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Ah, my apologies. I got you mixed up with the parent comment poster.

To explain anyway: As a contractor with a limited company, I have two options when it comes to moving money from my company to my personal account.

1) Set my salary to be the same amount as the money I've earned from contracting, thus paying the same amount of tax as a "regular" PAYE employee who works full time

2) Set my salary to be minimum wage and pay everything left in my company account as a dividend, resulting in paying less tax.

My point is that option number 2 is "tax avoidance exploiting legal loophole" or "sensible tax practice" depending on how you want to frame it. Businesses will use whatever legal options they have to pay the least amount of tax, including small businesses (although small businesses might not even consider that they're already doing it).
Wait a second, a 2-layer perceptron can solve the XOR problem. The first layer maps it to a linearly separable problem which the second layer solves.

Furthermore, a non-linear 2-layer node can map any arbitrary function so the argument for more nodes is learnability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
It looks to me like more than half of that is a thin wrapper around strings.

I'm not trying to be mean or mislead. I've used vim for decades, and emacs too for that matter. My favorite editors by far.
I'm really disappointed in the tone of those threads. Attacking a maintainer because you disagree with his decision is never OK. Attacking someone who designed and released a font for free because you dislike his redesign reeks of entitlement.

Both threads have way too much "you're all horrible people because I dislike your change" and not enough constructive conversation. I'm sure a broken layout resulting from an upstream font change would be pretty frustrating, but with all the name calling, it's hard for me to take the author seriously.
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> That sounds somewhat dangerous...

Good to see Lamborghini going back to their roots )
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This would be really fascinating if the technology was there and they had a working prototype. What they actually have is a bag of promises and a little graphic design.
I can imagine a large SAAS provider can make heavy optimizations when data is marked immutable. In this case it seems to be a win, because humans want to have the data marked immutable.
I’m definitely not a fan of US copyright laws, and certainly don’t approve of Disney’s involvement... but more evil than murder? Come on. Not being able to make a derivative work doesn’t compare to the end of a life.
No, but income equality with a class system would cause the system to destabilize. The long-term behavior of such a system would have to resolve the contradictions of capitalism.
In Nabokov's novel <i>Pnin</i>, there is the academic Blorenge, who somebody says calls to mind the legendary head of a French Department who thought that Chateaubriand was a famous chef. His interlocutor says, "Be careful! That story is told of Blorenge, and it is true." (From memory, probably slightly wrong.)
> Rules were changed once already

For the record, I did (do) not support that either.
It blows my mind that in an article about income inequality, someone who I’m perceiving as a white affluent male can paint themselves as the underdog and then cheerfully refer to The Big Bang Theory as “nerd black face”. Seriously?
Works for me too.
While it's understandable that to get something deleted from Internet is next to impossible that's because there's no Internet Inc. But Facebook is a monolithic network with full control of its walled garden.

It is pretty clear they are not interested and letting us really manage what we posted on its walledgardn. There's no way for me to mass delete/edit posts on facebook. Yes, facebook did not force me to post things 10 years ago but it seems like they are forcing me to hold my own post against me for eternity unless I spend years of my time to go through one post at a time.

Delete facebook profile? well it doesn't really delete it: https://www.quora.com/When-you-permanently-delete-your-Faceb...
The maintainer is being remarkably thick-headed. The font has been accessed 3.65 BILLION times. A designer from Nike is posting on the issue. A LOT of people use this font, this is global. When someone comes to you with an issue (a big one at that), you need to do more than just say "eh, too bad, do it yourself".

Wtf is the point of google fonts if I can't rely on them to serve fonts? What is a "Font" anymore? The new "version" isn't Montserrat, it's Montserrat2, and it's been hotswapped with Montserrat.
You shouldn't get your philosophy from economists.
Surely if everyone increases their wealth then the value of the trading currency must be proportionally lower?

Wealth is a marker of ones assets relative to others -- if everyone has the same wealth then no-one is wealthy.

What have I missed here?
I think the companies you cited are not very good examples of monopolies or monopolistic behaviors: I've always viewed FaceBook as a fad, just like MySpace that once dominated the social space. Or is there any particular behavior that you find out of ordinary? As for Oracle, while their product has dominated the database (and niche CRM) market, FaceBook, Microsoft use their own or other non-Oracle products. In fact, I have seen more companies using noSQL, Postgresql/MySQL (and its variants) in recent years. Having worked in the wall street tech since late 1990's, I remember how everyone moved from Sybase to Oracle and MS SQL, and now to distributed DBs like Cassandra, etc. Apple faltered because of many bad decisions the company made in the 90's and Apple's revival was Steve Jobs's doing, not Microsoft's funding -- though Gates's decision to support MS Office certainly helped.

