skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parse it more closely; they're not arguing that the tax reforms had little effect on the state, they're arguing that they had little effect on the tax burden at the state level. Their only metric for measuring success is whether or not taxes are lower -- which is fine since they're a partisan advocacy group, but real humans live there too and they have to live with all of the impacts that Cato doesn't concern themselves with.
If Hillary was up to 55%, a feat not reached by Obama, the discrepancy between the college and the popular vote would be huge, at minimum 10%, which would top the already few instances of a president winning without the popular vote.
You say that, but in some ways it has the potential to be faster. JIT compilers can recompile code at runtime making use of a profiler, optimising specifically to both the host and the use case.

Modern JavaScript VMs like V8 will often optimise functions treating types as static, then "deoptimise" in the rare case their type assumptions are broken.
I'd suspect that there is also caloric and absorption components.

If you don't have calories your hunger wont be satiated because of energy needs.

Vitamins don't absorb as well as nutrients found in foods (they have a low gut surface area and may not contain the easiest molecules for your body/gut to breakdown into nutrients).

In my personal experience a complete protein powder (like PlantFusion products) has a strong effect on general satiety as well as health unlike vitamins.
Yes, this more or less.
I think it's going to be a balance of figuring out the right mix of services (i.e. do we target really specific developer communities and add the services that they are interested in) and building out our developer experience (e.g., a CLI tool, integrations with particular clouds, etc).

I think it's easy for us to say we'll do both, but since we're a small team I think it'll be a mix of selectively bringing in really well-loved services and figuring out what our customers want (if anything) from an integration perspective.
How much it cost to run that Zing JVM per server?
Gorsuch wasn't on the court when this was argued either.
I don't think just being from the state a case originated in is commonly, or ever, seen as necessitating self-recusal; after all most judges are residents of the states they adjudicate in.

Pretty sure Gorsuch just wasn't yet seated on the court when the case was being heard.
Machine learning can also de-anonymize that anonymous dataset. How does one protect against that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization
IANAL either, but it sounds like Thomas is saying that the Colorado Exoneration Act was carefully written to specifically cover cases like this in that it enumerated the rights and entitlements of those exonerated who follow that process, and the court's majority opinion "does not seriously attempt to ground [their opposite] conclusion in state or federal law. If petitioners' supposed right to an automatic refund arises under Colorado law, then the Colorado Supreme Court remains free on remand to clarify whether that right in fact exists. If it arises under substantive due process, then the Court's procedural due process analysis misses the point."

This is an archetypally typical Thomas opinion, melding both a very literal and narrow reading of the Constitution and laws with a strong preference towards states' rights.

Meanwhile, Alito's concurring (with the majority) opinion is a fascinating read in its own right, building on similar rationales to those of Thomas while using a comparative, devil's advocate approach to illustrate absurdities in both the laws and the interpretation of the majority, yet reaching a pragmatic conclusion that happens to concur with the majority in its final judgment.
I loved his lecture series on Heidegger's "Being and Time". It helped me finally understand what continental philosophy was all about. I first heard it on iTunes U but it's also on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/Philosophy_185_Fall_2007_UC_Berk...
First, good luck - it's a difficult space and I applaud you for trying something different. I have a few uncorrelated questions:

1) Is the API limited to types of transactions or do you host configuration information? For example, I've often wished for a bank account that would look at my outgoings and some criteria that I've set, and then allocate some monies to savings or investments on a percentage basis rather than an absolute number. Are those calculations something I'd need to do at my end and then send you a bunch of API calls to make the transaction, or would they run as bots on your server? Sorry if that's not very clear

2) Will you impose tight or narrow restrictions on who can open accounts? For example in the USA many banks require an SSN to open an account and won't accept an ITIN (another kind of tax ID sometimes issued to immigrants), placing millions of people outside the banking system and thus making it that much more difficult for them to pay bills etc.

3) Will your service have access to the SWIFT network for international transfers or are you subject to restrictions while you prove some sort of banking bona fides? I don't know anything about banking relationships in South Africa or so but I've noticed the US is very aggressive about limiting transaction access for anything that looks like it could be remotely connected to crime of any kind, and I have sometimes had the impression that US banks are very 'suspicious' of anything that might coincidentally pose a threat to their business model.

I want to wish you a lot of luck and am very excited to see where this might go. I've never enjoyed dealing with money or finance, and get no more enjoyment out of being paid than I do out of paying bills. Financial chores are about as much fun as cleaning a toilet and the idea of being able to reduce the amount of time spent on dealing with money without putting myself at financial risk sounds heavenly.
Absolutely -- the police can be very corrupt in Zimbabwe so you don't want hard cash hanging around or it will be taken.

