skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rule #1 from history class: only trust the primary source. And since none of the main articles about this issue seem to be quoting the primary source in full, here you go:

SEC. 9006. EXPANSION OF INFORMATION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

(a) In General.--Section 6041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsections:
``(h) Application to Corporations.--Notwithstanding any regulation
prescribed by the Secretary before the date of the enactment of this
subsection, for purposes of this section the term `person' includes any
corporation that is not an organization exempt from tax under section
501(a).
``(i) Regulations.--The Secretary may prescribe such regulations
and other guidance as may be appropriate or necessary to carry out the
purposes of this section, including rules to prevent duplicative
reporting of transactions.''.
(b) Payments for Property and Other Gross Proceeds.--Subsection (a)
of section 6041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
(1) by inserting ``amounts in consideration for property,''
after ``wages,'',
(2) by inserting ``gross proceeds,'' after ``emoluments, or
other'', and
(3) by inserting ``gross proceeds,'' after ``setting forth
the amount of such''.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall
apply to payments made after December 31, 2011.

From the full text of the bill at http://www.gpo.gov:80/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr3590PP/html/BILLS...
I don't mean that AK is involved in scratch, but that's the kind of educational stuff that seems to be on his radar.
Slicehost now has 10.04 available as well: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2010/4/30/ubuntu-10-04-lts...
The difference in maintainability is pretty big - iTunes and FCP are some of Apple's oldest application codebases at this point and both probably need a total rewrite to be up to their modern standards and work with 64-bit/background threading/etc. (They also both started out at other companies, though who knows what that means.)

I assume the reason they haven't been rewritten is the same reason that QuickTime 10 isn't finished yet. But I don't know what that reason is.
Hate the dark theme. Feels like a skinned desktop from the nineties.

Changed to a light theme which looks ok but like the same I used in the last 10 years...

When will I install an Ubuntu that doesn't make me feel so "Oh this is still Linux"...

Also, why isn't VLC the default video player yet?
The Potential of New, High-Growth Companies
Yet another reason to use Picwing Prints. There's no tech support for opening photos in the mail =)
I'm speaking from experience with the T400, so perhaps the SL410's BIOS doesn't support it.
No, not humor. I mean that proficiency scale is used for various other more pertinent traits. I worked for Microsoft up until February.
This is like suggesting that McDonalds' "over xx billion served" mantra is supposed to mean that there are over xx billion customers in their store at any given time.

Except that "served" is past tense and "use" is the simple present. If 37signals had said 3 million have "used" their software, this discussion probably wouldn't have kicked off. Instead, they used the present tense, implying that 3 million people routinely and currently use the software, which is highly unlikely.
how the hell can they find my exact location?
I don't care about global, within the US would be sufficient. The USPS could do it if they cared to try.
"Clearly, a lot of people are passionate about both Apple and Adobe and our technologies."

Ha. I haven't met many people who are "passionate" about Adobe technologies. I don't see Flash stickers on cars or people lining up around the block to buy Photoshop CS5.

I don't think the people taking Adobe's side on this do it out of passion–they do it because they don't like how Apple is handling the situation.
Removing operator overloading makes vector and matrix math deeply unpleasant - something that this kind of "creative coding" tends to use rather heavily.
Yes, this goes back to 1989 fight over fonts, and the 1993 fight about Display Postscript and the 1999 fight about Photoshop on Windows, and the 2007 withdrawal of 64-bit Carbon toolkit at the last minute.
I hate to be a wag, but the news today about government intervention in small businesses has gone into turbo mode.

Is now the time we get out the pitchforks and torches and go up to the castle? Or should we wait a while longer?
When it comes to products with strong network effects, you really don't. Sometimes an inferior product (i should say platform) can take over a market simply because it was there first. You can find any number of examples of this in the tech world.
You don't think Apple "drove hype" for the iPad? Seriously?

Your point may be correct, but that's more of a taunt than an argument.
This is really funny! The one who wrote this has to have an incredible "expert level" sense of humour!
Sriram speaks the truth. I've never worked with anyone more serious than you in my life. ;)
There's a drop-down on the divider that allows you to choose to which foreign media CNN should compare.
Openframeworks is mentioned in the FAQ.
http://libcinder.org/about/
too fast of a response... and not well worded enough
"on April 12, Steve Jobs said, 'Search is not where it’s at...' Full six years ago I blogged about people's over dependence on search"

Mate, unless you're the same Sachin that bats for India I doubt people are paying quite as much attention.
Potential Consistency
We are probably somewhat prepared to fight a cyberwar. Saying we are completely unprepared sounds like hyperbole.
If the logic is truly contorted, you should be able to do better than ad hominem.
i disagree. they ignored all the main points in apple's argument. a "This is why Flash is worthwhile" response is better than a "Well, at least we'll be on android."
Nice idea, and I like the design. Looks like you've got people using it.

