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>You get mortgage interest deduction

People say this but do they know what it means? It's not like the "woooo, free money!" people make it out to be. You are spending a lot of money and saving a little bit of money. It's only a very significant decrease in taxes if you pay a real lot in interest and have high property and income tax.

In my experience buying a house saved me only about a whopping $500 in taxes the first year. And you better fucking believe that $500 went right back into the house in the form of maintenance and upkeep.

Furthermore,

You don't get the mortgage interest deduction if you don't itemize and take the standard deduction instead. Due to new tax laws the standard deduction after 2017 is so high it will be taken by 97% (IIRC) of Americans. So mortgage interest deduction is totally irrelevant from 2018 on.

One of my biggest concerns with putting the vast majority of my wealth in my house is a lack of asset diversion and if it causes you to negligent the tax advantages of contributing to retirement account. ESPECIALLY when your in your 20s, that's when compound interest work most of it's magic.
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Many of its firms see great potential in “carerobos” that look after the elderly.

I'm skeptical, and it's not just because of the long history of western news organizations reporting on supposedly transformational public-facing robotic inventions in Japan that fail to pan out (1).

Caring for patients requires several skills that robots cannot handle well, including manual dexterity and interpersonal communication. Yes, these things will surely get better over time but it won't be soon enough for the demographic crisis now facing the nation.

I think the biggest potential for transforming nursing care in Japan and elsewhere lie in technologies and inventions outside of robotics - better drugs, mobility tools and prosthetics, treatments and devices to improve vision and communication, and monitoring systems.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/may/08/1
After MLK's death, conspiracy theorists were disparaged. Turns out, there were, in fact, multiple government conspiracies, going so far as trying to get him killed.
Lets start with the fact that you already have a specific shape in your headlights. Typically, driver and passenger side headlights have different reflector and beam shapes and are aimed differently.

Think about the need you have for each headlight, they aren't really the same. The outside (shoulder side/passenger side) realistically has a greater need for 'spread' to light the side of the road and see things that could potentially quickly intrude on your space. It also is less likely to blind oncoming traffic because it is pointed slightly outward so the beam can be higher and broader. The inside (drivers side) headlight has pretty much the opposite needs. It is still important to an extent to light the other shoulder but you also want to avoid blinding oncoming drivers and will probably use that to illuminate further down the road. With this you could, theoretically, do something like create a hole in the beam that is 'off' to not blind oncoming drivers and tracks their location while leaving the headlights at a higher and safer level that increases driver vision.

Add in that as you speed up and slow down and corner as you drive in both directions. That is why many cars already have headlights that shift as you turn, this is just the next logical step
> Type systems like those in Java and C# give you very little formal verification [...] What Java-like type systems give you is confidence in refactoring, which is not nothing, but it is not formal verification.

You might be surprised to hear that you can prove a large class of programs correct using plain ol' Java types [1].

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5387
Not all cyclist ride one speed "gentleman/lady" bikes. Many travel upto 30mph. That's a safety concern. There have been a number of cases of cyclists running over pedestrians resulting in serious injury, so it's not inconceivable to require licensing.
I have used both extensively, and PABT was my first inclination as well.
Here is the tutorial: https://www.ethereum.org/token

There is the BitcoinTalk forum for announcing your new super token https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0

Voila!
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Yes, I got the part where you can time if memory address X is in cache and X+128 isn't. But how does one read the data at memory address X?
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Japan also has very strict licensing requirements for certain health professions, most of which require fluency in Japanese.
Airbags and crash test results are sales material, likelihood of running over a pedestrian is not. The incentives favor occupant safety over general safety.
Blocking the view? Strange, I think the views to the road that crosses this one are remarkably open here. Before looking at this, I thought there could be some hedges or such for which England is famous, but I can't think of any excuse for why a driver doesn't see a bike when approaching from [1] or [2]. The visibility is very good.
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The differentiating qualities of the project is indeed very important. But I think it's more than okay to also say that "this is a clone of xxx I'm using to learn yyy".
How is it trivial?
The cyclists were on the road that has priority, whereas the motorists were on roads were they are required to give way. Should the road user who has priority give way to the road user who doesn't?
The Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. At 2,000 hours a year (a full time job) that's $14,500 which is above the poverty level for a family of 1 ($12,060) and pretty close to the poverty level for a family of 2 ($16,240).

