skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's anything "wrong" with nearly any license. If your project has been written without including other open-source components, feel free to license it under whichever license you choose. Closed-source commercial licensing is an option, and might be the best option if you're actually expecting to make a living from the code in question.

Just don't be surprised when the community doesn't respond well when you take an open-license project, accept unpaid contributions from others, and later convert it to a non-open license to pay nobody other than yourself.
Armed with this insight, does it actually help us interact with humans? I'd argue that it does not...
EU, Canada, and probably others now have an equivalent of the Magnitsky Act.
I'm wondering if he's working with Gary V? The other day a friend shared one of his "hustle" videos on Social Media where Gary is hawking this and I'm wondering if it was actually "embedded marketing" for this guy.
Since there are no top level comments putting this out for probably obvious reasons, here is a supportive comment for the article.

This is what people feel in their guts when they drive out on tattered roads and avoid going to the hospital even though they are sick, when they don't have a real increase in wages but are working longer hours. They have the sense that something isn't right, that there are two sets of rules and they got the shaft when it comes to that. Where police forces are cashstrapped and turn to civil forfeitures and ticket quotas while they see famous celebrities and politicians get off for things magnitudes more illegal than what they've done, whether it's smoking a joint or driving while black.

People already have a sense that things aren't fair. There's a reason why tax reform is polling so poorly. There's a reason why most of the country thinks taxes should be higher on the wealthy and corporations. They have a feeling that they are not seeing the rise of productivity in their own life, and they want justice.

My SO lives in SG. She is lower middle class (going to school, father works in a factory) and I asked her about income inequality, for there it's quite extreme. She says it's not that bad because people there have a reasonable standard of living; they can go to school, they can go to the doctor, they have access to affordable food, etc. Income inequality I think isn't a bad thing as long as the poorest among us have some basic level of livelihood. The problem is that in the US, that isn't true, and so, people clamor for justice.
Kubernetes: A Pod’s Life
The rainforest is a paradise for bugs and snakes, it’s sparsely populated with our close relatives. Most of all, there is very little human settlement, and where there is, the rainforest is usually destroyed first. Meanwhile in the Congo...
If Java had good AOT and fast startup coupled with comparable initial GC heap sizes, it could have had a better chance at fighting off Go. Java will not go away and many teams that adopt Go also migrate to other languages at some point if their projects outgrow the capabilities of Go and the pain gets too strong.

I'm partial to GHC's language extension model over a cornucopia of Go pre- and post-processing tools like Java had (e.g. AspectJ and all the tools making use of annotations? or Go processors using comments). It will be easier to improve GHC's GC or complete OCaml's multicore branch than bring Go to the current century of proven programming language features. Go has found a niche as a replacement for C and Python in network programming, which is great. It just doesn't scale as well with project and team size. OCaml's multicore project also introduces algebraic effects (comprehensive alternative to monadic programming) to the mainstream, so I can't wait for OCaml multicore to land in mainline.
> Money that you spend on buying software, hiring etc isn’t generally taxable anyway. A business is generally taxed on income, not revenue.

But reducing my quarterly and annual tax liabilies allows me to spend more on these things because there is more cash for the business at the end of the day.
These leaks are juicy and all, but have our oligarchs had to change anything as a result of them? What were the big effects of the Panama Papers?
Or they just dont care. Walmart sets a price to move X amount of merchandise. This guy sells to a small fraction in comparison. Lets say 1% (as an example).

If Walmart increases the price, they could easily lose more than 1% of their other customers by attempting to capture this guys profits.
A lot of times, the donations are something they would already be doing. For example, instead of throwing away a couch, which someone was planning on doing, they could donate it to Good Will and get a write-off for the amount the couch was worth (typically they get to fill that in). This also works for much larger things like buildings or land. So if someone owned a parcel of land that they paid $100K for, used for a long time, but then the neighborhood was blighted or something, they could then donate it. It might be worth $30K on the market, but they could say it was $100K and write off the entire amount, which would earn them $36K vs. the $30K plus sales costs to sell it outright.

There are guidelines from the IRS, but they are easy to manipulate:

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p561

Arm's-length offer. An arm's-length offer to buy the property close to the valuation date may help to prove its value if the person making the offer was willing and able to complete the transaction. To rely on an offer, you should be able to show proof of the offer and the specific amount to be paid. Offers to buy property other than the donated item will help to determine value if the other property is reasonably similar to the donated property.

