skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it will cost them less, because the value of the mortgage interest deduction is baked into the price of the house. It'll also be more fair. The perverse thing about the mortgage interest deduction is that it benefits you more the more money you make.
The article responds to your argument. Might be a good idea to read it first.
I wish temporarily living in your car was more acceptable. I'd somewhat rather do that right now than have to hop between airbnb places while I'm looking for a real apartment by my new job. If I had a van or something I'd do it but it's just a normal car that would be too conspicuous.
Could you define "fiddly" in this context, please?
Man charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Katko over 'net neutrality'
I think if you view this through the lens of identity politics it makes a bit more sense why you're seeing such an attack on education and universities.

When climate denial and the rejection of basic science is one of the pillars of the party then this is a logical extension.
Yes. For the same reason you mentioned.
Yes, but those benefits should be paid for in a lower overall corporate tax rate. There's many flaws in the tax bill, but eliminating special interest tax deductions in favor of lower taxes for everyone who isn't a special interest isn't one of them. Unfortunately the tax bill includes many new special deductions for special interests like craft breweries, and people passing on multi-million dollar estates to their children.
An alternative view is that those people will no longer receive tax free benefits that the rest of us aren't getting.

I'm hoping they take things a step further and one day eliminate the health insurance deduction for corporations and count the cost as income for the employee. It's nonsense that a corporation can deduct it as an expense but an individual getting their own insurance can't. Sure you can set up a pass through entity but why should you have to?
AWS Re:Invent 2017 Recap: A Successful Day One
This might be juvenile, but is it only in British English that this name is funny ?
Tedious? How so? Because there is no more Python 2 vs 3 anymore. Whoever hasn't migrated will be stuck using deprecated libraries and outdated tools.

Yes, Python 3 was initially a risky endeavor, but in the past couple of years it has cemented its position as the true and only version of Python.
What+is+the+best+iRobot+Roomba+model?
They don't give it away for free. It's typically paid by someone.

For example, my graduate students are on NSF grants that I applied for. The grants pay the graduate students a stipend and health insurance costs, they pay my university the full cost of in-state tuition and fees, and they pay overhead on those costs. These are all budgeted for.
Fuast gives you a C++ program.
Because unlike an SSN, you never hand out your private key. Ever. Instead, you encrypt things with your private key, and whomever you are validating your key to looks up the public key, decrypts your message, and has their proof.

The public keys can be stolen all day long and they're the only part of the equation that needs to be stored anywhere long term. The private keys are just that; truly private, and ideally extremely difficult to steal.

Yes, there will need to be a public service to manage the public keys, and yes this will be able to be compromised in some dangerous ways, but not quite so dangerous as "Whoops, everyone's SSNs are lost, now any attacker can impersonate them because that's all they needed."
there was someone that had responded to you saying something mocking like "much less than 160k but say whatever makes you feel better" that deleted their comment between when i saw it and when i logged in so i'm replying to you so that that person burns a little inside: there's nothing more priceless than someone being not just wrong but 180 degrees wrong: http://fortune.com/2012/12/07/stanford-mba-price-tag-hits-18...
I guess, much like GIMP the name will stick.
> I'm also on 3-month long thread with an iTunes Adviser

In fact probably they already lost much more in support.
Hi, please don't insinuate someone has not read the article. This is against the rules. Please read the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Marginalizing education is good for anybody selling a story that denies the science & knowledge of the day.
I'm a manager of humans and systems - I can automate parts of my job, but long term planning and strategy are very much human domains.
If we take the extreme example of Kansas, which eliminated income tax on pass through entities, we'll see wealthy households structure their income through these entities as part of their tax planning. This did not grow the economy as expected and absolutely cratered the Kansas State budget and the ability for the state to provide services.

Kansas undid these tax cuts this year.

https://taxfoundation.org/kansas-pass-through-carve-out-nati...
> I am still contemplating whether I should mention it to my spouse. She knows about my diagnosis in college but not these intrusive thoughts.

That's a tough one. I'm going to step inand give my two cents, even though I'm not trained in this and don't have a huge amount of experience.

Don't share it unless you have a specific setting that allows it to be digested by her slowly, and with professional help to put it into context, and even then have a good reason for doing so. Sharing this with her puts her in the situation of needing to balance her understanding and love of her husband with her love and protectiveness of her children. It's her job to worry about the kids, so even if she's 99% sure there's absolutely no danger, that 1% is hard to accept as a parent. As long as you're sure the situation is safe, saving her from having to obsess over the possibility of those scenarios is doing you both a favor.

