skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does society gain from taking more of those profits and consuming them, instead of allowing them to be invested in supporting more jobs and creating more economic output?

Judging from e.g. Scandinavia, France, Germany etc, what they get from taxing companies is an excellent safety net for all citizens, healthcare available for all, good transport systems, good education systems etc and various other social goods. Basically, great and fair countries to live in.

You seem to be speaking as though the only possible social good is the productivity of businesses and that money that is taken in tax has effectively zero contribution to society. Standing in Europe [or Japan, or any developed economy outside the USA], that looks like a very strange thing to read.

You're basically arguing 'tax shouldn't exist because it slows companies down and generates no positive effect of it's own'. To which I will respond, "Nope. That's an ignorant argument."

Tax on companies should exist because it leads to strong public sectors that act as safety nets for societies (on an individual level, and also at corporate level during downturns).

Furthermore, companies want to stay alive by having continual government spending during a recession, they need to be putting some money in the public kitty gradually on an ongoing basis to pay for it.

I would add that your claim of reducing corporation tax provides more jobs is total junk: see the citations on the right hand side of this page:
https://corporatetax.procon.org/

Job creation in the USA was highest under high corporate tax rates; and 'corporation tax holidays' are associated with massive job cuts. Still, 'facts have a well known liberal bias' so I suggest you do your own research.

Let's transfer a part of your argument to another situation and see what happens:

>If a business owner invests to buy better production equipment (assets) that will increase the productivity of their workers so they can make more things with the same amount of work, it should be taxed for this decision?

I'll rewrite this as:

>If a consumer invests to buy better equipment (assets) that will increase the productivity in their home, they should be taxed for this decision?

Yes. Because there are other needs in society beyond optimising the productivity of companies. The greatest benefits in the average citizen's life do not come from the tax efficiency or manufacturing efficiency of the companies they use products from, but from education and healthcare and policing and transport and environmental and 'safety net' and regulatory/standards systems. Stuff that needs tax.
This is a good feature. Wish app engine provides capability for blue-green deployments.
What about a simple game clone, add multiplayer for added complexity. Forget about Performance at first ;)
Point taken. Your edit is much better.

Thanks.
It's a thought provoking concept. I think it would be nice to have some real world examples of occupations most at risk though.
What stops you from using your TV just like that - a dumb TV? Connect it to power and don't connect it to any network and all you have to do is to use your HDMI inputs, volume control and picture adjustment. Ignore everything else. I use it like that. Never had I had to update my TV's software.
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” -grrm

Attacking the media seems to be really popular these days. What is Martin afraid of?
> would this be any less of a tragedy if she wasn't a talented and well-known reporter?

I believe so yes. But I'm more honest than most people.
Cool twist in the last paragraph.
Honestly I don't mind that drug dealers get the book thrown at them, play stupid games/win stupid prizes, furthermore the equivocating and rationalizing around drug dealing having great margins is disingenuous at best and malicious at worst.

There's more to the situation than microeconomic theory and approaching it from a purely economic point of view is dangerous.

If we're going to be serious about why fathers are in prison then it stands to reason that we focus on keeping families together, the vast majority of women that enter single motherhood fall into poverty and welfare. Not only that but they never get out of it and they have to endure mental illness (eg: depression, obesity, addiction) which further complicates family life.

Telling these young women that they're better off alone, that they can find better relationship opportunities, and other pie-in-the-sky ideological claptrap is reckless and negligent. It is truer now more than ever that the traditional family unit is the best institution for ensuring a child's future is secure.

No I'm not saying women should endure abusive relationships but for heaven's sake we have to be honest about the fact that they're better off settling down early than "finding themselves" which we all know is primarily promiscuity, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
Olin Shivers's work on various control flow analyses, in particular the paper "CFA2: a context-free approach to control-flow analysis", is a really cool static analysis via abstract interpretation. Matt Might had a bunch of papers in a similar vein.
Not all of these events can be considered random. Spontaneous abortion is definitely stochastic process. But you don't have a distribution of being born at a particular time, i.e. you can't talk about probability of being born nowadays vs 100 years ago.
Why not use separate SVG files? You could reference them as data-url from the CSS to save round-trips.

Perhaps it's just me but using a font to store icons seems arcane.
Formosat-5 Mission
Do you have any data to support the claim that most crimes of passion involve "him making a pass at her"? This seems like an obvious narrative for a TV show but this is merely one of hundreds of possibilities that could result in her accidental death.
A New Capital?
For a retail investor the proposition entails all of the risks of a private investment with none of the instruments available on publicly traded stocks - access to financials, flat common stock structure with no preferential stack, analyst coverage, quarterly calls with the management to discuss strategy.

