jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As the article said, there's already a "reasonableness" test for setting a correct salary for the work that an S Corp. owner does. If owners are still not setting reasonable salaries for themselves (and pay the appropriate additional employment taxes), then we need more enforcement in that area—not a new law.

Of course, this is really just a money grab on behalf on the politicians which affects a limited number of the (most productive) tax-paying population.

The net effect of this is that S Corps that use their retained earnings from year-to-year to build their business (employ more people and spend money in the private sector) now would be saddled with not only the income taxes on that money (which they already pay), but also a 15.3% (up to the Social Security limit) and 2.9% surtax above that.

Next, you know that Congress would love to remove that annual Social Security limit and make all income above the Social Security limit taxable at an additional 15.3%—for everyone.

<sarcasm>Why not? The "rich" aren't paying their "fair share." So, we need to soak them some more.</sarcasm>
Or,

$ telnet mailhost.com 25
HELO myserver.hostname.com
MAIL FROM: dustin@dustincurtis.com
RCPT TO: post@posterous.com
DATA
Subject: Hello
spam spam
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I don't know how close this plays into what you are saying but maybe somebody will find it interesting.

In the summer of 2013 I was dating two women and I liked them both equally and had an extremely hard time deciding which one I liked better. I felt terrible about not being able to pick one and felt like I was hurting both of them. Facebook did nothing to help the situation by consistently plastering both of their pictures and links to their profiles all over every facebook page I visited. I know it had both of them marked as people that I interacted with in a different way than other people I was friends with. I've always wanted to know how deep and how many descriptive words and categories they have to identify the types of relationships people have or had. To this day when I type even one letter of any ex-girlfriend's name into the search bar they will always be at the top of my list. Facebook consistently eggs me on to check up on girls from my past and I really don't like that as I feel they know exactly what kind of emotions they could be stirring up.

Maybe I'm being a bit ridiculous about the entire thing but it's something I've always noticed and wondered if other people had opinions on.
If you want iOS development, you have no choice but to use OS X.

I suppose in this case you are not really limited to just Apple devices, though. My ThinkPad T420 runs OS X 10.10 perfectly, for example.
really cool! I will have mine!
Yes the Zen circle thingy ties in to Aikido. Aikido is a (some say useless) martial art which emphasizes using an attacker's motion against him, and philosophically contains many philosophies which it shares with Zen Buddhism.
Not sure if he is serious (sounds a lot like ministry of truth and stuff) or if it is just his best performance so far. I think it is the latter and he is trolling his audience yet again. He is doing it in the same way he described his previous performances. Just geniuos.
Wolfram learned to like it in the process..
Maybe this is what you're thinking of, it's by Nietzsche.

One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.
So implement storage. Build more capacity than you need for momentary power and use the excess to charge batteries or raise water columns. Build still more excess capacity, charge local storage at the solar plant or at intermediate locations, and use the rest of the excess at the point of consumption to charge storage there.

That's a lot of solar generators. So the sooner we start, the sooner we'll get there. The interesting thing is, just as better computers help us design and build still better computers, increasingly available energy will drive the cost of existing energy down, reducing the cost of energy used to build and maintain new capacity.

If we can only power the world half the day with solar, then that's a large fraction of our power that we don't have to burn oil or coal or biomass (food) for. If we can only power half the world half the day, it's still a win. If we can only make it through part of the night before lighting up an oil generator, it's still a win.

It astounds me that we're living in a blowtorch and we do essentially nothing with it, fight wars over oil, spew oil and emissions all over the world, and watch the elderly and poor die from lack of heat or cooling.
No doubt Perelman feels it is a matter of principle. He felt unduly neglected by the mathematical establishment when he contacted prominent mathematicians to discuss with them his approach.

I can only hope his mother fully shares his viewpoints if he still lives with her...
Even if there really is more to life than X, that does not imply that X is not a useful part of life. (I guess I take issue with both the saying in general and this particular application of it.)
They probably sent him an email with the subject, "You've won a million dollars!" and it was ignored as spam.
There's something about human nature where we definitely prefer to make recurring payments.

Think about 40 bucks a month for an alarm system, or 60 bucks for the gym. That's roughly 5-7k over a ten year time span, and even if you adjust for time value of money and the user having the cancellation option, at the end of the day it's ridiculously easier to get people to make a monthly payment for those sorts of services than it would be to get a one-time upfront multi-thousand dollar payment.
Why does DC need to become a state?
Here's one that's easy to understand: it shares with DES and 3DES an 8-byte block size, which makes a bunch of integrity exploits easier to write. Schneier, who has all but disavowed Blowfish, would also point out that a 64 bit block size gives you a little less than 2^32 block encryptions under the same key before you run into statistical hazards, but I don't care about that.

