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What if more laws had monetarily incentivized vigilanteism?
What is paradoxical is that American voters keep voting to reduce taxes for the rich, who don't do anything with that saved money to increase businesses.

Taxes should be lower for the poor who would thus spend more and keep the economic engine running and create jobs.

Taxes should be much higher for the rich so that that money is used by Govt to do infrastructure work (create jobs) or pay down debt (and thus provide services and create jobs).

Lowering taxes for the rich just allows the rich to seek investments that will increase their own wealth, not necessary creating jobs (Some VCs are an abberation to this).
> In addition there are ways to estimate how much can be predicted from genetic information, a term called heritability. Heritability can be estimated from so called twin studies. Where twins who are genetically identical (monozygotic) are compared to twins who are not genetically identical (dizygotic). In this way you can measure the environmental effect (the variation seen in the monozygotic twins) and the genetic effect (the variation that is seen in the dizygotic twins compared to the monozygotic twins). This is, of course, a gross oversimplification, but can provide reasonable measures of an upper bound of what can be explained genetically For most traits this upper bound is around 0.5 R^2, and I believe for educational attainment a bit higher, but I could not find it in the paper or a quick google search.

Just wondering, have you ever encountered any of the serious critiques of twin studies.

The comparison of dizygotic (DZ) and monozygotic (MZ) twins relies on the Equal Environment Assumption (EEA) - which assumes that the environment experienced by MZ twins is the same as that of DZ twins. This assumption has been shown empirically to be false - parents, siblings, teachers, friends, and the twins themselves treat MZ twins very differently than they treat DZ twins.

There are good reasons to think that heritability results derived from twin studies are highly inflated.
In design and development, most processes are about sequences of diversion and conversion, and not being able to diverge, or only through violence, seems to be a major flaw of real political systems, there's a toxic fanatism about conversion and unity at all cost, which seems contrary to human evolution.

The last major diversion happened with the creation of the US, where a part that had different ideals split from its european core. the same thing happened throughout our history, starting in Africa from where people spread into the middle east and then beyond.

The options to handle this drive for diversion are either diversion into space, and/or inwards, reformation to gain time until we can spread into space.

Tech shouldn't be used to enforce conversion, but to enable peaceful diversion. Diversion, and diversion of opinion makes sense if there's a free flow of information. Political systems just haven't cought up.
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About registration: Do you really think it's important? I had two recent trips to Moscow where I was staying at Airbnbs and the hosts refused to register me. I was unable to find another way to register and decided to risk it. Nobody asked about it during departure. One trip was before the world cup, the other was during the final. I'd definitely like to follow the rules, but it seems like a huge hassle when staying at Airbnbs ... (note: both trips were ~5 days, but world cup rules of ~1 day deadline for registration were in place for both trips)
U2F was never fully supported in browsers making it hard for sites to deploy it everywhere. The new WebauthN standard is going to be supported everywhere which makes it more likely that sites will actually use it.
I am hella addicted to amazon then. Holy shit.
A lot of these facts are designed to make scary headlines.

#1 and #3 are both symptoms of a common cause- essentially zero savings rate for a wide swath of the American population. For the large fraction of people, failing to save is a behavioral phenomenon. For many people, doubling their income would still result in them living paycheck to paycheck.

For #5, 17% of canadian children are living in poverty, 1 in 5 French children live in poverty, and poverty affects more than one in four children in the UK today (https://globalnews.ca/news/3739960/canadian-census-children-...) (http://www.france24.com/en/20150609-unicef-report-france-chi...) (http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/child-poverty-facts-and-figur...). Of course, each country sets its own poverty line to represent a socially-empathetic income level, resulting in pretty-even levels of nominal poverty across countries. It is not that surprising that expanding the scope of headline-worthy impoverishness to be "low-income or in poverty" would result in headline #4.
Update: apparently it is more-or-less illegal. Guess I'll start reporting it when I see it.
Hardware complexity != logical complexity
>The high nicotine content is well-known; the company says Juul was designed to help adult cigarette smokers switch to e-cigarettes.

I mean if you take something that delivers nicotine... that's kinda what happens.

What exactly is the case for the users here? Did they think it had less nicotine but it did not?
The decision to choose a "mail client" (really a "groupware system") is a complex process in most cases. MS Office is the default because it does everything, and it works on the top two platforms. Google is sort of competing in this space, but it's nowhere near MS's feature set, customer/business service, and compatibility.

The people buying your product are not integrating it into their business case because your product can't compete, it can only fill a niche. In this sense you should definitely find niches, such as users willing to pay money to have a working client on Linux. But this can be a dangerous game. If, for example, Evolution suddenly stopped sucking balls at Exchange compatibility and became a half-decent mail client, you could lose your niche, and your cash flow.

