skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are proposing that the taxes of someone who owns a house should be based on the ability of other people to buy it.

> Nothing could be more regressive than that. It is absolutely discriminatory and in no way equitable.

How so? The tax rate on a given house should be independent of who is living in it. Two people living in identical houses (in equivalent locations) should be paying identical taxes. That's obviously the fair approach.

> Living in the house you bought for yourself is clearly not ‘hoarding’.

It easily can be, if you're living in a bigger house than you need, or living in a prime job area when you're not working. Hoarding always means keeping hold of something you bought for yourself so there's no contradiction there.

> There is nothing discriminatory about basing taxes on the purchase price. If you buy now, you will benefit from prop 13 the same as anyone else.

I didn't have the opportunity to buy 40 years ago because I wasn't alive then. I didn't have the opportunity to buy 10 years ago because my parents weren't rich enough to pay my deposit. Prop 13 is very much age/class discrimination in practice.

> is a terrible idea for the development of the economy since it disincentivizes the development of productive industry in other less developed areas.

Subsidising development in cheap areas is just as distortionary and counterproductive as subsidizing development in expensive areas. The best taxes - and land value tax is well known among economists as the perfect tax - don't distort in either direction, leaving the free market to get on with efficient allocation.
I'll admit this gave me a good chuckle, but unions are very much a capitalist animal.
I am not assuming bad faith in individuals, I am assuming a mass influence from paid users.

This entire topic is based on proof of this.
Good Cube Hunting
> I think there is a self-centered entitled view around the USA which to me, seems out of control.

That's usually the argument used when Americans say they need a car, because they lack public transport. For people living in say Copenhagen it's completely possible to have children and not own a car.
I've been into _hinged_ dissections in woodworking for a while. This algorithm _isn't_ hinged, but it is cool to directly see the Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwain theorem in action.

Here's a video with more context!
https://youtu.be/ysV6iF3Rmjo
It certainly benefits Cloudflare by making any patent troll think twice before suing them, but to a lesser extent, it also benefits the entire tech industry:

Cloudflare set an example that anyone with similar resources can follow.

And Cloudflare shared many of the results of their work, including an extensive prior art portfolio. This can be useful to anyone who gets sued for these and possibly similar patents.

I really hope more companies will follow Cloudflare's example.
> Signing a petition, sending letters, calling journalists, and posting on Twitter are low effort and low risk activities(aka slacktivism) that even casual activists can carry out, and just because someone demands something doesn't mean that they actually care about the issue as much as the optics suggest

Agreed. It's safe protesting, aka virtue signaling. If you accept a paycheck from Google, you are inherently complicit in whatever course of action Google takes. It doesn't matter how much noise you make from the inside, until you are willing to walk out door, it's just talk.

IMO Google hasn't changed dramatically overnight. They have shown their hand in regards to ethical/moral lines for a long time.
> Roofs aren't designed to support the weight

A Surefly Octocopter is 1850 pounds; what does a large HVAC unit weigh? Surely a roof that's strong enough to support large HVAC units is strong enough to hold an Octocopter.
Ask HN: What should I learn for viable career in web dev?
After almost 8 years, I am trying to switch career from customer service to web dev. I am learning Python in weekends.

What should I learn for viable career in web dev?
Trello hits 50M users and bundles Butler (automation) for everyone
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ABC news had the Epstein story 3 years ago
Yeah. You know the universal moral truth, and nobody could possibly disagree with you; everyone who claims so is actually just an hypocritical sellout.
As a user I think they're a blight on the internet as a whole and in danger of changing the internet for the worse if unchecked.
I don't buy it. Bubble sort is the simplest, the most naive one, you don't even have to remember anything about it.

do
sorted = true
for i = 0 .. n-1:
if A[i] > A[i+1]:
A[i], A[i+1] = A[i+1], A[i]
sorted = false
while not sorted

That's already a perfectly valid bubble sort. You can then optimize it by noticing that after nth iterations nth elements will already be sorted, and you're done.

If you're trying to recall this algorithm from memory by comparing it with other sorting algorithms you've memorized, you're probably doing it wrong, because there's hardly a place for real world usage of bubble sort, so your memory of it is naturally going to fade away. The trick is - you don't even need to memorize it or recall any structure to fit it into. Just imagine an inefficiently bubbling array of numbers in your head and that's it.
The 1990s were not like the 1950s. Most of the 1990s were a depressing grunge-fueled flannel fest. Manufacturing jobs really started to accelerate out of the country as we signed a multitude of free trade deals. Funny how most people only remember the last three years or so, when the economy recovered and the internet kicked-in. I call this the post-Spice Girls period.

