skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was never easy for anyone

Are you familiar with the property tax structure in San Francisco? It's wacky in a way that causes old homeowners to have vastly different rates from new homeowners, in a way that is frankly ridiculous. It is vastly easier (more affordable) for existing landowners.

The OPs bit that you quoted is accurate. The laws in the bay area surrounding taxation, eviction, and construction significantly disadvantage anyone that isn't generationally entrenched. We're not talking about stealing people's land via eminent domain or anything similarly draconian... old owners and new owners are not on a financially level playing field, and that should change.

Even a cursory amount of research should leave you with the impression that bay area housing is not regulated in a way that allows normal market forces to play out, so saying "it's the market and hard work" is disingenuous.
wow so shellfish and beautiful women are the hallmarks of civilization. amazing. Guess we should prioritze plastic surgery as a society, capitalism does that pretty well I guess.
Dating is Stupid
>"I think really what "particle" means is that "all measurements are quantized"."

I'm not sure about that, classically the only quantized measurement is number. In QM only some eigenvalues are quantized, and even then only in some problems. (The energy of a free particle isn't quantized, nor is the position of a particle in a box.)
Theming your Ionic 3 App – Part 2
Is it possible to do that in English and with a US/EU/Australian credit card?
You're absolutely right. However a lot of the engineering is concentrated in a few major centers so there's a good chance he's near a major city like LA/SF/NYC/Seattle/etc

Even if the office is in a low cost of living city, the effect is similar with Google paying at the high end of the cost-adjusted band.

The point was more to illustrate that it's not just any average job and they can do things that work for them that don't work for a lot of other businesses.
Life is too short to work with tyrants.

It's also -- for the very majority of people -- way too damn short to simply cut one's self off from salary and (don't forget, please), health insurance. Especially when your industry suffers from the illusion that "all the good people have high-paying jobs they love, that you could never possibly woo them away from", and hence "if you don't have a job already, what the fuck is wrong with you? You must really, really suck." Especially when one has family and/or other dependents to support.

You know, stuff like that.
I think this might be a way that such a project could be accelerated. Machine learning is good, but math is extremely ambiguous. Symbols are re-used and their orientation relative to other symbols changes their meaning. Some problems want you to simplify, others want you to expand something. This project at least removes symbol ambiguity in written work.

Even if you could make a computer understand how to solve a bunch of problems, I'm not certain that blind machine learning would produce a good feedback system for getting students back on course when they misunderstand something. They could probably find some likely candidates where students may have made a mistake, but I don't think anyone has tech anywhere near this right now.
Service Workers Explained
Rice and beans is a common staple of some poorer diets; it's much more balanced than just rice.
I've met these "YIMBY" members personally, and only about 20% of them are actual home owners. The rest are renters. So first of all, it's not their backyard to say yes to. Secondly, these people are promoting the Hong Kong-ification of small cities such as Palo Alto and Mountain View. Yes to 20 story apartment complexes along the 101? Vote with YIMBY!
Redux-esque Store in Swift
You can believe in good uses of tax money and still question whether the government has too much money or routinely mishandles it. Am I missing your point?
>I'm not sure why it continues to be promoted, and I think people should be disabused of it.

Same goes for any IPO, or any investment in a startup, etc... Or is it?

Im advocating not changing the game because the new players find the rules unfair.
As a Sueddeutsche Zeitung subscriber, yeah I am happy with them.
Have you checked out your FB ad preferences?

https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/

(article with context: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dk3y8/how-to-see...)

The Your Information > Your Categories tab might be the most revealing. It is for me as it includes categories that seem to be inferred, not explicitly stated, such as "US politics", "Frequent Travelers", "Expats (Vietnam)" (maybe because I have a Vietnamese surname), and "Technology early adopters", which I can only assume comes from accessing FB using iOS devices soon after their launch date.
I think you're overestimating the competence of some (not all obviously) of the people who end up doing the actual last mile part of these operations:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

Whenever something like this happens, the people at risk of getting caught seem somewhat 'disposable'.

(huge bias involved of course - the competent ones aren't caught anywhere near as often)
I'm sorry about your decision. AGPL is not a way to make corporations pay for your code. It's a way to make corporations stay the hell away from your code. This may be a legitimate goal, but apparently not in your case.

Due to the viral nature of AGPL, they have hard time trying your code to decide if it is worth using. Due to copyright assignment and patent clauses, they have very hard time contributing anything back.

What more or less works is GPL + commercial license, the freemium model. You need to get enough free users on your bandwagon to show corporate users that the code is worth trying, and maybe paying for. You need to get corporations hire you to provide support and develop special features they need in the paid tier.

