skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On some level, the tech world isn't living up to its own principles, as it relates to diversity and inclusion (D&I). Many seem to view D&I as being somewhat external to the tech space--it's an issue that other industries have been discussing and is becoming more prominent in tech.

I would posit that the underlying principles of the tech world share a number of core values with D&I.

Think about the open source software movement (OSS). One crucial perspective that the OSS shares with D&I is that both view discrimination as an impediment to progress. OSS licenses include several non-discrimination clauses (economic, field of endeavor, other restrictions). The licenses go to great lengths to ensure the technology is available to everyone.

When you think about the "Cathedral and Bazaar" models of software development, which one is naturally more diverse? The hierarchical, exclusive cathedral, with its rigid structure, serious gatekeepers, and highly-credentialed leadership? Or is it the open air bazaar, with all kinds of people talking (softly or loudly) in a place known for public discourse. A place where anyone can walk by and join in and become part of what's going on?

My point is that the underlying precepts of D&I are similar to principles that already exist in the tech world.

So this isn't really about embracing D&I. Instead, the tech community needs to start living up to its own rhetoric--it's own values. This isn't about adopting an external issue, it's about a community fully aligning with its own values.
I don't know, I think a ~35% boost in profits for all profitable American businesses is pretty huge.
Most fair tax proposals come with a flat rebate, so if you're spending, say, under 20k you are exempt.

I'm not a fan of the fair tax but a more sophisticated understanding of it might be warranted.
This has been out there for a while iirc. I hope something comes of it. Even the potential chapter list is great though for those of us struggling to learn pixel shaders well.
Ah thanks, that was unclear.

Is there documentation somewhere on how I can go about deploying Flynn on my own hardware?
Man I feel old, but still Rails has aged fabulously. Just wrote a post last week about how Rails is still great. http://blog.forcerank.it/blog/post-natal-part-3-technology-d...

I don't know if it's just me being an old man, but every time I see people fighting with grunt / angular / ember I think of dhh and his "look at what I'm not doing".
> IMO, the perfect solution would be to eliminate the corporate tax altogether, and tax capital gains and dividends as income instead.

I enthusiastically agree with this. There should be little benefit to holding an asset for longer period to evade taxes. I have friends who regularly end up with losses on trades just so they would avoid being "taxed at income" for gains. It's absurd.

There are also plenty of loopholes for those who know what they're doing... like shorting a futures contract where you own the underlying asset, effectively locking in it's price until past the 12 month mark.
This is a tax debate, and with any tax debate, it's worth remembering what our tax dollars get us. It seems like you're equating "nationalism" with "government", which is most certainly too broad.
Are they under-represented in terms of being founders/CEOs/Execs? I don't think I've ever seen that argued.
We don't really revoke flagging privileges much anymore; mostly just for obvious abuse.

Are you wondering whether revoking selected users' flagging privileges would change the balance on these stories? I doubt it would. We're talking about a larger-scale response than measures like that can really address. The community is divided in at least two ways: on the issues themselves, and also on the HN discussions about them.
It's fitting that the post above this is an app that started as Rails 1.0 and is currently at 4.1
There are plenty of ways to make money without incorporating.

I'd much rather eliminate the personal income tax and shift to user fees, and a flat corporate rate (a user fee for limited liability, if you will) and equal flat tarrif. But that's not popular for some reason.
>One of the ways that people slow down progress, in startups or in society, is by resisting unreasonably at every step in a series of steps in an argument.

They key here is _unreasonable_. I do not believe it unreasonable to demand evidence to the extend and nature of sexism in tech (as I have seen no formal study on it at all).

Frankly all I am seeing here are the very methods described in What you can't say being used to silence a debate, because some groups use it to run their own agenda.
1. Build a deep neural network (probably consume my first 5 months!) and put it to use on something funny \ unusual, like determining if jokes are funny, or whether someone on camera is lying

2. Implement Bret Victor's learnable programming ideas into a useable IDE for mainstream languages (java, C#, python,etc). LightTable is really cool, but the lack of an instarepl for all but Clojure falls short of the original vision. It would also need to support time travel debugging and actual regular debugging and intellisense.

