skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mr. Jackson now teaches at a majority-white school."

Not for much longer, I suspect.
From the article:

"But that final 1% of journeys presumably includes the summer holiday when people pile into the car and head off for the coast. Hopping on the train laden with suitcases and children may not be an attractive alternative."

So the author of the article is advocating against electric cars because 1% of trips require more range?

Has he never heard of a rental car?
Well the obvious solution is to make the cars paranoid.

http://www.vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html
When I was at Berkeley undergrad, virtually no one showed up for professor office hours, so it was incredibly easy to get to know your professor even for the large auditorium classes.
Not just dreaming and fantasy, there's some actual numerical sleight-of-hand going on here. He's taking advantage of people's misunderstanding of compound interest.

Exponential growth will ultimately trump all other linear factors, even if the exponent is small. And that's also what makes small differences in that exponent so important (hence why computer scientists go through great pains to reduce complexity of matrix operations from O(2^2.51) to O(2^2.36)). Even if the investment only earned 1% per year, he can just sock it away in a 100-year trust fund:

>>> 1000 * (1.01 ** 100)
2704.8138294215287
>>> 523 * (1.005 ** 100) * .45
387.54342961962465

BAM - 85% "marginal" tax rate.

Plus, he has deliberately framed his scenario to take the maximum hit from taxes at every step. Corporate tax eats into his dividends? OK - invest in a growth stock instead of an income stock, and pay capital gains taxes when realizing the profits instead. Estate taxes steal most of the money from his heirs? How about he write a check to the university on behalf of his grandkids -- Uncle Sam won't see a dime of that.
I'm glad I was able to help you clarify your design.

The "diff" command you propose seems like a lot of machinery just to make up for the fact that your design --- which is, in essence, a Unix take on the Windows Registry --- doesn't have a canonical human-readable form you can just pop open in a text editor.

In the interests of full disclosure: I'm very unlikely to ever use Mongrel2. My goal isn't to provide you with useful feedback. Instead, you opened up a conversation about this design decision, and I think the fact that it's prone to a particular failure mode is relevant --- especially to the (presumably numerous) HN readers who might think of emulating you.

I hope you read the "what year is it" comment as a judgement on INI files though, and not your code. We appear to share an opinion about INI files.
"I can't see a reason why $400 per month would be all you would want to make"

There is no cap, but my intention is building the stuff that even work for very niche community.
Perhaps you could investigate whether One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org) needs any people for its overseas deployments? I didn't see anything listed on their 'Jobs' page, but you never know...
Interesting prediction about history repeating with Apple innovating then MS copying and simply setting up more manufacturers.

Though, totally wrong, Android rocks! customers love it! But everyone already has mental associations of what Windows phones look/feel like, and it's not pretty. They have a lot of expensive customer re-education to do. I don't see it taking off as well.
I agree. They'll have to accurately distinguish between toddlers walking into traffic and birds flying in front of cars.

One thing I read said the human driver had to take control because of a cyclist. Obviously there's more work to do.

But eventually these systems will get there. And they'll probably be able to share information with other vehicles too. So robotic vehicles will be able to see around corners. And tell each other exactly what they'll do before they start doing it.

Safety could wind up being 6 sigma instead whatever is currently. And we'll actually have the ability to measure it because collecting such statistics will be more feasible.

Right now, most of our screw ups don't end causing accidents and they never get recorded. And we prefer it that way! But we'll be able to do data mining on every little thing robotic cars do.
No. The "semantic" refers to the semantics of schema, not data.

Everyone gets this wrong.
If you treat this as a statement of fact, the economic consequence of this is clearly a matter of interpretation. The fact that Mr Mankiw might not be providing labor may mean that others will simply do the task and pay money on their earnings instead.
Unlikely. You're probably under the belief that That Can't Really Happen To You, just like almost everyone. At least experiencing the high risk of it a few times probably will help you to consider seriously the height of the risk.

