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That's not what Ron Johnson is doing at all. The changes in pass through rates are, quite literally, the worst part of the bill.

Large businesses (C Corps) pay corporate tax and then when shareholders profit from their shares (either via dividends or cap gains) they pay individual income taxes.

Small businesses (LLCs and S corps) don't pay corporate taxes but individual shareholders pay individual income taxes like above.

What this bill does (and Johnson is trying to do more of) is create a whole new system for shareholders of LLCs and S Corps so that they don't even pay regular income taxes but a new tax at an even lower rate.

This isn't giving preferential tax treatment to small businesses that corporations already get. It's creating a whole new thing that shouldn't exist in the first place.
A few weeks ago I saw dozens of Singaporean kids showing off projects they'd built with the Micro:bit. They learned a good deal, had been very creative, and were clearly interested in learning more. Sounds like a good outcome.
The constraints are a feature.

The benefits of working within RAM and processing constraints teaches about those limits and you become more aware of the interaction between hardware and software.

Too many softies these days are completely unaware of this interaction.... (to their deficit).
I second this. The only feature that I can immediately think of that locks me in the mac eco-system is the convenience of airdropping files with my wife. Apart from this, with most of my stuff on the cloud, there won't even be a migration process if I decide to switch to Windows.
If you build a system that can solve problems like Ravens Matrices, there will be a deep suspicion that you are at least on track to building a general causal learning machine.

Because Ravens Matrices is nothing more than developing a theory for why a bunch of shapes are changing.
I have to confess I don't like that article. I admit part of that is merely aesthetic...but principally it doesn't allow me to grapple with examples that are rooted in the now.

To give you an example of what I mean: when Bluetooth was in its early days everybody kept repeating this stuff about your Fridge being able to talk to your Toaster. They wrote imaginative articles about Toasters that told Breadbins they had just toasted the last two slices of bread or whatever. This didn't help me at all to understand a perfectly good technology. It was, frankly, distracting BS. If someone had said you could have headphones without wires (and perhaps they did) I would have gone: Ah hah! Now that may show you the hard limits of my technological imagination...but to me that's the kind of the thing that sells a new technology.

I think simple examples of things we currently need to do, with practical examples of how we can do them a different way is what helps me to understand things.
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candyjapan.com comes to my mind (not my project)
Most people disagree. It's rare to drive >500 miles between charges, but most people will want to spend less than 20 minutes charging when they want to go long distances.
That's gotta finally happen SOME day, no?? I speak seriously.... Of course, by the time it happens, I wouldn't be surprised if we come up with a solution that people like better than IPv6?
*defacto
Open a hotdog stand
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Alexa/Siri et al aren’t about “consumerism” — that’s the naïve interpretation— that’s just a surface look. These devices represent the future of how man interacts with machine. Right now, they are mostly toys used for “consumer” purposes, but look at the internet itself — during the early days one could have asked “why should we be building networks for the military? Dismissing Alexa/etc. as mere vehicles for consumption is missing the greater possibilities. This tech has to start (and be financed) somewhere: thus Amazon using this as a tool to buy things is fine — because it ultimately will push the future forward despite your worries about slave labor. If we stopped buying everything tomorrow, there would still be slave labor and bad things in the world as there always has been. People need to eat, clothe themselves and make shelters. Stopping weapon production doesn’t end wars nor would stopping AI personal assistants reduce some poorer people working for some less poor people to fill an economic need. That’s reality.
A CEO who promises the moon on a stick and delivers little is not doing his job well

But Elon is not promising the moon. He is very clear when he states his goals, that these goals are very ambitious goals and that the probability of meeting them is fairly low.
Directory Listings or Job Openings sites using Wordpress and specific plug-ins/themes.
I don't think you need a complex threading model. The browser showed that you can get good interaction with single-threaded environment as long as you 1) can offload computation to other processes (web services, in the case of the browser, or more recently, workers) through message-passing and 2) such interaction can be performed asynchronously (i.e. while you wait for the result you can continue with the rest).

I think such kind of approach could be adopted by emacs without having to rewrite everything from scratch. Taking advantage of this would require of course rewriting a good amount of code (both elisp and C), but it could be done bit by bit over the course of a long time.
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Not something I've done personally, but lawyers selling form letters is a common passive income source which requires no coding ;).
This is clickbait, albeit more subtle than the usual sort - instead of the Buzzfeed listicle, it's bait for the thoughtful shopper. But bait it is nonetheless.
This looks fantastic and I'd love to start using it. Unfortunately it seems to be written in a particularly obscure Lisp dialect and the build script is... temperamental at best.
Yes, every block includes a timestamp so everyone is forced to agree, and nodes won't forward a block if the time is too inaccurate. Miners have some leeway to manipulate time a bit, so you wouldn't want to use the block's timestamp as a random seed for a lottery, but just using it as a coarse deadline works fine.
Ultimately, the service enables people to order from Amazon and gathers training data for their algorithms, so regardless of whether you're using it through an Echo or a Furby or whatever else, they win.

