skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does specification call this out - that something must be truly egregious when the beneficiaries of a law call for its repeal.

What's your position? Should we discount investment taxes to encourage reallocation of capital and tax earned income highly to discourage value add labour, or stop asking actual workers to suck it up because they can't flee like capital can?
I totally agree with you.

I am definitely going to do a cleaned up version with less attitude. I will start by cleaning up the examples. The theory sections are mostly OK. Please send me an email so I can keep you updated on that front.
Sorry, I somehow read "backs the ideology" as "backed by the ideology", which obviously has opposite meaning.

One of my main beefs with Bitcoin right now is that the most vocal people advocating it are extremist, non-mainstream ideologues. Although I'm not of the Austrian-school, I do consider myself a libertarian-anarchist which is probably just another word for your anarcho-capitalism. However it's not doing my/our cause any good to have Bitcoin move more and more out of the mainstream and the Bitcoin user community become more insular.
California might be considered a counter-counter-example:
http://www.economist.com/node/18586520
This comment highlights the benefits of editors in the traditional publishing industry. The publishing process may seem full of painful disincentives, but there are many non-obvious benefits to following its subscribed protocol. One of them is that you do not publish books, especially instructional ones, containing glaring errors.

There was an article on HN recently that mentioned the fact that most of a book's marketing is its reputation. This makes sense because you can't form a full opinion of a book until after you've read it, so buyers of the book are heavily influenced by the opinions of others who have already finished it. Nobody is going to shell out money for a book that they hear contains even a FEW glaring errors.

People hold books to such high standards because once you put your words into print, you cannot change them. There is no real-time editing of books. So people assume you have put the proper amount of preparation, thought, and diligence into your writing and editing. This is very difficult to do by yourself.

That said.... I do want to emphasize that the "traditional publishing industry" generally refers to the producers of hard-copy books. With the industry moving toward a digital future, real-time editing is becoming possible. I think we will see a move toward "crowdsourced" editing of for-profit books, not so much in the way that Wikipedia edits its content but more in the way that video games fix their bugs. We may start to see "beta releases" of digital books for early adopters. At the cost of reading what amounts to a rough draft, you will be able to access the content early, so long as you report any errors you find. I think on the whole this is a very positive change that will increase the world's general knowledge.

So I'm a very big fan of your first attempt at creating this book. I think the errors pflats points out are important to consider, but certainly nothing to discourage you. Don't let this criticism stop you from your pursuit. You are on a very good track.
Given that developer accounts cost money, and paying requires giving personally identifiable information, what keeps Apple from seeing that you are buying multiple accounts?
I've used this hidden API in the past, but overall Yahoo's free finance API is much more accurate and developer-friendly.

The output of this endpoint is formatted to be human-readable in such a way that it is annoying to do calculations with the result. For example, the result of converting 999 GBP to VND is "34.0263562 million Vietnamese dong." [1]

So to make it useful, you need to parse "million," "billion," etc. as well as the nonstandard verbose currency name. For other results you need to parse the thousands delimiter, which is a space.

The conversion is also inconsistent, which you can see by refreshing the result several times. This may be a cache issue on Google's end.

The last problem is that it's missing some currencies such as the Pacific Franc (XPF).

[1] http://www.google.com/ig/calculator?hl=en&q=999GBP=?VND
A lot of people at Google are north of $500k, I've heard. We're talking engineering and product, not management.

I mean, what would you pay someone like Ken Thompson? There are the outliers like him, of course, but I've also heard that even the less-known folks do well.

Though I've heard all of that from Xooglers, it remains anecdotal. I also remain slightly old-school when dealing with other peoples' salary and give them respect; I'll freely tell you what I make (if permitted legally), but I understand people are not as open as I am and I try to respect their privacy.
I don't want the most recent (working) build of a piece of code, I want to see in my browser exactly what I have on my disk, and I want to see it every time without worrying about caching or whether my build loop has finished or not.
There's also this https://npmjs.org/package/webworker-threads
Both statements are true. Taxing as a method of altering spending patterns is very well understood by economists. In the case of cigarettes, it seem sot have been quite effective since smoking rates in the Us have fallen to historic lows.
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A short, less technical article about the future of SMS.
Yes, when you can update parts of the code on the page with a streaming connection it's a little bit different. I guess I'll give ClojureScript a pass on that one, but it's not a feature that nonlisp systems seem very keen on integrating so far.
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That's my bad, I'm sorry. I should have said it is "backed" by the ideology. My initial comment was not exactly clear.
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That is one of the most moving things I have read in a long time. Thank you for sharing.
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What if this was an open source project with do it yourself hardware + software that alerts you on your phone when guns are taken out of a certain range.

