skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tax brackets for salary taxes exist, but so long as you have one employer only, and don't suddenly get a massive pay hike/cut, they will know your yearly income and can deduct given the correct bracket. There is no decrease in take-home pay and no confusion (I honestly didn't quite understand where the confusion would arise?)

That's pretty much identical to US withholding. As long as your employer can easily predict your annual wage income, that part is withheld basically correctly. If you change jobs or experience an unusual bonus or hold multiple jobs, good luck.

> If too much or too little has been paid for the whole year, that's simply mentioned at the bottom line of your prefilled online tax return form.

Yeah, that's similar to the US, except the prefilled form isn't always online and is called a W-2. It is copied into the actual filed 1040 document and withholding is credited against your taxes owed.

The grandparent post claimed: "One of the other complications with US taxes is that payroll systems and the exemption formula make it hard to get your deductions exactly right (this happens in Canada too), because you have to be able to exactly predict your annual income. In the UK the “Pay As You Earn” system deducts exactly what’s needed as you earn it." (My emphasis added.)

That comment (and the name) suggests that — unlike the US — the UK withholds at the rate of your exact current tax bracket. If that's true (perhaps I am misreading it), your take-home pay would decrease as your tax rate increases over the year, assuming your gross pay is split evenly across pay statements.
there are plenty of regional and area-specific dialects of traditional chinese that would require different glyphs
It does for me. Sounds like it is likely relying on current locale.
These don't seem like paths to follow because the steps don't build on one-another. E.g., the Foundations sequence:

1. Former Coding Interview Question: Find longest word in dictionary that is a subsequence of a given string

2. Using strings in Java (Java For Beginners: Strings, String Functions & Chars)

3. Using arrays in Java (Java For Beginners: Arrays)

...

13. Java Object References

14. Sort array problem (considerably easier than the first problem although hash tables come after it)
I really wanted to reply to this with 'RIIIIIDGE RACER' but I know such things are discouraged on HN.
but you need a special viewer to run the output.. huge friction. That's a none-starter for almost everyone.

everyone has a web browser...
TLDR: I had a manic psychotic (bipolar) episode triggered on a vipassana course. This was with zero history of mental illness (before or after)

Be quite careful with Vipassana, especially if you're not used to regular meditation. It's not just a "silent" retreat in the sense of not talking. Also, no eye contact, no reading/writing and meditating 10 hours a day. It's a seriously stressful time for your brain.

I did the course, and I had a manic psychotic episode as a direct result. I made some audio and put it on a blog I started while manic [1]. It details what the course was like, what it was like to be manic (totally awesome! ;), what it was like to be depressed (absolutely awful) and getting better.

I'm not saying don't do the course, I'm not saying I didn't do something wrong with the technique, I am saying be very very careful and don't think there can't be downsides. I was off work for a year and it took about 3 years before I felt "normal" again.

[1] http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com/
colloquially, most english speakers would recognize "Taiwanese" and "Traditional Chinese/Traditional Mandarin" as interchangeable
It should be noted, that the popular distress signal is "...---..." and not SOS as it is sent as single symbol. Also it is not the only one special morse symbol used for distress (eg. ten dots is also an distress signal with slightly different meaning)
Don't think so. When I got into CE I came from a Medical devices background. All they are looking for is your ability to go from specs to schematics to pcb layout to overseas manufacturing builds transfer. This process though not set in stone is very common across various industries.
I would think it depends on how far it fell, but they can climb to the top of coconut palm.

https://53744bf91d44b81762e0-fbbc959d4e21c00b07dbe9c75f9c0b6...
It works in India, but you need to ask at least 5 people and go with the majority opinion ;-)
This still feels like search and not "talking" to anything. To me talking would require back-end-forth refinement.

I wonder why they are releasing this only against books? Does it not work against the internet at large, or is it a question of scale? Because they aren't even doing all books, it's only 100,000 of them.

I still think it's pretty cool. Some future natural language search will make keyword search seem primitive. As in how did we survive with only it for so long.

I'm glad Kurzweil ended up at Google and is able to work on cool projects like this. He's 70, I hope his vitamins work and he can't stay active in development a while longer.
Here's the thing though, would we ever get privacy? Even if we were to pay?

I know that there are several defendants [drugs etc] even in my small area who have had deleted snapchat posts, deleted texts, deleted emails, "anonymous" forum posts etc etc etc show up as evidence in court. Now I'm obviously unfamiliar with the legal and technical means by which police investigators made things like that happen, but the fact that they happen means that we can assume that at LEAST the government has access to a record of most everything we do online. Free or otherwise.

Even ignoring the question of the government surveillance net, once your data is on that company's server, how would you even be able to reliably validate what's being done with it? By which I mean, they say they don't share it, but how do you KNOW?

