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I've been getting around this lately...

While I'm working, I contribute the max I can to retirement savings (RSP, 401k, whatever it's called in your country) so I reduce my taxable income by that amount.

In the years I'm not working (don't want to, travel, etc.), I take money out of those retirement savings. If I take out less than the tax-free threshold ($10k/yr in Canada) I pay no tax on that money. If I take out more, it will be less than I earned in my working years, so I'll be in a lower tax bracket anyway.

In this way I'm averaging out the taxes I pay over many years, and it takes out the spikes and dips from working/not-working years.

The only downside to this is that once you've taken money out, you can't get that money back again onto your yearly contribution cap, so when I'm old and grey, my retirement savings likely won't be as high as they otherwise would be (but I don't believe in that anyway, so for me, it's not valid)
The trouble is that a simple house hold budget is very very different to that of a sovereign state.

This simplistic approach leads some (some might say most) politicians to sell dubious policies by folksy appeal to peoples perceived knowledge when in fact they are guilty of "Unconscious incompetence"
I actually don't find this story all too surprising. What really irked me was the piece on how Japan commodified various aspects of a relationship (i.e. "cuddle cafes"[0], those bar/club places where people pay top dollar to tell their problems to complete strangers). Maybe this is the logical "next step" of human relationships; however, such a conclusion is thoroughly disheartening.

[0]http://www.vice.com/the-vice-guide-to-travel/the-japanese-lo...
What did Colour actually do? I thought it was something about showing pictures taken near you, but I gave it a go in Sydney Australia; either no-one was using it here or I was using it wrong due to the pretty but meaningless interface.
> sibling commenter's observation of income, not wealth, is astute

In the U.S., at least, income and wealth are highly correlated, so there isn't a huge distinction to be made. There are indeed some wealthy people with low income, and high-income people with low wealth, but it isn't the norm. See table 5 (pg. 36) in this whitepaper, which shows both net worth by income percentile, and income by net worth percentile: http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2009/200913/200913pa...

Example numbers: the top 1% of 2007 income-earners held 26% of U.S. wealth, and the top 1% of households by net worth in 2006 earned 16% of the year's income. Meanwhile, the bottom 50% of income-earners held only 14% of U.S. wealth, and the bottom 50% by net worth earned only 22% of U.S. income. The general trend holds in the in-between categories as well: the 95-99th percentile of incomes hold about twice as much wealth as the 90-95th percentile, etc.

So the relationship is not perfect, but taking the groups in aggregate, higher-income-earners control considerably more wealth than lower-income-earners. Some of the later figures in the document explicitly plot some ratios.

Progressive taxation also has relatively little impact here. If you converted the income tax to an implied wealth tax (i.e. take tax paid in a year divided by wealth held at that time), U.S. income taxes are in aggregate roughly equivalent to a flat tax on wealth.
Numb in what way? Numb to the mundane in-and-out stuff of the business? I'm sure many people in many industries become numb to things.
I remember ichiro's last contract with the mariners was going to be paid out over 25 years or something. The guy makes a ton from commercials in japan, but maybe this is actually a decent move?

Edit: on second thought since star athletes are getting paid in the millions, prorating it over 20 years won't change that much in the grand scheme of things. Maybe something like 400k*20% each year before they hit the max bracket anyways.
> Not many languages manage to implement map in a way that ["1", "2", "3"].map(parseInt) would result in [1, NaN, NaN]

It may seem counterintuitive at first, but it makes sense when you consider the function signatures. The map function passes two arguments; the element, and its index. The index ends up being used as the radix, which causes this sequence of calls:

parseInt("1", 0);
parseInt("2", 1);
parseInt("3", 2);

I'd recommend creating a higher-order function that takes a function and returns a unary version:

function unary(fn) {
return function(arg) {
return fn(arg);
};
}

Then you could use it like this:

["1", "2", "3"].map(unary(parseInt));
// => [1, 2, 3]

I think the problem is that you assumed (not unreasonably) that [...].map(parseInt) was an eta reduction of [...].map(function(e) {return parseInt(e);}). Unfortunately it's not, which caused some unexpected results. This would happen in any language where the map function passes two arguments and the string-to-integer function has an optional second argument.

Consider the following Ruby (this is a really weird way to do it in Ruby, but I'm trying to make the method signatures match):

# This lambda has the same type signature as JavaScript's parseInt
parse_int = ->(str, radix = 10) { str.to_i radix }

# This converts the lambda to a block and calls it with each element
# from the array, along with its index.
%w[1 2 3].map.with_index &parse_int
# => ArgumentError: invalid radix 1

As an aside, I'm a recovering JavaScript hater as well. I've mostly made peace with JS, though there are still parts of the language that make my skin crawl (See this gist for my favorite example: https://gist.github.com/actsasbuffoon/7323667). That said, there are some parts of JavaScript that are genuinely great. I recommend reading JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite. I'm scarcely exaggerating when I say the book completely changed the way I look at JavaScript.
I mean, how much do you supporters of the google buses want to grasp at straws? It just becomes a series of:

-make argument.

