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Gary Cohn (Trump's chief economic advisor) recently said, "Only ‘Morons’ Pay the Estate Tax" : http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/gary-cohn-only-...
The turkeys will absolutely never vote for that thanksgiving! And the wealthy turkeys run the show.
So you need to keep receipts for every hot dog you buy?
It seems you're talking about the IO monad specifically, not about monads in general. Other monads, like Maybe and List, absolutely occur in programs written by "most developers in other languages", whether they perceive them as monads or not.

For instance, a pointer type in C is like a "Maybe a" in Haskell, because a pointer can always be null (Nothing).
> This is a supply-side problem

It's a demand-side problem. Most higher education is funded by state and federal government, and they have been cutting funding dramatically, reducing demand for skilled academics.

It doesn't have to be that way. The U.S. could fund higher education at the levels it used to, and fund reasonable incomes for the higher ed workforce. To create a less educated population than the prior generation is to go backward.
I disagree, the original title is too vague. Perhaps "MILA to stop working on Theano".
For instance C copy routine:

while (*d++ = *s++);

Or sort in Haskell:

qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs)
> Chrome's growth was bootstrapped with very pushy ads on the highest traffic website on the internet, that typically doesn't allow ads.

It was (is) also a fantastic browser.

> They also paid to bundle it with unrelated installers.

So did other browsers.
Not now, but at the time of its introduction, Chrome was significantly better than everything else. Once they added extensions at least.

Chrome was the first web browser that didn't crash and didn't need to be frequently restarted. Chrome was immune to memory leaks, Flash was sandboxed, each tab was sandboxed, etc. It was a revolution.
We should put that on our homepage.
The analogy is to nuclear winter (life after a hypothetical nuclear world war) or AI winter (after the fall of the Soviet Union led to decreased military-funded spending on AI).
IKEA's modular kitchens are no different from anything else IKEA has, such as PAX wardrobes or BILLY bookshelves.

The hard part is to measure and plan appropriately (they offer an online 3D tool as well as free in-store consulting here with 3D modeling), but the assembly of the pieces is a cakewalk. I say that as someone who's literally in the middle of some IKEA kitchen assembly right now.

IKEA's kitchen modules are also brilliant for non-kitchen applications. They work for any kind of storage. Skip the fronts (limited selection, cheap-looking), countertops (mostly fiberboard) and handles, and use the modules as "hulls" dressed with better materials. Third-party vendors include:

Superfront — https://superfront.com/

Semihandmade – https://www.semihandmadedoors.com/

Kokeena – http://kokeena.com/

Dunsmuir – https://www.dcabinets.com/

Reform – https://www.reformcph.com/
Anybody else has the feeling that PyTorch is to TensorFlow what Chrome was to other browsers? I started PyTorch about a month ago and was impressed how effortless everything was compared to TF.
How about right to use your stuff how you want?

Like not paying 10s of thousands for a Tesla that has a clause against using autopilot with ride sharing services other than Tesla.
Random request but I'd love to see a video of someone using it. That's what sold me on VIM and on Emacs: just seeing someone power use it and love it.
What about a license that says:

"If you buy some X number of seats of our software, then you get a copy of the source-code to modify and do with as you will (today as well as when we, the vendor, die, as vendors are wont to do), but this does not grant a license to more seats (unless we, the vendor, are dead), nor the right to redistribute the source-code.

N.B. We do not support your changes. Unless you pay us a goodly sum in advance. And even then, we really can't put SLAs behind outcomes."

??
> it's currently impossible. […] I honestly don't think there's any more you could ask of them.

I don’t dispute that. I have no ill will towards them. I just, you know, won’t actually be buying the phone until one exists which is RYF-certified. I just felt it important that someone pointed this out – while surely their effort towards RYF compliance counts for much, it won’t get me all the way towards actually buying it. I’ll wish them all the luck in actually achieving it, but I (at least) won’t be buying anything until they actually get there.
Any recommended reading on passive cooking? Sounds like something that would be really useful for me.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. I moved to chrome because ff performance was abysmal (and moved back when Chrome's v8 jit kept taking 100% cpu and locking my Linux laptop)
The guy at https://www.youneedabudget.com explained this stuff very well to me. But this was years ago, when his program was a bunch of emails. You may have to just check out the free trial and see if it is helpful to you.
So, you are uncomfortable that my ex husband was insulted in public, though he was not named. But me being insulted in public is not a problem.

