skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How? Google’s money doesn’t belong to you or the government. Taxes shouldn’t be confiscatory. Is Google using more government services than a less profitable company or a similar size? Of course not. So why should they pay more? How about the millions in taxes paid by their employees? Or the millions in sales taxes paid by employees, or the millions in property taxes paid by employees? Or all of the businesses who sell products to employees? Or the capital gains realized by shareholders that are then used to invest in other businesses or buy products and services?

Even if Google paid 0%, they are a massive net economic gain for the country.

Remember, corporations don’t pay taxes, people do. If Google paid more, prices for their services would rise and that would then increase customer acquisition costs for businesses which would result in lower profits for the businesses which means they hire fewer people and thus lower wages and higher unemployment which results in even fewer taxes collected and then, before long, you have the economy of France. Google would then lose business and contract in size and then they would pay even less in taxes.

The Laffer Curve is a real thing.
>Extensive tracking scripts are now falling into the same category as crypto miners and malware.

That's definitely your opinion, and it is one that is not widely held. How do I know this? Because Facebook's usage - despite a deluge of recent headlines headlines that vastly overstated their privacy issues and made it the poster child for extensive tracking technologies - hasn't gone down. So, roughly 2 billion of the world's Internet users disagree with you.
The US history with revolutions/rebellions is also weird - in both cases, it was the State-level of government rebelling against the parent government.
I'm 95% confident. And yes, I think it does mean that. The trackers have to be active in a non-incognito window for it to work. It reads the shared temporary cookie folder.
Finland ends Basic Income trial
Terry Davis (who did http://www.templeos.org/) is the smartest programmer I know but he doesn't work.

He is currently homeless and needs your help: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=51kJATJUJxik3DjLLxQB6dw...
Pfeffer Capital declares Bitcoin first viable replacement for gold at Sohn
There is an interesting period video that explained the mechanical inter-workings of a Linotype machine available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRHOPmGUtPA
I'd start by revisiting the assumption that individual and corporate tax rates should be similar, or even comparable.
It happens on Twitter often- the first tweet gets 50k RTs and the corrected/retraction tweet hardly circulates at all.
does anybody remember messing around with VRML browser plugins in Netscape in about 1997?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
I know it's politically unpopular, but most economists across the political spectrum believe that corporate taxes should be eliminated entirely.[0] It's more effective to tax people directly as the corporate tax is extremely volatile and it takes away money that could be productively reinvested.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/18/156928675/epis...
It raises very little money due to how many loop holes are deliberately left in our tax code.

Adding a tax to the middle class without a corresponding raise in income will result in economic downturn, especially since we are increasing interest rates on an already debt-burdened middle class.
Do know what CFC's replaced - ammonia? Ammonia was used in refrigeration before CFC's were invented and when your fridge developed a leak you were gassed to death.

Nobody foresaw what CFC's would do to the ozone layer. It took science to find this.

I have never seen a claim from science that something is safe. At best you get a claim that something appears to have minimal risks. Minimal != Zero
People with a mortgage in expensive markets California, Massachusetts, New York...
Keep expanding into more and more markets. Google has had over 90% of the search market for almost 10 years. Android barely existed 10 years ago.
You understate how shocking the situation is:

"The U.S. spends more public money on healthcare per capita than Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In fact, each year the U.S. government spends $4,197 per person, while the OECD median spend is $3,677."

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-spends-more-public-money-o...
It really depends. You could really just drop out and be free right now. Live in a tent somewhere and dumpster dive for food. There are so many ways. But the “shackles” of retirement income and medical bills and comfort hold us back.

One man’s necessity is another man’s luxury. I envy those people who don’t worry about the future and live the bohemian life - I don’t think they are lying to themselves though. People are diverse.
> trying to smooth over both desktop and mobile experiences with the exact same UI brush is the main reason we're left with the worst of both worlds.

Exactly the opposite is true. Browser vendors are able to customize the solution to the device and leverage new gestures. Case in point: Safari on desktop (3 finger tap) vs. mobile (3D touch). Even within page content, responsive design techniques can customize it to different devices.

> Also, force touch OSX UI isn't a replacement when you need to manually highlight multi-word selections for it to work.

There is no such thing as force touch on OSX (macOS). And we are talking about hyperlink previews, not selections. It sounds like you're a little confused here.
What? Google grew over 25%. Which is just accelerating as numbers get bigger.
OP might be exaggerating, but they are not talking about who lobbies, they are talking about the politicians who pass the bills and implement the tax cuts. In that they are right. In the house, 191 democrats voted against the tax overhaul, 0 voted for it. 227 republicans voted for it, 12 against it [0]. The senate was much the same [1].