So maybe we would get some pretty compelling new features in a lot of our services if we were to pay for them, but I'm not at all certain that ironclad privacy would be one of them.

In fact, I'm fair certain that it wouldn't be.
Kubernetes Custom Resources Grow Up in v1.10 – OpenShift Blog
Your post suffers from major cognitive dissonance. The economy “is bought and sold to the highest bidder”—but the bids are so low! Total lobbying expenditures is under $3 billion per year, equivalent to just 48 minutes of annual US corporate profits. If lobbying results in such high returns, why do the Koch brothers have to spend so little money to get results? It’s not like there aren’t folks with money in the other side of those issues: certainly, plenty of folks who can spend a few million here and there.

Think about it: Top lobbying firms pull in under $50 million a year in revenue. If they were really controlling access to billions in government pork and favors, shouldn’t they be able to charge a lot more?
From the recent El Faro sinking post here on HN:

There's a General Alarm signal (above), but no Abandon Ship signal. The captain gives those manually.

(I may be blatantly wrong!)
That's why Bitcoin has just implemented the Lightning Network and Ethereum is implementing Sharding and Plasma. Lightning is projected to be able to maintain 50,000 TPS in practice and billions of TPS in theory.

Furthermore, PoS systems such as Nano and IOTA aren't really more centralized than PoW systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, since only 6 entities possess more than 51% of the hashing power in Bitcoin. That's definitely more centralized than Nano or IOTA.

That's also the reason why Ethereum is moving to a PoS/PoW hybrid.

In a nutshell, near instant transactions with very high scalability and a very high degree of decentralization are already here(Bitcoin, Nano, IOTA). However, these technologies have not yet proven themselves and need to show their resilience against black swan events and hacks of all kinds.

We will see the results within the next year.
Stroke order is less important than you might think, and than what most learning materials make it out to be. But an idea on the general order is crucial to writing fast, and also, quick writing that does not follow either (1) the standardized word order or (2) a traditional word order can look weird to native eyes.

Note that when the PRC standardized its stroke order, it ended up with stroke orders that differed from calligraphic tradition: most notably 右 and 必. In addition, different calligraphic styles and regional variations sometimes have different character variants and different stroke orders.

In short, whereas there are a few mainstream ways to write words in Chinese, just like how there are a few mainstream ways to handwrite disconnected Latin letters, there are many variations that one is expected to be able to recognize, just as how one is expected to recognize a wide variety of Latin letterforms (copperplate, Palmer, blackletter, closed vs. open a/g, etc.)
I have a Jolla 1 phone, and I do enjoy many of its features that Android lacks, but I plan on replacing it with a Librem when and if possible. In spite of Jolla repeatedly advertising Sailfish as an open source operating system, much of Sailfish remains closed source (even simple, basic things like the mail app) and there are no plans to change this. Plus, like many other sailors to judge from together.jolla.com, I’m uncomfortable with the tight relationship Jolla now has with the Russian state, though I do realize that might be the only chance the company has to be profitable.
I recall seeing videos on YouTube of Windows 1.0 applications running on Windows 10, so I suppose it really depends on what type of software exactly; more system-level things like disk defragmenters are unlikely to work, but basic productivity software likely will continue working. I personally have a few from Win95 era which I still use regularly, and of course I'd expect the basic Hello World messagebox binary to remain usable 10 years from now.
White board interviews are common across all kinds of companies in SV not just for SW roles. I was asked to invert a tree for a HW test role at Google and very recently asked to come up with code for a particular situation for a test role at Apple.
I tried phone activation as well, it was rejected. I typed all installation numbers correctly.
> The only way to know whether the price of something is too high or not is to put up two options. A free version where privacy is lost, and a paid version where it's not.

This test doesn't seem to work in practice due to, I imagine, human psychology. When looking at a free vs not free service, most people are just comparing the cost of the service. The implied privacy costs are too diffuse and complex for the brain to properly comprehend them at that moment.

The individual-based solution is to develop a feeling of ickiness towards such services, but I'm not sure how that could be implemented on a mass scale.
> but I am expected to trust a bunch of people who claim to have developed a currency which requires no trust

It does require trust just as you require trust from the seeders/peers of a BitTorrent shared file. If these seeders/peers agree that they should modify the said file, you either agree with them or not. If latter, then you end up with a two versions.
American POWs in Vietnam reportedly used a tap code based on a 5x5 matrix of letters. Each letter is encoded as the indices within that matrix, so "tap, tap" is A, "tap tap, tap" is B and so on, through to "tap tap tap tap tap, tap tap tap tap tap" for Z. The letters C and K share the index [3, 1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code
Unfortunately asking for directions is not an option for everyone, to put it lightly.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/15/602598119...
This is based on?
So, the media reports on rare, interesting things, not mundane everyday things? I'm shocked!
Linus Torvalds
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TED2016
The mind behind Linux. https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin...

