skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They put people in prison for that sort of thing

If you report income honestly and simply don't pay taxes you get sent a bill a few times and then collection efforts escalate with e.g. offsets against your tax refunds, liens against your property, and garnishing your bank account and/or wages. You have to defraud them (very egregiously) to get prosecuted.

Sorry to be picky about this, but we're on a forum chock-full of entrepreneurs and it's highly likely that there exist people here who will have a run-in with the IRS 1+ times in their life. It's not like getting prosecuted for embezzlement. It's like having an acrimonious dispute with your landlord. Money is the root of it, money will solve it, and money will pay boring straight-laced professionals who deal with this sort of stuff five days a week in a way that would make very, very poor television.

If you owe the IRS $50k, that's very, very far from being the end of the world. It's not as socially acceptable as owing Bank of America $50k but it almost certainly carries a lower interest rate [+] and you'll find that the clockpunching bureaucrats over there will diligently pursue their process but won't break any land-speed records over it because neither they nor Uncle Sam really care about whether you pay that this year or in 2021.

+ If you had stiffed Uncle Sam on 50k for your 2010 taxes (due 4/15/2016) you'd presently be looking at paying ~$71k after interest and penalties, which works out to a hair over 7% APR.
You are treating it as a big brain. It's split many ways. There are many banks, they don't behave as a mass. Some will lend because they want / need the income.

Secondly most lending decisions are made by employees. Their interests are not aligned with the long-term health of the bank. They want their bonus. Who cares if it blows up in 10 years time?

We've seen this in 2008. Banks behaved insanely.

Finally if banks were playing the long game together why pump up land prices until they are backed into a corner? Better to drip to maintain throughput.
Does that mean domestic bank transfers between accounts aren't free in the US? I suppose that would explain why cheques are still in use.

I've never paid for a bank transfer within Europe, even when the transfer crosses national borders. I've always just assumed that to be one of the basic ideas of a banking system.
That's the problem I have with the creative cloud model of forced updates. Professionals can have years invested in using a tool and becoming incredibly fast at it: all that can potentially be erased by being forced to upgrade to a version that changes the way you are used to working.
True. PayPal is currently free for interpersonal payments, but who knows in the future. Now that banks are not processing so many checks they have to compete using their own "easy pay." Chase has QuickPay, which I haven't used because it's yet another network, but it is free to send money to someone at Chase or another bank in the ClearXchange network. Maybe if they can stay in the game and expand their interoperation payments will stay free.
In Beefing Up iCloud Security, Apple Weighs Privacy Against Convenience
Wrapping a browser instead of using one directly doesn't make your application run in a non-browser runtime environment.

And to be completely honest, probably sacrificing a bit karma. All of your examples enforce my point of view on JS as a 'use it as minimal as necessary' language else avoid it.
The "handicap" in this case is the momentum carried by decades of forced subjugation, which can still be seen in tons of our social and cultural norms.

Nothing to do with intrinsic potential.
There is always (your) life cycles. Both myself and my brother Waterloo grads in the 90s. He is in the sv and I stayed in Toronto. My company sent me down to the valley to "help" for a few months (ie living and food all expensed) when I was still fresh. Hated it.. there is nothing at night. So I never have the urge to move there afterwards.

Then once you have multiple kids, single income doesn't take you far in the valley even with Google scale salary and mortgage. Plus Amazon has dev centre in downtown Toronto that pays well (not silicon valley well, but Seattle well). (Yes, startups don't pay well in Toronto, but then there are lots of small and profitable sw firms that pays decently).

Or just convince google to move that Kitchener office to Toronto, when so many people are commuting anyway..

And then, Vancouver is always a retirement city..
Living in a Reds/Cubs/White Sox blackout umbrella here. Which VPN service are you using if you don't mind me asking?
As a programmer, I use Taskpaper 2 all the time. Taskpaper 3 is good news! The interface could be more intuitive, I feel (red dots for folding? can't drag an outline to the bottom of the file?) and I would personally love tabs to keep multiple lists open and organized at the same time. But other than that, I feel the future for Taskpaper is bright.
>Currently this only applies to licenses issued in Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington.

