skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not take into account the changes to pass-through entities which I still don't fully understand ...

When I say I don't fully understand them, what I mean is, it looks like they have changed pass-through entities into (effectively) negative pass through entities for up to 20% of before tax earnings ? And I think this is for "draw" or "dividend" income that you extract from the entity ?

So it's like santa claus came and gave me an enormous gift that I never even dreamed of asking for ?

There must be something I am missing here ...
I've got an entire city of people (Vancouver, BC) who are desperately waiting for Uber to come and save us from the ridiculous taxi situation in this city. Five more minutes? You're lucky. If you can get an Taxi in 2 hours downtown this month, you're lucky. If you can get a cab to drive you to a suburb, good luck. And we have plenty of people interested in driving for Uber when it comes here.

I welcome as much regulation as necessary to ensure that Uber is safe for consumers but beyond that I say let the tech industry come.
Gold real life use is a myth, around 10% of the demand, copper is much more valuable from this perspective.

When the US constitution was born, I don't know, democracy? BTC/BTH, ETC/ETH, crypto is even more democratic as the other side can go on their separate ways, as oposite to countries.
Have you looked into Foreign Earned Income Exclusion?

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

"If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude from income up to an amount of your foreign earnings that is adjusted annually for inflation ($92,900 for 2011, $95,100 for 2012, $97,600 for 2013, $99,200 for 2014 and $100,800 for 2015). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts."
I find it odd that I never see AdNauseum recommended. I switched from ABP a few months ago. Screws over trackers by making me appear interested in everything.

https://adnauseam.io/
DoorDash's secret to observability across platforms is requestID
I think it will open up additional customers. So perhaps Apple will build and launch a couple of imagery satellites to augment their maps effort, or something like the old Teledesic concept will be launched (SpaceX has suggested they would do that).

Given the lower costs of the re-usable platform one would hope we could effectively address some of the space junk issues.

But that isn't really "private space flight" where I imagine tourists flying up to Bigelow inflated habititats for a three day stay where couples can experiment with zero g sex after getting over their motion sickness issues. That market seems a bit fanciful yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
The End of the RNA World Is Near, Biochemists Argue
> One drawback of the CPS technique in C is its stack usage, especially because it is quite hard to understand at all what is going on, which makes it very hard to predict how much stack is used. Usually, I get SIGSEGV from pointer misuses (typically NULL), but in debugging this program, instead I got an infinite recursion causing SIGSEGV a couple of times.

I think the key missing drawback that isn't stated here is that even if you fix all of your logical bugs, then unless every function call is tail-call optimized by the compiler, then your parser isn't quite safe for untrusted regular expressions. e.g., A user could write `(((((...a...)))))`, and if you don't guard against it with some hard limit on nesting depth, then you're vulnerable to stack overflows. So let's say you implement nesting limits. What limit should be set? /shrug

This is why I write my regex parsers without recursion and instead use an explicit stack on the heap. It is then a bit easier to more robustly manage nesting limits.
It's almost like Google's talking out of both sides of its mouth: On one side, to sell through AMP, they talk through how much it benefits people with constrained/metered bandwidth (3G) as a worldwide concern, and then are just fine with auto-playing videos. For a company hyped up enough to peddle performance as a first-class citizen, this is a very questionable decision.
This is excellent, I was just talking to a colleague today about how ICOs could be autogenerated!
That's a really good point. I've had friends in the past show my their VR demo with multi screens, and it's been awesome. Of course, resolution is the barrier to it being usable.

There're other interesting areas for productivity improvements too, like better interfaces for human computer interaction
Economics also suggests that worker rights are crucial to a functioning economy.
We usually refer to the BIOS as a lower level than the OS.

It's also possible to bridge from a higher level to a lower level, typically when flashing your BIOS, chances are you're doing it from the OS (it's usually possible to do it at a lower level though).

In this case it looks like a kernel module that does exactly that has been enabled before being ready from prime time. Woups.
Before refrigeration and the steam engine fish prices would rise dramatically and quality decrease quickly as you move away from the ocean. Salting was done to preserve some types of fish, but this processing would add cost. As discussed elsewhere, people inland are the ones who would lack iodine in their diets and in those locations and I would guess fish would be the more expensive than meat in those locations. It would be interesting though to see a list of market prices for meat and fish from some inland city back then.
Not sure what city you live in, but the ad on the top of the cab is not "the light". I can't imagine a fare system that is not hooked directly to the actual "driver is available for a fare" light, i.e., once the fare is underway, the light switches off. Also, there are apps now in several cities to hail cabs, and some cab companies have their own apps (kind of like Uber, i.e., you can't hail a Lyft or Via via Uber, so why should there be a universal app to hail any cab -- but that would depend on your city and how cabs operate).
Those things are not related to inflation. Look at the CPI.
I've always thought that about pandas. They dont have a mating instinct and have a very difficult diet in terms of effort required per calorie.

