skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly why I think returning to an 80% top estate tax is fair, which is what we had in the US for the bulk of the 20th century [1]. It's only after Raegan that the rates dropped. And not surprisingly, that's exactly when wealth inequality started to skyrocket. IMO 80% on anything over the first $500K-1M indexed to inflation is totally reasonable.

Money in state pockets is de facto distributed to every citizen. Once it's in the state coffers, citizens can vote on its' use. You can't do that when Bezos' hypothetical idiot child has it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_State...
I am less likely to buy a Nest-branded device, now that it's owned by Google. Similarly, I won't buy a Ring device, now that it's owned by Amazon. Sadly, I'm sure folks with leanings like these are the tiny minority of customers, so the market probably won't feel the impact of this preference.

I do my best to support the companies that respect privacy, and I make sure my own startup's products give our customers the privacy that I would want for myself.

I wish there was a certification or something, sort of like b-corp, that could indicate that a product doesn't gather any personal data (as opposed to just being GDPR-compliant, which allows collection but imposes various processing/deletion requirements).
I agree. The Boulder Ruby meetup (which I help run) has what I'd consider to be a great community and the talks are definitely not ads.

But I could see how some of the meetups that I am a 'member' of but don't attend regularly could be vendor driven.
> so I'll give MBAs the benefit of the doubt

Why, that seems like a rather silly thing to give the benefit of the doubt on. Hiring someone into a high responsibility role based on education rather than experience and proven ability. I don't see why you would do that...

> I am an entirely different person after completing my MBA

ah.
Happened to my uncle and toyota put a brand new frame on a 10 year old truck for free.
If society could admit that this networking has value, instead of trying to awkwardly access it without naming it, I think we would all be a little saner. A person's social network -- particularly when they know billionaires -- is inherently valuable in and of itself. Even in more meritocratic engineering firms, being able to refer competent engineers is often financially rewarded.

So let the elite monetize their social networks and let us stop having to not point out they are blatantly bad at their proclaimed job.
How TruPanion Uses AI for Pet Insurance
Is growth adjusted for inflation here? I.E. is it real growth?

A 0.8% increase does not keep up with inflation, so that would already be a decline in real terms.

It seems like it does. The EU, US, and China are like 70% of global GDP. And if they're growing at 1.2%, 2.4%, and 6.1% respectively, I don't know how global growth could be only 0.8%. The rest of the world would need to be deep in the red.
Sears used to be quite literally the everything store. They even sold houses.

I thought amazon wasn’t quite there yet, and then I found this: https://www.amazon.com/ECOHOUSEMART-Laminated-friendly-Build...
Would giving my pin to someone with a very similar face mean that over time my phone would start to map their face as mine?
It’s not a technical problem it’s a political one (or really it’s a whole host of historical and current political problems).

One of 2 major parties in the US has made making it hard for people to vote a central strategy. This has happened in the past as well.
I guess I see it differently.

Without taking sides...

When an organization relies on goodwill and volunteers in order to function properly and then squanders said goodwill that seems to me to be a problem and potentially news worthy.

In the end though I suppose you are right. SO is as unlikely to backtrack on this course of action as Blizzard is on it's own PR issue.

I guess a different way to look at this might be to ask if protests are only newsworthy if they are likely to change behavior.
They have no idea:

>What would a post-meritocratic world look like? Markovits doesn’t know, and neither did Marx know what a post-capitalist world would be like. There will be less alienation and inauthenticity (as Marx believed, too); other than that, we can’t really imagine a post-meritocratic world, because the élite has made its own values everyone’s.

Really says everything you need to know about the article and the book. Taking a hard-line stance against merit as a value is foolish. You can argue the metrics are wrong or the game is rigged or that playing by the rules doesn't guarantee success, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater only guarantees more of the problems you're trying to fix.
J2EE reminds me of another blast from the past, a contract around the time for Java (Apache) Struts [1], boilerplate hell and not fun.

Fun fact: Java (Apache) Struts 2 [2] is a vulnerability mess. It was used by Equifax on the breach:

> Struts 2 has a history of critical security bugs, many tied to its use of OGNL technology; some vulnerabilities can lead to arbitrary code execution. In October 2017, it was reported that failure by Equifax to address a Struts 2 vulnerability advised in March 2017 was later exploited in the data breach that was disclosed by Equifax in September 2017. [2]

They probably went with Java EE because it was "secure", little did they know Struts would enter the game. Equifax I am sure treats their developers good by how often their software was updated /s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Struts_1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Struts_2
Because:

* Everybody knows they should have moved to Python 3 for over three major versions of Debian stable.

* Debian is not committed to keep legacy software running in perpituity in new versions.

* For Debian Buster they have already committed to supporting Python 2 until at least 2022 - and probably 2024 for LTS. They're already putting in the commitment!