So that person could get a few friends or associates to make offers on the property for $100K and that would generally be enough to prove value at $100K using the arm's-length valuation method.

Also, another example that Trump did was make donations to an organization that held meetings in his hotel. Using your example, Trump made x+y, then donated x to a charity that then spent x on Trump's hotel, so trump is paying taxes on y even though he earned x+y (it works out a little differently, but that's the gist).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-don...
> The go vendoring stuff and GOPATH sounds like a complete nightmare to me. Also the fact that imports are full git URLS sounds totally crazy.

It is.

> Is `dep` fixing all that stuff?

Not from what I can tell; it lets you pin to git tags and branches, but the only versioning you'll get beyond that is if the maintainer of your dependency is gracious enough to use tags. It certainly isn't changing the way import paths work. Vendoring is still part of the workflow for projects I've seen using dep. I've heard there's work being done to get rid of the GOPATH nonsense, but from what I can tell people have been saying that for a while, so I'm not optimistic that it'll land any time soon.
There's a great, recent episode of The Allusionist podcast that details how the word "guy" is an eponym of Guy Fawkes and provides interesting details of this bizarre law:

https://play.radiopublic.com/the-allusionist-m69DWK/ep/s1!2b...
> Human rights abuses have NEVER been a red line

Yes they have been and are. See the Magnitsky Act (2012) and Jackson–Vanik amendment (1974) specifically.
Shibumi - yes, it is partly a parody, but I have found many good, inspiring lessons from the characterization of Nicholai Hel. For instance, this paragraph made me deeply reflect on the "convenient rationalization" of bad behavior. Basically, there is always a good excuse that is up for grabs. Don't be that guy.

"Politeness is more reliable than the moist virtues of compassion, charity, and sincerity; just as fair play is more important than the abstraction of justice. The major virtues tend to disintegrate under the pressures of convenient rationalization. But good form is good form, and it stands immutable in the storm of circumstance.”

All Trevanian's books are great.

- The Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. Flawed badass with a quick wit, I love Bernie Gunther.

- Hypnotherapy by Dave Elman. Dated, but gives you a clear abstract (oxymoron) path on how to "bypass the critical filter of the conscious mind"

- Coaching the Mental Game by Harvey Dorfman. Erudite, deep, chocked full of lessons that are applicable to your personal, professional, and sports life.

Many, many others.
And the roads the parent commenter speaks of... remember Eisenhower's highway system was built as part of national defense.

And without military conflict over the last 1 million years, human evolution would not be something to be admired. But when we have in front of us the longest military conflict in US history being against loosely organized foot soldiers living in tents, something is clearly wrong.

If we look at how great thinkers had to tease out right answers from wrong--Tesla for example had a lot of wrong ideas and bad experiments, but eventually he came across brilliance.

The benefits we see here from military conflict all came from real competition, and the troubles we can see here come from a consolidation of power under a global plutocracy that is consolidating power across the globe.
I like how they are using neo4j to untangle the relationships...
I've always felt this argument is a teeny but vacuous.

> how do we fund the things that are currently funded by taxation

One method, in polite society, would be to willingly pay the (minimum, of course) taxes require.

We delegate use of force to the State because we don't personally want to have to clobber our neighbour for being a moocher.

So the real answer is: it's complicated. Any system so far devised has been imperfect. We learn to live with the trade-offs.
Governments are bound by the international market of other governments. They have to balance their taxation morality claims with incentivizing investment to have anything to tax at all.

They’ve missed that balance by a long shot. Oops.

Some places have attractive laws that attract investment. Some people lobbied for those specific laws and wrote them themselves. Think about how that happens. I would do the same as soon as some area breaks away into a new sovereign territory, separatists are too emotional to think about corporate income tax rates, ask for 0% and you’ll get it.
Just answer the question:

"how do we fund the things that are currently funded by taxation, which are actually necessary / desirable, without using violence or the threat of violence?"

C'mon, we're hackers... we can do better than relying on violence and aggression. What happened to the idea that we could apply our intellects, reason, logic, and rational thinking, and improve on the old way of doing things?

I mean, if you want to abdicate and just accept things the way they are, that's fine. But some of us still believe in progress.
Thats great. Thank you.
In other words, his business isn't working out very well and he has a lot of inventory risk. So he's "pivoting" to self-help.
I have been looking at houses as well, and I do this too. My main reasoning though is that there is generally a lot less value left to capture in these houses because as the house trades hands, most of the 'low hanging' remodels/improvements get picked. And of course the other risk, is that there is some 'hidden' issue that is driving the turnover (noisy neighbors, under a common airplane flight path, or something like that).
My parents always taught me to be honest and care about those around you. The older I got the more I realized that was mal-adaptive behavior in capitalistic society.

