skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? The EITC only pays you if you work, it was enacted under Nixon, and Reagan, Bush the Elder and Bush the Younger all signed expansions of it.

At least this Republican thinks it's a way better anti-poverty choice than raising the minimum wage, for many of the reasons already argued here.

As to any difficulty the eligible have in claiming it: How hard would it be to add another checkbox to the W-4 asking about other sources of income? If your total income including the job you're filling out witholding for is estimated to be less than X, it's your employer's responsibility to claim the EITC for you and add it to your paycheck. Perhaps grease the skids on this a bit by giving the employer some tax benefit for doing so.
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I wish I was allowed to make an account with DN so I could tell them they ripped off HN's entire setup.... but they are invite only. Where do we stop copyrighting if it interferes with good design i.e. consistency?
Germany also has strong labor unions and statutory codetermination. America decided to basically kill off organized labor and use government instead.
>Why?

See the rest of my comment.

>Someone has to pay for it.

Of course, and those would be the people who choose to work in order to earn more than the guaranteed minimum. The result would be more available jobs with more relaxing hours, giving people more time to spend with their families, on side projects, or on creative pursuits that enrich our culture.

The idea that automation and technological advancement can cause people to go hungry is frankly crazy. Instead of celebrating the fact that humans don't have to waste their time on menial crap, we are forced by our economic system to wring our hands over the fact that that menial crap can no longer be used as an arbitrary metric for distributing resources.
Maybe subliminal messaging then? Why would people give anything but a good review if they are already investing time in getting the item?
The point I was making is that it is necessary to calibrate an inertial guidance system to the ground, you can't just pretend that the launchpad is stationary. More so, because a launch vehicle's guidance will become entirely internal (dependent only on the on board systems and commands sent from mission control) well before launch it's not so easy to have some software routines running on the rocket which don't run during an actual launch. I imagine it was far easier to simply use a timer to allow the routine in question to run up through T+40s than to attempt to programatically trigger deactivating the routine in the event the vehicle actually left the pad. More so given that running the routine through part of an actual launch, on an Ariane 4 at least, had never been problematic before.

The problem was that nobody had formally detailed all of the assumptions and risks for every part of the code, so when the conditions changed and those assumptions became faulty nobody was the wiser because nobody was aware they were actually making such an assumption about the speed of the rocket.
One of bitcoin's strengths is decentralization, and you just told people not to manage their own wallets.

How do you accept bitcoin? Please enlighten us.
You're right, that is an interesting theory.

It doesn't appear to be supported by anything in reality though. Personally my expenditures go to primarily to housing, utilities, travel and food. I'm not sure how any of those boost China's economy directly - Wells Fargo is probably quite heavily invested in China one way or another though.

This "average" consumer spending infographic would appear to back that up.
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/1204/consumer-income-spending...

It doesn't break down along income lines which is unfortunate, that information would inform discussions around minimum wage much more. I did find the age break down interesting though.
I can vouch for the terrible ethernet controllers on the new iMacs. Random dropped connections, reboots required after waking from sleep.

Interestingly, we haven't had any problems with 21.5 inch models, only the 27's (although we've got more 27's).
There is no feedback because you have shown us nothing.
Absolutely. Totally incomplete. My point is not that "higher is better". My point is that some adjustments to some adjustable parameters may be beneficial in some contexts.

Generalize further than that at your own risk.
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>Th problem is whatever you do you're locked into an ecosystem of some sort.

The difference is that not all ecosystems are tied to a single vendor. Nobody has a lock on POSIX or Java like Microsoft has on Win32. And the hardest part of getting a portable C program to run on Windows, Linux and OSX is to get the program that was much more easily ported between Linux and OSX to run on Windows, because Microsoft has to do a million inane things like using WSAGetLastError instead of errno just to be different.

>The bit people forget is: stop procrastinating and build some shit.

I don't think people forgot that. We've just started building shit for and on non-Microsoft platforms and found it to our liking.
I have the rMBP with 16GB RAM and a giant SSD. Add the 27" Thunderbolt monitor and I think I have the new Mac Pro.

The power consumption is great and the performance is top-notch too.
So the only difference between this and a chromebook is that it runs office?
An apartment in Austin Texas is more expensive than one in Spokane Washington, your point?
Approaching the value of antibiotics? That's a pretty bold claim, and it seems entirely unsupported.
I've been using 1Password for a few years now. I'm not qualified to comment on the security aspects of it - I'm trusting them and Apple to take care of that.

