skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the kinds of people who adopt are often not well off. They borrow from friends, family, church, etc. Then they pay it back using these credits.

> electric car credits,

Lets talk in 5 years when even the poorest will be driving EV's. They'd be stupid not to considering how cheap electricity is compared to gas.

Not to mention in a country of high class mobility putting in "donut holes" in the tax code is just stupid. Now you'll be incentivized to not go past making $50,000 unless you suddenly want to be hit with taxes. Employers will cap salaries at arbitrarily $50,000 to avoid tax concerns. These kinds of "one fits all" caps are often economically destructive. Look at India, where if a company is larger than x employees, it is illegal to fire anyone. You need to petition the government to fire that person. That's why there are so many small companies there and why they struggle to compete with China and other nations in their development class who don't have weird one-size-fits all legislation.
Open Source is not "the cooption of Free Software".

Early versions of the BSD License dates back to at least 1988, the GPLv1 was created in 1989. Do whatever you want, or public domain licensing existing long before either.

If anything GPL and the FSF co-opted Free-as-in-Beer software into their own version of Software-that-is-forever-Free, and now have rewritten history to the point that all BSD code is an attack on Freedom.

And this is largely why GPL/FSF is fighting a losing battle these days. Companies view the GPLv3 as toxic, and most of the kids on GitHub don't care and don't understand why their code isn't just BSD-by-default (and the License Anarchy "movement" is a much bigger problem than this losing battle that FSF is picking with Open Source).
Because it has worked to achieve the mob's objectives when it comes to these topics.
> Are you seriously implying that transphobic people deserve to be considered "oppressed" or "marginalized"?

In the strictest sense, yes. The same way convicts can be truthfully said to be opressed or marginalized. That doesn't mean it's not deserved.

> That they deserve our respect?

Only in that a large basis for what we believe to be acceptable or not comes from cultural norms, which can change over time, so it's a good stand-by to treat personal opinions and choices as irrelevant for professional decisions where possible. There are of course points at which it's hard to argue that someone's personal choices and decisions are affecting other aspects of their life and the people around them.

In other words, I don't respect all opinions, but I respect people's right to have an opinion I don't agree with.
I have to ask french folks, do you feel antagonized by all the attention the Waterloo battle gets these past few weeks? Belgium cast coins even.
If that's so important why has nobody done it? CL is programmable programming language.

It would take less than a hour to separate those core 25+ symbols in Common Lisp into core package and then separate other symbols into other packages. Common Lisp has less than 1000 symbols.
Talking Shop: A long-form critique of Free
It's a little like a row hammer bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer).
> What business does the state have in that?

The main reason these sorts of rules seem to exist is as an attempt to prevent gang leaders who are in prison from continuing to effectively run their gang.

Now in practice this ends up requiring a fairly draconian crackdown on communications that may well not solve the problem of running gangs anyway. But this is the "why", in a nutshell.
They think they are trolls, but all they are doing is feeding another troll.
It's always insufferable to hear "memes" (repetitive jokes/puns/quotes) on both the internet and real life. It isn't tied to gender, so it really isn't some evolutionary trick (except maybe the evolution of globalist culture).

If you get off the internet, you'll find people are capable of being funny without quoting Dave Chappelle. I seriously doubt any potential mothers out there are looking for a Quote Machine. I'll probably get crucified for this, but the fact that you reference Jon Stewart as a rare type of funny sort of betrays the point you're making. He's very much part of the "sick references" club.

I think a humorous person that may potentially make a good father and the meme-spouting quote crowd are really two different things. They're just looking for someone that can be goofy from time to time, you're making this out to be a search for Richard Pryor.
What if the team lead is transgender? Seriously, you need to take into account that there's another human on the end of the screen. This whole mess isn't an easy "separate politics from work" sort of thing. Folks like Elia I will never work with or for due to their beliefs. I've dealt with that in other workplaces and found my productivity plummet since I had to worry about being a target for harassment for being transgender. So, no it doesn't work in the real world.
I'm pretty sure that's not specifically pointed at any person. It means that you should try to stay ahead of the curve.

For example, it could be recommended to install motion-sensing lights. Burglars figure out dead zones to those lights to avoid them. Then you upgrade to a video feed. Then burglars figure out those dead zones. Then you upgrade to cameras on a timed swivel. And so on...

I think.
> A 14.5% tax rate also conveniently matches the current maximum capital gains tax rate of 15%, which is the effective tax rate the ultra wealthy already pay

That's exactly the point. So now the middle class can pay what the wealthy already pay.
Finally marketing automation that's extremely affordable!
It was painful watching Common Lisp happen; too many competing interests, and commercial stakes. Unfortunately languages went a different direction. (I also mourn Smalltalk's "loss", but Java had much more money coming into it.)