This of course presupposes that you aren't really a danger, as you've noted. So as long as you're sure of that, I keeping it to yourself is better for your both. I'm of course an untrained outsider looking in though, so take this for whatever it's worth.
>I would hate to live in a system that worked by the letter and just said "Well, can't touch him, he didn't TECHNICALLY break any laws...."

Your mindset is terrifying.
While I agree that there are a lot of structural problems with universities and the way funding is allocated, I disagree with the premise that beginning with taxing graduate students is the correct way to do it. Granted, as a current PhD. student at a University of California university, I have some skin in this game which colors my view-point, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

In particular, state schools have a lot less flexibility in terms of how we allocate funding to graduate students; our pay rates are set by California state law, and the salary of every single employee of the university is subject to public scrutiny [0]. We cannot simply dip into our endowments to correspondingly raise wages, since the amount which can be withdrawn each year is strictly capped as a portion of the total, to ensure the long-term growth of the fund (see [1], "Endowment Spending Policy").

It is true that colleges and universities have grown tremendously in their size and scope. This is a popular anecdote (and often repeated without data), but consider this: a university has become a mini-society in a lot of ways. Universities offer an unbelievable number of services and drive their own mini-economies. They are often among the largest employers in their area, even in thriving metropolitan centers [2]. They provide health insurance, mental health care, their own police forces, job-searching centers, support groups, etc. As our broader American society scales back its social services, universities are increasingly on the hook to provide these services to students.

I agree that universities have grown too large, and resent extremely large unnecessary salaries (for example for sports coaches), but I also acknowledge that such waste exists in any sufficiently large and complex system, and it is a constant and active process to limit its effects. Condemning the whole system on account of this seems like cutting off the nose to spite the face.

[0]: https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
[1]: http://www.ucop.edu/investment-office/_files/report/UC_Annua...
[2]: http://www.ucla.edu/about/facts-and-figures
The colleges and universities have become corporations that run on student loans and graduate student slave labor

I'm sympathetic to criticisms of universities but let's not overstate the case: slaves have no choice and grad students do. It's unwise to go to grad school in most disciplines (https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befo...) but people go of their own free will despite the fact that one hour on Google will return dozens of excellent reasons not to go.
To repeat my previous comment:

I've used Faust for a few months two years ago and I plan to use it again to write audio DSP apps. It's very powerful and expressive, and targeting many different systems/platforms is no problem. I have used generated C code on bare-metal ARM Cortex M4F platform, which is some distance away of original scope of Faust project. It was fairly easy to do. The documentation is also well written and comprehensive, it gives you very nice introduction into functional languages, time-domain DSP, as well as explanation of some common applications (pitch detector, panner...).

Two downsides I noticed (maybe they are fixed in the mean time?) are error messages and block composition. Because of the way Faust compiler works, error messages are long and not very meaningful. Some expressions are merged and simplified before error is triggered, so it's difficult correlate the expression in error output with your source code.

The other problem is that once you have the basic blocks and want to merge them into complex system, the syntax suddenly gets in your way. You have to introduce dummy wires in some blocks just to pass-through signal to its destination. The compiler can output graphical representation of code, but it would sometimes be much easier to use visual tool like the Simulink or LabView. Perhaps this is just tooling issue, but I found language syntax to be confusing and not scaling up properly.
A layman's question:

If DNA methylation happens while cuddling, would this always be a good thing for the baby (e.g. one of the parents has a genetic disease)?
Yes, the boolean group operations make many otherwise non-trivial problems remarkably easy. That's why I consider sets such a crucial feature.
What I've heard from my grandfather (referring to a close-by region in 1930's) was that the local pub owner ordered 12 bottles of beer each year, on Christmas. It was bought by wealthier villagers as a kind of Christmas treat.

The point being that any non-locally-produced food was basically a luxury item even decades after the period in question.
The overall lower tax rates are the biggest hand out to the boomers. They’re the ones with retirement accounts that only now begin to draw down at the lower overall rates.
In the United States, at least, the U.S. Postal Service is in a unique position to "pivot" to being an identity and "trust" provider. They already provide a physical-to-identity "mapping" service for the vast majority of Americans.
I'm a little confused about this. I can understand this in terms of college (i.e., no one pays the sticker price so the prices are elevated, etc.).

But for housing, especially in very competitive markets, I feel that things will prove different. Already, successful house purchases come in above the offering price (from what I've seen) in the Bay Area. Do you think the loss of mortgage interest deduction will lead sellers to decrease their asking prices?
Your contention is that it's only good for small sites. I'm saying it's good for any sized site as long as you actually know how to RTFD and program in Python.