Not sure about Italy, but the economies of Korea and Japan were orchestrated by (or in very overt collaboration with) their gov't. In case of Korea, they instituted import-substitute-industry model that prevented foreign competitions (by policies of gov't) so their domestic industry had chance to grow and compete and a few chosen companies were given favorable contracts/loans/grants; likewise in Japan their model was better known as "Japan Inc." to describe their alliance between business and gov't interests. It wasn't an "lack of power" that resulted in the structure that we now see in both countries -- they are the intended products of explicit gov't policies.
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As I understand it, Hinton has also referred to capsules as "thought vectors". (I think) a capsule is an encoding of information in a persistent mobile form that allows it to be reused in other contexts / nets / knowledgebases -- like a word2vec word definition vector which contains the scores of the most informative n (principal) component words for the given word.

Another obvious attraction of capsules would be the potential to recognize, tune, and maybe even manually introduce labeled concepts in nets during training -- perhaps enabling one shot learning?
If Ethereum and smart contracts take off, "code auditors" are going to be making a fortune.
Exactly. If you want an OLED TV, you get a smart TV whether you want that or not. I’d rather buy a dumb TV, but that’s becoming less of an option for higher end TVs.
That is where you are wrong. A cannot be thought of as a "group of people". A company is a legal entity, which can do absolutely ANYTHING within the law. It, the corporation, will by default do everything in its power to maximize shareholder value and that is it.

Beyond that, there's Corporate Social Responsibility, but of course that is downstream from the corporation's main objective, which is to maximize profits.

The corporation is to be understood as an "individual" and is legally so, but one which has limited legal liability.
For the record, since my first thought was "didn't they fund Kalanick?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633171

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"Incidentally, we don't call it a "no asshole rule." I think what I originally said to Robert was that we try not to accept jerks, and since he'd heard the phrase "no asshole rule" he used that to describe it.

"Our criteria aren't the ones listed in this article, either. We're not trying to avoid people who make other people feel bad so much as those who are bogus, or dishonest. That's what we mean by a jerk: someone you can't trust."
I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about this. I love v1, and can't wait to finally use v2.

Thanks to you and your team for all the hard work!
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It is not in one place, but in the hands of different people. Hawala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala) is very active in certain northern districts of Kerala.

I agree, its a fairly non-trivial amount of money.
My reasons:

- Bandwidth: I don't want to download your fonts. I already have the ones I like on my computer and I've configured which ones I want to use (basically DejaVu everywhere).

- Crappy type: Your thin type with low-contrast colours hurt my eyes. Or slabs with huge contrasts. Or exaggerated serifs.

(BTW "you" here is purely rhetorical, not the commenter I'm responding to.)
I think your analysis is great too. The power law advantages are what’s both wonderful and terrifying about this field.

Although surgeons aren’t really in the power-law game; at best they can do a handful of surgeries a week. But yes I chose that example specifically because many of them are tempermentally detached from people, get paid a lot, and are often workaholics. But we don’t see people revolting against surgeons.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. The style of the code that I get back is almost always different from mine. However, it tends to be modular and functional; i.e., I can spend ~5 minutes integrating it as a feature instead of a few uninterrupted hours. So it's a trade off.
Ok. So I looked into it and I had my "OHHH!!" moment.

It seems income/wealth inequality got magnified because of the number of opportunities went exponentially higher. Those who were able, took advantage of those opportunities if they had education, business acumen, surplus income, liquid wealth, or were fortunate enough to have ownership in an industry that was not valued very highly before and became very valuable later.

Everybody else got left behind. The numbers everyone seems to be talking about day in and day out is the top 1%. What we should really be looking at is the bottom 50%. How did the bottom 50% end up from owning 20% of the wealth in 1980 and going to 5% of the wealth today?