3. Solve N vs NP
People make Facebook pages because they think they can control who sees them. Also, different cultures value privacy more than others, because they have more experience with the risks of a lack of privacy.
I don't know where you found it but thank you sir! Very enlightening and helpful for those things you get rusty on. Calculus was 6 years ago now for me and just skimming over what is in this sheet helps a hell of a lot. Awesome!
Do you have any figures on tech as a whole?
The thing that I'm never sure about in these discussions (on any on HN really) is whether people are talking about "tech" to include people working 9-5 in IT at a bank somewhere or whether it really means "venture capital backed startups operating out of California".
It's funny how people behave as if taxing companies is some sort of NP-Hard problem. When in fact, we've done it before, and even during the greatest market expansion in the 1950s-1970s. But no, we should go ahead and give up taxing companies, and allow them to use our courts, our infrastructure, our legal protections as American entities and American natural resources to their hearts content.
This is a vaccine for Human PapillomaVirus, which has been known to contribute-to/cause cervical cancer in women. This is a vaccine for a virus, not cancer. The rest of the article seems very informative, but the headline is misleading.
There's a flip side to your perspective.

You still remember the world pre-internet. When you can go outside, meet people, and when you connect you block the use of a phone line.

That's not how we live anymore. Now you're connected from the day you are born.

And kids, just watch kids interact. They're using the internet to make the kind of connections you and I just don't understand.

They're seeking levels of comfort and intimacy and it can be given to them from around the world.

If you're transgendered and the struggles or problems you face can't be related to your neighbor. If you're dealing with issues that your family doesn't understand or don't want to tolerate, where do you turn?

Another person half way around the world to someone who aches for connection is more real than the crowd of people he's in.

So when people latch on to this idea that technology isolates us, I say you don't think big enough.

You're physically in a body but your mind's free with the internet. And that's just amazing.
It is the speed of using a language with a compiler.
The best option right now is to check out https://github.com/flynn/flynn-demo however we'll have some much better tools in a couple of weeks.
No further development on Simple.Web
- I'd like to put together a large illustrated book on protocol design, like architecture books that have large pages and illustrations

- a stone CNC that could do a marble bust or full scale stone statues

- try to design a space launch platform like a vacuum monorail going up the side of a mountain, there are plenty of mountains.

- build an off grid cabin (perfect place to read compsci books)

- a video search engine, based on speech-to-text first and then try to add comp vision to the extent possible

- brain-computer interface, any way to get data out other than through body movement / voice.

edit: also like to take a shot at designing a materials reclamation facility in a container box. like a one-shot machine where you dump garbage in one end and raw materials come out the other end. this + a mini nuclear reactor + versatile 3d printer would go a long way. I'd like to know what it would take to make a machine where you dump garbage in one end and finished products pop out the other end.
http://close.io/ looks pretty neat; it spun out from the YC "sales as a service" company Elastic.
Nice! Interested in adding the contra approach to https://github.com/jlipps/async-showcase?
Then you start to look a lot like the large companies in Asia. I have a family friend who has been a General Manager at Birla Industries in India for 25 years.

His housing is paid for, his drivers are all company employees, and he is given a generous "expense account" for all of his regular needs. I believe his salary has only been used for vacations (where he couldn't do any business) or for his son's tuitions at U.S. universities.
Not letting kids into school is already a good way to handle this issue. It ensures that the majority will decide to be vaccinated. I'm fine with the way it is.
Love that you guys are addressing more than just the security rule - we found the technical parts of HIPAA the simplest to address. Are you planning on having employee training modules and customizable policies and procedures? How do you help guide companies through the Privacy components?
The IRS does not go after people or corporations using loopholes to reduce their tax burden so long as those loopholes are legal.
Actually, the US government is behaving very rationally. Realizing the pressure on the US dollar, especially since progress is already happening in moving to SDRs (special drawing rights) as the world's reserve "currency" and trading blocs are increasingly using their own currency for bilateral trade.

President Clinton signed a bill that confiscates part of someone's net worth over a threshold for renouncing US citizenship and moving to another country. Bush and Obama are taking similar steps to keep assets in the USA. While it is reasonable to go after money laundering, it is becoming increasing difficult to do some business transactions internationally, open bank accounts in countries where one spends a lot of time on vacation or has residency, etc.
Vultr.com allows you to launch a VPS with your own uploaded ISO / image, so if you made one for CoreOS it'd probably work. They also support FreeBSD. I've been using them in their Los Angeles location for a while and have had no issues at all. Their costs are about the same as DO... basically a DO clone. I think there's an older hosting company behind them so it's not a basement operation.
> There should be little benefit to holding an asset for longer period to evade taxes. I have friends who regularly end up with losses on trades just so they would avoid being "taxed at income" for gains.

Without more detail, I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but you seem to be conflating two concepts (the tax effects of a long-term capital loss and the tax effects of a short-term investment compared to a long-term investment).

IMHO, there absolutely should be a benefit to holding an asset for 12 months (compared to less), as buy-and-hold investing is better for the companies being traded, and reduces volatility in the economy compared to speculative day-trading[0].

> like shorting a futures contract where you own the underlying asset, effectively locking in it's price until past the 12 month mark.

