skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of IP law for the consumer is in the work itself, which often would not exist but for the ability for its creator to profit from it.

Now as to taxing IP: property (wealth) just is not taxed right now, at least in the US and with the exception of land and/or buildings. There are reasons for and against that, and they pretty much apply to IP, too.

If some state decided to start taxing wealth, IP would be no exemption, although there are a few of specific difficulties with it. IP you created yourself is fiendishly difficult to evaluate, something that is easier if you just bought it, where the market-based price is assumed to be a good proxy for worth.
If I answer "That's a really dumb question!" am I being heretical or conventional?
It was! It grew from ~4% at the beginning to ~22% at the end.
These are not task runners. Make alone will give you about 2% of what you'll need to bundle a modern web app.
> If you have opinions you're reluctant to share among peers without wording it carefully, and you've spent a lot of time thinking very carefully about the topic, then there's a pretty good chance you're an interesting person to know.

Though we won't be able to make good on the bet, I would confidently wager a supermajority of people who fit that criteria are not particularly interesting to you, or any given individual for that matter.

In my experience, most people who spend a long time thinking about their controversial beliefs aren't especially insightful or interesting to those who disagree with them. For low hanging fruit we can just look at politics. But even beyond that, the universe of controversial ideas is so vast that it's unlikely a person's given muse will be compelling or insightful to other people.
on a related note, I find very few things more predictive in how much I'm going to like a person than the side they take in thiel v gawker.
Hmmph. Seems like they're starting to actually pay more attention, but I'm noticing a few patterns in the problems they're finding.

A) Overoptimism in terms of estimation of likelihood.

B) Lack of attention to 2nd order effects of modifications (grinding down a panel on the engine compromising a lightning protection material)

C) Still not seeing the QC I'd expect If they are just now finding out about rotor weaknesses.

Also, as I recall, there was some concern over whether or not the nacelle would even contain a thrown blade a while ago. I don't remember hearing anything on a resolution to that, or am I misremembering?
Xkcd Chesscoaster
You still need to initialize inner structures and buffers. Cache allows to avoid that.
Now stop that - Do you honestly (imagine I'm sat across the table from you, giving you a hard look) think I was trying in any sense to "devalue/mitigate/desensitize rape"?

And don't you even try arguing that your problem isn't directly with me, but your concern is that others reading my post might get the wrong end of it.
There’s obviously some sort of spectrum regarding these things. If you were forced to sit in front of a screen for 4 hours a day showing you horrifying content or extreme slogans or content for hours, I think there would be no question that doing that is not good for your mental health. (Think of the anxiety reported by social media content screeners)

News isn’t that, but where does it lie on the spectrum? I’m not saying I have proof, just presenting conjecture, and I’d love to read about research in this area.
Having an unpopular opinion that's also backed up well is rare in the information age. If a view has evidence to support it, that evidence is available to everyone and there will undoubtedly be communities that support it.

Folks with heretical views tend to either have rare knowledge or to be wrong.
Lots of them on https://www.land-book.com are great.
Not a single original idea in the article. Just repackage ideas hoping for clicks. Well said.
Can the configuration have strong types (via TypeScript or similar) pretty pretty please? One of my main frustrations with webpack is the undocumented, unpredictable, unspecified config file format that seems to have no rhyme or reason, which you must often change with every new plugin you add.
Relational: Jennifer Widom's Stanford MOOC is often highly recommended.

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou...
>Anyone who can write code can write tests and anyone who can write tests can writes tests before they code. It's trivial.

It's also trivial to create an absolutely brittle mess of a test suite. Building a solid, performant and reliable test suite is an art that, in my experience, the vast majority of devs do not seem to have much skill in.
it is absolutely an anti-pattern

It depends on your use case. Not everyone needs the kind of granularity that comes with the usual directory listing.

For me, the older the file, the less granular I need the date shown. "Christmas Eve 2012" is a more useful date to me than "2012-12-25T01:42:09+00:00."
> yes, television shuts off the thinking part of your brain

Is there any scientific evidence to support that? At the MRI/brain activity level?
Sorry but Seattle's homeless issues are caused by poor city government and the ideologically skewed policies that are in place. Most homeless people are mostly from outside Seattle, not here. Most live permanently nomadic lifestyles, and many are drug addicts. I don't believe the claim that most homeless in the Seattle area are locals, since every single one I've ever spoken to has told me they are not from Washington. Similarly, when Seattle news crews interview homeless, they always proudly state that they came here from another state because they are welcomed here. The "point in time" survey that claims most homeless in Seattle are from the area is not rigorous because it relies on self-reporting (not verified background data), and local activists/organizations coach the homeless to claim they are long time locals on the survey to solicit sympathy and financial support.

