skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.
I learn better from short exercises and crash courses.
From my experience, short exercises are can be usually found in web resources rather than a book.
If they work for a French soccer team, that just makes them cross-border commuters, which typically means you're responsible for taxes in both countries (unless a tax treaty between the countries harmonizes them). A Monaco resident working in France still has to pay French income tax on his or her French salary & bonuses. Living in Monaco may be a way to dodge taxes on advertising income if they do endorsement deals, though.

Also things are more complicated for French citizens in particular, because Monaco and France have a tax treaty (dating to the 1960s) aimed at making it harder for French citizens and companies to use Monaco as a tax haven. Essentially Monaco agrees to tax French people/entities at the current French tax rates, rather than the usual Monaco rates, in a range of situations that fit the heuristic of using Monaco as an address of convenience (vs. bona-fide living / doing business there).
No, this company has built its model with search engine results as a primary player.

Google just happens to be the monopolist (and, furthermore, the cartel) in search.
Teachers get paid basically nothing to do their work. So should no one be a teacher just because it pays poorly? Absolutely not.

I don't know about you but I'd hate to live in a world with no artists. I agree with you that she should know what she's getting into, which is why everyone I know has always told me that if you want to be an artist, you've got to love what you do (FYI, I'm not an artist). But just because our society doesn't reward artists monetarily doesn't mean artists don't have a right to complain about it. Sometimes the free market doesn't solve everything.
No.

This is like a religious fanatic retreating from a god of the gaps corner, but never considering the possibility that he might be fundamentally wrong.

Of course I can show you irreducible complexity! Look, Eyes! No wait, that doesn't work, I mean blood clotting! No no no hang on, I mean flagella based molecular motors! Ok, look, that's wrong too, but I'm still right, just, look, let me get back to you on this, OK?

Alright, good, are you there? Forget irreducible complexity. That's just hokum, but this will just knock you out of the park, are you ready? Ok, here; Bananas are clear proof of intelligent design!

Hello? Where did you go? Why is nobody listening to me? Anybody? Bombardier Beetles!
FTFY:
"I don't think the French need to be reminded what happened to the wealthy when the revolution came."

Previous results are not indications of future success.
Many Tennis or Formula 1 stars do.
Money earned abroad and individual sports.

Soccer players have to live where they play and their teams have to be located somewhere too.
So taxes are paid based on that location.

HOWEVER:

Most soccer players negotiate post-tax income.
So rather than them earning less, their employers will end up paying them a lot more to garantee that income.
I asked three questions so I could address the title of the tread, that our users data is being leaked.
I had a crazy English prof that told me he never wrote a line of anything that wasn't complete malarkey, including his PhD thesis.

He's currently enjoying being a highly respected prof at a top uni, and he still writes complete gibberish. He's one hell of a writing teacher, which is probably why they keep him around.
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If you told miss liberal hissyfitpants that Barack Obama and his family (or Bill Clinton and his family for that matter) were treated like that (the way she was treated in the first class lounge) whenever they fly, she won't have a problem with it.

But what sets her off is that ordinary millionaires can get that kind of treatment in exchange for a little money.

And notice, it wasn't some fictional millionaire she created who described the people in coach in that horrible way. It was she, liberal hissyfitpants herself, who did it.
So launch it in tmux, and reconnect the next time you jump to that server. If you want faster start time you can also start emacs, run start-server, and then use emacsclient everywhere else to quickly open files from the commandline. In general though, opening and closing emacs all time is the wrong workflow to use with emacs.
> With rates like 75% one hardly can argue they didn't go far enough.

In Scandinavia, we tried top marginal rates ~100% for a decade or two. :) Actually didn't work too badly, but the political mood changed, and rates were gradually lowered, now to a mere 60%. Some good effects of the cuts, some bad effects.
Yeah, all your functions would basically be float -> float -> float -> etc . I would expect a functional language to be nicer for that anyway just because it's functional (expressions FTW!), but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't worth switching languages for. I had the luxury of devoting about a week of vacation to my (rather abstract) pet project [0], half as an OCaml learning project. You have nearly the opposite situation (sounds fascinating, by the way).

Pattern matching is at least as much fun as it looks like, if you have complicated data types. That's a lot of what made OCaml so perfectly match my problem.

