skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For primary residencies, you can now only deduct interest on up to $750,000 in debt (i.e. your mortgage principle) rather than the $1,000,000 if you had bought your home before 2018.

In short, most people won't be affected, unless you own a mansion or a home in an overpriced market such as SF or NYC.

Keep in mind that the standard deduction also doubled, so depending on your own situation, you may not even need to itemize your deductions, such as your mortgage interest.
The second link was fascinating and would make a good submission to HN.

> Given my experience with those who write them, I tend not to trust most conjugational results coming from science.

In computational fluid dynamics, there's a saying: No one believes computations aside from the person who ran them, and everyone believes experiments aside from the person who ran them.

To be fair, this is mostly because turbulence modeling can be very inaccurate, but bugs in the code are also a major concern of mine.
Pweave seems to give the same as RMarkdown but for Python and other languages: https://github.com/mpastell/Pweave. Examples: http://mpastell.com/pweave/examples/index.html
You should watch Primitive Technology on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
If his channel falls into a satire category then the category has massively expanded these days. Outrage porn is not satire and is just going for shock value. It's not satirizing anything, which is often a commentary on how absurd something is and not just saying something disgusting to get views.
Whatever the product may be, it sparkles, so it can’t be much of a secret.
It is not only about the content but the energy and how to present it.

They rock presenting great content in a great way.

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Monica Dinculescu (https://github.com/notwaldorf)

PWA starter kit: build fast, scalable, modern apps with Web Components (Google I/O '18)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3lLo-UFtk

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Kelsey Hightower (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/)

Keynote: Kubernetes and the Path to Serverless - Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNa3xK2GFKY
Ah man. That video :/ so awkward. Looks like they used some 3D-rendered backgrounds, too?

I do career coaching and occasionally get clients who have worked for incredibly scammy outfits. It's sad but these businesses can easily grow on the backs of (often really low-paid) employees who are just treading water in their careers, and the employees typically hear similar career-related promises from the principals. "You'll be off the ground floor in no time," etc.
Long story short no one is using it, basically vastly over provisioned.

We can turn it off and not use it, or we can use it for something. We have some ideas but its not even scratching the surface of the total.
Americans live Chinese food, and from that:
Sichuan
Hunan
Canton
I think this comment is a bit too harsh, and I would rather we just discuss the points he makes, not his credibility. The man has decades of experience in software system development and architecture, and has built one of the most popular programming languages in the world, as well as Datomic. If that hasn't given him the right to give his opinion during the keynote of a conference for the language he built, then I don't know how much you want from him.

To apply your own standards, have you been a prolific Clojure contributor/hacker/user? Have you contributed to any major open source Clojure projects?

Can you actually say what about Maybe/Either he got wrong because it seems like he understands it perfectly well, speaking as a Scala developer.
There is actually a little known port called Hudson Bay Port in the town of Churchill Manitoba. The town has an airport and a rail line, though unfortunately the rail line has fallen into disrepair in recent years, as the private company that owns it has chosen not to maintain it. I'm not sure on the current status, but I recall it being big news because it's lack of running cut off services to many northern communities, as well as rail service in general.
What exactly was delivered? Physics based flight model? Procedually generated planets and cities? First person interactions with voice and face control? Large sandbox game environment based on comprehensive fictional world building?

What we are discussing has never been delivered before which might explain some of the perceived delays.
Machine Learning for JS Developers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xm8ox1mmzE&frags=pl%2Cwn
"Previously"? Mica powder is still used in a lot of glitter products. For example, glitter make-up is almost always made with mica powder. 3D printing filament with "glitter flake" is mica powder.
> If someone can choose negative things one says, it means that they said negative things that outweigh the good ones

No it doesn't. Why do you think it means the negatives must outweigh the positives?
I would agree about the severe diminishing returns of satire. Indeed, here is something more general on this that I suspect will be of interest. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n14/jonathan-coe/sinking-giggling-i...
Have you ever ridden on a cross country train?

Because it sounds like you haven't. I think you're confusing Harry Potter with reality. The I-5 Amtrak is great and all between Seattle and Portland, but it sucks after the first hour. Now, do 10 for long distance. I'd rather have the same suck for 4 hours instead of 10.

Plus, trains especially don't really do straight shots for long distance. Lot's of connecting trains. Just as bad as plane connections.

The only benefit is the food car. But it's just as expensive as a plane.

And no, the ticket is not cheaper. The big price difference, you don't save all that much between buying a ticket a month ahead of time and day of. The price is the price. Planes reward you for being able to plan ahead. Trains don't.
Places yes, not population though.
$500k was one of the drafts; the final amount is $750k.
Manchester has a great central tram network. London has the underground.