* The next version of Debian stable will probably be released mid 2021 - long after Python 2's EOL of Jan 1.

* RHEL's Python 2 support amounts to life support at best.

* Keeping around legacy software takes precious volunteer time - which is all Debian has.
A floor of $500K-1M indexed to inflation will ensure the poor don't have to plan their estates at all. These don't have to be hard questions.
Many of these features appear very similar to Eero[1]. It's a clear battle against Eero/Amazon for market share.

If you're looking for simple rock-solid mesh WiFi, Eero is what you want.

[1] https://eero.com
An army of social workers raised in the same culture will on average do the same, and be much harder to correct once bias is identified.
Apple announces Beats Solo Pro headphones with noise canceling
That's a pretty strong allegation over something that is free. Voter registration costs the person registering nothing but time, and states make it as easy as possible to register. Anyone wanting to vote can register.
"Shitty people exist everywhere. You don't have the counterfactual to know if those bosses would be even worse without an MBA"

Not at all what I was saying, but since you brought it up: MBA or not, I'd expect the outcome of someone with zero real-world experience being elevated to a position of making executive decisions would be universally shite.

Yes, it's entirely to do with HR processes, but nonetheless the reason MBA programs exist at all is because they offer students the outcomes that they do - outcomes that are entirely unwarranted based on any evidence that currently exists.
Maybe this? https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=h_ql_prod_mt_dbms
I'm in the quant side of finance, sellside. His/her numbers check with my experience and knowledge
I used to work in that industry.

Sears had no manufacturing, so they contracted it out. I believe the design was their own, but I'm not positive. Whirlpool was commonly the manufacturer, though it varies by year. Other manufacturers could offer a lower price (attractive for Sears) but had other issues, so the contract commonly went back to Whirlpool.
One that gets high, trashes the room, drives an expensive car into the hotel swimming pool, and breaks up the band to release a mediocre solo project, then has to go back to touring with the band when the money runs out.
I've switched my default browser search engine to DDG, but I still find myself missing Google results. I miss those knowledge graph results (or whatever Google calls those sidebar boxes).

Also, I've found that DDG cannot consistently display a weather forecast widget for the query "[zip code] weather". Sometimes it will show a weather forecast, and other times it will not display it--very frustrating. Any idea why? Even just refreshing the results will switch to displaying the weather widget, which leads me to think it's either a bug (I'm in Firefox), or they don't actually have the data for my zip code and are going to fetch it after I make my request?
>When you find the time, which can be difficult when you are working a job, try forcing yourself into social interactions. For example, chatting with people at cafe or at the train station, volunteering, and meetups.

I like this advice. I just don't like following through with it because 1) I feel like a creep 2) I can't really tell if people are bothered by me and don't want to inconvenience them 3) I'm afraid I will say something wrong and the whole experience will bite me in the ass, so it's safer to do nothing.
uuugh. was just about to do some testing
$ rustup component list | grep installed
cargo-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (installed)
rust-docs-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (installed)
rust-std-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (installed)
rustc-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (installed)
rustfmt-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (installed)
$ find ~/.cargo -type f | wc -l
8699

8K files... So 1 to 2 orders of magnitude less than any given frontend node_modules folder. Pretty reasonable actually.
I love these films and noticed their conspicuous absence from purchase from streaming services. Then I found a whole bin of Hayao Miyazaki films for $5 each at Walmart.
My favourite conspiracy: you only know you have to register to vote if you are white.
Florida also does easy opt in voting (checkbox) with most DMV requests now too (not sure how long that’s been a thing).
Relating to my other comment in this thread, when you used telemetry at Mozilla did you make or violate the default assumption of user equality? Were all users given equal weight, or were socially influential power users given a greater weight?
S4 doesn't use Oracle, Commerce doesn't use Oracle. Some of the acquisitions still do because nobody wanted to free up cash.
Big questions here about how they managed to stay off the radar for such a long time given that we have mandatory education and a pretty good system to collect taxes.
This paragraph captures what I think is the most worthwhile substance in the article:

> “The greater the inequality, the greater the impact on opportunity,” Fishkin said. “There’s a self-fulfilling class anxiety among the middle- and upper-middle class because they sense that the spaces are scarce now. There are fewer secure jobs. And the scarcer they are, the more valuable they are.”

But in my opinion, it's a bit much to call "class anxiety" a self-fulfilling prophecy for middle-class people, since most of what we're seeing economically is due to the decisions of those in power -- either government or corporate (i.e. not the middle class) -- especially around international trade and outsourcing.
Will this be a primary source for hipster dog names in the next few years?
Let's say you're arrested (so fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, mug-shotted, etc) but then not charged or convicted.

