skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know when it happened but at some point I just fell completely out of love with the whole concept of a graphical interface. I think around Windows 2000 (Server) I remember thinking: "this is quite nice", but since then nothing.

I ought to at least feel some nostalgia around all these interfaces, but actually I don't. I just feel like, why on earth did I think Windows 95 was a good thing? Why didn't I see what a huge step backwards it was - at least for a user like me. The beginning of moving away from understanding the machine I was using.

I know too, the Terminal+Browser existence I have now is far from perfect, but I just feel liberated to know I don't need to spend most of my computing time navigating visually - it just doesn't suit me at all. I think the only interface now I feel as negatively about as the Windows-style interface is maybe the filesystem. Not for any rational reason I can explain - I feel like there's something wrong with our whole way of thinking about that. But I'm like a rat in a maze and can't imagine what outside of the maze might look like.
100% agreed, which is why I was pretty surprised to read that in the article but we'll see if that's actually the intended understanding of this proposal.

For reference, here is the excerpt:
"Beyond cutting the tax rate to 15 percent for large corporations, which now pay a rate of 35 percent, Mr. Trump also wants that rate for a broad range of firms known as pass-through entities — including hedge funds, real estate concerns like Mr. Trump’s and large partnerships — that currently pay taxes at individual rates, which top off at 39.6 percent."

Their specific mention of pass-through entities might mean that literally but it might have just been a more succinct way to group LLCs, LPs, and PLLPs.
No. By statute, you can't use reconciliation to pass a bill that raises the deficit 10 years out. It's not even a Senate rule they can "go nuclear" on: it's a law.
Giving ammo to companies spending billions of dollars to subject you to non-stop psychological warfare aimed at affecting your spending habits (and any other emotions/behaviors it needs to bulldoze over to get to that goal) is just fine, then?
Every generation of developers thinks their stuff will be replaced at some point but then they realize it's still used twenty years later. Happended with Y2K, Linux timestamps and a lot of other things.
If you don't have a toilet, how does learning how to read help you not poop in the open?
A project I lead at least ten years ago was all about moving a company away from a COBOL based system- huge piles of money were an option and the timeline was in the 3-5 year range, and still everyone (myself included) thought there were better options all around.

The driving factor was a suite of new services and features they wanted to implement, we came up with a creative way to run parts of the system as proxies to the COBOL applications backing them and to decorate the requests and responses with data from the newer systems.

We were done much faster and cheaper, for a project of its scope there were surprisingly few hiccups or post launch rework projects, and we got the end result they could've spent 10x the money to achieve- and all with way lower risk.

I'm assuming we were in a fortunate position that the general flow of data could be handled from the various source streams, but I wonder why this isn't at least an option for moving forward from some of these ancient systems. It seems like a good first step, at least.
That's an interesting one I've never heard of. I'd be curious to see some photos as well.
The commenter is literally suggesting that it rely on a giant solar deployment.
> In Go, pointers are actually (type, address) tuples, so a nil pointer to a custom struct is actually (pointer CustomStruct [1], nil)

I could be wrong but I think that's not right. The key difference is dynamic vs static dispatch. What you're describing (type, address) is how go represents interfaces. So go can resolve a.Read() on an io.Reader if the value is (os.File, nil). A go empty interface is not like a c void pointer for that reason. Type info is preserved and can be safely recovered.

But go also has non-virtual method calls unlike Java (afaik), it doesn't implicitly dynamic dispatch. This is a consequence of the fact that it doesn't have inheritance. If you write var foo os.File; foo.Close(); there's no runtime (type,address) tuple. That .Close() call is essentially compiled directly to something like CALL os.File.Close(nil). This can potentially be inlined even. If your method treats nil specially that's up to you.
Same question. I am pretty sure such a thing does not exist at any price.
It's designed to prevent you from being able to defer taxation (interest-free leveraging of income you'd otherwise have paid in tax, essentially) or to reduce your taxation to the long-term capital gains rate.

I'm not sure if the authors of the AMT really considered how options with limited liquidity could create this bind.
What I see here is a bunch of smart tech-savvy people that never took a #lookoftheday pic and posted on Instagram and will never gonna buy the product anyway talking about privacy. How do you know you are completely safe with your phone, with your laptop?
Fact is that there are millions of people posting "look of the day" on Instagram, Snapchat every day. Taking selfies in front of the mirror in their bedroom and they just don't care. I bet they care about a product that would make that easier and afaic Echo Look is promising to deliver that. So I'm curious to see how the actual target will respond to the product.
I never said they had to get it right from the start, and I'm happy they fixed the API. My only contention was the author's (incorrect, in my view) distinction between a security vulnerability and an API design that encourages security vulnerabilities.

