skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S&P 500...
Via index fund. Vanguard for ex
Yes, we'll be safe from the direct effects of CO2 increases. But the indirect effects could be much more severe. That's the interesting part of the problem, we don't have accurate models of all the side effects. Ecosystems are complicated and fragile.
>Income from land is thus completely unearned and thus any income gained from land ownership should be completely taxed at 100%.

That pretty much sums up the article. This is a horrible idea and will never happen.
I feel like I'm failing an IQ test here. I assumed he meant 100% tax on rent, but then there's this line:

>Owners of valuable land would be forced to make maximum use of land with higher density rentals in order to make sufficient rental income to pay the land tax.

What would the 100% be on exactly?
I don't have an opinion on the 'built in Bangalore' part, but I know Viral (live in the same apartment block and run across him occasionally and talk tech) and can confirm he is quite the agent of change. In addition to being immensely talented of course.

In a world of people trying to puff themselves up, Viral Shah is very understated and humble and flies somewhat under the radar. Good to see his contributions are getting more publicity.
Maybe this can make antibiotics work better.
I can't tell whether this is satire, like "A Modest Proposal".
Could you explain why it's a horrible idea?

Merely asserting it isn't the same as refuting the article (which lays out some arguments) and doesn't really add anything to the discussion.
As someone who is paid to do .Net development, I'm continually disappointed by the .Net ecosystem. .Net core SHOULD be awesome, but I'm not seeing much movement in it the areas I particularly care about (like the SDK for our ECM, database drivers for the IBM i) as well as the larger open source ecosystem.

Honestly, I'm much happier writing stuff in Java or Python than I am .Net - both have substantially healthier ecosystems and I feel like I'm getting work done BECAUSE of my tools rather than in spite of them. I have to suck it up at work most of the time because we are a ".Net shop", but any personal projects I work on will likely never be done in C# unless it's a Windows desktop app.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this one:

> Steve Jobs in particular is a company
"Isolation affects alcohol tolerance in crayfish" is not just an observation. An observation would be "Crayfish #5 has behavior X".

You are conflating two different definitions of explain. It is possible to explain what is happening without explaining how. It is possible to know that A causes B without knowing why (This is purpose of the scientific method). If it were actually impossible to have evidence that something is true without knowing why it is true, than it would be impossible to have evidence of anything at all. You could invalidate any knowledge by just asking "why", because there is always another "why". To give an example, we know that mass causes gravitational attraction even though we don't fully understand the mechanism that causes it.
What would you like to see in a next generation issue trackers, search, or build solution?
This is basically Wikipedia. Wikipedia gives you the consensus view on pretty much every area of human knowledge. People who reject Wikipedia as a reliable source would reject the solution you propose as well.
thanks, any links to new stuff
While I agree that Vagrant isn't 100%, the biggest source of our issues with Vagrant have actually been with VMware Fusion. VMware has lots of issues with managing its state. 8.x has a long-standing issue with port forwarding rules getting stuck, so some of us downgraded to 7.x just to get productive again.

The whole reason we migrated to VMware, about 3 years ago, was that we were using Virtualbox and being really bothered by the issues with it, things like corruption of files accessed through the shared folder mounts, that weren't being addressed. It's exasperating how brittle this VM stuff is.

Personally, I'd love a slimmer Linux-only solution based on Xhyve or Apple's Hypervisor.framework. I don't really want a Vagrantfile, I just want a low-level tool that I can drive from a wrapper, which we need anyway. Both Docker for Mac and Minikube now uses Xhyve, with great results.

We're slowly migrating our stack over to Kubernetes. Building with Docker for Mac is great, and Minikube seems really promising.
Constant curiosity and learning are two of the things I love about software development... Most people gain and hone knowledge and experience in a particular sector or industry, and usually not very broad. With software development you hone your own craft, with a breadth of knowledge, experience, tools and techniques. You will be exposed to project management knowledge and techniques as well. But beyond all of this, in a career you will have the ability to work with any number of industries and areas of business. From eLearning materials for aircraft engines to business security in banking. It's an incredible opportunity.

The one thing I have learned, is I'm not very interested in pursuing traditional management roles... I've dipped my toes in and hated it. But being able to work with some amazing people, be challenged by very opposing views and ideas and the opportunity to constantly learn from all angles is incredible.

The work itself is often rather mundane, but what you get out of it isn't just the process of making something work.
California is a big state. Los Angeles is in a desert portion of the state. I have not researched where alfalfa is primarily grown but that is important information. You can see alfalfa test plots on this map are not in desert portions of the state. You can also see how much of the state is not a desert.
http://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-images/variety_map.gif

Buying in bulk is different than buying just enough to drink. A bottle of water for $5 at a movie for example.

