skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Smart union leaders today would be working on organizing and building relationship with peers in other countries.

Smart union leaders today are trying to figure out how to end right-to-work so they can actually exist.

>Fighting for US state backed monopolies is fighting on the old battleground with outdated weapons that may be immoral (state enforced monopolies often are).

Minor quibble here - that a monopoly exists and that it exists in the US does not make it backed by the state. Monopolies don't need state backing to exist.

But I also agree that we should dust off Teddy Roosevelt's big stick and use it to smash the monopolies/oligopolies if that helps.

>If were going to use the loaded word paternalistic, requiring people to be a union member is more paternalistic than giving them the option.

Right-to-work is about ending free association, it's odd to paint unions as anti-free association. In an ordinary market environment a widget company could set up an exclusive supply deal with a plastic company where plastic is supplied at a set rate under certain agreements and we'd all be fine with that. But if we switch out "plastic" for "labor" and "plastic company" for "labor union" then suddenly we outlaw it. The idea that you think government should interfere in the contractual dealings of labor-supply in our market but not commodity-supply describes the hypocrisy.

>Also I propose policies that (I think) would make their work more valuable.

That's why I called it paternalism. What you think makes their work more valuable is good but even just giving them the tool to decide what is good for themselves is bad.

>Do you think it is fair that the Federal Reserve transfers and additional 2% of workers' pay to capitalists and politicians every year?

Take your Friedman talking points somewhere else.

>Not my belief at all.

But it's exactly what you described. You think that labor organizing in an effort to gain higher pay will hurt your capital investments.

>I know I shouldn't be taking the bait but here goes anyway.

Me too lol.
In struct MalVal[0], the values f0 through f20, where each holds a pointer-to-functions of the corresponding arity, live in a big (multifacted?) union. Using arg_cnt, the switch assigns func to the appropriate value in mv->val using the appropriate cast.

For example, when arg_cnt is 2, mv->val.f2 receives func converted to void * (* )(void* , void* ), that is, pointer to a function that accepts two parameters of type pointer-to-void and returns pointer-to-void. [Weird spacing to effectively escape the asterisks that would otherwise be treated as italicizing markup.]

C permits conversion between pointer-to-function of one type to pointer-to-function of another type. The inverse is also defined, and the resulting pointer will compare equal to the original. However, calling a function through a pointer-to-function where the types do not match invokes undefined behavior.

[0]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/c/types.h#L85
I'm going to be pedantic and air a pet-peeve of mine. "Raw" isn't an acronym. It's just shorthand for raw image data. It's not even the file extension of most (any?) camera raws. Why does everyone insist on writing it in capital letters?
Eye Spy
How exactly is that a good thing for anyone in the company?
My god. Of all places to include on there my hometown is on that map. See: south of Toronto and south of Guelph.

Number 683.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Dover,_Ontario

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That's the nominal corporate tax rate not the effective tax rate which is closer to 18.6%.

Also you're dividing by 200 when you made 250.

My calculation with those two corrections give 27.6% which is lower 13%

20018.6% + 200(1-18.6%)15% + 5015%

37.2 + 24.42 + 7.5 = 69.12 / 250 = 27.6%

Marginal Tax rate for 38k-90k = 40.8%

90k-110k = 43.8%

110k - 190k - 28%

190k- 420k - 33%
You can also use pandoc, I had better results with this:

> text/html; iconv -f %{charset} -t UTF-8 | pandoc -f html -t plain --wrap=preserve; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html; description="HTML eMail";
I fail to see how the behaviors listed in the source document should be tolerated in a classroom setting. It's literally just expected normal professional decorum.
Protecting yourself in a single owner corporation or LLC would require extraordinary discipline and bookkeeping. The protections offered by an LLC or corporation to a single owner are generally overstated.

In other words, the corporate veil will be pierced either way.
Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception
Build an Appointment Scheduler Using React, Twilio and Cosmic JS
I'm surprised some small island nation hasn't made Bitcoin their reserve currency.