Django is no different. Django falls apart spectacularly in the hands of people who can't program.
No, I think portability is definitely the worst thing. It's a communication tool. It's perfectly reasonable to want to run this on your Pi or your phone or in your browser or your IoT device of the week. And you can't because of an implementation choice.

I'm certainly not afraid of machine code, I actually get paid to write it. But this just isn't a good choice technically. Though it's impressive and like I said was surely a lot of fun and worth showing off.
By appropriately I don't mean as a hack around this law or for grant money but according to the value delivered to the students. Then it would be fair for students to pay the tax just like it's presumably fair to pay undergrad tuition. Although it would probably have to be deferred somehow.
> For example with certificates on a national card, like spain or estonia.

There is so much wrong with a national identity card. For example, who will pay for it? I don't want to pay for it. I don't want my taxes to pay for it. Even if you find some way to pay for it, I don't want it. What's next? Will you require me to carry a identity card on me at all times? "Random" cavity search for people walking down the road?
Corporations are enjoying record profits for years but wages have been stagnant since the 90s. The idea that when corporations receive more money they pass on a proportional value of benefits to their employees or customers is a laughable fiction. In fact, they will proudly say that this is a good thing, as their only responsibility is to the shareholder.
Sex isn't chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X and Y
But if you sell, you lose your grandfathered in deduction.. a supply cut that might cancel it demand cut
Pushing filament with a gear was never a good design; it was just something that hobbyists could build easily. Injection molding machines use a screw drive to push molten plastic. This new machine uses a scaled-down version of the injector screw of an injection molding machine.

Design and manufacture of injection molding screws is complicated but well understood.[1] They're not easy to machine, but that's what CNC mills and four-slide machines are for. It's like making a drill bit, something that's done industrially millions of times a day but is very tough for hobbyists.

I'd wanted to use a laser for heating in a 3D printer, but not to heat the plastic being deposited. The fundamental problem with filament-type 3D printers is that you're welding a hot thing to a cold thing. That never works very well. That's what causes cold solder joints and weak welds in metal. In 3D printing, it's why the bonds between layers are much weaker than the plastic's inherent tensile strength. I wanted to have a small laser (about 10W) aimed ahead of where the filament is being deposited, to heat up the material already placed. That way, both sides are hot as the weld occurs, which should yield a much better weld. This is what the heated build plate and heated build chamber designs are trying to accomplish, but they're not putting the heat the one place it's really needed.

As lasers in the 10W range become more affordable, this looks like a better idea. A few years ago, it was an insanely expensive idea, but now, you can get 10W for about $300.

[1] https://www.plasticsportalasia.net/wa/plasticsAP~zh_CN/funct...
Nice! Coincidentally I had my very first Django experience two weeks ago (and blogged about it [0]). It struck me as a very solid and clean and lean framework. But I do think there is somewhat of an entry barrier: you need to understand quite a few concepts, which if you do, would open up many more options besides Django. So it's not unique in that regard. However, I had trouble finding QUICK CRUD app solution i.e. here is my database, please make some forms for me. And Django: with the builtin admin/user mgmt, did exactly that.

[0] https://j11g.com/index.php/2017/11/23/django-in-10-minutes/
Yup, grass is getting greener :)

On the side note, glad to know that my small effort (I operate that site) is useful for people I highly respect.

I was very surprised when I saw it on HN front page today.
This is not OK. We do not talk about others like this here; it's uncivil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is the point of the tax bill: to punish blue states and the educated.

The removal of state income tax deductions; the cutting of mortgage interest deductions; and the removal of the graduate school tax break all point the same direction.

As for Scott's suggestion that maybe universities can not charge, I can't possibly see that flying with the IRS. If the students still get that valuable education, taking something that used to cost $30k or more, declaring it "free" while still delivering the thing, and telling the irs that therefore, tada! no taxes are due! is... very unlikely to work.

What we have is the removal of a specific tax break aimed at graduate school education in order to punish the educated.
> Students serve as cheap labor for tenured professors, where they produce no real new scientific understanding

No evidence for this whatsoever. Maybe your graduate experience wasn't great, but this is a very hyperbolic and inaccurate statement. Graduate education is what you put into it.
Yeah, I accidentally zoomed out and it's almost impossible to zoom in on Firefox on Mac
Django 3.0 will be out soon enough (Dec 2019). There's going to be a major version bump every two years.
You are confusing the idea of academia with the reality of it...
> Give your mum a call (you’re clearly young, so she’s likely alive)

This was unnecessary. Don't make attempts to map a person's opinion to their age. That's a first step towards implicitly invalidating their opinion because of their age, which isn't a substantive rebuttal.
>How do you map a public key to a person?

https://e-resident.gov.ee/
It's really important to have proper discussions around what you want to happen if you're incapacitated and need medical attention.

