skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that is what consumers are funding. There are a lot of compromises that decrease the longevity of the phone for a svelte sleek look. For instance phones made of metal and glass with no bezels that break on fall (phones are dropped a lot).

If consumers demanded replaceable batteries by only buying phones that had them, Apple would not be selling all these phones.
Maybe bike shares? I wish the cycle directions had an option if you have a bike or not and if not it will determine where the closest spots to get a bike share and go from there as opposed to walking/bus to the destination.
Thanks for posting this, I have been looking for just such a summary. I think I will be a significant beneficiary of this provision (as I currently understand it, anyway), but I agree with other commenters that I wish we could just make things simpler and more fair.

Over the last 10 years I have had experience with small business taxes, small business retirement plans, and various estate-tax avoidance schemes. The tax code is a joke. It rewards people who have the resources to game it, and it employs an entire class of people who specialize in doing just that. Its demoralizing, but while it exists, everyone has to play the game.

Edit: Also, that same site has an even more detailed summary of the deduction here:

https://evergreensmallbusiness.com/sec-199a-qualified-busine...
Why do you think that its the correct design choice? I never had a problem with all of my older phones that had replaceable batteries. Same with sim cards, we are saving so little space and they are now a lot fiddlier to handle and instead of one new size we have two. I don't see the benefit.
> Once tax reform is signed into law, AT&T* plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the United States in 2018 and pay a special $1,000 bonus to more than 200,000 AT&T U.S. employees — all union-represented, non-management and front-line managers. If the President signs the bill before Christmas, employees will receive the bonus over the holidays.

If you wonder why the tech industry seemingly has little political influence, despite having all the money, this is the reason. Money isn't the currency of politics, its jobs. AT&T and Alphabet spent about the same on lobbying last year (about $16 million). But AT&T can call up a red state or swing state Congressperson and say: "this issue is really important to us, and by the way, we've got 5,000 unionized workers in your district." Alphabet can't do that.
Well that's a completely different display system in that case. That would be more like pass-through rather than see-through. Currently the latency on pass-through is not anywhere close to ready from a processing standpoint.

That said, I am actually bullish on a really good pass-through system, nobody is working on it seriously though.
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Future actions do not excuse past ones. A right and a wrong don't cancel out, they both exist. I have noticed small improvements with the introduction of tipping and I'm sure it will get better, but that's not very hard to do from the starting point. Becoming not a shitty company doesn't make it any better to support anyone who possibly was a part of the old Uber. The damage is done. It's not likely the company fires everyone in the old Uber, and even if it does, the people who funded it still profit. That's not proper justice for the original actions that they still consistently avoid accountability on at all costs.

I don't want to skate over the moral grey area here because obviously improvement is better than not. But, you have to consider alternatives.

Let's rephrase the question: Why should anyone use Uber if Lyft is available and they can afford any small price difference, if any?
I can't say I'm entirely unsympathetic to the view. I'm concerned that after everything settles, the floor will be littered with the bodies of ad-dependent companies, many of them actually a net positive for society before their demise.

One of the bigger categories here is journalism. Newspapers made - in hindsight - a giant mistake when they bet on advertising instead of subscriptions. The house is already rapidly collapsing around them. I'd like them to get out before the place gets levelled, so to speak. Because functioning journalism is absolutely crucial to a democratic society.

There's also the fact that there's nothing inherently wrong with advertising per se. It's how it's done that truly matters. Respect for privacy and attention is crucial here.

It's a large set of problems, and it affects a tremendous number of people. Which is why I think it matters to question our motives for anything we do there - and hence my objection to "because I can". That's the same attitude that got us here.
That's not necessarily the case. When populations have adequate resources, they do not explode. Their birth rate falls. This has been seen repeatedly all over the world across myriad human cultures. Failure to account for it screwed Japan who banked on an infinitely growing population, is currently screwing South Korea for making the same mistake, and will screw the US (and probably most others) eventually.

The real danger is that with agriculture, unlike with nomadic tribes, if someone decides to dominate others in a region, the tribe can't just leave that person behind. A nomadic tribe goes over the next hill and leaves the jerk to be dominant over the weeds and sticks. An agricultural society just gets dominated.
I'd imagine another concern is waterproofing - Apple and other phone vendors have made major steps in this regard over the last few years.
The impression I got from the documentary film "The Social Network" was that they were already pretty well off even before the fb settlement.
Apple will replace the battery in an iPhone for $79. Lots of third parties will do it for less. You can buy the battery and required tools and do it yourself if you're handy with a screwdriver. It's not quite as easy as snapping the new one into place, but it's far from being non-replaceable.
Writer is all over the place, he goes on to say this:

Some users who have had older batteries replaced also said they’ve seen improved benchmarks after replacing their batteries. Well, yeah. Of course. As batteries age, they stop working as well. Period.

