skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here is the relevant info i could find about the taxes/asset seizure the author is referring to:

"Proposition 30 creates three new upper income tax brackets for the next seven years. For example, folks with $250,000 to $300,000 a year in income will pay 10.3%, up from 9.3%. The new top income tax rate–for folks with income of $1 million-plus–will be 13.3%, up from a current top rate of 10.3%. That eclipses New Yorkers’ combined state and local top rate of 12.7% and Hawaii’s top rate of 11%. The income tax hikes are retroactive to Jan. 1, 2012, but the extra bill isn’t due until April 15, 2013. (See below for a photo gallery of the highest state and local income taxes on a $1 million income post election.)

Still, all Californians will be chipping in: Proposition 30 also raises the state sales tax from 7.25% to 7.5% for four years, starting Jan. 1, 2013."[1]

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2012/11/08/califor...
Actually, I think thats exactly the problem. There is a general perception based on anecdotal experience, followed by a non rigorous 'scientific' data 'experiment', followed by analysis of results which throws out all the data which disagrees with the original perception. Look at the actual results, they dont really show a strong correlation with 'common experience amound developers',
Did anybody else read through that keyword-heavy body text, and think "I wonder if they'll really get away with trying to own the organic SERPs while the Adwords team are swatting down their paid placements?"
What i would love to see is an inductive cable run in the middle of each lane on the highway. You simply drive over the power source and get a continual charge as you drive along the freeway...

Can anyone tell me how this will cause cancer/kill children?
As long as you keep a proper frame of reference, you'll be fine (I disable tmux's status bar on nested tmux sessions though). You can use C-a a, or something similar to send a C-a to the nested session, although it can be a little annoying.
I've been pretty happy with namecheap as well.
Forks & Dongles: an open letter to Adria Richards [video]
I Can Haz Telco: A Quick Primer on How to Do Business With a Big Telco
The state of gui linux email clients has been abysmal for years. My primary usage mode is across multiple imap accounts with a decade of email and probably 15Gb total..

Evolution - imo bloated, painful, and abandoned.
Thunderbird - Less bloat, but not really progressing.

Opera's m2 email client was probably the best i could find for significant volume though closed source.

The cli clients are significantly better mutt + notmuch, and sup were my favorites.

I finally just went down the gmail road..

Beauty and features are great, usability at volume is even better. Good luck to yorba folks.
> Before BigBelly, trash collectors had to clear out each can three times a day. Now they do so three times a week.

Sounds like a simpler solution would be to - use larger trash cans!
Google's Google problem
Before the recent set of court rulings, private ownership of a pistol was indeed completely illegal with no exceptions in Chicago and Washington, DC. Several other jurisdictions are almost as strict - as of the last time I read up on it, in NYC, it is illegal to even touch a pistol which is not registered to you, which is a lengthy and complex process.
Get a theme from Themeforest, customize it a bit and you're done. Quick money to grab.
Don't we already had an app store for servers called apt-get?
Window smashing is one of the MOST justifiable things to have on a tool.

I keep glassbreakers and seatbelt cutters in my car with easy access, and also have tools which can break glass. I've been to two (civilian) vehicle accidents where that was incredibly useful -- being able to break the glass to access a person in an upside-down or sideways car from the outside. I had a glassbreaker for one, and the other I had to use a crowbar, which kind of sucked. I don't really see a "weapon" use of a glass breaker, particularly if you already have a knife or firearm to hand.

I also used a kershaw AO knife all the time to cut things while holding something else -- for instance, cutting open dressings while holding pressure, since someone had taken my shears. Or opening a cardboard box while holding it.
Potentially domain knowledge, contacts, access, name...

Whether they are what is required will depend on the situation.
He originated it, but it's since become a mainstay on the political blogs, from Yglesias and Krugman to the folks over at RedState.