Is there a way to get those records expunged?

(IMO the innocent—and maybe those who've served their sentence—ought to be able to do this.)
Localsnear.me – Minimalist, clean design app to find your next coffee shop
Not really. Remember that news story a few years ago about Trump's "voter fraud expert" being registered to vote in three states? These schemes were why he would not, in fact, have been able to vote in the two states he wasn't living in - his other two voter registrations had been suspended via purges like this one. I wouldn't be surprised if there were news headlines out there counting the registrations removed from him as votes suppressed by the Republicans too...
> Also, how is it hard to vote? Absentee ballots are totally easy to get.

Certain political factions put a lot of work into making it actively more difficult to use absentee ballots. For example: https://www.apnews.com/ae1c8f1af38f4b4fb0187553be7a6e72
Because generally it is very hard to commit voter fraud and adding an ID check does nothing but add an additional hoop for poor people to exercise their constitutional right.
Using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to Improve Cloud Security
What it sends to Google isn't telemetry. Why do you make that claim?
>Dogs were the preferred animal for the experiments because scientists felt dogs were well suited to endure long periods of inactivity.

Wow, 2 plus 2 really did equal 5 for Soviet apparatchiks!
> Our privacy, our right to anonymity in public

Who says these are rights? I agree free speech is a right, but who (legally) grants me the right to privacy and anonymity in public? Does me recognizing someone in public violate their right to anonymity?
Is "Amazon's Consumer Area" deliberately specific? That is, are they still using Oracle somewhere else? (Despite 75 petabytes being significant)

Edit: I did see "some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated". Curious if that's all that is left, globally, at AMZN.
Possibly not, but if they were trying to be nefarious, they shot themselves in the foot with transparency. More likely to be a mistake OR the conspiracy of a single individual.
It's been that way on Arch Linux for years, but I wouldn't expect most other platforms to make that switch for some time, if ever.
If you have a used audi and the mechanic comes back and tells you its the wiring harness, thats probably it for the car. Unless you like spending 3k to fix a 4k car.
You might suggest specific GCD mechanisms that might be usefully adopted by tokio.
Yeah that's true, but I consider it a feature and not a bug.

There was a rule in Google's style guide that said to only pass optional arguments with names, and required args without names. It basically enforced this separation while being slightly less flexible, because you can't have optional positional args or required named args.

Tens of millions of lines of code was written by thousands of programmers in that style, and it caused no problems at all. On the contrary it made code more consistent and readable.
Agreed, however those who arent intelligent repeat the same emotional responses over and over. Intelligence gives you the possibility of changing that, unintelligent dont have that possibility.
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
It's good to see Tor becoming more easily accessible to non-technical people.
Same thing is happening to all these retail chains who kept buying up physical real estate locations when the trend was clearly going against them. Sears had bad management for a long time and it clearly shows.
That second feature sounds really neat. I'd always wished Go had implemented something like this, even if just for numeric types.
I mean, that's largely what voter registration is - a database of every citizen's address.

The problem comes in when those addresses change. There's no requirement to inform your old state you left, so millions of inactive voters are left in the database. Generally there's a requirement to register in the new state (drivers license) within 30 days which is often missed, or not required for temporary moves like college students.

These purges do serve a legitimate purpose, but are often used as a political tool to alter turnouts.
So the utility bills are sufficient to jump through the hoops before the fact but not at the time of voting?
I've never followed up on any of these because I'm not currently interested in leaving the UK. But a quick search of my inbox shows Graz is where most of the work is, and the latest rate I can find in any of the emails is €70 per hour.

If I were to take on this work through my Ltd company it would translate to a salary equivalent of around £101,000 or $130,000 US. What you actually get out of it probably depends on your exact tax situation I guess!

Most of the work in Austria that comes my way seems to be embedded systems or kernel work, though one or two are Java related.
Dockerhub Is Down
It doesn't seem like a direct port, but it does use all the doc sets provided by Dash.
Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it?

One of the things I liked about meetup was that many (most?) groups were hosted on it, but I think what this has shown is that meetup had a kind of monopoly in that way (which wasn't good!)
By the way, if you loved Howl's Moving Castle, take a listen to the original novel on Audible.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Howls-Moving-Castle-Audiobook/B00...

An absolutely lovely performance and charming story...I may actually like it better than the film, though the film has a special place in my heart.
>As an adult, I'm expected to walk at a measured pace. There are times I'd want to just jump and start running but I can't, cos people would think I've gone mad

What are the chances you're ever going to see any of those people who'll 'think you're mad' on a daily basis, or even again at all and if you do how will them 'thinking you're mad' affect your life in any way?

