skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "mess" is highly overstated because multiple different issues are being conflated:

- Lack of mod tools/mod support: A real issue. They can solve this by drastically increasing communications, and working much harder on mod tooling over the next six or more months. They've got off to a good start on communication, but tooling will require more time (and consistent improvement).

- IAMAs: Reddit has "jumped the shark" by committing NOT to go down the paid AMA route. That's a good start. But still no explanation for why they fired their AMA coordinator out of the blue with no backup plan or strategy. The IAMA mod team have, last I read, rejected Reddit Inc.'s replacement for their AMA coordinator, so I don't know how this will wind up getting sorted out.

- Harassing sub ban: Long overdue, welcomed by many, complained about constantly by a vocal minority. These subs existed primarily to harass individuals, and they did daily. YouTubers, people with a public Facebook profile, Twitter users, other Redditors, and even random members of the public. They were also invading other subs regularly causing all types of drama. If all of the die hard users actually left for Voat then Reddit would be a better place. Nothing of value was lost. Also Reddit has banned controversial subs before (Fappening, Jailbait, etc) and the sky didn't fall.

- Ellen Pao: Unfortunately Pao has become a controversial figure within Reddit's community. This was because stories about her kept getting removed from the default subs (namely about her failed sexism lawsuit and her husband's criminal activities). People blamed her for the removals and claimed it was a cover up, and that only made the whole thing worse. In the medium to long term I don't know if she can turn people's opinions about her around, but if she can it is going to be an uphill struggle. There's also the cancer story which I doubt she'll ever be able to get away from (she fired an employee with cancer). Ultimately her time at Reddit might be limited, too much damage to undo now even if some of it wasn't directly her fault, she let the perception remain too long and now it is Reddit "fact."
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The article is referring to Iowa not Kansas.
> Gitlab runs on your server.

They also offer a hosted version too that's free depending on your usage.
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I think this is a fine idea.. Just tax them at whatever your marginal tax rate is less 5% and call it a day. The rich would howl at the suggestion, but it'd go a long way toward removing complexity.
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Based on this photo [1], I'm guessing they use a system much like a cog railway. There would be a continuous ring of teeth along the tracks and a small motor on the platform with a few inch gear to engage the cog. Or vice versa. The cog ring would probably be made up of several smaller segments.
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I'm guessing the idea here is that the IRS is changing how they interpret their own internal policy for how they will use the powers given to them by an existing law, rather than outright passing a new law with retroactive effects.

...but that justification seems like a horribly slippery slope. If you accept that logic, what stops congress from passing a law that creates the "Criminal Investigation Service" and gives their director the power to make things illegal? Would he then be allowed to make a "policy change" retroactively making something illegal and arresting them for it?

edit: I think Peugh v. United States actually answers this. Retroactive application of changes to US sentencing guidelines by a government commission were ruled to be a violation of ex post facto protections.
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Not just youth worship, youth genius worship.

Having been subjected to the government's definition of "agile" before[1], I can tell you that nearly everyone who was at least barely competent technically[2] thought the processes were asinine. The problem is that nobody could convince the government customers and non-technical management of this. The government in particular was bad, as their reps (GS and contractor) often came in with a dictatorial, know-it-all attitude about the problems they were hiring us to solve.

This team managed to do what they did because they were outsiders brought in specifically to fix a high-profile fuck-up. I'm willing to bet that most of what they did was suggested at some point by people who worked on the broken system, but it was shot down. The success of the second effort was primarily political.

[1] The Gantt chart bit brought back memories that made me want to throw things.

[2] Despite stereotypes to the contrary, most developers and engineers working at government contractors are at least barely competent. Contractors with mature engineering orgs (Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, etc) are better as they tend to force the fuck-ups out pretty quickly.
I would argue that the bug is not in the algorithm -- the bug is in languages that don't detect integer overflow by default. Arbitrary-precision integers, as are the default in Lisp and Python, are ideal, but at the very least the implementation ought to throw an exception. Yes, occasionally one specifically wants arithmetic modulo 2^32 or some other word size, and languages should provide that as an option, but it shouldn't be the default.
My parents and grandparents told me to "go to college". No mention of majors. They said this because they saw their peers with "college degrees" advancing in their fields. You could pay for college with a part time summer job making minimum wage.

Today, the labor market is flooded with "degrees" so the major matters more than ever. The cost has also skyrocketed. The advice today should be "Go to an inexpensive college and choose a major that can lead to a lucrative career".
I wonder why GitHub specifically and not just Git repos in general? Isn't it weird?

