skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t work there, but was an early customer and have built apps from 1.x days.

The things that have improved:

1. Performance, performance, performance. It’s not fair, but anything that existed before react really was slow, because all JS dom updating was basically .innerHtml. Once we (as a JS community left that), everything has gotten faster (especially ember). Seehttps://madhatted.com/2016/11/30/5-things-to-know-about-embe...

2. Composability of components: being able to compose components together dynamically based and have a well defined boundary for colmunicating with the outside world is great. There is still some papercuts with the actual component API, but those are getting smoothed out.

3. Build-tooling/ecosystem. The amount and quality of tools keeps going up to accomplish tree shaking, AST parsing, etc. I just updated an ember app from 2.3 -> 3.0 and it took less than 2 hours to upgrade, test, deploy.
Postico is fantastic. I’ve been part of a few discussions on github with new features they are adding in and the core team is super helpful and open to making the product better. I use it daily.
Gets me thinking of my musician friend that had a few soviet made vacuum tubes laying around for his guitar amp.
They started doing pro rata rights a few years back, and terms have changed over the years. It's unclear exactly how good their return is.

That $80b isn't liquid.
One could argue we are in the beginning of the harsh gap between the two eras. In 2012 the pharma industry contracted for the first time ever. Many industry insiders argue the traditional r&d model is broken

There is an emerging wave of new therapeutic modalities (cell therapy, gene therapy, microbiome therapy, bioelecrronic medicine, etc) but it isn't clear if these will be as significant as antibodies were in the 1980s

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/11/28/a-g...
My mom is a PERS retiree. Not one of the rich ones, though she did retire at the perfect moment and she has a livable retirement income.

One thing a lot of people (who do not work in gov't) don't recall is that while the economy was roaring back then, Oregonians working for the gov't went for years without so much as a cost of living adjustment. Some of the perks they got from PERS were in lieu of getting a raise. So while I think PERS made some stupid decisions, let's not all heap blame on the workers and demand they suffer now. Gov't work pays crap and part of the benefit is supposed to be a little more long-term security.
The reddit thread is interesting, but to put it into perspective you have look at the photo of the damage and, wow...

https://imgur.com/a/1n9mJ
I've been using DIY tax, http://www.freetax.com
Citations are different, for instance I'm a research bioinformatician writing a paper about the issues you face storing billions of genotypes in an SQL database.

I'm going to cite Codd 1970 but I learned SQL from web tutorials written 30 years after the paper, which I've only skimmed.
> I initially enjoyed the passage because I had a thorough understanding of capacitance and voltage across two plates, but it turned out that for the sake of the "comprehension," the equation for capacitance was INTENTIONALLY rearranged in a way that violated the laws of physics. In other words, the meaning and relevance of the content of a passage in a comprehension exam like the ACT was intended to be misleading for the sake of testing attention to one tiny detail.

Seems like it could be a good test for people who will be in the future reviewing scientific papers.
That links to your user profile. Wrong link?
Maybe the courts won't be so backlogged, and public defenders so overworked, and we could give more people fair trials instead of pushing so hard for a guilty plea.
Goodbye to the House My Grandmother Built
If I thought it was always true, I would have said "definitely" instead of "probably".
The growth of microservices is the result of the growth of working remotely. If you have a large organization in one place most days out of the week its easy to coordinate proprietary interfaces. With the growth of Agile development and the ability to have independent groups working on manageable subtasks is natural. Microservices are simply an application of Divide and Conqure at the macroscopic level.
Philadelphia Starbucks arrests: What a witness says happened
Okay, so I appreciate your willingness to take interest in the theory.

That said, to be perfectly honest, I'm offended by your use of both the words "crackpot" and "schizophrenic". Essentially you're asking me to write a literature review in order not to be considered "a crackpot" or "schizophrenic". Schizophrenia and crack are both quite serious issues, so in the first place I'm annoyed that these are considered to be normal derogatory language for "rational" people to casually throw around. You're suggesting that my comment is full of "editorializing", but then you go ahead and demonstrate exactly the kind of dogmatic, biased language that charges me to write in this way to begin with. I know you probably didn't mean harm, but that is strong, derogatory language you're throwing around in the name of science. Why?

If you're feeling open minded, check out the variety of articles here: http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/

There are 232 pages of studies to dig through.

Some day I'd love to write a full article on the subject. But I have a feeling that no matter how scientific it was, there would be a crowd so skeptical as to be blind. Maybe that's cause their pineal glands are too far calcified ;p
> How on Earth do you think to go on a multi week ocean kayaking trip and not take tide tables.

>> I did not know you can get pretabulated tables.

You literally removed the part of the quote that answers that.
I think the biggest issue with lawyers getting automated is torts and court litigations or other pieces of legal work not to do with generating or reviewing contracts that can be automated quite easily which would mean no need for a human judge or adjudicator and thus a robot adjudicator who blindly follows a law written by "robots" too?

