skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why investors would do this, it seems like an unnatural response. If all capital gains are being taxes as income these investors would just voluntarily be choosing to make less money if they picked this strategy.

Their strategy selection would equalize to being about what it is now but each cycle would yield them less money to reinvest and yield the government more money to invest. It can be your opinion that private investors are more efficient than the government but funding our "necessary services" (i.e. having an army, what not) is so deprived of income that it is being extracted through a regressive income tax.

FYI, I'm all for cutting pork, but the income stream and what we end up spending that money on are two different issues.
I have at least 20 pounds of college mail over the course of three years. As a high school senior who is almost done with the college app season, I kind of miss the incessant spam.
The multiplicative effect of fractional reserve doesn't work like that. Assuming a 10% reserve:

You give your bank 1 EUR, they can loan out 0.9 EUR. The person receiving the loan spends the 0.9 EUR, which is then placed in the merchant's bank account, and this bank can then loan out 0.81 EUR, etc.

A total of 1/0.1 = 10 EUR is the theoretical maximum amount of deposits created by the existence of the original 1 EUR (with 9 EUR in matching liabilities).

But your bank doesn't get to lend all of that out and collect interest on it, and they actually can benefit less from lending your money than you could, e.g. on a P2P lending site, where you'd be free to not keep a reserve.

That's not to say that the spread between the interest rate the bank pays you and the interest rate they charge for loans isn't extremely large (an order of magnitude in many cases), and overall a great business to be in.
Their idea has merit whether they've entered the work force or not. And, they could be anything that relates to students and yet not a student, like a teacher. I wouldn't infer much if anything from usernames... else you might assume that I'm a monkey and my thoughts on taxes should be ignored because I live in a jungle.
The $30K I noted is arbitrary and only chosen because that is the approximate poverty line currently.
Sweating is the primary thing keeping me from riding to work. I solved that with a motorcycle, which does many things an eBike wouldn't.

Riding a purely-manual bicycle would be awesome because of the exercise, something an eBike wouldn't provide.
As a general rule, taxation of returns on savings is always double taxation. Money today is not worth the same as an equal amount of money five years from now, or an equal amount of money after it has been invested in a risky venture with a substantial chance of losses. Returns from capital are, in expectation, a compensating differential for such differences in value.

Now, this is not to say that some taxation on savings isn't sometimes appropriate; for instance, some forms of investment are non-transparent and might be used to shield earned income from taxes that should bear on it; also, higher-income folks tend to save more and to choose riskier investments that yield higher expected returns; so returns correlate with ability to pay in a way that's worthy of note because it doesn't impact incentives too much. Taxes that bear on some peculiar assets, such as the land-value of urban real estate, EM spectrum rights, or investment into highly-polluting industries, also don't adversely affect incentives. However, existing taxation on capital appears broadly appropriate to take advantage of these things; the bulk of taxes should still fall on tax bases other than savings and investment, such as the portion of income that's not saved but spent on non-baseline consumption of goods and services.
Same on Windows 10 + Chrome with a high-DPI screen. All fuzzy.
People aren't that rational. Lots of people are very good at finding excuses to put off work. Find reasons to put off household chores, or use household chores as an opportunity to put off something else they should be doing.

Some people have the discipline to ignore such distractions and stick to their work, but not everybody does. I certainly work better when I'm near others who do similar work, so that's the work situation I look for.
High school student here. The box is opt-out (your are opted in by default)
I don't know much about him, more than what I could find on Wikipedia. I just don't think most of these people have a significant enough hypothesis to warrant the expectation of breakthrough. If someone can propose the specific way AI will change e.g. medicine once it reaches a certain level, that might be something. At least if the difference is great enough. "It will change society", doesn't have so much standing in my opinion. I guess if you are a historian it probably does. Until someone start spending money for something specific (which might already be happening) I wouldn’t expect a breakthrough, because it doesn’t really matter.
I don't think they're being inconsistent - intentionally clearing cookies is common, but clearing app storage less so. And the browser may purge app storage to reclaim space, but that leaves cookies. It's unlikely that both things will overlap unless the user deliberately clears both cookies and storage.
> They invest in lower risk securities

That's still investing and the idea that higher taxes on capital income would reduce yield targets for capital investments is backwards.
Grift means swindle, or trick, often used as a verb. Taking advantage of someone without them realizing it. Graft usually has the connotation of bribery. A con-man would be called a grifter, while a politician would be accused of graft.
Yeah, we live on cheap debt for now, but interest rates will rise eventually, there will eventually be another downturn, and the interest payments are stacking up. If we end up in a position where all discretionary spend is displaced by servicing the debt, we’ll be in real trouble.

