skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one nice thing about German taxes is that, although complicated, they make it very easy for you to know how much you owe. They essentially obfuscate the complexity from the citizens.

Also, consider what you are getting for your German taxes, and it may very well be worth it. If only the MUNI in San Francisco ran like the U-Bahn. You really have no reason to own a car in Germany.

Also note, as a Software Engineer living in California, your income tax (State and Federal) is probably close to 40%.
There are at least 50 nations that receive most of their financing from foreign sources.
>ICE van
No, because in Canada the acronym is CBSA.

Anyways I don't see how these follow each other at all. What's shitty tech salaries in Canada to do with any of this?
China does this for one reason: jobs, jobs, jobs. Infrastructure buildup (and maintenance) is surprisingly labor-intensive and so China trades (mostly internal) debt to build long-term-valuable infrastructure plus relieving job market stress.

The current Chinese model of exporting infrastructure (financing, materials and laborers usually come from China) is also quite interesting and fits in the same long-term worldview: they build trains and road infrastructure across all of Africa.

Most people think it's a waste of money, but they ignore that China is on track to prop up Africa, so that African countries can actually buy stuff once orders from the European and US markets fade (be it due to Trump protectionism or simple market saturation).

All in all, the Chinese government is probably the one single government in the world that actually looks into the future and not just to the next quarter financials (or the next elections).
Especially kiteboarding kites (with sizes of 5-20sq meters) which are flown by Sherman Island right near the high-voltage power lines which also go over the river.
It's not one or the other, IMO. They're both useful tools. Unit tests for the bulk of my testing, and then property tests to do some light fuzzing against properties I want to hold.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14541852 and marked it off-topic.
Not necessarily. There are a lot of countries in which merchants are perfectly happy to take dollars over the local currency. Over the years there are countries that completely abandoned their local currency in favor of the US dollar (e.g. Ecuador) until they could get their own currency sorted.
> I don't think you're going to make much progress convincing those suffering from oversized student loan debt that they are the expected "economic consequences" of a policy you believe to have been misguided

If they don't somehow get convinced of that, they will continue suffering, and their children would be suffering even more, until some catastrophic event forces the change of policy out of necessity. Or until some genius figures out that if we nationalize the whole thing, we could hide the spending inside the voluminous budgets nobody ever reads, and charge the same money now charged as loan payments through taxes, and everybody would be so happy for their "free" education.

> The poster to whom your responding points out that their loan debt is so large that they will not have the opportunity to have an income similar to those who graduated with similar credentials

If the price is too high, maybe it's time to stop buying and look for a different solution? Instead of declaring upfront "our aim is for everybody to buy X, no matter the price" and then acting surprised when the price of X is shooting up?

> By no means does this make the Citizens United decision less important

Oh, CU decision is very important. It recognized that if you have right to criticize Hillary Clinton privately, you also have right to criticize her collectively, i.e. band together with similar-minded people and create an organization dedicated to that goal. The alternative would be late-Soviet type of political life - where you could say a lot of things while you are in your own kitchen, but once you get out in public and try to make a difference, the state would control what you can say and how you can say it. I agree, it is a very important decision that confirmed citizens' right exist even if they start become a nuisance to the powerful people, and not only when they are inconsequential.

> Citizens United has allowed corporations more weight to their voice then most of the US citizenry,

Corporations are US citizenry (well, then can have foreign shareholders, but it's largely insignificant given US economy size dominates the rest so much). Who you think they are made of, Martians?

> Citizens United has allowed corporations more weight to their voice then most of the US citizenry,

What are "corporate interests" and why should we fear them?
The subset of Hacker News community I have interacted with is definitely more insular and wannabe-contrarian than the subset of American society I'm familiar with (as an outsider).
That is a great recording tip, thanks for mentioning it.

Singin' in the Rain had a funny scene related to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jsXQm5IrM
I too have been thinking about alternatives to hierarchial filesystems. Originally I thought that I wanted a tag based system, but currently I believe that tagging adds too much overhead and that it might not scale well either for the user since the more tags you have the harder they will be to remember and then there is the issue of relationships between tags.

On macOS they have a view that shows you all your files in the order that they were last modified. That has value I believe. Combine that with optional categorization for filtering, so tags but with the tags not being at the very center, and store files by their hash but keep filename for display. Also keeping track of origin of files - user authored vs made by others. Documents with hyperlinks are used for organizing files of current concern. Snapshots of all files are kept so you can delete, replace or update "indexes" over time but still being able to retrieve them later. Append-only except for the pointers that show what indexes are active.

