jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You have in reality no such benefit. From my cursory research, taxpayers have consistently lost every case in which they attempted to hide wages as distros. Courts have held that "wages" is a term that describes all remuneration for services rendered in any form. Even loans from the company to shareholders can, under the tax code, be reclassified by the IRS as FICA-eligible wages.

The only benefit S-Corp shareholders have under the present system is that they can force the IRS to audit to recover this money, which is a game that entrepreneurs often win because very few people really get audited anyways.

So, two things. First, the loophole doesn't really simplify your life. For many years after filing one of these bogus returns, you can still be levied for the hidden wages, plus penalties (including a huge extra negligence penalty). Second, there's nothing fair or sensible about the exemption S-Corp shareholders are taking; people with exactly the same skin in the economy have to pay FICA, so why shouldn't S-Corp owners?
> Elsewhere, substantial deployments have been carried out in Brazil, Germany, Spain, France, Czechoslovakia, and Macedonia

On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia
Its kind of crazy how well project natal seems to work, especially considering that in the TED talk, gloves were required.
See also this video entitled 'The Secret Powers of Time', posted on twitter by Jeff Atwood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

I have to profess some interest in this, since my own 1-month old will likely grow up with the same iPhones, iPads etc., as the toddler in the article.

The most worrying thing, is how the heck can kids raised on new media, Apps and books that talk, ever hope to even tolerate sitting in a classroom enjoying a traditional education?

I dread to think of the overhaul that is needed and coming to education.
For the down vote. Do you know how hard it was for me to get approval to use R by my company's M$ IT department? It took months to get official approval.
TIL that MSFT used R to develop algorithms for xbox online matchmaking. Awesome!
Having assisted in negotiating a couple of those multi-million dollar offers, that is absolutely correct. Most of those offers aren't going to "successful senior people." They're going to people who were repeatedly passed over for promotions despite doing great work (i.e., people who fail to manage their careers properly).
IANAL nor an Accountant, but if my understanding is correct the administrative burden can be lower, costs can be much lower, and there may be some tax benefits.

Ultimately, it's going to depend on the state's laws where you're filing for the Series LLC. My state (CT), for example, does not recognize or allow for the formation of these types of LLCs.

Here is a blog post published by a law group that specifically focuses on the Series LLC in your state, Illinois. (That is, assuming your Twitter location is current.)

http://www.acumenlawgroup.com/publication-categories/busines...
Crazy, I just wrote about this recently. With all the economic debate that's going on right now, I guess it's the topic du jour. The guy's summary is amazing, wish I could write as well as him.

http://www.pakg1.net/2010/10/changing-chinese-mindset-toward...
Posts like this is why I read HN. I believe the synergy in this start-up community is amazing. :)
It's a desktop application.
If someone asked me what "port" ping works over, I'd get up and leave.
Is it possible (or legal) for a set of foreign people (outside the country, no citizens) to create a delaware company? Would that work at all, what with banking and all? Anyone know?
I don't understand the implicit assumption of this article that risk taking is a good thing. Unnecessary bureaucracy and CYA behaviour is damaging, but taking excessive risks without adequate oversight/safeguards is the main reason the global economy got into its current precarious state. This is not a black and white issue, and the most successful businesses will be those that balance each risk against the expected reward if it pays off to decide which risks are acceptable.
For Boris and Natasha:

Boris places the ring into the box and locks it with the padlock. He sends the locked box to Natasha and it reaches her unharmed. Natasha receives the box and places her own padlock on it without removing Boris' padlock, so it now has two locks on it. She sends the doubly-locked box back to Boris and it reaches him unharmed. Boris then removes his own padlock, so that the box now only has Natasha's lock and then mails it back to Natasha. Natasha receives the locked box unharmed and removes her own padlock, thus receiving the ring.
Just to punch it in a bit more: The ship was quarantined about a month and a half ago. This isn't a week-or-so sickness.
Code: https://github.com/rahul080327/medusa

Talk: http://in.pycon.org/funnel/2014/130-medusa-a-much-faster-pyt...
Mousewheel appears to control speed. Wouldn't've thought the Amiga had a mousewheel...
I'd like to take issue with your "freedom of press" statement. The press is certainly Not free in the US. We have a propagandist press that serves to deceive (Fox News), serve special interests (CNBC) or generally toes the establishment line (NYT, CNN).

More importantly, the US government actively takes steps to stop a free press. Take for example the recent attempts to stop Glenn Greenwald, punish Snowden, etc. The US govt also takes active steps to push the "free" press in particular directions, such as hiring retired commanders to pose as independent analysts to bolster the Iraq war, or by infiltrating online news networks to post via shills.

