jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why you would prefer to have to re-enter data that your government already has and that they will match against your own data I don't really understand...

Complacency, complexity, corruption, and conservatism.

First, there's a strong status quo bias. The system works as-is, and the tax code is also set up in a way that's relatively simple for the median worker, so there's not a huge benefit to a change. Additionally, the IRS may not have enough data because data collection itself is decentralized. For example, married Americans typically file joint taxes, but the IRS has no way of telling who a taxpayer's spouse is until filing time.

Second, a lot of the complexity of US tax law happens on the deduction side, rather than the income side. The US has last-dollar deductions from taxes, so deductions are worth proportionally more for higher-income filers, but the IRS won't necessarily know about charitable deductions or mortgage interest or home office expenses.

Third is the aforementioned corruption -- tax-preparation firms consistently lobby against any sort of automatic return. Their arguments are relatively thin: they claim that automatic returns would have people not claiming tax credits they're eligible for and that developing automatic returns would be a waste of government money. In the meantime, they've collectively agreed to a "free file" program for moderate-income Americans -- only the program is barely advertised and full of "pushes" to paid tax offerings.

Lastly is the ideology of fiscal conservatism in the United States. Anti-tax politicians (usually Republicans) argue that automatic filing would make it easier for future governments to raise taxes, since people would not have to calculate themselves how much they're paying in federal tax. This is often coupled with farfetched offers to greatly simplify the tax code by (e.g.) replacing it with a flat income tax that collects much less revenue.
Back in the good old days, Motorola provided a drop-in highly optimized replacement maths library for Power Macs http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread...

I remember being amazed in the final year of college, the PowerMac 7600 I'd spent my student loan on, was running my FORTRAN as quick as the DEC Alphas in the lab.
Pick a users?

Nice app though.
It can be! That's one of the the benefits of the isomorphic approach - for the bits you want to use it in, it should degrade to regular forms 'n links round-tripping.
I got it on the second load. The first was clean (I think...)

This is really not a good way to promote anything. I assume TPB are looking for public sympathy. Pushing mal/ad/bloatware isn't really going to help with that.
Have a look at Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends

I wrote an article on legal music downloads a while back. It used to get a huge spike every Christmas, because so many people get music players then, so they want some music to download.

There are some search terms that are seasonal, like "turkey stuffing recipes", or otherwise periodic like "friday".

Analyze your own web server logs to see what search queries your visitors use to find your site, then put some of those queries into Google trends.
This is no revelation - Asia is rife with slavery and indentured servitude. That friendly Bhutanese waiter? Slave. That Philippino maid? Slave? That stripper in Macau? Dead slave by now.

More curious is why Stars and Stripes is running this now - did they confuse which Korea they were meant to be teaching their troops to hate?
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I would disagree. The command line is really no more about "how their computer works" than a GUI is. They're both interfaces to run programs. In each you can navigate to a location on a filesystem (which is, itself, an abstraction on top of how the computer is really working) and run programs. Perhaps people who don't understand computers think that the command line is really how computers work, and that interacting with the command line inherently makes them more knowledgeable, but that's completely wrong. You understand no more by parroting apt-get install than you do by double clicking on a .deb icon.
No one drives a self-driving car. If I ride in one that I own, are you still going to call it a taxi? If I am at work and call the one that I own to drive me on a short door-to-door trip to grab lunch, will you call it a taxi then? What if I share ownership with a neighbor? How about 10,000 neighbors?

I understand that the establishment will always attempt to maintain control, but I think the situation is too different and complicated for the taxi establishment to overcome. I think that Google Ventures agrees.
Microsoft shares up in value in 5,4, oh it's already happened.
ISPs who routinely intercept all DNS traffic and rewrite some of the records.
I love Unix, but it's just a local minima in the design space.

For example, it's typical text processing pipelines are hard to branch. I have hacked up some solutions, but never found them very elegant. I would love to hear some solutions to this. Ended up switching to Clojure (Prismatic's) Graph.
Just report it as a hoax; I hear Facebook is cracking down on those.
OP and author here to add some context.

This is a side-project that was motivated by learning. As a software engineer in the medical device space by day, this project was an opportunity to develop a web app (first time doing this solo), learn a relatively new technology (rails), and scratch my own itch.

The problem I was having that this site attempts to solve is that of a long-time NBA fan, who used to have a lot more time to dive into scores, read game-recaps, peruse boxscores and watch video highlights. As I found my free time dwindling while my appetite for information remained the same, I longed for a solution that would give me more information 'at a glance' than your typical ESPN scores page.

