skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interplay between wealth and income is a hard one to navigate, but I think important.

Part of the economic story of the last generation (IMO) is embedded in this interplay. Financialization is largely the process of turning future income into current assets. EG, I buy a house, get a house and a mortgage. My wealth is net 0. One house owned. One house-value owed. Part of my future income is now someone else's current asset. They also net to 0 change (mirroring my balance sheet). Yet obviously, something somewhere has changed.

Lending and creating money are interlinked, as is inflation. Monetarists tend towards macroeconomic thinking, and default to regarding of inflation as a single thing. In reality, inflation is microeconomic. More real estate lending, higher real estate prices. Also, "inflation" as an actual phenomenon is not simply devaluation. It is all price and market size increases, including increases in "quality and quantity". More real estate lending, more/bigger houses. Another striking example is american universities. More student loans, more expensive tuition, fancier uni experiences, more students. All that is "inflation" in the "consequences of money supply^" sense.

Another aspect that I would be interested in seeing approached is "inflation by income level." I suspect that this is increasingly important, especially because of housing cost fluctuations and trends. If 40% of your income is spent on housing, a 25% increase in house prices represents 10% inflation assuming all other prices remain constant. Similar calculation for college and such. Your inflation could be 5% pa, while the average inflation is 0%. This is happening now where I live. People's spending habits are very dependant by social-wealth class, so I think it would be worth trying to generate class specific inflation rates. I expect income inequality growth would look faster this way.

^I'm alluding to Firedman's "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" though I've defined inflation differently to the macroeconomic/monetarist standard which explicitly excluded increases in "quality and quantity." I think it still holds, as long as you swap "always" with "often" which might even be necessary for Milton's.
If you look at Square or Stripe, for example, the fees are way south of 3%. Sure the banks, processors and gateways take a fee but it's nowhere near a total of 3% these days. That was more my point.
so ... not "lost forever", then?
With Parity, afaik they had a uninitialized contract owner, which could be and was initialized and subsequently caused the contract to suicide. This has a better writeup: https://medium.com/crypt-bytes-tech/parity-wallet-security-a...
Hmmmm... Especially in the earlier seasons, I'm not sure there's ever been a mainstream television show that incorporated so many technically nuanced jokes.

The jokes are validated by David Saltzberg, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA.

I think if the jokes were superficial and lazy, I would perceive that as mean-spirited. But they seem to get the details correct.

The Heisenberg uncertainty joke was pretty good.
https://youtu.be/F6LIo-FfpKs?t=11s
Perhaps if governments started penalising corporate tax avoidance by confiscating a percentage of a company's shares the shareholders would be incentivised to make sure whoever is running the company will pay taxes fairly.
Class is much more than income (or wealth), and enforcing income equality won't get rid of classes.
I know, it's crazy how much positive coverage he gets in the mainstream (old) media, right? I wish they were closer to 50/50 fair coverage instead of the glowing, positive coverage he gets on every station and in every newspaper!

/s
That's pretty much how all modern IoT crapware works now. It has to build a tunnel through my NAT to the cloud so I can control it with my phone, which I never need to do unless I'm standing in my living room, and they have the nerve to tell me this is a feature rather than a bug. All so they can better monetize me by charging me a monthly fee, arbitrarily alter the functionality of my device through unwanted software upgrades, and spy on me and sell my data to advertisers. No thanks, assholes. If your device doesn't work without knowing my router's access code, sayonara.
5000 crore. in Kerala.

Theres so many things that raise flags there.

Thats a non trivial percent of the missing cash, whihc is very unlikely to be in one place.

Kerala gets most of its money via remittances, the idea that they would be a store of cash, especially when most of people convert it into gold around India anyway, makes it extremely hard to accept just from the face of it
I think the censoring of words and phrases like "class action lawsuit" is the big news here.
Yep, that's exactly how I automate a room fan to turn on over the winter, when the humidity is too high.

A respectable 433MHz controlled plug, an arduino, 433MHz TX and a humidity sensor.
> IMHO $27 gives the the tech workers a lot less claim to that field than the entire lives that the kids have lived there, regardless of the piece of paper.

WTF? Either you have a system with rules and law (which can prioritize kids, or not), or you have some random mess where, based on current emotions stemming from some articles, rules can be bypassed, skipped and avoided because... something. Would you like to be treated unfairly when filling for taxes compared to some 'local'? I presume no.

You know, treating every human being as equal and whatnot... some old school notions I see
Is anyone looking into/using algebraic topology and sheaves to analyze or interpret these deep networks?
Speaking from experience. Often the marketing bit is the part that gets left out. Partly because of time reasons and partly because the passion driving the tech means that gets the focus.
It does, not paying taxes is unfair competition.
Google Working to Remove MINIX-Based Management Engine from Intel Platforms
I think a better way of putting is that the founders of these startups will cringe to share a public stage or at the very mention of one of the mentioned groups but will happily take their money.
This doesn't take the user's connection into account. The user could have a really slow connection (think 3G mobile or worse). Any amount of caching helps tremendously here.