The actually official Zimbabwe currency can't really be taken seriously because of insane inflation rates.

US Dollars vary greatly in price. Small transaction fees are nothing to operate cashlessly for some of these people compare to the risk of trying to store cash.

Even India recently banned high denomination notes because they were so associated with drugs and illegal behaviour.
Wow, interesting. I suppose mutton is the staple food because of their huge area of steppe / grasslands.

About the dumplings, I was just recently reading about manti [1], a Turkish dumpling (which is basically steamed or fried balls of dough filled with ground meat or other fillings).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_(dumpling)

The Wikipedia article said it may be of Central Asian or Turkic / Mongol origin, and had spread to many countries, including Central Asian ones, the Caucasus, Russia, etc. I'm guessing the Russian-style dumplings you mention are a form of manti.

Edit: Just looked it up again, the manti article links to buuz, the Mongolian name for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buuz

Also, do they eat much of vegetables, fruits, etc.?
As an adult who has had to deal with a Lego addiction, my suggestion is IF you have an addictive personality and not money to burn -
please .. don't start. I sunk 1-2 grand into sets - for me it wasn't worth it. The old legos were a lot better. Reusable pieces that make them an investment. The newer sets often have special purpose pieces and instructions to just build 2-3 models. I thought I was learning about mechanical stuff - differential steering, inside of an engine, etc. Frankly, watching Youtube videos is a much more cost effective way of learning. What is the worst thing of it all - artificial scarcity. I'd buy sets I didn't really care for because I was afraid they would go out of stock. This has happened to some of the popular sets where scalpers charge 10x. They even have web sites where people do this full time. Just say no.
> Do you have programmable virtual credit card numbers?

Marqueta can do this. You can issue CC's via api, and then fund them with Visa direct. It's amazing.

https://www.marqeta.com/
You missed an important benefit: expenses are mostly post-tax, so reducing your expenses by $1 may reduce the amount you need to earn by $1.50 - $2.

Also, 50% in treasuries seems overly conservative for most investors, especially if they're young. That's basically just going to match inflation. You may have your reasons, just wanted to point that out :)
Didn't work for some sites and couldn't report it in the site (didn't find where to submit bugs).
Yep, that is definitely something I am actively looking into -
this was my first year applying for a muzzleloader tag for the Colorado elk season.

P.S. I'm also a BHA member and huge supporter of what they are doing to preserve public land access (http://www.backcountryhunters.org)
I think he's not there yet, but he has decades to change his persona. If he starts to distance himself from facebook and spend more time on charity over the next decade, he could easily become a Gates level international philanthropist by the time he's 50. If he wants to parlay that into a prestige position like President (a move many thought infeasible until the last year or so) I could see a practical path toward a run. It's anybody's guess as to what it actually takes to win the presidency these anymore.
Recursion toy (web experiment)
Duration of Viking I and II missions
Agree with most of this, but would like to add that you don't need to "self" medicate; if there's an underlying diagnosable mental health concern (depression, anxiety), proper medical treatment might do a world of good.
That always struct me as weird.

I wonder if anyone has even tried that trick in practice? (Ie when the intention is not to produce profitable pornography, but just to make 'normal' prostitution legal.)
Einhorn Says Tesla Investors ‘Hypnotized’ in Dot-Com-Like Bubble
There's evidence that multivitamins are useless, and that they actually cause health problems [1].

As for OPs theory, it's strange to think of such a thing happening during an obesity epidemic, but many people do seem to be lacking basic nutrients in their diet. I'm not sure how much we can trust our own guts when it comes to seeking out nutritious foods; the majority of people go for sugar and fats when they're hungry, instead of the fruits and vegetables that contain the nutrients they're lacking. It seems our stomachs are not looking out for our best interests.

[1] https://hub.jhu.edu/2013/12/17/vitamins-might-be-harmful/
I'd be more inclined to take this approach, but to diversify geographically and to also include some fixed income in there, too. The US market may pause someday, but there is a much slimmer chance that the entire world's equities and their fixed income will get nailed at once.
> I wonder if they will push some politic agenda or if they will manage to stay neutral.

I don't. They will, of course, push a particular agenda. In the worst possible way.

As we've seen with Twitter and other organizations, the ToS don't matter. Or at least, don't matter for the right people. The "bad people" get punished even if they don't violate the ToS. The "good people" don't get punished even if they do violate the ToS.

