skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income is not a measure of how fast your wealth is growing, it's a measure of how much salary and wage earners are compensated on a regular interval. Many people earn income without necessarily earning wealth. If you want to target wealth, you need to target capital and the source of its generation. The Land Value Tax is exactly that, and it's not 'outdated and wrong economics' (whatever that is supposed to mean). The LVT is highly regarded among economists as among the most efficient taxes. If anything its conception was ahead of its time, as its single shortcoming was the impracticality of determining unimproved land values in the early 1900s before computers existed.

To address your points:

1) Nonsense. The income tax is discriminatory against anyone who makes an income. Many of the 1% don't rely upon income but rather capital dividends.

2) Piketty's ideas require world-wide coordination of wealth taxation dragnets; a highly unlikely proposition. The LVT on the other hand is a wealth tax that cannot be evaded through a Swiss bank account.

3) Not really sure what you're trying to say here. Any tax immediately impacts the price of whatever it is it is taxing. An income tax impacts the cost of labor, and its introduction likewise impacted all those who were earning an income when the tax was introduced. What is your point here? One of the reasons the LVT is so highly regarded among economists is because of its minimal economic impacts.
It was that and the WMDs in his cellar.
Redux: Atomic Flux with Hot Reloading
The purpose is to grudgingly comply with the licenses to all the FOSS software that they use in their projects.
Xcode 6.x on El Cap beta 2
Great content and organization but awful layout and design. Sorry for being negative.
I think at least part of the problem was the hardware required to run a more complete installation where you'd start to see the benefits of the approach. As the paper outlines, a Plan 9 network needed at least a CPU server, file server and one or more terminals, plus possibly an authentication server (the CPU server might have been able to do this too). I seem to remember that the installation instructions assumed you'd have this kind of hardware available too, so getting a working system was quite an investment.

The file server was somewhat specialised too: the Plan 9 one used an optical WORM jukebox to provide its long-term storage. If you didn't have one of those you could simulate it with disk storage, but there's a cost trade off there.

Without this investment in hardware it was like trying to understand how NFS or web infrastructure works with only a single machine to work with.

In some ways it's similar to the obstacles that hobbyists face investigating the Hadoop ecosystem today: the hardware required to build a realistic installation on which to experiment is quite costly. With Hadoop you can use virtual machines and/or cloud hosting to try things out. When Plan 9 came out you didn't have that option so you needed to assemble physical hardware yourself.
so why settle on a bmw if bentleys are even nicer, and you should not be blamed for such urges?
Bummed there is no real ability to contribute. Or if there is, I'd love to hear more. I found a bug in an xnu syscall, submitted it and the fix to bugreports.apple.com a year ago and I don't even know if anyone has seen it.
To be frank, I'd argue that this isn't really a petition and more of someone throwing a temper tantrum. I mean, when I read, "After Pao lost her gender discrimination case against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins she was appointed CEO of Reddit Inc and Reddit entered into a new age of censorship. A vast majority of the Reddit community believes that Pao, "a manipulative individual who will sue her way to the top", has overstepped her boundaries and fears that she will run Reddit into the ground. Alternative sites to Reddit.com have sprung up and have received vast amounts of traffic within the recent months," I wouldn't ever take it seriously, especially as Ellen Pao and the board.

Like, I understand that these people are upset, and I've said stupid shit when I've been angry, but really, this is a petition to try to change something. Use a little bit more eloquence, and back up your arguments with data. Like, if they're talking about voat.co, are they really trying to insinuate that Voat gets nearly as many views as Reddit? And, wasn't Ellen Pao already interim CEO before the trial concluded?
This is what Twitter shared with me today
All pro-Yes Greece's referendum and fear engaging.

I don't know if it's organic, but it is hard for me to believe it is, as the account it was shared with has no followers and none following and never really used. I'm not drawing any conclusions, just leaving this here as a fact and let anyone judge by themselves, so we know who we're dealing with.

