skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRS Wealth Statistics Paint Fascinating Picture of Top One Percent
As a business we can assume you're bringing something to the table, that bests your competitors, is it the skill with which you've built your distribution chain? Your reputation for being able to move goods?

I don't see how that vague wording couldn't be expanded to cover everyone, it'd certain cover Trump with his self-professed "Brand Name Value" pretty much all he ever sells is his name.
Programming throwdown
http://www.programmingthrowdown.com
It's a really enjoyable podcast by 2 software engineers on a wide variety of high level programming topics.

This week in machine learning:
https://twimlai.com
Quality interviews with people using ML
I think a healthy step 0 for anyone is to get into the mindset that you're not "investing" into cryptos, you're speculating or gambling.
Maybe it's not a fair reading, but all I can see in commentary like Musk's is "I want to live in a city, except I don't, you know, actually want to live in a city. I want the part of living in a city that I find convenient, but not the rest of it. And that should totally be a thing that it's possible to do. I don't care if it works for anyone else. I care if it works for me."

Which, I mean, if that's your perspective on the matter, then sure, you do you. Reality, and other people, may choose to differ.
Any current workplace that doesn't currently spend $1000 per employee on good, large screens has already voted with their wallet (the most honest way of expressing a true opinion) that they definitely won't consider anything like this to be worth it.
First of all, this bill mainly helps those earning less than 315K per family < 157K for singles.

If you're making a big salary working for tech, your not as well off as you think. You may be earning x10 more than a the average "poor" person, but after income taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc, it's barely x5 to x6. And if google forces you to live on the penninsula, then your living costs are x5 to x10. I'm sure there are plenty of high tech working families in 150k to 250k range who are barely making ends meat. Those with kids will be especially hit hard: the exemption for those kids is now gone. Millenials in CA are being hit really hard with this housing crisis: the birth rate is at it's lowest it's ever been since the great depression in 1933.
Something like this but portable across Linux/Win/Mac would be pretty cool.
My only concern is North Korea.

They have a strong desire to match american machismo. They probably lack the funds to build novel biological weapons their own. They are extremely good at break into computer systems. Companies excel at ignoring their vulnerabilities until it is too late.
What's so terrible about Bay Area transit? I mean this genuinely since I've never been to San Francisco so I've never used it, and I'm wondering why it makes you think all American public transit is bad. I've used public transit in two North American cities, Chicago and Montreal, and they seemed to work fairly well, enough that I could kind of enjoy them if I wasn't in a rush (which typically I wasn't since these were vacations). Maybe they weren't as pretty as what I saw in Tokyo or Beijing, but they functioned fine and didn't seem terrible in the least.
I think part of the problem is that D isn't as good as Python for scientific/numerical computing, and that people doing Python for it will typically drop to C++ when they need that last boost.
Mont-Blanc Projects: the Sequel
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I take public transportation every day. I much prefer it over owning a vehicle, but you are correct. I would, however, encourage you to try public transportation in non-US cities. The US does a really piss-poor job of it, even in the most public-transit friendly cities. If we used other cities as the base-level, you'd probably like it a lot more.
To find out why transit isn't transporting 100% of the commuters, you can't look to the people who are using it - you need to ask the people who aren't. I think Musk's comments get to some important reasons why transit utilization isn't higher. If you simply sweep it under the rug and claim that transit's goal isn't to be appropriate for 100% of the people, you're throwing away an opportunity.
Ask HN: Anyone have experience with NetSuite ERP?
My company is thinking of implementing NetSuite. If you have experience working with the product as a developer, I'd like to know if you've had a good or bad experience customizing the product with your own scripts?
You might be interested in https://www.tapwithus.com/, although the typing speed seems to be a bit low.
See also: Exodus, Trezor

You can find more examples on google.
> "So could you explain us why you pick ABP over uBlock?"

On a philosophical level: I support the ABP strategy of "acceptable ads". I think it's a good way to legitimize the development of adblocking extensions. They also make it easy to disable those ads.

Technically: For a long time, ABP blocked more ads than uBlock. Maybe this is not as true today. For example: some adblockers didn't block ads in videos. I also appreciated the "Element Hiding Helper" extension (which has not been ported to webextensions). ABP was usually one step ahead of everyone else.

On performance: Firefox had ups and downs with regards to performance, and ABP was part of the problem. I remember reading a few blog posts from Firefox about the work they did to improve that. These days, I don't notice any difference, especially with Quantum/webextensions.
In terms of exploring a new planet, by the time people land on mars, the area they land on would have been explored by spacecraft and rovers in high detail.