You can say what you want, but this is a republican tax bill no matter who it benefits. It was supposed to benefit the rich, and thats what it does (I'm sure if it was possible to isolate by party they would have done so). It won't discriminate in who it hurts in the long run either (the middle class and the poor, like usual). The wealthy are going to take 90% of whatever economic gains result, they won't end up in schools or in communities, again like usual. Unemployment is already low and cant go much lower without even more illegal immigrants and wages will probably continue on their current trajectory and we'll be arguing for the next decade about who is to blame. My guess is some hidden variable will be scapegoated to explain why it didn't work.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/politics/t...
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/19/us/politics/t...
I don't want to tell you what to do but wouldn't it be more helpful to just be more selective on what you subscribe to?

I subscribed to way too many feeds in the past and going through them with shortcuts / opening them in the background and then going through the opened pages to read them afterwards works well. It's even quite fast but as soon as you skip a day it just piles up until you can't work off the queue any more.

I then just decided to really look at which feeds I really get most out of and unsubscribed from most of them. Way happier with that strategy and I don't feel like I'm getting overwhelmed by the unread count.
As someone who has really only learned MVC (I've done some old Webform Umbraco-based stuff which is terrible but I think that's probably more Umbraco's fault) from an organization standpoint this feels much cleaner. I think the only piece that's missing that I don't really understand is being able to manipulate the routing to my will.
I skimmed it and didn't see it compare effective tax rates. This article is very useful analysis but it misses a large part of the context once you start talking about actual amounts paid in taxes
Profit margin is down, 27 to 22.
Show HN: “Is this loss?”: A TensorFlow Lite app to detect Loss.jpg
I built this app over a week as a way to learn how to use TensorFlow with Mobilenets and to get some experience with Google Play (and partly as a dare). It's written in Java, as I wasn't able to find a Kotlin API for TFLite. It was built with Bazel.

I'm pretty satisfied with the actual detector's performance, although I expect I could improve the UI a little bit.

It's a weird UX, as you want it to be as simple and fast as possible (loss/notloss) but you also want it to have some sort of recognizability. I would love to hear your thoughts.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=party.eigenlos...
Google has billions of users and has thrown out everything that doesn't scale, like support or customer service. A lot of support and content moderation is done by volunteers (there's a certain hilarity to the way the world's most valuable corporation recruits unpaid labor as if it's some sort of charity) in Google Local Guides or Google Help Center type stuff.

Also, the "cost per employee" can look artificially higher because they contract out so many of the support positions they do have. I think "employees" mostly constitute management, marketing, and engineers?
I agree, but will go further to claim that the entire interview was horrible. So little information was conveyed in soo many words. He either had nothing to say, couldn't articulate what he had to say, or both.
"Longer than you expected." Unless you married the right one... in which case you didn't get married soon enough and one lifetime -- even a long one -- seems like such an unfair privation of what could have been...
I get your argument, but consider this.

Corporations generate activity that taxes support, such as the use of roads. That's really what it comes down to I think.

> or else government would be even more beholden to coporations instead of citizens

This is a real problem...perhaps one of the biggest problems we face, and I really don't have any reasonable ideas on how to fix it.
Ask HN: Have you encountered non-interview alternatives to tech job hiring?
Basically any tech jobs that normally are filled through an interviewing process, but aren't in some case.

In my experience I have only seen non-interview hiring in MLM sales jobs, simply due to their high turnaround and recruiting process.

But have you found a hiring process that lacked an interview in other types of jobs? And how was the experience?
Hunting won't be a viable method for replacing the majority of calories in one's diet in any scenario in which the public has to resort to finding such a replacement. Small game is only capable of supplanting other calorie sources, and although that role as a supplement is incredibly important in terms of nutrition, it can't serve as Plan A no matter how many squirrels and ducks you see in the park during "peacetime". Large game, which means white tailed deer for 95% of Americans, is viable in terms of calories per successful hunt but the success rate of hunting will plummet the longer any food-insecurity scenario continues. The population of white tailed deer is enormous (15,000,000) but the population of people capable of hunting them is large enough to absolutely annihilate that population in mere months.

Just doing some napkin math but several sources state the average carcass of a northern state buck yields 72lbs of meat. Does outnumber bucks and are far smaller (plus southern deer are far smaller) but let's be conservative and say the average is 60lbs of meat per carcass. Multiply that by the FDA approved # of calories per pound of ground venision which is 712, and you get 42,720 calories. Let's say you have to feed a family of 4 and you're fine with a starvation diet of 1,400 calories per day. That deer only provides you with 15 days of food assuming it only needs to provide for half that already limited calorie intake. Make that ~11 days if you want to maintain a 2,000 calorie diet with venison being half. Now picture the ramifications of that math as it plays out over a population of millions of families with an experienced hunter in the household and their need to take 2+ deer every month. Not only do you still need additional sources for the other half of your calorie intake, you'll need to replace the portion satisfied by venison fairly quickly as the deer population is hunted into near extinction.

