skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a newly hot topic, whether to fight adversarial inputs or looking for efficiencies. I bookmarked a few relevant blogs (but really need to read more deeply)

http://composition.al/blog/2017/05/31/proving-that-safety-cr...

http://www.cleverhans.io/security/privacy/ml/2017/06/14/veri...

https://blog.foretellix.com/

and another preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10268
I share your enthusiasm about Elon Musk's projects, but that strikes me as painfully naive. I'm skeptical we'll manage to exit the Trump era without irreparable harm. But it's beyond clear that the work that needs to be done to address our numerous ongoing crises isn't being done, and that's what's problematic, even if Trump doesn't launch the nukes.

That's the worst-case scenario, and every official source indicates that it's Trump's prerogative alone to decide whether to unleash a nuclear assault. So unless Elon Musk has the ability to shutdown a nuclear war, your assertion is based on blind faith, and not on a rational evaluation of the situation.

But even that's beside the point. We need a society that's oriented around bold ideas to set us on a sustainable track. In your language, far more Musks in business and government. One of them is not going to do the trick.
It's called appreciation. It has happened to numerous assets. The definition of good investing is buying low and selling high. You're implying that something that produces investment returns beyond a amount is a ponzi scheme, which is absurd, and transparently so. You and I both know cryptocurrency doesn't meet the definition of a ponzi scheme. The only question is what's motivating you to make these false representations.
> asking your doctor how much it will cost to treat you is akin to a product manager asking you how long it will take to implement a feature.

Not in all cases. If your doctor orders labs or procedures, then getting the price should be straightforward. The fact that it currently isn't is a problem.
BillG/JeffB are living in Bellevue, east side of Seattle
2.25% does not seem unreasonable to me. But I get the impression that it is an attempt to get a foot in the door to possibly pave the way for state income tax. Being from the Seattle area, that concerns me.
Books? Didn't need them. And computers just work, no need to know their inner workings. /s
Fair means that I get what I want, and you pay for it.

It's really simple. Occam's razor it. Take the cynical view, and figure out what someone proposing would gain from their proposal, vs what it would cost them and others. Offer a solution that would not benefit them, personally, as much, but would include more benefit for whatever else they're claiming they support. See how often you're taken up on that offer.

This cynical view has successfully managed to keep me from being infected with many of the most virulent memes of our time, like Bernieism and believing that lives matter. It's also protected me from the many, many women who want to sap my precious bodily fluids.

/self parody
List of Resources to Learn Laravel 5
I'm not sure if you are fighting procrastination. But, in the last some of the things that help me is to have a keep a list and keep knocking off the #2 item. A lot of times, when I introspect, I realize that I was procrastinating due to fear (sometimes failure, sometimes losing a purpose). But, I think lists are habit-forming and will help you get and stay organized.

Also, seek out a mentor, coach, or someone to be accountable to. This will help keep you on track.
This will just push more across Lake Washington. Will Amazon start a competitor to the Microsoft Connector (bus service)? Or will they shift some operations over here? Why not both?
> So, basically, we're going to run all your code at ring0

From the article: 'However, if the hypervisor can set up the VM before it is booted and provide paravirtualized interfaces to the hardware, we don’t need access to ring 0.'

Which would be pretty sweet, no?
Twitter saved $5m/year by adjusting cache/resizing of older images
Typically taxes like this are levied on the amount above the threshold. So someone making $250,000 / year will have to pay $0 in additional taxes. This is just like the federal income tax, where if you go into the next bracket you don't suddenly have to pay more on everything up to that bracket. It is only the additional income that is taxed at the higher rate. It's amazing how many intelligent conservatives don't understand this basic aspect of taxes in the US. If you make more you always keep more in the US.
Speaking of fake Reddit stuff...

Reddit has a SERIOUS political astro-turfing problem.

Some would argue it swayed the US election. Some would argue Reddit is bought and sold.

The popular or all experience is completely different. Commenting you don't even know if it's a real person or not.