This is a strategy that's beyond most casual investors who simply trade mutual funds, sure, but I'm not sure I would classify this as a tax loophole - if so, we'd have to call a normal covered call an "investment loophole".

[0] This has nothing to do with high-frequency ("ultra short-term") trading by computers; it's about encouraging long-term vs. short-term investing by individuals.
Just discovered Steve on Twitter yesterday so this is a coincidentally well timed article. What initially drew me to his Twitter account were the obvious references to Deleuze and Guatarri - specifically his reference to the concept of the body without organs (BwO) in his twitter handle. Glad to see a like-minded programmer coming to many of the same conclusions I've been reaching recently.
That is what happens when language designers decide to throw away design decisions from Algol.
It's easy for people to bag on Rails because like anything, as time goes on things evolve and pain points are discovered, etc. But as someone old enough to remember writing Servlets + JSP + miles of XML configs, Rails was such a HUGE HUGE HUGE thing. I remember being so blown away by how fast and easy it was to stand up a new web app. We take that sort of thing for granted today but for those of us old enough to remember stuff like Spring and JEE 1.3, it was incredible.
In theory you are correct but the marginal investor (who sets the price of an asset) will always trade based on its present day value. So, in reality, it wouldn't affect market rates much.

The corporate tax, on the other hand, is a heinous tax that hurts our economy substantially. We have to make the money somewhere.
"- It would reduce the incentive to invest in the market (since you would quite literally be paying double taxes on this income, instead of more like 1.5x the tax"

Please distinguish between:

I make money. It is taxed at X%.

1) I put that money into the market, other people use it to make more money, I receive some money ($Y) for that (in dividends or raised stock price) and that is again taxed at X%.

2) I put that money into making myself a better worker. Next year, I make $(X+Y) more than I would have. The $X I spent, I got to write off as a business expense (maybe). The $Y is taxed at X%.
With the precedents that exist today, you are correct. One of those precedents is, surprise, this particular court case. Since time travel is not known to exist, the result of Dodge v. Ford Motor Company was unknown at the time of Dodge v. Ford Motor Company.

Ford was addressing the specific grievances of the plaintiff, given the legal precedents that existed at the time. The plaintiffs were complaining that he was not paying dividends, and Ford argued that he was under no obligation to do so.
JavaScript: Classes vs. Prototypes
Social media sites that pay you for posting
> Discussion platform
> XMPP-IRC gateway

Related: SecuShare, GNUnet, psyc, "Design of a Social Messaging System Using Stateful Multicast", http://tg-x.net/pub/gnunet-psyc.pdf

> New kind of word processor.

Some good ideas here: http://strlen.com/treesheets/
It actually is. At least it's a "home-row pinky".
However, I remapped esc to be "jk" to avoid the pinky abusing.

Now, if I ssh between different unix box a lot without the time to pull my .vimrc from github, then I still have to resort to pinky-escape.
as a half-asian female founder with a diverse team (mexican, german), this is a intimate issue for me. i'm really glad to see the topic being discussed, but it really is the first small step.

sexism & racism isn't something that people do consciously. that's why there's such a backlash against it because most of us can honestly say that we're not consciously sexist or racist.

these prejudices are systemic biases that flow through all of us. it takes hard introspection and compensatory mechanisms from each person to address the structural underpinnings that create the biases. it's really hard. as sama notes, the discussion needs to move towards these underlying mechanisms, rather than getting mired in the stale discussion of whether prejudices exist or not (they do).
Imo accident is an "oeps" that occurred without intend. In case of a fired missiles it's an incident. So unless someone misfired the missile it's I'd call it an incident.
But what does it mean to pay one's fair share? What criteria should be used to determine it? Are taxes the only way that one's fair share can be paid? How should we treat outliers on both ends of the spectrum?

We haven't even finished debating questions like these. Yet taxation is needed in some form, so people do the best they can. Unfortunately, that means planning based on the assumptions of specific answers to unsettled questions.
It's really not comparable, at least not in the places I've worked (both in tech and in law). Retail jobs and the like are very strict with schedules. As in counting minutes. Professional jobs give you a lot more flexibility as long as you get the work done. When you're a professional, employers give you a certain amount of slack because it's expensive to fire and replace you. When you're a low-skill worker, it's all zero-tolerance.
Median Apple salary is ~$110k[1]. Sure, there was the lawsuit about colluding to depress salaries, but according to [2], the median personal income of a person with a bachelor's degree or more is $56k. That's essentially double.