They never had anything (like a door or opportunity or a donation box) that could collect some of that wealth flowing from A to B. And that has stifled opportunities for the middle class of the population.
Thank you! This was super helpful.
This will be great for archiving the past :)
Even in banking people go out onto the street at lunchtime. The whole campus thing is pretty unique to SF tech culture.
In the "Known Attacks" section, they advocate using a mutex to prevent reentrant situations, but they're using a boolean, setting it to true before the operation and setting it to false afterwards. This is not secure -- it's possible for two threads to set it to true at the same time! You need to use an atomic concurrency operation like compare-and-swap [1] to implement a mutex.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
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nonsense. I don't agree with Milton's political positions, but he's entitled to them and they are valuable. He was a sharp thinker. As were Adam Smith, John Locke, Robert Malthus, Karl Marx.... Philosopher-economists isn't a new phenomenon. In fact, a lot of the best economists were both.
I assume by "design opportunities" you mean a way for some designer to get paid.
exactly, it's a problem with tooling that could have been prevented. Good points by Matthieu Suiche here going deeper into why:
https://twitter.com/msuiche/status/928238570162102273
That's helpful, thanks. Could you explain why you prefer fundrise.com and realtymogul? I gave RealtyShares as an example but had Fundrise in mind as well.
Oh, it's theoretically possible all right. I'm not buying any wifi-direct printer ever again, though. (Because, as I said earlier, local networking is hard, and most attempts at it fail miserably - people are livid when their damn printer refuses to print, and they don't give a damn if it's a cloud issue or their computer refusing to play nice with their printer)
I think the term is still being decided, I referenced where I learned the terms here: https://resilientwebdesign.com/
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Yes that's exactly what I'm implying.

We tax the money going from a human being into the corporation (VAT etc). And we tax the money coming out (Payroll etc).

The idea that we must tax the company's profits too (if they made any) is what seems strange to me. Because it depends then on defining which bit of a multinational made the profit, and there's no good way to do this. All it seems to do is encourage complicated schemes which the little guys can't afford. And I don't see the advantage over just taxing both ends of the pipe.

I know there are economists who disagree with me, and I don't understand their reasons. But all I'm seeing in the letter (and this thread) is personification, saying "the pipe must pay his share!" but the pipe isn't a person.
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The cyberpunk and tech enthusiast in me can't wait for AR "headsets" to get to a point where they are super light and indistinguishable from normal glasses, but then the cynic in me believes we'll end in a world not far from what was portrayed in that recent short video Hyper Reality[1].

I am looking forward to those first few years of it where the tech is wild and new and people are playing with it in new and interesting ways. Just imagine how much you can do with it. You can have augmented TV and movie experiences. Pairing your AR headsets with your video game console systems (or PCs) for augmented video gaming experiences, not to mention complete self-contained AR games. Augmented concert experiences will be a thing. Museum augmented tours instead of your basic audio tour.

[1] Hyper Reality - https://vimeo.com/166807261
There are many different shades of "concept"... This particular case seems to be very close to showing off an amazing idea of how sleekly warp nacelles could be integrated with gull wing doors. The Ford Nucleon was closer to implementation than this.
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The two of you have defined wealth differently.

You have defined wealth as "having more than someone else".

They have defined wealth as "easily able to meet needs and wants".

In that light, both of you are making correct arguments to your own definitions.
We're also experimenting with making it configurable. You can ratchet down `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` in `about:config` to pack more tabs in per window.
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Did you do something nice for a coworker today?

When's the last time you said more than 'hello' to a neighbor?

The only substitute for Social "Media" is a Social Culture. The reason most mature adults are checking their phones all the time is nobody interacts to any significance anymore in the public sphere. When we're in public we are: A. trying to get somewhere else, and frustrated at being impeded by other people, B. Trying to buy something to consume or C. trying to sell something.

The best way to fight the screens and the apps is to provide a better alternative, IRL.
So Nutanix and hypergrid are trying to address this, though I’m not sure how well they succeed, but the payment model of hypergrid is enticing: they deploy a cluster for you, and you only pay for what you use, so if you want to have flex scaling you can do that... I’d really look at their offering if you’re looking for a solution for on prem elasticity with a lower cost to enter...

I am not associated with either of these companies in anyway other than looking for a solution to the same problem you mentioned.
Technically paper money is not free either, people support the paper money machine with their taxes and in the cost of goods. Money must be printed & reclaimed & replaced, bills must be counted & sorted & transported, etc. Any currency system has overhead, the paper money overhead is just very hidden.

So if the fees are appropriately low, a system of private banks and CC's could be ultimately similar in cost to normal people.
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I don't mean to disparage him but I can't relate to the guy. Maybe I'm cold or detached, but I feel little to no attachment to the places I grew up in as a kid, so I personally don't feel like they need to be preserved.

I see it not as a loss, but more like a change.

Also no-fault evicting is not a terrible travesty. It sucks, but usually there's compensation to help with moving expenses. If the land owners don't have the ability to do this, renters can hold them by the balls (preventing a sale) and it would drive rent prices through the roof to compensate for this.
Regarding network effect... I actually have that problem solved. 12 months ago, I coauthored a book called Software Engineer's Guide to Freelance Consulting which has been a bestseller on the Amazon marketplace. I started cultivating a Slack channel of developers. My next step was to write scrapers/crawlers of ~50 freelance programming job boards in order to keep the developers in the channel happy. And I have also tested advertising campaigns, and they're successful in attracting developers to sign up and complete their profiles. So if we need to scale the developer side of the market, that's a solved problem for now.

