skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overwhelmingly what companies do with tax cuts is stock buy backs, not hiring. When all companies are treated the same, they make decisions to hire regardless of the tax rate. And by the way, payroll is tax deductible. The salary is way way way bigger of a cost than the tax on that salary, most of which is paid by the employee.
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Ah that's smart. I usually would just read the outputs of my script the opposite way (So find the "min" number of search results, etc.)
That's not true, there's a handful of people that now want to call it BCash just because it annoys Roger Ver. People in /r/btc that support it. Just because they want to annoy Roger Ver does not mean that they aren't a part of the community anymore and it doesn't mean that they oppose it.

But as it were I'm not suggesting that the majority are calling it anything other than "Bitcoin Cash" for months now. I'm just pointing out that when Bitcoin ABC was new members of /r/btc were pointing out how that name was confusing and that is where BitCash and BCash were originally coined. Go to /r/btc and look at the posts from back then if you don't believe me, people were posting about coming up with a better name. Those posts weren't just some Bitcoin Project conspiracy, they were from members of the community that wanted a better name. Personally, I don't care what they want to do. They are free to come up with whatever cryptocurrency floats their boat and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. However, the fact that it annoys Roger Ver makes me really want to refer to it as BCash.
Yeah, but Apple solved the NeXTStep problem by buying NeXT and discontinuing Next step for commodity hardware. While it revived Apple, it also neutralized any serious threat NeXTStep might have posed to Microsoft.
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Kind of hacky, but I'm using the shell "screencapture" command and setting the coordinates to the spot on the computer screen where I put the quicktime screen mirroring window
The FH looks svelte in comparison.

What's that beast on the right side?
Title is very misleading. These are "pretend" courtrooms. No data from actual legal proceedings.

From the article: This was based on evaluations of 104 mock courtroom videos featuring actors instructed to be either deceptive or truthful.
Why would the miners mine Bitcoin in the first place if there was no incentive?

Once the mining stops, they make money by transaction fees.

Do you expect people to work for free?
New Technology Seeks to Eliminate Dropped Calls
How long do batteries last on these kinda circuits?

Also, is there such a thing as a low power trigger that can turn on a device that consumes more power? I guess I could google that up.
bitcoin is not making an iphone, there are no fundamentals. But what you describe is still gambling.
For small teams, the ability for people to jump into a conversation which began without them can have value.

If you are a 6-person team, and when two engineers say "Hey, we'll probably need a design for this", the designer can hear this (if not in deep concentration) and join the conversation without any slack messages needed. This sort of 'free triage' has some value, not sure if it's net advantage when accounting for distraction costs though.

Price is probably the clearest advantage: you can fit more people into an office without walls.
Damn it looked so good in the previews. I was really hoping it'd be good I really liked the original.
you can't use Blockstack storage on sites served over https at the moment

https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/631
I freakin' love it. I could write pages about each of the features I use and how applicable they are.

C++ is (literally) around a decade behind D, and takes the best features D already had... for ten years or longer. Better templates. Modules. Unit testing built in. Universal function call syntax. And tons more.

I use almost all of those features every day.

It's not perfect, there "are" flaws. But nothing horrific.

It's also "C++ + 1" so any C/C++/variant programmer can pick it up over a weekend.

I genuinely "enjoy" writing D code now instead of all the boilerplate C++ comes with. Things are progressing and eventually I'm going to release a game to Steam with D.
Sold out same as ADB. Use EFFs Privacy Badger[1]

[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
1,000 * 250,000 = 250,000,000
I often hear from well-off suburban Americans who have traveled in Europe how much they enjoy using the well-maintained transit systems in those countries, but not here in the US. Part of this no doubt is due to the fact that those European systems are more comprehensive and convenient.

But there is also the reality that those transit systems don't have to serve as temporary shelter for the homeless, since those countries deal with homelessness directly.

Americans' views on mass transit are tainted by the unfortunate (and incorrect) conflation of mass transit with our unaddressed social ills.
>> You could effectively work anywhere in any position, laying in a hammock, on a crowded train, at night in bed when inspiration hits

> have to be massively better than $1000 worth of monitors

Just read these two quotations, and you have the answer. Yes, high-resolution low-hassle googles would be massively better than 3-4 decent monitors for quite some people. At $500 for 2K resolution, that would be an instant hit.

I think that it's a convenient text input device that is missing from the picture. A lot of power users can't touch-type yet.

Another problem is the hassles: either cables or poor battery life. Bandwidth is important outside of gaming, too, else you'll hear the complaints about janky page scrolling instantly.
I found this more interesting and relevant:
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20ariely%20in%20pre...

