skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checkbook.io is like this. Took me 45 min just to understand their value offering. All they need to mention is “we use Check21 instead of ACH” but it’s no where to be found.
Looking at the embedded youtube video the article might have been published after Sep 7, 2017. I can only guess, though, since they don't include dates on any articles they publish.
Curious to know what you're referring to. The fact that it doesn't apply to all estates? That's also true of any tax that is progressive.
My brilliant proposal is to reduce taxes on productive activities like investments and working, and increase taxes on counter-productive activities like emitting pollution.
I see Oudeyer mentioned, nice.

There is definitely other research that has to be mentioned in this field.

Most prominently Karl Friston's work on free energy. It's a proper Bayesian formulation of optimizing for surprise, in this case minimization.
The challenge is randomness in actions or environment.
In a deterministic environment it might make sense to maximize surprise, however in a stochastic environment it makes sense to minimize it. You don't want a robot that navigates to those parts of space that are totally chaotic.

Surprisingly, by minimizing surprise an agent can develop knowledge of the world on the long term as long as that world is dynamic enough. There are no dark rooms to retreat.

Ralf Der argues for something similar from a dynamical perspective: https://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~der/. It's about minimization towards (a set of) equilibrium states.
> And frankly i suspect that CLI gets a bad rep because MacOS never had a CLI to begin with (OSX got one via its unix internals, but i am unsure Apple knew to value it), and DOS was minimalist to put it mildly.

Macintosh didn't have a (built-in) command line for a long time, but it has supported scripting for a long time, starting with System 7 in 1993.
You are both right. If there was a transsexual exception to this field, I just KNOW that some criminals would abuse it, to the detriment of those of us who actually need this protection.
Thanks, I still can't see the phrase "anything not related to development is off topic" though. If you could highlight where it says that I would be most grateful.
Universities are abusing this tax waiver and treating graduate student has employees. It is high time this waiver be removed
Why do we - ordinary workers and students - have to drink the “spinach juice”? Why not the people who have amassed utterly unprecedented amounts of wealth and power?
At least google chrome (and im sure plenty of other browsers) embed some certs (or at least their hashes) in the browser to protect against this sort of attack for some services. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078506 for some discussion on this -- its a slightly different response to a slightly different threat model.
You think these are equivalent to changing a single pixel and causing a complete misperception of the object which is believed with almost 100% certainty?
It has nothing to do with React, it's just JavaScript. It's no easier or harder to do conditional rendering than any other library I've ever used.
This is best and worst part about Angular. You have this declarative way of rendering parts of a page, but once this gets abused, it becomes a pain in the ass to understand the control flow.
You're ditching ALL of React just because one pattern used by some in an optional (JSX) part of the framework? OK then...
Same as any other rig for anything. Higher load usually doesn't make much difference in lifetime.

The problem with components is that they can break one day after you bought it, or last 50 years.

For example, in CERN they bought 100,000 disk drives for their huge amount of data. Lets say disk lifetime is 1M hours which is 114 years, so sounds pretty good. But that means, on average, every 10 hours one of their drives will fail.
> Too much redundancy is spaghetti code.

Well, there's uncooked spaghetti code and cooked spaghetti code. :)

What I mean is that redundancy can be uniform, obvious, and easy to encapsulate later (if need be). Alternatively, it can be unpredictable, baroque, and difficult to reason about.
By penalizing the people in academia who are the most vulnerable.
Then make universities pay this tax, not graduate students.
> what if Mozilla runs out of funds?

That is a very unlikely edge case. If it were to happen, Servo is an open-source project, and would likely still see development.

> What if Microsoft doesn't ever get a significant number of users on Edge?

That is somewhat more likely, but as much as I can hope, probably will not happen. At least Edge renders fairly correctly.

> like Windows Phone.

Windows Phone simply failed to get inertia. Inertia is imperative for proprietary projects to succeed.
he's talking about gpus. you do need to install cuda to get pytorch to work on gpus yes
There is Certificate Transparency for that problem. It is on work though.
In my experience, it's usually a lack of trust. Sure, we can bombard conservatives with hard data all day long, but they'll just scoff at it because they have no way of validating whether that data is even slightly accurate. The fact that this data then seems to justify stronger federal regulation means that the average conservative will distrust it entirely, treating such research as "propaganda" or "fake news".