Maybe the price of water in LA primarily covers infrastructure, not water. Their water does come from hundreds of miles away.
On my phone call it was very awkward because I am spending lots of time helping them, sending multiple PoCs. But I think it improper to ask for money. Maybe if would count as blackmail. So I didn't. Also their ONLY goal, as per article, was to make me STFU. So this is why talks quickly got boring.
Whatever is cheap, they all look the same to me.
> Rural land and average suburban land would be taxed at low rates because that land is comparatively cheap.

How would we know what the value of that land is? Does some assessor come around and place an "expert opinion" sticker price on that land?
Found this: https://github.com/jbenet/nanotime. No idea if related in any way or used for APFS but it was interesting enough for a quick read. This one is MIT licensed. A little more searching I found a variant but it's done with big-endian so it's much different.
How does this compare to Dask, Luigi or Airflow?
Mountaintop removal is still done pretty often because it's the economically cheapest way to do it, damn the economic, social, and environmental consequences of that action.
Sites with SHA1 certs.
What do you want me to tell you? I agree with you: they don't care. It didn't appear to matter for their outcome. They WONTFIXed a CSRF. Are you shocked?
I don't think this is a good solution. Where is the incentive for anyone to maintain properties anymore?

"Owners of valuable land would be forced to make maximum use of land with higher density rentals in order to make sufficient rental income to pay the land tax."

I don't see how this follows if all income is taxed at 100%.

The correct solution is to eliminate NIMBYism by eliminating the ability for homeowners to restrict the construction of new buildings so that new housing can be built. Rent control should also be eliminated, allowing demand to match supply.
My guess (and I´m ok it's not what is in the article) is that taxes should be on benefits and not on land surface. A 100% tax on benefits mean that there are no need to overprice the rent once all maintenance costs are paid.

And then there will be no more interest in renting. Just own your piece of land.

And then all collapse.
It's not a horrible idea. It's an old idea that's been popular with various economists including (gasp) Adam Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

(I don't know enough about this subject to have a strong opinion either way, but I feel pretty confident saying that this isn't a terrible idea)
Still, thanks for sharing. Research ethics is always something I'm interested to read.
The real sin here is not just the geoIP, but the patronizing "we will decide for you, lowly user" tone of many sites: they do not just inflict you with an arbitrary language, but make it difficult or impossible to undo.

If you take an UI decision on the user's behalf, then you acknowledge you could be wrong and always offer an option or drop-down menu (at the top of the page, not hidden anywhere else) to correct it, to me that's just basic UX.
How do they pass a 100% tax on net income on?

Raising the rent more (to offset the tax) generates new taxes in exactly the amount raised.

Now, I'm sure they'll just layer it through a few steps to avoid the tax (like outrageously priced management services they happen to own), but I'm not seeing how they'd (directly) pass the tax on.
> 99% [1] of the applications/programs on the computer are not localized.

I just took a survey of the apps in my dock - 8 out of 12 third party apps are localized into the UI language of my computer (Japanese). This is on the Mac though, things might be more dire on Windows.
What a wonderful development. I can't imagine trying to do so from an Intel PDF manual! [0]

[0]: https://github.com/google/CPU-instructions
Slightly different products. Water made available to a farmer, as in the farmer is allowed to pump it out of a local river, is different than clean and sanitized water delivered on demand through the tap in your downtown loft kitchen. The bottled water sold to passengers at 30,000 feet over the pacific en route to Japan is also a fundamentally different product. Water pricing is all about time and place, not necessarily volume.
> what exactly is going to stop the company that owns the 50-unit apartment building that I live in from passing that tax directly onto me and the other tenants via rent?

Competition. Your landlords are already charging as much as they can get away with.

> And how does this help my parents, who own land and have completely paid off their house?

The enormous pool of money raised could help fund public healthcare and social security programs that they would benefit from.

> Should they, age 60 and 80, start working the land to produce a profit to offset the tax? Should I come back and start having more kids to work the farm?

If they own a farm but don't want to do anything with the land, they should probably downsize to a smaller property, yes?
The path is a bit roundabout but it makes sense.

The point is to make underutilized land uneconomical to keep that way. Landowners can no longer just sit on land that's not generating revenue. To generate revenue they will build more housing. The economics of supply and demand with additional supply will make housing cheaper more than additional taxes passed on to tenants will make it more expensive.
That is a communist bullshit.

