skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with you to some degree, we have the system we have. It has somehow survived through both tax-and-spend Democratic and fiscally conservative Republican administrations. It had to be fixed. So what say what you will about the current administration, they managed to get something done that even some of the most tax-hungry politicians in the nation previously failed to do.
Classic RAND Papers
1) Yes. The lawyer can only know the client is guilty if the client tells him.

2) Yes.

3) Yes. The difficulty arises when the lawyer has been provided with evidence by the client which supports the charge.

Ultimately it's the lawyers job to present the client's case, however implausible. However, "I did it but I want to pretend I didn't" isn't a case, it's a lie.
I could admittedly get rid of a lot of clothing that I rarely if ever use or could readily substitute something else for. But I still probably have a dozen different pieces of footwear I need for different purposes and a closet worth of clothing that I genuinely use on a regular basis for work, around the house, and hiking/watersports/skiing/other activities across multiple seasons from sub-zero to nineties F temperatures.
Shhh, don't spread the word about Burbank.
Yep. With a few exceptions, Postfix is the MTA I've used pretty much everywhere for the last 10 years or so.
That's why I advocate drastically reduced sentencing across the board but enough for the punishment to fit the crime. For example, it's not "violent" to put a first time offender in solitary for 1-2 days. For first time offenders of non-violent crimes, I would argue that would be more than enough to scare them straight and it wouldn't not be violent or enough to do any harm.
OP: I'm talking about hype cycles on topics such as: Bots, AI, or if your memory serves: Google Glass, Pokemon-Go, Chat Roulette etc.

Many of these topics had real events behind them, but then they dominate & persist in news circles (esp tech) for a long time.

Is this because:

1) Readers are more interested in these topics (even after a while) & thus such news outperforms financially

or

2) They randomly get above a threshold, then the new outlets follow each other, and then readers feel they need to keep reading these stories, to keep in the loop.

3) Other
How to Publish Artifact to Maven Central via Gradle
Alternate headline: Trump policies enable Apple to re-invest in US jobs and economy.
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https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

Employers do not directly have to pay employees the minimum wage if the tips earned from the work add up to the minimum wage.
Trump is gonna take credit for this, is he not?
Very focused on getting shit done, while trying to help you build appropriate mental models to what's going on. Towards the end of the course, some more theory.

Multiple times, the prof said things like "the theory says this shouldn't work, but it does, so we use it." (Thinking about his perspective on the practical reality surrounding the "curse of dimensionality" (i.e. that it's not a curse)
Exactly: these cars don't sell because they're unreliable; both the Ford Focus and Fiesta are on Consumer Reports worst car list of 2017. Unfortunately there are a few American SUVs on that list as well. So caveat emptor.
Some people make the (good? I don't know) argument that corporate taxes are distortionary anyways, and shuffling that tax burden over to income has the same effect with fewer side effects.
I have to imagine there is a business reason for the slow adoption of languages/runtimes in Lambda. They're still only supporting Node v6.10 as well, which is far outdated. They should at least be keeping up with LTS for security sake.

Before releasing Go support, it felt like they're simply creating arbitrary friction to keep people on their platform. By expecting your code to export a handler, rather than listen on a port, that has a specific signature, you end up coupling yourself more to the AWS platform. But it also causes a ton of friction for adoption, since testing is more difficult than it should be.

Now with the release of Go, it feels even more that they're putting up these arbitrary gates without a rhyme or reason. How come Go can listen on a port, but other runtimes need to export a handler function? Why did they choose to rely on a Go-specific protocol instead of a common one?

It's frustrating, because I really want to use it (from an ops perspective), but I think my team is going to ditch the proof of concepts we've done because of the friction we've experienced. I'm sure there are valid engineering reasons for these choices, I just don't see them.
So how, as a customer, could I actively tip my wait staff and not the establishment?

Will this lead to the abolishment of tipping in general?
What I don't understand is why they don't use eminent domain authority to take these properties.

It seems this project is exactly what eminent domain is for.
Even though I hate taking peoples property this project is public and benefits all.

I do wonder about using bonds that are paying out from the Highway Fund. So if this fails the highway fund still has to pay and that will mean less future money for road maintenance.
All of their profits is what the socialist would respond. :) They produce nothing without the working class. Managers can earn a modest salary.
Aren't we already seeing this in developing countries? Zimbabwe for instance has a great peer-to-peer lending platform. Currently backed by a bank, but what if the currency was simply tokens pegged to fiat such as USD by another company? (Similar to what Cryptopia has done with NZDT.)

Another example I've seen in real world use is the "startup" retail banks popping up throughout Africa that have no offices, and are purely operated over mobile.

The lack of regulation in these countries have lead to massive leaps in innovation in the banking space. Seriously, you can read articles about it - but until you go to countries like Nigeria or Kenya and try it out, it's incredibly impressive.

