skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raising the capital gains tax level to match the level imposed on ordinary income might be too extreme but the tax code should definitely be modified so that the various schemes and loopholes created to disguise income as capital gains can be ended.
In the us that's going to effect the middle class more - but maybe moving to a position where most people are on PAYE makes sense longer term.
And we have one for this already: The Fear.
Yes, it is horrible. It's got a little bit better (think flexbox and CSS grid) but it still feels clumsy, unintuitive, unpredictable, inelegant, frustrating. You learn to live with all it's painful shortcomings, but you'll never learn to like or love it.

Interesting aside: what would the creators of CSS do differently today?

Bert Bos:

- Feels there was too little detail in the first CSS spec (but Håkon Wium Lie thinks there wasn't enough)

- Wishes there were more ways to display link behaviour e.g. expanding/collapsing text

- He wanted to create CSS syntax that was readable for people who were not programmers

- He preferred a full stop (period) to mark the end of a group of statements. Curly brackets (braces) to group statements was Tim Berner-Lee's idea.

- Grids should have been a fundamental part of the CSS spec from the beginning

- Prefers the idea of CSS for documents and a separate language for UI elements

- Thinks the cascade could have been made easier

Håkon Wium Lie:

- Feels there was too much detail in the first spec: the more you added to the spec, the harder it became to implement

- Thinks that margin collapsing was too complicated for v1 and could have been dropped

- Also thinks first-letter and first-sentence pseudo-elements should have been left out of v1

- Hypercard was based on the idea of cards rather than documents - he wished a CSS card element had been defined

- He didn't want border radius originally, but designers insisted and he now likes it

- The v1 spec was written without any test documents - he considers that a major mistake

- They both approached CSS in a document frame of mind and wonders if they should have considered the idea of web apps more

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQTpsxf7rQQ
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Your 6-7 years is 'probably'. PEOPLE DO GET MAXIMUM. It happens. Therefore you saying it doesn't won't change anything. Your equating low probability with no probability. This is a false equation.

Have some intellectual honesty and admit you were wrong.
Is it a true statement that if you are starting to learn css in 2019, you should spend most of your effort with flexbox and scss (they are the future)?
I'm a Brit and graft means hard work. I don't think I've ever heard it used in the sense of the article though - implying corruption. Graft, grafting etc (short "a") is a word I would generally associate with the north midlands (!) of England and up, ie around Derbyshire and up.

It is understood elsewhere in the UK but not used routinely. It might, say, be deployed for additional effect by someone not from northern England and imply very hard work. However, it might be pronounced in an exaggerated, imitation "generic Yorkshire" accent in which case it gets a bit complicated to explain.

...

Actually, isn't the US word "grift" rather than "graft"?
The book, "The Fellowship", references these meeting minutes, along with other research from this period in time: https://www.amazon.com/Fellowship-Gilbert-Newton-Scientific-...
> Incidentally, but very likely related, I always failed to have any glimpse into how design works. I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me.

This is not related. There is no magic or natural connection between grokking CSS and having a sense for color theory or typography. They are connected by circumstance only, in that they're all useful for web design, and in that CSS can control colors and typography in the web browser. CSS is not any more an "art" thing than Javascript or C, although it is a thing with which one can make art (as are Javascript and C).
There used to be Little Italy and German parts of town and such, but they disappeared with suburban white flight.
Central direction is redundant. No response could be more obvious than "Learn to code!".
I feel similar but with the functional languages you mentioned. But I know they are not special or dark art, just tools I haven't spent enough time to master because I lacked motivation.

As others mentioned the complexity of CSS makes it very powerful, thus complex. Don't underestimate it as some low level icing.

I would start here with CSS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XRrlOOazo&list=PL4cUxeGkcC...
I disagree, we shouldn't subsidize renting as it encourages a bad economic behavior. But! Any deductions or tax credits for home ownership/property taxes should be removed.

Some of the specialized property tax reductions (like urban agriculture) can stay, but ideally we'll be pretty selective and get rid of the silly religious property tax exemptions.
I've only used BTRFS a handful of times and I've still had three filesystems die on me. Two became cripplingly slow, probably because of automatic snapshots (even though there was a small retention limit). One was fine until it suddenly got into a state where it can only be mounted read-only or mounting never finishes, despite a lot of parameters thrown at it trying to fix that. The first two were not terribly long ago, and the last one was 2018.
This article declares that a 70% marginal tax rate on income above $10M/year is bad policy, but the only justification it offers for it being bad policy is that adding in NY state/local taxes would raise that number to 82.7%.

So what?

