skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's worth acknowledging the effects of 401ks as having some downsides for retirement in general. That said, I don't think it's fair to consider it a "significant" downside at face value when the upside of the transaction is that you can leave it to your heirs. For someone who values individual agency and family values that's going to be an upside, for someone who values optimizing around what benefits society at large it's obviously a negative. I might also be wildly misunderstanding you though so please correct me if I've gone off track.
This surprised me:

> It was only through the total dedication of Microsoft Research, Cambridge during 1998-2004, to doing a complete, high quality implementation in both the CLR (including NGEN, debugging, JIT, AppDomains, concurrent loading and many other aspects), and the C# compiler, that the project proceeded.

I didn't realize that it was less a "must-have" and more of a "research and if-possible" task. I wonder how the .NET framework/languages would have changed if they went with type erasure. Would we even still talking about .NET today?
> My UK based company pays taxes in the UK on its profits, but a US company could come in and undercut us with the mechanisms already discussed.

That's why this is a trade war between countries with different tax rates. And they don't even need to have different tax rates. This also isn't any different from sending production to cheaper countries.

Not only that, but this is a basic condition for global trade and globalization.

Countries will compete, and that's good for the world.

> But you can’t play the ‘trade war’ argument when it’s already being abused to the detriment of EU companies and tax payers.

I'll translate that as "less efficient countries refuse to reform and increase efficiency to compete in global markets, so decides to close borders to global markets".

That has had a positive outcome in exactly zero percent of the times it was tried.
> This is rather similar to a tontine, which have been considered highly unsavoury for a long time and are illegal to boot.

Sure, they are similar in that a tontine is considered to be a type of annuity, but a typical annuity does not have the unsavory aspect that other members get more money if I die.

If I murder a fellow member of a tontine, I get more money. In a normal annuity, I would get no benefit.
Unfortunately it's the world we live in now. Unless iOS is so compromised (wouldn't be surprised) that MoviePass can read data from other apps, an app that runs temporarily for me to check into a movie and I can turn location services on/off and see unlimited movies for $8/month is pretty great! Sure, a little more work (few seconds?) to turn location services on/off a few times a month but in general I think it's worth it.

The more value I can get circumventing businesses where the model is to collect and sell data, the better. I love the niche model of pay a little bit of money, get more value back and have the option to be tracked by a device that I control better than a lot of the shady "free" companies (facebook, pinterest, instagram, nextdoor, google, etc)
Glad to see there's an alternative to headless Chrome that's not tied to Google in any way.
>I would gladly accept a world where clang is the one and only.

And luckily you don’t have any saying in such matters.
"in the current climate"

One of the reasons I'm not a big fan of pensions is precisely that it's not "in the current climate", but a persistent problem over the span of decades. Many of the bills that are now compounding to an unignorable size are trainwrecks decades in the making. It isn't just that they were mismanaged today; they were mismanaged in the 200xs, and the 1990s (much harder to see because the stock market was doing really well up until it wasn't), and the 1980s... it's not hard to think that maybe the fact they worked at all was simply another historical accident of the bizarre just-after-WW2 period, rather than any sort of good idea. We seem to lack angels virtuous enough to be honest about the numbers and to resist dipping into the Honkin' Big Pile o' Money.
I remember the second one at Iffley Road. It took 24 years, on a then-decent track: http://bringbackthemile.com/news/detail/my_first_sub_411. If you've run on both cinders and a synthetic track...
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Ooh fun, the Phoebas Cartel. The New Yorker also ran a piece which touched on this a little while back:

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-l-e-d-quanda...
That's anecdotal.

How do you define a great vodka? With blind testing?

If its like beer, then there's a few types of beer and perhaps some spice but its mostly the same.
I think people underestimate the inherent conflict that arises from the complex cultural systems you're talking about. I mean, obviously there is conflict, but I think it's way more intrinsic to our species than most people believe. And the conflict reinforces existing belief structures, stereotypes about outgroup members, and is then used to justify proliferating or escalating the conflict further. I agree with you that tribal constructs like science are a positive social development. And for example Stoicism and Taoism seem to be aimed squarely at reducing the inherent conflict of tribalism. I like the idea of making the costs more visible up front, and would definitely make that a part of the "happiness discovery" process of education.

With respect to creating positive and beneficial social systems, however, I'm personally of the opinion that the basics of social development are already nearly fully enumerated, and I think we're not going to stumble across something new which would do a better job than the things that we already know about. I'd love to be wrong, though. And so if what I'm saying is true, then it would seem to point back to education.