Lisp50 went into this somewhat (http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html) and, unrelated, was a freakin' awesome good time. I sat next to Guy Steele for one talk but was too in awe to even say anything.

(Anecdote about same: I IMed a friend and said "I'm sitting next to Guy Steele" and he replied "Cool, ask him who Guy Steele is." Damn kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language)#...

This was a concept for R6RS (not sure what happened, apparently some controversy with it) and R7RS has (attempted? succeeded?) in going in this direction.
The youngest references are from 1998, so I'm guessing this was written by 2000, before the Very Bad Indeed 9/11 incidents. Also, it doesn't mention terrorism at all.

I suppose this just represents that the NSA at least in the past had various factions inside it, one of which lead to SELinux.
I submit my mortgage interest...

Paul proposes leaving the mortgage deduction in place, so that may alleviate your concerns.

...it shouldn't be after 50k, it should start at 1 dollar of income.

This would have the effect of raising your taxes.

...adoption credit, electric car credit, home insulation credit...

This is kind of the point of this entire exercise.

...home office business expense...

My understanding is that write-offs for business expenses are untouched? You can't really have an income tax system based on gross income, can you?
Ketchup Gone Wild: QR Code on Heinz Ketchup Bottle Links to Hardcore Porn Site
Yeah? You don't know if your room is a 10X20? You make it sound like this is some crazy task that requires some special ability.
The model defaults to a 4% growth rate in home prices. If you want to assume a 7.5% growth rate, plug it in a few rows down from the down payment. The rent number will go negative, even with a 0% down payment.

But you will be assuming that Seattle maintains a 7.5% growth rate over your specified time period. (It would be nice for me, I'm in contract on a house in Wallingford.)
This will be created by google and microsoft. Be sure they'll find a way to include DRM inside.
I've recommended this before, but if you want a thrilling, literary take on the battle, read Victor Hugo's account from Les Miserables:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135-h/135-h.htm#link2H_4_...

That's the anonymous translation, which I liked just fine (there are modern ones), and can be bought for a buck or two just about anywhere. I'm guessing that Waterloo gets cut in a lot of abridgments, though.

My favorite extract - "the finest word, perhaps, that a Frenchman ever uttered":

http://coldewey.cc/post/19163335604/the-victor-of-waterloo-a...
Different missions require vastly different hardware.

> Orbit around,

Orbiting Europa requires a different amount of propellant than orbiting Mars. Solar panels that power a probe at Mars won't power one farther away from the sun. Radio that can talk with Earth from the Mars orbit won't be able to do that from Jupiter.

> take photos and

Different cameras required due to different amount of light, expected distances for imaging, filters optimized for materials being imaged, etc.

> readings.

What readings? Basically no two probes carry the same set of scientific instruments. Often, the instruments carried are one-of-a-kind, specifically designed for the specific thing the mission wants to investigate.
So who shall be the arbiter of what a company spends and where?
Huh, and here I am just finalizing my application for Stripe's "user ops" support crew.
Most entertainers read a script, they're not spontaneously funny.

> When someone says, "I like people who make me laugh"

When people say that, they're not talking about a professional comedian or even a class clown. They like people who are happy and relaxed. When someone is happy and relaxed, they're having a good time and they play around, make jokes, and generally allow other people around them to also have a good time.

It's not about having a good temperament, although that's probably a prerequisite. It's about being genuinely happy.

I dare you to come up with a better test of figuring out if a person is happy or not.
The birthday attack
Was the is the performance difference between HotSpot and Dalvik worth $45 million in 2006 dollars?[1] Those were the alleged licensing terms proposed by Sun ($20 million upfront + 10% Android revenue capped at $25 million).

Your budget determines the kind of software you get. On a purely engineering basis, Hotspot might have been the better option, Business-wise, Dalvik made sense to Google.

1. http://www.pcworld.com/article/253666/a_timeline_of_oracles_...
Do your friends lack a backbone? I'm not sure why one has to equal the other.

Obviously I can't say for sure that had my parents done X, I would have done Y, but their lack of any attempt to connect with my siblings and I on any meaningful level has had a massive impact. I don't hold a grudge against either of them but there are certainly things I know now should have raised major red flags and they completely missed them. Still, that goes deeper than whether or not I could consider them a "friend"!
Chris Sacca – What Twitter Says, and What Investors Hear
No, that is only true for trademarks, not for patents or copyright.

