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Really interesting comments, thanks for taking the time to share.

> become your own advocate

Really resonates with me. Almost every time I go home and hang out with my parents, they share a new horror story about some close call with their medical treatments. (They've both had--and beat--cancer.) Last trip they were telling me about one of the days my Dad was getting chemotherapy; they needed to get a blood draw before the chemo was administered, and the cancer doc had instructed _them_ to make sure the phlebotomist installed a catheter for the initial blood draw, because (if I understood correctly) the extra needle hole in the vein from the blood draw can cause the chemo meds to leak & stagnate near the hand (which risks _the hand_...) But the phlebotomist didn't ask/confirm/want to, apparently because of some damn billing difficulty since the labwork division was different than the oncology division.

My conclusion is that there's a huge opportunity for more patient advocacy to really improve people's lives. Your "data for informed consent" angle sounds like a way more scalable path toward something like that!
When somebody makes $20M/year, do they really do it for the money at this point? Is it really what keeps them going? If so, I would argue that these people are mentally ill.

Do we have any study or proof demonstrating that if we applied a 100% tax rate above $20M/year people would just stop working?

And I don't see that as a punishment. The money not spend on crazy CEO incomes can be used to pay other workers better, or invest in innovation since that's what you brought up.
What about the features that existed in the last favicon ?

We used to be able to see if there was new messages, or if someone tagged you, directly in the favicon without opening slack, now it is impossible.

You are forced to go check slack all the time to see if there is something new. I'm disappointed :'(
some good news. if it's a solar sail it means that their technology doesn't include em drive warp speeds and all that fancy stuff so it will take them a long time to come and kill us all
New LADAR Technology Promises Sharper Aerial Views
You might be right. Looking at opensecrets.org, it looks like their activity has really dropped off in the last decade. It would nice to finally be free of them.
Why couldn't just a new tax bracket at 10mil be added? No need to stretch or modify any others.
Ask HN: Help me going from books to real projects
Guys I need your help.

I've completed all Udacity early programming classes, Ng's achine Learning course, Boneh's Crypto 1 and Crypto 2, worked through most of SICP, all of Nand2Tetris, all mof CSAPP and done all CMU labs, programmed in Python, Clojure, Go, C, Haskell, Javascript, Bash script, lived in terminal with vim and tmux (but spent 6 months in emacs just to be sure), hosted my website on linode... and I could go on.

But I have never written a real software program in my life. Zero, nada, nicht, rien, nulla.

I need to stop doing courses/books and just commit to write a real program, start to end, something useful.
But I can't; I think it would be easier for me to start reading TAOCP and spend the rest of my life working through it.

So I want to try this: ask you to suggest a project that could be done in one year by a solo programmer as a side project. And then commit to the project in the most voted comment. Ideally I don't want to do web apps or mobile apps, ideally I'd like to write something in C which for some perverse reasons I've really enjoyed programming in.

Please help me, I've already started reading the first few pages of the Rust book...

Help me make 2019 the year I wrote my first, real, computer program, choose a project for me!
> The truly wealthy people do not gain their wealth through income.

Yes, they do. Gaining wealth is income. (It may be income that is subject to favorable tax treatment, but it's still income.)

> They get it through capital gains ( stocks, homes, asset value increases ). Capital gains ( long term ) are taxed at 20%.

You can add a new top bracket and tax long-term capital gains as normal income at the same time. Though if you do the latter, you should also:

(1) Allow recognizing expected income for tax purposes in advance of realizing them, and also allow deferring large windfalls over a period of years, and

(2) Inflation-correct asset basis values and balances of anticipated income on which tax has been prepaid.
I see at least three counterpoints:

1. Real estate agents aren't often "experts" at real estate valuation, inspection or execution; They have dependencies on appraisers, inspectors, and lawyers. The work an average agent does is more or less cookie-cutter from my anecdotal experience, though I think there is a proportion of rockstar agents that do much more.

2. Not every buyer wants homebuying to be a client-services relationship. I'd rather have a trusted intelligent ratings system based on criteria like location, price and so on. I would hypothesize that there is a divide here with boomers and millenials / gen z. If I sell my house, it will be on a technology platform that takes 1%, not through an agent.

3. The vig an agent takes is insane in urban centers - 3% might make sense in areas where the avg. home costs 200-250K, and is harder to sell. In dramatic sellers markets where homes are in the 600K - $2M range, the take should be much much lower.
"All they had to do was provide proof that McDonalds sells Big Macs."

I still think that seems odd. Seems the judge can say "I need proof these are sold" and force them to show weekly sales receipts?
I don't think "Variable names in Go should be short rather than long" is an accurate description of best practice. The wiki should probably be changed.

The second paragraph there is more in line with best practice...

