skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a British expat in California, I think the article actually gets the root cause here: Americans fundamentally don't trust government, and there is no-one they hate more than the tax man. If there's anyone not to trust, it's the I.R.S.

In the UK, as stated for other countries, I would just use Pay As You Earn, where all taxes were extracted at the time of pay check, and would owe 0GBP at the end of the year. My Californian wife was astounded by this. "How do you know they've not got it wrong and screwed you?!" "Because I trust they got it right." "Why would you do that?!"

My read of the British is that they might not like the government or politicians, but they generally believe that government agencies get things to the letter of the law more often than not. You can disagree with the tax law, but you assume that the tax man is taking the right amount as governed by that law.

You can't pass tax reform in the US because enough of the citizenship wouldn't accept it.
And that is functionally the difference between "civil" asset forfeiture and "criminal" asset forfeiture. To be sure even criminal asset forfeiture can be abused, but it is significantly more difficult, and you have to be convicted first.

And at some level criminal asset forfeiture is a just response because without it you create perverse incentives (a white collar crime that nets you 100 million and 5 years in jail, is a very good exchange of time for money if there is no forfeiture to take the "ill gotten gains.")

What I'd like to know is if NM is the first state to ban civil AF? I'm happy to be a NM resident today, but I wonder if we are a aberration?

Not to over simplify, but liberals tend to favor limits on police power, and conservatives tend to be split between the so-called "law and order" conservatives who want power the police and harsh sentences, and the libertarian conservatives who want strong limits on police powers. NM tends to have a lot more libertarian conservatives than a lot of other parts of the country making us a good location for this law.
humans need large amounts of food and water to survive and thrive

So, are you shooting for a subsistence income level for ALL humans?

I don't know why we should work for 60 hrs/w with no OT compensation to feed the planet when the 1% of Earth's population are hoarding over 35% of global wealth if not more.

Maybe you should talk to them and convince them to give some of that wealth back to the poor so they don't starve to death?
Maybe IKEA? :)
The quality of a local business cannot be determined by whether or not they cough up $70 a year for HTTPS. The quality of content cannot be determined by whether or not they cough up $70 a year for HTTPS.

Penalizing sites for not using it raises the cost of having an opinion or trying to run a business on a nearly arbitrary restriction defined by a monopoly with conflicting business interests who sells web hosting services.
> Is it really conceivable that women are abandoning well paid careers in business and other areas to become yoga instructors? Or life coaches? Or re-training in psychology? Or starting their own home businesses on etsy or similar?

Yes. I know a number of people (some women, some not) who were excellent software engineers, sharp minds, good at teasing a part a puzzle who have left the field.

People balance quality of life together with compensation (and whether the opportunity is interesting), or everyone would be trying to become an investment banker.

It is certainly the case that if being a woman software engineer sucks more than being a man software engineer that calculus may result in clearly delineated differentials like the ones we see today.
Big Tobacco did do that. And, in fact, their growth markets are now not in the US or EU. The world continues to spin.
> The fact that you can change it is irrelevant.

Its not irrelevant; there is clearly a stronger case for anticompetitive behavior if you include an app as default with an OS and prevent alternatives than you if you provide a default but allow alternatives.

OTOH, merely allowing alternatives may not be sufficient, depending on other circumstances, to not run afoul of competition laws in some jurisdictions.
Here is the actual JSON for each comics and characters --https://github.com/asamiller/marvelousdb/tree/master/data/
Yup, that's not that special though. All major OS have the TCP/IP stack in the kernel. And many (but not all) OS have at least parts of their GUI stacks in the kernel.
Good article - since Apple Pay has seen such relatively small pickup, I'm curious what else could move the needle on mobile payments. My guess is that there just isn't enough value for consumers to adopt mobile payments right now.
While I can't speak to what you would end up with, my experience (~quarter of a century) is that this is not the case. To verify, I just did

ack '\[.*:' | less

to search my code-base for message sends with parameters. Scanning the first hundred or so results shows the pattern you mention to be rare.