But I can comment on the superb quality of the user-facing aspects - it's a pleasure to use, has great iPhone and Dropbox support, and I really like the way they communicate as a company.
LastPass?
Live right now on C-SPAN2: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2/
Did you read the article? They were sued over trademark infringement. Trademark has nothing to do with copyright or the DMCA.
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There are already many electronics for sale for bitcoins:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Electronics
Kind of funny - you get German Google display ads in the screenshots - looks like a headless webkit client (similar to phantomjs) - clear your caches between the screenshots guys.
There is essentially no information there other than 'it saves your stuff to the cloud'. You also mention that it runs MS Office, which leads me to believe this is either a windows laptop or a linux distro with WINE embedded. Neither of which makes me terribly excited.

But, all this is conjecture, as there is essentially no information. If you want feedback, give us something to assess.
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Just use urlbox.io. We using them and currently doing over 25K screenshot requests a day on urlbox and extremely happy with their service reliability. Have spoken to founder couple of times.. he's integrated us with their PHP API.
For this to work there really has to be significant rewards for working on the lower end. If people are guaranteed 40k but can make 50k toiling away at Walmart full time it will likely become hard to find people to fill the jobs.
I don't think the dollar of spending is contrasted with the dollar of business investment. It's contrasted with the dollar stuffed into someone's mattress.
Much better! I really, really like the design. Better than Gumroad IMO. On the other hand, I would highlight a bit more or add more contrast to the link "My shipping address is not in the US", just in case. Other than that, it would be great to have a "test product" just like this but where we wouldn't need to input real CC details, just to check out the whole process, emails being sent, etc.
Anyway, on what I've seen so far: Congratulations!

So then you only support physical products for now, or also digital ones (no shipping, etc)?
The inflection point is the productivity-per-hour of workers. Whenever wages get higher than productivity-per-hour, they cause unemployment.

However, whenever productivity-per-hour is much higher than wages (as it has been, on the median, and increasingly so, since the 1970s), we can afford to raise wages without trouble.

So the question is: what's the productivity of minimum-wage jobs? Also: if their productivity really is that low, shouldn't anyone unable to obtain a living wage when already in full-time work just be taken out of that job and subsidized by the state wholesale? I mean, doing otherwise has given us massive effective subsidies to Wal-Mart and other low-wage, low-productivity employers who are essentially fleecing the public of its hard-won antipoverty dollars.

Or it could turn out Wal-Mart employees actually do produce $10/hour of value, and the company was just being exploitative all along...
It looks to me like another blog posting by a TDD evangelist, most of which I ignore because he ain't preaching my religion. He did, however, touch on what the important part of the pragmatic vs dogmatic question. This jumped out at me:

> In general I don't write tests for any code that I have to "fiddle" into place by trial and error.

It is congruent with a some general rules I follow to decide if I should write a test for something:

1) Do I care if this code doesn't work on the non happy-path? Maybe I'm writing some isolated prototype code that will probably be thrown away, or perhaps I'm planning to rewrite it later. I'm not going to bother writing tests.

2) How important is it that this code is bug free, and how soon should there's a bug. If, say, the code is in a highly used part of the program that is required by the rest of the app to function properly. Or it is part of the main feature set. I definitely will write tests.

3) I'm under time constraints. If I don't have the time to write tests for a particular part of the code, then I don't have time.

4) How solid is the architecture/interfaces? If I expect them to change quite a bit, then I will not write so many tests, or perhaps any. I once worked on a project that was heavy into unit testing/tdd. There was hundreds of tests written very early on in the project, and since the code was changing so much, we spent a lot of time re-writing tests. It eventually got to be a huge time sink.

5) How much money does the project have? Writing lots of tests takes time, and time is money. I've worked on some projects that have budge (or time) constraints, so I don't have the luxury of such dogma.

All that said, I often dislike programming religions or dogma, because they often advocate following a practice somewhat blindly, without understanding when the rules/precepts should be applied.
>If I'm hiring somebody, they have to know TDD and apply it, or they won't work for me any more. Period. Just like they have to know what local variables are and use them. Right or wrong, it's a coding/design standard

TDD is a workflow implementation and not a coding standard per se. This is to say, code written with or without TDD may be completely interchangeable. This is not true of a coding standard.

Coding standards measurably and objectively affect the end product (i.e. "use local variables", "space/tab indentation", "no method greater than 500 lines", "follow an MVC pattern"). Can the same be said for TDD or [insert workflow implementation here]?

This may be a nitpick, but I feel it's important since it highlights why there is such disagreement on this topic.
After playing the first 5 levels I would definitely pay for this game. Keep up the good work!
Dicks, dicks everywhere.

Fun idea, but yeah, any collaborative drawing platform has this issue.
A call to lift the minimum wage is a call to raise prices for everyone.