Does anyone know a forum similar to this or Reddit where it's ALL verified accounts?
Anyone using Netflix Conductor?
I am currently trying to learn and understand Netflix Conductor to use as a business process engine, but finding it difficult to find adaquate documentation / demos / tutorials.

This is what I have come across so far:
https://netflix.github.io/conductor/
https://github.com/Netflix/conductor
https://www.slideshare.net/virenx/netflix-conductor

Has anyone used this?
Has anyone integrated Microservices with the workflow, and have knowledge on how to get the workflow to call the Microservice or have the Microservice call the workflow?
Does anyone have a demo they can share?

Thanks
thanks for your kind words, "bm1362". we'll meet again.
You could register a second or third level .name domain, so in your case probably 0x00000000.name or firstname.0x00000000.name ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.name
It changes how you manage it. Instead of "lxrun" command you use "ubuntu".

And directories where it stores the data are managed by Windows Store (so root file system lives in %localappdata%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs, distro image is in %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_16.0.4.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc\install.tar.gz).
Sorry, my comment probably did come off a bit strong, I should have worded it as "This just sounds like a position against explicitly planning the process of making friends in general."
> Does a family making 250K-300K in Seattle really count as "rich"?

Yes, kinda. My family earns in the range of 20% lower than the lowest bound there and we live in the Bay Area. We're at the very least affluent. I would never say "rich", because I reserve that for folks who don't have to work (i.e. they could live off unearned income in perpetuity and readily absorb more than one significant shocks, such as medical expenses, if they chose to), but comparing our situation to even middle-class folks is a bit laughable.
There are plenty of pretty affluent households in Seattle, but it's not quite 20% of them that make >$250k. What the linked article says is that the average (mean) income of all 60,000 households in the top quintile is $250k, not that $250k is the lower threshold for entering the top quintile.

I can't find detailed enough information to say what percentile a $250k household income in Seattle actually is. What I can find, from the 2015 census estimates, is that $200k is 87th percentile [1].

[1] As aggregated here: http://www.city-data.com/income/income-Seattle-Washington.ht...
No. They just created the second wave by topping HN. The client is a CA based entrepreneur likely his policy and attitude will align with people here.

You now know about him. It worked and still is working.
After using numerous productivity apps I keep coming back to rescuetime. Kudos and RIP.
> In many cases you don't know if you need a test unless you've already had it. In the case of a procedure, there may be things that come up while it's happening that may complicate things.

If you're getting something like a chest x-ray (posterior and lateral views), or an abdominal ultrasound, or a lipid panel, you should be able to call around to various labs with the appropriate CPT code(s) and ask them what the price would be.

What's you're talking about would be something like if they order a test and based on the result of that test, they need to perform more tests to confirm or eliminate a possible diagnosis. But for each test, you should be able to get the price since each test has a couple of possible CPT codes that it would fall under for billing purposes.
Do you have a reference for this? I've honestly never heard of this and had no idea, even though I study politics and economics somewhat closely. I've never seen this brought up as a point on either side when talking about taxes, so I'm curoious if this is the case if there are exceptions that have become the rule and thus this might be technically true but not seen by most people?

TL;DR: taxes are hard, do you have a reference?
I agree, though I do sympathise with any fellow smallfry operator who hasn't set that up, or feels like it's impersonal so avoids it.

Reminds me of the idea that you'll often avoid an email for a while because you want to respond perfectly. For you, that email is critical. Meanwhile, in the absence of a response, the sender assumes the email is completely ignored and meaningless to the recipient.

My unread count is generally 350-500, so I'm very guilty of that.
CA has an income tax that's 8% or higher above $40k. If this caused some kind of brain drain, I'd expect to see smart/wealthy people leaving the state. The last 30 years have been the opposite, with the Bay Area and SV growing in size and importance year over year. Further, when discussion of people leaving the state comes up, I hear constantly about cost of living and housing, never about taxes.
the US takes in $1.947B in income taxes per year. there are 330,000,000 people. So, every man, woman, and child is on the hook for about $6,000 in taxes.

