skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a certain level of wealth people become unbiased.

Strongly disagree. Consider people like Gina Rinehart or various Russian oligarchs - their wealth is well into the billions yet they do not act as though they are above the system.

Bill Gates and other modern tech-billionaires are different to the rest insofar as they share a meritocratic ethos and didn't inherit their wealth (granted, many of them had privileged upbringings, but it's not fair to compare Gates' upbringing as the son of a highly successful lawyer to people like Rinehart).

And of course, the current US President - assuming we can believe his claims about how rich and successful he actually is.
Less inequality for sure.

Also, probably half of people who otherwise continued to earn money past the say, $10M mark (as you put it above) would just totally stop.

To some this would be really cool: you'd get more artists maybe, and fewer obstinate bankers that continue to plunder society. To others this may be bad if you think those people otherwise would have created value for society.
I simply ignored the first line and appreciated the rest of the response because it had good actionable information. I wish I had older mentors in engineering and CS when I was 20-35yrs to tell me their war stories and point me to promising areas of work.

This constant outrage at every perceived slight is a recent phenomenon of the Facebook/Twitter decade and it is suffocating.
Tax havens are a thing, and this doesn't seem like a fixable problem without some sort of draconian world government.
Yes, by missing the whole point you can make it simpler.

Social institutions seek stable states. These disadvantages become self-perpetuating in various ways, as my post lays out.
Please explain how lack of state income tax has anything to do with this problem or vis versa, how the state income tax revenue would actually contribute to fixing this problem? There are states with state income tax that has the same problem as Washington like California for an example.

More taxes does not automatically mean they go into fixing the core of the problem nor does it mean they'd fund the mental health program enough to address most of the problems.

Mental health is not a single cause of the homelessness problem that is "infecting" the west coast right now. For an example, medical bills could easily and have bankrupted people without actual mental problems. So, how would funding mental health facilities going to help these people have a home?
Confirming that Windows’ Terminal Services works the same way using the RDP protocol. I worked at an organisation several years ago that had WYSE thin terminals which connected to a Windows server over RDP. If you logged in at another machine it would connect to your exisiting session as-it-is. Even certain people with full PCs (like myself when I worked in a video editing role) would sometimes use a desktop RDP client to log into the system to do certain tasks cos it was sometimes faster than running natively. Pretty useful as you noted with the SunRays! Only downside was at the time many remote offices had poor ADSL connectivity and the head office had a rather limited bandwidth. When everyone was logged in and actively working the bandwidth of either end was usually maxed out to the point performance was sometimes very poor especially for certain remote offices. It didn’t help that the thin clients didn’t support all the applications that certain staff needed so it was both popular and very unpopular depending on what people roles were.
This article is pretty substanceless, but especially since it references Bill Gates, got me thinking- why is no one calling for a tax on intellectual property? The article implies that a lack of income tax is regressive, but it seems that the value of the monopoly on IP accrues to a tiny slice of the populace.
> "As a leader, you should cultivate an environment where employees feel safe to share heretical views, especially if they solve a problem or lead to a growth opportunity. And you can do the same in an interview process."

James Damore would like a word with you.
He's talking about the "extension of the franchise to women". That's giving them the vote. His literal thesis is "Freedom and Democracy aren't compatible anymore".
What do you recommend for aggregating and scraping the data? I’ve been working with PyCharm and BeautifulSoup4.

Also, any suggestions for the best ways to apply the data to a website if the data is being refreshed daily? I’ve been using csv files to pass the variables into a Wordpress theme / post but it seems like building something from scratch would be more efficient in the long term.
This headline does a disservice to his statement. He addressed the need to tax wealth, including generational wealth, as well as incomes. The nature of the latter will be contentious in WA given the fact that the area has a high COLA, is tech heavy, and that many of the workers here are 1st generation immigrants whose only source of stability and wealth is their income.
That doesn't hold up with browserify => webpack though. Webpack came after Browserify, offered more features, but it was a pain to configure and had no sane defaults. It was still widely adopted and was preferred over the older, much easier to configure browserify, because of its flexibility.
What? If you make income on ip you get taxed. This point is strange.
Another benefit is that the interviewer has a chance to learn a new uncommon truth. Perhaps something that can be invested in. I think Soros said he loved to find mistakes in his own thinking, especially if it was a mistake others were making, since he could then use that knowledge to invest.
This is a great lesson in "knowing your data" vs. "creating a model". The validity of the generated model is tainted by the GIGO principle. Said another way, modeling bad data will get you bad models.