-have someone explain why your argument is wrong.

-make up new argument, disregard whether it is remotely related to the original point you made. Just grasp at straws to seem "right".

I mean, we start with "its not like the buses are doing something illegal" to which the answer is "yes, they certainly are" and then it turns to this assumption that every google employee would drive otherwise, ignoring that many employees moved to these bus stop locations specifically for the buses, or the fact that there is a train that runs from SF to Mountain view. But yeah, these buses should be able to do whatever illegal behavior they want because of the next strawman i've yet to anticipate you all making up...
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Incidentally, the way the kids were typing in the recent Ender's Game movie is interesting. Does anyone know how deeply they designed that system/interface? (i.e., was it just random keystrokes or did the chording actually matter?)
Was expecting to see <table>
Wow, it's very bright. Would be great if there was a toggle for a dark theme instead.
I think a good way to describe it is a package deal containing one stock and one american sell option. So basically you value the sell option at $50, which is stupid, since the profit from exercising it can never be over $50.

EDIT: What I mean is, the absolute best possible case for the option is that the stock drops to zero. In that best case you get your money back: $50
>People of privilege moving to the Mission, mostly ignoring the culture of the neighborhood and it's long-time residents, fueling out of control rent increases, slowly destroying a cultural landmark.

I dunno, just peering at the crime maps for the Mission[1]...Gentrification isn't the worst thing that could happen to the place. Not gentrifying probably is.

[1] https://spotcrime.com/ca/san+francisco/mission
I'm guessing probably because the secular crowd doesn't ascribe so much power significance to sexual matters. They don't see a girl being forced to do sex work (of any variety) as having been exploited in any way. What's interesting, I suppose, is that a new form feminism brewing (especially among women of younger age) shares these values -- they see sex work just like any other work to get money, and so the sex work is just fine and should be let as is according to them.

I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this if you have any.
Pretty difficult to glean much from this in terms of actual funding. It looks like it is on a log scale or something and has nothing on mouseover except the name. I guess most of them are between $10K and $82M but it's hard to see where.
I am 42 years old and I have never had to change a tire, not once.
I hear you, but you have to discount that for income derived from investments and the wealth and count only wages earned.
I don't know a single language where the standard map function passes two arguments instead of one. Python has the starmap function as an alternative in case someone really needs that.
Very interesting. The site is beautiful and I like what you guys are doing. Good luck to you!
But you have evidence that your sample is not representative in exactly the area that you're discussing.
And, to be clear, that's the average household income, not the average personal income.
> where people pay top dollar to tell their problems to complete strangers

In a way that is what often happens in therapy too. (Of course therapists tend to have training)
Wow. Thanks for the unexpected post & votes here, HN buddies. This community is an ongoing inspiration.
Wait what, you're seriously claiming that unless I hunt my own dinner I cannot be dissapointed that some of the brightest minds of our generation are building ANOTHER delivery site? How does this logic work?
wow, seems like it's true that there are always two people with the same idea, somewhere on earth. Or, how they would say it in Germany: "Two idiots, same idea."

To me, the MDN to MSDN portal similarity is also a striking symbol of the Mozilla & Microsoft partnership. The design, even looks like it's a little Windows 8 inspired, from my angle.

(There's no assessment involved)
This is why you have wealthy families doing weird year end selling of investments. Lock in capital losses to reduce tax exposure, sell holdings this year rather than next year for one reason or another, etc
It sure doesn't feel rich to me :(

At the end of the month, after taxes and FICA and health insurance and Medicare and retirement are withheld, and after paying for housing, food, transportation, insurance, utilities, sundry expenses, and student loans--there's not a whole lot of that $100K/12 left!

Raising taxes on $100K would be almost intolerable. I could probably part with a couple thousand more a year, but it would be difficult, and I have very little faith that they'll invest my money wisely....
You say this as if the sex industry is a single organization which does both the cam shows of legal adults and exploitation of children.

Would you say that the internet industry is inherently harmful because much of this exploitation of children takes place over the internet? Would you say that the software industry is inherently harmful because some people write malware?

You said that "I think the industry is fundamentally different and in its most extreme realizations has been shown to cause severe emotional harm to exploited workers" but I'm not sure how the most extreme realizations of abuse in a particular industry speak to the industry as a whole, unless those are somehow condoned by the majority of the industry or vastly more widespread in a particular industry.

