skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a college student- doing odd-jobs, collecting weird scholarships, in strange living arrangements- it was extremely annoying and a pain every single time tax season came around and I had to go around collecting tax slips from various sources.

Young me wants this so badly.
Jeremy deserves nothing in principle. You cannot ask for millions of dollars of someone's hard work when you have barely put in 1 month of effort. A billion dollar exit requires a lot of hard work and execution. Even if the core idea was Jeremy's, ideas are dime a dozen. Heck, several billion dollar ideas popup in my brain every day. Building on that idea and getting it to market is where the value is. I have no sympathy for Jeremy. He is an opportunist. And Sam is 100% correct.
It's hard to get an exact figure, particularly because of unreported accidents, and various sources. But I believe insurance companies have previously stated it's about one in every 250,000 miles. For the sake of giving a wide berth for unreported accidents, and to not give humans the benefit of the doubt, I've been using the rough figure of 150,000 miles between accidents.

I don't have a great source for it though, and if anyone finds a good source, it'd be fantastic.
This is because most lobbyists can only offer campaign donations, and then only implicitly. That isn't what politicians really want; They want votes. If they have campaign money, they might be able to use advertising and organizing to turn that into votes, but it is no sure thing.

A few lobbying groups, like AARP and the NRA actually can bring votes to a candidate and that is where the real power is. They have a list of people who care about their pet issue and can send them mail saying "candidate X proposed HR.1337 which does foo; Candidate X fights for your rights."

Until recently, the only organization with a large list of people who were frustrated with turbotax was Intuit. However, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit now both have records of large numbers of people griping about taxes. Why has Facebook not yet exposed an API that let you advertise to people who are frustrated with a given concept? It seems like a great way to find folks that have a certain pain point.
I must be missing something, but how exactly would this simplify tax filing?

Presumably this bill would break the grip that TurboTax has on the market by, say, enabling cheaper and/or free solutions. But using the alternatives would not be in any way simpler than using TurboTax. And TurboTax is not that expensive (<$100 for federal+state).
don't feel too bad about buying the Voyage - i upgraded from the original paperwhite to the new one with the 300PPI screen and hardly notice a difference. The 300PPI screen is nice but not that big of a difference.

The benefit of the voyage has to be the pagepress buttons, the flush glass screen, and better backlighting. the PPI is minor.
May be they should fix AMT mess as well?
> So this autumn we can expect to have ES6 in every browser that matters!

I wish I could afford to ignore Internet Explorer... if Microsoft leaves Windows 7 to rot with IE 11, corporate users are going to keep holding back the web for a few more years.
I find that business is opportunistic in general, and those who are successful are generally opportunistic. To constrain oneself and to not take advantage of opportunities likely means your going to get beat by those that do.
Because our Federal government is super good at creating easy to use, functional websites.

TurboTax was able to hook into my investment accounts and automatically pull all of my data. It worked great. All the IRS needs to do is provide an API to let a range of software do the same.

Also, use of "average" here is criminally misleading. The "average" person doesn't spend $200. And the "average" tax return isn't $2000. TurboTax free edition is perfectly sufficient for a plurality of users.
People don't "upload things to a database", though, that's the point. They don't go to their photo app and think, "self, I'm going to upload this image to a global searchable database now". Rather, they think: "Steve and Mary would have liked this restaurant dish", or "I'm going to try and make my friends jealous of the great holiday I'm having".

Because people don't own their own clouds, or have privatized social networks, they are forced to upload things into databases that others control. Who controls the privacy defaults typically have the most control over where the data flows thereafter. And it's all out of the user's hands; they weren't given a choice, not a real one, because the incentives for the system lead you to accept the lack of control, or spend your life neurotically trying to keep a lid on everything, or live as a technological recluse. There's no other way to live today.
That's not true because every standard employee agreement in VC backed companies (and in most other ones) also contains an IP assignment. So if you're going to claim that you would have signed a hypothetical employee agreement, it also would have come with a hypothetical IP assignment.
How do lobbyists actually influence what happens to a bill?
Is Atom still collecting users data? Last I paid attention there was a big furore about having to opt-out and the legality in Europe.
Agreed, really captivating writing style. Takes me back :)
ADA mandates "equivalent service" for transportation.

Most places in US ignore that.

https://wheelchairtravel.org/taxi-companies-local-government...

> Sec. 37.103 Purchase or lease of new non-rail vehicles by private entities primarily engaged in the business of transporting people.

> (a) Application. This section applies to all acquisitions of new vehicles by private entities which are primarily engaged in the business of transporting people and whose operations affect commerce, in which a solicitation for the vehicle is made (except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section) after August 25, 1990.