I loved it when says 'i am not a people person'
And a lot of code from Wine too
> The total comes to just over $300/yr. That's... really not that much, is it?

I'd imagine for minimum mage workers, that's obscene.
Their category "alpha capture" probably incorporates this sort of thing. I think the article gave the example of proprietary survey data being in that category. I think that's probably what they call anything that doesn't come from publicly available data.
Latest Firefox Mobile LTS release still works on Jolla’s ancient Android version (through the Alien Dalvik compatibility layer). You can install it from F-Droid.
Undoing transactions is one of the most useful features of real banks. It helps prevent fraud.
Dang, I was hoping to help :(
So you’re saying that it would’ve taken just $800,001 to block that copyright extension? Because whoever challenged it in the Supreme Court likely spent more than that in just legal fees doing so.
I backed their tablet and was disappointed when I learned they would never ship it - Jolla's handling of the whole fiasco was very suboptimal.

Pinning hopes on the purism now for a hackable mobile device.
Not necessarily. One could say that a rider in a bike race is threatening to overtake another.

That's not necessarily bad. One could say it's used to say it's unexpected, as I assumed for the quote we're discussing.
The mainstream commercial news in Australia seems to cover every unusual death that has occurred in the past day. I guess those kind of stories rate well.
EU countries have VAT rates of 20-25% and do just fine. It’s nothing like enough to replace income tax though.

VAT is not quite equivalent to sales tax as it is only paid by the final consumer. (Businesses offset any VAT paid against against the VAT they collect on sales.)
If you're interested in contributing to GNOME Maps, you can install GNOME Builder and run it, click on the Maps icon under "Contribute to an existing project", and then hit the Run button once it clones/opens.

You'll have a local build, with all the dependencies met, in an IDE to contribute to the project.

Also, http://wiki.gnome.org/Newcomers
By Taiwanese, parent comment was referring to Taiwanese Hokkien, which is mutually unintelligible with Standard Mandarin. Even in writing, Taiwanese written at its spoken register is at best read with great difficulty by Mandarin speakers.
Ask HN: What’s your thought process for selecting a tech stack?
Hit and miss as there are missing win32 pieces, but Red Alert for example ran nearly as well as it used to, for me.
As always, you'll have to read into the details. MakerDAO doesn't exactly peg it's value to the US dollar. Here's a good interview about how it works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggkzPJ5Yt4
You’re arguing for the bailout of banks, it’s hypocrisy because the blockchain was meant to counter that mentality.
Maybe bank bailouts are OK after all and that’s what eth heads are realizing.
Interesting. I hope they'll figure something out with Gecko or Servo, instead of simply switching to Blink.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Upton Sinclair

SV makes too much money from advertising to be able to admit the truths about it.

There is no free lunch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

Advertising is our C8: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10047706
You seem to have forgotten that homophones exist.
But you just made 5 new friends for life :)
I'm pretty sure a company with the resources of Apple could get their hands on one.
To be honest the type of person who would get random chinese writing are usually putting less priorty on getting the exact details perfect rather than making a mysterious statement. They are the least likely group to have Asian friends.
Right, you can't just take a free-to-the-user (paid by advertising) product, slap a fee on it, and expect people to pay for it. Instead products need to be user-centric from the start, with business models that align users and the company making the products. It's just rare to see companies thinking critically about this.

Once they've said "let's monetize our free users" they've already lost. What people miss is that free users are incredibly valuable with a digital product -- whether it's seeing how real people use it or the free marketing they give you. Sure, a freemium product will generally have >95% of its users not paying a cent. That doesn't mean you need to sell of their data to generate value from them.

And as a consumer "outraged about privacy and advertising," frankly we're faced with many products that are overpriced for the value they deliver. More companies need to find the middle ground between surveillance business models and gouging consumers.
AFAIK the taskbar forwards the window messages destined for the icon to window that owns the icon and in the "new" Windows' behavior simply notices that such window does not exist. ReactOS behavior probably works on the basis of hooking destruction of the owner window (although I suspect that on Windows windows owned by killed process will not get WM_DESTROY message, but it's wild guess as I'm completely out of my rudimentary and rusty knowledge of WinAPI there).
> Hell, I have never seen a ReactOS installation in the wild

It's not especially common, but I do know of a couple kiosks and a PoS system that run ReactOS under the hood to avoid Windows licensing.
> Having tried it twice, the gestures are completely alien to a new user.

When you buy a Jolla device, you are taken through a tutorial. The gestures aren’t that difficult to get used to. To me personally, they seem a lot more straightforward and intuitive than my wife’s Android phone.