I was a bit confused as to where to begin though. Am I to create my own list of 101 things, or are there some suggested lists I can start with?

Also: try preloading the images in your stylesheets (or using sprites). There's a noticeable flash when I hover over the sign-up button as signuphover.png is loaded for the first time. I'm fond of this jQuery plugin, which makes this painless:

http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_automatically_preloa...
Can you send a little of that smooth-and-nice my way?

You say there's no lock-in outside of the iPhone, but what do you call Flash? Yes, the spec is technically open, but there still haven't been any players that work as "well" as Adobe's. Which, by the way, is many people's problem, as Flash Player has been nothing but a pain to me. The Linux and OS X versions are horrible and Adobe's done very little to fix them.

Also, I'd kinda dispute the "better hardware" and "solid UI" claims - better is very subjective, and Android's UI could hardly be considered "solid" (the portions of MeeGo from Moblin look promising though).

(I feel silly to include this, but it could be necessary: I don't currently own a single Apple product, my main computers run Windows & Linux, and my phone is a Samsung Moment which runs Android 2.1.)
Open web standards are, perhaps, the only open thing Apple seriously promotes.
Hm, it was quite easy to install more window borders. If only I could get fonts to look like Windows...
> And the tweets almost never present an interesting opinion.

Could be worse, could be youtube comments.

Now that I think about it, I bet they must have read those at one point too.
We're completely unprepared to defend ourselves, but we're probably much better at retaliating than this article implies.
the nexus one is totally responsive. have you seen it?

i didn't downvote you, but i would guess it's for "fundamental sense of taste". that's just ranting.

plus i am not aware of any evidence that the iphone has a better battery life than a comparable android device (like the nexus one). do you? or are you just reciting the talking points?
In visual form:

http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/?p=1251
How do you watch "death comes to town" in us?
The nice thing about knowing a little physics is you can be certain that some subset of the people supporting this impossible claim are con artists (once you eliminate the impossible ...). But it will be interesting to see this garbage continue to get up-voted (and no doubt the comment down-voted).
Thanks for clearing it up guys, I misread about 3 times in a row.
T1+asterisk+iaxmodem+hylafax solved all those problems you mentioned for us, along with ones you didn't.

not that i like fax, but the experience you get with the average office supply store fax machine is a poor one.
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true -- but this time he seems to have gone too far to turn back. then again, remember when PowerPC was better than Intel? Jobs is a master of the Big Lie.
But CNN-International also has to fill 24 hours and is much much better.
I'm sure he operates strictly on Cupertino time. ;)
the only reason i have a mac is to run photoshop and after effects. otherwise ubuntu is a fine replacement for mac os x.
You need to think like a large-company HR director. Every employee must have an appropriate rank to justify his or her salary, and a list of qualifications to justify the rank, so that nobody can say “hey, this guy across the hall is doing exactly the same work as me, but I’m paid less, that’s not fair”.

All other things being equal, wouldn’t you rather have a manager or co-worker with a good sense of humor than one without? Therefore, don’t employees with good senses of humor deserve to be paid more than the humorless ones? If Microsoft doesn’t recognize and reward how employee-led humor adds value to their stakeholders, then all the employees with good senses of humor will bolt the company, attracted by the free clown suits that Google offers.
It looks like they really ARE doubling down on WebOS. This is a very bold move, and frankly, I didn't think they had it in them.
Very nice.
I find this funny because Facebook is an opt-in service. Why are people so against the policies people are choosing to be a part of?
Ask HN: Domain Registrar?
Looking for recommendations on a good US domain registrar that isn't Go Daddy. Experiences, anecdotes etc welcomed.
> In the end, Jobs provided a very hypocritical argument

FTFY
Aren't most countries just as bad with govt bureaucracy? Which do you have in mind as way better?
I like the idea. I know this is an MVP, so please take my comments with a grain of salt:

1) I'm not sure I trust your system yet. Can I preview what it might have said to my followers (or strangers!) before activating a filter?

2) Does it respond to strangers or not? Here[1] you say it does, here[2] you say it doesn't.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306887
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306991

3) Can the public see my response page? (/user/qeorge). I'd rather they couldn't, but I would definitely like to keep track of the messages I've sent.

4) Bit.ly analytics integration would be awesome, so I can see what messages are working. Maybe even stop using a response if no one is clicking its link?

Still not sure I would use this, because I don't do enough tweeting to automate it, and it still feels spammy.
So, it finished OK:

http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbjk1/osxundervbox

No hacks either! :-) Had some issues with a dirty disc on the way.. and it totally refused to use an ISO.
It's interesting that many find the English subjunctive hard to parse. I think in a generation or two it will will not be seen in contemporary prose.
"without the responsive UX, battery life, or even a fundamental sense of taste"

Pretty strong words.

I won't be surprised if this guy has not tried the Droid, Droid Incredible, or Nexus One.

He's likely repeating what he reads on Twitter and tech blogs.