In terms of shaping a planet the way we want, we can do that on earth, and more so if we figured out how to live without being dependent on other earth organisms.
The reality is that the information is valuable of itself, and that regulating the non-disclosure of information is impossible.

What you can request is transparency, that this should have been said long before and in a much more transparent manner.
Really cool project. I have some comments tho.

I don't quite understand what Connect is. Is it a cloud IDE or is it an add-on to sync your projects across existing clients on Mac or iOS. I think this wording confused me the most on the OSX client: "$9.99 + 6 month subscription* of Texpad Connect". I'd package it as: if you buy OSX client, you get 50% off from Connect for the next 6 months. Or even better, just give 3 month Connect for free with each license.

Also, I don't understand why you'd have to buy Mac and iOS licenses separately. Wouldn't it be nicer to use a single license across all of your devices?
Yes, it's wire fraud if intent can be proven. Relevant to this situation is 'electronic communication'...

> The elements of wire fraud under Section 1343 directly parallel those of the mail fraud statute, but require the use of an interstate telephone call or electronic communication made in furtherance of the scheme.

> essential elements of wire fraud are:

> (1) a scheme to defraud and

> (2) the use of, or causing the use of, interstate wire communications to execute the scheme)

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-941-18...
> Don't you mean "why it has not succeeded yet?"

No, OP got it right. D had a shot at success while C++'s standardization process remained stagnant, and D could pick up the slack as it wasn't bound by backward compatibility requirements or the need to update a standard. Once ISO 14882:2011 was approved and C++'s standardization effort gathered speed, D lost the only competitive advantage and lost its chance at relevance.
Colonies, Coinage, and Gold
Absolutely true, but that's also the case of most stock trading. If you're not buying a stock expecting dividends, but instead hoping to just sell it for more later, that's not much different than speculating on BTC.
AR is not VR. I think that VR will certainly enable all these behaviors, eventually. Except in a virtual space, instead of meat space. The behaviors and ideas Dynamicland are advocating should work just as well in both.

And while their points ring true for the current iterations of AR-as-personal-assistant, I don't see why a networked AR where everyone shares the same annotations would work any differently. Isn't that what their projectors are doing, after all?
My 7 year old Kodak Play Sport waterproof HD camera has a removable battery and has no problems being submerged at the bottom of a swimming pool. I'm confident that Apple could figure it out if they wanted to.
> The tokio-core crate provides the central event loop

Does it mean it only uses a single thread for IO notifications?

If yes, the performance won’t be exceptionally great, especially on servers with many CPU cores and fast network interfaces.

The underlying OS APIs (both epoll, kqueue and iocp) do support multithreaded asynchronous IO, so that’s not some platform limitation.
> It's possible that it's very difficult to engineer a virus that can do better than anything nature has come up with

A lot of the debate was started because 2 groups did so in 2011, independently of each other finding mutations that allow the deadly H5N1 virus to transmit via air[1][2]. One group also did work to model the chance of these mutations showing up in nature[3]. The techniques by which to do this are fairly well established. Knowledge of how to do it safely is fairly limited, as is access to animals in which to test these modifications.

* [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10831
* [2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6088/1534.long
* [3] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6088/1541.full
Nav Coin Launches NavPay – First Mobile Wallet to Send Private Transactions
The Transformation of Sexual-Harassment Law Will Be Double-Faced
DC has autonomous trains (in metro) until an accident happened and they switched to human conductors. Autonomous networked trains aren't new technology.
Elon Musk lives here, in Southern California, where the population is incredibly sprawled. Public transportation is almost useless here. Buses run late and are somewhat dangerous, trains do not cover much if any of the three counties, and most people drive cars.
Yeah, I've also heard that NS stands for "NeXT Software, Inc" vs "NeXT, Inc"
At this moment, I count the full ruling in 18 languages, including English, though that version is marked "Provisional text". Possibly working direct link: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...
Granted, everything about this is in constant flux but... I thought the child exemptions were back in and stronger than before?

Also, are you getting value out of living on the penninsula? If so, is it worth the cost you're paying? If not... move. There are plenty of companies outside of SV and now quite a few of the companies there have very flexible remote working options.

As for your 10x income being reduced to 6x, do you honestly feel justified making more than 2x as someone else? Why are you as a person worth twice any other person?
Their criticism wasn't of the law but of the undue influence of lobbyists in the American political system.
I'll withhold my judgement until they ship it.

