skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check your math. $16.9 billion * (29.2% - 21.5%) = $1.30 billion.

As to the additional revenues Buffett wants from the 236,883 richest households, if we assume the average of those households had taxable income of $5 million and if we raise their rates by 10% we get $118 billion.
living standards have improved despite the rich getting richer.

Citation needed. Please explain how the living standard in the US can have improved if real wages have fallen. Oh wait, the answer is an incredible increase in consumer debt. That seems to be working out.

Keep calm and carry on.
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How about Twitter? They made a product that couldn't scale, and are still doing OK.

A DB server with 256GB of RAM, 2 sockets, and multiple SSD drives can serve a lot of queries. Use that for posts, and a few slaves for reads / caching. It will cost something like $60k plus hosting fees and maintenance. But it will certainly serve 99% of web businesses as a db.

As long as your basic queries scale linearly (or maybe log-linearly), you can buy your way out of the kind of trouble most web companies would kill for.
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Each dot on the chart is a car.

Horizontal scale = mileage.

Vertical scale = price.

The size of a dot = year (newer = larger), plus I colored 2007 .. 2011 in different colors to find "fresh" cars quicker.

This is just some sample data from the last 24 hours, relatively cheap cars under $32,000 within 500 mile radius of NYC.
This guy kills me. He's more than welcome to write a big check to the US government. Until he does, you'll all forgive me when I consider him somewhat less than sincere in his desire to see more of his income go to the IRS.
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The something that clearly needed to be done was to make the perpetrators pay for the damages of their crimes, not the victims. If the US financial system collapsed, there would be a deflationary shock and the short term high unemployment associated with an economic realignment, but the country would be much healthier financially in the long term. Instead the crisis is simply being dragged out, with the inevitable day of reckoning certain to be much worse because of it.

The amount of money the US has pumped into its corrupt financial system is enough to put its entire population on welfare for years. A sane approach would have been to let the banks fail, let the markets tank, and ease the transition as needed with bottom-up debt relief and aid.
Most people wouldn't know what a .doc file is if their lives depended on it.

So take advantage of it and send them a .rtf file -- nobody has to know and you get excellent compatibility.
Potentially silly question: Why did we dig ditches and bury cable? Why didn't we dig ditches and bury pipes that you can snake cable out of and into as needed? This makes our Internet seem less like a problem of feasibility, and more like a complete engineering fuck-up.
I hope you didn't mean scalability when you wrote that.
Their price points are fine for enterprise customers, but I can't see smaller shops using this. There's definitely a hole in the market for a good load-testing service, but I see more a $50/month price point than $300/month.
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> Also, licencing costs. Why pay a rival company money when you can create your own engine in-house?

Because developing a AAA engine from scratch is a multi-million dollar enterprise at this point.

You actually need to develop your system faster than the leading edge so you can catch up. That's an expensive ask. Most companies arrive, after 2-5 years, with something that was as good as UDK or idTech n was ... years ago.

Paying the $500,000 or x% of revenues is often the fastest, cheapest way to get your game out.
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I think the murderers he's referring to are the BART police officers
Because if you hand a burglar the key to a home, he's far more likely to steal from that home than any other one, even if another had the door left wide open.
Man, I remember 10 years ago SQL injection was a thing for 14-year-old teenagers to waste time on. I guess they grew up and call themselves hackers these days. But, to be on topic, i really hope these people enjoy having their personal information displayed by a gang of internet criminals. Justice served!
>What he's saying by advocating tax raises is "I will pay more if I know that everyone else will also pay more."

No he isn't. He's saying precisely the opposite:

"I would leave rates for 99.7 percent of taxpayers unchanged and continue the current 2-percentage-point reduction in the employee contribution to the payroll tax...But for those making more than $1 million...I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more...I would suggest an additional increase in rate."
Please explain how the living standard in the US can have improved if real wages have fallen.

If by "real wages", you mean "wages adjusted for chained CPI" (this is what most people mean), the answer is because the basket of goods used to compute CPI has become larger.

I.e., consider the following scenario. In year 0, there is one good - food. A basket of food costs $100. In year 1, medicine is invented, and the cost of food goes up to $101. Inflation is 1%.

