skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that this is basically what the 1040-EZ[0] is. It has the benefit of being one page, with simple instructions and it covers a lot of people.

• Your filing status is single or married filing jointly. If you are not sure about your filing status, see instructions.

• You (and your spouse if married filing jointly) were under age 65 and not blind at the end of 2015. If you were born on
January 1, 1951, you are considered to be age 65 at the end of 2015.

• You do not claim any dependents. For information on dependents, see Pub. 501.

• Your taxable income (line 6) is less than $100,000.

• You do not claim any adjustments to income. For information on adjustments to income, use the Tax Topics listed under
Adjustments to Income at www.irs.gov/taxtopics (see instructions).

• The only tax credit you can claim is the earned income credit (EIC). The credit may give you a refund even if you do not owe
any tax. You do not need a qualifying child to claim the EIC. For information on credits, use the Tax Topics listed under Tax
Credits at www.irs.gov/taxtopics (see instructions). If you received a Form 1098-T or paid higher education expenses, you may
be eligible for a tax credit or deduction that you must claim on Form 1040A or Form 1040. For more information on tax
benefits for education, see Pub. 970. If you can claim the premium tax credit or you received any advance payment of the
premium tax credit in 2015, you must use Form 1040A or Form 1040.

• You had only wages, salaries, tips, taxable scholarship or fellowship grants, unemployment compensation, or Alaska
Permanent Fund dividends, and your taxable interest was not over $1,500. But if you earned tips, including allocated tips, that
are not included in box 5 and box 7 of your Form W-2, you may not be able to use Form 1040EZ (see instructions). If you are
planning to use Form 1040EZ for a child who received Alaska Permanent Fund dividends, see instructions.

As for free offerings, these can also be found via the IRS[1], but generally apply to lower income amounts.

[0] - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf

[1] - https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/wizard.jsp?ck
I agree with you. Youtube is one of my favorite apps, but I cannot tolerate the advertisements. If I think of all the things that annoy me the most in the world; Youtube ads are in the top 3. I can, however, deal with 6 second ads, and it's likely they'll be more effective on me. I have no problems with SnapChat and Facebook ads and there are times I'm engaged with the message being presented.
Honestly I'm surprised this doesn't happen more. While yes, it was a very kind gesture by Ulukaya to give his employees partial ownership, it also makes each of them much more involved in the long term success of the company. Putting a company on the stock market is selling it to people who are only interested in earnings for a few quarters at most, while employees will have interest in not only the growth of the company, but the sustainability of the operation.

At least that's my impression of employee owned businesses, it seems like a smart economic move.
Virus claims german nuclear power plant run down by underfunded operators.
"Cant spread, if you are all on old breaking down hardware on outdated systems that nobody bothers to update." says virus.
It's the contrarian / rhetorical game-playing nature inside me, but other than being really surprised and impressed at the science and data, I wondered how certain, um, "interests" might try to discredit the information. I mean, I don't think there's a valid path. Maybe some comically bad ones, which would be entertaining in some ways.
That does sound like a nice play to work. How do I get in touch?
But those special exemptions aren't the core driver of tax code complexity. Rather, it's the intersection of:

a) high (enough) rates, and

b) taxation of business income (where you must allow deduction of legit business expenses like inventory)

This spawns sort of an arms race where businesses try to classify consumption as a "business expense" so they can deduct it, and the tax authority has to respond with ever-longer lists of "no you can't do that".

One naive scheme might be for the boss to go around and say "hey, what would you spend your next $50 on" and then buy it, classify it as a business expense, and silently give it to them. Then the worker doesn't show up as having that income, but the company has the expense to deduct. Now think about the regulatory apparatus necessary to prevent that, and any clever variant, from happening. (It's also why fringe benefits were so lavish for high earners in the high-tax 50s.)

The higher the rate, the more activity is diverted into this (socially wasteful) activity. Do you want high-IQ people designing self-driving cars or outsmarting the tax code?
No really, middle class for our parents sat smack in the middle of being able to achieve the "American Dream", house on a cul-de-sac, 2.5 kids, etc.... Now that sentiment does not ring true with most 'middle class' citizens.
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It is nothing short of sheer hubris to believe that you have avoided all undefined behavior, particularly given that there exist undefined behaviors that have no extant static or dynamic checkers (hi, strict aliasing).

I do know the strict aliasing rules quite well. As I said in a cousin post, the set of permissible accesses to a lvalue are governed by the dynamic type of an object. As a consequence, strict aliasing queries are not symmetric, which is to say, P* could point to an object of type Q* but not vice versa. The case where this will come up is with signed/unsigned char. If you have a char foo[]; as the dynamic object, it is positively illegal to access that with anything other than unsigned or signed char. This is what really screws up a lot of code.
For the people who don't get the idea of the post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_the_glass_half_empty_or_hal...
Wonder whether they get more than 50ct for that, or less.
Does anyone know if there are cases of that being enforced? It sounds to me like the sort of thing that is thrown in by some overzealous lawyers just because they can.

