skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In reality the tip the customer leaves is dependent on the weather, the gender, race, and attractiveness of the server, the noise level of the restaurant, and the number one determination: the amount of the check!

Plus other factors...

Quality of service only makes up 1-5% of the amount of the tip received.

Furthermore, even if tips "insure excellent service," since tip pooling is standard operating procedure, then it doesn't accomplished that goal.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/abol...
iCloud in China and Encryption
This is exactly from his tax bill that got passed, so yes he will. I'm not a fan of Trump, but every single global US company will be paying billions of taxes to the US government for the 2018 fiscal year. It also means that they will be able to move money back into the US with no penalties anymore. I'm actually surprised at the constitutionality of this, taxing companies going back to 1986, if I remember correctly.
I've had reverse experience. Service was better in US than UK.
Hey this is great. Will they then advertise (at bare minimum) a salary range that has been budgeted for the role for applicants to decide if it's worth their time interviewing for, or can we expect a continuation of the "DOE" nonsense?
Yet somehow they managed to avoid paying much tax elsewhere as well. Strange.
Such a value that real-world use case transactions don’t require the purchase / selling of a significant portion of all ether in the market, I’d say.
Because businesses tend to make very poor decisions regarding these things, and they have more power than the employees.
You think you don't need to test your code or ensure that it compiles consistently? And you try to teach this to jr devs?

You must be a joy to work with...
Sorry, that total should be-

- Average customer has zero ML

- Nearly no customers are using any ML (difference between median and mode)

- Of those that are using, very few care about better than human perf
Are you under the impression that a sizable portion of those currently unemployed have the skills that Apple looks for in their employees? Or are you suggesting they start up a pastry shop, carwash and clothing conglomerate?
The value of Event Sourcing
Exactly right. Why would a for-profit company work to improve the lives of the population that birthed them? I'm merely making the point that we can do better than this.
How Much Would an iPhone Cost If Apple Were Forced to Make It in America?
> I'm actually surprised at the constitutionality of this, taxing companies going back to 1986, if I remember correctly.

Why are you surprised? The power to tax income regardless of source is in black and white.
Why not convert the data from csv to json and serve the json blob from your object store or CDN (if this solution is immutable)? No need for the API interface, just gzip the json blob and have the client retrieve it entirely.

No need for an app, app server, and the json can be cached with the rest of your content. Unless I’m missing something?
American restaurant service is by no means good, despite waiters/waitresses supposedly being motivated by tips. It's expected that people are paying the tip regardless, so there really isn't any motivating factor anymore.

America has the problem where calling a waiter over is rude, so you have to wait for them to come over to your area. I can't count the number of times I've been waiting 15-20 minutes just to start my order, and this is often in restaurants that are fully staffed and barely busy. I don't encounter this elsewhere.
Here's what a true "expert" would say: "nobody knows".

Anyone who claims to understand the complex nature of human behavior is either a fraud or inexperienced (therefore not an "expert").

There are so many factors in play and not one is deterministically the single dominant reason that these things happen. "it depends".

For example, Google Glass got hyped up because Google--one of the most powerful tech companies in the world--was behind it. So was Pokemon Go. Pokemon already had a powerful brand.

Chat Roulette got hyped up because it was viral--it actually had tons of usage--this one is completely different from google glass because there clearly was demand, but like many other random/anonymous apps they failed to figure out the solution to keep the service quality up.

AI is a bit different, because it was almost a perfect storm of all kinds of things happening simultaneously. It was part artificial pr (like google glass) and part substance (Google did succeed in improving their AI engine so that it actually beat the Go master, and they also open sourced Tensorflow, etc.)

Bots was mostly hyped up by VCs and entrepreneurs who got sick of platform dependence. Because mobile has become the dominant platform and iOS appstore and google play store de facto duopoly, the startup guys wanted to get away from that and tried so hard to "make bots happen", but it was flawed from the beginning because these guys are supposed to be building products for users, whereas the whole bots movement was focused on the VCs and founders themselves instead of users.

So yeah, it depends.
Obvious attempt at a cash grab, as nobody is following Leo Laporte's productions. TWiT uploads on YouTube often have a few hundred views after months, nobody would confuse this tiny little podcaster with Twitter the social network.
If there's a double taxation treaty for corporate income in place. I have no idea, but it's somewhere in https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/germany.pdf ...
Amazon launches autoscaling service on AWS
model shape is a hyperparameter ;)
But then add operating costs and debt service over 30 years.
That would require making peanuts resistant to Aspergillus sp. which would probably involving adding, not removing genes (but I am not a geneticist...).
>> Please don't speak for the "majority" of us without backing it up with polling
data at minimum.