I can only speak for New York, but it's actually a bit of a pain and an extra cost to get the enhanced license here. The only reason I did it is because I live on the Canadian border and always carry my license but rarely carry my passport. Now I can take an impromptu trip up to Canada without worrying if I have the right ID on me. Plus, I seem to get less border hassle when the agent sees the address on my license is only a couple miles away.

But for someone living downstate it would make little sense to spend extra money and spend more time at the DMV for an enhanced license.
Soon you will not be allowed to breath without a passport, what a fu up world!
The human race is a race of explorers, and always has been.

I'm not convinced. The majority of humans are not explorers. The majority of humans like things to stay the same and like to keep doing what they've always done. The majority of humans throughout history die pretty much where they're born. Even today the majority of humans don't even move across their country. To say that humans are a race of explorers because a very small proportion of them are seems wrong.
Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code both support npm. I don't even think you have to type "install", I think it's just a matter of listing "tsc" in your package.json file.

(I haven't tried it myself yet, but I just got back from VS Live in Vegas where the ease of package management in VS 2015 was brought up in several sessions.)

Check it out here: http://webtooling.visualstudio.com/package-managers/npm/
Securing React Redux Apps with JWT Tokens
>Why are so many people assuming that the initial list represented his comprehensive judgement of all films ever?

That's not what the parent asked.
Dine, fixes the biggest issue found with other dating apps and sites
Debts of $50,000 of more.

Sounds like rich people problems to me.
Make Every Website Click Count
21 Inc Launches Bitcoin Micropayments Marketplace
Do you know of any more accessible books which might give people a feel for what they might encounter? DSM-5 is pretty heavy going for someone outside of the field but agree that some awareness of it could be really valuable.
Yeah, but there's knowing that a person named John Smith is a citizen, and knowing that John Smith lives at 123 Maple Way in Sometown, State, that he is currently an organ donor, that his face is a partial match to faces sighted at at least 3 crimes, that he flew out of the country 14 times last year, and that he currently owes $43,578 in back taxes as a result of some unreported contracting work.

The latter kind of knowing is what we're afraid of, especially the database of faces.
There is a difference between going unproved and being disproved.
But I would say this falls under "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon". News pieces with large audiences being largely edited to deliver a different message after they've "gone viral" is similar to a high traffic website being hacked to deliver a message about something else.
They actually had (and still do have) two passports. One for international travel and one for domestic travel. The international travel one was like ours: Not mandatory and a little bit hard to get.
Which means it's also possible for a prospective terrorist or group of terrorists to go buy plane tickets to test how the system behaves, and rule out team members who are on the no-fly or selectee lists?
Has anyone found the 15 minute summary for match 5? They had them for the first 4 matches. Really great stuff.
The EU does passport checks on many internal travel services. It's not that there truly are no ways to travel without showing passports, but there's very few. Well on the continent you can just take a car, although with the refugee crisis there's many checks.

E.g. taking the train from London's King's Cross to Paris you will be subject to a full security screening and passport inspection. Faster than getting on a plane. Same for taking internal flights (even within a country. Paris to Marseille ... you need a passport) and I'm sure that's not the last list.

I contend that despite this there are many differences between the EU and the USSR, even with both being led by "commissars" (or is it commissioners ?)
>I don't see why including women directors would be to the detriment of a list and only to meet a "quota."

It's changing the list post-facto that suggests that he added those extra movies just to meet the quota -- i.g. they were not the ones that he first thought as best.
+1 I just give a second chance to Nuclide + Flow, and works great
Speaking of dating apps, the worst part about dorm life was hearing people have sex or making sure your roommate knows not to walk in when they see a sock on the door.

