skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was under the impression that there is no guarantee that the data will actually be there with ipfs? Not sure about swarm. It's possible that it could be somehow paid for when launching the contract. Anyway, the idea makes sense

However, in my experience, contracts don't usually have a lot of source code. I think storing them on chain wouldn't be much of a problem. Unfortunately though, that might incentivize minification and other self defeating measures.
He's referring to the fact that, by default, the United States taxes LLCs having more than one member as a partnership. An interest in a partnership is taxed differently than an interest in a corporation (stock).
Interesting, makes sense but not something I thought about (as a C++ user) before.
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All programs by the government are ways to employ people.
They can be ineffective or effective but it still makes whoever employed happy to vote for whoever made the job up.
Makes you think someone should setup some rules for handling, gathering and processing user information.

These companies are too big to fail. You can't fight with cancer by slapping it on the tendrils with fines.

If you can't cut the cancer out then cut yourself from it. The effect is comparable (if we forget about or actively fight shadow profiles).

FB, Twitter and other social/media companies are for-profit and your persona is the currency they're after.

But hey, at least we'll get the perfect brand of socks/bed sheets/mattresses in the ads we're served.
Wow, this is great! I want to jump in but need to know more about the tax/expense and legal consequences of forming an LLC in Delaware versus my home state for my mISV (for anyone reading this who doesn't read Patrick's blog, micro-independent software vendor). What do we have to look out for?
This is likewise required in WA.
> Ok, maybe I was a bit excited about Julia too, but their execution is not as great as Rust's (and they have made some questionable design decisions).

Could you expound on this? The code I currently write and expect to write in the near-to-mid-term is numerical for engineering purposes. I have the luxury of being able to write greenfield projects, at least for now. My experience with OCaml has inculcated a deep appreciation for powerful type systems and functional styles, so Python, despite its awesome ecosystem, is not particularly of interest. Julia appears to be the natural choice in this space for new development, but I've been a little leery after reading about Dan Luu's experience a couple of years ago: http://danluu.com/julialang/

I'm interested in reasoned criticisms of Julia as it stands now, and what modern practical alternatives people have found.
You can stay away from regressive schemes like a flat tax, and have a tax system with a rubberstamp level of UX. That's how it works in most of Europe and could work here. The IRS already has all of the information needed outside of gambling and stocks, and could simply send you forms already filled out for you to sign. H&R Block and TurboTax simply heavily lobby to keep this from happening to keep their business model around.
Doing most of MVC via database?
The "MC" parts of "MVC" seem like they can be automated and better tracked in an RDBMS than as code for a good many CRUD-centric applications. The "View" could be left code-centric but the rest database-ified. I've been experimenting, but wondering if I'm not reinventing the wheel. Here's a simplified draft schema to kick around:

// Navigation tree and page relationship (table).

Navig: ID (PK), ParentID, Action, Crudtype, Model, Title,
Filter, SuccessPathID, Priority.
// (CrudType: Search, List, Add, Edit, Delete, Other.
"Filter" can be used to de-select columns as needed)

// Field dictionary table, roughly corresponds to table/view columns.

Model: ID, FieldName, Type, Title, Nullable, MaxLength, FilterCodes, Sequence

// Relationships to define drop-downs and/or read-only, per CrudType.

Lookup: ID, Model1_ID, Model2_ID, IDcolumn, DescriptColumn.

// Customized or specialized activity table, similar to event handlers.

Special: ID, PathID, Model, Action, FieldName, Operation, Param1, Param2, Param3.
// (PathID, Model, Action, & FieldName can be wild-carded as needed. Example Operation: "Phone" to format & validate phone-number columns.)

A lot depends on settling on consistent shop conventions rather than try to cover every CRUD style.
Fair. :P
It is taxed as a partnership if you don't elect to be taxed as an S corp.
>> bank accounts, stripe accounts are all free, same goes for any “credits” from aws and elsewhere

Free only if you don't value your time, I suppose. And you left out the support part from Stripe Atlas and their community, which could easily be worth many multiples of $500.
Having this stuff digitized is actually pretty nice. The German ELSTER is basically PDF forms on steroids; same tax forms you presumably used to fill out by hand but with input formatting, validation, basic sanity checks and it estimates what you'll pay / get back at the end of it all. Then you can even submit it online if you have registered for a private key.

Of course the tax forms themselves are still insane.
>So the patchwork 1960s-era systems

You have (purposely?) mis-stated the previous statement quoted above. A patchwork of systems that includes some systems dating back to the Kennedy Administration is not the same as a patchwork of 1960'era systems. Could it be that the "starve the best" mentality hindered or blocked a number of planned migrations/upgrades?
yes, factor in human nature but first understand what it is. there are 360 million vegetarians in India, for example. eating meat isn't coded in our DNA.
If you want to run a remotely lean organization, spending $500 to incorporate your LLC is not starting off on the right foot.
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Yes, they will treat us like we treat other animals. Maybe we get to be like pet cats, more likely I think is a horse at the plow.