Every single remark here by you errs on the side of some man's feelings mattering a helluva lot more than mine. I am not implying you are a sexist, but your actions continue to err in a particular direction. If you don't like the impression that makes, you can just stop doing it and genuinely apologize to me instead of adding yet more faux apologies wherein you repeatedly act like I am somehow in the wrong.

If you speak English as a second language, it is totally fine to say "Whoops, I didn't mean to offend. English is my second language." It is not totally fine to tell someone else they are being offensive, they need to change their behavior and then excuse the misunderstanding based on your poor English. That isn't cool at all.
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> This creates more consumption and investment which leads to better markets.

This is another variation on the old "rich people hoard cash" trope.

Rich people invest the money that they don't spend. They tend to invest well, meaning highly productive investments, because (naturally) wealthy people get wealthy by being good at investing.

Productive investments are good for the economy. The notion that wealthy people invest in unproductive things doesn't make any sense.
Federal inheritance tax is levied on 0.2% of the US population. It doesn't apply until you leave behind about $5.45 million dollars.

If I was a politician I would leave it alone and let states deal with it. I think most people that are against the "death tax" know it won't affect them but it's the idea that income that was taxed is now being taxed again. The emotional appeal of leaving a better life for those you love, etc.

So, I'd get rid of it. It's insignificant. It accounts for about .5% of total Federal revenue. Easy sacrifice.
> We are supportive of the preliminary approval of a North Bay Shore precise plan which includes 9,850 units of housing, 1,600 of which would be affordable...

I know exactly what they mean by “affordable”, but how the hell are we ok getting to a point where affordable housing only refers to housing that is affordable because it’s being subsidized?

Ridiculous.
We do have wealth taxes. Two of the largest are inflation and property taxes.
If I understood it correctly, Google has offered to tear down office buildings they currently own in order to make room for residential units to be built on Google's property. They are saying that they need to add additional offices as part of this demolition and construction. The article title tries to make it sound like Google is preventing housing from being built on other's land which seems a bit misleading. (Or maybe I just don't understand what the article is saying.)
Don't tax free retirement accounts already phase out based on income and cap annual contributions?
Louis is just an awesome guy. Very smart and just has a way of talking that really captivates me.
That’s interesting. I’d never thought about it, but of course there’s a temperature dependence, and of course attaching it to a wrist mitigates it.
This website is very bad without adblockers and basically illegible.
Why would phrasing add perspective or judgement?
All this fatalism is wrong, nonsense propaganda. The "wealthy" in plain fact are often killed with survivors exiled en masse. I know tons of bitter Maryland and DC former wealthy who were punished for collusion with our very own state and exiled to our little patch of North American pizza cheese hell to remember. I know world bankers who work with now assassinated Russian billionaires.

You obviously have no comparative data, relevant associates or historical acumen whatsoever. Dare to say something exceedingly smart, discerning and not wish fulfilling. Noise obscures any possible policy signal. All "old saw" claims of "what everyone knows" only subtract from value creation, good planning and sound accounting. That will remain true tomorrow and 10 years from now.

Stay away from needy or greedy cheerleaders spewing nonsense. Just wait and some dummy will a wave a flag next.
How does that explain Obama's huge tax increase?
As I understand it Tensorflow does not handle a large number of variables very well[0], which is the killer feature of NUTS in pymc3. This makes it a bit of a non-starter for pymc3.

[0] https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3/issues/1650
The target audience is people who casually use the terminal (probably over ssh) and need something simple to edit a config file with. This comes with all the basics that people expect from a graphical editor like Notepad++ and comes with familiar keybindings from CUA applications. I could see something like this being very useful for that use case.
How would that work unless you know the distance to the satellite?
> Nowadays I mostly ignore any strangers.

Isn't that one of the political goals? To undermine your trust of society (i.e. strangers)?
So...the look of Vim/Emacs without their advanced editing features?

(sorry for being so negative; this page really could benefit from a demo video)
"I can tell" is a lot different than "I will tell". The phrasing sounds like sugar coating as much as it does simplification to me.
This seems like a good idea. :)
Where do I find all this mythical stuff that I want?

I want a new car with no software, no computers, no GPS, no radio, no power windows, no keyless entry, no thermostat. Where do I find it? Realistically I can only chose between crap I don't want.

