skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Put a patch on your arm about the size of an eye patch and "so what".

Well, not so fast; that rather depends on what's on the patch... I'm sure I don't need to list examples!
I wouldn't call that "golden handcuffs." I would call it a better job offer.
Yeah, to me it seemed to make much more sense to get rid of corporate taxes entirely, and then just tax all dividends and capital gains at income tax rates. Is there an economic (as opposed to political) reason this is a bad idea?
Reforming land use regulations to increase affordability
Parent said "When you hire someone [to] run your fortune 500 company...".
If it's free software? Yes, absolutely. To do otherwise is a chilling effect against hobbyist free-software authors in favor of large companies that have the ability to take on that liability. I, as an individual, want to be able to write code in my free time, put it on GitHub, and let it get popular without worrying that maybe it has a bug in it. If people want to start holding me responsible for it, I'm just not going to release it. Maybe you can pay my employer for a commercial license if we think that the cost of auditing it and taking on the liability for bugs is commercially reasonable, but it's also unlikely my employer will be interested.
I'd counter that it isn't about the magic button but about the right visual interface for making decisions. Interfaces, whether it's a piece of Java code or a web GUI or something, are very hard to get right. But when you have the perfect interface for something things just flow.

IMO the problem with CLIs is that they are so explicit with their feedback you have to know exactly what the command does and can rarely intuitively predict what the right next command should be. And what if your CLI has to be used by a second language english speaker? git rebase –onto <basecommit> HEAD~1 HEAD? Eventually it digresses to long lists of magic black box commands to get your OPs running. Cough every Kubernetes demo ever.

Theres a million dollars for the first anthropologist with a deep understanding of human nature to apply their trade to devops. It's not a magic button. It's not a CLI with a -h that reads like a text book. It's something we haven't thought of yet because we're so buried in our own world and established ways of doing things.
Was anyone else bothered by the way studies were cited in this article?

> 100% of CEOs report that they suffer from stress
Anytime I see 100% I assume the study was bullshit.

> the death of a CEO causes a company's value to fluctuate by $65 million more today than it did 60 years ago (adjusted for inflation)
I'm guessing the sample size here is pretty small or at very least a measure of absolute "fluctuation" doesn't seem like the right thing to measure. I can imagine a world where the death of Steve Jobs alone could have caused this effect. Also what was the fluctuation before was it $100 million? $1 million?
maybe big corporations can afford to reduce their taxes, but small companies can't.
They can probably make more money through a YouTube channel than via affiliate fees. That way you can capitalize on people who watched your review but didn't buy it, or the app was free and you weren't going to get money anyway.
I am pretty liberal, but I DO think corporate taxes should be lower. We should tax the money that people pull OUT of a business for personal consumption, not the money that is being used to drive the economy.
Dave Cutler - 75.

Lead developer on VMS, NT and Azure. Working on the core of XBox up to couple of years ago (still is?).

I won't say what age I am when the article seems to think that 45 is relatively old, but Dave Cutler shows that there's no excuses. If you're good, you're good, young or old.
A day in the life of the omnipresent AI's keeper involves a lot of "Oh, no, sorry, CleverBot2000, we can't solve that global problem that way. This domain's model is incomplete, I guess."
why would Google write a blog post about AWS lambda while they have cloud functions in beta?[1] why would i use google endpoint with AWS lambda instead of AWS API gateway?

Going "multi cloud" using AWS lambda with AWS API gateway and Google cloud functions with endpoints is a blog post I'm interested to read.

[1]https://cloud.google.com/functions/
>The problem is that it's mixed in with a lot of other kinds of waste. We don't need new ways to destroy polyethylene. We need ways to separate it from mingled waste streams or prevent mingling in the first place.

We already have these ways, they are called waste separation and recycling. As a German, I've been separating my garbage for as long as I can think back:
Plastics, paper, organic waste and whatever remains as residual waste. In addition to that, we have separate bins for glass bottles, if there's no bottle deposit on them.

Residual waste bins are usually the smallest ones, so people are pretty much forced to separate their waste if they don't want their residual waste bin full after just one week.

It's always weird to me when I'm in another country and everybody just throws everything into the same bin, bottles included, just feels so wrong to me at this point.
Do you have any citations where you own a physical copy and use an identical digital copy from a different physical source a breach of copyright?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co....
> You are missing that the reduction should cause some money sitting in coffers outside to flow back in to US.

No, it won't. The only reason to repatriate it would be to spend it, which (since corporate "income" tax is a tax on retained profits, not income) would result in a 0% tax with or without the tax cut.

