skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has been the gradual march of technological progress and globalization. For example remember the civil war was largely fought over protectionist trade policies for northern manufacturers. And that was in the age of sail when many goods would not even make if from North America to Europe. Similar protectionist policies would be unthinkable now. Also the rise of America from being an upstart industrial power like China and India are today to being a wealthy nation with (relatively) high standards of living for its low and middle class.

Unions are fascinating, honestly I am surprised that the era in which they were strong ever existed so early in history. They rely on having a monopoly on labor or at least a large percentage of it but with modern transportation the size of the labor pool is just too large and too poor for a relatively small, wealthy nation like the US to organize it.

If I had to point to seminal events causing the change, they would be construction of the Suez and Panama Canal, MacArthur's reconstruction of Japan, and Nixon opening trade with China.
This last one could be the reason we are all still alive today, but clearly the American middle and lower class have born the brunt of the costs relative to where we all were after WWII.

Btw thanks for the discussion. Has been a while since I read about panic of 1819! I also blame the aspects of Keynesian economics that do not constrain the growth of government debt for increasing the power of existing wealth relative to the working class, but I admit that is a more questionable opinion.
The Market Entry of OBike in Munich
> we need corporations to create jobs

Not really. Sure, we need some form of association to hold property, and sometimes limited liability. Does it need to be the kind of corporations we have now, able to exercise all the rights of people but not taxed or held accountable like people? Nope. A deep reform in all of the laws defining what "corporation" means, and not just tax laws, is overdue.
Here is a question for any tax attorneys out there. Not sure how to find a clear answer to this question but these pages[1][2] seems to suggest that the capital gains tax rate is based on your "Taxable Income". This is shown further down the second page to be "really Regularly Taxed Income minus Adjustments, Deductions, and Exemptions". If your "Taxable Income" is less than 37,950 your long range capital gains tax is 0%.

This seems to me to mean that if you are say Larry Page or Sergey Page and set your salary to $1 (like the do), your main motivation for the low salary might not be to signal that, as a large shareholder, you are aligning your interest with shareholders and thus won't take a salary (this is what I thought the $1 salaries in the Valley were all about, but it always seemed a little silly to me). Maybe your main motivation is that you make all of your income in capital gains and if you have less than $37,950 in "Taxable Income", you pay %0 in capital gains. $1 in "Taxable income" with $1 billion in capital gains and pay $0 in tax. You could make a bit more with a salary of $37,949, but that is nothing compared to your capital gains, and then people would be pointed to exactly what was happening.

This would be a much bigger loophole than covered interest being taxed at the long term capital gains rate. Although, now that I think about it, the two loopholes would work together. Own a hedge fund, take $1 in salary, make $1 billion in carried interest, pay $0 in taxes.

I sure don't want to believe this is the way it works. Links to an IRS.gov web page example that shows otherwise would be greatly appreciated.

[1]http://www.moneychimp.com/features/capgain.htm

[2]http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm
Using tf–idf to analyse U.S. Presidential Inauguration Speeches
Sure and I don't expect people to be foolish. Or to buy into any BS.

However I do think politeness and an interest in long term mutual benefit is better.

The world you describe suggests a zero sum approach in which, indeed, the music must one day stop.
Yes. I would assume the article's point IS to emphasize the author's point.
OUTSIDE-IN CLASSICIST TDD – MARS ROVER
You can do ~ 1 million thread context switches per second, per core. That's a lot of disk operations in flight before the context switch overhead becomes a large component in your performance equation. Multiply that by 10-20 cores for a server CPU, too. If you still haven't pegged your storage hardware IOPS, I'd say you have a "happy problem" :)
> what other ways do we have of increasing the bargaining position of labor?

You tighten the labor market.

It's not coincidental that unions, which depend on a tight labor market for a bargaining position (striking is fundamentally their real weapon), have been on a downhill trend since basically the same time that trade laws were changed to favor capital, via removing barriers to both foreign labor and foreign trade. In some cases the labor supply is slackened by bringing in more workers, in some cases by just offshoring production to a place where the labor market is already slack.

Most of the reasons used to justify this were related to the West's perceived existential struggle against Communism: it was necessary to open the door to China trade because that was a wedge against the Soviets; NAFTA was necessary to secure America's standing "as world champion of the free-market cause" (ref. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/business/worldbusiness/09i...) as a hedge against an increasingly multipolar world in the 1990s; continued rounds of deals, up until very recently with the failure of the TPP, have always been justified similarly.

Though I am not intimately familiar with Canadian politics historically, I assume that the justifications there were similar (and with significant arm-twisting from their southern neighbor).