How exactly is the press "free"?
Getting back Elsaß wasn't really all that unreasonable. Annexation of the Sudetenland wasn't, either: it was overwhelmingly German, it used to be in the Holy Roman Empire, it was now a minority in a country created to cater to Slavs. A merger between Austria and Germany wasn't unreasonable, either. Getting back the land Poland stole/was granted after WWI was, again, not entirely unreasonable. Protecting the German cities of Danzig and Stettin was, again, not unreasonable.

Furthermore, much of the rhetoric about the Jews sounded awfully much like the current rhetoric about the rich, the banksters, the international finance, the 1%, etc.

Other things we usually don't hear about is how scary Socialism was in Germany from, say, 1917 to 1933. Have you heard about the Bavarian Soviet Republic, for example?
In other news: (same HN page)

Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (wired.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8915681
Being an Accredited Investor in the US involves stating that on a form. If you badly want to buy these shares, and they're available to buy, then from experience bypassing that is trivial.

The bigger challenge is that most private companies you've heard of won't even consider taking your money unless you can put in a lot more than any poor person would realistically be able to.
You are confusing software engineering with computer science. Most HN users certainly know that the fundamental theories of computation are rooted in rigorous mathematics. The point of the article is is to share the insight that mathematical notation is itself a constructed system, much like complicated software implementations, and which via design decisions provides users with powerful abstractions.

Did you even read the article before lecturing us about Turing and Knuth??
FWIW one of our professors here at uwaterloo taught a first year abstract algebra / number theory class in a very Lockhart-esque way (Math 145; he even quoted Lockhart on one of the assignments). I learned a lot of math and enjoyed myself, but the main problem I observed was figuring out how to fairly grade students, and the fact that the homework took a lot more time than a class taught normally.
I don't --- does anybody? --- advocate for the nationalization of health providers.
Your family might have been part of the nomenklatura. But it is pretty indisputable that they gunned down Soviet Bloc defectors trying to escape.

The Soviet Union was a prison state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc...

Soon after the formation of the Soviet Union, emigration restrictions were put in place to keep citizens from leaving the various countries of the Soviet Socialist Republics,[1] though some defections still occurred. During and after World War II, similar restrictions were put in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc,[2] which consisted of the Communist states of Eastern Europe.[3][4]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18beckerman.html

Most in the group were pessimistic about their chances — but none more than Mr. Mendelevich. He felt sure they would get caught, but to his mind, a group suicide was preferable to a life of waiting for an exit visa that would never arrive. Even a botched attempt, he figured, would at least attract the eyes of the world.

Early the next day, as the plotters walked onto the tarmac, they were, indeed, caught. The K.G.B. had known of their plan for months. And the two leaders were later sentenced to death.

But Mr. Mendelevich was also right that their desperate act would make their demand for free emigration impossible to ignore. Now largely forgotten, this planned hijacking, and the Soviet government’s overreaction to it, opened the first significant rip in the Iron Curtain, one through which hundreds of thousands would eventually flee. With great drama, it undermined Communist orthodoxy. After all, if the Bolsheviks had built the perfect society, why would any well-adjusted citizens want to leave, let alone risk their lives to do so?

The essential weakness of the Soviet Union was exposed: to survive, the regime had to imprison its own population. This would be the beginning of the end.

Jews were understandably at the forefront of the emigration battle. Even as they were forbidden to exercise any kind of Jewish identity, they also had no option to assimilate in Soviet society. Their internal passports were stamped “Jew,” a word that three generations after the 1917 revolution signified little more than their status as outsiders. Many had come to feel that their existence inside the Soviet Union was untenable, that the only way to escape this paradox was to move away. But the doors were firmly shut; those who requested permission to leave were refused and then ostracized.

The push to emigrate, which had begun in the early 1960s as an underground movement, had grown by 1970 into an open campaign. Letters to the United Nations were signed by hundreds of Soviet Jews. Only a few months before the hijacking attempt, the Kremlin had called for a public relations counteroffensive that would paint Zionism as “a vanguard of imperialism.” A large press conference was arranged with “acceptable” Jews, including the prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and the comedian Arkady Raikin, vowing loyalty to the Soviet Union and denouncing Zionism as expressing “the chauvinistic views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie.”
Why couldn't a website just advertise their IP address? If it's just blocking DNS, there's nothing stopping people from going to the website directly via IP. If this does pass, it seems to me that sites like thepiratebay.org would just advertise their public IP so you could easily google it and find an alternate link to it. The only issue would be if they had to move servers, of course.

As someone else posted in another article, there are plenty of ways around this law that it will have very little impact.
I like how your support options progress from "Online" to "CEO's iPhone" :)

I'd like to read more about how it works, maybe see an integration guide, but it seems you only have the one (beautiful) page right now?
Sport, like culture, is not about any one individual, or any one kind of participant: the "observation" that physically powerful male individuals dominate sport is a) a fallacy, because it's b) a snapshot of a microcosm mis-framed, because of a certain bias. Sport and culture ought to be a perfect balance of the individual and the group, so if the society around it is out of balance, sport will reflect that: not "perpetuate" that. Feels like people are pointing at a mirror here and chastising it, not taking note from it and changing something on this side of the reflection directly.