We’ve never been able to pull in more than 18% of GDP in tax receipts for more than a short time period. We’re currently collecting ~17%, so we have a tiny bit of head room based on historical precedents. Beyond that, I don’t know what we can do other than cut some spending. Auditing the DoD and means testing Medicare might pick up some low hanging fruit. Hard to say what’s most likely to work, IMO.
All this confirms to me, is the fact that the app space is mainly a battleground for highly evolved corporate entities to fight for attention and profit.

Being unique or solving a purpose that's genuinely useful to its audience, doesn't seem to be a primary aim of businesses like Snapchat.
So under 2 years no jail for first time offenders and he was conditionally sentenced to 23 months :)? A lot of these guys might not understand the laws, lawyers suggest ways to "pay less taxes" and "John did it too" and it's done. Their taxes aren't as simple as entering the W2 info on a web form.
I have done a lot of backend and front-end coding over the years
I've found CSS is complex just due to the sheer depth of detail, but not hard once you get the hang of the basics.

The key areas that will probably help you the most are flexbox and grids. These are modern things that will make your life in CSS 10x easier and more productive. With flexbox and grid it becomes trivial to do "hard" things like centering div's, full-height divs, footers etc etc. Use flexbox for laying things out in one dimension (e.g. "I want these related <things> to appear in a row/column") and use grid for doing two dimensional layouts (e.g. "I want a bar across the top and bottom and then two columns in the middle"). Mix and match flexbox and grid (e.g. use flexbox inside of a grid area) and you've got 90% of the CSS done in my experience.

This guide for flexbox is awesome and spells it all out: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ (although their site's visual design is the worst type of hideous garbage IMO, but I can forgive them that for the content)

The last 10% is fiddling around with colours and margins and font sizes etc. I'm no designer and rely on the UX and Visual Designer to tell me what colours/fonts/margins/etc to use, but regardless there is actually something very very satisfying about nailing the CSS and seeing something ugly transform into something really nice right before your eyes.

Also a final top tip is to get familiar with your dev tools in your browser of choice. Doing "real time" edits in the browser (in CSS but also DOM & JS too) then updating the code in your IDE is something I do frequently.
Yeah, airplane mode, make the API call fail, reset local state before re-connecting.
I love my Bekant desk.

You can download a mobile app that can control the motor via Bluetooth, and it has three memory settings.
UI formulas - to build web apps
http://sheet.cellmaster.com.au/examples

I added these :)
JFK's administration dropped the top marginal rate from 71% to 50%.
Seems fishy to me.
For Enterprise/Server you set

[disable] Configure Automatic Updates

or if you really care

[enable] Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations
I'm not saying it's right, but poking at one's phone and sitting in traffic are not mutually exclusive.
Instead of saying "you know" just stay silent. Makes your speech much better. You don't have to fill every bit of silence with words.
Invalid result caused by bzip2 input format in MapReduce framework
Heartbreaking. I'm only partially in what could be considered tech, but I constantly try to move groups in my industry every few years to constantly pick up new skills. I honestly think I have enough random skills now: databases, programming, systems integration, mastery of a variety of common industry tools, project leadership, specific domain theory and understanding of the math that underlays my industry. However, is it enough and if the whole industry fades, where do I go next?
Yes, it’s a destination in itself! This article sheds some more light on the unique architecture: http://modernistarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/07/neutras-br...

If you do plan on coming out, I suggest making a full day out of it by also visiting the Huntington Beach pier (PCH & Main Street) or the newer Pacific City (PCH & 1st). The area becomes a real scene during the summer, and becomes insane during the US Open (late July).
To me it is totally unreasonable. We had a series A investor that required that. Their attorneys poked around and argued about every little thing and charged us $1200 an hour. They even had a $50k cap in the documents which they asked the VC to raise once they saw they were going to be able to exceed. The VC of course agreed because it wasn't his money and then proceeded to pressure us to accept it. We had already wasted so much time with these guys and racked up our own legal bills. So we were pretty much at their mercy.

If my company is going to pay your legal fees, then they work for me, not you and I will reserve the right to fire them and find someone really cheap instead.
Always be aware of where the Sun is: how high in the sky, and in which direction.The Sun will always tell you where North (or South) is. It becomes so ingrained that North is always automatically known.

Yes some days are cloudier than others, but the direction of the brightest light can be ascertained at many times during the day. Do the same at night with a few favorite stars/constellations.

NOTE: The directions below are for the Southern Hemisphere, adjust accordingly for the Northern Hemisphere.

In the morning the Sun will lie east (right) of North and be lower in the sky.

At midday, the Sun will be high in the sky and more or less directly North.

