skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll skip the usual suspects. I successfully made several positive changes this year. I'm going to improve upon it further next year.

- Launch the webapp that I'm working on. I plan to do it in January.

- Be mindful, especially of how I spend my day. I made https://crushentropy.com/ to make this easier. It has been working out great. I can see that my productivity has gone up, my attention isn't scattered, and I feel more content by the end of each day. I'll do more of this in 2018 and add more related habits and routines.

- I read 33+ books so far this year: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/ This is my current personal best and I'll try to beat this in 2018. Most of the time for this came from cutting back on Hacker News and Reddit, which don't relax me as well as reading a book for 30min does.

- I couldn't travel as much as I wanted to in 2017. I plan to compensate for this in 2018 ;-) I also plan to hike, snowboard, and play racquetball more than I did in 2017.
Or google results that point to unanswered questions or questions with answers that are years out of date. I think of it as Answer Roulette.
5-sigma is a ridiculous level. Im not that confident of my own name, which i spell incorrectly on at least two of every billion forms i fill.
They're making money off their big pharma stock holdings do for the 0.1 this addiction crisis is no crisis at all it's an opiate Bonanza
The problem is that the sigma calculation is only about rejecting the null model (ie, the model of "background noise"). That number is calculated without including info about any theory/evidence regarding the Higgs boson.

So, all of the confidence and confirmation regarding the Higg's boson better actually be coming from "how closely the data fits the model overall, a lack of competing hypotheses to explain said data, and to what degree other evidence exists to support the model".

As an example, I'd imagine detecting the Higgs boson at 1 eV energy levels is theoretically predicted to be even less likely than billions/trillions to one odds, therefore detector noise would be a more likely explanation for such results, despite the low p-value.
Synchronized audio-visual recreation of the Apollo 11 landing
You know how much Land Washington owned right
Remember that there's a HUGE exemption (the recently passed Donor Relief Act increases it to >$20M) and then it's only a percentage of the amount above that exemption. Your tears are wasted.
Ask HN: What do your programming notebook entries look like?
There have been many posts of what medium to take programming notes in, but I am more curious about what people's notes actually look like. What things do you find useful to keep? How do you organize the material inside each entry? Any actual examples would be amazing!

I've come to realize the benefits of notetaking, and I have started to do it myself. But right now I have entries by day in which I keep notes from any project in, and it ends up looking like an unorganized brain dump and something not really useful in the future.

Thanks for the info!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-denies-allowing-j...

> Saudi Arabia has denied a report that it would begin allowing Jews to work inside the Gulf kingdom.

> In an official statement, the Saudi Labor Ministry denied a report last week in the Saudi al-Watan newspaper to the effect that non-Israeli Jews would be able to receive guest worker visas for the first time, the UK Middle East Eye reported Friday.

First page of Google results for "Jews Saudi Arabia"
In the worst case, it is commonly thought (this is P vs NP) that you will have to test a super-polynomial number of solutions. It doesn't have to be all of them.
This is the year I'm finally going to learn front end, just enough to prototype. Don't roast me alive, but I'm thinking of starting with jQuery. It seems much more learnable for a web stack beginner, and probably serviceable for a long time to come for someone who mainly prototypes ideas that need an elemental gui.
They used 2 different servers. One with 32GB RAM, the other with 256GB.
I mean there obviously is a medical benefit to heroin, it's all just arbitrary politics based mostly on graft.
The article's confusing and surprising. He tried postgresql on FreeBSD UFS where it sucked but on ZFS, it rocked.
> Yes, I am interested in responding to what you actually said.

Then it's a wonder how you failed so spectacularly at it. What I actually said consists of multiple sentences that must be taken together, and even the portion you extracted contains the word "recommend," which is a word you don't seem to understand.
must admit I switched to Safari from chrome a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier.

I have too many tabs open all the time using safari impacts my life in a negative way less :-)

Also swipe works :-)
It does not take much, I had injury that resulted in a prescription and once it's no longer hitting just the pain receptors (I don't really understand how this all works or claim to) and you feel the "calming" effect you can pretty quickly see why it can become so addictive and scary. Even being educated, happy, well-off, and aware you can fall to these type of addictions, I can't imagine how hard it must be for many others.
Gringotts is a payment processing library in Elixir
In the UK there is an equivalent 'inheritance tax'. It is a grossly unfair tax in that it fails to tax the most wealthy. For instance the Grosvenor Estate of the Duke of Westminster recently passed an estimated $59bn company and $16bn in personal wealth to the next generation without paying any inheritance tax at all. This is a achieved by structuring as a trust fund. Yes anyone could start a trust fund, but not everyone can afford the professional fees.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Group
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Grosvenor,_7th_Duke_of_We...
Cherbourg Project
This has already been fixed. With newer planes, the seat's pivot point is above the knees of the person behind.
Run a 5k, help flip Washington’s 5th and 8th congressional districts, get better at baking.
So you be happy for middle class JAMS (just about managing) to accept the state stealing the parents or grand parents home on death.
It is incorrect. Read why personal github pages (username.github.com) moved to github.io (username.github.io)