The latter are worse in my opinion, because they're harder to fix.
Ajit Pai's Fact Sheet on Net Neutrality Plan
This is Colossal [0] is a good alternative.

Text heavy.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
Does an anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field portend a coming pole reversal?
That's not a very helpful comment considering that most people on this forum wouldn't be familiar with that concept. For those trying to decipher this, he's referring to a school of philosophy.

It's quite silly to say that anyway, because a person's thoughts on philosophy rarely predict how good they would be at passing legislation and working with bureaucracy.

> Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

> George R R Martin
"But, here in America we need not have Food insecurity."

Except if you're homeless in which case planning, storing and saving become uncertain.

And given that you've admitted that today becoming homeless is extremely easy, all the rest of your reasoning goes out the window.

A person can live manageably in very tight poverty only if they have stability in all the other aspects of their lives, a situation that has become impossible today (but once was possible, in the America of 1960 or 1970 say) - if you have a medical emergency, if your car breaks down, if a relative needs a place to stay, if your landlord suddenly raises your rent, etc., those careful preparations go out the window. And given this it is neither illogical nor that irrational that today's very poor don't live according to these careful plans since such plans seldom save them from the problems they face.
Network of Internet connected e-commerce kiosks launched in Nairobi, Kenya
What I see here is a bunch of smart tech-savvy people that never took a #lookoftheday pic and posted on Instagram and will never gonna buy the product anyway talking about privacy. How do you know you are completely safe with your phone, with your laptop?
Fact is that there are millions of people posting "look of the day" on Instagram, Snapchat every day. Taking selfies in front of the mirror in their bedrooms and they just don't care. I bet they care about a product that would make that easier and afaic Echo Look is promising to deliver that. So I'm curious to see how the actual target will respond to the product.
I thought the bubble was going to 'burst' in 2012. I also thought the Vancouver RE market was going to burst 10 years ago too in 2007. And it still hasn't burst, it just flatlined and then kept on going.

Bubble prediction is a difficult game to play.
Thanks, I'll have to give it a shot. Always thought VS Code was more geared toward .JS but it looks like they have cobbled together extensions to support C++ [1].

I used Visual C++ long ago, in a past life when I used to develop on Windows, and it was pretty good. Played around with more recent versions of it (2010 - 2015) and boy has it gone downhill! Very slow and clunky compared to what I remember.
Your research is sound and I agree with the bottom line but, in the interest of transparency, that's not a fair comparison.

"Top fund managers" are working with billions in AUM. If you have found meaningful alpha on a portfolio of $100k - $10M (or a section of capital within that range), you will have an easier time capitalizing on that strategy than a fund manager who needs to figure out how to scale a profitable strategy to billions in assets.

Difficulty in getting orders filled on one end and literally moving the price on the other are two big reasons it's far easier to find profitable strategies on relatively smaller portfolios. It's not just a comparison of the tools and skills used in institutional funds. The amount of money they are working with is an obstacle in of itself.

This is also why, incidentally, the most successful hedge funds in the world typically close their doors to outside capital and cap it at, say $10B or so.
"Your user-agent string specifies your browser as being a variant of FIREFOX.
Judging by your fingerprint we believe your browser is a variant of FIREFOX.
Your user-agent string specifies your operating system as being a variant of UNKNOWN.
Judging by your fingerprint we believe your operating system is a variant of WINDOWS."

And yet

User agent is parsed as "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46". Which is actually the case.
Yes, destabilized countries always act rationally on the global market. /s
Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love for the Puppers
The Past and Future of Aircraft Engine Development
Backblaze has repeatedly refused to add something as simple as pagination to their B2 web interface, a feature that takes less than an hour to implement and which most people would not dream of going live without, and their support people are terse and uncooperative. I've more or less stopped using them for this reason.

They have a lot of employees who read HN and I'm sure they're cool guys, but I think they really need to reconsider their performance in customer experience.
If they used reconciliation, they would expire in a couple of years.

Corporations are not going to adjust their structure based on something that's going to expire in a couple of years so if reconciliation was used we'd get none of the job benefits of a corporate tax cuts, at massive expense.
Before answering the question, I would love to know what is evil in your words.
Without offsets far more unpopular than the AMT, an outright repeal of the AMT would add trillions of dollars to the deficit. They'll be attempting to do that against a headwind of stories explaining that the repeal of the AMT would have cut Trump's own 2005 taxes (a year we know something about) by 85%.