I've seen repeated countless times recently that the marginal tax rate on the rich used to be as high as 91%. Why is a combined tax rate of 82.7% bad policy? And if that's really your only justification, then the fix here is to just make the state/local taxes deductible again.
Browsers do not treat URLs as secure. If you just go to the page and happen to be live-streaming on Twitch or whatever, anyone can access the document because the information is printed visibly on the screen. This makes it starkly different from a password.
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> We don’t allow apps that interfere with, disrupt, damage, or access in an unauthorized manner the user’s device

So Google decides what's authorized, not the user. Makes it clear who really owns the device.
If it's an issue in an early stage of the production pipeline and the same chemical contamination is in place for more than one lot, you eat up to an entire pipeline full of product.
Did you start making money from the biz pretty quickly?
They invest in lower risk securities which leads to a bull market in bonds and guilts which has its own problems.

It also stifles innovation and messes up pensioners as their income is based on gilt yields.
What do you mean by “control”? Like control engineering? How is it used in control domain, can you explain a bit?
With save the specific problem is that Mozilla guys wanted to move all save capability to local DB + download, and to never allow writes to arbitrary local files, treating it as a security issue, which obviously is a problem for any sort of web apps running locally. Google tried to standardize FileWriter API that never made it outside Chrome, then later dropped it due to aforementioned issue.
Like the 1-million years long run
My hypothesis around this was younger (or curious people) would just "get" the UI and the older people won't be on the app or not be as active.
I disagree, the middle class has slowly been squeezed out of most of their tax exemptions, the ones that remain are regressive and provide more tax relief to the wealthy. It's complex enough that it's probably best to wipe the slate clean and start over.
This could be good for AMD.
Amazon’s white-collar workforce says their warehouses need better conditions
Wafer cost is supposed to be more like $4K although there may be penalties in this case.
In supply-constrained markets, wouldn't any benefit from this eventually accrue to landlords rather than renters? Put another way, if landlords are charging what the market can bear, and the market can suddenly bear 25% more, won't they just raise prices over a few years to eat up that new wealth?
>Give me springs and struts, Autolayout, or PowerApp's style declarative positioning any day.

Positioning is one thing, but CSS really shines in it's graphical abilities. Autolayout is fantastic, but have you tried writing the custom CoreGraphics code that is required to do anything outside of standard UIKit visuals? Not fun [0]. Being able to just type `background: linear-gradient(orange, green)` is a godsend compared to that stuff.

[0] https://github.com/amraboelela/myos.examples/blob/master/Cor...
I thought AMD was using TSMC now?
> Not many are against immigrants or immigration in general, at least not in regards to the US.

Yes, many are, which is why the same people in government that have been most vocal in pushing for the wall have also been the most vocal advocates against a major part of the legal immigration (family unification, which gets the hostile name “chain migration” by it's opponents), have proposed or signalled support for laws slashing legal immigration, have taken executive action to direct border agents to use force to prevent people from legally applying for asylum at ports of entry, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum, as infinitum.

> The issue is Illegal immigration

No, it's just immigration.

> You're supposed to come through the front door.

That would be a lot more credible if the people complaining about illegal immigration weren't the ones slamming the front door closed.
Or fixing their Android app and making it not lag/softbrick my camera?
I don’t really get the point of restricting immigration at all. I mean, why not build a wall between Texas and Oklahoma? They have a different state government, different tax rates, different state laws, different government benefits. Makes just as much sense as a wall with Mexico. Huge numbers of people move from state to state without any authorization or notification, and nobody cares. The whole debate makes no sense. It should be a nonissue.
And how do you do that when they are out of work ?

And I have had to chair a meeting of a worker coop when we had to restructure due to running out of capital in the last dot.com crash so I have some idea what I am talking about.
You probably haven't tried Indian food served as an all you can eat buffet in the USA. Those places are legendary for their exquisite taste palette.
Some kind of networking/bluetooth stack would be very useful.
i believe the other party will be informed by snapchat if you took a screeshot of it.
That massively massively penalizes people who are more poor or middle class vs someone that has millions or billions. 30% of a million is 333k, but 30% of 31k is 10.3k. I imagine losing that 10.3k hurts the 30k person far more than losing the 333k does to the person who is now making 667k.

