skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main argument for a flat tax is to simplify the system and make it harder to game. What really punishes the poor are complicated taxes--the kind that people who can afford lawyers and accounts don't pay.

Singapore and Hong Kong seem to do the right thing in terms of taxation: their systems are simple and the income tax is progressive, but the top marginal rates are pretty low by European standards (around 20%).

To help the poor, universal basic income seems like a good idea. It pairs well with my favourite kind of taxation: land value tax. See https://medium.com/basic-income/why-land-value-tax-and-unive... for a pretty insightful rant.

If an income tax is necessary at all, giving everybody a flat allowance per head plus a pretty flat rate should be good enough on the poor? (Otherwise, do whatever Singapore or Hong Kong or Estonia are doing.)
Well there are certainly friends where I mostly just do board games nights or talk about board games with. However, board games are inherently social and you tend to talk about other things while playing the games usually. In fact, I count some of those people among my closest friends now. It's also my primary hobby (in fact I design board games now), so I naturally spend a lot of time thinking about them anyway.

So part of it may be the activity. I've noticed it's been easier or harder to make friends depending on what it is. Dinners seem to work well, movies less so (although if you pair the movie with dinner it can be good). Board games are nice because if you don't really feel like chatting you can just be quiet and focus on playing the game. I bet other sports can be that way too. I remember Pool and Darts feeling that way at times. Trivia nights at pubs sorta worked as well for the same reason.

As for people at work.... I'm friendly with coworkers, and from time to time I will do something with them outside of work, but I've noticed that coworker friendships tend not to stick very well. I've actually found my first coworker friendship that I think might stick in over 20 years, and that's because we both have dogs and set up times to go to the dog park together (he also helped me find my dog when he went missing for a week).

I actually used to feel pretty cynical as well about making friends because I had such bad luck turning coworkers into friends. I stopped trying there a while ago.

I've also had bad luck at "Networking" events. Too many people are just there trying to find the next person to hire them or work with or pass their business card to. I have started having some luck at Hacker nights, though, again because I found one I just keep showing up to, and it's pretty low key.

And for the most part I didn't reach out too aggressively. I mainly just showed up to events, said hi to other regulars, listened in on some conversations, say something here and there, and showed up often enough to become a regular myself. I didn't start getting invites to private events by some people until I'd seen them at 10-20 events previously sometimes.
I live in Delhi, India. Recently the air pollution Index recorded a pollution level of 700-800 here. 300 is considered the most hazardous.

I'm no expert, but I think you should be just fine as long as the pollution doesn't reach ground-level. You can look it up.
I'd like to add that the military itself is kinda looking like a welfare program. The US isn't at war. The military is often considered a fall back carrier path. If we even get 10 cents on the dollar in return for military labor, I'd be surprised.

When I step back and look at it in a larger picture, I kinda see a welfare program that demands its recipients stay in shape and follow some special rules.
There is only one way to measure UX IMO and that is conversion. Everything else is just attempting at adding pseudo-certainty where none exist.
I think roughly, you come out right if you think the way you're doing.

But it's a bit more subtle in that they're going after two different types of abuses:

1. Agencies that want to rent out contractors rather than contract out employees even when they treat these people as employees.

2. Relationships where one or both sides want an employee to be a contractor to benefit from tax savings.

Uber seems to fall largely in 1, while e.g. IT contractors sometimes fall in 2, or is at risk of falling in 2.

In our case the consideration tends to be that tightening the rules means there's a whole checklist of things that makes it more or less likely that HMRC will deem us to be de facto employed or subject to IR35 (making us pay taxes similar to if we are in employment).

For #2 and to avoid IR35 there are a whole lot of considerations such as what costs we incur, whether or not we use our own equipment, whether or not we have sales and marketing costs; whether we employ someone; how many clients we have; if we have our own office for the company etc. that centre around whether or not the company has an existence independent from any given client.

The reason this is important for us too, is that one avenue for a business like Uber to avoid problems with #1 is to try to restructure around not pretending that drivers clients are the people they drive, but that their client is Uber but that they're still independent. If they try stunts like that, it may result in rule changes detrimental to other, genuine contractors too.
It also facilitates some hardware bring-up, and has management (hence the name) functionalities. So it's not really surprising that it has access to everything. That's not to say that it's at all acceptable that modern machines have such a gigantic security flaw.
The sad thing is none of the customer complaints of today will ever last as long as that did due to the lack of long term storage devices.

We really need a long term storage solution for our data as a society or risk having another period of dark ages in the future.
Rules are great, and you're right that there's a rule that something cannot be a browser-standard unless it's a real standard, with real generic specs.

