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I intend to tax capital gains just as high as well, unless its in a retirement account.

> If you tried to place that restriction on capital gains, everyone ounce of capital in the this country would flee.

Feel free to take your capital out of the country. It'll be taxed with an expatriation tax. Attempting to evade the tax will allow the IRS to confiscate assets anywhere in the world the US has a tax treaty with (ie everywhere).
> Rails isn't modern.

You are using a drastically different version of modern than normal English usage. Where's that Scotsman when you need him?
I just prefer a Makefile and a backend written in Go with a single binary deploy that I proxy behind nginx
> How did Microsoft get the original xbox into a state of relevance?

Halo. I mean, there was a pile of other Xbox exclusive games at the time that probably helped -- Fable, Dead or Alive, Ninja Gaiden, Steel Battalion -- but the original Xbox pretty much made its name entirely on Halo and Halo 2.
Thinking beyond just OS X, the purpose for a general "-system-*" font and style identifier would be that web apps could more easily have the "native look" without having to explicitly identify the operating environment. (And identifying the operating environment still doesn't necessarily tell you what their system font is set to; that's still heavily presumptuous.)

Maybe someone's Linux distro is using a serif typeface, or a monospaced serif typeface, or a monospaced sans-serif typeface, or something more like Comic Sans (have seen this more than once) as their system font.

The point is, we can do better than what we have now with regard to the goal of making web applications approach the "native look and feel" more easily and more simply. It's a balance game; a balance between adding features like this (every feature adds a little bloat) that also potentially help eliminate bloat elsewhere in code (e.g., javascript to fingerprint the environment). Further, getting the system font is something that CSS should be able to know about without the aid of JavaScript; there are lots of simple forms and data entry "applications" that don't use any JavaScript (nor should they) and would benefit from a better presentation. Writing a native application for any platform, I want to get the system font, and not have to know or assume any qualities of what that font is. With typical native applications, the default font is intrinsic in the UI widgets your using, so you don't have to think about it. With the web, typically the default font is a "document font" and not the UI widget font, so you need to be able to have some sort of mechanism beyond the default font in order to get the system UI font.
Show HN: Hexlet – online courses in real dev environment
Hello HN,

For the last 12 months my team and I were working on Hexlet — platform for online courses on programming and IT. It's like Codecademy, but on steroids: instead of simple simulators or interpretators we have real containers accessed via browser-based IDE. Courses include videos, quizzes and real-world exercises. Exercises look like this http://i.imgur.com/DqtKD1S.png

The platform is very flexible. Teachers can define any environment they need (software, servers, etc) and write tests to evaluate solutions. You can create your own lessons and courses, both free and paid. There is documentation on creating lessons [0].

Users have root access to the container (which for them looks like a VM more or less). We've written our own IDE for this, and it's open source [1].

We've launched in the Russian-speaking market this spring and have some traction already (63k users, 23 courses, hundreds of lessons and exercises, revenue from paid subscribers), and today we finally have few courses in English.

We're looking for teachers, those who's interested in creating and selling courses.

If someone's interested, I can also explain how Hexlet works under the hood. It's written in Rails with ReactJS, and we use Docker (for both development and production), Ansible and AWS. Oh, and we love Slack. There is even a public slack chat for our community with more than 660 Russian-speaking members [2].

Thanks.

[0] https://github.com/Hexlet/docs/blob/master/create-lesson.md

[1] https://github.com/Hexlet/hexlet-ide

[2] http://slack-ru.hexlet.io/
I parse it as Brow-Zurrif-eye
I don't really get why I'd use a Meshtag over a QR code.

Pretty much everyone has a QR reader already, whereas this requires people to download a new app (for no real gain on their part either). It also requires them to have an internet connection, which for any thing other than a URL, is really not necessary.

The problem it says it's trying to solve, making them drawable, isn't really a problem at all. I've never wanted/needed to draw a QR code, that's what we have text for.
Doesn't it look like a replacement for the (dead) Microsoft Tag [1] ?

[1] https://tag.microsoft.com
Well, you and I can disagree on the usefulness of this article then. By that analogy, I see quite a few concrete and "useful" details on how not to crash the plane, here.

It's just a nice summary of some common errors, with suggestions on how to avoid them. It's not the end-all utility to stop them from happening, but it's a good high level view.
yeah.. kind of feels like they forced something so outrageous and now backed up a little and everyone's high-fiving each other...
I also find the 12% fact hard to believe. IMHO lots of commercial software is still developed and runned on windows, and seing anything other than MSVC there is an exception. For games I'm thinking the situation is the same. So I would guess it alone is at least 20%.

Also the embedded SW development market is really big, and C/C++ is still dominant there. E.g. in automotive nearly all ECUs are pure C, using compilers that fall in the "others" category of this survey.