I'm not saying AMT reform isn't going to happen. Any of these things --- well, not a 15% cap on LLC pass-through income taxes --- could happen. The point is that this document isn't the harbinger of those things happening.
I wouldn't mind paying less in taxes.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE DEFICIT???

The deficit hasn't mattered to anyone before now, esp not in the last 8 years. Can't get any worse than it has been already for years now.
Okay, cool.

When power generation companies demonstrate that you are correct and replace their base load production capacity with solar and wind I will (joyfully) eat crow. That isn't really happening right now, though. Natural gas is replacing coal and non-hydro renewables make up a very small fraction of overall capacity.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...
A Bit of Quantum Field Theory
Diversity at Slack
Actually, in North Dakota it is a family farm since we specifically outlaw corporate farms. $5 million when the combine (or some tractors if renting the combines) is a $1 million plus some storage bins and the per acre cost of farmland is not a big farm. So, in the traditional sense, farming is really easy to tax infrastructure activity. That is why that tax is so hated. Farms are damn expensive.
I'm open to listening. Can you share your facts with me?
Most forums decline in quality over time as new ppl join. It's why many ppl here lament the HN of several years ago. I think that was the reason for keeping it invite only.

Sorry those designers were dicks to you, we're not all like that.
Yeah. Let's publicly shame someone because we feel entitled to capital they earned.
I think we broke it.
I don't know where the NY Times gets that. It's not mentioned in the actual text of Trump's plan:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/full-text-of-trump-administ...
And almost the replacement for classic Mac OS:

> "the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its aging Classic Mac OS.[4] Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $300 million;[5] Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $125 million. Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.[6]"

What a different world we'd be in if Jobs had stayed at NeXT.
HTTP/2 uses compressed headers (this was often considered a problem with HTTP/2 by detractors because the headers are a compressed binary block that need to be decompressed and decoded to be read) and the benefits of smarter item caching still mostly outweigh concatenation in HTTP/2.

This same also applies to the author's own Caveat section (that large concatenated files compress better than a collection small files) because the entire stream is compressed roughly in the same single compression stream, which while not as well optimized as the case where the compression has access to optimize a single full file, should adapt better to give better performance with lots of individual files in the stream than compressing them all directly as individual files.
I am carrying a 2014-era Lumia Icon/929 on Verizon and I love it more than any Android I've ever carried. It runs Windows 10 Mobile, and until this month, had the latest possible version of Windows 10. Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to drop the 929 from the Creator's Update and beyond, so I'll need to either switch carriers or switch platforms in the near future.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet. I won't carry an iOS or Android device, and third party options are getting pretty slim. The HP Elite x3 on AT&T looks like a really nice option, but I am hesitant to commit that much money and a carrier switch on a platform Microsoft has been silent on their plans for.
>yelp

They fake them ;)
This might be off subject but to me this language always tries to make me understand the underlying of being a programmer.
I always look at the third party support for versioning as a way of the Golang to tell me: "this is one way of doing it. Read it, copy what you need and make it your own".

+1 for the javascript breakouts every now and then.
.. inasmuch as a limited set of crucial, onboard tools were GNU, and GNU's not Unix either ..
It could be that I need to work on my writing skills. I'll admit, I'm an systems engineer not a writer. On the other hand, HN commenters tend to convey a healthy dose of cynicism and skepticism. Also it's known that negative comments come across as more trust-worthy than positive comments on the internet. I simply used this tool and it did what it said it did. I don't give a positive review unless I had a good experience. But it is easier for all of us to believe people with some degree of skepticism and cynicism.
That would be a tax increase (currently the LLC pays nothing), and I don't think it's what's proposed. From the article:

> Beyond cutting the tax rate to 15 percent for large corporations, which now pay a rate of 35 percent, Mr. Trump also wants that rate for a broad range of firms known as pass-through entities — including hedge funds, real estate concerns like Mr. Trump’s and large partnerships — that currently pay taxes at individual rates, which top off at 39.6 percent.

I think Trump really is suggesting that, when you have income reported on Schedule K-1, you would pay 15% tax on that income.
Also, Beringia went through many cycles of land and sea coverage[0]. Our climate has been pretty up and down since homo sapiens came onto the stage.