They could become the Switzerland of crypto currency.
The link to the company zipphone in India goes to a AliExpress link. Does anyone else see that ?
>“Bitcoin cannot be regulated. There is no need to regulate it because as a system it is committed to the protocol as is and the transaction fees it charges the users are determined by the users independently of the miners’ efforts.” The authors said.

Isn't this false and the reason why bitcoin cash exists?
At first, we would use the blockchain to build an 'inflationary model.' See here for a deeper explanation:
https://medium.com/@intenex/stream-101-making-content-creati...

Essentially, as the platform grows we mint new tokens. The more you contribute to the growth of the platform through doing an awesome job fulfilling search requests, the more of these tokens you earn.
Tesla Automation Faulted by NTSB in 2016 Fatal Florida Crash
Meh, a 5 Mega Watt wind turbine kills less wildlife than the average outdoor cat.
Pretty sure the proposed taxes in the article you linked to did not pass. The only major tax change Obama was able to get through was the Obamacare related 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax.
Pretty cool. I messed around with scraping biotech execs buy signals and it worked pretty well.
Media outlets are in the business of making sensational claims.
Stream will be using this model. Steem.it is currently using it too.
Circumventing engineering complexity
I believe you. But one still has to wonder who watches the watchmen.
'System safeguards' lacking in Tesla crash on autopilot: NTSB
Taxed when you get your income (income taxes) and then taxed again when you withdraw (capital gains). Traditional 401k and Traditional/Roth IRA allow you to only be taxed once. (Defer income taxes until you withdraw or you take the income tax hit upfront but are not taxed on withdraw)
Where do you live?

I grew up in Eastern CT and the only people I've met for whom "caught" == "cot" or "dawn" == "don" are from working class families in Boston.
You couldn't have been about to say something substantial and constructive if the mere worry of being downvoted once is enough to silence your voice.
Big varidesk fan. Got one 2 months ago and haven't lowered it back to a sitting position yet.
Retirement savings is tax advantaged, however most people consider that a feature of the tax code, rather than a loophole. The traditional to Roth conversion will be of benefit only to those whose post-retirement income puts them in a higher tax bracket than they are currently in. Most middle-class wage earners would not be in that category unless they keep working well into retirement age.

Health Savings Accounts are highly dependent on the circumstances of the individual. Many people with employer-provided health care plans receive minimal benefit from an HSA.

That being sad, you've made you point, in that there are portions of the tax code with deductions accessible to the middle class, like home interest deductions and deductions for charitable giving.

But the, "I'm going to start 12 shell companies and park my money offshore" kind of tax dodges are not really feasible until after your first ten million.
Actually, as in additionally :P

What sold in the stores ? Not around here, I buy my butter from a farm!

You don't need to store butter in a bell, salted or otherwise... you want a butter crock for that, as the sunlight affects the shelf life too :) http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/off.html
I never said people use Bluetooth 100% of the time. I said "temporary bluetooth" is not a mass-market concept.

If you only use it occasionally, then I don't see why switching it on or off is a problem that needs a solution.
Gmail and gsuite working here in NYC
Asset purchases are expense. It's a way to get cash out of a company to avoid paying taxes.

Money launderers will sell themselves electronics at a 5-10x markup on Amazon, for example, to get the cash out.
> I would land on some US-based server for ease of illegal spying and my mail would be harvested for some advertising crap

Does this not happen when you send your emails to someone else? Mad props if everyone you email uses encryption!
Are you localized in regional datacenters yet such as SGP? Not so much a problem on the web combined with a CDN, but old school IMAP can be quite chatty, combined with high RTT latency, it becomes quite noticeable.
There was a thread on here a couple weeks ago about how the good and bad parts of technology go hand in hand. I think this is a perfect example. We went from hunting and gathering to farming and domesticating, to mechanized farming and manufacturing, to cubicle farming and so on...

