skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No its that they are being pushed by companies to produce so quickly that they end up cutting corners and making obvious mistakes.

A stressed engineer waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under him is capable of just about anything.
but why should i install an os with a bad editor to order pizza?
A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer III
They sound misinformed. The 13 billion euros is not a fine, it's back taxes that the EU says Apple should have paid to Ireland.

Yes, this is relevant; Apple is not being punished¹, they're just being told to fulfill their obligations.

¹I'm not saying they should or shouldn't be.
In the US the difficulty (factoring in stress, disappointment, and costs) of various options for infertile partners in ascending order:

* IUI
* IVF
* IVF with egg donor
* IVF with donated embryo
* Surrogacy
* Adoption (direct, not foster)

Unfortunately "Why not adopt" is rarely the simplest option for most people.
That is the power of the Virtuous Circle that they have created for themselves. It shows the capacity for consumers to forgive, and where forgiveness is divine. This is in direct contrast to companies that have fucked up public trust, like Uber, Equifax, Comcast, etc where every single little thing is confirmation that they are the Devil Incarnate.
This link gives a little more background:

https://news.bitcoin.com/proposed-u-s-legislation-may-crimin...

> A ‘prepaid access device’ means an electronic device or vehicle, such as a card, plate, code, number, electronic serial number, mobile identification number, personal identification number, or other instrument, that provides a portal to funds or the value of funds that have been paid in advance and can be retrievable and transferable at some point in the future.

To me that seems pretty clear they're targeting cryptocurrencies held outside of exchanges.
It's not the same end result. There are huge psychological issues that can come up with being the genetic mother to your child but having someone else carry them for you. Then you also have to figure out how (if?) the surrogate is involved in the child's life at all, how you explain to the child that someone else birthed them, etc. If you ever find yourself favoring one child over another, you'll always wonder if it's because it's not "your" baby.

Basically, it's not as simple as just handing off an embryo to another person and 9 months later acting like nothing happened. There are huge ramifications to a decision like this that don't come with being the birth mother.
I don´t need to be either of that to see that a country should have an aspiration to provide a certain standard of living (water that is safe to drink, basic health care and lots alike) for everybody before landing things on the moon.

But India has a deeply fucked up society which gives a shit about people from "the bottom" of that society, so I am not really wondered that they do some publicity stunt instead of getting their country fixed.
Add Peletier elements to that, cooling the air to cool, heating the filament to print.
The presidential election is not the only one. Even if you live in a solid red or blue state, there are issues at lower levels of government that impact you more directly, and that you in turn can impact.
Your private bitcoin wallet (even in your home) is your bank.
10 awkward moments in math history
General question. Currently money laundering is illegal (concealing money gained from unlawful activity) [i] and the IRS already asks you specifically if you own assets [digital currency] [ii], so i am honestly curious what this would change. If you own bitcoin and are not disclosing this to the government [irs] of such assets you are already breaking federal law. This just adds charges? Or does this help fund the feds to form task forces? Lawyers I have consulted mention trusts to legally hide assets [iii]. help.

[i] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956
[ii] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-virtual-currency-guidance
[iii] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB912140808262492000
> Anyone not earning an income in the US gets 'free' healthcare and has for decades. It's anything but free, it's very expensive.

My impression was that the only way it's "free" is if you walk into an emergency room with no money. And the fact that uninsured people can only go to emergency rooms (routine issues fester and become serious) is in part what drives up the cost.

In places like Canada the wait times are atrocious due to triaging. If your problem is serious you will get looked at immediately. If it's not, you have to wait. And if you can afford it, you're still free to go to a private clinic. But it does seem like overall health outcomes and costs are better than the US.

So...yeah it's true calling it "free" healthcare is a bit of a misnomer but no one actually thinks it costs $0 to provide. Think of free healthcare like freeways: paid for by tax money for the public good, and occasionally you'll have to pay a nominal toll (co-pay or whatever).
Then we should give users a choice some how? You'd think this could be a solved issue ~20 years in.
Maybe "pizza-ordering complete" is the new Turing complete.
> At least they are teaching their students the ethics they need to succeed in the financial industry.

The US Financial sector probably employs 5 million people in this country. You are telling all those people are unethical as your comment implies? That is a bit biased.
For the uninitiated, Icaros Desktop (formerly VmwAROS) is a distribution of the AROS Research Operating System, which in turn is an open-source clone of AmigaOS 3.x. This is all explained in the post, but I thought I'd mention it in comments in case anybody pops in to gauge interest.
For me, completely outside the Python community, I really can't fathom how migrating to the next major version of the language can protract for so long...
And I have been in some painful migrations in my life...
Java 1.4 to 5 in a >1M loc "enterprise" application.
From an object oriented database to oracle in the same application.
But it didn't last for close to 10 years.
It's simply a complete nonsense to my eyes.
>The top 20% are paying 95% of all income taxes, that will continue.

