skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Hidden Tax

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Although inflation causes generally rising prices, it should not be understood as detrimental to all parties involved. It is highly lucrative for the government and the banking industry. When new money is printed (today, created electronically), it greatly benefits the first recipient because assimilating the new money into the economic organism takes time. Those first recipients (government and banks) can purchase goods and services at the old prices. As the money slowly works its way through the economy prices are bid up. Eventually when it reaches the salaried workers, prices have mostly adjusted. This process is a hidden tax on salaried workers, or anyone who receives the money late in the cycle. It is especially detrimental to those on fixed incomes, such as pensioners. Not only does the government understate the effects of inflation in its official numbers, any price decrease that would have occurred as a result of productivity gains are denied to the consumer as well. Inflation is nothing but wealth transfer. The government prints money and buys stuff with it. Prices rise and the salaried worker can buy less stuff. All the stuff the salaried worker could have otherwise bought has accrued to the government. Simple. Politically, it is far more palatable than raising taxes because the process is badly understood and well obfuscated. "

http://austrianeco.blogspot.pt/2008/02/inflation-part-22.htm...
Yes, which is why I was asking for a source. I can't find anything which puts the figure any where near 40%.
From what I've seen, it virtually always is.
You're one of those people who thinks "Muslim" is code for "Arab", aren't you?
> Discrimination on religious grounds is already illegal, which would include antisemitism.

It shouldn't be. If you think that it's unconstitutional to prohibit boycotting a country, you should believe the same about boycotting an individual. I'm a Jew and a Zionist, but I believe that it should be legal to decline to do business with me out of antisemitism. For one thing, it gives me the data that I need to reciprocate.
>The 1st generation will be cryptocurrencies which have figured out the consensus problem entirely.

What do you mean by this?
You are not helping your case with these statements.
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which leaves an evidential trail
How can they force citizens to spend their money on health insurance?
As opposed to those other developed countries that manage to give high quality of life to almost everyone without high taxes, such as
I do the same thing - I've found that reducing the brightness as much as possible helps with eyestrain (assuming everything is still readable).
The only point you're proving is that people claim anti-Semitism way more often than is appropriate.
It's like when Israel says jump, the USA asks how high.

The USA's unconditional support for Israel despite its oppression of the Palestinians has poisoned its reputation in the entire Muslim world.
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I think Montana should be capitalized, no? Proper noun, right?
Possibly Biology too, but I'm an engineer so English not my strong suit..
he hacked into https://www.paypal-brandcentral.com/
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not paypal.com
read http://hackinginquiry.org/
There are so many errors in this article in the first few paragraphs that I have trouble believing any of it, even if the story itself is believable from what I know of Chinese religious oppression.

First, Xinjiang is in the west, not east. Second, Uyghurs in China do not speak Turkish. They speak Uighur, a Turkic language, but its orthography is Arabic and forced Chinese. It looks nothing like Turkish, which uses a modified Latin script.

Also there are about 10m Uyghurs as of 2010, not 8m.
If Bitcoin had been based on "proper" Keynesian economics then the price would probably still be under a cent and no one besides a few cypherpunks would care about it. To bootstrap a successful cryptocurrency you need a critical mass of speculators attracted by crackpot Austrian monetary policy. Unless this problem can be solved it will continue to cast a large shadow over the entire concept of cryptocurrency.
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Again, not an expert but austrian economics is far from mainstream.

>The government prints money and buys stuff with it.

And this seems just wrong. In most economies the central bank and the government are sepparate and the government can't just create money to spend. But maybe that's what effectively happens in the end anyway?

Either way the economical argument is usually that you want a small steady inflation and that deflation is much worse. That doesn't refute it.
There are a lot of legitimate criticisms of the Israeli government. If you think these are all just because it's a Jewish state, I don't think you're being intellectually honest.
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Indeed.

Another factor is climate lag, also called climate inertia. There is a delay of a couple of decades between emissions and temperature change. The thing is we have emitted more in the past decades than the previous 150 years before that.

So even if a miracle happened and we got to zero emissions there are still self sustaining feedbacks and a monstrous wave of warming coming at us.

Our only hope really are extreme negative emissions, but I feel we won't even be able to make it to zero emissions.
North Korea can not possibly be considered a meaningful 'control' in an empirical context given that it represents a bona fide edge case.

> Distored by who's standard?

By the standard of those of us who have a contrary "belief" than your economists.

As for envy, I hold that envy is operational amongst near peers. Peasants don't "envy" the king.
And those are the same ones that have been lobbying to kill net neutrality. Gee, I wonder why?
Yes, I am. There's also a lot of scam out there, almost every ICO feels like scam, but still. The more serious stuff catches such a huge attention, just the ecosystem around ETH got so big and mature (despite some recent exploits) that it's hard to ignore this space.