Incidentally, this winter I traveled in a couple of developing countries and bought local SIM cards from an office of the main telecom concerns of these countries. Both times when I said I wanted to use 3G data, the clerks grabbed my Jolla from me and tried to get to where they thought the settings menu was by repeatedly mashing where the Android back button would be. When I said it wasn’t an Android phone, it was like they simply couldn’t absorb that information, they just started mashing harder. That really underscored for me just how much of a mobile monoculture the world is. (The clerks probably could have found their way around an iPhone, too, but I didn’t see many of them in this region.)
I agree with “sometimes”. However from Kennings post it sounded like “always” and that code review is of no value.
Depends on the project entirely.
The reason could be stated in one word: "architecture", or perhaps less positively, "bureaucracy". In other words, either they could've designed it originally in such a way as to make fixing such a bug very difficult to do without rewriting massive amounts of code, or the fix could be simple yet the politics around actually getting that fix into code are not.

Having worked at large corporations (not Microsoft) before, I can definitely see how things like this happen --- and the reason why "enterprise" software tends to have a lot of these superficially simple and annoying defects. To add insult to injury, the codebase is often offensively overengineered and in precisely the wrong direction to facilitate the change required to fix such bugs, and even the tiniest of changes requires a ton of extra paperwork, approvals, and reviews.
> The Price of Free is Actually Too High

The price of centralized "free" is indeed too high.
The biggest problem with these open source maps is that there is no painless way to contribute updates.
...The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.

http://jupyter.org/
Yep much more then syntax. It has great metaprogramming support, better records and polymorphism support.
On the contrary; a lot of professional Youtube content creators prefer to diversify their sources of income, to reduce the blow when one of the inscrutable corporations decides to halve your income.
That page loads and the text all grows until it fills the whole screen and freezes the tab. Whats that about?
this is awesome - i ll be recommending it as an intro to students interested in comp-neuro .
But we can just create/use a JS library that simulates typing. It would work for an app that needs it, or on your automation environment because it's just using the DOM API. Is selenium doing something special beyond triggering those events?
Until you can do this from your phone it's kind of irrelevant. I am certainly the type to update an address database, but rarely the type to remember to do it when I get home.
Are they tasty?
It sounds like you were trying to activate the OEM key on your netbook using retail media.
all I want to know can I run say the latest version of Firefox & WhatsApp on it ? I would love to support these guys
Wow, lots of hidden assumptions there. You seem to imply that they're not working on it at all.

Remember, Ethereum is clearly still under development, they never mention that it is ready for general public use.
The place where DOSBox isn't sufficient is for games in that Win 95/98/2000 era. Most of those don't run very well, if at all on modern Windows, unless somebody still has the source and bothers to rerelease a modern "HD edition" or somesuch. I still have to keep a Win 98 VM so I can play Sierra's Civil War Generals 2 from time to time.
The N9 took far too long indeed, but it was a great phone. It wasn't sold in any large market and quickly killed by Nokia and Microsoft management. It seemed like it had a chance at the time.
Tried the livecd in a VM and a couple of niggles sprang up.

First of all, no driver for the network card in Virtualbox, though Vmware worked fine.

Second, no web browser...

Third, the mouse sometimes freaked out and got stuck in a corner.
"but the simplicity of reading Ruby code built around JSON.parse vs. Scala or Kotlin with Jackson more than makes up for any type safety from the compiler."

"Readability" and "simplicity" are except for trivial or outlandish cases subjective.

For example, I rather enjoy reading code using Rust's serde crate: the code is quite readable and comes with all the benefits of Rust's static type system and safety.
Typically what worked well and not so well on the last one, what parts I want to reuse or replace, and what new options are available for me to try for the first time.
why isn't the US breaking Youtube from Google already? Not only is it dangerous concentration of mass media power, but youtube is wasting away its potential while also wasting the creator's time and energy
Generally the central bank dictates the money supply through interest rates.

Miners do not wield all the power, it is a dance between miners, economic nodes, developers and finally users. If those stakeholders are not on board it is unlikely for changes to occur.

Pools are different from being a single entity. If a thousand miners pooled together to lower their earnings volatility, that is much more decentralized than if one person owned a thousand miners. The individuals can choose to leave the pool or switch at any time. The pool is only a temporary agent.

The transactability of crypto is much more decentralized. In traditional banking you must ask for permission to send your money from one bank to another to eventually reach the intended recipient. In crypto it is peer-to-peer.

The US has a decent amount of banks, other countries like Canada do not, countries like Venezuela centrally destroyed their currency.
There's a learning curve, but Vespucci is a full featured editor for Android. There's no full featured ios editor.

Maps.Me and OSMAnd will both edit POIs (for adding a shop or whatever).
For me using D3 is kinda like using regex. Whenever I need to use it... it always take a long refresher to get back up-to-speed. But, it's one of those amazing, invaluable tools that does some pretty complex stuff without sweat.