Still, definitely not a good thing to sign though.
I'm just surprised that you're surprised that a large number of people are involved in the manufacturing and distribution of a physical good. If you think 2,000 employees is a lot, wait until you see how many employees a company like Ford has.

I think your mind is a little bit stuck in the SF bubble.
Got it - that makes much more sense.
DARPA AI simulator:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-softwar...

http://gazebosim.org/
I don't think you understand. It's better for the billionaires, Wall Street bankers, and venture capitalists this way. Therefore sacrificing a middle class country and way of life is worth it.

There are still lots of options for the former middle class: we could have autocracy like China or grinding poverty like Bolivia. But broad prosperity just wasn't working out for the big money donors and had to be abandoned.
I'll allow it.

Edit: Just found HN's hatred for puns. Got it.
How would they necessarily know that it was apple they were selling to?
Technically, the NSA's unchecked surveillance sped up encryption adoption by 7 years.

If I lock my doors more because of increased thefts in my area, I don't say it's because of the news site where I learned about them. It's because there are thieves about.
I spend the last few weeks trying to find an appropriate SDL for my project but have otherwise no experience in creating APIs.

In my opinion, API specs should probably be generated from code and its documentation, and not the reverse. This is because it is the code and not the spec which is subject to most change and only the endpoint interfaces/signatures can be generated. API specifications could also be more easily transformed by middleware (e.g. when renaming endpoints, combining APIs) if they were machine generated.

As was described above, only few people are acquainted with service description languages, and deeper changes in their semantics over time or the choice of an alternative would require a manual rewrite. Also, some SDLs seem to impose their own higher level ontologies and name spaces, which is another major obstacle to usage for simple systems.
I've been searching for a good-quality usb hub. After a few years of intense competition, there are basically two options on the market: cheap chinese crap, and cheap chinese crap in an expensive designer enclosure.
The trouble is that a union can gut many kinds of businesses since all the workers can not be replaced without greatly and often fatally disrupting the business, and then if an industry is unionized, workers become a monopoly and this can result in large deadweight losses for the economy; this is not to say that without unions everything works out perfectly, just that unions have their problems.
Unfortunately no. The way it integrates into Excel is only available in Excel for Windows. Excel for Mac just doesn't have many ways you can talk to it (that I'm aware of).
Most of those exploits that cost that kind of money are kept secret, the only reason we know about this one is because of the court case.
In fairness, that's a lot of information that Americans would consider private, going out through the mail in clearly marked envelopes. They can only be so casual about it in Sweden because they also have the social practice of being less secretive about how much they make.

With that said, if we could nail down the authentication process, we could do here (and should). It wouldn't improve everyone's situation -- e.g. if you have a lot of income from hard-to-track sources -- but for most people it would be a godsend.
It sounds like he's looking to have his cake and eat it, selling his shares while retaining control.
So, what is your proposal exactly? Cut this program, and make army weaker, while others(Russia, China, isis, whatever) gain military weight?
You are correct that I made an error in my calculation, but my point still largely stands.

I took the parent at face value for the claim that 50% of roads are funded by use fees. That means the other 50% are paid for with general income taxes. Nearly all income taxes are paid for by the top half of earners. If we assume that everyone drives about the same amount, then the bottom half of the country gets the full value and use of roads while only paying for 25% of the total cost.

I bring this up because the parents point seemed to be that road subsidies are an implicit subsidy to oil companies. But people need to get around somehow, and the current way of funding roads should be perfectly compatible to conventional morality.

At the same time, I oppose all subsidies and can only imagine the amazing methods of transport that would exist if the government did not actively interfere and manage this market.
The Division also uses TCP instead of UDP so they're clearly totally incompetent when it comes to networking.
Where do you draw the line then? You can google and stack-overflow answers to pretty much any technical interview question that has a non-subjective answer.

BFS is not much more than a loop, a queue and a set to keep track of state (which nodes to visit next and which nodes have been visited). I can't think of many algorithms simpler than that to ask outside of things like fizz-buzz.

If you are arguing for whether algorithms are an effective way to gauge a candidate's skill then you should state that.
Yeah, I wasn't aware of restricting the specific forks. I'm not sure how that works if you open source software but then license someone to only use a specific version.
The specifics of charter school success isn't really the main concept of the article. I believe the grandparent is pointing out the writer attacks the "billionaire philanthropists" donations as an assault on democracy, without acknowledging that the main donors on the other side were all vested interest groups (Teachers Unions, etc)
I wonder if before they announced the 99% plan they didn't realize the implications and after they started implementing it, the case of founder ownership came up and they needed to scramble to make a plan - hence the post.

