skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue I have with framing it as spending vs investing is that the main issue with capital gains revolves around the super rich, not people making $200k a year.

Sure, a tax rate difference might influence Sally or Frank to spend or save, but Warren Buffet is not going to go on a billion dollar spending spree rather than invest his money if the capital gains rate goes up 5%.

I guess my question is what would the super rich do with their money other than invest it?
Motorola wants patent royalties for XBox, Win7
Very cool. While I'm perfectly capable of setting up my own server and database, this seems like a great way to develop a few app ideas and outsource the backend until it proves to be a successful app.
Linkedin is completely embedded in my email experience, and they have Rapportive to thank for it. I suspect I'm not the only one, so it probably makes sense to keep the service running.
On the other hand, the opposite of live() is die(). Odd.
That's what I would have written...don't ask for more...it just makes you look not interested.
Ask HN Angels, Incubators: Why not invest in some lifestyle businesses? 
Ask HN Angels, Incubators: Why not invest in some lifestyle businesses?
I don't really see the problem here. At most it should be an update to their TOS and call it a day.
Ask HN: How do you choose your weekend projects?
Hi all,

I've been trying to come up with some kind of personal project for myself to do but quite honestly I'm hitting a wall - kind of like writer's block. I'm a 3rd year CS student so I have some programming experience, but nothing of the "make something from start to finish" kind. I've made small games in 24/48-hour competitions, and small things like a Boggle-solver or Tic-Tac-Toe to get comfortable in a new language, but I'm trying to think of something that's not a game nor a tiny project and that's harder. I know it's a big gap in my education and I want to cover it (I'm excited at the thought of developing something bigger, just having trouble thinking of what).

So, how do you choose what you code on your free time? Do you come up with your own projects? Do you contribute to open-source? Do you just make lots of small things? Or do you not have time for that sort of thing because you're working 24/7? (=P)
Why do you think they should disclose it? (I'm actually curious). The only users affected are those using their own affiliate links so it would have no effect on the vast majority of users.

It seems to me that companies are being asked to disclose more and more these days even when it doesn't really affect users and the company has no reason to disclose the information.
the submitter works for the submitted blog, thus it is not completely irrelevant.
Any idea what the "redirecting links" clause means for URL shorteners and other redirect-based services?
How's WebP compared to ImageZero?

https://kdepepo.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/fast-lossless-color...
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I disagree to some extant. I've been a power use for more than a decade and some of the default ways of doing things are just wrong. It is true though that people are reluctant to learn about what vim itself already provides - more people should use the fantastic help system (once you know the basics) rather than rely on blog posts for everything, too.
From the article:

> Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

I bet GMail and Windows do iterate and fail fast, internally. They probably often do fix bugs within 5 minutes, and have continuous integration tests running at least hourly. This is "the right way", and yes, it's hard. You don't see the fast iterations in the final product, but that doesn't meant they're not there.
Umm, hell yes I'd hire them. And so would any major software engineering company in the world.

You seriously think that this is out of the ordinary or unusual? How many huge privacy fiascos has Facebook had? And yet, they're about to IPO for $100 billion.

The only group who really cares about this is on HN. In a week, most of us will have moved on to the next big drama. In a year, no one will remember this at all.

The memory of the voting population is short, but the memory of the Internet is so infinitesimal as to almost not exist at all. And truthfully, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
No wunderlist fans here. Available on every system. Multiple List. It does pretty much everything you need in a simple TODO list manager.
The article is almost 1000 words, but the title of HN post is more than enough to describe what's going on.
Honestly, I like Eric but this is kind of a strange video. The core of what "5 whys" is is root cause analysis. He doesn't really explain this and then goes on to, if I'm understanding him correctly, say that every time you hit the same root cause, spend a small amount of time on the fix? Or address each of the "why's" individually?

There's also something of an assumption that the root cause always ends up as a human problem and not a technical one which is only sometimes the case.

This ends up turning a very powerful process and tool into being a very convoluted MBA speak on process and team dynamics.
Actually, it's very uncommon. Keep in mind, we have IRS data that shows the average rate paid by different groups, we know that most of the 1% is paying MUCH higher tax rates than the 99%. And should be make public policy based on the extremely rare edge cases, or the overwhelmingly common case?

Also, this debate really depends what you mean by "millionaires/billionaires". And "taxes". And "tax rates". And "working folk". Being a billionaire is a measure of wealth; your tax bracket is based on income in a single year. Are we talking about marginal rates or average rates? Federal income taxes? All federal taxes? All taxes? How do we impute the corporate income tax (knowing, as we do, that it is paid by both employees and investors)? How do we impute the corporate half of the payroll tax (ditto)? How should we handle cases where someone is in the "1%" for a single year due to the sale of a single large asset they've been working on for decades (family farm, small business, IPO, or the like)? Does it truly make sense that someone who makes $50k/year for 10 years, then sells his start-up for $100m should be in the same tax bracket in that 11th year as an investment banker who makes $100m/year every single year?