The reason why Seattle attracts permanent nomads and drug addicts is simple. The city simply does not enforce laws and lets them do whatever they want. Even worse, it selectively enforces laws - if you are a law-abiding resident, you will be subject to the law in situations like parking enforcement, littering, environmental laws, and so on. For example, a car cannot be parked in a public parking spot for more than 72 hours and if you or I were to leave a car parked for that long, we'd have a ticket. Littering anywhere carries serious fines. And homeowners have to deal with a draconian set of codes that govern their ability to use property they own and pay property taxes on. But if you are homeless, you can get away with parking RVs permanently in public spots (taking away street parking from actual residents), you can trash up public and private lands, and you can leave needles/feces/trash in wetlands/greenbelts/wherever without consequence. Here's an example of differential enforcement of laws in Seattle, where a construction worker living in an RV was fined while other nearby RVs for "homeless" were not fined: https://mynorthwest.com/1046331/construction-worker-rv-ticke...

No one has a right to live wherever they want, at whatever price point they want, doing whatever job they want (or not working at all), and so on. People have to show personal responsibility for their choices (for example not trying that first hit of heroin), live within their means (instead of expecting to live in a highly-desirable and expensive location), and obey the laws (in support of the social contract). Taxing Seattle or Washington residents to support the lifestyles of those who don't do these things is punishing residents who play by the rules for those who don't. Instead, the city government needs to enforce the law strictly, and create conditions/consequences that disincentivize people from abusing the city's goodwill.
Do you hate JS the language or do you hate the ecosystem? JS gets a bad rap from folks that have never had a chance to master the language and do pure JS development, which is actually quite enjoyable.
Webauthn is not a 2fa API. It's an authentication API. One of its usecases is to enhance password login (2fa) but can also be used as a single factor.

That is up to the implementor.

The implementor can ask the browser for certain security features of the authentication device. E.g. is the authentication device the same device as where the authentication flow is happening; is there a biometric check on the device or a pin on the device (i.e. the second factor is there but device-local) who is the manufacturer of the device (with consent of the user; given this is privacy-sensirive info) etc. And the implementor can then make a decision whether a device is 'strong' enough for single factor auth. All this information is cryptographically attested by the device.

You can ignore all that and only use it as a second factor always though. That's totally up to you and how you use the authentication primitives that webauthn provides.
We’ve been taxing cigarettes at like 100% or something ridiculous for many years, yet just as many people die from tobacco-related cancers now (if not more) as did when cigarettes were much worse for you (no filters, more chemicals, etc.). Those taxes also did not help to alleviate any of the problems in the medical industry; or if they did, they were obviously offset by something else massive, since cancer healthcare expenditures have risen drastically since their inception.

Also, it’s easy to look at something like cigarettes which pretty much everybody would agree are a terrible idea, and say, “fine, tax em”, but what about when it’s sugar, then butter, then red meat, etc. Let people make their own choices instead, and just don’t put the onus on the rest of us to fix the problems of those choices. Banning smoking in public is acceptable because it’s no longer a choice that only affects yourself; it affects anyone near you in a really terrible way. But taxing cigarettes (or anything else) is no solution.
Just checked out. It's hilarious for sure.
Actually I was thinking about this recently (an unpopular opinion). I keep "fighting" with friends over "alternative medicine". I'm surprised at how many educated people (even with a scientific background) believe in alternative medicine and aren't aware of the many biases that mislead them...
I’m 100% against income tax or any other tax on workers. Close tax loopholes and make the billionaire and millionaire pay higher effective rates before you go after workers.

I want to see a higher capital gains tax directly tied to the value of your assets.
Washington doesn't have an income tax ... personal or corporate. Yep, it only has a sales tax. (That tax runs from 6% in rural areas to 10% in Seattle.)

It's a good and way-overdue idea ... however it affects Gates personally. That's just part of his proposal, and he's not the only wealthy WAtonian calling for more taxation.
I use Parcel by default in such projects.

Out of the box, with the default configuration, it already supports JSX, including hot-module reloading. So yes, it could be a replacement.
While it is a cycle, it isn’t necessarily a bad cycle. With this cycle there is constant innovation to meet changing needs; there is always some new product addressing the shortcomings of the incumbent competitor.
That last one would make an excellent Onion article.
How the World Got Better in 2019, in Charts
See that’s the kind of information I want to surface in an interview: candidate thinks C++ doesn’t have random-access iteration. No hire.
Exactly!

According to the article, "most people think they are heretical, but are actually mainstream" -- that includes the interviewer!