Just in case anyone was curious.
Indeed, pedestrians need no license.
Perhaps we could update the title to "Red language goes forward with ICO, releases whitepaper"?
I understood perfectly what he's talking about, and I agree with him.
However you need to see pedestrians, other vehicles as clearly as possible.
No, not necessarily. It probably won't. Crypto in general continues to be pretty bad as currency, particularly because of security issues (your 'best' options for storage are a physical wallet or a sketchy and/or uninsured exchange) and volatility (who wants money that could become 25% less useful tomorrow?).
Ozone is created by extreme events during lightningstrikes and reduced by it reacting/beeing bound otherwise. So yes, there is a natural cycle, with slight variances around the norm.

I cant wait to see my bosses eyes- when i expand this theory of irresponsibility for everything upon bugs.
There is a natural occurance rate of bugs and a natural error rate in software. To try and meddle with it- or to blame developers for it, is just plain wrong and nearly as insane as environmentalism.

Sometimes in the morning, you can smell it in the air- the distinct taste of lazy.
Honestly, I think half of the security community just gave up and accepted that WhatsApp is probably the best we're going to get.
Buy a computer screen. For example Dell P4317Q, it's a 43" 4K screen, about 1000€ (a bit less), gorgeous. It's the closest you can get.
Deadlines are a bliss. They help you to both reduce the unnecessary, but also to fail faster.

Sunken cost fallacy is a real thing even in side projects.
Over all, private information can be incriminating, not just in terms of bullying and pedophiles. Let's say mom calls in sick. Kid snaps a picture of her mowing the lawn. Dad has a swastika banner in his trailer. Kid snaps a picture. Dad is quite seriously ill. Kid snaps pictures of him in bed every day.

Privacy breach happens, and employers, potential employers, banks, insurance investigators etc. suddenly have access to that information by name. Mom gets fired. Dad will never teach again. Dad can't get a life insurance because of his current health status.

Some of these scenarios are unlikely, and some of them might seem like net benefits to society if we squint a little. But the breach of privacy was detrimental to people, and we all do things that we don't want everyone or anyone else to know about.
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Roads in the UK have generally had some work done on them since the automobile was invented.

Saying that they are designed for bike traffic, when they are continuously rebuilt to the needs of motorised vehicles, is a bit like complaining that it is problematic marching a centuria down the middle of the A59 out of York, given that is what the Romans designed it for.

And we do have a solution to this problem, it is that of creating dedicated bike routes, like the Bristol to Bath cycle path, or where they have to run alongside roads with cars doing 60mph and above, keeping them separated by more than just paint.
Read Huckleberry Finn if you haven't. It is a more grown up book than Tom Sawyer. Probably one of the five most important American novels.

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is surprisingly bitter, but also a good read.

Also plenty of short stories are worth reading if you don't have time for a novel. A short amusing one about home security: https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...
> All other industries manage to deliver complete, working products;

Ha. If you were more heavily involved in those industries, I believe you would find that they all have similar problems because the article is right: we make tradeoffs all the time, in everything, so very little is ever as good as it could be. You just don't notice it because you don't have a lot of knowledge about it, their products are "good enough" for you and you don't think about it beyond that. Sound familiar?
McDonalds around the Europe already have those kiosks (not all, yet). Same like self-checkout in stores - it’ not uncommon.
>reflections from retroreflective traffic signs.

So you mask out the stop sign in front of you, and that diminishes the visibility of the sign. Or the light masks the stop sign and lowers the intensity of light within that octagon?

Then you have a camera from the perspective of each headlight, then what? You flood the scene with IR light? I guess it could work - It will require a lot of supporting technologies that TI is probably not in the position to develop.
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Very curious what the DNS attack would look like: as far as I use it you need to be able to create arbitrary TXT records for the domain in question. Given that you won't be able to create TXT records for a domain you don't have control over (e.g. example.com) I can't quite figure out what the attack would look like?
Because the speed and the weight of the vehicles driven by motorists are generally so large that they tend to kill people in a collision. The same is not true for cyclists.
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This is a really good, recent, data backed article on how to write a resume: https://talent.works/blog/2018/01/08/the-science-of-the-job-...

It is very surprising how poor the average person is at selling themselves in their resume (i.e. not using action words and displaying leadership.) I would suggest looking at investment banking interview books/blogs for some examples, thats how I learned so well (think last time I was applying for jobs I had a 20-40% interview rate.)
First company I sold... paid off student loans, traveled around for a year.... then started a consultancy..

Second company I sold... invested in a friend's business (she's now my wife), self funded another business (that one failed to find a buyer).... went back to work...

Third company I sold... paid down mortgages, put kids into private schools, fixed up house, self funded another business ( currently a going concern, break even)...

What do I do now? Keep working... started a new businesses
and handed off day to day operations to my business partner,
and am now taking a new job so I can move to Europe.

