skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
76% of voters favor higher taxes on the wealthiest americans, 61% favor Warren's "wealth tax", and even 40% support a marginal tax rate of 70% on americans earning $10M or more:

http://fortune.com/2019/02/04/support-for-tax-increase-on-we...

this would contradict your theory that "the common worker hates taxes", since most Americans want more taxation, not less.
Is it? If so, can you elaborate?
It’s not nearly such a big deal in Tokyo. It’s only a problem in cities where local government limits the supply of housing.
I want to add code reviews in git-bug at some point: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
Ανοικτή ακόμα η πρόκριση στο Γιουβέντους – Άγιαξ
> There’s definitely audio from all those meetings

Are these accessible publicly? Could someone link to them, if available online? It's not easy to get a deep view into organizational decision making. The least we could do is to learn from mistakes.
I think you could lead by example and post your own uplifting commentary, and that would be more effective.
A lot of places have a tax on houses, but that doesn't mean the house is paying the tax. :)

Ultimately corporate taxes come out of the pockets of owners (via lower profits), workers (via lower wages), and customers (via higher prices), with the exact incidence depending on a number of factors.
I’m in America and I too am confused at all the negative comments about counterfeits. I’ve personally ordered hundreds of items from Amazon, but never a counterfeit
Like what, a hitman?
For batteries, AmazonBasics is pretty reliable
This is an experiment to try something and show that it can work. Then, local governments/school boards can use it as an example and copy some of the successful pieces at larger scale. Your cynicism about rich people helping just a few is unwarranted here.
“How to Read Gene Wolfe” by Neil Gaiman (2007)
There is no crime for which torture is an acceptable punishment.
Permissionless money isn't useful to the large majority of the world. It's a nice to have for rich people -- or "temporarily poor millionaires."

More useful is to ensure that governments have the rules that their populace wants. And even most useful is to ensure that the human beings who don't have money (for the multitude of unfair reasons that may cause such a situation) receive enough to survive.
If you are not comfortable with strangers touching you but you wouldn’t feel uncomfortable with the little old lady in the grocer touching you, what’s actually happening there?

Is it something to do with power dynamics, and perceived threat?
These kind of review patterns are easy to spot. I used to read through recent review etc. These days when I find a product on Amazon that I feel like buying, I go to reviewmeta.com and check the review trend before deciding.
Or horrible (in my opinion) paid solutions like McAfee...
I think a deposit is in order, just with the amount tuned.

I think it could be a sliding scale deposit $100 to list a product, and then scale up based on amount of inventory, customer reviews, etc.

If it's a $100 initial deposit that slides up to $1,000 based on volume, that seems pretty reasonable even for something small starting out.
"The company needs to meet a 30 percent local sourcing rule to be able to open its own stores in the country."

It is just the result of protectionism.
It's a logistics/risk balancing/new demand move.

1. Logistics: Cheaper to ship to rich Middle east and maybe even Europe

2. Risk balancing: With uncertainty at political levels about tariffs and trade rules, it makes sense to distribute production to multiple places in the world.

3. New demand: Lower cost of production == lower prices in India. Apple has negligible penetration in the largest fastest growing market. This move is a bet to try to beat android competition in price and raise global demand for IPhones.

Honestly, this move is a no-brainer. The benefits are endless.
would we classify this as a friction-less security breach?
Guns don't kill people. People make very specific decisions that lead to someone's death. I find any argument that blames a tool for someone's death to be suspect when a person or in this case a group of people met and discussed the issue. This wasn't a broken tool that directly lead to the deaths. This is especially problematic given NASA's history with Challenger, previous strikes, and the excellent writing of Richard Feynman on this very subject for this very organization.

A manager, or really anyone who desires to lead, needs to be able to remove the confusion surrounding information. If someone was deliberately not giving information then that another problem, but the slide had the critical phrase at the bottom showing this was way outside the test parameters (600x with some basic math).

