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And presumably work out some deal where they can transparently remit the sales tax on behalf of the sellers. That's probably the bigger deal than determining the amount which I imagine Amazon could do pretty easily.

In terms of what they sell themselves, they were well on their way to having a presence in every state anyway between warehouses, Amazon locker, etc. So they pretty much rolled on something that was going to be a moot point in a few years anyway.
I disagree. Once I am routing somewhere, I only want to see major things that I want to focus on. Like the next exit/turn.
I hate mergers and think they’re dumb, but maybe this is for the best. Isn’t the problem with internet news is that it comes from everywhere, enforcing a kind of chaos of truth and a race to the bottom? Maybe we should have near monopolies in media, so that a certain laziness pervades and people don’t care about ratings?
A formal system, in this case the game, is Turing complete if it can be used to implement a Turing machine. Complaining about using only a limited and very specific subset of available cards in a contrived way is like saying that a computer is not a computer because a large number of transistors aren't part of it, and if I rewire it randomly it ceases to work.

Regarding "unnecessary", unlike typical competitive or recreational games in which players often do what they want, this particular setup results in an automaton in which players cannot disrupt the operation of the Turing machine:

"The idea of my Magic Turing machine is that the players do nothing at all, except when the game offers them a choice."

The article explains that the setup only allows choices to do optional actions, and it is assumed the players always do them. As "programming" human players to simulate a Turing machine would be too easy, they are replaced by mindless placeholders.

If you used humans, they could follow the rules in their head (with written reference sheets); tapes could be lines of objects belonging to an alphabet of different types (e.g. coins of different countries and denominations, Barbie dolls of different model years, wax crayons of different colours), and the machine head would move by walking in front of the next tape position. No need to involve a proper formal system like a card game.
>Also, Milton "ked" here. Of course I'd treat somebody from Milton differently, we share a whole unique culture which you clearly don't understand. You're the one being culturally ignorant: speaking of Milton and Medford as equivalent because of skin tone is the same as comparing a Sikh to Arab, cause you know, the funny hat and facial hair and stuff right?

My wife is from Milton. She has nothing but nasty things to say about its "whole unique culture" ;-).
In quite a few countries, the bureaucracy for managing taxes collects the income and social tax from employers, requiring and processing tax declarations from every (non-)worker would be a major change and increase.

It also requires processing taxes much more frequently - an annual negative income tax payment isn't going to work, you'd need to split that to 2-4 weeks at most, so you'd need to process 12-24 "requests for negative income tax" every year for each person based on whatever income they had in the previous period; that obviously also can't be done without additional bureaucratic requirements.
Doesn't it suck only because it hasn't been well trained on a variety of voices?
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You're conflating energy and power.

Maybe the truck doesn't burn energy 20x as fast going down the road, but if we compare the fuel efficiency of cars to semi trucks, it's apparent that trucks burn at least 5x as much fuel as passenger cars. But the truck does need to burn 20x the energy to go up hills so the system efficiency is going to reflect the weight difference. We can decompose the friction into two categories - air friction and mechanical friction. The mechanical friction should scale linearly with the weight, air friction is the larger term at freeway speeds so maybe trucks aren't that bad but they're not going to make an electric truck that can carry a profitable amount of cargo with the current technology.

Scale the numbers accordingly, but there's a max weight of 80k lbs. Every ounce of battery cuts into the payload that pays for the truck. Battery technology just isn't there for heavy transportation - it'll get there and I hope it gets there soon but in the mean time, we should have a conversation about using fossil fuels better.
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I'm unable to get it to build on a mac. Wish there was a pre-built binary available so I could try it out!
Ask HN: Tools or services to prevent stylometric identification?
Stylometry can help identify the authors of text based on their linguistic style. Are there methods to prevent stylometric identification?

For example - anti-stylometric keyboards or services that replace your word choice and grammar with more common structures. Or perhaps something as simple as translating your writing to another language and back to your language using already-available offline services (i.e. Google translate on an offline smartphone).
I don't know if calling it sensationalist is reasonable.

>This means that M.I.T. graduate students would be responsible for paying taxes on a $80,000 annual salary, when we actually earn $33,000 a year. That’s an increase of our tax burden by at least $10,000 annually.

Getting by on $28,000/year (taking into consideration 15% in taxes) is really tough. Getting by on $18,000/year is almost impossible. And if they're working 40-80 hour weeks then they hardly have time to do anything else.
If you get the Tokyo Metro pass, it's 800 JPY 1 day/1500 JPY 3 day you can alleviate the cost. You can also register a popular route you use and get it highly discounted w/ passmo/suica.
Funny you'd mention on call. It's a major hassle for the allegedly hot positions of devops/SRE/sysadmin, anyone who got a clue leaves the domain pretty quickly.
When it is -27F outside, what do you do? Do you go to work? Do you crank up the furnace and huddle under an electric blanket and wait for it to get above 0F again?
They already have to deal with this complexity for their own products.
I have my notes at work as org files, and simply added them to a git repository.
NPR piece: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/14/563879136/house-gop-tax-plan-...