Driving in London is mainly an exercise in stress and pointlessness.
Or pay for YouTube Red.
As it happens, I agree with your tl;dr, but that isn't at all what Sheehan says.
Sure you can't do that exact thing but who would have thought of flying planes into skyscrapers before 9/11 except a few crazies anyway?

Tom Clancy? In ‘Debt of Honor’ it’s a major plot-point after all. The issue here is not that making a train into a cruise missile is hard to imagine, it’s actually impossible. You can attack the train, or use the train to attack a station or something close to the tracks, and that’s it. It’s also a purely kinetic event, rather than adding the complexity of so much fuel.
...I pay for keeping ads off and generally have one of the 4k relaxation/outdoors or old Warren Miller videos playing. I really enjoy that specific interaction. As for Facebook, I am off, except for occassionally logging in to retrieve messages. I can't find a way to interact with it personally. I just don't enjoy it anymore.
Refundable credits are a thing.
> in the US on average distances between major cities are much longer than any individual country in Europe

Have you done the math ? Split US into west coast and east coast populuous regions, and nope, not the case.

Also, don't let yourself be fooled by the Mercator projection:

https://thetruesize.com
I appreciate your thoughts.

> I have actually written papers that try do to a bit of that and it was annoyingly hard to publish them.

I don't know what field you work in, but in my field (fluid dynamics) these papers are not uncommon, though often poorly done. There's a relatively new ASME journal on the subject too: http://verification.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.a...

> On the contrary, we would love to do more of it. But there is next to no funding to do it.

Perhaps this is the crux of the disagreement then. I don't need extra funding to do what I should be doing in the first place. It can be a big time sink in some cases (e.g., I probably spent 6+ months compiling existing data during my PhD), but often is not. It will probably make your model look worse than you'd like, but if everyone did it then science would progress faster.
Why should you... not get between a lioness and her cubs? Well, just because she doesn't yet realize that you're doing that, doesn't mean she never will. The question is really just how thick you think this ice is, and if you feel particularly lucky. The question isn't so much why should you care, but if you don't care, what leg do you have to stand on in regards to others?

Why would you care, that's the better question IMO. Maybe because you have been treated well, because you can afford it, because if you have greater capacity for care than neediness. That is, maybe after you spent all the care you possibly can on yourself, you still have plenty left and might as well use it. Because your daily income of ability to care is more than your expenses on just yourself.

I've known stinking rich egotists as well as rich people with a huge heart, and the latter seemed happier and more intelligent by far. No contest, I'd even say they're actually living in the first place, while those who care only about themselves are boring at best, constantly whining at worst. And just like there's networks of sociopaths, just like "the devil recognizes his brethren", so do people with functioning hearts and brains recognize others, and I dare say they're much better company. Better looking, too, even just insofar that being able to look any- and everyone in the eye makes a person instantly more attractive, all else being equal. And that's before age kicks in.. reaping the rewards of a selfish life is truly brutal, and the most cruel part is that after a life of selfishness you have no ability to recognize the consequences of that as consequences of that.
Can I get an ELI5 summary?
Given that Aslan describes outspoken atheists as "fundamentalists" I would take anything he says about religion with an enormous grain of salt. Aslan claims to speak about religion while choosing to remain willfully ignorant about irreligion; therefore you can't expect his views to be academically rigorous or well thought through.

As for his book, I realise that book publishers like to give their products sexy titles, but the title can't possibly be paid out in any non-fiction sense as we have exactly zero contemporaneous written accounts of Jesus' life. Anything he has written could only be a further digestion of the already contentious writings haphazardly collected into the book we now know as the Christian bible.
Two thirds of the codes in my field are on github. And for most others you can get a copy if you ask politely by email. That said I would appreciate it if journals not only had author, title, date and affiliation in the meta data, but also a git url and commit ID.
I've seen a number of his videos and none of those could be classified as outrage porn. They were nothing like that at all.
Al Gore's hypocrisy and profit seeking were the cause of whatever harm was done to climate change awareness.

Placing any of the blame on South Park for exposing it is an example of a dangerous yet all too common idea: tolerate, even conceal, bad behavior lest the overall movement be harmed.
Outside of any context you mean.
I don't see what making millions has to do with it.
Google Chrome Canvas is a digital note taking web app
You hop in an Uber.
C++ standardized on ranges, but in my experience enumerables (or sequences) are the more common case in real applications.

You might find this intriguing https://github.com/LoopPerfect/conduit
Older Quora has excellent answers on NASA topics (thanks Robert Frost) and linguistics and police procedure, as well as many other niche topics. Google is right to recognize these standouts. Not sure about the rest.
I don't know about the Google of today but the Google of say 2003 clearly fit that definition. It was making it possible for 1000s of mom and pop shops to reach a much larger audience. I remember specifically a story about a small company that made custom cowboy boots that was doing much better now that it could could buy a few keywords and target people looking for those kinds of boots so that seems to fit.