I also have a personal saying that "shared hardship is the key to utopia" but certainly it would seem that education is equally key. Like Will Durant said: "Education is the transmission of civilization". That being said, "One test is worth a thousand expert opinions" and nothing is better at teaching the lesson that war is hell and should not be undertaken lightly than a good old fashioned war (e.g. the Long Peace). Ah, but now here is the main reason I think a human hivemind would truly bring us into a kind of shining Star Trek utopia: I could just share my wartime memories and combat experiences with people that haven't been to war. That would certainly work to turn people off of it. I really kinda went off on a tangent here, sorry!
Dunno, that's about as confusing as pointing out something has a string "type" and then using "type" again to refer to generic type parameter T.

I'm sure someone out there unfamiliar with types thinks it's inconsistent, but it's not really something you think about once you familiarize.
I built one small web-app that required payment processing. I tried out both Stripe and Braintree and actually wound up going with Braintree. I was really surprised but their documentation for integration in a Ruby on Rails app at that time was a lot more complete.
Why China banned the letter 'N'
The big firms tend to have fairly involved campaigns that are a mix of mediums TV, radio, billboard, internet, and so on. Creating the art and media for those, and setting it all up isn't exactly trivial.
Updated the comment to reflect this. :)
Thanks for all the good work.
Will ping you when I move onto that stage for support.
GP didn't mention that the losses were business/deductible losses.
So, how do the two do compare in market share? That is, specifically vs the Braintree product. Is this accurate? https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/payment-processing/bra...

Edit: Get the charge volume point, but 15% of top sites versus less than 1% seems to indicate something. Also, websites added/dropped going negative for Braintree. That can’t be a good thing.
Great point. I'm using it to compare the standard of living in one area against another. But there are lots of other valid questions to ask, like what constitutes the middle band of wealth in the microcosm that is the Bay Area.
Because we tend to classify cancers by which organ was affected, _technically_ eradicating cervical cancer isn't possible without getting rid of the cervix (which you can technically do, but it's major surgery).

However, practically all cervical cancer is caused by HPV. Without HPV cervical cancer would be extremely rare, because it's going to need several quite uncommon random events to coincide, the virus is "deliberately" meddling with the copying mechanics inside cells, that's how a virus propagates, without a virus those changes have to happen entirely by accident, maybe a series of cosmic rays.

So it's not _that_ hyperbolic to say this eradicates the cancer itself.
Huh. All the folks I know bring their libation (beer even sometimes) and even food into the theater.

My wife and I always eat first, then take a small snack in her bag and that's it.

Of course, we don't go to an upscale theater.
> demand evidence of its contribution to the bottom line

If agencies have no access to business metrics, isn't this burden upon the advertiser to evaluate the campaigns in terms of business metrics?

Media agencies have their own kpis of success - a campaign can have a good performance media wise, but have little to no impact on the business.

You can say: "well... blame the creative agency for their poor campaign concept!" ... you can say that... except they work with what they have: a specific brand and a product/service.

No agency controls distribution, pricing, placement, quality, customer service, and many other variables that dictate the success of a campaign.

It's easy to blame agencies because they are outside organizations. You are a pitch of way of cleaning your bad decisions as a brand or marketing manager.

The client is always right, even when the client is wrong.
I'm still holding out hope that, at some point, Apple will release the source code to one or more versions of Classic Mac OS. The commercial value has got to be minimal -- it's been off the market since ~2002, and it's all for a platform that no longer exists -- and there's some very interesting stuff in there, like the nanokernel and 68k JIT, or Macintalk, or AOCE...
> Note: I'm not saying Emirates will pull out because of this, they won't. I'm also NOT against the GDPR and I totally understand the need, I just wish it would be regulated on a more universal level. Same with copyright regulations.

What could be a more universal level than EU that could actually enforce something like GDPR? US is rather anti-privacy these days, which I found interesting as they are extremely individualistic at the same time. The only even remotely suitable body is WTO, and that won't happen.
I don't generate much sympathy over folks having a hard time with access to first world luxuries.

The resources being used up to power MoviePass, so people can have deals on a novelty experience that they need to keep getting a hit from or they'll.... oh right it's just movies. almost entirely cliche and repetitive after 60 years of figuring out the medium.

"Game changer". Wow your life sounds rough.
The end of the article we're commenting on is literally: "here's my wife's Honda Metropolitan scooter. She wants it to go faster than 40 mph. So I have these two little JFS 100 jet engines and I am thinking how to put them on the scooter."
We're still talking about Java, which does type erasure. Oracle has really been phoning it in for many years, and despite that the platform is still going strong. Killing large, entrenched platforms is not easy.

Windows remains 800lb gorilla on the desktop, and C# is Microsoft's recommended environment on it. It's hardly surprising that .NET remains relevant.
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Did they really have to split the library into generic/non generic? I think Java handled that much better.