But I just haven't found the acquisition channel for the people who post the tasks. Perhaps I should focus on marketing to developers rather than middle managers..
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Ok, that's fair :) My pre-coffee take was a bit too spicy.
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> since 2010, Apple’s foreign-earned income has been taxed at a rate of between 1 and 7 percent. Mr. Cook, do you believe this comports with the “moral responsibility” you have advocated?

No, he doesn't believe that. He also doesn't care about "moral responsibility". He's the CEO of a mega-corporation. He cares about world dominance, competition, and profits.

It's completely useless to appeal to CEOs' moral sense; they probably don't have one and even if they do, they don't let it run their lives.

> Such “tax optimization” – albeit legal...

That's the whole problem. What would be useful would be to make laws that force corporations to pay proper taxes, and then ruthlessly enforce them.

Shame can help a little, maybe, but laws first.
Of course it's a feature. It's called a "cash cow". Oh, you meant a feature for you?
Checkout Remarkbox, I generate them a random display name when they sign up and then allow them to change their display name later.

Regardless of the type of application, why would you not want a user to be able to change their display name?

If I was able to change my display name on hacker news, I think I would.
I think the parent meant that as a hypothetical: The Lua situation would be like the Python 2/3 situation if PyPy decided not to support Python 3.
I looked into your work - remarkbox and read through all the while hoping/wishing for there would be a self-hosted version that is not prohibitively expensive for a free personal blog. No luck for me. Back to tinkering with self-hosted isso[1] comment system to make it work for me.
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Any large and successful open source project that I can think of hinges entirely on the originator's ability to communicate what the project is to the right people -- just like product is 10% code, I'd say open source project is also 10% code. Actually just thinking about a few of them now, I start by thinking "Michael Meeks" before I think Libreoffice, "Miguel de Icaza" before GNOME, "Solomon Hykes" before I think Docker, and of course "Linus Torvalds" before Linux.

Look at projects like Docker -- it's built on the work of many other people, but they were too busy hacking on kernel patches to ever give talks and write end-user documentation. The result? Nobody knows what linux-vserver is or ever was, while everyone who is anyone knows what Docker is.

There are so many examples like that, and just as many counterexamples. It is a rare thing for an author to lack the human skills to communicate and still somehow have his work succeed, and usually it only happens due to their technical skillset, and oftentimes not even then.
While it will certainly be hard to contain, there are historical precedents for containing disease outbreaks where small mammals are the vectors. A notable case is the Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Machupo virus, where an outbreak in 1966 was largely extinguished after two weeks by extensive trapping of the rodent vector[1]. Of course the effectiveness of trapping depends on many factors, and it is not always feasible. Studies like the ones being conducted by the CDC are essential for understanding these diseases and inform strategies on how to contain them.

If you’re interested in reading about the initial cases of various emerging diseases (or rather, emerging diagnoses), Laurie Garrett‘s book, The Coming Plague, is a good read.

1. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/1/3/95-0308_article
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We're definitely in a web hangover that will probably affect more people in the coming years
http://wid.world/world/#shweal_p0p50_z/US/last/eu/k/p/yearly...

Does this mean the bottom 50% in the US are in the red?
They aren't dispensing HTML/CSS slicing advice though, are they?
If you are saving for retirement by hoarding cash and not investing it at least in bonds or the very least a savings account with some interest, you are doing it wrong, or you have breaking bad problems I’m not familiar with.
Acceptable engineering trade off and acceptable business decision trade off are not always the same thing.

That paragraph reads to me “screw the users!” - and for them to say that around “mission critical” seems they don’t understand the critical mission...
A lot of thought goes into designs. People labour over these things for months. It's a stab in the heart to see it all get thrown out the window. Why spend that time at all if it's just going to get thrown out? You feel meaningless when this happens.

99% of users don't block web font downloads. Do a quick search for how to block font downloads on your computer. It's a technical task.
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If you know the language to use, you can get into that world yourself. For instance [did dinosaurs exist]. Only creationists talk about dinosaurs that way, and so you only get creationist content returned. People with a conventional view of natural history never put "dinosaur" and "exist" together.

Contrast that with [did dinosaurs live] which has a mix of creationist and normal results, despite meaning the same thing.
An actual risk-free* investment would be money market or TIPS.

Index funds may be the historically best performing equity investments (when including expense ratio) but no equity investment is risk-free.
I assumed Quantum was in Nightly (58) isn't it ?