I'm not a major investor in crypto anything, I think most, if not all, coins created right now are completely pointless - but blockchain as a public, auditible ledger and fiat-backed crypto/tokens I think we'll see some very cool innovation that own't overhaul the banking industry completely. There's too many smart people in banking to get "caught out".

However I do think we'll see some new contenders in the space as the industry begins to break down into smaller units. And that'll be good for everyone.
Facebook issue warnings/censor to author retroactively for speech made years ago
Cool, thanks for the information!
All of the elecom models are available both wired and wireless
Create RDF linked data web apps
a 40 minute flight between the two destinations in economy is not at all miserable, certainly not miserable enough to justify the expense on this project that will never be completed.
Translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=h...
> If the environmental impact is a concern (not that laying tracks and punching holes through the Central Valley is free of impact), then buy new Teslas instead. Lots of them. At $35,000 per Model 3, you could buy 1.8 million new Teslas using that money.

The main justification for HSR is reducing freeway construction and maintenance costs that will be needed to keep up with expected travel without it that will be reduced by it.

Not dealing with pollution impacts of travel or buying cars for the freeway travel, but reducing the freeway construction and maintenance costs.

Buying a bunch of Teslas doesn't address that at all. (Actually, the state buying more cars increases the problem.)
Ask HN: Decline and fall of major internet players in our lifetime?
Do you think we will see the decline and fall of Google, Facebook, Amazon (and the like) in our lifetime?
God, I hope it does.

Tipping is just a way for restaurant owners to exclude the cost of labor from their listed prices.
"Corporations are people, too!" as in, the people who hold their wealth in the form of corporations and generate their income from capital. Realize that it's not just an inane phrase, they are talking about themselves. They want to escape being taxed and they always succeed. Everybody else can pay, please.

What's incredible is that there are many more of regular people than these "people," yet regular people do not act cohesively to form a political bloc so they bicker amongst themselves.
I thought one of the bars for being mental competence _was_ something about being competent enough to play a role in your legal defense?

This seems more like the court thought he was fine and the lawyer decided the guy was mentally incompetent himself, which, given the article lists several other mistakes the lawyer apparently made, this sounds like he just was kind of a crappy/lazy lawyer.

In case anyone thinks I'm not considering the difficulties faced by overworked public defenders, I here ya, but the lawyer that screwed all this up was retained by his parents.

> He briefly acted as his own lawyer until his parents hired Larry English to defend him, and even then, the defendant continued to file motions in his own defense. English repeatedly advised McCoy to plead guilty in exchange for life in prison, but McCoy repeatedly refused, insisting that he was innocent. Finally, English embarked on a strategy of conceding his client's guilt, in hopes of avoiding the death penalty."
Paying their taxes and investing in technology and scientific progress would help workers even more.
Why can't you just ask the reader to add the "From:" email address used in blog emails to their Contacts at the time they sign up for emails? Don't emails with recognized "From" addresses end up in Primary by default?
The other nice thing about C++ is that you can specify which standard you want to use -std=c++11, etc. when compiling. I hope AWS Lambda supports C++ someday too.

Anyway, I like Go too and agree it's very stable and while it's not as formal as C++ (ISO standards) it's been very stable. Give it 10 years to know for certain.
Counter point -- Tipping is a way to insure excellent service on return visits to service oriented establishments.
Depends on the state. In California, they have to be paid at least minimum wage regardless.
> Nothing was happening in the PHP language for freaking three years.

To be fair that's not because they where sleeping, but because they attempted to do something that proved too hard (unicode support) and they had to abandon it. That's why PHP skipped version 6.
Yes, the Burbank airport is very nice and convenient. So is the Johnny Wayne one in Santa Ana. A bit further out, I also love the Palm Springs airport.
Both. Here's some data from the late Prof. MacKay:
http://www.withouthotair.com/Errata.html#284 :

" 1 acre produces 122 bushels of corn per year, which makes
122 x 2.6 US gallons of ethanol, which at 84000 BTU per gallon would
mean a power per unit area of {0.2 W/m^2}; however, the energy
inputs required to process the corn into ethanol amount to
83,000 BTU per gallon; so 99% of the energy produced is used up by
the processing, and the net power per unit area is about
{0.002 W/m^2}. The only way to get significant net power from the
corn-to-ethanol process is to ensure that all co-products are
exploited; including the energy in the co-products, the net power per
unit area is about 0.05 W/m^2."
A super-illegal drive isn't really useful for comparison. With moderate traffic you'd be lucky to average 60mph for the entire trip from SF to LA.

Regardless, I'm not talking about what's ideal or perfect; even if HSR could get me there in 2-3 hours, that's not a meaningful enough improvement over 3-3.75 hours to justify a $64B+ price tag in my book.
So, I assume you never tip when traveling?
> I am interested in seeing where this goes. if we do see wage growth from it, it provides evidence to a lot of questions about how the cost of healthcare was squeezing out our wages. if it doesnt, then a lot of complaints about corporations will have a lot more evidence.