It means they don't even support their own new "Git" product AWS CodeCommit [1]

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-codecommi...
I don't see how that is more artificial than taxing cap gains at a different rate than salary, or any number of other examples in the tax codes.

All of these things are done to change the incentives about something, you can't expect them to be consistent without reference to those goals (and even then...)
It can sometimes be comforting to know that the universe imposes fundamental limits on how how efficiently computation can be done. Comforting because IIRC we've still got at least 15 orders of magnitude improvement available. But while I'm sure you're right that we're going to be able to switch to different materials (or maybe away from transistors entirely) when progress in silicon runs out we might have to expect an interregnum while other computational substrates are developed to the point where they can provide higher performance.

Stacking is certainly a thing and it's good for memory (see AMD's newest graphics card) but power dissipation provides limits in terms of how much high speed logic you can put under a given area.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9266/amd-hbm-deep-dive
This looks nice. I wonder how easy it would be to integrate it into react or other libraries.
Hardware is expensive. If you can build it yourself, then you can start by getting some initial customers. If you want to scale and retain control, then you might be best off using some of the FF money to do a crowdfunding campaign. This will give you more capital to go after manufacturing partners (assuming that's needed). If that's successful and you have enough growth, then you should be able to negotiate a round at more favorable terms.
Could save big companies a lot of time educating their employees about 401k and on-boarding them to the plan. It could actually take away the role of an HR generalist who is always shuffling employee docs around. Very cool--looking forward to using you guys when my company offers a 401k.
This made my jaw drop:
"Its Medallion fund, which now manages money for its employees only, was the most prolific user of basket options. The fund has earned an average annual return of more than 35 percent for two decades."

$25 billion is all employees money; Even if we exclude Simon's money ($14 billion) it is a ton.
35% avg annualized returns for 20 years.
Simply stunning.
"Fixing" government web has nothing to do with young people. I contracted for 5 years for the Department of Defense doing full stack web. Yes, most people I worked with were double my age or more, but many of them are very talented and eager to implement new technology.

The problem is the massive, unbelievable amount of red tape to get things done. Software stacks and browsers have to get approval and re-approvals, a years-long process. Code has to be written in something stable, not something trendy. The programmers spend more time writing documents and attending meetings than coding. There are meetings about meetings and the layers of management are infinitely recursive (managers for the managers).

Start-up culture and tech trends just don't work at the scale of government, for much the same reasons massive corporations move glacially. Just add even more layers of management, congress, civil service employees that cannot be fired, and tax dollars to the mix.

I enjoyed my time working in government web, but "youth" isn't really an answer.
Now I understand why my iPhone gets slower after a year!
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> I would say the vast majority of devs in the non-MSFT space use terminal more than 99% of the time

That's a pretty bold claim. Do you have any data behind it?

It's only anecdotal but in my experience it's almost the exact opposite; having worked in multiples of both MSFT and non-MSFT shops it seems like almost every one uses a UI to handle git. I don't blame them; it's not always easy visualizing all of the changes (in my opinion at least) just through a terminal window.
The difference is the people who make the tax rules want to encourage one kind of behavior over another, regardless of anything else. You're free to think that's a fundamentally bad idea, but it isn't "arbitrary," it's the basic idea of Behavioral Economics.
I buy a stock for $10.
2 years later, I sell it for $20.
I get taxed on a $10 capital gains income tax.

How is this not "logical" ? Can you explain better?
I’m having a really hard time understanding the pushback against a microservice architecture. Done properly, I can’t see the difference between building an app using a microservices architecture and a mashup. Am I being naive?
A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity[1], so it doesn't really matter that another provider could join the market.

To be fair, GitHub is really part of an oligopoly, comprised of themselves, BitBucket, and GitLab, but the winner of a majority of market share in this situation is typically referred to as a monopoly, in the same sense that Google is referred to as a monopoly, despite the existence of Bing, Yahoo!, and other search engines.

For context, according to Compete, GitHub had 24 times as many unique visits as BitBucket last month. GitLab has about half to one third the traffic of BitBucket.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
I think building up a libre platform, even if the basic patterns have been established, paves the way for innovation. Imagine if people could just "add features" to Github.

To put it another way, GNU and Linux were just a "cheap clone" of UNIX, but became a great platform for innovation.
After reading about microservices, I feel like it's a great idea if you have a large team and a lot of resources, but that's not really explicitly stated (although it's nice this article features drawbacks). I feel like there's a ton of hype but nobody is saying "Don't do this if you don't have a 30-person team!"