To put it bluntly, why would they stop others from making their profitable data collection easier and doing it for them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Privacy_concerns
Litecoin Reaches a New All-Time High, Up 2,000% Year-To-Date
thats why i assumed that the previous peak had to do with a lot of press about bitcoin crossing $1000. but maybe it was just mtgox
The end of Moore's Law doesn't necessarily have to imply a deceleration in technological evolution, as Ray Kurzweil and others have pointed out. In their view, Moore's Law is just one single phase in the "law of accelerating returns".
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I believe the OP is asking about projects making income that are not programming heavy. Some quick thoughts off of the top of my head:

- Writing Books

- Content-Focused Websites or Newsletters

- Selling Digital or Physical Products

It probably depends on your skillset. Without some sort of specialist knowledge it may be tough. In the design world icon sets, UI kits and typefaces are popular things to sell.
Austin is nice and I have friends there, but moving isn't in the cards right now.
For some background on the design decisions, here's the 'Key design constraints' from https://github.com/sparkslabs/microbit-prototype/tree/master... (the technical specs of the microbit prototype, written in Dec 2014) :

> Programmable - The device must be reprogrammable

> Simple to program - via a graphical browser based UI

> Small - maximum 5cm x 5cm

> Cheap - manufacture cost must be approximately £2 or less when produced in large scale - for example batches of 100,000 units
Multiplayer rock paper scissors with radio communication based on shaking them?

https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/rps-teams

Add on some motors and make a robot that hides from the light?

Make a robot that can follow a path, or that drives based on true compass directions.

Make a hide and seek with your microbit reporting hot/cold based on signal strength to other microbits? https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/hot-or-cold

Display the temperature?

Send messages to people?

Add on any other sensors?

Connect to your phone and do something else (app driven robot maybe)

Firefly synchronisation https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/fireflies

There's loads on that page and really you've got sensors and can control other things, and do distributed communication. There's lots of things you can do with a low powered processor, and it's not locked down to a few options.

Edit - I've just found out you can play sounds with it too.

Edit 2 - I'm now actually quite excited about this. I'm going to go out and buy one now.
I read this as a "hot meal printing". That would be something.
Unfortunate that this project is only a partial reimplementation of QuickCheck. I was hoping that this would use fuzzing coverage.

Coverage guided QuickCheck has been on my mind for a while, I believe it would greatly improve fuzzing experience and allow to easily and thoughroughly check/fuzz things that aren't parsers/decoders/deserializers or functions that operate on strings in general.
Her personal site is terrible though, slow loading, 3.2Mb, has to compile and run all the javascript before it even starts displaying anything.

Why listen to someone who's basically got the new version of a flash website?

Also, try making your screen half width, as if you had two browser windows side-by-side, something I do regularly.

I mean, it's one thing to throw mud about everyone copying stripe, it's another when your own site is shockingly bad.

All it does is show that perhaps it's better to have designers copy successful designs given what they'll sometimes do left to their own devices.
Yes. Or if you are a specialist within your industry, you can put together a collection of useful templates and sell them online via a mini e-commerce site.
I really hope that we never have to control our computers with something as ambigous and fuzzy as speech. It's going to happen, because people think Star Trek is cool, but, gah, I'm not interested in it. Interfaces are getting progressively less useful, as far as I'm concerned; people try to displace mouse and keyboard, but it's always worse, and drags down the standard for everything.
That's not the case at all if you go to a site that uses React. For those, you are welcome by a blank page with NoScript.
I wonder if those stubbornly serial problems may be arbitrarily approximated by parallel solutions.
Littlebits is considerably more expensive than the micro:bit.
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Sure, you dont NEED it, but then you don't need a lot of stuff. I guess the value comes from not having to remember all those commands, just enter the hooks in the config and you have those steps happening automatically for you.
It happened already. And nothing changed.
Ask HN: I help make tech podcasts does anyone have questions for our guests?
Hi all, as some of you may already have seen I help produces tech industry podcasts and blogs. Our podcast format is very established now (We've just done our 100th episode) and we aim to get industry leaders from a variety of tech industries on to chat about career development in tech. If I were to tell you some our upcoming guests would anyone like their tech career questions answering?

Let me know in the comments.

Here's a link to our podcasts.