> (c) Demand responsive systems. If the entity operates a demand responsive system, and purchases or leases a new vehicle other than an automobile, a van with a seating capacity of less than eight persons (including the driver), or an over-the-road bus, it shall ensure that the vehicle is readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs, unless the system, when viewed in its entirety, meets the standard for equivalent service of Sec. 37.105 of this part.
This applies to people who can and do continue to work. You just need an SSI status that isn't likely to be resolved within X period of time. I believe depression and anxiety disorders are the most common cause of lifetime disability. Here's a comment from a Reddit thread yesterday, which mirrors my experience:

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4eij5y/obama_to_forgi...

I have friends from high school who are on SSI for depression and continue to work for extra income. They're mostly lazy and none of them live what we'd think of as awesome lives. But I wouldn't in a million years think of them as anything close to permanently disabled. If someone put foot to ass they'd be capable of supporting themselves and probably better off and happier in the long run for it (which is a whole different discussion entirely).
You're not the only one to accidentally give off that vibe. I remember reading this [0] article about "DevOps 2.0" and my jaw dropping.

In about 2 sentences, the author manages to alienate pretty much anyone who would want to consider that product and the new features.

It's this massive unawareness that even though something like Docker is the cool new way of doing it, probably 90+% of businesses (especially cap-weighted) remain doing things with legacy systems and are necessarily slow to adapt. Not only are they not using 2.0 ... they're not even using 1.0!

This kind of marketing might work when you mostly only want other start-ups for your clients. But if you want bigger players, you have to think about it from their perspective. Do you want to offend the 15-year veteran VP of Operations who got a promotion 7 years ago when everybody thought signing some enterprise contract was the right thing, and now your presentation basically starts from sentence #1 saying "You did it all wrong, old man!" You're just priming that senior VP, who wields the political power to utterly veto you from their new product search, and motivating him to want to make sure you're not around to bring any kind of critical highlight to any of his previous choices.

This is an important point in business. I never even thought about until I read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" but now I start to see it more often (especially when I do it, which is still too often for my goals).

[0] < http://blog.shippable.com/devops-2.0-is-here-announcing-ship... >
I think you give "science" too much credit. "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" and all that. In an abstract sense, yes, everything in science is subject to criticism and reevaluation. But in a human sense, entire fields are dominated for decades by strong personalities whose theories aren't necessarily stronger but have greater social support. I present to you Noam Chomsky re: linguistics as a prime example.

Surely I oversimplify, but I think it's important to acknowledge the human factor in what passes as scientific consensus in a field at any given time.
Quite a long article; I'm not surprised some of the comments here appear inconsistent with the content.

TLDR; A great deal of money (allegedly only $8M, but probably more including facilities and engineering) and effort was put in to acquiring, adapting and testing two conventional, piloted planes as offensive weapons and surveillance platforms. They were riddled with problems including registration and licensing and actual flight problems and have never seen service. Prince let down his clients, raised significant heat from western governments and subsequently his own board members (who then needed to cover their collective asses), but sidestepped these issues by seeking Chinese government investment: his efforts continue.

After all of this, from a business perspective one wonders if larger COTS UAV could have been utilized more cost effectively.

From a moral perspective, everyone mentioned in this article including the Austrian engineers are culpable.
I am an animator so my requirements are different. A video card makes all the difference for me for viewport rendering speeds. I don't render out that much, but I did notice that my wife's iMac (which is a few years newer than my q6600) renders out at about 2x the speed.
The frustrating part is that Pennsylvania has had tons of railway planning, infrastructure built - but it's mostly been abandoned or neglected for the last 70 years. So much of the state was born out of investment in rail connections and then economically smothered by the end of the railroads and never recovered.

Pennsylvania became an economic powerhouse because of the railroads, but without them it's just a sad shadow of it's former glory. If someone took the lead on rebooting the railroad industry in PA it would reboot the entire economy of the state.
Perhaps the job is to find that point, and they found it. Or perhaps they're nowhere near that point and the management team just did a shitty job scaling the business.
You're getting downvoted but I have no idea why. "Fair tax" is just a two tier progressive tax, and we know from plenty of economical feedback and data that when you have less absolute money paying the same percentage is way more punishing to you because more of your income is stuck paying for your own survival versus being disposable.

There is nothing about having reasonable progressive taxation that is regressive. You can get rid of the writeoff exceptionalism and just institute a quadratic curve from $0 to $1 billion and have the percentages go from 0% to 90% or whatever you want your upper bracket rate to be.

Then integrate the curve at your income. Super simple progressive taxation rather than the piecewise writeoff everything hellhole we have today.