Not that this problem is completely solved, but likely you heard about e.g. MySQL or Nginx who use the freemium model.
It's the most traveled line.
Incidentally, I just released https://github.com/pygy/gosub for the cases where you want to use pkg.scripts and either npm or yarn as a task runner, but don't want to force your users to depend on one of these tools at the expense of the other.

`gosub` will run subtasks with the binary you've used to launch the main task.

What does it have over npm-run-all? It passes parameters to subtasks. That's all. It doesn't take any options and can't run tasks in parallel unlike npm-run-all.
I've used Shoutem's standalone UI library[1] for my last project but haven't used their platform as a whole. During that time, I found it painful to get it working.

Their documentation[2] wasn't great. It was out of date (missing component attributes, icons etc.) and lacked good examples. Often I would have to dig into the source to figure out obscure errors. When I first starting using @shoutem/ui, I couldn't use the latest version of React Native because they locked themselves into an experimental feature[3] which even until now, seems like it hasn't properly resolved.

Again. I can't comment on their platform but I didn't have a good time using their UI library. Had I known this, I would have just gone with NativeBase[4].

[1] - https://github.com/shoutem/ui

[2] - https://shoutem.github.io/docs/ui-toolkit/components/typogra...

[3] - https://github.com/shoutem/ui/issues/241

[4] - https://nativebase.io/
"Renters should have no say in what people are allowed to build - only the landed gentry have that right!"
From right here, in my office in my home in the middle of a town, I can easily communicate via a 440 MHz repeater about eight miles away with a handheld radio (with a little stubby antenna on it) that is putting out about one watt.

You need to get much higher up in the spectrum before you have to worry about your signal not passing through walls.

To illustrate, mobile phones typically operate in the 800-900 and/or 1800-1900 MHz range and typically put out ~0.6 watts. Most people have no problems whatsoever using their cell phones from inside their homes.

5 watts on 406 MHz out in the middle of an empty ocean is certainly more than enough to be picked up by a satellite passing overhead.

Last, "entry-level ham radio operators" are permitted 1500 watts (on the frequency bands we're discussing; the limit is a very reasonable 100 watts on the lower/HF bands).

(If you insist on "nitpicking", you should at least make sure you're accurate.)
Fair point. There's nothing that indicates that they're having any trouble filling seats though. Maybe they could hire faster but I don't think hiring is the bottleneck for their business. They probably would rather go slowly and carefully at their size anyway. I also don't really see any reason why they're not in a great hiring position as an employer already - especially compared to their industry peers.
> Sailing along upwind on one tack could do that.

Probably explains why they were going around in circles for so long.
It feels like half of all Linux developers use Thinkpad business models like T and X series. Dell business models are also popular. Avoid Intel / nVidia dual GPU if you don't really need the performance, it's still a bit of a hassle on Linux.

Small vendor Linux models will obviously work, but build quality isn't as good last I heard: they use medium quality OEM chassis. Correct me if I'm wrong - these companies are worth supporting.
This might be a good final ending step, with a society full of code literate students, but currently we aren't anywhere near that. Students and professionals alike use math notation, and I think it is important we find ways to bridge the gap between paper and digital math representations.

Every process that has moved to computers has seen immense productivity enhancements. Production of written text, audio editing, video editing, engineering drafting, all of these things involve producing a ton of unique information in a workflow. Copy/paste, versioning (even primitive versioning saving old docs), undo/redo, and re-arranging large groups of content are just so powerful that you can't go back to life without them once you can use then second nature in a given context.
I posted this in another thread recently, but I think it’s worth repeating here:

We’re really better off eliminating the corporate tax altogether. It’s a pretty small portion of tax revenue and the only reason it exists is to be a plank for politicians who want to tax the "greedy corporations." All corporate income is either paid as dividends, paid as salaries, or reinvested. When it is paid as dividends, it is taxed as capital gains. When it is paid as salaries, it is taxed as income. When it is reinvested, it is either lost, or eventually becomes income and capital gains. There is no need to have another layer of taxation that just makes a giant accounting mess and creates all sorts of ridiculous incentives to use tax shelters.
JFK Files Reveal CIA Plan of False Flag Bombing in Miami
> the optimal salinity for pasta water is about 2%

Just 1%, according to the Italian tradition, and that's an upper limit because modern tastes moved towards less salt.

The old rule of thumb is known as the 10-100-1000 rule: 10 grams of salt for 100 grams of pasta and 1000 grams (1 litre) of water.
Are publicly traded companies not obligated to disclose profits and expenses, doesn't auditing help cover theses irregularities
Sure, it only took the NYT 58 years to issue a retraction of their whitewashing of Stalin.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/24/opinion/the-editorial-note...
Yes but that's like "losing the war". Who's telling you the next goal isn't going to be 5%? now they'll know the government caves in if you do enough financial/fiscal engineering. I don't know that it won't be ultimately the only way but I think we can do better and hold those companies accountable. But its a global problem that needs a global solution.
Bitcoin rival doubles in price in four days as Bitcoin price slumps
Remember that everyone feels a little awkward meeting new people, and the first aim of small talk, before any other consideration, is to make the other person feel at ease. It's about them, not about you. You also have to have the courage to demonstrate genuine interest in others. If you only care about the ways that person relates to your particular interests, you will come off as disingenuous.
Deep Learning Is Eating Software
Hmmm ... This is almost certainly a repost, but it comes to mind reading these comments:

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
You're correct. Boosting was directly formulated in the PAC framework.