I'd be OK with even egregious ToS, if they were applied evenly. But as we've seen too often, they're not.

Whatever agenda FB and friends are peddling, it's hidden in the guise of "safety", and "fairness", and "community standards".
Problem is that bunch of nerds (myself included) is not viable market. PSP / ME it's just one of problems on hardware layer: almost every single device have closed source firmware or microcode inside drivers and there no device on motherboard that have DMA and can be trusted. Hardware manufacturing is hard and even if some company would be able to produce viable hardware there just not enough customers who going to pay 10-20 times of price premium just for security.

And even if you can mitigate hardware issues your "secure" system will be practically useless because on software layer best you can get it's PoC like CubesOS since desktop Linux is just damn insecure.

So if you want solution that actually let you have work done then you have to sacrifice something: keep important data on isolated always offline PC, get older hardware without PSP / ME (or deactivated one) for online and pray. Then always put newer untrusted hardware behind hardware firewall / VPN / etc.

In the end several completely isolated devices for different use cases give you much better practical security than one backdoor-free PC / server.
Changing the SQL Server Port on Linux
Stocks, XIV, selling covered calls
He recently spoke out against civil asset forfeitures, so I wonder about the angle he took in his dissent. I'm trying to square that with this and think I just don't understand the laws to see the what it points to. I think there is a civil asset forfeiture case on the schedule, so I guess we will see then.
And Peugeot make the best pepper mills in the world.
1. Maxing my 401K

2. Buying a home

3. Dumping everything else in index funds
or just invest in Schwab Target Index Funds which acomplish the same thing at 0.13%, without the overly complex "customized for you" coat of paint, and have only $100 minimum.

https://www.schwabfunds.com/secure/file/P-9430864

Buy SWXKX. Done.
I wouldn't post anything on HN that I wouldn't want my boss to see, and frankly if I was your boss I wouldn't be that happy that:

"I just tend to bullshit my way through a work week.."

"..build interfaces that look like I'm doing the work when in fact I'm not."

"Sometimes I'll allot a week for something, not do anything on it, and then complete it all a day before it's due"

"it helps to get good at bullshitting"

Honestly, you don't sound professional. To me it's one thing to say, hey I'm burned out and I need to take a half day today. Or hey, I'm burned out, what if I worked on developer tooling for a few days to recharge my batteries.

But lying during meetings and distorting what you are working on are fireable offences, and even if you feel comfortable being that shameless and unethical on your own accord, why the heck would you give advice to someone else to do the same?

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'm bewildered by this post.
The WMDs that Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfield, and Colin Powell were referring to were nuclear weapons [1] though, not chemical weapons. We already knew he had chemical weapons:

>President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld,
Colin Powell and George Tenet, to name a few leading figures, built support for the
war by telling the world that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling chemical weapons,
feverishly developing germ warfare devices and racing to build a nuclear bomb.
Some of them, notably Mr. Cheney, the administration's doomsayer in chief, said
Iraq had conspired with Al Qaeda that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/opinion/remember-that-mush...
Which is almost impossible when you are geek or even worse - software entrepreneur aka. startup founder. I feel like we lost something very important in our lives when the computer has been invented.
With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019
The pass-through exemption is a big part of what is wrong with Kansas' tax reform and why it hasn't work. Here is testimony to the Kansas House from one of my coworkers about it: https://taxfoundation.org/kansas-pass-through-carve-out-nati...

From his testimony:

> It’s important to note here that while decreasing taxes is generally associated with greater economic growth, the pass-through carve out is primarily incentivizing tax avoidance, not job creation.

> If they passed a provision like this in Washington, D.C., where I live and work, I would go to my employer the next day and ask them to start paying me as an independent contractor. I would still be doing the same job and contributing the same value to the economy, I just wouldn’t be paying any income taxes.

> The individual income tax is one of the largest instruments in the Kansas revenue toolkit. Exempting pass-through income substantially narrowed the tax base of that instrument, and in a haphazard and unpredictable way.
Long overdue. I sort of get these online social media companies skimping on moderation while they are growing and don't have cash.

Facebook is rolling in cash and this has clearly hurt their brand. Hiring moderators to take out the worse of Facebook could help a lot to dealing with the utter bullshit that goes on.

Reddit and Twitter have similar problems, they want to either farm out moderation to volunteer users (Reddit) or automate everything and only step in when the NY Times gets a hold of something (Twitter).

Either way, their moderation leaves a lot to be desired.

Reddit is particularly strange. I don't know how this could be true, but they claim that without the volunteer mods, they couldn't exist. Either they are lying or are just awful at running a business, neither would surprise me.