How is it fair that a low-income family of four makes $40,000 combined and pays $24,000 in taxes (60% of their income), where a middle-class family of 4 earning 200,000 a year pays $24,000 in taxes (12% of their income), while wealthy family of 4 earning 2,000,000 a year only pays 1.2%.

Does that seem "fair" to you? I don't think it is. In my own view of society, there is a certain amount of wealth distribution where we admit that some people will be lucky and some people won't, and that in capitalism, we will ALWAYS have winners and losers. The winners shouldn't have to give up all of their worth (be able to reap the rewards of their savvy), but the losers shouldn't be abandoned by society, either.

There are plenty of arguments to make for and against "fair," and "unfair," taxation. Paying according to your means seems fair to me.

of course, one could reasonably make the argument that like many things in life, taxation isn't fair, and yes, you might need to only buy a BMW instead of a Rolls Royce so that someone can afford food.
Your local coffee shop.

"All verified accounts" sounds like a boring echo chamber.
I think the OP fails to realize that Slack has custom and flexible notifications. I'm hardly ever notified on my team's Slack (and boy howdy do they love using it), and the messages I do get notified about are important.

It is definitely hardcore lock in though, but what isn't these days?
Yeah, except the state constitution doesn't say that. Instead it says [0]:

> All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only. The word "property" as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership.

Which was interpreted by the state Supreme Court in 1933 to mean "no income tax" after the voters approved one by 70% [1].

It's acknowledged by proponents of the city income tax that Seattle is doing this knowing it will be challenged in court. They want a test case so they have standing to go back to the state Supreme Court in hopes of overturning that precedent.

0: http://leg.wa.gov/lawsandagencyrules/documents/12-2010-wasta...

1: http://kuow.org/post/strange-short-story-washington-state-s-...
Indeed.

The need for rigor often means certain parts of an argument get emphazised when they distract from the intuitive explanation. Also, when things get mathematically people have an urge to show how it connects to other mathematical results. Those connections are interesting in their own right, but they might not be related to the engineering problem at hand.

The result is that understanding the literature can involve a long hard slog through other literature, just to discover that most of what you read was irrelevant.

This is what it is often easier to discover things in the lab than in the library.
What do you find impossible about the results?

The whole idea behind "breathing" is to regulate the CO2 in the blood at a very constant level. This is one of the strongest, fastest feedback loops in homeostasis. How are relatively small changes in environmental CO2 making their way into the bloodstream? Did they actually conduct blood tests to see if the test conditions were reflected in the subjects' physiology?
Okay, I appreciate the reply! I admit they had some good points about problems they found in some TSQL2 edge cases (mentioned in that paper of theirs). I will reconsider how quickly I get to their temporal book. I agree knowing a more pure way to do relational is helpful even if your day-to-day is still SQL.
Yeah when I first saw the headline an image of a Chinese Erlich Bachman sprang to mind. Although the absurdity of the whole thing is pretty humorous for some reason it made me sad.

dunno why.
nailed it ^^
>You have to transport the mulch from the store somehow. If you've got a dozen bags, it adds up.

See I thought you meant yard waste from your own yard to a landfill. Arguing that you need a SUV for a purchase of mulch from a store still can't be justified. Rent a vehicle for like $20 for the day. You cannot not live long enough to beat an entry level sedan and a yearly one day rental compared to even an entry level SUV, much less a full-size SUV. Heck get two entry level sedans for the price of one entry level SUV, now you can haul 8 people and your mulch, while using less gas than the full-size SUV and being able to improve your routing.

>Doing summer and winter sessions I moved in and out of dorms at least 4 times a year.

"Hey when I do this really odd exception it throws a wrench in normal plans." I really don't know what entails needing a SUV to move in and out 4 times a year. Renting a Uhaul will be cheaper than the yearly insurance premium difference between a small vehicle and a large SUV. Or if you could stand to be away from a lot of it when staying at what I assume is your parent's fully furnished house when you aren't in school you could rent a storage unit instead of dragging all your knick-knacks across the country.