As long as we are useful we get to live to perform this duty. When no longer we'll become sausage.
Yep. An LLC* is not taxed as a corporation unless it chooses to be, by default it is taxed as a sole proprietorship (and so the owner would pay income tax). This is known as a disregarded entity” at the federal level.

Also watch out for franchise taxes - if you live in California it’s $800/yr minimum.

* Edit: a single-member LLC
It’s cheaper
I only know specifically about the NLP stuff, e.g. Natural Language Understanding (AlchemyLanguage), Natural Language Classification (it's just a multi-label text classifier) and Watson Knowledge Studio (Basically allows you to create your own named entity recognition classifier (NERC), also supports relations and co-reference resolution. You manually hand-annotate examples through a Web UI).

So by platform I mean, lets say you train a NERC model using Watson Knowledge Studio. Obviously this model has to be "deployed" somewhere so you can call it using an API. They host it for you and they bill you per API call. Anyone can go create their own entity type system and manually annotate a training dataset. So it's definitely a re-usable platform, you don't need to pay for any IBM consultancy to use it. I found that the NLP offerings have many problems, and that the documentation alone is not enough to help resolve all of them. So eventually, IBM will just tell your employer you're stupid and that's why it's not working as it should and you should pay IBM to come in.

But make no mistake, these are all just standard machine learning tools that have been "packaged" so end-users can use them through a web front end. It is in no way, whatsoever, getting any input from any AI/Neural Network/Database/whatever you want to call it/ thing called "Watson".

I personally think it's disingenuous because when people hear Watson they think Jeopardy and they think that somehow that technology is involved when they use any of the Watson.* products.
>You said that back in the day we paid for news because of scarcity due to the costs of printing and distribution. That's true, but I'm not talking about back in the day, I'm talking about now.

Well, if you're talking about now, then one needs to add that today don't generally pay for most of our news content. We get it for free. Only select outlets managed to make paying work (e.g. Economist, NYT and a few more).

We do however, today, have systems for bypassing gatekeepers, curation, and paying content creators directly: from YouTube vloggers and Medium authors, to Patreon comic makers, artists and so on.

>that model doesn't make much sense. The majority of value provided by content middle-men is in doing gatekeeping well.

Well, the majority of people don't seem to care for those gatekeepers anymore. Medium had millions of viewers without gatekeeping. Facebook has billions of eyeballs hooked on reading whatever crap stories and content is put out there (I mean, aside from personal feed posts).

So while there might be value in gatekeepers and curation, that's not really a much better business model than what Medium does.
To be fair, Herschel thought we were at the center of our galaxy, rather than the entire universe.

I'd expect Herschel to be acquainted with Olber's Paradox [1]. Olber postulated that if the stars were uniformly distributed in space, the sky would be brightly illuminated in all directions. It isn't therefore, either stars are not uniformly distributed and we cannot be at the center of an infinite universe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
> Everyone in America doesn't want to stare at a computer, drink $5 latte's, and eat farm to table food. There is nothing wrong with a town that has $3 beers in a plastic cup and a crowd of people screaming until at the TV until they are horse. There is nothing shameful about marrying a man or woman while holding each other's calloused hands at the alter.

I find that pretty pretentious.

And the problem with it is that it makes the situation out to be one purely of aesthetic and moral preferences, completely ignoring ecomonic factors that can't be simply chosen based on such preferences.
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Same thing Salesforce is doing with Einstein right now. Means that internally, when someone says a customer wants to talk about Einstein, people are all left wondering which one.
Probably. People is abusing the X letter (do they know that it is not pronounced anymore as "ki" in modern greek?).
an 800 number is also partially about having a large corporate identity, for example if go to the website for $HUGE_AIRLINE and its main customer service/reservations phone number is 1-416-something-something vs 1-800-something-something, it looks less serious.
> Is organized in Delaware, the jurisdiction of choice for many new LLCs.

Be aware that if you are "doing business" in California which means you live there you also have to file as a California foreign entity and pay the absurd anti-small business flat tax of $800 a year.

This also does not include your state income tax liabilities in California. Just because the LLC is formed in Delaware does not mean you don't have to pay income taxes in the state you reside. Delaware is just the legal residence, has nothing to do with income taxes.