But I guess the issue could be the used sources here. E.g. embedded is in large parts a closed ecosystem with less visibility on the internet sites about programming (which are often very web-focused).
For TextSecure users, will this be an issue? Usually I'm prompted before I download a image/video. Do you think I'm okay using TextSecure?
Now this is the proof that Los Angelinos are insane

http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=2...
I read both links, and the "isolation" provided by cgroups alone will not prevent exploitation of this bug (or any other, for that matter).
Just ads, I've never done a paid app.
I received the request to sign this recently and while I think it is good, I was concerned about its effect on the ability to pursue research into creating autonomous weapons that seek and destroy autonomous weapons. I don't know where to draw the line. Unlike nuclear and chemical WMD the barrier to entry in this may be pretty low in the near future. Therefore my greatest concern is for defense. Though I don't want the machines made at all, that won't stop others from making them. It's a tough one.
You're looking at cultivated blueberries. Wild blueberries have between 5g and 7g sugar per 100g. They're typically smaller than their cultivated cousin. Their flavor is more intense, but their texture is slightly grittier.
> where any change will either just trade one quality for another, or worsen them all on average.

Doesn't the fact that a change can worsen all three qualities imply that there must be a change that can also improve all three qualities?

These things are not always mutually exclusive. That's the fallacy.
The language is a bit rough, but I'm curious to see where things go.
The FrSky Taranis transmitter can be used as a USB controller with a normal mini USB cable. It runs about $175, but you're not likely to outgrow it since it has tons of knobs and switches, runs an open source firmware, and can accept JR-style transmitter modules.
That gameplay looks more like Wolfenstein but with Duke sprites.

I honestly feel bad for kids who thought they were getting a decent game or reading about games being released around the world and seeing images of them and thinking that Sega Master system could do it. At least it was cheap.

The Street Fighter II footage has sprites that look like it, but the gameplay isn't really anything like it.
I don't necessarily see the situation as inflated egos as much as lack of resources to do it better. I have rarely met developers that are excited to do operations work like defining and implementing system security policies, change control, and orchestration. It's a chore that's as exciting for them as doing their laundry.

I'm being very conservative with what "modern" means (within the past 20 years is about right). Traditional shops are still racking and stacking machines and maybe deploying VMs by hand using ITIL stuff trying desperately to slow down system changes to deal with demand rather than to speed things up like most shops have done. Where I am now, the "traditional" IT side of the house takes roughly 5 months to provision a new server (I lead operations on anything bleeding edge, which is now standard for most start-ups).

Going from using maybe kickstart files to API calls is not as big of a deal as the fact that you can even get something on demand in any way instead of going, finding another job, quitting that job, coming back in shame, and realizing that the server you asked for is finally up.
You're not going to launch these things with the order to "go fight the war" and hope to update them on the specifics later.

You're going to launch them with the latest intelligence on board manually uploaded, for missions less than 12 hours in duration. It's like firing a missile - you don't need to recall it once you've hit the red button.

So - AI 1 and 2 - drop 2x 500lb bombs on target at 6759 5974 at 03:12 hours. Go.

They complete the mission and head back. Even better, you give them 4x 500lb bombs and they figure out themselves how much to drop to destroy the target.

Communication worries are overblown, you just have to design around them.
Nope, still says "Indian nuclear scientist Abdul Kalam has died"
You might be right but Facebook succeeded dispite the exact same real name policy. It's hard to look at Facebook's success with that policy and then claim it was obvious google would fail with it. The better question is why did Facebook get away with it?
Actually, any use of radio frequency at all is retarded. Propagation's CAN be stopped.
You just haven't had access to that information, or you have, and are providing disinformation for someone.
Why would you design something with such an obvious flaw like not being useful against human solders?
I actually love g+ and was always rooting for it.
Too bad it received so much hate for youtube commenting system and mandatory accounts and such.
I always hoped people will turn around and switch to g+ - functionality and interface are so much nicer than in fb.

I hate facebook and can't use it, but g+ is really nice, and has all the best features of fb/twitter/tumblr. I'm still rooting for it.

This sounds like a sensible decision though.
Good luck.

As someone who tried starting something as a solo founder, it's tough work! I did begin with an idea on my own but eventually brought in another guy and thinking of bringing more help on board. There's just way too much to do.

That said, at the idea stage, it seems alright. I once asked for advice on which channels I should focus on to get my first customers and a mentor just said to do whatever it takes. At the end of the day, try everything and see what works. Cold call, reach out to networks, ads, etc. I think the same applies - if your idea is a great one, solo founder or co-founder, you're the one in charge of making it happen.