And that doesn't even touch on how bad capital gains taxes are, which is where real wealth is made and where the owner class makes their killing bleeding the many of their wealth, which is partially caused by a biased tax code in their favor. Simplified progressive capital gains would also be a tangible boon.
Actually this just reads like scientists being blind to their own biases. One of the guys heading the original study was Ancel Keys, the father of the lipid hypothesis.
>> "Coincidentally, it was released as city leaders were installing a new, permanent superintendent for the Chicago Police Department."

^^ Sounds like a stretch to believe that was coincidental.
JS developers who don’t know what closure is are fine
This is an important distinction to say P2P webrtc is limiting. WebRTC is just a collection of protocols, codecs, etc. There isn't anything stopping you from using WebRTC as a user endpoint that talks to a centralized server. I used google's java wrappers included in their WebRTC implementation to get a toy server working.

I played with the idea of relaying a stream across multiple nodes and it works. What I was doing was kinda silly I guess since it is way to cpu intensive to open so many media streams, but the general idea works. I guess it would be better to have the user endpoint talk to the server through a mediastream and then transcode the data for consumption like other systems do it.

I'm sure it's amateur compared to a project like Jitsi, but was still interesting to get working. I haven't played with it in several months but the code was here: https://github.com/jgrowl/livehq

The actual server code is here: https://github.com/jgrowl/livehq/tree/master/media/src/main/...
This is a terrible price point for what's at best a weak upgrade to the Voyage. $290? That's nuts, unless you're going to give me a 10" screen with it. I was waiting on buying a new Kindle, hoping the Oasis would have a larger screen. Now I'll just buy the Voyage instead.
Promises of ambiguous reform are simply the system placating and preserving the status quo.

The fundamental problem isn't racism - it is the lack of justice in every individual case. If police officers were actually held accountable for their improper actions (civil and criminal liability for false imprisonment, battery, lost time, etc), the racist thoughts of individual cops would not matter as much.
Sorry, but this argument is just so damn stupid. It's on the level of, "we don't have passwords for accounts, because people could bruteforce them anyways"...

They are basically arguing that while SSL might cover 9/10 cases, because it doesn't cover that 1 case, they will leave the other 9 open.
If you are working as a programmer in Silicon Valley your income is most likely high enough to itemize to deduct your state taxes from the Federal Adjusted Gross Income. Your deduction would exceed the standard deduction. Unless you know you can itemize your state taxes you are going to end up paying more in taxes.

The default is to go with the standard deduction which would be throwing away money.

IANAL but as per the text of the bill you won't be "eligible" if you itemize.
The biggest signs of burnout are when you just don't care anymore and the quality of your work starts to suffer. When you start to dread going into work and have to force yourself to do so by way of avoiding negative consequences (shame, unemployment, not being able to pay the bills, eviction, etc.) When your plans related to work grow increasingly disconnected from reality and haven't seen traction for ages (i.e. you'll quit and start freelancing, win the lottery, turn things around tomorrow and get that promotion, etc.)
CPU Frequency Scaling
It is a logical fallacy and disingenuous to compare how much in absolute dollars how much the top/middle/bottom income earners pay in absolute dollars rather than in their relative (per income earned) tax rate.

If you have money to pay for experts in knowing all of the loopholes to exploit, and the types of investments / 'responsibilities' that special interests have had written in as possible deductions (the top n%) then the effective tax rate (per unit of currency) paid is less.

Edit, adding this:

I suppose you've also asked what I would consider fair. I find it easier to reach a stance of agreement that the current system is /unfair/ and needs a fresh start, so I hadn't elaborated on the outcome I'd like to see from such a process.

I would find a system with a simple, preferably automated, process to be more fair.

I would find a system where the more you make, the more you take home, to be fair.

I would find a system where the more you make, the higher your relative rate of being taxed to be fair. (Is anyone REALLY worth 100 other people? 1000? At what point to you reach the true value of life: priceless (free)?)

The best approach that I've seen so far mentioned is to tax assets. Property, objects, financial instruments (dollars to contracts of various sorts) all have a market value. You are not directly taxed on your income, but your net worth. Obviously there would be some forms of shelter (deferred net worth, like for retirement. Insurance buffers, etc).
Docker Registry 2.4.0 released
Also, if it could be really cheap; say £7 or so. And rather than charging it you'd just get another copy of it once you'd read one. And when you were finished you could lend or give it to someone else. You could get second hand ones cheap, and there'd not be a central store of all the ones you'd read for a hostile government to data mine, and no company would be able to remove them from you, like, say you were in the middle of reading 1984 about a dystopian future where your every move was monitored by a dicatorship.
It's an issue with Skylake to the extent that Intel do their own hardware enablement for Linux and just haven't done everything they need to in this case. C8-SKL refers to the C state that an individual core is in - the package C states are listed further to the left in the "Package" column.
Exactly. Simpilifying the tax code basically jusy means less power over our own money.