What do I plan to do in the future... same thing, keep working, looking for interesting projects, probably start more business.
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> All other industries manage to deliver complete, working products; we are the only industry which doesn’t; computers and software never work 100% correctly.

Have you ever worked in other industries? This... is not true. We're not snow flakes.
Reminds me of an oldie but a goodie: Manna, a short story by Marshall Brain. It is speculative fiction from 2003 that starts with the first burger joints being automated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

It is available to read for free on the author’s web site.
> It is required to be off by default

It's not a good sign when knowledge of data protection law is required to understand the UI.
Thanks for re-upping my motivation this morning :) Congrats on enjoying life!
I'm thinking it might be time for Hacker News to start enforcing a rule against nonsubstantive promotions of various three-letter technologies.
What if you put the smart TV in game mode? Doesn't that turn off all the features/post processing?
Thats actually a very reasonable explanation IMO.
I have that same problem when fishing.
Because that gives us cheap burgers.
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It reminds me of the salt planet in the new Star Wars movie.
> Thought experiment: if you didn't have any motorised vehicles on the road, would you still want cyclists to have a licence?

Of course! In a world where there were only cyclists there would still need to be a set of rules that all cyclists are required to follow. Those might include how to behave at intersections, how and when you should overtake other cyclists, and so on. To be allowed to cycle, each cyclist should have demonstrated that they understand and follow these rules by taking some kind of test.

> In a general case though, requiring cyclists to have a licence would reduce the number of cyclists, probably significantly. This would correspondingly increase the number of motorists.

I don't think so. I expect the government to continue to penalize use of motor vehicles in cities such as London. The bicycle will remain the cheaper mode of transport.
A pedestrian struck by a bicycle can absolutely be killed. It's not an uncommon occurrence, and it doesn't happen more often only because it's easier for a pedestrian to get out of the way of a bicyclist.
No, there are literally no good reasons for that.

If you work a full-time job, and I don't care what that job is, your employer absolutely should adequately compensate you, for the amount of time spent on your job.

Your employer is buying your time, the most precious and absolutely non-renewable resource you have. Don't sell it too cheaply.
A note to the crypto fans: this is what will actually be useful about blockchain technology -- tying proof of transaction to something that is actually itself of value.
Trying to be vague but I have two hobbies that were sort of life goals and I just threw money at them until I got where I wanted. Sort of my long term gift to myself for finishing the business. I think both could've been done for a lot less but I hit a point where I said this is important to me and I owe myself a nice present.
They have them in the US too. It is funny, if you go in and there is a line at register, almost all the kiosks sit empty. You can order your food and have it handed to you before even part of the line is served. It tends to get you dirty looks.
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I've witnessed active hallway defecation at both locations, so I think we can agree there's a case to be made for either facility.
E.g. many shadows are blue-tinted because they are lit by the non-sun parts of the sky which are blue because Rayleigh scattering is stronger at short wavelengths.
It says in the article that he's been playing it for four years and has racked up 300–400 hours game time. That's a bit less than the 'obsessive' realm some people are placing this in, in terms of daily play.

(400/(4*365*24))*100 =~ 1%

He could easily rack up that game time with about 20 minutes per day. Granted, to do that each and every day for 4 years is still quite some undertaking, but it's not like he's spending every waking hour obsessing over it.

(This only sprang to mind because I instantly compared it to my 160+ hours of game time in Breath of the Wild, a game I've only owned for a couple of months...)

(Edited for formatting of the napkin-math)
I don't know anybody in security community who would prefer WhatsApp over Signal. Of course, my sample is limited.
ERC 721 just an API standard for non-fungible assets. There's nothing special on inherent to Ethereum that makes Cryptokitties possible.

You can totally build something Cryptokitties with NEO -- the only difference is that because there isn't a standard, there isn't a third-party marketplace for these assets. (i.e., there's nothing inherent about NEO that prevents something like Cryptokitties from being built.)
Or potentially genuine mass distrust and dislike of cryptocurrency tomorrow, don't underestimate the cognitive dissonance of a bubble pop?

In my eyes, it's dangerous to crypto that advocates spout absolutisisms about crypto. With a fledgling technology and market, anything is possible, and we should be honest about the fact. Otherwise, you risk blowing up expectations to where a potential crash back to reality gives everyone an irreparable distrust and dislike of crypto anarchists akin to that of Wall Street bankers.

And then the powers that be will mock anarchism for it's corruption and greed, paint the technologist as a devil, and write history books warning of the folly of decentralization. Anarchy is dead, long live anarchy!