If I were you, I would make your product be as different as it can be while still being compatible. One way would be tightly integrating with an OS or product. Another way would be providing custom integration that competitors don't even come close to. Another would be to provide utility functions that nobody else has. Getting to the point where people use your product not because they like it, but because they have to have it. Kind of like the iPhone. Nobody ever needed a giant glass touch screen, but once people started using it, they couldn't give it up.

Once you have that kind of core functionality, you could give away a stripped down product and ask for payment for premium features. This would net you additional users that would otherwise go to a free competitor, and be a potential entry to sales once they feel they need the extra features.

(apologies if you're already doing any/all of this)
Ask HN: What were/are you doing at age 25? What would you change?
For those of us without something to compare this stage of our life to, I was hoping to get some insight on how people handled/are handling their lives at around 25. At least for me, only being 2 years into my job I still feel like I'm thrown into a pit (a consequence of the job offer I took, I suppose, and complacency).

As for the second question, what advice would you give a 25 year old you?
I looked forward to it — yes! Mine was abuse (see my other post further down in the thread if you’re interested) but it was so damned convenient to just flip a figurative switch and have the lights go out.
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. 3 minutes? A $350 fine? Are you kidding me? I spend longer than that idling in a fast food parking lot eating my food. How do any judges sleep at night enforcing this? I'm not going to sit in a hot/freezing car in traffic if I can help it by running the climate control inside for a while first (definitely takes more than 3 minutes, or especially that particularly ridiculous 1 minute in school zones). I guess these people would prefer my dog suffer in the heat instead of sitting in air conditioning for 5 minutes while I get something out of a gas station. More and more reason I never want anything to do with NYC.

The goal of protecting the environment is so that it can better serve us in the future. The environment is not an end in itself. Idling regulations are far too great of an inconvenience compared to the tiny benefit. I hope this war on cars is just a fad.
> Why should a company hire someone who is potentially going to impact their own revenue?

Because every software engineer can impact their own revenue the same way.

> To your second point, sure, employers hold more power. What is wrong with that? If you don't like it, you can always work somewhere else.

Don't liking it, I'm supporting my peers in HN that it is not unethical to have a side project and use it as a leverage to not be subject to the humor of your boss. It is also good for the company, as desperate people aren't creative.
So many jokes to be made about Amazon having to contact their AWS representative to get their limits raised, etc.
Having done the same rounds on Sand Hill plus many up and down the business district of NYC and in Tysons Corner in DC, I will say that was still a flowery writeup - with a happy ending of a sizeable seed.

I've come to the conclusion that 99% of startups raise money way too early - hence why it's such a terrible experience for most.

Companies that are doing great business, don't need to pitch, and don't "go fundraising." Those companies seem to be actively sought out by money, and refuse checks more than they take them.

That's probably 1/100 companies and the ones that should actually raise money.

It's all about leverage.
> fundamentalist

> relating to or advocating the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

I think it's fair to say that the gospel of saint ignucius is interpreted strictly in some circles.
i totally know how you feel since i have felt that way in the past as well :) here's something relevant: http://pgbovine.net/practical-reason-to-pursue-PhD.htm

my two cents: find something where the grants align with your interests, or find a brand-new faculty member who has startup money so isn't as bound by grants in the near term. and if things don't work out, simply leave and go to industry -- with a marketable skill set like what you get from being a CS major, there's no way for you to lose. go wherever has work that you like more.
Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names
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> Slightly off topic, but I wish BLM would have been BLMT (Black Lives Matter Too),

“Too” implies afterthought/secondary status. “Too” is, in any case, not part of what BLM is about. That other lives matter is not something BLM as a group denies, of course, its just an issue that is out of scope for the organization.

> because that extra word ends all of the bickering

No, no it doesn't.

> what the movement was about - that we need public policies that respect the lives of black lives also.

No, BLM is not centrally a policy advocacy organization.
I want to take the high road in reading this, but it's hard to not take this in as some new form of humble brag.

Affluent duo with super privileged private school educational pedigree land top tier entry level jobs @ big tech co and bootstrap for an incredibly modest 6 months before raising a relatively fat seed round from big VC firms IN 8 WEEKS and bemoan "how terrible the process was".

Oh woe is fucking me.
I think this is also part of the problem. Why do they need a degree? I have seen many jobs that have a degree to enter barrier which don't need them. All of a sudden you reduce the debt of your workforce while opening up to a whole new group of candidates. I can think of a handful of coworkers who did not need degrees at all. Just a H.S. Education would have been overkill in some cases.