Separating everything out into little APIs all with their own datastores that all talk to each other sounds great, but I would not to do this on a three person team. Just give me an old fashioned monolithic API, a large database, and then I can spend 80% of my time programming and 20% on maintenance. One app is hard enough to run, why consciously choose to run 10 of them if you don't have the capacity?

I don't think microservices are a bad idea at all...I love the architecture. But the hype makes it hard to see that this architecture probably isn't for you unless you have the capacity for it.
Per capita driving may have peaked, but as long as the capita is still growing there will still be more and more cars on the road.
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It's funny because it requires a Facebook login, and Elliot isn't on Facebook and hates it :-)
An untraveled gravel road is likely more expensive to maintain than a paved one, long term, when you factor in watersheds, plant growth, and vehicular damage caused by the road.

You also need to take into account that many of these roads are used to transport agricultural products, so the roads are in effect an agricultural subsidy (though not necessarily a bad one).
Longecity has a really good forum as well.
Oooh, Jeff Barr states that it'll take a few hours to appear on the web console: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/619155748392583168
Is there any more information about the inner workings of the failed healthcare.gov site? It's quite interesting to read how horribly wrong they got it.
In a tax system with progressive marginal rates on annual income, treating income resulting from action over multiple years as earned in the year realized results in a artificial increase in the tax burden on those with that kind of income pattern. So, there's a sense in which treating capital gains earned over multiple years differently than capital gains earned over a single year or less (the latter taxed as general income), given the progressive nature of the tax system.

Of course, irregular income from other sources that isn't simple hourly work often also can result in windfalls from work over a longer period of time, or naturally intermittent so that an a large income one year is the result of a pattern of activity that also resulted in a smaller income other years. A simple way to address this that isn't specific to capital income is to tax all income equally, but allow, within certain bounds, income to be recognized for tax purposes, and associated taxes paid, in advance of realization and, perhaps in certain cases, deferred and recognized over a period of years after realization.

This would mitigate any overtaxing of cashing out events that took many years to "earn" the income, without favoring any particular kind of income or creating gameable thresholds.
Does this connect to Zenefits? That would be awesome.
I used GitLab at my last company. It was one of the earlier versions before they went to YCombinator. At the time I wasn't a fan; I ran into bugs and just had odd persistence issues.

But I've got to say GitLab is just incredible to use now. It's really nice and I now use it over BitBucket for my private repositories. I still use GitHub for OpenSource (that's going to be a hard barrier to get through if they really want to) but I'm a big fan.

So congrats on the round! This is technically the second seed round, right? Or does YCombinator not really count as a seed anymore?
My guess would be WebHooks support.
Did you even read you link? The very page you link to says "3. bit, little <a fraction closer>".
What about inflation?
If you're wondering, this post did by itself have meaningful impact on implementations of binary searches. For example:

https://github.com/mono/mono/blame/88d2b9da2a87b4e5c82abaea4...

When I need easy-to-read and well-commented algorithms code, I often visit the Mono codebase. Here, you can see a fix for the exact bug reported.
Thank you for that wonderful diorama of sights of Japan. Haven't looks at the other trips but if its anything like that one it will definitely be awesome.
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So progressive!
See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak#Pre-Amtrak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_t...

Basically, an ongoing waterfall of corruption, regulation, NIMBYism, unfair (arguably) competition from other sectors, and a lot else.

It's not quite accurate to just say "Well, passenger rail is dead" as though it was some natural progression of things--especially when you look at it working in other nations.
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> The fund [Medallion] has earned an average annual return of more than 35 percent for two decades.

OK, can someone explain this? Most people say that "you can't beat the market in the long term", "market is efficient", etc. So how can these people have done so well over more than 20 years??
There is nothing in this link about personal attacks. "Be civil" is as close as it gets. "you're thinking too narrowly" is only slightly less civil than "You are literally clueless", which is something people say, face to face (see the bit after being civil?), frequently.
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there is no real active development on apiaxle and api umbrella is low looking at their pulse.
> Ultimately, taxing "realized" gains can never be logical, since "realization" is a fictional concept not grounded in reality.

Trading an asset vs. holding it is a non-fictional concept very much grounded in reality.