The real goal of capitalism is exploit or be exploited.
> it's a better system imo than a centralized package manager like pypi / rubygem where names need to be unique

I'll have to disagree there; while having namespaced packages gives some advantages, having a centralized repository gives you things like proper versioning, which is worth all the terrible package names in the world to me.
Didn't read any of that stuff (as you said, probably lots of personal information that is none of my business).

However elsewhere it has been suggested that there could a systematic tax evasion going on, weakening the assumtions of macroeconomics about consumption, taxation and investment and how it all plays together nicely, concepts of fairness, a hope for some "trickle down"...

Sounds like a topic worth discussing, now that it has been voted to the front page?
Between the strip mining to supply the factories, and the factory conditions in China that are Apple in everthing but name, Apple may still be able to claim a moral high ground over the government that keeps Guantanamo Bay still open, but that's not a very high bar.
I wonder how many of those with the qualifications to be selected for a trip to mars would make such a sacrifice.

If you knew you weren't coming back, would you still be willing to be the first person on mars?
I can do it consciously but also don't have to, so... hybrid?
That doesn't need to mean much. IQ tests are basically meaningless for their complex experiences.
The biggest thing I can think of is the Prime Minister of Iceland resigning.
I'm not sure about that. As I understand it, W's argument against private language is essentially that there is no way for a single person to be sure that they are following rules and that those rules are consistent over time. It also happens that none of the languages we are familiar with use thought as their medium (being signed, spoken, read, etc. instead), but if these twins are indeed using internal dialog (whatever that means) as a medium of communication, it could very well be regulated by rule following in a way that would satisfy W, don't you think?
But in practice we are trade partners with the Philippines and Saudi Arabia and practically every country on the planet, with very narrowly focused financial sanctions against a few Russian businessmen, while maintaining a unique paranoia against that one country in particular.
Against modesty, and for the Fischer set
Creation of SPECTRE
My neck hurts just looking at them. I hope they aren't in pain
Anyone with less than half the money the militars spend should had "got" me all those things.

Militars have that awful economic drag building expensive things just to blow them in some far away place without any return.
Java has had AOT support since version 1.0, available to anyone that understands the value of paying for our tools, just like in any other profession.

For those that rather get everything for free, OpenJDK has initial support of Linux x64, with other platforms being already available on OpenJDK 10 master.
A government insulated from outside influence no longer governs.
> they did have a history of using illegal chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War

It's a but mirky there. The use of those weapons in an international conflict against Iran was illegal under the Geneva Protocol, but not the possession thereof. In fact Iraq bought the precursors on the commercial market, mostly from the Netherlands.

And even more murkily, their use in internal operations was not illegal at that time ( prior to the Chemical Weapons Convention ).
Only compared to a system with extremely strong renter rights. The state can only terminate your ownership on the basis of non-payment. Even San Francisco allows leases to be terminated for more reasons than that.
Hillary won by 3 million votes. I know it’s a republican / Russian talking point to keep pointing out this division.
Exploring thru these datasets can be quite addictable. Especially with service like http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/
There was a line in the article like “anyone can do it if they put in the work”. It’s still work with some risk, so I don’t think articles like this hurt the biz too much.
Thank you for this. I have a lifetime plan (goodness knows how many years that will be) but I know for sure that I want to leave while knowing that I tried to understand. This may be why I want to learn everything, but this may also be just gluttony because I’m not a very good student. I may also not be that idealistic after all, I want to do a startup but lack the confidence, and I think it’s because I don’t have enough confidence in my knowledge and not enough discipline. By training myself to be a better learner, I hope to be more ready (some of my projects are related to the startup idea.)

I am going to try chunking by week and see how that goes. Maybe the switching costs felt too high because I was doing small chunks of everything in timeframes that are too small.

> Big Picture first, then the details through practice

> Only challenge the status quo when gained sufficient knowledge of domain

> Strunk and White etc, and don’t have to finish books

> Repeat everything, consistently

> Don’t let others discourage

Gotcha.

