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Mods / @dang / @sctb: I can't seem to edit the parent comment. When I made an edit, it cut off the end (about 1 sentence + 1 short paragraph). Now, no matter what I append in the edit, when I click submit it returns to the state above.

I'm telling you so that you are aware of a bug. This one comment isn't a big deal.
You can give your tax savings to your friends!
Hmmm... $8.99/mo childcare. Tempting.
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There's an enormous bureaucracy in play here, and you can't just turn it on a dime.

Also, what was the point of the tax bill if you expect everyone to just rearrange the deck chairs so they don't have to pay any new taxes?
No, it's not. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of that word. And you're really asking why we should focus and prepare citizens with higher education?
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It's not a sweetheart deal. US corporate tax rates are some of the highest in the entire world. It is just smart by Apple to ship capital off until it makes business sense. I suspect we are not going to agree about this though.
Audio signals were how the first wireless TV remotes worked [1]:

> In 1956, Robert Adler developed "Zenith Space Command", a wireless remote. It was mechanical and used ultrasound to change the channel and volume. When the user pushed a button on the remote control, it clicked and struck a bar, hence the term "clicker". Each bar emitted a different frequency and circuits in the television detected this sound. The invention of the transistor made possible cheaper electronic remotes that contained a piezoelectric crystal that was fed by an oscillating electric current at a frequency near or above the upper threshold of human hearing, though still audible to dogs. The receiver contained a microphone attached to a circuit that was tuned to the same frequency. Some problems with this method were that the receiver could be triggered accidentally by naturally occurring noises, and some people could hear the piercing ultrasonic signals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#Television_remo...
So we should expect grad students, that have no other source of income, to rely on $10-20K a year for rent, food, transportation, and everything else?
Thanks for doing this.

What about mortgage interest and property tax?

EDIT: I'm skeptical this is right. I'm in a high tax state, with high property and mortgage interest. Yet this shows me between 1% and 12% better off despite every report I've read and www.republicantaxcalculator.com showing me much, much worse off.
could you NOT wreck my browser's back-button please?
Pretty sure you're thinking of ANI.
She doesn't appear to say in the quote, but given the upcoming reference to his personality, that might be part of it.

Let's be clear: she can regret that he was an asshole to work with and it in no way reflects on his habits as a sex offender.
That's too bad. I loved using Final.

I know Privacy [0] is one possible alternative, but it's debit based rather than credit based like Final is, and they require linking a bank account by username and password, which AFAIK makes you entirely liable for any fraudulent activity for the account, so that's a non-starter for me. Anyone aware of any other services that provide virtual cards like these?

[0] https://privacy.com/

EDIT: just found out about Token [1], which seems similar. But the fact that it makes you enter your phone number to get a link to the app seems rather shady... I can't seem to find their app on the Play Store so I'm going to assume they're iOS only and skip it. Can anyone comment on their experience with the service?

[1] https://jointoken.com/#slide1
1) Why does the tax bill assume that treating waived tuition as income will raise revenue, then, if all universities will just switch to different accounting methods? Or is this one of the many parts of the tax bill that will actually increase the deficit but needs some kind of plausible cover until the buck can be passed?

2) "creative accounting" and "skim more money" are pretty ridiculous ways to describe how research grants work. It's a system like any other. Disrupting it for no particular reason is anything but conservative.
Is that still true? Now that exotic securities are looked down on, and the safe ones are established don't require Ph. D level research anymore?

Follow up: You are right of course about Wall Street. NY, there's no better place for a physicist that is tired of being broke. But, is the same true about other big cities? Chicago, LA, Houston, SF? Is there any chance? Or is NY Google, and Chicago is Bing at best?
I suppose both. But Netflix works fine.
This website literally just loads another page, IP address, over raw HTTP. There's no way in hell I would trust it in any way, shape, or form. You really should build your website better before showing it off.

Edit:
It looks like the page does not just load an iframe to an IP address any more. I'll take back what I said.
This site completely hoses the back button, and doesn't give any kind of future look, rendering it largely pointless and annoying.
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Can you get a $8.99 ticket without a subscription?

These models (subscribe and get 1/month free) are not that uncommon - e.g. Audible. Usually you get a cheaper price, since you're more likely to keep paying and are therefore more profitable overall. Here even more, due to potential spending on concessions.
Yes. I wish SQL select-statements put the select-clause last:

from people
where name = 'Joe'
select upper(name) as bigname

1. It would mirror the other clauses (insert, update, and delete) which all begin with the table name.

2. It would be easier on my head. I skip the select-clause anyway when reading SQL, then come back up to it at the end, when I know the columns' source.

