skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tax revenue not profits. Either you make a profit selling a thing or you don't. Fancy tricks like buying an item from a fully owned subsidiary and selling it at a loss to compensate for profits from services is not realising the value your services and products bring to the economy

You mean, make Apple a Chinese company because being an American one is no longer viable? A VAT would be more reasonable, as it taxes value actually added at each point in the system, rather than a flat tax on each point in the system as you are proposing.
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The desks can adjust in height. Also everyone is welcome to have a permanent desk if they prefer which can be customized to their desires. People bring their own keyboard.
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Hershey's is a category all by itself. The first time I tasted their products I couldn't believe that they sold at all, leave alone in volumes.

But if you've never tasted Lindt, you'd never know what you're missing.
LTCM
There is remarkable data showing that the television show "Sixteen and Pregnant" reduces teen pregnancy rates in locations where it is shown. This would tend to support your hypothesis.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...
> From all I can see, what's happening is the natural consequences of lifting billions of people out of poverty.

Ah yes, billionaire CEOs and investors have lifted millions out of poverty and so the market has rewarded them with steadily increasing incomes. But wait! I thought the market only cared about profits!? Why would it reward them for lifting millions out of poverty?? Is it possible that the modern American political system has been bent to the exclusive benefit of the rich at the expense of everyone else? Nah.
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>The fall of the gold standard.

>The fall of Bretton-Woods.

1971, not 1973

>The repeal of Glass-Steagall.

1999, not 1973
The American culture values individualism...and also has a strong "you can't tell me what to do!" reaction to social pressure. If those points are connected, I can easily see too much individualism interfering with cooperation even if the base ideas are not in conflict.

Evidence: who are the heroes in american TV and movies? The rebel against authority, the one that breaks the rules. Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, House, I could go on and on. We celebrate the idea of something we actively argue against in daily life.

There's also some weird connection between extremes of claiming to value individualism and idolizing authoritarianism that I won't claim to understand, so I could be completely wrong on all of this. I'm not positive that extremes of individualism are a death knell for cooperation...but I don't find the idea unlikely either.
Google pays Apple $1B (or more)
I blame the Cold War and decades of counter-collectivism propaganda.

An entire generation grew up in that atmosphere... they became the nation's teachers and leaders, influencing the opinions of subsequent generations. Game theory shows small changes in behaviors and opinions can have massive downstream impact, as demonstrated by this interactive demo: http://ncase.me/trust/ (HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864183).

I haven't had any luck finding studies or data on this topic. The key would be voter turn-out for each party bucketed by age for the past few decades of elections.

If my propaganda theory holds true, the Republicans would see a popularity boost that ages at roughly 1 year per year. That segment would be ~50-80 around now, which does match recent voting data (older voters consistently skew conservative) - but historical data is needed to track a bulge over time and disprove the "naive youngsters vote liberal" narrative.
Yeah, that looks basically like the device!
When I say that they need more people, I mean that they need customer service that can handle the new market, legal people for the new laws, finance people for the taxes, etc. I'm aware they can largely reuse the code that underlies their service.

People do switch their ride solution. For example, I used to use taxis when I needed to hire a ride. I switched to uber because it was easier and cheaper. If something was as easy and cheaper, I'd use that instead (For example, I use lyft whenever it has a better price and I have the time to check).

Building a competitor for a single city seems plausible. I don't think there is a technology related hurdle. All you need is the capital to build the brand and to be competitive on price.
And yet ATMs, self-checkout lines and online shopping are a thing, and so are bank branch closures, retail bankruptcies and mall vacancy rates.
One explanation would be because of the cheaper labor and favorable legal frameworks the corporation can grow much larger today. Pushing the pay of the top level positions to rise even higher. You could look at C-level positions 50 years ago as a mid-level manager today in terms of managed organization size and economic impact.
Probably because the area to pull out your chair wouldn't double as a hallway to access other people's desks anymore. The walls aren't what's at a premium, the floor space is.
I'll caveat my statements by acknowledging I'm an outsider to all of this. That said, it was my understanding that BTC's decisions regarding segwit were driven by the proprietary interests of Blockstream. Is this correct?
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I use kanboard [1] for my project management. I like it because you can add automation hooks, e.g. once I close a task on one board, it can auto-move to another. So a dev task can get moved over to an operations board to be deployed. It is a open source, self hosted web app. There are several integrations and plugins out there for different stuff.

[1] https://kanboard.net/
I believe I read their new campus, the spaceship, is open floor plan.
if your rich as hell, give it away. if your voting, vote for people who want to tax the higher earners more and lower earners less. seems pretty reasonable to me
> What polarization is there in Washington?