I moved to Tennessee in January and switched my single-member disregarded entity LLC from California to Tennessee. The annual fee in Tennessee is $400 vs $800 and there is NO STATE INCOME tax in beautiful TN.
Hi patio11, this is really great. It would be awesome to have some resources for EU citizens, mainly how it is with taxes and where I tax what and how.
What makes you think the compliance burden is any different for self-hosted analytics vs third-party analytics? You're the data controller in both cases, your obligations for consent/interest, disclosure, access requests, etc are all the same. Google Analytics has a DPA where they guarantee they meet their GDPR obligations relating to your data, and Google is a member of the US-EU Privacy Shield, which takes care of your obligations with respect to transferring data outside of the EU. If anything, hosting your own Piwik instance greatly increases your compliance burden and risk of a costly breach, as you'll be collecting and storing much more personal data than Google does, in a less secure environment -- Google Analytics is mostly aggregate/sampled data, and supports IP anonymization at the edge before any processing/storage is done.
I agree in that the major benefit of GDPR for small companies is that you have to review and perhaps revise your processes accordingly.

However, the documentation still is required. You can create some of that later or just in case you're requested to do so but as soon as third parties (i.e. data processors) are involved that might not be possible anymore.

At the very least you'll be very busy for a few days because such requests by relevant authorities will come attached with a somewhat tight deadline ("Please supply these documents within 2 weeks or else ...").
It's weird, but the world in general consists of grey zones. There are no clear black-and-white distinctions.

Facebook clearly is a public forum. It clearly has shared private data with CA. Both of these issues deserve to be discussed, and both will have different, possibly even conflicting outcomes.

And really, that same thing could be true for, say, cable companies as well - they provide a public service, and they are regulated by a local franchising authority. We don't currently see content regulation, but if your local cable provider started, say, providing a channel dedicated to cannibalism, you might see changes in that. At the same time, the subscriber lists are considered private, and sale of them is regulated.

The main reason you don't see much of a mix here is that pre-Internet communication is mostly of the broadcasting type, which has only very few areas where private data actually exists.
I don't see how that's really relevant.
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This is such a great game! It actually became my go to and helped me break an addiction with League of Legends.

Do you mind letting us know how much you were able to sell the game for?
Without a written vesting schedule for ownership of shares of a company, a founder could leave (or die or become disabled/incompetent due to sickness/accident) and keep their (or their estate's) share of the company. Those events can completely destroy the value of a company. For example in a 50/50 partnership, the remaining partner would be responsible for 100% of the work, but only receive 50% of the dividends or liquidation value. Those type of events are hard enough to deal with anyway - not having a vesting schedule makes it almost impossible to recover from. For instance if there _was_ a vesting schedule for a partner that left after a very short period of time, the unvested equity could be used to attract another partner.

The vesting schedule should reflect their contribution to the company over time, and can be whatever the founders negotiate as reasonable. If someone helps found a company and brings a ton of immediate value (ie IP or cash or contracts, etc) then their vesting schedule can reflect that. Issues such as assignment to estate or beneficiaries are important legal issues that need to be considered at startup time as 'insurance' against things no one wants to see happen, but might.
Will take a look. Thanks!
Same here, I would instantly become a "vegan" if this were an option. I really enjoy food (it's a massive part of my culture, family, and childhood) and have been indoctrinated with all the flavors of meat. Although intellectually I feel avoiding unnecessary suffering of animals is a good thing it is very difficult to divorce myself from consuming meat for all the previous reasons.

Lab grown meat would leave me no real excuse to support the animal farming industry because I would be able to keep everything I love about it and get rid of the stuff I don't.
I could have my meat and eat it too.

Edit: This sounded more phallic than intended, going to leave it in though haha.
> screaming until at the TV until they are horse

just say neigh to screaming at sports events until you are hoarse.
It includes a bank account that is huge money and time saving for people outside of US. If you do it elsewhere you will have to fly to the US and open the account yourself.
>And don’t waste time trying to simulate animal products (veggie burgers, faux-turkey, etc.) It’ll never measure up in the end and distract from the really good and tasty vegetarian (or mostly vegetarian) stuff.

Man, I hear a lot of vegetarians say this... Just as a mental heuristic, you might be able to realize that your experience differs from the experiences of the people who make up the market for these products seeing as you were already able to go vegetarian...

If you need a high calorie, high protein diet, it's hard to go vegetarian- especially if you're allergic to one of the 7 common allergens (nuts, dairy, soy, wheat, eggs...) - an allergy to one makes it difficult, two or more almost impossible. The simulated animal products (beyond burgers, impossible burgers, memphis meats) are my great hope here and I buy the available ones as much as possible. But it's really difficult to reach at least 2.5k calories and 80g of protein per day without just shoveling spoonfuls of quinoa and beans or soylent or protein powder. It's hard to reach a lot of meat eaters if you're just talking about taste and not about macro nutrient requirements.
> Is designed to make conversion to a C Corporation as simple as possible. (We can connect Stripe Atlas users to a lawyer to manage the conversion process with discounted, flat-rate packages).

