skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but also higher wealth increases the ability to have a higher income.

This I don't quite agree with. Overall it makes sense but it is not as direct a correlation.

Wealth gives you leverage, but only by the weakest of factors can it give you higher income directly. There would always be some sort of intermediate step. There are few ways you can transform wealth directly into income without significant work. (At that point it becomes less a factor of the wealth directly and more you earning an income.)

Eg. You are born wealthy and because of that your father knows a lot of people willing to give you an opportunity that a person not born wealthy wouldn't have. This only works if you aren't an idiot, or an alcoholic, etc. If you are, the chances of you turning your own wealth into income which you can then convert back into more wealth is significantly hampered compared to someone without these issues but less starting wealth. If you aren't putting work and effort into exploiting the leverage that wealth provides, you will not create income.
This tool was inspired by this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663793
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As a side note, if you've never read this interview with Tim Schafer about the release of Psychonauts you owe it to yourself to do so, it is epic: http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin%252Ffeatures...
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EasyDNS.. the company that closed my company's paid account over a month before the term ended because I informed them we didn't want to renew. If they think paying a modest sales tax is going to offset their terrible service, they are dreaming.
I don't have time to read 50 states' tax codes, file 50 tax returns and potentially be audited 50 times a year. What small business does?
Can you recommend any introductory papers in the area, or keywords to look for aside from the obvious?
If your mother created a railroad things might be different, no?
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Well. Suddenly I'm hit by memories of childhood days thinking FrontPage was the best thing ever... and maybe was it Nvu before or after that? (Who remembers Nvu of all things?) And Java applets taken from a book just to have fancy rollover buttons, the obligatory tables-everywhere, soon enough the rise of Flickr, with the following trends of vowel dropping and glossy images everywhere with Trebuchet MS in hand, or maybe using Flash text replacement, and soon enough we're here.

How things change. Here's to another ten years.
Transfer the private keys ahead of time, to a program which waits for a significant split and then automatically spends to a new address.

Which means that one can't really trust generic spends in the cut-off area.
The 2003 VAT on e-Services laws are: they are a modification of the general VAT laws to better level the playing field between companies inside and outside of the EU for digital goods downloaded over the Internet. Before, companies in the EU had to collect VAT on all purchases (including from people in other countries), and companies in other countries did not have a realistic way to collect VAT from countries in the EU. Since the inception of that law, companies in the EU do not have to collect taxes on sales to other countries, and companies from all countries must collect VAT for sales to customers in the EU. They established a simplified registration process by which companies can register in a single jurisdiction and then remit collected VAT in a single currency, accompanied with a breakdown of which countries are owed which amounts. (None of this applies to physical goods, nor would such things be necessary, because those are taxed at the point of collection based on the declarations goods stated on the import/export documentation.)
So as a hypothetical business owner in Washington who sells things online, I have to keep track of the tax laws of the other 49 states, and remit 50 checks quarterly (or maybe annually)?
In my experience, customer facing professionals are often quite bad at gauging the actual importance of client concerns, and good at magnifying them. I certainly was.

Scheduling adequate coverage is ultimately a concern for upper management. If they allowed "critical issues" to go unresolved on anything other than a rare occasion, the issues were probably not critical to begin with.
This just isn't good statistics. The fact that the vast majority of hysterectomies are performed on women doesn't tell us anything about the probability that a randomly selected woman has had a hysterectomy; the fact that the vast majority of wealth is held by the rich doesn't tell us anything about the probability that a randomly selected rich person has a lot of wealth.
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I think you misunderstand. The proposed changes are simply to remove the tax exemption. State sales tax will apply to internet purchases, just like they do for mail order. The confusion comes from the weird sales tax systems in place. I live in Colorado where the sales tax rates change according to a maze of Byzantine laws.
I like Tiny Tiny RSS. It's open-source and self-hosted, so not reliant on other people. While you could host it on your own computer, I prefer to host it on heroku (https://github.com/projectdelphai/ttrss-on-heroku. It's also been hosted on openshift (http://tt-rss.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1360), but I have no experience with that. Overall, though, ttrss works really well. I would highly recommend it.
The DSM takes a pragmatic approach to mental disorders - pragmatic in the sense of the pragmatic maxim:

Consider what effects, that might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object. -- C.S. Pierce

This should not be surprising. William James, who wrote the book on psychology, was a pragmatist.

The emphasis on chemical and genetic causes will have as its consequence increased use of profitable pharmaceutical drugs and gene therapies and a deprecation of counciling and cognitive therapies. There is a role for drugs, but it is not a one size fits all solution.

