skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but that 50k income covers their entire mortgage, kids schooling, etc. 50k covers barely anything for us, so I'm being punished for living in and being part of a large economic engine (big city) that, frankly, makes the money this country runs on.

So their entire lives are tax free(even while they are using resources paid by tax), but for me income for private school/daycare, mortgage, etc aren't. I don't see how anyone can see that as fair. If we all moved to rural Alabama then economy would collapse, so telling me to move is a non-starter.

Regardless, flax tax is crackpot territory and Rand Paul's chances of becoming President are about the same as mine. I see that as a feature, not a bug in our system. Greece just voted in radicals hell bent of changing things, and now it looks like they're headed for financial doom. Just because the status quo has issues doesn't mean you're obligated to throw everything out. The nice part of our tax code is that its so complex, no one action can really ruin things. We can add/remove as needed without really breaking anything. Its congress-proof for the most part, under typical government gridlock (different parties holding power in different branches).
The most interesting bit to me was learning why the mission involves orbiting Jupiter rather than orbiting Europa directly. Though the text doesn't make it clear, the video explains (starting at 0:59) that directly orbiting Europa would mean too much time spent in the most intense parts of Jupiter's radiation belts. Making 45 Europa fly-bys apparently avoids radiation-related issues and allows for making observations over an extended period of time to detect changes.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article on Jupiter's Magnetosphere [1] has great details on the impact of Jupiter's radiation on previous missions. For example, Pioneer 11 lost most of its images of Io, and Galileo had total data loss on three of its orbits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter#Explo...
Earlier discussion was here[1], but as rightly pointed out by
davexunit, description of the implementation is much more interesting than just a commit message.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9739100
Why the restriction on "significant" laws? Most laws are significant to some people, and a vast morass of insignificant laws is arguably worse than a single law that affects everyone, since they greatly increase the cost of doing anything without hiring expensive counsel and hoping that the courts and IRS will agree with his/her interpretation of your particular case.
...inter-familial transfers...

Did you intend intra-familial? Like inheritance and 529 plans, right?
sounds like a dare...
We'll see. For inline assembly, sure, it doesn't, but you can do some pretty intense stuff with Rust's type system to guarantee certain static properties. For example, earlier today this comment appeared on Reddit, talking about how to use the type system to guarantee that you're not doing out-of-bound array accesses: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3aahl1/outside_of_clos...

It is true that the lower you go, the less we currently offer, but over time I expect library authors will use this and other future features to check even more properties without runtime overhead.
Actually, there's quite a lot of overlap. Milton Friedman, who is worshipped by much of the right, advocated a "negative income tax", which is basically the same thing.
did nobody listen to Aretha? R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

lol at the people where conflating what transphobes go through with what actual trans people go through. There is nothing else to say
You're getting downvoted because security issues are far from unique to Ruby on Rails. Are you aware of any web frameworks with a pristine security history?
I don't think "guarantee" means what you think it means.
Functional iteration is actually a fun way to draw fractal images in the plane. It goes like this (for anyone interested):

1) Pick a function f: R^2 ==> R^2

2) Pick a region of R^2 (this could be the unit square for instance).

3) For each point in the region do the following:

a) Plug the point into f. Then plug f(x) into f. Then plug f(f(x)) into f, etc....

b) The norm of f(f(...f(x)...)) will either run off to infinite or stay bounded.

c) Record for the original point, x, how many iterations it took the process to run off to infinite (or the maximum if the sequence stayed bounded).

4) Paint by number after assigning a unique color to each possible number of iterations.

Here's the result of this process for the function:

f(x,y) = ( exp(x) * cos(y), exp(x) * sin(y) )

http://i.imgur.com/LZKavio.png
Part 2 of how we implemented multitenancy for Hadoop using Namespaces
Marketing automation revolutionized (aka no more insane prices)
Cell phones are an easy one, but I'd also throw a vote out for Lasers because of the photoelectric effect, quantum mechanics, miniaturization, etc that went into the modern, ubiquitous laser. Even if you don't own a DVD player, you've probably been part of a grocery store checkout recently where nobody thought anything of it.
Replace "Go" with "PHP" and ask yourself if such a claim is a strong validation of a technology...'

As a programmer using Go, I think the comparison is spot on -- if you credit Go for having a much cleaner architecture, vastly better design around security, and profoundly well thought out trade offs.