If I were single and working 80 hours a week so my boss's boss can make billions on an IPO while I end up with barely enough to afford a Bay Area house, then maybe I would consider these arrangements for a little while. But instead I have a girlfriend and we value certain things more than money.
I don't believe that to be their strategy at all. It's a small company with a few devs who don't want to waste their time on junior/mid-level candidates. It's a prescreening process on both sides (me and the employer). I'm early thirties with a wife and two kids so it's not like I have dozens of hours to dedicate to that task.
The first 3 represent the location the SSN is issued in. The next 2 are some sort of group identifier. Last 4 are a serial number, issued sequentially. Keeping in mind that they're 9 digit numbers (1 billion possibilities) and the area portion restricts it to 6 digits, the odds of collision are reasonably high. Basically, if more than 1 million people are assigned SSNs in the same "area", you will have a collision. More area numbers are assigned to mitigate this, but there's still a chance.

http://www.usrecordsearch.com/ssn.htm

Has some details on the structure of social security numbers.

EDIT: Also, even if they were issued as unique serial numbers from the start, once we exceed a total population (not living, but dead and living) of over 1 billion assigned social security numbers, we'd have had collisions anyways.
Show HN: Uggozi-Send interactive picture postcards and inspire friends to travel
But if you read what I wrote elsewhere in this thread, NATS is not a traditional messaging broker, and is highly suitable for RPC.
If I can't use your site with an ad-blocker then bye bye ... looking at you Forbes.

I can use it with uBlock Origin and the 3rd-party filter "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek‎" turned on.
Oh. Cool. I didn't know that.
This is a problem. I see Chase's QuickPay can talk to a few other big US banks, but I haven't tried it because then I always have to ask the other person who their bank is. This is no different than asking if they have a PayPal account, but it's still a pain. It sure would be nice to have a convenient, distributed EFT-like standard for these things.
Recently changed my iPhone to android, CastBox app is the best podcast for android I have ever use! Numerous free music, radios and audio books! I watch the podcast on youtube when i back home, but the way to office and bedtime podcast, i prefer CastBox APP more. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podcast.po...
London-Based Cleantech Startup Desolenator Wins Technology Development Award
99% of Networking Is a Waste of Time
Yeah just convert all of your excess labor into bits, now they dont even have to print money and distribute it.

Unlimited inflation time!
If I were to Tim Cook, I would probably have an all hands meeting and tell them every single employee "no matter what you do, I respect your decision. I will make sure that your family is taken care of"
This is the point where I draw a reference to 1984 where the main character's job was to do exactly what the New York Times is doing.
I have always been curious as to how to use the spot market. If I were to get a Ec2 on the spot market, how do I ensure that my task gets completed before being prempted? Mt batch jobs take anywhere between 10 ~ 20 minutes. I there a minimum guaranteed time that I could buy? For my solution , I ended up using Google cloud and its minute billing.
> I get that there are a lot of tools available

Grunt gulp bower less sass npm node yeoman brunch underscore moustache… Whenever our frontend devs insist they need whatever deployed on all our servers yesterday, I nod and smile and count the days until they've completely forgotten about it and yell for the next shiney new toy that's totally going revolutionize JS development. This time for real.

Meanwhile I'll stick to my makefiles, thank you very much.
Linked article is a poorly written conspiracy theory.
You're talking about the "Enhanced License" which cost almost as much as a passport and is just as much of a hassle to get, so you might as well just get a passport and cover world travel. I live 20 minutes from Canada, when they started requiring that, I stopped going there.
The post-script retraction is eerily familiar to today's news from DPRK. "Everything is almost wonderful, the previous statements were in utmost error."
Cash is just a medium of exchange.