Intriguingly, the necessary sacrifices for American leadership (let's not call it 'hegemony'), in the form of the cost of economic subsidies to Western allies necessary to keep them toeing the free market line, have always seemed to fall on American -- and Canadian, apparently -- workers, and benefited businesses and business owners. Workers are constantly reassured that, despite appearances, these deals have been good for the country, and somehow by extension also them personally, but this explanation is starting to wear thin, as it becomes more and more apparent that the gains have gone to a small portion of the country at the expense of a great many. The gig is seemingly up.

Pro-trade, pro-business parties (such as the British Columbia Liberal Party, mentioned in the article as a recipient of donations from the factory owners) should take note of the current state of the US Republican Party, and take steps not to overplay their hand. While the gains made by businesses and capital owners at the expense of industrial workers are impressive, history suggests that going down this road too far leads to what we might politely call a "disruptive overcorrection", either to the political hard right or hard left. In the US, we have seen this frustration elect the first unashamed populist and trade skeptic of the modern era (well, at least, someone the electorate apparently thought was a populist; time will tell); if things had gone a bit differently we might have gotten free-trade skepticism in the form of a Socialist (Sanders).

The current path, or just telling workers in the industrialized world to suck it up until they hit wage parity with the developing world, is not sustainable. Governments that try may find themselves replaced by governments that don't.
New York Post is not a credible source of information. Neither is The Sun ("originally published by The Sun"). Also the article could not be less informative.
Ah, technically correct, the best kind of correct ;-)

It's true they have some people who will talk to you if you're a big customer, and even let you use the VIP room, etc. But, it's nothing like the model that A16Z promotes, where you push bad products with aggressive sales people.
It was only unembargoed at 9AM EDT. More details here: https://access.redhat.com/blogs/product-security/posts/blueb...
Me too. My personal site is in Middleman hosted on a digital ocean instance so I can have more control of that side (also wanted to learn more about nginx and SSL) but lately I've been using Middleman with Netlify - it's unbeatable for getting projects up and running fast.

Built-in continuous integration and automatic SSL, you can even get your domain through them. Their CMS makes creating a fully featured blog ridiculously easy. 10/10 would Netlify again.
"teenage" girls aren't the height of professionalism, I think was the thrust there. The use of the word "like" frequently denotes this. Nothing wrong with girls, period. But teenagers aren't looked up to as the paragons of professionalism.
Serverless is cheaper, not simpler
If you care deeply enough about fake internet points to go to that much trouble, IMHO, you're doing it wrong.

Are you feeling picked-on because of what you're saying, or how you're saying it?
After a few years of reading many people recognize words in their entirety, not as individual letters. They note the length, parts with upward extenders such as bdhk, descenders like gjp and rounded parts etc. This is akin to reading ideographs.
I wonder how this interacts with dyslexia?
I'm just speaking in terms of my personal opinion. Most of the really good headphones are wired (i.e., higher-end audiophile headphones like Grado) and will probably remain so. People also like to supply their own amps. There are some portable Bluetooth headphone amps, but they're not so good compared to USB or analogue amps.
This is a good representation of what my dyslexia is like: http://bin.ddai.us/dys/lib/textjumble.png

I describe it like reading through a straw. I can only focus on one word at a time, while most people can take in more words at once. Consequently, my reading speed is much slower than most. Oddly, it hasn't affected my ability to code; I can "see" code just fine.
A better example might have been Cygwin. As far as I can tell, none of their executables (particularly the installers) are signed.
Copyright protection only applies if you, personally, had a major share in creating something.

A good example are music remixes, you need to actually contribute a lot yourself to have copyright.

If your camera gets stolen by someone, and they take a picture, without you having any influence in that, you do not own the picture. You can not force people who want to use it to pay.
I've been a personal paying user of Fastmail for over 5 years now. It's been great. For my own company and for another business I started late last year I've also selected Fastmail as an email provider again. Just wanted to say thanks to you and the rest of the team. Keep doing what you're doing and I'll happily keep on shelling over some dollars your way.
Sedentary Behavior and Mortality in U.S. Middle-Aged and Older Adults
That made me wonder how bats see water surfaces. Though I suppose not seeing them is less of a problem since they're not vertical :P
Well, what else are you going to do with that capital? Stuff it in a mattress? The Government really doesn't need to encourage people with money to use it to make more money, that happens naturally.

You might argue that they'll just "waste" it on goods and services, but that's what keeps the economy moving so it's not really a waste.
'Realbook' is what my friends and I jokingly refer to connecting in the real world.
Taxes change the expected value of an investment. Thus, it changes the amount of risk v reward.

If I have you 51% odds on a coin flip, that's a good bet. But if you only get paid out 60% when you win, it's a bad bet.
Manufacturers use other companies' powerplants all the time, so I don't know if I'd characterize it as a core competency. It's even easier to do with electric motors, if anyone is selling. They've been a partner of Tesla in the past...
Completely agree if you nuke the corporate / business tax as well.
Underground labs in China are devising potent new opiates
Pretty cool to see that the the scripts are no exception. If you look at the script tags within the inspect the code is also being reordered
Real-life imitates art once again.

