skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely correct. The brain drain for a small fraction of a percent that get visas to work in other countries is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It's a mere trickle compared to the reservoir of people behind it.

Though, its more of a next generation thing that will be interesting - the changing demographics. The US has birthright citizenship - all the children born in the US to visa holders will be US citizens. That will do some interesting things in a few places when they start needing to pay taxes in the US if they are overseas and haven't given up their citizenships (n.b. I'm not an expat and so am not completely versed in the associated tax law).

Sending workers abroad and having them send money home to family outsources the social support structures needed in India and reduces the pressure for unemployment. This feeds into the growing nationalism and xenophobia in many western countries. In other countries it allows people with fewer scruples to take advantage of this labor force and essentially turn them into slaves (confiscation of passports and financial trickery).

I'm not sure where this is going to come back and where the ultimate costs with this policy are going to be paid - but they're going to be paid somewhere.

The Indian tech industry is certainly going for a synergy approach with western markets rather than... say, Japan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome ) or China (copy and maintain behind the Great Firewall).

Its going to be interesting to see how this all plays out over the years to come.
Well... The Victoria Line was a form of automatic since it was made, so it seems to be more practical to have a new system created as an automatic one rather than upgrade an old system. Even with the new systems on the Underground, the driver still needs to know how to drive the train, for when things go wrong, and unlike a car, other trains can't move around a stuck train.

I guess one of the big problem with automating trains is that while it's easier to automate the normal operation of a train, there is less tolerance for any issues (a train stopping blocks all other trains on the line, there are also a LOT of people on a train at a time, stopping distance is huge, etc...).
I'm far from an authority to officially say, but this is what I gathered from listening to the podcast:

Stimulus essentially structures DOM manipulation. Whereas other frameworks aim to solve rendering, it seems Stimulus will offer a lo-fi and sane way of making your views dynamic. Restated, it's a framework for managing JS sprinkles aka jQuery spaghetti aka templating logic. I don't think its a component library because DHH explicitly mentioned its not a mechanism designed for handling JSON and similar concerns. It targets the realm of updating element classes and attributes, handling events, etc. It'll also allow you to partially update views with HTML templates sent over the wire.

When combined with Turbolinks, it should elegantly solve all your everyday front-end concerns. There's a lot of helpful context I'm neglecting - check out the podcast, DHH pretty much opens with this topic.
It looks somebody just reused proven software+configuration without taking into account that configuration was no longer applicable. So this case is a classical deployment error.
Create more tiny habits that pair onto activities I already do. Mostly Exercise, sit ups every time after I brush my teeth, stretching every time I press snooze on the alarm clock.

A TED talk by BJ Fogg on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKUJxjn-R8
How You Could Have Invented Bitcoin for Yourself
1) The first example in the blog post shows an inline template:

t, err := template.New("todos").Parse("You have a task named \"{{ .Name}}\" with description: \"{{ .Description}}\"")

If you have a lot of templates and don't want to declare them in-line but also want to ship just an executable, you could use a project like https://github.com/GeertJohan/go.rice which allows you to pack multiple files into a go executable and then reference them like files.

2) I'm not very familiar with the project but gogs https://github.com/gogits/gogs/tree/master/templates has a lot

3) Hard to comment without seeing an approach

4) Agree

5) Generally templates should be parsed at start time, not re-parsed for every request. I'm not sure if I'm responding to what you are saying. Do you have link to some code you would like comments on?
> is this one about supersymmetry?

Not necessarily. The seesaw mechanism [1] itself does not require supersymmetry, it's quite generic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw_mechanism
You can take it that way. But I can also easily ask how many families from the founding fathers are still in large power?

That those with land and power get to use said power is fine. And I never claimed that was against values. That they establish dynasties where the main accomplishment is simply birth to a rich name is where I question things.
This was a teaser - it's not out yet.
> The author is contrasting the disparity in attention given two two relatively-minor taxes with similar economic burdens.

The economic burdens of the estate tax and the tobacco tax could hardly be more different. One is explicitly targeted exclusively at the very wealthy, and the other is effectively (though not explicitly) targeted at the poor.

> Tobacco taxes are absolutely marketed as revenue raisers

I'm not really interested in how they're marketed; I'm talking about the economic policy-driven justifications for them.

> They aren't intended to reduce inequality, but another perceived societal ill--tobacco use and nicotine addiction.

That's the Pigovian tax argument, which again, is completely different from the estate tax argument.
It's been done. Singapore Airlines flew the longest scheduled flight (between New York and Singapore, SQ21 and SQ22) using an all-business A340-500 [1]. They canceled the service in 2013 since revenue wasn't high enough.

