skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm less naive than I was a few years ago since learning somewhat how the system works.

1) Perhaps you missed the part where I said IRS only applies to US? Tax rates do differ in different countries, if you weren't aware. That's one of the major tax avoidance methods - do what you can offshore, wherever you benefit by paying less.

2) Again, depends where you are. While all bonuses may not be tax free, they are usually taxed differently to income tax anyway - such that less tax is paid. Why do you think people pay bonuses rather than just increasing salaries?

3) I wasn't claiming otherwise - my claim is that the rich don't aren't paying more as a proportion of their total earnings, which is what is claimed to be the case by the system.

Whether the world is out to screw you or not I'd debate. It's more like the world is out to get as rich as possible, and you get screwed as a side effect.
I think you missed the point here. Steve's analogy asks for a number format, not a volume...
The specific usecase the bug reporter has provided DOES raise a warning, which he has intentionally routed to /dev/null

php -r 'print number_format("",0) . "\n";'

PHP Warning: number_format() expects parameter 1 to be double, string given in Command line code on line 1
Well, you could just fund some of the arms better, re-instate glass steagal, and then reduce the amount of funding corporations can put into elections.
That would at least lead to some reduction in the ability of money to influence things.

But it's still a horrendously complex thing to do, a revolution doesn't really do much other than bring the complexity level down for a while till all the lessons are learned again and the same problems resurface with new actors.
The Fluent demo is very cool. I wish it was easier to try this service out.

Is there a plan to open source any of the WebSockets work and/or contribute it back to Jetty?
McDonalds meat is corn filler and scraped off bones. It's below hamburger grade. You can't get it at the grocery store.
In Canada, the minimum wage + large dividend payment system is allowed and encouraged. Encouraged because it's a transparent way of declaring your income and earnings without using any complex loopholes to bypass the system. Encouraged because:

1) Having your own company is more risky as opposed to a Permanent employee role in the government's eyes, hence more opportunities to pay less taxes

2) Companies are far more likely to work towards creating employment than individuals working for companies, benefiting the economy

3) Dividend income is taxed at a reduced bracket to stimulate investment, regardless whether you're investing in your own company or getting dividends from a large public corporation by being a shareholder

10 years of filing corporate taxes, having every accountant follow this practice, and an official audit with no complaints shows the Canadian Revenue Agency has no issues with this system.
Indeed. That's because ECMAScript standard states that Numbers should be IEEE-754 floating point data, which includes positive and negative infinity, and also NaN. Hence why, in JS, it's part of the Number object: Number.NaN. Technically, it's stil a numeric data type, but just points to an invalid number :)
That's not really much worse than Authorize.net.

Don't get me wrong. I hate Authorize.net and don't plan on using them for anything in the future. I'd rather refactor code than write comma separated string code once knowing it will work forever.
PHP can be whatever he decides he wants it to be

What you're describing is whimsical, not standardized.
This is completely without context. I mean I hate to be defending the govt. but at the time, they basically were told, "give us cash or the world burns."

This by the same guys who helped slowly get all the checks and balances to prevent precisely their behavior, removed.

It was the government that continued the existence of a terrible system because the most vulnerable were held hostage by the financial institutions. Which are now once again slowly fighting to get their rules re instated.
Oh boy is that dangerous if he ever gets on someone else's computer where safe search isn't activated. :-P
The "is there anyone you can escalate this too" reminds me of a PERL newsgroup thread I saw where someone tried to rip Larry Wall a new one, asking (in a condescending way) him if he knew anything about PERL.
1 month is a reasonable amount of time when you have the head start of YC demo day, or something equivalent, which conveniently corrals 100+ investors to sit down and listen to your pitch with an expectation that your odds of success are higher-than-average.

If you don't have that, though, you need to spend time lining up enough interested investors in a short enough time window to build up that artificial sense of scarcity, and that can take a lot more than 1 month.
So developers complain that PHP is not standardised, but when it is in a major version upgrade developers complain that it's becoming standardised?
Spot on. He doesn't want to update his 50+ applications, but he wants to patch PHP and deal with the deployment of that to all the servers that support those 50+ applications. And he admits that he's not a C++ coder.

Sounds like a change management nightmare.
All major carriers archive text messages but they also delete them after (usually) 3 months or so due to the ridiculous volume.
Well, for a start, did you look at any of her other blog posts, or did you just assume that all she does on her blog is complain about oppression and attack men with absurd stereotypes?
In your opinion, what is the best way to contact an angel?
She's a good classical street photographer. I'm sure her photos look way better in print than the tiny versions on her website.