This is not unique to stereotypical "conservatives", either. For example, a lot of American Indian / First Nations tribes firmly believe - as they always have - that they originate from the Americas. Convincing folks otherwise (i.e. that their ancestors were more likely to have immigrated via Beringia, as current archaeological evidence suggests) is difficult; after centuries of the "white man" lying through their teeth in the name of "science", their skepticism toward some new scientific "fact" is unsurprising and understandable (and unfortunate).

Same thing with climate change deniers. They've been conditioned to distrust most outside information already; distrusting the evidence for climate change is thus unsurprising and unfortunate.

In my own experience, I've found that convincing folks that climate change is actually happening is the easy part. The hard part is convincing them that humans are causing it.
Why these exist:

These are indeed waivers - generally speaking, they're used for three things:

1. To prevent the state from paying the state to educate a graduate student by waiving tuition that would be paid from a stipend, etc.

2. To acknowledge that graduate students must remain enrolled in a program for several years while working on research, but aren't taking classes and probably shouldn't be paying tuition.
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3. To partially adjust graduate students who have no chance of getting in-state tuition (i.e. foreign students) to the in-state rate so that it's possible to recruit grad students.
I just had to take the opposite jump. I was very happy with my uncapped gigabit symmetrical connection from Centurylink, but my new address is only serviced by Comcast. I'm paying less, but once the promo expires it won't be by much, for a 1TB capped 200/10 connection.

I want my Centurylink fiber back :(
I love seeing software that still has a "Screenshots" section of their website. It's looked the same for as long as I've been using computers to record audio, starting with my high school band's demo over 15 years ago.

I could probably make fun of Audacity for not keeping up with the times, but if you look at other DAWs you'll see none are exactly bastions of good interface design. I got a little more serious about my music last year and decided I wanted to invest in a nice DAW, but after demoing I few I felt completely unimpressed. They're nearly identical to how they were 15 years ago, other than my PC being much more powerful. I ended up just sticking with Reaper, and hoping something comes along someday to mix the industry up. Proprietary dongles and tiered versions of the exact same software with gimped features doesn't cut it for me.
This is (imo) the most correct response to this query. The idea behind the CT lists is that browsers will flip into a "if it's no publicly identifiable, it's not valid" mode.

The Coinbase Engineering blog actually just put out an article on this very topic today - https://engineering.coinbase.com/moving-to-expect-ct-d0d26a0....
>MIDI support seems like feature bloat to me...

Totally agree, but you know how it is. I really have always seen Audacity as a swiss army knife for PCM audio files, but I am always surprised to see what people do with swiss army knives.
It would not be Twitter. Twitter is inherently public. The issue is that people flock to public platforms to share personal data. What we need is the equivalent of Email and GPG, but actually user-friendly.
Any time you hear about some new deduction going away (such as this), ask "Does doubling the standard deduction create a net positive affect for person X?"

Almost always the answer will be yes. We need a simpler tax system. This is coming from someone who will be net-negative from these changes. I can't help but support it.
This is the only reference I have to it https://imgur.com/7ZoTLX7
It's really only important in the long term for medical reasons. There some some diseases which have genetic factors which your doctor needs to be aware of. Similar to knowing that an adopted child is not natural born from the parents. An inaccurate or incomplete genetic history of a patient can result in misdiagnosis.
> Ok, but it's far simpler elsewhere. In many places (such as Japan), doing your taxes takes a few minutes and you don't need to pay someone hundreds of dollars to someone who has made a career out of the tax system.

The process of filing taxes is separate from how complicated the tax code itself is.

And to be honest, you don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to anyone in order to file taxes in the US. In fact, you can file your taxes using a form that fits on a single sheet of paper.

You may want to opt for one of the other methods of filing, if you qualify for special deductions that might significantly reduce your tax burden, but most people already qualify for the option that takes "a few minutes".
Taxes are that fantastic thing that does good to everyone, specially when other people pay it.
Because ordinary workers and students don't or aren't able to effectively exercise political power, ceding the polity to those who do so.
>If his actions starts the dialog on how dangerous it is for the POTUS to tweet from unreliable communication medium than its not futile at all.

But that dialog started a long time ago... half the country thinks Trump is a hero for his unfiltered Twitter rants, believing he's doing an end run around the DNC controlled media and Deep State establishment, and the other half was pointing out that this would be a problem even before he was elected, based on his existing Twitter history.