If you give the poorest people more money to spend everyone will raise their prices because now their baseline customers can afford to spend more.
but my contention is that unemployment is now structural

Funny how now unemployment is structural, thus nothing politicians can do anything about. When the other party was running things during the last recovery, sustained unemployment around 8% would not have been called structural, it would have been called evidence of lousy economic policy.
Firefox 19 doesn't seem to be supported either. These guys don't know what they're doing...
Getting rid of low-skill, unproductive jobs that are nothing but drudgery to the sorry people stuck doing them is a Good Thing.
Ripping off someone's design isn't grounds for a DMCA takedown notice unless you actually violate copyright(the legal definition, not some hand wavy "I did it first" definition). If LV had filed a trademark claim no one would be complaining b/c A) they would definitely lose(there's no issue of brand confusion here) and B) the guy would get to decide himself whether he wanted to risk leaving his stuff online (instead of github deciding for him).
For 3D/VFX work you get so much more bang for the buck with a PC and Win/Linux these days. We're a mixed environment shop, but the Mac Pros lag so far behind the new PCs bought recently, for a fracture of the price. It's not even funny any more. Then there's the network - I don't know what it is, but all PCs in our network are about 50% faster than all the Macs.
Personally I just use my MBP these days for some developing and personal stuff, that's it. Everything else has moved to PC entirely, and I can't complain. Apple would have to come out with an insanely compelling product to sway me back.
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PartyHere is my first attempt at developing a sizeable, yet simple mobile web app. The idea is that users can easily create temporary "parties" at their current location, and then their friends can check in to said parties. The parties only last a few hours, so the user doesn't have to worry about the party after creating it.

The idea came out of 3 Day Startup (http://cornell.3daystartup.org/) in November. Since then I've been working nonstop on coding up the project, and have been having way too much fun with it! It has provided me with an incredible opportunity to play with open source technologies like socket.io, backbone.js, and Phonegap/Cordova. Currently, the iPhone and iPad apps are under review by the app store.

My request to you is for any kind of feedback. Please be honest and let me know what you feel needs to be fixed/changed (UI/UX, marketing, features...).

So, what do you think?
And if I felt like spending $3000 to replace all my existing monitors, that might be a viable option.
I'm sure people who don't know about other direct competitors (Gumroad, etc) will see it as an alternative to a more elabore shopping cart or ecommerce site, and in that case 10% may be a no brainer. But if someone -like myself- knows about both alternatives, I may use CropUp initially but if I get some decent volume, I'd switch to Gumroad unless you guys had a 5% option for higher volume customers.
Hint: anyone preaching an economics based on moral dogma (ie: Learn "Liberty") is heavily biasing their economics lessons.
i) Skyline sounds scary

ii) Software is stored locally. How do you prevent users from saving documents locally too? And how do they know that is synced to the cloud?
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But try rendering a large 3D or video sequence over night, and watch it melt through your desk.
If I recall, its more efficient to attach the handler in JS than in an onclick attribute.
I also want to echo this sentiment. It's sad how many people here have responded with disgust and have wished bad things upon you. I come to HN to read discussions of a higher level, and instead of proposing level-headed solutions as to how to improve the app-store, you are treated with insults, and that's really sad.

As a developer you are already at the total mercy of these app stores. That doesn't seem to be a problem apparently for many people here because of the belief that the pride of the work should be completely secondary to monetary gain.

The owners of these app stores don't seem to care much either. The more people who make apps regardless of revenue expectations, the more they improve the quality of these app stores and add value to the owners, not the developers. The Apples, and Googles don't have any incentive to make the marketplace any more fair it would seem.
From the regulations (The questions page)

N16. How is total carbohydrate calculated?
Answer: Total carbohydrate is calculated by subtracting the weight of crude protein, total fat, moisture, and ash from the total weight (“wet weight”) of the sample of food. 21 CFR 101.9(c)(6)

N17. Does total carbohydrate include dietary fiber?
Answer: Yes. Dietary fiber must be listed as a subcomponent under total carbohydrate. 21 CFR 101.9(c)(6)

N18. What is meant by sugars on the Nutrition Facts label?
Answer: To calculate sugars for the Nutrition Facts label, determine the weight in grams of all free monosaccharides and disaccharides in the sample of food. The other nutrients declared on the nutrition label are defined in 21 CFR 101.9(c). 21 CFR 101.9(c)(6)(ii)
It makes a big difference whether an observed pattern is genuinely lawful or merely an emergent contingency. You can't just go around calling patterns or trends "laws" for free. Otherwise, there is a "law" that I drink coffee every morning. If the law of accelerating returns really is a law, then WHAT exactly is behaving in a lawlike way? Physical matter? Information? But – and this is McGinn's point – does the notion of INFORMATION behaving in a lawlike way even make sense? Information is just physical phenomena (words on a page, electric charges) interpreted (by someone) AS conveying or containing information. To say that information behaves in a lawlike way is like saying that drawings of cats behave in lawlike ways. Absurdly confused.
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>Eventually these types of programs all get out of control. See medicare, social security, student loans, food stamps, etc.