>My family also took 5+ hour multi-week road trips to see distant relatives when I was a kid. You'd be surprised how much luggage that can entail.

My family did that same and we'd just attach the cargo box to the top of the vehicle and make my sister not pack 2 giant suitcases. The occasional need for lots of cargo capacity doesn't necessitate always having the capacity.

>As for not having kids... yeah no.

What about less kids? What about not having them all at the same time, i.e. you can have a little car because the kids are separated by 15+ years?

>Like telling me I should just chop off an arm so my body can conserve resources.

Well why did you grow that extra arm? Child bearing is relatively optional.
It's worth noting that Lego didn't invent locking bricks, though they did refine them. Similar bricks made of rubber had apparently been around for a while, but the first plastic versions were made by a Brit named Hilary Fisher Page under the brand name "Kiddicraft".

Lego discovered that Page hadn't patented his bricks in Denmark, copied them more or less exactly (though they'd improve the design later), and the rest is history. Page killed himself in 1957, apparently without ever hearing of Lego's success. Lego bought Kiddicraft in 1981 to solidify their legal claim before suing Tyco for copying their bricks.
I don't think so.

"Rich" refers to a lifestyle that cannot be afforded by just $250k.

An example would be:

- Private school

- Vacation home

- 3+ luxurious vacations a year

- Saving $50k+ per year

- Eating out at fancy restaurants weekly

- Seeing expensive shows weekly

- $1+ million dollar home ($3.5+ million if you're in the Bay Area)
Sure:

https://taxfoundation.org/2017-tax-brackets/

https://www.irs.com/articles/2016-federal-tax-rates-personal...

It's how tax brackets work. Notice the "+X% over the excess / of the amount over" wording in the documents. I'm not a CPA, so maybe one can chime in with a counter example of someone who would take home less if they made a larger salary. But I'm pretty certain this is how it works.
No, it doesn't count as "rich". Source: lived in Seattle for 10 years. The actual rich folks don't live in Seattle, they live in Medina, aka BillG, Jeff Bezos, the Seattle Seahawks, etc.

This is misguided and unconstitutional.
But tax is part of cost of living.
Soon, there will be even more homeless. I'll take my money (i.e., tax payment) elsewhere, which Seattle just so happens to need.

Hopefully someone else will pay for it. Best of luck to the city of Seattle. They will truly need it.
"Isn't that still your money, even if you pay $0 directly and the rest comes from the shared pool your insurance payments or taxes are also in?"

Well, please do read the first sentence of my reply - I do care and I do wish that price transparency were extant.

Further, as a net tax payer, in California no less, I am quite interested in the actual costs of things like road paving and bridge building and subway tunneling.

But neither of those (net tax paying and interest in the pricing of social goods) are common traits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_bracket
JMAP isn’t all standardised and set in concrete yet (there’s an IETF working group for it [1]), so we’re not enabling JMAP for the general public just yet, nor is our branch of the FastMail web UI which uses JMAP deployed.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/about/
But which definition of fair is correct, and why?
This isn't specific to your question, but I have VM's that have 6 logical processors. I use taskset to set the affinity of all OS processes to logical proccesor 0. This doesn't work for some kernel threads, but it works for most processes. I then give haproxy a number of logical processors, or balance based on what is running on that VM.

On physical hardware I would use NUMA regions per set of applications as well to optimize the use of CPU cache and get lower latency to memory, but the overall memory availability will be reduced. This is done on some latency sensitive applications.

You can do similar things in Windows. There is probably a way in Mac, but I have never tried.