It's been more than a decade since I last used C#, so excuse me if I recall incorrectly.
The quantities of money are so low, and the deal I'm getting back is so good I barely care. Then again, I was paying 30/month for moviepass when it just came out years ago.

The sad part is that AMC doesn't have an unlimited plan. Growing up in France I had the UGC illimite pass[1]. Moving to the US killed my movie-going habits from twice a week to maybe once every other month. Then of course moviepass came along and I was confused at how cheap it was. I mean, can't we have a regular pass for 50/month no imax from AMC and call it a day? Someone, either the studios, AMC, or me, is brain-dead and I can't figure out which one it is.

[1] https://www.ugc.fr/les-offres-ugc-illimite.html -- it still exists which means this business model has proven to make sense in France for at least 15 years.
Bonds work differently from annuities, and are vastly more expensive per desired dollar amount of fixed income (provided you don't care about your children's inheritance).
>In MI you can drive a vehicle that burns tires and is lubricated with whale oil as long as it has mud flaps.

Picturing this monstrosity gave me a good, solid laugh.
No, those are two completely separate things.
From Apple: "When Location Services is active, a black or white arrow icon appears in the status bar."

If Waze is using it for up to 40 minutes after traveling, you need to decide if you want to know where the cops are or if you want Google to know where you are.
I ran FreeBSD on my home and work desktops (and most of my servers) for almost 10 years. I use a Mac these days, but I still have a soft spot for FreeBSD on the desktop.

For Dropbox on FreeBSD, I found just installing the CLI (pkg install dropbox-api-command) and then calling "dropbox-api sync" in cron ever 10 minutes was good enough.
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People going to theaters is on the decline. If MoviePass reverses that trend they will have shown their value. I'm going to wager they're at a tipping point.
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Hmm, I bet the auction process could use a blockchain.
The real answer, a little more than the people around you. Here's a simple example, the upper middle class in Manhattan will need enough to keep their lifestyle plus however much more so they are not at the bottom of the social class. Let's guess $350,000 a year. Now go to Nigeria where the per capita GNP is $1,200 a year and you give a person $5000 a year then that person would jump up with joy.

There's not one number. The number is relative to where you live.

Here's a quote I like:

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." A. Einstein

It doesn't fit 100% but you get the idea.
We first started fiddling with Clang for Chrome in late 2010:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/01/clang.h...

The original work was just finding bugs in the codebase and compiler. It's gone so far!
About 36 years ago, my parents bought some first generation energy saving lamps. One of them is still in use above her dinner table.
Thanks for the history lesson
Some of the smartest people I've met grew up in the midwest. Your comment is part of the problem: it paints a large, diverse region with a single derogatory brush, and it additionally hints that everyone who disagrees with the standard bay area political perspective must be uneducated, if not outright malicious. This kind of thinking is what these VCs are trying to escape.
This is a result of 2008. ~3/5th of school districts are spending less per student today than they were in 2008 [0], and some are just now starting to crawl out of the Great Recession. There just aren't the resources to employ good admins, teachers, social workers, etc. in most of the US.

[0]https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/a-punishi...
So why do people keep building latency sensitive things in the JVM? And then they manage to get hugely popular?

Cassandra is a constant struggle with the GC. I’d guess the cost of running it is at least an order of magnitude greater compared to if it had been implemented in c++ or something more sensible.
I think that's the thing people are upset about: Many of these deceptive practices are not illegal, and probably should be. The EU has a good start with their new data privacy legislation; the US needs to adopt that.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "split the library," but what Microsoft did do is introduce generic versions of many popular and essential classes. For example, the untyped ArrayList became Collection<T>, List<T>, etc. Microsoft did this to retain backward compatibility with existing code.
Java didn't handle it much better, they simply chose a different tradeoff. They chose to implement generics via type erasure, which basically means List<String> and List are the exact same classes at runtime.

.NET chose to implement specialised generics. Many people think that is a better tradeoff.
The US is particularly bad but there is no nation in the world where the telecom system is entirely secure against all threats. SMS adds an unnecessary trusted third party to 2FA, something that really should be a two-party system.
Have a look at the total fees for your account/index funds. My experience is that they are not always competitive with the lowest fees in the free financial markets. (3 basis points for Schwab S&P 500 index).

If your company is small or your benefits person clueless, you may have worse funds available to you than in the taxable brokerage world.
Wow. What a mess!