Inso far as the 1950s you just don't understand what it was like for that generation who went from sharing two room shacks as children to 1500 square foot houses. Going from ice boxes to refrigerators, from routinely not having enough to eat to shopping at supermarkets. It was truly miraculous and that fueled national optimism, expansion of manufacturing, and wildly enthusiastic futurism.

The fact that there were anti-miscegenation laws in effect in the 1950s does not detract at all from this age of miracles. Yes certainly condemn the laws they were terrible, but those laws were struck down, progress was made. That is what matters.

>> If 1% of the population is in abject slavery, in order to make the other 99% very happy, is that truly just? I would prefer to think I would be one of the ones who walks away from Le Guin's Omelas.

I never said the 1950s were America's most just age that is a completely different discussion.
It doesn’t produce better outcomes for the people you pull out of the system then get ignored and they don’t get the resources, access, or networking opportunities they need. That’s exactly what happened during segregation.
Indeed, and thanks for the info. Makes sense, definitely.

Basically just a layer of abstraction like in-game currency in virtual worlds, only this one has some 2.2b 'players' so the in-world PayPal is one hell of an easy way to transfer money?

That's much less sexy from a technological and social standpoint, but it might just be the simplest way to both reach a solution and seduce just enough blockchain lovers for the 'buzz' (best fueled by Controvery®).

When you think about it, people use items as secondary currency to exchange real-world money since forever and a day. E.g casino chips (physical), in-game assets ("virtual" but really we just mean software i.e. codified text, like we'd write score cards in tabletop RPG, or... computer punched cards). Colibra, fundamentally, would be just that...

So much ado about nothing if it turns out to be such a custodial abstraction. Now I expect Colibra lootboxes and gift shops in WhatsApp and Instagram! — once you've seen people spend hundreds on pixels in games, cosmetic shaders to embellish their avatar, you know there's no limit to human commerce. Probably Facebook's endgame with Libra if you ask me.
The "standard" (who defines the standard?) UK keyboard layout includes both ¦ and |.

Like most European keyboard layouts, there are several symbols available using AltGr, but only ¦ and € are printed on the keys. ¦ is AltGr+`.

¦ is even more useless than Shift+`, which gives ¬. At least I used ¬ when I was studying logic.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/why-is...
fwiw I looked up this paper because I was reading Brian Kernighan book, Understanding the Digital World (2017), and he quotes the first line of this paper in the first chapter of his book, and several times throughout his book (which is written as a layperson's guide to computers and the Internet).

This is how Kernighan describes the paper:

> The basic organization—with a processor, storage for instructions and data, and input and output devices—has been standard since the 1940s. It’s often called the von Neumann architecture , after John von Neumann, who described it in the 1946 paper quoted above. Though there is still debate over whether von Neumann gets too much credit for work done by others, the paper is so clear and insightful that it is well worth reading even today. For example, the quotation at the beginning of this chapter is the first sentence of the paper. Translated into today’s terminology, the CPU provides arithmetic and control, the RAM and disk are memory storage, and the keyboard, mouse and display interact with the human operator.

> ...The architecture of a computer—what the pieces are, what they do, and how they are connected to each other—has not changed since the 1940s. If von Neumann were to come back and examine one of today’s computers, I conjecture that he would be stunned by modern hardware but would find the architecture completely familiar.
I removed the previous comment and I'm deciding to boycott HackerNews. The culture is too far left for me and I refuse to support it.
There's a very fine line between "regulating an industry" and "picking winners". Codifying existing industry best practices as regulations tends to have the effect of entrenching existing institutions in that space, in proportion to how difficult compliance with those regulations is (either in complexity or cost).

There's another fine line between regulating desired outcomes vs. regulating _towards_ desired outcomes. Using regulations to "nudge" towards a social good often means that the market, wiggly customer that it is, uses that nudge to push in directions that are not the desired outcome, or that achieve the desired outcome only in a technical sense.

The negative examples are rampant; the good examples are harder to find, because a good regulation is nearly invisible. Take building codes as an example of good regulations, although if you've ever done a remodel or been involved in construction, you know that they're not _actually_ invisible. But for the most part they just make sure that buildings are safe and support certain common conventions that make future maintenance and upkeep a little easier. The goal of the regulations is to make sure that new construction adheres to certain standards of quality, and so that is what they do.
Really, nothing special in the whole thing or to write about. First off, to be clear, I'm no saint. I figured I'd align both making money and doing my part to lower CO2. I told my business partner to be on the look out for a cement/concrete manufacturing opportunity, year later we found one (who you know situation). I'm learning the industry first hand and researching how to lower emissions (really no good solutions out there for very good reasons). I never went to school to begin with. I don't feel like sucking up to academics for permission to do anything in my life. It's another business, so there's no real transition for me. Except I get to be outside more often and get dirty. I grew up poor and did a lot manual labor as a kid. So, it's nice not being glued to a computer or chair anymore. Way easier to stay in shape now.
Cloudflare didn't kill a million people, though. But I would definitely want to see them kill a million patents.
Dude what? Like its your reps fault...take your business elsewhere but don't be an asshat about it
people are like slowly boiling frogs,
google stopped not being evil a long time ago
You could think about hosting some ready-to-use-software such as https://mailcow.email/ on a VPS. That's an open source Mailserver solution based on docker. Some providers offer VPS with ~TB of storage for ballpark number 15€ (or $15) per month.