Sure, outright theft may become less lucrative. But if cash completely goes away, black markets can and probably will start using their own medium of exchange.
BTW, CastBox app is the best podcast for android I have ever use! free music, radios and audio books! the way to office and bedtime podcast, i prefer castbox app much for streaming and offline listen. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.podcast.po...
The case at hand is a discarded work phone -- of which call and text records are readily available to investigators. It does not represent a "clear and present danger".

Even if it did I would still fight it in the courts: Warrantless wiretapping, secret Fisa courts. Guantanamo bay prison. Lawyers and congressional leaders being electronically spied on... I do not think its safe for our democracy to continue giving the government tools to spy on citizens.
Is this a SPHINX on Mars?
With online collaboration tools really taking off, especially with WebRTC currently on billions of devices, I have this unfounded belief that city centers will become less important over the next decade. There will always be work which is better suited to in-person setups.

Maybe it is more of a hope than a belief - but having a decentralized workforce has implications for cost of living and quality of life that are exciting. With (relatively) low-cost mortgages, home purchasing power increases at a non-linear rate, the more money you make. That is one reason why housing demand in cities can grow faster than wages.
A $50,000 debt he can't pay off does not a rich man make.
Vertigo lives: Oculus Rift preview event suffers from VR tracking woes
How is it betrayal when I am certain they would prefer to not be your geo circumvent VPN. Betrayal would be they actively made the bait and switch when they certainly know their business model is falling all around them for legal reasons beyond their control?
> I took this job to write code and make money, why do I have to go to all these stupid meetings, read these stupid e-mails, use Slack, answer this stupid desk-phone etc?

I call that work about work. Most of it's needless.

They say it's to help us get better results, etc, but I think it's really about adding meaning to their work life. Or just to their life.
This has to be like the fourth extension of the deadline now. I'm not entirely convinced they're ever going to follow through.
The State of JavaScript Build Tools 2015
Libraries always are a trade-off between the flexibility of developing it yourself versus the time saved relying on other people's work. To me, it's less the size of the code than the functionality that matters. Code size is not necessarily an indicator of how hard it is to solve a problem after all.

In this case, however, we are talking about pretty basic CSS. There are some standards for page layout, but there is no One True Way to design a web page front end... all designs are different. Small CSS like this (as a library) in effect make design decisions for you and I don't think CSS is difficult enough for this to be justified.

As an example (without manually editing the CSS at least, which defeats the point of the NPM / Bower installs), this grid CSS locks you in to arbitrary divisions of 12. What if your grid requires 5 evenly spaced columns? You can't do that.
Sococo is constantly working to improve the experience (improve Jitsi). They support large conferences! And they're free to start with anyway.
If millennial are fleeing Vancouver for London because they can't afford housing, as this article suggests, they're going to be very disappointed with our housing prices!
I had to show id card for the Barcelona - Madrid rapid train. Spain is as far from USSR as possible.

In Europe the system with population wide government mandated and granted id works very well, is not burdensome and is not a big deal. And I have no idea why the US has not implemented one yet.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/15/tim-cook-talks-privacy-in-part...

> If the government laid a subpoena on us to get your iMessages, we can’t provide it. It’s encrypted and we don’t have the key.

The CEO going on national TV and saying those things kind of undermines this. Ads are not the only marketing method.
He outsources his blog management to a "productized consulting" firm from his clearly very exclusive and top-tier list.
And is that Jabba the Hutt closer to the camera? ;)
All the obligatory books and references have already been mentioned, so I'll refrain from repeating.

I'm a recent developer-turned-manager [close to two years now] and have always been a voracious reader.

Apart from specialist books of the profession, as an introvert I find that a healthy dose of fiction helps me in my day-to-day dealings with people at the workplace - especially those who report to me.

[https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201401...]
[https://open.buffer.com/reading-fiction/]

^^ As such, I'd recommend some well-written fiction. Try The Godfather - always thought it was the best "people management" book :-)

Fantasy [or novels with a touch of the fantastic] would also be good.