"The basic rule: the further from its declaration that a name is used, the more descriptive the name must be. For a method receiver, one or two letters is sufficient. Common variables such as loop indices and readers can be a single letter (i, r). More unusual things and global variables need more descriptive names."

In the case of a Cloud Function, a short name like "F" is probably fine. While it needs to be exported to get deployed properly, it isn't a library function, is very unlikely to be imported by other packages, so it's really more like "func main" than anything.

Most people will have a single Cloud Function in a package, and I don't think you'd reasonably have f/f.go with a function named "F".
A Milkman for Seltzer for Boston
Permanent in terms of all the people who otherwise would remain alive, who instead will be dead.
How is Stallman a redirect to RMS's page? Shouldn't it go to a disambiguation or name page?
I did this quite a while ago following your same teaching methodology. Feedback welcome! :-)

http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/git-in-two-ten-mi...
There are quite a few studies claiming that glyphosate is toxic. I bet this will turn out like cigarettes. Companies will fight to death until the evidence is absolutely overwhelming.
Started out wondering if Lin was going to be wrongly accused but this hit closer to home that I expected. First off Lin appears to be a POS but what hit me was this line:

> While each of these incidents in isolation may appear relatively harmless, the cumulative effect of this behavior is both harassing and indicative of a significant attachment, disproportionate to the amount of time they spent together.

Specifically the first part "While each of these incidents in isolation may appear relatively harmless". I've had friends harassed online and when you try to explain to law enforcement it sounds petty or minor but I've seen first hand it weigh on my friends who have experienced it.

Services like TextNow and Pinger and amazing tools for someone looking to make someones life a living hell. I've still got screenshots of PAGES of new text messages (from different numbers) all from some asshole who has nothing better to do than harass people.

In my situation I had finally had enough and thew up a webpage explaining how to block ALL TextNow/Pinger numbers and calling out the individual in question (trust me this was done tastefully and with tact) then ran Ads on FB to raise awareness in my community. Turns out way more people that just my immediate friends had been affected by this toxic individual (I had a number of people reach out to me). I spent $40 on ads for 67 clicks, 1,465 reach, and 37,454 impressions. It was worth every penny. I'm not going to say this will work for you OR that it worked for me (the harassment stopped but, you know causation/correlation and all that) but I know I would do it again in a heartbeat.

It's important to note the police were next to useless for this entire saga. I'm not sure what percentage was apathy vs a lack of skills but yeah...
I don't recall specifically, it was a TV show I watched a few weeks back.

I find your question interesting, though. Why do you not care about what the low-fat diet was as well?

Also, since they lost weight on the low-carb diet, I can only assume that it's one that works!
It wouldn't surprise me if they move all production there. It's an easier and cheaper place to build things if for no other reason than land and labor costs and it's much closer to all but retrograde launch sites.

They'll probably keep management and high level R&D in LA.
Book length would be great.
> And I have feeling that there will be many brackets between the current top bracket and the new one.

So, you are arguing against your feeling, and not the actual proposal at issue?
Yes, it requires more explanation than that. I've used git for years, and never really understood why staging is even a thing.

Your example is an implementation of the box-putting algorithm, but it doesn't need to be mirrored in the put-box CLI.

put-close-box file1 file2

This command could encompass all the putting and closing. Since you only close boxes when you are done putting things in it, I don't see a need or purpose to split it up.

put-box file1 file2
close-box

A closed box (commit) is always going to contain stuff that was put in it, so why separate commands?
6 years old thread. Low end commodity RE commissions will be chipped at, but higher end you want an expert. Buying a million dollar house without an expert is fool money gone.
McDonald's hasn't really lost the trademark to 'Big Mac'
It's cool, but having broken icon image links gives away that its automated too much.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dvcbv4ZXcAAAEJR.png

Also maybe add some more variation to the posts so that it looks human. When you pick a random article, and then stick a random block quote from the article on a picture... maybe just post your random quote as text and forget the picture every once in a while. Just to break up the visual rhythm.

Also throw in a retweet from a list of accounts you like every once in a while.

Edit:
And last thing... really. Real humans rant. We get stuck on idea and make several posts on the same subject in a row.

You can easily schedule a years worth of ranting in a couple hours with a tool like buffer. Just post 3 things about the Steve Jobs biography in a row like you just now got around to reading it.
Not American, and I disagree on a few regards to your comment (for example, I do believe we would've eventually invented a lot of the same things regardless of the military), but I do agree that the US has gone overboard.

They seem to have 13 carriers-- that's more than the rest of the world combined! And have ordered 7 more. They should build a collider instead of their next one-- they could theoretically make it twice as big and still have budget to spare. After all, I don't think at this point they need them to remain competitive in their defense.
Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings
RCS support coming to Google Fi
From what I've seen it also smooths out interactions between founders and staff... people will prefer to talk to one founder over another for certain things.
+1 - has anyone successfully proved him right/wrong since?
Pretty sure that they were referring to ArangoDB and OrientDB as being immature, not MongoDB...
Maybe it is different styles of different people.