Attributing significance to it is, in a sense, arbitrary in the same sense that any assignment of significance is, but its definitely not a fictional concept divorced from reality.
Plain old MS Excel integrated with a Web server to communicate test results
The most interesting part is modeling the workload, and what you do with that. If you're selling a laptop, the odds the customer is running it 24/7 at maximum load are slim. In fact, it would be simply wasteful to engineer a laptop chip meant for always-on server average workloads- nobody benefits from that!

OK, so what is the average workload of a laptop? What is the real-world worst case workload of a laptop? Don't forget to consider that different software operates different pieces of the chip! Ok, now that you have all that information, start modeling the odds of a weak[1] chip ending up in the hands of a worst case user...

The rabbit hole is very deep.

[1] chips have a failure distribution, like hard drives
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have done it all. :) yes, the learning curve can be pretty steep, but one thing that always helps is that the probability that there is somebody out there that did it already is very high. you just need to be curios and invest into learning it and looking at what others are doing.
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I'm from North Dakota, and yeah, I would rather drive on gravel than ill-maintained pavement. ND has had to go the other way in the west because of the large amount of traffic[1] and pave and maintain some roads that would normally not merit it.

I am actually a little ticked that the northern states are not doing research on alternate materials / surfacing technology.

1) western North Dakota now has traffic such that I find Minneapolis / St. Paul during rush hour relaxing in comparison. I would hope for more rail, but they seem to keep crashing and I guess a pipeline isn't going to happen.
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There's no speed limit: https://sivers.org/kimo

Also similar quesiton: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7083921
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1. In the US, the supreme court has repeatedly held that the ex-post-facto clause only applies to criminal laws (See Calder v. Bull, which was decided in 1798).

This is actually consistent with the history of the clause (It was understood to apply to criminal laws. Motions were made to change the wording to say it also applied to civil cases, they were turned down)

2. This is not a law, and may not even be administrative rulemaking (depending on what exactly they issued)

Of course, even if it was, you have a mechanism to challenge it if they hold you to it: the courts.
I always wondered why my brokerage account felt so modern (Wealthfront), but my 401k feels like it's from the stone age. Makes complete sense.

Do all employees have to use the automatic advising, or can they invest independently if they want?
Is small from a VC prospective. Especially in 2015-2020. Everything under 1B is tiny. Plus, when there are soo many players you will end up fighting like crazy just the get bread crumbs.
Because out of the many thousands of funds who attempt it, some are bound to end up beating the market. You can't know in advance which funds are going to the be the best over the next two decades.
This is very cool. Looking forward to trying it out.
I too enjoy gambling with my life savings.
That could be, just noticed that CodePipeline's Post-Receive Hooks are still a work in progress
From my impression of the recent buzz about Microservices, and having spent the last year building them, Microservices shine as a refactoring approach for large/monolithic applications.
> again there is nothing special about writing a web-based front-end really.

I thoroughly disagree. There are a lot of challenges and opportunities with web apps that you do not have in the same way in other UI environments. Having a way of enumerating different states of the application, and jumping between those states (URIs) is just one.
10000 times - $1 :)
this is not to make money. It's to drive adoption of AWS and get [even] more people on it by making their lives easier.
There's a massive difference between the long-term and short-term gains rates. And, hedge fund folks aside, long-term capital gains are also the taxes that apply to retirees drawing income from years of investments. Raising those rates would cause serious problems for folks who have already done all their financial planning and investing, and cannot afford to pay higher taxes.
and a lot of those small towns are still active and are gathering centers for a large area producing product to be shipped to urban areas - towns disappear on their own, no need to be forced
Another Midwesterner, here (Minnesota, with family in Iowa and South Dakota). I think you're correct on the potential to shortchange a lot of the smaller towns. For example, the high school my dad went to (a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away) has since been consolidated with 2 other school districts, so some of the demand for roads has shifted to more of the main highways instead of a lot of the smaller, more rural roadways. Same thing happened to the school districts my cousins went to in South Dakota. Now, for the most part, they travel on I90 and I29 to Sioux Falls. I think the gp is correct in saying that "the entire system is unneeded" is a bit of a hyperbole. But I'd be curious to see what their DOT's plans are for collecting data on that capacity usage, and how it will play out, politically, if there are serious proposals to start to rein in spending on rural road upkeep in low usages places.
I 100% agree and have some money with Wealthfront for the exact same reason. I did the math, ran the models, and come out ahead. Thanks for taking the time to write what I wanted to say :)
So rule decider type B (judges) can effectively create retroactive laws/policies. An interpretation that is enforced is as good as a law.