Lower frequency of compromise and bipartisan bills. I've seen it just from reading the papers and staying semi-aware of politics. My mother-in-law worked in DC for decades, and it was glaringly evident to her even when she retired a decade or so ago.

> The two parties are close together on almost everything.

Along certain axes, sure. They're both broadly corporatist, for instance.

But overall? Not even close, particularly since the rise of the Tea Party. I read through my House Rep's notes on the legislation each side advances / endorses / votes for, which makes their actual legislative priorities pretty clear. Not to mention knowing people whose health, environment, and/or job are impacted by those ideological differences.

Most of the time I see "there's no difference between the two parties" asserted, it seems like it's either being used as a justification for apathy, or as a rallying cry for a third party.
The US hardly lacks collectivism, it is merely on an incomprehensibly grand scale. Pay your taxes and the state will help you, evade them and the state will punish you.

Certain African countries are strongly individualistic. The state is too weak to help or punish anybody. Infrastructure crumbles, crime and slavery abounds.

You seriously don't want to visit let alone live in a country that lacks collectivism.
>In the west safety nets might not be as thin as in the "poorer countries" but they have been getting increasingly thinner.

I can't speak for the rest of The West, but the safety net in the US has been getting better over time. Compared to my childhood it's easier to qualify for government assistance and it's easier to get medical care.
The use of RN doesn't necessarily mean you are violating Facebook's patents, whatever they may be. RN is still published with a BSD license. One of your corporate affiliates better know they're starting a patent war and their code base will be analyzed for patent infringement counterclaims by Facebook's attorneys.
Does AWS Lambda keep its serverless marketing promise of continuous scaling?
A lot of BigCos like that are already using React in their code base. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce, to name a few.
Because:

- CEO jobs require high work experience

- work experience in aggregate over all workers is constrained by the number of positions available at a company

- number of positions available at a company is typically not affected by an increase in supply of workers

CEO positions grow more valuable as time goes on because companies grow more valuable as time goes on. CEOs have higher impact when their companies are more valuable.
Apple is spending something like $5bn on an office with open floorplans... I don't think it's going anywhere.
In the west safety nets might not be as thin as in the "poorer countries" but they have been getting increasingly thinner.

Do you have an example?

In the US there are more social safety net benefits than 10 years ago.

ACA subsidy, Medicaid expansion, Medicare Part D, etc.
This is what you get from non-technical people projecting their understanding onto tech. It's not that Google's AI is trained to make sure everyone is civil, it simply requires less sophisticated language understanding/modeling to determine civility, and Google's results show the limitations or current ML/NLP technologies more than the data it was trained on, this is clearer when you see that it can't handle pretty serious threats because they don't have profanity - these things definitely fall into the bucket of what would make users leave a platform.
Honestly, just use Cmake. It is far easier to make it work cross playform and better yet cross compile. There's no good reason to write a Makefile by hand and no large projects do it anyway
Angular2+ is an improvement, no doubt, and the eventing based system is not unlike React's in that sense. Although it does require you to instantiate an EventEmitter which is somewhat arbitrary. Still, it's a better data flow model overall for sure.
If every window had one or more associated files in /dev which corresponded to it's audio and video output, it wouldn't necessarily be that hard. You wouldn't even have to worry about actually having bits there until someone was listening, because the OS knows when someone opens a file, and could send the appropriate message to the window system to start sending the video associated with that window to the pipe as well.

There's no reason why a desktop window application could not supply audio and video to, or receive audio and video from, ffmpeg or even a chained command that might just include ffmpeg at some step.
This is more for indie devs and side projects... will make it more clear ;)
>If someone is not capable
That mindset continues to be disgusting to me. Humans are some of the most impressive creatures on Earth; baring actual disability, you can teach them to do all sorts of things.

I'm going to love watching the tech scene's existential panic over the next 2 decades as the population increasingly realizes that making CRUD apps and junk SAS is a job many Americans are more than capable of doing.
This is entirely a consequence of economic policy set the by the US government. Not some immutable property of our world. As such it can be changed through, for example, a more progressive tax policy.
This article seems completely unmoored from any historical context.
Why should it matter if it weren't wife / daughter or my son / husband?

Buy anyway: passing joke? That's fine. Absolutely normal.

If the person demanded a demonstration that would be completely different.
Meat industry would collapse due to 1. Daily foods like steak, bacon, eggs, milk would get extremely expensive leaving the population to lousy unsatisfying vegetables.