We've made such great technological leaps that we've afforded ourselves hours to sit on pillows and watch screens and use hydrogenated fat to stave off hunger and boredom.

EDIT: Found the thread. It was actually about the Unabomber. Go figure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145849
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Sounds familiar. I had a client once, who had to reboot one particular router every day because it stopped working after 8h uptime. So one of their employees did that every morning by logging into some server via remote desktop to click the "reboot" button. I asked why they don't use some kind of cron job to automate that task, they just said "it doesn't work that way, you have to do it manually".
I will agree with brianwawok. Amount of BS I hear from friends "optimizing" their taxes is staggering. Be very careful about any advice you receive from such entrepreneur. Most of them either breaking laws, or breaking IRS rules, which, unless you got plenty of time and money to challenge in the court, is equivalent of laws for you (I guess until you get to these 10m+ where you can afford to fight IRS - I am not there yet, so can't comment)
What makes you think that the Windows attack doesn't apply to Windows Phones? At least Windows Phone 8 and 10 are based on the normal Windows kernel, and I don't see why they wouldn't share the Bluetooth implementation as well.
The funny thing is, since I started my energy levels increased. I can sustain much more time focused on a subject than before I didn't do any exercise. So, the first two or three weeks will be painful (physically), but afterwards, trust me, you will feel with so much more energy and less tired after work.
Benefit above and beyond writing your own html and css? (Serious question). I see a lot of the example tutorials show a simple blog example. In this case why not just html and css and your favourite text editor? With css you can separate style from content, you can "change themes" etc.
Migrating Marvel's iOS App to ReSwift
The "one on the ISS" is usually an astronaut looking out the window ;)
> sadly the only mailing-list software for windows/exchange i found was commercial, expensive and will be a hard sell ...

Not that I am campaigning against Topicbox, but I think it's worth making clear that just because your email is hosted on Exchange, doesn't mean your mailing list solution needs to be.

You can run, and I have in fact run, mailinglists on top of Mailman / Debian / Postfix / Nginx, in a heterogenous environment where the mailservers were Exchange (and some shitty hosted Exchange run by morons to boot). You can do it without even reconfiguring Exchange if you are willing to put all the lists in a subdomain with its own MX record.

No reason why a hosted solution couldn't work this way as well. If you don't want to have your mailinglists in a subdomain, then you would need mailserver configuration to set up the aliases correctly, and that creates a certain amount of maintenance hassle every time you create a new list, but I've never been convinced that's a worthwhile tradeoff to make. Making mailinglists instantly discernible from humans' addresses isn't necessarily bad.
These aren't mutually exclusive scenarios. Anecdotally I have friends who are investing in bitcoin because they've seen the price go up so much that they want in on the action. At the same time there are legit demand reasons for the price to go up (e.g. in Venezuela I think people use BTC because their currency is so unstable).
In the hypothetical scenario of the op, he has 100k as a salary. Which the IRS would not ever likely contest. Since it gets you close to paying out your full ss tax anyway. (since ss tax cuts out somewhere around 115k or so).

And it is also enough for almost any profession. Even CEOs of small companies earn in that range.
I rolled my own static site generator for very little effort. As it stands, the generator (which isn't public so you'll have to take my word on it) is ~100sloc plus templates, CSS, etc. The process has been interesting and educational, and I recommend it on those grounds. Adding and modifying features is very easy since it's so little code to work with. Currently:

- posts are rendered from markdown with syntax highlighting for code

- safe links to other domains (noopener and _blank)

- bundled CSS, which look good (or as bad) on mobile

- a PWA (the service worker is the only JS run client-side)

- pre-populated links out to twitter (with a card) and mastodon with tags drawn from markdown metadata

- HTTPS using a letsencrypt cert and a one-liner in cron.daily to update it when close to expiry

- a smallish nginx config focussed on security to serve files

Much of the generator is just glue code around some good modules. Some important things like safe links were hacked together by me.