A lot of my friends who stay in AirBnB list same reasons for using it. Also they say that they like to live like locals when traveling.

I can respect it but I really don't want to feel like at home on vacation. Hotels give me that feeling of adventure and travel. I have couch surfed and enjoyed it. But that was probably because I was visiting a friend in burbs without any agenda of "travel".

Kitchen is cool but then again I am on vacation, I don't want to cook.

I have never stayed in any AirBnB but always compared AirBnBs and hotels before vacation. At least, in the US, hotels and AirBnB of comparable quality and location cost about same. Even if it is any cheaper, it is not by much.

And now you asked, yes some of my favorite hotels are Eden Roc in Miami, and Marriott in Maui. Yeah they are a little bit more luxurious compared our normal hotels but highly recommended for special occasions.
Doesn't seem like much of an impact then.
Looking back, I do think we could have avoided using an agent on selling our home. No doubt real estate transactions are large and complex, but I feel like at the end of the day a good checklist would work pretty well, plus a service to manage the actual contract and paperwork.

I certainly could have gotten that for the 6% commission we ended up paying!
I left the state before the gambling and concealed carry changes took place.

My last visit was approx two years ago and it was impressive how much worse everything seemed to be. Highway rest stops with "no firearms" stickers affixed to their glass doors, the highly visible kind with a red circle and diagonal stripe over a black pistol. Those stickers are all over the place now, it felt like I must be surrounded by lethal weapons, what a miserable way to live.

The prolific gambling dens and video gambling machines just made everywhere feel like an urban ghetto wasteland on top of it.

I'm thrilled to have escaped before it got so much worse. The corruption was already exceptionally bad. The monetary costs and stress I endured throughout my adult years spent there on police encounters, traffic fines, parking tickets, towing fees, it's completely insane.

Living in CA is an absolute dream in comparison. We may have high state taxes but I'm not constantly getting antagonized by a corrupt government desperate to raise money through continuous public contact. There are also extremely affordable parts of CA, I own desert property that's fully paid for just a couple hours from LA and the Pacific coast, an hour from Big Bear. The yearly property taxes are equal to a fancy dinner, 5 acres and a cabin for the price of a car. People obsess over the housing problems of very specific internationally-desirable elite-class pockets of CA, there's plenty of CA to go around.

<storytime>

The first time (and only in over 10 years) I ended up in traffic court in CA was for excessive speeding, it was for 90+ in a 55 - a mandatory court appearance. The police interaction was more entertaining than stressful, and when I went to court the judge started the session by announcing that the state had requested all fines be pushed to their maximum due to some temporary political budget problems. She then announced, that in protest, since the county doesn't find it appropriate given the general economic downturn, all penalties issued that day would be at the absolute minimum. I paid less than a hundred bucks for that ticket.

This situation, from start to finish, would never have happened in IL. I would have had police with guns drawn on me when pulled over, searching my vehicle after smelling nonexistent marijuana. The judge would have been a dickhead obsessed with people removing their hats in his courtroom before wiping out their savings accounts.

</storytime>
There is zero chance that this is authentic; ie that this gives us enough of a view into what actually happened.
since they are being paid from the Seller's Fees

This is a myth perpetuated by buyer's agents. Just because you aren't writing a check doesn't mean it doesn't come out of your pocket.

It's like sales tax. It's collected and paid to the government by stores, but it makes everything you buy more expensive.
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. If you have to argue whether it’s an improvement, it’s not an improvement.
So you're saying, you're afraid of being reduced to small personal catalog in an unlikely future apocalypse scenario, and you are solving this problem by forcing yourself to use a small personal catalog today?
Seriously. These are things that are defined. There is really nothing stopping us from saying "Ok. Up to 500k is unmodified. Here is the curve that will be created above that level".
Mass starvation, mass dehydration, yes those are big concerns. But they can be overcome. For water, for instance, desalination exists, as do pipes, as do pumps. It would be expensive, someone's gotta pay for it -- what are millions of lives worth? But it's a reasonably well-defined engineering solution that doesn't require new technology or better understanding of the sciences to create e.g. atmosphere scrubbers or whatever. I'm biased as an engineer, big engineering projects seem a lot more feasible than international political ones. If those political ones are backed by threat of war, that's also a lot more worrying to me on the prospect of ways the planet can be rendered uninhabitable.
Here is my unpleasant story from 2 weeks ago when I was in Bali.

