skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could make the same argument about buying into a mutual fund, yet mutual funds have to distribute capital gains every year.

Similarly, if I tried to re-create an index in my own account with individual stocks, I would end up incurring cap gains as I had to add and remove stocks when the index changes.

For whatever reason, we seem to feel like ETF’s deserve different treatment.
There are problems with the data and methods Piketty used. The Wikipedia entry for the book has a summary including multiple references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...
We are in some ways victims of the Long Peace.

There hasn't been a large-scale war since WWII. Obviously there have been numerous conflicts since but these haven't occurred in the developed world and have largely been contained geographically.

Obviously those conflicts are bad for those stuck where they occur and it's good there hasn't been such a conflict, particularly now we're in the nuclear age. But war and revolution served a peculiar economic purpose too: they were the ultimate form of wealth redistribution.

It's why the Patricians of Rome don't own the world today.

The public is also increasingly apathetic. The French Revolution redistributed the wealth of the French aristocracy. But we now live in an era where people don't care enough to vote or they limit their "activism" to liking an image deriding the latest Trump scandal on Facebook.

Some like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have committed to not handling $100B+ to their descendants but it doesn't take many to essentially establish a permanent ruling class in all but name.

Unfortunately we live in an era where the ultra-wealthy are increasingly unwilling to pay for the infrastructure and political stability that made and continues to make their wealth possible.

It's easy to see a dystopian future that results from nothing more than local optima of the ultra-wealthy minimizing their own tax liability because there's apparently a difference between having $70B and $75B.

I'm not sure you can (or should) appeal to economists humanity to make them care about income inequality. It's perhaps better to argue that income inequality has limits. At some point, no one can afford anything and the whole system grinds to a halt or war and/or revolution "solves" that inequality and it's in the long term interests of pretty much everyone to avoid that.
It's outright stupid to pin the blame on what you perceive to be a problem on a single academic paper, even if it was authored by outstanding academics such as Reinhart or Rogoff. It's even stupider to argue that scientists should be fired for publishing a paper that goes against your political values.
Suppose you and I take $100K each and mutually invest 50:50 in something together. Maybe we bought two identical houses for $200K total (or even bought a duplex together). Later on, the houses have gone up in value to $300K, even later I decide that I want out, we look things over and decide that the fair thing is for me to take one of the houses. At the moment that we take that action, no tax is (nor ought to be, IMO) due.

Later, when/if I sell the house, tax is due on the $50K in gains. Just like in the ETF case.

In the alternate treatment seemingly contemplated by the article, we could instead agree to sell one of the houses, jointly pay taxes on $50K in gains, and give me the sum of $150K-taxes, the gains of which I'd pay taxes upon again. You'd also have effectively paid taxes when you hadn't done anything but invest and hold. There's a pretty good argument this is unfair to me (to tax me twice on one gain); there's an almost ironclad argument that it's unfair to you.

It's no surprise that the treatment that is both more reasonable and more profitable is the one that ETFs seek to implement.

(Fees and other weirdnesses around real-estate ignored above for simplicity.)
A somewhat related and interesting read is Jameson Lopp's [1] efforts to make himself vanish: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappe...

His goal was to make himself relatively anonymous in the real world and scrub his (actual) personal info from public/for-sale databases. And while he didn't hire anyone to pentest his digital identity, he did hire a PI to try and find him.

To make sure he didn’t make any mistakes, Mr. Lopp paid private investigators to try to find him. It was an investigator who helped him figure out that his D.M.V. registration was making him vulnerable, which led him to getting a decoy address.

[1] https://twitter.com/lopp/
Acunetix sells a product that you can use lawfully or unlawfully. In the very unlikely event you were to find and later exploit a serious vulnerability in a major SAAS company using the Acunetix scanner, it would not be Acunetix that the lawyers would target.
This is the truth in my case. Having quit my last job yielded in a huge payout (5 figures). I do understand that this was basically the salary for the time off that I didn’t take. I still took decent amount of vacations but over time with PTO rollovers the balance built up to a significant amount.

In the end, it was a very nice bonus though.
Cato the Elder was very pleased when a philosopher gave a moving speech in favour of an ethical life. He was later shocked when he listened to another speech where he argued the opposite. He used his power as Censor to exile him.

Source: The Daily Stoic, a witty book with anecdotes.
> pay $1500 after first customer

You(or friends) can become the customer if cost is < 1500.
I think a main driver for the longing of curated content is due to saturation of the kind the article mentioned.