The instrument is useful for speculative bets, so I guess the supply of it highly depends on the availability of speculative capital.
Brawndo? It's got electrolytes.
Show HN: Git-spring-cleaning(1), clean up your local repositories
iOS + Safari
HPKP uses public keys and AFAIK it rotates them by default every 90 days (unless you explicitly said no).

HPKP and Let's encrypt has been a notable problem on the Let's encrypt community, if you see my reply to an earlier comment you can read the links on the problem it brings, it has even been proposed to use long-term certs (https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/2083) but the devs didn't like it therefore since it's not recommended and encouraged by one of the major free ssl certificate authorities it just means that it will less people will implement it and browser will eventually cut the support.
An app called Dark Sky came out, powered by Forecast.io. Several months ago they rebranded the service to DarkSky.net which continues to power the Dark Sky app, along with other 3rd party apps like Forecast Bar.
The only smart TV I have atm I got with my phone and I did this very thing. I used to have it hooked up to the Wi-Fi but decided to reset everything on it and disconnect it completely (refuse to give it Wi-Fi credentials) and let it be used for what it's used best: being a TV.
>Though I think it's partly an artifact of the days when an undergrad degree would bring students to the leading edge of research, so there was simply no-one else qualified. There would have been a lot more synergy when researchers were explaining cutting edge ideas to students (it still happens a bit, but it's the exception rather than the rule).

Yes, that was my suspicion too -- historically, students were only going to those lectures where they were actually interested and which they were much closer to the level of the lecturer. In that case, the bottleneck isn't "ability to be a good explainer to novices" but "ability to answer arbitrary questions".

IOW, it looked more like grad school today, where the good researchers naturally are a better fit for teaching, and don't mind it as much.
Eugene Wei, who ran video for Facebook’s Oculus project, has left the company
Tell us more!

What's the breakdown for your actual all-in commute costs on a per-mile basis, and how have you arrived at those numbers?
The article goes astray in the very first paragraph. "Even after decades of affirmative action." The period starts after the Supreme Court's 1978 decision in Regents v. Bakke which put significant limits on how affirmative action programs can be structured. More generally, the entire 35-year period (starting 1982) takes place during a conservative retrenching from the civil rights era.
"Self: the power of simplicity" really lives up to its name!
This seems almost perfectly in response to the HN submission on the NYT Games migration to Google Cloud[0], who listed App Engine's lack of a firewall as one of their complaints with the service

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15084728
In a "hack scenario" theoretically everything can be compromised.
>Hardware Kill Switches for Camera, Microphone, WiFi/Bluetooth, and Baseband

Sounds like they're planning a hardware kill switch for the baseband, so I would be surprised if the device couldn't boot without it.
Securing Cookies in Go
Why Black Holes Could Delete the Universe
Imagine how much they'll be worth when they do something useful...;)
More like "because of Affirmative Action".

Just treat people as fairly as possible. The other way doesn't work.
It's been 30 years, memories fade. Fixed. And thank you for pointing this out.
>the stories I keep reading about the worst of the American prisons come to mind

That's a misconception. State run prisons are no better.

Regardless, it's not that people don't want government to provide services. They want government services and they want low taxes.
What It Takes to Hold Your Breath for 24 Minutes
Yeah, the SFBC (SF Bike Coalition) is not super happy about those lights. Better for the bus, which is good, but "will also cause delay for pedestrians and bicycle riders."[1]

There's no good way to avoid them westbound, but we can be certain eastbound wiggle traffic will start taking Page to avoid the left turn at the Haight & Scott traffic light. And that's going to stress the notorious Scott & Page intersection even more. They're currently adding pedestrian safety improvements.[2] We'll see if it's enough.

Unless.. I wonder if timed bicycle signals would help make the traffic signal routes preferable. Not sure if it would work, but that would be a dream.. just flow through the wiggle unimpeded. I can't tell if they're considering it.

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/wiggle-neig...

[2] https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/projects/2017/Wigg...
All time hit paper
The CHF is almost identical in value to the USD these days.
I recall finding "Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO" to be mind-bending.
"Don't tase me, bro."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida_Taser_in...

My opinion on that incident is that the police over-reacted.

Police in the US seem to be sorely undertrained in defusing situations, and in fact often are the ones escalating. They certainly (in my experience) do not like to have their authority challenged. They are the professionals - shouldn't the onus be on them to maintain calm?

That said, there are thousands of police/citizen interactions every day that don't end up in the news. Maybe the bad apples have biased my opinion.