No matter how low (so long as it is non-negative) the US corporate tax rate goes, it makes no sense to reptriate the funds and pay taxes on them otherwise.
I've also had similar issues with other publications. The NYTimes in particular.
It's not the only one, though. The last four are either commands ("Dive Deep") or a completion of a sentence starting with "Leaders" (e.g., "Leaders dive deep"). But "Frugality" and "Bias for Action" are just properties of good leaders. The tenses (or parts-of-sentence) are all different.
You probably should not let all your (non-technical) employees install random software they download.
Facebook = hackers?! To whom?
To be fair, there are more people worried about how they can afford healthcare and home ownership than worried about increasing the number of millionaires and wealthy corporations in America--we already lead the world there, while we trail behind in the former problems.
To anybody outside of California who is baffled by this comment - yes, this is actually how rich white liberals there actually think.

When you have such stark financial and class inequality in a dense urban environment like the bay, being mugged of your iPhone occasionally is literally seen as a kind of moral tax that you pay for your gentrifying presence. To defend yourself from it would be politically incorrect, both individually to the "victim" of your self-defense, and to your class as a whole, as you should essentially accept the mugging as a tax on your privileged position in the cultural landscape.

I know many tech workers who live/lived in Oakland who have been mugged (including pistol-whippings), who essentially just accepted it. Some did not even report it to the police, as in their world-view, to do so would be to enlisting an inherently oppressive, violent and racist force.
Lol for a second I thought you meant something like Rational RequisitePro...
The externalities of nuclear disasters/errors don't halt at borders, diffuse though they are.
The money is sitting outside the US because the companies do not need it in the US, or at all. They have literally no idea how to invest money faster than they can think of investment that would yield more profit than a tracker fund.

The only reason to move the money back to the US would be to hedge against a sudden rise of interest rate that would make funding hypothetical future US venture slightly more expensive. Obviously the rate at which such a hedging make sense is probably very low, single digit low.
Interesting. It's obvious that Blue Apron produces more trash than buying the ingredients the traditional way, but do you think it produces more trash than, say, ordering take-out?

I'm not a customer, but I've been thinking of trying it. Honest question.
Previously commented on some issues regarding oracle products in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726012

Oracle DB has some of the best tech. For e.g Partitioning of tables works great. DB can be seriously tuned and is a workhorse for many different use cases. They have easy access to use tools that make management super simple.

Though you pay a hefty price for all of this, often you can get similar things done with open source with a bit more hacking and deep diving though you would need to have much more technical skills than your typical oracle DBA.

Then you have what I call the 'propriety DB' tax. Which usually means your open source tools typically support oracle DB as an afterthought. I often come across an open source solution to solve some problem only to realize we need to get data in or out of oracle with support either non existent or patchy at best. PGSql/MySQL are mostly supported first.

For e.g

- I recall getting cx_oracle(python DB API) was a serious pain in the ass.

- Want to use a heroku build pack for your app to deploy to an open source paas solution? Need to roll your own custom build pack

- Need continuous integration, auto builds? Need to hack around their stupid license agreement

- Need a local dev db? You get a seriously limited version (XE) without feature parity to what is most likely running in production. You have to write specific code for local vs production in some cases - like accessing partitions etc

Really I would be surprised if there were Serious SAAS startups that were using it.

That $ could be invested elsewhere and open source is good enough.
After reading about the details in this wonderful article I am starting to believe they intended from the beginning to create a piece of postmodern art.
There's very little evidence that tax cuts stimulate economic growth. If there was meaningful evidence the investigators would receive the Nobel Prize -- every year. And while economists can be relied upon to provide all sorts of elaborate theoretical "evidence" the actual empirical evidence tends to confirm the opposite: significant tax cuts have zero to negative impacts on growth [1].

It will be interesting though to see what tax cuts do in such a low-growth environment. In the end it seems Wall St. will be the big winner. There's plenty of actual evidence that tax cuts (a) eventually make it back to investors once finance takes its cut and (b) tax cuts lead to most firms adopting a much higher risk profile [2]. Ironically we could see lots of mergers and overseas expansion.

[1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/news/business/0915taxesandecono...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-19/u-s-tax-c...
Alexander Hamilton is the next easiest to mind, due directly to the musical. One of Hamilton's complaints in real life and emphasized in the musical was that he wanted as much, if not more, to be as brave/glorious as the generals and soldiers of the War, but was "stuck" in such an inglorious position of being Washington's aide-de-camp and helping Washington run the war.

ETA: The explicit irony being that most of Hamilton's work during the war is of course attributed to Gen. Washington, and in the current zeitgeist the only reason people remember his involvement today being the popularity of a musical of a biography of his.
I agree with you. I don't agree that they have a moral obligation to make pull requests to the open source library that had the issue. Hopefully they will, but there is no obligation there in my mind.
I don't quite understand a few things about this review. One is that they're using a 960 EVO 250GB as their benchmark SSD, but it's not the best SSD, the 960 PRO 2TB is. How does it compare to that.