[1] http://www.salarylist.com/company/Apple-Salary.htm
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S...
Ask HN: End projects with revenue b/c it wasn't enough to quit your day job?
How many people out there have abandoned projects that were generating revenue / cash because they were never going to be big enough?<p>How much revenue / cash were they generating? (I say revenue / cash because I'm not counting businesses that had revenue but tons of expenses and never gave anything back)<p>Did you get anything for them, or just let them wind down?
Came here to say this. I applaud the stance on sexism, but what a mis-titled post.
You literally have to scroll down to the "Samples" section to see font samples. Then you come in the comments to tell everyone how lazy you are.
Do you have a link for Medible? A quick Google search was not returning any results.
I know Indians are overrepresented to their relative proportion in general population ( ~1%)
Rails has also been successful by absorbing or beating competing frameworks in Ruby, inspiring a lot of other languages to come up with similar frameworks...
I know that a sans-serif font looks all slick and modern, but those serifs in Courier New help your eye identify the character more readily and improve readability. Any monospace font without serifs is automatically a no-go for me when it comes to programming.
I agree, maybe not 0% rate, however, instead of focusing on chastising and ridiculing companies that make [business smart] choices to alleviate their tax burden, we need to focus on fixing the core of the problem that promotes businesses to seek tax relief in the first place!
I thought it was an informative post. Most people upvoting this thread is probably doing so because this is really a great/unique/useful product idea. Finding out there are other products in the same space is useful.
I would spend my time looking for solutions to real problems that no one seems to really want fixed, like corruption, fraud, white collar crime, lying during elections, bureaucracy, human trafficking, revenue stream manipulation, buggy software sold to millions without any kind of quality guarantee, etc. etc.

That would include trying to get Bethesda to fix Skyrim for the PS3 (I know it's hopeless)

AI projects to help find useless, nonsensical laws which conflict with each other? To run governments without corruption (though garbage in, garbage out makes this a little scary as it could streamline and multiply corruption)

Then I would have no money left at all.

Nice open-ended question, by the way. Good luck with your thesis.
Let's say I have a magic wand which will make all -isms go away in one waving. I waved, -isms went away and now what? Where do I hire skilled black female CoffeeScript developers? How many of them do actually exist?
I'm insider/outsider - I live in the US now, in Bay Area, but I went to school in the country which doesn't even exist anymore, while my daughter goes to the one of the best middle schools around here. And I see her genuine interest in math, she's among a group of 'popular' girls in the school, where the popularity is judged not (only) by the looks or clothes, but to what "Math Honor", "Advanced Geometry", etc class the student was admitted to. So it's not just her, there's a solid group of (mostly white though) girls interested in math and other similar topics. Where these girls disappear later? I understand that I'll learn this in a hard way later, but if there're valid theories out there, may be I'd be able to prevent her from losing interest in math, special video effects, photography, optics, etc.

Something tells me it's not just our (white tech male population) sexism, it's a problem rooted deeper.
We were working on that part of the code and took the opportunity to replace a few of the most common fnid links (i.e., closures) with ordinary urls.

At least one user has reported that the links don't always return the correct items, but we don't have details from him yet and can't seem to reproduce it. If you notice anything like this, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com.
And that's why both Obama (and Democrats, but not in this article) and the Republicans in the article talked about reforming the tax code.

But the more important point was that these corporations are definitely evading the spirit of our current (outdated) laws, and we need to close this loophole sooner rather than later (i.e. after the years it will likely take to fix our tax system).

To draw a programmer analogy, we should refactor the laws, but this is a critical bug fix. We can't stop supporting the old code just because the new code might fix it.
If someone doesn't want to consider women for a job, it probably means that they think women have some inherent unsuitableness for that particular job. They aren't aggressive enough for sales, or don't have the upper body strength for landscaping, or some such. They don't mind hiring women for jobs that they think women can do (secretary). They probably have women friends, date or marry women, and so on.

If someone doesn't want to consider blacks for a job, it probably means they don't like black people, and they don't care if a particular black person can do the particular job. They don't want black people around for any job.

The former is more tractable because it involves changing someone's attitude about specific objections about people that they have no general objection to. The latter requires changing a general objection.
Congress passes cellphone unlocking legislation
Another sci-fi story on post-scarcity economics, Walter Jon Williams "The Green Leopard Plague", part 1 here. Remainder in anthology of same name.

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/greenl.shtml
Other tips:

* focus on good running form. (Research opinions about what that is.)

* cross-train: go for a swim; do some upper body weights, etc.

* practice using some of the gear that you plan on using on marathon day: for instance, carry the same water bottle.

* choose a route for your long run such that you can refill your water at key points.

* include some hill work: don't run on flat courses.

* on long runs, carry some money so you can get home if you get into trouble

* don't overdress: you will have to shed layers as you get hot, and carrying the extra clothing for miles and miles will be a burden.

* Use vaseline to fend off skin chafing, and experiment with different clothing if it's a nagging problem.