[0] https://github.com/andrewf/apatch if you're curious. The meat is in patch.ml
In my experience, even very intelligent people frequently don't know how marginal tax rates work. It's astonishing. American political discourse is generally based on the implied assumption that tax rates are not marginal.
That's not going to keep them honest...
While writing supplements for the Common App, I can't help but consider automated essay writing in the context of college applications. The questions are, for the most part, generic and repetitive - one decent A.I. could probably disrupt the entire process.
It's interesting to consider that tax rates historically have been all over the place. In the United States, for example, the tax rate has been as high as 91% for the top bracket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...
I presume the audience felt a Chief Technology Evangelist had more control over the tone and intent of his messages on the Internet, and therefore actually meant to couch his three questions within pointy remarks about responsible disclosure of a problem which was announced as fixed by DigitalOcean and reported as such in the press over 6 months ago.
I have no idea why author wrote this sentence. It seems completely out of context to me. Anybody care to explain?
In other words, it's the most popular course because it was offered near the beginning of the MOOC craze.
You either know or should know the answers to the questions you've asked in plainly bad faith, as the problem has been clearly described both here and in the linked github issue, which isn't even filed with DO because DO has already made it crystal clear you don't care about having secure defaults in this matter.

The issue was instead filed against fog, so that users of that library may be protected to the extent possible under the circumstances.

In other words: This isn't your issue anymore. You've already publicly dismissed it. Worse, you've gone back on an earlier promise about it.

It is now in the hands of the community to try and protect your customers, since you have refused to.
> Yet they're the same people who scoff at and disparage people studying finance or computer science

This times 1000. For an example of this attitude, just go through artist-turned-hacker Maciej Ceglowski's [1] essay "Dabblers and Blowhards" (http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm), with the last line:

"But you, sir, are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we painters and musicians are going to be right over here with all the wine, hash, and hot chicks."

Make no mistake, I personally think Maciej is without an ounce of malice, and often writes tongue firmly in cheek. Yet the attitude he displays in this essay does exist in reality in a lot of liberal arts majors, like the author of this piece. I'm never sure whether to be angry, or just amused at the airs of people like her who have never had to deal with actual, grinding poverty, and expect the world to fall into their laps.

[1] Ceglowski (@baconmeteor) is the founder of Pinboard.
This is bad for Digital Ocean as the checkbox is nothing but a legal excuse to let beginners shot themselves in the foot and for a new company, this isn't a situation you want to be into. Look at Amazon - how do they solve the same problem? Is it harder for them? Is there a checkbox? When you compete with Amazon you have to be that and better, not worse, and treat beginners better than experts!
France is doing pretty well as far as Europe goes post-2007. They're recovering faster than the UK, for example.
Governments work hand in glove with banks, they control and are controlled by the world banking system in turn, they can see what money goes where via the SWIFT system, they can approve or deny transfers based on AML/KYC laws which they can enforce if it comes down to it by applying pressure on the banks themselves, the entire system is old, well understood and thoroughly controlled.

The reserve bank of Bitcoin is completely immune to coercion, you can't freeze funds, you can't stop transactions, you can't do anything at all to the funds in one of those accounts without the consent of the account holder. If the account holder doesn't want you to, you can't even know who they are. Altogether, the entire system is the exact opposite of the global banking system, it is extremely poorly understood and almost entirely uncontrolled.

And that's just with the bank analogies, if you take it up a notch and compare fiat issuance to bitcoin issuance it gets even more frightening from their perspective. There's no nation they can apply diplomatic pressure to to change the fiscal policy of Bitcoin, that fiscal policy is linked to interests utterly alien to their own, even.

From their perspective it is indeed a dangerous thing, the only question to my mind is A) How long will it take them to figure this out and B) when they do figure it out, what kinds of actions will they take to try to destroy it.
I use DO for bootstrapping and trying out new ideas, programs & co. There is no information I can think about I would wish to get wiped off of the SSD.
Its not enough that you change the fine print in a 20 page long legal contract. A restaurant could easy require you to agree to an customer agreement on the point of booking a table. It would still not allow them to book 50 people and make food for 10, arguing that their capacity to make food is full. Even if the customer agreement said that the restaurant is only responsible to supply food "up to" all-you-can-eat. The police would classify such scheme as a scam.
I don't think it's just to lump pharm behaviors under profiteering. Certainly some goes on, but that they can charge a high price is the reason some of these revolutionary medicines were developed in the first place. If R&D doesn't pay itself back, companies won't do it, and humanity is the poorer for it. Any sort of two tiered approach encourages people to cheat the system. I agree it's a tough problem, and we probably haven't found the optimal balance.
> Just as they fought tooth and nail against digital networks and strong cryptography, [...]