No good deed goes unpunished and all of that.
Except it's not plausible. Come on.
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Well, a bank website would want to use this to make sure nobody MITMs them, or that the client does not have malware, etc - which would affect the user.
Google's treatment of open messaging, albeit terrible, has nothing to do with its patent behavior.

Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and many other companies are known aggressors who use software patents as weapons of war to destroy competition and extort other companies. Google has consistently refused to participate in such immoral behavior without first being attacked by similarly sized companies.
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You'd need to be able to raise that as cash; you're going to have trouble persuading a bank to give you a mortgage for a $500,000 stake in a mars expedition.
Using the Bejeweled example of a single-player game, and assuming it's properly deterministic, could a malicious actor not just falsify the steps taken as well as the score? It would be more difficult, but not that much more difficult considering the challenge is the time limit and lack of undo. Both would be removed if you were simulating steps.
FWIW I work at spacex and have gotten offers from competitors. I don't regret staying at SpaceX and I enjoy my job -- I also work very reasonable hours on meaningful work. There are times where I'll work 80+ hour weeks close to a launch but most of the time I sit very happily at 40 hours a week. If you're interested in joining a literal rocket ship of a company you're welcome to reach out to me: randall dot hunt at spacex dot com -- we do really exciting and meaningful work that you'll be proud to talk to your friends and family about.
The Summer Of Love happened in SF because a working class family could get an affordable mortgage and buy a home there in 1967. Nineteen year olds working as shop clerks could get a decent apartment on their own. Now homes cost $1.5MM+ and nineteen year old Americans can't even get jobs without a college degree; entry level jobs go to immigrants willing to take under minimum wage and live four-to-a-bedroom.
>> Evaluations: We've made it easy to upload results to OpenAI Gym. However, we've opted not to create traditional leaderboards. What matters for research isn't your score (it's possible to overfit or hand-craft solutions to particular tasks), but instead the generality of your technique.

https://openai.com/blog/openai-gym-beta/
> The standard answer is to start with the US 5th fleet and work upward from there.

For this sub-thread, that is where. Unless you think the US military is out defending foreign oil companies?
This is interesting. U have briefly looked at Erlang and I wonder a few things, for any Erlang gurus:

1) A lot of this sounds like OS style scheduling. Does this reduce complexity (maybe by Erlang dealing with various OS scheduling quirks?) or does this increase complexity because now you have to deal with both the Erlang scheduler and the OS scheduler.

2) It struck me as odd that he said, sending to a larger mailbox takes more resources. Does that mean sending to a mailbox with a larger incoming queue takes more as a way to balance queues or does that mean a mailbox with a greater capacity takes more?

3) The preemption and soft-realtime sounds most interesting. Are there foreign function interfaces that could allow you to get Erlang style concurrency with other languages? Python (and a lot of others, but especially python) are absolutely aweful at multitasking due to the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), with no intention by the developers to fix it. Could you magically add the ability to preemptively slice Python code by adding it to an Erlang framework? Would the overhead of Erlang+Python not be worth it? Usually in a language like Erlang or Python you would call C for speed. Could you call C and get preemption and scheduling on that too?
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Who is going to prosecute, when it is the person who decides who gets prosecuted, doing the perjury? And all the other prosecutors use the same methods to get forward in their jobs?
> Yes, at least in medical settings, I think it's just as much about accountability and CYA than actually improving overall real-world security.

I don't think your wrong, but an awful lot of system admins have ended up dealing with lawyers and courts. Your system admin having had a prior talk with the lawyers about security, HIPA, and who is liable will do wonders for their willingness to bend the rules for you.
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Dude. You seriously need to market an enterprise edition of this (offer support or something). It's a great idea with exceptional execution. At least half the companies I work with (oil & gas companies—they are addicted to Excel like it's crack or something) would buy this for quite a bit if it were marketed at them.
Don't blame the "lawyer's guild" for this. This is not a matter of supply and demand; there are currently more lawyers looking for work than there are jobs available.

Public defenders are largely government employees. Most governments have resisted increasing the budgets of their respective Public Defenders' offices to allow for the hiring of additional staff. Blame the legislators, and blame the taxpayers for not wanting to pay an extra $1/year.
Neymar gains a competitive advantage working over the referee's opinion of the severity of a foul by feigning injury there (I can't believe I'm defending him), but the cyclist would not gain any advantage by laying on the pavement moaning.

Also, Neymar literally broke his back in that occurrence, which is evident mere frames after that still.
> But it also falls most heavily on smaller businesses, which cannot afford staffs of pricey compliance specialists to make sure that their desk chairs meet the new California workplace seating requirements. This may help explain why the number of firms is falling, and markets are consolidating.