Also, caching and fat pipes are just two benefits of CDNs. They also handle the multi-region issue.
The point stands that it is not "lost forever".

When you invest in the stock market, and the market crashes, THAT money is lost forever. This is not that.
Rich people have too much money.
That was the goal.
People who make money with algos would never share them with quantopian but people who couldn't, would. It's the nature of the beast in wallstreet, I've worked in wallstreet for over 29 years. The resources for discovering algos that are profitable are very expensive.
JR runs long distance as well as metro trains.
Thank you, someone who gets my point. I'm sure Twitter are smarter than this, but why do they assume their readers lack critical thinking.
Living somewhere for a while gives you no special claim to that location.
it was my understanding that sv is very liberal, or at least they try to claim to be.
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Responding with http://www.kiba-etl.org (a ruby data processing framework):

1) Why did I start it: I started it because Kiba ancestor https://github.com/activewarehouse/activewarehouse-etl was crawling under its own technical debt, and I still wanted a way to express data processing jobs with Ruby, without having too much maintenance work on the ETL framework itself.

2) How did people find it: I wrote a number of blog posts at http://thibautbarrere.com (including one video), and also spent quite a bit of time working on documentation at https://github.com/thbar/kiba/blob/master/README.md.

3) If I recall well, I posted on the ruby subreddit, twitter, but also gave talks at conferences.

4) It's a matter of personal preference IMO!

To summarise, as marketing for an OSS project, I'm writing blog posts, detailed documentation, videos, speaking at conferences, and tweeting, mostly.

The ratio of all this vs. ratio of actual code in the project is actually very high.
You are making the typical reasoning error of assuming that all people match a stereotype exactly, that all these people are exactly the same.

Last I checked FSF and some very powerful nerds who aren't assholes still exist.

I believe you have the order reversed. It's not that people behave like this when they get power, but that behavior like this increases the likelihood of gaining power, causing those with these behaviors rise to power disproportionately.

Examples: Trump, SV Bros
It may be about time to buy only dumb monitors, and buy the television tuner portion as a separate box, if you even still need one.

Of all the television sets I have owned since 1985, the native tuner included inside the device has been used maybe 2% of the time. The only advantage I have ever seen from buying a display screen as a television set is that it comes with speakers loud enough to hear from across a large room, and has as many as six different input ports. None of the screens I now own currently decode their own NTSC/ATSC/QAM signals.

My first "smart" TV was also my last, because LG made it obsolete within months of me buying it. Now it also functions only as a dumb screen, and is not allowed on my home network. Never again.

You don't need a smart television now. You don't even need a television. You need a monitor with HDMI inputs and speakers.
I don't understand why you have to lower corporate tax rates first before closing all loop holes...
I think your comment (albeit exaggerated) is a major part of the equation. Society never viewed such people well, and that's missing from the article.

When I was younger, I tended to have roughly equal sympathies for everyone, regardless of wealth, race, career, etc. As I get older, I think I've become a bit more hardened and "preferential". I'm definitely a lot less sympathetic to people who I perceive as prejudiced - and I tend to see a lot of prejudice against tech folks - not related to the current sentiments, but the more common antisocial behavior towards "geeks", "nerds" and the like that's always existed.

To me, it's the same as one who is overtly racist. Why would I want to help a jerk like that? Except when it comes to prejudice amongst "geeks" and "nerds", it is much more prevalent than overt racism.

Of course, it's not as black and white as I put it, but I can understand if others in the tech industry are leaning that way. I've seen first hand wealthy tech people do a lot of good for people around them, but they're still treated poorly by them because "nerds" and "geeks".

In fact, I think it's had a much bigger impact on me observing this over and over again than it has on the people involved.

While the status quo may not be good, I prefer it to the world before the Internet giants. At least people have alternatives to joining a law firm or the finance industry.

(Written by someone who does not live in SV, does not work for any of these SW giants, and does not make a lot of money).
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"That's how we've always done it".

AKA the most dangerous phrase in the language.
I can confirm that for me, most of my own OSS projects serve the singular purpose of scratch-itching. :) Sometimes I feel like a tool that I write is generic enough to be able to serve other people, and I market them a bit (most commonly when someone happens to ask "what do you use to do X?", both in real life and on the internet).

To answer your specific questions, I'll take my most-starred repository, https://github.com/holocm/holo (47 stars).