And this confused comment is a good example why the FSF recommends against using the confusing term "intellectual property".
free commercial for both Heinz and the porn site. Nice!
$ dig +short fuck.microsoft
127.0.53.53
$

It is part of the ICANN-mandated "controlled interruption" phase of launching a new TLD before production usage. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12...
Oh great, let's hose up the environment on our first visit...we will end up doing this anyway, but radioactive chuncks on the sea floor?
> flat taxes don't get rid of the complexities of the tax code

Most flat tax proposals don't allow for exemptions. You pay your taxes off your gross salary, full stop. That would eliminate 99% of the tax code complexity for most individuals.
Friends of Robin Williams may disagree with you
> Actually, the kinds of people who adopt are often not well off. They borrow from friends, family, church, etc. Then they pay it back using these credits.

Yes, these people aren't helped by the process of taking deductions because they are basically covered by the standard deduction to have zero tax anyways.

>Now you'll be incentivized to not go past making $50,000 unless you suddenly want to be hit with taxes.

Huh? if you make 50,010 you're not going to be paying 14.5% of 50,010, you're going to be paying $1.45 in taxes.

>These kinds of "one fits all" caps are often economically destructive.

No doubt, and the US idiotically implements these, too, like in the ACA where small businesses are exempt below certain sizes, unless you are wal-mart and can obtain a backdoor administrative exemption.

Now, if you want to rail against "donut holes" the american welfare system has plenty of those, but that's a separate debate.

>Lets talk in 5 years when even the poorest will be driving EV's. They'd be stupid not to considering how cheap electricity is compared to gas.

If the lowered expense of the cars is matched by the cheapness of the electricity to make it economical for 'the poorest', then there would be no need for a credit. As it is, the credit (like most tax credits) only helps rich people.
A flat tax was proposed long before Trump.
It feels like the recent changes at Reddit regarding discrimination and such are a direct result of her losing this lawsuit. It's as if she never put down the pitchfork and simply started attacking a different venue.
If someone is spending money trying to comply with an outdated law, I'd call that significant. If there is a provision in the tax code that talks about how to properly depreciate horse-drawn carriages, that's not really increasing anyone's cost of compliance.
> Excluding an entire swath of people.

That's interesting, you must have read different tweets than I did.

> Any future or current trans members of the Opal team who are or would be dissuaded away from a bigot.

In the string of tweets, the only abrasive behavior I saw came from Kurtis, not Elia. I don't think it's accurate to paint Elia as a bigot, though I don't agree with him.

edit: I can't reply to your post, but it's worth noting:

> He straight up says Transgender people are insane.

No, he didn't "straight up" say anything like that. You put those words in his mouth in your next post by appending a fragment of his post to your own interpretation of those words.
> A 14.5% tax rate also conveniently matches the current maximum capital gains tax rate of 15%

Well, except that 15% is the next tier down from the top capital gains tax; the top tier is 20%.

Plus the fact that 14.5% does not match 15%. If you don't believe me, I'll give you $14.50 for the "matching" $15.00 and repeat that until you're convinced.
When I was learning Java recently in anticipation of a job programming Java - I was surprised by this reality. The core of Java is remarkably simple to learn - there's not really all that much to it.

The complexity is indeed in all of the libraries and build frameworks and well intentioned but silly HammerFactoryFactoryFactoryFactories.
There's one design that's a very effective perpetrator. Works in biology; works in space.
Paul, I'm broadly libertarian. I don't want taxes to asymptotically approach 50%, I'd prefer if they were lower. But what we have now is taxes that asymptotically approach 50% unless you have clever tax planners, like I do.

Furthermore the rich can leave the country, I'm personally of the opinion that taxes should be based on land and resource usage, but very few people share this view, so I talk about how to reform income taxes over switching tax systems.

What I'm saying though would be much better than we have right now. Right now we have massive inequality in treatment for families that earn identical amounts.

Furthermore, a basic income is not unsustainable. What we are doing now is unsustainable because robotics are going to replace people in low skilled areas of the economy, like trucking, taxi driving, and construction. The system of taxation we ultimately use will be able to tax the wealthy that leave the country if they derive economic benefit within the country they left. For example, sales taxes.
The Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page is presumably on your localhost?
I suppose it's too much to expect that you understand the hilarious irony of what you're saying. Racism, sexism, discrimination against gay and transgender people, hating and fearing people different from you: all of these are "how humans work". If everyone had your attitude of fatalism towards "how humans work" instead of fighting against our baser animal instincts, we'd have long ago given up on combating those ills. Thank God most people don't think like you.
Apptimize hiring a QA engineer, a lead designer, and a CSM
No, the name resolves to a local address, so you're seeing the default page for the machine your browser is running on.
I'll be interested in seeing what companies like Hubspot or Infusionsoft, or even Marketo think of this new company. Clearly the price point is vastly different - is the Mautic product significantly less powerful?
>what a rant

Thanks, but I can't take credit for it. I owe it all to Spring.

Dependency injection is overrated.

>XML configuration is in the past

Show me your empty -servlet.xml file!

But it is funny that you picked just one thing to eliminate. That still leaves at least 3 other approaches!