So maybe the last part was overblown, but in seriousness, when people lose a lot of money, they get very angry. I'd hate to be the ideology at the receiving end of that anger.
There is a crippled version of IFS (the ECMWF forecast model) which has the data assimilation code removed available [0], thought its licence terms are pretty restrictive for most uses [1] besides pure research (it is, for example, forbidden to use it for personal uses!).

[0] https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OIFS/
[1] https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OIFS/OpenIFS+Licensi...
> It's not obvious to me why the wavelength should be different when an apple is viewed in direct sunlight vs indirect sunlight (shade).

Assuming all light is sourced from the sun, “shade” means the direct light is blocked and all light hitting the object is reflected from other objects. In most cases, that will mean that the incoming mix of wavelengths is different based on what objects in the environment reflect and where they are positioned and how they are lit (direct sun or shade, which makes this recursive). The difference in incoming mix of wavelengths will, for an object that doesn't reflect only a single wavelength, tend to result in a change in the relative intensities in the mix of outgoing wavelengths, which (if color perception didn't correct for illumination) will change the apparent color.

And color perception doesn't completely correct for illumination, though it's usually good enough to associate the same object in daylight vs. shade; this lack of full correction is why lighting tricks can be used to create fairly radical changes in appearance. But those involve combinationsn of lighting differences and illuminated material that aren't common in nature, for the most part.
Good luck! It was a stunningly unremarkable software company that never makes it on Hacker News. Slogged it out, bunch of false starts, ended up going pretty well after a rough first year where it almost blew up and a really rough fifth year where it again almost blew up.
It works iff you don't really do business with people in EU - if after getting this "no" you expect to charge credit cards with EU addresses or shipping goods to EU, then this likely won't fly - it requires you to actually refuse their business, not just get them to click "i'm ok".
> All living beings have some form of consciousness

Event plants, bacteria, and amoebas? You sound very sure – how do you know this?
Liking the product alot. It would be nice if there was a way to title or tag each note so you can remember what the snippets are for and search for them later.
The Target near my apartment in Brooklyn is not giant, but due to population density it has a ton of registers. Over the holidays, the replaced a sizable chunk of these registers with self-checkout kiosks. Although there was a long line to use the self-checkout kiosks, it was a faster and better experience than waiting for a register to open.

More importantly, there were still a lot of people working in this section. People were directing customers to registers, guiding people through checkout, and (my favorite) putting things that people left behind back on shelves immediately. Although it was still hard work, the job definitely seemed preferable to standing behind a register and moving things past the scanner.

I am still confident that short-term automation will improve environments and turn bottom-tier jobs into more productive roles (in Jack-in-the-Box's case, maintenance teams for the kiosks, software developers to code the kiosks). In the debate about minimum wage increases, a lot of people see automation as a negative. It may hurt in the short-term but we will see a major benefit faster than people assume.
> Retrain them before you retrain cyclists.

Why can't we retrain both? Do we have to pick one or the other?
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Traffic lights and roundabouts.
One detail in the video that amused me: https://youtu.be/APqQo8r-_UQ?t=55m17s

He says he saves multiple times (he mentions that he usually does it "at least three times") which I thought would mean that he uses multiple different saves but instead he seems to only have one single save that he overwrites multiple times. So in the end he just increases the wear of the underlying flash and has no backup. Not to mention that it increases the change of having a save being interrupted in case of power failure. That's bold.

Frankly the fact that he doesn't appear to have even a single backup save on what appears to be an otherwise empty memory card makes me question the authenticity of that whole ordeal. On the other hand I guess I shouldn't presume to understand the mindset of somebody who's willing to go through something like this.
As a company with a website, there is no obligation for you to serve customers from around the world. Just restrict yourself to customers within a certain region (e.g. by checking where their credit card is registered, or geoblocking based on IP if you don't take payments) that does not include the EU and you don't have to care about EU law.
Tree falls in the forest etc etc ...

“The Sahara is as large as the United States, and there are very few weather stations,” he added. “So it’s ridiculous to say that this is the first, second, third time it snowed, as nobody would know how many times it has snowed in the past unless they were there.”

"Not observed by a human" does not mean "did not happen". Humans measured things where humans lived or traveled during almost all of their existence. E.g., see Giarabub[1].

The methods we have today of inferring past events from remaining physical indicators tend to mash together decades to hundreds of years of events.

One must keep these things in mind.

[1]: http://climate.unur.com/ghcn-v2/124/62176.html
The Bronnie Ware book about this is great (Top 5 Regrets of the Dying), summarised here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/palliative-nurse-sha...