1) I wanted to use configuration management on my private notebook, but all existing systems seemed to be optimized for much bigger use-cases and have a lot of moving parts that need to be understood. So I thought "It can't be that hard to just deploy a few config files." Classic scratch-itching. What a fool I was. :D

2) As said above, when the discussion happened to come to the configuration mgmt topic, I chimed in and noted that my tool exists. Also, I made a website (http://holocm.org ) for documentation and a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/holocm ) to announce releases, and retweeted the announcements into my private account to spread them.

3) I never did a "Show HN" for some reason. I did, however, give a lightning talk at the 31C3 (the recording is in the pinned tweet on the Twitter account, if you're interested).

4) How is that "unfair"?

Everything you do you do because of some sort of motivation. For me, my OSS projects are all about "I need something that works for me", so a working system on my machine is all the reward that I need. I do a small amount of publicity, such as replying here ;), but not because I need the attention. It's just a nice bonus.
Sure they do. If everyone increases their wealth then everyone wins. It's not a zero sum game.
This is comical. Anyone who tells you that currency was actually worth $300MM is out of their mind. This is an interesting experiment, but seems more like a pump-and-dump.
Index gains are just about as risk-free as you can get.
> That loophole has to exist, as any company, in any country, could be an IP holder.

Exactly, that's why it's probably more useful to appeal to conscience then trying to enforce compliance through regulation.

In the case of multinational corporations that might be a lost cause, but these corporations are also just made up of real people, so there's still a very slim chance.

The other alternative would be a straightforward global taxation system, eliminating a lot of the "multinational" loopholes.

But that sounds awfully a lot like a "World Government" and people who don't like paying taxes usually ain't exactly keen on NWO sounding ideas either.
Historically speaking you accept the governments unilateral offer and terms to produce code or men with guns come and place you in a camp.
No they actually mean power. Supercapacitors can energy faster than lithium batteries can(more power). While batteries have power densities hundreds of watts per kilogram, supercapacitors can release thousands of watts per kilogram. Now if we ignore the bullshit with carbon fiber supercapacitors it sounds like what lambroghini really wants is an energy storage system with more energy density and power density than we have today.

Integrating something with a high power density into a vehicle frame might not be such a good idea. If we really do get capacitor level power densities, then the stored energy in the frame could be released really fast during a crash. If the stored energy is enough and released fast enough we essentially have a bomb. There is even the potential for the energy release to cause a relatively localized EMP.
I'd be really surprised if it works that way. I'm not a power systems engineer but I've worked a fair bit on the low voltage side of things.

My guess is that the connection to your house to the service wires in incredibly low impedance, otherwise you'd see all sorts of voltage sags when you used a large appliance with an inductive load(or power tool). So any change large enough to affect the service line is going to go straight into your house. Circuits aren't directional(unless you have a diode or voltage/impedance follower) hence why it would impact the quality of power-line networking.

Additionally any sort of low pass filter(RC, LC or RLC) involves putting a inductor(P) or resistor(R) in series with the circuit(AKA your transmission wires) which isn't simple or cheap.
> Perhaps surprisingly for engineers who work in mission-critical business applications, occasional spikes of 90%+ of our users being entirely unable to use the sole application of our company was an entirely acceptable engineering tradeoff versus sizing our capacity against our peak loads.

I think we found the Pokemon Go engineering team.
> this category of failure is not unique.

But it is solved by the banking system: if the bank burns down, insurance will make you whole. If a distributed cryptosystem burns down, you have a lot of worthless bits.

TBH the real category of failure we see here is more like a Central Bank suddenly declaring half the money in the country is fake and worthless, and inadvertently wiping half of the existing bank accounts. It's the sort of thing that might happen once in a century, or less; cryptocurrencies seem to see one every few weeks.
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You're right, philosophy differs. I generally dislike private branches. It goes back to the origin of git -- intended for the linux kernel, one of the most widely used open source projects with tens of thousands of contributors. Linus doesn't want or need to see a million private branches. None of the projects I work on are of that scale. When your team is under a dozen people, being able to see what your coworkers are playing with in real time (autosync) is actually incredibly useful.

Stand-alone executable is pretty significant. Git is available on most servers -- fossil is not. If it's packaged in your OS, it's often outdated. Stand-alone kinda makes up for this as you can easily get the latest version with a wget & chmod on any computer, on all 3 platforms.

As for sqlite, it is an astoundingly solid rdbms that is well battle-tested. I consider that a big difference.
> AJAX/SPA was to provide [...] a less technical UI

I hadn't heard that reason before. Can you please talk more about this?

> This forum is not going to be fast for millions of users (it might not even be for hundreds of simultaneous users) because the server has to render everything again for everyone.