Early reports (RoadToVR) say that the FOV is rather bad ("about the size of a VHS tape held at medium distance"). I'll wait.
Naked vs. amazing clothes. Note that those are the same topic, and conflict with each other.

But what you did was the equivalent of shouting someone down for not being the king. You weren't calling codezero wrong, you were saying they weren't in charge.

When they're merely reporting the policy, who cares if they're the one in charge?

Hell, the logic of "mock the guy for not being in charge" would apply even if they were also calling the king naked! That should show how flawed it is when compared to your actual goal of... being anti-tracking or something?
Yes, D picked the wrong default. That is just a minor annoyance though.

Add "@safe:" to the top of all source files. Check for that in your CI. You are safe now.

The advantage is that you ignore the issue initially. No fighting the type system like in Rust, but easy coding like in Python. Later, when you need your code to be reliable, add annotations and fix problems with compiler guidance.
You didn't answer the question. Is that life fulfilling? And is it so for most / all of the population?
Famously, Trump sent Germany a $370 billion bill on overdue defense payments. This story is unsurprising in that light.
It doesn't have to be selfishness.

Some of this kind of thinking could be attributed to simple ignorance, because his wealth and profile deprive him of routine exposure to what he is critiquing. As others have pointed out, this is why we shouldn't treat people like Musk as having omniscience on all topics.

In Musk's case, like most people as wealthy as him, he probably doesn't ever take mass transit. His impressions are drawn from a small sample of his own pre-wealth experiences, and also from the echo-chamber of similar people around him, who might have similar experiences, and therefore he focuses on, and emphasizes problems that stand out to him without the larger context of mass transit's benefits.
I like Matt Levine's take: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-30/bitcoin-f...

>The main question is: In one or five or 50 years, will everyone on earth want to use bitcoin, or a lot of people, or a few people, or nobody? There are no fundamentals, no cash flows or price-earnings ratios, to evaluate. It is pure speculation about speculation, a Keynesian beauty contest where all the pictures are blank.

>[...]

>Arguments about bitcoin are like every other shouty argument about financial markets, but with a void at their core. "Bitcoin is capitalism, distilled," says Adam Ludwin, but it isn't quite; bitcoin traders are not allocating capital to productive uses in the real world. Bitcoin is finance, distilled, though, in the narrow sense that the distillation throws away all the messy productive real-world consequences of finance and leaves you with just an abstract thing to trade.
Frat environment in its core is among the most conservative ones.
It was very poorly received. Probably explains light advertising and short theater runtime. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/flatliners_2017/
A friend pointed me to this discussion since it references the blog posts I've done at evergreen small business...

I've read through the thread of comments and first thing I would add is, this will all become at least a little clearer once we get some detailed guidance later next year.

One other thing to share: If you have pass-thru income, be sure you understand before the new year starts how the limitations work and how the deduction formula works. You can possibly increase your savings by maximizing qualified business income (the number that gets plugged into the formula) and by doing things to sidestep the limitations.

Example: If you need wages, look at the S corporation option.

Another example: If you're in a partnership, make sure you're not artificially depressing your qualified business income by using guaranteed payments.
I've always taken "vaporware" to refer to abandoned software.
Ask HN: Do you reply to recruiter emails?
Is it rude to just ignore them? Do you use canned responses? I used to reply to each of them individually but it doesn't scale. Now I tend to ignore them but it only seems to make the problem worse as some recruiters send multiple follow up pings.
Pretty weak concern considering Americans will sell it to you.

I'd be more worried about the lack of scruples among people. Unfortunately that doesn't create as much of a boogeyman.
I think that buying into stock index funds expecting to sell your shares for more in several decades is different than speculating on BTC.
Just stop, you have no idea their intentions so don't assume they're gambling.
The thing is we already have a solution to that, high speed commuter rails from the suburbs into the city, there's just not enough funding to build out the infrastructure.

The amount of people who come into Tokyo is mind boggling.
by cannibalizing IBM, Oracle, etc
I mean in Europe. Class action does not apply but EU has a strong record of defending consumer rights.

The clandestine nature of how apple has provided this feature would not work in their favour.
If demand for insurance among healthy people drops, but demand among people with expensive healthcare needs stays constant, then the average price to provide insurance increases.
Is your Kodak Play Sport used heavily 12-16 hours a day for years at a time?
Yeah I never understood how his comments were offensive. I used to take Bart 5 times a week and I definitely don't worry about all the great socializing I am missing out on now that I don't need to.
Musk and his critics are probably all barely familiar with the realities of using public transportation every day. There is no commuter who would not use a faster, easier transportation method because they wanted the "social" benefits of mass transit.
OP said effective rate, not statutory rate. Effective rate is after deductions, and the U.S. is near the top on that chart too: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the.... The second chart has the U.S. at #3 out of OECD countries (Argentina is not an OECD country), behind Japan and about tied with the U.K. The effective rate in the U.S. is 18.6%. Germany is at 15.5%, France is at 11.2%, and Canada is at 8.5%.
This makes sense if you mean abandoned before release.