3. It would show that using column aliases in the where-clause would fail (unless the database did some kind of two-pass processing).
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Great tool

If I can feature request, would love to see city/local taxes accounted for, especially with the SALT deduction removed.

Good work!!
How much would you pay for concessions if the theater didn't show movies because they didn't like the royalties? Or if they didn't show the movie you apparently want to see?
From the article:

"The average domestic ticket price (including matinee showings) reached a near record level of $8.93 in the quarter that ended in September, according to the National Assn. of Theatre Owners"
> Most other people making $20-30k (ones that aren’t privileged enough to be in grad school) will get a tax cut.

As will people with estates in the 11 plus million range, large corporations, and pass through entities. It's very easy to cherry pick to set one struggling group (grad students) against another (people making 20-30k), but that ignores who the primary beneficiaries of the bill are.
I'm having Google Reader flashbacks.
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If you see mathematics as a highly transferrable and broad intellectual skill (rather than a narrow profession), everybody hires mathematicians.

In software and computer science especially, mathematicians are likely to find a compelling place to apply and develop those skills.

I've often thought the skillset for mathematics and software engineer are isomorphic. Interestingly, there's a mathematical theorem showing that to be true for functional programming (Google Curry-Howard correspondence).

My observation and experience is that good mathematicians make great software developers. I believe Ryan Dahl dropped out of a PhD program for algebraic topology and made node.js as one of his first open source contributions.
>But the more 'real' the test is, the less of your own test it covers relative to all of the other external dependencies.

A strangely underappreciated facet of being a more 'real test' is that you catch more 'real' bugs.

>should your integration test actually make a (test) request to the real live service endpoints?

Ideally you should be able to run your integration test in a mode that mocks it and a mode that calls the real live service so that you can see problems in your code and (and avoid brittleness) and problems with the service, and distinguish them.
I don't think this is that extra-ordinary of a request. I work in FinTech, and we have routinely had large financial institutions who hire third-party companies in doing code audit and reviews. The key is the third-party companies who do this for their business.

I think the key for you is that it needs to be a third-party company that specializes in these types of code audits. I would NOT just hand over source code to the actual company.
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...sign. Isn't that the whole idea behind keeping methods short and classes high cohesion?

The simpler your unit of code is, the less useful your unit test becomes. By that definition, I reach the opposite conclusion as the author's.

The problem with unit tests is that they assume that most of the complexity lies in individual functions.

From my experience, most of the complexity and unpredictability of software lies in the wiring logic between components.

Most difficult software bugs are not the result of a function not working correctly - Most of the time, it is simply the result of a function not being used correctly... E.g. Someone make an incorrect assumpti
A lot of people use them as a sort of bookmark. I know people who unstar once they've used the project to do what they wanted with it. By that measure, more stars might just mean a project that's interesting sounding but impractical or difficult to actually make something with.
That’s not drastically different from the US, especially where gross is under $100k.
Sorry, I'm doing this while the new DNS info propagates to point it to a new server. My old server was too small and got crushed immediately. :(
This was my favorite Google Reader alternative, mainly for its simplicity. It never seemed to get a lot of attention beyond maintenance, but it worked for the most part. Anyone have recommendations for web based RSS readers?
Blog post: https://getfinal.com/company-news/2017/12/06/a-final-farewel...
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I don’t think it’s Riak. It just uses riak_core, which is a kind of distribution / sharding framework. Riak itself has new owners and is not going away.
But profit!
> Poverty line is usually defined as percentage of median income.

Not in the US. The main US measure is based on three times the cost established for a ”minimun food diet” in 1963, adjusted by the standard inflation measure (CPI-U) since then.
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(NOTE: did HN just break? It's cutting my comment in half when I try to submit/edit it...)

In general, we'd have to close the loop over hardware the way we did with software.

In software, you can write open-source code that depends only on other open-source code, and you write and distribute it with open-source tools. Trusting-trust-style attacks aside[0], everything on the software layer can be inspectable by anyone, and in principle you could read through all of the code and understand what's doing[1].

With hardware though, there pretty much isn't any usable open-source hardware stack that's a) fully open-source at every level, and b) verifiable. The latter is particularly damning, because chips are made in commercial factories you can't inspect, and the actual process is secret. (1/2)
Ah, my intent with the use of sophistication was more in the sense of being greatly worked on over time, and adapted based on real-world experience and the complexity of the environment in which it exists.