The other thing I don't get is that Intel wants to sell Optane drives to "eSports gamers". Why would they need that? I've heard people on the Overwatch forums complaining about slow map loading from laptop hard drives... but if you're playing organized eSports, they're not going to start the match without you. Matches are paused mid-match all the time for technical glitches. If you're just playing on your machine at home, that's not really eSports, that's just playing computer games at home, perhaps with a higher than average dedication to winning. And map loading time is miniscule with SSDs, so I don't see the advantage you could possibly derive from there. (It all fits in RAM anyway, which is cheap.)

I dunno, I kind of see this whole thing as a solution without a problem, at least in the consumer market.
Even if you could fingerprint the location accurately, how do you know I'm there now, vs. capturing all of the information when I was there and replaying them later?

A much easier problem than "are you really where you say you are?" is "are you likely to be sending me fake locations?", which is hard to do with a single location update, but if the user is moving rapidly, or in geographically distant locations across multiple updates it's much easier to catch.
>I stopped using it when they added mandatory profiles

Same here. It seemed to me that they got rid of the one reason people were using the app in the first place. Also if this was to prevent abuse it actually made it easier to harass another user - 'oh it's that jerk qwerty123 again'

Another issue with being localized is if there aren't many users in the area. It was always busy in a city, but in a rural area there were very few posts - this could've been mitigated by scaling up the coverage zone

The -5 making things disappear wasn't the best solution, as the 'top rated' could become pretty generic stuff, whereas funny but controversial things could vanish quite quickly
Don't forget illegal wars, increased military funding, and raising taxes anyway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_my_lips:_no_new_taxes ).
bold statement. I'm assuming you mean the potential env. damage, correct? Have you done a thorough analysis on, say, Blue Apron's impact on the environment? for example, do people who use Blue Apron decrease usage of their car to go to restaurants? I'm not convinced it's as black and white as you imply it is
How is that any more trustworthy? You can probably use the same source the server would use to verify that information.

Not to mention, most phones may not have those sensors.
Happy to share my own experiences. I work with George Grellas (frequent poster here) at Grellas Shah LLP. You can find my information on our firm website: http://grellas.com/david-siegel.html
Do you have a citation for "probably"? If not, then it's just "might".

One of the LSD effects is an increase of production of dopamine in the brain. From this perspective alone, the microdosing might be on par with Ritalin, Nicotine, or Caffeine.

I was trying microdosing before I had diagnosis of adhd, and I feel that LSD works way nicer than Ritalin, and kind of comparable to Modafinil, in my case. Long term acid microdosing effects aren't well tested, so I wouldn't do it regularily, but still - it seems to work.

I'd love to see proper blind studies on this.
> Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?

Is this an issue on android? I can do this without problems on iOS (with both iOS Chrome-skinned Safari and regular Safari)
To me it's strange how federal law allows local governments to offer tax breaks to individual companies in order to attract them. Conversely, large corporations can play states against each other for the sweetest deal. As a comparison this isn't allowed e.g in the EU and not between regions within most countries.

Shouldn't a tax reform close that possibility, which should raise a lot of tax revenue, which could then be used to cut corporate taxes, but now in a fair way?
From an ex-gf who worked in corporate culture, I did learn to see the other side of this. The benefits (when it's being done for honestly good purposes) are in standardization.

Both of language and in approach.

There's innumerable ways to get from A to B. If everyone knows that if someone says "Widgetification" then they mean X & that the standard way of accomplishing the task is Corporate Approach Y, then everyone can get back to work having saved time in communication.

So I think there's definitely an efficiency case to be made.

PS: I'm aware it's used for evil (anti-organized labor, preventing valid workplace lawsuits, covering management's ass, etc) at a lot of shops too.
How do you know what my corrective ideology is?

Without even knowing that or expressing any kind of curiosity about it, just look at the assumptions you are making about me. Social media is just conditioning us to keep reacting to one another and it doesn't have to be this way.