Hope any of that made sense. It's a bit late and besides I didn't want to write "a whole book" in this comment.
I wonder if this is a Commonwealth thing? The "tall poppy" syndrome is well-known in NZ and AUS, too.
And so do oreos. I don't get the point.
You're right, of course. The idea of slowly degenerating and becoming irrelevant like this has filled me with a sense of dread for a long time, although I've largely accepted the inevitable now.

I would say I'm attempting to get at least one decade of vaguely defined "intense" living. If I can get that it would already be more than what a lot of people get!
Ok, so you own a drone and live in an apartment. You now can't fly it anywhere. That's in effect the same as a ban. There is literally 1 RC airfield within an hour drive of San Jose last time I looked into it. Most drone owners would likely not buy them if there was an actually-enforced law like that.
Or babies, who grow up to be dog-owning drone pilots.
I agree with #3; I dispute #1 and #2 are true in Canada.
I will donate $100 to a charity of your choice if you can find me one person who went from zero coding experience to passing a Google interview in 12 weeks.

12 weeks is barley enough time to get the jargon down.
Though I can read and even compare hex numbers easily, I'm with you that it would be great to just represent colors in "rgba(75 100 93 80)", i.e. colorspace(percents) format anywhere and to not deal with cryptic strings.

Moreover, RGB isn't great at all. We need "10% lighter than deep purple", not #ec12e4. All the mind-calc is done in these terms anyway.
I've found quickcheck fantastic when building anything that takes user input. It will find some amazingly specific strings that break that one library you use never thought to test, or code that unexpectedly shells out.

But it isn't the answer to everything- sometimes you really want to test just one case.
Thank you for sharing, especially your concerns centered around government intervention in case things go south.

From my understanding, capital outflows seek higher returns in foreign markets which would eventually (in theory) be repatriated to drive eventual consumption. If the Yuan is strengthened, would this not make foreign produced goods cheaper to consume within the country? Would it truly be a "crash" if goods are consumed domestically instead of shipped to foreign countries? Considering the high savings rate, could these accelerated savings be used to purchase productive foreign assets?

Strange times, to say the least.
I think of IPv6 like driving a stick shift car that you skip a gear with. If you're lucky, the engine won't stall but even if it doesn't, you'll be accelerating very slowly until the RPMs catch back up to where they should be. In IPv6's case they skipped 3 gears because they knew the car couldn't possibly stall, but here we are, barely accelerating after all this time.
That's fair, I guess you just don't see this that often. Granted, it could be more public because of Uber's situation. I've just never heard of something like that.
This list ducks the most important question: "Is it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions without everyone on Earth mastering every technical detail of modern industry?"

The answer is, of course, yes.
Alternate perspective on perma-rented AirBnB listings (that is, properties exclusively used full-time for AirBnB rentals): it is an externalization of unaccounted for costs in the degradation of the commons, and raising overall risks upon permanent residents. This is currently an unsolved problem, messily left to the permanent residents who are adversely-impacted to handle on their own. I'm not personally affected, but read about these points raised in municipal ordinance discussions about banning short-term rentals.

The stories about trashed public areas, even frequent instances of vomit, urine, and feces found in stairwells and elevators, are common, and some are even brought up in this thread. Who bears the cost (materials, time and/or labor) of clean up?

When the guests stay only 2-3 nights, and hold a raucous party on the last night that keep waking up the next door neighbor's infant, that degrades the commons. Sure they're gone by the following morning, sure the owner can ban that specific renter from ever renting the property again, but the key difference between a permanent resident and a short-term renter is the next door neighbor no longer has the assurance of reasonably-consistent behavior. The owner can even be well-intentioned, but let slip partiers through their screening enough that there will never be a season when the next door neighbor doesn't have to work with the police on a noise complaint. Always with new people they've never met before so there is no common base to work from.

Every time a short-term renter comes through, there is a nearly-imperceptible increase in the risk to the surrounding residences. Even in places where neighbors barely know each other, knowing by sight still represents a kind of commons. Even discounting the crime risk, there is the natural human instinct to put up your guard around "the other"; there is a small element of stress raised around this constant flow of short-term renters through a residential area. Years of crime data definitely prove relative anonymity raises risk profiles, but no hard metrics have been teased out of that to my knowledge, sufficiently to allow us to build predictive models around short-term renter effects.