BUT... what about making an exception to the rule? SQLite is sort of a unique beast -- public domain license, used almost everywhere (most smart phones have it embedded, Chrome and Safari have it), and rock solid? Also, it's not like it's a 100 million LOC app.
It's hard to really isolate it to any given channel, it's everywhere, all of the creators I follow from people who stream video games to people who comment on current events to people who make just dumb videos that are amusing, all of them seemingly are saying that their view counts are in the toilet and a bunch have had many videos demonetized, usually over the mythical "family friendliness" of their content (or lack thereof).

I grew up on YouTube, it's just a shame to see what was once such a democratized and "everybody get's in" service has turned into just an Internet TV, browse the home page without being signed in and it's nothing but celebrity shite, clickbait content, and the sort of faux "internet randomness" that marketers crap out in all of it's corporate sanitized glory.

It's just sad. Maybe I've got the rose colored glasses on but it feels way different than even a few years ago.
Let me just leave this here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd0TqkW7qHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iNeXCAM_Ik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmH7GdSmSsU
The tests for where someone is a self-employed contractor vs an ("disquised") employee are Control (how much control does the person have over how they do task), Substitution (do they personally have to do the task) and Mutuality of obligation (how tied are they together).

I think the ruling makes it clear that Uber has a huge amount of control over the driver, how they do their job and how many fares they take (with penalties). Since Uber is interviewing the drivers and requiring that that driver show up for the fare, it's not clear that a driver can substitute someone else for their fare). You can argue that there is an obligation on the specific driver to complete fares for Uber and the driver depends on Uber to supply fares. The ruling makes sense that they are employees as UK law defines the term.

I don't think you can argue that an App Store developer is a disguised employee in the same way, Apple/Google have very little control over how I write my app, they don't care if I write it or I subcontract and I don't think Apple have any expectation that I will write the app.
Like I commented elsewhere in this post, if anything remotely close to this was happening in any of "official" adversaries like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, etc., media would be calling for US troops on the ground. It this was in Russia or China, there would be multiple levels of sanctions imposed as we speak.

Propaganda Model is real and tangible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
regarding 1): hiding in plain sight is sometimes a valid strategy. So is heavy compartmentalization.
Kudos for speaking up about it, understandably with a throwaway account - which unfortunately doesn't help prove what you say is in any way truthful. But you probably still work for them and enjoy a nice salary. So can't blame you at all there. But I do just wish more people would be willing to put their careers on the line to say the right thing. This is one of the underlying problems: when smart people go along with bad things, very bad things can and will happen - if on the contrary smart people speak out about bad things then those bad things will be less likely to unfold on a large scale as we see them happening so often in SV.

To your points though, I mean it is a great perspective and helps to illustrate a sliver of possibility of innocence here on Intel's part but it's a little weak given that the operation would have been compartmentalized and political objectives/partnerships therof obviously not part of the system's technical development.
A core part of web technologies is the fact that they have multiple competing implementations.

For example, javascript changes can't be put into a standard until they have (IIRC) 3 major browsers which implement them.

Pinning a standard to a specific implementation (and a specific version) is the opposite of every other web standard. Plus it means that any alternate implementations must reimplement SQLite themselves if they don't want to or can't use SQLite themselves.
A short description: in this game you are on a quest to make as much money as possible. Income sources including regular pleb level jobs, speculating currencies/shares, running your own business and gambling.

If you have any questions or proposals, I'm all ears!
This word sounds scarier than what it means in 2017, especially in the context of crypto-currencies. An HTTP request to a BTC wallet server in any foreign country could be an 'transfering to an offshore account'. No banks are storing BTC for you AFAIK, no money would be transferred via Swift or other formal means.

And it wouldn't make sense for someone about to go to jail for BTC related crimes to be mailing an encrypted thumb drive to a safe deposit box in a foreign country...
How the Mimikatz Hacker Tool Stole the World's Passwords
This is the most backward and regressive country in the world.

The fact that Europe, US, western media and other busy bodies can sanctimoniously preach human rights and execute wars and destroy entire countries for decades non stop while supporting a regime like SA is a true reflection of how global news and propaganda works. And exposes the silliness of a 'value' based world that exists simply to provide cover for geo-political objectives to cause devastation and death on the ground. These are crimes against humanity.

And mindbogglingly this support has continued even while the Saudis finance the spread of a hateful wahhabist ideology and we spend billions to build surveillance states at home to protect against it.

Yet it is Libya, Iraq and now Syria and Iran - all generations ahead on human rights compared to the Saudis - that are targeted while the Saudi's continue uninterrupted with western support. This 'purge' is happening with US and european support so you don't see the usual hysteria about 'rule of law' and 'human rights'. This is a truly messed up world.
Their focus on family friendly content does not affect anything else - it even has its own app, YouTube Kids. This is the correct way to do it.