The block size / integrity issue is a pragmatic complaint, but the real issue here is: why on earth would you use Blowfish instead of AES when AES has received many multiples as much scrutiny as Blowfish?

Regarding Twofish, the successor to Blowfish, Schneier writes in _Practical_:

That [~10 grafs preceding] does not leave a lot of room for Twofish. You should only choose Twofish [again, Twofish, not the obsoleted Blowfish] if you want the speed of AES without the security disadvantages listed above. Of course, all the institutional advantages of AES will now weigh against you. If Twofish is ever broken, you will be blamed for selecting it.

I think you can probably tell that the reason I commented about using anything but AES has less to do with the specifics of Blowfish --- which, again, are unfavorable --- and more to do with the concept of selecting libraries solely for the purpose of writing vanity crypto. Cryptosystems that use Blowfish are vanity systems.

Let's be very clear that I could give a fuck how fast a cipher is. Smarter people than me who have spent more of their lives on this problem have optimized the universe of acceptable ciphers for speed already. That universe does not include Blowfish (or, for that matter, Twofish --- although who knows, that could eventually change).
This seems like a clear-cut instance of Hanlon's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor).
Hi, i have recently hacked out a MVP for people to create/find people with similar vision and do something together. I would like if anyone would give the platform a shot and give me your valuable feedback, it is mobile friendly btw.
This is very interesting if it was done for fun. However, this is very likely unsuitable for real world usage. A couple of issues I could see with a quick glance:

- Using '=' for comparing TOTPs in the totp.verify function[1] is not safe from timing attacks.

- The function random() used in the totp.random_base32 function[2] is not a cryptographically secure random number generator.

[1]: https://github.com/pyramation/totp/blob/7ec3104/packages/tot...

[2]: https://github.com/pyramation/totp/blob/7ec3104/packages/tot...
Perhaps, but what happens when the sun burns out is not really my problem. I'm more concerned about the next ~100 years.
From the FAQ, I don't get why the code has to be GPL licensed. It talks about libraries, "entire combinations", "software modules that link" and "work as a whole".

On your second point: Can't they argue that they implement against an API, which could be provided by non-GPL software as well?
I don't think he plans to use parachutes, but I would not be too surprised if it would be more efficient to get some non-fragile supplies down on parachutes and airbags, but that would be a very long way out.
>It's their service and ultimately they can choose which platforms to support.

I think you're thoroughly confused. A documented protocol can be implemented on any general purpose platform.

Remember the binary document formats from Microsoft? People had to reverse engineer that shit once upon a time. Not anymore, its all XML now. Microsoft didn't have to "support" Linux. They merely had to document their format. Certainly, OOXML has its own problems but these days almost ANY service/application can read/write MS document formats.
> They want to butcher the company up, collect their pound of flesh and be off.

You have to read between the lines even when reading between the lines: The investors are really saying that they don't believe she would deliver decent ROI on the BABA cash.
By that logic any e-mail service should be incompatible with the rest, but that's clearly idiotic and no one would try arguing it. Try also imagining that your mobile carrier would tell you that by no means you are allowed to call to users of another carrier, since that would not "protect their market". Would you ever use such? When it comes to instant messaging however some lose common sense and start thinking that dark ages approach is acceptable.

When communication service instead of enhancing communication tries to hinder it by intentionally gutting interoperability, one should avoid it like a plague.
It'll be great when the time comes, but it's definitely not ready for production: http://caniuse.com/#search=sticky
Yep you're right, S3 with Heroku would definitely get the job done. I'm going to weigh my options since S3 will be slightly more dev work ahead, but this might be the best way to go. Thanks!
Language is one thing. Culture overall matters. There are a bunch of things which lead to homogeneity. Religion for example. Look at all the troubles Ireland has faced.

Culture is language + religion + food + social norms + ideology and probably other things. Not everything needs to be the same, but if too many are in conflict, social problems arise.
At the very least, dating sites should have all the data they need to figure out what a user's "type" might be and prioritize profiles matching that type.
Switzerland is really the only example I can think of that's an exception to the OP's claim. Do you have any others at all?
Please don't take HN threads further into generational warfare. It's tedious and never ends well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I work with svg a lot, mostly with angularjs but also some vue recently. I have also made games with svg https://js13kgames.com/entries/spacetime
It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.
Not true. They were free only, free was not a tier. Paying customers support it.
Interesting idea, but a few points:

-Who are you targeting? People who bike? Teenagers?

-The $ one receives is essentially the tip right, so is that enough to justify the slight inconvenience of picking up package, routing to destination, spending time at destination, then returning back home?

-Would you consider expanding this to businesses outside of restaurants that normally don't have delivery services (e.g. hardware stores, video game stores, etc.)

-How do you verify "good" delivery man? Track record? How do you establish good track record?