This theory doesn't match reality. In reality, multipage applications are faster than single-page ones. In fact, most things on the internet still are multipage, including web forums. Most web forums are powered by PHPBB, a multipage web app, and they were powered by PHPBB 15 years ago, when hardware and PHP were much slower. This very site is a multipage web app, and it holds up just fine, even though it has enough users to bring down other websites.

Single-page applications seemed like they would be faster, but usually they aren't.

First, let's look closer at a multipage application. All of the scripts, styles, and images should be cached after loading the first page, if you set the headers right (the Expires header, mainly). Therefore, what is left? The content. And I have found that the size of the HTML content is often close to the size of the same thing in JSON --- at least the way I write HTML (I try to keep it lean. Few classes, extraneous divs, etc.). This is because JSON has all those keys:

{
"color": "red"
}

while HTML has just the values:

<div>red</div>

That was a simple example, but I measured a bigger one, and the size turned out to be about the same, especially after compression. All of those HTML tags compress well, because of repetition.

Now if they are the same size, then they should load in the same time. Except they don't. The server-rendered page loads faster. Why? Because of progressive rendering. When just some of the HTML has come down the pipe, the page appears. But with AJAX, all of the JSON must first load, then be parsed, then wrapped in a template, then inserted into the DOM. Then it appears all at once.
Yes, they are.

I don't want to spoil anything but there are multiple characters that exist in both, though obviously younger since season 2 takes place some thirty years before season 1. Some of it is subtle but very interesting once you realize it. I don't want to hint at it more so as not to spoil it.

In effect each season stands alone, you're correct that there's not much world building.
http://cryptosecretsociety.com they claim responsibility.
They are a Crypto Secret Society
Of the E2000 the customer paid, about E400 is tax right away. That's far from nothing.

You could argue it should be higher, or lower. It's frequently adjusted.

My point is that this transaction is what certainly happened in Germany. Taxing this is very clear, transparent, and fair.

Whether or not the global empire turned a profit that quarter (maybe you bought a Samsung!), and which bits of the global empire were losing money or making money... and which bits are independent or not really independent... these are much harder to pin down, perhaps impossible. And attempting to do so (as we do now) encourages all sorts of strange behaviour, which requires lots of fancy lawyers, and can't be copied by smaller competitors. I don't know why we do this.

I'm very much not arguing for zero taxes, I do not want to live in Somalia.

I'm arguing for a tax system which doesn't reward stupid tricks --- the financial equivalent of moving your email server 100m across some border. Instead of ever stricter rules about where your server is located, we just have to get used to the idea that the cloud exists, and if the cloud is in Somalia or on the moon who cares? It's where the human beings are that matters.
Because they didn't want to.
Parity made this particular bug; but the bug and impact raise questions about:

1) Whether the Ethereum/Solidity design and implementation is good enough, because it seems that bugs like this and not like this are far too common and far too easy to make, and a better design/implementation would make such incidents less common;

2) Whether the Ethereum concept/sales pitch of smart contracts that cannot be overridden is actually something that the community wants, and perhaps there does need to be some structured way/process on how flawed contracts can be altered; as the DAO incident is some evidence that we might want a way to alter contracts in certain conditions, but the previously used solution of ad-hoc hard fork isn't a good one. Perhaps we do want smart contracts that can't be overridden in any way whatsoever, but we have to acknowledge that this has a serious price - incidents such as this one.
I’m not sure the second is compatible with liberty either, unless you water it down to mean nothing. Do you stop parents from passing on good genes, education, values, and money? If not you’ve got a very impoverished version of equality of opportunity. If so you’re impinging on some very fundamental freedoms.
Pitch not getting traction? Try shortening it
It's not... elections are not won by good policy. It's won by populist policies.
Just wondering. You say "of course", but the amount of negativity relating to what we are talking about that Facebook gets compared to other giants like Google or Amazon is incredibly slanted. Mainly in tech or geek centric sites like this or many reddit subreddits. So it's not always an obvious thing for me if someone is cool enough with Google but not Facebook.

I successfully use Bing for 95-99% of my search engine searches. I haven't made the time to get off Gmail. It'll take a while. I don't believe getting off Google is any harder than getting off Facebook for many people. Because if you're not using Google search or Android with Google apps, Google's utility isn't that high for you. Gmail also isn't miles ahead anymore.

Unfortunately I'm so into the Alexa ecosystem I'm nowhere near away from Amazon.
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‘Accidentally Killed It’: Parity Grapples with $280 Mln Locked ETH
>Search quality is no longer a core competency of Google

There should be some "wiki/stackoverflow" type search engine, where would be no other algorithm but users voting the goodness or badness of a link for a given search term. (and of course, some housekeeping) Maybe also a way to indicate that hey, you are using an ambiguous search term. Do you maybe mean washington the state, dc or president?