Basically, hunting serves as an excellent way of supplementing your diet in such a scenario but it is by no means a complete solution over any timeframe and it becomes completely non-viable withing a surprisingly short window of time.
I read a forum post of someone commenting on range loss while the car was parked, and others confirmed this. I thought the battery conditioning was only while the car was in use, but it seems like the battery is constantly temperature regulated even when parked. It is common in the UK to drive to the airport and leave your car parked while you go on holiday for a few weeks, but it seems that you might come back to a car that won’t get you home.
How can you have a 15% effective tax rate yet benefit from the standard deduction?

Your taxable income after the standard deduction is $88,000 after which your state plus federal tax rate is applied to.

To have an effect tax rate of 15% on $100,000 you would have to pay only $15,000 in taxes on $88,000 of taxable income.

That would mean your state plus federal tax rate is 15000/88000 = 17%, which does not exist anywhere in the United States.

You are lying.
One of favorite papers is the paper from Jeff Dean

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208
The Case for Learned Index Structures
The solution is straightforward - lower consumer electricity rates when power is cheap, and raise them when it is expensive. Consumers will naturally shift the elastic part of their electric demand to when power is cheap.

For example, charging the car when power is cheap.
My understanding is if RCS doesn't work for whatever reason it's just regular SMS.
I'm always positively surprised how compatible the whole RSS ecosystem mostly is. They either implement the Google Reader API or the Fever API and you can choose between a lot of different apps for your platforms.

My current combination that I'm happy with for a few years is:

https://miniflux.net + Reeder on iOS and Mac
No, I am just commenting that it only makes rational sense to ignore a doomsday-type problem if there is no way to avoid it.

For example, we all know we are going to die at some point. It is inevitable, and nothing we do is going to prevent us from eventually dying. Because there is nothing we can do, it makes sense for us to ignore the problem, and possibly even to delude ourselves that we will live forever. There is no cost, since we are going to die eventually no matter what we tell ourselves.

However, with climate change, there ARE steps we can take today to prevent the catastrophe. Therefore, there is no rationalization for ignoring the problem.

I know human brains don't work rationally, though, but I thought it was useful to make the distinction.
I found the writer.
‘We Welcome Anonymous Cryptocurrencies’: US Fed Breaks Down Bitcoin in New Study
They do not have significantly higher suicide rates. Please provide evidence.

While I’m sure you can find anecdotes about elders turning to petty crime, I can find anecdotes of people not doing that in Japan. It’d be pointless. What I can do however is provide a chart of crime in the US vs crime in Japan, but then you may as well look at just a US crime chart since Japan’s line would be imperceptible.
Or, rather than give corporations the option of reinvesting liquidity, we can incentivize reinvestment by taxing the crap out of corporations.

I don't understand how the "tax cuts grow reinvestment" argument sways people. Investments into the business are deductible as expenses, meaning doing the exact opposite of a tax cut will actually drive reinvestment far more effectively. Cutting taxes allows for stakeholders to withdraw profits with much less of an incentive to reinvest.

Want to drive up the velocity of capital? Cut personal taxes especially on lower bands since people in these bands are more likely to spend that money on essentials and personal luxuries to make life better. Increased spending -- be it at the corporate level on growth, hiring, and research, or at the personal level on necessities and occasional luxuries -- keeps the economic engine going.
What if say you bribe someone who can somehow get access to the files and modify them?
You're not a crusader for common sense, you're an apologist for smug inaction in the face of a well documented grave crisis. And your argument seems to be no better than: "well they shout to much".

But sure, the real problem is a governor getting the wording of deadly heatwave slightly wrong. Were you even aware of the solid research he is alluding to, or are you above googling some facts for a few seconds because the statement rubbed you the wrong way? Is the fact that it's likely that thousands will die in heat waves somehow less concerning to you than the governors choice of words?

And no, history has not shown "such prognostications are almost always nonsense". There is simply no historical precedent here. We don't have a precedent of solid scientific consensus, backed by massive amounts of data, vast careful impact studies, etc ever even being performed in any field. But typically science done much less carefully has turned out to be overwhelmingly right.
I think it’s great to see why web is the way it is. These people were the web devs of their days desiging lead based layouts. Imagine having to roll back a change mid print.
I didn't change my privacy settings, because I already assume that everything I do on Facebook is essentially public, like any other bulletin board type service.