I'd be super interested to see how far you can run with this crazy idea lol.
If that is indeed the only thing stopping you from using it, you can port your existing number to Google Voice.

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/port-your-existi...
If you use a Mac, try:

http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/

I tried several of the open-source wiki apps, and then was very happy to pay for VoodooPad. I use it and mindmapping apps quite a bit. I bought a notebook app from Circus Ponies, but I don't open it very often. I use DevonThink Pro Office extensively, and it saves me enormous amounts of time. I also use Emacs orgmode and a few other Mac apps that are probably overkill for most people.
I think it's troublesome to compare general disappearance data from so long ago. There can be long-term trends of things like waste and changing methodologies that mess things up.

I think your point -- that overall carbs are not the issue -- is right on, though. Looking at wheat data from Statistics Canada going back about as far, people seem to have been eating a ton more wheat a hundred years ago than they do today, like 30% more. And yet in those days obesity had a <1% incidence, by some accounts.

I think that's not inconsistent with fingering particular carbohydrates (and even the way they're consumed) as the cause of modern weight problems. That is, I don't think that falsifies the Sunny Delight hypothesis I proposed earlier. There's a reason the Kool-Aid Man is that large -- as mentioned by others, it seems like fructose is the trans fat of carbohydrates.

And, I would say, food disappearance data doesn't help at all in answering the question of the best way for the obese to lose fat. After all, in the 1910s, there almost weren't any obese people! Now that over a third of Americans are statistically obese, this is its own highly relevant issue.
I see 4 laptops and 1 netbook at http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/laptops#facets=80770~0~179... (use OS filter if link doesn't apply) different models running 9.10, 10.04, 10.10. For some reason the link on dell.com/ubuntu only shows the two Latitudes, not the three Inspirons.

Not major manufacturers, but also see Zareason and System76.
Great app!

However, it would be nice if it could use a different google account from the one that I am logged into in chrome.
(my phone has its own google account)
Dang only chrome will be streamed? I was really interested about the App Engine talks, maybe I'll stick to bottle.py then.
>"Nothing like spending the better part of 50 years to go an incredible distance - a distance, which is so small in the grand scheme of things"

50 years is very short on a galactic scale as well.
Any reason why not to implement call/cc and then write fibers in terms of call/cc? The implementation may not actually be any different from what it is. (I've not studied the code enough to understand how it implements fibers, although I got the impression that it handles call frames explicitely (source/fargo/runtime/stack{,less}.js).)
This is not an argument at all.

If you ask any former employee about his old boss, the opinion is more likely to be negative (or else he'd be a current employee). It is rather rare for people to part with the job amicably.
Oh yes, definitely.

1. The game got great reviews, so quality did not suffer.

2. In the 1980s, distribution of cracked titles was mostly by modem (BBS) or warez disks, and thus a LOT slower than today. Cracks would take weeks or months to get wide distribution.

3. Atari was paying me $30K/year. Let's double that for total employee load. It took me two weeks to write the copy protection, so that's roughly $2500 cost to Atari.

4. I think Atari's profit on carts was about $25. So to break even we had to deter 100 people from pirating the game and just buy it instead. You can wiggle the profit numbers around if you like, but it doesn't change them appreciably -- it's just not that many buyers that we have to swing in order to pay for development.

It's impossible to get numbers, but the fact that the game wasn't trivially copyable by the kid down the street (it took an expert cracker 3 days), that cracks were hard to obtain (little inter-pirate communication, bad distribution systems), and that the title sold maybe a million copies makes it almost certain that the protection not only paid for itself, but did so many times over.
To somebody who watched the equity bubble unfold in '99-00, this is what a labor shortage looks like.
yo what happened to that recalibrated HN site with the awesome awesome (fill-the-border-box-up-as-the-rating-increases) coolness and simplicity? anyone know what i'm talking about?
At my location, it looks like this is the service:

http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp?url=http://nim...
There is two hour edit window to edit a comment and it looks like you just missed it.

@dang if you happen to see this, I wonder if you may want to fix the typo and delete my followup comments?
I can't imagine that all these countless coins would have been able to get VC funding.

Retail investors are usually not the best at due diligence, and the current situation (economical and psychological) certainly isn't helping.
It's a story wrapped around randomness. That's what profiles are about more often than not.

Of course, Sacca isn't ordinary but to achieve the level of success he has had, its clear that randomness has a significant role to play (one that's vastly understated in the profile)
Way off topic for HN IMHO.
Who decides in other systems?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment#Global_distr...

It seems like in some of these other systems, people are executed for non-violent crimes too.
That's the thing -- it's not an "easy" loophole. Like any arms race, every website is in competition with its foils -- scammers, phishers, spammers and their ilk.