Of course you could also host this on a private raspberry in your home, basically for free... Especially if you only use the mail account for backup.
They don't have a profitable business, it is driving down prices not through any innovation just shit loads of investment. I can only guess the investors are expecting a return as per usual. So how the fuck is that going to happen?
Generally speaking you can file a trademark for whatever you want; you just have to show it is being actively used in the way you say it is being used.

That doesn’t mean the trademark will hold up under a challenge. But a challenge takes time and money, and a recurring theme in this story (and many like it) is that one party is way bigger and richer than the other. For a small business, it’s generally going to be way cheaper to just change their name than to take on a federal court case against a national company backed by private equity—even if they think they would win.
Yes, that'd be a better analogy. My point was that, even if you had the best reconstruction in the world, having to reconstruct from a degraded source is worse than working from a good source to begin with.
> My personal experience has been that a generic phrase in common use cannot be used as a trademark.

Have you never heard of, for example, Facebook?
I'm pretty sure the original meaning of "I can't even write bubble sort on a whiteboard" wasn't "I would accidentally write a more efficient algorithm instead" ;)
No, but people only started living a certain way(sprawling suburbs stereotypical of middle america) after the invention of the car.
That's my recollection as well although I can't prove it--and that's too long ago for Google Trends to be useful. In the US at least randonee also has a meaning distinct from backcountry cross country skiing in terms of equipment. I'm pretty sure I remember the outdoor group I'm a member of having backcountry (i.e. non-groomed trail) cross country skiing workshops going back to at least the 1990s.
> legal obligation for profit maximization

Not the law. https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/06/26/the-shareholder-v...
No, they post here but anonymous to hide from their own coworkers and possibly management. while some posts here may be hostile to their point of view they cannot directly affect their job like being identified by those who sjw at work.
Why you have to disable Smooth Scroll (Scroll Hijacking) from your website?
A... "rep"... is a company... "rep"resentative. I don't imagine the GP is saying he's going to call the rep nasty names, but it's good to let them know why he's taking his business elsewhere.
I liked WinXP -- possibly the last Windows I liked -- but if I remember correctly, the first thing power users did was de-XP-ify the GUI and switch it back to the classic, cleaner look :)
I will give you an example from two camps, whom I have family that are both infected by:

Republicans: (fox news) Illegals are taking over America and stealing your jobs!

Democrats: (cnn) Conservatives are hate filled racists who hate equality!

The same thing is happening online because this works with the masses.
I think the start problem of Libra was to go with the ideas that:
1. One globally _uniform_ payment system is needed/wanted/makes sense. (It doesn't make sense due to regulation, is not needed, as long as a non uniform system still can make cross area transactions reasonable fast. It is not wanted (by some) as it put consumers at additional risk wrt. data protection and international conflicts).
2. Blockchain makes sense and "fixes everything", somehow, magically

Sure the current payment systems have a lot of problems. But many come from complicated regulations which makes building such systems harder not incompetent bank IT. I fear a single company can't do to much here. Especially because banking software has to be reliable from the get-to-go.
well, you bought it.
You have to factor in the weight of the landing pad too
ask Zod
They prefer to point fingers at other industries and say that their money is dirty. What they forget is that tech is an enabler to other industries - not and end in itself.
The petition was signed by about 1,100 Googlers (from the article). Google has well over 100,000 full time employees so the number who signed represent around 1%
Thanks for the link. I found the article to be pretty convincing until I decided to check out the WaPo article the author references in this paragraph:

> Pyrethroid insecticides are supposedly low in toxicity to mammals and birds, but as the Washington Post has reported, it turns out they are highly toxic to most insects, including beneficial insects like honeybees; in fact they are considered far more harmful to bees than any neonic.

In the linked WaPo article, though, the only mention of "Pyrethroid" is this:

> Since the E.U. moratorium went into effect in 2014, farmers in England have struggled with increased pest pressure, Carreck said. Many have turned to pyrethroid pesticides, which have unknown consequences on bees and other beneficial insects. Pywell emphasized that if the E.U. continues the moratorium, we need to investigate what alternative pesticides are doing to bees.

