skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not a new thing. The fascist Oswald Mosley complained about a lack of free speech when he was repeatedly prevented from speaking and marching in predominantly Jewish parts of London in the 30s by large violent crowds[1]. Post war there were very organised groups dedicated to disrupting fascist "free speech", like 43 Group which was made up of Jewish ex-servicemen[2]. Again in the 60s Mosley cited "free speech" when his fascist rallies were violently disrupted[3].

Fascists have been using "free speech" as a shield since the beginning, and similarly liberals were handwringing about the fascists right to "free speech" while fascists beat up and killed Jews and other minorities and burned down synagogs. The liberals were wrong in the 30s to tolerate fascism and they're wrong now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street being the most famous example
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43_Group
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRS4NR_BZ1w and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Ef3WYWJYc for example
I have the ultimate version that works really well:

0. don't touch with a barge pole articles about "things that software developers should know"
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While I agree that a flat tax is drastically superior to our current convoluted tax scale, it would still have many unfortunate depressant effects. When you introduce friction at every trade, you hurt the market's ability to reach an optimum. This could never happen in the US (or any country that follows the Geneva convention, since it forbids revocation of citizenship), but it would be extremely interesting to have a small nation where the only tax was a constant head tax, like $X thousand/person/year. All of a sudden, many incentives that don't currently line up would start to.
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I had a somewhat similar experience with Chase - account locked without notice, wouldn't tell me what was wrong, couldn't get paid by clients. The only way I was able to solve the problem was physically flying to the US and proving my identity (again) in person.
Fortunately my credit card was through a different bank so didn't lose access to third party services.
I'm not talking about financial freedom. At around 10M you have financial freedom. I think competition is a great tool for personal growth, but would you run the score up on your child in a game of basketball or would you try an teach him a few tricks to up his game so the next time you both enjoy the game more.

At the end of the day I think we need to spend more time sharing a little more. ME included.
I don't want to be suspicious and negative but here is yet another needless dependency without any real value. mkvirtualenv is the best tool to manage venvs, pytest with pytest-cov to test and there is so much benefit to know original instruments but not some inferior wrapper. If you bothered by bugs in pip it's better to fix it in pip. All community will be grateful. But another wrapper is a complete shame.
You're missing this open letter sent a few years begging countries not to develop autonomous weapons but they're doing it anyway of course https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons/
"The theory behind all those high-end tax cuts [...] was that it would unleash entrepreneurial energy [...] The first half of that theory may well have come true. Many of the world’s most successful companies are American — not only Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, but also Exxon Mobil, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson and JPMorgan Chase."

The article fails to mention that even when the tax code was 90% on the highest earners, most of the successful companies were American, including Exxon Mobil, GM, Ford, DuPont, AT&T...

Anecdotally, I don't think I have ever met anyone starting a business thinking "If I don't make more than 2 million a year for myself, I won't have a successful business." So increasing tax rate beyond a couple of millions a year, or even before, seems a no-brainer to me, at least until everybody gets healthcare and free education.
How about a flat tax rate, but have essential goods be tax free?
That's like saying it will always be possible to murder someone so there is no point in trying to curb chemical weapons sales to children.

Every loop closed makes tax evasion harder and riskier. There will always be people who do it, like there will always be people killing other people, but it is worth making it hard and risky enough that most people will consider other solutions before resorting to murder/tax evasion.
That might be oversimplifying what flat means. Suppose it's not a linear function? Pick your function to begin kicking in above the poverty line and maybe get linear above 200k.

But "no loophole tax" might be a better characterization of the flat idea, yes?
Yes, and that explains why rich people are often leftists and support complicated tax system - for them it does not matter, they will not pay a penny, but if someone tries to build competing business from scratch and cannot afford "tax optimalization" then taxation is one more obstacle on the road.
I wonder how many more jobs would actually be created if CEOs pay was funneled into R&D or expansion or how many job cuts would have been avoided through the years
The big problem there is that it encourages companies to grow as big as they possibly can, because "internal" transactions aren't taxed.

So Amazon would own the entire supply chain: Manufacturing widgets, selling widgets, storing widgets, shipping widgets, handling returns, etc. They already sort of do this, but if you add a 20% tax at each hop they would eliminate the remaining hops as fast as they possibly can or buy the hops.

And you could never start a small business, because everyone who'd want to buy from you would save a ton of money doing it themselves. By not taxing business transactions, it's zero additional cost to have someone else do something for you, so it makes it possible to grow a small business.