Apparently, there are a few small all-business carriers in operation [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Airlines_Flight_21

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_class_airline
Yeah, for something infrequently-used like this it makes sense, but it doesn't work for frequently-used utilities. I wouldn't want to be running grep in Docker, for example. One of these days I'm going to have to look into setting that up, though, hopefully it won't be hard.
Before you make your next web app – think before you React
I think that's stretching the definition of arbitrage. It's arbitrage in the sense that a hotel is.
I developed some good habits over the last few months such as a more balanced savings/investment plan, quitting Facebook and practicing yoga three to five times per week, so I’d like to continue those consistently for the whole year.

These changes (plus others that I had already made within the last year or two) have left me feeling the healthiest that I have felt in years, both mentally and physically. I feel so much less anxious and more in control of my life, my asthma no longer troubles me and I have lost ten pounds.
I agree that this language can be useful in a specific domain, but you should not underestimate the barriers this creates to actual communication, confusion because you think it means one thing and your colleague thinks it means another, and/or alienating those outside the team that uses it and understands it. This goes for any language, business or otherwise.

This is a real problem, especially for customer facing teams that continue to speak their own language instead of the client's language, and it will destroy your relationships if you do it wrong.

The article is about this language being used to convey expertise when it does not exist (understanding of the language does not imply understanding of the subject you're supposed to know, but may make you sound smart in a meeting).

Obviously feel free to keep using the terms if they work for you, but do so while also knowing the impact of the words.

TL;DR: Words matter, sounds like you are of the same opinion :) As long as we use them purposefully and understand the trade-offs, all good.
I have a Dell Precision 5510 with Skylake i7, 32gb RAM, NVMe

I get about 10 hours of battery life on Fedora 27. Not too bad at all.
One big question not asked is: why is it accepted that airlines install seating and set row distances such that when fully reclining you severely impact the person sitting behind you?
Sourcing developer marketing content
On a side note - navigating and consuming content on cnet's site has to be one of the most painful experiences on the web. Slow and ugly only begin to describe it.
To illustrate the level of idiocy we reached with slow hash functions. The official NIST recommendation #800-132 is to use 10k iterations for PBKDF2, or 10M iterations for important keys.

10k iterations was half a second when we tried it on our server.

10M iterations took 8 minutes for a single hash.
Income for the top 1% of the population is up over 400% over the past 30 years, while remaining largely flat for the rest of the workforce. The tech boom is well underway, it's just that only a tiny fraction of the population is capturing the vast majority of the benefits. The boom is not just about efficiencies, it's also about centralization and winner-take-all market dynamics.
Did you read that article?

These findings are consistent with the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug." However, the majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances. Also, cross-sensitization is not unique to marijuana. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs52 and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances.

It is important to note that other factors besides biological mechanisms, such as a person’s social environment, are also critical in a person’s risk for drug use. An alternative to the gateway-drug hypothesis is that people who are more vulnerable to drug-taking are simply more likely to start with readily available substances such as marijuana, tobacco, or alcohol, and their subsequent social interactions with others who use drugs increases their chances of trying other drugs. Further research is needed to explore this question.
There have been several attempts and each airline has either failed, or relented to the market and introduced economy cabins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_class_airline
Lets turn it around. If I have my kid on the seat behind you (paid full price for kids over 2 .. they can do what they want) and they kick your seat for the entire duration of the flight, you should have bought your seat and the one behind you if YOU did not want to be in that situation :)
Thats awesome, looks like you've set yourself up with an easy transition! Best of luck.
I don't get the argument the Estate Tax isn't effective enough, therefore it should be repealed. That sounds like a non-sequitur. The solution would be to close the loopholes to make it more effective. Or offer an alternative solution that fulfills it's purpose.
What sort of creative task? Music composition? Graphic design? Surrealistic modern art? AIs have been programmed to do all these things and be indistinguishable from human creativity in blind studies.

I have no doubt through that you'll be able to come up with a reason why each of these examples isn't what you really meant by "human level in creative tasks." Which is rather the point.
Because in US money speaks:

Between 2006 and 2015, Purdue and other painkiller producers, along with their associated nonprofits, spent nearly nine hundred million dollars on lobbying and political contributions—eight times what the gun lobby spent during that period.

And the revolving door:

He had also enlisted Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and his associate Bernard Kerik to preëmpt any government crackdown.
See my answer down thread. This doesn't seem contradictory to my claim.

Specifically, they set up policies to benefit themselves. They did not establish their families as the royalty of America.
Food Swamps Increase Obesity Rates
Use VanillaJS instead or...