I'm not speaking for the majority of trans women. I'm speaking of them. So
when I say that "my description covers a strong majority of trans women" I
mean that the traits I list describe a majority of trans women, in my
experience and in my opinion. I don't mean that the trans women I describe in
this way would agree with my description of those traits, or that a majority
of them would share my views.

If you ask me, because I also have a bit of background in various trans
communities, I think the majority of trans women would not accept the traits I
ascribe to them. I did warn that my comment would probably be controversial.
In trans cirlces, it would most definitely be.

>> Often I find these lines of thought to be thinly veiled attempts at othering
trans folk, erasing their identity, and forcing them out of gender spaces
entirely. If transgender women are to stay out of women's spaces while not
being accepted in men's spaces, where do they belong?

While there is still need for gendered spaces? We belong in our own spaces.
Personally, I'd feel a lot safer and not just a lot less awkward in a space
meant for trans women than in one meant for cis women, or even all women.

I don't have to speak in the hypothetical. I have actuall been in trans
spaces. Once as a representative of my country at a TGEU meeting, which was
how I imagine heaven to be, a couple of days where I was between the only
people in the world who can really get me, other trans women and men (the few
cis people were friendly enough to not spoil it although I wasn't sure why we
had to have a cis facilitator, but no matter).

Another time I went to a meeting of an LGBT group at the university were I
studied. This was a meeting to discuss trans matters and it was open to
everyone, but it was preceded by a closed meeting, only for people who
identified as trans. And that was nice also.

Finally, I've been a member of a local support group for trans people, for a
couple of years, before I started working and didn't have any time to attend
the meetings anymore.

All those were places were I've felt I can really belong and where I don't
have to explain anything, although sometimes this had more to do with passing
privilege and women with less heteronormative presentation were less welcome,
I'm very sad to say.

We need more spaces like that. For trans women in tech (whose numbers are
legion, btw) we need a special place just to discuss our very specific needs
and experiences. A community for cis women in tech is just not going to be
that, I'm afraid.

And that's besides the fact that I fear we'll just end up making things
awkward for the cis women also.
If your spouse asks you do something ethically dubious (like enter into a tax avoidance scheme), does that make it OK?
The unfortunate corollary to this is, but when you do finally scale, the care goes out the window.
Can you provide a source for your quotation?

I have legitimately spent fifteen minutes trying to find a source, but I haven't managed yet in Internet searches, lists of "ridiculous quotes" from McConnell, nor Wikiquote.

Thank you.
What's the point of repatriating this money?
Another advantage is that usually when you hold a mouse, your hand is in pretty much the same position the whole time, whereas with a trackball (particularly the larger kind), you can roll the ball with whichever of your finger tips, or the long side of your fingers, or even the flat of your hand. I've no doubt that for me, this flexibility leads to much better long-term comfort.
I lived in France for years, have visited China maybe ten times for several weeks each, and traveled around other European countries. None of these places has a tipping culture for restaurants, and all of them have excellent service despite that.
These are good points, and I think it's important to consider the worst case scenarios, because history does prove that the unexpected can happen in politics.

I only challenged the point, because even a 30% haircut seems better to me than the inherent volatility, price manipulation by shady exchanges, difficulty and risk of storing safely, lack of recuse in case of theft and key loss seem like bigger threats for most people than those from banks and governments (especially in the west) when considering a long term store of value.
ICONDROP, a desktop app for searching and using free SVG icons
They do pay taxes elsewhere. They are subject to each country's tax laws that they make income in. You are probably referring to the Irish/EU arrangement, but that has little bearing in Japan or China or wherever else China makes money.
The Citylab article provides 7 Reasons U.S. Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should.

That doesn't explain why you believe a non-US comparison is misguided, rather it supports the notion of a non-US comparison.

US infrastructure projects cost more because the US isn't Japan or Europe would be a neat summary.
Binary Trees, Recursion, Tail Call Optimization Example in JavaScript
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Well hopefully they well distribute the rest as a special dividend to the stock owners
Go's lack of commercial support for previous versions is a non-issue. There's generally little reason why you can't just bump to the next minor version number. Go's 1.x promise means any code written for 1.1 will work on 1.9 and so on.
Scientists racing to save vital medical isotopes imperiled by shabby reactors
Well, if it's simply returned to the shareholders, then the shareholders will invest it. Economy wide it makes no difference, the money will be invested
> The Citylab article...doesn't explain why you believe a non-US comparison is misguided

So you skimmed one article and didn't read the other. Here:

"The Times observed construction on site in Paris, which is building a project similar to the Second Avenue subway at one-sixth the cost."