As others pointed out, there are many cases where doing all of this won't help, so it really depends on the problem you are trying to solve, or the optimization you wish to accomplish. There are certainly no one-size-fits-all solutions.
Can't tell, Tom Steyer right?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14714733

In which, spoiler, I already posted some moderately salty remarks.
Ever tried Qt? It's cross platform but still tries it's best to feel as native as possible. It brings its own C++ IDE (Qt Creator), is well documented and nowadays you can use QML [1] to build your UI [2].

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

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_F6Kpjd-Q
> Does a family making 250K-300K in Seattle really count as "rich"? ...A family earning 200-250K in Seattle will definitely feel this tax.

A family of 4 could live pretty well on half that in Seattle. Maybe they aren't "rich" as in "filthy rich", but I don't see how they'd actually feel it, other than savings goals having to be slightly less aggressive.

At $250,000 / year, your pre-tax monthly income would be about $28,833 and a tax of 2.25% would shrink that by $468. I don't see how I could honestly say I felt the tax if I made only half of 250k and they double it to 4.5%.
> The cost of fixed cost procedures (e.g. lab work) are unknown.

I don't think that's the case. For example, if you get a lipid panel, it's going to be coded under a given CPT. The billing department should be able to obtain the cash and insurance price. The problem is that they're not forthcoming with it (at least in my experience even when I had the CPT).
This question was confused.

"Zerocash, the protocol that succeeded Zerocoin, is being developed into a full-fledged digital currency, Zcash."

http://zerocoin.org/
So how does certificate transparency fit into all this?

https://www.certificate-transparency.org/what-is-ct

Let's assume an attacker who selectively hijacks .io traffic in such a magical* way that the owners of the relevant domain names do not notice the attack is happening. Assuming that, what exactly would the CT monitors notice? I assume there would be new LetsEncrypt certificates entered into the append-only log, but then what?

Edit: added word magical for clarity
What's a 16 stop filter. I just purchased a cheap solar filter sheet and uv filter for a gopro, seems to work okay.
I'm confused with some of the graphs.

A "simple HelloWorld program" somehow is using 76 MEGAbytes of ram? How is that sane?
Look at the US tax code (just pull the calculations from the 1040A instructions on the IRS website). That's how tax brackets work.
I think commercial rates are generally lower than residential rates, right?
It's very common.

A progressive income tax like this prevents situations where someone getting a small raise that moves them I i a higher tax bracket could actually leave them WORSE OFF than they were before the raise.
Many young people who get into IT here don't come in their first day thinking of the big picture, ie this is an outsourced position. For them it's just a job. So it's not odd for them to think their job has been further reduced. Though it may be the logical thing to think for someone who has all the context.

Also, English not being my native language, I had trouble understanding the tone of OP's comment.
A death is always unfortunate.

With that said, I've never heard of Joe nor Rescue Time. Why are they important?
Just when I had started to hope Eastside property values were reaching a peak and nearing a correction... My intuition says Issaquah will be the next big hub once Kirkland and Redmond saturate some more, but even the median home price there is $700k already.
Wow, where can I find exact locations for South America? Or even better, for any place in the world?
I had bought one of the nicer ¥1500 umbrellas because I'm quite tall and the bigger size gives me more coverage, only to leave from lunch with coworkers and be completely umbrella-less because someone in the group that left before us grabbed my umbrella. That means some jerk showed up without an umbrella and decided to grab whatever was available because it started pouring.

I don't bother buying the nicer ones anymore because they'll just get stolen eventually.
Touch screens introduced a lot of new gestures. It's not about mouse clicks anymore but people's fingers. You have to think about your user interaction in a whole different way. Slower animations, smoother movements, more feedback and responsiveness.
None revenue, just users. Based off their MAUs, if Messenger was an independent chat app they would fetch such valuation. I peg them at $40/user, which isn't so crazy considering WhatsApp was purchased at $35/user and Instagram at $30/user. When Facebook Messenger gets around to copying WeChat (the whole payments and official accounts ecosystem) I expect them to rake in merchant fees for big profit.

WhatsApp presently has none revenue either.
I moved out of California because of taxes. Top tax bracket is now 13.3%.