Might solve the obesity epidemic :) Might also cause riots because people are not used to eating yucky foods like vegetabables.
If the minimum wage is a universal solution works for everybody, why are there so many exemptions and carveouts? Family-owned businesses like restaurants are exempt, self-employed individuals are exempt, piecemeal farm labor is exempt, babysitters and other "occasional" labor have their own exemption, tipped workers have a carveout.

There's a special rate for minors because apparently nobody thinks high school kids will produce $15 of value per hour yet they still need to learn the ropes of the business and personal responsibility somehow.
Yes it does, and no there isn't, in that order. CMake is pretty horrid in many respects - I won't deny that - but it gets a few key things right, and it has a good-size ecosystem. That's enough to make up for its notable deficiences.
Actually I find with products consumers use every day, they are able to ask the right questions fairly readily.
Taxing revenue seems completely insane to me. How would it be implemented without turning the world upside down?
This is due to the entrenchment of neoliberalism since the 70s (famously Reagan in the 80s), the ideology that government's sole responsibility is to enforce free markets, any other function of government is bad, and that every aspect of life should be dictated by free markets. Margaret Thatcher's "there is no such thing as society, only individuals" sums it up. Rising wealth inequality is simply a byproduct of this.

When we're indoctrinated to suppress our humanity and see each other as self-interested profit-maximizing businesses rather than people, then it shouldn't come as any surprise that we're less cooperative.
Many interesting ideas and concepts, no question. However, if it was a startup pitch I would struggle to see a killer application. I can see features (some are very exciting!) here, but I'm failing to see a product. What kind of real-life problem would such OS solve? Is this problem worth billions of dollars required for developing a new OS and a tool kit of apps for it?
Looks like the result was more positive than that though I'm curious how they came to the final conclusion: "Using data from Google Trends, Twitter, Nielsen ratings and Vital Statistics birth data, Professors Kearney and Levine found that teens who watch “16 and Pregnant” immediately go online to search for (and tweet about) birth control and abortion. Through some very impressive and fascinating dot-connecting, Kearney and Levine found that “16 and Pregnant” led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births — a percentage that accounts for one-third of the total decline in teen births: 20,000 fewer teen births a year."
Mmm... Have you read this and similar: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201... ?
Your making the classic mistake of equating the top 10% European countries like Switzerland and Sweden with the entire United States. Midwestern states, Washington state, and New England have cohesion.

Correct your perspective and see that the United States and Europe are fairly equal. Example: Italy has next to no cohesion.
Wealth concentration was the goal, globalization was the means. The rich saw a great arbitrage opportunity in the fact that the price of labor (and its legal rights) in the developing world was much lower than in the first world.

In the late 90s, there was a big political struggle over globalization.
The pro-globalists (the economic establishment and the Clinton administration) argued that it would (A) grow the economy (based on comparative advantage), (B) enrich the developing world, and (C) push them towards liberal democracy, as a consequence of having a richer middle class.
The anti-globalists (mainly left-wing opposition) argued that it would (D) destroy the working class in the first world, (E) shift the balance of power enormously in the favor of corporations, (F) destroy the developing world too.

The pro-globalization side won the fight completely: the WTO was established, China was brought into the global trade system, etc.

Twenty years on, it is clear that both sides were partially right. The pro-global side was right about A and B, and wrong about C. The anti-global side was right about D and E, and wrong about F.

Strangely, the anti-global side disappeared entirely from the public discussion; in fact, that entire period of history seems to have been memory-holed with incredible rapidity. Even as D (the destruction of the working class in the developed world) was brought into the 2016 presidential campaign as one of the main issues (by Sanders and, surprisingly, by Trump), nobody seemed to recall the anti-globalization protests of the 90s. None of the activists from back then came out of the woodwork to say "we were right!"; no journalists went to look for them.

This should give pause to those who put trust in the media, even (especially?) the self-proclaimed progressive ones, like Vox.
its a very HN type of thing to do...code an image, that is
I'm really happy this site exists to discuss topics intelligently
I was getting tired of the repetitiveness and simplicity of reddit. That is all. : )
> . 13yos will be able to buy heroin. It's not just breathless speculation.

You are so out of touch! There are plenty of 13yos selling in the US, it's not like it's hard to find.

Obviously the way to prevent minors from getting access is to legalize / regulate.
> He wasn't participating in a rigorous exchange of criticism in philosophy or politics.

Um, his memo was intrinsically political. The matters of policy of a company are political matters. Therefore it is completely valid to scrutinize it politically and of course at a serious level which integrates it into the surrounding context.