However, having a co-founder means you've managed to sell your idea to at least 1 person. And you have a team to get going right from the start instead of having to go look for someone.
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The latest round of articles encouraging streaming from the cloud to your local client focusing on latency sensitivity is very interesting because it might finally make things like high-performance, low-latency remote virtual desktop for development solutions approachable.

Chrome Remote Desktop works OK and it's a sign of things to come in the field of virtual desktops. Right now, the state of the art for on-demand cloud remote development desktops to help facilitate intensive development environments, like IntelliJ / Visual Studio / Mathematica, on underpowered clients, (i.e.12" MacBook), is to rely on proprietary protocols that barely work if the targeted remote machine is a Linux desktop.

Yes, I know about x2go etc, but I've had so-so experiences with it. Compared to streaming games, I wonder if there's a product in here somewhere.
Having been around a lot of people who care about this issue growing up, I can tell you there is a lot of loud trumpeting of every advance in adult stem cell research, specifically for this reason. I'm sure there are still some out there who have ethical concerns about adult stem cells, but that is a separate issue.

One example from a quick google search: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/adult-stem-cell-therapi...
> Why is this case? Is there something I'm missing?

It's still always going to be better to have the portion of retail worker's production that goes to profits and shareholders, instead of the portion that goes to the worker, if for no other reason than that you can scale that side.
I wonder how much of this performance delta is caused by the differences between the 1.1 and 2.0 specs, and how much is just a difference in the maturity of the implementation.
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> Don't apply for those jobs regardless of how well they pay. If your company starts projects in that market, leave and find something else.

You make that sound so trivial.

I don't have the moral qualms you refer to, but after spending almost 10 years at a defense contractor I wanted out. I couldn't get the time of day from anyone outside the government contracting world. In fact, I'm still in it (albeit at a really small software research house). To make it worse, the embedded sensors and controls stuff I really want to be working on (NLP was a desperation move) hardly has any demand outside of the industry. Even the general embedded stuff is really, really hard to translate well enough to not get shitcanned at the resume screen stage.

You want to help engineers get out of work they find reprehensible or morally dubious? Hire them. Put your money where your mouth is an hire them. I see these "stop doing that work" sentiments all over these type of threads and find it infuriating in the face of how we seem to get treated when we try to get out.
For creation and updating, I can see why you would want to authenticate and authorize users, but there should should still be a way to have the app go into a read only state if all I want to do is scan.
This seems to be a general problem of Nintendo, I think.

Someone told me, you could release your game on Sony console and simply get a factory to produce your game discs. While if you wanted to get your game on a Nintendo console, you had to let Nintendo produce the discs for you in their factories, because of quality control reasons, which slowed down the release process and also filtered out many games of companies who didn't want to stick with Nintendos release rules.

But I don't know how much of this is true...
They note that one of the sites (Ft Cronkhite) is being used by The Marine Mammal Center, it says that one 'magazine' (silo) is being used for the storage of veterinary drugs, there are also a few decades of biological samples, and the second silo is used in the rare case a Dolphin needs to be rehabilitated.
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"How did Microsoft get the original xbox into a state of relevance?"

By dumping an insane amount of money into it, and waiting until the 360 to actually make any profit whatsoever. Not easy to replicate.
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This is great, I can't find the source though.
This is more like an URL shortener than like a QR code.
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This book by James Scott has a very interesting perspective on the mapping of unmapped cities. The TL;DR is that an unmapped or unmappable city can't be managed from afar. In an unmapped city you must go there to manage it, in a mapped city you can sit at a desk a thousand miles away and know who's paid their taxes, etc. Paradoxically the act of mapping helps both outside help and outside exploitation.

http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/dp...
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I was thinking more about a machine vision context with e.g. different parts coming in at any rotation angle.

I know that some translation invariance comes from e.g. the usual conv+maxpool layer structure, but there must still be several representations existing in the first hidden layer of the network stack, for the different translation shifts?

Especially rotation looks like something that should produce a lot of symmetry and shared parameters, but it also looks difficult enough for me that I rather would like to know about someone with mad math/group theory(?) skills who looked at that.

But thank you for the detailed reply anyways!
You realize what would happen right? The rich would divest from all their investments permanently. They'd sell all their assets foreigners[1] who aren't subject to the tax. There is no point risking losing your investment if taxes will take any gain. It fucks the expected value of investment.

Would you take a bet on a coin flip, if when you lost you paid a dollar, but when you won you'd get a nickle.

Banks would implode. The credit market would stop. Any business survive on a line of credit would just fail immediately.

Best case scenario, you'd just replace American rich for foreign rich.

[1] if you tried to tax foreign capital gains on American assets, you'd just destroy the entire economy. There would be huge lack of capital.

Your plan is insanity.