There's a lot of the adult entertainment industry that works scrupulously within the law, and provides income for a lot of models. For some reason, a lot of people have a notion that they are being harmed merely because they are involved in sex work, no matter that they are consenting adults and are choosing this work over any of a number of other jobs that they could have.

So do you believe that working in the sex industry is inherently harmful in some way? Or do you believe that the industry exploits its workers more than is common in other industries? Or that acceptance of harmful behavior is more widespread in the sex industry? And do you have evidence to back this up?

And note, of course, that I'm talking about the legal sex industry; like in the case of any prohibition, such as alcohol prohibition back in the day or drug prohibition today, illegal industries tend to attract more crime, because you're already a criminal merely by participating in the industry. Do you have evidence that shows that the legal sex industry is particularly harmful or more conducive towards tempting people to abusive or illegal behaviors than any other similar industry?
But that system rigidly streamed kids at an early age and until recently once on the apprenticeship track it limited your progression.
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My experience with real world (but still academic) data has been that there is lots of magic---feature selection to be specific.

(I'm not disagreeing, just referring to a different kind of "magic")

Everything else matters, but when your ML doesn't work it's 100% a feature selection problem. Which usually means it's 99% a problem of getting lots of domain expertise jammed up against a lot of ML experience and mathematical understanding. It's also a bear.
The sentiment you express is very true. Time is limited, make every day count. As I got older that became more and more clear to me.
I think you're conflating ordinary income tax rates with long term capital gains tax rate, dividend tax rate, tax free muni bond yields, etc that the 7 figure wealthy and above use.
I don't think he has read the mythical man-month. Adding programmers to a late project makes it come out later.
Agreed. San Francisco has an artificial cap on supply as demand continues to rise.

It doesn't take more than the first 40 seconds of an economics class to figure out what's going to happen to the price.

You can either decrease demand or increase supply. And good luck kicking people out of San Francisco.

(As a side note, if I worked for google I'd live as close as possible in Mountain View. But I'm not the nightlife type.)
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Maybe your judgement indicates more about you than us? Perhaps you feel that dealing with us is wearisome?

Nope, it is an objectively wearisome process. You guys are oh so lame.
The rationale was that it should be a writer because we were building a distributed log or journal (a service dedicated to writing). The writer needed to be someone that (1) I liked, (2) sounded cool as a name, (3) was dead (because it would be creepy to use the name of someone who was alive).
There are many, many levels of "rich." In essence, a small amount of wealth reveals how poor someone was and how poor they still are by comparison. Note: comparisons lead to insecurity and unhappiness, by definition.

It's as stupid as the rich lists, because the definition of rich is an inability to count one's net worth (due to illiquid valuation of investments and assets).
To answer your question quite simply; we do. When people realise it's all a shell game and they are being manipulated by a parasitic organism that pretends to act for their benefit while actually doing its utmost to control and extract everything that it can from them, this is the first step to really changing that state of affairs.

As long as the truth, justice and apple pie rhetoric holds sway, all momentum to destroy the system remains muted. When people stop buying it on the other hand... Things will really start to change.

I stopped buying it years ago, the extent to which my life personally has changed as a result is absolute. Not a single thing remains the same as prior to my fundamental rejection of the premises of the modern nation state as a beneficial organisational unit. Scaled up from just rare individuals scattered across the world into wide societal acceptance this will be an unstoppable force for change.
Do US schools not have "shop" class that teaches this I certainly did wood and metalwork and technical drawing at my UK school.
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"and that building more housing is the wrong solution"

People who own housing in an artificially supply constrained environment would think that!
There are any number of malware infections that are designed to scrape passwords out of saved password caches. They are regrettably effective.
Well just imagine how poor you would feel with just the median household income of 50k (2011 US Census) or worse and you were the bottom 20% making <=25k.
Regarding 'WMDs in Iraq', chemical weapons were never really considered WMD before the US needed to justify the Iraq invasion. WMD meant 'nuclear' to the general public, and chemical weapons were added to make them bathe in the 'reflected glory' of nuclear weapons' destructiveness. Before this time, the term 'NBC' was used for these unconventional weapons; Nuclear, Biological, Chemical. Chemical weapons are horrific (as are smallarms, really), but are difficult to use and do not cause mass destruction.
I found the spec from another HN thread: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2

Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876165
I think he did preface "anyone can learn how to code" with the phrase "...with some hard work and a little math & science understanding".