Just because we no longer believe schizophrenic behavior is caused by demonic possession, it does not mean that we are currently assigning causality correctly.
Gold is special because of its universal value, and it is especially useful in refugee scenarios where your war-ravaged currency has lost value, but your asylum country still has a stable economy. Gold is easily concealed, transported, and exchanged. My father's family converted much of their assets to gold when fleeing to the US from Vietnam at the end of the war.
I actually disagree. Flask does not necessarily shine with projects of high complexity. The framework designers themselves say as much:

"However Flask is just not designed for large applications or asynchronous servers. Flask wants to make it quick and easy to write a traditional web application."[1]

Flask is excellent when you just don't need a bunch of the stuff in Django, and don't need the batteries to be included. It's not so much that Flask is suitable to high-complexity apps, but more that it's suited to highly custom web apps. Building a music sharing app based on jQuery mobile and backed by Mongo? You're better off with Flask. But at scale you're going to end up doing something custom.

Django is highly suitable if you need to manage users, have a variety of entities that lend themselves to the admin dashboard (more broadly, that the admin/public app metaphor even makes sense in the first place), and find a plug-and-play package system compelling.

They are both great frameworks, but "complexity" (advanced/simple) is the wrong axis along which to evaluate them.

[1]http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/design/
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Agreed. I think the author should have said "In order to satiate content owners' demands, developers will need to implement DRM. The quality of HTML5 streaming still needs work."
With one additional part: VAT is paid on imports (on any package over a certain value).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but an import duty was not part of the sales tax bill.
Yes, that's what's happening if this bill passes in the House.
how about S6c56bnXQiBjk9mqSYE7ykVQ7NzrRy

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mini_private_key_format
Typically there's a subtle difference in courses taken.

For example - at my school Comp Sci were allowed to take physics for physics majors instead of physics for engineers. For both electromagnetic physics and mechanical physics. Typically most engineers are required to take some courses in the some basic courses, ie Dynamics, Statics, and others depending on your major. This all assumes that your ABET accredited. Maybe it's because I don't see an accrediting agency/society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABET#Members
To be fair, even gold (and as I'm loathe to put in the same category, bitcoin) speculators aren't really relying upon a full-out goldilocks apocalypse for their assets to appreciate, just a continuation of the current trend of currency devaluation of the U.S. dollar. I think you're right that if something really bad happened (read: worse than 2008 or 2001) then the men with guns would take your gold and your bitcoins (though honestly, they probably won't give a shit about the bitcoins) has they've done before and will do again.
Hm, looking into that. I noticed that the lat/longs in the GTFS feeds can occasionally be off/inconsistent.
Eh, just because somebody is in the office doesn't mean he's available at a moment's notice. Couldn't the same argument be made against meetings? It can't be any less annoying having to say, "I'm sorry, I was going to ask one of our developers but it seems he's in a meeting."

In fact, in either case, I'd say something like "I don't have a great answer myself, but I'm checking with the developer in charge of that feature and I'll have all the details for you by $TIME."
Yep. At least you can see the crocodile and can stay away from it. Roaches though? Those fuckers scurry all over the place and you don't see them until they start crawling on you...
Tattoo perhaps? Laser-printing onto contact lens? Any other ideas?
Using S3 for static media makes perfect sense, but does anyone have information on S3 when your contributors (users in the admin) are uploading lots of images for via something like django-filebrowser or a simple zipfile upload (that extracts the images into a folder)? I haven't seen anything like this in any examples.
As an American citizen, I can assure you this guy is talking out of his ass, and America will continue to be a leader in many cutting edge fields for years to come. American economic prowess may decrease relative to the rest of the world as they finally catch up, but "the writing is on the wall" is sensationalist bullshit. I will never understand the correlation between technophiles and Libertarian pseudo-economic bullshit; 0 empirical evidence to back it up, yet the same stupid causal chain of events is brought up all the time.
Last I heard the difference is a coal-fired oven in Brooklyn, which is not allowed in Manhattan beyond the existing grandfathered ones.
How do people in Witness Protection deal with it? Do the Feds have a deal with Facebook/etc, to block facial recognition?
The main thing the EU did to simplify that is require one set of VAT rules per country. They can differ. For example, Denmark charges VAT on books, while the UK doesn't. And, like with the proposed US legislation, it's based on destination: if you order from amazon.co.uk to a Danish address, you pay VAT based on Danish rules.

But what can't happen is a situation where Herning, Ishøj, and Copenhagen charge different rates for different products. That simplifies the system considerably.
You're looking at one year of wealth creation here, and dancing around the obvious third variable: time. Old people are much more wealthy than young people[1] despite having comparable or lower incomes.