Email screenshot:

https://imgur.com/IZ4oXoi

Links:

https://twitter.com/sakisrouvas/status/616696407378923521

https://twitter.com/Real_gr/status/616925229475041280

https://twitter.com/AdonisGeorgiadi/status/616956611790303234

https://twitter.com/GiwrgosLiagas/status/616943583480926208

https://twitter.com/protothema/status/616719647748980736

https://twitter.com/NChatzinikolaou/status/616932738495590400
Clickable:

Email screenshot:

https://imgur.com/IZ4oXoi

Links:

https://twitter.com/sakisrouvas/status/616696407378923521

https://twitter.com/Real_gr/status/616925229475041280

https://twitter.com/AdonisGeorgiadi/status/61695661179030323...

https://twitter.com/GiwrgosLiagas/status/616943583480926208

https://twitter.com/protothema/status/616719647748980736

https://twitter.com/NChatzinikolaou/status/61693273849559040...
If it's less than 24 hours before the election, it's absolutely right to go public.

Or are you in favour of electoral fraud? Republican, perchance? Work for diebold?
Counting starts with Zero?
I just wrote a note to put the debate to rest. I think so.

https://github.com/vr6/blog/blob/master/Zero-One.md
How Dentons is trying to become the law firm of the future
With OS X "splitscreen", tiling window management becomes very accessible.

I use Spectacle, a window management utility. It is pretty limited since all it can do is resizing and moving windows, not take over their chrome completely, like fullscreen/splitscreen mode.
Also, "I want to apologise" is different to "I apologise". It's understandable that people want to put as much self-sparing language in an apology as possible, but it's the worst time to do it.
Motto Enjoy Hi Collegechick – Tamana Yoshihadaka
I may be misunderstanding what you need help with but try about:addons?
I signed the petition. I don't care about FatPeopleHate being banned. I don't care about censorship & I don't care about trolling. Although I did troll a few FPH users after the fattening event.

Sacking your most prominent staff member that is essentially the only one that happily & directly helps moderators.. with nary an explanation? Even if this push is actually coming from senior management beneath her, she's obviously oblivious to how her company is being run. I doubt that, Ellen Pao is basically pushing to make Reddit in her own image, you can bet she believes she's going to be more than "interim" CEO.

Reddit deserves a better CEO. Or it deserves to fade into obscurity.
Emulating Linux MIPS in Perl – Part 1: ELF loader
This guide is pretty good and gives you a comprehensive view of Elasticsearch, but to me it was a bit confusing when I first read it. If you are looking for a more "tutorial" style book, with some examples and use-cases, I would recommend "Elasticsearch in action"[0].

I might be biased towards Manning books, but I find their style and ELI5 wording to be very helpful as an introduction to a subject.

[0] http://www.manning.com/hinman/
(Author here) There is a set of exercises that come with the slides at https://github.com/serras/lambdaconf-2015-web In particular, they introduce the Aeson library for both producing and consuming JSON.
I think this petition was written by one person and is simply the one that got momentum behind a general idea. If it'd been better written it probably would've gotten more signatures.

100,000 + signatures should still count for something, and I imagine anyone with a vested interest could do a little investigative work to understand what's really going on.
Yes, it's not exactly equivalent here but it's pretty close. Basically, Sobel kernels are analogous to the 1st derivative and the Laplacian is analogous to the 2nd. You'll also often see the Laplacian combined with a Gaussian (the "LoG" operator) for pre-smoothing since it tends to be particularly sensitive to any noise.
Memcomputing NP-complete problems in polynomial time with polynomial resources
Does something have to contain all possible functionality to be "discoverable"? I think you're both correct.
we used ruby on rails
I, and many others have proven in public/open court, that the police/military are completely compromised around the world, and that they are not allowed to act-as or call themselves the police or military anymore.

It was scrubbed... Again, and again, and again...