What is the optimum level of wealth inequality? First they put together what most people think is a fair distribution of wealth, then have those people estimate what they think it actually is, and then compare it to the actual distribution of wealth. Most people have the right idea that wealth inequality is not optimal, but they're way way off on estimating how suboptimal it is.

This is a screen shot of one of the charts in the doc.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/EnpiKHzPzi7X2cGw/www.people....
You can ignore notifications from people you dont follow and some more manageability UI elements apparently.
Just stuff I've seen on Twitter, so it could all be fake, but things like military helicopters and convoys of humvee-style trucks.
The cost of launching something into low earth orbit is about 50K per pound (before spaceX) so I can imagine an interplanetary trajectory is quite a lot more. At this rate there are probably a lot of science projects that will never be funded, so if I had a less popular proposal I might take those odds.
This already exists, check out LicenseZero and Faircode.

The problem is this is against one of the criteria for a license to be approved by the Open Source Initiative, which states that the users are all treated equal regardless of the purpose for which they use the software, so you can't claim to be Open Source if you discriminate against businesses like this.

I was actually contemplating to use LicenseZero for AutoSpotting, my largest and most successful project that can save companies a lot of money, but I'm afraid this will discourage users and would slow down contributions.

So far I am playing with a dual license model somewhat similar to the way Redhat handles RHEL and Fedora. The software is open source under the MIT license, and anyone can use it from source if they are willing to compile it themselves.

In addition I am now offering evaluation nightly builds that expire after two months, and I am selling for a relatively small fee stable and well tested builds that I verified to be working well. I am also only actively offering support and trying to fix issues for these stable builds, the other builds are supported by the community on a best effort basis.

So far very few people were interested in the official builds, but the first evaluation builds will start to expire within a few days so I expect the number to grow.
As someone who has a ton of models in spreadsheets, this is a real game changer. So happy with how seamless they made this.
> At the time I was (coincidentally) using NeXTStep at work…

> I was fourteen

Wow. What's the story behind that?
So Elon Musk is rich and put on a pedestal as such but statements like this prove he's no less prone to talking out of his ass than the best of us. You for instance, this, "random stranger" sharing good and compelling ideas are exactly the reason I don't mind sharing public spaces. And I think you're right on the money, the reason people don't take the bus is because it is more convenient to drive.
In Mexico there's a service called, "collectivo", a private passenger van that picks commuters up from work and brings them to their neighborhood. I think this is in part the future of transit. The idea is to be somewhere when the crowd needs them.
The future I envision is one in which public transit takes advantage daily fluctuations of transit needs and the individual needs of its, "subscribers" in a convenient way. The tech is there, the algorithms are well-trodden, all that's missing is the enterprise making public transport, "more convenient."
I worked with WordPress professionally a bit. Personally, I hope to never have to touch it again.

WordPress is designed as a sort of self-hosted SquareSpace. Set it and forget it. The coding style follows this idea by being a huge pile of spaghetti code with no enforced software pattern. The plugins library, while extensive, also follows this philosophy by leaving everything up to the plugin developers. So you end up having a pile of noodles overridden randomly by an SEO plugin that overrides the WordPress dashboard with what I can only describe as a "professional" ransomware prompt if you let the mandatory support license lapse (mandatory being that the plugin is supposedly GPL'd, but impossible to use without a paid license key). And, on top of all this, since it's supposed to be like SquareSpace, the kinds of people who usually use WordPress are the kinds of people who know nothing about technology and constantly look for ways to get functionality cheaply.

As far as personal blogs go, Medium has been looking somewhat nice these days as a public diary of sorts. If you want more control over how your content is used, then you might want to consider either Jekyll or static HTML/CSS in a creative Apache setup.
Salesforce's problems on the way to a near perfect log pipeline
I accept them for a few messaging apps, where they're truly useful enough that it balances out the inconvenience of saying no to the many sites that have no business asking.

I think browsers would do well to let users whitelist some sites and pretend to all others that the capability isn't available.
I've only had a perspective from the point of view of smaller businesses, I admit, but 100% of the hiring there I've seen has been driven by expected or actual demand, not "oh look we have extra cash, let's hire some people".
You took my "port 20K LOC python code" to "take 70K LOC of mixed of Python and C and make it compatible with 2 and 3". That's an entirely different story, and is definitely the average project.
The First Men on the Moon, the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
It's amazing that trivia games are still so hot in mobile. They were very popular 10-15 years ago as well though running via premium SMS and scamy subscriptions
>If they combine these frameworks, it makes the design and maintenance of cross platform software a lot easier (it'll still be difficult)