I see this shockingly often in my professional life. A data scientist will spend days, weeks, or months building a "perfect" model which replicates unclean, biased, or bad data. And when they are done, it gets thrown away because it cannot solve any real world problem.
I worry that this is yet another reduction in degrees of user's freedom to tweak, tune and adjust FF. Back when FF killed all XUL extensions, it lost one of its most uniquely valuable propositions. Yes, the change was required to make the browser more secure but at the time we were assured that new APIs supporting the lost functionality would come. It's been nearly three years since the change was announced and the functionality of several of the most popular extensions (like Tab Mix Plus) are still impossible to implement in Firefox.

I strongly support the mission of the open web but as a heavy FF user I'm not happy with the prevailing attitude at Mozilla that seems either against user customization.
We’ve actually rewritten our watcher for Parcel 2 as a cross platform C++ module and it should be much more efficient. :) http://github.com/parcel-bundler/watcher
"A good answer is one that sparks a unique view of the world and shows the candidate doesn’t think like their peers. This signals that the candidate 1) thinks differently; 2) is open-minded, and 3) is brave enough to discuss an unpopular opinion."

try answering an unpopular opinion in PC BS companies like google,twitter,fb and others and youll get blacklisted.
It very well could have an impact; who knows? I guess my point is that I feel that UI design should include UX as part of its guiding principles. You don't build a UI just to build a UI -- you build it to be used (hence, UX). How can you have UI without UX? Why does it therefore need to be a separate role? Shouldn't UI designers, by definition, include UX as part of their design? If your response to this question is that a UX designer would guide the UX of an entire platform, I could buy that. But that is not typically how a UX designer's role is described to me.
I'm very near to giving up as well at page 78. I lost the perspective. Am I looking at the world through one character? Is time jumping around?

Before giving up I'm going to try to read one of those book summaries or an analysis to try to regain my footing.
Having moved from CA to WA I don't see how the lack of an income tax has negatively affected the services up here maybe if someone can explain what WA is lacking compared to states with an income tax
There is a difference between "the government" and "the state" (not US states, and may also refer to "the people").

It's not that the state is "entitled" to it any more than it's entitled to any other tax - but consider the state is responsible for society, economy and infrastructure: overall the state created value. Whereas what is the moral entitlement of someone who had the sheer fortitude to be born to someone who had amassed that much wealth?

And if the state gets a decent amount of income from estate-taxes and it meets its budget-goals and creates value through spending it - or even if it chooses to lower taxes on everyone else instead, then consider who is the real net recipient of the estate tax revenue? - everyone.
While I think this cycle is real, I feel Parcel has done a good job in general being very careful about becoming what they aimed to avoid. Sure, Parcel has some feature creep, but I’d say they have pretty much completely accomplished the goal of removing the need for complicated Webpack configs.

Is it practical? Apparently it’s practical enough that it can compile Monaco Editor, which can either use a fairly hefty Webpack config, or no config at all with Parcel.
At least read the beginning of the article.

> ”It was nearly two decades ago that my dad and I started calling for an increase in the federal estate tax and for an estate tax in our home state of Washington”
This is just "what's you're biggest weakness" for people who think they're interesting.
And Deadspin recently committed suicide too. All of these folks are just bad people. Gawker and all of its sister sites were/are stains on the world.
I like Bill, but I agree.

Notice how averse Bill was to Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax idea. That's a tax that would actually impact his bottom line.

Instead he supports an income tax -- which would effect working people the same way a wealth tax would effect him -- but would have almost no impact on his personal wealth.
"Diplomacy". Its all about deal making, negotiation, compromise, trust and betrayal. Nothing will teach you how the world actually works faster.

You tube Matt Colville diplomacy
> More and more these days, the provider is now part of the stack.

That's a mistake, which industry will eventually recognize if it hasn't already.
> The Thiel question is a great one because it reveals that most people hold conventional opinions and call them “heretical.”

Selecting a response that sounds "heretical" but is actually fairly mainstream sounds like exactly the sort of response you'd try to come up with in a job interview.

In other news, the famous interview question "what would you say is your greatest weakness" reveals that most people's greatest weakness is actually not very bad, and could even be spun as a positive.
Fun fact, the percentage of homeless in Seattle is the highest of major American cities, at ~1.68%.

For comparison, ~0.90% in SF, and ~1.45% in LA.
Note that this is the draft, and 6265bis-03 expired in October. While it's presumed that this proposal will be accepted and become the new standard, a single commit does not make the standard.
Yeah, you're right. Another person mentioned that I should edit the post to say that rich people can afford to be unbiased which was more inline with what I was trying to convey.