In what universite did that happen?
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If Warren Buffet never sells his shares he will never pay capital gains on those earnings because of the "free stepup in basis" that occurs when you die. You will hear him say income taxes should be higher but I am waiting for him to say that the free stepup in basis is unfair and should be eliminated.

Of course if he ever needs money he can borrow as much as he wants and spend it tax-free! The salary he pays himself is completely irrelevant to his ability to spend.
> BTW, when did millionaire start to mean someone that makes over a million dollars a year rather than has that in assets?

Around 2010. I remember this coming up when a new tax bracket was briefly proposed in the U.S.

http://themonkeycage.org/2010/12/05/the_shifting_meaning_of_...
Bingo. If I remember correctly, Udacity also started with the excellent AI course by Sebastian Thrun.
Your comment triggered again a thought of mine: What if we had a perfect data store? What would it look like? I think it would have these properties:

- instant access to the most current data from anywhere in the world (no need for replication)

- infinite storage space (no need for gc)

- instant access to any value in the dataset (any joins are ok, indexing not needed)

Obviously we are not there, but let's suppose we had such a tool, I think going the append-only way would make sense, and data deletion would only happen proactively (e.g. for legal or privacy reasons).

Also, in fact a good database is trying to mimic this perfect storage, and some of its users are hitting the boudaries. Anyway, when you feel that a database is not perfect in this sense, and need to adjust your usage, it means you met a boundary, which may not be there anymore in a few years.

Another angle is that maybe there is a physical limit to data transfer that will stop the evolution of datastores. A bit like speed of light, or would the speed of light already put noticable boundaries to this hypothetical perfect datastore?
Perhaps we could step up government funded drug research, and the government could license it to every drug company? We all benefit from curing these chronic diseases, and the current model isn't exactly a model of efficiency.
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It should serve the public interest, which is good enough for policy debates.
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True. Sadly many students don't know better. And the worst part being many employers also might not know the difference either.

At some level this is also an issue with raising awareness/understanding among students of how academia and research works.
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We agree on the effect that perseverance has on finding good luck.
This is personal income tax, for physical people living in the country. Investors don't need to take actual residence in France to invest in this or that company, so that's not really going to change anything. Any celebrity worth that money is already living in Monaco (or similar tax haven). The only people affected by this are millionaires who, for some specific reason, are forced to live in France: footballers and very few others. Hence why revenue projections are actually quite low.
The economy wouldn't collapse, but the tax income could probably suffer. They don't expect to collect very much out of it even now - see the link above in the comments - it's largely a populist gesture. But the tax-avoiding measures that high-earners would take to avoid it will stay even after the tax will be lowered back (provided it would be as promised), so the next effect may turn out to be even negative. But it would hardly lead economy as large as France's to collapse. As for if it would make the appetite for electing politicians prone to useless populist gestures instead of solving real economic problems - that is harder to predict if it would increase or decrease.
If the data didn't stir some [curiosity], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.

=/=

If the data didn't stir some [shit], it wouldn't have been updated to the front page.
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It does, but its a shit outcome. I was hoping you'd come out with a spring of hope for me :) I honestly see no good way out of this mess. Call me pessimistic, defeatist or whatever, but this is a system well sewn up. Getting out of it is impossible, I think, beyond an uprising.
It wouldn't be the first time Krugman's been wrong about a transformative technology.

http://imgur.com/B9oMzZd
Pretty much just a re-hash of the previous day's discussion.
Jante tax, eh?
government = corrupt body = money sink
> Or, that our policy on not doing a secure delete by default isn't something you agree with?

This one. Choosing insecure defaults for a virtualization API is a Bad Idea. As a rule of thumb (to put it bluntly), people are dumb. If you give them a loaded gun, they will shoot themselves with it. And they will blame you for it. At least put the safety on and make them take a conscious step before blowing their face off. Don't mean to tell you your business, but seriously, insecure defaults are a Bad Idea for a virt API.
And what would the definition of `editable?` look like?

fn editable(&self) -> bool {
self.created_at < 5.minutes().ago()
}

Yes, it's wrong. No amount of unit testing or isolation is going to change the fact that whenever you read code like that, your brain will come up with two conflicting meanings, because these cutesy methods make it look too much like English, and English has different rules.