It's plainly obvious I'm not a designer, nor experienced web developer, but I'm proud of having followed through and launching something. I've been spending an hour here and there on the site, with long breaks in between (for example, when your scraping source decides to change their schema, sigh) for over 2 years now. Show HN was always a goal of mine and I'm glad I've made it.

Games at-a-glance: http://recappd.com

Sample detailed box-score: http://recappd.com/games/2015/1/21/OKC-WAS

Feel free to click around. Player names, teams, and badge descriptions (hover, then click on help-text) all lead to other pages.
Nobody has something that would fulfill your caveat, with the possible exception of a few larger countries. If you are the named target of the NSA, they will find a way into your communications.

This war really has little to do with find the way into a named person's communications; it has much more to do with finding the names of people whose communications they want to see.

For that, iMessage is devastating (assuming it is implemented and behaves as marketed, a pretty big assumption).
Which is weird because A16Z invested in AirWare (and they, as all VCs, love to talk to their book!)
The US is not a capitalist paradise. We moved a software company from the UK to a US Delaware Corp 2 years ago and it was a major headache involving substantial legal fees, accounting, employee benefits, and taxes. Texas interestingly has been the hardest to deal with--probably our biggest single accounting expense due to what seems to be antiquated tax management on their end.

It was a lot easier doing business in the UK. We had relatively low accounting overhead, the laws were not hard to follow, and we didn't have to deal with having employees and customers sprinkled over a dozen state jurisdictions.

We're fortunate to work in a growing and lucrative market, but it's not all peaches and cream.
The actual author of the question said elsewhere in this thread that it was actually administered with a 1 hour limit.
The driver is most likely on multiple apps, and is doing rides there while the Uber one stays open so he can accept the cancellation fee when somebody less devoted than the parent commenter gets frustrated enough
Very off-topic, but it's one of the most shameful episodes in Western, British, and Australian history. Almost 200 years of racism, persecution, forced assimilation, kidnapping children and putting them into religious institutions, and a lot more - and it was only in 2008 that the Australian govt cared to apologize. Incredible cultures, incredible wealth of lifestyles, ideas, beliefs - almost destroyed in the name of "making [Aboriginal people] more civilized and industrious".

Yes, the glorious Western civilization did the same pretty much everywhere, but Australian Aboriginal people's culture is unique due to their very long period of isolation - it's a gem and wonder worth studying and learning from. Yet, the Western instinct was to trample on and destroy it, systematically, irreversibly, just for the sake of it. Reading the Wiki page you linked some time back literally left me in tears. How could we. I don't even.
Good article!

I especially enjoyed the “Start at the Top not the Beginning” part.
I have just signed up to Audible so I was a bit worried about this. However, on my mobile device I went to my membership settings and it said "If you signed up for Audible through Amazon [which I did] then you will find the account settings on the Audible site". I navigated there, to "View membership details", and there's a link that plainly says "Cancel membership".

Now, maybe the US version is different, and uses dark patterns, but for me it seems very easy.
Yeah, this is the bad faith argument in action. Of course it had to do with politics and you want to pretend otherwise.

The subject is MATH. The learning should be MATH. Other learning can happen where those types of critical thinking skills are taught.

That is not the purpose of a MATH class.
Speaking for myself and my computer: 15-25% performance loss in games (OpenMW and Minecraft specifically) with no apparent upside. I use X11 kwin with compositing on a laptop with Intel graphics, I don't get any screen tearing with this configuration, so what's the point of Wayland?
> concerns about the centralized nature of such a storage solution CANNOT be launched by critics: It was their criticism of decentralized storage solutions that caused the shift towards standard trust-based storage solutions, and thus they cannot criticize the move towards the latter. Otherwise, their criticism is not out of technical concern, but out of personal opinion.

This sounds like a rant devoid of meaning.

Yes, there are centralized solutions. Yes, there are decentralized solutions. Yes, critics have full right to criticize both, because both have their failings.

This has literally nothing to do with whatever ideological angle you're trying to force.
That's not what kanbara said.

Most people are bad at calculating financial implications of decisions before them. There are lots of reasons for this (limited finance/math knowledge, impenetrable language in which conditions are layed out...) or actually don't have better options so they can literally be taken advantage of. Some may be even stupid, but there's no need or reason to reach for that as an explanation.
Honestly, this makes the news media's handling of the BICEP2 announcement look like hard hitting investigative journalism.
It is different. The reason it is different is that when things like always on microphones are legal it implies that they are safe. My roommate isn't technically savvy. He works as a project manager of in construction. He's a great guy, but we didn't talk about always on mics when we first met and frereubu is right that fighting battles like this isn't the way to do it. Legislation should solve this problem.
Incompetent seems a bit harsh. Sloppy or careless is more accurate
People are often afraid of speaking up. This ties in with the idea of the strong regretting silence as opposed to speaking up.

