skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it. You're explaining the point of a "flat tax": increased tax rates just because you're more productive (and fairly compensated for it) isn't fair. Likewise, getting unusual lump payments (overtime, bonuses) often have tax deducted at the highest rate to ensure you pay at least enough, getting the over-deducted fraction back later only when you've proven that you're not in the higher tax bracket after all (you may be in a 30% bracket, but get a bonus deducted as if you're in the 50%, getting back the over-paid 20% only after the end of the tax year, which could be upwards of a year).

Working harder, under most "progressive" tax systems, provides diminishing returns because of higher tax rates - right at the point when the personal cost of extra work grow exponentially.
Have you read The Emperor of all Maladies? The impression I got from the book was that we are finally beginning to understand the mechanisms behind specific cancers and create therapies to fix them. It seems like we are close to beating cancers one at a time with targeted drugs.
Source code for Go (CI/CD tool) is now available
The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback
Katana + CARA: Emotion Based Analytics via Video Chat
Announcing Pop Star Curated courses to help you be amazing at your job.
Do you really think "Canonical fanboys" would ever suggest Slackware as a distro choice?
There are alien, monstrous beings amongst us, and they look just like us.

I feel the same way anytime I hear C-level types give buzzword speeches with a blank stare.
I'm not sure if she realises, but this whole thing is making her look worse than Github. Sure the reverts and secret posts were shitty, but they just seem to be one or two immature employees. TPW's wife coming into the office seems to be more an error of judgement rather than harassment.

It's good to see she has a sense of humour: https://twitter.com/darth/status/459088080981348352/photo/1

My advice to her would be to delete all her tweets except for the above picture, and just laugh it off.
For those of you who might be looking to move away from Moves, you could give Breeze a try. It's only available for the iPhone 5S (because of its M7 chip). It was announced last week by Runkeeper: http://blog.runkeeper.com/1547/runkeeper-debuts-new-iphone-a...

I haven't tried it, but I already have a Runkeeper account and I think I'm going to give it a shot.
Calling a shell built-in isn't really fair -- you should at least compare to /bin/echo (on my system the relevant times are [edit: 0.001s] for echo, 0.007+0.004=0.011 for python -S -c "print 'hello'". Without dropping site-packages (without the -S) python jumps to 0.014+0.012=0.026 -- marginally above 200 ms which I suppose is a perceptible difference between instant, and not-quite-instant).

Sadly, both pypy and python3 are slower than python2.7. Also worth nothing that the sys time fluctates for me -- in other words when it is > 0.00s it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the command run.
It's a step counter, a bit like 'map my walk/run' which counts how many steps you walked in a day and mapped out a rough route you took
I'm aware of how the government spends on other inane things - my point was that spending the 24B on this is probably not going to happen in the current political climate, regardless of whether or not you think it is a good investment.
agreed. next stop - trusted builds. I'll announce you'll sign up?
All versions of Excel have native support for integers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/bb687869%28v=...
One of the jobs was for an investment bank. The job was crap. No one in my team of 5 lasted much more than a year. And sadly they did have the resources to hire more developers and address the problem that way. Brute force recruitment.
Most spreadsheets I've dealt with don't hold relational data. Are there people who use them as such? Sure. But I don't think that's the typical use case.
If this fork makes OpenSSL developers be more responsive to patch fixes and have them improve their documentation it's a win for OpenSSL and their users at large.

OpenBSD is already reaping the benefits from a better TSL implementation in -current so it's a win for our project as well.

This is a win win scenario.
You asked how to check if it works, so it wasn't obvious to me that it wasn't working. You can see if the plugin was installed by going to chrome://plugins/. For whatever reason, things seemed to be more stable for me in Firefox than in Chrome.
oh the worst part is the number formatting. In French, for instance '.' and ',' are reversed. Excel in French then thinks 10,000 is 10. So Value("10,000") is different from Valeur("10,000"). Of course strings do not get translated when changing locale...
A wise Microsoft, which we might be seeing, would know that a bad Linux security foundation is just plain bad for business, for the Internet ecosystem and general trust in it (after all, most people don't know what sort of server they're connecting to), for sales of desktop Windows to surf in that ecosystem, etc.

A pragmatic Microsoft might be edging away from a "Windows or Death!" attitude. Didn't we read that after they bought Skype they replaced its skeezy "volunteer" supernodes with 10,000 systems running Linux? E.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+skype+linux+supern...
I've long been surprised that real-world places weren't modelled more often in minecraft (and fps games).