It was not my intent to suggest that the system itself would need to be greatly complex. Perhaps my use of the term was incorrect.
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That’s disingenuous and straw-man’y. Selective breeding consists of favoring individuals with desirable naturally occurring variations in characteristics. Outright genetic engineering consists of cobbling together genes of totally unrelated species - if not kingdoms - to make something invulnerable to otherwise toxic amounts of poisons to increase production yield.

I’ll keep my breeding any time thank you..
Only a small minority of lower class people ever go to grad school. Overwhelmingly, it’s a tax break that benefits the kids of upper middle class and wealthy families.
>>We are now raising a seed round of $1M, at a $12M cap.

Have you joined YC? If yes $12m cap can make sense. Otherwise, as other angel investors said, you need to reduce it to half, namely, $6m cap.
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Not necessarily. Movie tickets in San Francisco run about $14-18. I pay $9.95 for MoviePass, so even if I see a movie every 6-7 weeks, I still come out ahead.
That's because this only looks at income tax.

The tax bill is a boon for billionaires because of (1) estate tax repeal (house) and (2) corporate tax cuts that will benefit the capital class that holds corporate equity.
Bram Cohen just announced Chia, which is a solution based on proofs of space. Good summary here:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/chia-network-cryptocurrenc...
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> This in turn could be used to sell hyper-targeted ads such as ads for detergent that are timed precisely for when you are low on detergent.

I'm not really sure what the point of that would be?

Maybe my wife and I are in the minority, but we purchase exactly one brand of detergent, and we haven't switched in a very long time (that said, we switched to this detergent because it was less irritating to our skin than the other brand product we had been using).

We are pretty much the same with other products we buy on a regular basis; we don't brand hop unless there's a very good reason to, and sometimes we'll go out of our way to stick with a particular brand if we have to and can. We certainly don't do so because of advertisements (we don't watch television, and throw away the various adverts we get in the mail, and I only listen to NPR).

Maybe other people brand hop all the time because of a commercial they see. I'm not sure what to think about that, if that's the case
It is such a shame that _Adventures in Good Music_ is no longer syndicated on the radio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Haas#Adventures_in_Good_M...
Nice UI, not very useful / actionable in terms of actual insights.

We've had a couple of threads about Excel lately and the power/beauty of Excel is that it'll be butt ugly but someone with zero programming knowledge but extensive tax knowledge can build a model for you that'll give you great actionable insights with decently quick turnaround.
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/resources/faq/faq_public...

You can write a check payable to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, and, in the memo section, notate that it's a gift to reduce the debt held by the public. Mail your check to:

Attn Dept G
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
P. O. Box 2188
Parkersburg, WV 26106-2188
When I worked for a very large networking company, we wanted to bring in a small company's only product which would have been central to the day-to-day running of engineering. Because they were so small with so little track record, we wanted to make sure that we could get their source code should they ever go out of business.

I can't think of a good reason to require code inspection prior to purchase. Testing, measuring, and generally trying to break the code during evaluation seems fair game though.
Get clients to agree to pay net-30 is easy. Getting them to actually pay net-30 is much harder.
I have no idea if this is the case, but it could also be possible that the person you are replying to actually knows of the people listed. He might not be basing his observation on the names themselves.
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This is nonsense. The effective tax rate lands right in the middle of most OECD countries.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/actual-us-corporat...
Because the credits roll-over from month to month. So if you watch less than 12 movies a year, then this service will be ~$12 cheaper.
Another poster explained that their goal is to intermediate -- to get between moviegoers and movie theaters, and then charge theaters for access to moviegoers. This is how Google makes their AdWords money, for example, but the model is far older -- BBB, general contractors, etc.

You may remember this concept from the net neutrality debate!
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"imagine bitcoins become as widespread, and as desired, as USD. Now think about how many USD are in circulation compared to BTC."

The US money supply (M1) is $3.5 trillion. The maximum Bitcoin supply is 21 million BTC. $3.5 trillion / 21 million BTC = $166,000 / BTC.

1 BTC being worth seven figures USD would mean that the "Bitcoin money supply" was 10x the "USD money supply".
A lot of white collar professionals get 3-6 weeks of vacation. That parental leave is eye-popping though. I know a bunch of professional women who got 3-6 months, which I think is regarded here as pretty generous.