Spoiler alert: It's a remake. Trickle-down doesn't work.

Investing significant money in businesses doesn't create more work. Increasing demand creates more work. How do you do that? You put more money into the hands of consumers, which is the opposite of what this bill did.
I don't think anyone got rich assuming that viewers demand high quality content.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16156145
The Real Adam Smith
What if they can't make a profit?

It's a particularly American approach to recycling to assume that the onus on sorting / separating should not fall on the individual generating the trash. Other countries don't take this approach - instead, they place a high premium on disposal costs of unsorted trash, and require that anything you try to recycle be carefully sorted.
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow
More cars, or at least more car trips,—independent of whether they need drivers or what kind of powerplant they have—is, in fact, exactly the problem at which HSR is directed.
Only if you see the exact same wait staff, places with high turnover make past tipping meaningless.
To me it feels like they took the sugar from Scala but not the meat. All the simple examples of monads like Future work but with their own ad-hoc solutions (e.g. async/await) so there's no way to implement the reusable library functions that give them their real power. Direct pattern matching is there but the generic tree traversals that give you the real power of ADTs are impossible. All the one-page examples of "Scala power" are there but if you look closely they all fall apart once you try to expand them into the things you do in a full-size codebase.
What is the problem with that? Hard disk space is getting cheaper.
:P
Wow 3 years for that sounds particularly harsh. I'm sorry that happened but I'm glad you feel better for the experience.
I'm surprised that pickled onions didn't get a mention.

A standard pickled recipe looks a lot like the onion juice ingredients: onions, vinegar, salt - but commonly includes some sugar (I suspect this is historically a recent addition, given the age of this preserving method and the scarcity of sugar more than a century ago).

Pickled onions (and eggs, herrings, etc) are commonly seen in British pubs - scooped out and sold by the unit as a salty comestible in the age old tradition of making your customers thirstier.
And the wait staff has so much control over restaurant cleanliness, food quality and temperature etc etc etc...
Short term stays are not so bad, the person is stressed, but not showing signs of any real disturbance. The longer term stays are where you see the worst. You will generally notice that the person is just off in some way. They may stare into space rather than at you when you talk to them, pace around and mumble, have twitches or obsessive tics, etc. You will immediately notice who has been there awhile. Some simply have a psychotic break and this is quite obvious as well.

I'll also say that I was speaking rhetorically, you generally can't visit a prison and certainly not the hole. This should be allowed though, people need to see what this does to people.
How/why did they learn that? On their own? Or do Hospital and Insurance enterprise systems allow them to run raw SQL on their DBs?
Yes, but difficult to get a date.
I seem to receive worse service in the US than in almost any other country I've been to.

Other countries: you get the waiter's attention when you want to order something. Normally, it goes smoothly and they leave you alone.

US: the waiter comes over every five minutes to check on you, annoying you and interrupting conversations. They pretend to be nice and overly friendly, and often flirt with you for money. Alternatively, they might forget to check on you, but social norms engendered by the behavior of the group that do make it seem rude to wave or call to get their attention.

Worst of all, the waiter is incentivized to turn over as many tables as possible so they do everything in their power to hurry you through your meal.
I don't understand your point. The current law isn't clear enough, and should have been amended a long time ago to make this a non issue. That this case might work isn't the point, this case shouldn't be necessary.
Ironically, they've probably ended up there for their persistently terrible automatic transmissions. Silly mistake for an American company to be making...
You also don't have shareholders to answer to.
The intermediate stops bite both ways, though: if you're on a train that stops several times in the central valley, and in SJ, I'd expect your travel time to be a bit more than 45 minutes.

Why not spend (a small fraction of) that money to improve Caltrain and service between Caltrain and the central valley in a different manner?
And men would lose $1.2B. Why the gendered title? Why not "Waiters would lose $5.8B in earned tips"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16165875
Bitcoin’s energy usage is huge – we can't afford to ignore it
This discussion is missing context. The whole reason that Apple has to pay taxes on foreign income is because unlike almost every other developed nation the US has a worldwide tax system. Almost every other nation has a territorial tax system. The rest of the world with their territorial system taxes income earned within that country, the US rather taxes income worldwide, regardless of where it is earned.

For example, if a British company earns income in Germany, its pays German taxes on its German income. But if a US company earns income in Germany it pays both German taxes and US taxes.