Edit: And some country would be creative and end tax treaties with the US just to get a couple trillion of capital flowing through their economy.
I think we European might care a bit more about our privacy. Just a bit, not that much more, but a bit. That way you're less "discoverable" by a complete stranger. I guess it's cultural. And I'm pretty sure that if FB tried to enforce real name in Europe they would loose quite a lot of accounts.
Best article on the subject by former prosecutor and judge, Jed Rakoff:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-inn...
I consider makefiles a skill as well, as I never learned to write them. Perhaps I never learnt bash. Takes me back to my C/C++ days fighting the build system whenever I didn't use an IDE! I didn't get very far... :-)
(URL with "http://" included for actual link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9doqwl-U7jU )
I didn't seem to read the same vulgar libertarian subtexts that you did. It was more an outline of computer technology enabling an easier proliferation of alternatives to state-provided services. There isn't much of a value judgment being made, in fact it notes that "opportunities are being exploited by a range of startups and companies who are essentially building private infrastructure, mainly for the relatively wealthy".
I could maybe see a use case around a human labelling objects for machine recognition, but that's not how the service is being marketed.
What makes you suspect that AI complex enough to weigh up decisions on life and death is not complex enough to develop its own self interest?

Can we just face up to the reality that more weapons = more potential abuse of weapons, as there's no such thing as a perfectly moral user.
Yes, that's the point I'm making - I'm disagreeing with this: "The point of taxing them is to mute the inflationary effect of letting them keep their money."

But if crdoconnor disagrees and also is logically consistent, he should also disagree with you. Somehow I suspect he won't.

Also, your understanding of Keynesian economics is slightly confused; the goal is to cause inflation in order to reduce real wages.
Looks like the moderators switched out the article. It used to point to this one https://threatpost.com/android-stagefright-flaws-put-950-mil...
IMO. The problem for Google with real names was people who didn't want to be associated with their real names and already were deeply dependent on Google for the their phone / email. I recall the transgender outing articles [1]. Regardless of whether is was user error or not, it highlights that Google had a different hill to climb than Facebook regarding real name policies.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/
Interesting, I wonder if the hardware design of the FPGA is open as well (just to be pedantic), probably not :P
I am rather thinking about an on/off 'object detected 'for objects with any rotation angle. That symmetry surely must be exploitable somehow in shared parameters of the DNN or similar?

My gut feeling is that the first convolutional layer's kernels, for example, would probably have a 'some are orthogonal' constraint due to this symmetry.
Actually, It's ridiculously easy to simply ship dormant AI into the country in boxes, have them establish operational state once here and have them sow the havoc you are looking to create.

Homeland c&c facilitates are certainly defended from terrorist actions, but less so from 20-30 kamikaze drones launched from within the victim country.

When you fight someone, the idea is to use their strength against them - the strength of the west is economic trade. All the security measures in the world won't stop fed ex. And if they do, well, in a way you've already won.
Autonomous cars will for sure be more efficient on safety and decision making.

What I think they are warning against is the potential efficiency of AI machines at war. Wars could happen in minutes instead of years.

You mention more legitimate targets being killed and fewer innocents, but how are those being defined? There has been multiple points in history where the set of 'legitimate targets' by a group was defined by everyone not in their group.
Wolfe wrote a nice article on VLIW use in embedded and issues to overcome:

http://www.embedded.com/design/prototyping-and-development/4...
You can flat out wrong about this, as you have been in your other answers. I am an upstream libvirt committer so I do know a fair bit about what libvirt can do. The fact is that the isolation of cgroups will prevent various denial of service bugs, and also access to non-whitelisted devices.

It is nowhere near as comprehensive as SELinux isolation, as I clearly said way up there in my initial response -- which is also the reason why when you use Docker on RHEL, most of the security comes from the additional SELinux protections Red Hat have added.
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They were never great but they were better before.
On the original website. HN has an original title policy so I expect a mod to sync the two at some point.
What about people who don't donate blood? No blood for them?
Hi guys,
here one of responsables for this interface, we didn't change it since January but seeing such threads make us want to add some improvements on the UI. Looks like working a bit more on the font readability could be a good start as it's something that came up several times.

FYI Here is our blogpost about this project[1].

@meeper what do you have in mind with 'recommandation system"?

[1] https://blog.algolia.com/try-new-experimental-version-hn-sea...
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The guy asleep in bed is an 'innocent bystander', not a 'bad guy'. If officer safety was actually the motivating concern here, then they absolutely would have spoken with security (if for no other reason than to get a quick idea of the apartment layout).
I too am leaning towards converting our ugly gulp directory into npm scripts. I'm though less sure about how to handle replacing relative image paths in CSS & JS with ones on cloudfront. Have you dealt with things like these? Would love to see how!