English parse tree is: ((less than (five minutes)) ago), whereas code parse tree is (less than ((five minutes) ago)).
Correct me if I'm wrong (because I'm not very familiar with this issue), but I gather that the tightly regulated part - power transmission and distribution - suffers greatly from decaying infrastructures due to lack of investment and maintainance. It seems to be at the brink of collapse in some places.

I'm not against government regulation of essential infrastructures, but we should be aware of the fact that it's very difficult to get right, particularly (but not only) in a political climate where government spending is such a divisive issue.
Lol, you don't live nearby i suppose? :)
There's one key piece of advice in that book, and it's simply draw what you see, not what you know. I consider myself devoid of any drawing talent, and yet I could produce pretty decent copies with relatively little practice. Also, if you take it as a hobby, rather than thinking about it in terms of RoI, it might work out better. Good luck, in any case.
Surprisingly, not always.

American hockey players (or coaches) playing for Vancouver often choose to live at Point Robers to avoid paying Canadian taxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
She's read some of Dawkins and Gould and as parents we try our best to support all her interests but there's still a dearth of engaging books covering technical subjects at an intermediate level.

Bookstores these days only seem to have illustrated books for younger children and software books for "dummies".
The danger comes from the fact that courts generally give deference to ad-hoc processes, whereas systematic processes are inherently suspect. That's why interviews are fine but IQ tests are legally suspect.

As another example in this general line of thought, compare Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger. Point-based racial discrimination is illegal, but "holistic" "individualized" processes where race is just a "plus factor" are legal. (Only discrimination in favor of non-Asian minorities, of course.)

I agree that this legal doctrine is insane.

Completely tangentially, since you mentioned relevant questions which are illegal to ask, I'd love to see an economic analysis of this topic. Specifically, the classical Akerlof lemon market paper assumes a complete inability to measure quality. But in the hiring market there are only a few dimensions for which one is unable to measure quality. That complicates the analysis significantly, so I'd love to gain some intuition on the topic.
One can remember as when introducing American AMT[1], it was about 155 richest families only. Now about 4 million households are paying it. It's much easier for the government to take money than to stop doing so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_minimum_tax
To be perfectly frank, I think the title of this post is totally disingenuous and started the wrong conversation, and that makes me sad because I know we do care about our customers, and their security. Had the title said "DigitalOcean doesn't care about it's customers security" I'd have been happy, because that would start a conversation we should probably be having about how data is deleted.

As it seems like this is actually an issue with people not liking how our product works, I've begun the internal conversation going about two things:

First, communicating again to our customers by way of a blog post that this is how the production functions, as well as highlighting any relevant tutorials.

Second, working with the product team and engineers to either reverse this functionality at best, at minimum draw greater attention to it.

j.
It is a simple fact that the burden of funding many cultures has fallen upon the individual as opposed to the corporate sector since the great depression[1].

It doesn't require much of a cognitive leap to understand that a healthy, educated, and stable populace comes at a price. Is it possible that such inflammatory tax gestures are more a statement against the perceived predatory corporate vampirism than practical income generation means?

[1] http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3321737/
India has nukes, aircraft carriers and a space programme. It is not a poor country. It has poor people tho' because... It has nukes, aircraft carriers and a space programme. Priorities!

EDIT I assume this is being downvoted because it doesn't kowtow to the "big pharma is EEEVIL" groupthink, but it doesn't make it any less true.
I am from a small Indian town. And the reality which I have seen first hand is; the subsidized medicines don't reach the poor and the doctors; who are bought by the big pharma companies; prescribe some variant which is not subsidized. The subsidized medicines are never in stock as they are sold in the black market. Its sad to see politics of corruption hampering research.
Here's the new tax: Income above EUR 1 million, tax is paid by the company, amount is capped to 5% of the companies earnings.

Congratulations Mr. Hollande, you just created a fabulous tax loophole to get corporate tax down to 5%. Keep up the good work.
>blindly support the actions of whichever leader bears your label

No, rather than being the worst, that avoids saying pretty much anything of substance about the political world at all. If the leaders are well-chosen and accurately labeled, you've actually described the best system.
Genuinely surprised to see ZF2 so low on the list, however I wonder where he got his submitters from - I didn't even know there was a survey

I can't help but feel that the results are skewed by a sort of self selection of devs... But that said, maybe I'm the only PHP dev on the planet oblivious to its existence
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How is this different from Google charging bit guys for blackhat SEO, while those who don't pay - are penalised?