skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you have never actually had to deal with the "incredible crushing burden" of a high tax bracket, but it does not work that way. The tax does not apply to all earnings, only the earnings over a threshold. If you cross the threshold then it is all earnings over that threshold which are taxed at the higher rate; in your example someone who made 251000 would pay the higher rate only on the $1000 over $250000.
It sounds to me like this person didn't read the proposition before voting yes on it. I voted 'NO' for the proposition because it was going to be retroactive and because after discussions over the proposition with my friends, I decided that these additional taxes would only have negative effects on the Californian middle class. ($250k is middle class in California!)

There is no excuse for being lazy. Sorry to be so harsh, but yes, shame on you.
Marginal taxes don't work that way. If the additional tax is 1%, and you make $251,000, then you pay 1% * 1000 = $10 extra compared to not having the tax.
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It's more accurate to say: I hate bad comments.
When the second amendment was written, "well-regulated" essentially meant "properly functioning".
I think it's ridiculous that they don't even bother to provide some half-way good-looking affiliate banners to put on your site. I have to design one myself, if I don't want to make embarrass myself to my visitors.
s/God/idea of goodness/g.

Better? I believe Paul is really referring to an abstract concept here, not what most people think of as God.
Sure, but it's odd that the people trying to save money on apps would pay anything at all. I don't think I have enough data or a large enough sample size to say with confidence either way.
> The problem is no-one knows how to use the parts unless they are assembled into kits.

Huh? If anything, in the good old days, there were WAY more kits than there are today. Besides that, hobby electronics has a long history of doing stuff like "Here's a schematic, here's a BOM, and here's a paragraph on the 'theory of operation' that assumes a solid understanding of electronics and a bunch of domain-specific stuff. Good luck!" -- Pretty much the same as it is today, except we have resources like http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ to answer our questions. Wish that stuff was around when I was younger.

Kits just save you the trouble of making your own PCBs and hunting down parts on Digikey.
I can imagine more people might have paid if you made the default $3.99. $1.99 is practically zero, so people may consider it less of a difference.
It's how marketers market themselves.
Because your site won't take a guest comment, I'll leave it here:

"Smaller amounts of additional revenue would be available in 2011-12" should have been a clue that something hinky was going on.

This is why you always read the full text of a bill, not just the summary prepared by someone with an agenda that you may or may not be aware of, and may or may not be in agreement with.
Both these are fixed by method extraction though.

function setTemperatureToCookPerfectly() {
oven.setTemp(350);
}

function ensureReturnFromTimeTravelPossible() {
fluxCapacitor.setOption(THRESHOLD, 1.21E9)
}

Now wherever you see these lines in your code, you know exactly what they are for.

To quote one of the Ruby Rogues, "A comment is a lie waiting to happen."
That's not how income tax in the US works- each bracket applies to money made over a certain amount, so if you are earning 251,000, you would pay 35% (or maybe 39% in the future) tax only on the $1000 over 250k.
> could be a 3-line unit test that's just as clear to read, but has the side effect of actually being true instead of maybe being true!

It also has the side effect of being in a different file to the one you're trying to read.
Now that makes it even more interesting (not shocking, but interesting). I wonder how many examples of referendum-style laws are approved in CA where voters are voting against self-interest (or at least with non-trivial skin in the game) for Utilitarian benefit.
George Monbiot really should be given a nobel prize, it's absolutely amazing that if we just stop Christmas (and using Tantalum capacitors) everyone will live forever and no one will ever die.

Perhaps instead Mr. Monbiot should give himself the gift of a reasonable and nuanced position that doesn't make outlandish claims.
Over the last couple years I've noticed a lot of successful businesses with unconditional love as the core value proposition. Nothing at anywhere near a global scale though. At the risk of coming across as being more cynical than usual, I think this is a space with a lot of opportunity.
He even told you he was going to be speaking abstractly, and you still had to go and say it.
I always hated everyone's (especially Apple's) skeumorphism. I wrote this http://nnife.com/inouveau.html about it, to me imitative digital design has always been horrible and it reminds me of the imitative architecture and furniture design that was popular about 120 years ago, like this article also mentions. It's such a dumb way of designing.

"Let's just make it look like this other completely different thing! It's familiar, so people will be drawn to it."

Pixels are flat. Screens are flat. Flat design is here to stay.
That sounds pretty insane, I thought the standard thing for a progressive tax system would be to apply the extra tax% only on the income above the treshold? So an increase in income would never result in a decrease in net income, only a slightly "slower" increase in net income?
You don't think there are practical reasons to avoid adding a hardware button that gets pressed every time you turn the page?
@hvs, not accurate.