About data science, I’m starting from rock bottom i.e. basic stats to overcome an old prejudice, and psychology to start thinking in statistics (thanks Kahneman.) And thank you again!
How to write a cryptocurrency white paper
Surely you are joking Mr Feynman - He was a brilliant man, but I also get a weird vibe from him. I all his books, he comes across as the man who knows is more brilliant than the vast majority of other people, he wants to be considered as a simple man with more persistence and curious attitude than other simpletons, and at the end, I realize that the fake humbleness is pretty insufferable. Come on, Feynman.
I'm not an expert on this but from a quick google it appears ME and VT both have above average polarizations: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/how-polarized-...
How do you know they didn't invest a significant amount to fix issues? What they paid for it isn't a useful measure if you don't know the condition it was in.

Comparable sales prices for recently sold similar homes would seem a better measure.
Gee, I wonder why this hasn't popped up through WikiLeaks.
SG = Singapore?
> relatively simple collaboration between the two

Wouldn't this fall foul to some kind of anti-collusion laws?
Not certainly - it's very common for a neighborhood to shoot up in value (because of something that individual homeowners don't do, like a major employer moving in or getting successful, or a train station being built, or a nearby neighborhood getting full), and so the market value of the same home at the same condition can increase dramatically just because the neighborhood has more demand.
There's practically unlimited money to be made in the "I'll teach you to be rich" industry. It's much less work and much more lucrative than retail arbitrage.
Hterm vs. xterm.js
Five years after Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle[1], it's crazy that there are not more coding environments that give new users a great out of the box experience with live reloading like this.

I started learning Clojure recently and had a bad experience configuring a development environment on the Mac. Leiningen threw “illegal reflective access” and “Unable to open cgroup memory limit” warnings that appeared to be related to an incompatible version of the JRE. I ended up fixing it (JRE downgrade, then upgrade after it was patched in Leiningen), but it was still a less than smooth introduction to a functional language compared with Elm, Elixir, or even Haskell.

The advice from many Clojurians to use Emacs is fine if you happen to use it anyway, but also seems particularly hostile to beginners.

Lightmod compiled all the demo examples without error for me.

I really want to explore Clojure and ClojureScript to build game servers and web games, and this project looks like a great way to get people using the language faster.

[1]: https://vimeo.com/36579366
I agree and it wasn't the intent of the question. More of a purely academic way of putting "one in a million" into more human terms. And it didn't work, since I can't picture a room of 1250 people doing this, like you rightly point out.

But I also don't think the "brother who already knows the phone PIN code" a real world attack vector of concern to most people. I get that it could be an issue in narrow situations: you share your pin code, lookalike sibling uses it to "train" your phone; you change passcode not realizing that phone will still unlock for now-untrusted sibling.

Even in that scenario, I would bet that after a few days of normal usage by the phone's rightful owner alone the attack wouldn't work anymore. But, it's too soon to know.
Wasn’t the reporter behind the Panama Papers killed by a car bomb?
Zombifinitis. Does it really Exist?
Putin's utility function maximization calculus is clearly benefited from undermining his own people, and there is a lot of evidence to support that.

The US plutocracy is no different. Also a lot of evidence: the actions of the NSA, CIA, War on Drugs,
police militarizarion, military-industrial-congressional-complex... All cannot be explained otherwise.

I think in the US, they're just a lot more clever at it. However cooky it might seem, there is some evidence coming out that extremist rallies have been organized by unknown powers, possibly sometimes Russian. A lot of the racial tension is probably not by accident. I saw this on the reddit conspiracy sub, and frankly I think it's a good point to be made: https://i.redd.it/lgdyy6dpjyfz.jpg
The terms "capitalism" and for that matter "communism" are labels that have lost almost all meaning. The USSR was a dictatorship as is Russia today. "Capitalism" was a term coined by Karl Marx as a critique of 19th century industrial England. Calling yourself a "capitalist" is like calling yourself a "alienist". It's an archaic term and imprecise at best.
dont have to go that far, or that up.

head of IT for a french firm that does business over here had to contract with some small company for a invoice system because the regional manager claimed the centra one from HQ didnt accommodate the local laws. it was a lie, because the other vendor has even less compliance. nobody but the regional manager has any idea of the real reasons. but I bet its not in the interests of the company, or tax compliance.
Until you change your passcode to lock them out and they will have access via faceid. If they have an irrevocable access you don't know about, it's a security issue.
One possibility is to find an asteroid that moves between earth and mars orbits, and hitch a ride on it for the bulk of the journey. The asteroid's mass can serve as shielding, and also as a source of raw materials.