Does this excite anyone?
Strange she should leave out the most interesting poisoning homicide in recent history, that of Alexander Litvinenko, in which the victim was not only condemned to "live in interesting times", but to die in an especially interesting way. The docs didn't figure out what was wrong with him until a few days before he died. But, once they did, Scotland Yard traced the radioactive trail all across Europe and back to the capital of the Evil Empire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...
That's what I like in Notepad++ (maybe other editors have this as well). You can view tab columns. So your indent is very clear.
Source maps go some way to making debugging code written in another language less painful. I more or less agree on the language side though. For real web development anything other than javascript should be providing you with a massive benefit to offset the disadvantages of adding a build step to your workflow and having to debug in a language different to the language you're coding in. I've not found anything that I think gives me a big enough benefit yet to make it worth it.
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What's striking to me is how he doesn't even have a grasp of the basic numbers that affect his returns. This speaks more to a "I am so rich and I made my money so easily that I don't care what I get taxed at" attitude.

>Nothing the government agreed to in the last few days actually affects the asset wealthy in this country.

The increased tax rate on dividends and capital gains definitely affects the "asset wealthy" in the country. In fact, both the top income tax rate and the dividend/capital gains tax rate for those making over $400k has increased by roughly the same amount [1].

However, complete inaction by government would have increased the dividend tax rate even more, so that it would have been considered ordinary income (43.4% top rate) [2]. The legislation passed on 12/31 and 1/1 by Congress definitely helped the asset wealthy. Oracle pays a 18c dividend per share, and Larry Ellison owns roughly a billion Oracle shares. The dividend tax savings he'll receive from this legislation is massive.

[1] The top income tax rate goes from 35% to 43.4% (39.6% + 3.8% health care tax) and the top dividend/capgains tax rate goes from 15% to 23.8% (20% + 3.8% health care tax). If person A makes $100MM in salary and person B makes $100MM in dividend/capgains in 2013, their relative tax rate increase compared to 2012 is about the same: 8.4% increase vs 8.8% increase.

[2] http://www.atr.org/trillion-obamacare-tax-hike-hitting-jan-a...

[3]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-02/bipartisan-house-ba...
Anecdotes are perfectly valid evidence for "there exists", albeit checked for all the usual biases of any testimonial evidence.
Non-American here. Was there/is there a rationale for allowing people to deduct interest from their incomes? It has always seemed odd to these English eyes. Is it considered a way to encourage people to buy property/invest in their education or is there more to it than that? As a home owner, I would love this deduction ;-)
I hope you are going to keep the cleaned up version separate. Some of us (me at least) would like the book in current form. :)
I've spent the last few days really attempting to remain in the present and I've noticed a few small changes already. I have been making a full conscious effort to remain mindful and present every minute of the day with blocks of time to meditate (I can kill an hour without thinking with meditation as opposed to a few months ago where 15 minutes would feel like eternity).

I noted down my experiences yesterday:

I find myself within a deeper state of experience, as if I've been missing something huge.

I find myself as a new person; I have my past but it does not feel as though it's my own, as if I can inspect it and observe it in an objective way without the burden of my own interpretation; my past no longer defines me. I feel transformed.

I find myself able to communicate with others in a more effective way; I can place my full attention on individuals and the conversation benefits as a result. I especially feel more connection to others.

I find my cognitive faculties sharpened since I am not in constant use of them; I feel as though they are well rested and are now under my control.

I find myself enjoying taste more; if I eat too fast, I must slow down so that I don't miss the experience.

I find tears of joy in my eyes when I listen to beautiful music; how could I have not noticed such beauty before?

Most importantly, I find myself able to simply feel; I have never been able to feel like I can feel now.
Programming is a Joy.. Ignorant cowboy-coding is suffering.) Read (learn) before you write. 80/20 rule works here.
There is no tax rate < 100% that discourages a higher income.
I hate linkbait headlines like this because DUNS is not a scam:

It's a useful tool used in the real world of business. Need to see how long a company typically takes to pay? You use DUNS. Want to get and Federal work? You have to have a DUNS before you can register (in addition to your IRS paperwork).

Of course I get the idea that if you're a lone coder how that can be a pain. I also get that if you aren't in the US that it might not make any sense. However that's no reason to call it a scam.
They still pursue wealth, just not through the income venue.
The problem isn't "some guy sharing a DVD with his father-in-law". Cheap hard drives capable of storing every movie worth watching already exist. Flash media capable of storing a year's worth of new interesting movies are about the same expense. Replace "a DVD" in your scenario with "every movie more than a year old" and it complicates your position. If lots of guys share "every movie more than a year old" with their fathers-in-law, who cares about sharing online? Sharing online is dangerous, and slow. Maybe you get the absolute latest media, but most of the latest media won't survive the test of time anyway.