Any candidate smart enough to have heretical beliefs is probably also smart enough to know that the beliefs are heretical because they are unpopular and voicing those opinions to someone who, by the odds, most likely isn't heretical, but thinks they are, can only be a negative for your hiring prospects.
Do you have any examples of a good book that will take me from intermediate to advanced? Most of the guides I’ve found online either assume you’re an absolute beginner or already quite advanced. I’m quite competent with SQL and relational databases, but nearly all of my experience is on Microsoft SQL server. I’ve heard postgresql has a lot of really cool functionality but I would really love a nice, professional, in-depth book that will help me get fully up to speed.
CHIP-8 is small enough to get familiar with and implement within a few days.

This makes it a great starting point for getting into things like virtual machines, emulation etc but also a great weekend project in and of itself (scope, specs, examples, …)
Thank you for bringing up how new Parcel is. It'll be interesting to see how we as an industry manage ten year old legacy projects built on top of nodejs/js.

You know, when there's a sudden request for a new feature in a project that's been ticking along for five years - and you need to install a development environment to add said feature - but the build system has been abandoned for three years...
He's saying that the extension of the franchise ultimately made libertarian policies less likely, but that's not the same as saying that women should not get to vote.

The U.S. is not even a democracy anyway, regardless of women's suffrage. We're a constitutional republic, with plenty of checks and balances to ensure freedom in addition to the popular vote. Democracy was never the be-all and end-all of policy making, and serious political scientists understand this.
Sorry, Bill Gates, you’re wrong about a WA income tax
I'm seeing people downvoting this, I suspect because "fascist" is an extremely strong and polarizing word. But c'mon, downvoters: Thiel is, in fact, literally arguing that democracy is bad because it gives people with critiques of capitalism a say in the way their country is run. Furthermore, by citing the 1920s specifically as the last good decade, he's arguing not against socialism as much as against mere limits on capitalism like we saw in the New Deal. Beyond that, he's specifically arguing that, as Monocasa says, giving women the right to vote was a bad idea because women as an entire voting bloc are more likely to want some measure of reform in capitalism.

Again, maybe you find Monocasa's language combative and unbecoming and it gives you the vapors. But Thiel is specifically arguing that democracy is bad because it can get in the way of capitalism, and it is not wild and crazy to describe that as a fundamentally fascist viewpoint.
I didn't say to not learn new tech, but just don't go deep-diving into it because some people think it's cool.

Parcel was something small and minimal and got the job done for me. I'm not dismissing all shiny new tech. After it was released, I waited a year until I felt I should use it in a project.

I liked it because it was easy to use, fast, covers 99% of my use cases, and in case it got abandoned, it should be easy to replace.
What is obtuse would be to make incredibly painful, sweeping changes to our economy and food supply based on a possibility, unfounded in fact.
Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)
The demise of the word "literal" is a sad development in an otherwise flourishing era.

Here is what he actually said:

> Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.
I don’t actually see evidence of that, but if you read my comment I pointed out that’s what estate tax is for.

Having come from a poorer family myself and now making a lot of money I find progressive income tax ridiculous. I have student loans, mortgage, etc. things the wealthy already don’t have.

Which is my point progressive income tax punished making money, not wealth already obtained.
That is the definition for convention over configuration. Zero Config means no configuration, more like what harp.js does.
Why wouldn't people be allowed the freedom to pass on whatever wealth they want? What if they choose to defer gratification and are working to support future generations? Shouldn't that be their individual choice? It seems arbitrary for the government to seize that.
Why not just use go?
The special challenges of project management under fixed-price contracts
Robert Taylor (Computer Scientist)
Which features do you like most, that makes it a great product?
> This constant outrage at every perceived slight is a recent phenomenon of the Facebook/Twitter decade and it is suffocating.

Frankly, the OP said something rude. It's not a "perceived slight". It was unnecessary, offensive, and presumptuous. Why shouldn't they be called out on their behavior? Congratulations on your ability to ignore the first sentence, but that doesn't excuse OP.
>Gawker reported on Weinstein at a time when other publications wouldn’t for fear of reprisal

They also created, hosted and pushed a "celebrity stalker map" for the express purposes of stalking people. There is a laundry list of reasons to have no sympathy for Gawker, and enough for many people to have wanted to see some comeuppance.

>We are not better off as a society when billionaires with histories of poor morality can arbitrarily destroy media companies.

We are better off when a company that goes too far, legally, faces ramifications for their actions. Even if the cause for those ramifications was less than pure; The motivations of the person who caused the action are kind of irrelevant to the action and result that occurred.