Plus, it has a certain panache to it, don't you think? And vividly conjures a real phenomenon, despite eliding real principal agent problems.
Very cool project, looks quite well designed. I'm not sold on the name though.
I'm not so sure that the ultra-politically-correct environment that you're hoping for is going to solve your problem. Not everyone is going to be exactly like you. I'm feeling smothered just thinking about it.

Seriously, if you think dick jokes are childish consider how much adult money they've made for adult comedians making adults laugh.

Sure, you can censor people - but by the time you succeed in building your dream environment you'll only be surrounded by un-imaginative, un-courageous, do-nothing yes-men and that's exactly what you'll deserve. And no, the dick-jokes themselves are not that important. Freedom to be yourself though? Priceless.
Not to be discouraging, but: what does this offer me that Pinboard doesn't?
Thank you, Harvard Business Review, for letting everyone else know that having Ivy League credentials doesn't mean you walk on water.

When you have the leader, in the example shown, publicly dressing down "Ted" and then asking for validation from the rest of the team ("Am I off? Am I on target?"), you're not only saying to everyone "I'm willing to publicly humiliate you, too", but you're also saying something which can easily be misconstrued as "I need your validation because I'm a bit unsure of myself" and leaving yourself wide open to revolt from the team with the validating questions. Just one or two disgruntled employees can cause things to spin rapidly out of control.

Instead, when I have a situation like this I take Ted privately off to the side and say "Ted, I expect X, but I saw that you did Y. Why is that?"

When said appropriately, Ted might say "actually, I did Y because of Z" and then if you find out that Ted had a good reason to see the situation differently, you didn't just charge in guns-a-blazin' to publicly humiliate him only to make an ass out of yourself (I've seen this happen more than once).

If you're good at your job, Ted is usually wrong, so you explain to Ted why X is important and the consequences of Y and work to eliminate the underlying problem (which may very well be Ted himself). Once your team learns that you're willing to hear them out but you're going to take corrective action when needed, you can earn their respect. Publicly humiliating them by calling them out in a team meeting, however, is completely unprofessional.
Exhaustive Testing is Not a Proof of Correctness
Thanks for sharing this, any recommendations for a great immigration lawyer?
Seems an odd choice if just for the taxes. I would think Nevada or Colorado or even Oregon (my home state) would be better alternatives tax-wise, and yet still retain the "Startup community scene" to some extent.

I could see moving to New York if it were a finance or media company (sounds like it is a media company), so maybe that has a larger impact on location than tax alone.
Letting Johnny encrypt[1] sounds like an interesting topic of research, although IMO research probably shouldn't be bound to any particular product until it's no longer research.

[1] http://static.usenix.org/events/sec99/whitten.html
Income != Assets

His bio describes him as a "failed investment banker", so perhaps his lack of that kind of basic knowledge should come as no surprise.

This Proposition was passed back in November, yet somehow it appears to be news to the author.
Do you have evidence to support the assertion that it isn't purely percentage based? Perhaps there is some account out there that has the same ratio of prohibited items as knife-depot, but has not been banned?

Whether AdWords should allow "assisted open knife" ads is beside the point. Correct or not, AdWords is counting those as prohibited, the allegation of the OP is that AdWords banning criteria are applied differently to large accounts. I'm suggesting that the criteria is applied _exactly the same_, based on a percentage.

What I'm describing is also how Google Product Listing Ads get moderated: if X% of your items are in violation, your account is automatically shut down, pending appeal. Google sends a warning when you reach (X - Y)%, and another email when you reach X% and your account is shut down. I administrate 30,000+ PLA accounts and deal with this on a daily basis. This banning process is completely automated.
That is the most exciting news I've heard in quite a while.
My point about the agency of men is more: I know so many men to whom I've pointed out things like the huge gray area presented by compliments, who were glad to have their awareness raised. Not saying men should be policing other people, just being more deliberate about their own language and actions. So, for that matter, should women.
Is it illegal to mount fricken lasers to drones and fly them around?
They don't mention it, but I assume collections take a lot longer. My parents used to have a trash compactor in the kitchen, and let me tell you taking out a 90 lb. block of trash once every three weeks was way worse than tossing a 10 lb. bag every other day.
Why don't you do some research before posting FUD? The people planning this project built Shotwell, the default photo organizer for Fedora and Ubuntu. Clearly they know what they're doing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotwell_(software)
Agree. To me it seems like the entire purpose of this design is to make an end-run around the restrictions on switch-blades.