Does anyone know if Reddit actually makes money? And if they do, how? Ads seem sparse and selling "gold" just doesn't seem like much.
This may help explain why Verizon is cutting FiOS prices and increasing speeds: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/veriz...
Well, here's what I actually wrote: "Twilio should be able to do it better and less expensively than Uber. The only think I can think of is Twilio refused to lower its prices or there's a glaring deficiency that Twilio is unable or unwilling to fix."
What I basically want, is to have more control. I want a similar amount of control as to what I have with paper money, or even virtual in game currencies.

Right now, the scale is not tipped in my favor. I would be happy to pay for it.

I understand that banks have reasons for things to be arraigned the way they are.

I would love to have a "personal firewall" level of control over my money. I'd like to see that Widget of the month club is requesting $50, and I can confirm/deny it.

I only signed up for a widget of the month because it seemed like a good idea, but they deceived me into thinking I could back out at any time, and then when I cancelled my account, they just "paused" it for three months.

We don't use the "banking" model for other resources that are supposed to be our property. An app on my phone isn't supposed to be able to delete my photos, and the accepted solution is not that I call some external entity to undelete them. I know that these examples are very different, but that is what I would like.

I can also simply block someone from contacting me if I want, without having to justify it to my isp. I want to be able to do that with my money. If someone disagrees with me doing this, and thinks I still owe them money, they can be free to sue me, or do some other sanctions.

Right now, I create virtual credit cards and only fund them enough to pay my recurring payments. I want to automate it.

95% of the time, recurring payments that fail for me are done in bad faith, and these actors will not make a fuss if they can't process their payments.

I know this is probably a pipe dream, and that there are already system I can use, and that our financial system is set up the way it is for reasons. But that's a pain point for me, and a lot of people. People would like to be empowered, and feel that they have control. I think, in the end, things won't really change. Most people will still pay legitimate charges.
So many interesting threads to discuss on this matter.

The problem in the US is too many people hate that others have freedom--hence the MADD group's desire to remove any semblance of fun in order to make everyone else as miserable as they are.

The US drinking age, if there should be one at all, should revert to 18 and the ID problem would pretty much disappear.

I can't describe all the ways that people have become emotionally and socially stunted simply because we have too many laws making typical, normal human behavior illegal in order so that some company can earn higher profits (think lawyers, think insurance industry). They've ruined our way of life and we need it back. We are a nation in hiding, ducking too many laws, too many cops, and too many restrictions. I'm not saying people should be free to drink and drive, but I am saying that all the laws limiting behavior have had tremendous negative consequences.

On to the lowly driver's license. Once upon a time, possessing one demonstrated that one could competently operate a motor vehicle. No more. Today, most "driver's" can't drive worth a damn, and the "license" they hold is an over-regulated, poorly implemented national identity card that you must have in order to get on a flight or enter certain Federal facilities. It's utterly stupid. Identity cards in general are dumb and over-wrought contrivances that are mostly totalitarian in nature "your papers please"--how soon we forget. And now we have RealID, which is even worse, and soon there will be a massive data breach of all that RealID information the feds are hanging on to with all the attendant negative consequences for the people who willingly surrendered themselves to big government.

That there exists a thriving illegal Id industry in the 21st century makes me happy because it means the trap of tyranny isn't completed shut--there is still resistance, still a means of escape.

People, Americans especially, and HN readers most notably, need to forego their fears and re-learn what it means to be free again. Free doesn't mean "subject to incalculable bureaucratic restrictions on one's life." Quite the contrary. Be free, resist the bullshit!

The other, related matter that irks me is the background check. Never was there are more worthless, false sense of security than the background check. But that is a matter for another day.
I have some experience with this, but don't want to air grievances in public. Happy to chat privately. Email in profile.
Of course, and Etsy has tried many rules that have punishment attached. Like most communities or marketplaces the punishment is removal of your listings or suspension of some account privileges.

Unfortunately my experience is they were very inconsistent with application of their rules, and often closed stores that didn't deserve it, sometimes repeatedly, while obvious rule breakers operated for months. Sometimes they remove items, sometimes esp. in the past you just come to log in and your password doesn't work and your store is gone.

While they also had issue forming reasonable procedures and rules, much of the problems are with application of their rules, as in having enough employees and managing training them effectively.
I believe you are reading the chart wrong. This is a break down of the distribution of Medicaid by age. 57% of Medicaid recipients in California are under the age of 26.
I meant that he could easily find one from every different state there. Not much of a tour indeed but it would fulfill the objective he set himself.