So a bit of a rewording here to make my point more clear:

"In this specific context, I believe what Bill Gates is saying about income tax is unbiased because he is so rich, he can afford to be unbiased."
New topic, Landing pages like notion.so that are blank with JS off

:)
And also ironic, given the subject matter of this particular article (contrarianism as empowering idea generator).

Once upon a time, similar thinkpieces extolled the virtues of asking candidates to introspect on their greatest weakness. How...original.

What avant garde, thought provoking questions will people in a decade ask as a reaction to present interviewing trends?

Actually I think that question is a candidate for its own answer, now that I think about it...this is like borrowing cocktail party discussion for interviewing.
I’m pretty opposed to any income tax.

Property tax makes sense, I’m essentially supporting my country / region through payment to protect said land.

Tax on goods crossing boarder makes sense, I have to pay for inspections and potentially for protection.

Tax on sale of good kind of makes sense, because again we need protection (likely equivalent to worth of good).

Income tax is this weird one because it seems like punishment for being productive. Arguably we are paying back society for being productive? But that seems odd given we are taxed for everything else.

I’m any case, my gripe here is no one should be pro tax IMO, maybe pro “free medical care”. But why would anyone call for taxes. Wealth redistribution already happens with estate tax and honestly (from what we’ve seen in history) wealth redistribution kind of happens automatically.
Although what I'm about to say doesn't justify his behaviour, but have you ever considered the following:

a) He's aware of his tone, but probably bald tired of reading stuff that can be (and in this case is) perceived as an attack (the blog post's title comes to mind) on his work and a bad benchmark/study/conclusion is used to justify it? (Now imagine enduring this throughout decades... Yeah, one has to have very thick skin to be in such a position--have you ever tried to be in his shoes for a moment?)

b) He has called himself names as well (In the past I've seriously been tempted to compile a list of such self-deprecation behaviour but it's ultimately pointless); and

c) We don't know what's going on in his life or maybe it's just how he is or maybe it's a cultural thing.

My point is: sure Linus can do better on how to react to criticism, but inexperienced people ought to refrain themselves from blaming other people's work--especially from vastly experienced ones.
Bill Gates really disappointed me with this post. Washington's lack of an income tax, and its relatively uniform tax structure means that everyone has "skin in the game" and the state has to be focused and efficient with its spending. California is a great example of the inefficacy of huge tax revenues - the quality of life and services in California is not that great, and definitely no better than Washington, despite aggressive taxation.
Yes, I might have phrased it better, but the intention was that at a younger age, you perhaps didn't yet have to upgrade a legacy projects with semi-obscure tooling where the original developers have long left; or have had to hack your code in a dirty way because the team leader might have read about e.g. an experimental frontend framework and a DB system that is in alpha status, but still orders the team to use it (to show the company that he/she is using cutting edge tech), so 80% of the time you're just figuring out how to get the system running instead of actually creating value for the project.

The first time it happened, I was like "it's fine, we can just rewrite modules A and B". As the years go by, I see it more and more. And now being a freelancer and having been in about about 15 projects, 1/3 greenfield and 2/3 legacy, I see a pattern.

Use the most appropriate tool for the task (taking into account not just the tech itself, but also the market, the maturity, possibility to find developers, etc), not the "hot tool of the day".
The key part here is he gets to decide who gets his money and how much.
He or she missed the entire point of the article.

> he proposes raising the estate tax, and closing certain loopholes “many wealthy people take advantage of.”
Arbitrarily? Either you don’t know the history of this case, or you’re misusing this word.
What if you couldn't pass anything on at all? What if the only way to guarantee a decent future for your kids is if you work to guarantee a future for everyone's kids?
There are already open source hardware and software available by the people at SoloKey. Both Nitrokey and SoloKey sell the tokens.
His statement should be considered in the context of the fact that WA has the most regressive tax system in this country (source: https://itep.org/washington/).
> To others this may be bad if you think those people otherwise would have created value for society

I have to wonder what percentage of people who are earning over $10M lifetime are adding anything substantial to society other than making the economy go up - which as we've seen lately is a crock anyway.

I also venture to bet that a deal percentage of those who are would continue to work, even if it's essentially 'for free', because they love what they're doing.
Will compilation to categories have an impact on biotech, more specifically on synthetic biology?
> why is no one calling for a tax on intellectual property?
This is an interesting idea that I haven't considered before. Do you know if anyone has looked into its feasibility?
I guess the Fourth Amendment doesn't protect you from capitalism.
*webauthn.io, I assume

EDIT: Disregard the rest of what I wrote here previously, I didn't realize it was Duo Labs's own website.
From your very first link, "but a minority of comments have been Islamophobic, leading a local rabbi to denounce “threatening and misleading” language that echoed historic antisemitism."