Your version isn't as meaningful.
I think he's confusing liberalism with socialism.
I'm waiting for a real OpenID login, not the Facebook monstrosity.
Dup, original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037900
Another thing that just occurred to me: since you're presenting the tweets out of their context, sorting them purely by user, perhaps it'd be better to remove replies from the flow? That way snippets of conversations wouldn't confuse the reader. I'm assuming this view is meant to find standalone tweets that contain insightful remarks or links/media?

Also, how about auto-converting links in tweets into embedded media? (images, YouTube, etc)
I don't think that's a fair assessment; it's completely absurd to categorize people simply into two categories (and I'd even argue that 3 is probably not enough but that's far too long-winded for a HN comment).

A family with an income of $200,000 per year is certainly more well-off than a family with an income of $50,000 per year; but there's absolutely no parallel to a family with income of $5,000,000 per year. I'd contend that the family with the $200k income has far more in common with the $50k income than the $5m family.

And then we look at the $5m per year family and the $500m per year family. There's still no comparison.

I don't think this is a case of Adams trying to push himself into the "middle class," I think what he's getting at is that the "middle class" is really a myth.
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I really wish I could be there in person. Was really looking forward to talking to some of the people behind YaCy (http://www.yacy.net/). :<
Anyone can publish anything. Such as calling out the WHO even though they ignored most of the evidence. Then speculation about antibiotic resistance even though bacteria don't use the pathways glyphosphate targets.
>And so does the US:

This is not my actual experience in the United States. It's practically impossible to find a laundromat in Rhode Island that isn't constantly full of maskless noses, and we're a blue state.

EDIT:

>More than nine in 10 U.S. adults (93%) said they sometimes, often or always wear a mask or face covering when they leave their home and are unable to socially distance, including more than seven in 10 (72%) who said they always do so, the poll revealed.

That's not 93% compliance, it's 72% compliance. In other words, the noncompliance rate is five times higher!
I feel like you should be able to get all of those in Germany too? At least it doesn’t sound at all representative.

More likely you switched from a bad company to a good one.
The short version:

For all parents connecting to a given nursery, they are given the same username and password for the DVR. In the examples I have been shown, the username is admin and the password is either admin888 or nurserycam888.

Sigh.
I strictly use a pen. It slows me down a little in some tasks, but poses no issue for me.
Try tucking the mask slightly under your glasses. And make sure the nose strip has metal and can bend to the shape of your face.
Ouff, as someone who has done my fair share of downloading Khan Academy content, this will be a lot of work. There are something like 20K+ videos, so downloading each of them will take forever (think weeks). You might get your IP blocked by youtube in the process, and in general, getting the HTML for each page will put unnecessary strain on the Khan Academy web servers, especially in this moment of hightened need.

Instead of downloading from scratch, I would recommend using one of the pre-downloaded and pre-packaged Khan Academy video archives: a Kolibri channel or a Kiwix ZIM file. Details provided below:

## Kolibri

This is the best open source offline learning app developed by Learning Equality (the same people that made KA-Lite, see https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/)

1. Download Kolibri from https://learningequality.org/download/

2. Browse the list of Khan Academy channels to find the one you're interested in (there are 16 diffenret channels, for the different languages available from Khan Academy website) https://catalog.learningequality.org/#/public?keywords=khan

3. After installing and starting Kolibri (it's a web app that runs on localhost) go to DEVICE > CONTENT > and IMPORT the channel you selected in step 2. (Note download will take a while, like 8h+ because it will have to download 20k videos, exercises, and subtitles).

4. DONE! You have the entire Khan Academy collection in an easy-to-use fully offline learning management system. For bonus points you can create separate "coach" accounts as a parent and watch your kids progress.

## Kiwix

This is another powerful app developed initially for offline browsing of Wikipedia, but now extended to support many other sites. Kiwix is based on ZIM files, which are highly optimized compressed archives for web content.

1. Download Kiwix as app or desktop program https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/

2. Find the name of the Khan Academy ZIM file for your language and course, search for "khan-academy-" on this page https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

3. After installing Kiwix, import the right ZIM file (again it will take a while).

4. BAM! Now you have all the videos offline (exercises not supported in Kiwix, only the videos).

Between the two options, the Kolibri option would be my recommendation because you get all the exercises as well, not just the videos, but if you're looking just for videos, then Kiwix is faster.
Time has passed and more importantly Electron based apps lowered the expectations of desktop users.