This is not an area with easy answers, and the tax code looks the way it does due to a long series of hard-fought struggles and difficult compromises. It's easy to look at Romney at say "he paid 14%", but it's less clear what rate is "right". Capital gains is fundamentally not normal income, and there's no reason it should be taxed at any given rate, much less whatever rate normal income would be taxed at. Some very socialist and egalitarian places have no capital gains tax at all. :)

Edit: My initial post had some silly errors of fact. Mike Ash was quite polite in pointing them out. :) Thanks.
Arrow keys are fine in insert mode but it sounds like you might be spending too much time in insert mode rather than considering normal to be the default mode. Do you use arrows in normal mode too?
>different types of money

That's where you're wrong. Different ways of getting it, but it is still USD.
Don't waste time worrying about how to succeed as an introvert. You'll find examples of successful communicators, entrepreneurs, leaders, and CEOs that are all introverts. I would write more about examples and experience, but back to point #1. Don't waste time worrying about how to succeed as an introvert.
You should not have been downvoted for your opinion on this, but I have to respectfully disagree. There MUST have been somebody at some point who mentioned that they were storing the details of non-users and making a massive database of connections without authorization, and as the CEO he must have been aware of this, and as the CEO he made a bad decision to go ahead and do it anyway.

He didn't even respond that they were checking your address book against their database for matches and then making those connections and dumping the rest of the data. He actually confirmed that they are storing non-user data in the hope of one-day making a connection. But if that was correct, the new user would make that connection when they signed up. You don't need two independent sources to make the connection through the address book.
Edit: that's in the FAQ https://www.reactos.org/en/about_userfaq.html#changegui

It's a Free, binary-compatible clone of WinNT. You can now run (old) Windows apps with no license fees paid to MS, and without any proprietary code on your system.

edit2: did I mention it's more secure by default than a normal desktop Windows install? WinNT has some pretty nice security mechanisms, if you use them right. As a trivial example, users aren't admins by default.
Excellent! Do you have any resources for helping yourself become more "visible"?
This is really cool. I've been thinking of building something like this, and it's great to see a DIY writeup - last time I checked, there wasn't much out there.
I feel that way about Slate and many of Gawker's properties.

Buffer bloat isn't the bane of the Internet, insipid Top-10 lists are!
We're off the original topic now, but I've never understood why the US doesn't enact a dividend imputation scheme, which nicely solves the double taxation problem on dividend income by giving the recipient of a dividend a credit for the corporate tax paid on that dividend. Australia has such a system.
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I do a fair amount of interviewing and get thank you emails for about 25% of the in-person interviews. It makes me think more highly of the candidate's manners, but I wouldn't let it affect my decision to proceed or not. (In the case where someone sends requested or obviously relevant followup information, or realizes they bombed some portion of the interview and sends a followup face-palm and correction, those are significantly better than silence.)

For a phone interview, I would definitely think it "noise", but it wouldn't be a significantly negative signal.

I'd tell your recruiter that you're looking forward to hearing from the company (assuming that's the case), but that you will reserve any thank-you emails for later in the process.
I think people are mostly concerned with the unfairness of the tax system.

If you put your time into something you're equally investing as if you put your capital into something, why if you put mere capital which is recoverable vs. time which is an unrecoverable good should you be taxed at a lower rate?

Employees invest their time into businesses and in return for their investment are paid a salary.

Every time money changes hands tax is paid. If I take my money and invest it into a latte then the coffee shop has to pay taxes on the money received from my investment. Worse yet, if I forget to drink my latte and it gets cold I can't deduct the depreciated value of the asset as a loss.

The only way in which the capital gains rate makes sense is if governments hold labour hostage (silly immigration policies) while capital is allowed to move freely.

I don't disagree with you that raising taxes is generally a bad idea, primarily because the government doesn't invest it wisely, but I do think that having differing rates for labour and capital is silly, especially when a person who invests time is guaranteed to lose their original investment, their time, whereas a capitalist merely has a chance of losing their investment.
Belgium and Netherlands "kick Ass" by not having many designers?????

I think the most appropriate question was the "top ten" with followers. No one cares if there are many designers in a country or how many people live there.....just who's the best. So I partially agree...with Netherlands (yes), UK, and US.
This is extremely useful, thanks!