That said, being human you might overcompensate.
An Object Lesson in How to Respond to Criticism
slightly off-topic, I guess but... I think that checking if the same 'topic' (page title, main keywords, etc) has been posted may be more important.
After all, even if nobody posted yet the URL I'm looking at... but if that URL is a brief blog post linking to another blog that passes through to the actual story... and if that story has been posted to HN... then I might as well add the URL I was looking at in a comment. No?
This is a really good interview giving insight into how a modern Chinese entreprenur thinks - definitely worth the 20 minutes. If you don't have time to watch it, there is a transcript in the comments.
After making sure I had everything up to date, the fglrx drivers still do not work on 10.10 for me, sadly. They seem to have fixed the issue for more people, but not everyone.
Without doing the research to prove it, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the tax burden on the top 1% of earners in the 26 countries I cited with higher average tax burdens is more onerous than the tax burden on the top 1% of earners in the US, because most (all?) of them have more steeply progressive tax systems.

The "complexity" of the US tax system is orthogonal to the issue we're discussing.
The original S10 has an Atheros chip (non-N)

I'll also be throwing this onto my OS-of-the-week S10 (I was trying to get Plan 9 running, but it wasn't having any of it)
At some point, the goal of having the "Happiest Possible Greg Mankiw" will have to give way to something like Wildland Fire Management.

It is less than honest to suggest that the tax increases we are discussing will be used for things like fire protection. The vast majority of government spending these days is not providing public goods. Police, fire, defense, the CDC and other public goods make up a relatively small portion of the budget.

For the most part, the extra money Mankiw pays will simply be redistributed to people less productive than him (federal bureaucrats, people capable of working but who don't wish to, corporations less productive than competitors/alternatives). If you wish to argue that those are useful purposes, be my guest.
http://mongrel2.org/tktnew ?
The unstated fundamental assertion of this is that people only work because of money, and to amass huge sums of it to pass on to their heirs.

Personally, I work because I enjoy it and am passionate about what I do. If I come out ahead and have money to survive and buy a few modest luxuries, then I'm happy.

If you don't like what you do and work is a pain, but you're addicted to the money stream, something is very wrong.

Similarly, having a society where people don't have the opportunity to better themselves is also wrong - and that's where government can and should attempt to improve the system.
All these tags mean the same thing to me.

3.75 inches
3.75 inches tall
3.75 x 3.75 x 5.75 inches
3.75 x 4.5 x 7 inches

The problem with human entered / non moderated data is that these lists will become longer and longer over time and the database will not understand that they all mean the same thing. Joins will be impossible and its relevance fades.
There's no released code yet, of course, but it looks really cool. Basically, the value you store in the DHT can include some callback functions that get called when certain events happen (onGet, onPut, onTimer). These callbacks execute in a sandboxed environment with a pretty limited API that retains enough functionality to implement custom replication strategies, self-deletion, and custom access control. Among other things, the paper describes implementing cryptography in the handlers such that only properly signed requests get processed.

One application immediately jumps out: cryptographically secure asyncronous messaging. A mailbox would be a lua object at a given key which contains the owner's public key and a list of messages encrypted with that key. The mailbox would append any messages `put` to the key to the list. The list would be returned when a valid `get` request is received which is signed with the owner's public key (note: in this system `get` requests can pass arbitrary arguments in addition to the requested key).
Of course. but they are very fashionable, so we must subsidize them massively.

Of course it might make more sense to tax the pollution than for government to try to pick the next technology. Didn't George Bush tell us it was going to be hydrogen cars? Now its supposed to be electric, but who knows what will actually happen in reality?

When you pick one technology and give it all of the advantages, it makes it all that much harder for competing technologies to succeed. A level playing field is best.