The basket of goods is modified to reflect the invention of medicine, and is now comprised of 50% food, 50% medicine. In year 2, the cost of medicine increases 10%, and food decreases by 2%. Chained CPI now reports an inflation rate of 3.45%. Is life worse in year 2 than in year 0? (This is a combined 2-year inflation rate of 4.5%.)

Of course not. In year 2, you are paying $99 for a basket of food. In year 0, you are paying $100 for food and Medicine doesn't exist.

I have yet to see anyone construct an inflation measurement based on a fixed basket of goods (which is held constant over the years) that shows real wages have gone down.
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Load testing is not a month-long event. Nobody does it 24/7 for 4 weeks straight. It's usually bursty for an hour or so of a day (aligned with a git push or continuous deployment), which bodes well for $1/hour http://blitz.io Heroku pricing.
Cold turkey from caffeine is hard, often involving lethargy and headaches for a few days.

But you can taper off. In my experience, tolerance/dependence can be reduced by acclimating to lower dosages without triggering the full withdrawal symptoms.

So when quitting, I've found it useful to progressively:

• substitute smaller coffees for larger

• mix in decaf grounds in growing proportion over several days

• substitute tea for coffee

• avoid caffeine between meals and have only one caffeinated drink at full meals

• get to just one drink in the morning and one to nurse all afternoon

• get to just one drink (usually tea) to nurse all day

After progressively less each day for a week or so, and reaching just a single cup-of-tea a day dosage, then cutting it off entirely becomes much easier, and no day of the process is like the worst day of cold turkey.
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I have not checked all the one-letter domains, but it seems that they are not available. Do we know why?
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Common sense tells us free markets cannot exist without enforceable property rights

More like "common sense tells us you are a patent attorney".

Google has a history of playing loosely with digital IP, but to pretend there is nothing more to this argument than Google pounding the table is either unbelievably myopic or downright disingenuous.
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One more thing. An m1.small instance on EC2 (on-demand pricing) will cost you around $60/month + bandwidth costs. So you need a multi-tenant load testing solution to amortize the costs and drive hourly price down, which is what we are doing.
I like the visualization. This could be a great way to visualize if you're getting a good deal or getting ripped off.

Four things:

1. I don't see a way to change my location. Without that, the tool is essentially useless to anyone but you.

2. It's not obvious what the colors or sizes of the dots represent.

3. Have you considered superimposing Kelly Blue Book info? That could add some interesting trend lines.

4. A blog post analyzing how well different brands retain their value could be a great way to drive traffic. I imagine their might actually be some money in adwords around used cars.
More is a relative term, for instance he's not being taxed out of a holiday, eating out one or two times a month, having enough food to support his family, etc.

The utility on that 7million is much lower for him than say 20k a year would be for someone making less than 100,000 a year.
Using government data, Robert L. Woodson calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.

http://mises.org/journals/jls/21_2/21_2_1.pdf
You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.

By this logic, we should undo the large increases in government spending since 2000 as well. Works for me.
Mint removed features about a year ago where you could do more granular filtering of transactions, and started pulling the description of transactions from different fields than they used to.

So for instance, it was impossible to filter my car from my mortgage as both were tagged FINANCIAL and rulesets wouldn't catch either.

There is a LONG running support thread about this (http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/use_statement_names...) and no response from anyone at Mint.

Lets be honest: Mint was a lead generation tool on top of Yodlee's backend. Great UX, horrible experience. I'm back to using Wells Fargo's web based tool, which is OK.
He's willing to pay more if everyone else at his income level pays more.
I've been very happy with my switch to Ledger (http://ledger-cli.org). Quickbooks was a blackhole to me. I was never entirely sure what was going on behind the scenes. Ledger has helped me _get_ accounting.
The Western capitalist dogma is that state-run economies like those of China are inherently inefficient. But it seems to me that more and more recent evidence suggests that it may be that the partisan gridlock of Western democracies, dominated by monied interests and their lobbies, is more detrimental.
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whois says:

Domain Name: A.COM
Registrar: RESERVED-INTERNET ASSIGNED NUMBERS AUTHORITY
Whois Server: whois.iana.org
Referral URL: http://res-dom.iana.org
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 29-dec-2010
Creation Date: 01-dec-1993
Expiration Date: 08-dec-2011

No idea why they'd be reserved though.
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What on earth are you talking about? Where did I or the article claim anything about amounts lent at any given time? A total of ~$16 trillion was secretly lent to failing financial institutions at extremely low rates over 3 years. That's just a fact and it's an enormous sum that dwarfs programs like TARP regardless of how the transactions were divided. If it provokes populist rage, maybe that's because it should.
This is about what you should expect from Forbes opinion pieces. They are almost always utter garbage. I've been thinking about contributing some shit of my own, and I do mean shit as I've got plenty of wrong opinions that I'd love to shout from a soapbox.

