggos have ended up in a better situation after often cruel starts by human hands.
Seems like the guy calls himself a "copchaser" and is used to actuallly chase police officers, annoyingly record their action and make sure to insult them while teaching them a lesson about how to do their job. And he calls all that "standing his ground".

I am sure police officers can be jerks or even completely criminals, but this guy really seems to be crossing the line of common sense.

Source: the YT channel himself posted https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgnVXppkmzBKfTOwe-KqAJQ/vid...
It's been a while, but I think my best time on expert was 63s.
Pitfalls of location streams as interface for building live location features
There's a difference between "don't try to learn Redux until you understand React", and "don't use Redux right away when you start building an app".

For most people, trying to learn to "think in React" is a pretty big jump, especially if they're coming from an imperative, jQuery-style background. Throwing in Redux's concepts at the same time is usually too much for most people, especially if they're relatively inexperienced programmers. So, the standard advice from both the React and Redux teams is to focus on learning React first. Once you have a good understanding of how React works, you will better appreciate why a state management library like Redux can be useful, and you can learn about other tools later.

On the other hand, if you are familiar with Redux, it does make a lot of sense to set it up from the beginning. I've been writing a tutorial series called "Practical Redux" ( http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/series/practical-redux/ ) , which is intended to demonstrate a variety of useful React and Redux techniques in the context of a sample app. In that series, I create a new project using Create-React-App, and then immediately add Redux into it as a baseline.

Overall, what Dan is trying to push back against is the perception that you _must_ use Redux with React, or that you _must_ learn them both at the same time. Neither is true.
Yes, really. The presence of vast numbers of firearms in the country isn't the relevant statistic, it's the frequency with which police face situations requiring the use of their firearm. The latter barely happens.

Are US police at a relatively much higher risk of encountering an armed suspect than police in countries with less firearms? Hell yes! Is that rate of encounters "high". Nope.
Counterpoint:
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta-rs/+/88580e68f95830...

Google does use rust in the user layer of Fuchsia.
I love that they actively try to hire convicts for a job that involves cutting keys. Im sure it is a non-issue in reality, i just laugh at the irony.

I wonder if they would be more or less likely to cut me a set of bump keys if asked?
The benefits received compared to income taxed slopes downward pretty dramatically within the range of income that is subject to FICA taxation. The Primary Insurance Amount is currently 90% of the first $885/mo, 32% of the next $4451/mo, and 15% of the amount above that. So Social Security will replace most of a low-income person's income during retirement (and it's also tax free for those people) but will replace a much smaller proportion of a higher income person's income despite the latter having paid more taxes to fund SSI.
If more people knew "about how [this particular] government actually worked", there would be more political assassinations. Fortunately there are other less drastic options, but we'll have to ignore you and your "best of all possible worlds" bullshit to effectively pursue them.

What really blows my mind is that all these self-described "progressives" have decided this particular monstrous warmonger is the line they won't abide crossing. Have you ever actually listened to a single thing HRC said?
He says pretty early on that what he actually got was a disorderly conduct charge.

Edit: Hey -> He
The problem is current Android OS allows app to creep in and stays in the background doing all sort crazy things.

This is a key reason Apple sells. Google's new Android One (or whatever its called) is aimed to change just that. Until then, your hope of an energy efficient Android phone is next to none.

At current stage of mobile technology, mobile OS needs to be resourceful, power efficient which must be a higher priority than any fancy features demanded by consumer. Android community in their urge of competing for market share, has pushed it too far to the extent Apple has to be careful not fall far behind on the features, yet who lost in this race? You.
Wikipedia[0] seems to indicate that Baltimore is about on par with Venezuela and Lesotho, as far as murders per capita go, matching the US Virgin Islands' rate quite well.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
I used to volunteer as a paramedic.

I learned a lot about medicine and I got to see quite a few, mostly not so happy facets of life. It definitely was a worthwhile experience and a fulfilling task. It also still pays off in everyday life. Medical emergencies in public are surprisingly common and it's good to be able to help.
It's too bad that more of them don't have better military training where you are trained to not start shooting wildly in stressful and dangerous situations. Being a cop is not that dangerous of a job in America. Being a farmer or a roofer is far more deadly. Being a dog catcher is a more dangerous job than being a cop, and you don't hear story after story of them shooting indiscriminately at dogs. Cops should not be killing and injuring so many people, and the only way that is going to stop is if they are held accountable.
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the hospital and its staff are worse off in that they are using products that aren't the best available. the hospital is also worse off in that it is effectively blocked from pursuing innovations in medical device technology because it is obligated to only buy medical devices supplied by the monopolist.
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There is no benefit cap, just a progressive rate. At low lifetime contributions, you get 90% benefit compared to contribution. As you increase your contribution this moves up to marginal rates of 32 and 15%.
and who decides what is a better product and on what basis? a `better` product isn't always what a consumer wants - value for money is a thing.
I think it is dangerous as well.
Alphabet has shown to more interested in political power than principles.

From Eric directly being involved in the clinton campaign.
https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...
http://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-su...

And now google donating money to Trump.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/21/google-donated-285000-to-t...

Plus we know the amount of pressure PRISM and the other intelligence agencies can put on Silicon Valley companies.
You can add more blades which changes things somewhat, but the transition point is around ~10lb with 30m of flight time. So, any man sized flying machine is going to quickly cross that threshold.
He did. He says it was disorderly conduct, and that it will likely be changed anyway. The whole point is that the disorderly conduct charge was "trumped up" because he was filming them. I don't really see the title as click bait at all. I'm not saying we're hearing the whole story here, either, but I think it's a little extreme to call this click bait. And if it bothers you so much, why didn't you explain the charges in your comment?
Although you were downvoted, it would be interesting to understand why that is.

I'm guessing he was down-voted for the language, not the meaning.
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The dose for Bromo-DragonFLY is still fortunately too large to fit on a 1/4 x 1/4 inch piece of blotter paper (EDIT: Actually, after looking into this a bit more, I'm not so sure about this statement. I'll defer to someone with more knowledge, but until then take what I've said with a grain of salt.). It sounds like a primitive methodology, but in the absence of a testing kit, this small-sized blotter paper is a pretty sure sign that you have real LSD.

If you are offered larger blotter paper, it is very likely to be one of the NBOMe drugs, which are also not so safe in comparison to LSD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25I-NBOMe
Ask HN: what is LinkedIn's value? I hate almost all forms of social media. What value gave all y'all gained?