skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two arguments against a death tax: the inability to apply it, and the results of an effective one:

In Argentina, the state collects a heft tax on property transfers when the propietor dies. So basically all property is donated from parents to children in-life.

Poorer property owners that cant afford or dont know better, or people stricken with tragedy in an early death are likely the ones that pay the most of that tax.

Conclusion, 'death taxes' are paid by the poorer half and hence worsens inequality.

On results: lets say that I were to tell you that all the money in your bank account is going to be worth 0 tomorrow. Are you going to invest that money in long term capital growth? Are you going to donate it to the government?
I'd say the most reasonable reaction is drugs and hookers all the way!

The latter is definitely not great economic policy.
The links are quite clear and they are proudly advertising it.

https://www.nieuweoogst.nu/nieuws/2017/01/19/objectieve-jour...
> Will you also call them lazy because...

I said it's lazy resource management. I'm really not trying to condemn, here, just provoke questions.
You mean MariaDB and Jenkins? I kid! I kid!

I wish it were more funny but it's not. Oracle has a special way of decimating open source projects.
I think you're onto the main question. Were the fish neglecting more natural instincts and past learned behaviours that led to the search for food -- instead preferring the platform that indicated a release of the drug?

It would need to show that they were acting actively against their best survival interests for an endorphin release provided by a substance they learned they could acquire by acting in this certain way. That would be the damning conclusion.
I would be highly surprised if in 100 years we'll still do this.

It's only a matter of time until lab-grown meat is as good and cheap as the original, and then society will turn. Eating real animals will be something like hunting is now, a tiny thing and with huge image costs.
I dunno, probly that weird vibe you get when a community spends more time trying to sleuth out ways to delegitimize your words via irrelevant factors than considering that maybe as the author of the original content maybe you know a thing or two.
Modulos – an ever changing desk
Regarding its availability, I think it's sad that they dropped support for Symbian OS. I wonder what made them drop an existing platform - I would've understood not bothering to develop for a new one, but not drop an existing.
It's not just incomes, it seems like news articles almost always use averages no matter how inappropriate they are. I've complained about this at some length: https://alexcbecker.net/blog.html#the-cult-of-averages
Not if you're on a Comcast Business plan with static IPs; you're limited to what they'll give you, even though people have shown that their static IP-setup works with customer provided gear.
My Neural Network isn't working! What should I do?
This is a very interesting analogy. Because I've learned in ecology that from time to time a forest needs a good fire to allow for new growth.
If the water company is the only water provider and they require you to use the specific faucet or they don't give you water, good luck arguing them with the fancy words and ideals.

In reality, water is considered utility but internet is not. Therefore water company can do much less than ISP.
As someone who only worked with "mainstream" Unix-flavoured OSes, what was the reason, if any, to ever use Solaris over say RHEL? Was there anything that Linux distributions couldn't provide, besides resources from Sun/Oracle?
Prolonged guerrilla war didn't start after 1928. For example, Napoleon nominally conquered Spain and installed his brother, but the Spanish were engaged in a large scale guerrilla war until Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
I've actually had discussions with several people, separately and at a legal summit that specifically discussed the topic of software liability, that proposed a good solution to this:

Make the liability proportional to the degree to which you've given them the degree to find and fix any issues that might arise. If you give someone FOSS software to solve some particular problem, even a potentially-high-liability problem, you've given them everything they need to both analyze the software for potential issues, and fix them themselves. (Auto manufacturers like FOSS because it means they can always support it themselves if the vendor won't, and they have far longer support lifetimes than many other products.) So disclaiming all liability there seems reasonable, for anything short of intentional malice (e.g. backdoors).

On the other hand, if you give someone a piece of opaque proprietary software, then you're selling them a solution to a problem, and it'd better work because they can't do anything but go to you if it doesn't. They also can't introspect it, and black-box testing only goes so far. So this should increase liability. Even more so if you supply it in an obfuscated form that's difficult to reverse-engineer or test, or if you lock it down to make it irreplaceable.

The same thing would go for changing software yourself, on a high-liability device. If you don't change it, it's not your fault; if you change it, it might be your fault.
The predominant view among people who studied US politics was that there was no way for Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The data disagreed.
You can use anything you'd run on a normal distro, and per the other commenter Anbox allows you to run normal android apps. I'd encourage you to avoid knocking KDE Plasma, last time I installed it on a x86 tablet it wasn't half bad at all, and that was a few years back. Its only apt to have improved since!
> CTO is criminally liable for technical breaches involving their company

Which means CTOs would have huge incentive to conceal such breaches and persecute anybody who would report them. Also, CTOs would require huge money to cover the risks, and probably wide insurance coverage like medical malpractice insurance. Which is five-figure number at least. I wonder which startup could afford that.