The inefficiency with which small businesses deal with regulatory compliance is just one example of a general phenomenon. Small businesses are inefficient at pretty much everything. For example, there is no way cab companies, the largest of which may have a few hundred drivers, could ever deploy the kind of software infrastructure Uber has developed. Mom-and-pops can never compete with Amazon's or Wal-Mart's integrated and unified systems for warehousing, picking, shipping, and logistics. As technology makes it easier to manage increasingly-large enterprises and unlocks economies of scale, consolidation will continue apace, with or without the impact of regulatory compliance.

At the end of the day, someone has to make sure workers aren't being abused by being forced to work for more hours than they are paid for. As long we consider that a legitimate burden we put on businesses, we have to face the fact that the relative difficulty of compliance is just one of the many disadvantages of being small.
I think that may have been the case earlier on but the company has certainly matured and I don't see this anymore. Maybe I'm missing it but I think a lot of that reputation is unwarranted. No one is going to stop you from over-working yourself but no one is going to force you to over-work yourself either.
How do Antartica treaties affect entities based in countries that aren't party to the treaty? Say a Nigerian company set up a base there and started mining. What would happen?
>Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.

1st thought: Then what's with all the passwords? (tongue-in-cheek)

2nd thought: Open and connected for who? SIGINT?

3rd thought: Well, if that's really the case, then why doesn't FB resemble /b/ a lot more?

4th thought: I'm definitely not the target market here, but I hope people who try to invest in FB can afford the risk of the investment.

5th thought: Who am I kidding with #4?
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Information obtained from the phone could have been used to implicate a third party, though.
That is uplifting. I recently got two conference papers rejected, and I was a bit downcast about it. It's nice to be reminded that individual failures don't tell you much about long-term success.
They are protecting the public. Just a question if it's the best decision to make for the public. Without backdoors, 0-days are a legit tool for law enforcement. Even Bruce Schneier likes it as a compromise IIRC.
That particular link is a 404.
However you go about it, you need access to the Deep Space Network for telemetry and communication.
Well, all that's after the fact 20/20 hindsight.

Initially, all he and his doctor knew was that he was 77 years old and his routine, approved by the powers that be, PSA test results took a worrisome turn, bad enough that a biopsy was indicated.

My father's case only supports the Official Word, that starting at age 70 you should get PSA tests. WRT to people making their own decisions, I highly advise that, if you're 70 or older, to get regular PSA tests!
That's just not true. Higher education costs have held steady for about 30 years.

What has increased is the share of that cost that is being fronted by the student, instead of the government. You want to be mad, be mad. But at least point it in the right direction.

For example - at the 'state funded' institution I was previously employed by, only 11% of our annual funding came from the state. Compare that to the 1970's, when around 60% came from the same source.

The cost of tuition didn't increase (outside of annual inflation adjustments) overall. The cost to the student increased because the state cut back so hard on their payments. Meanwhile, students demand the same, or better services every year. You can have cheap, you can have good, but you can't have both.

The fact that people going to college in the 1970's were able to pay for college on part-time summer jobs wasn't because it was miraculously cheap. It was heavily subsidized.

These aren't secrets.
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This pretty much matches my experience with friends who now in their 20s grew up in the bay. Most are in Seattle, Sacramento, Portland, or other more affordable places. The ones who couldn't/didn't finish college or get into tech live elsewhere.

I have a friend who is coming up on 28, having just moved from his parents house in Los Gatos a year ago. He moved into the slums with 3 roommates, paying around 60% of what his parents pay for their mortgage for his share of rent. He managed to find a job in tech which is how he can afford the place. Basically you move out of a mansion and into a ghetto, stay under your parents, or move away.

I'm up in Seattle desperately trying to save money for a down payment faster than housing prices are going up - if I wait a year it'll be an extra 30-50k for the same property. But if I overextend to try to buy a place and the market crashes I'm completely SOL. Its very difficult to make any long-term decisions or enter the housing market.

But still, if you're not in it, you're giving up a lot of your future buying power. Friends of mine managed to buy a very very cheap place in the bay and lived there for a few years, and used the equity to buy a much nicer place in the Seattle area. No idea really what to do - I feel like the market is totally capping out at some point and isn't sustainable - I have to place a bet whether it will rise continuously or crash and if I get it wrong I'm up shit creek.
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Try this out in node

function createObject() { this.x = 3; return this; }

obj = createObj();

if (obj.misspeld_props == 3) {

// never executes, nor cause a crash

}

I hope I made my point clear. Creating large code base with such properties is a pain. This does not happen in python, or any other language. What are your thoughts.