You think that shutting down the ad supported streaming services will solve the problem, but they're small fry compared to what's coming. By the time I send my kids to college, they will take with them a phone capable of storing 2,000 TB: enough capacity for everything that has established classic value in human history, in their pocket. Everyone will. Recognizing that online sharing is slow and risky and mostly important for the last year's worth of unevaluated new media, they could basically forego the public Internet altogether during their studies.

They wouldn't be sharing media with their new friends because their friends would also already have everything that matters. They'll pay to watch the latest movies, but outside of box office sales no one will have any idea how popular movies actually are because there will be no external record of performances and the number of "copies" of a movie that exist will approach the number of personal computing devices.

Grooveshark generating revenue off of unlicensed media might sting, but in less than a decade the ability to know who has a copy of a piece of media and how many times it has been watched is going to disappear completely. It will certainly take an Orwellian state to enforce copyright then.
This sounds awesome, nicely done.

I've been planning to do a hack like this to demonstrate the realities of interstellar travel, modelled after a game I played as a child.
Is there somewhere the detailed effects of the deal are spelled out? I see conflicting reports over such things as whether the 20% capital gains rate applies to everyone and which income the 3.8% surcharge applies too.
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It amazes me at how far to the political left is Silicon Valley. The startup ecosystem depends on the recycling of the profits from successful ventures into new angel investment, venture capital funds, and bootstrapped ventures. An extreme example is Elon Musk, who famously netted $180 million from the Paypal sale and put every last dollar into founding Space X, Tesla, and Solar City. I'm assuming that money was taxed at the long term capital gains rate. If the cap gains loophole were closed, either Space X or Tesla would have been stillborn.

Yet Silicon Valley regularly supports candidates and policies that would place large burdens on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We have plenty of examples of high-tax, high-regulation economies around the world with no startup scene. You can't grow one by punishing success and preventing innovation.

The deal that happened today means the top California cap gains tax is going up ~11% this year (PPACA, cliff deal, prop 30). That's 11% of new capital for startups being diverted from Palo Alto to Washington.

(And yeah, I'm flagging this article because I don't like seeing pure politics on hacker news. But I'll participate while we're having the discussion)
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`for` is a macro, not a special form. Special forms are these: http://clojure.org/special_forms
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That means that actually getting a job is not part of your skill set. Regardless of what the rest of the world tells you, getting a job and being good at negotiating perks is a talent. Sure unemployment is rising and all that BS, but lets be real, getting into the business with a degree is easy as long as you don't expect an awesome job, pay, and perks from the get go.

You have three options: a) apply everywhere and deal with a crappy job for a year or two and then search for something more "fun" b) go build some stuff and hope people start to notice (I wish I had done this... Cest la vie), or c) learn some cobol and go maintain some legacy system while working for a PHB.

I don't want to come off as a grumpy negative person, but if you can't get a crappy underpaying job in the tech industry you should really re-evaluate what's going on... It has probably more to do with bad social skills, a lack of talent, or a big ego than with the actual job market.
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There should have been a picture there. There will be a lot more pictures soon, i am learning about Tikz. It is like diagram superpowers: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/area/mathematics/
House of Representatives passes Fiscal Cliff deal
Paul, I have a tremendous amount of respect for you. In many ways you serve as a role model to me.

But I think you need to be careful calling what Arrington describes a "loophole." Yes, the people running the funds are the beneficiaries of this specific "hole" in the tax code. But have you considered that this could be a loophole by design? In other words, an incentive?

In many ways, capital is the eponymous character of capitalism. Capital drives our economy. It feeds our society. It's also a good indicator of our prosperity level.

No economist will argue with the fact that capital begets more capital, and therefore we should encourage any mechanism that creates it. Normally I avoid such generalities, but economists accept this as such a simple fact that it would be impossible for them to disagree with it.

This "loophole" in the tax code is a great example of an incentive for investing capital. It makes sense to place that incentive in the tax code because investing capital leads to more capital. Policy makers want people running funds to "exploit" this "loophole." The tax benefits are a reward for efficiently "putting the capital to work," so to speak.

If we can agree that this "loophole" in the tax code functions as an incentive, then I think we should also agree not to call it a loophole. When we call this a loophole rather than an incentive, we make it appear as though our profession (well, your profession... I'm still in college) is the business of exploiting loopholes. That is not what we value and I think we should respect ourselves enough to avoid this perception.