:-(
Germany is the direct descendant of Nazi Germany, just like Russia is the direct descendant of USSR.
This is purely the cause of the shell having a builtin pwd command that displays a path that is consistent with the argument to the "cd" command that was typed to enter the directory, not the actual path you're in. The shell does this to provide a consistent view for the user when following symlinks.

You can always type /bin/pwd to avoid this and you'll always get the correct path.
> From what I've read it seems like the lack of ubiquity forced the Plan 9 guys out of Plan 9 and back into Ubuntu or OpenBSD.

Sigh. Really?
Newest version are available here https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
Wait wait, how do cross currency swaps hide debt?

Edit: these were not just regular cross currency swaps

> But in the Greek case the US bankers devised a special kind of swap with fictional exchange rates. That enabled Greece to receive a far higher sum than the actual euro market value of 10 billion dollars or yen. In that way Goldman Sachs secretly arranged additional credit of up to $1 billion for the Greeks.
ResearchKit and more https://developer.apple.com/opensource/
When I hear creative writing, I think of limiteless possibilities where the writers personality effects the mood. When I think of code, I think my understanding/lack of effects the effeciency of the problem I'm trying to solve. Similarly, I think of many patterns are strictly worse than others however the more effecient option often can be uglier than the easier (which is a problem with the language).

While I respect the idea of new people entering into the wonderful world of programming to make their dreams (or get paid to make other people's dreams) come true. I don't want to lie to new comers and say its a creative endeavor. But I don't want to lie to new comers and say it's not wonderful to know and feel that your power is limited by you ability to problem solve. Improvision is a good way to get started, organization and planning is the best way to master.

Personal Opinion of course, I may be wrong. I've been wrong before, I don't doubt I can be wrong again.
There's been some work on encoding video with triangles. See "Video Compression Using Data-Dependent Triangulations" (http://www-home.htwg-konstanz.de/~umlauf/Papers/cgv08.pdf) for example.
I dont want extra copies of my information that I dont know about.

Some of the work I do I keep encrypted. My problem with OS X in general is information leakage, there are logs and caches all over creation.

Its not enough for me to disable indexing of a folder or filesystem; I am concerned spotlight will index leaked information.

Admittedly osx is a poor choice for my work, openbsd would be better but i dont like neckbeardsbeither.
I guess I'll ask this here, since you seem to know what you're talking about. I'm a cs major, and I just finished my first c class. I quite enjoyed getting my feet wet with the lower level aspects of c, c doesn't hold your hand much (compared to java or python at least) and I liked that you really have to think about what you want, and the best way to get it with c.

Do you have any books or exercises to recommend to help further my understanding of low-level computing? I'll be taking too and compilers in the fall, but I'd like to keep digging on my own.
Amazing Homeless man rejects thousands of dollars, makes one request
I was thinking the same thing about loose typing
I was eventually able to find the ui that lists add-ons.

To restore the add-on bar, I had to install another add-on.

Im not real clear why firefox thought it was a good idea to remove the add-on bar without asking any of the people who use it, but the outcry was something like what is going on right now with reddit.
Show HN: #LogoEquality-A curated list of all rainbow logos that support equality
TFA is arguing the private creditors got off far too easily. Having made the loans of their own accord, pocketing the interest payments up to that point, you can be sure the private creditors were quite happy to have the debt off their hands in 2012. This is the largest transfer from private credit to public credit in history, right? These are the same loans Greece is now actually completely unable to service.

The paper talks about creditors taking haircuts, but then in the next paragraph that this resulted in very little actual debt relief for Greece? If private credits really had to absorb 50% haircuts on $100 billion of debt, point me to the massive string of bankruptcies? If I understand correctly, the "haircuts" are projections based on net present value using some arbitrary high discount rates (the paper mentions 9% !!!) so you have to appreciate that with a different discount rate you could claim the private debt holders were actually being paid even > 100 cents on the dollar.