(if you're interested, https://qubyte.codes, but I need to post more often)
Maybe they did that because Һ and X are pronounced the same in Kazakh?
This article and its predecessor made me think about smaller-scale solar, and I actually bought a 100W panel out of the Amazon gold box last week to start playing around myself.

My first plan is to use the panel and battery to run a set of 12V led outdoor lights, but I'm also thinking about trying to tie into the existing 12V system that I never bother turning on.

That's got me thinking about taking it a step further and adding some capacity to power my Christmas lights this year. Now that they're LEDs as well, it seems it should be possible, but probably not cost effective.

I keep thinking there must be a decent market in between tiny panels powering path lights and a full rooftop system. Like a standalone patio cover or pergola that has solar panels for a roof. That should give a decent amount of power, and it could be an easier sell to people instead of permanently attaching something to their roof.

Actually, I was trying to think of a way to run a small air conditioner from solar—like one of those split systems. The AC could run when the sun is out, which is when the upstairs of my house gets hot. It would be a supplement to my central AC, so I wouldn't be worried about it not running at night or cloudy days. So, I don't need a lot of storage or even worry about tying into the grid.

Again, though, it's probably not cost effective piecing it together, but still the solar patio cover seems like something that should available in a big box at Home Depot or Costco these days.
Ostensibly, but really it's hard to look at it and not conclude that it's simply to ensure the rich don't have to pay taxes.

What do people imagine rich people would do with their money instead, if capital gains were taxed like income? Stuff it their madrasses, and be at the mercy of inflation? Probably not.
I was just about to make a snarky remark about the heatmap, referencing that XKCD about heatmaps that just mirror population densities, and then I noticed that the West Coast is barely affected. That's quite strange.
NTSB: Tesla’s Autopilot UX a “major role” in fatal Model S crash
retirement accounts are exhibit A in why it's good to tax investment income at a lower rate. they are basically investment income taxed at zero.
I think what we're seeing are the same sorts of things that led to building codes, fire codes, licensing of architects and civil engineers.

After so many building collapses, bridge collapses, or disastrous fires, people finally demanded that "build whatever you want, however you want" is not OK if you are making something for use by the general public.

I think ultimately we're going to see legislation requiring licenses/certifications for software designers and software companies and software service providers. Like a civil engineer is licensed and personally liable for designs he approves.

It's coming. People will only tolerate the current shitshow that is our industry for so long.
I agree with you, but things are changing. Facebook can create a shadow profile on you, friends can tag you into pictures without your consent, when you delete data it will still remain in Google caches and you will need to individually request removal for each URL, because it won't automatically remove them if the original page from FB is gone.
This seems to be the accident : https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HW...
While this pattern is common in node, it's not node specific. Erlang/OTP uses supervised process trees, Linux has supervisord to support this pattern, and the general idea is called "crash-only" software [1], among other names.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software
http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php

http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag

$ cat test.php
<? var_dump(PHP_VERSION); ?>
$ php test.php
string(5) "7.0.9"
$

Yes?
I stand corrected. Still, "politicians" tried to DTRT.
To harvest energy you need a device on either side of an energy differential. To pull substantial energy from shifting plates you would need something as long, and deep, as those plates. Point devices, ropes being pulled across a slowly separating plate, wouldn't generate much of anything. You would need millions of ropes attached to billions of anchors, all several KM deep within the earth before you could hope to pull any fraction of the energy.
The ones I find fascinating are those of Chinese ancestry in the deep south, like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypj7J2y-bPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE
this applies to the certain degree.. if you make less than FICA threshold - yes, you are right. If you make more from multiple contracts/jobs - it is more efficient to be paid as contractor (assuming that client will pay you your employee taxes share, which would otherwise be paid by employer in case of W-2 employment)
I grew up pretty poor and a lot of people I know are still working. My step mom is 80 and still has to work. A lot of poor people never retire.