And they're going out of business. Isn't that evolution?
Projectors can't block out the background entirely either, and they're in very wide use. We get around that by projecting onto flat, solid-color areas. As long as you understand that to use your "monitor", you need to be staring at a semi-smooth solid color area, it should work.

If I moved my monitor out of the way, I'd be staring at a white wall. That doesn't need to be completely blacked out before displaying something else unless I was working on photo/video editing or design work where colors actually mattered.
29 Insights I learned while interviewing Global Coworking Leaders – Part 1
Oh man the capital one redesign infuriates me so much. The "Account Summary" page which you land on after logging in has barely any info or links on it. You actually can't manage your account from that landing page, you have to click on the View More link inside the Recent Transactions box to get to a page that has any account services. You also need to click on their back buttons on the webpage to navigate backwards instead of using the browsers back button.
Are you implying that the more species in existance the better? If so why?
Did you ever search around for reviews on Edge? By most accounts - it sucks.

I'm sure you can find good reviews from shills, people with a low attention for detail or people with very basic needs. Even if you disagree with my thoughts on Edge reviews - the Edge browser market share speaks volumes: Nobody is using it.
The US government right now is waging a war against the commons. As such, it's pretty easy to predict that they will, with no fanfare or controversy, pass a law that enriches large corporations at the expense of everyone else.

Trump signing the Mickey Mouse Act of 2019 would be the least surprising thing about his presidency. Him not signing it is certainly possible (Even a broken clock is right twice a day), but it would be surprising and unexpected.
They can do opaque it seems. Quote from the rolling stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...

> Miller wanted to show me one other neat trick. He walked to the far end of the large room and asked me to launch Gimbal. The robot obediently appeared in the distance, floating next to Miller. Miller then walked into the same space as the robot and promptly disappeared. Well, mostly disappeared, I could still see his legs jutting out from the bottom of the robot.

> My first reaction was, “Of course that’s what happens.” But then I realized I was seeing a fictional thing created by Magic Leap technology completely obscure a real-world human being. My eyes were seeing two things existing in the same place and had decided that the creation, not the engineer, was the real thing and simply ignored Miller, at least that’s how Abovitz later explained it to me.
MDI was awesome, and split view was innovative. Especially once you mastered the shortcuts. You can compare it to splitting windows in Screen or Tmux.

Nowadays, we're in a different world though. Multiple monitors is pretty much default for web development on PCs (not laptops/ultrabooks/tablets/smartphones though). Although newer Android versions also contain splitview.
And it can be turned off. It's not a big deal at all. People are making mountains out of molehills.
Kuhhandel: play a boardgame using smartphones as controllers
According to this I'm saving quite a bit. This year. Next year, not so much. Year after that, even less. It's like if I offered you a job at a really nice starting salary, but decreasing over the next few years to even less than you make already. Apparently a lot of people are stupid enough to accept that deal, and the folks in DC are dishonest enough to offer it. That's even before we consider how things will look in ten more years, as the deficit interest piles up and everyone's earning power is less than it would have been with a healthier economy.
> he journalist in the Rolling Stone article

It's called PR.

Interesting that this came out in Rolling Stone and not another tech site. I obviously couldn't say for sure, but I don't see why it isn't implausible to think that they found a publication that was happy to roll over a few details in exchange for an exclusive dig.

> “We went on this really crazy sprint from basically October 2014 to December 2017,”

This is the part that startles me the most. 3 years of a "crazy sprint" with no revenues is extremely hard for companies to pull off. It leads to all sorts of problems internally and hiring decisions are usually rushed and lack direction. It's surprisingly much easier to do when you have paying customers, because you make decisions based on the market and not just your gut (Slack being a good example of this).
You can do a similar thing in any OS - delete the vast majority of your file system by running a command as root/administrator and ignoring warnings. FYI rm -rf no longer recurses upwards (. and ..) and hasn't done so for a very, very long time.

This problem is about breaking the BIOS in some way, something that you should not be able to do.
this probably removes the AMT if you're making < 500k individual or 1M married, which, for us, was huge last year.
Yeah, this doesn't include SS or Medicare taxes, just federal income taxes.
There are lots of companies working on AR/VR for productivity. Microsoft Hololens, All of the Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Meta, DAQRI (not so much for your description of productivity. eg word processing), and ODG. If you want a headset that has the best resolution, you should check out the Pimax (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimax8kvr/pimax-the-wor...). There are mixed reviews on the headset itself, but they have very high resolution (Pimax 8K VR) that's 4K per eye.
I am always hearing about people doing stuff in Research Triangle Park, not so much Charlotte. Ping me.
While it is working currently it certainly hasn't been the most stable road in the past. Don't forget about their funding issues https://community.ardour.org/node/8288 a few years back (not to mention how long it took to slowly build up a consistent crowd of subscribers).
Typically regex parsing isn't benchmarked thoroughly, so you probably won't get any solid answers to your query. The reason why it isn't benchmarked thoroughly is because it's generally fast enough, and is typically dwarfed by other aspects of the regex compilation phase. (Which in turn varies with the regex engine, and depends on how much analysis it does up front. Some do very little, some do a lot.)
use the smartphone in your pocket to click the link?
Bountysource being acquired by CanYa should give new life to the platform. Needed a kick and now it's got crypto roots so interested to see where this ends up
No, there's not.