You seem to say this with some confidence. Could you list the things you know for sure will still be difficult? At a basic level isn't the only fundamental, guaranteed cross-platform difference taps vs mouse clicks? What else is "guaranteed" to be difficult, no matter what they do?
Getting the best performance out of Amazon EFS
'You can bet that if (I mean when) Bit­coin de­flates, the loss is go­ing to be most­ly soaked up by the peo­ple who’ve bought in re­cent­ly, the 95%-plus of hold­ers who col­lec­tive­ly own less than 5% of BTC.' ... Can someone help me understand this? How can the 5% buy back 95% of the bitcoin if the 95% tries to cash out? The 95% can't cash out no?
I think the standard recommendation is
_The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_ by Thomas Kuhn

For something a little more current, the movie
_The Social Network_ was also pretty good at discussing technological changes. But the focus has to be on how the movie portray social interactions prior to Facebook (LiveJournal, IRL) and the change it has afterwards.
I've used D some, for small command-line utilities. It has some good features.

For anyone who wants to get an idea of what D is like, there are example programs on the dlang.org site. Rosetta Code will be another good site for examples.

Also, some of my D programs are online here (a few of the posts are not about D code per se, the others are):

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/search/label/DLang
If you had sane competition, maybe. But you don't, so they can do whatever they want and you'll pay for it unless you don't want internet at all.
Yeah, but we're definitely safe from an extinction level event.
I watched 11 minutes, I swear it felt like 30!
Interesting that the media went for this while his youtube video sits a just 10k views and 10 subscribers.

I bet those people that repackage the video as silent facebook feed video/slideshows got 10 million views.
It's a great trickle down effect, if you assume that they are honest about the net change from what they would have done otherwise, not concealing other changes, and assume it will be repeated forever as long as the cuts are in place.

I suspect that each and every one of those assumptions is false, though.
It seems that this project is a free and open-source inspiration of the BeOS rather than aiming to be a complete reimplementation of it. Just like what Linux was to UN*X and ReactOS was to Windows. But, judging from its recent progress: package management repos, 64 bit support and the recent software ports at ‘HaikuPorts[0]’, it seems to be already more advanced than BeOS was and already has a lot more software since its last official alpha release (5 years ago.)

But yeah a pretty interesting OS, but I’d wait for it’s so called ’beta’ when ever it arrives. I’d like to try this on a Raspberry Pi or another ARM board soon. If only it attracted more developers though.

PS. (Its actually 'Haiku' not 'Haiku OS' ;) )

[0] https://github.com/haikuports
The most famous picture of him is presumably not out of copyright...
Also a bit of a misanthrope, but I'd totally second this. I moved to Chicago from another Midwestern city that had no public transit a few years back, and I seriously sing the praises of the CTA to everyone. I have my share of gripes about city life, but on the whole, I love Chicago and I love public transit. I went from spending half an hour every morning and half an hour every evening in the boring-but-also-dangerous hell that is a car commute to spending that same time on a train. I usually listen to music in the morning and read in the evenings, and I've listened to more new albums and read more new books in the last few years than I have in any comparable period since college.
Ask HN: Feedback on offer from Amazon (AWS)
Hello community, I have received an offer from AWS that pays base $150k, $80k bonus over 2 years and 105 RSUs for cloud application architect (level 5). It seems to be around $235k/year assuming constant price of stocks over 4 years (vesting period). I am hoping for feedback from community if they can provide some knowledge as to whether i should take it or negotiate harder(they are hard to negotiate btw). Thank you
it's not a third party when it's the same person that made the browser. it's the same second party whose software you opted to use. there's no net neutrality issue here.
Is this at Oracle? :-)
Is this still considered alpha? Last I tried this on a dell laptop it would crash everytime I tried something really banal, I can't remember what. Like visit Google with the browser.
Hey! I just discovered Electrino from this thread and no wonder it grabbed a lot of interest! I didn't even consider the idea and now I want it.

I used to be a native dev (from when native meant desktop OS :P) and switched to web apps just for UI development convenience, then node-webkit came. I still use both nw.js and Electron (though I admit I kinda like nw.js more, IPC is a PITA) but, even though I love the development experience, I absolutely hate the end user experience.

Can you elaborate on why is Electrino a multi-year commitment? I guess I can see why if you meant Electrino as a drop-in replacement of Electron. Did you consider scaling down the features a bit? Just bundle a native webview + Node.js, add some kind of IPC and let userland do the rest.

Would this be achievable or am I missing something that makes it way harder than I imagine?

EDIT: After scanning my own comment I see why... the idea is to not bundle Node.js and instead use the native JS engine which does not include Node APIs nor leverages the NPM ecosystem.
Well, systemd was useful when you had 1000 start up systems on linux if you wanted the same easy one for all.

