skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the 3rd party company already exists and will provide integration (ie: ADP integration) that the IRS will not be able to provide... not without a few years of development or some sort of coercion.

At $50 for TurboTax (which is still more than the $20 I pay for TaxAct), its still an adequate solution that beats the current status quo.

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So my question to you is: do you not realize how bad the status quo actually is? The average preparation cost is $200 according to the IRS, which is very far above "TurboTax Deluxe edition", and far far above any of the other 3rd party tax solutions.

If people would prepare their own taxes with TurboTax, life would in fact be better than the current state. Period.

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Now we can imagine the IRS creating a website and everything will be Rainbows and Unicorns, but lets not forget about the Obamacare website. Turns out that competent web-developers are expensive, that government employees aren't competent web-developers, and finally aren't even that competent at figuring out contractors.

I can imagine a future where the US Government raises wages for once, builds out some competent project managers, retains talent, attracts talent, finds a contractor who can help them develop this hypothetical website, and then hope that the next $500-million+ web-project is actually successful.

Or... you know. I can just recommend people to use TurboTax (or TaxAct). Which already works, and is better than the status quo.
it's not really a trick. it's designed to get companies and individuals to spend money (and thereby improve the economy) instead of hoarding it.
I'm not sure. Most of the large tax software companies give the low end product away for free or close to free. They make their money from people with more complicated scenarios not people filing 1040EZ's.
I never encountered most of his complaints on 14.04. I still have other occasional problems, though.

The most annoying one is that WiFi auto-connect happens on the login screen, but it apparently can't access the WiFi password until I log in, so it pops up a WiFi password prompt that steals focus while I'm half-finished typing my login password.
Also featured recently on HN is this nice tool: https://github.com/thombashi/tcconfig
They can still do that under SSL/TLS with a MITM attack.
I totally read it as "oh, no wonder it 'was never fully published' before now, since the lead investigators were the infamous Ancel Keys and a now-deceased collaborator."
Not really.

Sailor makes the case that there's a strong dose of affirmative action involved. His blog posts don't really contribute much to the discussion other than adding that slight "politically incorrect" slant. His posts just pull from all the other sources people have already mentioned.
University admissions are need-blind when you're playing at this level, and qualified students from families who can't afford it are given aid packages that make it free or nearly free.
Oh, are you on a desktop part? The issue is related to the mobile ones. I've updated the post to make that explicit.
Code is not based on atom, it's based on Electron, which is the runtime (node+webkit without the UI chrome).

VSCode has lower typing latency and a more considered system for building / debugging / code completion. Atom has a richer plugin api and has been around longer so it has more plugins. I've done basic plugins for both and plan on using/developing for VSCode but I've been too lazy to write Vim bindings and not willing to use the editor without them.
It's inherently linked, and you even mention that in your previous post.
Would you mind sharing a bit more about what happened to you with your startup?

Were you due millions and got nothing, or did you just lose some of what you felt you were due? What would you suggest others do in order to avoid that situation of yours?
German comedian?

Is that the punchline?
Compile it from source with support for Cuda 3.0
> People who are against outsourcing of jobs because it hurts workers have what appears to me to be a small view of the set of humanity that matters.

Or, alternatively, they have a right-sized vision of what the size of their stewardship is. While I certainly think a state as powerful as the US should consider the impacts of its actions elsewhere carefully, and even act benevolently outside its borders where it can, on principle the idea that societies focus on managing general welfare within seems like a pretty good one.

> I want to see a world where there aren't poor countries and rich countries, but rather a global economy where someone born in (e.g.) Africa has opportunity and education similar to someone born in the US.

I'm interested in that too. Whether barrier-free global-focus trade is the way doesn't seem to me to be a settled question.

https://books.google.com/books?id=xEmKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&lpg=...

> Rather than being opposed to trade and globalization

Almost nobody is "opposed to trade." Some people may be in favor limits on trade (if you don't believe that there should be assassination markets, you're one of them). Similarly, when it comes to globalization, few people want to make any border entirely non-porous (except as a weapon, as the US has with Cuba), but there's arguments such as Schweitzer's that are compelling.

> (which are, frankly, unstoppable)

It's certainly not possible to absolutely ban any activity humans might want to engage in for any reason. It's entirely possible to discourage many things substantially enough that the scope/frequency becomes limited.

> we should be focused on mitigating losses for those affected.

This is a grand idea.

> Erecting barriers to trade will only make US industry uncompetitive, our economy smaller, and those same workers, ultimately, worse off.

Any barrier? Or just some?
Whether or not it works for the bad guy in this situation is an open question (maybe someone has researched it); there's certainly a perception that it does since it keeps happening.