If anything, "America" needs to consolidate its sport habit and just not dissipate so much, because by doing that it gets diluted and has a hard time competing with the rest of the world. Other subcultures "master" a sport with more depth across the group, versus being so spread out across so many specializations and being an inch deep and a mile wide.

And by compete I don't mean "be better than" or "best" them, I mean "adhere" to the well balanced state of play and acuity mixed together, along with the deep immersion in one of the best schools teaching "human nature" in a way one can actually learn from and do something with, versus behavioral sciences which are theoretical or abstract and usually lead to political or pharmaceutical work. Sport and "street smarts" go together, but on a total scale -- one can "grok" an entire nation by assessing its sport programs, provided the population is well enough represented in that program... complete with laying bare the governmental and artistic, even religious underpinnings of a subculture of this planet/lifeform we all find ourselves being.
Thanks for your reply. I hear what you're saying about hourly, and completely agree with your points -- if it is hourly without structure.

The difference is I treat each milestone/iteration as a small project, requiring assesment, scoping and client buy-off (A change order to the contract, along with an estimate). If they want time limits before continuing past x number hours, I'm fine with that too.

I see the advantages are:

* Lower risk to me because the price is not fixed

* Lower customer risk because they see progress and can adjust as the project unfolds.

* Lower cost to them -- they don't pay extra to cover my risk.

* The client has more control since they can make course corrections along the way.

* Regular client touch-points are built in - they get more visibility, I can adjust expectations

* Scope changes just mean more billable hours

The feedback I've gotten is they like the flexibility, and are often more willing to say yes because of reduced risk.
This is funny. A bunch of nerds upset that millions of people like something they don't understand.
Still, the risk and maintenance/ownership burden is there.
Here are other examples of deep fakes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puBQ_r7ox8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm3squcz7Aw
I think US Army will be the main contractor for the pickup replacing Hummer in many cases.
I actually had a similar thing happen with facebook, though we didnt share names.
This is very surprising. The aesthetic design ain’t got no alibi.
Yes I found this offputting. It's one thing to focus on R^n, but another to give students definitions that don't even hint at greater generalisation. The follow up definition also feels very dumbed-down.

algebra: solving equations involving unknowns
Thiel is just a human being, just because he's proven to be a jerk in the past doesn't mean he can't do good in other areas. Just like the slave owning people who drafted the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
Sounds like automotive suppliers.

It works though
It's obviously something that would upset people, but the point is that it's very significantly different than making men pay (like a john) and much more aligned with what people really want.

You don't need or want a filter to determine who is desirable; you just want to eliminate everyone who is completely unacceptable and provide a fairly large number of options that are all decent.

It might also be necessary to provide some sort of clever cover, so it didn't seem like the business was doing what it was doing. From a marketing perspective, I don't think it would sell, but from a results perspective, I think it would.
Not to beat a dead horse here but my first thought was this is awesome! I want to try this out with the team! Then noticed mac only. Nevermind... Repost to HN when its out for windows please!
The guy who ran on being bad with a dollar is bad with a dollar? We know that, we didn't vote Trump out because he was bad at finances (barring any geniuses who think the shut down was on the executive branch).

We voted Trump out because he makes it hard to claim the wage gap myth is real, that socialism has merit, that womens sports should be trans inclusive, and that children can dictate their gender.

Money is of a secondary concern.
That's problematic; it takes a burden off the criminal justice system

It doesn't just take a burden off the criminal justice. It also, and in my opinion, much more importantly, allows the users to seek help without fearing being imprisoned, and having a criminal record marking their lives.
Sadly numer.ai does not accept crypto trading signals only traditional financial instruments like stocks.
Is Zepel free?
I use Restyaboard, one of the best open-source tools used for Project Management, Bug Tracking, Issue Tracking, and Workflow. A very good free alternative to Jira.
But there is a buyer and seller in the transaction regardless of whether one person is gambling or investing.
Yeah this is great but the power of git is kinda in its ubiquity like bash or cURL it’s everywhere and the lowest common denominator.

I can’t help another dev if they need this installed for me to be helpful, etc...

I really wish changes like this got upstreamed.
"Last of the Deliverers" - Poul Anderson, 1958

Find it and read it
Yea, we should ditch go altogether, who needs it when we have C.

Better ditch all those bash aliases, git aliases, and toss zsh while we're at it.