> I would counter: companies will find a way, through certification or lawyers, of ensuring that their products are secure enough

They surely can spend money on lawyers writing tricky contracts and acquiring various expensive certifications. As for whether it'd make their software any more secure - this is much more doubtful.

> I personally think making execs criminally liable for this kind of insecurity would really force companies to start spending money on ensuring they ship something secure

That implicitly assumes right now the problem in software being insecure is because not enough money is spent on it, and if software would be more expensive, it would be more secure. This assumption does not seem to be true.
When is PHP finally going to have a vibrant ecosystem of epoll-based async IO, like Node?

AmPHP

ReactPHP

Kraken

And so on.

I want to run a PHP webserver and handle my own requests!
I think that’s just cultural conditioning. Many of the products found in continental supermarkets are equally disappointing for visitors from the UK :)
ever feel like things are moving backwards?
Drift Rampage Shows Off Motorcycle Gymkhana
Waterstress:
https://www.growingformarket.com/articles/Improve-tomato-fla...

Fungi-Symbosis:
http://orgprints.org/12844/1/12844.pdf

But yes, i was wrong on the water tomato. They simply have been bred to look good and be transportable, disregarding taste.
What's so great about TV? If you want to do something then do it. Otherwise you didn't want to do it in the first place.
The problem with this is not so much that pretty much no one is able to make money off of programming languages, but what may be one of the causes of that effect: Few if any programming languages at least in the past 20 years have been able to make much of an impact at all (meaning, significantly reduce the cost of software development). Pretty much the last one has been garbage collection. So it's always possible we're one good idea away from a breakthrough, but I, for one, am skeptical, and if there were such a revolutionary idea, it would -- like any PL progress -- be slowly carried out and perfected over decades by many research groups.
Articles like this make me uncomfortable, in part because of the huge sum of work I put into making sure I'm abreast of major developments in my field, and learn new fields.

I did this because I am behind (my Christian School was just awful for the most part, physics was God's love and math was for liars and moneylenders), and I'll probably never, ever catch up.

But still, I am trying to improve. But sometimes I talk to folks who don't work as hard at my tradecraft. They make fun of other folks who do. They try and shape the field to suit their lazy "this didn't outright fail so it's success" mindset.

Odds are, if you're a programmer you ARE behind. The field moves fast, no one does post-graduate teaching. Conferences are hit or miss and taught by the same folks. You need to work hard to fix it.
Doing janitorial work is not a mistake, but being a janitor for 40 years certainly is.

It's not the core job, it's the fact that there's zero growth or mobility even possible that is the issue.
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149
> one of the things I did for my project was to scan headlines

Can I ask where you scrape them from? (Google News?) Is it possible to scrape past headlines from somewhere too, or do you just have to keep up with it every day?
Low risk fixed income doesn't currently keep up with inflation.
Sources on those figures?
Poet John Ashbery dies age 90
Not once per year. The ongoing balance sheet is highly problematic. Any assets that don't need to be updated would represent giant loopholes and potentially areas where bubbles would be inflated as capital moves into assets that grow whose growth isn't adequately accounted for.
Unfortunately, JavaScript (and Java and Python 2 and other languages) uses UTF-16 for its strings, and leaks that information to the programmer, so if you use a language like that, you should probably have a basic understanding of how UTF-16 works.

I'd say a JavaScript programmer should think of things this way:

* JavaScript strings are exposed to the programmer as an array of UTF-16 code units, although there are some helper functions like `codePointAt` to help interpret strings in terms of code points.

* Newer languages expose strings as an array of Unicode code points, which is cleaner because it's independent of any particular encoding.

* Even when working with code points, you can't safely reverse strings or anything like that, since a user-perceived character might consist of multiple code points.
> This is an excerpt of a book I’m writing.

Damnit!
Solaris was technically superior to Linux in a lot of ways, and pioneered a lot of tech that only made its way to Linux later on and often in less elegant versions (if ever). For example ZFS, dtrace, zones, and mdb.
The hardest software to change is in people's heads.
Suppose you have two options:

- Work for MEGACORP and produce $400k/year of value

- Develop a new business which has a 30% chance of succeeding. If it succeeds, you estimate it will be worth $50M.

Suppose the marginal tax rate for income above $400k/year is 40%, and you want to maximize your expected earnings (say, to donate to a charity you think is particularly effective). Which option is rational?

Now suppose the marginal tax rate for income above $400k/year is 100%. Now no matter how high we change that $50M number to be, it's always better to just work for $MEGACORP, because you get a guaranteed paycheck.