You are comparing population with taxes, when you should be comparing wealth to taxes. Of course people in poverty with no tangible income or net worth don't pay income taxes. The wealthy in the US pay far, far less in taxes as a percentage of their wealth than any other developed nation in the world. In addition, the taxes paid by people in all civilized developed nations pay (either in part or in whole) for healthcare and education instead of bankrupting working citizens for basic needs. Working people in the United States pay far more in taxes and receive far less than any other developed nation - but at least we have our wars.
I doubt you could retire. Creating a justification for why your meatspace identity now has money from an anonymous source without tying those identities together is money laundering.
Behind the Scenes at Xerox Parc’s Futures Day – 40 Years Ago
Andy Weir (author of The Martian) has a new book coming out that explores tourism to the moon. He has done a ton of research on the topic, definitely worth checking out.

He was recently on StarTalk Radio [1] give it a listen

1. https://www.startalkradio.net/tag/andy-weir/
"the average voter doesn't have the time or knowledge to make decisions"

That's condescendent, and openly anti-democratic. The time argument is the worse of the two: "people don't bother with making decisions, so let's make decisions for them". Really?

"elected representative can spend 100% of their time ensuring they make the decision that benefits their constituents"... "could" instead of "can" would be more appropriate. That's an hypothesis.

"it's actually _really_ hard to write a law": to me it seems there are too many laws anyway, so let's make it easier. No prejudice? no law. Less freedom for the People? no law. How many laws would become obsolete?

"representative democracies as we see them implemented have serious issues": if representative democracies were working on those issues, we wouldn't have this discussion.

"Imagine if America was a direct democracy, the country would be a flaming wreck by now"...

America once was a flaming wreck... then a great country emerged. Sounds a lot like FUD.
> Aside from the trappings of fame itself, is there any precedent where a public official has been restricted from certain rights that they previously enjoyed in their private lives?

In many jurisdictions, the emails and texts and other communiques you make in the course of your job or subject to public records request. That's not the case if you have a private job.
To be fair, what did you think she was going to do with it? This shouldn’t be a surprise!
Really nice! Should force more people into python3 as a side effect which is great since python2 is getting close to its EOL.

Claps for the changelog, it's always a joy to read, I haven't really used Django in some years but could easily read and see the changes. The new URL formatting is a very good add-on, was always the thing that annoyed me the most.
Beg to disagree. If you have money in India you can get water supply. Even if you're located in a remote village with no plumbing, water trucks will deliver weekly and fill up your domestic water tank.

So...the analogy to healthcare in the US isn't too far off. If you have money and/or a good job you can get healthcare in the US and water in India (healthcare too).
I believe in general those using devices would always trade security for convenience and new, flashy features.
I hope that after a long day of coding one considers detaching from the screen to try cooking a healthy meal or enjoying food with friends, but FWIW there's a domino's api: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dominos
Or requirements to not keep data unless for a legitimate business purpose.
Ask HN: What technologies and programming paradigms are underused?
Some technologies and programming patters have been life altering to me. My list is probably quite mundane, so I'm wondering what technologies and programming patterns affected you most but are also lesser known or underused in your opinion?

Here is my list:

Technologies:

- BabelJS

- Kafka

- Graphql

- Rx

Patterns:

- Event Sourcing

- Effect Monad

- RAII + Object Pool
> to get one

Which you can only do after proving that you are who you say you are - which ultimately involves some (hackable) data.
As in the classic British "secretary" when it was a job for men named Hilary or Dana
You're making some impressive leaps of logic there.

1. If these people are so valuable then they should have no problem getting allocated more stipend money to cover the taxable tuition they receive. So, it's an accounting problem and nothing more.

2. WHAT IF INDEED. If you can point to a longitudinal study of folks that started a PhD program (or were accepted into one and didn't matriculate) but instead decided to go into private industry that's controlled for study area, I'm all ears.

3. An assertion like this without data to back it up is conjecture. I haven't seen any studies by any economists that support your argument.

If you want to argue that subsidizing graduate research is in the interest of the nation, fine. There are plenty of competing priorities here and we have to choose.

I can make a good argument that LOTS of individuals are underpaid relative to their contributions to the economy. We can start with primary school teachers and public safety workers.

I'd like to remind you that there are lots of groups out there looking for some tax break or government funding set-aside. You'll have to get in line.

The simple truth is: we're all contributing in some way to the economy and the growth of the nation. To single out one occupation or another is favoritism. I'm against using the tax code to incentivize behavior. I highly doubt most motivated individuals would forego graduate work if they're truly committed to research, no matter what the barriers.