Super interesting read though! :)
You’re not changing the world
https://i.imgur.com/uPnlHlq.png

Ok, its 11 pages, which according to http://niram.org/read/ should take 32 minutes to read, can be updated at any time, and contains such language as

You agree to indemnify and hold MoviePass, its officers,
directors, shareholders, predecessors, successors in interest,
employees, agents, subsidiaries and affiliates, harmless from
any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including
attorneys' fees), made against MoviePass by any third party
due to or arising out of or in connection with your use of the
MoviePass Service or Site.

and

MoviePass's obligations, if any, with regard to its products
and services are governed solely by the agreements pursuant
to which they are provided, and nothing on this Site should be
construed to alter such agreements.

These kind of terms could have very unexpected consequences, and you need real legal expertise to decipher exactly what that means.
Sky Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkp6wRooxKU
You're like the physicists that stayed in the casino, then. :-)
Hey jgable, nice to meet you. We must have missed paths in Fritz's lab. I wrote the control software for that LS1!
Perhaps a declining standard of living is a contributor; inequality leads to lack of personal time, leads to less exercise, more choices of fast foods, leads higher stress including less mobility from jobs tied to healthcare benefits, etc.
Is there a reason why it's such a binary choice though? I understand why a master tradesman would take a big pay hit. But what makes it so difficult to have a tiered system where pros train midlings who train lowbies that train newbies?
Overall, MoviePass is a step forward for privacy advocates and a benefit to "netizens".

MoviePass just set the price for your data; an abstract possession that people are barely beginning to value as an actual possession of theirs. The going price for tracking your purchasing behaviors before and after attending a movie is the cost of however many movies you can see in a month minus $10.

Facebook paid with a social networking platform to connect you to an unimaginable number of people you probably wouldn't be connected with otherwise. For that, you gave them your history and your super-ego.

Google gave you a map, an email, a phone number, and a bunch of productivity tools. For that you gave them everything.

The value of your data is holding steady or going up, depending on your perspective.

Also, MoviePass took a step in the right direction towards disclosure of intent when their CEO opened his mouth about it. Their TOS is typical, but the CEO is more transparent than most. They should be the brave first company to make their intention transparent.
I've been working with .NET since it was in beta in 2001, and I've never considered .NET's strength to be its desktop story. .NET (and now .NET Core) are awesome because of C# and the BCL's generally excellent design. .NET is an excellent choice for building server-side applications of all kinds. .NET Core removed that last complaint I had about .NET: it wasn't cross-platform.

It's a great time to be a .NET developer.
> Ultimately, an erasure model of generics would have been adopted, as for Java, since the CLR team would never have pursued a in-the-VM generics design without external help.

Can someone explain why "in-the-VM" generics design is better than the erasure model of Java?
Partially due to that too
Without being too cynical, is the fact that Mozilla receives most of their funding from Google not relevant when considering Google's influence?
The mathematical definition of a ring precludes this from happening. By definition, in a ring when you multiply 2 elements from the ring you get another element of the ring. Perhaps you are referring tensor products (geometric algebra for physicists).
>It's impossible to be cynical enough about Hollywood...

Same could be said about SV, DC, etc...
0.001% of the country can multiply it hundred fold over the course of a few years. I have a million just sitting around in equities. I don’t know how to do it.
Correct but slightly off.

Although the IRS considers it property, it also allows capital gains and losses on such due to its widely fluctuating price. This means filing cost basis and net gross and loss when the crypto was spent, sold, created (mined), given to another person, etcetera.

here is document Notice 2014-21. In which conditions for crypto IRS conditions are explained in an easy to understand fashion. It's widely interesting to me.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

I filed for gains for three years, losses for one year. But im out of it, everything is to hot for me.

more info on filing losses. It is the same as declaring losses on stocks pretty much. Cost basis when received, bought, created, or given to you on commerce and then consolidation when that crypto is sold, traded in commerce, etc.

http://fortune.com/2018/01/29/bitcoin-taxes-cryptocurrency-i...

https://medium.com/the-litecoin-school-of-crypto/how-to-tax-...
100% honest and non-hostile question - why would you want to use Firefox?
If there is no nexus, there is no justification to tax. Similarly, if you a widget online from abroad the widget vendor doesn't pay tax where you're domiciled. The best the government can do are import tariffs, hard to see how that works for services IMO.
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That doesn't seem the least bit reasonable to me. Especially if it's doing it without informing me.
I'm guessing that today, in the current age of the modern web, user agents strings are no longer so relevant, and can be basically set to anything?
Wasn't aware! I use it mainly as a "reader" and usually only comment on desktop. Nice to know though, thanks for pointing that out!
> The going price for tracking your purchasing behaviors before and after attending a movie is the cost of however many movies you can see in a month minus $10.

Well, it's the value to you of however many movies you can see in a month, minus $10. That's likely very different than the nominal cost of all those movies, since MoviePass is likely to cause you to see more movies than you otherwise would.