What is little known about this tax bill is that it normalizes our tax system with the rest of the world by moving to a territorial tax system. This is not about Apple avoiding tax on profit earned in the US, they will continue to pay US taxes, they won't pay taxes on income earned outside of the US going forward. [0] That means that there won't be any more hordes of overseas profits. And means the end of those tax inversions or corporate inversions you have been hearing about. [1]

So now that foreign profits aren't going to be taxed, something needed to be done with all the profits generated under the old system. The 23% repatriation tax is a compromise between the new rate of effectively 0% and the old rate of 39%. This BTW happens to be very close to the OECD, the developed world's, average tax rate of 24%.

Edit:
As was astutely pointed out below the US only pays additional taxes to the US if their US tax bill was higher than their German one. And they paid the difference between to two to the US.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430290

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11429859
There's usually an option to just convert the axis from absolute $$ to % change from the earliest data point.

Plus, most professionals aren't going to ever look at one particular stock, like an Apple trader will have Apple, a tech sector ETF and the S&P500. As soon as you add a second series the y-axis _has_ to revert to a percentage change. They'll all start at the same point, which will be labeled 0%, and then diverge.
From the article:

"In his opening chapter, “Birth”, Varese compares the initiation rituals that are common to almost every mafia organization. He draws from interviews, autobiographies and police wiretap transcripts in which the gangsters do most of the talking. It is remarkable how close in style, substance and imagery the initiation ceremonies are across cultures – the religious symbolism, the use of tattoos, the omertà, the misogyny and sealing of membership through blood are present among the Yakuza of Japan, the Russian mafia, the Chinese triads and the Sicilian Mafia."

It seems to me mafias are basically tribal societies. That is not surprising as human psychology is basically designed for tribal existence. With complex civilized societies, humans are expected to integrate into something much larger than a simple tribe. However, civilizations often have spaces in which tribes can start up and survive, such as cults and criminal mafias.
> What I don't understand is why they don't use eminent domain authority to take these properties.

They will. That's not the issue.

The issue is political/legal fights on other bases.
It's a peeve of mine when analysts refer to a tax cut "costing" the government money. This is a deliberate dishonest re-framing (not your invention, but I blame those who invented it as trying to mislead people.) One could equally frame is as the taxpayers "recovering" $1.5 trillion that would have normally been taken from them. A better framing is "is expected to reduce tax revenues by XXX amount."

Not to mention that projecting tax cut "losses" is a game of prediction anyway. Taking that projection, and then backing out "how many HSRs will we have saved" makes even less sense than taking the projection itself as gospel, because the HSR is also a projection, and also paid out over time, and also subject to inflation, etc etc.

IOW this kind of analysis has the surface qualities of pointing out an interesting comparison but I don't feel it's conveying anything meaningful.
Sure. I expect water soluble flavors aren’t moving anywhere until the leaf is dry. And maybe the volatiles are the bad part of the flavor, not the good part.

and in the case of rosemary mixing can create flavor dynamics that don't exist with one or the other.

I don’t know why this amused me. I’m imagining selling small batch single malt rosemary to hipsters. Wanna go into business?
Rail doesn't run on batteries; the track is electrified, which overall gives you a lower environmental impact than manufacturing a ton of Tesla batteries.
Well it happened on his watch, Obama never made it happen. So why not?
Yes, but in 5, 10 years they will be just like the games discussed in the presentation.
> So what say what you will about the current administration, they managed to get something done that even some of the most tax-hungry politicians in the nation previously failed to do.

This is not terribly unique. We had a very similar (slightly more generous) repatriation tax holiday during the Bush Administration, in 2004.
At least one of those is far closer to reality than the other.
To highlight who the biggest losers are -- the subset of workers that already face wage discrimination would face 80% of the tip loss.
The article doesn't mention the sourcing of pop depictions as such. However,Goodfellas for example made use of FBI tapes and the word of a former mafioso.
>Why the gendered title?

I think you know why.
There's a lot of reasons as to why this is the case, but the bulk of it is labor.

* Trains ultimately require close to 1 staff member per 4 passengers, much more than a budget airline.

* Unions and legacy salaries further add to those personnel costs. The average Amtrak employee ($75K/yr) nearly makes as much as the average commercial pilot ($77K/yr).

* Since train journeys take longer, the labor cost per trip is considerably higher, especially for long haul routes. When you're doing a long trip like Chicago to Los Angeles, a train takes a lot longer than a plane, so you're paying for yet more labor for that trip. 44 hours of labor for the train versus 4 hours for the plane.

There's a good video that breaks down the costs that make up your train ticket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA&t=29s
EPI gets a large chunk of funding from unionized labor, so it shouldn't be surprising if most of their findings are pro unionized labor.
This is not true for every state. Oregon, among others, pays minimum wage to servers and other tipped employees.
The people of Fresno are simply not numerous enough to justify a major infrastructure project to get them to SF and LA.
Always tip in cash. Does it mean employers can't still try and take the cash? No, but at least it's more difficult than if they pull it out of the credit card transaction.
It's like the person who goes to the doctor and says "Make me young again, and oh I don't have insurance"