Previous generations didn't have the kinds of opportunities that students enjoy today. We somehow managed to invent the microchip and land men on the moon. I highly doubt we need a tuition subsidy to continue that record.
My actual argument would be to do real usability testing to see whether either of the options (more animations; less animations) helps, on average, if made the default.

An analogy: the way we use capital letters in English helps to guide and reorient the eyes of people who are dyslexic. But English's capital letters also help in the same way—just to a lesser degree—the people who aren't dyslexic. It turns out that capital letters are just a good idea on average, like e.g. the wheelchair ramps built into sidewalk curbs.

Now, there are probably at least a few people in the world who can read English text better without capital letters for whatever strange reason. But if the average person can read better with them there, then it's better to enable them and make disabling them an option, rather than to disable them and make enabling them an option. The average person, not thinking of themselves as needing assistance, wouldn't look in the options for an "enable capital letters" option. And so the average person, who could have been helped by the assistance, would have QALY left on the table—and that's a large amount of QALY when multiplied by the number of "average" people, compared to the two groups that have specific, recognized problems that they'll know usually have solutions in options menus.
> "the IRS already asks you specifically if you own assets [digital currency] [ii]"

I don't see anywhere in [ii] where it specifically says that you have to disclose the mere ownership of personally-held bitcoins. That is just saying that you have treat bitcoin just like any other property.
When EmberJS was young, one of the early contributors tried to make statecharts first class in the framework.
Well $5k a month is a ludicrous idea because it's higher than the GDP per capita of the United States so is obviously unworkable. But I do think there is some merit to a lower amount such as $1k per month.

I fail to see how increasing corporate tax is going to result in a downward spiral of constant layoffs. An efficient organisation should only be keeping employees who generate more value than they cost, even if the taxes on the profits were 95% this equation doesn't change. If I should be fired at 50% tax, then I should also be fired at 20% tax.

>> I'm still waiting for the day for someone to explain how trickle up economics works. I have yet to hear a convincing argument/example of it working, ever. It just doesn't. When was the last time a poor person offered you a job?

Poor people buy things, buying things shows demand for a product which creates a job to satisfy that demand. Jeff Bezos, currently the richest man in the world, isn't given his wealth by someone richer than him, he is given it by providing a service to millions of people poorer than him.

By increasing the wealth of all people you increase demand across the board and create more wealth generating opportunities for more people.
Well, by that metaphor, Senators and the president should just ignore tweets they don’t like, same as mail and phone. That is different than returning mail to sender or blocking someone’s phone number.
> Requiring an ID has nothing to do with race. It turns out that the percentage of people that have an ID varies by race - and this makes requiring an ID a form of racial disenfranchisement?

Yes. The argument is pretty straightforward: explicitly mentioning race would be blatantly illegal, so legislators are targeting a variable that correlates with race and using that as a proxy instead. Old-school disenfranchisement laws did much the same thing, using the voting eligibility of one's grandfather as the condition for exemption from poll taxes, literacy tests, and so on (whence we get the term "grandfather clause").
Is that inflation adjusted?
For loops are the single biggest reason we still use Coffee Script. They're the most efficient and most compatible of the alternatives. The syntax of the loops is very clean and they all compile to simple "for( ; ; )" or "for( in )" loops.

And a few months ago that we considered moving to something else, Coffee Script 2 was released with all that was missing for us.
some of the code with highest return on investment that I've ever written were simple tmuxinator "dashboards" that were just wrappers around standard tools (curl/watch/figlet/etc).

Never discount the effect that dusting off some old CLI skills can have. Fast turnaround, easy to run on osx these days, and the kids think you're some kind of wizard.
Is there any right to keep your possessions private from the tax agency? Last time I checked, everyone had to specify everything of value owned, and sign for it, to calculate capital taxes due (I live in the EU). This includes BTC holdings. We have to trust the tax agency to keep tax data confidential.

It surprises me that the US needs to change laws to require this only now. I'd say the wording of the old laws were probably too specific, and after this change they probably still are. A public ruling by the tax agency should be enough to require this for new forms of value like digital currencies.
Thanks, this is exactly why I did open this thread.

The AmigaOS part particularly piques my interest: I used 1.2 and 1.3 on A500s, and 2.x on an A2000, I never used 3.x.
Exactly. It is an asset. So you only disclose when you sell?
Please name the phone that is in your opinion the best quality phone available, to calibrate this statement.
Full featured command line tool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J691aLfkWP0
But your identity IS tied to the address as soon as it is used in a physical transaction with youon camera.

That's the whole point. Know Your Customer and Anti Money Laundering is all about preventing anonymous online transactions where real world goods are bought.