Previous Presidents and other governments have official Twitter accounts... and Trump has the same free speech rights as everyone else. The problem isn't that the President is tweeting, it's just Twitter, it shouldn't matter, and I think the governments of the rest of the world know that it shouldn't matter. The problem is that the American people elected a shitposting troll as their leader and now can't stop him without undermining their own principles.
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

This isn't related to being a good hacker, but rather it's literally an off topic article that is basically just opening up a bunch of political debate points.
Because there is so much more money in the “ordinary workers and students” subset of society than there is in the top 0.x%.
Intel has respectable market share among WiFi client adapters for PCs, but they're missing from the embedded/mobile client device space and from the router/AP space. Overall, I doubt they matter any more than eg. Marvell.
I think you misunderstand; the article is recommending you don't write the inelegant code or use the "hacky" approach.

> If one needs such inelegant code to deal with basic boolean logic

You don't. Idiomatic React doesn't try and put complex logic in the JSX; the recommended approach (including in the linked article) is to do you logic in plain JS with small focused components or render functions.
Gifting when alive you are taxed at 15k+ or so.

Gifting when dead you aren't taxed until 5m or 10m for married. The GOP tax plan doubles that to 10/20m and then removes it after 6 years.

The estate tax was already a huge benefit when compared to the gift tax. What would be nice is if they could up the amount on the gift tax rate if they aren't going to collect any tax on gifting after death (inheritance). This could free up money that will only be in an estate and not used for years maybe even decades.

When you compare the gift tax when alive to the gift tax after death (the estate tax) it is already a massive benefit.
The waivers are meant to acknowledge that while graduate students must technically be enrolled in classes while working on the research portion of their degrees, they are not taking up the resources tuition is supposed to be paying for.

So tuition gets waived, and they don't get taxed on a "gift" that's entirely for handling an administrative process.
Steven Universe. Its deceptively cute character designs provide a charming cover for its stories of alien soldiers with PTSD.
Ordinary workers aren't the main beneficiaries of retirement savings plans. It's the people that can afford $20K/yr to save that benefit.
I don't think there's a strong case for an agenda here. This is what the guidelines say:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

It seems easy to make an argument that this article might gratify one's intellectual curiosity.
It doesn’t matter. My argument still stands regardless of what’s inside the chip holder and the card. The point is - it’s a relatively simple thing compared to the complexity of the rest of the phone. It needs to be eradicated.
Destroy the pyramid scheme by ripping out the base of the pyramid. Sounds good to me.
> We have the capability to annihilate as much of NK as we need to prevent a counterattack

...from North Korea

If we start launching nukes in the direction of NK, how does China know it's going to stop in NK and not hit them? Do we call them up first? Then what do they say?

Is it totally out of the question that China would panic (or reason?) and counterattack? NK doesn't exist in a vacuum, and in fact NK wouldn't exist at all today had China not intervened in the last war.
Mexican is a Hebrew Word
> At some point browsers will stop allowing certificates that are not logged through CT

Makes sense. So to be sure nobody issued a cert for one of my properties I would have to check regularly on CT logs to be sure that only certs requested by me are issued. But in that case, if someone requests a cert for one of my properties, and that cert was not requested by me, what do I do?

Do I tell mozilla and google that "someone issued cert id 4d8effdd25 for my nextcloud installation (or my forum where some rebellious users meet up sometimes) to mitm me, but it was not me". Will they belive me? And it will be probably to late anyway, because propagation to a CT log can take up to one day, so they got data on all the traffic for a whole day.
> I don't want to sound like I'm blaming victims here, but using toys that are properly locked down is the responsibility of the participants--much like making sure they're sterile.

Despite your "I don't want to sound..." prefix, that is literally the definition of victim-blaming.

Just because I leave the door to my house unlocked, it doesn't mean people have the right to enter it without my permission, and it's not my "fault" if they do.

Engaging in sexual contact requires consent. I expect it's legally debatable if remotely turning on a vibrator that's already inserted into someone counts as "sexual contact" (I would say it is, or if not, should be), but if it is, it requires consent.