With some work on libraries and tooling, Go could well become the basis of the next PHP, and become the tool of choice for small web projects. If this happened, the world would be a better (in terms of software-sanity, performance, and security) place.
> 1-2% seems possible for a legitimate business

Somehow, all the businesses that currently exist and accept credit cards are doing so without more than 1-2% chargeback rates. That's a pretty good indicator that this isn't a problematic level to set the bar at. It's really much higher than you seem to think. 1 in 50 people walking into a store shouldn't have some payment problem so serious they have to go to their bank instead of the store to resolve it. Neither should online sellers be generating chargebacks every single day; 50 sales a day is a very small business. If 2% were an acceptable level, Wal-Mart would be allowed to generate 300,000 chargebacks every day, millions per year. 300,000 people who have a problem with charges on their credit card per day at a single retailer would clearly not be good for Visa or MasterCard's brands.

> As a credit card user, I don't think it is their job to dictate which businesses are worthy of operating or not.

As a credit card user, don't you prefer that you don't have to call your bank and dispute a transaction on a regular basis? It's this bar that ensures bad actors aren't there to take your card in the first place, that the stores you shop at don't engage in shady practices resulting in charging you more than you expected to pay, that they have reasonable return/refund policies, and that they have good and prompt support so they can resolve issues with you directly without you going through a third-party mediator.

Ensuring low chareback rates ensures high customer satisfaction rates across millions of businesses. If a business wants to operate despite large numbers of dissatisfied customers, they're free to do so. They can take cash, or checks, or debit your bank account. They just won't be allowed to take Visa or MasterCard cards. That's not a right.
I don't have the exact quote/source right here handy, but I believe that was Guy Steele's intention with Scheme.
Very apropos username btw, the law could use a good "rm -rf /" :)
why is it... in reverse chronological order?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Comedians_who_committ...
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It only doesn't change things if you're an ideologue who ignores reality.

>Apple has a long proven track record of saying one thing and doing the complete opposite.

Care to share?
I think the comment meant it was a nice spread for Stripe. It then pointed out the delta.
1991 Master Tax Guide versus 2012 Master Tax Guide
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1510099/linked/MasterTax...
Inspires a lot of ideas: Pest Identification - take a picture of an insect infesting your house, have it identified, get a result and maybe a recommendation, serve up pest control businesses in your area (pay a premium to be listed).
hm. seems like we're not fans of 2001 here.
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"One-time" taxes feel a bit like theft, though, don't they? The follow-on effects wouldn't be pretty either, after the billionaires realize how foolish it is to keep their money in USA accounts.
Boy, where to start. First of all the conditions around various planets and bodies are very different. Jupiter for example is oozing with ugly radiation so we can't just put a "stock" probe into orbit around Europa, it would fry.

Second, these missions aren't actually that frequent. It takes months or years for a spacecraft to arrive at its destination, and its design had to be finalized and tested rigorously years before its launch. That means by the time we even get a close up picture of Ceres, for example, the science of spacecraft building will have advanced by several years and we now can include new sensors and improve fuel efficiency and so on.

Third, what do you think science is? Taking photos and readings. That is a huge, huge part of basic science, especially when it comes to astrophysics, astrogeology, astrochemistry, and so on. Landing on a planet provides further opportunities to take photos and readings, but it's phenomenally difficult to do.

Finally, if you are bored by cutting-edge space travel and the study of distant worlds that may hold the possibility of life... I don't even know. I'm mystified by your perspective on the universe we live in.
would be pretty awesome if they made it so if you have an xbox live account you get Username.xbox for your xbox profile page or something

BTW http://nic.microsoft/
Edit: You can use nic infront of pretty much all of microsofts ones
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Yep. I loved the sprinkler analogy. It's a nice solution (lots of sightseeing opportunities on an orbit that wide) and one that could only be made by very patient people.
user friendly - designed to aid the user in doing whatever task they are doing.

The software for making a photo collage for Grandma and the software for controlling replication across a hundred database nodes can be radically different and still be user friendly.

Lots of software tends to assume that the user is a new user but the problem then is that a new user rapidly becomes a not-new user and those things that helped initially now hamper productivity (cough Clippy cough).

I'm not saying everyone should have a Symbolics terminal and that requiring lisp knowledge should be mandatory so much as lots of people say open source isn't "user friendly" when what they mean is it's not particularly friendly to new/inexperience users coming from outside.

http://rippedwire.sourceforge.net/images/hbgtk-video.jpg for example, to a new user that is very unfriendly but if you use it frequently and or understand what you are trying to do that kind of no-nonsense interface is user friendly.
One cool thing about Lisp is that you can easily embed new languages in it, and those languages can be small and beautiful. For example, I have a Python-esque FOR macro that uses an iterator protocol, and a universal binding macro that subsumes all of Common Lisp's binding constructs (LET, LET*, LABELS, FLET, MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, etc.) So for me, Common Lisp has actually shrunk without losing any functionality. This is not possible in languages without macros. Such languages are indeed doomed to either grow forever, or change in non-backwards-compatible ways (e.g. Python3). But with macros you can shrink a language as well as grow it. This is one of the reasons Common Lisp continues to thrive.