Since there are quite many such places left, I cannot really emphasis with this position, to be honest. Access is a personal choice.
Talk with a pirate accent and it'll sound natural. ;)
"I see people religiously hold to the orthodoxy of scientific knowledge rather than the scientific method. "

this seems to be the real problem. a lot of people want to find the final solution for a problem and then close the case once and for all.

Edit: That need is probably why we have religions.
Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1B from the Government They Disavow
Gmail spam-filters Stripe security messages as well
Also... play this imaginary dialogue between you and a Judge:

Judge: who gave you the right to invite someone to hack a company's e-banking security process or Facebook's security processes?

You: it is my data

Judge: it is THEIR system, see you and your friend in 5-to-10 (or whatever the penalty is in whichever country)
You missed the point of my question. :)
Ex Nihilo New Fragrance Atlas Fever, the Babylone Collection
I would change the way CFAA charges are sentenced. I would not eliminate the general prohibition on hacking other people's computers.
>> if I had to choose between putting a large sum of money, say, $200,000 into a small business, which has a 90% chance of failing within 5 years, or the S&P 500, the choice is obvious..

Unfortunately, I've come to think that investing in the stock market (especially index funds) is unethical because it gives more power to corporations to lobby for regulations which will further distort the market, increase centralization and increase failure rates for small businesses. It's a vicious cycle, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Without mega-corporations, small businesses would have a much better success rate and consumers would benefit.

Blindly investing in the S&P500 is just feeding the corporate machine. You're giving real money to real companies and you don't know what they're doing with it. In my view, large index funds should be outlawed completely.
The idea is that for 20% you do all of the marketing/business side of things, as I understand it.
> Should we stop calling it burnout and just say depression ?

No, burnout is a completely different thing from depression.

While the two can often overlap, they are not the same.

See: https://www.mind-body-health.net/index.shtml
corememory.io is not exactly a huge clue here. (And the site actually seems to be devoted to chamber music. Go figure.)
There is a lot to running a business beyond the first MVP and customer. Being a cofounder is as intense if not more intense than being married. I would almost flip it around so you take a 20% passive stake with an priority to a dividend or a royalty on revenue so that you aren’t expected to manage multiple companies as a “founder”.

I am assuming that you are trying to get multiple ideas off the ground.
And god forbid you had a drop of liquid inside, as they will swab every nook and cranny of you bag and put the samples through some kind of detector.
Why link to some dude's twitter, I WONDER, when he links the [actual paper](https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/whitepapers/Experimental_Secu...).
Kim Jong-un fires personal photographer over 'damage to Supreme Dignity'
Back in the JailbreakMe days, the third iteration of it (JBMe) used an integer overflow related to fonts https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/T1_Font_Integer_Overflow
The person who individually invested doesn’t have to pay the tax until they sell their shares in the ETF, perhaps decades later. That’s generally considered a tax dodge because deferral of taxes lets you keep that money and compound it.

$10 of taxes deferred for 30 years at a modest interest rate of 2% puts an extra $8 in the investor’s pocket that should have gone to the government.
Absolute madness.
Not just Tesla that gets confused. Other cars with lane assist also get easily confused if there’s markings on the road. Pretty sure my Passat would do the same thing.
Those people would likely benefit much more from the awareness trainings pentest shops usually offer as well, snake oil reports without changes in behaviour really don't secure anything.
This is a follow-up to Gmail putting PayPal classifying PayPal security notification emails as Spam (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19099887), and Google stating that it's a problem with Gmail and that they've put in a temporary fix specific for PayPal.

Just now, 2 months later, the same issue happened with a security login email from Stripe.
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I am pretty impressed with the path PHP has been taking lately. They have moved the language from being a mess into aggressively incorporating modern features at a very rapid pace. Especially PHP7 is a really nice language.
As if email is any better? Just because you delete all your mail from your inbox, doesn't mean the requisite copies in your sender/recipient inboxes are deleted. Decentralized doesn't necessarily mean data ownership.
Article appears to be from the same person that maintains apcu, a very popular user space kv memory cache for PHP. https://github.com/krakjoe/apcu
It can definitely get you in the door to an interview.

Of course, one of the questions will be "uh so you know you won't be able to contribute to open source much here?"
Where were you when WebGL, WebRTC, HTML5, etc was introduced? Did you ask "Why do we have yet another graphics api/real time communications api/video streaming api?" back then? No you didn't. The web needs solutions that are built for the web, otherwise it's not going to work.