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#BitcoinGold (BTG) dev team warns its users about a security breach
the true investment apocalypse will happen when BTC falls back to below $1000 and the average Joe invest thinking that it is now so cheap. Then it's the time for bitcoin to be replaced by another coin and to fade away into nothingness.
I work at a small company. We have 6 javascript developers. All our web projects are node, typescript, and the front end stuff the client wants us to use (though we default to angular). We enforce types for communication with node, so at least you know the structure of all the json going through the network. On the node side we use loopback, which generates a nice site to call the API from outside the project.

We write no tests whatsoever. This is a business decision.

There's a test team of 2 people whose job is to go through our crap (i.e., the user stories) and write docs.

Management has to adapt to clients. Managers use the agile words, but the client's budgeting procedure has to take precedence. Regarding estimations, there's no analyst estimating features and tasks, the developers do it themselves. Developers also talk directly to clients often and go on-site.

Since we're so small (about 30 in total), things are personal. We know everyone personally and can make out who wrote a given piece of code. I think communication must be easier with fewer people. I can't imagine having 500 people committing into my project!
Seems silly, that often its 40% of the market that companies are willing to leave to competitors for relatively tiny development costs.
The CPU itself doesn't, but the chipset does.

Amazon is a big enough customer that it wouldn't surprise me if they could get Intel to make special ME firmware with the features they want in it.

...which also means the ME exploits discussed recently here could lead to a whole lot more fun... ;-)
Personally I prefer uMatrix since that tool usually allows first party scripts be default (unless you configure otherwise), so most JS sites work on a basic level.
You could wire this up with a Lambda middleware function: S3 -> Lambda -> AMQ
Thanks! It's also disappointing that something as simple (functionally) as this cannot yet be implemented through WebExtensions. I really hope they beef up the API soon...
Could you please elaborate on your theory that it would benefit from NN repeal? I disagree but wish to understand your stance better.
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I know that one of the major power companies in Germany works on chargers for electric cars based on Ethereum; send x ether to the smart contact and the charging station will let you charge your car accordingly.
This doesn’t make any sense. Kid wakes up at 7:00, you have 1 hour for breakfast and to get ready for school/work. Then you’re back home at 6:00 and you’ll have another hour for dinner and getting your kid ready for bed. So this leaves about 30 minutes to spend time playing with your kid on an average weekday.
Asking for stuff requires no talent, vision, discipline or effort whatsoever. Pretty much anyone can do it. If you don't actually deliver, you don't actually matter.
How you are different from ton of such other websites?
Education itself has huge vale: anyone willing to do CS degree is pretty much guaranteed $100k+ salary. In Europe you can get the degree for free / peanuts. Paying for "brand" offers no additional measurable skills / knowledge, it buys you prestige.

What you refer to as "access to network" is mostly cronyism. Paying Harvard fees is essentially buying into the right group of people (rich & powerful) who are vested into this cycle of elite recycling via hiring only "insiders" for best roles. I can't speak for US, but in UK it's been proven this happens a lot.
Real estate. Rental units are a great passive income
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Lightroom presets come to my mind.
I'd agree with this. I would be more likely to allow ads, particularly on sites I want to support, if I could have assurances that those ads aren't harvesting every available datapoint they can. Make ads dumb again.
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Well you could look at Rhine which is Clojure inspired on LLVM. https://github.com/artagnon/rhine-ml

Personally I still love Racket and think that is the LISP of the future. Racket's number one enemy is it is fun and so everyone likes come up with their own solution. Here is one binding to LLVM from 6 years ago.

https://github.com/endobson/racket-llvm
You can, but that doesn't mean that it's going to be a cake walk. Just because you are trying to rent out a property doesn't mean it will be rented out.

That's all I was getting at in my poorly constructed reply.
I really recommend reading the whitepaper. It not only explains Ethereum very well, it also contains the best explanation of Bitcoin I have ever read.

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/White-Paper
Selling music is also often mentioned.
This is somewhat moot as (a) I think most React devs don't do this, and (b) if they do, the resulting page may still not be very useful.

However, any React developer worth their salt (probably still a minority, as mentioned above) should be using ReactDOMServer which will render the page fine without browser JS being enabled.
Technically you can host the scanner yourself by running it as a Lambda function, but we don't have a full featured AMI/self hosted installation with the dashboard and other components at this point. We have done support-only deals in the past where we'll support your use of the open source scans, but full disclosure, you'd be missing out on a lot of the UI and API pieces that the SaaS has. Other companies have taken the open source part and run it entirely on their own with their own added tools, so it is possible. Happy to answer more questions or you can reach out to support@cloudsploit.com and we can discuss the options if you're interested in going that route.
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YouTube censored name of russian opposition leader
Updated YouTube android app returns 500 error for users in Russia, if they try to input name “navalnyi”. Alexey Navalnyi is the leader of russian opposition, person who continuously reveals crimes of Putin and his friends.