Just signed up for http://www.codemeet.com/ I'm isaacs on there, and my email is in my profile (and all over the web) if you think it can be helpful for node.js things.
Put the stock browser into fullscreen mode and you see the button was totally useless. You just scroll up a bit for the address/menu/tab buttons to show.
This was an Op-ed by Cary Sherman, head of RIAA, and not a regular NY Times staffer. His opinion, is of course, a bit skewed.
md5(@"Your Contact Data"); Would have saved a lot of public relations issues in the case. I don't understand how they could overlook something so simple.
I can attest to that... I've kept my consulting gig instead of moving to a startup because it's 40 hours capped and a much better lifestyle.

martincmartin - I'm sure the ORCL check this year didn't hurt ;)
Might be impossible, really?

Mitt Romney paid about 14% last year. I paid more than that, as did a whole lot of other common folk. That seems fairly conclusive that it's not impossible.

We can just look at income in a single year for the comparisons. Total wealth isn't really relevant to the question, aside from the fact that it's strongly correlated with yearly income.

Your other points are astute, but I'm just pointing out that this phenomenon does in fact happen, and isn't even disputed. Only whether and how to change things is in question.
Your first point is silly, so I'll skip it.

Logos are protected by both trademark and copyright in many cases. Judging a work to be too trivial for copyright is a job for an actual lawyer.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#title
I didn't realise it was such a big deal. Any chance you could spell out what the key benefits are to you? I use LinkedIn to read up (i.e. spy) on people quite a bit if I am going to be working with them but I don't know why this would be useful for people who are already emailing me.
Hi, aceex from Reddit here.

Instead of "producer" and "consumer" I could have said "force of nature" and "hopeless stimulation junkie".

Whether or not you make anything of value to exchange with other people is not really important. How much you're consuming is also pretty irrelevant. The important thing is that your brain is in "make things happen" mode, not "stimulate me" mode.

I wasn't writing about economics, I wrote about you getting what you really want out of today and not having your attention and focus stolen.
C'mon. The logo on the page was the Flickr logo with "aft" appended. If you made a drink in a red can with the Coca-Cola logo plus a couple extra letters on the end you'd get legitimately sued into oblivion too.
It is definitely not a parody. It's a feature of a competing product.
>I rarely have a need to move one or two spaces/lines outside of INSERT mode (instead, opting to traverse my code via line number, [], g/G, w/b, A/I, or marks).
The second they launch a stable version I can use to replace windows XP embedded will be a real milestone.

Lots of plant touchscreens and industrial computers run a stripped down version of windows NT 3.51, win2k or XP (XP embedded is just a stripped down XP) which dont need any bells and whistles, just a solid network connection and the ability to run the win32 api. I have over 30 of these panel pc's around various factories running touch screen apps in place of explorer.exe so the desktop is not important to me and the demand is expanding all the time.

Thanks for the time and effort lads, I'm downloading it now to give it a go :-)
Yey ! I just wrote a server on top of Netty and figured out how to use SPDY to boost my performance but couldn't find SPDY implementation for Netty. Thank you twitter !
I wonder if this use of address book information explains the sudden spike in Path's growth since their recent relaunch?
I'm with you on the communication issue. After all, no one is 100% introverted. That term has also become misunderstood and misused.

Additionally, there tend to be other negative qualities associated with introverts. Just as there are negative qualities for extroverts.

One thing I did recently that's helped me deal with being an 'introvert' was to take improv comedy classes. It's helped me significantly to overcome shyness and communicating with people.

Communicating is a like a muscle, you need to step out of your comfort zone and just do it. Staying in the 'cave' too much at a time isn't good. It's sorta like atrophy. Just go out once a week and socialize or go to lunch with a co-worker.
> Any time I've ever integrated with a 3rd party API and come close to reaching their limit I've gotten friendly emails from devs asking if they can be of assistance.

They didn't "come close", they blew through it in what sounds like minutes.
To your points:

1) Sure, but effectively all income is multiple-taxed. Suppose I run my own business, and am paid by a consumer with their money that they earned as wages. If I turn a profit, I then pay taxes on that income. By this logic, I shouldn't have to pay taxes, because the consumer that paid me was using after-tax dollars, so taxing my income from them would be double-taxation, right? The double-taxation argument is simply not very-compelling because there's no one true wellspring of money; if there were, you'd just tax the source and call it good. But reality is way more complicated than that, and money is always taxed multiple times as it moves around the economy.

2) I don't think you're correct about there being empirical evidence of capital gains rates affecting those things. For example, see http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/01/19/capital_gains.... As far as I know, there's no credible empirical evidence that cutting capital gains rates deterministically helps investment or saving, or that raising them hurts those things. Sure, you can pick and choose examples with those outcomes, but you can also find plenty of empirical examples where those effects didn't happen. It's totally misleading to act like that's a settled question in economics.