[UPDATE]: You can find my code here: https://github.com/rongarret/ergolib

Also, I forgot to mention another language-shrinker included in that library: REF. REF is a universal de-referencer that subsumes NTH, ELT, SLOT-VALUE, GETHASH and probably a few other things that I can't remember right now. It also lets you build abstract associative maps (a.k.a. dictionaries) with interchangeable implementations (see the DICTIONARY module), which lets you get rid of ASSOC and GETF.
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> There are no numbers published to confirm or deny. It's apparent if you keep up with the community and ask developers what they use.

So just an anecdote, kind of "on my neighbourhood...".
Translation: I want a username I can't have. :)

Might get a better response emailing directly and asking for the account name specifically.
Good points and Java being typed vs dynamic does impose some limitations (though properly used reflection can mitigate some of this).

Still, there is no reason Spring has to be that bad! It's not so much a Java thing as it is Spring-specific. I literally laughed out loud while reading their documentation. I thought more than once, "are they kidding?"

It's true about enterprises though. Most took forever to allow any open source. And, now that they have, they seem to be perpetually at least one generation behind. Some stability is good, and I think the startup culture tends to be at the other extreme: constantly throwing off some new tech flavor of the week. But enterprise is way to slow too adopt.

There has to be a happy medium!
Projectional editor in Lisp
Military's 15-year quest for perfect radio is a blueprint for failing big (2012)
they were doing a sort of 'live blog' with constant updates. we're only coming in at the end, with the prussians arriving as a sort of 'one more thing'
So you're complaining because you'll lose privileges that have been granted to you, that you get to take advantage as a upper-middle class individual. Boo hoo.

People in the bottom tier (making under 50k) are generally not taking adoption credits, electric car credits, home insulation credits, etc.

It's doubtful that the electric car will be strangled. Tesla owners are not buying teslas for the credit. Likewise, Prius/Insight owners were not buying those for the credit (when that existed) either.

The only electric cars that will die without the credit are the leaf and the volt.
> Anyone competent with Javascript can easily read the first form

And anyone competent with any language implementing map can easily read:

users.map(user => user.name);

...without having to do any "skimming over" the noise. It's not a big difference, you're right, but it's the kind of little thing that, when you let it build up over time, gives you the "write-everything-in-triplicate" feel of Java 6.

Further, you have to be intimately familiar with Javascript to understand why this is necessary:

function fetchUserData(){
var self = this;
userService.fetchAllUsers()
.then(function(fetchedUsers){ self.users = fetchedUsers; });
}

or even this:

function fetchUserData(){
userService.fetchAllUsers()
.then(function(fetchedUsers){ this.users = fetchedUsers; }.bind(this));
}

as opposed to simply writing:

function fetchUserData(){
userService.fetchAllUsers()
.then(fetchedUsers => this.users = fetchedUsers);
}
It's a tricky ethical area. The Google post cites several research papers that seemt o provide more than enough information to replicate these results or get similar ones, which is good, because I think everyone should be able to explore these tools - I stick by my view from yesterday that this may be a scientific breakthrough.

At the same time, I can see the basis for some anxiety, because it's not hard to imagine proprietary research going a few steps farther and developing some sort of general intelligence or even a limited but extremely high-powered intelligence that would confer an overwhelming commercial advantage, and/or a political one. Suppose, as an exercise, that one developed an algorithm to maximize persuasiveness by first leading readers/listeners into a quiescent, semi-hypnotic state and then making your commercial or political pitch. There's certainly a potential for abuse.

In Europe this sort of thing tends to bring up the precautionary principle, the idea that you shouldn't do something without oversight and demonstrated minimization of risk. I think that's highly limiting, but expect some pushback against Google over this. Of course, I don't think democracy is all that wonderful either but then I'm a bit of a misanthrope.
I use YNAB and I really like going through my transactions manually. I import them from QFX or what-have-you, and then manually confirm them and reconcile. I've found it to be helpful psychologically; I find myself thinking, "ok, that expense seemed great at the time, but am I happy about it now?", which helps me cut down on the kind of spending that I tend to regret.