Aside: The land-bridge was not just a passing point, it was actually a nice place to sit and stay, due to the wind, sea, and glacial climatic issues. Also, the coastal-migration idea states that we just skimmed the coast all the way to at least Chile. The issue with that idea is that all those coast lines and settlement areas are about 200m under water now and were likely destroyed by wave action, so it's hard to prove. Beringia is a really cool place to study, pardon the pun, and helps change some ideas about how humans came to be. It seems like we've been pretty smart for a long long time. There are civilizations all over the globe that rose, fell, and died, and we will never ever know of them. The idea of 'civilization' is ancient, it seems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringia
Net1 sets the record straight
That's the précis the White House gave to journalists. The WSJ covered this in more detail. Either way: don't hold your breath for an (absurd!) 15% cap on people who make money through LLCs.
In my experience, the quality of Amazon is average at best. The only reason why they are winning is because they are cheap. The Walmart model basically: Cheap wins over quality.
Camp, though?
Didn't Larry Page and Sergey Brin got rich off of one deal? As far as "probably shouldn't have happened", what does that even mean, not in the literal sense but there are how many people that have ended up either penniless or rich as hell due to things that "probably shouldn't have happened"?
> Nuclear now looks like a technology where every decade or two you lose a city.

No, it's a technology where if you use power plants decades out of date, that have known safety issues, and then cover-up the magnitude of the problem once a catastrope occurs then you have a very expensive clean-up operation.

Cleaning up Fukushima will be expensive, there's no denying it, but it's arguably the case that the Deepwater Horizon rig mess could cost significantly more.
Deductions apply to highest bracket income. The "first" $30,000 sort of implies lowest bracket income (because if you stopped working after earning that much, it'd reflect your entire earnings).
What they get is irrelevant, it's someone using their skill set to make others aware of a flaw. I would argue it's the exact same premise. I'm going to phish people & cause them a financial cost to teach them to be safe.
Due to silting, most hydro isn't really renewable either iiuc. It's just looks that way for long enough that we tend to talk about it that way.
It's like saying "anyone can win the lottery".
I think it's more likely that the current hype cycle may be coming to a close. The items you mentioned will all be part of the next one.
I would like to see the raw data, i.e. the list of (supposed) HPE's (divided by industry) AND know how (the heck) the recruiters managed to get their hands on it.

I mean, provided that the survey is actually a valid representation of HPE's, 68% is too high to be "casual", it means that the recruiters have some way to identify those HPE's (separating the wheat from the chaff), but if they (the recruiters) can do that, then the percentage should be very near 100%.

It is more likely that a percentage very near to 100% of employees in a given industry (let's say for the sake of the example software or IT) are contacted monthly (some weekly) and that a certain amount of employees in another industry (let's say still for the sake of the example manufacturing or architecture) are never or seldom contacted.

Or - seen in another way - how often (still divided by industry) are APE's (Average Performance Employee) and LPE's (Low Performance Employee) contacted by recruiters (if contacted at all)?
Stoplights are often installed after {n} number of people die at an intersection to justify the cost. Is that cool?

Regulations are put on companies after their freedom of choice; when abused, starts harming people. I think IoT is a perfect example of this. Today the manufactures have a great deal of freedom. Their lack of self regulation will require others to step in and regulate them.

On the matter of vigilantes: This is a complicated topic, but I support them doing this, even if it harms myself or someone I care about. If this problem is not stopped sooner than later, it will explode into a much bigger economic and/or societal issue that will be difficult to contain. I have warned the people I care about already.

The current state of IoT is a complete lack of responsibility. I would even support someone bricking every piece of machinery they can, including cars, heavy equipment, power plants and anything else that was built without proper engineering.
Not necessarily. If a consumer's device is bricked within the (usually 1-year) warranty period, then they're able to send it back to the manufacturer for a replacement, which pushes the cost right back to the manufacturer.

Also, if the device is bricked very quickly after buying it and installing it, the consumer will very likely simply return it to the retailer as defective, which again pushes costs back to the manufacturer.
Tangential but it does irk me when these online streaming summary statistics algorithms come up in interviews. Most recently I had Welford's for online estimation of variance/std optimised for numerical stability. Great, fascinating stuff, there's FP representation issues but really is this necessary to quiz... mostly just the interviewer trying to show off how clever they are.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/standard_deviation/
It's absolutely brilliant if your goal is any of several things that don't actually involve delivering a valuable service to the people buying the device (if you must incidentally, that's fine).

And if you have never so much as encountered the word "ethics".
Whether the car is hijacked to carry out attacks, or bricked by a vigilante trying to prevent another attack, I'd be pissed. But the blame lies squarely on the manufacturer who decided "meh, securing our devices against attack sounds expensive".
Nobody's saying it's just Uber, but this post is about Uber.