Zam - http://zamjs.com

Vue - https://vuejs.org
Apple went from building fantastically reliable software on beautiful, powerful devices, to... Well, this. Even die hard apple fans don't use their built in apps for calendar, music, mail, or really anything, because the design is so bloated. Their hardware performance lags the rest of the market at their price point, and skirt the lines of programmed obsolescence. And now apparently their major OS updates go out without quality control for things like a blank root password, or random crashed and freezes. I tried to use OSX's logs last week - they were spammed to death with warnings and errors from OS components and bundled software. Half the OS services break or emit warnings, because the date component considers December 2017 as an illegal month.

I know everyone called it after Jobs stepped out of the leadership chair, but is that really what's responsible for the decline? Can an apple insider comment here?
Because the flying public again and again votes with their dollars for the cheapest ticket everything else be damned.
Last time I checked flights between SF and LA I saw this company: https://www.flyvictor.com

Very expensive, but at least everything is business class.
For integral values you can use a little hack to ensure compile-time evaluation:

namespace detail {
template<class T, T val>
constexpr T eval() { return val; }
};

#define FORCE_COMPILE_TIME(x) detail::eval<decltype(x), x>()
See: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
They're from the same author (jedisct1).
I find a reclined seat uncomfortable. Must be me.
IoT in Healthcare Industry: See Why It Has a Promising Future
I don't know what you're referring to. I'm not here to defend Unicode Consortium (there's no such a thing as "Unicode people"), but disturbing as it may seem to the rest of us, any organization has its own political biases. Probably you should start a better detailed thread on the mailing list about your concerns. That would be a more appropriate forum for discussing your concerns.
YC on 2017 Trends and Growing After Seed Round
I'll admit it was not my best written comment I was rushing to catch a plane.

BTW, here's a live picture of the New England power market, both real time and day ahead. Older nuclear plants require a day's notice to change their power output, so day-ahead is the norm, but some markets also arrange purchases n hours ahead where n < 24 as well.

https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/web/charts/guest-hub?p_p_i...
I’ve wanted to improve my yoga practice (especially balance) for awhile, so I started doing trees and other one-legged balance moves every time I brush my teeth. I don’t remember when I started, but it has made a big difference! I can now hold poses that were impossible for me to perform at the beginning of the year.
Windows has a monopoly lock on it's customers. They can't run their applications on Linux or MacOS (or they certainly would) so they keep buying it.

Users don't have to upgrade to touchbar MBPs, they can

a) still buy newly manufactured old style MBPs, or

b) not upgrade

Yet they've bought the touchbar MBPs in massive volumes. I've heard lots of anecdotal complaints about the touchbars, the keyboards. But I've also heard lots of people love both.

I trust the sales numbers a little more than I do anecdotes.
This reminds me of a large company whose products' datasheets are protected with a password, presumably as an extra layer of security if they get leaked (which they do...) They didn't use the very old 40-bit encryption, but the slightly newer 128-bit RC4, which would theoretically be much harder to crack. However, the password is 10 digits. I used a multithreaded version of PDFcrack[1] and let it run overnight, recovering all of them in a few days.

(The irony is, this company probably makes more from the massive design-in and additional product sales enabled by these leaked documents... so I'm not sure if the passwords were deliberately weak, just strong enough to satisfy their legal department but easy for anyone else to get through.)

[1] http://andi.flowrider.ch/research/pdfcrack.html
I can't thank you enough for this pointer. Just what I had in mind :-)
Building my current project into a profitable business. I've been pushing myself completely out of my comfort zone with this one, can't wait to see how far I can take it.
That sounds like a bug in Clang?
If I recall correctly Germany offers diamorphine opoid maintenance programs. Get daily injections of heroin under medical supervision. Sounds heavenly honestly.
I've done plenty of benchmarks with LZ4 and GZIP compression. It really helps a lot, especially LZ4 should always be enabled as it is always faster. GZIP is fantastic for some datasets where you do sequential scans of many tables around 10MB - 100MB'ish sizes, but should be used with care.

The great thing about PostgreSQL is using tablespaces, so you can put tables and indexes on different ZFS filesystems, with different hardware(disk vs ssd), recordsizes and compression options.
It doesn't... today you have to buy the premium economy (extra legroom / exit row) seat or business class if you want to do anything on a laptop.. even if it's the small 11-13 inch style.
> we don't tax tobacco because of a desire to generate revenue

>> I'm not really interested in how they're marketed

You're either being obtuse or didn't read my original comment and think I'm disagreeing with you. If Policy A is marketed as way to do X, it was passed, in part, as a reflection of a desire to do X.
> This is no longer feasible for most 3rd party sellers; instead Amazon is becoming very restrictive, siding with big brands, more and more rejecting honest businesses and locking them out of their platform.