https://github.com/blog/1452-new-github-pages-domain-github-...
Solarized is fantastic. Perhaps I'm fickle, but I tend to like to change my theme every few months, and relatively few themes are as good as Solarized when it comes to supporting so many applications.

But I agree that the quick and simple install is a huge plus. Perhaps in the future theme authors could use a tool like themer to generate their themes rather than each author individually spending time figuring out how to apply their theme to a particular tool.
I've been on US domestic flights in which the seats were so close together that the person reclining had their face below mine, in my lap. I would prefer to agree with you that if the seat reclines you should be able to use it, but the reality of what the airlines have done to pack in more people makes it physically painful for other passengers when you do. The airlines have done an excellent job turning us all against each other, when this problem is of their making, out of pure greed.
But thanks to the 787’s extended range variants, that’s not necessarily going to be the case for long. Qantas starts Perth to London direct in March on the 787.
It's pretty common airline ethiquette to put your seat upright when the food is being distributed and people are eating.
The kinds of businesses that generate enough of an estate to tax are the successful ones. It is very common for such businesses to be sold or liquidated in order to pay the estate tax. It is not easy to find new investments that are equally successful. And the taxed part of the estate is at least as likely to be used to suppress as to encourage economic growth. Also, the reduced incentive to generate wealth for your offspring is not insignificant. So I don't find it to be implausible that eliminating the estate tax could increase tax revenue as successful business continue to create wealth.
Without prejudice as to whether or not it's a good thing, I think "death tax" is the more honest as it is charged at the cardinality of the people who performed the action of "death", as opposed to the people who performed the action of "inheritance".

If it really was an "inheritance" tax, then each person would have an "inheritance tax allowance", that is the amount they are allowed to inherit before the taxes start. So if 20 of my ancestors all kicked the bucket at once, each leaving me a modest fortune that adds up to a large total, then I would be liable for a hefty inheritance tax bill. Whereas, if great aunt Mabel died and left $1000 for each of her 1000 progeny, then no tax would be due, as surely a measly sum like $1000 would fall below any reasonable inheritance limit.

The "death" or "estate" tax is levied on the value of the assets of the person who died, not on the value of the amount received by an individual who inherits. Ergo, it's a death tax.
This is exactly what they are trying to avoid. Read the article and you will see this thinking is how the POODLE attack happened.
I can't see the results, even with uBlock and uMatrix turned off. Using Firefox.
Do you at least give some warning?

I'm 189cm / 6'2". My #1 flying pet peeve are people who push down the lever, slam all their weight on the seat, and rapidly recline their seat into crushing my knees.

A polite warning would be tremendously appreciated; it's similar to how a quick friendly wave of hand can make many road-rages terminate before they begin :)
Yes things are better than they used to be. People living in bad neighborhoods spending time and money on entertainment need to prioritize better.
Your family can be politically powerful for generations, just like the monarchs.
Parallelism and a UI framework are such a big undertakings that it simply takes a lot of time to get them working.
Hell we are stuck with Electron because there simply is not a proper alternative.
For parallelism Crystal plans to do it the Go way.
At least Debian and Ubuntu has cfq as the default IO scheduler which probably is not the best choice here.
Happy user of a Macbook Pro 13" with Touch Bar chiming in here. No unusual problems to report. I only experience slows/freezes when:
- I'm putting the machine under heavy stress
- I've filled up all but a few hundred megabytes of disk space
- the machine has 1-5% of its battery remaining
Actually, we had a POSIX port of Ling of alpha quality (e.g. no access to file system, a prototype of network connections based on libuv, etc) and experimented with running it on MIPS microcontrollers natively (not a great idea due to memory constraints and lack of drivers, but it could do simple computations).
This is a tax (in the US at least) of assets over $10MM. Where in the US can that much untaxed money not provide a comfortable living?
> As for the content, this letter gives no evidence of its claims

You're demanding a lot for a 325-word letter. The author of the letter has written multiple books and papers on this topic in great detail. If you're looking for formal analysis that supports the claims, that's the place to look for it, not this letter.
One of my last CP/M systems was the Zorba

That thing looks amazing as a machine, name and example of near-perfect market mistiming. I'd never heard of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_(computer)

most of the info seems to come from:

http://www.zorba.z80.de
It depends on your definition of "container". The popular Docker-style container is substantially heavier than "just a process"; it creates cgroups, bind mounts things, creates new pid/user/mount/etc namespaces, all kinds of stuff. Such containers aren't just used for sandboxing; they are also used as a packaging mechanism (install whatever software versions you want) and deployment mechanism (special networking setups to connect containers) which partially explains why they are so heavy.