I don't deny that the slide was bad and the engineers who put it together failed their profession, but the person at the top needs to be able to get by this.
Shrooms always make me paranoid
I’m 14 years old and I’ve done shrooms twice. The first time I did them I ate 2.5 g and had a horrible trip. I locked myself in the bathroom for probably about two hours crying and went full schizophrenic and at another point I just tried getting under a blanket. I didn’t have a sober guide but I was with my friend who is my age and took the same dosage. (He had a good time both times) but when we realized my trip was not going well at all, a few hours in we called a sober friend to help me out. He did nothing but take advantage of me while I was vulnerable by looking through my bag and even stealing my wax... but that’s aside from the point. The second time I took the same amount and still had no sober guide. I figured I only had a bad trip the first time bc we were close to getting caught by his parents (we’d be FUCKED). So I tried them again. As soon as they kicked In, familiar feelings arises. I started feeling an increased heart rate, a pit in my stomach, I was cold, and extremely paranoid-> I even felt like I wanted to cry at one point (I held back this time). I tried enjoying the beauty of the hallucinations but I was having basically a full blown panic attack while my friend was again having a great time and couldn’t exactly help me, as he was fucked up. This lasted hours but I spent them outside trying to enjoy myself. I decided to leave my friends house and I immediately felt amazing for the entire comedown experience. Are shrooms just not for me? I wasn’t getting paranoid bc of parents (we were home free for hours)
Ask HN: How can ZFS benefit me?
I'm an undergraduate in Statistics. I read some articles about how great ZFS is, but most of them mainly talk about data integrity. Of course that's important, but I didn't lose any data with the 256G SSD of my MacBook Pro for years anyway (I accidentally deleted some files once, but that's a human error).

I'm also not using RAID to store Zebibytes of data, and speaking of encryption and read/write efficiency, other filesystems can offer similiar fetures.

So, how can ZFS benefit me?
It's either that, or they are failing really miserably at controlling the flood of bogus/fraudulent review.

I find the latter hard to believe. We're not talking about a mom-and-pop shop here. This is Amazon, they employ many thousands of very smart people that could no doubt build solutions that are better than the status quo.
I've read articles of people getting fake HAND SOAP from Amazon. You know, the less than $1/bar soap.

Fake laundry detergent is also a big one.

The fake bar soap has led me to believe that people will make counterfeits of anything they can.
Except Biff of course
Same old same old. Only these days it gets done by building data centres in across the river New Jersey and as-the-bird-flies microwave links between New York and London...
I don't get why you are being downvoted. Mueller said there was no russian collusion.

And The NYTimes even published an "apology".

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/mueller-trump-no-...

It's disappointing how politicized social media has become.
Nasa awards launch service contract for asteroid redirection test mission
It is a very good blog post. Recommended!

Now, I will do my obligatory "burntsushi needs to clag the rest of the Teddy code" post which I must do on every discussion of ripgrep. :-)

The "subtitles_alternate_casei" examples would be a good benchmark - these 48 strings should not overwhelm Teddy as they could be sensibly merged into Teddy's 8 "buckets" (in fact, they could be merged into 5 buckets) using the simple greedy merging strategy in the original Teddy implementation.

This would probably be a quite good project for someone who wants to contribute to ripgrep and could likely get some nice performance wins...
Very nice write up! Concise and to the point. I've never had a whiteboard interview before and honestly, I don't know if I could do it. I understand why big name companies do it, but it just feels weird as a requirement. My first interview out of college consisted of them having me explain inheritance in Java and what an abstract class was. It was quite underwhelming for all the studying I had done.
Research as a Stochastic Decision Process
The attacker is happily sponsored by the state of affairs at the company.
Then the comment I replied to was wrong. There is no interconnected network of servers with different rules.
I would argue they explicitly stop real social interaction. People like a thing and then move on. How is that useful discourse?