What bothers me is this garbage keeps getting to the front page.
When you start to think of any stream of numbers as a digital signal, a lot of the techniques become useful. For example, user interfaces provide a fairly high-resolution stream of quantifiable user events, like touch positions. Often you want to smooth these in specific ways. If you understand how a low-pass filter works, this is easy.
Given the ability to suggest things, users will always demand a faster horse, more sleep, more sex and to lose weight.

Basically its saying, don't solicit opinions because it all normalizes to "I want things to be better"
Funny how "intellectual property rights" got shortened to "property rights". Makes them easier to defend, I guess, since they're "just like physical property". They're not!
Since when is the US government a charity? Taxes are not optional.

Most major donors contribute to things they can put their name on like buildings (see Stanford campus). It's difficult for even most charities to cover operating costs (i.e. labor) with only donations. Most have to apply for grants or do lots of funny numbers to keep their administration costs (i.e. labor) low.
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I agree, obviously most nonprofits need to have a revenue model, because donations can't sustain you 100%. However I think the general point they were trying to make was that the model followed by many large nonprofits does more to treat the symptoms than solve the problem.

I do a lot of nonprofit work and I've become pretty disillusioned with many large organizations-I feel they tend simply give hand-outs rather than helping communities to become sustainable and self-sufficient and actually addressing the issues. Add to that the costs of overhead and management, etc. and I really feel like the most significant changes are going to come from the small groups motivated by their passion for helping and unburdened by the task of maintaining a large corporate revenue model. The change these groups affect might not be as far-reaching, but think their impact is greater.
They don't. Google 'rich state poor state red state blue state'
The Frontline story was very eerie. The other famous case is the West Memphis Three:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three

Who were jailed partly because of a police-coerced confession from one of the three. They are still in prison, but apparently close to getting a re-trial.

The case was made famous by the excellent HBO documentary 'Paradise Lost' - which is a must see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost:_The_Child_Murder...

They are lucky because their case has a high-profile because of the film - but there must be many, many other innocent people in prisons because of false confessions.

For example, many people believe that Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in Texas, was also innocent (he was also the subject of a Frontline story:

http://video.pbs.org/video/1618590505/

and a feature in the New Yorker:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_...
I have never tried this, but apparently you can set key binds in Word. See: http://emacsblog.org/2007/02/18/emacs-key-bindings-in-ms-wor...
Doubtful they are in production. I wouldn't be surprised if tooling and assembly prototyping were being worked on, but Apple wouldn't tie up it's production capacity with products that early; they would put that production space to work filling customer demand for current (or current + 1) products.
There are some active single-letter domains, e.g. http://x.org

See for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...
This guy must go through keyboards pretty quickly at the rate he uses scare quotes. It may be that there's an argument to be made against Google's stance on these issues, but it certainly isn't made in this trashy piece.
> Who pays what in taxes is really a diversion.

The "who" is actually pretty important.

Tax the working man more, and you'll discourage working. Tax the rich, and he might move to another country.

There are many ways to raise money for the state, and none is really "fair". There will always somebody who'll be screwed in some way.
Pretty cool, would be nice to be able to click right on the spot to the open a new tab with the cars.com page.

Would also be useful to change location.

Also to drill down by model / year. etc.

But for a week-end project, congrats.
Exhibit A would be the lack of societal collapse during the 90s, when government spending per-capita and as a percentage of GDP was significantly lower than today.
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I do like the design, from the screenshots!

- Did you hire someone to do the UI?

- If so does this person have a background in usability?

- Was the dashboard initially designed from the ground up with usability in mind?

Thanks!
Daryl
Don't be obtuse, the parent (and Warren Buffet) clearly meant others in his income bracket.
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I'd imagine it's used by migrant/long-hours workers because it's relatively cheap (for the given effect), and quite readily available.

It's even licenced by the FDA for certain conditions such as ADHD, and exogenous obesity[1].