More like:

TL;DR: "I voted in favor of taxes on people making more than $250,000 per year because I thought it wouldn't apply retroactively to decisions made in the past."
How does a truly open mobile OS (and applications, presumably) solve the problem of vendor-specific data lock-in? Data lock-in is a totally separate, and far more difficult, problem. Part of the reason is that our data a) probably wouldn't exist, and b) probably doesn't make sense out of the context of being mixed together with everyone else's data. There is a strong a priori centralizing force for some important kinds of data.
Good work. But they are cheating in one main spot:

- they use a proxy to cut down data transfer

Good choice, but comparing it with the orignal app is not valid anymore (its not really html5 that is making it faster)

Anyway its still a very fast mobile app, and html5 is sometimes the best choice to make.

Because it is very expensive to write a different app for all platforms currently.
However, currently, it is also very time consuming to have a html5 app that is on-par with native, and works well in both android and iphone.

So its a tradeoff really, html5 is not better than native, or vice versa.

Like so many things in life, it depends :-)
>What is dishonest is ignoring the fact that Europe lacks a self-destructive and violent subculture...

This is certainly not true. The incidence of violent crime in the UK is far higher than in the US. It's just the murder rate in the US is higher.

http://ace.mu.nu/Windows-Live-Writer/Overnight-_D7F6/The-mos...

The rate in the US is 470, which puts us below the bottom of the list. That dichotomy probably does have something to do with guns - breaking and entering is far more dangerous in the US than it is in the UK.
"Death strips away everything that doesn't matter."

Extremely powerful sentence.
3 & 4 are really the only two valid reasons to use comments, in my opinion.

1 & 2 are both better solved with method abstraction. Comments describing what code is doing is always a code-smell to me. If you have 20 lines of code that is non-obvious, think about extracting it to one or more well-named methods.
I've owned a touchscreen Kobo, with no page turn buttons, since May. It's just fine. No undue fingerprint smudges or damage, no trouble turning pages.
You mean Handspring Treo - yes I had one - a 180g...

No awesome here if you ask me. It is packaged in shiny and shipped out of the door.

Forrest Mimms books were crap to be honest. They were recipe books with very little practical use past stringing together hacks and full of all sorts of errors. Sort of a precursor to this.

I think you were brought up with the electronics assembly culture, not the electronics design culture. The two are very different.
A conversation I once had with a junior developer:

Him: I don't write comments. My code is self-documenting.
Me: Apparently, you have never attempted to read those documents.

Comments should include the why's of code's existence (e.g. business rules) as well as any bigger picture information about the code for usage (e.g. "This function is for X, if you are looking for the function for Y, you are probably looking for Z").
I believe these guys are working on something similar:
https://holvi.com

I don't know if they're planning to offer a debit card though.
Agreed. I considered having it show various different values at random to do testing on the payments received when users are presented with them, but honestly there just wasn't enough data to pull that off and make it worthwhile. I think my total sales were <40 (downloads were in the tens of thousands, IIRC).
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I actually used this and got an interesting review. When I signed up though I didn't set a password, I think it doesn't give that option. I have to access my account via an email the website sends. Weird.

I just used the forgot password feature so now I can set it, I guess.

Edit: turns out I got a few more reviews, these were a little more vague and unhelpful though.
Consider the fact that your plugin needs to be under the GNU license.

This means:

Anybody that purchases it can then go ahead and give it out for free or even use it in their own commercial project. The main Wordpress site could also give it out for free as part of their services.

I steer clear of all open source projects (aside from some libraries) when it comes to commercial apps.
Although arguably it's a good thing that we're not setting Missouri on fire until they pay us back the way Germany is treating Greece.
Unfortunately, it's logical thinking that is bizzarre. Irrationality is the norm.
Is skeuomorphism being diluted to the point of irrelevance? I understood it to be _clear_ translations of design elements from one object to another. So, making a computer calendar look like a physical calendar that you would flip through on your wall.

As used in the article, it's so vague as to be unhelpful: gradients are skeuomorphism? What were they copied from? What other object are they trying to imitate?

Using the example of nest illustrates this well -- the interface shows an exact replica of the UI on the physical device to control it. Does the rotary control make as much sense on a computer screen? Probably not. Is it still a good design decision? Yes. Is it flat? No.
If this happened in a large enough scale the result of the lawsuits surely to be filed to combat it would be interesting.

Scary thought though, considering being able to assign a retroactive tax in such a way. Doing a retroactive tax that reaches back to the beginning of the current year is one thing, reaching back to previous years after taxes filed and paid are another.
Ugh, like we don't have enough social pressure to give up our privacy already.
That's actually a very good point. I rescind my original disappointment. It was a pretty cool story that emerged out of something as simple as a postal mishap.
Comments prove that naming is hard.