In the afternoon the Sun will be west (left) of North and lower in the sky.
However Buzzfeed is acting in good faith, it paid a minimum of 10 weeks plus other benefices until April. It is some shocking, usually, companies are crueler (the average is to give nothing) and how their former employees are retributing it? Bitting it back.
It's easy-peasy once you get the general algorithm down:

1. Is there a Stack Overflow CSS snippet you can use as-is that solves your problem? Score!

2. No? Fiddle with random bits until it looks OK in your browser of choice (Chrome). Display: block and position: absolute are great time savers, slap that on most things.

3. Ship it! Onto the next feature!

Pro-tip: Pixels totally work and you should just stick to that everywhere. The browsers and device manufacturers have kindly taken the necessary steps to make it Just Work no matter what the medium.

In case you think I'm being sarcastic, only half. Nobody cares about your beautifully cascading, resolution independent em's and semantically beautifully structure. The whole thing will be run through an uglifier anyway and probably you should just have used JS for your runtime generated layout anyway if you have any kind of dynamic behavior.
To be honest, this case has everything to do with Huawei's background (state connected, state supported). Possible not fair competition and fear of espionage dooms Huawei whatever the case details are.
BTW companies steal. All in the game.
If you find yourself in Madrid, you will not regret making time for the Prado. Whereas some museums, like the Hermitage, go for quantity, the Prado seems to pride itself on extreme curation. It did not feel like a huge museum (at least the tour of it that I did), but every single room had at least one true masterpiece.
Just so you know the poverty line is $12k-$15k for single people and $25k-$31k for a family of 4.
The Case of the Bumbling Spy: A Watchdog Group Gets Him on Camera
Ugh, yeah they bought and then slowly killed off Mailbox. :(
JVM issue: concurrency is affected by changing the system time
China has tweaked genes to create five mad monkeys. Is that ethical?
In theory Samsung or AMD could benefit from shortages of Qualcomm and NVidia products although in practice the magnitude of such substitution would probably be small.
> Treating capital gains differently from general income is a policy move designed to increase investment by making the profits larger.

Surplus wealth is largely going to be invested unless you actively prevent it, you don't need to tax favor capital income to get that result. Tax favoring capital income (i.e., tax penalizing other, most notably labor, income) just means that those that already have significant capital accumulate more faster while other people have a drag force applied preventing them from accumulating signficant capital.
Scott Alexander over at SlateStarCodex has a rational take on this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-dow...
Let the price gouging commence.
Would be an incentive for the city or state to enact policies for making housing more affordable. From what I've seen a lot of housing issues are coming from not-in-my-backyard-ism and zoning.
What I always find interesting is that if a professional soccer player is caught only a (in absolute terms) substantial amount of money is fined, while "ordinary" people would certainly go behind bars in addition to paying the money. The 23 months seems to be quite a joke to insult the intellect of these ordinary citizens.
Should we expect an increased cost as consumers? I remember when Hynix foundry had a fire, ram prices went up a lot
Anyone that doesn't use the Nanke 14 factory specifically (or uses the factory only for some of their products).
I'm not sure it is quite the same thing. Via leads them down a very specific path that now has to be sustained and failed. One that otherwise they may not have taken.
Take the data in your database, 7zip it. If your data is very redundant, you'll see great compression. If it's not you won't.
Cassette and vinyl sales are both up from 2017.

What strikes me about a report like this is that the report is comfortable comparing sales to "consumption".

Are these really the same?

Third parties do not necessarily know how many times someone cues up a track on their turntable or tape deck. (Unless today's turntables and tape decks are being engineered to "phone home".) Instead they measure sales of physical media containing copies.

On the other hand, with respect to so-called "streaming" the report says about 85% of this type of consumption is from subscriptions. But curiously the report does not measure subscription sales/renewals.

Maybe I missed something.
I remember in a little personal experiment I did you could just set content-editable:true on a table and then add a couple buttons with some js to do things like add rows etc. and you got a decent mini spreadsheet-like UI. Formulas wouldn't work without something special obviously but I remember being surprised with how much was implemented in the browser.

One very neat thing about this approach is that read-only access works without javascript
Microsoft guy suggests Mozilla to drop Gecko, use Chrome
CSS is almost a failure as technology.
None of it's promises has been realized.

The idea with CSS was that we would be able to separate content from presentation. Remember CSS Zen garden?
Yet that has never been the case and div tags were always needed to be able to display something simple.

Another promise was that content would be displayed easily on different mediums, desktop, mobile even print.. yet it's impossible to get decent rendering in every medium.

For the first years of CSS it was always easier to get a decent layout with tables than with it.

Finally all the CSS preprocessor, like saas and compass show how incomplete the technology really is.
How did you learn to make all this? I haven't been taught anything like this in my CS program. What resources did you use? Books, videos etc. are very helpful. Thanks!
Do Kids Need School? Inside the 'Unschooling' Movement
I think the idea behind intellectual property is to encourage people to take risks associated with developing something new and profit through their innovations. If all new discoveries were the property of the state/public then there wouldn't be a high incentive to be inventive for any given individual.