[1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/11/07/the-rising-age-gap...
The obnoxious tone of this article seems to have obscured the fine point which it sets out to make. This is not about how some sleeping patterns are superior or inferior to others, or how you're a better or worse person depending on when you get up.

This is about how if you agree to so something, then you must do it. Thus, if you are scheduled to attend a meeting at 7:30 or 8am, then you must go to it: otherwise, the word that describes you is “irresponsible”.

If mornings are a problem for you, you need to make an arrangement _beforehand_ with your coworkers and/or employer: this is the way that you can avoid being a total self-centered dick.
Interesting. But if 1. Was not available would you rather have 2. Or 3.?
Note: Office Hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PST)

Office closed probably from 12:00 p.m - 12:30 p.m for lunch break :P
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I was thinking of the stainless steel version, but looking that up looks like the answer is "depends". Depends on the definition of "magnetic" (since all materials are to a degree) and the type of stainless steel.

I just noticed that my own "iron" ring (which is stainless steel) doesn't seem to respond to typical magnets you'd find around the office.

Clearly _iron_ is though, considering it's the element with the symbol "Fe" which is short for Ferrum.
Exactly. Don't expect your HTML to be perfectly indented unless you're writing that HTML yourself, but most people don't, an Amazon surely doesn't. The HTML is generated server side.
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If you use code from GCC and distribute the combined work, then you must adhere to the license of GCC.

With CLANG, same is true, but the license requirementa are fewer.
Err, the fact that the vast majority of hysterectomies are performed on women does tell us that hysterectomies are strongly correlated with sex. That was the initial dispute: whether wealth and income are strongly correlated or not. The distribution is a separate argument, although I'll note that the PDF I linked has some data on the distributions as well, and it does not support the "weak link between them" argument. The proportion of very-wealthy people with low incomes, and very-high-income people with low wealth, is actually quite small.
yes.. I have checked out prefinery. I think it is okay. But I wanted to go deeper into the management of the beta to increase participation. So I ended up developing a new platform for my day job. Now I am thinking about launching it as a new service.

What are you using for your stuff.
A "good" regex library will dynamically generate code; and if the regex is simple enough, generate code that implements a DFA rather than NFA (or PDA, for Perl regexes). So for a "good" library, no, it won't be much faster.

But very few regex libraries are that "good", because it's a combination of extreme speed with very low flexibility (DFA has exponential state explosion in worst cases compared to equivalent NFA, and isn't able to deal with e.g. backreferences). The vast majority of good regex libraries will be an order of magnitude slower. Average regex libraries included in most language distributions will be slower again.

The chief exception is compiler lexer generators like lex and flex. They produce code very similar to the state machine linked. And that's probably the most common place to see this kind of thing.

Encoding the state of the machine implicitly as the program counter, rather than an explicit state variable, often results in more readable code and is the more usual way to do it when writing it by hand. It also saves a register, important on some architectures. But the technique has slightly more limited expressiveness owing to needing to stick with structured programming constructs.
he said "No one likes waking up in the morning."

do you think he suffers from delayed sleep-phase disorder?
It's been a pit of crime and poverty surrounded by opulence for twenty years now. The City's government works hard to preserve the Tenderloin as it is by blocking development and gentrification with building codes, tenant rights measures, permitting, policing strategies, homelessness subsidies, and more.
The post implies that there is some additional "Internet only" tax above and beyond regular sales tax. This is the confusion, I believe. The Marketplace fairness act is not imposing extra taxes on top of normal sales tax. It is simply removing the exemption that mail order and internet sales currently enjoy. Jeff Seems to be OK with the idea of Canada's goods and services tax - I'm not sure why he thinks sales tax is so different.
Big false dichotomy. That director most likely could have made Romeo and Julet even if they'd had to pay a licence fee, just like how he's now managed to make a film adaptation of Gatsby, which will likely also be a box office success and enrich the culture of film.

This really just boils down to some people being mad that they can't make money off derivative works because other people are making money off the original work. Boo hoo.
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This argument is ludicrous. You are saying that you shouldn't have to pay the taxes you legally owe because it's hard for you to do the accounting? It's much harder to file taxes if you have to itemize returns, should that make you exempt from paying taxes?

You could avoid them entirely by only selling to the five states that don't have sales taxes, that's a vastly larger market than the area around a single mom & pop store.

I'd be all for some sort of scheme for streamlining tax collection for online purchases, but paying nothing at all is just rent-seeking.

> For an individual making $30k/year (3% net on $1m in gross), is that really levelling the playing field?

If they're making that $30k/year because they're dodging state taxes, then yeah, it's leveling the playing field.
Ask HN: Devices for sleep monitoring?
I suffer from Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome and I've been looking for ways to work myself out of it. One of the things I want to try is some sort of alarm tied to my sleep rhythms.