Dan Ingalls explains the syntax really nicely in this video:

https://youtu.be/P2mh92d-T3Y?t=600

With this type of syntax, most APIs turn into EDSLs all by themselves, and often read like fairly natural sentences.

I ramble on a bit about the relationship between keyword syntax and (lack of) operator overloading:

http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/03/why-overload-operators.html
I wonder that myself, sometimes. I think maybe it was a different generation that actually paid any attention during the Microsoft trial days.
The caliber of the schools don't matter anymore. Nobody is capable of accumulating the quantities of data/processing power Google has access too. So search innovation more or less just lies in their hands and hasn't really gone anywhere beyond where they want it to go from lack of competition. Besides ofcourse in China and Russia where local alternatives have the breathing room to exist.
Not much of a fan of Apple, but Apple doesn't have a chokehold on the tech industry.

So Google's doing a good job now? With over half their devices vulnerable to major vulnerabilities that every other OS patched but Google has publicly refused to develop a patch for?
> There are only two explanations for the obvious reality.

Whoah, that's definitely not true. What you mean is "I can only think of two explanations"
It's an old post, but I really like it because it highlights a problem with almost all online accounts: Confirming the existence of email addresses and usernames in the database.
Can we have an environment more welcoming to girls/women and still keep it meritocratic? I think we can. This is what many companies do.

The hackathon described in the post was not like that. It bent the meritocratic part, which breaks the right incentive to participate.

What we need more is removing prejudices and careless practices that push away females. This has everything to do with culture, speech, general environment, and nothing to do with preferring a PDF to code on a hackaton. As the poster say, don't lie. Not only to women; to anyone.
I think you -- and others who haven't checked, which is understandable -- imagine that after Nokia sold their handset business to Microsoft, nothing was left but a tiny little husk. If that were true, your assumption would probably be correct, but it isn't. Nokia ended 2014 with over 60,000 employees worldwide and nearly €13B in revenue. They're still a really big company. Sure, they make some money from patent licensing -- as do all companies of that size -- but the vast majority of their revenue comes from network equipment and services.
There's a difference between modifying their current behavior and going out of their way to give FB more data without any real benefit. I don't think FB checkins have been super successful, have they?
It's a good idea to check your taxes if you live in the UK - they do make errors and sometimes those will mean you pay more than you need to.
Bill Gates Predicted Today's Technologies in 1999
Very cool i've referenced this to a few folks in the past. Here's the demo link BTW http://square.github.io/crossfilter/
There's a chance the Azure load-balancer might filter out malicious requests; but I wouldn't know for sure. One of the boxes I have on Azure didn't crash.
For Some Teenagers, 16 Candles Mean It’s Time to Join Uber
> Your assertion that women "need special handholding and encouragement to succeed at software development" is insulting and distasteful.

Please, please for the love of root do not use rhetoric like this. It's hollow posturing that offers nothing beyond scolding someone for the sin of not agreeing with you.

Being insulting is not the same as being wrong. Being distasteful is not the same as being wrong. Only one thing is the same as being wrong, and that's being wrong. I know this is an insulting, disrespectful, and distasteful thing to say... but being offended does not make you right.

So I have a question for you: why did you write the first line of your comment?
Do you have any evidence that Motorola was going to just give away Ara and not own the ecosystem? You know, the company that was hemorrhaging money and teetering on bankruptcy wasn't going to try and own the IP of the endoskeleton and charge for access to it?
Why not? Apple also won't let you go around their store for content sales in apps.
And if they were crushed by Apple, Apple would be under the same scrutiny Google is now. And again, Google was only successful because they leveraged an illegal agreement over a major portion of the tech industry.
Could we please stop the adhominom attacks before this gender thread derails into rape/genocide threats (like all those that come before)?