Disclosure: white middle-aged middle-class male. I've had maybe a dozen interactions with police, mostly traffic incidents, mostly when I was much younger. I can think of two incidents in particular where the officer became verbally abusive with no obvious provocation on my part, and I had to de-escalate through calm and submission.
Strong typing is a start but not enough for my taste. Static typing serves as documentation and compile time bug check, which is awesome to have. I'd like to have both, without the detour over typescript.
Multiplayer flappy bird would be great imo
Favorite node / libc impedance mismatch is the stat() call. stat() returns an inode, which is a 64 bit integer. But JS doesn't have 64 bit integers, so it just gets rounded to the closest representable double. So node will sometimes identify two different files as the same file.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, by Brin and Page.

Not only for the historical value of changing the world, and for the fact that it's very interesting and readable; It has personal value to me: the first CS paper I've ever read and it inspired me and changed the course of my life, literally.

Also, it has some very amusingly naive (in hindsight) stuff in it, like: "Google does not have any optimizations such as query caching, subindices on common terms, and other common optimizations. We intend to speed up Google considerably through distribution and hardware, software, and algorithmic improvements. Our target is to be able to handle several hundred queries per second"

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Me, too bookmarking!
Buddybuild Now Supports Organization Level Settings
While I watch TV, my Samsung keeps popping up messages ontop of my show... "The ESPN app will be deprecated on July 2nd 2020". I don't care. I don't use that app. I just use netflix. Its super annoying.

I think I'm going to disconnect it from the net after reading this article. I guess the one a few months ago bout the NSA turning it into a microphone didn't concern me as much as losing access to netflix.
I also have a degree from a prestigious university where the teaching ranged from mediocre to good. IMO, the quality of the teaching (or lack thereof) was secondary to the fact that the academic bar was set significantly higher than at most other institutions and that I was surrounded by the caliber of classmates who had both the aspiration and capability to excel.
I have no horse in this race; Care to share the perfect explanation?
> Maybe, or maybe we'll discover in 10 years that eating lab grown meat gives you some form of cancer. Until it is used on a large scale for a number of years (as in decades) we have no idea what the effect of consuming lab grown meat has on ones health.

We can know it's safe without a long track record of use because of biology, chemistry, and physics. Cultured meat is the same muscle cells with the same DNA. If it caused cancer but animal meat didn't, that would tell us something new about biology, chemistry, and/or physics.

Your fear-mongering postulates unknown mechanisms of action that science would almost certainly have discovered by now. That's not just unscientific, it's anti-scientific. It's on the same level as, "What if cell phones cause cancer?" or "What if vaping is worse than smoking?"
Give your models life
> Gender: Apache Attack Helicopter Comment: Fuck you implying anything about a wage gap stupid tranny

Nice..
This question is a bit too vague. I'm not sure how it got 17 up votes. I would only up vote it if it was more clear.

We need to know the motivations in order to be able to answer.

Are you looking to buy a turn key passive income business?

Are you looking to sell?

If you are looking to sell what are your skills?

Can you, for example, write a Wordpress theme or would you do you want to sell physical goods using a drop shipper?

If you update the questions I'm sure some people will be able to help.
Extensions to the xterm protocol
I think it's similar to Obama's "don't do stupid shit". It's not really supposed to mean anything concrete, it's just a good philosophy for approaching big decisions. I don't know if it works, but I understand the intent.
to be honest, i think this would be mitigated by better hand-off procedures. At the moment, there isn't a formal "handoff format" and its ad hoc depending on the physician. Nurses have much shorter shifts between doctors, 8-12 hrs, and they do ok.
It's not his job to keep up with a prematurely produced TV series, though.
I completely agree. I don't think opening files in atom is a big pain point for most people so I'm not sure why it's worth talking about. Advocating a text editor should be based on its purpose which is how well it is able to edit text.
So they made their best case scenario, but they didn't make their realistic success scenario (yet).
Why not the eastern ones then? There is hardly any discernible ethnic, linguistic or cultural difference between Smolensk and Vladivostok.
And British is trying to use Chinese textbooks to boost math education. Non-phonetic doesn’t mean easier to grasp the words meanings. Try read a Taxonomy or anatomy book and tell us whether you need sometime to learn each words.
> No, and no one here is suggesting that, and neither is the article suggesting it.

Yes, the article certainly does suggest that we need to "change [the] minds" of anyone who "believes" in conspiracy theories. (And if I'm not outright denying the possibility of a conspiracy the author considers me a "believer".) It's right there in the title and in the story of the moon landing. If you read the article, the author links to a study that allegedly proves that people who are open to conspiracy theories aren't being analytical enough and apparently that's somehow a problem for everybody and it needs to be stopped.

It's as if the author thinks that they are able to accurately analyze every situation even though they weren't there (on the moon, etc) and that they have accounted for every possibility. He assumes that he has all the information. Clearly this is not the case. People who deal in hard sciences often behave like this.