Most of the factors in the CityLab piece are uniquely American. We pay more for the same infrastructure. Something that makes economic sense for one country may not for America, just as a tractor may make sense for a farmer at $100,000 but not at $10 million. Our inflated costs throw out of whack the balance of costs and benefits that makes certain infrastructure value adding abroad.

TL; DR We can't automatically assume infrastructure that works abroad works here.
Correct. I read the slides as more of a draft technology proposal rather than a launch presentation for the product.
Nintendo’s bringing DIY robots and more to the Switch using cardboard
from what I am told, my taxes were lowered - thus you would be factually wrong. but I'll wait and see if that is true when I fill out my taxes.

beyond that, I have seen me and many others see immediate returns. your position is already starting from a hole, but I am a wait and see kind of person.

I hope it works out, you should too, unless you are one of those people who just want to see the world burn types.
Also quite good is the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
Yes, that is correct but since the US had until recently the highest corporate tax in the OECD, the US corporation will would almost always pay more taxes on German income than a German corporation would on German it’s German income. Giving the US corporation a systematic disadvantage unless they kept the money out of the US. But all this has now changed.
They are not moving away from XAML to Composition. Composition will be just a "backend" for XAML. Some XAML controls already use Composition and you don't even notice it.
Do you know that CHP policy differs? Both operate under the same statutes.
The fun part about this is that it’s averraged over an entire pay period. That means you can end up working many hours for a marginal wage of almost nothing, as long as there are a few good hours mixed in.
> Or do Hospital and Insurance enterprise systems allow them to run raw SQL on their DBs?

There's no good reason not to, since if your security and auditing systems are correctly implemented, limited-permission DB users doing direct SQL have the same security and accountability as someone using a specialized app.
If this is true, then it could also lead to a reshuffling of who becomes a tipped worker. People who are attractive are currently incentivized to become tipped workers because they are relatively well-compensated in a tipped job. If tips were to go away (or be pooled), this incentive would become much weaker. Perhaps attractive people would shift from tipped jobs into other jobs, where their attractiveness (be it physical or personality-based) are still effectively compensated. Pharmaceutical sales comes to mind.
I lived in France for a year before moving to the US. Even though French waiters are notorious for having terrible service, I always received excellent service by being very polite to the waiters.

The idea that you are entitled to excellent service because you are paying is pernicious. If you want excellent service, treat people excellently.
That's actually a pretty good argument. More equality. And since - as we know from this wonderful article - men are underepresented in this field it would help getting more men into these jobs. What a great win for diversity.
I wonder how many of these type of headlines of companies investing in America, giving bonuses to workers, stock market and economy roaring, until it breaks the cognitive dissonance out of liberals.
Can this be challenged in a court? Let them pay 15% and then fine them with another 25% for trying to dodge?
- conviction around ideas that are right, but not consensus. Rebel thinking.

- update your mental model with data.

- conversations around what's working, not working.

- one thing about a founder to decide to invest: shadow a founder for a day. Real life better demonstrates true nature of people vs meetings/stories/emails/interviews.

- always think about what can go wrong with your product, strategy, competitive landscape. Extreme alertness.

- if you have a good product, you can fix sales, customer success, marketing, etc. If you have a bad product, even doing everything else write doesn't help.

- Concerned about excess capital in seed markets. Bad companies shouldn't be raising money. Bad for the ecosystem as a whole.
> When I look at my children, I see that they hardly pause anymore. They are always accessible, and almost always busy. The three of them tend to sit in front of a screen — usually alone. I do it sometimes too. Become engulfed in my smartphone, enslaved to my tablet — as a consumer and at times as a producer. I am constantly interrupted on my tablet, interruptions engendered by other interruptions. It is stupid.

Sadly, I've noticed this with myself and friends.

We'll be playing a game together on PS4 and instead of just naturally carrying a conversation during a loading screen, a friend will pick up their phone and check their messages. A break in between plays, and yes, they'll check their messages. Check the score. Check a webpage. Sometimes my friends will literally be distracted from playing the game by checking his phone.

It's not until we're sitting at a table eating food for which all distractions are off the table.

Even when I'm tackling a tough problem like a programming challenge or trying to type a detailed reply, instead of sitting with the problem in my head I find myself trying to quickly distract myself. Instead of giving myself 10 minutes to struggle and think, I'll open a new tab and take a quick break to YouTube or HN.

I have noticed that I'm in that very distracted state, one thing I find helpful is to meditate for 10-20 minutes. Just accept the fact that I'm being 'inefficient' for that time and slow down. Reset. Breathe and let my mind kind of settle. I find that if I keep doing that over a course of a day, I'll find that I'm more productive and able to think about things instead of constantly demand to be distracted.
Microsoft it's already working on Xamarin.Forms for Linux.
Russia Is Building Its Own Internet
The problem is when you have so many people over the retirement age who are being financially supported by a shrinking group of workers.
>This is a deliberate dishonest re-framing

"Dishonest" is a massive overstatement at best.