Note: I believe there won't be a need for human judges because robots tend to follow deterministic patterns much easily than non-deterministic, and thus you would probably not need humans to do much judging, displacing humans and turning to robots.
Way more?

Nah.

I ran a couple data centers on either coast each burning about half a megawatt, which isn't that much in the grand scheme of thing. My employer at the time offered a SaaS product to Fortune 100 companies. The product required a realtime kernel and QOS in the network, neither of which is supported in AWS.

I did a fair bit of math comparing costs. Typically, you could pay off the CapEx with 6 months of usage in AWS.

IIRC we had around $8m in salaries for the ops org. I'm not sure we would've needed a great deal fewer people having all that infra in AWS.

The real problem comes from trying to find a team of people willing to engineer your service for failure. That kind of attitude just doesn't exist in the world of IT, so anyone would be hard pressed to put a team together.

Good luck finding a network engineering team that knows BGP well enough for such a thing. Good luck finding a team of engineers that know Openstack well enough to keep it running. Good luck finding folks to run Ceph. Good luck getting all that right.

If you could, though, there are certainly savings to be had.
I have experience with both. I find Vue much easier to use and am way more productive with it.
Path, Peach, Vero, Ello, I don't think we need another one to remind everybody that "intimate social networks" are a failed experiment. If someone wants to communicate within a small group, they are inclined to use group chat. Forget monetizing, first it's difficult to get users to stay on these platforms because:

1. Even if you get amazing press and hype, the churn rate can exceed your growth rate due to how limited the network effect is e.g. Peach and Vero.

2. People can already choose to unfollow celebrities and limit their friend groups on any existing social platform. It's simply a matter of willpower or creating an alternate account ala how "Finstagrams".

3. Celebrities and influencers are what drives growth to a platform. Donald brought Twitter tens of millions of new users. Hundreds of millions of guys use Instagram just to follow bikini models etc
There are really only a few things most people deduct - state taxes, property taxes, charity and mortgage interest. You have to enter your state taxes anyway. It's not that hard to enter the other three and see if you are below the standard deduction.
> Honestly though, starting from scratch, you can build a complex config (with all those things you mentioned) in about 30 minutes.

If you're sticking to a pre-built template or simple defaults maybe but once you start to customise things it's easy to get stuck in your own unique problems. Resolving path issues can easily eat up 30 minutes alone so I'd say you're severely underestimating.

> If you really need help then post it here or on stackoverflow and you'll get an answer pretty quick.

Once you've got your own unique combination of plugins going, it gets difficult to know where the problem is and you're less likely to get help if you've got something bigger than a minimal example. I know how to ask for help but there's just something about build system which makes it more challenging and more frustrating to get help compared e.g. typical programming problems.
Underrated by who? (“Whom”?) It always shows up in these lists, and rightly so.
Without actually showing some statistics on the pension payments and how the overall budget breaks down, I can't help but feel manipulated. Yes it's easy to paint an ugly picture of the privileged outliers, but I suspect the correlation between school and infrastructure cuts and money going straight into rich pensioners pockets is not quite as cut and dried as NYT would have us believe.
Take a look at my live stream: 'documentary of Dhirubhai Ambani' at
I doubt realized returns are available, but I think it's possible to at least very roughly estimate money invested. Their current "deal" is $120k for 7%, and that number has been going up over the years. So say all 1,588 startups they've funded got that investment (not true, since earlier investments were something like $20k). You're looking at about $150m in cash investments. According to https://www.ycombinator.com/people/, there are about 50 people working full-time at YC. We're being conservative, so let's say 150 people at $150k/year salaries, over the 13 years since YC's founding (again, very high estimates since they obviously did not start with even remotely close to that many people). That's about $300m.

So we're at maybe $450m spent on initial investments and people over the years. Maybe throw in another $200m for extra investments (I presume they re-invest in a couple promising companies on demo day) and other costs.

They say their portfolio's valuation is roughly $80b. Their "deal" is for 7%. I'm not super familiar with the technical stuff but they really only need to keep about 1% of that total value to be fairly successful, and I imagine that number is probably much higher unless I'm misunderstanding some of the details about how fundraising works.
Outrage Grows Over Video Showing 2 Black Men Arrested at Philadelphia Starbucks
inline-block isn't designed for layout - so you get side effects like the preservation of whitespace which you have to use hacks to resolve. Sure it works - but flex-wrap is a syntactically correct solution that doesn't require hacks.
Garrett has had a huge impact on how I write code, even when I can’t use Erlang. His insights are so useful.
How are you meant to reckon your AGI without in essence “doing your taxes”?
Well, cutting the top out of this seems like the obvious solution. Pants-on-head to give an Oregon coach who's been funded by Nike to collect a multimillion pension.
The art of destroying software: Greg Young - https://vimeo.com/108441214
Does anybody know if the terms they offer to startups are negotiable / have been negotiated before? I believe that it's currently $120k for 7% of the company, with pro rata rights. (it roughly equates to investing $120k at a 1.7M cap).
Citing the Berkeley study

Berkeley had to cut 500 jobs themselves after, among other things, the $15 min wage raise

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...
> They'll just pass a law to make robot lawyers illegal.