So is there a direct link between the age of the battery and CPU performance or not?
I was wondering the same thing : why do you need a 3rd party site/service to do this? If you're a software developer then setting up something to get donations via PayPal or Stripe is easy.
They got almost 2B$ of investment, I can't see why having 3 years of crazy sprint would be a problem.
> “We can’t comment until pending legal is resolved due to advice of council”

is a non-response of the best sort. It does absolutely nothing to dispel the presumption of guilt, though, and if anything, merely adds weight to the "you aren't responding because you're guilty" mindset.

As for “It’s not true, facts are X, Y, and Z.”, well, I'm Not A Lawyer. I presume that's a bit like a coach for a sports team giving a news conference to tell everyone which strategies and plays they're going to be making in the upcoming game. Facts can be disputed, procedural rules can get facts excluded, and so forth. Whether or not it is a "far better" strategy (weighing PR versus court battle) is too fuzzy for a lay person to judge accurately, I think.
90% confirm.

If your company earned $100k, and paid you $50k, you can deduct 20% of the 100k capped at 20% of your ordinary income ($50k), for a total deduction of $10k.
> So could you explain us why you pick ABP over uBlock?

He's not asking you to explain why you appreciate ABP.

He's asking you why you still use it.
> Bitcoin is as real as the USD

Not really. The USD is as real as the US government. If the US government collapses I'm not going to trust Bitcoin to save me.
Yes, it is a deduction of 20%.
To clarify, I was referring to /r/btc where I lurk from time to time. There were plenty of people bikeshedding over the name but Roger Ver is the only notable public figure who has thrown a temper tantrum over the name. Just because now everyone wants to claim that "BCash" is a propagation campaign just because Roger is hysterical over it doesn't mean that BCash wasn't coined in /r/btc back over the summer.
Which everybody before them said was impossible.
I found out about it when using Cappuccino -- on mac os x it would build much faster using jsc instead of narwhal. For about a week after that I tried writing shell scripts using the jsc shebang... but it ended up being a lot more painful than I imagined.
Interesting - of these, I had only heard of the Hololens. Do you have a take on which, if any of these, are ready or nearly ready for regular use?
The display quality is equal or better: now that I'm used to OSM, I find it completely impossible to orient myself on Google Maps.

There is so much more information at a glance on OSM, whereas for Google you have to go to the highest zoom level to see all POIs. Smaller, local shops are often hidden by large chain brands that Google deems more important, and they don't show up until the shop's building almost covers your whole screen. Rather than showing the icon without a name, so you know what's there just not which specific brand, it just shows you nothing.

As for search... yeah that company owns search. I'm not surprised they excel at that one :)
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People aren't arguing against Conservative values though. They're arguing against the Republican party. How can you negotiate with a group of people that don't argue in good faith?

For example, the Democrats compromised on deficits. The Republicans insisted - deficits are important. Okay, we disagree. However, we'll respect some deficit rules to help keep it down. Okay.

Hey, Republicans have majority! First thing to do, massively increase deficits!

Let's now re-negotiate with that side?
They could win by anticipating battery degradation and designing the electronics to draw no more power than a reasonably aged battery can supply.
They can not look at the ads on the website, or go to the bathroom too. I don't have a problem with that. I have a problem with the argument that it's "because it's mine".
Silicon Valley: Welcome To The Gongsi Fong.
> They aren't user replaceable and that is 100% the correct design choice.

Why? Imagine that Apple sold batteries at cost, so people replaced the battery in their phone instead of throwing away the whole phone. The only loser would be Apple, since they sell fewer phones.

So for whom is it the correct design choice, Apple or its customers?
I don’t think certain benefits like healthcare and 401(k) accounts can be conferred that way if you’re W-2, but if you’re 1099 I see absolutely no reason not to.
I can’t remember a single phone with a replaceable battery that did not need tape to fix it after a year of usage... and I never bought a replacement battery.
Copyright is as much (if not more) about power and control as is is about anything else. It's one more hammer in their toolset to whack others on the head with.
I have a feeling the majority of that $1000 will be taken right back in higher health care costs and lost state & local deductions.
Also, it's regulated and overseen by a review board:

> "Now, a government panel will require that researchers show that their studies in this area are scientifically sound and that they will be done in a high-security lab."