If you are seeing channels die then it's for some other reason than YouTube trying to make a separate kid friendly app.
AMT (server grade ME) is definitely a door of some sort, but as an advertised feature, I don't know that Intel is hiding it in the back.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-tec...
Yes, the political feasibility is one big problem. (The other challenge is to figure out how much revenue you could raise---there are some good theoretical arguments that elimination a tax on something else like labour income should increase the local land value and thus land value tax by enough to offset that loss, but I don't know whether that works out in practice.)

There is some hope for the political feasibility: some countries already have land value taxes with various imperfections like Estonia, and some Australian states, and some counties in the US.
The Parity fallout: Which ICOs are affected?
The arabic version of the wikipedia entry has a picture of the tablet.

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/لوح_شكوى_إلى_ايانصير
Of course, smart people do stupid things sometimes and vice versa.

(I am under the impression Trump was a much better campaigner than governor--and that's not measured by me liking any of his policies, but by the amount of things he's actually getting implemented.)
YouTube is trying to become TVTube. That's why.
VIS.JS Visualization in Jupyter Notebook
Ah, I’m so glad and proud of the hacker community now. The nasty and opaque backdoor is now out in the open So the researchers can now find a way to close the hole. I have a feeling the current gen intel processors are going to be in demand amongst the security community and privacy conscious users because the newer ones will definitely have an even shittier backdoor in place of the now bust ME.
This.

My kid was watching an official kids channel inside the YouTube Kids app (I honestly don't remember which, but it was affiliated with a local TV channel). I have the parental control settings configured - and I had to snatch it off him when I saw a red band title card come up in the ad break. Turned out it was for the IT remake.

Couldn't believe it, but lesson learned. This needs serious work.
To be fair, many of us noticed the giant camera in the corner a long time ago. ME has been a holy grail in the security researcher community for a long time, frequently the subject of presentations at conventions. And we have been pestering Intel about this since its inception. But the fact is that it doesn't matter how much outrage you or I may have. It will take enterprise-level shifts away from Intel products to get them to offer chips without ME.
The article even mentions an early report on the trend, from february:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/20/14489052/youtube-kids-vid...
I've used dropwizard for years, that is why I was asking ;-)
It always surprises me that people seem so surprised that people were the same way so many years ago. If you read basically anything written by human hands in any time period, it seems they all had very many of the same concerns we do today.
As far as I know the commission divided by hours worked on the translation must be over 7.50. So if it takes you 100 hours for the translation you would be under minimum wage and entitled to £750.

However as an employee commission based jobs are not really the norm. You usually get paid by the hour or a salary as an employee. Contractors / outside companies get paid a flat fee.

A sales representative might get paid in commission but then it would also be based on hours worked and if it comes under the minimum wage you need to be bumped up to at least that amount.
> No, Intel ME wasn't born out of a desire to spy on people

This is utterly impossible to believe
So far, Unix as IDE[1] is my favorite for all of them. Debugging is a bit of a pain sometimes, but can make it work.

[1]: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/series/unix-as-ide/
Is this surprising? I'm pretty sure that any HN story about "x increases risk of y", where x is a popular activity or consumption item, is going to have a flood of people justifying their partaking in x.

As long as the risks of x are acknowledged, people can make their own choice as to whether they confer enough benefit from x to accept the y level of risk.

It'd be dishonest to pretend that alcohol doesn't have any benefits (social or otherwise). After all, it's been used for millennia. We can argue about whether those benefits outweigh the risks, especially as we learn more about what the risks are (i.e. like we did with tobacco). But I don't think it's particularly surprising or amusing. I'm sure you could name an activity in your life that has some amount of risk that you still choose to partake in because you gain benefit from it (and perhaps be inclined to comment on a story about it too - but I could be wrong).
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Usage share of web browsers (2017)
I'm currently checking the state of the art of javascript date pickers, but then I come across the page "Usage share of web browsers" on wikipedia. I decided for my current web project to NOT add any javascript date picker because the usage share of IE nowadays is meaningless and that is the only browser (desktop or mobile) that is not compatible with HTML input type: date.
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That doesn't remotely address the problem we're talking about, which is videos that are wildly inappropriate for the age groups they target.
Ok, however: sometimes to hide a thing, all you've gotta do is...you just hide it in plain sight and give it a slightly different "color scheme"
Show HN: Left-Hand Path, a terrifying gesture recognition-based VR experience
Nice infographic! oh I just got an email from the Bitcoin Gold peeps saying they were going live in 2 days
Something like Patreon where people pay for premium content would work.