Just compare: not just few projects raised funds within days a startup would take months. If this is the future? IDK. But I know it's 10x better than how fundraising was before. And this is just one part of the crypto space.
Hate the writing of the article. Hallmark of a lazy writer is one that starts with "if you had told <insert name> ... would have laughed". Probably grew up in one of the Hutterite communities in Montana (since he spoke a form of German).

Other than that, nice discovery.
I worked in a place once that had both a whiteboard with Post-Its and JIRA. The two weren't especially well-integrated. (The same place also had a 45 minute standup - often featuring Post-It note rearrangement and concomitant sticking issues - every morning at about 10.30 which, given their deliberately lax office hours, meant you didn't really need to worry about working before lunch. I was supremely well-informed about news and current affairs during that three month contract.)
While I tend to agree with this comment, look at the world 17 years after the .com bubble burst. Amazon (founded in 1994) and Google (founded in 1998) absolutely dominate their categories, and the Internet has drastically changed virtually every sector of the economy that it touches.

Just like the .com mania, I think there will be a huge fallout when the bubble bursts. But I also think there will be a couple dominant winners to rise from that rubble, and blockchains and cryptocurrencies will have a strong impact in future payment systems.
Heroin is a little bit different than cocaine. Cocaine is a much more social drug so you will see a larger number of non addict customers to addict customers.

Plus emphasis on sedative. Paracetamol has a synergistic effect with opiates. It wouldn't do the opposite of what it's meant to do. It's more like mixing caffeine tabs with heroin.

Heroin cut with Tylenol would be a non-issue to a heroin addict. Heroin is considered dirty to the many people who these dealers serviced (yeah I know). I doubt they served many of any cocaine addicts. Just people with nothing better to do on a Friday looking to have a "good time".

I know they no longer deal because one got run out of town after squandering about a thousand quids worth of the stuff on loan with nothing to show for it.
I never asked for this.

If you can perform all these tasks with your smartphone cheaper and without invasive surgery, you can't really call it an augmentation or upgrade. Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity.

We can use radio waves to measure heart rate and breathing and use that data to measure a person's emotional state. It would be interesting to see someone hack together an internal sensor that does this and have it attached to implantable led's, so your body could "glow" particular colors based on your emotional state. Or use electronic ink tattoos to make an animated gif on your body.

Just copying the same two uninspired trends isn't what I would call hacking.
bottom-up is hardly a shameful idiosyncrasy. top down has a tendency to fail by imposing an inappropriate structure, and missing important details. every discussion i can remember ends up recommending switching directions repeatedly.

i start on the up-stroke myself, always worked for me
The Supreme Court argued that it's cobstitutional to impose a tax on everyone and have a deduction if you have health insurance.

It's entirely equivalent to a fine for not having healthcare, in that the result of both policies is that it forces people to pay a private company for a good to avoid paying the government a set amount.
you forgot "without adding anything novel to a well understood class of bugs from the 90s"
It's not anonymous at all right now. I believe they're working on Tor support for the future however.
It's important to remember how simple Java was in 1999. 10-15 years from now it's likely Go will have all the features that people have been asking for. The earlier these features are added the better. As a project gets larger it gets much harder to make large changes. Do it now and while they're at it they should fix the lack of good exception handling and a few other things that they will most likely have to address eventually.
Think about it. What's the WORST way you can punish someone?

Solitary Confinement.

Even in a prison with the most vile scum in the state, the worst thing you can do to a person is to remove them from the others.

That speaks volumes to me, personally.
> The last 40+ years of globalization have raised more people out of poverty than at any other time in history

The last 40 years of globalization have done more to reinforce durable economic inequality—often along ethnic lines—in both the more and less developed partners in trade, globally, than any other comparable time period in history; since human misery is largely driven by relative rather than absolute deprivation, this is a fairly significant problem even before considering the ethnic component, and the ethnic aspect has been fuel for significant, mostly intrastate, ethnic violence.
How does the unit economics work here? To my understanding, BTC (even after SegWit) has non-negligible transaction fees. Is this site just eating into VC money to make things feeless?
Fun fact, almost all Indians know 2 languages well. 1 their regional one, 2nd Hindi.. If they speak english, that's three..

Down south Hindi is less prevelant but 2 languages is like the norm for kids here..
> but the real estate is that of a 27" screen

By default. A couple of clicks in Preferences will get you higher or very-high-indeed effective real estate.
The comments on the articles are also generally very optimistic and uncritical of the marketplace. Lots of jargon usage without any significant substance.
Would love to see more of these articles on Hacker News; very educational, almost adventurous, Kevin Mitnick style (obviously not quite).