We have an entire industry of people trying to figure out what technologies will win. They compete with each other and have all kinds of different backgrounds and differing opinions. And they learn as they go, something Washington seems incapable of doing.
Some people learn more easily by watching / listening to a presenter than they do reading on their own.
Please go see “Waiting for Superman” – Here’s Why
FTA: "Unlike Apple, though, they [Android] still need to use the 'success by numbers' approach in order to stay alive."

So, what you are saying is that the only way that Android is successful is that they have lots and lots of people using their phones?

And tell me once again why WP7 will dominate?

FTA: "Windows Phone 7 will receive updates OTA (so it has legacy support), will have the same UI on all devices it runs on, and the same WP7 operating system."

So, WP7 will have OTA's just like Android and iOS. And it will have a consistent UI just like iOS and (according to Google) the next version of Android. And it will have "legacy support" because every handset using it will have the exact same OS image and will be upgradable by Microsoft instead of the carriers. Come again? One OS image for all handset models? Riiiight.
From what I've seen, some people have an in-born desire to work hard, and some don't. Taxes do not change this. The emphasis on taxes strikes me as a bit of posturing, and a ridiculous one at that. I've never had a single acquaintance say to me, "Yes, I've worked 70 hours a week these last few years, but they are raising nominal rates on my top brackets this year, so I will only work 50 hours a week from now on." Humans just don't work like that.

In my head, when I'm dealing with people, and especially when I'm hiring people, I slot them into 1 of 4 groups:

1.) ambitious - will do whatever it takes

2.) guilt ridden - aims to please, will make sacrifices for the job, though they can slip into burn out or depression

3.) multiple agendas, balances family and a job, stable but not extraordinary, will sometimes work extra in emergencies.

4.) unmotivated - their interests are away from work - hobbies, romantic partner, children, drug addiction, travel, art, writing, health problems - whatever, the issues are legion, but the point is the same - work is a low priority for them, they give it the minimal effort needed.

None of these categories change based on taxes.

For my part, I enjoy working, and that enjoyment wouldn't change if my taxes went up or down.

Possibly there are a few people, at the margin, who really are influenced by the tax rate, but I suspect this is a rare taste, like people who like yak butter. After all, you have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time studying the tax code before you can figure out how changes in work habits will effect your total tax bill over the long term, and few people are willing to make that effort. Hell, most people are not even willing to study their own investments, and leave all investment decisions to some advisor, or simply go with an index mutual fund, so that portion of their lives can function on auto-pilot.

I do not think I've ever known anyone who changed their work habits due to changes in the tax code.
Look, I see what you are trying to say. But I don't think anyone knows exactly what the problem with the economy is, and if they did, I would not expect to hear about it for the first time in a comment on hacker news. The average person not making enough income is a symptom of almost every kind of problem that can occur in a free economy, but it is not a cause.
Mankiw isn't a mathematician; he's an economist. Ranked by impact factor, Europe's universities are indeed outclassed by those of the US (attempt to control that by population and by the radically different systems those institutions operate under). I don't think you can really defend the claim that Europe's academic output is "dismal" compared to, like, the Earth, though.
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years (Douglas Coupland)
Could An Omnipotent Being Prove It?
Code + howto on github, anyone?
Men and Women Entrepreneurs: Not That Different
You're right, I was being cute.

However, the dominant component of "people capable of working but who don't wish to" is --- by my casual analysis (please correct me) --- retirees on social security. It's also dubious to suggest that if we drastically cut back on the social safety net that the entire entrepreneurial class would necessarily fare better; many of us[1] would have to redirect our efforts and risk tolerances to fund our parents retirement.

We probably agree more than we disagree on the subject of civil servant pensions.

I am willing to accept that there is no tax/spend scheme that is ever going to make me entirely comfortable (a single trip to the DMV illustrates this nicely) without rejecting entirely the idea that we should trade off some personal incentives for our collective well being.

[1] Not me, though.
Science Fiction appeals to the male brain's obsession with structure, order, pattern recognition, and penchant for legalism. You can see a sci-fi movie and then spend hours pondering how to fill in the rest of the blanks in the galaxy that the movie introduced.