But the commentary from those that are the victims indicate that this sort of thing could be very problematic for them. So I do hope that this and this sort of thing helps lock the bad actors out.
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This one made me laugh
http://imgur.com/u0E5eu5
> EDIT: I think this is why I continue to use Reddit.

I struggle to find good subreddits in the same way as subject specific forums can be (i.e physicsforums.com). Even those related to science and tech have huge chunk of crap floating around. Can you suggest how one could filter reddit content better?
It's sad to see people trying to rationalize denial or obstruction of this issue, for example by throwing up endless questions using words like "correlation". You can always ask more questions but that really doesn't contribute, it only obstructs. I've never seen a serious assessment that doubts the general idea, that there is racism in law enforcement.
> Nobody in the US is in the bottom quartile.

Did you read my comment? I said they are in the second quartile, and they foot the bill for a lot of the ways that wealth improvement reaches people in the first quartile.

Although, across the part of the country where I am from, Appalachia, there actually are people in the bottom quartile, especially after you take addiction-related QALY metrics into account. I'd argue your knee-jerk "just cause they are inside America's borders means they don't have it comparably bad" attitude, which sounds like you're just regurgitating some Giving What We Can blog post or something, is more of the small view.

> You also see this as a zero-sum game: a process of extracting wealth from someone and handing it to someone else. Trade increases the overall amount of wealth.

You really did not read my comment. I said that we translate the whole distribution to the right (that is the part about making everyone materially better off) but by doing so we shuffle some people from the second quartile into the first quartile, or at least shuffle them to lowered status within the second quartile.

In terms of ordinal status, it is, by definition, a zero-sum game. If, no matter how much total wealth there is, the thing people care about is where they rank in wealth, then it is zero sum. You can't manufacture more ranks. And, the evidence (which you don't seem interested in) really does suggest that it is the rank that people care about (especially when you are ranked second-to-last), even if preserving your rank means denying yourself better overall conditions from a material point of view.
> Why couldnt someone just reverse engineer the source code?

You make it sound like something one could do in a spare 15 minutes.
Compared to many other institutions, Stanford does a good job of dealing with that issue. 85% of students receive some form of financial aid. There is no family financial burden for incomes $60k/year and lower.
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> I would personally never buy one of the Google (or any other) self-driving models with no controls.

It won't matter if all the other cars on the road besides yours don't have controls.
Yes, the behaviour between desktop and mobile parts is very different on current Intel. You'll only see this on mobile - I'm sorry for not having made that clear.
At the risk of being a pedant, people don't need education either, it's just a very effective way of improving their quality of life. In particular, further education (after high school) - including community college - definitely isn't needed by any one individual (maybe it's needed by society, but that's different).

(Personal experience tells me that champagne improves my quality of life, though I don't have a further education experience to compare it to.)
An extremely selective and directional EMP cannon springs to mind as being sufficiently Hollywood
Cordova, Xamarin and React Native...oh my! Which one are you all going to choose?
That's an active attack though, making it significantly more difficult to sniff passwords than it would be without TLS
Yeah, I doubt it becomes binding but it could show evidence of intent in the case of undocumented partnerships like it seems they were before incorporating. A valid partnership can be formed without paperwork(though things like this can happen without proper contracts in place).
How is that? Unless you're accepting self-signed certificates, that seems hard to pull off unless you're a state actor.
author here, note that my view has somewhat changed from that which I held in 2009 from "it's silly" to "we'll do it if when we solve a few problems first."

PKI deployment in a semi-untrusted environment is still very difficult.

freenode messed it up by sharing their private key between all irc servers, which are hosted on other people's hardware.
they had servers compromised in this period, and no forward secrecy enabled, so any TLS traffic captured over those multiple years has been effectively compromised.

presumably this was done to save money on CA fees, a problem that's gone away now that letsencrypt exists.

note that when I wrote the article the general assumption was that openssl was a reasonably good piece of software... not many people hold this view today.

an ircd isn't as easy to upgrade as nginx, upgrading them each time there's a new openssl vulnerability would make for a very splitty network.

separating the tls termination from the ircd (and locking it in a seccomp sandbox) would allow it be restarted independently... and is in progress.

(re: nickserv passwords, our channel service supports CRAM-MD5, so that isn't really a problem)
Asteroid impacts from 2000 to 2013
Lots of hypotheticals, but how about something real? What if the sun doesn't rise tomorrow?
But ed is the standard Unix text editor.
Call it $700k after taxes... Even living on a $35k/year budget, that only buys you 20 years of freedom - and no retirement fund!
I'll argue that the branding issue is a distraction. Shoppers generally understand that Home Depot, Walmart, etc. don't make or comprehensively vet everything they sell, yet they still stand behind the customer experience via returns and support. I find holding Amazon to a higher standard of product vetting as compared to other mass retailers a difficult position to defend.
Yep, but you can disable it by disabling the 'metrics' extension.
If the Ferguson report is any indicator, it will show disproportion at every step, not just at arrest.
Yes, that seems like a great idea! The government should fund local universities throughout the country to ensure that cheap education is available for anyone who wants it. These low-cost universities should be in communities everywhere.