> No, what you described is completely arbitrary.

No, not really. If it was completely arbitrary then I would be considering things like "Well James Damore didn't mention the ongoing debate on ham and pineapple pizza and clearly shows his bias in doing so". There is an inherent context to his memo that is completely obvious to everyone involved as evidenced by the fact that literally every side in the discussion involving it makes some sort of connection to that context.

On the side defending him, usually calling people who condemn his memo as irrational or the intolerant left, or some-such hostile dismissal.

> Right, "rigorous" and "critical" debate. No pure ad-hominems to see here. Move along.

Ad hominem is "James Damore is a doofus, therefore he's wrong". "James Damore is wrong, and because he is wrong in this way, he's a doofus", on the other hand, is not ad hominem. The only thing more odious than whipping out the latin is doing it incorrectly. From all the digital ink spilled on the topic, I have concluded that there are only a very small group of people defending him that earnestly consider the idea that he fucked up. The most common discourse is to simply presume that he didn't and then demand that everyone engage with him and his memo on their terms. Yawn.

> Just making shit up and attributing it to your opponent is the opposite of "intellectually" rigorous. It maybe ideologically rigorous, but that's about it.

James Damore's arguments are neither novel nor exemplary. The fact that he A) insists that he's being shut out of conversation and B) proceeds to make the same exact argument that has been discussed ad nauseum without bringing anything new to the table is telling. Everyone has already met a James Damore; they don't need another.
Used to. Their new flying saucer is open office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
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Thank you! This looks great!
I like a lot of what Joel writes, but I profoundly disagree with him on this, and I'm not alone in my dislike of accidental complexity which, which I think is now an order of magnitude greater than essential complexity. So there is a "silver bullet". It just needs someone to bite it.

The author of the article recognizes there's a problem, but is less clear on how to go about solving it. A clue is in this article by Erik Naggum: http://naggum.no/erik/complexity.html

Dan Ingalls once wrote: "Operating System: An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one." What he meant is we should migrate the functionality of the operating system into the programming language. This is possible if there's a REPL or something similar, so no need for the shell or command line. The language should be image-based, so no need for a file system. So, a bit like Squeak, or a Lisp with a structure editor.

There's still a gap between the processor and the language, which should be eliminated by making the processor run the language directly. This was done in Burroughs mainframes and Lisp machines.

Further up the "stack", software such as word processors and web browsers are at present written entirely separately but have much in common and could share much of their code.
At the late stage, investors usually want to see 3-10x vs 10-100x as a realistic range vs earlier stage (A round) investors.

Usually they also look to there being a MUCH lower change of going completely to 0 - more like 10-20% vs well over 50%.

And usually there it's because of the fundamentals of the business are starting to show (margin, cost of acquiring customers, customer churn and upsell, etc.)

Sometimes IP or assets add value/valuation as well, though.

In Docker's case, there is also probably a feeling that the asset (control of "Docker") is worth hundreds of millions.

In CloudFlare's case, it is millions of sites as users, and the ability (mostly untapped, I think) to monetize the data from that.
I've seen this picture from Wired: http://creativebits.org/sites/default/files/applrend7.jpg (source: http://creativebits.org/inside_apples_spaceship_headquarters)
> [I blame the lack of] decades of counter-collectivism propaganda.

How do Eastern European countries fare then? How about China?
It's funny, I work in a coworking space, and we technically have hot desks, but everyone always ends up sitting in the same place every day. It really throws me if someone takes my seat, usually it's someone new, who hasn't figured out the seating plan yet.

It's almost like high school, where you don't have a designated lunch table, but you always sit at the same table. Or at least that's what the movies show, we didn't have a cafeteria.
Did anyone ever actually believe this nonsense about open offices "fostering creative and egalitarian work environments"? Ive worked in my share of open office environments and not once was there even any pretense of high ideals behind it. It was pretty much "yep, we're a startup/penny-pinching corp and we're not going to spend a nickel more on office space than we have to". And so open office it is.
In a world where CEOs can receive massive bonuses for driving a company to the ground, that's not easy to believe at all.
"It simply compares the dates of files."

test(1) also compares the dates of files

test file1 -nt file2
test file1 -ot file2

Is there anything else that make does in addition to comparing dates of files?

(Besides running the shell.)

tsort(1) does topological sorting

tsort + sed + sort + join + nm = lorder(1)

lorder can determine interdependencies
Moog Constellation
Because those workers also buy things and contribute to demand?
You must work remotely.