Romantic comedies, on the other hand, don't ping those same pleasure sensors.

I think this was one reason why Firefly, though definitely beloved by many, remained a cult show and failed as a movie, it was half story and half mythology, so neither the nerds nor the mainstream could ever totally embrace it.
Boring, obvious advice from someone who's been using Kubuntu since Feisty: if it's your main desktop, don't upgrade now unless you have to. For the sake of a couple of weeks' waiting you stand a much better chance of avoiding any teething troubles, or at least being able to to find documentation for your problem. This is especially relevant if you use a laptop or unusual hardware.

(For the record I've been hit with laptop wifi incompatibility (the Intel wireless driver got changed, config files didn't update) and software RAID in the GRUB 2 update.)
Ah the old DJB canard. I will counter your DJB with Alan Kay who's work inspired and/or created a huge amount of our modern technological world.
I don't think anyone's making that assumption. The argument holds if people respond at all to monetary incentives for work.

And if you find someone who doesn't respond at all to monetary incentives for work, they probably aren't making $250,000 a year, or anything close.
Yeah, I'd strongly recommend sticking with 10.04 LTS for any production servers -- unless you require a particular and/or peculiar feature in 10.10, that is.

LTS == Long Term Support == security fixes for 5 years. :-)
I usually find that when people request something weird, it's because they have a "special sauce" idea they want to implement and not tell me about.

As for sqlite3 being overkill, go check out the code for loading the config with sqlite, and for just parsing the config in m2sh. Parsing is way harder and more overkill than just querying a db.
Since his whole plan is predicated on giving the income to his kids, he could just gift them the $1,000 as soon as its made and it never gets hit with estate takes. He can now do 12 of these gigs a year ($12,000 a year is the max you can gift without declaring it) and pass it entirely onto his kids.
Huh? I have no idea what this is intended to mean.

For what it's worth: I'm an ardent admirer of Bernstein, and happily pay the Bernstein tax on my systems. All I'm saying is that I recognize that I'm paying it.
I do know people who figured out their marginal hourly rate after taxes, and decided to cut back their hours worked to stay under that.

When figuring the hourly rate, one must take into account not only taxes, but loss of unemployment compensation, earned income credit, etc. There are definitely folks who do this and choose to work less because their net hourly rate is not compelling.
10 Stunning Photos From 10-Year Sea Census
Very interesting ... Don't you think so?
Without doing the research to prove it

http://www.photius.com/rankings/tax_burden_country_ranks_200...

You'll notice that US/NYC is 21 and US/IL (where I'm at) is 35. You should also notice that many of the >35 burdens have a large VAT/Sales Tax which has less impact on the top 1% of earners.

Again, I'm not an expert in these matters. And, in any giving country the professor may be paying more in taxes. However, to systematically dismiss the tax burden of the United States because we have a low income tax isn't taking the full picture into account.
AFAIK, Slovakia has flat 19% income tax (including income from dividends and capital gain), so I wouldn't be so sure about US having the least onerous tax systems of all named countries.
On the android app, the heart pulses to your heartbeat. I checked my pulse simultaneously and it seems pretty accurate.
hmm, me thinks huge variations may be bigger than small-scale noise.

thanks.
It's a common fallacy that electric cars are just "moving the emission source" and therefore no better than gasoline cars. However, even if 100% of the electricity is generated from coal, an EV is actually much more environmentally friendly than any gasoline-powered car.

It all comes down to efficiency numbers. Power plants and electric motors are just massively more efficient than gasoline engines, and it's much easier to scrub the emissions on one pipe than many.