My tentative conclusion was it might be too helpful for e.g. actual shooting. Though, height data is generally available anyway (e.g. google maps' "terrain", council planning databases), just not as easy to work with.
> I would normally advice an architecture where you have a reverse proxy in front of application servers

My understanding too is that as we containerize more applications (whether this be Jails, Zones or Docker) then for shared-IP addresses (e.g. VirtualHosts) we need a reverse proxy to do the mapping to the correct container.

Do you know anything about this, as my research hasn't found anything?
Been let go once by getting a call late at night on my personal cell, telling me to not try to go in in the morning, and my agency staff will pick up my personal items as soon as possible....

</reallife>
You are right, they aren't terribly far apart in proportional terms (I had a decimal place off in my initial calculation that threw me off... hadn't had my coffee yet). I agree that this is economically feasible and may even be a good investment, but is probably a no-go given the current state of US politics, i.e., broken.
Here's a clue:

http://imgur.com/FcyIc4P

(I wonder if the HN traffic spike drives up the "value"?)
The source is "Daily Mail". Pretty much sums it all: if she believes that conspiracy and its source she could easily believe that her own lack of continuity makes perfect sense.
The community college I'm doing sysadmin work for has night classes, internet classes (do at your schedule), and self-paced in-building classes (computerized instruction with an instructor in room) to help folks with full-time jobs and family get their classes done. Also, an on-premise daycare.
If anyone wants to read 1985-era MSDOS 1.x floppies in Linux, support is coming in 3.16[0] ;-).

[0]: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next...
That sounds like wishful thinking to me.

Realistically companies including Microsoft will pay as little as they can to anybody and if they get such nicely detailed bug reports for free why would they ever pay.
I don't know, but when I try to look at your account info your average is also blank.
Yep. I jumped to the exact same conclusion. I did a quick search to see what was out there and I came across this article from 2008 talking about a few such companies and how it was being discounted by many scientists as not likely to be useful:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/29stem.html?pagewan...

At least a couple of the companies mentioned in that article appear to be out of business. The prices quoted back then are non-trivial for middle class Americans.

It still seems like the sort of thing that might be worth the expense. If they come up with the solution when I'm 80, but I don't have any source of young stem cells to rely on...

Same goes doubly for my kids.
Speed-reading apps are great for speed and terrible for reading, study finds
Ronald Reagan did that (sigh). For anyone curious about why college tuition hurts the economy in the long run, it has to do with endowments. The idea is that it's more productive to pay during and after a career (when one has money) than before a career (when one is broke). Long term thinking like this built American into an industrial superpower, but short term thinking is giving us.. well, something else.

For example, land grant colleges were set up so that farming profits paid for the next generation's education. We've largely replaced that with student-loan debt based education, which sets graduates back for years or even decades. Now we have a stagnant economy where most people are struggling to get by instead of making meaningful contributions that increase their wealth and ability to pay/donate down the road. The founding fathers knew why public education was so important, yet at every turn we see people constantly attempting to privatize and marginalize it. It frankly disgusts me, which I know I’m not supposed to say on HN, but there it is.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/210543351304022855/
I wish there were better authentication options with Nginx.
The ngx_http_auth_request_module is limited: First, it assumes that the authentication agent doesn't need to talk to the user. Second, it doesn't cache the authentication.

Perhaps nginx might instead check all requests for a particular signed cookie, verify the signature, if the signature matches, verify that the cookie isn't too old, and then unpack variables from the cookie that the application server might want, such as REMOTE_USER. It seems nginx would then want to freshen-up the cookie.

If the cookie doesn't exist, signature doesn't match, or the cookie has expired, then, nginx should proxy the request to a delegate... but, it should return the results of that delegation directly to the user agent. It'd be the job of the delegate to set/sign the cookie with the information needed when authentication succeeds.

In this way, the authentication agent has full control over the process (so it doesn't have to be in nginx), and, heavyweight authentication is cached.

EDIT: Thanks mixedbit -- you're correct that nginx will forward 3xx onto the client. However, I recall patches are needed to support headers; and, without 200 going to the client, how do you support LDAP form authentication? Even so, an extra sub-request to authenticate each request is still heavyweight.
This article makes a lot of assumptions you've been following some MaidSafe drama online. But searching HN show that MaidSafe has rarely been mentioned here. Maybe someone could summarize?
I think that would be wise. We don't know what kind of technology we'll have in 50 years. On the other hand, perhaps it will be so advanced that you won't even need your own stem cells to get rejuvenated. Would that be possible?
I hate Facebook for other reasons than Google. Farmville spam of yore comes to mind. Stupid permission changes constantly is another.