3) He's paying more in taxes because he ended up earning more money. So yes, he deserves to pay more in taxes than Sally, because he earned more money. Otherwise, you could easily say "Sally decided to work part time and made less money than Fred. Does hard-working Fred really deserve to pay MORE in taxes than Sally?" Yes, yes he does; unless you really think that a poll tax is a good idea, even a flat-tax advocate would have to argue that someone who makes more money should pay more in taxes.
They're smart -- several organisations I know of stopped contributing upstream to projects once they went GPLv3. They're now looking for BSD-licensed alternatives and plan to contribute to them instead.

A few game development projects I follow also switched from LGPL licenses to BSD licenses (and saw contributions go up!). (See SDL, Ogre3D, etc.)

It's actually kind of refreshing to see many people going back to the basics.
Ctrl-Z to actually suspend vi is fine. (Quick shell commands can be done in vi of course, but sometimes when you need a shell, you really need a shell.) It was the recursive opening of vi I was saying is a bad idea.
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Don't see why they should/would disclose this to users. Does not affect the end users experience unless they are in fact adding their own affiliate links. I find the point the author made about bloggers disclosing the use of affiliate links a stretch. I can see his point but pinterest is not a blog, they're a business and want to/should produce revenue.
I suspect what he means is that the “root cause” is not a single, binary thing that is simply “fixed or not fixed”.

In the training example, it’s quite possible that the first hour of training will cover 80% of the problem, with subsequent hours offering diminishing returns. The point is to discover it while avoiding waste.

He’s acknowledging that “root cause” is a club that can be used for bureaucracy; handled wrongly it looks a lot like premature optimization or CYA. What he’s describing is what I consider empiricism.
Yes, good point. And regarding state attorney generals, how is this not data theft? It seems to go far beyond privacy issues, the program is in every way that matters a trojan that steals personal data. I can't see how it could not be considered so given the details of what was discovered.
Typing efficiency I'm "meh" on; don't get in my way, but I'm not too worried about it. I've tried tons of autocomplete of every kind and tend to just turn it all off. Navigational efficiency is very important, though. If I want to look at a bit of code, fractions of a second count if I'm going to stay in flow.

This is very much personal opinion, but what I found with autocomplete is the time I'm typing the code I'm also using to think about it. Even on those surprisingly rare occasions where I manage to set up autocomplete that is both fast and accurate, it still didn't speed me up much. If I'm thinking so far ahead of my typing that I'm actually frustrated about the typing, that is typically an absolutely enormous code smell that something is very wrong, and I need to address the redundancy immediately.
The first half of the video served as a good example of how the 5 Whys can lead to the root cause. That doesn't mean the other Whys should not be looked at as they were an issue at some level.

The second half was a little more confusing with proportion of time in solving the problem. I understood the solution but now how it directly related to using the 5 whys analysis.
Iterate rapidly to test environments, have more controlled releases to production.

You can also use techniques like feature switches to roll out experimental features to only part of your userbase, although even then you'd ensure basic reliability first.

To be honest, it sounds like you've confused 'iterate faster' with 'write crap code'. That's not what it means at all. It's HARDER to iterate faster with crap (presumably untested/untestable) code since you're piling technical debt upon technical debt.

Clean, tested, maintainable code is essential for quick iterations to succeed.
Clearly there are a lot of WTFs going on at Path, but this isn't one of them.

> Do I not have a right to keep that information private?

But you didn't. You gave it to someone else. It's not your information any more.

Information about you is not information you own.

Privacy and anti-spam laws in various jurisdictions cover what an organisation can do with information they collect about private individuals, but that has nothing to do with ownership.
Nolan, here: the guy that wrote the post about the recent layoffs.

As stated in the post, I honestly believe that Flickr-the-site, in the long run, will be fine. Do these layoffs hurt? Of course! But Flickr has had bigger bumps in the past and has pushed through them all. The engineers there are an incredible crew of guys and Markus's post at the first of the year on blog.flickr.net shows that they've got some exciting stuff on the way.

I also have been (in a small way) helping Aaron with parallel-flickr and I think he as much as anyone would say that he's not building a replacement Flickr but more of being a good archivist and leaving nothing important up to chance, even if the odds are 1-in-some-big-number of Something Bad happening.

Obviously, I don't know the whims of major corporations like Yahoo, but Flickr-the-site, which is its content and its devotion to preserve that content, hasn't wavered in how it treats your data.
That, or subtracting ;)

I swear the entire UI of Vim is made to make the user feel like a ninja.
i have to assume you don't have any children yet... remember, you can love your job, but your job will never love you.
Anyone have any insight into LinkedIn's strategy with this acquisition? Have seen them nab a few other companies in the space. Talent grabs? Curious to hear your thoughts.
Thank you for the review. We are definitely going to be making some improvements based upon your review.
What is the name of your website?
Is it better to just learn how to use DSLR?
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