You make that sound like a bad thing.

God knows humans fuck a lot of things up. And a lot of legal professions are mostly busywork, which I assume AI can help with. But allowing machines to literally rule us is a long, long way from a good idea, and that's essentially what will happen if you let AI take over e.g. trial lawyering.
Do you have evidence or justification for this claim?
I assume you're talking about CSS columns? Again they're not designed for layout - it's designed specifically for newspaper style columns of text where it doesn't matter which piece of text flows into which column. To use it for layout requires hacks or luck to adhear closely to designs. Pre-grid and flex I spent many hours of my life dealing with oddities around CSS columns - my life is in a much better place now not having to resort to it!
TablePlus supports Postgres/MySQL/Sql Server and others. It has a paid version which adds a few more features, but the free version works fine for me.

https://tableplus.io/
There is a logical reason why I suspect artificial sweeteners are being put in many products now with as little fanfare as possible. Sucralose is made from sugar, but like other artificial sweeteners is far sweeter[1] than sugar, by around 3 orders of magnitude. I'm not sure about prices on an industrial scale, but moderately large quantities of sucralose without fillers seem to be about $50/lb, and sugar seems to be about $0.44/lb in 50 lb quantities. Thus, sucralose is around 110 times more expensive, but 300-1000 times more potent. The economic logic of treating sugar with chlorine and putting it in everything seems inescapable, as long as the public doesn't become sensitized.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose

Edit: I don't know whether or not McDonald's in particular is using sucralose. I'm suggesting that it's a general trend, probably helped by the general public's distaste for things like aspartame, calories, HFCS, and so on.
What a pathetic ploy to divide the working class against each other. The reason states are short on cash is the race to the bottom we’ve all been participating in since the 1980s when government policy and general economic policy moved from focusing on keeping the middle class healthy to massive tax breaks and cuts for corporations and the wealthy.

For the last nearly 40 years every state has been playing the game of trying to attract corporations with massive tax breaks against the promise of jobs. Then a lot of the time the promised jobs never appear. Meanwhile the state is still out millions or billions of dollars in revenue.

Corporations and the wealthy can afford to hire lobbyists to write favorable policies. Working class people cannot and have been eating the brunt of all the tax breaks the rich and powerful and connected have received.

Maybe a handful of people in some states have abnormally high pensions. That’s not the source of the problem. Those pensions were solvent until they were treated like a piggy bank by corrupt and bought politicians.
I put a lot of work into my house, they'll have to bulldoze me in it
It does seem reasonable that there would be a cap, but I wonder how much cutting the pensions of a few thousand highly paid retirees will impact the budget.
I find it amazing he was recording video of his trip from 1991, the camera must have been huge!
The big Amazon-Newark meeting just happened.  what we know
This whole thing is just a huge sham, very reminiscent of building a sports stadium.

But instead of a sports team, it's a manufacturing company that had to build nets around its buildings to catch people attempting suicide.
Point taken regarding the difference between hypomania and mania symptoms. But not everyone, including those with BP2, experience the extremes of mania.

From my own experience I failed to recognize a hypomanic episode until it was far too late because I felt great and didn't realize something was wrong.

It ended with one of the most severe manic/mixed episodes I've ever experienced. It was one of those experiences you hear can happen to BP patients, but you don't believe can happen to you until it does.

When I finally snapped out of it, I was pretty damn shaken up about what had happened, and probably for the first time I came to terms with how dangerous this disorder can be.

So I agree, I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone
Pensions are going to become a hot political issue as they become more and more unsustainable. Even Illinois, one of the most liberal states in the US, elected a republican governor four years ago in large part because he promised to tackle the state's pension crisis.
Hypo just means low. Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar. Hyperglycemia is high blood sugar aka diabetes. Hypomania would be low mania. It's kind of like saying a little bit of mania.
> No idea in economics provokes more furious argument than the minimum wage.

Someone hasn't argued about the gender wage gap recently.
You would benefit from reread it, or at least the SparkNotes
No. There are lots of other ways. (Renouncing is bad for many reasons; I'm patriotic, although the US has a lot of problems, and there's essentially a 10y tax on unrealized gains at exit, plus lifetime visa problems.)

1) Make <threshold income. (Admittedly, that sucks.) I think it is around $3k/yr.