So ultimately, how are you going to buy them? Send a homeless guy in to be on camera?
In STEM (perhaps!) but not in the humanities.
Yes Minister was a comedy show like HBO's Silicon Valley is a comedy show -- a farcical quasi-documentary

Yes, Minister was fed leaks from British government that became plotlines.
You can say that it's practically free given how much US spend for a non-free healthcare vs how much countries with universal healthcare spend.
That is quite interesting to hear from a woman.

Artificial wombs are coming. I was under the impression that women considered pregnancy as a burden which carries risks, is painful, causes all sorts of negative hormonal / physiological effects, etc.

I think that artificial wombs will initially be challenged by feminist and conservative groups, but will end up being accepted, first with wealthy Western women, but eventually by everyone else.

I have never considered that women might choose to carry a child, if they weren't required due to technological and scientific advances.
no idea what any of that is. Can you provide some context for all of that software and save me some time browsing google and Wikipedia?
I did it a couple of times. The pros are that you’re in a better position to sell to businesses. The cons are that the implementation can get a little bit tricky if you want to enable custom domains.
Currently, irs asks you if you have ownership on a foreign account, or finra or something asks you to declare money over 10k when you enter country. They also know your bank accounts by its centralized nature.

Now, if they ask you your wallets, not declaring could be considered unlawful if this bill passes.

Also technically, wince cryptocoins are commodities, or treated as such, you still need to declare them as a profit on tax forms. They didnt have a way to know so you could decide to not tell. You still can but the boundary gets blurry now - you can expect to be asked more about this during audits etc.
What does it mean to sell? People have already generated lots of taxable event when they started diversifying into other coins for example.
Yes, it is. So you'd need to retire somewhere pretty laid back.
If you're willing to carry two devices, is there a reason you can't just have a dedicated GarageBand controller device (an iPod Touch or an iPad would do), and then get whatever dumb old devices you like?
I don’t follow your logic. You want universal healthcare via a single payer solution (a political fantasy in the US for the foreseeable future) but until then you would prefer that millions more go without basic healthcare and that those who do buy it pay more for it?
Amazon Imagines a Lucrative Future in VR and AR Apps
"So you don't think the original decision by US authorities to deny entry to these children was political?"

Erm, where did I said that?

I think I made my point clear, that I don't like travel restrictions based on origin, but that I also don't like propaganda. But you seem to not really have read my post.
You don’t disclose assets to the IRS, only income. If you disclose your income and pay tax on it then convert it to BTC today you aren’t obliged to disclose it. In theory after you sell it you’d have a capital gain to disclose.
Ask HN: How will the 2018 Tax Plan impact startups and small businesses?
> I wait for the day this page exists:

> https://www.apple.com/paying_taxes/

Not quite what you mean, but there's this, just posted within the last month:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/11/the-facts-about-apple...
I enjoy having a well-structured framework that saves me time and does not need to be spoon-fed. But I have a theory that no programmer ever died from writing an import statement.
I was about to disagree, then realized that I agree with you. Going mainstream would make these currencies less usable (and possibly more targeted), and then what would we use for our weed?
As someone who asked the same question a few years back (and gladly received the answer: Python 2), I'd suggest you learn both.

Does not matter which language you start in, as long as you can write Python 2/3 compatible code. Perhaps starting with Python 2 (and the fantastic "LearnPythonTheHardWay") helps with this. You'll just have to unlearn a few Py2 warts like xrange and using print statements with ellipses.

You are not being progressive, nor doing your users a favor, if you go exclusively Python 3. Even if the language owners decided not to be backwards compatible, your code still can be (and, IMO, proudly should).

As you arrive to a point where you want to use Python 3 exclusive language features, you'll be at least advanced in Python enough, to form your own well-informed opinion on the matter. I myself don't feel like library support for Python 3 should be the deciding factor for a switch. That's like switching to exclusively designing for a certain browser version, because most websites render just fine, leaving users stuck on IE6 without accessible content.
Cryptocurrencies can be mixed. If you engage in very basic precautions, such as doing something easy like transferring your money to monero, and then back again, it is effectively impossible to track where your money came from.

Once you get to the coffee shop stage, nobody knows where that money came from.
my dad once won a local elected position with one write-in vote, and he wasn't the one who wrote his name in. It turned out one of his friends had written his name in.
Gopass – the team password manager
Monero could. Fungible, and private by design.
Seems improbable to happen right now; there isn't really a large amount of newly-added complexity. Compare to QA in the beginning of the iCloud Document Sync (Ubiquity) era, where every app and many parts of both iOS and macOS had new features: Ubiquity itself broke down frequently, but the QA and maintenance engineering going into it didn't seem to make anything else in those releases less solid.