I don't know what you see as "out of control" about medicare, social security, or food stamps, but it doesn't really matter.

The more important question is why you think the minimum income should be limited to bare subsistence. Once the system is in place, you can use it to control job availability. Not enough jobs? Raise the minimum income and people will work fewer hours.
happens to the best of us... If its any condolence my first game app crashed after 10k points for a similar reason. check it out it should still be on the android store - Alliegator
Oh, and 16GB is nothing when working with e.g. After Effects.
I think most providers process counter-notices faster than 10 days. Also keep in mind that before the DMCA you'd have received a lawsuit instead of a takedown in the first place.
This contest is still spec work. Coca-cola can hire people with vision, it's got far deeper pockets than one would think. Billions deep. For them to exploit creatives like this is disgusting. NO SPEC WORK!
Facebook does too, at least if you have Graph Search enabled.
As a person who used a hackintosh as a primary development machine, the problem is more that it is difficult to keep a hackintosh up to date, and due to Apple's aversion to backwards compatibility, this poses a significant problem for generating executables that will be accepted by a toolchain released 30 days ago.
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Another Apple-in-the-enterprise sysadmin here. I confirm the same issues as mentioned above.
Also relevant:

"and brought him on board to continue working on it."
This is the comment I agree with most. Replace a solution defined as a "design pattern" with one defined as a data structure and you get a lot more clarity. The problem MVC solves can be recomposed as "synchronization of concurrent, related, mutable data structures." The relations are definable as a DAG for each direction; the synchronization process with a cyclical graph.
The "wages good enough to send your kids to college" proposal is really a thought experiment - let's imagine we are going to see an doubling of productivity in the economy as Software Eats The World. But no increase in the number of jobs.

There will be a dramatic decline in employment as all those journalists and factory operators and researchers get laid off.

So what do we do? Corporations are going gang busters, the share of a vastly increased wealth is not going to the majority of the people.

So let's whack up the minimum wage - make it 60k. (remember we just doubled GDP). All other wages have to rise as well to maintain parity. And so the share of GDP to wages gets rebalanced - but there are less jobs? That's ok we have gone back to the sngle worker family, and the world has nice picket fences again.

This is a poor solution to a good scenario - obviously the 50s solution is socially sub optimal, obviously the above scenario carries massive inflation risk.

But the essence is the same - the jobs are gone. How do we fix it? Minimum wage is one lever that if pulled hard in one direction will lift the veil on the oncoming storm.

We need all the warning we can get
for the same reason offering loans and grants didn't make college affordable, prices adjust to the money available and the costs to create.

Are you ready to say all the people you have met or know are worth thirty five bucks and hour in a job? Would you pay them the same to work for you?
Unfortunately a lot of thunderbolt hardware saves the extra cost of a tb-through port. So you're stuck with one or two devices.
kCalories per typical serving size (with the serving size listed) and kCalories per 100 g / 100 ml
I think you missed his/her point. Costco gets to have more motivated and more loyal employees because their pay is significantly higher than minimum wage. If minimum wage goes up, they lose some/all of the benefit unless they further increase wages.
I would argue that dividends feed everyone's retirement and investment accounts, but:

* As you pointed out, those are class-biased towards the upper middle class and those richer.

* Worse: companies nowadays seem to be paying out pathetically low levels of actual dividends compared to their monumental earnings. It's an unsustainable economic model where earnings are supposed to create a higher stock price rather than a dividend payout, even for absurdly profitable companies like Apple.
Great game! I'd definitely buy it. Too bad it's not already on the mac app store, I was ready to pull the trigger. Maybe it can be a part of the next Humble Bundle.
Ah, you are entirely correct. I didn't see the -U in the listing on Atmel's site, but it is indeed in the datasheet. The ball layout is a pain to route though, 0.4mm pitch.
How do free services on the web make money?
It is not a criminal issue, but it is certainly a legal issue. Even if you buy the install media at the Apple store, you don't legally have the right to install the copyrighted work on your hackintosh.

I'm not saying there are likely to be real-world consequences, just that most normal businesses have policies in place to make sure they comply with legal and contractual obligations, which make hackintoshes a non-starter.

I should not have said you have to "bootleg" the OS, though; as you point out, that is wrong. You can simply buy it and then install it in violation of the license terms -- which is not the same thing at all.