Plenty of other sources out there, Google has some good ones at the top (search "GOP tax plan graduate studies" or similar).
I think I agree with the placement. It's definitely a good skill, I wouldn't dispute that, but it really is advanced/infrequent by the standards set here.

Historically that wasn't true, but Stack Overflow has made it vastly easier to answer simple questions ("Which 'ls' flag shows permissions? How about hidden files?") without ever using a man page. You can go a long time without ever touching that and not have problems, while jumping to man pages without experience tends to be an overwhelming jumble of flags and conditions.

Which isn't to say it's low value! Learning Linux well beyond "good enough" is still an enormously worthwhile project. But I do think it's correct to say it's no longer an entry-level step.
If you want to find a moral compass, look to the history, rituals, philosophy, and timeless truths of the past. It will be there waiting.
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Hi, Puffs author here.

ingve linked to the github page instead of the announcement e-mail: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puffslang/2z61mNTAMn...

That announcement has more to say about the comparison to Rust, which is probably the most frequently asked question.

There's also some more words, on Rust and on other related work like Dafny, at https://github.com/google/puffs/blob/master/doc/related-work...

Edit: It's also not Rust per se, but the numbers at https://github.com/google/puffs/blob/master/doc/benchmarks.m... shows that, on Puffs' benchmarks, gcc 7.2 noticably outperforms clang/llvm 5.0. I'm sure this is a solvable problem, and not a fundamental flaw with llvm, but fixing that's beyond my llvm knowledge.
You'd need a damn broad definition of Marxism for that to make much sense.

Economy and class are so central the Marx's philosophy that saying "Just s/<insert anything here>/class" doesn't make any sense. You can't just go into Capital and s/<insert anything here>/class and end up with anything that makes any sense. The entire analysis needs restructuring.

At some point, if Marxism is defined that way, you might as well just call any materialist philosophy "basically Marxist". Which is silly.

Tangentially, I've seen a lot of "so basically (cultural) Marxism" type comments lately about anything and everything left-leaning in the US. Something memetic is going on there.
No. Magic meaning that the framework tries to insulate you from the technology to the point that you're left following conventions. And by the time you dig into the implementation, like if you need to corner an edge case, you've had to credentialize in code that was far more complex than the non-magical solution ever could be.

It's pretty lame painting other developers as idiots. If you can't identify with the common complaints about Rails, then you haven't used it long enough.

The question isn't whether it has warts or not. Of course it has them. The question is whether or not they're worth it to you.
The half that isn’t lies is just marketing, so one could say it’s about 100% garbage.
You can already take a tax deduction for eligible educational expenses for yourself or dependents. Undergraduate tuition certainly falls under that
I know that there is no federal curriculum in the US. Then again, I wasn't being that restrictive. I was referring to any required religion courses in public school, including state and local level.

Some schools have voluntary courses like "Bible as literature". I believe some states teach world religions as part of a history or social studies course - that may be required. I remember learning about the basic tenets of Islam in world history class in 9th grade.

I also know that it makes sense for religious schools, which is why I wrote "public schools".

In most German states (which also has a federal system), public schools do make "religious studies a core subject on par with science, ...." The point of my original reply was that I felt that this was not needed.

I'm glad that we have concluded that we both agree, even if it took quite some time.
2 Million yen, about $10-14,000 depending on exchange rate.
> Are you arguing that banning Nazi memorabilia is leading to the rise of far-right parties?

No I'm not. Your statement is so far off that I can't help myself but wonder how did you arrive to this conclusion?!
Possible that I’m misunderstand your model, but I’ve thought about the topic before, mainly for art and to give artist a means of profiting off the future demand for an orginal work, add in tracking the province, etc.

Exactly what are the assets you want to use the blockchain to market as securities and why?

Happy to talk with you more about it, very interested in being in a YC batch too.
This seems like apples and oranges.

In exchange for work, grad students usually get a combination of a stipend and free/subsidized tuition. This is described in the second paragraph of TFA.

> why should people who pay post tax income for their undergraduate degree

Are they being paid to get their undergrad degree? Most likely they are paying. And tuition at an accredited educational institution has traditionally been tax deductible, so it's not technically "post-tax income".
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> If it's that arbitrary

It's arbitrary that land in a desert is worth less than land in a major city?

> I see no difference between this and the existing property tax

Property tax: your parking lot in the middle of downtown San Francisco isn't worth much so we won't tax it much.