2) Move to a place which under Section 933 of the IRC can make its own tax laws for bona fide residents. I'm doing Act 22 (and Act 20 for business, and some other things) and taking advantage of the opportunities in the Isle of Enchantment, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. There are some similar opportunities for US citizens in the other US territories, but PR is the best one I think, and is certainly the biggest and most developed.

Essentially, until 2035, you pay 0% short term, long term capital gains or dividends. Under Act 20, businesses pay 0-5% on exported services revenue (i.e. anything sold outside PR: SaaS, consulting, etc.). It's pretty nice. Infrastructure is an issue (although gigabit internet is $60/mo), and some costs are higher, but overall it's a good deal. It's hugely popular with cryptocurrency people after crypto to crypto trades started getting taxed fully as st cg.

(Actually I have to file 2018 too, although it will be for <$100, since I think I have some US bank accounts which earn interest.)
"Viruses, A Very Short Introduction" by Dorothy H Crawford, says this on page 21:

"There are around 10e6 different viral species in a kilogram of marine sediment where they infect and kill co-resident bacteria. Overall, marine viruses kill an estimated 20-40% of all marine bacteria every day."
Nothing a little SALT cant fix. If you salt the password with a secret key, then it is no longer a guessable hashed email. The SALT/key can then be passed up the chain or authority doubling as a chain of custody. But let's be real, few programmers will take that much care to protect ones email.
Anything on the surface will be eroded by micometeorites over millions of years. The lunar surface is a layer of dust several meters thick that is the product of that erosion.

Underground artefacts might survive longer, since there is no plate tectonics and little other geological activity, but finding them would be difficult.
This is absolutely true. I have several members of my family who work in the gov, and I have witnessed years of inadequate inflation raises - nothing else. The "trade" was a nicer retirement and better health benefits.
Law is a buggy, occasionally self-contradictory program intended to be executed by humans. If robot judges become a thing, we can be pretty sure all of the human programmers have been replaced already.

I'm reminded of the one Trek episode where Kirk is on trial, because the computer is never wrong. It was of course, because it had garbage input. But really, you gotta love UX where the VENT ATMO button is right next to the SKIP TRACK button.
I used their system to submit my taxes this year. (Edit: the "free fillable forms" system)

Their UX is absolutely atrocious. It will do the math for you, but there are a number of intermediate fields that require you to enter a value manually, but have no indication in the form of what they are. You have to go through their instructions (separate from the IRS instructions) for the form to figure out what fields require manual entry.

Eventually I was able to work my way through the form with research and experimentation.

The only thing I wasn't able to figure out was how to get it to include the penalty for failing to pay estimated taxes. I added the form to my filing and filled it out, but I could never get the number of populate into the 1040 and their form wouldn't let me enter that value manually. While I would have preferred to pay it all at once, my only option was to wait for the IRS to calculate this and bill me for it.

Can we please, please, please get 18F to rebuild this so it doesn't completely suck? Offering a solid, free alternative to Turbo Tax and other abusive companies would be so beneficial.
In California "More than 200,000 civil servants became eligible to retire at 55 — and in many cases collect more than half their highest salary for life. California Highway Patrol officers could retire at 50 and receive as much as 90% of their peak pay for as long as they lived."
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-d...

This seems like a pretty big budget item, especially since most CA government pension funds haven't achieved their expected 7.5% return consistently for years if not decades. Eventually the money to pay for these large pensions comes from money that would have been spent on other things.
Nomad 0.8.0 released
That sounds like a much better solution than google glass, and one that we could even build in a weekend.
I noticed that backpage.mx and backpage.it are also down. Does this mean the US can seize non US domain extensions? Or are they down because they redirected to US site? That is odd.
While modifications of existing classes of antibiotics are still critically important and useful, the big problem is that "new antibiotics that conform to established classes are often subject to at least some of the same resistances observed in previous members of the class."[0] They help in that they buy time, but development of novel classes of antibiotics is what's necessary to buy more time. And we're going to need a lot of them.[1]

In engineering or any scientific field, incremental progress is clearly still progress. For most other kinds of drugs, time doesn't work against their effectiveness. Texts describe the use of aspirin precursors, such as willow teas, dates back over four thousand years to ancient Sumer. Salicylates haven't stopped being effective since then.

The trouble with antibiotics is that resistance inevitably develops over time even if we manage to curb their misuse. It isn't enough to enough to develop new antibiotics, novel or otherwise; to keep the "miracle of antibiotics" alive, we need to continually to develop novel ones.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4159373/

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3085877
The PERS systems are adapting to greater longevity. As actuaries learn that people will live longer in the future, they are getting systems to dial back their pensions. In Washington State, the most expensive started working before 1972, and some state employees are now offered only a 401K. That said, there is also a challenge that when the market booms, "surpluses" are drawn out. When the market crashes, it's hard to make up for the missing investment.