Of course, they also make it easier to transition to renewable sources (replacing one power plant vs. replacing many cars), but that's just icing on the cake.
And not the ass-backwards way Fox played it? It seems Fox kills shows for kicks, sometimes.
Autistic children are not good at covering up their lies, study finds
You have to pay estate tax on gifts too. Otherwise rich people could avoid estate tax by giving their assets to their kids before they died.
Top earners who live in NYC (not NY, mind you, but NYC, which has a harsh city tax) are marginally (#21 instead of #26) worse off in this analysis, but the entire rest of the country is significantly (#35 instead of #26) better off. Despite the fact that you've provided evidence that enhances my argument and not yours, I'm willing to stipulate that it's a wash.
This is a neat idea and one I was both surprised and excited to find in the app store when I was looking for such a thing. Sadly it fails in implementation, it just doesn't work terribly well, I almost wonder if they are just faking it and have some heavy bias to report 80 bpm, since that's believe for most.

But in my experience at least, when you compare it to a real heart rate monitor, it is always quite off.
Two things:

Merchandising, and who says it didn't? I encounter loads of cases where American Pie is injected whether it makes sense or not. It's way beyond cult status from how often I see it around.
I think if people are resting and see something between 50 and 80 b/m and then see 120-150 when exerting themselves, the device is probably accurate. It doesn't have to be perfect.
I know that people not having money to spend is an ongoing symptom of the problem with our economy. If it were true giving poor people $N thousand would fix our problems, I would support that move. But I haven't seen a credible argument to this effect besides gut reactions from people writing comments like yours. Do you have any links to articles from experts making similar claims? Any evidence of consensus on this topic among experts?
The phone is pretty excellent (I have not been victim of any GPS/other problems) though the pushed-back 2.2 update is a bit annoying.

The only real annoyance I have had is with Samsung Kies (the company's firmware update- and externalised crapware-management application), which is just about the worst desktop app I have ever had to try use. I say try because it never works.

Of course, the solution is easy if it fails to update 2.2 - will just install it "unofficially" and probably not look back.
I provided a ranked list of average tax burden, not income taxes. The tax burden includes personal income tax, corporate taxes, social insurance, property tax, and goods and services taxes.

This seems like the appropriate comparison to draw, since it's the metric Mankiw himself evokes.
this whole thing remains me lots of Dougla's Adams books... amazingly portraid and if somewhere there they would have quoted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy it would have been awesome :)
http://codepad.org/5TyD9Jqy -- C++ solution with running time of ~0.004s. 30 lines not counting empty lines/comments/braces, half of the code is generating P.
Unless I'm seeing some leftovers from the beta/rc, I think the default theme still ships with a nearly impossible to grab window border, which is somewhat infuriating.
I'm glad I could help clarify your FUD.

> which is, in essence, a Unix take on the Windows Registry

Ah, the windows registry canard. You are the canard king man. Let's see you've pulled out djb and windows registry. I think your next linux fear buzzword will be "embrace and extend" or possibly "free as in freedom". That'll really enhance the F in your effing statements.

The flaw of the windows registry is not that it wasn't a text file, but that it was a massive monolithic database with all software configurations in it and no enforceable schema that couldn't be examined. Our database is only for mongrel2 and has a solid clean schema everyone can go look at with "sqlite3 .dump". So that's a pointless comparison.

And you keep using this word "canonical" where it doesn't apply, so let's use official. The "official" configuration file is loadable into a text file, but again, I think that's irrelevant for the use cases the design targets. Either you're doing your own setup and m2sh with mongrel2.conf is fine, or you're doing large scale automation and the database is better.

In my design you get both, plus more choice. In your design you only get the status quo configuration which sucks.

Also, if I do m2sh diff it'll be just for fun. Nobody really needs that since most people don't hire Ninjas.
You are correct - retirees together with the poor (90% of whom don't work full time).

It would not be necessary for young people to fund their parent's retirement, their parents would not necessarily need to retire. A large number of older people are capable of working, and the latest projections suggest that this trend will only increase in the future:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/329/5997/1287
Chevy's Volt meets the press
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