Without a like mechanism, people would have to genuinely interact by adding to the conversation in order to be a part of it.
Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Using the Differentiable Neural Computer
www.fakespot.com is your friend.
Thank you for sharing your experience.

This looks pretty cool!
My guess is that they are only doing this to meet the local restrictions in order to open stores, avoid extra taxes inside of India.
Science is not always aware that it has axioms. Historically, absolute time, absolute space, Euclidean geometry, stuff like that. No place for, say, the qualia which motivate it ... beauty, elegance, the like.
Very cool! We (Paperspace) just posted a tutorial on Detecting Pneumonia from X-ray scans using PyTorch for anyone interested in building some more intuitions around this type of Deep Learning: https://blog.paperspace.com/detecting-and-localizing-pneumon...
I agree, this could be a nice project! If anyone wants to work on it, this is the place to start: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/blob/master/src/literal/t...

I'll get to it myself eventually if someone else doesn't, but it will likely be a while.
This always happens with various editions of books too especially for classic books. For example: I want to buy Meditations by Marcus Aurelius but there are so many editions of that book with different authors who translated these books but you'd see the same exact reviews on all of these editions. It is very hard for me in that case to choose the right book.
They hate them mostly because the money is wasted or appears to be wasted.

I’m on the more conservative side of things, but I’m not opposed to taxes if they are efficiently spent.
Oh but there is an incentive here: the higher the median wage, the higher the deduction everyone gets.

And for those below the median wage, they can just keep making all the money they want all the way up to that median wage and pay $0 in taxes.

What exactly am I missing that's giving me all these downvotes? I just want a fair tax code all the way up and down the socioeconomic ladder and I want to wipe out all those incredible deductions given to the capital gains class so that we're all on the same page.
Right, implicit but unsaid was the thought that the federal gov't could cover that funding gap so that all schools got the same budget regardless of the local conditions. Of course given the political forces that created the current local conditions in the first place, that's probably unlikely too.
This is not a charter school or private school, it is a public school that received additional money on top of its usual funding from Lebron James.
Anything that's illegal to buy with fiat cash, it's illegal to buy with cryptocurrency, too.
Surely their advanced machine learning would see such an obvious pattern?
OK, but what about "sex workers and such" that
wut42 mentions in a subthread?
The Ad identifier isn't exposed to the web (thankfully)

(Edit: Apparently I was wrong - I’d swear it was per device? Hence the single global “reset the id “ option. If it’s per app/app group/developer ID then rolling doesn’t help because they can always just generate and store their own ID)
I solved that problem that way too: https://nadyanay.me/identities.html

It comes with some issues, namely that I suck at keeping it up to date and that not all identities I would like to list there have a way for me to provide proof beyond my word alone. For most use cases and attack vectors I consider this sufficient enough. Now this is outside most peoples' threat models, but Keybase also provides some mitigation against some other scenarios.

1) If nadyanay.me becomes compromised the imposter could update /identities.html with a new and fake list and I would need to update my link everywhere it is used or I would be pointing people to the imposter list. I have more faith in both (a) Keybase is less likely to be compromised and (b) in the event Keybase has become compromised someone will notice. Nobody would notice if my personal site was compromised, as even my closest friends don't regularly browse my website. It could honestly take weeks or even months to discover the file had been changed.

2) A person who compromises my account(s) must also have access to my private key in order to sign messages in my name. This is important because even if any of my accounts is compromised they're still unable to prove they are me if asked. This is something I actively practice with a few online friends of mine. We pretty regularly lend large sums of (virtual) game cash to one another worth in the range of $10,000-$15,000 USD if RWT'd. The last thing either of us would want is an imposter asking to borrow some money in-game from them and selling it off and so anytime we ask to borrow some in-game cash we ask to see a signed message. I admit that's the primary reason behind most of my signed messages...