In particular, grocery stores with a 2% margin would be hit hard.
How do you define having "enough" money? There was a Wall Street Journal survey many years ago and the majority who responded said something like "If I made twice as much money as I do now I'd be happy." Never mind the fact that the survey covered enough income levels that people who made $30k were wishing for $60k and those who made $60k were wishing for $120k.

I think unfortunately for most people their expenditures rise with their income and they struggle to get ahead. I'm not saying striving to get ahead is wrong, I'm just saying some people end up treading water no matter where they are.

WSJ has definitely tried to answer "how much is enough" and googling for that returns things like

https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-money-buy-happiness-heres-w...
>What matters a lot more than a big income is how people spend it.

And

https://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2010/09/07/the-perfect-salary-f...
>The Perfect Salary for Happiness: $75,000

I'm not sure there's really one answer.
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When I was visiting Brazil I met a bunch of people that called themselves vegetarians who would eat chicken and bacon. Turns out "vegetarian" means not eating beef. It led to some pretty funny misunderstandings.
Outside world. You should get to know your LGBTQ and other marginalized friends better if you aren't aware of how bad things are. Twitter may have been the first place they found anyone else like them. Even accepting environments (rare) can be difficult to cope with if you have no one to talk to who really understands what it's like.
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Gandi has an API. Furthermore, AWS uses Gandi for some of its TLD domain name registration so I feel that it's a pretty safe choice - I can only imagine that AWS has a tough due diligence process.

I've used Gandi before and I recommend it.
The modern progressive income tax system is not even remotely a millennium old. We didn't even have income taxes in the US until 1861, and they weren't generally applied until 1913.
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My friends and I would like to pay our rent and buy our food and maintain our cars with the thing you propose we keep score with, instead of money.
None of the documents contain an address, neither does the domain registration or SSL certificate. For all I know they might just collect 20k email addresses of people who are interested in such a product and then go out and contact banks to work with.
Based on how low it is on the rankings compared to other languages I'd say not many.

I have no data to back this up other than my anecdotal personal experience but I'd wager Perl hackers who use Homebrew never use it to install Perl.

Most of the classic Perl documentation walks you through installing from source, which is quite easy, and modern documentation/tutorials usually refer to perlbrew.

The Perl community often has established solutions within their own ecosystem, and this makes them seem like they have a smaller presence then the otherwise would have.
You say the Pythonistas refused to use Gradle, but it also seems the JVM peeps refused to let go of it?

Isn't that the problem? Isn't Make more general than Gradle? If the project was primarily JVM, why couldn't the Pythonistas be forced to use whatever build system was mandated?
It certainly isn't an oversimplification in context. The comment up the thread that raised the idea of a flat tax defined it as "everything is taxed at a single rate".

Maybe single means a complex function? I doubt it.
The handling of this is so fcked, respect to you for remaining patient and persistent. How could they possibly forget to implement some authentication for transfers in 2017? I love how it took 122 days of brain dead support tennis, then only 9hrs to fix after going public - then again 9hr response to this is also pretty bad considering

I'm really reconsidering if I want to keep anything in Namecheap going forward.
Missing topic: version control

Obviously also missing is programming languages and e.g. good recommended books/links for each, but I understand that it's meant to be language-agnostic so listing any particular one would not work.
> Now people are weak, emotionally weak, so easily offended.

Back in the day white Americans would throw a goddamn hissy fit if negroes drank out of the same public water fountain. They were so offended by the presence of these folks doing normal human things, and so incapable of handling their emotional responses to it, that beatings and murders and other violence were hardly unheard of.

I encourage you to take your "people these days are so weak and easily offended" hot take and throw it in the garbage, where it belongs.
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Because this one got downvoted by the Haskell fanatics
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Not trying to offend, but . . .

> If I enjoy xyz, who are you to judge me for that?

I find this (common) sentiment troubling and frankly a bit arrogant.

Whether or not you enjoy something is not always good metric for said thing's long term effects on your life.

Other people have experienced different things than you and may have some really good insights. Assuming you know exactly what's best strikes me as arrogant. Judgement and ostracization, while often misused, are effective tools for a society to encourage beneficial behaviours.
A flat tax rate would put a significant, unfair burden on poorer people.
I think that there will be ethical issues as long as "your" data is owned by the company collecting it, not you and can be used in any way without your consent. I believe that until this relationship is reversed, voluntarily giving your data can never be beneficial. If your data can be collected and traded freely there is a high probability of it reaching well-paying but malicious parties at some point, if even just in a decade when the company goes bankrupt.