This is known as a distortion, and is the true cost of taxes. I personally don't care too much where the wealth people creates goes, and I'd like to see less income inequality - but let's not kill the golden goose while we're at it. There are far less distortionary taxes than extremely high income tax rates.
That’s a “no true Scotsman” argument if ever I’ve heard one!
When you realize and accept this, you can start focusing on your future and stop whining abut your past.
Hey anon_dev_123456,
This is Adam Cecchetti CEO of Deja vu Security. Over the last 2 years Deja has spent a lot of time refining our hiring processes, but occasionally an experience like this does slip through the cracks. We are always looking for candidates that are smart individuals, interested in security, and can code, any security experience is of course a plus. If you reach out to my email adam at dejavusecurity dot com I'd be happy to discuss what happened with your call and any other feedback you'd be willing to share.

Thanks,
Adam
They're probably referring to web hosts. Many hosts have timeouts for the web, but not the cli. So for long running tasks you write cli scripts. In the WordPress world this is easily done using WPCli and eval-file.
Something like 90% of startups fail. Therefore, if articles were randomly sampled among people who start startups, we should see 90% of articles about failed startups and 10% about successful startups. But if anything it's closer to the reverse. So even though some people do write about their failures, it's definitely not a proportionate sample.
Agreed. Also cli apps with Laravel are amazing if you need to schedule jobs.
Arguably we are, but conflict has hardly ended. Even according to that chart, only in the past few decades do we even seem to fall appreciably below the average, especially if you exclude outliers like WWI and WWII.

My point is merely that there's little reason to chalk up the very recent changes to the U.S. being a global policeman. The more complex truth is all of these things: atomic weapons making World War too risky, increase in global economic ties, increasingly democratic governance, the role of hegemonic powers (including but not exclusively the U.S.), and of course the U.S. as the pre-eminent hegemonic power.

This re-analysis of the effect of the Kellogg–Briand Pact is quite persuasive, but only in the context of the above. Also, see my post else thread regarding the complex cause+effect relationship. A treaty is a culmination of historic events; a culmination with consequences, but not magical in itself.
I am not joking when I ask this question: will this open me up to potential CFAA charges if I run the commands to check if I'm vulnerable and run the self-mitigation commands?
This whole chain of ideas is ridiculous. Conquest is inherently and naturally legitimate; because you can not enforce laws when the prevailing power doesn't respect them.

Sure, it sucks, and yeah there has been a coincidental reduction in wars of conquest after these treaty signings, but one does not make a peanut butter sandwich simply by owning bread and peanut butter.

Conquest is down because of a) alliances b) the nuclear deterrent and c) market liberalization, causing an increase in the ability of people to make a living where they are, lessening the relative value of conquest.
The US has been in a state of armed conflict for all but 21 years of its existence: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/america-war-93-time-2...
I agree with all of your points except one, the severity of your listed "corollary" situation:

Dieselgate is tentatively assessed to have resulted in thousands of human deaths due to air pollution. AT&T modem vulnerabilities have not been assessed similarly.

While I concur with everything else you've said, I encourage selecting a different example with a more evenly-matched fatality rate.
This is the kind of comment that just blows my mind (in a good way) when I read it. How do you suddenly just discover facts like this? Do you research it or do you just happen to know it beforehand? If it were me I would have just assumed it's the same Wells Fargo; it wouldn't have occurred to me to check that it's the one in Canada.
Yes I know they have recent clang. But does tls work? Last I knew, no.

Note clang is not the only variable here. You need support from the dynamic linker.

Edit: some googling suggests they may have added this support last year with some caveats.
Any article with "AI/ML" and "applied" I'm going to read.
Redrawing borders after WWI and WWII is a big cause of the conflict in the Middle East if I’m not mistaken
Do you know the ratio of Red Hat to CentOS?
That's a lot of articles.
That is very interesting. Can I ask how you discern whether an article is related to ethics?
15TFLOPS at 1Ghz is 15KFLOPS per cycle, every cycle, pipelined to amortize latency. And it's also sufficient cache and memory bandwidth to funnel data in and out of that thing at that speed, and keep the weight matrix close to the computation. This physically can't be simple. If my calculations are right, in order to realize 15TFLOPS on a 3x3 conv of a 224x224x32 layer with a filter bank of 64 filters you'd need 117.2GB/s of sustained memory bandwidth just to read the inputs, and twice that to write the output. Good luck achieving that with 5 watts and in 6 months.
I don't need more segmented, dis-jointed help -- or lack of help.

I remember 20, 30 years ago, when there was not infrequently a well thought out and well-written manual, that actually taught you and answered many of your questions.

When "help" was real help, that actually knew something and presented it in a useful and authoritative fashion.

I just spent 33 days with ATT working to change an aspect of a service I purchase. Each time I called in, I had to re-explain the whole situation to whoever I got. They had different approaches to resolving it. There was no formal nor permitted mechanism for them to check back that the problem had actually been resolved. A couple took my email address and told me that their supervisor or manager would check back with me. That never happened.

33 days later, someone in support transferred me to someone who -- I learned near the end of the call -- was actually in sales but knew their way around the systems and was helping out with the Hurricane Harvey related call-volume spike.