Youtube certainly seems like a platform for others to make money, the top example being PewDiePie himself making 7 million year 2 or 3 years ago from just youtube ad share. No idea how much more he made from product placements or endorsements. There's clearly some amount being made by groups like Vox, Kurzgesagt, Corridor, and similar channels who . Would those channels be able to survive if they had to pay to stream their own video?
I've been using a similar one: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass. Only problem is getting non-technical people to use it is hard. And it is not super intuitive to get it working on mobile.
Good questions.

I'm 53, have worked pretty hard all my life. It's time to pass the mantle. I've allocated 40% of the stock in my company for the people that will pull the cart, will draw down to 51% as long as I'm CEO and will then drop to 10% in an MBO when the time is right. I do not want to become a backseat driver. The consultancy arm is small and quite profitable, we do our own investments and have more work than we could reasonably deal with, and a very impressive array of customers.

I've been getting paid but about 1/2 of what I was making when I was still running the whole thing by myself, I see that as an investment and as a way to make the company less dependent on me as a person. To turn a one-man consultancy into a scalable company has been a major challenge but I think we have the hard part behind us.

Our profit allocation is: 1/3rd shareholders, 1/3rd employees, 1/3rd investments. That gives us plenty of opportunity to dogfood our processes, and ensures that people get paid for their efforts.

> Are you planning on leaving?

Not immediately, but somewhere in the next couple of years. What will happen is we will split the investment and the consultancy branches, I will continue to run the investment part and my partners will run the consultancy, maybe some will join the investment part, time will tell.

> Why divest?

Because of (1) diversification, (2) the stock already being issued and (3) it being more tax efficient both for me and the rest of the partners here.

Accelerated vesting in case of a liquidity event has been put in place as well, there is a tax liability there but it is manageable.
No, they’re creating context... big difference.
I don't follow him much, but his content (currently, he pivoted from a few years ago) certainly has satirical elements.
Not true, there are programs that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor, e.g. social security.
> Over 40 percent of Americans don't pay ANY Federal income tax.

> So, by natural law, doesn't any tax cut not benefit them?

Nope, consider a $1,000 refundable tax credit for anyone with under $5,000 AGI. Its a tax cut, and everyone who doesn't pay income tax because of low income plus some of the poorest who do are the only beneficiaries.
Magic internet radio bad.

But seriously I’m waiting for someone more knowledgable to take this paper to task. There have been numerous WiFi and cell phone studies that have found no evidence of harm.
The article I linked to is well-referenced.

> Wikipedia is not the absolute authority on everything.

Are you attributing this view to me?
Most of that code is for optimization or error messages. I think you could strip it down to:

auto for_each = [](R&& r, Fun fun) {
return r | view::transform(fun) | view::join;
};

I also removed inline and constexpr because he didn't need them in his example.

I don't disagree that it's ugly, but it's not as bad as it looks when you go through the standard library. Those are functions that have been written, optimized and generalized to handle all sorts of cases. Your needs are almost certainly more specific, and you will undoubtedly write functions that are much simpler.

That being said, I kind of agree. I would have preferred your list of features to getting Concepts. I find SIMD to be a particular sore spot.
One thing high speed rail, or any rail for that matter, requires is dense walkable cities.

If the rail link requires driving to the station and renting a car at the destination it's not going to be comparable with one where you can walk or take the tram/subway to move within the endpoints, and there it loses the appeal of convenience.

The best thing that trains offer is direct connection from one city centre to another city centre. These centres need to be such that they have places to go to, reachable by at most public transit and a bit of walking. If they aren't then your single train trip effectively becomes three separate trips.
In the post you're replying to, I included a link that does not contain the sentence you quoted. In fact, that link shows the person making a valid correction. If you read it, you'll see why I upvoted it.

The entire point of the comment I made (which you replied to) is not that baybal2 is correct (in fact, I have no idea/opinion of whether they are correct about the defendent being innocent). The point is that ad hominem attacks through downvotes are a bad thing.
Depending on how long they have held the stock it may be a very small amount of money. Typically a real pay-out would require having held the stock for 3 years or more at a minimum, so this would benefit only the earliest employees in most cases.
The internet is a place where usually people can state their views openly. That is happening. However, what's also happening is people find his views and comments disgusting and they're commenting on it. Totally within their rights to do.