If we as developers spent more time on using better names for our objects/methods, we would need less comments.
Is she influential? I think she's Dale Bozzio: The Next Generation down to the fashion (since who the fuck remembers the 80s, right?) with a bit of Madonna and Gwen Stefani along the way. In another fifteen years we'll see someone else doing the same schtick and most people will not remember any previous iteration of it.
Maybe he did understand, yet disagreed with your characterization of a large set of people's beliefs. Literally comparing what some view as the cornerstone of their religion with rape does not belong on this board.

What does belong is the heart wrenching story of prioritization of life following the death of a family member, same with complications of a daughter. Many of us are planning on having children soon, so the perspective is very interesting.
Being on the list is not, itself, a real accomplishment.

Building the business that gets you on the list is an accomplishment. After that, getting picked just means you know the right people. It's a derivative accomplishment that, on its own, has zero meaning or value.

Be proud of the thing you built, not the social noise surrounding "cool kids" lists. Who gives a shit? Do something cool, and take pride in that.
I'm going to sound brash, arrogant, and a bit racist when I ask this, but let me guess: you're probably not the child of immigrant parents.

While there definitely is a "white" advantage in this world, and many people on these lists may have been born into privilege, your attitude towards it is pretty bullshit. My point about not being the child of immigrant parents was to highlight this attitude. Immigrant children tend to look at the world differently. They usually have to work harder to get their opportunities, and they'll do what it takes to get them. They have hustle.

It's true, a lot of your success depends on who you know, not what you know. You can either mope around and accept that you'll never be "successful," or you can get your ass in gear and make your own luck.

The choice is yours.
of course they had luck, but if all they had was luck, they probably wouldnt be on the list.

stop complaining about the hand you were dealt and make your own luck.
... I'm sorry, how levying taxes against the Constitution?
It gets even more interesting when you think about what 'intuition' really is, and what it means to 'know' something. Words, words m'lord.

If you're willing to leave the standpoint of a 'reality' which is based in the interactions between 'subject' and 'object' then things get really interesting and you begin to question what such an apparently great man meant when he said that what was revealed to him was done so by divinity.

To do so, of course, would mean you would have to understand the metaphysics of Indian thought and culture, which may be (rather basically) summarised to hold that the objective is merely a reflection of the absolute Subjective, i.e. divinity.

This is especially important because it is from this cultural standpoint that these visions were realised. I could go on if anyone is interested.
I'm pretty sure it was mainly screen cost driving the price.
Yes. In any event, it's interesting data: at least 20% of people will never pay for something, no matter what the price is or the cost to create it.
This is very useful, many comments that I received are directly actionable. The website greatly improved during the last week.
I have read very vocal arguments from both sides here, and only a handful of well reasoned, balanced ones. It is ironic that we criticize Washington for their petty politics yet we are as one-sided and partisan as they are. We are not going to solve the gun problem by just restricting access to specific weapons. It baffles me that almost no one mentions better healthcare as a plausible solution. If these kids can be spotted and given access to quality treatment we might have a significant impact on their lives for the better, and if we don't, then well at least there is a paper trail that would prevent them from buying guns legally. We can't make the problem disappear just by removing guns from the equation, there has to be a multi-pronged solution that covers social, cultural and legal issues.
Why control them 100% of the time? Sure, the discussion is pointless because all kids are different, but somehow I would expect them to have some kind of survival instinct.
Haha, on the other hand, one of the typical interview questions is 'mention something you built that you are proud of'. A developer's satisfaction with his own craftsmanship is, to me, a must.
I've been using this since it launched, it's invaluable in helping answer the question of "I wonder what people's knee-jerk reaction is to this change..."
But arson has been largely addressed in western countries by legislation. Building and fire codes are strong, positive examples that federal and/or state legislation saves lives (as I'm not a US citizen, I'm not sure where juridiction lies).
Necessity is the mother of invention (Finding a cure for cancer).
the fawning? it's the end of the year and forbes came out with a list recognizing people of their accomplishments. it seems like many people in this thread know some of these people and wanted to congratulate them. what's wrong with that?
Good grief.

First, marginal tax rates are taxed on marginal income, not gross income. The $250K bracket only kicks in for dollars earned over $250K.

Second... there are, in fact, points on the income ladder with a marginal rate that is greater than 100%. But they're not a problem for the rich. They're a problem for the poor. At certain points, the removal of things like food stamps and tax credits can result in a marginal tax rate of greater than 100%, which is to say, you are literally better off making less gross income, because you will have more spending power.
As a Catholic I also object to Paul's failure to venerate the Virgin Mary.