:(
We called it backcountry skiing in the mid-90s. It was a common name. Euros probably called it randonnee. But out in Lake Tahoe, California, we called it playing in the backcountry, sometimes with touring, etc. Backcountry.com definitely didn't create the word.
So I guess when they sell their shares in Google, they will be donating that money to climate change...
AMP is a requirement to push your search ranking for Google searches. So it essentially can become a requirement and a mechanism to lock people into the eco system. I don't get why I shouldn't absolutely detest it.
>"making sure the API/interface I was going to use actually worked" was wasted time.

That's not how I interpret his statement at all. I think he's saying the specs changed, so writing the tests for the previous version of the specs was a waste of time.
It depends how you see it.
Thanks, didn't consider that angle and also that non-profit might be a nonsequiter.
Then it has multiple uses?
Google offers Volume pricing for the Geocoder service above 500,000 monthly requests.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/u...

The geocoding API is also the most expensive at $5/1000req normally.

I think this is the Geocoding code?

https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android/blob/8eeda8...
Employees want a say in the governance of the corporation. Most corporations have no mechanism for this leading to impromptu employee protests over the issue of the day.

To have more influence over the governance of a corporation, the employees could push for a bicameral governance structure. E.g., have the board of investors elected directors with the president/CEO running the company, but also create a second board, a board of employee elected directors. The employee elected directors are elected by the employees of the corporation (1 employee = 1 vote). In order for a resolution (e.g., setting c-suite compensation or identifying types of clients the company will not cater to) to pass, both the board of investor elected directors and the board of employee elected directors must pass the resolution.

A benefit to the c-suite of this style may be that the employee elected directors can provide better feedback about the concerns of the workers before the workers start protesting and come up with solutions that are acceptable to both sides.
I do have sane on my system. However, I found the interface very rudimentary.
It's not that cheap:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash#Costs

You may think 0.3% isn't much, but with razor-thin profit margins (e.g. groceries) it does make a difference.
100% agreed. There are something like 100k people who could be considered "googlers". You can find 100 or even 1000 people who believe in anything.
The cost in time alone of answering legal calls from the companies listed would make such a site untenable if run properly. And if not run properly it would be so rife with fake information (from disgruntles customers going too far, people trying to blackmail companies with the threat of bad reviews, and competitors crossing the line) so as to be of no real use.
The amounts to giving the advantage to fraudsters until something that doesn't exist is invented.

Blockchains are irrevocable and unalterable, which removes two useful tools (reversing and changing transactions), and replaces them with nothing workable.
Did or did you not create a new account solely to bash on Dr. Boaler?
When you make a oversea money transaction the banks take up to 20%. For every electronic transaction a bunch of middle-men takes a percentage. Maybe there need to be a payout for those that keep the system running? Like in Bitcoin mining ... But the thing is, transactions can be highly automated, with almost zero marginal cost (the cost of making yet a transaction when you already process millions per second). So the transaction fees for the middle-men is almost pure profit after a certain level. So there will be efforts to make sure any joint solution fails.
Don't Be Afraid to Be You
Hey, I just need a place to Rant. I kinda dumbed myself to make friends and now here it sits my senior year and it's like I'm missing so much and not on the path to graudate because my friends aren't I let my GPA sink to a 1.65. That's not good now I'm sitting here working my ass off. I never had a boyfriend (that
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There's an interesting lecture from a pretty well known teacher:

He expounds in this lecture about wanting to avoid politics in his work and in his daily life but then explains the realization that not only is it foolhardy to think that you can separate any part of your life from politics but that it is every single persons duty to overcome their self-bias, their selfish desire to not engage, and to make their life a positive contribution to the direction of human political evolution, regardless of what they egoistically want for themselves.

It comes down to political apathy being rooted in selfishness, which is the very devilish drive that leads to the need for politics in the first place.

Now people are going to project a negative meaning onto selfishness in this context, especially if they perceive this as calling them selfish (ie. if they don't want to engage in politics). I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with being selfish, it's just not workable, there's no integrity in it. Integrity meaning workability, like the integrity of spokes in a wheel. I'm not saying this is some moralistic character trait that makes someone bad for lack of it, just that it doesn't work when politics is ignored. It is interwoven into every aspect of our lives. Humanity is political.
I've been to the US once and the only thing I miss is Krispy Kremes. I haven't found a single other doughnut that is as good as theirs.
Doesn't it seem reasonable to believe that some are from trolls?
I hope that with the proliferation of TLDs this happens often enough that people get sick of it and we start enforcing the rule that generic words like mountain and road can't be trademarked. I'd prefer nothing, including Apple, get grandfathered in. Apple can go back to being Apple Computer or apple.com, whichever they prefer. I'd like the startup community to insist that startups like remote.com keep the .com in their name. Some companies, like hotels.com / hoteles.com still get it :)
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a perfect metaphor for software development