Main issue here - old YouTube app works just fine, so filtering is implemented inside the app, not in the network.

It means somebody in YouTube or Google wants to support Putin in his censorship. It’s really awful.

Link to discussion in russian language: https://twitter.com/navalny/status/935818087785476098

Update: added note about user location
Large appliances like washers and dryers use brushless motors, although the newer ones are likely to be inverter/VFD-based instead of the older induction type, where the control electronics will fail long before the motor itself wears out (bearings etc.)

(Search YouTube for "vintage induction motor" and you'll find plenty of century-old(!) examples still in good running condition. I don't think the same can be said of the brushless motors today.)
> just type hey <person's name>

> ...

> To invoke that just type hey graph

Boss: meet your new coworker, "graph".

Oh no.
only in it for the food.

Reproduction.

Or, going one step further, universal optimization by means of more efficient use of energy. The end game is the heat death of the universe (maximum entropy, no more energy differentials), after all ;)
I have a service for text analytics (tagtog.net). We have worked for example with patent lawyers to search older patents that could be relevant for litigations. These users need to have a perfect description of how we came up with results, as in a detailed list of keywords or synonyms used. I could assume the same level of accountability is needed for many other fields, most importantly medicine. We somehow need to turn our black boxes into white boxes.
First mover advantage. The Bitcoin paper and idea are world famous and while nowadays everyone has read/heard and is talking about Bitcoin, almost no one knows about other cryptocurrencies. Also I suppose the community is much larger and there are more miners.
The lock-in is Messages, at least for a lot of people.
Scale API is hiring engineers to build human perception as a service
On ethereum.org there are several tutorials, including making your own token and doing a crowdsale.

The Solidity docs have tutorials for voting and auctions: https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/develop/solidity-by-examp...

And I've got various simple ideas with code at my blog: http://www.blunderingcode.com/
I just had a look to see how to build an android app to make a hot/cold beacon finder and where to buy beacons.

You know what? I'm already bored. And that's before I've started trying to install eclipse and what sdks I need and whether to use kotlin and how to setup the right things.

I mean, I found the google docs and one of the first steps is

> Request an OAuth 2.0 Client ID

Great, going to get some young kids excited by explaining what oauth is and how to log into the google developers console.

Next up, what XML you need to know to create an interface and add what threads are and ...

Or:

https://makecode.microbit.org/projects/hot-or-cold

Done.
This is indeed a bad black mark on Apple. With all the money they have, it's terrible that they let this one slip by.

I'm still on 10.12 Sierra. Long ago I stopped major updating when those releases were new. I learned to wait months or many months for bugs to be dealt with and for older software to be updated to be compatible with the new release. High Sierra provides nothing critical that Sierra does not provide, and thus, I am happy in my position as late adopter.
But then they come back and try to say that the Russians are trying to tell them the truth, but the information is getting suppressed before it gets to them (after all, how many of them have personally spoke with a leader in a foreign government, and if so, how do they know that the person they spoke to wasn't a fake planted by the "establishment"?)

I still think that this movement is a big gag, that 99% of the members are in on (something like the Church of the SubGenius).
Athenian democracy also frankly looks pretty different from direct democracy as is being proposed in this thread since it was made possible by the existence of slaves who did not participate. The Greeks were wise (or I guess we should say the ones whose writings we still read) but they were humans and products of their time.
My point was, it seems odd for a company to have a rule like that but also encourage manually SSHing into servers. That manual administration is already a code smell, in that it’s an I mplicit rejection of immutable infrastructure. So it’s funny that the same company would forego immutable infrastructure while disallowing any installation of packages on the server. Either go all the way or not.
That's kinda what saving as build.sh is for.

IMO tmux is much cooler when you do stuff like running commands in or sending text to a different window. Check out entr(1) for some sweet use cases that are much more fun than the hooks. That vimdiff thing ... I used it a few months ago when trying to replicate some complicated rollup.js compiler output options. Awesome, even though I own Kaleidoscope.

http://entrproject.org/
I wonder if you have seen the OpenHFT project written in pure Java for high frequency trading (https://github.com/OpenHFT). Would 175 _million_ trading transactions per second on modest hardware be considered good enough? Check out the Chronicle log in the same project, that persists tens of millions of records on disk.

All it takes is a basic understanding of cache architecture and of generational GC, and simple data structures.
I don't know. I can search him just fine on youtube website.