You cite one study on NPR that another commentor has already pointed out used a flawed methodology. ONE STUDY - and you tar your opponents as science deniers.
I have been using/administering GNU/Linux based systems for 15 years and have yet to see where the Bash built-in /dev/tcp was enabled, so any shell script I write that requires sockets I reach for netcat or socat.
This is obviously a home built website. Interesting to see their design choices...
confirmed the above command crashed my win 2012 r2 server on AWS with no output cache rules.
I found a png being served by my home page, and after 2 of the above requests the server crashed.

I installed the pending windows updates and after a restart the problem seems to be gone.
"you can actually specialize in charging more"

Okay, there was probably a post that explained what you mean here and I missed it. How does "I cost more?" become a specialty?
If you are running a vulnerable server, don't think you can just keep it a secret. Without question there are many thousands of bots looking for this already.
There are several strands of evidence which lead to the belief in the existence of dark matter. It's not just observations of the dynamics of galaxies (which is probably what most people have heard of), but also calculation of the amount of baryonic matter made in the big bang.

So alternative theories like MOND may explain galaxies but have nothing to say about the big bang.

The potential existence of dark matter candidates, which some suspect to be sparticles predicted by Supersymmetry (maybe the LHC throws something up there or, as always, it's just the next collider away), is another reason to pursue dark matter ideas.
OTOH, by definition, most cars are going to be 5-20 years old.
How is that an antonym? The point to "falsifiable" is the statement is made about an event is capable of being false, not that it is false.
If you aren't having to do many writes, it will fly for thousands of users... when you have to do a lot of writes, then it will slow to a crawl. I've seen distributed Access based database apps that handled several hundred simultaneous users before.
Does Dr. Matt Taylor count? Or Brad Wardell? Or maybe that PyCon guy with the big dongle?
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(Offtopic:) Why do you think apes lack some kind of culture? I wonder how was the studies controlled for that.
People here are totally okay with telling Comcast they can't leverage their ISP near-monopoly to win the video streaming market.

Why should we allow Google to leverage their search monopoly into capturing other internet markets.

The easy response is that I don't have a choice to switch to someone other than Comcast. Whereas I can pretty trivially switch to use a search engine other than Google.
> I miss out on some choice assignments. I miss out on some really interesting work. I miss many late-night brainstorming sessions and conversations with coworkers that are intellectually and professionally stimulating.

That's not very nice of them, actually. Have you tried raising the point (civilly, of course) that it might be more convenient to switch to midday brainstorming instead of late night? A good employer ought to play to everyone's strengths.
Does the freezer really act like a Faraday cage?

Quick Google search suggests it isn't really effective:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51597/does-refrigerator-make-...
Years of cleaning malware off Windows PCs has taught me that average users will click on anything that offers to make their computer faster.
> Microsoft released a patch, patch your stuff.

I have nothing to patch so no worries there!

> Obligation? No. Why would they?

I certainly lean towards this view myself.

I agree that Cloudflare are a company that is trying to make money and if they can allow big corp X to not have to rapidly push through a patch without testing then clearly they are providing a service to big corp X (we all know that enterprise doesn't like to upgrade anything fast).

The alternative view could be that your and my e.g. bank and credit card details are somewhere almost certainly exposed somewhere right now. Cloudflare have apparently the ability to prevent this so it could be seen that not doing so is allowing crime to take place when they could stop it.

I'm not sure about this myself hence why I posted a question rather than an opinion...