I know that Paul Graham had a different definition of "hacking" in mind when he started HN, but still. I love these hacking write-ups.
Is there any specific criticisms of the indy ref coverage you can give? None of the major broadcasters where particularly unbiased, because nobody wanted to see the union break up.

Trump brands a lot of things fake news. They rarely are.
> How are there no fees and restrictions?

_Someone_ is paying the TX fees. Who? It can't be a single party, especially the developers, without betraying the decentralization.

> Pay with 50+ cryptocurrencies on OpenBazaar: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash, Dash, etc. Seller receives payment in Bitcoin

How does this work without a middleman or central party?
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This postmortem is disingenious at best and lying at worst.

> The restructuring of the original multi-sig wallet contract happened as part of a much larger change, namely the introduction of the Wallet user-interface, a 4000-line, almost entirely Javascript, CSS and HTML alteration.

The pull request in question[0] adds 2228 lines and removes 918. Not sure how this adds up to 4000 lines. But let's look at those lines:

* 685 were in a related "wallet.sol" file, though most of it due to changing indentation from 2 to 4 spaces. If you revert that, the diff goes down to 79 lines.

* 793 were in the buggy contract, "enhanced_wallet.sol". Same thing applies here, 520 lines were due to the change in indentation spaces.

* 477 + 466 lines are what appears to be auto-generated JSON related to the above.

Summing it up, out of the claimed 4000 lines:

* 854 were pure exaggeration,

* 1126 were whitespace changes,

* 943 were autogenerated files related to the contracts,

* 79 were in a related contract,

* 273 were in the buggy contract,

* 725 were other changes,

* 0 were HTML or CSS changes.

Perhaps the "alteration" referred to also includes related changes not part of the same pull request, though I was not able to find any related pull requests close in time to this one. But since the article refers to a 4000-line "alteration" which supposedly consists mainly of HTML, CSS and Javascript, I sure hope there is some other changeset referred to, and that this is not just a blatant lie.

> The first and biggest change will be to ensure that any alterations to the codebase that involve live contract code (which can be generally identified through .sol files) be reviewed by Solidity experts. At present the multi-sig wallet is the only Solidity code that is user-deployable and in wide use within Parity.

A few paragraphs up, you say that you already had exactly that policy:

> Changes which are understood to be sensitive (such as with contracts or core consensus code) are tagged as such and undergo a greater level of review, generally two or more expert reviews.

At no point does Parity seem to take responsibility for what happened, and the article ends with a paragraph trying to shift blame to the design of the Solidity language.

[0]: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/pull/4805
The Gödel loophole in the Constitution. The same loophole by which every right enumerated in the Bill of Rights has been legally nullified.
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whiteboard+webcam

You could call it a trelloscope
Why?

> on: The long-term cost of sexual harassment
sorry, I mixed two different things which are kind of same - Russian empire before USSR and USSR. in both periods Lithuania was occupied by Russia. so my point is still the same - resistance against agressor is possible even for small countries.
i don't see many christians blowing up kids 'for jesus', or decaptitating children 'for jesus' or throwing people off buildings, or raping or pillaging...

the radicalization of young christians into violent murder machines is a massive problem.

certtainly we must pursue this blatant false equivalency at all costs. because all religion is obviously the same in every way.
I'm sure you still have to pay Bitcoin transaction fees. They should really say that there are no additional fees to use Open Bazaar since it is open source.
The probability of manufacturing a bad pixel is some constant plus a function of the area of that pixel, and not the number of neighbours it has.
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milk I mixed with orange juice: http://i.imgur.com/8wj0l3J.jpg

surface of the sun: https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/thesun-4...
The result of this and other policies in Scandinavia is that everyone makes just about the same amount of money in a given line of work. Raises are based almost exclusively on age and seniority, not on performance. What a depressing and demotivating system.
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a la 'isis aren't real muslims'?
Sand Volleyball and volleyball classes for anyone remotely coordinated. Best way to meet young and healthy people with plenty of the opposite sex as well.
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I find it a bit difficult to believe that he was actually "lost". For example, after hitting "4" why did he continue going west?

A more believable story would be that he was just an adventurous guy roaming around the Mediterranean and looting seaside villages.
well... shit
there is some kind of exceptional treatment regarding israel at every un organizations that makes you wonder what is this state doing that is so repulsive that no other country in the world deserve such finger pointing.

The fact that this state is the only jewish state and that the jewish people historically never truely had the same rights except for some exceptional times and places, could be a hint that antisemitism does in fact play a role here...
My thought on religions
Nations and individuals are not equivalent by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.

Or do you genuinely think all rectangles are squares as well? Simply because one is a subset of the other does not make the equivalent things that should be treated identically in all circumstances.