Using this 5 per cent discount rate to compare old
and proposed new debt flows, the debt relief
implied by the July 2011 financing offer would
have been approximately zero – indeed, slightly
negative. Using the “risk free” discount rate of
about 3.5 per cent (not shown in the table),
would indicate an *increase* of Greece’s debt burden by
about 11-15 per cent [over] the July 2011.

That's from your quoted article! Doesn't sound like such a great haircut to me... Any time private banks are being bailed out, I'm going to assume that they are being well enriched in the process. Just the way of the world. People will just play with the numbers to suit a given narrative, so it's hard to even find a "truth" in all this. A 9% discount rate for sovereign debt is insane though. Almost any NPV analysis is going to look like shit against a 9% discount.

EDIT: I read further down into the paper, and the actual discount rates used to arrive at the "59 - 64%" haircut range for the 2012 restructuring were 15.3% - 18.7%. Just WOW. So, yes, creditors were NOT paid the full NPV on over a hundred billion of dollars of debt being carried through maturity at rates higher than my credit cards. This should surprise exactly no one.
Tails 1.4.1 released with an unnecessary security flaw
That's true, but I find it's generally a much simpler problem on piano than guitar, and thus sight reading on the piano is much more tenable than on the guitar.
I've solved this the easy way. The only "online service" I use is an IMAP box and run that using inbox zero. Everything important is archived on disk in eml files. We share all our passwords in a single keepaas database and everything we have data-wise is in a shared folder on a shared computer. Backups are all in known locations. We regularly empty our phones an cameras and transcode everything into neutral formats.

The digital life is 22Gb of photos and videos spanning 13 years so far.

So there isn't a digital life as such, just a pool of electronic memories and information which we share. I couldn't use anything deeper after watching a friend go through the painful process of losing everything tied to an ecosystem of a software vendor.

Oh and I'll only use a system that respects my control for my data. Currently this is windows 8.1 but with the introduction of 10, it appears I'm not going to have to dump that due to the incoming app ecosystem and hit Linux.

If this all looks like a lot of effort, you're only doing the work up front. Retrospectively if you don't do this, you're deferring a world of pain.
I'm not doubting you but can you please tell me how you know this? Also, is there a canonical source of info about reddit's finances and BoD details? The only info I seem to find is in random reddit and HN comments with no links to back it up.

What I'm most interested in is whether reddit has finally managed to get in the black and who's on the board.
How to conduct user research when you can't reach your users
A Primer on the Greek Crisis[pdf]
> We, or at least Americans, care deeply about free speech, not because it protects the weak, but because it is a fundamental human right.

Thanks for recognising that this level of free speech is pretty much an American cultural thing and that most of the rest of the world doesn't see it that way.

English mewspapers talk about how important it is for them to keep their freedoms when they operate under, to Americans, restrictive laws.

And "we're a bit worried about the unpleasant parts of the Internet" is something baked in from the early 90s when commercial providers of Internet started offering services. See the various swearing filters; or Compuserve carrying but delisting a range of porn Usenet newsgroups.

http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/Compuserve

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/hsv.general/5BiIjb...

http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/ils310/msg00266.html

And see also the AUPs of some ISPs that provide restrictions on top of US law about not harassing users (in some but not all AUPs) or not sending unsolicited bulk email (in most AUPs, even before there were laws about spam).

A blog post about the early AUPs of different services would possibly be useful.

Your mention of fundamental human rights is a bit odd; the US (for constitutional reasons) has not fully signed up to the UDHR. The freedom of speech bit is article 19.

> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

But the US trashes articles 3, 4 (arguably), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16(3)(arguably), 17(2).

I'd argue that being allowed to write about the fact a police officer took your house and there's no real recourse for you to get it back is less important than the officer just not taking it in the first place.
This was reaffirming. I spend several hours last night unable to sleep trying to solve a problem. As you describe: I had a design and kept throwing scenarios at it and debugged it.
Jshell: The Java Shell (REPL)
That'd be great! Looking forward to it.
Ask HN: Is a Red newspaper plausible?
By "Red" I mean a newspaper which challenges group thinking and comes up with alternative theories backed by facts.The word Red comes from military intelligence agencies around the world generally calling such a unit a Red unit.