I think intent and foreknowledge does matter here: if someone just found a random web server and sent some requests to it without knowing what it is or what it does, I'd say that's unwise, but not criminal. But if it's obvious from the name advertised by the device and/or the names of the endpoints accessed, or requires knowledge of a protocol specific to a connected sex toy, I'd say that should be enough to establish nefarious sexual intent.
Good. If you want to subsidize education (or any activity), write a check, don't complicate the tax code.
My city had a municipal wireless broadband mesh, but they discontinued it. The excuse they made was that it was due for an upgrade that they couldn't afford, but I'm sure it's no coincidence that Comcast is the main provider in our area.
It's not allowing direct linking :/
> At some point browsers will stop allowing certificates that are not logged through CT

Chrome is scheduled to do start doing this in April 2018
Interesting. Do you measure ET as the a residual energy balance of radiative/sensible heat flux?

http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/143/1/134#sec-11
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I have written a lot of React and JSX. I have never used that pattern and don't plan to start. I use JS for my conditionals and never put them in JSX. Unless it is a extremely trivial component, I find putting logic inside JSX hard to read and debug.
Ask HN: Just got asked for a quote. What to do?
I've had a few chats with a university that needs a custom web app for quizzing people. For a few reasons, I expect it to take 3-6 months to get done as a side project, with most of that being requirements gathering.

I don't actually have a business entity at this point, and I'm not entirely sure what to do. I've never worked as a consultant before. I have an idea that I would outline a timeline consisting of 5 or so milestones where I deliver, they pay 1/5 of the total fee, and we move on. Is this a normal approach? Do folks here demand any sort of deposit or payment before writing the first line of code? I imagine I'll need to spin up a business too.

They've asked what my expectations are with regard to IP - I may simply offer to set up the app and run it for them while maintaining ownership, but then, that pretty much means they paid for me to generate my own IP.

Even a previous discussion link would be most appreciated.
I had absolutely zero tax obligation in the USA for 9 years, and I still had to file more than a few sheets of paper, taking around a day or so to prepare.
That will never happen because nearly all of our elected officials use trusts to minimize or eliminate entirely the estate tax they would otherwise pay.

The Clintons, Kennedys, Romnys, Bushs, etc...

http://time.com/money/4344981/hillary-clinton-estate-plan-ta...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlodonnell/2014/07/08/how-the...

http://www.wealthmanagement.com/wealth-planning/unlocking-mi...

Heck, even Noam Chomspky has used estate planning to avoid paying the estate tax.

https://www.hoover.org/research/noam-chomsky-closet-capitali...
> We've been reckless

I worked around nuclear weapon systems and TBH came away with the opposite impression. I grew up terrified of the military and panic mongering about of "THE BOMBS!" from family, media, etc. But after this, I ironically came away feeling much safer seeing how professional and serious people took their jobs.
Ask HN: What is your occupation and what are your normal work hours?
For my regular job, as a web developer, I work 3 PM to 12 AM, Monday through Friday. Any of you working weekends?
Once again, anecdotal evidence is not data.

We have confirmed reports that Pixel 2's build quality is... questionable:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/google-is-investigat...

edit: keep downvoting. You can't change the facts :)
You can eliminate all tax deductions, tax the wealthy, and cut middle class taxes at the same time. All of that requires that everyone in society drink some "spinach juice" though. Of course doing those three things are politically impossible in the current environment, but that's a different problem.
I may have been off a little, grid tie inverters used to be too expensive but it looks like they've come down a lot in the last year or two. It's currently about $50/kW for computer power supplies and $100/kW for grid tie inverters:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1000+watt+power+supply

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=1000+watt+grid+tie+inve...

So still a factor of 2x but there is room there for innovation. They will likely always be more expensive due to safety considerations for line workers etc though.

IMHO this is the component that is most likely to bring renewables to the masses because they can convert any kind of power to the existing standard.
Because, despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, raising other peoples' taxes isn't going to be enough. We're going to have to raise yours, too.
All three of these are Free (as in freedom).
Well the IRS could do your taxes for you and send you a bill/confirmation for you to correct, but companies have lobbied to get an agreement put in place that this will never happen.
It's somehow seems to be a very German solution, really.
A series of projects having to do with API communications, specifically emails, text messages, and phone calls. Specializing in memory, focus, security, and privacy.
Dell power supplies, cables, receptacles and batteries fail all the time and I've seen the docking station connectors burn from shorts.