You know what I think would make this posting better? If 'pg added a feature I just came up with to HN that allows us to collaboratively edit Paul Buchheit's stories as if they were Wikipedia articles or Stack Overflow answers. I bet, as a group, we'd sure do a great job of capturing what Paul thinks about what's important in life, and also we could better inform people about why they shouldn't use vi because modal editors are relics best left to the 1970s.
I agree.

Coursera and it's ilk are just making lecture halls bigger. That's fine for a Universities gradual evolution, but the fact is it's incredibly hard to make videos that allow a wide range of students to progress at their individual rates, and MOOCs don't solve this issue.
It is. The poster is just parroting moronic right-wing talking points.
you also need to write two (or more) web apps too. Each OS has dramatically different user interface paradigms. Sure, you can run an iOS looking app on Android or Windows Phone, but it's going to be awkward and out of place.
You're right that my statement wasn't specific enough; I was going for brevity. The precise statement is: You need a problem with a known polynomial-time nondeterministic algorithm, but no known polynomial-time deterministic algorithm.
No offence, but this is incredibly naïve, and it's kind of obviously an opinion that simply stems from working on things that just aren't that conceptually complicated. Some things are actually conceptually complicated, and the why is not at all obvious from the what, no matter how finely you slice the what. Code, inherently, describes what. A sparse set of higher level proper sentence comments describing the purpose of the overall goal for the next part is practically required to make code like this actually comprehensible. For some things, something approaching Literate Programming is best, which is nearly the polar opposite of "comments are bad".

Implementing an advanced data structure is a good example of this. Things that took theoreticians some time to discover, and write/publish in a paper, are not things a random programmer is just going to inherently know from a completely uncommented implementation.

Extrapolating "all comments are bad" from a few examples of pointless comments on mind-numbingly simple and obvious code (which are indeed bad) is silly.
Typescript wins over Dart on Stackoverflow
That would be despicably ingenious. Would you rather watch that movie on netflix and kill your data cap, or watch as many as you want on amazon?

At what point to anti-competitive regulatory bodies have to step in?

It's almost as if the carriers handed their customers to amazon on a silver platter at that point.
Which is sad, if you consider how much energy people waste on it and other similar things (e.g. political campaigns), that are basically internal processes required to run things. It is scary how many things with positive feedback loops on costs are part of upkeep of the world. If our society is a wealth generation engine, then it is a hugely inefficient one.
If Apple and Samsung are making $200 off of each phone, that's a lot of space for Amazon to slip into given they don't care about phone profits.
If the NYPD can't get it right, what's the chances of the Oswego IL school district getting it right? And each of the other ~100K public schools in the US?
I think there are more kits now. There used to be kits for oscilloscopes, test equipment etc. Now these are black boxes, some of which are a joke.

We had something better than stack exchange - we got an electronics book and a maths book out of the local library and studied it, understood it and developed mental models, rather than expecting a canned answer to plug in somewhere.

And yes I have scars from ferric chloride accidents.
we often apply gradients and drop shadows to elements that are meant to be buttons, because buttons in the real world have these features, even though they are unnecessary in the setting of a computer user interface.

So it's skeuomorphism because it's trying to look like a physical push-button.
Does HN's predictability ever perturb you?
What these stats don't show is how many people will go out and buy a full $25 set or have already done so. The expansion isn't particularly useful without the main set, so even if everyone paid $0, it would still probably be a good promotional tool.

Plus the cards are awesome, I don't see how anyone could not want go out and buy the full set and the expansions after seeing this pack.
This is a well-known cognitive bias called Anchoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

Just by giving a starting value predisposes people towards that value. And in this case, it was low enough people would impulse buy with the default value left in. Contrast to the Humble Bundles where their true value is much larger, so people tend to weigh the value against other purchases from their peers or prior purchases (which is why the median prices seem invariant between bundles).
It is very difficult to extract real lessons out of failure, which is why we repeat them so much. Most failure posts, even my own, don't have the appeal that the success posts do.
Where by "perturb" you mean "prove lucrative for"?
There are more questions about Typescript http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typescript?sort=ac... than Dart http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/dart?sort=active.

It's true than Stackoverflow is a little bit biased towards MS, but Dart is a platform not just a language, so there's more room for questions there.
> I'm just well equipped to say that you can't start without knowing the basics

I went from not knowing anything beyond hooking an LED up to a battery, to being published in EDN (for my brain-computer interface hacking) and talking at BlackHat (for my electronic lock hacking) in the space of a year. I didn't do it by learning the fundamentals -- I did it by jumping in and experimenting. I screwed up along the way, repeatedly, but I learned it very well.

Any time you say "you can't start without <insert learning method here>", you're almost definitely wrong, unless your goal is to be a surgeon.