They could set something up so creators could mark videos as premium, and then people have to pay a certain amount to watch.

Google already has the payments side of things covered from their other services, it really wouldn't be a stretch to add something like this.

Creators are basically having to do this anyway using a different site (Patreon) so Google should look at how to bring that internal to them.

That also neatly sidesteps the whole demonitized for being advertiser unfriendly issue, because the only people paying for various content are people who want to watch and support such content.
With all the plugins in da mix, considering VSCODE as IDE.
Not looking back and thanks vscode team for vibrant development.
> Humans have an all-but-instinctual understanding of physical weapons, encryption is basically magic by comparison.

Fair point. Although that still does feel weird to look at the us from Europe where guns nor anti-encryptions are popular.
Here are a few from my subscriptions page:

ElectroBoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjN3j0jZirs

Abroad In Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5lMM160etI

AvE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSxgn0_yU-8

Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZakJFqdpRY

Philip DeFranco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOa6PA8XQtQ
Call them out on it.
Saudi Arabia is bombing and starving Yemenis as we speak. It has been destabilizing Syria by funding jihadis. It is still publicly beheading people for sorcery, witchcraft, apostasy, and sex outside marriage.

Women are NOT allowed to drive until at least a year from now, for "reasons". This was just a PR bone thrown to the West before starting the war on Lebanon.
Previously, explaining what the author of the tweet did months ago:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-kaby-lake-skyl...

"As shown in the presentation by security researchers Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov, one way of accessing the JTAG debugging interface" "is to use a" "hardware implant" "running Godsurge" "which can exploit the JTAG debugging interface. Originally used by the National Security Agency -- and exposed by Edward Snowden -- Godsurge is malware engineered to hook into a PC’s boot loader to monitor activity. It was originally meant to live on the motherboard and remain completely undetectable outside a forensic investigation."

Emphasis mine.

But this all was in January:

"The claim was made during a presentation" "which showed how hackers could use a cheap device to gain access to a debugging interface embedded in hardware."

What's the news now compared to then?
I worked on what became ME at Intel from the mid 2000s through around 2012 ou 2013.

I completely agree that in retrospect, it wasn't the best idea. However, I really want to say that it was never a project for the CIA as some keep saying.

This was a widely-marketed product at the time of its inception. It was the whole point of the Intel vPro line. I've been to a ton of roadshows between 2008 and 2009 where the marketing people demoed the heck out of ME to everybody. It was a feature thought to be THE differentiator from AMD. Of course, later AMD came up with their own equivalent and ME became "a commodity"

So again, we can all argue whether it was a bad idea, but the notion that it was designed by/with the CIA is simply not true to the best of my knowledge, but I really think I'd know, as I've been to way too many design meetings and saw the decisions being made by Intel engineers.
in 2012, I wrote an jQuery plung-in name is "GridViewScroll with jQuery".I've always wanted to change the architecture to make it work better, but I have not been able to find a good way.

The most difficult place is how to align the cell border in table, These days I finally found the best way.

The new version is call "GridViewScroll". More importantly, I removed jQuery dependency and developed it using TypeScript, as well as improved performance.
Very old school indeed! From the about section: "The halfbakery software is implemented as one big C CGI program, edited with vi, compiled with gcc, invoked by an Apache http server."
wow, thought the exact same thing haha
I consider myself a fairly reasonable person and it's not as clear as you make it sound without having your own bias influencing it. Saying only facists are against Soros is silly. Soros has inarguably had a massive influence on politics and there are many reasons to dislike the platforms he's supported.
Just this week: Popular science channel "Cody's Lab" got his account suspended.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/7b3v93/12million_s...
Another case of a small vocal minority creating unwanted regulation for the rest. Over several years and 1000s of rides in the US, 100% of the drivers I've asked liked being independent and did not want to be employees. Many of them already had other jobs or were students or retirees that liked making money on the side.

For some reason, people keep forgetting that being a professional driver is easily available through Uber Black or any number of other transportation companies. Anyone who wants a full-time driving job can already get one.

Rulings like these will end up hurting the vast majority of drivers who will now have to show up for full-time shifts at locations and times that Uber determines, while earning less money. Good luck to them.
It reminds me of the surprisingly-high proportion of content available without subtitles/captions. It's 2017 and plenty of people are deaf, and yet the BBC, Netflix, Amazon, etc. regularly pretend this section of their audience doesn't exist.

My guess is that is an instance of poor diversity within the team that set the early direction for YouTube. Maybe a team with a higher proportion of parents respresented might have made different decisions.