I use iOS by the way. Still have a gmail account but that might not last long. Moving email is a bit harder than deleting an app off my home screen.
I didn't say that. I compared it to other steep depreciations. I also dislike Peter Schiff for various reasons.
How Dr. Dre's Headphones Company Became a Billion-Dollar Business
To be honest, the first week is a bit thin on content. But the forums are lively and valuable, so they might make it worth the time.
Unless you are throwing in history and including all of those Roman senators who received what is by todays standards practically nonexistent medical care (I think that doing that would be a mistake, for reasons that should be obvious), then it is somewhere around 10-15% of the world's population that lives in developed countries. This is before we even consider that many developing countries have functional healthcare systems.

The population of Germany alone accounts for more than 1% of all currently living humans.
Grading European Banking SSL Security
Bram hints at this, but doesn't quite make it as explicit as I would: the thing that distinguishes great programmers is the ability to understand how the pieces interact. Anyone can understand how one piece of code works, even if it's fairly complex. A good programmer can understand how one very complex piece of code works. However, any modern codebase of any significance is impossible for anyone to understand as a single monolithic whole. The key ability is to create a clean mental model of each piece, even if the actual implementation or interface of that piece is nowhere near so clean, and put those models together to understand all the "between the cracks" stuff. That's the key bit of genius behind BitTorrent, for example. It's not that the individual pieces are so special, but that the emergent behavior of those pieces interacting with one another is very beneficial.
That's true -- but the circumstances are notably different.

1. xFree86 kicked Keith Packard out and he joined up with Xorg/free desktop.
2. Most XFree86 devs migrated to X.org
3. The License Change. And this is key. The switch to a GPL v2-incompatible license. that made it incompatible with the Linux kernel and almost every project.

Moreover, the major users of XFree86 were linux and Unix-like distro. That's a big market but comparably small with the number of projects that use OpenSSL.

Could OpenSSL disappear? Yes. But it won't happen overnight, simply because of the existing number of projects that use it.
> Only if you assume the government is somehow magically immune.

I didn't assume, but the fact is they are uniquely capable of solving this situation in optimal way for the ones acquiring such medicine/procedure. There are things they are bad at and things they are good at, this is the latter example.

A bad, corrupt government can do all kinds of really fucked up shit, so I don't even want to consider what a bad government might do in this case. E.g. treat a portion of people as literal cattle and feed others with it, murder the sick, etc.

> Which is exactly what governments that are tasked with rationing health care have to do.

Sorry, meant to say "You're making an assumption that you can value your life in terms of money". Your mother/father/employer might value your life in some way, but for you your life is usually precious.

Governments, can 'value life' in aggregate. Basically it comes down to bargaining power. If a doctor tricks your or cheats you on your bill, other than revenge and trying to sue them after they took your money away you aren't left with a lot of options (hell, you might even think treatments are supposed to be this expensive).

Governments on the other have more chips, bigger chips and stronger insurance when it comes to bargaining with the pharmaceutical and medical providers.
Celera was able to take advantage of the research the Government performed while attempting to map the human genome.

No gang of government bureaucrats will produce the same results at a lower cost than lots of people with the profit motive

Patently untrue. By definition, a profit motive means that the costs aren't the lowest possible, because they include a markup for profits (or contrapositively, they cut corners to reduce expenses).
Crowdfunding Your B2B SaaS Startup
Redefine the problem.

A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. - Alan Kay
In Europe I could see this type of privacy legislation passing, though not so much in North America.
The Point Of Technological Singularity
I make my own juice with Mt Baker flavorings. Granted, I don't know what's in the flavorings themselves, but they're all food grade. Nicotine is the sketchy one -- quality seems to vary from vendor to vendor. Hopefully regulation will not raise the price significantly -- e-cigs are so much cheaper than analogs and more so if you do some DIY.
It is my understanding that some forms of cancerous cells extend their own telomeres, so having stem cells with shorter telomeres is not a defense against this. In any case, wouldn't the cancer be the result of damage to the coding DNA or the intercellular environment anyway, and not a function of telomere length?

The telomeres are there to ensure that the cells with more transcription errors die first. But in the case of aging, there are no younger cells for this die-off process to prefer. Given the choice between a certainty of cancer and cells that cannot even reproduce, some people may roll the dice with cancer, and hope they can live long enough to overcome that problem as well.
I highly recommend the Acer Aspire S7. It is a pain to get Linux onto, but once you do get it on there, it's an absolute pleasure to work with in Ubuntu. The keyboard will take some getting used to. I have literally written tens of thousands of lines of code on this device and can't imagine using another laptop anymore.

To get the thing to run Linux properly, you have to disable some bios settings, create a software raid device, and play some games with a recovery CD to get the installation to boot properly. It took me a week to figure it out. I wish it weren't so painful, but the hardware is so light and thin that it was worth the pain.