Especially the "Why not the JVM?" questions tick me off. The people asking this question must be living under a rock. The Web already tried java applets and failed.
Not op, but metrics are the kingdom of middle-management.

Things like "jira tickets closed per day" and other equally meaningless numbers that try create an illusion of productivity.

The cult of metrics is then to optimize around the metric itself. Make smaller tickets so you can close more of them.
The Coming Calamity (2018)
If an idea plus zero additional work is worth less 20%, but an idea plus substantial additional work is worth more than 20%, isn't there an amount of work that makes the agreement worth it? I guess you have some sort of intuition that there's no reasonable way to agree to anything in between for incentive reasons or something, but that's not clear to me at all. Can you explain?
The actual post https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2019/03/29/Tencent-Keen-Secur...
The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
>Like so many things, it is an aristocratic economy of gifts and relationships, not a grubby transaction.

I enjoyed the style and tone of the writing in this article.
Creating the Productive Tension
The original criticism is that Piketty is a strongly normative economist whose views bounce off most of the field. Your criticism is that economics is too normative and should be less so and focused on math instead.

It is hard to square your criticism in a way that leads to people paying more attention to Piketty.
With respect to the college admissions bribes it seems like the game just got harder. Maybe the club of people able to bribe their kid's way into a school has grown too large, and so the price has gone up. You now have to be more wealthy, and more well connected to be able to bribe your kid's way into these schools. In effect, these schools maintain their elite status of exclusivity based on either brains or money/connections to get in. Seems like this could be a "market correction" of sorts. If so, it's interesting to think about what that means about the current state of wealth concentration and the sociopolitical system
For 80%.
Agree, but Tesla is the poster-child for "self-driving" which certainly makes something like this that much more alarming.
In fairness, if you put enough fake markings on the road, any human will get confused too. The important thing here is how small/few were the fake markings, not the fact that this was possible at all.
Nothing new. Read the about paradigm shift. You cannot work if you doubt every library you used may be hacked (or your assumption or idea is wrong about field X). Even if it is wrong obviously eg black body radiation you still continue. What one should know how it is not if but when the library was hacked (or your assumption is wrong), ...
> This dearth of reaction to such a critical work...

It's a five year old book, of course no one is talking about it specifically anymore. (And when it came out, everyone was talking about it.)

And "nobody is talking about inequality" is ridiculous. I've been to three major conferences in the last six months and there were multiple whole sessions on inequality. And not just income inequality. Educational, environmental even. It's not the only thing economists talk about, but far from "no one" is looking at it.
Microsoft wants to add Caret browsing and High contrast to Chromium-based Edge
Christian family in 'death fatwa' plead against UK deportation
The JVM isn't an option because java applets have failed. They are a massive security nightmare and they only run java, as opposed to everything (at least that's the promise of WASM).
"it almost had a "first mover" advantage in that it happened to be installed alongside CGI-BIN on shared webhosts way back in the way"

That's a good observation. Because the mod_php and mod_perl Apache modules were much faster and lighter weight than CGI-BIN, and pre-installed on shared hosting, both PHP and Perl dominated the early web days.
Probably because it's 40-pages long.

There's even a better summary of the entire research in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/1112064046369591296

Research is pretty smart, but highly impractical for real world attacks.

It's also been patched since 2017, with additional patches in 2018. So, it's also impractical because it doesn't work anymore.
Tesla's is supposed to be more than lane assist, something like only regulators keeping it from being released by now.

When combined with the big neural link announcement that was supposed to happen weeks ago, you may be able to monitor autopilot while you sleep by having it tap into your dreams. They are also going to give us point-to-point earth rocket travel for less than a first class ticket within 8 years.

I'm joking about neural link, though it did miss an announcement, but I'm not joking about the rocket one.
Same for humans too! Not trying to state the obvious but the Fig 31 and 32 in the paper might also make humans believe that there is, or should be a lane - although it looks like an error. The changes on the road are certainly not minor at all!

What is critical is to consider further context and its unclear if the interpretation of the image by itself would cause the AV to make an incorrect decision. It's part of a large amount of information that is consumed in the decision-making process I assume - again similar to humans.
You know how every couple of months there's an article posted on HN about why web design feels so generic today? The responses are usually of the "people want a familiar UX" and "design that doesn't convert isn't worth anything".

That same assumption is playing out in the world of web content strategy. What is the incentive to write about obscure topics when keywords like "Netflix", "Marie Kondo", "Trump" etc will near-guarantee more shares, more clicks and more ad impressions?
Tencent is making large moves into youth-targeting western media. They are also the world's largest gaming company; League of Legends, PUBG, et cetera are Tencent properties.