It's something I was discussing with an accountant when these tax proposals were first being discussed. The accountant _would not accept_ what I was describing as their proposed pass-through treatment of income because it would be _ludicrous_.

Ultimately, though, that's what they did. I get a _huge_ tax break that I don't want and don't need, because we happened to structure our business as a partnership instead of an LLC.
In many (if not all EU countries) in order to be considered contractors they have to show there is no single entity that provides the contracts/money.

That prevents companies from hiring their own employees as contractors and avoiding paying social tax or ensuring annual vacation, etc.

As stated earlier Uber have been banned already in some EU countries altogether unless they choose to register as taxi business and comply with the local (country/municipality) regulations.
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In professional circles, sure, esp. where print or graphics were involved (aka 'desktop publishing' and up)

most new home PC's likely had 640x480 or maybe 800x600.

2-3 years later, and yes for sure.
I managed to brick my Asus N61JV-X2 by updating the bios using their official bios update software. (Specs if you're curious https://www.anandtech.com/show/2962/asus-n61j-x2-optimus-gt3... )

I also learned that backup bios chips were a thing but not usually available on a notebook PC
Predictive Analysis for Crypto: The spreadsheet that got me my first 1,000% gain
TL;DR: I created a spreadsheet that automates pulling trending cryptocurrencies, recent tweets, and bullish/bearish sentiment into Google Sheets. You can find it here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QtxaDWCoXkIqjPVVkU8DNsx8GBaBd180COwn1CIasa8/copy

I know some crypto users prefer to work in spreadsheets (including myself) so I created a spreadsheet that looks at trending symbols and estimates bullish/bearish sentiment. I never had the time to develop software engineering skills, but the recent launch of a few add-ins has allowed regular joes like myself to harness the power of APIs.

Original analysis performed here: https://medium.com/spreadstreet/financial-modeling-for-cryptocurrencies-the-spreadsheet-that-got-me-my-first-1-000-gain-f4d0d1a6e5ed
Why can’t the U.K. just leave? Say we are gone, we are not giving you any money, and unilaterally state a position on trade terms?

I realize this may sound naive, but I’m just curious.
Unifying the APIs that exist in slightly different versions on both platforms makes sense. But it's dangerous to talk like that frees you from having to design and implement separate user interfaces for handheld touchscreens and for desktops with keyboard+mouse.

I like the idea of getting a compiler error when you try to deploy a touchscreen UI to my MacBook Pro. I paid good money for that Retina display because I want to have a lot of information on screen. I don't want it wasted by 200px buttons.
Because gaming is quick money, and Serious Users won't bother with it till the gimmicky stigma is wiped away by a few years of "oh yeah, xR is just a thing that exists now" taking the shine of novelty off things.

Plus it seems to me that anything related to Productivity is just a sub-set of things you need for gaming, except that gaming prioritises a slick UI in the way that Serious Programs don't. See Second Life compared to other gaming focused 3d worlds.
You can probably hitchhike from a mountain in Europe, as most mountains are in remote or fairly remote areas.
I personally don't see a difference. They are putting a notice up that is trying to entice me to "buy" something. Why does it matter if it's from a 3rd party or not?
It seems like we are talking about different things. No one is arguing that there shouldn't be multiple map interfaces, but rather that if the data was shared, you could have more investment in the interesting parts.

I'm glad that Nvidia and AMD compete to build better graphics chips, I'm also very glad they both work with a shared, cooperative standard (PCI-E) so I can plug them into my computer. They've chosen to compete on some areas and cooperate in others.

The parents are suggesting, hey, wouldn't it be nice if _everyone_ contributed data to OSM, and then competed on providing the best interface on top of that, rather than constructing data moats. Is it realistic that Google would do this? Of course not. But if 10 companies are all constructing their own data completely independently, that's an awful lot of duplicated work that could be avoided.
"Uber" doesn't own the "workout equipment". Who are they in this analogy?
I am very confused by "Current Tax System You'd save $0" part. This makes no sense and reeks of snakeoil.