Most of that is not really necessary if you are just coming from a standpoint of "I want to sandbox a process". Indeed, if you just want to sandbox a process, just run it under a dedicated non-root user account, and it won't be able to unduly interfere with the rest of the system.
The headaches appear to be video driver specific. Most of the people I know who upgraded on day one haven't had problems.

That said, most of the benefits aren't visible so unless you use Safari or an app which depends on Metal 2, etc. there's no massive reason to jump.
Absolutely yes. We don't want to go back to a world without drugs for chronic and severe pain.

For all the hoopla around the addiction problem, we must never forget there are real people who need these things. With some of the treatment options, as I understand it, it's even possible to be an addict and a functioning member of society.

I start worrying in public discussions when people ascribe too much good or evil to inanimate objects. Drugs are tools, like a lot of other things. They can do great good or evil. It's how we use them that makes the difference. Education will get us a lot further in helping folks than prohibition ever will.
2010 13", 2013 15", and 2016 13", no problems here
Indeed, there is a lack of supporting data and enforcement is weak at best, but it is a matter of mutual respect and shared responsibility between the wealthy and non-wealthy.
As part of my senior thesis years ago, I did an econometric model/analysis that sought to explain inequality as proxied by difference between mean wages of the bottom 90% of earners vs the top 10%. Times where the amount of estate tax collected per capita was highest highly correlated with the lowest periods of inequality by this measure. Trashing the concept of estate tax on the premise that it is hard to enforce is a bad idea, we should focus our energy on how to better implement it.
Can you provide more sources from this? Friedman as far as I understand economics represents an outlier in the free market US school of economics, which I thought was on the retreat in recent years?
I'm curious where you are taking this line.
This is false, and there's a lot of data to support the assertion that you're wrong. Just a sample of articles covering such studies:

1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/10/16/legal...

2) https://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-o...
Draudzīgākais Kredīts uzņēmumiem tava biznesa izaugsmei
https://www.cityfinances.lv/kredits-uznemumiem/
Both approaches have their problems, but resolving to compile-time constants with simple expressions is NOT "hard-to-debug" if done with care. As ever, tools can be abused, and real life can astonish.

Example: for the credit dept of a now-ex investment bank many moons ago we had a set of blessed (including with the correct correlations) random numbers pre-computed and baked in via code generation.

I discovered that I could actually generate numbers faster at run-time with highly-tuned code because of the high cost of paging in the large-precompiled numbers array across the network.
I have had bruised knees from this as well, but what's even more irksome is when they do this and slam into my expensive laptop. And then sit in the seat in front of me murmuring about how it is their right to recline their seat.
Thanks! I am the same way. Except rather than wasting time trying to find themes that support all the apps I use I wasted a ton MORE time building a tool to do it for me. Haha!
For your Salesforce bridge, have you checked out something like Twilio Understand? It helps you build a back-and-forth conversation and makes it easier to capture user responses as structured/templatised data. https://www.twilio.com/understand
Well, depends on who you ask. Many founding fathers wanted only the wealthy to be able to vote.
Graduate my PhD and get hired in industry. Hopefully in a job that affords me enough leisure time to work on personal projects, of which I have many cooked up but undeveloped at this stage. Exercise more regularly.
Given that birth is a tax deductible event there is a sense of harmony in death being a taxable event.
This is exactly with what happened with Poodle and SSLv3 and it's in the article. Attackers were successfully downgrading to the vulnerable SSL when a TLS connection was attempted.

In the future when TLS1.2 is considered insecure, we do not want this workaround in place.
And it is used medically in many countries for things like end-stage cancer pain.
Don't even talk to me about iOS 11... Upgraded from a (somewhat sluggish, but usable) 5S on iOS 10, to a new iPhone 8 on iOS 11... The snappiness in apps is all there (which is what I wanted), but man the bugs! One of my current gripes is that I can only be 80% sure a photo I'm taking will save to camera-roll... I thought I'd lost all of my videos from Christmas Day morning until they spontaneously appeared 10 minutes later.

Trying to post to Instagram Stories is another fun game that tends to fail 50% of the time.
My wife recently installed Win10 on her Macbook Air. Seems to run perfectly now :D
> The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax.