For instance, they own something like 40% of Epic Games, who is currently throwing large envelopes of cash around to secure a strong position in video game distribution.

If there is cause to be concerned about China applying soft power to sway western opinions, then there is cause to be concerned about Tencent.
I know some people prefer linking to the root source, but I find value in seeing who surfaced it.
I thought Waymo (Google cars) was the poster-child for self-driving cars
Not the same but immutable approach is more idiomatic Scala.

List("hi", "there", "hi")
.zipWithIndex
.map { case (x, i) =>
x -> i
}.toMap
France's Yellow Vest Protestors March for 20th Consecutive Week Despite Bans
>The fundamental problem with public school teachers are that the “customer” in the relationship isn’t the parent or the child, but the gov bureaucrat. So while the results of a teacher might hurt the child or the parent, who cares as it’s not them to who they cater to.

Thanks no child left behind! Tying school funding and teacher pay to child test schools is one of the largest blunders this country has made.
Men outraged after Tinder introduces height verification
I'm not sure that's a "generally considered" definition. By that definition, I'm dodging taxes every year I don't sell my shares that I hold in my brokerage account.
That's probably too low-level. Usually an AST is needed that is void of all syntactic sugar, yet can express the required data flows and dependencies so the trivial substitutions/replacements/caching and refactorings can be done at this level.

Lower level bytecode lacks these higher level references (it usually has a lot of indices that index into raw lookup tables, but no real symbols that refer to results of computations and other variables).
How would ETFs (and passive investment systems in general) work without this trick? If there were no tax free way to do rebalancing, how could you really track the exchange?
Its title is too boring ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19531025
Yes. But think about how often web forms were not sanitized in the past.
You may find Om Swami's books interesting and accessible in modern time to understand the potential that each one of us carry for mystical enlightenment. For instance the book on kundalini: https://www.amazon.com/Kundalini-Untold-Story-Himalayan/dp/0...

>>> Kundalini is your polar opposite within you. When it awakens, you realize how immensely powerful you already are. You experience how there is a whole universe within you. It is your feminine energy if you are a man and your masculine energy if you are a woman. It is your passage, your path to eternal fulfillment within you.

>>> when you start meditating on the chakras, it is only from your experiences and newly gained abilities that you come to know that a transformation is taking place within you. The greatest transformation upon the awakening of the kundalini is not that you see blinding light (although, that can happen and has happened to me on numerous occasions) or you feel feather-light or you feel highly energetic. These are epiphenomena. This is not the real product; it’s more like buttermilk than the actual butter.
The real transformation upon the awakening of kundalini is that you shed your old tendencies and negativity like a snake sheds its
old skin. You no longer feel angry or flustered over trivial matters unlike the earlier times. Your emotions and thoughts don’t overpower and trample all over you anymore. You begin to gain control of yourself. ‘Supranormal’
streams of creativity and energy gush forth at the awakening, surprising even you with talents you never thought you had.

>>> Awakening of the kundalini is reaching your innermost state of bliss and joy. This state is covered with ten layers – desire, anger, greed, attachment, ego, passion, jealousy, hatred, fear and selfconcern.
As you elevate spiritually, you start shedding these layers. These avarana, layers, veil the true you. The real you that is beyond the duality of pain and grief, good and bad, moral and immoral. Awakening is a steady and gradual process on the path of kundalini sadhana. It is not an instant realization. It builds up, it grows on you. With each level of awakening, you discover bit more about the new you and you shed bit more of the old you.

>>> Awakening of the kundalini is realization of your pure abstract intelligence, the type that is not conditioned by your fears, emotions and worries. It is your pristine nature. When you are able to tap into this latent source of energy, you truly become the master of your universe. You can manifest whatever you wish in your life because your scale of consciousness is no longer limited to your body alone; it envelops the whole universe.

>>> What’s even more beautiful is that anyone who is willing to put in the effort can experience it.
They don't agree voulnatrily on that low payoiut per mile because Uber and indivudual drivers have very different bargaining power. A free market can only exist between well-informed rational actors that can both walk away from the deal. In the face of huge power disparities you need limits on the power of the stronger player for a long term market to exist. This is exactly what minimum wage is. So don't trode out the tried old propaganda of cut-throat capitalists such as "they took the deal".
Data ownership is just one aspect. However i don't think twitter is good comparison to email at all. Email is for private communications and twitter is public social network.