But with respect to this article, the biggest problem I see is not whether or not they are allowed, but that Google is setting arbitrary rules, rather than democratically elected representatives, and that the policy is the even arbitrarily enforced.
That's a contradiction. I personally have utility for the public. So do private companies. You can't call these things public utilities without introducing a contradiction into the language.

People who try to introduce contradictions into the language only do so because they are _motivated_ to do so, because they want to get something dishonestly.

Another good example, besides the one we are discussing, is the idea that people now call whatever they want a "human right." That's a contradiction, because it's not necessarily the case that it's even _possible_ to _produce_ enough of whatever that thing is.

Mangling the language is a crime against thought.
I can't see any easy link from their blog to their webstore, so that tactic might fail.
While I agree the US is far more violent than the UK, most of the US's incremental violence is explained by the drug war. Even if we had zero guns and the UK had US-style gun possession and laws, I suspect US drug laws (and other forms of extreme economic/political/legal inequality) would give us a higher murder rate.
Hey Chris, great way to get back! My only suggestion is to add some larger margins between your job listings for readability and maybe make the "Hey Craigslist’er" headline a little larger or a different color to stand out. Initially I couldn't tell what I was looking at.
>This is the same way you'd criticize a king, somebody you are beholden to. "Golly! I know you, the king, are not at fault, but some of these advisers of yours must have accidentally goofed up somewhere..."

I don't buy it. People don't criticize a king at all. You don't criticize the communist party in Stalinist Russia, tactfully or otherwise. Doing that gets you sent to the gulag.

The reason people say that it was a probably a mistake is that it was probably a mistake. There is no apparent malicious objective for Google to stop taking this company's money.

There are really only two plausible causes for this. The first is some bureaucratic red tape within Google, where some employee made a poor decision and no one has corrected it yet. The second is that this isn't Google at all, it's the government putting pressure on Google to stop doing business with certain types of companies, and then it's Google being beholden to the government and having to do its bidding.

And I have to say the second one is a lot more plausible. Google has every incentive to take an advertiser's money. They're a publicly traded company. They have an obligation to the shareholders. Turning down paying customers because of some moral objection to pointy objects is a little bit crazy. Turning down paying customers because otherwise the government is going to start harassing you is a lot more rational.

Of course, it could actually be both. Congress is fond of passing laws against doing business with "criminals" or "terrorist organizations" or whoever may be found wearing an Anti-Flag shirt, and lawyers are fond of the phrase "out of an abundance of caution." Put the two together and you get a de jure ban on certain things and a de facto ban on anything that might be sold in the same showcase as those things. And if you don't like that then you might want to stop voting for Congress critters who support the Patriot Act.
Zuckerberg is forming a SuperPAC for tech issues
Not sure if I understand you correctly. Wouldn't an email client with good PGP support help Johnny encrypt?
Please explain why jokes about penises are juvenile as compared to say...a joke about a paper airplane?

How about just talking about penises? You know, just a normal conversation out loud, in a train full of people...about our penises. Is that really juvenile...or something else?

(Or, you know, just downvote me because you don't like people questioning things that you accept to be true.)
At a $20 price point, thats awesome.

Jesus, you can now have a Rasberry Pi running as a $40 server and then build a system of these RFduinos and have a very affordable platform on which to build an incredible range of applications.
Is the fact that almost no startups talk about or use Oracle that much of a problem for Oracle? Those startups wouldn't have generated much revenue for Oracle anyway. Those startups will forever be in search for a free solution.
Ah, that's probably a much easier term to google. Part of the problem always seems to boil down to terminology. :) I figured it must be present in other ORMs, it seemed way to useful to not be pervasive.