War books are also good. Try some interesting non-fiction - I'd recommend WW II books by Stephen Ambrose. All about teamwork and beats reading dry management books.

You should probably stay away from satire, lest your manager think you a d*ck ;)

Before you do any of this, you should probably find out if your manager is in the habit of reading.

And despite the best advice, what a reader gets from any book depends on what she brings to it...so don't be surprised if reading doesn't help your manager :D
AFAIK Avast is betting on monetizing anti-virus usage data.

I wonder why Mojang is not on the list, though.
Land Awesome 5-Star App Reviews with These 3 Proven Tricks
Have you ever used this app?
Well, how does a no-fly list work without ID?
Let me respond to that with a quote from "No Silver Bullet, Refired", by another Turing Award winner, Fred Brooks:

> Even if "NSB" were universally seen as pessimistic, what is wrong with that? Is Einstein's statement that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light "bleak" or "gloomy?" How about Godel's result that some things cannot be computed? "NSB" undertakes to establish that "the very nature of software makes it unlikely that there will ever be any silver bullets." Turski, in his excellent response paper at the IFIP Conference, said eloquently:

>> Of all misguided scientific endeavours, none are more pathetic than the search for the philosophers' stone, a substance supposed to change base metals into gold. The supreme object of alchemy, ardently pursued by generations of researchers generously funded by secular and spiritual rulers, is an undiluted extract of wishful thinking, of the common assumption that things are as we would like them to be. It is a very human belief. It takes a lot of effort to accept the existence of insoluble problems. The wish to see a way out, against all odds, even when it is proven that it does not exist, is very, very strong. And most of us have a lot of sympathy for these courageous souls who try to achieve the impossible. And so it continues. Dissertations on squaring a circle are being written. Lotions to restore lost hair are concocted and sell well. Methods to improve software productivity are hatched and sell very well. All too often we are inclined to follow our own optimism (or exploit the optimistic hopes of our sponsors). All too often we are willing to disregard the voice of reason and heed the siren calls of panacea pushers.

> Turski and I both insist that pipe-dreaming inhibits forward progress and wastes effort.

> So we come back to fundamentals. Complexity is the business we are in, and complexity is what limits us. R. L. Glass, writing in 1988, accurately summarizes my 1995 views:

>> So what, in retrospect, have Parnas and Brooks said to us? That software development is a conceptually tough business. That magic solutions are not just around the corner. That it is timefor the practitioner to examine evolutionary improvements rather than to wait—or hope—for revolutionary ones.

>> Some in the software field find this to be a discouraging picture. They are the ones who still thought breakthroughs were near at hand.

>> But some of us—those of us crusty enough to think that we are realists—see this as a breath of fresh air. At last, we can focus on something a little more viable than pie in the sky. Now, perhaps, we can get on with the incremental improvements to software productivity that are possible, rather than waiting for the breakthroughs that are not likely to ever come.

---

So discussing some methods of formal verification (such as manually checking dependent types) as a solution is like saying a particle accelerator is the solution to the alchemist's problem. Theoretically it can work; in practice, it's often too much effort :)

Personally I'm not sure pipe-dreams inhibit forward progress, but they sure do generate a lot of noise...
I'm sympathetic to the worst-of-both-worlds problem, but can this actually be true? In the case of types, constraints actually are the benefit, right? Do you mean that if you don't have compile-time assurance for 100% of the code, the value of whatever % type coverage you have isn't very useful?

As someone who's evaluating Typescript and Flow for a team of JS devs, my intuition is that having some typed code would give you beachheads of type safety, which seems like a reasonable win and an incremental path to improvement. I'm curious if this intuition is incorrect from the perspective of those who have used gradual typing in the real world.
Fascinating. Thank you!
Thanks to the paywall, I cannot read this article.

But, it seems like VC's have rediscovered that cutting edge Victorian technology, the boarding house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_house
Cheap flights to Malaga spain on flychecker at € 59