I use dbeaver (https://dbeaver.io/) as my go-to database tool and it's absolutely fine. Not as snappy as native apps for sure, but between Spotify, Slack and VSCode I can't really complain. I used to... but not anymore.
I agree with this and I think you seem to be acknowledging that the word "billionaire" in this article is irrelevant? My issue is that it's being used here as if the reader should care that rich people own media companies.

Perhaps the article should be titled, "These 15 [bad people] Own America's News Media Companies", because as you point out, it's okay for rich people to own successful media companies, but that sometimes people with bad motives who are rich enough to own a media company do so.

I was being critical of the framing of the article – I understand why people are critical of the individuals and the motivations of those who own media companies.
Now the question is, whoever will be next at the helm, will he / she be able to reverse directions and steer Microsoft into more relevant and fruitful territories.

Ballmer's Microsoft was always late to the party, overseeing important technology trends and society transformations out of, I'd call it a mix of ignorance and arrogance; maybe they were also too blended by their previous successes. The way he dismissed iPhones, iPads, the way they developed their OS. Or the Zune, or Bing, there has been much criticism over the years. I don't know which moves would have been better (except for seeing the mobile future and the suckyness that was Windows Mobile 6 in time), but Ballmer was always more of a numbers guy I hear, and less of a visionary. I hope their next big guy is going to have more vision.

This may be a good day to buy their stock, if you like 50/50 games.
We need asset/wealth re-distribution and not fiat currency issued by those Fed wolves.

The worthless paper they issue to help their buddies plunder the nations wealth has to stop and we should look for more alternatives to derive meaning for our lives than working to death just to please those greedy capitalists. Enough is enough!

The recalling of the story of Maria Fernandes death always saddens me that a human being had to sacrifice her life for the capitalists to appropriate her work efforts and give her pennies in return just to keep her alive.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737115/New-Jersey-w...
This is not necessarily the nameserver local to you; this may be the nameserver that’s authoritative for the SRV record you’re trying to look up. Maybe you’re trying to talk to a machine in North Korea.
> It turns out that separating logic and presentation in web applications the way you would on web sites is a very bad match. You simply end up putting logic that is very closely tied together in three different places.

As a web developer for the past 10 years I can't disagree with this more. It wasn't the easiest thing to accomplish maybe 5 years ago but it was always doable and now with web components it's incredibly easy.

React is cool but I wouldn't call separating logic and presentation bad. I would call that a best practice.
Ars named the countries that the companies were from. I was half-wondering that when I saw the Google link, I'm happy I saw the ars one after.
Nice. Microsoft does some really awesome research work and can easily come out to position themselves as leading the tech space again. Though some would argue they already do, but that's not correct looking at the growth other companies have demonstrated.

MS has had some massive misses, a couple of super bungled opportunities in the past decade only because of the ageing 'bored' (pun intended) that thought marketing is the only thing to drive innovation. I hope they find a replacement that's good and that his/her selection is not too much influenced by the existing board or its psyche.
Interesting question. Of course it's very difficult to do more than speculate because the internet as we know it (web, commerce, etc...) has not been around long enough to really give us a good idea.
Facebook's trying to take that choice away by getting ISPs in some countries to give free Facebook access. I see billboards in Guatemala hyping up that if you're out of credit on your account, they will still allow you to use Facebook and WhatsApp. So for many low-income people, where having to pay $10 or so for some light data plan isn't possible, their only choice to be online is Facebook.

Sure, it's a choice. Just like using the Internet is a choice. Like using phones is a choice. Like choosing automobiles over walking is a choice. But not all choices are equal.
The touchpad on the Chromebook Pixel (the annoyingly expensive one) is high end. Large glass multitouch touchpad. I doubt you'd be satisfied with the keyboard though.

So I think the answer is probably "No." The most expensive one available doesn't have a good keyboard by 60-series era Thinkpad standards, so I would be surprised if any do.
> The choice is between a button and ordering the product on your smartphone in ten seconds, or picking up the product at the grocery store the next time you're there.

I don't know how anyone actually remembers to do this. I know I don't. What inevitably ends up happening is that, despite making a bunch of trips to the store, at some point I'll discover that I'm out of dog food and make a purpose-specific trip to pick some up so my dog can eat. Later that day I'll remember, when I go to do laundry, that I'm also out of detergent. Then it will be dishwasher tablets.