I'd be interested in reading more detailed first-hand descriptions of this, but searching for some key phrases from your description is just bringing up irrelevant product links. It's seemingly at odds with the rampant counterfeiting and listing spam (to confirm that my experience isn't outdated, I just went to the "Unlocked Cell Phones" category, sorted by lowest price, and found a listing for "Example Product Title" by "Example Product Brand", available from 3 sellers) on Amazon. I guess it's conceivable that Amazon is good at logistics/infrastructure but flagrantly awful at the "marketplace" component.
Wasn't even aware that PDF2.0 was out
Underrated post, completely agree. There have been several times when I wasn't doing so well financially and I wondered -- if I'm this smart (not to be cocky, but top 1% at least) and struggling, how are other people making it at all?

The answer is, they take far fewer risks than I do and rarely mess up. And when they do mess up it's years of hard work to recover.

But yeah, there is definitely some social Darwinism currently at play in regards to intelligence.
Gotcha, I think I understood it.
I really wish people would stop using the term “we”. There is no “we” here. The 20th century had both world wars, Vietnam and a host of major atrocities. I’d say people who “thought people were better” were actually in the minority. Most haven’t forgotten what people are capable of and realize the shouting matches on the internet are really no big deal in the grand scheme of things.

> with the open flow of information truth and debate would flow freely and we'd be free from the blinkers traditional media and government

It seems like this is happening. It’s just not aligning with the politics of those in power. Neither the government nor mass media wanted Trump to get elected yet it happened anyway, for instance.
>The point most people are bringing up in this thread is that the children of the upperclass do that all the time and still inherit enough wealth and property to earn more than you.

The point is that the top 1% defined by the article is based on wages, not wealth. Why isn't the discussion focused on taking wealth away from the super wealthy and redistributing it?

For instance, if you have a net worth of $50 million, then 10% has to be liquidated and given to the government. Would this be fair?
You are being naive.

Who do you expect to do the "cutting edge" research to confirm fasting can cure Crohn's? Do you honestly not realize this is career suicide? There is zero benefit to researchers funded by the government or pharma to find out not eating for 10-30 days is the cure to something they are selling $200K/year treatment for. This is not a conspiracy theory - this is modern life facts 101.

http://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/about/sponsors/

Yeah - sure, every corporate sponsor on this list just wishes for the day that it is finally known that Crohn's is not actually a lifelong incurable disease - and not only there is a cure - it literally costs nothing. In fact, you SAVE money by not eating too! LOL. It's astonishing how otherwise very smart people (especially on HN) cannot see beyond what's in front of them. I actually think the more conventionally-educated someone is, the harder it is for them to admit solutions are far simpler than they "should" be.
why dont they angle the seats towards the aisle a bit? this helps with parked cars I would think it would be the same in this case.
By far, the best investment Warren Buffett ever made was to let his kids know that they would have to earn their own money.

Also, I'm now dying to know how many economists in total have an opinion on estate taxation. They ought to know better than anyone else that sometimes proportions are more significant than absolute values.

My own, not-an-economist opinion is that the estate tax is bad, only because it waits until someone has died before making an intervention, then tries to do too much, all at once, and probably too late to make a difference. The letter is correct in that death should not be a taxable event. The tax should probably be invoked every time wealth is transferred from an elder benefactor to a younger, adult recipient, and defined such that all the trusts and offshore accounts and sham business arrangements are transparent to the taxing authority. If your "job" is to be an executive assistant to mommy or daddy, and for that you earn six figures, then the taxing authority should be able to determine the amount paid in excess of the median executive assistant and levy the nepotism tax on that. The idea is not to make money, but to discourage certain behaviors. If the rich people avoid the tax by employing their peers' children instead of their own, that's fine; it gives those kids the opportunity to work for a boss that won't cut them slack just to avoid awkwardness at the holidays.

The estate tax isn't just a tax on a parent's hard work and success. It is a tax on spoiled little rich kids, who never learned the value of actual work in the economy, who then go on to own companies and control what people do in them. It's a tax on being disconnected from the conditions experienced by lower classes, wherein it is essential to earn what you get, rather than accept whatever it is you think you deserve as your birthright.

I don't begrudge rich people their ability to provide additional opportunities to their children. But when their children turn out to be aristocratic twits, I also feel the desire to teach them the hard lessons that the rest of us likely got much earlier in our lives, to perhaps make them better, more empathetic people. And those are lessons best learned by not having so much money that self-discipline and self-sacrifice are never necessary. I get the feeling that fewer people would be laid off by stack ranking or to shore up quarterly results if those doing it had some inkling of what it means to be the one laid off--the panic, the fear, the depression, the austerity, and maybe even the irrational optimism.