But indeed, now with systemd becoming ubiquitous, it's a better solution unless you target also windows.

But honestly, when I need something to handle my process, I just attach them to my crossbar.io instance since I have it running anyway. This way it's crossplatform and easy my deployment.
"perhaps it's an American English thing"

It's an American mental gymnastics thing. When we're not inventing euphemisms to obscure our purpose we use straightforward words like "ban".
> the idea is that if you can increase the wealth everyone benefits

This has been shown wrong since the trickle down economists trickled down on us all.
Border colour options would be nice... or just having a preset with yellow text with black borders.
Except they have a curated app store, so they can reject apps which do not have a good UI for both cases.
Don't forget that Disney really knows the power of public domain. Could you imagine if "Snow White" was allowed to enter the public domain? Anyone would be able to retell that story to their children without worrying about performing a copyrighted work in public without a licence!
That needs some pretty heavy proofreading + editing, so there definitely is typing required.
sounds like a mainframe
It's not a notification; you have to poke around in Settings.
One important thing about VR goggles is that they are literally for your eyes only. You can be shoulder to shoulder with other people, and be sure they can't eavesdrop.

This can be quite important in certain circumstances.
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
I have very strong feelings WRT the creator of ABP.

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The creator of ABP ("Wladimir"?) is a scammer, con man, and malware distributor.

He created an adblocking extension.

He then used the auto-update feature to update his extension to include "acceptable ads".

I was not warned about this. I discovered this accidentally after going into ABP settings.

"Acceptable ads" IS the antithesis of adblocking. Do you know the malware that masquerades as anti-virus software, etc., euphemistically called "potentially unwanted programs / PUP"? ABP is EXACTLY the same.

Vladimir gained my trust by providing an adblocking software. He then betrayed that trust.

He is a con man in my book.

/rant
We already know how this ends:

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/016/030/carll...
Let's not kid ourselves. No experimentation is needed to understand that such a policy would shift more of the tax burden onto the shoulders of the poor and away from the wealthy. If you want to advocate for that, knock yourself out, but it seems to me like it's manifestly unjust and it's unconscionable to conduct such an "experiment." The framing of science seems dishonest, especially when anyone can view your profile and see you are a fan of Austrian economics. I somehow doubt you'd be equally in the spirit of discovery of the "experiment" were a commune or large-scale nationalization of industries.
I'm not sure this is as pervasive as you suggest. I personally found the tube pretty terrible around heathrow and friends who studied abroad in various parts of europe complained about trains being late (Eurorail pass).

The fact is nothing will beat the appeal of point to point travel for the individual. In my experience it seems Europeans are, on average, more willing than Americans to sacrifice personal comforts for efficiency. I saw this in everything from elevator size to hotel room configuration, and even road layout.
That's one of the reasons that I'm actually a little excited for Moore's Law coming to an end. For years it has been more economical to program quickly and somewhat wastefully, leaving many people with slower computers behind. Now the economics are changing, and the competition will be in creating the most efficient software, to everyone's benefit.
Ignoring the ... quality issues of this post, looking at the statistics of wealth _is_ interesting.

The author points out a couple times the sub-optimal investment strategies apparent in this data, and reads into them under the assumption that the wealthy must have some trick of their sleeves and so their investment strategies must just go _beyond_ us mere mortals.

I don't concur. I think, rather, most everyone is financially naive. _Especially_ wealthy people. Why? Here's an example.

Doctors make a lot of money. And yet the vast majority of doctors are abysmal when it comes to A) running a business and B) managing money. And it makes sense, because doctors have to spend the vast majority of their young adult lives in school, and then the rest of their lives in a high stress, high demand work place. There's no time to pick up those skills.

There's no reason to suspect that anything different happens for the wealthy in America. You don't just acquire skill with money simply because you have or it, or earn a lot of it. Most of the super wealthy are people like actors, athletes, etc. None of them would have the time or inclination to be proficient in finance.

Even in the case of wealthy business people, aptitude in business does not necessarily translate into aptitude with money. It sounds a bit contradictory at first glance, but managing finances is actually one of the least important things when it comes to running a business. It's mostly an after thought. It's just that it tends to be salient and a common topic of discussion. Zuckerberg isn't wealthy because he's good with money. He's wealthy because he had a good business idea with good execution. It's why the CEO isn't a CFO.

In other words, at the very least I believe the wealthy are as illiterate when it comes to money as the average American. But more likely they're worse, because being successful tends to mean being hyper focused on one specific goal in exclusion of other things.

And don't forget, your ideas about what wealth looks like and how the wealthy live ... comes mostly from celebrities; people who build their business on appearances. So no wonder they want to portray an image of 1) extravagance and 2) aptitude.