Highly recommend!
Why ‘Sign Up’ and ‘Sign In’ Button Labels Confuse Users
how to better architect systems

I beleive that there is one answer to this question which does 80% of the job, it is easy to express and yet in the same time impossible to grasp for so many programmers/managers which leads to so many awful codebase.

As the post says very well: start by thinking about what you would do if you had infinite resources. That's the ideal case. Find a real bottleneck (money, cpu, memory, ?) and rethink your architecture accordingly, find the next real bottleneck and so on.
In case people think you were being sarcastic (and maybe you were), a large bank used to pay me $10/hour to push F11, F7, F7, F2 for the first 2-3 hours of each day.
There is always the memory erasure pill.
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I laughed. I'd guess you were downvoted by either (a) someone with no sense of humor, or (b) someone who knows nothing about Zynga's history, or I suppose (c) a Zynga employee.
Padlock – A minimalist open source password manager
Good explanation
Fighting CPAN entropy – A Perl special
For anyone else who didn't know what a CHF is, it stands for Swiss Francs. CHF 1 = $1.13

I did not pay for moves on ios or android in the US.
The drug cures HepC. As in, it provably wipes it out completely.

A diet could possibly wipe out HepC, but there's no research showing that it is possible. At best, the current state of research is that diet could minimize the progression of HepC, which is definitely not "more than any drug ever would."
Show HN: Dynamic HTML to PDF
Director of Engineer at ShopKeep here. Happy to answer any questions about the technical side of things. Some recent ShopKeep news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641525
Not master a new language, just dabble in an added few. Kill off an hour of bore learning some NodeJS or AngularJS, what's there to lose? If there's nothing to actually be gained. I do this from time to time and the knowledge I picked up later became the deciding competitive advantages for startups I work on.
Go read the blog now. He did the drug trial, and it went well.
Mozilla's $10,000 Security Bug Bounty for Certificate Verification
No it isnt. See other comments in this thread.
I don't live in California, but sometimes fly in for work. I've joked that the pilot should just announce as they are crossing the border that "The State of California is known by the State of California to cause cancer." and call it a day.

Another fun thing to do is to point the signs out to a California resident, who has probably long since completely edited them out of existence. It causes a "can't unsee!" reaction for about a week for certain people.
Thank you for this inspiring story of how to make money while gunking up the Internet for the rest of us and creating absolutely nothing of value. Real Horatio Alger shit here.
hmm, interesting, fascinating and sad. the article mentions Mark Miller. He has done very interesting work (works at google).

http://research.google.com/pubs/author35958.html
Alternative possibility: OpenSSL & LibreSSL pull from eachother, but OpenSSL incorporates more new features sooner. Banks run LibreSSL- much as they run OpenSSL 0.98 today- and hip new startups that want New Feature X run OpenSSL- much as they run OpenSSL 1.0.1f today.
Net neutrality – either the FCC thinks we’re idiots, or it just doesn’t care
Yes I have read it. PS: I'm a scientist and studyng cancer is part of what I do. Please read "Molecular Biology of the Cell".

yes, we're learning a lot, but no, the promised revolutions aren't forthcoming. Not only are there technical reasons why it's unlikely we'll see a very near term revolution in treatment. There are huge political, monetary and bureaucratic reasons, too. They are just as important to understand as the technical reasons.
Getting not found on the link as well. Not that it would be worth anything anyway. Android has long had apps for this such as Locale (around since the very early Android Developer Challenges) and Tasker. They must know someone at TechCrunch to get such a favorable write up for a clone.
I'm not saying that. I said it's best to have equality and life. Please don't warp my words. The GP has a point, if flawed one at that.

Extending life by a certain amount isn't bad, it's bad if only the rich can have it. Also directly extending life is a huge boon, I think it puts many other methods (even if it's +20 years) in the dust.

The rift between rich and poor needs to close.
Spanish is pretty easy to learn, though, no?
Excel supports 32 bit integers, which fit comfortably in IEEE754 doubles (there are 64 bit integers which cannot be exactly represented)
Farmville spam depends of your contacts and you can stop get it them easily, farmville is dead anyway, the stupid permission changes also exist in Google, they have changed them as often as Facebook, so, you must hate Google as equal I suppose.
On the Past, Present and Future of Apple's Aqua User Interface
I bet it will get closed for being too localized.
We also use 'Join', especially with buttons for social accounts where the behavior is not clear (if you need to sign up, you're redirect to the signup form, while if you're already registered, you get immediately logged in).
This case pertains only to the search of vehicles, and, as you can see, "to prevent the destruction of evidence" is essentially carte blanche.

Interestingly, search incident to arrest might not allow the police to search a vehicle's trunk.