I had booked an apartment but the host was not replying to any of my messages/sms/calls. Fearing something was fishy I opened an Airbnb support ticket 3 days before my the checkin date. In those 3 days Airbnb support did not reply to me at all. It was a shitty feeling, I wanted to book another place but I had already paid for this one.

1 day before checkin, the host replied with a short message that I could checkin next day, he didn't address any of my questions nor any of my follow-up messages. Next day I go to the specified address of the villa and call the host, the host picks up this time but tells me that the address on Airbnb is wrong and sends me to another location. I go to the second location, the building does not look anything like the one in the photos, there is nobody there and I cannot get inside, the neighbour shouts that the building is empty because the lease contract has expired a month ago. it starts raining and I am standing there on the street with all my baggage and it starts to rain. I call the host, now really angry and he starts apologising that he is not even the landlord but just a guy from another country (India) and he does not know much about the booked property then he stops responding.

At this point I submit to the reality that this listing is some sort of scam and start looking for ways to contact Airbnb over phone to get urgent help since I have nowhere to go.

The Airbnb website is useless, cannot find any phone numbers to call. Finally I google and read on some forum, that there is no phone number for Airbnb in Indonesia and that I need to make a call to a US number. I make the call and they are very helpful. They tell me they will try to contact the host in the next 30 minutes and that I should look for other suitable listings. After 30 minutes they contact me again and they agree to cancel my previous booking so that I can book something else. I end up booking something which was is in the same price range but much lower standard (not much choice when doing same-day booking).

I talked to Airbnb support for 7 minutes in total and that cost me 28 EUR. Airbnb later agreed to refund me the 28 EUR for the phone calls.

After this experiece I am more keen on using booking.com again, have not had any such bad experience with them yet.
China’s Digital Silk Road Is Looking More Like an Iron Curtain
Yes, the glaciers are disappearing.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rocky-mountai...
https://abcnews.go.com/International/canadas-glaciers-shrink...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/11/us-glaci...
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/earth-ice-melting-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850
Show HN: Passhole – CLI password manager
No he’s not? I didn’t find that post particularly sarcastic, caffeine is just a chemical. If all you care about is getting a quick fix all the extra taste and ceremony has no added value.
Every AirBnB I've been at in the last two years has had internal cameras...
Buying agents keep thier mouth shut so the deal closes as quick as possible. Half the commission but a lot of time spent means they cannot afford to throw wrenches into the process by bringing up issues.

In my experience, realtors profit off of the ignorance of both buyers and sellers. I have had reputable, realtors decades in the biz lie to me and attempt to break the law on several occasions.

I avoid them like the plague.
The Family That Built an Empire of Pain (2017)
There's not much to a (solid-body) electric guitar since the body isn't that involved in the tone. Basically you have a string vibrating between two points, the pickup type and position is just about the only thing that matters.
Other similar things are asteroids. It's doing a thing an asteroid would do.

It's much more likely that it's ejecta from some event from outside our solar system. Or a redirected Oort body.
The 90s had a lot of factors that led to economic expansion. Do you have data/research that explicitly links tax rates to that expansion? The numbers don't seem to add up like that to me.
No. The cost of relocation is the cost of a bus ticket, suitcase, and a few phone calls, something that $12,000 already easily supports.

The rest of the money people spend is to bring their existing wealth with them, something that society doesn't need to assist with.
I bought a domain name a while ago bid2show.com

The idea was let sales people offer a discount on their fee in exchange for limiting the number of houses you look at.

So, if you make an offer on this house your shown you get 1-2 % discount.

And since the system would know how many houses you've looked at it the realtors may decide to offer less and less of a discount.

You would only need to work with one real estate broker per state and 2-3 agents per local area. So, that there's enough volume for each agent to show 2-3 house per day and 2-5 closing's week.

Not sure if it would have worked just don't have time to pursue it.
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There are some people who end up buying all the best coffee bean grinders in search of perfection; there are people who can't resist a classic MIG welder. But those people were going to buy them anyway, and represent too few sales to justify any expenditure.

What you need are complementary goods. These people bought coffee bean grinders? Show them ads for travel mugs, for high-end coffee subscriptions, and fancy grinder-cleaning brushes.
There is already limited liability of the whole in lieu of personal rights... there doesn't need to be any reason to restrict rights of corporations beyond any typical group.

Assembly is fine, but as far as I'm concerned, any organization that accepts donations for political purposes should be required to have open books, outlining where donations come from, and not allowing donations from foreign sources, including international conglomerates.

That's just where I stand... I go very far on personal liberty, and the ability to form groups with public receipts, but that's where it should end.
Why does it look so swastika-esque? Who's pockets did Slack fill up with cash to design this thing? It's like they literally took the old logo and said: "How can we make this look more like a swastika?". Makes you wonder if there's someone internally with a hidden agenda...oh yeah, slack was recently banning Iranian users...makes sense now.