I do believe that broad literacy in programming would be beneficial. Going beyond my obviously biased opinion that programming helps you understand your world better, I believe that broad literacy in programming will advance our technology faster and bring us further than we could have ever imagined, because we'll have more people per capita who are able to maintain and understand the way our increasingly-complex world works.

The fact that not everyone who wants to be a programmer actually sticks with it enough to become one is also a good thing. It's certainly not for everyone. But there are plenty of people, especially kids, who might find this kind of stuff interesting, but aren't being exposed to it enough for it to be a reality.
I think this video was aimed at kids.
A big reason I haven't been posting anything in months (years!) is I think what I have to say isn't very novel or interesting.

"Time is limited, make every day count." Yeah yeah yeah. We know. Everyone knows.

Took a sudden death and a lot of sobbing today to make me say fuggit and just write, without worrying about being novel or unique.

I ordinarily don't care about upvotes, but something so unoriginal (but hopefully important) as this getting upvoted by my peers on HN is really encouraging.
Business is indeed extremely good but those hostesses themselves are in debt or adore lonely and resort to going to host clubs (the male equivalent) where they get entertained.

Vicious cycle. Exists in Korea too from what friends there have told me. In the early evening you see salons packed with young hostess women getting ready and getting their hair done, and a few hours later the same salons are packed with young men hosts who are getting ready to entertain the hostesses when they get off their shift.
This is an excellent point, and I also think that Victor's interpretation of Engelbart's priorities is really interesting: what if we made computer tools powerful enough to enable high-bandwidth creative cooperation? Would that open up new areas of hyper-productive human activity that we've only sporadically seen up to now, when small groups of like-minded people happen to be put into a facilitating environment at the same time?

What if that were the norm, because you could find such people -- right for you -- anywhere in the world, and work with them all your life, not just until this project funding ran out, or someone graduated, or got a new job, or whatever.

That's what I think Bret Victor is aiming to find out, and that's why I think a lot of people are really excited by what he's saying.
It will be interesting if a US based publication does the same. To do so would be to show a strong disregard for the officially supported narrative. People forget the complexities of emotions during the time of crisis when they look back through the lens of hindsight favorably.

If we can sustain the anger long enough to get durable change, Edward will be able to rightfully take some credit for that.
Code can be simple or complex just like writing. Last night my girlfriend was using a WYSIWYG editor for WordPress and getting very frustrated. I suggested using the HTML editor, and she was blown away at how much easier to make simple changes.
This doesn't really tell the whole story. Riding bikes is dangerous, but the real danger here is driving a car.

When you're driving a car you are in charge of a multi-thousand pound hunk of metal with more momentum than most people can even comprehend, and the slightest jerk of a wheel can send it careening off in a completely different direction in milliseconds.

On a bike or walking with your own two feet, you're always in danger when the operator of a car isn't performing their due responsibilities.

To Sivers, I'm sorry for your loss. This article is an inspiration, and a remarkably poignant commentary on how to best make use of our fleeting time.
Well, according to that article it appears that US law mandates that sellers are able to charge different prices. So I guess those merchant rules are no longer in place.
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But the average doctor is already inundated with ads from drug companies. Would there be a big payoff from having yet another place where they're advertised to?

Also, an ad in a medical journal is less obtrusive than an ad that's shoved in the doctor's face while she's trying to get a consult on an MRI. Doctors may find ads in their workstream to be distracting and annoying. I certainly would.
Some people like sex, and they like getting paid for sex work.

That's not true for most people involved in sex work. It's not a free choice they've made. They find themselves in that situation to pay for drugs, or alcohol, or to pay off debts, or because they're modern slaves.

Camming is the lighter end of sex work, and thus the ratio of willing : unwilling workers is better than for other sex work, but it's still more likely to be harmful than harm free.
The tone of this comment should be unacceptable in this community.
Good post. It's actually pretty clear this is in the design though. I don't know of any languages where "connect" means "send email (including to people you may admire professionally but only met once in your life, if that". The "+" might be the only thing keeping that button away from complete misrepresentation.
You may not always say something novel or unique but I have enjoyed some of your posts immensely and if you aren't writing you may never write the next post that greatly affects someone.

Thanks for your writing, and sorry for your loss.
It will settle down, give it time, it's too new, it's still growing very fast.
He just divided America... How will all the Americans respond who thought guns were the answer around and after WWII?

He doesn't say "every American" — what the hell ? He specifically says "young Americans like you".

And that CERTAINLY does NOT warrant the question "should everyone know how to code"?

If the youth learns to code, the next generation will benefit from this, likely not needing to touch code at all. There's no such thing as "every American". That is totally, utterly, absolutely, invariably not the point. He's talking about the youth — he's calling a DRAFT.