(Source: http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/Teaching/CS446-17/LectureNotesNew/boo... "The original boosting algorithm was proposed as an answer to a theoretical
question in PAC learning [The Strength of Weak Learnability; Schapire, 89.]")

It took a while, but there's been a lot of work lately explaining neural nets' performance over the last 5 years of so, from papers showing PAC learnability for specific architectures (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10174) to work saying that most local optima are close to global optima (http://www.offconvex.org/2016/03/22/saddlepoints/), to work saying that the optimization error incurred (as separate from approximation and estimation errors) serve as a form of regularization for deep neural networks.

And understanding how these things work helps improve and speed up these methods and models: it's hybrid algorithms which are enabling performance in time-series data and more complex tasks. The future will nearly certainly use neural networks as part of many algorithms, but I doubt that the full machinery will be simple feed-forward nets of ever-increasing sizes.
It wasn't a surprise to anyone who wasn't immersed in the bicoastal media bubble.
Corporate tax rate would be far better for society if it was set to zero.
It is the fault of the politicians for not changing the laws, and for us not pushing for these laws to be changed.

But let's fix that. Let's do the right thing and get rid of these ridiculous barriers to entry for building affordable housing.
this question often gets posed, but i think its misleading. probably no one seeks a higher tax obligation, but people certainly differ on how far they are willing to go to lower it. so, its really missing the point to try and excuse people for avoiding paying taxes- the point is that some people are doing it in a way that may conform to the letter of the law, but is clearly unethical and bordering on fraudulent by a normal observer's standards. i see no reason to excuse people for legal but reprehensible behavior in other arenas, why here?
Individuals also create corporates to spend money, i can create a single owner entity and spend money like i am from my personal bank account
Sure but that's a very indirect calculation. Only a fraction of that is going to end up funneled to banner ads and the websites that run them. And that's the relevant metric; how much revenue you are losing by moving away from ads.
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This op-ed conveniently ignores several important aspects of reality.

1. Agency of sovereign nations. Ireland, and other countries, set low tax rates to attract businesses. That’s their prerogative.

2. Revisionist history. After a company moves to capitalize on the offered low tax rates, people start screaming, “hey, look at all the taxes being avoided because the company did exactly what the country wanted them to do!”

3. Obligation to shareholders. Corporations are not philanthropic charities. They are required, by law, to try to maximize returns. It would be illegal, for example, for Apple’s executives to charitably repatriate their money and pay taxes — they would get sued by the shareholders, and they’d lose.

4. Side-effects of complicated tax laws. Every time a politician proposes a new tax increase, other politicians scream, and they all seek a compromise. They successfully compromise by inserting loopholes into the new tax. Then, predictably, people take advantage of those loopholes.
> If you don't like the circumstances whose fault is it for staying in those circumstances??

Are you suggesting that I leave my home, my job, my social life, etc rather than trying to affect changes in policy?
Do you honestly believe this? While ignoring your biases can you say, without a doubt in your mind, that the New York Times is near the top of the list of biased new sources? Thinking of all the other places to get your news, you can't think of a more slanted source? None of MSNBC, Fox, Breitbart, RT, Huffington Post or WorldNetDaily come to mind?
Local businesses (at least in rural areas) aren't very tech savvy or even computerized, and many couldn't afford the time/effort/connectivity to do such a thing, though you might get some of the shining stars in the area (around here theres, some candy makers, a rock shop, several wineries, local honey, olive oil, and a few professional entertainers, artists and craftspeople).

My local business concept in development is http://www.doPlaces.com - a better local guide; geared for tourists as well as locals, has more detail and uses a lot of categorization and cross-linking, also some mapping to make finding stuff around here easier. Lists businesses groups, services, makers, entertainers, events, attractions, etc.

Similar has been done by numerous big guys but most of their listings are out of date, inaccurate, or just woefully incomplete.

I figure there is a niche for mom-n-pop community guides, that provide better information that are locally maintained.
> A potential fix would be to allocate the taxable profits made by multinationals proportionally to the amount of sales they make in each country.

> A system similar to this already governs state corporate taxes in America.