I believe (although I can't find a direct citation to justify it at the moment) that it's considered to be more damaging than other amphetamines (both psychologically "meth psychosis", and physically (cardiovascular stress).

There are a number of drugs with similar(ish) properties,
although some of them are either illegal, or prescription only. Off the top of my head, there's Provigil (modafinil)[2], Khat (cathinone)[3], Coca leaves[4], and the various other non-caffeine forms of the xanthines (Yerba mate, Cocoa)[5].

In addition to those, there's the whole class of the stimulant Phenethylamines, (of which the * -amphetamines are a subset) although some of them have hallucinogenic effects which would limit their use as a performance enhancer.

The only one I would outright demonise is Methamphetamine, not necessarily purely due to the potential side effects, but due to the relative ease of (very poor quality) manufacture. This leads to a whole bunch of really nasty reaction side-products, on top of whatever cutting agents the distribution chain has added to maximise profits.

In any of these discussions, it's considered traditional to present Paul Erdős[6] as an example of productive amphetamine usage, so I will :)

On the topic of therapeutic index (therapeutic dose / ld50 dose), caffeine is probably one of the highest in my list above, with an LD50 of ~150mg/kg over a short period of time, and a productive dose being of the order of 100-1000mg/day depending on tolerance. Discounting time, that's a ratio of ~1/10.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Methamphetami...

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Modafinil

[3] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Khat

[4] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Coca#Traditio...

[5] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Xanthine

[6] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%9...
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Apple has no reason to buy a carrier as it has no reason to buy a power company in a country with frequent power outages.

Unless they have a magic way to make 3G/4g work for everybody and everywhere, they will just pick up all the consumer rage that at the moment AT&T and the likes are shielding away from them.
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The picture is already almost unusable while you have something like 3300 cars featured. Do you have any thought on how to deal with that problem?
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The US government is apparently better at spending money on health care than private industry, if Medicaid and Medicare are anything to go by.
I think your last sentence is painfully false. I don't think most people are OK with CEOs dodging taxes. I also don't think they have the slightest clue (I sure don't..) of what to do with it. These things are decided in the details (capital gains vs income in this case) that I think can very easily fly past most people. Then it comes down to rhetoric/politics, and no one ends up winning once it's at that point.

I also don't think that people are trying to vote away unions and benefits for teachers/schools, but unions/benefits for crappy teachers/schools. It's incredibly difficult for schools to get rid of bad teachers, and a decent number of people come into contact with it. This doesn't do anything for the other side of the equation — getting less bad teachers, but again, I don't think spite is the reason people vote against teachers unions.
Yeah, it's pretty busy with all of them together, but I assume that usually people want a specific brand (and often a specific model of that brand). I will add more filters soon - by year, location, model.
No, he is talking about restoring the 1992 rate onto the 2008 income, which was 90.9 billion NOT your 16.9 billion. So the increase would be about 7 billion.

from the article:
>In 1992, the top 400 had aggregate taxable income of $16.9 billion and paid federal taxes of 29.2 percent on that sum. In 2008, the aggregate income of the highest 400 had soared to $90.9 billion — a staggering $227.4 million on average — but the rate paid had fallen to 21.5 percent.
Why not? It's not like it's all or nothing. The taxes paid by the others today will be at least somewhat useful to the federal government before the billionaires pay their "fair share". If Buffet pitches in, it's just that much better for the federal government, and an example to set for his friends.
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"Please explain how the living standard in the US can have improved if real wages have fallen."

I cannot believe the ignorance of Ycombinator at times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...

Keep calm. Carry on.
No. Let me repeat that. It's not your money. You are not entitled to someone else's money by virtue of their mere presence in the country.

Want money? Work for it. Save it. Earn it.
Location and any other filters (particular makes/models or years or price ranges) would help with that.

A front door of a site like this could have a screen cap, filter and then some quick-to-click pre-filters (Toyota SUVs made after 2005, or station wagons under $8k, etc).
Do you work at FOX News or something?

Unnecessarily inflammatory remark.
More is not a relative term.

And no I am not talking utility, but cold hard cash numbers.
Why would cheap ladies put their clothing online?
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Was thinking about something more like those he was showing - individual, hang-up globes. Anything non-ugly (like those Target ones) is expensive.