And if I buy an older car, not only I have to deal with problems that would otherwise be avoidable if I bought a new car, but the government doesn't want me to use old cars. Great freedom of choice. What a life.
The rare instance where I agree with Pai. AFAIK, this has really been pushed by the makers of the NextRadio app, who've been promoting people contacting the FCC, manufacturers, and carriers on this for a long time,and managed to get all carriers and all major manufacturers that aren't Apple on board.
I’m sure this is great, but for some of us, being tied to a single vendor is a non-starter.
It’s also not that useful at getting revenue, compared to costs of administration.
Same reason a JavaScript developer uses Node.
Seriously your argument is that the wealthy spend money? You know who spends money even better? The government, the government literally spends all the money. By your argument we should be giving as much money to the government as possible as they will spend, or invest it.
Planned obsolescence is why I will never invest more than 100 euros into a phone. I will always wait to buy low-priced, fast enough for me hardware.

I still remember how my macbook pro started to be slow and unusable after OSX updates.

My real wish is that one day, computer or smartphone hardware might last at least 5 or even 10 years. I know software is evolving quickly, but there comes a point where I don't think you need to upgrade your hardware, the hardware is just fast enough to do certain things with today's software. At one point, software should stop changing so often. Then maybe we won't need to toss hardware anymore.

I don't like Apple products, but it surely is funny that they realized they were making durable products and started to see it as a problem.
I would imagine replacing the simpler editors, like nano.
Seems there was a ninja edit.
I know, but I just don't get it. Common Lisp sure feels closer to elisp than Scheme does, and I'm constantly missing things from Common Lisp when I'm writing elisp (e.g. read macros, packages or character as a type distinct from integers).

For me, at least, elisp just feels like a primitive Common Lisp while Scheme feels like a completely different language with a similar surface syntax.
> But is (-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127) so bad that it required a whole blog post to explain it?

What is the value of this question? If you don't need a blog post to understand it, then don't read it; no harm was done. Obviously the author felt that there was enough potential for confusion that an explanation might be needed, and other commenters here have appreciated it. That's good for some people and harm for no-one, which seems a pretty clear net win.
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Coming from a Windows background, Vim/Emacs are alien to me and Nano feels underpowered and weird. For lightweight text editing, this appeals to me much more at first glance.
I mean think about it. If you were tasked at your job with evaluating venders, would you talk to just one, and then tell your boss it couldn't be done within the budget? Probably not.
Which is why you lower the corporate tax rate. This gives companies more leverage to use the investment money they get. They can purchase assets, fund R&D, buy smaller promising companies, and hire more labor.

Right now they will use any savings to buy back stock - that's the rational thing to do and makes the investors happy. But if we tax investment income progressively then buying back stock is great for the US Treasury - someone has to sell that stock to the company buying it back and it's taxed more!

It becomes more reasonable to reinvest that money from a corporate perspective. This is what the investors will want done.
On the flipside, you don't know if someone's great until you have seen someone mediocre. They may be preventing all sorts of fires, but because you don't even know those fires could exist...
2. Itemized deductions get phased out once income exceeds a certain threshold, plus you get subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax.

3. There are limits to how much can be put in them.

4. Sure, you get a tax deduction for donations to charity. But you NO LONGER HAVE THE MONEY. You gave it away. Giving money away is giving away the wealth.
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Totally understand. :) Just thought I'd share something that made my life a little easier.
What I fail to understand is why libertarian-leaning people continue to vote Republican. Neither party is going to give them small government, but at least one of them is honest about it.

I'm sympathetic to the libertarian cause, even ran for office as a Libertarian, and at this point I can't conceive of voting Republican without taking a shower.
> At one point, software should stop changing so often.

Save for security fixes, but I agree. Sometimes software is "done".
Sorry, I tend to mix both. Edited.
>That money won’t dissapear. It’ll get spent or invested (either directly or indirectly by a bank if saved).

Only in economics 101 would the bank need deposits for loans. In the real world there is no upper limit on money that wants to be invested, just a lack of feasible investment opportunities.

More fundamentally, governments want to stimulate the economy at all costs, so interest rates are near zero ("please take our money and create jobs") and plenty of attempts at subsidizing industries have been (and are still) made.

Since you can't quite force economic growth, startups etc., at least you can have money in circulation.

So, money in the bank, like money under the mattress, is bad for the economy. So, the tax cut may infact be bad from an economic perspective.
> "I am the top ranked openly female member here. That observation is informed by long experience. In gendered discussions that get heated, the majority of people on HN will tend to side with the man or the male point of view."

With all due respect, on HN I don't care whether I'm replying to a man or a woman, someone young or old, someone who lives close or lives far away. I barely even look at usernames, and will often only do so if I'm replying to someone, or someone makes an interesting comment (good or bad). If you say you're the top ranked openly female member here, good for you, but it honestly makes no difference to me. If you've found yourself getting flak for being a woman, I'm sorry about that, there's no justification for that, but I suspect that many people are of a similar mindset to me and judge based on written content rather than background.