It is easy to flippantly say the courts will handle these issues, but that is a tacit acknowledgement that the issues are a systemic pattern, not one-off freak occurrences that fall way off the edge of a Monte Carlo chart. When it is a pattern, then that is a cost externalization by the business. I'm seeing a lot of this behavior by businesses of all stripes, trying to gain an edge by monetizing any behavior that cannot be readily accounted for, especially in individual cases, yet in aggregate over time yield benefits to the business with asymmetrical costs borne by bystanders. This concentrated-benefits-dispersed-costs problem has been discussed [1], but to my knowledge no definitive solution exists yet, and in this case the challenge is even greater because the costs like increased, inconsistent and chronic stress, are difficult to assess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Ask HN: ICO: Dispersing smaller amounts to larger groups
Would a more disperse volume of people getting smaller allocations of tokens foster a wider adoption and be more valuable for all token holders?
CloudFormation's approach for post-provisioning deployments is much more limited than the options that Terraform provides as first-class citizens. For example, there's a Chef provisioner as well as local-exec and remote-exec. With CloudFormation, the only options exist in the form of cloud-init that uses userdata.

However, this isn't to say that Terraform is always better than CloudFormation. In fact, I'd prefer to use CloudFormation for A/B | Blue-Green deploys because it supports UpdatePolicy options for rotating newly configured images into an autoscaling group. The logic to do that in Terraform is really not trivial at all (there is no clean, straightforward way to do such deployments with Terraform). Furthermore, rollbacks are significantly more reliable in my experience using CloudFormation than Terraform. Rollbacks may be easier to orchestrate using Terraform than CloudFormation though due to easier reference to non-AWS resources.

My preferred style of AWS deployments and infrastructure-as-code layering is Terraform with broken out modules and generating smaller CloudFormation templates for individual application components that need to be deployed often. This seems like a worst-of-both-worlds option but I think keeping CloudFormation templates constrained to just ASG modifications avoids a lot of the problems.
On the other hand, Sikh temples exclusively serve vegetarian food despite the fact that most Sikhs eat meat; this ensures that their kitchens are accessible to all, regardless of creed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)
I've done a fair bit of testing with ScalaCheck. I do think it's useful to define your "generators" for your domain model(s), because without them, unit tests can end up being mostly data creation code. With your generators out in their own (testing) package, and named appropriately, you can get quite a bit of mileage out of them, even if you don't take advantage of the property-based testing framework beyond that. Something like..

object Generators {

val commentsGen: Gen[Comment] = ???
val userWithTwoCommentsGen: Gen[User] = Gen.listOfN(2)(commentsGen).map(comments => new User(comments))

val userWithNoCommentsGen: Gen[User] = Gen.const(new User(List.empty)

val userGen: Gen[User] = Gen.listOf(comments).map(comments => new User(comments))
}

And then your test code can get right to the point so to speak

"Users with comments" should "karma equal to the sum of their posts" in {
val users = Generators.userGen.take(10).foreach(u =>
u.karma should be (u.comments.map(_.points).sum)
)
}
HN has been extremely dismissive of Holder's investigation and there was (and is) good reason to be skeptical but you also can't deny what looks like real consequences and hopefully change.
This is super cool. I seem to remember a JS version of this floating around earlier this year. Does anyone have it?
Why do you want to convert to USD fast? If you're concerned about such short time movements in price it's probably not an asset you want to have a lot of money in...
A chance to deduce like Sherlock Holmes
You can find more information on website, please check it out an give some feedbacks about idea...

http://deducer.launchrock.com/
Your other option is Frontier FIOS in some of the suburbs, where there is still no intention of rolling out v6.
each time US news talking about China's infrastructure, I am thinking about Seattle area's ST3 project. It's basically build 62 miles light rail with $54 Billion projected budget and 25 years construction phase. How it could be so expensive and take so long time? Isn't that a huge corruption with a legal name?!
>>> The hard part with software licensing is making it resistant to cracking.

You couldn't be further from the truth.

No one is gonna crack your software. There isn't 1% of your customers who could disassemble your software. There isn't 0.1% who could make a crack. Enterprise users don't even run cracked software.

Software licensing is about making as little work as possible to block non paying users. Time spent developing useless counter measures is time not spent selling and developing your product.

A good old key file with only the last payment date will do just fine. Send everyone who didn't pay since last year to your payment page :D
It's the first link on the page
This American Life had an interview with a man who remembers his wife waving at Jackie Onassis, but his wife insists he was not actually there. He still "remembers" the encounter clearly, but accepts that it couldn't have happened. Here's an amusing animated version of the story:

https://youtu.be/PxQ9Gx2-ceM
How can I message you?
DL people, leave language alone and stop saying you solve it
Ask HN: Can you recommend any comprehensive SQL Server books?
I am a programming student working as a junior dev/DBA. Recently, I was assigned the task of setting up a test environment for some HA clustered servers with some added features like Resource Governor and monitoring. Aside from minor database jobs, I have no experience with most of these technologies. Given that we're coming into summer, I have extra time to read up on them and work has offered to cover the cost of the books within reason ($100-ish).