And it's not as unthinkable as you say at all that an individual or organization would attack others for what content they create. Since there has been an internet there's been people who attacked others for their content. I'm not sure what internet you saw 20 years ago but it wasn't the same I saw.
I suppose the flame graph feature developer could then write on their resume:

“reduced bandwidth costs by $X millions per year by implementing a ‘content of interest’ data visualization. Users’ time-to-success improved 5%”

That kind of thing makes me wonder what sort of high caliber developers go into this field. Lotta good engineering going on within this, uh, unique, high volume traffic situation.
Yup I was also a top writer. The site had a lot of potential early on but I had the same experience as you eventually.
This is way off-base. The GPL neither wanted to not has been able to restrict commercial profit from the works it's been used with.

You also imply GPL prevents corporate developers from using GPL'ed software, which is patently untrue. The GPL allows any person or organisation to take software and do absolutely anything they want with it, for themselves, without any obligation.

The GPL might have come out of a non-commercial hobbyist/hacker culture, but it certainly doesn't impose either practice.
Whether it's all media or some media doesn't really matter so much, I think what's really important is how much influence is actually wielded by the bad actors. Good media existing doesn't do us much good if that media isn't the influential media.

You're absolutely right about it being a constant in the history of journalism though. Recently I've heard a lot of talk about how the situation in this respect is getting worse, but I think it's important to remember that yellow journalism is nothing new, nor is the influence it wields. The Spanish American War was essentially started by yellow journalist media barons fabricating public consensus, and the ramifications of that war were fairly severe in both hemispheres. Maybe Vox picking on pewdiepie is unfair, or maybe they're justified. But viewed in the proper context it's inconsequential either way; neither Vox nor pewdiepie are provoking bullshit wars. Thank the gods for that.
Aren't clickbait titles one of the things keeping these outlets afloat?
Social security (well, the old-age and survivors portion; disability insurance is a little different) transfers wealth from the young to the old, not the rich to the poor.
Because it's here today. It's easy with simple investment, it's got huge benefits over the joke that is the current U.S train service.
posted before and flagged

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338109
"Math taught in high schools is pretty laughable" is somewhat subjective but a general observation and evaluation (this is actually easily observable even as an outsider, by looking at SAT Math, AP Math, etc.); "physics isn't even required in many places" is a fact. Neither is a bunch of anecdotes.

My degrees are in mathematics and physics, and I've tutored students in elite colleges, so I know a thing or two.
Having read a number of these studies, incl those done on cellular masts, its concerning. An early warning was a connection between digital signals (incl wifi) and baby-sleeping patterns where babies reliably cried more at night if a digital signal was present, but this touches on so many factors that Im tempted to cut all wifi while they finish their studies.
The cautionary note is this wasn't discovered until the recessive gene effected about 10% of the cattle population.

Given the unknowns there is the potential that malign genetics wouldn't be discovered until several generation have passed. Human generations are 20-40 years. Possible that propagating rare mutations that appear to have beneficial effect may come at a high cost that is only apparent 50-100 years from now.
This is exciting stuff unless you look at other languages and see what a mess this is.
Airliners have gotten far more efficient over the last 40 years, starting with the 757/767. (The 757 design got its start from more efficient engines and a new wing shape.) In fact, efficiency improvements are the primary factor driving new airliner models and sales. At the time of the 757 launch, fuel was 40% of the operating cost of air travel.
Let's try a Trump quote
"There is good people on both sides"

rofl
I'm curious if you have come across any reference to non-ionic current flow, e.g. semi-conductive. I feel like I've seen it mentioned, possibly along the cytoskeleton and via gap junctions, but can't come up with anything offhand.
That's much more realistic. Right now if you were to guess the number of people currently employed primarily as C++ vs Rust programmers, the difference is going to be well over 100x.

Not to mention the long history of C++. Rust has a very long way to go to catch up.
The author’s point does not stand.

No one is saying build high-speed rail between cities that are extremely far apart.

Find the handful of places where it does make sense then build there. If it only makes sense in 4 locations then build there. You can safely ignore the other 20 locations.
In this case it's Apple censoring you.
Yeah, this sciencedirect article was posted but on nih.gov, but someone decided to post with the sciencedirect website
As an outsider it feels like young people in America are getting their values from some kind of cult of political correctness. It seems to be doing the same thing that the religious right used to do at one point in time. The old censorious approach to a new set of blasphemous topics has become the norm.

What seems obviously broken is the fact that ideals like free speech, free association, due process, etc. have taken a backseat to some new rules like inclusivity, hyper sensitivity and hyper empathy.

That is dangerous for society. It has happened before in so many theocracies. A very vocal group seems to have seized the reins of all mainstream media and technology companies in areas like "trust and safety", which always seem to morph into propaganda outfits.

By displacing to a large extent judeo Christian values, for all their faults, perhaps in education and elsewhere, it looks like something far more broken, dangerous and sinister has filled the void left by it.

As a result the new crop of young talent seems to be attracted to these new "woke" companies like vice and vox who are pandering to their misguided ideas of the world.