I disagree that it's not possible to stay ahead of them. That's our job.
The obvious question is whether this is an effective way to encourage professors to be nice or simply a nice way to reward those who would otherwise have been already nice.

In other words, will professors find the possibility of making extra $30k exciting enough to change their attitude? If the answer is no, then perhaps this is not a very good way to bring more niceness to the classroom.
Nice hack. You're going to spawn a whole new generation of hackers that uses Outlook to wreak havoc. ;)
Does anyone have a similar trick for Windows? I can't seem to access anything but the horrible "Download Manager" extension/ActiveX using IE or Firefox on Windows.
Reminds me of why I like secular government.
Some of us learned this in back in the 80s in the arcades playing Missle Command
George Carlin once described being addicted to drugs as the enjoyment of the ritual surrounding the usage not the actual effect. He was addicted to feeling you get while preparing to get high possibly just as much as to the effects.
You can identify the set of numbers with infinite Kolmogorov complexity. But you can't separate out an individual from the set.

Turing machines might not capture all numbers that can be described, but, interestingly, descriptions and Turing machines have the same cardinality.
Because RubySpec is the best specification for Ruby that exists. By far.
I don't know when they changed from "user_beancounters" to "VSwap" but VSwap fixes all these problems. It is also a problem with FreeSwitch (the VOIP server software, like Asterisk). Under VSwap-enabled OpenVZ there is not 1 problem.
I've looked at the zommable picture. When I zoomed to the maximum, I saw a lot of noise in the picture (and a arather regular one). Does it mean that although the resolution is pretty impressive, the noise make it less "useful" ? Just asking, I've 0 knowledge in this area.

Second question, just out of curiosity, would it be possible to look at closer objects like Mars or the moon ? We'd have a pretty good image too ?
Uber will take a scenic route because they don't know what the area and/or their GPS gives them a shitty route.

But at least they take credit without an epic battle.
http://www.adn.com/article/20141212/big-budget-thriller-be-f...
Heck! I so wish this is true! It would have been the prank of the century; and even the centuries to come!
The Liberty Fund doesn't engage in political advocacy. They primarily (re)publish literature important to classical liberalism and the moral case for liberty (and history and law, etc). They also put on occasional conferences, and they maintain online libraries.
If I was your friend like them, I'd be millionaire but instead I am banned for exposing you. I always knew that life isn't fair but I am counting on coronavirus to make it a little fairer
it's unreasonable to expect the dev who has already put a ton of work into developing and maintaining rubyspec and making it work nicely with all the ruby implementations and versions he could to have to put in the additional work to do this as well. I don't blame him for getting discouraged at having to chase a moving target on top of all that - I agree with him that having the MRI devs contribute to rubyspec was a reasonable thing to expect.
Medicaid is free if you're income is low (such as by not having a job). Or in non-Medicaid-expanded states, an ACA plan will be very low cost and have very high levels of coverage.
On the other hand, it's harder to make a sentence flow around "oligopolistic".

I feel like seeing that Amazon owned a third of US ecommerce, before the pandemic stomped brick-and-mortar flat, goes more to my point than to yours.
The same argument is used for open floor plans and Slack.
This particular objection doesn't worry me, because all the really effective 'engines' I know about, that provide an environment to be built upon by others, are originated by and run by a single visionary person.

From my perspective, this is an asset rather than a bug, provided the person is committed to his project. It's a guiding force that stops it being a vague laundry list of feature requests.
I see no good way out of this, if someone forks it and removes all that extra attack surface I guess Moxie will fight it, as he doesn't want many compatible clients.

And if the crypto features stays in there it will become another avenue for pump-and-dump schemes, so I can no longer recommend it to people without looking like a crypto hustler.
Or you could go down to the local video store and rent something (or, for that matter, go to a movie theater). I'd probably argue that pre-VCR was more different from post-VCR than time-shifting/rental era was different from today's streaming.

As with many things, the friction and need to plan is less today but the VCR freed you from the network schedule to a significant degree.
Hopefully they will support Wayland in next version.
Let's fork Signal.
Kudos to Heroku for taking full responsibility, and for planning to engineer around these kinds of Amazon problems in the future.

In particular, I'm delighted to hear that they plan to perform continuous backups on their shared databases:

3) CONTINUOUS DATABASE BACKUPS FOR ALL. One reason why we were able to fix the dedicated databases quicker has to do with the way that we do backups on them. In the new Heroku PostgreSQL service, we have a continuous backup mechanism that allows for automated recovery of databases... We are in the process of rolling out this updated backup system to all of our shared database servers; it’s already running on some of them and we are aiming to have it deployed to the remainder of our fleet in the next two weeks.

Combined with multi-region support, this should make Heroku far more resilient in the future.
Rails and Javascript (about 93% Javascript) with python app handling real time updating.