> "In the computer industry, vaporware (Brit. vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

Ha! It's even made it into Merriam-Webster's!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaporware

> "a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available"
I'm not asserting that I know anything to be true. I'm pointing out that until Magic Leap shows actual reasonable proof that their product works outside of a lab, I have no reason to believe that it works. I sincerely hope it does, because this is cool as heck. But for a company to be rapidly approaching their target ship date and have released nothing of substance showing the damn thing working, that's incredibly suspicious.
If you are the 12,000th player in the pyramid scheme it doesn't end well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15825700
Libertarianism.org (and most political received wisdom) doesn't know about Moravec's Paradox and its implications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Everything they said was invalid. Premise wrong, nothing else follows.

Not a slight on them of course, very few people, especially in policy, seem to be aware of this law in Comp Sci.

Moravec's Paradox is similar to Moore's Law. It implies that near all information centric work shall be automated before blue collar labour.

This is similar to inflation, a creeping thing.

It means that the majority of the (working) population will be blue collar workers.

The Industrial Revolution has already long automated the straight forward blue collar labours, brute physical effort.

The Information Revolution is going to automate the majority of the middle class because most of their jobs are concerned with information.

The future is likely to look a lot like the distant past. I know Tyler Cowen agrees with me.

Moravec's Paradox is the 21st century's 'Economic Calculation Problem'. It's not going away, it is reliable.
I've always seen "effective tax rate" to mean after the deductions have been applied. Looking at OECD data, I don't see them publishing effective tax rates--only the statutory rates (the base rate). But you are correct in that the statutory rate appears very high, but the effective rate is in line other OECD countries.
Except I can buy a stock expecting it to increase on the merits of what the company is doing.

I could have bought stock in Apple the day I saw an iPhone for the first time, and would have made money off it.
I'm not impressed with either side in this argument.

Jarrett Walker is confusing capacity with crowding. It's ridiculous that he can't admit having someone's underarm shoved into your face during peak hours does in fact suck.

Meanwhile Musk is an idiot if he actually thinks single occupancy self driving cars will reduce traffic (I don't think he does). If sitting in traffic becomes more pleasant because you'll be watching tv, more people will choose to sit in traffic. Adding tunnels won't help if you're still wasting a car-sized space on a tiny human.

Just running more buses and actually policing harassment on them would make transit both more convenient and pleasant without giving up the capacity that's essential to move an entire city worth of people around. It doesn't have to be rocket science.
what makes one index fund better than another?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
Thing is, if they'd bought Be they wouldn't have got Steve and, whatever you may think of him, I suspect that's the real X factor [1] that ensured their success.

[1] Pun very much intended, I'm afraid.
Oh I'm pretty sure my phone support LTE, but I'm saying that the phone might be locked to a provider (Orange) and will reject any SIM not from it. Since the phone is originally from a company which has an exclusive contract with Orange for all mobile hardware and subscriptions, it is not surprising.
One can spawn as many reactors as you would like. The only thing a reactor does is receive events off of epoll (or other system selector) and notify the associated task. The task could be on the reactor thread or across a different thread.

Generally speaking, how to optimize concurrency for a network based application is pretty use case specific.

tl;dr, you can fully take advantage of many core systems w/ Tokio.
I've seen almost entirely just what appear to be building addresses. What kind of images have others seen that they thought were potential bombing targets?
It's not only the car being parked, but the traffic during peak travel times that make cars bad. Roads filled with Autonomous cars might be 10x more efficient then roads filled with cars with drivers, but autonomous buses are 100x more efficient and trains can be 1000x more efficient.
Low-level firmware, embedded applications, OS kernels, interrupt service routines, applications that can't afford the latency of being periodically interrupted, platforms where you don't have a scheduler or most OS services, libraries intended to be loaded into other applications written in other languages (e.g. where you don't control the main program entry point), writing language runtimes themselves, etc.

Early Rust, pre-1.0, did have a runtime and a green-threads mechanism; they ripped it out because they recognized that they couldn't go everywhere they wanted to go if they kept it. And if they hadn't done that, I believe Rust would have been far less successful than it has been.
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