Also, I only connect to Facebook via Chrome, on my desktop Mac at home, where I use Firefox for all other browsing; on my phone and laptops, I don't use Messenger or connect to Facebook at all. I'm sure they have found sneaky ways of figuring out more about me than I'd prefer, but not so much that additional security precautions seem worthwhile.
Interesting point about involving a salesperson — it came across that you would have to negotiate with a literal person before purchasing? I sort of always figure that it's just a matter of an upgrade notice that displays a price and that's that.

Also, note that we don't actually require (or even ask for) email addresses or anything personal when you install the browser plugin. You just click install, try it for 2 weeks, and then buy if you want. The standard pricing is $2/mo, with a discount for annual purchase.

I totally appreciate the feedback and will see how we can better communicate our pricing to alleviate concerns like this.
I'm somewhat fascinated by the technical aspects of the videography here. Solid chunks of color "shimmer" as though random noise was added by a digital sensor. Then there are lines, presumably on the original film, that appear light green instead of white. I can't think of anything to account for either of these effects.
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At ContentGems.com we aspire to offer some of the features you're looking for. We fetch a ton of feeds each day, index them, and let you filter the items based on a powerful query api (Lucene). So in addition to reading your own feeds, you can also extract interesting content from other feeds and discover new feeds. It also deduplicates articles (on a sliding scale of similarity). We are in the process of building out the feed reader component (which is trivial compared to what we're already doing with search). An interesting twist on feed readers is that CG treats your Twitter home timeline like an RSS feed, indexing all shared articles and including them in the Firehose of feeds. Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders.
We wouldn't have this problem if civilization didn't continue to give so much money to the ID-10(t) class of investors.

Ideally, people that do nothing but tick off boxes in their mental buzzword checklists should not even be allowed to attend the pitches, and thereby waste other people's time by forcing them to hack around the unrepentant ignorance. But they that have the gold, make the rules.
Mobile keeps growing indeed, but around 45% of our pageviews are still on desktop. Here's an overview on how this has changed in the last half decade: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Audiences#/media/Fi...
(I'm the data analyst who has been working on this software feature, and also keeps track of Wikimedia's reader traffic in general.)
Would you want to live below sea level and trust the dam? Not me.
Infrared boost phase detectors on satellites have been around since the 60s. The US and Russian detection systems, at least, certainly know the origin of any ICBMs. There's not many parties that don't have that data and also have counter-measures.
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"There is also a moral argument for doing what you need to do in order to survive the difficulties of the market in order to survive it and change it into something more akin to your honest attitude about it."

There's really not, but it might make you feel better to think there is.
Employees don't deserve poor employers either.

I wouldn't condone a practice like you've described. It's far better to engage a potential candidate at normal rates for a short period to see if it's a mutual fit.
Regardless of the theoretical efficiency the US will be taking less in corporate taxes and we will have to wait and see if economic output increases enough to make up for it with other taxes.
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But didn't make the child tax credit fully refundable which hurts middle class families. I on the other hand am going to make out like a bandit with an approximate $6k tax cut, but I don't really need it. I'm going to dump it into the market and forget about it for 20 years.
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The injustice of race is such a small issue compared to the injustice between genders.
> There's nothing "wrong" with XML but with JSON there's no need to add another 5 pounds (2.2 KG) of JavaScript to convert XML to JavaScript objects

Non web-dev guy here, but browsers have excellent XML parses out there that can turn XML into a document object with a fully fledged query language. Why does it need to be a JS object?
1. Meli, a docker-compose alternative.

2. kshaka, a Go implementation of the CASPaxos consensus protocol.

1. https://github.com/komuw/meli.

2. https://github.com/komuw/kshaka
To me, the problem I have with 'preppers' or the 'gun lobby' is that the over extend their arguments past the point of reasonable-ness.

You may have a very valid reason for owning an AR-15 (even if that very valid reason is 'its rad at the range'). But for basically every valid reason, you can extrapolate a valid reason to own a pickup truck. In fact, there are more valid reasons to own a pickup truck. Pickup trucks, and the materials for making them work, are exposed to all manner of regulation and no-one but the most extreme anarchists make a peep.

Try applying the same sorts of regulations to AR-15s and you get 'slippery sloped' out of existence. So, to me, gun control advocates of the 'left' have not abandoned logical arguments, they've been out lobbied/pr'd by the gun extremists on the 'right'.

This is all coming from someone that does not own any AR-15s, but has fired them enough times to understand how much fun they are at the range.
> there are very few European "tech" companies.

I very heavily disagree.
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Have to admit, I've never been to Cracker Barrel.

But for chess or go, you can certainly create a solid interface for two real players to play the game on Bubble. To build in a "computer player" would probably be difficult.