Then I looked up who created this calculator, and it's Maximm Lott, a writer for Fox News who's twitter retweets Republican talking points and is bending over backwards to sell this plan:

https://twitter.com/maximlott?lang=en

This propaganda has no business on HN. If you want a tax plan calculator, use the NYT's.
> the devil is in the details, and the FCC seems to have the power to write those details

The bill explicitly prohibits the FCC from writing rules fleshing out the details, and restricts the FCC to adjudicating specific cases (such adjudications are subject individually to review by the courts, so inasmuch as someone is empowered to define general standards, it's the course through case law, not the FCC, whose adjudications do not create binding precedent.)

The FCC is that of essentially a trial court, not a rulemakers, under this bill.
{Safari,Firefox,Chrome,Edge} !== 'the web'

These are just browsers.
Use the tax break to pay for increased healthcare costs!
I don't think you can donate to the IRS. You can do similar things, but none are quite the same as paying taxes.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...

Also, the problem is that the government now has to plan its budget based on the new tax plan. Even if I donate a few thousand extra, that won't stop a lot of important programs from getting cut, and it won't stop general inequality from increasing.
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Eh. People got over others using laptops in public places, which used to be a big annoyance. People got over other using smartphones in public, which used to be a big annoyance (man the backlash against Blackberry was huge). People will get over AR/VR once it becomes widespread.
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Both the side boosters on the F9H inaugural flight will be reused boosters. The center boosters are only able to fly on F9H but are planned to be reusable.

Here are both the landing videos of the side cores that will be flying on the F9H
https://youtu.be/4jEz03Z8azc
https://youtu.be/DKqY8sy3nkM?t=55s
Sigh, compare the trends in the last 17 years to the trends in the previous 17 years and the 17-year periods prior to that.

“Effectively dead” does not mean 0.0%
I have written checks to the United States Treasury in the past to better cover what I think my tax obligations _should_ be.

I have absolutely no faith in the current governance of the federal government, so I'll probably put my savings into a high yield savings account or a low-risk investment vehicle. When I again agree with the direction of the federal government, I'll pay this insane tax break back United States Treasury.
I think its increasingly disingenuous to refer to Edge as IE. IE11 only exists in Windows 10 because Edge hard forked enough that the majority of weird quirks only work in the zombie IE11. Any business switching the Windows 10 default browser to IE11 is definitely doing something wrong. Any consumer that opens IE11 even once is probably doing something wrong.
Subpoena?
Ah, so opt-out is suddenly totally OK.

A feature being able to be turned off is a plus, but default features not in the interest of the user are a minus. Especially not when users don't have an easy way to opt-out.

If users reasonably want to only opt-in such a feature, you as developer should implement it as such.
Thanks Sean, will look into Netlify. I am still looking forward to the views of wordpress users.
You're correct that you don't donate to the IRS, specifically. You can write a check to the "United States Treasury", however.

They will gladly cash your check.
The two side boosters on the FH demo flight are recycled from previous F9 missions. The central core is new and will be recovered. I do not think it’s possible to use the central FH core on an F9 mission, but it will be re-used for further FH missions.
Nobody was blocking people from installing Netscape on windows PCs AFAIK.
Now if only they'd cross reference location history, elevation maps and apply some rules like "don't send someone who usually searches for directions to stuff in SV down a steep dirt road with hairpins in Vermont in December when an alternate route that's 1min slower exists" or give me a checkbox that says "don't add extra steps to a route if the net gain from the step isn't large enough"

Edit: Now that I think about it "in $distance turn $direction onto $street just before/after the $business_located_there" or would be great because street signs are much harder read and identify at long distance or high speed would solve my most common problem with google maps.
Do you want to live in a world without any other living things? How many living things do you want? Is life less interesting if there are only two types of living beings?

I think that the world as we know it is valuable to us because we enjoy it, and nothing more. If we can't appreciate the beauty of life (most of us can't persist on the pure beauty of mathematics or conceptual analysis), what's the point?
I don't think it's that easy technically. The TV everywhere auth + stream limiting seems like a uniquely terrible problem to solve compared to the Netflix version.

The HBO 3rd party app streams + the xfinity app streams + the ESPN app streams + the USA Network app streams [ + 30 other channel-specific apps ] all have to report to a single central place for each cable provider, if you're going to do this effectively, right?
If I am reading your code correctly, I don't see full backtracking search. The CPS version should implement this (though I find their particular CPS style rather difficult to skim, so I'm not confident without running it).
The negotiations are mostly the UK trying to maintain some of the trade and immigration agreements they had while in the EU. They're welcome to just go "fuck you" and leave, but they will be absolutely destroyed by doing so.
The wisdom of polarized crowds [pdf]
Was the irony in your last paragraph intentional?
Because the EU could then reject those terms and not having a trade deal would be vastly more damaging to the UK than the EU.