I'd like to go back to a system where we look at what the job actually requires, and set the level there. Then educate people to that level. In this way we aren't allowing colleges to tell us what level we need to educate people to, but instead letting it become a hybrid.

The required education for your basic job should be free. But I also don't want to write a blank check for people to go to college for the college experience. I don't think that's necessary.
Charging a phone, air conditioning (especially if a dog or kids are in the car), letting people in the car listen to the radio without draining the battery, just wanting to sit in there, lots of good reasons.
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Just do a word search in this topic for the word "money".
I'd feel remiss not to mention a project I'm working on that is currently running its Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460355237/smartibot-the...

It's a pretty comprehensive robotics package, with built-in 4 strong DC motor drivers and 10 servo ports.

It's a project "inspired" by the micro:bit... the original plan was to make it hardware compatible but we were keen to upgrade the mcu to the NRF52 from the NRF51 so this was not possible, so we are working on porting the Makecode environment used by the micro:bit to it.
> we closed a $1.7M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins [...] in a little over 8 weeks

This is fast and it's hard to believe that it was a terrible experience. How would have been your post if you needed 8 months or didn't raise at all after one year?
I just block Javascript for Medium on my phone, which helps (though there's still an obnoxiously large top bar). The availability of a workaround doesn't excuse Medium's poor design, though.
This is one big advantage the US has over Europe: for the most part, only trucks/buses have diesel engines. Gasoline engines don't produce all the particulate pollution that diesel engines do, and Europe made a big mistake by adopting diesel for passenger cars. As a result, our city air is much cleaner.
I think it depends on the field. In mathematics I think the expectation is that students need to study for a few years to even understand what the open questions are, and only then can they begin the research.

I'm fully aware of what the point of a PhD is. I wasn't expecting to become a generalist, but I was expecting some time to study some recent results and come up with a tractable research proposal. Indeed, if the purpose of a PhD is to expand the totality of human knowledge, why was it expected that I would publish 3-4 conference papers to graduate? Wouldn't one significant result have been enough?
Your aside might sound nice in theory, but it isn't reality. Everything is viewed through some lens or another, hell, it's how our brains work. If it comes off that way, you misinterpreted my intention. Not understanding the lens that you are looking through is how you end up with lack of understanding or not having a holistic viewpoint.
You seem to have some gripe with iFixit itself - the article just points out that iFixit has reverse-engineered some of these techniques and makes them available to the public unlike the many undoubtedly skilled professional repair companies who have a vested interest in making sure the public is as ignorant as possible. This makes it impossible to show other such examples; how this becomes "regurgitating iFixit PR" is unclear to me.
Primarily logging in, filing issues and using the wikis. A few might be able to request changes by submitting a PR instead of issues.
We do need to have authentication and cannot simply mark all repos public either.
The 10 power users want to take advantage of the kubernetes and devops features - especially since we are a small team covering a lot if ground.
British Women Killed by Men They Previously Reported to Police
I think you are using very rose colored glasses looking at the past. The best of the best could do that, likely.

The fact that you are classifying actually learned something when we covered BFS/DFS Freshman year as being equivalent to "the best of the best" speaks volumes.
I'm not an expert, but writing "My advice to founders: fake it." on a publicly accessible blog doesn't sound wise, it's like saying "I will almost certainly lie to my future investors during the interview". If I were the investor and came across this article when doing startup due diligence, that would have raised some serious concerns about the CEO and her company.
When I was in Shanghai most recently, I found out that they had solved the issue of honking (which used to be even worse than anything we have in the US) by having these microphones at intersections triangulate honking, capture a photo, and mail the driver a ticket and link to the video. It's definitely on the scale of big brother, but it also works.
Maybe if you gave some examples that would help.

Can you describe how you would even hypothetically measure your definition of "genetic causation"? Could you give an example of a "gene causing" the expression of an interesting trait in a way that is immune to environmental changes?

You're looking for a gene that causes an outcome completely independently of all environments. I don't think this exists for any interesting traits. Not to mention how much effect a change has on a given trait is dependent on the genetic make up of the population.

> But it's also the truth about what genetic causation is.
No it's not, everyone who talks about genetic causation seriously use a different definition. I don't know why your own personal definition is better than the definition used by every single person who studies genetics.
>there is no Linux outlook

With the GH aquisition I'll be shocked if we don't see most of MS's desktop stuff, including Office, move to Electron/WebAssembly in the next few years.
Why is it that the legal profession is split between prosecutors and defense lawyers? I ask this question in two senses: first, historical - how did it come about? and second, moral - what is the justification? After all, doesn't this division promote exactly the kind of tribalism based on prejudice (an assumption of the guilt or innocence of the defendant) we wouldn't want in a legal system - the kind of tribalism this article points out when it talks of "the brotherhood of prosecutors"? Why don't we require those who prosecute to also sometimes defend; those who defend, also to prosecute?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560122 and Paul Hankin has some more thoughts on the subject: https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci2/
Black carbon from diesel, train, and ship exhaust is incredibly toxic. I think it's going to be the equivalent of lead, in the future.
Nicotine has a similar addiction profile as caffeine. It's all the other stuff mixed with cigarettes that makes it much more addictive. People who consume only nicotine (drops, patches, gum) and then try to stop using it have a relatively easy time compared to those who smoke.