Also, people are far too worried about what other people think of them to care how fast or slow you walk.
r/DarknetMarkets was banned because of the FOSTA-SESTA anti-sex "trafficking" bill. The government forced Reddit's hand on that.
> And yet, despite helming two failed ventures and having little work experience beyond an internship at a financial services company created to manage his father’s fortune, things seem to be working out for Zach Dell

I have a really hard time believing someone else's fortune means that I cannot also be fortunate. I find the premise of articles like this sad. It's riddled with overtones of jealously, mediocracy, and comparison (which is the thief of joy).
To add to that: It was a Kodak engineer that effectively invented the self-contained digital camera. Kodak would have been unanimous with digital photography had they recognized what they had. Unfortunately, their leadership was in charge of a chemical company, and as such, they failed miserably to capitalize.
That's not what the comment you're responding to said.
Did they purge eligible voters? My reading of the article was that they proposed purging voters, but got input from advocacy groups first. Did I misread it?
The mathematician's mic drop :-)
You are arguing from presumption of massive fraud. There's barely any fraud.

It's sort of ridiculous that some of your rejoinders are basic civics.
In the past year or so I feel like I've had to resort to bangs like !g more and more. It's like Boolean searches don't work with DDG anymore. Quotation marks in particular seem meaningless to it.
The FreeCodeCamp one is pitched as a self-hosted solution, which means it won't have a network of meetup groups like meetup.com does. If you have a big network of meetups yourself (like, say, FreeCodeCamp), then sure it works. If you're just a small meetup group, it'll be no better than just hoping people find your site on google as is.
in 20th century they called it fascism
Had to look it up as a reminder:

> Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"); the resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
Browser Fingerprinting: Explanation and Solutions
Wild guess: birthed at home and never reported.
it is discussed in the PEP

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/#alternative-spelli...
Did you use a bell curve to figure out if it's worth it -- on average -- or did you use a madelbrot curve? Unless you go to an elite school, and the tuition is cheaper than anywhere I'm aware of, you're either 1) banking on being on the good side of the curve, 2) imagining there's a gaussian distribution to salaries (which there isn't), 3) enrolled somewhere very elite or incredibly cheap, or 4) vastly underestimating how much you could be earning presently -- which if you got enrolled in an elite school, you probably could've gotten an elite job...
60GHz is much, much, much lower than any UV. (UVA is mainly responsible for skin aging (photoaging), and it's above visible light, and visible light starts at around 400 TeraHerz.)
I used to live in Switzerland, so maybe we can mention some of the downsides.

It's racist. Really racist. If you're white, no one's going to hassle you to see your papers. If you're not, keep them with you. Expect to meet hostility in shops and markets and get quoted different prices than white people. Those 25% immigrants the article mentions? Mostly European, and many of those aren't immigrants. They were born and raised in Switzerland, but are still considered immigrants.

It's rigid. I'm not sure I want my children going to school in a system where using the wrong color pen is penalized comparably to getting the answer wrong.
You can still do it automatically for a majority of voters though. Having to register should be the exception, not the norm.
And watch as IT companies move entire offices offshore, to Canada and India, resulting in mass layoffs in the US.
I've been using VSCode for C# daily for a year or two. I'm considering switching to a non-electron editor because of how slow and sluggish it is, including IntelliSense, refactoring, syntax highlighting and the latency and frame rate of actual rendering (huge drain on the battery if you have one). The editor doesn't (seem to) support language-integrated syntax highlighting, so no ambiguous language features get recognized and there's plenty of bugs (such as with around the C#7 ValueTuple syntax feature). The C# extension tends to freeze a couple of times a day. One feature that excels out of nowhere is the search functionality which greps entire folders almost instantly, probably because the functionality is delegated to a separate (native, I presume) process. JSON-with-schema-based configuration is something more software should have. The editor also starts pretty fast but most features are delegated to extensions which load (ultra)lazily and aren't usable for a few (5-30) seconds.
Again, you're assuming that hierarchies are a unique property of capitalism. I am arguing that they are an expected result of basic human behavior, regardless of how your economic or political system is organized. This is not a radical concept and there have been countless pages written on the subject (although I confess that the book that influenced me the most in this respect was science fiction, specifically "The Dispossessed" by Ursula LeGuin).
I'm a Software Engineer by trade but now run an interactive agency. I got a night MBA at a local state school (actually got tuition covered by my company) while still working as a Software Engineer and wondering if I wanted to stay on that path indefinitely.

Did my MBA qualify me to run a business? No but that being said I found a lot of what I was taught really valuable in providing a baseline of getting me past not knowing what I didn't know. Marketing and Accounting classes were really interesting and provided some value. Innovation classes also provided value.

Its a strange degree because of its broad nature it doesn't provide a singular skill (sans specialization) to lean into but it does provide a lot of valuable knowledge and while it's not something that will "get me a particular job I did find the experience valuable.