skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol that's funny I'm trying to do the reverse! everyone wants me to be an engineer even though I'm trying hard to get more face time with leadership and such.
They burnt one client but got 100 new, perhaps shadier clients. Probably not clients you'd want to have...
Isn't hustling by definition doing things that are ethically and legally shady?
:( why downvote?
You can use a relatively small amount of your salary to buy income protection or disability insurance in the US, and pocket the difference.
The other thing is that people don't really think this is a true emergency.

(Raises hand.)

Get back to me when Al Gore, Leo DiCaprio, and a thousand other wealthy frauds who lecture me about my SUV swear off flying on private jets.

When the people who keep telling me AGW is an emergency actually start acting like it's an emergency, I might take them seriously.
And yet Silicon Valley/SF is still bursting at the seams.
Quite a few people leaving California to lower tax states like Texas:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/number-californians-moving-texa...
There have been machines with a separate return address stack in on-chip hardware. Forth CPUs were built that way, as was a National Semiconductor part used for running embedded BASIC. Running out of return point stack was a problem, since those 1980s machines were transistor-limited and came with small return stack sizes.
Only if you subject yourself to the jurisdiction in question. You're free to move out to avoid oppressive tax. I hope many do.
People have checked in and Amazon has said that this is not a capability of the device. Something's fishy with this.

I also saw this credited to a google home before people started saying it was an echo.
The entire stunt appeals to people's sense of moral outrage over businesses buying influence in the form of political donations. The reason people find it morally outrageous is because it corrupts the political process: politicians are supposed to represent their constituents, not the whims of the highest corporate bidder. Politicians who engage in this kind of quid pro quo behavior put selfish gain ahead of the good of the community.

Which is why I found it particularly galling that the PR firm relied on people's moral outrage about paying for influence to peddle their message ("tell them you like our initiative and are TIRED of politicians taking legal bribes") -- while doing exactly the same thing: paying for influence, in the form of purchased Reddit upvotes, which corrupts the upvote process and puts selfish gain ahead of the good of the Reddit community.

Normally, when PR firms use "hacking" to describe their techniques, they're talking about novel approaches to getting coverage, sort of like how "life hacks" are novel solutions to life's problems. But in this case, the firm is using "hacking" very literally -- infiltrating and taking control of a system by illicit means. They are black hats, and we should view them not only as morally bankrupt but also very dangerous.

I'm expecting that any day now they'll run a follow-up post, "How we hacked the U.S. media to help an anonymous powerful Russian client sway the presidential election."
What about 500k ? Because that's what the Seattle city council tax says [1]. So no, a family earning 200-250k will definitely not feel this tax

Even if the limit was 250k, how would a family earning less than 250k feel the tax? It would literally cost them $0 per year since only income above 250k are taxed.

From [2]:

Tax Filing Status Total Income Rate
“single”	Total income in the tax year up to $250,000	0%
Amount of total income in the tax year in excess of $250,000	2.25%

“married filing jointly” Total income in the tax year up to $500,000 0%
Amount of total income in the tax year in excess of $500,000 2.25%

[1] http://council.seattle.gov/2017/07/10/council-approves-city-...

[2] http://seattle.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=308547...
Gtk3 literally uses the exact same rendering API as Gtk2, Cairo, which is accelerated by your Xorg driver the same as it has been for decades.

None of this even matters because Firefox isn't a traditional application and renders most thing itself using Skia.
If not submitting to having my income expropriated at the barrel of a politician's gun means I lack empathy then you are using a very strange definition for the word "empathy".
What is #4 a symptom of?
Totally agree. Rich to me means over $1M/yr per earner, not gross across a couple.
Actually, its not as accelerated as it was back in the winXP days. Here is a random link about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM.