Maybe they could offer to block for say 48 hours and then thereafter only those that pay get the service?
Thanks to Android and Google. If Google had never released Android, you might be looking at an even more locked in monopoly, one far worse than the Wintel Duopoly of the 90s.
Gina mentions how she started with a $300 Lenovo laptop.
I would see the mid 80s as the point where wider society became aware that computer programming existed as a job, your link does suggest this but also puts some blame on parents. Before this point there was no negative pressure on women to avoid it as a career, they just drifted into it same as the men.
I suggest: IISIS
Lots of valuable data for mapping, local search, and the ad targeting that goes with it. Valuable to Google, Apple, Facebook and a few others. The failure was in growth, blame likely correctly laid on Facebook.
> Google mandated exclusive use of the Secure Element for the payment system on Android

The article's only claim in that area is that the Secure Element can only contain the credentials for one credit card (which wouldn't incidentally, lock developers out of using NFC). I'm not sure if that's right, but even assuming that, it appears to be a function of the hardware, not some evil plan to monopolize the phone.

The carriers only saved us in the sense that they forced Google to design around the Secure Element (which, notably, they could have also done themselves, another hole in your narrative...), giving a pure software solution and allowing Google Wallet to not ever be blocked on a hardware level.
The problem with the 3-5-3 A380 layout
Blacks are also horribly overrepresented in prison - likely because they grow up in poverty. This also makes it more difficult to study and that is the prize of admission to the coding group (you can learn to program for no more than the cost of a computer, an internet connection and electricity).
Categories that specifically reward participation by newbies aren't new nor unique to hackathons. The only chess trophy I ever won was for "Top Unrated", which, obviously, you are only eligible for in your first rated tournament.
Is it perceived as a given that Nokia's going to dump HERE? I used to be with the Point & Find group, which is what became City Lens -- my impression is that they were working on a quasi-secret project all last year, some kind of outdoor adventure thing, but I noticed last month that just about everyone I'd worked with changed their LinkedIn status to things no longer associated with Nokia/HERE.
Ask HN: Do you use market research for your business?
I'm interested in knowing if you use market research to help your business grow? If so, has it been helpful? Did you feel it was a waste of money and why?

If it's possible, I'd also be interested in how much you spent and what kind of research it is? (i.e. custom survey, focus groups, reports, etc.)
The current world food production is enough to feed 10 billion people (50% more than the current world population) a diet of 4000 calories/day (double the recommended amount for a woman, >50% more than for a man) [1]. And that's not including fruits & vegetables, only staple grains.

People go hungry because of distribution problems, not because we don't produce enough food. Southern Nigeria exports food to the rest of Africa while people starve in Northern Nigeria because the roads are not good enough to transport food. The Red Cross sends enough food into Somalia to feed the whole country, but it is all appropriate by warlords at gunpoint. Americans grow fat on fast food while peasants elsewhere starve because many of the calories we produce are used to feed animals. That's not even talking about the millions of tons of corn that are poured into our gas tanks through ethanol subsidies.

[1] http://www.gardeningplaces.com/articles/global-food-crisis.h...
The EU is treating Android as a separate issue here. This seems to specifically be about Google search (and Chrome?).
>Indeed there's no law in the universe that us humans have to be able to comprehend it.

A mind completely incapable of dealing with the universe would have been selected against waaaaay back.
Replace money with attention and their point stands.
Yup, I worked at a dating company for a while, the scale is trivial, couple huge DB servers and half a dozen webservers.
I'm a programmer and I feel jealous of people that can design. I wish I could do both (so I can take more money from freelance) - but I don't have an eye for that. I don't care if a link is light blue or dark blue, or if the composition of a photo looks good or not.

As a programmer, I do what the design tells me to do; that's what I promise my clients, and thats what I deliver. Nothing less or more is ever expected.

Do what you do and do it well. You can make a lot of money and be happy at anything, so long as you do it well.
This is a good look at the dangers of diffusing semantic knowledge in general. His approach is much more true to OOP paradigms.

In Java, you can take this a stop further, and use enums basically as enumerated instances of a class. Example:

public enum Stuff {
Stuff1(param1),
Stuff2(param2);

private Object param;
private Stuff(Object param){
this.param = param;
}

public getParam(){
return this.param;
}

}

Now you can call Stuff1.getParam();
Can a log on pastebin containing a relative path be resolved to an absolute URL?
what field of CS interests you?
> Just a tip - "begs the question" refers to form of logical fallacy where one forms a conclusion that lacks support.