Jokes aside, what we really should do is get government out of the business of paying for private education. In theory, joint public and private efforts sound good. In practice, they have all the flaws of both the private and public sectors and end up being inefficient, ineffective, and expensive. (cf. housing, military contractors, etc.)
I can't seem to locate a graph (within my time constraints) that shows, by percent (not by grouping higher/lower) how much, relatively /each percent/ or each income bucket pays in taxes.

This however comes close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivity_in_United_States...

A fair tax system would not have a hump, or a ramp that then levels off, but would instead be a slowly rising graph with a continuously accelerating rate of being taxed, such that past some arbitrary point that extra return for every unit earned is virtually nothing (reflecting the stratospheric difference that already exists).

I say that would be fair because I believe that even a truly exceptional person, let us say that they are unquestionably a genius instead of merely someone particularly good at business, is not worth 1000s of times or more what someone else is worth.

If you're earning more than 1000s of peoples worth of taxes, you should be /paying/ like you're 1000s of people (without the per person tax credit).
This is really cool.

A couple years ago, when some browsers still had tabbed windows as an option that could be disabled, I tried browsing with only one tab at a time and found it quite refreshing.

Does anyone know of a browser today with a similar "feature"?
Yes. Apparently upper management decided to kill the job, and forgot to tell me for 3 months.
Nope. If we're talking about tree-shaking (which we should be as it's the entire point in having static modules), you loose everything. That's because require(someRuntimeVariable) can refer to any module. So there's no way to exclude any of the node_modules, or any portions of any of them.

So all code in all modules must be kept. No tree-shaking for you.
Well also, as pointed out elsewhere, Keys championed reduction in saturated fats, etc. to prevent heart disease. If the results of a trial he conducted disputed that idea, that might have harmed his reputation.
What if it is the actual wish of the people involved?

What if a person whose fantasy was to kill and cook another person met a person who fantasy was to be killed and cooked? Then this happened. What penalty should ensue for the (well-fed) survivor?

And lest you think this is some weird hypothetical, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes may enlighten you otherwise.
A few semi-relevant notes:
* We've bought multiple Dell XPS 13 laptops with Windows off Amazon because the same spec there was roughly $400-500 cheaper than buying the XPS Developer Edition from the Dell website.
* We tried running Linux on a Dell non-XPS Skylake Core i7 laptop and it was having many kernel panics. A quick Googling revealed people with a Skylake chipset having a similar issue.
* I noticed just a couple days ago that Dell has updated their XPS Developer Edition laptop to Skylake. One difference I see on the site is it ships with Ubuntu 14.04 SP1. I haven't read much about SP1, other than it looks like it's about a year old.

So yeah, I'm still buying XPS laptops with 5th gen chipsets because we've had issues with Skylake.
Although your remark is probably "inappropriate for HN", you remind me of one of my favorite series of TV commercials about some German car. They gently mocked Germans in some areas (like excessive seriousness), then ended with talking about "the things they do well, like German engineering." My mom is German and that series of commercials just had me rolling.
I've seen this happen in real time with augmented reality googles. It had a bunch of the Facebook profiles in advance though so it was a much smaller search space.
Agreed. Sam and all the other YC partners will go out of their way to help, it's just often not public.
I find the Amazon GPU prices pretty high in the long run. The g2.2xlarge is around 3x slower than a GTX 980.
Yeah, it's not like twitter runs https to keep your tweets secret.
Mainstream reports it that way because the general public has no appetite for the intricate details of scientific studies. The vast majority of people tend to look for quick fixes and easy changes, which is why they gravitate towards reporting that oversimplify scientific findings. And since the media wants/needs readers/clicks to stay in business...
> Your argument is similar to saying "We can't monitor and hold accountable all people's actions."

Do you disagree with that? Think of it like quality in engineering: We can't do it effectively by detecting problems post-facto and fixing them (and in engineering our ability to detect them is far greater than in human behavior); quality must be built in.

We couldn't arrest our way out of the drug problem, we couldn't kill/capture our way out of terrorism - these aren't solutions, but partial remediation of failed policies. We need to address the root of problems.
Here's a look at the actual out of data source: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...
This is all kind of ridiculous. For starters, Sam is a human (hard to believe, I know).

Really now, would it make any sense (whatsoever) Sam or anyone at YC (or anyone in the world!) to give equal time to every person/company/thing/other?? No, of course not. That would be ludicrous.