Basically, the GPU card vendors could hook any part of the win32 GDI pre windows vista, and they did. Post vista, only a tiny portion of the GDI is accelerated. In theory you can avoid this by writing your application using a more modern API, but the vast majority of native windows applications continue to basically be GDI based due to age, or various GUI toolkits still being GDI based. Worse there are a number of toolkits (or browsers) which implement their own drawing routines rather than calling the system supplied ones.

The final composited results with aero are of course accelerated, but that only really tends to add additional latency. Switching to one of the basic themes makes win7 noticeably more responsive, but also tends to tear a lot. I've got an incredibly high end desktop machine, carefully tweaked/optimized and I can frequently see it the ~1/10 of a second lags while windows update after being maximized/etc. Compared to the 10 year old pretty high end XP machine (with upgraded SSD/etc, and also carefully tuned) it doesn't seem to be faster on basic desktop type operations. Fire up a recent game, or doing builds its massively faster but running word/firefox/whatever the old machine "feels" faster.

(tuned, as in I have a dozen or so, tweaks I've been collecting/researching for the past decade+, on ways to make the machine feel more responsive, it all started with MenuShow delay in win95, and has grown from there and now includes all the usual stuff plus tweaking power profiles, and a bunch of less obvious "feel" things like high DPI mice with fast base speeds).
You might wish to consult a lawyer about your theories.

In general, the legal opinions of non-lawyers are not worth the paper they're printed on.
But Seattle is not the Bay Area. Professionally, it simply doesn't have as many opportunities as the Bay Area. The weather is much worse, it has a similar homeless problem to SF, less culture (somewhat subjective), worse schools compared to South Bay, etc.

I think the no income taxes has been a huge draw for stingy engineers who want to save $20k+/yr.

If the income tax, however tiny, actually goes through, people will see this as the beginning of many income tax increases and will be less likely to settle down in the area.
250k a year can afford that. Private school is $50k, a vacation home is $24k, vacations are $15k, $50k savings is bs and you know good and well that no one does that while trying to make a presentation of themselves, fancy restaurants are $200 a night so 20k, expensive shows are $200 each so 20k, and a million dollar home is only 60k.

so 50+24+15+20+20+60=189 Oh shit look at that, there is room for savings/taxes too!

(numbers are yearly cost, not monthly or total cost)
> the serendipitous accumulation of knowledge that comes from having proximity to the information you're looking for

Back in college I used to use the card catalogue (or the computer, if I had to — but the card catalogue was better for serendipity!) to look up a few books on my topic, then I'd walk to the shelves and thumb through every book on the shelf above and below the book I'd found. I'd then check out every book I thought would be relevant to my work.

It turned out that this was an excellent way to research topics. Rather than assume I alone knew the words and concepts to search for, I put myself in the hands of those who had classified a bunch of books similarly — and magic happened.
You earn your income only because the framework of government and society have provided the ability for you to do so.
Build a Serverless Web Applicaion
> Not sure how you'd get that (n+1) business off the ground. Even with the current happy-go-lucky funding climate, I don't see much success in pitching the idea.

This is a thought experiment, designed to illustrate that auctions (which IPOs are - an auction between underwriting banks) converge towards the maximum price that individual participants would be willing to pay. You can easily extend this logic to any individual participant.

> in return of reduced profits

You keep saying "reduced profits". If you seriously believe that banks are artificially keeping bids low, then there would be no reduced profits - any individual bank willing to outbid the rest consistently would completely sweep the entire market, capturing all profits across the market of banks which underwrite IPOs.