I wouldn't say she is my favorite, but pretty solid.

There are truly many photographers that I like (and many that I only remember by the images, I'm horrible at remembering names).

Classic street photographers: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt

Modern street photographers: Joseph Koudelka

There are tons of good ones at magnumphotos.com
And the problem was that they became UNsealed auctions due to corruption.

After reading the article, are you saying that the auctioneer conducted a proper sealed auction?

AFAIK, it is the norm worldwide in private as well as public sectors for contracts to be given out via sealed bid auctions, as opposed to ebay-style open auctions.

The ebay-style process works for ebay because there are large number of potential buyers who don't know each other. IMHO, if multi-round open bidding is allowed for auctions like this with a limited number of possible bidders, price collusion is likely to occur even more easily.
I don't "really mind" if it breaks totally (i.e. throws an appropriate exception or doesn't parse the syntax check).

I find it much more irritating when the behaviour subtly changes and introduces edge cases that may not be picked up in testing / normal usage.
I hate to ask, but might there be a tl:dr; summary? That's a lot of text. I'm interested, but I don't really want to spend that much time on storytelling.
A property of the English language? I don't think so. Perhaps you were referring to a dominant tendency English-speaking cultures?
Another benefit of hosting something like this on GitHub is you get instant scaling in case you hit the front page of HN (or similar sites) and suddenly get thousands more visitors than some blog software can handle.
Downvoted for cleverness.
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Hmm, maybe start with the idea that the world isn't all about what works for you?
Just to be clear, telling the broker their bid instead of just sending it sealed is exactly the corruption that's being discussed in the article.

AFAIK, it wasn't legal for the bidders to tell the auctioneer what their bid was.
Just remember that their burgers make you sick and aren't satisfying and you will be happier an hour later if you are a couple of granola bars and beef jerky instead.
There is so much wrong with this statement and way of thinking that I don't even know where to start. I'm upvoting, because I don't want this comment to disappear, but it's still wrong-headed.

1. Answering the first quesiton directly:

No, that's not the solution proposed by the article. The goal was to get the poor involved in politics, in the largest sense of the word. At the end, he reported that almost everyone in the first class was either in school or employed full-time. No mention of managerial roles, or what they were training to be. One tried to start a union, so she is not heading towards a managerial role.

There are plenty of programs out there that do try to train people in technical skills, like nursing, engineering, or management, but this was _not_ one of those programs. This is a way to help the poor break out of the vicious cycle of poverty themselves by giving them the tools to think about their situation. Who knows what they'll do with those tools.

2. Answering the second question, allowing for your premise:

Robots, programmed by all of these engineers we wouldn't've had otherwise, and the people that are too poor to be helped, or unable for other reasons. This is what we call a _good_ problem.

3. Making fun of you/sarcasm:

OK, sure, lets not help the poor at all, because what if we're _too successful?!?_ That would be horrible! We'd starve to death in dirty streets, because people would be too busy nursing, engineering, and managing each other, and not realize there was no food!

4. Rejecting your premise and addressing the second question:

Who's going to do the blue collar jobs? Mostly the same kinds of people that do them now, except they will have more political empowerment, and a greater capacity for reflection and critical thinking. I know a few educated people that choose to work as farmhands, so it's not impossible, and I myself enjoy an "honest day's work" (speaking as someone with the privilege of an education in the humanities).

Can you imagine how awesome it would be if we had a society of critical thinkers and moral philosophers, instead of the reactionary, anti-intellectual, gullible, fundamentalist society we have now[1]? Can you imagine if the lowest common denominator weren't so low? I'm not saying it would be a utopia, but for at least the last few hundred years, people have been dreaming of a time when machines had taken over every menial task, and humans could spend their time as they wished, free to follow pursuits of their own choosing.

[1] I'm not trying to say 100% of society is like that I'm just saying that significant fractions of the American population at least show one or more of these characteristics, and I don't think it's making for a better society.
Related article about the same bug report: "When does a bug turn into a feature?"

http://lwn.net/Articles/369505/
Sublime Text with vim bindings coupled with zen coding plugin was pretty good for me when coding html/css, till the zen coding plugin appeared for vim.

Now vim has everything I need for coding html/css. To me vim just makes everything better from my experience, it made me more efficient, more faster at coding. Visual Studio with vim key bindings made me love the VS IDE as well haha.
The foreclosure mill mess is ridiculous, and there is downright fraud.