Why would you want a flat tax for everyone above 30k?
Why would you screw around with NTP when you could just use PTP capable infrastructure?
I see it as the difference between a transactional email and an unsolicited one. This service seems to fall under what I would call transactional.
> "...its eventual success will depend two things: first, ... the price ..., and second, ... timeliness ...."

it's nearly impossible to compete on those two things, but you're assuming that that's the problem they're trying to solve.

this program is not for you. it's for people who can't afford to buy & own a car. if you can afford a drive or ridehail everywhere, of course you'd do that, because it's faster and more convenient. this is for less advantaged people who live in the suburbs and have service jobs in the various commercial sectors of the region. and it's for people with disabilities or other impediments.

i solve my last mile problem with a variety of options: walk, bike, scooter, and ridehail, but ridehailing is my last option because it's often a poor tradoff between price and time--either it's way more costly or it takes as long as another option, between waiting and picking up/dropping off other people.

in LA (the city, not all of socal), scooters and dockless bikes make a lot of sense to me. but the scooter startups want to be in the rich areas and metro flubbed it's bike program by using docking pedal bikes (with peddle-assist rolling out now, but still docked). we just need more dedicated bike/scooter lanes, especially grade-separated ones.
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How do you measure the value or cost of how much someone uses for s product like Netflix? Compared to equivalent iTunes purchases, a Netflix subscription is inexpensive. If you are referring to the bandwidth, the cost is close to zero anywhere.
Damn. They could have at least ended with 'unless user makes the express decision to allow the application to run.' just throw up 80 pop ups warning the laymen.
Treating capital gains differently from general income is a policy move designed to increase investment by making the profits larger.

Eventually, a large portion of employment compensation got pushed through to look like capital gains -- for example, by issuing stock options or actual shares as part of overall compensation.

It's perfectly fair to kill that loophole by modifying the capital gains tax. One option would be to make it progressive and marginal like the income tax: E.g. if you make under $20,000 in capital gains in a year, you pay no tax on that; then 10% on the next 10K, then 20% on the next 10K, 30% on the next 10K, and so on.

The structure of startup corporations might change as a result. An LLC might be much more attractive, and profitability a more attractive goal.
Yes, this may be a good starting point — https://github.com/src-d/awesome-machine-learning-on-source-...

Thanks for checking it out!
Speaking of all this, am I the only one where NFS clients with executables on NFS (such as PXE booted machines) get bus errors when the server runs recent 4.19/4.20 Linux kernels with recent ZoL code?

As a reminder, those bus errors are supposed to happen when a client-side mapped file has been unlinked on the server. So the ZFS export does not provide pages to the client on a client page fault the same way NFS would on deletion. Tried dedup and compression on and off, no change. A reboot of the server clears it up for a couple of days, but then it starts the same way. Something seems very broken in caching there.

This popped up during maybe the last 4-5 months.
My understanding (perhaps wrong) is that this was the first instance of the US issuing a formal charge. Previously, the executive was arrested and prevented from leaving Canada. The new development is that the US has specified what they are accusing this executive of, whereas previously that was not public.

The significance is that before they formally charge her, there is room for face saving maneuvers. For example the US could have agreed to press lesser charges as a result of a backroom deal with China. After this new development, that is not an option for the US.
Understand that JMAP is an object synchronisation protocol. It’s most interested in the problems that are out of scope for GraphQL.

You could have a variant of JMAP with GraphQL syntax and semantics, but there would be a fair bit of mismatch, for their purposes and focuses are quite different: JMAP is concerned with object identity and synchronisation, for what you might call thick clients (and JMAP Mail needs to be broadly IMAP compatible), while GraphQL is UI-focused, for what might reasonably be considered to be thin clients (not that they are logicless, but that they are very much focused on offloading burden to the server). I see no compelling case for a JMAP-like GraphQL thing.

It could still be an interesting task to develop a object synchronisation protocol like the JMAP core on top of GraphQL.
Well, it's true that there are things you can't just assert without controversy. If you say anything you have to make an argument or link to some evidence, because they're not well-known.
Or... you tax people that are rich more and it seems to solve your problem. Wiping the slate clean and starting tax law from scratch is not going to happen. It would cripple the economy and would affect every business and many people.
Those with capital would still be best off investing in some manner. Tax loop holes in other countries may cause some expatriation of that investment but if those are closed then investment will continue but most money will be taken out of the economy during the investment cycle. Assuming this doesn't just lead to the government taking in massive amounts of money and not using it this would allow income tax rates to be reduced and spur consumer spending.

It's a pretty simple issue of a high pressure leaky container, jam a wedge in one leak and the other leaks need to contribute more if you want to maintain the same amount of water coming out. Simplify the tax code and we even end up losing less money to trying to remember where all the leaks are.
I am really concerned about the rapid development of the Huawei case. Sure Huawei has issues, but which corporation doesn’t. If you are an US exec, I would limit travel to China as one can risk being arrested for frivolous reasons.
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Article implies the part about stealing tech from TMobile is well documented and already resolved in court...