Evidence does not bear out this assertion. The Rockefeller Trust is a well documented example of a huge inheritance that was not subject to an estate tax. The common and relatively simple solution to the estate tax is to create trust fund(s) to hold the money.

Ref: https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/01/how-rich-is-the-ro...

The name John D. Rockefeller has long been associated with immense wealth. In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell estimated the value of Rockefeller's fortune at its peak, in today's dollars, at $318.3 billion. You read that right: John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, was over three times richer than Bill Gates is today.

[...]

You may know that upon his death, the majority of John D. Rockefeller's wealth went to his only son, John, Jr. But in reality, things are a bit more complicated. In fact, a trust was created, as well as several other entities designed to manage the family money, all to ensure that Rockefeller's descendants continue to live as only Rockefellers can.
Silicon Valley Won’t Save Books
Then fix it so that it works the same way as many other countries that have estate taxes and want to protect these businesses: The tax is imposed as a debt against the business that is paid off over time.

Simple, and successful businesses survive it.
Notes on Zeiss 20X60S stabilized binoculars
What projects have you built?
I meant dearth of data, and I have rephrased the paragraph to more clearly convey the intention.

While there is a lack of supporting data, the intent is important.
I decided to note on a daily basis what I learned over the day. To commit to it, rather than being a note in a note book, I made it as a blog[1] on which I post daily. It is badly written and really incomplete but as it is mostly for myself, I have no issue with it.

The ultimate goal is to see what I learned over a year so I can better appreciate the progress I made, rather than only base my retrospective on feelings. It might also be useful to find what I learned but can't put the name on it, or find links to interesting things I found several months ago.

To help staying focused, I decided to fix goals and rewards. The first reward is on January 1st if I haven't skipped a single day from when I started.

[1] https://today-i.netlify.com/
I am already a big fan of constexpr-ing everything that doesn't run away or make the compiler cry for our embedded application.

Yes, we are building a substantial embedded system with (a constrained subset of; no heap, but some templates for example) C++ 11. Heretical, I understand.
100% on income, not wealth transfer. I want to tax supernatural/dead people still earning income for years who havent passed on their assets. The lawyers keep the estate spinning for as long as possible. Dead people still sue living people and charge them rents years later.
I've been playing with Mycroft and Jasper before for the purpose of having an assistant running on a PI but I stopped for different reasons. There is a need for a OpenAlexa assistant out there for privacy aware customers. My gf is pretty excited with the stories emerging around her friends who got Alexa. I'm pretty sure this will expand as an assistant becomes normal. But I don't want to have a Amazon employee at home.

https://mycroft.ai/

https://jasperproject.github.io/
Politeness and consideration for the people with which one shares space should override the "entitlement" of a few inches of space.
> something ~30% to 64% is possible

I would imagine that making those lasers go all the way into the fuel will restrict the operating temperature enough that those 30% will start to look too big.

Can the lasers pass through windows without destroying them?
I am not an expert - I appreciate and (without being an expert) mostly agree with the comments that promote the estate tax as redistribution of wealth. But:

It seems to me, as usual, that small business owners (their progeny, that is) are the ones who get screwed by estate tax.

Full disclosure: I am not a small business owner, but my father has been for nearly 30 years. I anticipate that my younger brother, who works in the family business, will be more affected by this than I will be, so I consider myself fairly objective here.

In our example, my parents are doing fine, but they are by no means a "wealth center". My dad worked hard building the business. It took about 20 years for him to see meaningful profit (it's manufacturing).

So the problem as I see it is that my parents (like other small business owners) have the majority of their "wealth" tied up in the business. So the business would need to be dismantled in order to pay the estate tax, which leaves my brother (also working hard) in a tight spot.

I'm sure that there are ways around this, and hopefully they are thinking about that. I know that at some point there was a large life insurance policy meant to cover the tax.

Sure, it's still redistribution of wealth, but us folks in the middle are the ones that feel it. The top dogs will still pass most of it on.
Agile doesn't directly help you make money, save money, or save time. I think of it as a way to reveal what people are working on, including myself. If I'm working in the corner on who knows what, and as a leader you wanna know WHAT I'm working on, Agile can help with that. Agile may get me to communicate that I'm working on something awesome or something horrific, and what you do with that information is up to you.
In my experience, jQuery isn't so much a tool that you learn in its entirety, but a swiss army knife you pull out when needed. It's among the most heavily referenced web libraries on SO and the like, making it pretty easy to find answers with a "______ jquery" google search.

Best of luck in your front end journey!
s&p 500 + real estate if you can.
All clients are not web browsers, but sure.