Do you want to be resuscitated? Do you want to be intubated and hook up to breathing machines? Do you want to be fed by tube? How long do you want to be in that state?

Most people avoid these discussions, putting their families into really difficult positions at times when things are hard enough.
It’s fine to say that people shouldn’t plan around tax situations, but that tax break has been thought to be untouchable for a long time now. I’m a millennial who bought last year so for me, this doesn’t sound very fair. Boomers got to take advantage of favorable tax write offs on their homes for decades; I’ll be able to get in on that for 2 years. 2.
Passing costs on to schools is just going to further raise tuition.
I think we should rename our mythical printer from "hologram" (which implies replay) to "quantum interference printer"
The common element in all of these relationships is ... ?
Shouting ‘pay your taxes,’ activists occupy Apple retail stores across France
ReMarkdown v3
I’ve convinced several die-hard no-global-warming enthusiasts that not only is there global warming, but that’s it anthropogenically caused. All such discussions start by listening. What you need to do is engage your father’s critical thinking by having him clearly articulate all of his ideas & logical deductions—and not arguing, or even discussing your opinion! Normally, people hold opinions rooted emotionally. Once you have them clearly think about what they’re feeling, you can then discover how to address their logic.

As a good way to practice this: there are actually a number great arguments for why the FCC shouldn’t be involved in regulating the internet. Discover these arguments & convince yourself they’re correct. Once you can do that, figure out why you think FCC regulation is better than those methods. Then, figure what you’re father’s argument is, and show him why FCC regulation is better than the alternative.
> As is typical in borderlines

This is a shocking personal attack and particularly painful to see here. You've followed it up with other things that are just as bad. This is not allowed on HN.

I've banned this account, mostly because you behaved so badly here, but also because you've engaged in flamewars and personal swipes in the past. We really don't want that kind of discussion on Hacker News. If you'd like to commit to using this site properly in the future—which means only posting scrupulously respectful remarks—you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask to be unbanned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mortgage

That's usually marketed to older people.
yes, but that entails an upper-bound... finite.
As a long time reader of science fiction, what has always drawn me to the genre more than characters or literary quality has been the concepts explored. To me, fiction is just a vehicle for serializing otherwise facinating ideas and philosophies that would be too boring to read a collection of papers about.

I have a certain minimum depth of character development that I look for to separate the pulp from works of more substance, but if I'm looking for that quality expressly, I seek it in other genres.

Many times I've leant out my favorite sci-fi to friends only to have it returned early because they couldn't keep up with the pace of concepts elaborated within.

Am I a stupider reader because I'm not overly concerned with a flawless execution of the same archetypal dramas being rehashed ad nauseum, or my friends for not having the patience to challenge themselves and absorb new ideas?

Many in the stem fields cite science fiction as being a motivating factor for pursuing their specialties, and fueling the ambitions of their research. Elon Musk, for example, has mentioned that The Foundation Trilogy by Issac Asimov was in his top eight works that influenced him the most - a series much criticized for it lack of character development and dimensionality.

For a study that places so high a premium on detecting emotions, motivations, and having a strong theory of mind, it ironically fails to consider the variations in the types of minds drawn to the genre in the first place.
In Mountain View, just off Castro street, AFAIK. Their name isn't even on the building. Super low-key. An external shot of the building was used in the show Silicon Valley as a stand-in for the Pied Pier office in season 2 or 3 (where Jack Barker is the CEO)
The government keeps a publicly available list of the public keys of the people in their jurisdiction. Even the government has no need to know the private keys of citizens. In a sense, a person's identity is the public key. You prove who you are to a third party by encrypting a challenge text provided by the third party. The only reason the government needs to be involved at all is to prevent a single person from having multiple identities, but with or without the government keeping track of the public keys, bank fraud is made exponentially more difficult, and has to be done on an one-by-one individual basis, rather than the situation today where a single hack exposes the credentials of millions.
How do you map a passport to something?

At least a public key can not be forged without my direct effort.
Would you please stop? Your comments in this thread do not reach the bar for civility on this site. If you want to admonish others about taking responsibility, you need to do the same for the effect of your own behavior here, which is clearly not helping the level of thoughtfulness and insight of this discussion thread.
Submitted many times, to very little discussion. Multiple sources, you may care to look at the stories from them all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15831290

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829715 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15829334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15828221 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15823925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15823925

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15821482 (1 comment - a spoiler)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15820538 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819652 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15819127 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15818693