The bank lost its papers and forged them for gods sakes. That's a differrent level of wrong doing altogether!
I was in the exact same situation, unfortunately. Had everything built out, with a final nagging notFound error. No response for two weeks, tried twitter, email, phone - nothing. Eventually I learned of their acquisition issues when Sean responded to a post I made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101870. If customer service comes down to responding to angry HN submissions, something is seriously wrong. At the VERY LEAST turn on an auto reply for support requests that explains the situation.

Anyway, best of luck.
Tons of restaurants have actual fake plastic food on display. The advertising rules apply to TV and billboards, not store images.
Hahaha. People wouldn't complain. That's a knee slapper.
Whether 30% or 30 x, is this a big deal?

How much power does a typical CPU cooling fan draw right now?
Why would you expect PHP releases to adhere to rules that some guy threw together? Especially considering PHP has about a decade of history using the numbering scheme they do use.
Yeah, that's what worries me. The strategic value of controlling some TLDs will be higher than the value of renting them out.
I always wanted to be a librarian, but I went into computer science because of the opportunities. Still, much respect to all in this line of work.
It's just weird to prefer something guaranteed bad over something possibly good. That's risk aversion for you....
But can it go for 6 months without getting clogged with dust?
After doing a lot of work on a specific project, you aren't going to be writing code very frequently. Most of your work will go towards manipulating, editing, and applying minor (or major) fixes to your existing codebase.

When you aren't in insert mode, it's easy to navigate to specific lines (g), scan quickly through the document (^D, ^B), scan through lines (b,e), change/delete stuff (c,d,C,D,s,etc. Quick commands like ci" will Change Inside Quotes, so for example you can edit strings very quickly.), and search (/, , #, n, N).

As well, like tlunter said, vim is very portable. If you have to hop on someone else's computer to change some of their local code, there almost certainly* will be an editor that you can use quickly and efficiently. It also loads very quickly.
Cities/Town/States gets money from bond sales and need a place to store the money because it doesn't get used at once. They held auctions and banks would submit bids to hold the money at a certain interest rate. Banks colluded to lower their bids instead of competing fairly.
No more preposterous than software without bugs.
Here is one more about data structures:
https://gist.github.com/73b62f3f34cb59a2913b

Rest, I think they are bit personal.
I tell you that you have "foo" apples. Write the number of apples you have on a piece of paper. What did you write?
May be because the feeling of 'being important' has died inside them.

A lot of social factors can be blamed for that situation and truly though; but the important fact is 'it starts with the very individual'. Unless that individual feels the need, the situation won't change, no matter what. So if non-poor part of the society wants to do anything about it, the first thing that should be tried is to 'awaken' the poor.
Sorry, I'm trying to remain anonymous.

I don't even consider myself great. I have a couple of shots that I've made in the last 10 years that I think are OK.

Most of this advice doesn't really come from me, it's mostly passed generation-to-generation. I was told pretty much this when I started learning photography, and it got reiterated by a few professionals that I respect.
Thank you for the offer. It is very nice of you. I already have all the code written (Python/Flask), and currently working on the UI. I'm not a designer, so things are going slow in that department. Building it for fun and HN cookies. :)

PS. I like how you included the input boxes in a paragraph. It is a nice touch.
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Actually, as a former trader, bid rigging is a big no-no. There is a fine line, ofcourse, e.g. the IPO process's inherent factoring of IPO investors over the issuer or M&A process'a tendency to work off bankers' relationships. But this is unambiguously wrong.

Where this becomes classic Taibbi is in his implication that this is business as usual on Wall Street (it's the only place in America I know of where someone's word is worth billions of dollars, with the paperwork coming after a verbal agreement much of the time).
Rasmus comes across as a little kid.

Here's how I read it:

We have this public API that we're not exactly sure how it works version to version, and, oh, we've just changed our parsing code so if it breaks your stuff then tough shit because we're a bunch of amateurs.

I especially liked this quote: "Wow, a classic case of how not to treat unpaid volunteers who provide
critical pieces of your money-making infrastructure."

Perhaps it isn't about being paid, but about taking pride in the work you do.