It feels weird to me that this wasn’t a bigger deal?
As for point 2, I think there is some real promise for a new national motto: your mom’s vagina is America’s front door..

Edit: but as to your actual point, I agree.
Apple spent $60B with American suppliers in 2018
Who benefits from this, though? The first one that comes to mind is Intel... Although I am not suggesting that they did it. It's just a hypothetical question.
Sharing knowledge and advancing technology for everyone is something to be proud of. Society needs to end the practice of hoarding private knowledge.
> I could drink 10 cups of tea, and only feel the urge to wee. That much coffee and I'd be up the wall!

This just looks like evidence that you don't drink tea and don't know what's in it, or that you've confused herbal tea with tea from the tea plant. Tea seems to have about half the amount of caffeine coffee does. For example, here are figures from the Mayo Clinic:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

Coffee is more of a stimulant than tea, but tea is still very strong, so it's unsurprising that the British were aware of its effects. If you're trying to stay awake, tea will do the job.
via has been around a while searching for a business model in this space. they'd probably get bought out by uber or lyft once they prove the model.
Oh, I forgot; I made a helpful infographic for this last week:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1086061495811743747
This raises the future possibility that, depending on what is in them, people might start smoking chicken eggs.
Sometimes, though my example was intentionally obscured to prevent machine translation and you were not aware of Korean conjugations (usually omitted in identifiers) ;-)

I have seen numerous instances of pseudo-English when it comes to naming. It is hard to name things in non-native tongues. When reasonable, reducing that overhead can be indeed beneficial.
This is about TSMC's "16/12nm process".

AMD is using TSMC's 7nm process and Global Foundries' 12/14nm processes: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/276169-amd-moves-all-7...
It depends on what rate is chosen. I've read that an 8% tax applied this way would reap more tax than the current system. My personal effective federal tax rate has always been between 17-20% on an income of about $100K/yr.
An organization with those requirements should be careful which tools they use.
That's done on purpose, to avoid what happened to Facebook: swarmed by old people, and then deemed uncool. Snapchat is teen territory.
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They go out of their way to detect root and block the app on Android, but I'm sure there are counter counter measures regardless.
They are not mentioning that Buzzfeed is paying a minimum of 10 weeks of salary.
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Huh? Renting is bad economic behavior?

What's your alternative? Become a slave for 30 years to maybe afford to buy a house?

If you could deduce rent (or mortgage for that matter) then more money would stay in the hands of ordinary people. It would also encourage cities to make housing affordable. If housing costs get too high then tax revenue would drop. I think that's a good incentive overall.
Isn't the hint in the name "park and ride" your meant to drive to the park part then take the light rail
There's so much value to learning CSS and all it takes is time and practice. It's not an art but I think competent programmers are justifiably irritated when their skills don't apply to what is ostensibly just another language or syntax. They'll walk away when they realize it takes time to do things which ought to be simple like making a layout with some columns. But it's actually really fun after a while. And you're like a wizard to everyone that was just too lazy to learn it.
I can think of two from the top of my head:

- Let's say you work in a shared office environment with a hot desk policy. Storing the configurations on the board will become unwieldy once more than one person stores her configuration on the board.

- I personally would love to automate my desk to move to a specific position at preset intervals. This would be mostly to force me to change positions throughout the day. I tend to forget to do that.

I'm sure people would come with all kinds of different use cases you and I can't think of right now.
no matter my fitness level i've always been one of the sweatiest people i've ever met. Hasn't stopped me from cycling, and i'll echo the above sentiments: i feel more awake when i get to work and better for the rest of the day if i bike to work. I do take steps to make sure I don't smell: shower either immediately before leaving, or even better immediately on arriving when work has a shower onsite.
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I found surprising that shorthand compresses enough of the writing to resist statistical techniques, knowing approximately the corpus of language that the theologian would have used, and the source material he would usually quote from.
You mean like AWS being down?
I guess I didn't realize it was copywriting and not just "writing blog posts for side projects".
> I have no idea which colors "go" with which ones, and pretty much all fonts look like the same for me.

Before going into web development, I wondered why some people were so picky about fonts when they all looked similar. I'm a little ashamed to admit that after 5 years, they still look somewhat similar.
Taxes raise revenue to pay for things -- that's true for households, cities and states. It's even true for many countries. It's not true for the US Federal Government: as you can see, the debt that we send out is a representation of the value we add to the world economy.

US Federal taxes are not primarily paying for things. They are to encourage use of the dollar; to redistribute wealth; to act as tools of policy. The government needs to issue debt in quantities similar to the expansion rate of the economy: when less is issued, the economy will suffer, and when more is issued, inflation begins.