I'm curious how things like GDPR that attempt to fix this will change the landscape in terms of this.
Moral of the story: Be a tasteless asshole in all your business dealings. Once you have made a sufficient amount of money, people will find all manners of virtue in you.
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Yes, why not. Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen4_Energy would be pretty cool.
If everyone makes $10,000 a year more then rich people will barely notice. Poor people would be able to afford to heat their homes and buy insurance. I think everyone who's poor would consider that much a gain.
I don't see why it should be a matter of controversy to state that Anglin is to the cause of free speech advocacy as NAMBLA was to the early gay movement - only much more so, and deliberately besides.

Of course, the early gay movement eventually had the good sense to jettison the pedophilia advocates who attempted to ride its coattails into public legitimacy.
Exactly, a flat tax society would end up being a cash-under-the-table society.
I agree. I increasingly use makefiles with a small set of common targets. I know I can do "make build" in all my repos, whether they're C or Ruby and whether they're packaged as a docker container or directly. I know I can do "make run". I know if they're in a container I can do "make cli" to get a shell inside that container, and so on.

The Makefile then acts as documentation of exactly what to do. All of the setup stuff that people often put in a README is right there.

All of the complex stuff gets put in other tools or separate scripts. But there's probably going to be a make target that tells people which tool and where to look if they need to change it, or that'll let them run it without having to know the details.
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Just because MySQL calls it multi-master doesn't make it so. What you described is single master with a hot spare. Real multi master is when a client can write to both servers and they will be consistent by the magic fairy dust that is replication.
I would like to spend all day doing fun, personal projects. But I've tried having all day to spend on fun personal projects, and it turns out spend the time "goofing off". (Not "enjoying life" goofing off, but "dopamine cycle on Facebook" goofing off.)

I like work because it has me doing stuff that's similar to what I want to do in my free time, but provides the necessary incentives to actually do it each day.

My job isn't perfect, but it has me doing productive, rewarding, mostly-interesting stuff with a bunch of smart people whom I like and can learn from.

It's worse than my dream life for my dream self, but it's better than my dream life for my actual self. I may not be behind, but I still like to feel like I'm moving forward, and work does that for me.

On the other hand, I did quite enjoy my ~1 month of working four-hour days a few years back, so there's probably a better balance than I have right now.
I fail to see the value of this post. The story implies that the middle-class dads were lazy because they didn't bring their children to school before going to work. If, let's say, I'm the sole provider in a one-child household that doesn't seem fair at all. It's the right message, but the story is shallow and dismisses real issues faced by the average family.
> I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate would close every single one of the loopholes above, if only by making it moot.

Flat tax rate has nothing to do with the loopholes, those are completely orthogonal. You could as well say "a simple progressive tax rate ...".

If you meant to say 1) close all loopholes, and 2) implement flat tax rate, then OK, but those are still two different things. In that case, what's wrong with 1) close all loopholes, and 2) leave the progressive tax rate?
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> In the end no one really cared.

I think a lot of people who were - and still are - harassed by GamerGate cared about it.

> Romantic entanglements is simply not worth talking about in this context.

Not least because it was bullshit.

> The best summery was said by totalbuscuit

I'm not sure bringing him up in the context of GamerGate is ever going to come under "best" unless it also involves "apologising for being a dick about it".
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These are not "open" in the sense of being free/libre to use. Many of these data sets have Non-Commercial licenses attached to them.

At least some of the datasets look to be open in the sense of free/libre to use (e.g. [1], [2]) while others are not (e.g. [3]). As with many of these resources, there is no option to filter on license.

[1] https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset/blob/...

[2] https://github.com/nightrome/cocostuff

[3] http://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/
For anyone wondering, looks like Namecoin and the .bit domain could be a potential solution. It's still a huge barrier for non-technical folk though, and censored content won't show up on search engines.
It is if you think not every moment in the last millenium was pleasant for everyone.
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Because History started when the US began and there was no financial system before and nobody ever learned anything before.
I find this attitude to be correct for small companies. There are 100 things that can go wrong, so worrying about the 1% edge case is wrong. As companies grow, multiply the 1% edge case times dozens, or hundreds of clients and projects, and it becomes much more important.

I've been at companies who fight every contract tooth and nail, and companies who are much more relaxed. It's the large companies who (rightfully) have more to worry about in terms of law suits.