Of course, this won't happen, because banks aren't artificially keeping bids low, which is the whole point. You can't just point at the fact that post-opening bell prices are greater than IPO prices to show that banks are colluding with each other, because that doesn't prove anything. The current prices are completely consistent with a competitive market.
Streisand Effect once again. Local governments outside Seattle must be overjoyed to benefit from these "medium" income earners moving. That is, if its found to be Constitutional, which I'm not sure it will be.
that's not the appeal. Snapchat is coveted by it's users because of ephemerality. It grew in reaction to your parents being on fb; in reaction to public, permanent social communication. The users love it because they think it's more authentic - that they're not rehearsing for a contrived selfie or food porn. It's cool cuz they're shooting the shit and not going for likes, and no one outside their sphere is gonna see it.
You can align market forces. It's going to be a hard sell working against entrenched interests, however.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_halstead_a_climate_solution_wh...
Every state's tax code is a story of winners and losers; a historical record often heavily influenced by special interests and circumstances unique to that state. California's tax code has been designed by wealthy real estate developers who pay relatively little in income tax due to depreciation. Proposition 13 has been an incredible transfer of wealth from wage earners to the real estate industry. This is rentier capitalism and does little to promote Silicon Valley's brand of innovation, unless you view high housing costs as a useful mechanism to filter potential migrants. If California had opted for higher property taxes and lower income taxes, then I suspect it would be even more vibrant and dynamic than the admittedly successful State we see today. Other states, notably Texas, have taken such an approach: very high property taxes and no income taxes.
In fact I used this for the past Perl release 5.26 to help test everything since there was a known to be breaking change that was going to occur. I need to redo.my efforts now that the release has happened but it did help identify a couple of key packages that needed to be updated
I've been using AWK for decades, but the NFC avatars are new to me.

Has anyone started a business where you send in some photos, or sit for a sculptor, then they 3D print a set of NFC caricatures for you? I imagine it would be fairly easy to do, especially if the sculpture tutor at your local art school was willing to help with hiring.
I'd probably consider it a "red" flag.

In the past, when i was asked about details of projects (non confidential) that i actually was working on - it
always was fun for me to go into details and have conversation of equals instead of being interrogated.
First off, realize that pushing against a wall takes effort, but neither you or the wall go very far. If you aren't feeling it, and aren't productive at all, don't force it. Take a break. Do you feel better when you do other things? If you feel this way doing everything, it might be time to seek more help (I know you said it's hard because of reasons, but trust me, you're worth it.) Try to shake it up a bit, maybe a change of scenery (like library instead of Starbucks).

If the short term things don't work, I agree with other people's suggestion about journaling. Taking stock of your daily condition might provide clues, and at least gives you the feeling of doing something to take control.

The solutions you're talking about are good ones, but have you stuck with all of those? Sometimes these things take weeks or months to really kick in and help mood. Even most medications take a while. Give yourself some patience. And stick with the exercise, good diet, and routines - they certainly aren't hurting you!
I can't understand what are they doing to not make any profits. They are selling ads. Server resources to exchange the pictures are a minor cost, so where is all that ad money going to?

If they stopped wasting money on development time making their UX even worse, or stupid stuff like Spectacles, or this: https://www.recode.net/2017/6/17/15824222/snapchat-ferris-wh... - maybe they would actually be making profits right now.
It is inspiring to read the story of how Joe continued to be involved and lead despite his illness. RIP>
This is not an intellectually honest argument. Did it ever occur to you that Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio might be rationally self-interested agents who don't care about the damage they cause to others by flying private jets? They talk about global warming because it gains them social status - that fact alone does not tell you whether global warming is real or not. You are taking their two-faced behavior as evidence against global warming, when it is not evidence.
Windows defender is by far the "best" malware software when it comes to having a light footprint. Scanning every byte of IO for malware signatures, and the ton of other heavyweight operations are a sure way to eat a ton of processing power. I have a under powered win10 tablet, and I have to remind myself to "disable" windows defender every time it goes to install an update. Otherwise what should be a 2-3 minute operation can run for 10-15 mins.
>How we hacked Reddit

Really? Hacked?
Lego is always an inspiring story. Another one from bookmarks
https://blog.hubspot.com/agency/history-lego-marketing
What would be an effective way to reduce cities heat? Just plant more trees? Special roof top materials?
> The pricing of Cheerios doesn't seem to suffer from the principle-agent problem, though. No one but consumers really 'wins' if cheerios are underpriced

This is not an example of a principal-agent problem. There are two competitive markets: the competitive auction between underwriting banks, and the competitive market between public traders. The price between these two differs because the underwriting banks assume a great deal of risk in the process - risk which otherwise would be borne by the company.