But my larger point stands: the average cost per worker for those benefits is only maybe 10% higher than the cost in the US for our reduced benefits. So why are salaries 50% lower?
1) If you are not employed then your website is effectively just a CV. If you do not have work to put on there tailor it to show your skills. You can add work as you come along.

2) contribute to open source stuff, find some freelance clients, write a blog about relevant topics and share your ideas and thoughts on design/development etc...

Have a look around at other portfolios of freelance web developers and see what they are doing :)
I don't know how it works in the US, but here that would include a lot of discounted tickets (students, seniors, promotions, etc). The average for a middle-aged adult going after work or on weekends would be much higher than the overall average.
My partner and I met with Google ATAP after emails and conversations.

Our experience if I was you is to be weary. Google just wanted to see our secret sauce and once revealed kick us to the curb.

They need to pay you or you walk away!
I'm guessing this covers just 2018/19 and not the lead up to 2027. A lot of these individual income tax cuts not permanent, and are set to expire in stages towards 2027. The bill is going through reconciliation with senate rules restricting deficits increases after 10 years (the bill is deficit financed to the tune of $1.5 trillion - which is insanity).

Pretty much the only permanent features of the bill are the corporate rate, the pass through shenanigans, removal of estate tax, and removal of a number of deductions such as SALT, etc... also sabotaging the ACA marketplaces by repealing the individual mandate.
> controlled by the FCC

I'm guessing this is a typo?
But let's be clear, US median household income is $59,039, so the $50K you cite is not actually "very little money" but rather a normal income for a household. Agreed that in reality, it is very little money when we take into account CoL, household debt, etc. This bill, combined with the ongoing burden of health care expenses, will continue to cripple the typical US household.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/business/economy/income-r...
Why is that the question? Gun control people always try to propose the hypothetical as a "voluntary buyback" rather than jackboots kicking doors down.
(2/2; cut in half because HN is doing weird things tonight.)

Until the day you can literally print[2] your own circuits from sand, using an open-source designed and manufactured electronics printer, you can't trust hardware without trusting people who manufactured it.

Ultimately, I doubt we'll ever be able to have 100% trust in any human-created system. The one thing we can do, though, is to structure our systems to maximize cost of a successful attack, trying to push it so high that the results are not worth the effort.

--

[0] - http://vxer.org/lib/pdf/Reflections%20on%20Trusting%20Trust....

[1] - it's obviously not true in practice, due to complexity, bugs, and finite lifespan of humans.

[2] - or "nanolathe", as we called it in the late 90s; cheers Total Annihilation fans!
Well, the rectified version will be finished at 11:30PM some long Friday night and passed at 11PM the same evening, so you really won't have much a chance to look at it beforehand.
License compliance is easily verified using 3rd party services like Black Duck.

You basically install a scanner on your machine, feed your sources into it, it hashes them line by line and sends hashes to the mothership for analysis. It then spits out the report that file X, line Y matches something in the open source package Z. At least that's how it worked a decade ago, when we had to do a pre-acquisition source code audit.
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OK great. And then is that Semantic UI?
Heck, if I go on Bargain Tuesday it's $5.75 and you get a free popcorn with each ticket. It's a really nice theatre too. Regular price is $9.50, but that's still not much more.
Are the theaters you list known for good films / good food / good seats?

A theater showing great classic films with great seats would be a nice change and as a 30-something, quite an affordable entertainment option.
Nice tool, but a lot of the market is being altered in a way that blows out these savings. For example, I run my business and my overall tax rate last year was 28%. However, when I account for healthcare premiums and hitting my out of pocket max, I was over 40%. According to the calculator, my tax burden is reduced slightly under the plan. That said, my health costs for next year went up 37% and I'm receiving worse coverage. As such, I will be at a net loss for 2018 and it looks like it will become worse in 2019 if the individual mandate is eliminated.

So, no, I don't expect a calculator to be perfect, but I can't help but stress how important the changes in healthcare costs for self-employed are under this plan.
The Cinemark on International Drive in Orlando is fantastic. Cheap prices and big comfy reserved seating. Can't comment on the food but the snacks and drinks are much lower priced than anywhere else I've been recently.
One of the theatres here in Canada has now started offering VR experiences. They have a lounge area with about 8 different experiences, with prices in the $12-15 range for 15 minutes. Gotta give them full marks for attempting something new.
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This would be a partial remote position and in office work located in Palo Alto, CA. Local candidates only at this time.

Initial duration is 6 months but could go longer as the team