LVT: You could build a condo building on that parking lot, so we will tax you the same amount for the land as if you had.

LVT creates strong incentives to build useful things on the land.
The job market for database and networking skills is pretty different than the market for web apps.

There are places where you get a job because you want to rewrite everything, and places where you get a job because you didn't suggest to rewrite anything.
Fine, not technically lambdas, but still: function bodies declared inline in function calls. This provides great flexibility in higher-order functions.

> There is no sane way you could embed statements into an expression with whitespace-based block syntax.

Ruby does it. Of course, Ruby has a limitation that a function call may only have one "block", but still - Ruby blocks are statements embedded into an expression in a whitespace-based syntax.
I added the "what was actually voted on" because I assume the sources I read 2 weeks ago might no longer be accurate (assuming there was any debate and adjustment of the bill in committee).
name, mailing address, product(s) purchased -- all shared with third party FBA sellers. Sounds like customer data to me.
> The House bill would also end the student loan interest deduction

This seems even more mystifying to me. Unlike taxing grad student tuition waivers (which affects a tiny minority of the population) this seems like it would affect a lot of people.
You could make the build tool generate this standard file.
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Banks definitely lend out more than they have in deposits. [1]

It's why you've heard the term 'reserve ratios' etc..

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b...
Because there are people in the SLPC who are abusing the reputation of the organization as a political weapon. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an ex-muslim who wants to reform the society she came from and Majid Nawaz is a muslim reformer. Labeling what they are doing and saying as "hate speech" is intellectual dishonesty.
Don't liking multiculturalism and respecting people different than you are two different things. You can be respectful and still wish to live in a more homogenous community.
TL;DR: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on which the House favorably voted today, includes a repeal of Section 117(d)(5) of the current tax code, which makes tuition exemption at universities for grad students non taxable.

Pretty much every single research graduate student in STEM fields benefits from tuition exemption. You typically make $15-$25k in research or teaching assistantship (I made $18k as a grad student at a large state university), but as an added bonus you don't pay tuition, which usually ranges from $10 to $50k. This means that even though your salary is low, it's still enough for the necessities.

But with this change, if you make $20k in assistantships and get exemption on a $50k tuition, you're taxable on $70k. Depending on your state, that's likely most of, if not more than, your original assistantship.

This is pure insanity. If this passes and remains in effect more than a few years, it will utterly destroy US grad schools, and by extension academic competitivity (who does the brunt of the teaching and grading for undergrads at US universities? Grad students). I moved to the US for grad school because the meager assistantship + tuition exemption made it worth it; without this, I would not have moved to the US for grad school, not started a company there, and not paid hundreds of thousands (if not millions at this point, I am not keeping track) of dollars in taxes to the state and federal governments.

I'm not sure if the current administration is playing a game of who can destroy the US's economic and academic superiority as fast as they can, but if so they're certainly on the right track.
Kierkegaard annoys the crap out out of me, as almost all philosophers do.

But I will say this for the guy: He had humour. A weird, understated, tangled one, but he had it.

Mind you, it is so tied up with his native language and culture, it ought not travel well. And judging by whatever translations I have seen, it hasn't. His worldwide fame is still a mystery to me.

And by the way, correct pronunciation is something like Kierkegore. Fittingly, it means churchyard.
> I made my first $1000 at 14, selling remote administration tools to wannabe hackers.

Step one: Dark side.
I wasn't far out, I was In Uptown a busy area of Minneapolis a couple miles south of downtown.
> I'm not sure that's true. You can buy a few computers (including from Dell) with Linux pre-installed, and maintenance doesn't take a lot more than clicking on the upgrade button with the daily update-manager prompt.

Is it really that good these days?

I can definitely appreciate the constancy of Linux, it feels like Windows/Chrome/etc stacks move under my feet constantly. But my experience with Linux is still that when problems do arise, I have to escalate to shell commands and arcane sysadmin-ry for all but the simplest problems. Windows and OS X still offer a lot more hope of an accessible fix via the GUI or even an automated troubleshooting tool.

It's totally possible I'm dealing with the wrong distros, or am resorting to Linux for weirder tasks and therefore seeing harder problems. But I don't have the sense that Linux is more painless, only that it's less chaotic.
Yes, there are. "It's hard" is not really a great excuse for not doing this.
@mkempe Do you have a reference or link for this? Thanks.
Yea I mean it sucks to be a commodity worker vs an executive with experience, connections and ability to join any other company with way less risk and pressure.

You pay them the bank because if they screw up if proliferates all the way down and they lose even more.
> Racism is a system to divide people so they are easier to control.