I don't have a problem with annotations per se. But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

>because your learning curve is steep doesn't mean that a product is bad

Oh, but it can be a pretty big hint. And, here, that's exactly what it means! It's way too kludgy, overengineered and error prone. If you start with the question, "why is the learning curve steep with this particular framework?", you should quickly realize that it's suboptimal at best. ;)
Oh, so you're the problem. ;-)

It's too bad, really. The general public gets more engaged for presidential elections, and they start caring about the actual issues, but then there's no resource to allow the citizen to drill down into the actual argument as deeply as they'd like, so they can try to understand it to the depth that a close adviser would. So instead they hear a bunch of bull and they get disillusioned and go back to voting while uninformed. Which is really what the politicians want, anyway.
> Do you also think it would be a sad irony for a person of color to want a KKK member off the team?

Yes, for the exactly the same reasons I stated, as long as the KKK member just expressed views, and there weren't associated actions (maybe membership in the KKK is enough if there are dues and those go towards specific actions?)

> This comment is so bad and lacking so much empathy as to be harmful. Ugh.

I do empathize, but if we turn this around, and it was a transgender person under pressure to leave from a transphobic person, how is the argument different? Keep in mind that if your argument uses social norms, how would it play out 20 or 30 years ago? How would you defend the right of transgender people then?

I submit that a safe default to protect marginalized people to some degree, independent of social norms so that it's less susceptible to current public opinion, is to default to leaving people's personal opinions out of other aspects of their lives.

Sometimes it means letting people get away with bad behavior, such as transgender slander, but other times it allows for marginalized people that face extreme penalties from society for personal decisions to survive, and I think that's worthwhile.

It's the concept of free speech, expanded. Though I may hate what you say,I will defend your right to say it, and protect you from excessive social punishment.
The FBI have activated the microphone of a feature phone in an organized crime case. The phone wasn't on a call, but the mic was activated, evidence was gathered, and was used in trial.

It's interesting to note that the mic can be activated with the cell phone "turned off", as some models at the time didn't fully shut down even being powered down.

Here's an article from 9 years ago on the case that the government decided to make public.
http://news.cnet.com/FBI-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdroppin...
>are you implying that playful office banter with my coworkers is childish and should not exist?

I would avoid playful office banter with coworkers - save it for your good friends. Act professionally at work, goof around after work.

It is extremely easy to accidentally create a hostile work environment for some. Those people also don't "need a sense of humor."
How many transphobic people have been murdered for being transphobic?

I get that the aggression is unhelpful, but your comment ignores the years of murder, rape, and beatings that trans people have been through.
2% is very high. MC/Visa require you to keep your chargeback rate under 1%. If you go above it you'll get add to their excessive chargeback program which if you don't get out after after certain amount of time, you'll be fined up to $50k a month(volume dependent) . Go above 3%, you get yourself in audit program and risk losing your merchant account.

We do ecom subscription and ours is 0.01% in comparison.

If you blame the customer, you should better qualify your customers. There are services that can tell you if the customer has committed friendly fraud(fraudulent chargebacks). Burden is on the merchant to prevent chargebacks.
So I don't think you'll find Mautic lacking in any features, and in some areas I think it's even better than the existing platforms. It is much younger, I suppose time will tell!
See, most interviews are along the lines of: Q: Are you smart and good looking? A: Yes!

In my current company we hire a lot of developers through contracting companies. These people often have very difficult-to-read resumes - mostly because they are trying to get through filters that work based on searching for keywords, but they're rarely well-written documents even within this constraint. Fine, we're not looking to hire a writer.

But a lot of these have "Communication Skills: 9/10" on them. Whether this is added by the candidate or the contracting company, I don't know.
I have my cell hooked up to my door buzzer and it's handy until I'm at work (where I do not get a signal) and my SO is expecting a delivery.
Or disable JavaScript :D (e.g. NoScript/ScriptSafe)
Oh I'm all about not having income / corporate taxes. But working within the framework that we're discussing, I think my proposal is more effective.

I think taxes are best done on land / resource usage, since it minimizes privacy, but a sales tax would be way better than income / corporate taxes.
Correct. And it's easy to verify, just go to a food bank, shelter or centre and ask around how they found the place, pretty much everyone I've asked has said they searched online, so the website is actually pretty important.
Actually, I think I might do it. After thinking about it for a few minutes, you're right, the work is somewhat minimal. Then you have a standard library. Instead of :use'ing :cl, you'd just use what you want out of the lib.

If it caught on, implementations could use it for hinting when compiling, and everything would be backwards compatible by just using :cl again.
Unprofitable Saas Model Business Trap
There's a reason why Grails exists. It takes advantage of the JVM by running Groovy, and gets rid of all the Java cruft.

Spring is just meeh...