To begin with, is there a housing crisis in America? In my books, there is more housing per capita in U.S. than in every other country of the world save for Australia, and it is also more modern that almost everywhere else except a few countries that built out from nothing in the recent years like China (but per capita housing stock is much much lower there, and that housing is Soviet-style apartment blocks).
Why every Indian programmer has a burdon to prove that he/she is not an IT coolie ? How's is that less racist than some redneck assuming all black people are thugs ?
As in 'i misplaced my book and i want geo locate it', or 'I need to find this textbook to purchase'? You should skip the students and work toward relationships with campus bookstores, community colleges, trade schools perhaps, and show them why their students should be encouraged to use your app.
Let's start by all agreeing that the proposal to tax land at 100% (of what?) is a bit nutty and not going to happen. Possibly this is satire. Poe's Law.

But toned down, would an increased, progressive tax on land ownership have positive benefits? More tax income, yes. And the author isn't wrong in that such a change would serve to level land values (and therefore rents, probably) out a bit.

There would sure be some upheaval bringing it in ("my mom can't afford to live in her family home anymore after 40 years!"). But it's an interesting proposal.
> Income from land is thus completely unearned and thus any income gained from land ownership should be completely taxed at 100%.

I believe he's mixing up profit with income, which should tell you how well-read he is on the subject matter.
I'd love to see what you find as well.
You have never heard me say IDGAF is an unethical policy. If you've paid attention to me here (I don't know why you would), all you've seen me do is point out how Orwellian and coercive the term "responsible disclosure" is.

For a CSRF that you didn't use someone else's account to exploit and that you've told nobody about, and assuming you have no acquaintances who might screw you over by abusing the bug, 30 days and then Pastebin seems like a decent answer.

If any of your friends are shady, just forget about the bug.
This has to be satire. No one can be this narrow minded. It sounds like this author wants the government to essentially own all of the land, and only those who can afford to (the rich) to actually do anything with it. What's valuable land? What is this tax actually for? I think this is satire and the author is trying to make a point about socialism or something, no one can be these inept at economics.
Ask HN: Is Trademarkia a good choice or should I go with a lawyer?
You probably won't see this but here is a source.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-surveilla...
Is that not done in America?

The city of Toronto taxes my condo based on a fraction of it's assessed value. They don't even enter the building up decide what that value is, but they have a database of every homes estimated value.
Evidence. Shmevidence!
Why can't people just settle on Python? Julia is going to die anyways in the near future.
Docker is the best option! After Hashicorp released a well working mac and windows version https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download
100% of the rental income generated from land value (as opposed to buildings/improvements).

Formula: total rental income * (value of land / value of land and buildings)
Senior developers: what silly mistakes have you made?
Perhaps I am jaded a bit on Apple, just a little, but this sounds like they want to control the entire lifecycle of their products. They want to design, manufacturer, sell, repair, and recycle. This seems basic vertical integration 101.
> What is the point of this statement?

I think he means that it's not spying or infiltration when the data is already there for everyone to see. It's about influence on one area that will affect the whole human species, not just one country, and people (esp politicians) are still very misinformed about the issue. It's about informing everyone, just the opposite of spying.

> am I participating honestly in the political process?

You make it sound bad, but it's a much better proposition than what it is actually happening: People don't discuss politics, they fight it. It's not treated as a complex set of opinions that have to be reasoned over, but as a sport teams [0].

Furthermore, the way the voting system is designed, there won't be true parties in a specific position, but they're always reduced to two catch-all options with a very wide and overlapping set of opinions among their members, basically resulting in everybody be unsatisfied with the result [1].

And the point of the parent is that, since politics are broken, one can contribute to work around it from within. In fact parties evolve this way. The party of Obama was white supremacist related to KKK, and the party of Trump was Lincoln's which freed the slaves of the south. That sounds backwards, doesn't it? It's as if politics wasn't made of two opposing opinions, but of hundreds. (edit: snowwrestler above said it better, parties are not elected, are not part of the constitution and there's nothing inherently wrong or dishonest in trying to change them from within)

Climate change is not inherently anti-republican or anti-capitalist. The debate is whether to believe it or not, and it is absurd because there is a lot of evidence that it is happening. Humans heavily relied on a stable climate for ~15,000 years to create civilization and still relies on it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pS4x8hXQ5c

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
You don't need to tear this post a new asshole, it disproves itself.

> No profit from land ownership means no price bubbles, because there’s no incentive (in fact, a powerful financial disincentive) to idly hold onto land.

There is no incentive to hold land at all. Business transactions are motivated by monetary gain. If there is none, business will seldom occur.
Thank you. This seems like a great idea. I would be more open about it. Rather than fees and membership, I would have a list of contributors and cross-checked publications. Basically like a resume. I.e. if you want to announce a vuln we would help you timestamp it, and optionally have a person you trust vouch for its authenticity. And if having that timestamp and cross check is valuable to you then you can brag about it when you contact the vendor.