For a historical example, in early American colonial history it was common to have indentured and/or enslaved servants of all races, and the focus on exclusively black slavery only happened after multiracial revolts by the poor against the rich. Dividing poor white and poor blacks drastically reduced the number of revolts attempted by either group.
> if both objects in a binary pair are SMBHs, they would very likely not have an accretion disk, as the companion would be unable to send over any material

BH's don't let what's in the horizon out unless outside is verrrrrrrrrrrry cold (the universe will have to keep expanding for a long tine before it's cold enough for even isolated stellar-mass BHs to lose net mass to evaporation) or the BH is very small.

On the other hand, SMBHs will typically be found in galactic centres, where there is a lot of dust and gas.

So each of the mutually orbiting SMBHs may well have a substantial accretion disk. They may interact, or they might not (the disks might not be in the same plane, for instance).

Given the number of intensely active galactic nuclei we see in the sky, I don't think it's terribly unlikely for a central black hole to have an enormous accretion disk.

However, the Milky Way doesn't have an active galactic nucleus the central parsec is relatively quiet. The dense object in the central parsec is also pretty low-mass compared to that in many galaxies. https://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/xray_introduction/AGN_intro.h...
Was a little disappointed with the NY Times for this article.

GOP tax plan is shockingly not that bad. They are going to increase the standard deduction, which definitely helps anybody who just graduated and is working to pay off loans. Obviously they should keep the other benefits for grad students, but it’s not crazy to see why this came up. The 401k thing was similar, I was horrified by it until I realized it just turned my 401k into a giant Roth IRA, which is awesome.

Wish they would not sacrifice revenue anywhere, but we can always raise that tax plan later it’s a great base to start with.

FWIW, the congressman Lamar Smith who has been a republican for 30 years and is retiring and thus doesn’t care, even he is working to make sure the benefits stay for grad students.
Solution: don't work for free.
But can’t you deduct expenses for higher education? What’s the cutoff? Does this only affect top grad schools?
Because funded grad students are paid way, way below what they could get in a "real job" because it's an arrangement that benefits all: the grad student get the education and the degree, and the schools get cheap labor. Undergrads are typically not full-time employees of the school they attend. Funded grad students are. And for PhD students that are no longer taking classes, they are typically a net-positive in terms of cost.

For example, in my last two years of PhD, I was both a teaching assistant and an instructor. When grading finals weeks before graduating, one of the instructors I was a TA for joked that he's surprised they were letting me graduate because I was far too useful.
Apple VP of diversity and inclusion Denise Young Smith is leaving
I've been a linux user for almost eleven years now, and a professional software developer for four, and I wasn't even aware that strace existed until just now.
Transit systems absolutely need to compete against auto transport options.

But transit systems can potentially blow away ride sharing or autonomous autos if they are truly fast and convenient. If you build express tracks so that transit trains do not need to stop at every station and use truly fast train technology (+100mph) - there is no way autonomous autos could compete on long enough trips.

Of course this costs money - so build it where the density supports it. Plan your cities so that you build sufficient density.

Just to explore this further, the distance from 1 Market, San Francisco to Apple Campus, Cupertino - is about 44 miles.

Using a car, the commute time via Highway 101 leaving SF at 8AM is about 1 to 2 hours.

Using a train going 60mph should get you there in 44 minutes. During rush hours this beats driving and is about the same or slower than a car traveling at or above the speed limit (65mph).

With a train going 100mph that travel time goes down to 26 minutes

150mph (capable by Amtrak Acela in US) travel time: 17 minutes

200mph (capable by ICE in Germany, Shinkansen aka bullet train in Japan, TGV France, etc.) travel time: 13 minutes!

And there are faster travel times out there. What about hyperloop?

With a fast well designed transit system, autonomous autos and ride sharing can not compete on the full trip in terms of time. However ride sharing would be great getting people to/from stations.
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> I would call the transition fatal, not painful.

It's really sad. In retrospect they certainly should have named it something different. The Perl 5 community could have progressed, maybe even made a Perl 6, while the NGPerl skunkworks project continued independently for 15 years.
It was different.

Being able to use hardware tricks for programming, like non-standard display modes, self-modifying code, or fit a few more bytes into 64 KB was worthy of geek brownie points, specially at demoscene parties.
I just love watching everyday what python is doing to Mathwork$, and what GNU and linux are doing to Micro$oft.
No, they voted to force graduate students into the workforce (to avoid bankruptcy). Just like in 2008, they forced baby boomers to delay retirement and scared millennials into getting and holding onto jobs.

Remember, the function of government and the economy is to coerce people to work.
Got to like all the down voters. Do any of you live in Minneapolis or have any experience taking the bus system there? I seriously doubt it.
Just divide the sides into two groups. For example:

(1, 2, 5, 6) -> heads

(3, 4) -> tails

And use Neumann's algo.