The worst part of this situation is not that Thiel funded someone else's lawsuit, but that access to justice required and requires that kind of funding. Not that Terry Bollea had his case handled without worry, but that everyone else does not.
Ask HN: What important truth do few people agree with you on?
I'm not sure why your comment was flagged / dead. It seems pertinent and on point.
Seeing as they hail from Norway, is it a spin-off of Nordic?
We'll never know exactly how the disciplinary process went down. But from Spiers' Medium post, it sounds like they tried to have meetings multiple times and she doubled down. If she told Google what she's telling the public, that she did nothing wrong and it was illegal for Google to stop her, that seems like a plenty good reason to fire her.
I read this a month or two ago and forgot all about it! Thanks for posting it! It has great advice.
After running postmortems at a couple of medium to large software enterprises for a while I'd say you'd likely find that it's a quite common although not everyday thing for a bad query to impact a significant number of users if not the whole site. I've seen this happen with people hand crafting queries, using ORMs, and with a NoSQL database (mongod). Most of the ones I remember were at least partly scale related. So maybe it doesn't happen so frequently if you don't have thousands of instances or more than hundreds of thousands to millions of users.
Doable and commercially available aren’t the same thing though
Thanks again for the info. Sounds like I have some more reading up to do on WebAuthn.
First, I work on Chime.

I agree that language-specific tools can seem like a funny choice. But, it's just really hard to support one language well. This is probably why jetbrains does what it does. Of course, they surely have a large shared base, but tooling customized for one language and environment can work well.

We haven't discounted the possibility of expanding to other languages, but the general editor market is so well served that specialized tools just seemed like a better fit for what we were trying to do.
Couldn't you say that any plant that orients itself towards the sun (e.g. sunflower) can detect light without eyes?
A Data Parallel APL Compiler on the GPU
Libertarians don't think voting should exist, so it seems compatible that one of them might think extending the franchise at all is bad. https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/libertarian-perspecti...
"Regressive tax" is simply a loaded pejorative for "uniform" or "fair" tax. Washington's tax system encourages taxpayers to actually consider what things they want to spend money on, since it is their own money that does it. A heavily graduated tax system (a "progressive" tax system) introduces moral hazards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard) because many voters would not be spending their own money.
Recommend ‘Designing data intensive applications’

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
Startup Learnings
This tends to provide more context by means of twitter comments. You can click the tweet under a particular quotation and see the discussion that happened underneath it.
My first day of Postgres experience is that the first query to fetch 1 record takes 5 seconds and subsequent queries take 50ms. There are a 1000 explanations as to why, but I have no idea which is correct. I hate Postgres. I heard it does JSON or something well.
Indeed unsurprising although the book is easy to read yet surprisingly deep in plot and making you think.
I'm not sure why it's been flagged either. For me, it shows it's been upvoted. Very strange behavior on HN.
I’m partial to https://reactfordataviz.com because it’s the best one I ever made and reaches 7th on Google for important keywords even tho it’s a sales page.

I like it because it loads fast, isn’t very designed, and focuses on decent copywriting instead of A/B testing quackery

And it converts well at an average of 50 cents per pageview.

Took about 4 years of customer research and conversations to arrive at that copy.
> If I succeed at answering this question in a way you like ... cater to your inflated ego.

That's why it's important to have a criteria ahead of time.

If I were asking the question, I would look/ask for:
* A non-trivial heretical view (think OO/FP, unit testing, etc., not some obscure language operator)
* A set of arguments to justify the heretical belief
* A set of objections to their heretical belief
* Counter-arguments to those objections
* Evidence-based and logical reasoning to the above
* Openness to counter-argument, willingness to debate the issue

I don't think it's a very good question to surprise someone with.
sched_yield means “yield to any thread if it’s easy to do so or do nothing”. That meaning fits the requirements of some algorithms, particularly if you call it a finite number of times before doing something more drastic like a blocking syscall (like futex wait, lock acquisition, whatever) that will block until the condition you’re waiting for is fulfilled.

Think of it as a speculative optimization on top of busy waiting, not as a way to control the scheduler.
If you have a Touch Bar MBP this works with Chrome and the Fingerprint Sensor out of the box. On iOS 13 you need a hardware token currently. MacOS Safari doesn't have support.
There's a reason it's the cornerstone of http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

Original thinking tends to be offensive. If you're right, you often can't go around saying you're right. You have to keep your thoughts to yourself. And if you have a scientific mind, you want to seek truths wherever they are.

If you get in the habit of actively trying to seek out radioactive truths, you'll stumble on some interesting ideas eventually. And I'd love to know anyone who genuinely makes it a habit (as opposed to doing it for social signaling).

You're right that the majority of people wouldn't be interested, because most people have deeply-held beliefs. Getting at original ideas requires a fluidity that often runs against natural instincts.