Also, we have ways to encourage and provide benefits for people who are lucky enough to save for retirement. 401Ks, IRAs, etc... You don't need a lower capital gains tax, instead, provide more benefits for investments specifically set aside for retirement if you think not enough is being done.
That doesn't reduce your taxes, that just has you personally take on the accounting for an enterprise.

It would only work if you could relabel personal expenses as a business expense, which is what I think the parent was looking for (and which is a time-honored practice with its own dangers, of course, but is hard for the IRS to stamp out entirely -- you "lose" a "business" pen and keep using it for personal stuff; how does the IRS know?).
Valid points.

To the speed point, we would have an incentive structure that would facilitate the fastest possible responses.

And to the trolling point, to become a 'partner' on the platform it wouldn't just be a simple sign-up form-- there would be a peer-to-peer interviewing system. Say you were an expert on ketogenic diets and wanted to join the platform. In order to do so, you would have to be interviewed by someone already on the platform as a keto partner.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/...
I'm not sure what's makes an income tax less complicated than a sales tax.
The Ocracoke Brogue has always fascinated me. A tiny, dying dialect that sounds nothing like the rest of the American South. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA
Hi, I'm Eric, the author of the post. Please let me know if you have any questions!
It's for sure different for different people.
It's called sarcasm. You must be old if you don't get it.
Bitcoin is a value store. It likely won't ever be widely used to purchase a cup of coffee.

Other cryptocurrencies (eg. Litecoin) will pop up to fill this niche.
Writing an interpreter (or compiler) greatly enhances one's programming skills.
It would be really awesome to have this as wallpaper on a 4K monitor and have it update every 15 minutes. Is there a fixed URL to the most recent image?
I think we need to clarify what a down vote is... My assumption was it was to flag something mean or off topic. Now People seem to use it to say "I disagree with your opinion but am too lazy to express my own".
> My second paragraph [...]

Indeed--and it does a good job. The question is whether there is usefulness in the science despite this.

> I disagree, it makes the study of the perfect market completely unusable for predicting real-world behaviour.

Indeed, just like nobody uses frictionless calculations for predicting real-world behavior. We can simultaneously acknowledge unknowns in a science without discounting it entirely.
:(

That's because Go chose to reuse the loop variable in each iteration instead of binding a fresh one each time.

C# figure out that was a mistake years ago and fixed it in 5.0 [1]. Dart has always bound a new variable in each iteration. I don't know why Go made the choice they did.

[1]: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2009/11/12/clos...
See ya on the 13th
What good is buying it, then? You could've just bought a higher desk (mine sits at 38") and saved three hundred bucks.

Standing desks are awesome for sure, but I don't get the adjustable trend when draft chairs have been around forever.
People are being pedantic about the actual meaning of words as opposed to the commonly-understood-and-accepted meaning of words.

It's annoying, because it distracts from the immediate issue and causes confusion.
I don't have time to go into the length I want, but this comment is a perfect example of the myopia that polarizes peoples opinions. Both parties are equally part of the problem, and the people on both sides who fail to see that are also, including comments like yours.

Please, don't try and turn this into a whataboutism and argue how much worse one party is, that's the trite and cliche response we always here that never addresses root causal issues.

Rant about your comment aside, after long deliberation this is why I support the unparty movement, the people could get enough third party people in to take away the majority from both parties. Congress (and the rest of gov) needs to be reminded they work for the people. Right now, both parties work for themselves and those that corrupt/black mail/threaten them.
I was raised in Miami, parents from New Jersey. I don't have an accent. (edit: I mean "General American with no obvious southern, northern, eastern, or western features.")

But there's still some tells like "soda" vs "pop" and you can pry "y'all" out of my cold dead hands. My wife and I had been living in Atlanta a couple years when I was speaking over the phone to a coworker in Syracuse, NY. Toward the end of the call she told me I had a lovely southern accent. Hung up the phone, called my wife, "Honey, it's time to move." :-)

Fun fact: I'm told that in Dallas, TX "y'all" is singular, the plural of which is "all y'all."