Just a tip: the use of "begs the question" to which you refer is always intransitive. The transitive use, as by the poster you responded to, is distinct, and unambiguously a different use than the intransitive use. AFAICT, its inspired by the transitive use, which is an odd (from the point of view of the meanings of the individual words in modern English) translation of a Latin phrase into English, and -- unlike the intransitive use -- actually uses the individual words in something like their usual definitions. It also provides a convenient rationalization of the older intransitive use as a specialization of the transitive use where the question for which an answer is demanded is that of the support for the premise under discussion, so that the transitive use turns the intransitive use from an idiom that is detached from the meanings of the words in the language outside of the idiom to one connected to it in a clear way.

Accepting the transitive use, which is widely established and whose meaning is immediately clear to anyone who encounters it and which is completely unambiguously differentiated from the intransitive use, does nothing but make life better for everyone.

Opposing it isn't merely pedantry, its pedantry that ignores clear grammatical distinctions and seeks to find confusion where there is none to be found.
I don't think apes culture-free. I suspect ape culture is highly unlikely to have gendering of wheeled toys. Mostly because that requires the discovery/invention of wheels and so on, which ape cultures outside our own have largely not managed.
I have not seen a single comment regarding, what I think is the true/inherent value of Foursquare. Everyone is pointing out that they failed to monetize...but, just look at all the other billion dollar acquisitions on start-ups/companies that have not monetized.

Anyhow...If I were to relate Foursquare and its value to any recent acquisition it would be to Waze. Waze does have some degree of ads, but going out on a limb, I would venture to guess they are pretty negligible. Others may argue that Waze has all this valuable crowd sourced traffic data, well I don't think that data has been or will be monetized either. So what is the value of Waze that justifies a >$1B acquisition? In my estimation, it is the same thing as Foursquare (if not now, at one point should have had), due to their user base and the nature of the app, by default both Waze and Foursquare are cartographers and there is real money/value in that, and I am surprised of >100 comments I didn't see one mentioning that.

Because of the cost involved, there are only a handful of true map makers in the World, and from what I can tell they are all Billion dollar + companies. Waze (and Foursquare) both found novel ways to propel themselves into the space...and on the backs of their users, not with the traditional investment of satellites/GPS technology. If anyone anywhere creates an App that has millions of users who are updating geocentric data in real time from their own users and not paying for this data...I wouldn't be to concerned with ads for its own sake, just losing my user base.
If those restrictions were removed, Samsung would likely remove most Google Apps from their ROMs in the next update. They'd keep the Play Store and Maps. Maybe YouTube.

Most other OEMs would take longer to set up their own apps, but they'd all follow suit.
And I might I say that a lot of this overwork in the open office culture of today is catalyzed by constant interruptions, pointless context thrashing, and endless meetings cough Agile: you're doing it wrong(tm) cough.
Very pertinent information. Thanks!
This is why I've negotiated for hourly pay at all of the jobs I've had so far.

I feel like this is the most fair way to pay programmers. There is always an infinite list of work to do, so there's always pressure to work more hours. It doesn't matter if I work less hours in a given week, since my employer just pays me less. Also as an added benefit I also get time-and-a-half if I go over 40 hours.

The downside is that I have to punch a time card, clocking out for lunch and for breaks. That doesn't bother me, but it'd be a big adjustment for salaried employees.

I've been working this way for the past ten years and it's fantastic from a work-life balance perspective. I worked an average of 34 hours per week last year.
No, for the same reason that pain is more memorable than pleasure.
Yes, but a mind does not need to be completely incapable of dealing with the universe to be incapable of dealing with the universe completely. It is the latter, not the former, that is relevant here.
And S-Q-L is 3, so "Se-quel" saves time. :)