Once again, we are giving away more of our power for convenience.
I would have liked more detail about the cluster. You would still need high speed interconnects (like Infiniband) between the nodes/machines so I don't think crowdsourcing would work.

This could be interesting if ported to an FPGA though. That could give you that power/performance tradeoff.
my first thought actually was, how would the cars react to road spikes thrown by police? Especially on a highway with barriers on either side.

Of course a competent writer would've thrown in a line about how these cars are on run flats at some point...

Our only hope is for the scientists in the So-Secret-President-Doesnt-Even-Know Facility to come up with something so crazy it just might work
When I used to work on network congestion, I took the position that each stream is entitled to one packet in flight. After that, we can talk about throttling. That's why I invented fair queuing.

TCP will throttle down nicely to one packet in flight, and the connection won't stall, although it may be slow. Routers which discard all the packets from a single stream are doing a very bad job, unless they're dealing with hostile action.

Much of the trouble comes from network devices with big, dumb, FIFO buffers. DSL routers are notorious for this on their uplink side. So are Ethernet interfaces, which have a big FIFO buffer. It's important to avoid too much dumb buffering in the chain between TCP and the Ethernet cable/WiFi air link.

A typical problem is ACKs from downloads being lost during heavy uplink usage. If you're a choke point (much more bandwidth in than out), big dumb FIFO buffers will suck. You at least need fair queuing. The "bufferbloat" crowd is into this.

Linux QOS is more about fixing this as an endpoint. You're trying to avoid overloading the next choke point upstream. This works only if everybody using the next choke point upstream plays nice. One bad guy will ruin it for everybody.
They want my email and name in order to merely show me the page, even on vanilla Chromium: http://imgur.com/QVH4AeV
As a data point for anyone curious about what a fairly complex, but really not insane, tax return looks like, my taxes were fairly complicated this year:

- 3 jobs (2 for me cause I changed mid-year, 1 for my wife)
- Some investment earnings (both cap gains & dividends)
- I was part of the Google class action settlement
- Some random 1099s
- Itemized deductions mainly just cause I live in a high tax state (NY)

My federal tax return is 87 pages (not counting a list of all capital transactions). IMHO, complexity that could possibly be eliminated can be found in these items (in no particular order):

- The deductibility of state taxes (still kinda weird to me how this works)
- Foreign tax credits (Probably actually necessary, but tricky)
- The AMT
- Forms 8959/8960 (Can't this be built into the rates?)
- Self Employment Tax (an artifact of the deceptive way SS & Medicare taxes work)
- The worksheet for calculating capital gains tax seems a bit crazy

Overall, at least from my perspective, no individual item is all that crazy. It's just the weight of a bunch of little things that all add up to something that feels overly complicated.
Also, the tax code is this way because software companies that produce tax filing software like Intuit lobby for it [0].

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...
>"Linux's power management on Skylake is dreadful and you shouldn't install it until it's fixed?"

Because Linux is sometimes the only option. No other OS has the same options as far as containerization.
My job informs consumers about products that may be of interest, gives them real money/gift cards/other rewards for doing so, and includes fun games for them to enjoy as part of this transaction. If they don't want to see my companies ads, they simply don't install the app, so any user who continues to use any such app is explicitly opting into the advertising.

edit: I should probably be explicit that I don't really feel this has deep redeeming social value, but I thought it might be worth a chuckle.
> "take pictures of customers" policy.

Even gym memberships require this in some places. Soon one would need to provide facial 3D scan just to buy groceries.
If you're paying TurboTax $200 a year to do your taxes, you're doing something seriously wrong.
> This doesn't apply only to expensive universities.

In order for a university to saddle students with crushing debt, it must almost certainly be both a.) expensive b.) unhelpful for career prospects. This points to private liberal-arts colleges and for-profit diploma mills (though the latter are a lesser part of the problem; they are cheaper and enroll nearly 40% fewer students [1]).

> More to the point: "the law" clearly says that you don't have to pay your loans if you're disabled.

I'm not suggesting the law is being violated. What's offensive is that borrowers are being encouraged to default, _regardless of delinquency status_; the majority are current on their loans! The administration is actively seeking to maximize loss to the taxpayer.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cha.asp
How many organizations does Microsoft have on GitHub, I wonder?

Seems like every project they publish is under a different account.
It's phrased like that because it doesn't work on Linux and Intel refuses to document what has to be done in the kernel to make it work. As such it's hard to blame Linux kernel developers for not knowing how to magically poke the complex SoC into low power submission without Intel's cooperation.