Perhaps the author should try analyzing their own propensity to be incorrect despite applying every analytical power that they possess because if one thing is certainly true, it's that humans generally have no idea how wrong they are - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8V8rtdXnLA
In Germany there are plenty of options available.

I just bought a dumb TV last year, and the shop still has them on sale.
happy to hear that
I've always enjoyed Finseth's Thesis on text editing, "A cookbook for an EMACS", which he turned into a book: https://www.finseth.com/craft/ and is available in epub form for free.
It isn't hard to design a phone with a completely separate baseband processor and wireless subsystem.

People don't do it because it is more expensive than the integrated solutions. It also takes up more precious real estate on the PCBs. And uses more power.

So if you're willing to compromise on all that, it can be done.
> Isn't speech recognition nearly at human levels of comprehension, at least for US English and outside of highly technical jargon?

Recognition of technical jargon is an easier problem than recognition common speech. Jargons are far more regular and have limited lexical and idiomatic variation, while common speech has a huge number of variations and is constantly innovating new usages. This is evidenced by the fact that the earliest speech recognition systems were only useful in highly restricted domains (medical transcription, phone support tree navigation).
Of course not :)
I don't think that's a given. You're assuming that interest in mining will continue to grow at the same exponentially increasing rate forever, but that would most likely require the price to continue rising forever too. I don't think either of those scenarios sounds at all realistic. The bubble will eventually burst, but the blockchain will continue on.

Bitcoin price can drop to $1000 tomorrow and many miners will lose interest on the following day, but the difficulty is what governs how much work is required to put a block onto the end of the chain; not the number of transactions. When the difficulty drops, (yeah it will bring some miners back). In this way, it is extremely beneficial that the price drops for the viability of the network. And sure, that is scary for speculators who may or may not understand it, but this isn't a frozen banana stand, it is a brand new monetary system. There is tons of risk involved for stakeholders.

As solutions are implemented that make it easier to include more transactions in a single block, or to safely defer publishing the transactions into a block at all until some later date when there is less friction (SegWit does this?) the number of transactions that Bitcoin may process per second will rise, but the difficulty/hashrate are not a factor in this calculation.

The price of bitcoin is what has driven the interest in mining, and the explosion of difficulty is what follows from that based on how the protocol is designed to work. These variables are not in any way dependent on transaction volume by number or complexity of transactions, though.

You can absolutely increase or decrease the throughput of transactions handled by the network without necessarily having any dependent effect on energy usage, hashrate, or difficulty. (We could have a fine blockchain with only 5-10 people doing the mining, and it would almost certainly be able to handle just as many transactions, but there are quite a lot more people interested than that.)
Oh dang, missed the "annual" part of that question. I have no idea, would have to calculate holiday wages and stuff... And OP has no contact info in his profile to let him know which entry to update.
Maybe I can better explain with an example, but it comes from the only time I've worked with Cobol professionally, and I have avoided it since. My experience is limited, and might not be the norm.

It was a bank, and transactions were processed through a pipeline.

Part of that pipeline was handing off transaction data from an always-active system, but then into many, many short-lived Cobol processes, and then into another always-active system.

The Cobol processes basically munged, pulled and pushed to database/s, and then killed itself.

In this case, I could see warm-up time being a huge issue, though a switch into another language might bring a change in architecture to threading and the like which would remove that problem, but I can't see a bank changing architectures easily.

From my limited exposure, several financial companies connected with the bank had similar processes. Something like Java or C running a server, Cobol when numbers need serious crunching, and then back into another server application.

(Incidentally, both the server processes were Fortran, if that's interesting to anybody).
Could you set your TV's date too 2025?
It's quite the coincidence but we're very excited about it :)

- NYT Games Team
I ll have the dry aged homo sapiens.. Rare.. Cooked slowly in his own carbon dioxide.

The future is delicious
Cool, now give me PHP 7.1
And this is why we bought a regular non-smart TV a few months back with 3 HDMI ports.

I have a Roku and a Chromecast connected to it and that's about it.

I was looking at smart TVs but decided against that, i have a Roku anyway and for the most part it will be easier to upgrade the device in the future than the TV.

Plus a non-smart TV is much cheaper anyway.
The photos aren't being represented as journalism, it's a profile of the photographer and collection.
Vizio has a bunch of TVs that offload almost all the "smart" stuff to an Android tablet, which is also your main remote. Some don't even come with the tablet (I think). They also comes with a small, very simple remote which I use.

The only smart stuff the TV has built in is Chromecast functionality.

Their "SmartCast" TVs:
https://www.vizio.com/tvs.html?technology=839
Unrelated to the article, but WOW did anyone else see the giant full view height ad video at the top? I have ad blocker off for NatGeo. It's followed by a giant banner. I can't imagine how much crazier ads have been getting and most of us don't even notice 'cause we have ad blocker.