I've been eagerly awaiting the Fitbit Flex for just this reason, however I've seen reviews [0] stating that the wake alarm is nothing more than a fixed time alarm, unlike the Fitbit One. I may end up buying the One, but I wondered if anyone here has a recommendation?

I've seen various mobile apps, but ideally I'd like something attached to me (as that would be more accurate?) I tend to kick things off my bed as well!

Thanks

[0]: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/6/4303072/fitbit-flex-review
> I'm not even arguing in favor of the internet tax. Just against the arguments easyDNS used here against it

Is that what you did? The main point was that corporations outside US jurisdiction will have a competitive advantage simply by not being in the US. You rebut claiming competitiveness is a non-factor in considering regulation, citing outsourcing and cheap foreign labor as evidence?

> a company can be American in name, but in no more benefit to the US as a country than Toyota or Samsung.

What does this mean? Toyota and Sumsung are a huge benefit to the American economy. A Toyota Tundra has more US manufactured parts than most "American" trucks. It seems you fail to realize the benefits of a globalized economy, and therefore promote American isolationism to bring us back to our glory days.
Autistic people aren't always particularly annoying.

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Anyway, one's based on a deficit of ability and the other's based on a deficit of will.

Oh, I'll grant that strictly speaking the dick can't really be anything else - free will doesn't exactly show up as a major correlate.

But when you change the social pressure's in the dick's case you get different behaviours out at the other end - whereas when you change the social pressures in the autistic person's case they don't stop being autistic for all you can train some of them to fake it somewhat when they get older.
You basically Godwinned the discussion, dude. Except you used rapists rather than Hitler. There are ways to make your point without resorting to ridiculous hyperboles.
There's always this one: https://twitter.com/Horse_Recruiter
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"Father (English), padre (Italian), pere (French), pater (Latin) and pitar (Sanskrit) are cognates" - From related article http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/lingui...
>What lawmakers fail to understand is that taxation specific to the internet

What I fail to understand is what this internet specific tax is. The Marketplace Fairness act currently under consideration doesn't create new taxes - it just pushes the responsibility for collecting existing taxes on vendors instead of relying on consumers to pay those taxes voluntarily, like they are supposed to do right now. (at least in my state. YMMV)
Huh? Right now, internet retailers do not legally owe any sales tax to any state they don't have nexus in. The retailers aren't evading any taxes for any reason. This creates a new collection burden that didn't exist, and does not exist for brick-and-mortar, even if they have customers from all 50 states come by and make a purchase. Someone that opens a shop in their town does not have to file 51 returns a year and potentially be audited 51 times, while under this bill, someone opening the same store at the same place with a website does.

I didn't say there could or should be no tax, I said that this bill creates an uneven burden. How is that a ridiculous statement?
Another cool LLVM based project that has Garbage Collection is the Epoch Programming Language[0] uses a similar approach [1]. Original reddit submission here [2].

[0] https://code.google.com/p/epoch-language/

[1] https://code.google.com/p/epoch-language/wiki/GarbageCollect...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1c5jz6/realisti...
That BI headline is all I need to read about this. Let me know when they progress beyond govWorks.com
> I'll also point out that it's hard to write about the roaring '20s before the Copyright act of 1909.

Yep. It's almost as if such an argument would be too absurd to take seriously.
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Is there any strong technical reasons why GCC can't just copy any useful features from Clang such as the improved error messages and put that into GCC? License-wise, there shouldn't be any problems to put permissive code inside a copyleft project (except maybe politics).
So re-frame it as the removal of the exemption. Makes no difference how you spell that out, it adds up to an increase in taxes on goods sold / bought for American companies.
Where I live, kids under 15 have to wear a helmet while biking. But I never see any kids wearing helmets. Because laws that cannot be enforced will be ignored freely. Piracy is supposedly illegal, but look at the attitudes towards it: it's not considered a crime because it's impossible to enforce.

Perhaps bitcoins while be regulated, but will it not get green-stamped by the general public just like piracy?
This post is idiotic for at least 3 reasons I can think of:

1. The tax is not "specific to the internet" but is designed to make it so that internet-only businesses are required to collect the same taxes that bricks'n'mortar businesses are required to.

2. EasyDNS's right to sell to US customers is regulated under a giant freaking, bureaucratic law known as NAFTA. If they every got large enough to compete with large US corporations, they could become subject to all sorts of mechanisms to ensure that US corporations can compete with them (countervailing duties for starters). They should shut the hell up.

3. Everything they say also applies to US companies selling to Canadian customers.
One more addition: Use heroku.