> And to my knowledge they don't continue to be traded once they're bought, either, so it's sort of apples to oranges.

Breakfast cereals are definitely sold wholesale by third-party suppliers (as are apples and oranges as well).
I don't think that this has any chance of actually being implemented.

(a) This is pre-empted at the city/county/local level by RCW 36.65.030 [0]

This is not the State constitution but rather state-level Statute. The state legislature could very simply amend this to allow Seattle to levy its tax.

(b) According to Article VII, Section 1 of the Washington state constitution, all taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property. If (a) was repealed by the state legislature, Seattle would still be unable to levy a tax on the rich.

(c) Seattle would be stuck with a flat income tax (of 0% or another flat rate) because of the Washington State Supreme Court. It initially ruled in 1933 that income is a class of property in Culliton v Chase. [1] It has upheld that classification multiple times since then (e.g. Power, Inc v. Huntley [2]).

(d) A statewide initiative to initiate a similar tax on income above a high threshold ($200k/$400k instead of $250k/$500k) was defeated 65%-35%. That is only the latest in a long line of failed ballot initiatives to introduce an income tax in the State. [3] Voters do not want this.

[0] https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=36.65.030

[1] PDF: http://dor.wa.gov/content/aboutus/statisticsandreports/watax...

[2] http://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/1951/31...

[3] https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Income_Tax,_Initiative_10...
You're only taking home ~150-160 of that 250K after federal taxes, does that change your opinion any?
A hello world .NET application on my machine uses 9KB of memory.

8.2KB is shared, 1.4KB is private.

According to the article most of that memory is because it's a DEBUG build and the debug CLR images are large.
Ahh, that makes more sense. I thought it was combined family income. Thanks for clarifying.
> Can someone else offer a better definition of what fair means? And why I might be wrong?

Many!

There are 2 very different spheres of discussion the value and effects of taxation: morality, and economics.

From a moral standpoint, it depends on which system you abide to. In utilitarian terms, the case for higher income to the rich would be that the rich would suffer the loss of income a lot less than a poor man: someone with 1000 dollars would greatly suffer losing 500, but somone with 10 million, would not suffer for 50,000.
You could argue in utilitarian terms that taxation could go very harsh in this regard, but then you know there will be some negative consequences (people leaving, etc) which can make it complicated.

In libertarian terms, self-posession and private property is paramount. What you have is yours, and whoever takes it is committing an act of robbery and violence. Any tax is an application of force, so not only progressive taxes are bad, any tax is bad. There shouldn't be taxes, they should be voluntary.

It is deontological to think that the taxes which are levied on richer people are a must because of the duty the rich have to the poor. A layman could think it is his duty to remove as much from the rich in help of the poor, even with the application of force.

To which system you subscribe, you will have a different opinion of the matter, but may I add that each person is a part each system and what we are the most is inconsistent.

In terms of economics, which of the above moral systems, utilitarians would care the most, you will find disagreement. There is a case that the rich paying more taxes ends up meaning less investment, which is what increases productivity and overall wealth, also known as supply-side or "trickle-down" economics. On the other side, you have increasing government spending to perpetuate and increase demand and produce growth. (keynesian economics).

Would government spending reduce or increase poverty? would it help or damage the economy?

Is an economist team thinking up this tax? or is it a group of politicians fattening their budget? It's almost certainly the latter.
The biggest problem is that MS seriously dropped the ball. There was never a developer friendly API like Qt or Gtk for windows, MS wen't down the drag'n'drop tooling route instead. The other problem was that everything was grey boxes by default and almost no apps stick to the native look and feel, let alone allow themeing. This is even true of most MS apps like office and internet explorer.