Still, we need to get to the point where we actually have sex robots, because before that happens, the more dire (if less exciting) threats are hacked self-driving cars, hacked drones, and hacked credit bureaus.
Education is a huge part of how the "agenda" is implemented. It tells us what is "truth" and what can be questioned.

For example, the current syllabus is very careful to downplay genetic differences amongst people. It teaches that genetic differences don't matter and we are all essentially "blank-slates". The truth is somewhere in between. But it will take years before that is generally accepted. Direct result of atrocities in WW2. Thats an example of an agenda being implemented via education and shaping your thought.

You are repeating the same theories that justify any market problem -

Paid too less? Oversupply. Do you really know that to be the cause or do you assume so because that is the only mechanism the theory of economics provides to explain low wages? Perhaps it is the only possible cause when you assume all people are rational and have full information, market is efficient etc. But look at the real world! Those assumptions don't hold, so why expect this fantasy theory to be so accurate?

As long as a company continues to produce profit, of course they can afford to distribute some of that profit in the form of wages! Its profit - where do you think it goes? So why don't they? Why can't society make them? Don't tell me oversupply is the only possible cause of low wages when a cursory inspection of human nature and greed points to so many other possible causes. That is living inside a theory. Don't confuse the theory for reality.
If you could infer a spec from the existing code, you have at least a 100M product on your hands.
It could be that people offering less simply don't value your skills as much. I've certainly seen people who think they are senior but in tests come out only intermediate. That someone else will buy into their senior claim doesn't mean the companies that do a better job judging skill level don't pay market rate. You seem to be implying that there is no such thing as being overpaid, which is pretty nonsensical.
The most ugly. These are literally the ugliest things I have ever seen. I have no idea what BMW is thinking. And I used to own a 330i.

disclaimer, I have eyes
Thanks for the reminder about JPGs, edited in!

When you say processed RAW, you mean after importing to image editing software, right? Which implies you wouldn't see much of a difference in posterisation in the high and low exposure areas
This is partisan politicizing at it's worst. The practices at this facility have been going on for decades, through many governments. It's a failure of government pure and simple, and blaming it on one side or the other does nothing to help.
Indoor Navigation and Mapping: Comparing the BLE and UWB Approaches
This is more like what if Ford/GM left additional material in the car that didn't need to be there? Those are weight/dynamics/fuel optimizations left on the table.
A+ bullshit click bait article. Please keep this crap of HN and stop upvoting it.
Are teenage boys the height of professionalism? I think the gender comment is unnecessary, irrelevant, and harmful.
Sandboxing is separate from authentication. Binaries getting compromised is orthogonal to a non-adversarial defect being used by an adversary.
The optic disc is quite close to the macula, which has the most cone-rich area of the retina (the fovea) & is where light is focused by the lens.
Not to mention the wacky animated GIFs every other paragraph.
Aren't many businesses going to be leery of sending their group emails to yet another external domain to be archived? Where are the turnkey open source email servers after 40 years? It seems no one solved SPAM in a way that's compatible with sending out your own, but for receiving and internal stuff like this?
and it works because the politicians are pandering to the massive amount of people in the working class who are subject to income taxes exclusively, and don't understand the parallel tax systems
As far as I know, I don't have dyslexia. I've always been a voracious reader and haven't had the challenges one normally associates with the label.

But now and then - maybe once a month, maybe a few days in a row, some normal, easy, word will look _wrong_.

The letters don't "jump around", but it looks wrong the way a missplelled word does...I end up staring at it and trying to imagine how it SHOULD be spelled. That'd be less weird for me if it was a word with lots of typical english weirdness, like "necessary", but this happens on really _simple_ words, and usually just one word at any moment. Then later, that particular word stops doing it.

In recent history I can recall this happening with: "tree", "the", "matter", and (ironically) "simple", but I've never noticed any pattern to which words do it, and these are words that only do this for a few minutes or hours, then stop. "the" just looked as wrong as "teh" normally looks wrong, and every instance on the page looks like a glaring error until it subsides.

Does anyone know what does this? It's not a notable problem for me - because these are simple words that I have a lot of familiarity with I can just logically override the emotional component, but it still weirds me out. What else can my brain do this with, making something normal and mundane wrong and alien for a brief period?

FWIW, English is my native language.
In recent downturns people without college degrees got burned. HR could ask for more credentials, even if they were less relevant than experience.
Its just its been so long since the last IT downturn, the newbies feel invincible.
Technically it's a 2D surface extruded in real 3D space.

Early 3D games didn't have polygonal models and the levels were actually defined by a 2D grid (making it impossible to climb "on top" of something as each square could only be blocking or passable but had no "height"). Objects in the game world were drawn as 2D sprites on that 2D plane but it was all rendered in perspective to give the illusion of 3D.