I used Mint for a long time, and it never helped in any way. I would go look at the summary once or twice a month, think "ok great, all in order", then eventually stop looking at it at all because there was never anything actionable and thus little point in looking.
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United States tax complexity isn't because of the shape of the tax(income) function. That function is the most important part of tax to most Americans, but the complexity comes from two other places:

1) Some people will game the system for economic advantage. Of the 321M Americans, a certain portion are both extremely clever and amoral. A lot of the code is a response to "They did what‽"

2) Americans tend to have an inbuilt belief that everyone should make it on their own which manifests into the government not "giving" things to people, even if it is to induce a person to accomplish the government's goal. Since it is politically difficult for the government to use payments to change people's behavior it is easier to "not take as much" instead and accomplish the same end with a tax credit. This pushes all sorts of policy and governance into the tax code.¹

␄

¹ As an example, I have in the past claimed "historic building renovation" tax credits. I have never renovated a historic building. My state wants to spend $X to preserve historic buildings, but they politically can't give $X to people preserving buildings. So instead, they give transferable tax credits worth $X to the renovators, who probably aren't paying much tax (because they are in the business renovating historic buildings, like that pays) and don't have a use for the credit. If you know the right finance person, you will find there is a quiet market that connects sellers and buyers, so you can buy credits and split the savings with the seller 80/20 if I recall. It's a stupidly complex system that only puts 80% of the state's cost into what it wanted done, but at least they didn't give anyone money to preserve buildings.
As codec operations move into dedicated hardware blocks on silicon, their code will be more about pointing registers at blocks of data and less about performing the mathematics on CPU.
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> I'm being punished for living in and being part of a large economic engine (big city) that, frankly, makes the money this country runs on.

"trickle down economics"
> Or put more than 5% down on a house. IIRC, 20% down was enough to weather the 2009 crisis for the majority of the country (aka: Not Detroit).

I had put 30% down (~$60K), and lost all of it, plus 2 years of payments. Chicago suburbs.

> HOA's are beholden to the conduct described in the HOA bylaws, which serves as the constitution / due process of the HOA.

You know how I know you've never attempted to sue an HOA for violating their bylaws?
Science instruments aren't generic, you have to choose a scientific payload that gives you a chance to attain your objectives while operating both under monetary and power constraints. The instruments have also improved tremendously over the last couple of decades.

Here is an overview of what we know about the mission now: http://futureplanets.blogspot.se/2015/06/nasa-goes-first-cla...

"Galileo’s camera and spectrometers revealed that the icy crust is fractured and frequently covered with material that appears to have originated in the ocean below. The Clipper’s radar instrument (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) – principal investigator Dr. Donald Blankenship of the University of Texas, Austin) will see below the surface to investigate the structure of the shell, potentially all the way to the interface with the ocean below."

"The MAss SPectrometer for Planetary EXploration/Europa (MASPEX) (principal investigator Dr. Jack (Hunter) Waite, of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)) will measure the composition of gasses, ices, and organic molecules."

"The wide angle camera in the Europa Imaging System (EIS) (principal investigator Dr. Elizabeth Turtle of APL) will map the surface of Europa at 50 meter resolution in color to document the surface structure."

"During each of the planned 45 flybys, the spacecraft will travel close to the surface of Europa. At each encounter, the wide and narrow angle EIS cameras will record the surface geology in high resolution recording details as small as one meter."
As in "if his opinions don't affect the software and don't cause internal problems, then who cares."

edit: Oh I see, you're the guy from the Twitter thread.
This looks extremely similar to the kinko project (https://kinko.me/the-kinko-project/), although the latter failed its crowdfunding.
I'd recommend watching Bradley's LCA 2015 talk, especially the slide 11 where he's talking about the aggressive anti-copyleft stance of today's Apache Software Foundation (in contrast to the ASF of a decade ago, as discussed near the beginning of the talk).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA#t=19m50s
All is well between us, and I can't thank you enough for what you're trying to do. Here I thought ES6 was the best news of the year for Web dev, but wasm will beat it by far--as long as the long-term cooperation you (correctly) said it needs really comes through. It's hard to relax when we're soooo close to something this tantalizing, all but one have officially committed, but it has to be unanimous, and that one is not...yet...saying....

I'll watch these pages and let out a woot! the minute Apple officially makes it unanimous.
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>low effort puns

But I LOVE low effort puns! They make me laugh every time!
That's just playing with multiple definitions. When people say "government" they mean the government, that is, the representative bodies that form our current system, not the abstract concept of any system by which a state is governed.

Governance is certainly necessary. Having "a government" is just one possible way of achieving it.
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Anecdotally it seems to me that the percentage of developers who are trans is actually higher than in the general populace. I'd be curious to see statistics though.
Lots of things aren't crimes. Doesn't mean that there might be some ethical questions to it.
Was Brianna born a woman?
> Cultural norms should be removed, where possible, from professional decisions.

Your qualifier doesn't help though. Business, law, and society all run on (and through the expression of) cultural norms.

Some of these cultural norms are regrettable, but you'll have a hard time getting large groups to agree on which ones are regrettable and which are the very foundations of our society.