> "Your choice to reply to me and accuse me of making this a gendered issue instead of siding with me and letting them know that their remark is a sort that does not work well is completely consistent with that pattern."

I commented on your gender remark AND sided with you in the general discussion in the exact same comment. I did not take one side over another. How you could come to any other conclusion is beyond me. Here it is again:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15360339

EDIT: To the people downvoting Mz in this comment thread, can you not please, it's not warranted.
I actually look at the "employee" strategy as very similar to freelancing. As an employee, I see myself as a single-person business, and the companies that I work for are my customers. Just like a freelancer, I choose what companies I want to work for (though I only work for one company at a time).

One of the perceived downsides of being an employee is that you can't "be your own boss", but I don't think it's very different for an employee to be accountable to his/her employer than for a founder to be accountable to his/her customers or a freelancer to be accountable to his/her clients.

The only way to truly "be your own boss" is to become wealthy enough that you don't need to be accountable to anyone (for financial well-being).
> Right now they will use any savings to buy back stock

It seems you imagine that isn't actual investment. Of course it is, just like anyone else buying stock is investing the money.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/28/amazon_web_services...
But that's not until they are detained which is already way too late to prevent lasting harm.
> The same just isn't true of product development, sales and marketing. Any one of those three teams, staffed well, will account for well more than the value of the entire engineering organization.

Why is it not true for them? Sales are not magic, it is a profession that can be learned. I have seen a lot of companies stating how important is sales, and how unique they are. It can't be true for all companies. It is like everyone thinking that they are above average, it is just not possible.

If your product is software, literally it is impossible that sales add more value than the engineering organization that builds the product. Without engineering organization, you don't have anything to sell. Without sales and marketing, you will also have a hard time. It is collaboration what brings success.

> There's too much focus by developers on shallow things, like fad-following the latest frameworks, on pseudo-intellectualism or technology-purism

This is usually a problem with recruiting. You get what you pay for. If your interviews are about technical expertise and you ignore basic persona-values evaluation and fit to build valuable features, you get that. And it jeopardizes the viability of a company. You need some really good experts, but you don't need everyone to be one.
I don't disagree with you, but I'd like to see a high threshold for this tax to take effect. I'm a small time investor who is trying to take the money I've put in the market and put it towards starting up a business.

I've used my personal income which was already taxed at the state and federal level, put it into the market at my own risk, and then gets taxed again when I get gains on it. Now, because Bill Gates and Warren Buffet aren't getting taxed enough, you're hurting the small time folks.

You're creating a moat whereby the small time folks can never escape, and the folks who have already made it won't be hurt.
Jeff Dean’s Talk on Large-Scale Deep Learning
This is what i gathered as well? Maybe an alternative for nano-users? I’m not sure which space this editor tries to fill. Non the less fun project and always interesting to see new terminal based applications.
Hah, that sounded almost like "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" :-)
How about they build their office space on their existing land? Looking at Google HQ on Google Maps satellite view, it looks like their land is 30-50% parking, i.e. waste.
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The original title is less precise, but it's not even remotely inaccurate or even "vague" by any reasonable definition of the term.

If you want to know about the future of Theano, that tells you about it.

If a title is misleading clickbait, then sure, fix it. But if you're making subjective judgment calls about whether you think the level of imprecision is appropriate or not, and so on, that's way over the line.

Again, the original title is 100% appropriate for the post, because it describes exactly what the post lays out. It may not be as precise as you personally want it, but this is how the author chose to package it and that should be respected.
Food surplus comes from mass production not farm hands. The guy who handles 20,000+ acres of crop is more productive than the average dev and makes more money.

http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/are-1000-acres-part-time... “One of the most difficult factors for many 1,100-acre or less farmers to accept is that, unless they have livestock, they're probably underemployed. Thirty years ago, 1,000 acres was enough to support Dad, me and three hired men.
...
As one industry sage puts it, “It's not the 1,000-acre farmer that needs to worry. They can still support themselves with off-farm income. The guy who needs to worry is the 3,000- to 5,000-acre farmer who knows he needs to reach 10,000 acres if he wants to stay in business.
This is going to sound wildly ignorant, is Google Ultron a real thing?!

I just remember it as a joke "super secret ultimate browser used by NASA" from that "Tales of IT" green text story [0].

[0]: https://imgur.com/gallery/iJD8f

edit: Whoops, it was mentioned in part 2 - https://imgur.com/gallery/AOz0d