Also, dosage and frequency affects addiction. If you are constantly doing it, you are going to be addicted. I occasionally (a few times a month) use vape drops with nicotine on the skin or sublingual as a nootropic. I haven't notice any addiction or cravings whatsoever.

Having had to deal with the disgust of roommates smoking, I was so happy when they switched to using a Juul. It didn't bother me at all after that. I did notice that they smoked even more though.

This case seems bogus. They are using the product illegally since they are underage. Don't see how you can sue someone when what you are doing is illegal. Also, it is abundantly clear that the product is addictive.
I think this would fix high-schools but not college. This is a great idea though. It'd fix the no child left behind and become more of a, if you want college great we'll help you there. If college isn't for you, also great we'll help you there too.
Not sure what you mean, running Amazon retail on AWS is a fact that demonstrates AWS' maturity and Amazon's commitment to have the same infrastructure for internal and external users, which is a bold and long-term-effcient strategy where many cloud providers are struggling to achieve.
This feature is far from universal at this point. You'll find it on some higher-end cars, but that's about it.
Are you complaining about the chrome exhaust stacks, or about modifying the engine to purposefully produce lots of black smoke? At least in Denver, you can report the black smoke: https://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/10/18/sheriffs-office-asks-...
I'm RSS reader for more than 8 years. I just moved to online services long time a go. Despite the sad fact that they disappeared after a while(Google Reader, Digg Reader) they are great and hassle free. Currently I'm using Feedly and that is how I'm here now.
That programmer could be Mel!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869771
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I would recommend reading the names attached to posts before attributing ownership to them.

In the most expansive 'recent' study I am aware of, 64% [1] of children diagnosed with autism end up taking at least 1 psychotropic medication over the sample period, which was ~3 years. Substantial numbers ended up taking multiple, different, psychotropics. This is speaking specifically of children. In older subjects medicating rates are higher, and all rates have been increasing sharply over time.

[1] - http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/132/5/833
State at 25: Pursuing a PhD, in large parts because I won a non-negligible prize for my Masters thesis and the non-PhD billionaire prize-maker encouraged me to pursue academics instead of business; also, nobody in my family had ever pursued a PhD. Overall a waste of many, many years. Should have followed his example, not listened to his words.

Advice: Don't waste your time with academics and the petty politics of university faculties. Go create; market and sell; make money.

[added] Up to the end of college I had been writing code since high school, fully financing my studies with software sales and royalties.
I spend longer than that idling in a fast food parking lot eating my food.

That's weird. Why not just go inside to eat?

As for the dogs, I'm sure the judges are happy to make exceptions for exceptional circumstances. It sounds like the law is targeted at the largest groups of offenders: commercial vehicles idling unnecessarily, and parents who (bizarrely, IMO) insist on waiting in a long line of cars to pick up their kid after school.
I wrote it myself. You're more than welcome to have the code if you want it (it's pretty simple!!). The quarters are like new year's resolutions - but easier to stick to because it's only 12 weeks. The plugin is just a visual reminder of where we're at.
Yeah, I realize the HVAC blower is smaller than an attic fan. It just seems like having a controlled diverter (blow air to the house /or/ blow air outside) could help draw in outside air when needed.

In my part of the country it cools off at night, but the wind typically stalls. At least drawing in some of that air could let me skip running the A/C compressor overnight.
Generally I assumed they went hand-in-hand, but maybe that's not always the case.
Yes. Tesla's bond repayment schedule explains a lot. Tesla has some upcoming deadlines to pay back debt.[1] There's a hard deadline in November 2018; Tesla has to pay back Solar City's 5 year convertible notes. Forbes thinks Tesla can get past that one. The $920 million due in March 2019, though, is going to be tough. Tesla needs an extra billion in cash to get past that.

This is why the frantic push to improve cash flow.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/03/30/what-the-...
./x.py test src/test/ui --stage 1

And coffee, as that already takes around 5 to 20 minutes depending on what part of the compiler you're touching.
Pressure washing company develops breakthrough mobile water filtration plant
how would that work

edit: you seem to be implying that FB is stupid and likes writing kernel code for no good reason.