I finally happened to get the right person. We went through the "official" process one last time, to document it, while simultaneously escalating to the appropriate team -- which team they happened to know of.

The next day, my service issue was resolved.

WHY wasn't that process documented internally, so that the first person I contacted, approximately 30 days earlier (after the initial request had obviously failed) knew what to do? Why couldn't the process be documented externally, to me, so that I'd know where I was at and what I needed to request?

I don't need a fucking chatbot. Just give me a page that clearly describes what's going on and what I can do about it.

One good technical writer who researches it, writes it, clears it with management (who may also want it cleared with legal), and publishes it.

Don't game me. Answer my fucking question. Solve my fucking problem. Leverage the abilities of a smart, capable person by making their research results clearly and concisely available.

If your process changes frequently, do you think it's going to be any easier to maintain the "spaghetti" help of disjointed web pages and now chatbot programming, that we've now come to?

No... it's that person in sales -- or wherever -- who is interested and self-motivated enough to keep up with things, who actually solves my problem

Give them a bonus.

P.S. Another person mentions the "swearing" trigger. I've actually started using that to get past the interminable "tree" of automated help, when/once I've learned that it has no feature/leaf that addresses my problem.

I had to use that with ATT, to get past some nigh-permanent automated system loops between tree leaves, to actually talk to a person. Plus, to "fucking" talk to them without wasting minutes bouncing around the tree, with the risk of ending up in one of the many nodes that simply hang up on you or put you in a hold "limbo" that never gets through nor ends.
When has that worked out for the greater good ?

Not trying to sound snarky but I'm really trying to think of an example but can't find one.
Its a proven winner these days.
Cool!

The small-world connections are dense around Apple in general and around Newton in particular.
It also touches on my biggest issue with corporate personhood. Corporations cannot go to jail. This needs to get fixed really bad. To me the solution is getting rid of the corporate personhood shield and prosecuting the individuals who actually made the decisions and send them to the same prisons we send drug dealers. No club fed.
More like nation states as a vehicle for occupation and acquisition, exploitation (privatisation) of resources played out its role as corporations and capital interest became more globalised. There's a school of thought that think we're heading towards a "normalisation" of as war as a private enterprise, as before national armies were the norm. Where military power is primarily mercenary, and strategic interest is dictated by private actors.

Sean McFate discuss some of this trend in his book "the Modern Mercenary".

[ed: One might view the use of force in establishing the keystone xl pipeline against native american interests as a microexample of how this might play out not only in "unlawful regions", but even in peaceful, regulated nations, such as the USA]
No, Unicode fares terribly for CJK languages, see Han Unification. I can't stress enough how it is a lie that Unicode can represent all languages in use, when it cannot even distinguish Japanese from Chinese.
That's why I ask. I legitimately cannot tell because people actually think this.
RSS feeds of various news websites give me a daily shortlist which I manually approve to prevent false positives and duplicate stories. Since that manual part essentially means I am using it as a feed reader, I assume that's not breaking any terms of service from those providers.

For past news the only one I have been able to use is The Guardian's API, which is free for non-profits such as my Suitocracy project. It's... not great, but it's something. A start.
> it wasn't until this past January and August that major project changes were made and large number of staff laid off.

Haha, what? Oracle (silently!) closed-sourced Solaris again seven months after its acquisition and much of the core talent walked.
That's basically Twine: https://twinery.org
And meanwhile all my crypto is stolen by the gov at btce because of alleged fraud. They should do the same to wells Fargo.
See, people aren't advocating such high taxes on people making 400K a year, they're advocating it for people making 4 million+ a year.

This is a major misconception I see on both sides of the argument, (but definitely more of an issue on the "rah rah Laissez-faire crowd") the worry isn't really about the "1%" who are doctors and engineers who make ~$250K/year after working hard, the worry is really the people who make 20 million dollars a year with nowhere near a proportional value add.
Priceless had great time family together
Organization focused on moving and displaying other peoples bits has a ToS allowing then to do so. It might be too vague because it's less risky to be vague than to attempt being precise and opening yourself up to opportunistic lawsuits. News at eleven.
That is the loophole. Technically, it is possible to hire an outsourced firm to do the work if it is 100% turnkey outsourced and done outside of Apple. You often see this type of outsourcing happen with legal and creative type work.

However, more often, the contractors are onsite and doing exactly what other Apple employees do and are managed by fulltime employees of Apple. In this case the law says those contractors should have been classified as employees of Apple not the contracting firm, even if their employment contract says otherwise. see Vizcaino v. Microsoft Corp
The right to be forgotten is entirely separate.

This is deleting data that you have contributed yourself.

Any data you have submitted, you have to be able to revoke, and get removed.
Comments already start to fade out as they get downvotes. It's easy enough to skim past them.
How would you compare it to python?