Why SQL Server: The industry I work in primarily uses Microsoft technologies. While I do plan on picking up other database related books that have been recommended on HN, I'm currently looking for those specific to MS SQL Server adminstration.

Why books: On top of building a physical library, I use books to keep a consistent schedule. Assigning chapters/sections to certain weeks. Missing a week throws off the schedule so it keeps me on track with a bit of flexibility. I've tried this with online training and it doesn't work as well.

Specifics: I'm currently working with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. I'm looking for books that cover as much about DBA specific jobs as possible. Setup, best-practices, security, failover clusters, AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Resource Governor, monitoring. I'm fine with books that cover multiple or older versions. While newer books make sense for future proofing, I like having a foundational knowledge of what features were implemented when and how the technology evolved. Based on reviews, some newer books also skip over parts as they may have been covered in previous versions, but it's hard to tell which parts those are. The 'SQL Server Unleashed' and 'Professional SQL Server Administration' books have stood out. However, I'm not sure what year would be best to pick up. With that, can anyone recommend any books that would fit these requirement for a DBA in training?
At least one person in the thread has claimed that part of their transaction has actually gone through, finally.
All the useful things terragrunt does have been built in since Terraform 0.9.

Disclaimer: ex-HashiCorp employee.
The complexity of German taxes and all the other red tape seems to be the main reason why people change their mind about starting up in Berlin but, personally, it was the rudeness that wore me down.

Berliners can be very nice in certain situations, such as the people you work with, but they have a hostile service culture. Not every time, or in every service situation, but you will have enough bad experiences in shops, restaurants and trains to find it annoying, especially if you are accustomed to the more positive service culture in the US, UK and Ireland.

The other problem is that many Berliners regard young foreign workers as being the reason why rents are increasing and this became a political issue a few years ago. I'm not sure what the current situation is but, at that time, you would see graffiti around town, letting you know that you were not welcome, and you would frequently hear the same sentiment expressed in social situations. Ironically, the people who were quickest to let you know that the foreign tech workers were not welcome were the same "anti-fascist" trendies who call everyone else racist.

This hostility wasn't something I experienced when living in other German cities, it seems to be a Berlin-specific phenomenon.
What's the evidence here? You have no way of knowing if they own the wallet or not. Support seems not bothered:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6gtrmd/free...

I think this is an attempt at inducing a panic.
Time-programmable drug dosing allows reversal of antibiotic drug resistance
At some point this type of infrastructure is a waste of money. It is not clear if China is at this point yet. For this particular bridge how transparency is there? Who borrowed the money to built it? How will they pay it back? If the debt can not be repaid, will that fact be made public? Have any of these projects failed or have they all "worked"?
Huh, I thought BLOB was a backronym for Binary Large OBject, not Binary Medium Object.
The idea is that you can simultaneously be protected by the laws of nation-states that you like (protection from pirates), and are free to break the laws of nation-states that you don't like (taxes, drug laws, etc.)

It's an example of Libertarian paradise syndrome; where you want all the comforts of modern civilization with none of the obligations.
There is a reason that the Ferengi on Star Trek referred to women as females. It sounds weird and dehumanizing. This isn't a new thing either. The first Ferengi episode aired in 1987.

You can obviously believe what you want but know that people will judge you in a negative light if you talk like that.
Offline mode still not available?
Yes - that's 12km of the coast of Suffolk - down south, almost in the channel. Much warmer and calmer, relatively. Also, no one lives on it anymore, afik.
Documentation-Driven Development
Cliques of Neurons  Provide a Missing Link Between Structure and Function
TBH, in 90s I just pushed disk[ette] into the drive and booted into installer. Today I have to go through all the DVD-ISO-to-USB3-EFI hassle before it even boots. And then it still has no idea of how to install into that single partition that I created.

The fact that users cannot just install the OS and use it after 2+ decades says more about OS, not about users.
You're hijacking my comment to grandstand on an orthogonal point.

Even if everyone has equity, if you put up metrics to measure productivity, they will be gamed, so choose carefully.
Similar price to big bridges in Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millau_Viaduct)

Total length	2,460m
Width	32.05m
Height	343m
Cost	€394,000,000
This is pure bullshit. If you seriously believe what you're saying, you've been misinformed. Stop spreading lies.
The silent wheel gets rode?
You know what, you're right. I'm going to change some SERIALs to BIGSERIAL in the database of my side project. Someone has to start believing in it - it may as well be me.