It's completely reasonable to state that the government has lost $1.5 trillion in revenue, no matter what frame you choose. "Cost" would be one way to refer to that. I suppose I can imagine someone nitpicking that "cost" should refer to only expenditures, but that's an uphill battle against colloquial speech and even some formal usage (an opportunity cost is not an expenditure).

The general argument that taxation itself is theft is stronger than the argument that reduced revenue is only referred to as a cost dishonestly. And that's not saying much.

> Not to mention that projecting tax cut "losses" is a game of prediction anyway.

IIRC, the $1.5 trillion figure is among other things the prediction of the legislators who created the policy when playing by the required legislative rules.
Where did he say anything about low skill labor?

Now you are projecting
This is entirely false. I've even lived abroad in a non-tipping culture and never had bad service in any non-tipping country.

Even if it were true cultural expectations would be the major deciding factor of how employees act.
Its a self full-filling prophecy. Now that you know the budget will expand 50%, your leverage only increases, meaning you can ask for more before eminent domain is used and thus increases budget costs, etc.
I don't remember any time that I've had bad service anywhere in the world. I'm sure I have, but I don't collect that memory and press 'save'. People who have strong opinions on service are too uptight
Perhaps one reason there is no officially-sanctioned, physical torture chamber in the US (as far as we know, at least) is because even the most conservative interpretation of "cruel and unusual punishment" would prohibit such a chamber.
From what I understand, Germany is pretty bad at integrating in immigrants. Example is case is the many Turkish workers.
If they don't really need that money, why not give it to the people that could really use it?

I'm suggesting that capitalism is going to encounter a crisis point sometime in the next decade or two at this rate. It will destroy itself leaving either barbarism or socialism in its wake.
Big Brother on wheels:Why a car company may know more about you than your spouse
Harvard's milliDelta Robot Is Tiny and Scary Fast
Huh, my results are drastically different:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=2048 | base64 | gzip | wc
...
4088 31928 1059085

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=512 count=2048 | xxd -p | gzip | wc ...
5019 33798 1231268

1 megabyte of random data consistently results in ~1 megabyte of compressed base64 text, ~1.2 megabytes of compressed hex.
In the $30,000 to $100,000 range… and no this is not a typo.

Better tooling, more tooling engineers, and that's what it takes to scale.

In the U.S. you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room. In China you could fill multiple football fields.
Excellent service should be the default, and you only lose it by being an asshole; in other words, I'm not paying for the privilege of having to work extra hard just to get decent service.

Literally the only thing you are paying for is service (the services of cooking and waiting on you), otherwise you'd be eating at home.
The worldwide tax law sucks even more for an individual. And it makes absolutely no sense when you’re not even a citizen!
It's been 14 years, which included 8 years of tax-hungry Democratic rule. So it is at least somewhat unique.
So, non-attractive persons are already discriminated by customers and this could level playing field and compensate for what nature messed up. Why is it bad?
You can distribute UWP services on Server, tho! I believe it's just a matter of time when it comes to Desktop, they are just being extremely cautious to implement on the right way.
How to Configure a New Laravel 5.5 Project
Statute of limitations should be a protection against this. Personal income tax has a statute of limitations of 7 years. This is a tax grab going back 30 years.
Okay, so you've got SF <-> LA down. Now give me the calculations for the rest of the 351 city pairings made possible by a system with 27 stops.

HSR doesn't just serve the endpoints, and the passenger volume from that Cartesian set of city pairings vastly exceeds the passenger volume from the endpoints. It's not even in the same ballpark.
But potentially, long term, you will suffer from this approach. Simply because there is no compelling evidence that this approach can work long term. The complexity of real food might not be matched by powder compounds.

I am only trying to warn you. We simply don't know the long term effects yet.
You have the right idea. That's probably what they will do, but not as a dividend (those are taxed as ordinary income). Instead they will buy back stock, reducing the supply of stock and increasing the price. Long term sales of stock incur a 15% tax rate.

I'm not saying this is good, but this is what they will do.
Most employers (especially of cheap labor) will take advantage of their employees to the fullest extent of the law. If stealing tips is legal, there won't be "another restaurant that doesn't do it."

We are talking about owners being legally allowed to pocket money that was given directly to their employees to keep. How can you possibly think actual theft is a "free market" issue?
The same thing happens on UWP. People see XAML and thing that UWP is just that.
https://www.deathwithdignity.org/learn/death-with-dignity-ac...
Air travel serves SF and LA well but the central valley is underserved. They could be better served by the hsr. Not sure if that warrants the cost or not.