It looks like select_related is the equivalent Django method to what I'm referring to in DBIx::Class, although prefetch_related (which you linked) looks superior in many respects. I'm fairly certain DBIx::Class allows a similar method to prefetch_related, but it may or may not be automatically done. I know it supports object caching, so it shouldn't be to hard to achieve in a few lines (but automatic is nice).

Interestingly, I don't see a way in Django to specify complex select fields to be included along with the default fields for a record. In a simple case that can be used to get a count of something, in complex cases it could be used to actually compute something on the DB to group and/or limit by (group by having). I'm probably just not familiar enough with QuerySets from this small bit of exposure to work it out.

NHibernate... That's a lot of code for something that should be simple. I imagine that's for explanatory reasons, and that much code isn't needed for most queries.
i totally agree that it's a tax, not an asset seizure, but i was trying to remain neutral; since he referred to it as an asset forfeiture and CA referred to it as a tax I just put both and left it up to the reader to decide which it was.
I use tmux daily but I still rely on emulator tabs when tailing verbose files as sending it through tmux will lock up my terminal.
Encryption is not the be-all and end-all of security. Here is a good example: your boss sends you a signed, encrypted message that just says, "You're fired!" You send that signed message to the secretary you have a grudge against, encrypted using her public key instead of yours. Now the secretary thinks she is fired too (potentially leading to mayhem within the company). This discusses the issue in depth:

http://world.std.com/~dtd/sign_encrypt/sign_encrypt7.html

PGP and S/MIME do not encrypt the subject line of emails; this is an easy way to leak information. You also do not get encryption of References/In-Reply-To headers, and various other headers that can leak information.
There appear to be two people on that list.
Kids Prefer Cheese: When Engineers Have Dogs
It would probably be possible to do it cheaper, but there is tremendous cost advantage at scale in this business. Then there's the question of focus. Do I want to have to hire the ops folks? their managers? create new payscales and review standards? Am I going to be good at attracting or judging talent in this field that is only tangentially related to software that I do know? Will the best people in that field want to work for me?
Yahoo Stock Under Marissa Mayer
Don't. It's a bad idea. You can no longer discuss progress and failures with them because they're personally invested. Against my better judgment I took $ from family. When I was doing poorly I was pressured to shut it down. When I started doing well I was pressured to pay out when I really needed to invest in the company. And all the while I hear the "you couldn't have done it without me" speeches.

They'll start watching every purchase you make and wonder "is that my money he's spending?" I can't talk about buying a new phone, a new laptop, or anything else. My own mother heckles me about "paying my employees too much". Every time they see a photo of you on facebook at a music festival they're going to think, "so thats what he's doing with my money." They'll want status updates every time you see them when what you need is a few hours away from work.

If you can bootstrap--do that. Only raise money to expand when you're already doing well but could be doing better.
Oracle (and IBM) will continue to dominate in industries that are not particularly subject to competition (especially not from startups), due to regulatory capture.

In particular, this is banking (an extremely heavily controlled industry), and telecom (regulation here is mainly just to keep out competition, not as much to control).
In behavioral economics this is known as loss aversion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

In a nutshell it's this: They now have $1000 in the bank, and worry more about losing that than winning an additional $1000.
March Madness, Star Wars style
Sun pushed Java for everything and everyone one. Go was built to solve problems at Google. If they solve your problem, cool, but that isn't (or wasn't) the goal.
They're made in the same plants.
Obviously I and the writer of the article disagree with you that it fails the first case.
There appears to be at most 21 items on any of the lists. http://40this.com/
Imagine that you don't know how to use a command line, then look again.
That's also a potential problem, but the weight:surface area ratio suggests that whole trees are more likely to get knocked over and stay in place, while individual branches are more likely to become long-range projectiles.
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People were criticizing the infrastructure analogy made for Google Reader recently; so you can imagine how amused I was, while reading Levy's _In The Plex_, to read this bit:

> While some Googlers felt singled out unfairly for the attention, the more measured among them understood it as a natural consequence of Google’s increasing power, especially in regard to distributing and storing massive amounts of information. “It’s as if Google took over the water supply for the entire United States,” says Mike Jones, who handled some of Google’s policy issues. “It’s only fair that society slaps us around a little bit to make sure we’re doing the right thing.”