Permitting individuals to make their choices (i.e. On the basis of religion or any other philosophical belief) without fear of discrimination in a Democracy is critical to the proper function of a Democracy. Otherwise, oppression of minority positions is too easily used to destroy that minority's ability to exercise their franchise.

Preventing the boycotting of nation states is not equivalently necessary to the proper function of civilized society. Nations are the outcomes of decisions made by very, very large numbers of people in aggregate combined with centuries of history. Opposing those outcomes are sometimes politically necessary.
Are you familiar with modern electronic dance music? There’s definitely no “authentic voice of another human being” in regular trance music, for example. It’s hours upon hours of repetitive structural patterns overlaid on similar timbres. Now, I’m not a very big fan of trance music, but it would be something, and I feel like the gap between that and more interesting music like IDM should be quantitative (more code to produce more complex patterns over more varied timbres), not qualitative.
It could have some negative side effects, as in: "But the arrow pointed straight off of the edge of the cliff!"
> Often the problem is framed as "converting a floating point number to the shortest possible decimal string representation", but this framing is neither neccessary nor sufficient for implementing the %e / %f / %g formats of sprintf.

This sentence is crucial for anyone wants to implement the float-to-decimal conversion. There exists a Grisu-inspired analogue for this problem but to my current knowledge it is not well described in any known literature. I had to fully analyze the analogue and recreate my (slightly improved) version of the algorithm for Rust [1]. It is not too complex once you understood but annoying enough to derive again.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/f8d485f/src/libcore/n...
The only nuclear accident that has killed any significant number of people was Chernobyl: which used the most dangerous reactor design that had ever existed, had tons of corners cut, was being operated by barely-trained staff, and the safeties were turned off temporarily. This was the Soviet Union, where failure could end in the manager's imprisonment in the GULAG or even death. As a result, it was not exactly run properly...

Today, Pripyat is perfectly safe except for the immediate vicinity of the reactor. People could live there.
Yeah, I got that Philips too. For games 40 inch at 4K resolution is really a lot more practical then 38 inch with an odd resolution, and it's cheaper too.
If you want to keep a software project on track, tools are secondary. The most important things are proper communication, good people management and some luck.
Shouldn't need to be said, this does not remove fees from BTC/Ether transactions.

The feature is that it does not ADD fees to use the platform.
I have maxed out the number of cards PayPal allows you to link to your account for years (8 or 9 cards I think) plus two bank accounts. Yet I haven't had any issues with unauthorized charges.
This game has been so much of a trainwreck, I don't see why Game Freaks licensed Niantic to use their IP.
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Build rapport with everyone, asks good questions and be a great active listener.
generally, 'liberal' politicians in the us are the same corporate sell-outs that 'conservative' politicians are.

they just work in a smidge of meaningless feel-good language in the rhetoric while doing largely nothing of consequence to actually help put food on the table.

they glory in war and economic imperialism and servicing the oligarchy just as much as any.
actually it's not. yes, governments were different in different war events, but it's a broader issue - Russia views ex-soviet (or even countries occupied before USSR) countries as countries which belong to Russia , so this policy/opinion/view continues through generations.

so no, it's not like you are saying.
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As far as I can tell, the only real way to take a next step beyond the imprecise informal idea in this paper would be to develop a formal calculus for describing garbage collectors that is 'polarized' in a way that tracing live objects and discovering dead objects are truly dual.
Why not have unisex bathrooms?

Density of urinals vs cubicals obv.
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It's novel. Bitcoin hasn't had a persistent fork before. Exchanges are trading assets that represent coin futures. That's very new.

Look at all the other stuff on the front page of HN right now:

* Dell made a new monitor. Yay.
* An article about salaries in Norway
* Emacs compared to alternatives
* A map of Ulysses’ journey
* People in the UK must register their drones now.

Everyone has different interests but something new is happening with a large, expensive, distributed piece of software that allows anyone to hack on. That's HN's raison d'être.
He directly addressed the perplexity (and expected life quality) of those who claim access to the "inner self" -- 'vision of God' -- and further elucidates that the successful -- "salvation" -- progressive process of 'reincarnation' is dependent on the "evolutionary wisdom" that is gained by making choices.

> nonsense

It is perfectly reasonable that one would hold such a view. We the present are co-local in time and space but not necessarily in attainment.
Not to say that Paypal's security is flawless, but it also depends on your wife's behaviors as well.

Not having it attached to her PayPal reduces the attack surface a bit which isn't a bad thing.

It's also completely possible that it either wasn't stolen from PayPal or that an unrelated breach (reused passwords on a compromised site etc) allowed someone to access the PayPal account.
isn't seeing a little hump in a pdf clearer?