And this isn't any ole company that Sam or YC has an interest in. It's multiple time YC participant that has built something awesome and achieved one milestone on its journey as YC's largest exit to date (hopefully).
It feels wrong to YOU, maybe because you have something to hide? It is an indicator, that you are having a problem with authorities and you should go to the doctor and speak about that and get some good medication.

If you were a good american citizen you would not fear these things, you would be proud of the great tec that Silicon Valley has given the world to fight terrorism.

We as Hacker Community believe in the new values of the corporate powers and we do not support such un-aligned opinions like yours. We are proud workers on the front of a perfectly clean new world, were individuals that fear authorities have no place.

America is a clean place and you should conform or leave our beloved country! God save America!
> Not being flippant. But if an entire generation of poor kids doesn't go to college, doesn't that mean employers have to figure out other ways to measure probability of success?

To an extent yes, but in many situations the easier solution will be to not consider the poor kids and just hire the kids who could afford to go to university. I.e. how it was in years gone by, and not a desirable outcome - but maybe it would be different now in the tech age we live in.
Cheating = going back on something to which you've agreed. Once you sign, you're done negotiating. You can tell someone to fuck off before you sign a contract, but once it's signed, telling them to fuck off is cheating.
You are right. To be clear, I implicitly assumed that people I talk to wouldn't accept a fake certificate.
That's why the trick is to get into Stanford and drop out your first semester. You get the signaling for free. :)
I dread tax time every year. I'm self-employed, so I don't exactly expect it to be easy, but I generally end up spending 3-4 full days working on my return. Not including the meticulous record keeping I amortize over the year with a simple spreadsheet.

Every time I think I've finally got it figured out, there's always some weird new situation that throws a wrench in things. Common things like buying/selling a house, moving to a new state or locality, death of a parent, etc. I honestly don't know how most people ever manage to do it correctly, much less optimally.

This year it was 2 different banks that got IRA reporting wrong. Last year, Turbotax "interview mode" would not let me enter some crucial figure correctly. Previous year it was clients not sending 1099s (and agonizing over whether to just report manually or wait for the form). Two years before that it was a RITA (local tax authority) screwup.

I tried hiring a local CPA to take away some of the pain, but he ended up making a $5K mistake, and it took hours of my time to correct. I've had a good accountant in the past, so I know they can make a huge difference, but they are very hard to find.
Is there any reason the certificates can't be signed by a valid certificate authority as they should be for HTTPS sites?
NASA Is Trying to Grow Potatoes on Mars
Generally someone is more invested in a particular OS than a particular CPU. I am far more likely to buy a different piece of hardware in order to have proper Linux support than to switch to an entirely different os. Whether its the hardware maker or Linux that is at fault is immaterial.
Many ircds I'm familiar with include a "<user> is using a secure connection" message in their WHOIS response, so this is easily verifiable. Obviously, it's still not E2E-encrypted, so if you don't trust the ircd, you should use an additional layer that provides E2E encryption.
Why would you incorporate your LLC in California? You can get an LLC in other states for under $100/year.
The company didn't start as a way to draw blood for civilians but for a quicker/easier way to draw blood on the battle field...hence the original board composition.
This is the most beautiful thing I've read all day.
I'd imagine that you'd have some hybrid of ML and traditional code, and may be able to reason statistically about the ML sections, and user traditional (verified) code to cut the tail on the distribution.

All pipe dreams of mine, but the research potential here could be worth flaming truckloads of grant money :-)
I noticed the same happen, i click on some medium articles from HN. They might have okay title and theme, some can begin mildly entertaining, but then more often than not just end up being self indulgent marketing bs.
Great link there! Also check out his list of public postmortems at https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems

PS. On HN you should use asterisks to italicize instead of > for quoting.
It's hard for the mainstream media to misrepresent a study that was suppressed.
I had a Windows Tablet PC back in like 2005, and really liked it. I waited for years for a e-ink tablet with a wacom-style input and good note taking software. I stopped waiting at some point. Is that BOOX any good for note taking? Is that something that for example college students could use to take class notes?
This is so frustrating, especially when you buy a $3000+ laptop (which is a lot for a laptop in Croatia) only to have to find this shit out on your own, because it's a very specific thing you need to Google.

And it is even more frustrating that people complain it's Linux's fault because it "works fine on Windows" (no it doesn't actually[1]), when hardware vendors suck up to Microsoft and have a "oh yeah whatever" attitude towards linux users most of the time.

And then people ask themselves why Linux runs better on "old hardware" because it takes years sometimes for all the shit to be ironed out. Ugh! So annoying.

Sorry for useless rant.

Edit: Hardware vendor shaming needs to be a thing. Most of the time this types of things go "quietly" and this is why nobody at the "management" level cares.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153940
Yes, if you change to a flat tax when you go to UBI. It would make sense, but... Congress.