Thanks Paul -- I hope you find time to read this.
still, taking 30+ days to register is insane, its clear they are some kind of monopoly and need more competitors
As a small child, I used to have a strong association between numbers/letters and colors, though that has faded to the point where I barely remember them. The fact that 2 is yellow is strongest in my mind.

For the record, I do not suffer from schizophrenia.
It's not a hatred of parentheses. I use Elisp and Common Lisp all the time, I'm fine with parentheses.

If you read the article it's specifically about having liberated macros, something you can't have in the presence of parens. You can't write these macros in Lisp:

-- Hello,World! =)
print : Hello, World! :-)
let x = 23/6²*
z/+84

That's "--" and ":" and "=". Those are macros.

Cutting and pasting is easy:

If I copy

foo bar mu
zot bob <-- these two
bil <-- lines

and then I got to here

bar zot bob
dod rob
| <-- with my cursor here and paste

what do you expect to happen?

Whereas here

bar zot bob
dod rob
| <-- with my cursor here and paste

what do you expect to happen?

This is trivial to do in Emacs.
Looks great! One nitpick, the homepage button beneath Get Started could be a little bit wider, or the type on both buttons could be tracked down a tad.
I don't see why Apple needs Lightning AND the MagSafe adaptor. If they wanted to introduce a new cable, why didn't they invent a MagSafe version of Lightning?
How would you implement the string macro (":") or the regex ("~") macro without that?
It's not a scam but they do call and pressure you to buy their costly advanced listing. I once got into a surprising argument with a phone rep as he practically refused to take no for an answer. I had only registered to bid on govt contracts. Left a very bad taste in my mouth for their services.
Upon actually completing the form, it currently responds that it is "currently unavailable".

Still, I'll definitely be bookmarking this and coming back - if the article is correct, this is really helpful. Will be good to hand to clients too.
Capital gains is a tough one because the "gain" could just move to a foreign asset

CrunchFund could start being denominated in Pesetas, Roubles, Euro or Sterling.

The interest deduction makes the effective rate of circa 15% internationally competitive.

There is still plenty of room to budge 5% say, but beyond that would get limited returns and capital rehoming.

http://accf.org/news/publication/an-international-comparison...
It is good, but he most certainly isn't unique in this regard and he is late to the game.

For several years, Fred Wilson has written that "carried interest" should be taxed as ordinary income. For instance, see http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/why-taxing-carried-interest-... (and my guess is that Fred Wilson earns more carried-interest-income than Mike Arrington whose biggest payout was probably the sale of TechCrunch.)

I'm sure that many other investors (e.g Nick Hanauer, here in Seattle) have the same (or more progressive) positions

Btw on some of the other comments ...this fiscal deal wasn't about cutting loopholes. It covered a lot of other more-urgent stuff. There is no way they could have tackled less-urgent stuff in this bill.

However, in the past, Obama has called for cutting loopholes and he stressed that point in his speech tonight. Last year, in October, Romney had also stressed the need to cut loopholes. Cutting loopholes is very hard because each loophole has a strong lobby behind it, but I hope the two parties are able to agree on cutting some of these outrageous loopholes.
Or maybe because for every Elon Musk who uses his money to create more opportunities for the market there are more Mitt Romneys who abuse the loopholes and use the money for more horses and car elevators.
I love Silicon Valley due to the fact that people here actively CREATE wealth by producing ideas/products/companies with real, intrinsic values, which is a pretty big contrast to many of the folks on Wall Street.
How does this affect non-US companies? I guess the DUNS rule only apply if you're incorporated in the US
I'm confused how someone who makes 250k-1.2million in income, could be crushed by student loans. Are you telling me there are an appreciable number of people with student loans of several million?
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Progressive taxation is not leftist. Americans broadly agree on the concept. A 2011 WSJ/NBC poll found that 81% of Americans approved of increasing taxes on those who make more than $1 million.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870472800457617...
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A remember hearing a talk about a half solution to the broken model of HTTPS that could be done with the existing system, which was either a proposol or being implenented. The idea was that when you establish an HTTPS connection to a new site, you save their certificate for a certain amount of time. In the future when you log in, if the certificate they provide dissagrees with the one you have then you assume it is compromised. Becuase of the obvious promblem of legitimatly changing certificates there was a mechanism for the server to inform you of that, but this requires active participation by the server, so the entire system is only done if the server explicitly enables it.

In the long term, we need to replace HTTPS entirely.
I see this as a positive, not at all a negative. Programming is rare in that the field lends itself very well to creative destruction / natural competition / evolution, for many of the reasons you describe. The process is chaotic on an individual level but the population as a whole moves forward far more intelligently than any centralized process could hope to mimic.
I just checked and Dune has a new Kindle version for $5.28 which seems to be a second, much better edition.