Nowadays we call those games "2.5D" to distinguish them from modern 3D games which can render arbitrary polygonal objects.

This display is 2.5D. It basically "renders" a rectangular 2D texture with a low-resolution depth map by painting the texture on the screens and then extruding the screens according to the depth.
People often forget about S-Corps. As the owner you W-2 yourself, then what is "left over" is a dividend. Since an S-Corp is a pass-through entity, you don't pay corporate taxes, and aren't getring the C-Corp double tax on your dividends.

On the dividend, you don't end up paying toward FICA. Effectively saving you up to 15.3%.

IRS rules stipulate you have to be paid a "reasonable" compensation, which most accountants I've talked with define as within 30% of average wage for your "profession".
It could simply be my lack of in-depth understading of curl, but wouldn't curl make for a pretty weird target for a backdoor? It doesn't serve content or remain running for long periods of time, does it?
Tax shelters are not made for people like you.

The middle class is best served by collective bargaining to increase their wages and benefits, strong consumer protections, and access to affordable health care.

Up to about your first 5-10 million (depending on where you live) you need to play by the rules. After that, you can think about hiring a tax advisor to start scamming the system. But the downmarket financial advisors that serve people with a paltry million or two are mostly focused on selling high-commission financial products.
Is Learning 'How to Code' Still Worth It for Millennials?
I get that it is not the majority of funding. I don't know if it is a solid source, but http://www.data-first.org/data/how-much-money-does-our-schoo... has it at about 10%. 10% is not nothing.

And, quite frankly, the places that need the most help probably don't have a lot of options at the local level.
How long should I hold by breath for an electric G-Wagon.
Seeing this helped me gain a real appreciation for the effects of dyslexia that being told how it is hasn't, even if it's not truly accurate to how everyone is affected by it. Seeing this has made me curious about how dyslexia affects non-English/Latin alphabet readers too, e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Thai. Is there someone on here that has dyslexia and reads/writes in these scripts that can explain how it affects them? For example, in Korean do the pieces of each individual phoneme move around in ways that don't make sense, e.g. ㄷㅏㄴ normally is 단 but the ㄷ and ㅏ switch places? Or in Chinese, do the strokes within each character move around, or do the characters simply move positions within the phrase?
Maybe, but what's left is the stuff of legends. Zeiss (and Schott) are industry leaders, as is ARRI.
In Canada?
Fair point, I am using a modern phone, but I think most phones created in the last ~3 years are at this point now.
And obtaining a battery? That sounds pretty difficult for a years-old phone of which the battery is not meant to be replaced...
I only use this Facebook from this page on my phone: https://mbasic.facebook.com/
A great Salesperson can sell a mediocre MVP on the promise of future enhancements.

This can help start-ups defer fund raising by bringing in operational cash. This can also bury start-ups by making promises that can't be kept.
So do most very wealthy people. Rule of thumb (possibly law?): if you will owe more than $1000 at tax time, you have to file quarterly.
People can't downvote replies to their comments, regardless of their karma count. Also, downvoting doesn't spend karma.
It isn't labor's decision whether this is a zero-sum game or not, though.
I think the economy should compensate people based on factors they have control over, not ones they don’t. Someone who was born smart shouldn’t be better off for his luck. Your can choose how much you work. Maybe you can choose to do things like get an education (but not in our system where that is gated by standardized tests).
Show HN: My Father-In-law Wrote This Table Data Format in GO
You can, but there's no easy way to discover them as far as I'm aware. As in, I've always made my own.
it's a zero sum view of the world that is not correct. You could be lower income when you are 30 and wealthy when you are 65. So it's a lot of the same people that benefit. But more importantly, you are not considering the benefit of higher investment that the wealthy make because their investment taxes are lower. Higher investment leads to more economic activity and more jobs. In fact, the whole world has moved over time for this reason to taxing consumption more than investment.

Yes, I understand Saez disagrees. But he is hardly the final word on this. Hardly.
My address is 1234 Street, but just 6 houses away is 1234 Cross Street, and the house number is visible from Street.

Mail is rarely delivered to the wrong place but non-UPS/FedEx Amazon orders go to the wrong place every now and then.
It looks like a lot of google services are down at the moment. A lot asking for CAPTCHAs as well
I'll add that extending the range of a Bluetooth transmitter significantly (hundreds of meters) is possible using a directional antenna and a power amplifier.

This means that sitting in a building next door, or just having a direct line of sight to the target, is enough to perform such attacks.
I got mine when I surpassed 500 a few months ago.
I see both Jekyll and Hugo mentioned frequently in the "Using GitHub and X to host your website" space. Do you have any practical our technical reasons for preferring one over the other?