So basically, you said Jews care about whats inside the Eruv because a small minority (of jerks) who are outright denounced by rabbis, and the majority of Jews reject... must mean Jews are islamophobic and want to keep a mosque outside of an eruv...

My perception is that your making assumptions about many people and communities based on a few news stories about a few bad actors. There are layers of potential bias in these stories and even if you investigate further, it clearly doesnt support your contention.

Edit: I changed language from calling this hateful since I was wrong to make broad assumptions. The author is likely not hateful but rather making assumptions that I disagree with...much like I was. Hopefully we can both walk away from this exchange slightly more open minded.
Perens wrote both, so yeah, though OSI was just to make free software more corporate-friendly.
"With oil prices then near historic lows, oil refiners were desperate for dealers who could move more volume."

Isn't this zero sum? If one station doesn't sell the gasoline, another will, right? Why does the refiner care who sells it?
Yep, borderline hollywood celebrity nonsense, pretty sad indeed
https://rezi.io
This sort of defeatism is, unfortunately, as widespread as it is harmful and wrong.

Rich people do not have any magical powers. And while they have better resources to find workarounds or get a discount when caught, the law generally applies to them just as it does to anybody else.

With just a bit of political will, it would be rather easy to effectively levy such a tax. During the Obama administration, for example, offshore banking saw some drastic changes making it pretty much useless in many cases. Even Switzerland co-operates when you ask unfriendly enough.
First of all, is there any evidence that this question is predictive? Secondly, the article is celebrating this question (which certainly is creative and somewhat intriguing) in a way that seems to be weirdly inconsistent: you ask me about a heretical view I have. In favor of the question, let's assume that it's a view related to the industry/product/whatever I am supposed to work with. Now, if most people disagree with my view, how likely is it that you will agree? This assumes both you and I possess a secret truth. You, supposedly an influential business leader, want to keep this truth a secret, or fail to convince others of the truth. This just seems bogus. If I succeed at answering this question in a way you like, isn't it more likely that I make something up to cater to your inflated ego?
If there's no evidence that this question works, my line of reasoning is just as good as the one provided in the article.
I see it differently.

The distinction I would make is that even before Newton, people could make useful predictions about the trajectory of falling objects. My dog does it well, every time he catches a ball. He even seems to grok the effect of wind on a frisbee.

We have no way of predicting how a CNN will react to an input. GANs really illustrate this point. I think this is an important distinction.
Could you please elaborate on this a bit?

I’m an iOS developer who will soon have to maintain an Android version of one of my apps.

Does “a styled list view with a data adapter” exist on iOS? I don’t know what this is.

Thanks!
When I had a major health need about a decade ago, I went from MD to MD with no success for months. Eventually my family was desperate enough to pay out of pocket to see a NP with good recommendations. She listened, investigated options, and fixed me. Later on, for less serious needs, my experience with others was that NPs consistently delivered better care.
Sure. With Webpack you can find a Medium article that tells you how to install and configure a plugin, run into places where things changed because of major webpack versions and plugin ecosystem evolution, and after enough digging you might get it working.

In Parcel you include the rs file. Seriously.
Seattle's problems aren't magically going to go away with more money. In fact I would argue that the city has never had as much money as they do now, its just that they are squandering it away and wasting it on programs that bring misery to the taxpayers, and dont really help those that they are supposedly trying to help. Seattle needs a functional police force, strong enforcement of current laws and more jails.
Well, okay. Again, I'm not taking a position on this one, just saying that you two were arguing different points.
That's because businesses are dictatorships but government is a (bourgeois) democracy.
Firefox lets you enable software tokens, and disable USB tokens: in about:config, set

security.webauth.webauthn_enable_softtoken=true
security.webauth.webauthn_enable_usbtoken=false

then the registration will go through without needing a hardware token.
Just be aware, XForms is a fairly niche standard. I worked with XForms a bit in 2004 and had high hopes for it, but it never reached a critical mass in terms of adoption.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40325231/is-xforms-still...

Like most XML standards, it favors generality over simplicity. There are some indications that while this is good for complicated forms, it could be overkill for simple forms.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2014Oct/00...
Ok, it's mostly good old business sense in the context of application feature set uncertainty right ?

I understand it's tricky and can be overlooked or swallowed painfully though. Negotiation is a life critical skill.
Functioning RF power harvesting MCUs have been demonstrated for a number of years now. Obviously there are challenges when the state-of-the-art is pushed forward, but the claims don't seem far fetched.