This is the most important part. LLCs tend to be cheaper and more flexible before you raise money, but a C-Corp is basically necessary to raise money. Converting an LLC to C-Corp conversion is often quoted at about $10K from a law firm. With Stripe Atlas, you are set up to make the conversion easily.
If the "built by someone else" docker container contains a bunch of incomprehensible hacks or black magic, then you're really just handing yourself a nightmare down the road when it comes time to update that thing or apply security fixes.
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> Customers with 60Mbps Internet download speeds are being upped to 150Mbps; 150Mbps subscribers are going to 250Mbps; and 250Mbps subscribers are getting a raise to 400Mbps or 1Gbps.

I'd be surprised that any regular household would notice being upgraded from 60 to 150Mbps.
Users that are programmers also have to package Python packages. Sometimes in .deb form for Ubuntu too...

It's not just official Debian packages that someone needs to maintain...
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Self-driving cars or Tesla autopilot?
1. Humble and humility, more as a mindset. Even if it wasn't, according to the book, Bezos was very frugal in the beginning.

2. My list was for self-made billionaires.

3. I like reading about self-made billionaires because as an entrepreneur- why wouldn't you want to learn from the best? At the same time, I don't want to be a billionaire if that's the kool-aid you're referencing.

I grew up in poverty and love reading about poverty because I want to learn more about the circumstances that affect my reality today. Why can some people like my mom work 60 hours a week at $10/hr and never become a millionaire or even afford to retire? While others can? I wish I knew. Poor decisions? Poor environment? Or both?

I haven't met any billionaires but I've met many self-made millionaires who literally built their way from nothing. In my experience, most of them built their wealth over years or decades. It's very hard to build something from nothing overnight.

If there's anything I learned from reading self-made billionaire stories- it's simply better decision-making. Can't do much about a poor environment but at least you do have control over the decisions you make.
Or you can continuously keep your code / systems up to date and never get wedged into a nearly impossible situation of having to rewrite 60 year old code (which likely has nothing resembling a test suite nor even a spare piece of compatible hardware to test on).
While I don't necessarily agree with how they've advertised it I think they are legally safe. All Model 3's DO have the HARDWARE to support full-self driving, even if the software is not there. And regarding the software, it has been shown to be about 40% safer than humans where it is used, which is what they've claimed.
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The question for the industry remains: how do we deal with systems that should be up for 10 years? 25 yrs? 50 yrs? 100 yrs? We didn't even have computers as they exist today 50 years ago.

How do we separate business logic in a self-contained way that can be independent of hardware and (from a certain level) software?
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>I install all my Python modules into the system's Python using my OS's package manager.

If that's the case, then it's as you said: you "just never do anything complicated with Python".
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You should look into BDI agents and BDI programming languages.
I'm confused, there have never been a large group of people who would rape and murder. I'm not convinced it's even an order of magnitude lower now than it was 1k years ago (or 10k). The largest majority have also been omnivores (I'd include insects, eggs, and fish) for almost the entirety of that time.

It doesn't look like we're going to either solve omnivorism or perfect non-violent world peace any time soon. On the other hand, I suppose a Matrix-like utopian hellscape could bring us both.
Unfortunately, these are of the older gen w/16GB of RAM rather than 32GB which is now available. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/tesla-v100/
Azlo.com looks nice. I got fed up with Silicon Valley Bank (awful) a few years back and switched to Capital One Spark Business[1] which is great. However they have "temporary" halted new signups which makes me a bit nervous about their long-term plans.

[1] https://www.capitalone.com/small-business-bank/
This seems rather anti-competitive. It'd just be a matter of time until Netflix, etc. only run well on the upgraded speed.

Here's hoping someone takes this to the FTC and gets this stopped. I wish I were a little more hopeful.
> Since rust and swift are similar languages, there is probably a similar issue.

Swift's type checker works quite differently than Rust's. I'm not aware of any exponential time complexity issues in type-checking Rust code.
Docker doesn't solve the problem, and virtualenv is irrelevant to the discussion. It's just another option -- all other options already exist, will continue to exist, and can interact with your Python setup in subtle ways (not to mention one might need to distribute their python code).
> Fun (scary) fact – significant portions of the IRS tax system is still written in assembly.

Why is that scary? It has decades of real life testing applied to it if there were any obvious bugs they would have been found by now.

Assembly is just another language, it is slower to develop in but there are many examples of high level language issues that are at least as scary as what you could do in assembly. In the end it is all about the processes around your development as much or more than it is about what language you pick. The best way to reduce your chance of bugs is to reduce the size of your project.

https://www.mayerdan.com/ruby/2012/11/11/bugs-per-line-of-co...