PHP is convenient. I use it for some piddly shit because that's what it's good for. This bug report highlights the problems you run into if you use it for serious work.
recently i learned that some developer successfully ported vim to windows 64 bit. i was mighty glad, installed it on a windows 8 machine and started to use vim right away, simply because dos's edit command doesn't provide features similar to vim.

i decided to write here how i use vim in no particular preference:

vim's J keystroke (that joins the line in succession with the one you're on) is the most frequent reason i use vim on whatever platform.

next, s/this/that/g search and replace is quick for regex based string replacements

next, vim -d file1 file2 visual difference is pretty great in console or in the gui mode (gvim)

next, on a unix system if you're dealing with C sources for a big project, ctags allows vim to provide the feature where you press CTRL-] and it takes you to the definition of that symbol. This is similar to other editor's right click and 'go to definition' context menu.

i'm not trying to sell vim to you or readers of HN; i'm simply advising to read :help in vim to the best of your abilities the same way you would read about other editor's help pages/cheat sheets and the sort to determine value for yourself. i do agree that examples sometimes enable you to associate with one or the other editor; i dislike using vim for editing all sorts of files. i use vim for things i can quickly get done in it, using other tools for whatever they're good at, if that makes sense.
Not claiming that iOS support for HTML5 is bad, just that I find it hard to believe that Apple will ever invest as much in HTMl5 as it does in native, and by extension, that Apple will ever make sure HTML5 is at feature parity to native.

At some stage and for some subset of use cases (I think particularly with apps like news media for example) it will matter less and less, but for anything that is intensive, I just dont see an argument for why HTML5 will ever function at parity.
Linus would have called the guy an idiot for not using straight C.
My B.S. is in a program housed by the library school and included a mandatory track for understanding the practical basics of computer science. (Namely, writing code, databases, and networking. With a little "how to write a search engine" on the side.)
I would almost guarantee security guidelines were the reason. He states they are dealing with tax data, and I would bet they handle some credit card data as well. If they even touch credit card data they have to be PCI compliant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...) which requires specific versions of PHP.
Hey, thanks for your input. The Canadian system seems similar to the UK. Every accountant is doing this, but there just doesn't seem to be an openness about it. It seems you only know how to do this if you're an accountant, or know an accountant - which was the point I was trying to get across in my original post - you aren't told this in school - they only tell you how to get a job, where none of it applies.
At that point I'd start making fun of your username ;)
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Maybe this is simply personal opinion, but I generally find it difficult to take aesthetic advice from a website with a relatively uninspired or outdated design like this. Perhaps I just have bad taste
Sealed auctions introduce inefficiencies in capital allocation. The parties writing the laws benefit from these inefficiencies, hence market's move to transparency is written up as collusion.

Switch to open auctions would remove incentives for corruption.
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mmm.. I don't get your point. Even in an open auction, bidders in an auction could still collude to submit lower bids and divide their winnings.

Problem is that there are only a couple of large banks who control a large portion of money. If there were more banks, one bank will eventually break the collusion and offer a competitive bids, and other banks will follow.
Passing in an empty string to a function that states it takes float as it's argument is certainly an edge case the developer should have thought of.
A bunch of empty platitudes that have been addressed repeatedly by the pro-life side.

Quantity vs quality: yes, quality of life is extremely important. And that's significantly impaired when you can't go to the bathroom unassisted or identify your children.

Inequality: all technologies are unevenly distributed at first, and then prices fall. And it's even less of a problem here, because curing aging would tremendously reduce medical costs. Governments and health insurers would likely profit by providing treatment for free.

Overpopulation: last I heard birth rates were falling rapidly, and global population was projected to peak in this century. Meanwhile there's a whole universe out there; talk to me again when we've filled half the Milky Way.

We haven't recovered from the idea that growing old is an awful disaster, which must somehow be put off.

Having your body and mind slowly degenerate (assuming you're lucky; quickly if you're not) is in fact awful.

If nothing awful happens to you, you go on doing what you're doing and looking for more.

If "nothing" happens to you by 90, meaning that you're physically and mentally able take care for yourself, then you're more fortunate than most. A healthy lifestyle can improve your chances, but isn't anywhere close to a guarantee.

When he found he was dying of cancer, Steve Jobs made this interesting remark, that it was the best thing that ever happened to him because it made his priorities clear. He said nobody wants to die but it is life's best invention, it is the mechanism of change. He had a point.

And then he spent vast resources trying to get cured. Another case of stated preferences versus revealed preferences.
Actually that won't be possible. You are coming to this story at the end of the narrative which has taken years to reach this far.

It's also a tortured story - complex, with one narrator actively trying to cover his tracks. And This article is more for adding a human angle to what is extremely tortured and boring reading.

For you to get the facts at this stage is not going to happen from an article like this. You would need to google gumshoe a bit to read up for that.
There are people who think three bid systems actually work? Everyone I've ever talked to about three bid systems knows they mostly exist to give a faint dusting of propriety to the fact that somehow the mayor's brother in law is always the guy winning the contract.

Are there roads in your town? Do you think they were paved by the honest lowest bidder?
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