For a clearer picture imagine the tenth man rule from World War Z which says that in a council of 10 men if 9 men agree, the tenth man has to disagree.

If such a paper was to exist what would stop it from simply becoming a conspiracy theory newspaper? Would people be interested in such a newspaper?
A good keyword is "attention economy" if you're interested in further research on the topic--it's an interesting hypothesis about how "information" is no longer the dominant mode of economics. Your post reminds me of this article: http://markmanson.net/attention
The "Chairman Pao" comments, and all the imagery comparing her to the current Chinese government. Generalising and making comparisons based on a person's race is racism. Particularly so, since she was born in America.
Greece supporters do not seem to care about facts at all. Same for the GDP numbers, they always use the graph from 2008, whereas the graph from 1999 is much more enlightening: https://twitter.com/jmackin2/status/615576571890565121

Even in the boom years, the numbers of Greek patents granted per year is ridiculously low, the number of Greek universities in the worlds top-500 is ridiculously low and Greece's rank in the world banks Doing Business report is still the worst of any OECD country - after 5 years of "reforms"!
I wrote up the little I learned about p-adic integers
Some of these individuals were greek and are under greek jurisdiction. None were prosecuted. It would give the moral position of the greek government a huge boost if they started doing that, just like Iceland did in its default.
This is scary for me to share, but maybe, hopefully, it will help you
Basing the compensation of CEOs on the stock price is a real problem.

I also see a link to politics. In politics we have a similar situation: Most politicians (at least in our country) are planning for one or two terms of office. After that, they are eligible for a pension big enough for them. And when this is not enough, they also can get money from corporations just by being a consultant after their time in office. So, the plan is just short term: Get into the parliament, get a big seat as secretary if possible or other good job and after just a few years you don't have any trouble in live any more, money-wise. This can be best reached, by short-term thinking. Be helpful to the right people, be a "party soldier" (as it is called in Germany) that does what the party top wants from you.

Own thinking, or long-term success or even thinking, what is best for the people, is counter-productive in this scheme.

So what we more and more get, are short-term solutions, that only make you popular for a short-term but does not help with the long-term problems. Troublesome decisions are shifted into the future, when you are out of office, even when the troubles will increase meanwhile.

The same short-term thinking is produced in CEOs today. A CEO just has to get the job and be there, for 4-8 years to earn enough money, most people don't have in a lifetime. So what does he do? Make troublesome decisions, or decisions, that cost money for the next 3-5 years and will pay maybe in 6 years, maybe later??

You know the answer.

I think, this short-term thinking and the greed, that is injected in many of us today, are the reason of the most problems we face today.
It's all documented on Crunchbase:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit

Reddit isn't publicly traded, so they have no obligation to discuss their financials or leadership makeup, which is why nothing but their funding is public.
Is this open source and available anywhere?
I'd like to use it to create something similar for the jargon within my group of friends.
I've meet a handful of young greeks(Age: 17-29) since 2010 and when asked about their situation, especially the unemployment rate they all said the same thing, young greeks don't want to work unless it's a high paying gov. secure job with 6 hours a day 5 days a week schedule. Ironically all of them were gamers but considering that the unemployment rate is about 50% with young greeks, it's hard to argue with that.

Also one important thing was said many times, most of greeks try to avoid taxes or they don't pay them at all. They've told me this is especially rampant in tourism. It's hard to argue with that, depending on where you traveled you can experience this first hand.

It's so easy to blame everyone else for your own problems, lets not forget how much money has actually been pushed to Greece since 2010 via financial injections and what have they done with it? What good is it to keep pushing more and more money into Greece when the people and it's gov don't want to change and without change how can you expect any progress?