(In a part generally about advertising, fittingly enough.)
Unless i'm missing something whatever you enter is only stored in local storage. S3 is just serving the static assets of the site.
You're right of course but I think a straightforward way to sign, encrypt and decrypt your email would be a big step forward.
Nesting terminal multiplexers is very good, I do it for exactly the use case you mentioned. Escaping your escape key is easy, with a little practice you won't even realize you're doing it.

I have a shell function called 'go' that creates a new screen and labels it, connects to the remote host via SSH, and then recreates or re-attaches to the remote scren as appropriate. My top level screen session currently has 8 remote hosts I'm logged into, each running their own nested screen sessions.

My go() function also reads my ~/.ssh/config file to grab all my host aliases so I can tab complete to them. Note, I'm a Perl programmer, and rarely write shell scripts, so this function may be kinda ugly.

go()
{
local OPTIND OPTARG
local SCREENCMD="screen -dRR"

while getopts "xn" flag; do
case "$flag" in
x) SCREENCMD="screen -xRR"; shift;;
n) SCREENCMD=""; shift;;
esac
done

if [ "$#" == "0" ]; then
echo "Need someplace to go."
return 1;
fi

while (( "$#" )); do
screen -t $1 ssh -tq $1 $SCREENCMD
shift
done
}

_go_show()
{
local curr opts
cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
opts=$(grep 'Host ' ~/.ssh/config | cut -d' ' -f2)
COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${opts}" ${cur}) )
}
complete -F _go_show go
Any philadelphians or visitors to philadelphia want to chime in? I want to visit it due to history and architecture.

Is the city center doing well, or decaying? I know some cities have vibrant cores but decaying inner peripheries. (i.e. between downtown and newer suburbs)
Yeah, sure. That's what an average is. It is taking the performance of a large case and reducing it to a single unit in order to make comparisons.
It's not so much that they get to decide as much as thu are being told to decide. Google would much rather operate in a safe harbour where they act as an indiscriminate marketplace for advertising, with the advertisers being responsible for compliance. Regulators, however, find it easier to go after bottlenecks versus chasing down individual offenders. This makes compliance the marketplaces' problem.

The alternative would require giving regulators the resources and power to screen through advertisements and pursue every offender individually.
"Do you have evidence to support the assertion that it isn't purely percentage based?"

No. I reasoned to it by flipping it over. If the banning is purely percentage based then a viable business would be to create an entity that laundered AdWords spend. This is how it would work.

Let's call our company "Ads-r-us" and it contracts with Knife Depot and 1-800 Flowers. It charges Knife Depot a 'premium' to get its 'ban-inducing ads' and it charges 1-800-Flowers a discount because its ads are "clean." It structures the premium and the discount such that there is a bit of cream in the middle for it to keep. Then our entity goes off and buys Ad insertions at various bid points. Knife Depot can advertise forever since there is no risk of them being banned because Ads-R-Us is keeping the percentages in check.

I looked around for these guys, I don't see them. (And as a web search engine they aren't talking to me either). So either they don't exist (which I reason is unlikely given how much thought people put into 'scamming' the advertising business on internet ads) or such a scheme wouldn't work. And if it really is strictly percentage based it would work.

From that my thinking was that it might not be purely percentage based. No one is picking up the Canadian Pharma ads, and they have a LOT of money to throw around.
"Hackers."
Making Art Out of Earthquakes