Legal risk is like any other. (Running out of cash is another) You just have to figure out which ones to protect against at which time. As they say in financial markets, "If you hedge away all the risks, you aren't left with any returns"
I disagree; every programmer should definitely know a Lisp; and a bit about LISP just for a historic perspective.
I was under the impression that by flat tax you meant flat income tax. Property taxes are, at least in California, a very local form of taxes that finance local school districts. Using property taxes for something else (ie, to provide UBI for anyone not living in the direct school district) would be a large change in how those funds are distributed.
There's a simple solution to it, no? Abolish all taxes on income, dividends, or capital gains. Introduce a single tax on wealth. Every year tax a certain percentage of one's capital holdings, whether capital gain is realized or not.
Needing a 300mb "driver" to use it doesn't help
> Whether or not you enjoy something is not always good metric for said thing's long term effects on your life.

But isn't this the very definition of judging"?

When people say "get a life", they are implicitly saying that you current life isn't up to measure (by their own values).
> AFAIK DTrace and ZFS can't be used with Linux due to their license being incompatible with GPL.

for debian based: add non-free repo and apt install ...

while installing, there comes a prompt were you have literally no choice but to accept the incompatibility of the licenses (and move on :)
An electric aircraft that takes off vertically and has a range of 300 Km (186 miles)[1]. It is an appealing idea. Lilium just received $90 million in investments to further its development.

I wonder how much difference such technology would make in the real world, though. A city with millions of motorists is hardly going to be affected by a few hundred, or even a few thousand, of these aircraft. For the immediate future, it will probably serve a niche role as a sexy, convenient alternative to ground transport for celebrities and executives.

There may also be a significant role for air cars in medical emergencies. But for day to day commuting, autonomous taxis, and recreational use... we're probably looking at a system that is 20-30 years away.

1. https://www.wired.com/2017/04/lilium-jet-first-flight-test-f...
Not necessarily. But in that case we wouldn't argue for a "simple" tax system. A tax system has to be complicated because humans and their activities are complicated things.

edit: at that point, if we threw out the tax system, why not just get rid of states and corporations and start everything from scratch, said the junior dev
How does systemd use /etc/init.d scripts?
If I were the unfireable billion dollar CEO I'd be able to take time out of my job to drop off my daughter to school also. I'd also be able to afford the million dollar house close to work so my 30 minute trip to school would be a dream compared to the 90 minute commute to work.
I grew up in Texas but worked in Silicon Valley for a few years. One of the toughest adjustments was going from a small conservative town to a major liberal populace. It was astonishing the number of people who got angry _at me_ for having a different opinion then they did.

At one workplace I saw two coworkers get into a fist fight because the liberal was "offended" that the conservative differed on a viewpoint.

Go to Texas and I'm sure you can find the opposite if you are looking for it. It's just a shame that we're letting society create the lens that we want to see, and we push things out that don't fit into our comfy bubble blanket.

Edit: To clarify what people got angry at me most: I told them I voted for Bush. It was simply that statement, nothing more.
Honestly, I am not the least surprised. I don't know if anyone is really. Because never before has there been so much hate towards simply holding different opinions.

People actively share "if you like x you can remove me as your friend" shit on facebook, companies fire people for expressing their political views and media companies "choose a side" more then ever. And don't tell me Google isn't. Just look at Youtube with their new anti-free speech rules that they enforce in restricted mode and the new demonitazation for content. Look at their search engine. If you swap to DuckDuckGo you will instantly see the bubble you were in and the many results that are not shown.

This is not really unique to USA or a single company like Google, it's happening within EU and other companies as well. This is coming from me, who probably would in the US be called a communist by conservatives :)
This argument only works for sufficiently stupid AIs. Sufficiently smart GAI will set it's own goals just as we do and should quickly figure out that maximizing anything is the way to ruin - running out of resources. Of course, those goals may be as different as with any intelligent being, likewise obedience to original orders.
you're actually proving my point, btw. Hating the rich isn't the solution either. Still keeping score based on money. Not that you should spend a lot of time judging other people, but if you want to turn "lifetime achievement" into a score maybe we should find another scoring system.
http://www.public-software-group.org/pg_collkey exists, first release in 2006 for PostgreSQL 8.

Those who wanted Unicode-compliant collation support had already installed it years ago.
A simple tax code would be beautiful thing.

Unfortunately, its never going to happen. It will be phone-book-sized for the foreseeable future.

Even loopholes which, by common sense, should be closed are fought against with ferocity. For example, the corporate jet loophole-- effectively a "gift" for millionaires and their corporations... https://qz.com/196369/why-buying-a-corporate-jet-pays-for-it...