I'd like to work in an organization like this. I'm not sure if anyone would want to join. It seems like everyone else is either completely independent like my own IDJGAF strategy or they are full corporate like HackerOne and other brokers.
The article claims that Apple forces recyclers to do the shredding.

Read some iFixit teardowns of Apple products. Apple goes out of their way to make their computers very hard to repair. The environmental cost to repair a computer that is only a few years old is insignificant compared to building a new one. But that wouldn't help Apple's sales, would it?
I have everything set to English. Yet YouTube insists on giving me the Chinese version. And English is an official language here in Hong Kong.
Why would anyone buy property under this regime?
Thank you, going forward this looks like a great start. And I have always had great experience reaching directly to Googlers when needing connections or technical advice.
Ya, it's a tough call. I've worked physical jobs as well including construction.

Both programming and physical labor are enjoyable and good for a person in different ways and both ruin a person in different ways if taken too far.

I guess if it all paid the same I'd lay bricks half a day and program the other half :)
Pinterest's Second Act
Compared to most of today's more recent frameworks, that doesn't mean it's actually great. And while I appreciate the direction of .Net (Core), I am hoping the integrated tooling story gets a bit better (outside VS for windows). Code is okay, but not great, and other editors are mostly non-starters. Installing VS for Mac was a horrible experience that had to be done via manual steps for all the dependencies, etc.

My understanding is Java tooling has gotten better, but being able to setup a hello world application in Java, or any established application without a ton of weird dependencies to discover always seemed painful, and "Enterprise" .Net applications didn't feel much better.

Today, my world tends to mostly center around Node.js and git... I've dipped my feet into some new .Net bits, and a little bit of go, and that's about it. I find the learning curve steep, but the actual implementation WTFs are nearly non existent. With Java/.Net it's always been a relatively steep learning curve (worse with Java) and a lot of WTFs along the way.
Python power comes to SQL Server 2017
This is just a weak form of Georgism [1], which is a very old concept and has been both praised and panned since introduced in the late 19th century. Mostly it remains popular in Left-Libertarian circles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

[2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-val...
And even more general. Any form of profit will attract the possibility of defending yourself in court.
> some redneck assuming

I'm not sure that's less racist…
EFF Says Google Chromebooks Are Still Spying on Students
After having just read that article, and knowing nothing else about it: ... How is that patentable?
At this point I think they are trying the Microsoft/Oracle strategy. It looks like they are using a lawsuit and the discovery process are to get enough information to determine which, if any, of their patents may have been infringed and they are now trying to figure out how to extract rent from the first-mover. It's hard to assert patents against black boxes that you don't know the implementation details of. Using discovery to pry open the black box is underhanded but one way to get a look at an implementation normally hidden from view. It's a slimy tactic but given how profitable patent royalties are I can't blame them for trying.
I am from Hyderabad, India and felt racist reading that title - "IT coolies". I believe the author just want to make headline.

A lot of innovation happens that gets unnoticed in Silicon Valley or around the world. People here do not have access to mentorship & peer network so easily (openly available in California), still being self-motivated and connected by reading tech blogs, advises, etc. Just top of my head are following two examples.

* Little Eye Labs => Facebook
* HackerRank ==> YC
Does seem like I spoke too soon, though the above link is not everything. I downloaded it and it's a CSV file with three fields -- a patent ID (I think), a date, and some other number.

This however seems to be everything:

https://pairbulkdata.uspto.gov/

Looks like people tend to be satisfied with Google Patent as well.
Online bookmarks
Income from idle land is certainly unearned. But little idle land can earn anything (grazing land, I suppose, but then you still may have some maintenance or security you provide). Anything else will be earning income not from the land, but things built on the land, grown on the land, etc. A house that I have built (or maintain) isn't land, it's a house. It requires land to sit on. So when I rent it out, what percentage of that income is because of the land and what percentage is from the house? If it's farmland, what percentage of the income is because of the labor and materials put into the land?

Taxes on land certainly make sense, but as written this essay's suggestion is to have a 100% tax on landholders income from land. So how, then, do they make money? Does this only apply to people who rent land but have done nothing to improve it? If I have a family farm that I want to hold onto, but rent out 100 acres to a lumber company does that mean I can't earn anything from that rent because I'm not the one doing the work? This essay needs some work to produce anything approaching a reasonable solution.
In addition to the other replies, most of the work experience that this job offers are "resume killers". They make you look worse when applying for your next job. It's like taking a job doing ASP.Net Webforms with SilverLight components in VB.Net using WCF to build back end services.