It does sound like there are concerns. I'm glad that people are keeping their eyes on it. I found this quote interesting as well, regarding publishing the results of such research:

> “Physicists long ago learned to distinguish between what can be publicly available and what’s classified,” he added, referring to nuclear weapons research. “We want to keep some of this stuff on a need-to-know basis.”
Why is this 100% the correct design choice? People are capable of changing the batteries in their remote. They are capable of doing the same with batteries in phones.
Can we get a picture of the ceiling?
Another detailed summary of the pass-thru changes.
http://rsmus.com/what-we-do/services/tax/washington-national...
One of the benefits of non-replaceable batteries is they can make better use of the available space. For the same sized phone, they will always give a larger capacity over a swappable battery. While I agree there are downsides to glued in batteries there are upsides as well. Apple (and every other phone manufacturer pretty much) has made the decision that most phones get replaced in 3-4 years anyway so for the extra capacity it is worth the battery failing in 2.5-3 years.
And the Rolling Stones journalist is lying of course...
Guys, you are really shocking in trying to throw mud over magic leap in any way possible.
FB seem to have stopped using it, they no longer have active D projects on github
Would users want this? That seems like a huge step back for performance.
So as long as I tell you I'm screwing you over, it's okay?
This is what Apple does. They'll replace your battery for $79. Third parties will do it for a bit less. Doing it yourself requires a weird screwdriver and some other tools, but isn't terribly hard, and you can get a kit with a new battery and all the required tools for $25.
If you're 1099 you're already a pass-thru business.
I had the 15 minutes to spare. :)

The go calls as well as some other chatter feature prominently in the song Go! by Public Service Broadcasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI (The Louis La Roche remix is also great.) The whole album is spaceflight-sample-themed.
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I'm no expert, but from what I've seen, many people who are reading this should not get their hopes up.

If you're a software developer operating either as a sole proprietorship or as an S corporation, I don't think you'll get the deduction. (If you have an LLC, that doesn't mean anything to the IRS; it's treated either as a "disregarded entity", i.e. a sole proprietorship, or as an S or C corp if you've taken that election.)

See Steve's comment on the article from 12/19 at 2:48 PM, replying to someone asking whether developers and other IT professionals would get this break:

> The Sec. 199A statute references another older chunk of tax law, Sec 1202(e)(3)(A). It says this:

> “…any trade or business involving the performance of services in the fields of health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services, brokerage services, or any trade or business where the principal asset of such trade or business is the reputation or skill of 1 or more of its employees…”

> So computer/IT consulting pretty clearly fits within the “consulting” category.

> Also, if you’re a one person business, it seems pretty tricky to argue against the position that the principal asset of the business is the reputation or skill of the 1 employee doing the work.

I would appreciate correction if I'm misunderstanding this, as I certainly like tax deductions!
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"“She called the department wanting to get a tutor in philosophy. They said, ‘What field?’ She said, ‘Philosophy.’ They said, ‘Yeah, but what field?’ ” That’s a funny story to a philosophy wonk."

It's a bit of a pity that this viewpoint is the case, although one may argue it's inevitable (e.g. over specialization in today's world, etc. A similar case can be made for literary criticism perhaps.

I found this excellent discussion from the Phisophy Bites podcast on the perennial "What is Philosophy" question very helpful: http://philosophybites.libsyn.com/edward_craig_what_is_philo... (if you have 12 minutes 41 minutes please consider listening to this). Here Edward Craig (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Craig_(philosopher)) argues that all people engage in philosophical thinking part of their lives, it's not the domain of philosophers. He mentions the lamentable fact that recently a lot of focus has been placed on explaining arguments, terms, etc. rather than the arguments themselves.

Interestingly while enrollment in many majors in liberal arts education is decreasing (e.g. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/05/analysis-find...) philosophy enrollement seems to be increasing (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.htm...).
This looks super interesting, but is there api documentation some where? Is there a way for it to output a shell command directly or can it only print?
I think of cryptocurrency as a wild wild west of high risk investing (aka gambling). Companies like Coinbase is in the business of selling you wagons and oxen so you can participate if you wish. I think the real problem is that this became a gold rush, so too many people who don't know what they're doing are participating.
Until this tech is as "convenient" as ordinary spectacles it will remain niche
It will be interesting to see how this hits everyone in the Deb libre downstream - Parabola provides only Ice* currently. Could we even expect users to request that Iceweasel as a look sticks around, for consistency?
On the Musk calendar, I think 2018 is 11/1/18 - 11/1/19.
Would you rather the N of yacht builders' children get good education or the n (where n <<< N) children of wealthy parents get good education? Your argument is foolish.
Thanks for this perspective. I've always wondered why the US tech giants, seemingly flush with more cash than most don't have more influence over policy.
completely agree with this sentiment.

I've often wished a test city/state would be allowed to just do a flat tax and completely remove all tax code and see what happens.