Contrast this to linux desktops where you can knock out applications fairly easily and it uses the local theme by default. They made it easy to do the right thing so most apps do the right thing. For an example, here is a todo list I threw together: https://gitlab.com/flukus/gtk-todo/blob/master/main.c . I just define my app, I don't do any theming, I don't worry about font sizes or color scheme, I just use the defaults that the toolkit provides and when I open the app it looks like every other gnome app. This is what windows was and probably still is missing. And the problem seems to be getting worse, see the awful background image in the windows 10 email client.

Aside from that, mobile UI's are simply much easier than desktop UI's. There is a lot less variablity in screen real estate for one, everything is full screen all the time. The don't have nested menus, they don't have accelerator keys, they don't have to (can't) display complex data, they are simple out of necessity.
That really isn't different from what a UXD already does, and it definitely doesn't require any ID skills. You might want to cast your net for just plain old UXDs, rather than people who have been trained specifically in product design (if there is indeed a real specialty there, I doubt that's true).
Golang Microsoft Excel Formula Parser
My guess is sleep apnea.
I Use PCR Technology to Catch and Detect Bacteria. Ask Me Anything
Elon Musk confirms that he just bought back X.com, the domain he owned in 1999
Yes but I do not think they have launched anything yet.
$140 million is roughly the cost overruns for the Bertha project. Sometimes you're not getting goods and services, but rather someone's costly mistake.
To be fair, the reproducibility crisis is widespread throughout many, many areas of science. There are many tire fires all over the place; people just started noticing it in a widespread way with social psych:

http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...

Also, to be fair, the willpower hypothesis that was discredited is really about ego-depletion, the idea that willpower is (or reflects) a finite resource that is used by an array of neuropsychological processes. It's not that crazy of an idea, as there are many limits in human behavior and physiology.
Can We Crowdsource Language Design?
correct, if we sample without replacement here https://gist.github.com/kirillseva/961fa1f5b5d64254e0117caf1...

then we'd indeed have a balanced situation where everybody keeps their initial balance. However, we do sample with replacement, and at some point a lucky winner is going to start hoarding cash. Until such time when no one has cash to pay the winner, and he's ultrawealthy... on paper
Free 2 day shipping is a joke.. (2016)
Some people get paid more because they create more value. Is that unfair? Does a person with a Lexus get more value from police protection than someone with an old beater?
Oh I see, so the problem is that the merge commit is not the same as the one that the test runs for if there are any intervening commits between them. Interesting, I didn't quite realize that! (Though it seems obvious in hindsight, since a new push doesn't make all past PRs' tests re-run.) Thanks for explaining that! So it seems it's something between what they do and what they were trying to avoid. GitHub should really put a button to re-run tests on merges that are out of date...
Girlfriend had to replace her Charge HR 2 as well.
I see where you're coming from, but I wasn't talking about phones or tablets. I specifically mentioned the iMac — for a desktop computer, the costs are negligible. You're not holding or carrying it, so weight and thickness are not that important. My iMac is already 10kg. Nobody would notice it if it were 10.5. The benefits far outweigh any negligible costs.

In my assessment, Apple hasn't make the right decisions when left to themselves. And it's not just me saying that. Even some Apple fans are saying so: https://marco.org/2017/04/15/mac-pro-audacity-of-yes

You're still free to disagree, but in that case we should agree to disagree.
This is true, OpenRC depends on sysvinit to run PID 1, but given the comparison to systemd we have to ignore the (unixy) distinction between OpenRC and sysvinit since systemd has eaten everything >_<.
Come on, it's not difficult to see how those DB solutions are easier to modify after the fact without detection than a blockchain-based solution, and blockchain-based solutions are generally easier to make distributed while still guaranteeing immutability.
Not to mention the Accelerometer.