It's like if everyone was a farmer but everything harvested was immediately taken from the farmer. Why would any farmer put in effort to increase yield when they would not profit from their extra effort?
Revenue is almost meaningless. At least use a multiple of profits or of net income.

You know, you can have a crazy revenue, and still lose money, and your company can be bankrupt in a few months.
On what planet is the idea of making a robot with a mechanical finger to press phones to test them a trade secret .... (as a phone developer) it's so blooming obvious I've spent hours of meeting discussing exactly this

It's only a trade secret if you think the entire rest of the world is stupid
Its sad to think how many amazing inventions never get used because they are encumbered by patents or kept secret.
Re: "If all you had to do to make profits was impose whatever outlandish pricing models pop into your head, everyone would do it and internet would cost infinity dollars."

No, because everybody can and do make short cat videos such that they are a dime a dozen, and thus can rarely demand a premium. But sitcoms are social events such that everyone wants to see what everyone is talking about, giving them the ability to charge a premium over garage-made sitcoms. Nor can Joe YouTube form his own regional sports team; franchises such as NFL would sue. (A few break-out YouTube stars can charge or add more ads due to this social networking premium.)

Re: "No one would actually pay this." - Historically people have and do pay a premium when they have no other realistic choice. Sorry, but the long history of oligopolies and monopolies shows you are wrong.

Re: "It's in the best interests of the ISP to not do egregious things that force the FCCs hand or stir up public outrage."

Too many CEO's think short-term: get mine now, the future is somebody else's problem. The cable industry has a customer satisfaction record second worse of ALL industries, just behind airlines. It took crying babies and lost luggage to not be 1st.
>Who the heck needs a motorized desk?????

A motorized desk is effortless and thoughtless so it's probably a lot less likely to break your flow versus having to spend 30 seconds turning a handle.
I actually don't agree with him but I feel it's worth to discuss the topic, onto why it's a bad idea, and why Firefox should continue using Gecko.
And much higher wattage, across the entire lineup.
So I tested this out in Firefox. I think you're wrong. I never see 'hello world' even if I remove all the whitespace between the functions.
If you did that you’d screw many retirees living off investment income. That’s no good for anyone.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Ranked as Best Leader in US by Comparably
Trees take years, and a lot of labour to grow, cut, and bury.

A tree takes out ~1 tonne of carbon out of the atmosphere, over a 40 year lifespan.

Since the industrial revolution, we've emitted 400 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. By 2050, we'll emit another 150 billion tonnes.

If we want to sequester half of that, we'll need to grow, log, and bury 275 billion trees. Who is going to pay for this?

Bonus points: Digging up coal, so you can burn it, at the same time that you're growing trees, so you can bury them, has got to be one of the worst ideas in the energy-economy space.
Tweeting “learn to code” at laid off journalists treated as “abusive behavior”
Former founder here. I wish I had had this when I was raising my series A. I lost control of the board at my series A when the VC said that a 2-2-1 structure would be better for everyone. 13 months later, I was fired from the company I had started. The risks are real.

Had I known what a standard, clean series A term sheet looked like, I could have just pointed to this term sheet on ycombinator.com and said - "Make it like that."

I've found the Y Combinator resources to be some of the most valuable resources out there for startup founders. Do yourself a favor and familiarize yourself with what is available. It could help you not get fired from your startup.
Here's a link for reference: https://goo.gl/maps/qTq3CfWFUrm (not my exact address, nearby intersection)

Having done that route in a car and on a motorcycle, I can say that Google is being a bit optimistic about the cooperation of traffic lights and the safety of traffic.
Does anyone have a link to a great intro on VC for dummies? I keep seeing these kind of posts but not the big picture in blog form. Maybe a thousand words or two, not too detailed.
Yeah, I hear this a bunch, and I can see why it'd feel that way. My standard response is that HTML/CSS simply didn't advance enough for a period of n years to make it easier, so it (for awhile) was arguably stuck in the late 90s/early-mid 2000s for layout concepts. The other response to you noted it's gotten easier lately too.
Patents allow for the knowledge to be documented and the patent has a limited term after which anyone can use it. Without patents, more things would be kept as a trade secret.
This line of thinking is too black and white.

What would incentive a company to invest millions in new technology, like a new cancer drug, if they have to give up their secrets as soon as they do? No one would bother inventing any at all.

And what about nuclear weapons? Are we supposed to think that it's better if every tin hat despot could just download plans for an ICBM?
Its unfortunate that out economical system discourages sharing and rewards those who act selfishly. If the farmers needs were taken care of, they would push to make better tech to make their lives easier and provide more food for the rest of their country.
Which ordinary person in Spain has gone behind bars for their first time offense of tax evasion?