Obviously the convolutedness is a barrier to entry to small startups and a unfair advantage for established market entities.

Also I'd love to see an experiment on a zero tax law that basically amounted to no taxes unless the business/person earned a net profit of something deemed reasonable (say 30-50k in a modern society).

Why our societies constantly try to suffocate individuals trying to innovate and create value for his fellow members of society is beyond me.
I loved my 3DO, even though I was the only one with it I ever saw.
that doesn't make sense.

HN is pro Lyft but also pro cab?

I just think HN doesn't like Uber
AFAIK most apps use WebView. I use Firefox as default browser (even disabled Chrome, not using it), and still see ads (that is w/o any of the other methods mentioned).

PWA was part of Firefox 58 AFAIK, so you either need Firefox Beta or wait till January.
The big unknown with this tax bill, is how the states will react. My adjusted gross income goes up substantially because of the elimination of the personal exemption, but my child tax credits offset this - but only at the federal level.

However, at the state level (in Minnesota), I get no child tax credits. This means I suddenly have a 10% increase in my AGI (with no corresponding increase in gross income to show for it) that will suddenly be taxable at the state level, because state taxes are keyed off of federal AGI.
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Here's your user-replaceable battery for iPhone. Make the device a wee bit thicker, but doubles up as a phone case, and then I can also glue things to the back of it. Been using it for a few months now, without issue.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DNEDQMS
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Check out [SimulaVR](https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula) which is trying to do EXACTLY THIS on the Linux platform. We're in need of developers and test users if anyone is interested in joining the fight.
"Well suited" doesn't necessarily mean "best suited". :)
Looks nifty, however I’m mostly always running my terminals either in full- or split screen. How would this work in these cases?
Does it work from within a tmux-session?

A neat feature would be a dialog (the tui cursors one) fallback, I.e. when working over SSH.
Does this change the incentives on how S-Corps structure salary versus distribution? Sometimes people keep salary low (but still "reasonable") and distributions high to limit FICA. Other times people inflate their salary (and keep distributions low) to be able to contribute more to 401k profit-matches and social security.

Since it's a pass-through, it seems like taxable income might be roughly the same either way, so maybe it doesn't impact the size of the deduction all that much. Has anyone thought through this?
Ah, good point I remember something about that bug a number of years back. Point being SegWit is designed to be compatible with old versions of Bitcoin. Bugs aside it's still a valid chain, old Bitcoin nodes just break on blocks that are considered valid by their own rules.
> In the reality of the web

I'm willing to concede that I assume a specific view of the nature of ad spots, but you're going to have to reeeeeeaaaaally stretch your argument to claim that this is the reality of the web. For the vast majority of people the browser is the renderer that happens to be customizable, not the arbiter of what is rendered, regardless of the browser's capability to decide.

Regardless, you don't have to accept the online advertising business model, even at a moral level, to acknowledge the shadiness of the other aspects of the practice that I pointed out.
Agreed. As a small business (pass through LLC) owner, I'm willing to pay just about any tax that's demanded of me as long as every one of my peers is subject to the exact same taxation. If the tax is so high that it puts me out of business, I want to know that every one of my competitors is out of business, too. If the tax is so high it forces me to close my physical shop and go online, I want to know my competitors are all closing their doors too. And if I'm making record profits, hey now I can focus on competing on the merits of my product.

But if I have to shut down while my competitors stay open just because they hired a better CPA? Especially as a small business? That's a problem for me. A much bigger problem than the tax rate being 22% instead of 21%.
A simple rule of thumb seems to be that if you work for the income don't bother becoming a pass thru.

If other people or real estate work to generate the income, go for it!
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Maybe they just remember the same arguments made about Google, FB, etc... and worry about the future?
The cockpit transcripts are really worth a read. When I first read them they were interesting, but then I realized they were open loop. Aldrin is reporting instrument values he would want to know if he were piloting the ship -- but he's not looking out the window!. Meanwhile Armstrong is looking down out the window steering, assuming that Aldrin is telling him what he needs and so is asking little.

Those guys really practiced and really knew each other well. What a team!

The transcripts: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11transscript_cm.htm

Also: I was a little kid and really excited by the moon landing, but couldn't appreciate how complicated it was. Later, as a teen, I figured it was pretty much pressing a button. But in my mid 30s I read these transcripts (and had an engineering education) and then saw a photo of Armstrong re-entering the command module after ascending from the moon. He was 37 at the time, about my age when I saw the photo. And the grin on his face... I'll never forget that.
Bitcoin isn't anonymous unless you're putting it through a tumbler or transferring it to monero/zcash.