You know what, bash should go to because you know, sh is everywhere.
The number of transactions per day on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash appears to be roughly the same:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-bch.ht...
In January 2021 in France there was much less birth than in January 2020.
Analysts blame it on COVID-19 that made couples delay their intention to have a new child, but some discuss about the impact of medically assisted procreation centers closure.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/...
I hope to see China as a role model for preservation of animal species. The recent(ish) loss of the Baiji[1] hopefully sent a wake-up call to the Chinese government.

Here in Australia we've historically had a terrible track record for this ("There are 23 birds, 78 frogs, and 27 mammal species or subspecies strongly believed to have become extinct since European settlement of Australia."[2]), but we're hopefully getting better. I recently visited some of the Tasmanian Devils who are being bred on the mainland, in isolation from the Tasmanian population, due to [3]. They seem hale and hearty (and very cute, though I wouldn't want to cuddle one)

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji

[2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_Aust...

[3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease
I don't hear many 13-year-olds wanting a computer with no screen, keyboard, or mouse. I do hear a lot of kids with smartphones who want to play games on them.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can be genuinely interested in what somebody has to say, and still plan to use them later.

Don't kid yourself into thinking they wouldn't do the same for you -- instead, think of it as a mutual agreement to provide services to each other when needed.
I just quit my job of 10 years too. One of the big reasons it burning out. Working myself to death by doing 8 hours at work and also doing leetcoding, interview prep to get into FAANG.
Please read the article. It clearly mentions income as a reason for income inequality and not asset value inflation which is due to the fed policy.
They wouldn't. A lot of cryptocurrency justifications hinge on made up scenarios. They also ignore the fact that it costs money to even send or spend most cryptocurrency, or the fact that it must be liquidated in 99.9% of spending scenarios, and ignore the challenges in buying or selling cryptocurrency in the first place.

Most exchanges require several forms of ID and verification to buy or sell cryptocurrency. I had to use a smartphone to take a picture of myself with my photo ID before I could even use most exchanges. Someone who doesn't have photo ID, computer or a working smartphone are out of luck in that scenario.

Bitcoin might make sense for remittance, with the intention that it is then liquidated after being received.
> We're already there, anyway. Proprietary drivers are super common not just in Android, but across embedded devices everywhere. Some companies just flagrantly violate the GPL, and little ever comes of it.

Sometimes I wonder if Linus could go back and do it over, if he would license Linux under the BSD license instead of GPL. He's never seemed like a particular stickler for free software ideology, and has welcomed connections between Linux and industry. I don't know that it bothers him that much to see Linux used in proprietary software.

Not trying to start a flame war over licenses here, just speculating. And maybe this could be easily refuted by a link to one of his email rants, who knows.
This brightened my day to read. Thank you.
It seems like low-quality submissions mostly just rot in obscurity, either being flagged or never upvoted. IMO if someone’s going to take the time to comment, I’d prefer to to see it be constructive. I don’t know to what degree critical comments influence HN submissions, though. That’s a good point.
> CPU utilization - Ideally the CPU would be busy 100% of the time, so as to waste 0 CPU cycles. On a real system CPU usage should range from 40% ( lightly loaded ) to 90% ( heavily loaded. )

There was an article posted here a while back that challenged the notion that 100% utilization is a desirable goal:

https://blog.danslimmon.com/2015/07/09/when-efficiency-hurts...
> 'B/X' stands for play based around the Basic Set edited by Tom Moldvay, and the Expert Set edited by "Zeb" Cook, both published in 1981.

Which part was difficult to grok?
“But we don’t have the housing stock...”

This is an issue across the US. We need to work on this generally.
That is a great line. That's exactly the kind of thing that holds me back, so glad to hear this. Thanks!
shrugs

Who knows, maybe rust clicking for me was just around the corner. I kept thinking "finally I'm understand this" and then something else would happen.

I'll leave it to the incredibly patient programmers who can spend 3 months just learning it. I'll use all the time I save to write more tests, and probably end up with something much more correct.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. Your dev guide looks very good.
Yes, i am referring to detailed comments, interface details , return values etc.

I am referring to even more details in low level design. Like Class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and even list of SDK functions. I am all for documenting external facing REST api or SDK interfaces, since that would be anyway part of product documentation ( as the REST api or SDK is the product itself ).
I agree, some of this is subjective, but at what level of detail do we stop, detailing out. I see value in a high level design and architecture diagram.
Hey man, but what if the CIA needs YPG to recruit more so it can put terrorist pressure on Turkey to, uh, defend NATO or something? Someone should check on the spooks to make sure that they're all OK and not suffering from some kind of collective degenerative brain disease.
>The reason PKK and/or YPG/YPJ is on some terrorist lists is mainly because Turkish government is against Kurdish rights in general.

So you're just gonna omit the fact that they have a decades long history of bombing and killing innocent civilians including kids?