I haven't made too many comments on HN cause this is the kind of reaction I get all the time. If you are interested here's my fix - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14125904
> The App Store developers are now farmers on Apple's domain

What do you mean by "now"? As far as I can tell, it has always been like that.
On my 40's, a bit younger than you, I agree with every point.
I think of it like the Heartbleed vulnerability - was everyone affected to blame for the vulnerability? Was everyone simultaneously morally obligated to be contributing patches back to openssl? I don't think so.
Thank you for posting this point of view. I have a feeling there's plenty of people on HN like this, but I don't see others explicitly talk about it often.
>Mercury

Vantiv Payments
Actually, it's even worse than that. From Trump's tax plan:

> Right now, freelancers, sole proprietors, unincorporated small businesses and pass-through entities are taxed at the high personal income tax rates. [...] The Trump plan addresses this challenge head on with a new business income tax rate within the personal income tax code that matches the 15% corporate tax rate

They want to change it so S-corp income gets taxed at 15%, rather than at personal income tax rates. Which is completely crazy, since every CEO in the US will be forming an S-corp and passing all income through it to get a flat 15% "income tax" rate.
Because when a restaurant buys vinegar, it comes in a gallon jug, if not a five gallon bucket. Hell, it might come in a 55 gallon drum. But then Blue Apron puts it in single 1 oz bottles and ships them all over the country, wasting a huge amount of packaging to supply commodity ingredients.
It would also be trivially easy to construct something that squeezes the juice packets between, say, two wooden cutting boards, that would apply uniform pressure over a large surface area in the same way that the juicero does. Then, what do you have left? A bunch of features that I doubt people really care about, such as automatic disabling of packs (seriously, just send me an email) and reorder reminders?
Finding the in-demand careers in cloud computing: They did the math
This app used to be very popular on my university campus up until last summer that they removed the anonymous posting feature! Almost all of their users were upset and were threatening to leave the app but yik yak didn't take them seriously. That resulted in them losing 90% of their active users within a few weeks

They brought back anonymous posting a few months after in a desperate attempt to bring back the old users but that didn't save them
Also, to clarify about the self-containing constructs: they just end up being cyclic sections in the graph. For instance, in Java we start with a node for classDeclaration, and the path to an inner class looks like classBody -> classBodyDeclaration -> memberDeclaration -> classDeclaration. (That's using this grammar for java: https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/java/Java.g...)
> What's the logic behind that distinction? If a child stumbles into a pond and drown, or is mauled by a wild coyote, will you let them die on the basis of non-interference?

Great point, you got me there. All life forms being equal, then yes if I adhered to my own system I suppose I would have to silently watch a child get mauled by a coyote. Obviously, I wouldn't take it that far, so perhaps there's more criteria to the decisions than I'm admitting or able to even dig out of my psyche at the moment. I'll think about this.

Your other points about utilitarian math are well-taken, and perhaps I misunderstood you there.

> If I follow that logic and extend my caring to insects, I should care about all insects.

So if you care about starving children, and apply the same rules you apply to children to insects, you'd be donating a lot to charity, basically. Makes sense =]. So once again, my live-and-let-die attitude towards insects is at odds with my "help unfortunate members of humanity" "morality." Another good point (granted, I don't donate much to charity, but if I did, I would probably donate to poor/starving people as opposed to insect charities).

> I'm a dumb ape who tries (and even maybe succeeds) to be logical sometimes, my moral 'system' is a hodge-podge of intuition, rule-based and consequentialist thinking, I don't claim I have found a fully logical moral system.

This is probably the most coherent, self-aware moral system I've heard. Most people try to ascribe their beliefs to some overarching theme that they pretend to follow in all circumstances, when in reality most of our actions are governed by a tiny fraction of what we believe to be morality, and the rest is knee-jerk reactions to situations that affect us emotionally one way or the other. Not only that, but our beliefs (as you pointed out in my case), are a "hodge-podge" of rules, emotions, and hardwiring.

All that said, I still try to be nice to all animals, and will continue to do so until I find the next mishmash set of rules to figure out why I believe what I believe.

EDIT: relevant: http://wondermark.com/c/2015-06-25-1135earn.png
The so-called hack is that if you squeeze the bag you get 7.5 oz of juice compared to 8.0 oz from the machine.

This clearly means to anyone with technical insight that what is inside the bag is not really sealed raw vegetables in a plastic bag able to handle 10,000 lbs/sq in of pressure, but is some sort of processed vegetable juice that has been artificially processed and embedded within some sort of substrate meant to appear solid-ish.

An actual vegetable press that uses immense pressure does indeed produce a particular special kind of "pressed" raw juice extract that retains the vitamins and flavor. However this machine clearly does not do that and is therefore misrepresenting itself. The evidence that proves it is that people can squeeze whatever is inside it out.

If the inventors and investors of this technology wish to claim otherwise I am more than willing to engage in a personal challenge where we get together and look inside the bag and find out if it is really unprocessed raw vegetables or not.

Disagree? Buy a carrot. Squeeze it as hard as you can. Film the result and upload it to youtube. Do the same for a beet, for lettuce, and for celery. Post the link. Demonstrate that pressed vegetable juice from raw unprocessed vegetable is possible with simple force from the human hand, unleveraged.