3) Any attempts at creating a new key will allow users to see that my key has been revoked and replaced. Users who had signed my old key would need to re-verify with me that my new key is valid. Social engineering and people's casual use cases means the imposter would just claim to be me and most people would believe them. Few would bother verifying but it at least provides an additional opportunity for the imposter to be outed.
More taxation for other people, not themselves.

If you hate taxes and love services, the obvious thing is to get someone else to pay for them.
So you've read the report? To my knowledge, the only portion of the 300+ page report that has so far been published is a a sentence fragment quoted by Trump appointee Attorney General William Barr in his 4 page summary. Seems a little premature to conclude we have the whole story.

Also, multiple people close to Trump have been convicted of various crimes as a result of the past two years of investigation. Even if once the dust settles Trump stands clean and pure as the driven snow, investigators already have plenty to show for their work.
Awesome-personal-blogs: A delightful list of personal tech blogs
I don't agree with the education part. There are other ways to do that. Health I could be on board for, but they lost me at you get fined if you don't participate. That's crap. A lot of people are already taxed to the breaking point and you would have a hard time convincing them. Lastly, the money is mine and not the governments and they already play fast and loose with taxes.
Segregating students by ability is one of the easy, cheap, sensible ways to improve outcomes that almost certainly works. Taking slower students out and teaching them at their own pace should benefit those taken out and those left behind.

Unfortunately, it’s my understanding that this sort of thing winds up politically impossible in most parts of the US, as segregated-by-ability classrooms wind up looking uncomfortably like segregated-by-race classrooms.
Man, finally this came along. Apple had been negotiating for almost 3 years to setup manufacturing in India. Foxconn got a start in the outskirts of Bangalore where they manufacture iPhone SEs.

I as a customer am super glad this is coming along. Tired of paying a premium for Apple products in India. In addition to iPhones I seriously hope they start iPad manufacturing as well. IMHO iPads will probably have a better success rate in India once the prices reach parity with US.
The FUD is someone saying Microsoft didnt lock down the xp_cmdshell functionality (which is the post I replied to.)

I agree that the postgres and msft functionality effectively have the same level of permissions required, which is that an admin level user must take specific steps to allow this to occur.
Yet another reason why the Founders' recognition that ruling via a simple majority was an eventual death knoll for a society.
YouPorn goes progressive with new mobile web apps for Android and iOS
What does the article have to do with incels. People who blame everything on incels aren't any better than people who blame everything on feminists. It's just toxicity and no substance. Why reach for the lowest common denominator?
I agree, ripgrep is amazing.
Is there an extension that just hides all non-verified reviews? I want reviews from people who at least paid for the item.
I don't understand Mozilla's ask for changing the cycling of these tokens to monthly.

If this was implemented, it wouldn't be very difficult to associate a cycled out profile with a new one. Only days of behavioral information. So if out of a 30 day month, 3 days are used to re-associate user profiles, they're only using a partial profile 10% of the time?

I don't even get why Moz thinks IDFAs are particularly bad for privacy anyways. They're only shared across apps that come from the same developer; your Facebook and Snapchat apps see different tokens. They don't expose any personal information, they only identify a unique piece of hardware. It wouldn't be particularly difficult for apps themselves to generate and persist their own random token; how often do people reinstall apps anyways?
If NASA is encoding safety-critical messages in "jargon" that can pass for misleadingly ambiguous plain English, that's a huge safety problem itself. What if it's somebody's first day on the job?

Especially given the sorry state of the presentation in general, I really doubt this is the case, though.
IDFA is not shared per app, only across developer accounts. Your Facebook and Snapchat apps don't see the same IDFA.
Agreed. Easy and intuitive as Euclidean geometry it is not right. It is not easy ask anyone doing proof in that paradigm.