Really? I thought Delaware was still a tax haven...
I don't think the two cases are comparable.

kaspersky's link with russian hackers:

>the program searched for terms as broad as “top secret,” which may be written on classified government documents, as well as the classified code names of U.S. government programs

cia plot to implicate kaspersky:

>Three examples included in the source code release built a fake certificate for Kaspersky Lab

the former proved that kaspersky software had capabilities to find and steal sensitive information, whereas the latter is a weak attempt at implicating kasperksy (it's a self signed certificate). they just needed a non-american security vendor to "implicate" so an american vendor isn't taking the heat. the best company for this purpose was kaspersky.
why is a land value tax good? just curious
If its having such an abject effect on your life? Why would you stay? You obviously had the skills to put yourself into such a position, you have the skills to get yourself into a much better position.
Seems that would feed nicely into driving the social prompting (ie the thumbs up) facebook relies on to push their product.
Ok, what you're basically saying here is that we should let companies decide how much taxes they're going to pay. Why would 10% be the number? Why is it not profitable to move money around at 5%, or 2.5%? Lawyers are only expensive to normal-income people—the amount it costs to put all this kind of thing together is an order of magnitude smaller than a rounding error on the sums in question.

No. International conglomerates should have to follow the same rules as everyone else, and that means that we as a country determine what their fair share is, not them.

To be clear, I'm in favor of tax reform, though not the sleight-of-hand that's currently on the table. I agree with the argument that small to medium sized businesses are really the ones taking the brunt of a higher tax rate, because they can't afford or otherwise don't have the means to avail themselves of the kind of accounting tricks that multinationals do, and I'm in favor of closing those and reducing the corporate tax rate.

But its not up to the company to decide what taxes they're going to pay or not.
If housing is a business like every other, then why can't the rules change? The rules change for other businesses all the time: from tax changes; new laws; new technology; changes in interest rates; investment climate; etc. The rules are always changing, and businesses have to adapt. Why would housing be immune from change?

You say it's all hard work.. then why be afraid of opening the market to more competition? They can put in some hard work at maintaining their position... like every other business in existence.
Today my girlfriend spoke about wanting a cinnamon roll, and later in the day her iPhone Facebook app showed an advertisement for cinnamon rolls.

We were trying to determine if maybe she had seen that same ad earlier in the day on Facebook, and it planted the craving in her head.

Regardless, it was a very freaky experience. I doubt Facebook is listening, but it's likely their ads are inadvertently influencing us. As we scroll quickly through our news feeds, we automatically ignore most ads. But they are still making an impression.
Tried installing the nightly CSD build from flatpak and made sure flags were on in about:config. Still a title bar in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 :/
> Under current law, even if you abide by all the rules that were stated in advance, you still have to wait years and might be denied in the end anyway.

The reverse would be nice as well and would remove a lot of corruption at the local level.
> 3. Obligation to shareholders. Corporations are not philanthropic charities. They are required, by law, to try to maximize returns. It would be illegal, for example, for Apple’s executives to charitably repatriate their money and pay taxes — they would get sued by the shareholders, and they’d lose.

No, they wouldn't, because contrary to popular belief, that's not actually a law. Please cite which US statute you're referring to if you'd like to refute me.
That's pretty fascinating... I've been totally oblivious to this feature. Though it turns out I'm not very interesting. The classifications are pretty rudimentary, listing what devices I use, frequent travelers, computation and mathematics, and US Politics(liberal).
Classic case of over-regulation. "Let's solve it with more regulation!" I'm a millennial, and I apologize for my generation's stupidity.
Wait. A tree is just nested tags, right? I feel like I'm missing something.

Here I'm thinking of the correspondence between trees and strings of nested parentheses. So, strings like

(a (b c) d) (e f)

carry a tree structure, and any (non-associative) multiplication is just a fold operation over a tree. In this case it's like we tag each set of prentheses with a name/operation, so naively XML would seem to naturally represent this kind of thing.

I have little actually experience using XML directly though, so am genuinely curious as to what so terrible or "crammy" about my ideas here.
Sure, I won't over-read into it, I'll just actually read it.

For example, I won't make the mistake you made, of claiming that voting is only for the military. It might be one of your favourite works ever, but you might not have read it very carefully. Exactly zero members of the military get to vote. The franchise is granted to citizens who have finished a term of service, whether in the military or in another branch of public service.

But even the militarism and war-making is absolutely about "service to the collective". It goes on and on about that.

And on top of that, the context of this comment thread is the politics of science fiction. In that context, it's the powered armour and the bugs that are the "convincing fluff in an already interesting" speculative portrait of an alternative to universal-franchise democracy.
Great advice: "If you are seriously considering using this script, please don't."
People do it, but it’s not legal. The corporate funds are for the corporation’s purposes. If you need the money for personal purposes, you’re supposed to take a distribution or pay yourself a salary. If you get caught doing otherwise, you’ll owe the IRS all of the back taxes and some hefty penalties.