Getting more mtr complicate not meaning they are right.
Then do not tax income, tax revenue. If company makes, say $10B in the US in sales, they should be required to pay at least 1% of that, i.e $100M in taxes. And before anyone starts complaining that some companies have very thin profit margins: if your profit margin is close to or less than 1% then your business model is unsustainable in the long run anyway.
This article reminds me of Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" posturing when he got caught. There was no accident here. The media had a story it believed desperately needed to be told, so they told it, facts be damned. This is who they are and what they do.
I haven't run resident virus scanning for at least a decade or more, including Windows Defender on my Windows machine, and I haven't had a single meaningful issue during that time.

(And I know this with high confidence because I do schedule weekly full disk scans on my computers and NAS and they haven't ever found a damn thing that wasn't a false positive or a fake-positive.)
Euclidian geometry was literally based on axioms from day one.
Hmmm... I wonder if "scientists predict that..." refers to my supervisor at university who did simulations in the late 80s that made this same prediction. I really wish environmental groups would add citations to their "scientists predict that..." claims.

Not disputing the claim (and I think my supervisor was brilliant), just griping that I can't do anything to follow up on what they are actually talking about.
This Fortune article speculates in much higher numbers for their stock compensation: http://fortune.com/2016/02/05/alibaba-stock-pay-disturbing/

If long hours is the industry standard, to me that is exactly informed consent. I mean, no one will be surprised by the standard workplace arrangement.
You forgot another category: products that are outright illegal. For example, "oil filters" that are basically silencers, or Glock full auto conversion parts.

https://smile.amazon.com/JINJULI-Tactical-Semi-Automatic-Cov... (google "Glock FSSG" to see what this actually is)

https://smile.amazon.com/Filter-Aluminum-24003-Durable-Const... (note the reviews and questions on this one)

Now, to Amazon's credit, when you report these, they do take the ones that are unambiguously illegal down. The problem is that they get re-posted under a slightly different title within a few hours.
Google beat email spam, but has fared much worse with fighting blackhat SEO. Email spam has evolved remarkably little in the face of spam filters, and it may be that they were able to "solve" it simply because there never was all that much money to be made from it in the first place.
The Next Great Decoupling: AI Takes Control
it's an awful state of affairs if you can only buy Amazon own branded goods because everything else is potentially fake

I'm not rewarding them for their incompetence
I wonder if these kinds of painful (from a business perspective) choices will act as a kind of forcing function on their whole privacy push, either by highlighting the hypocrisy if they continue mining customer data while preaching virtue, or alternatively, by really pushing them to put their money where their mouth is and creating a more truly private system.

I think the biggest factor will be if they can convince the US population (their core demographic / market) that privacy matters. If it does, then it will be worth it to their bottom line - if not, they may have to capitulate to market forces and return to squeezing as much data as they can from their users.

The next few years could be very interesting from a privacy standpoint.
The smallest corporation receives that same benefit.
Ask HN: Is “social network” a dirty term now?
Does the term "social network" bring up negative emotions in you? If so, is this a recent phenomenon or have you always felt that way?

Personally, I noticed that the term has generated more negative emotions as I have become more privacy and productivity focused, I'm wondering if others have experienced the same thing.
As much as you try to discredit that survey, I trust the stackoverflow survey much more than your anecdotal evidence of windows demise. That survey outlined the methodology used to arrive at their results. You, on the other hand, haven't even stated where you live, or how many companies you've visited, over what time period, to reach the honestly quite absurd conclusion that windows is dead.
I've been thinking about a Teddy successor (which I suppose needs to be called "Taft").

Teddy is very much 'of its time' (SSSE3) and there are a lot of new approaches that seem interesting (AVX512 of Skylake generation, VBMI, Sunny Cove's even bigger slate of instructions, ARM NEON, SVE).

I also have better ideas about followup confirm than I used to. There are also some prospect to pick a 'fragment' out of the whole string within Teddy or equivalent at a position not strictly at its suffix - this can even be done with ordering preserved if you are careful not to make fragment choices that allow o-o-o matches (only possible if strings overlap).

I might do a bit of work on this, but I'm a bit jaded on string matching and regex matching after 13 years.