I have the Nexus One and for me, it's more responsive than the IPhone 3GS. Oh and I have actually used an IPhone!

Android 2.1's UI is also drastically better than 1.6.

I'm not saying Android is better than the IPhone. It's a matter of personal taste.
While the carbon APIs still ship, they are deprecated in favor of Cocoa. Yes, this is true. This fact does not give the author any traction, however, because neither the Finder nor iTunes is a platform that any significant apps depend on. This makes updating them an entirely different engineering decision compared to allowing middleware to introduce dependencies beyond Apple's control.
It sounds like you're making a pretty decent amount of money if you owe $27k. Have you double-checked those numbers? Do they add up using back of the envelope math? Is that all income tax, or did you forget to pay your SS/medicare/unemployment insurance as well?

Either way, fire your accountant. If you're making < $100k/yr, I would probably go without and learn to file them yourself.

Also, the most surprising thing I've found: the IRS is really nice and helpful. They have an 800 number, and although the wait is long, they will spend as much time with you as you need. Everyone wins when your business succeeds, and so they are there to help.
I just love the design simple and accessible. I am giving you the facebook authorization because I just loved the way your design handles the things. Way to go bro
I would put this in the 'what took them so long' category.
Developing iPhone applications is an opt-in platform. Why are so many people against the policies people are choosing to be a part of?
I'm using godaddy but want to switch. Too cluttered and borders shady.
Rammed through, as in, legally voted for by two legislative bodies and signed by the President, the same way every piece of legislation has ever been since the beginning of the USA?
It wouldn't be that difficult, just a conditional or two for a piece of content that may not be visible to someone. If I remember correctly, they have a dedicated privacy team that works on stuff like this, right?
Visual Tooling Will Make You Go Blind (Command line vs. GUI Hg)
Are Microsoft and HP just pursuing the usual route of annoncing products that they never intended to ship, to try to take some sting out of Apples iPad announcement?

I remember a lot of people talking about how great it would be to run W7 on the HP slate, or how innovative Microsofts courier will be.
NearlyFreeSpeech.net

I recommend them for hosting and domain registration. Everything about them is easy, and suits both competent and novice webmasters.

Plus you get an SSH account at no extra charge.
I think Fox News is pretty much universal. Nobody can lie like they can.
Yes, as a natural skeptic, I didn't even bother to click the link. I know that YouTube doesn't host videos that run for 70 years without stopping, so there is nothing on the other side of this link that will advance my life in any way.
I'd be interested in seeing what the 'militia' response was. True cyber war to break out. I'd imagine that Google, for one, would do some interesting things inresponse go a US cyber attack.
+1 for fixing up the explore page. Make it so that people can see other wishes and pick the ones they want
Oh, I forgot this reply existed.

It isn't. An example of an API that does would be XvMC, which requires parsing and doing large parts of the video decode yourself.

The most you'd have to to use this framework is parse a .mp4 file yourself. Such things are not patented.
I used to work for them. We would recieve a huge list of the millions of trades that the big investment houses did, every single day. They only show a market snapshot, and try to make it impossible to determine what any individual company was doing - that was very important, for obvious reasons.
Yes, but Apple do not have a monopoly in smartphones or computers. Maybe, just maybe you could say they have significant market dominance of mp3 player market, but who cares about that.
United and Continental will combine to form the world's largest carrier
It can never hurt to try out your material on the internet. i'm currently floating at the top of the page with an office one-liner. Sometimes it pays to stick to the classics ^_^
You bought a Mac to run Photoshop and After Effects, instead of just installing Windows on your PC that's running Ubuntu if I understand things right here? Nice.
I'd love to see a list with all the countries ranked on everything you could want to know. I have no idea how to comparison shop right now.
It is amazing to me how many critical aspects of an open democracy are dependent on rules of house/congress/parliament.

This sort of unrelated/obfuscated clause insertion and the 60-vote requirement to defeat a filibuster are two prime examples.

Will there have to be constitutional amendments saying1) bills must be clear and address only one topic, and 2) simple majorities shall always rule, expect in pre-specified cases, and no parliamentary rules shall override simple majority in letter or in spirit.
Part of a message I sent my mother, wherein I went off on a fax machine tangent:

"[ ... ] can we all finally agree that fax machines are a bad idea? I print a digital document from my computer onto a sheet of paper, perhaps scribble something on it, then stick it into this machine that scans it back into a digital document for transmission. It's then sent somewhere else in order to be printed onto a sheet of paper, which is then handed to some minimum-wage drone who has to type all the stuff back into a digital document so that the information can be dealt with and archived on the other end. Seriously. What the hell is up with that?"
Because Facebook is pulling a bait and switch.

The vast majority of users (debatably all, outside of the ones that signed up since this went into effect) signed up for Facebook under the pretenses they had control over their privacy. To varying degrees depending on when they signed up, of course- for instance when I signed up it was (in theory) only shown to users at my school, and I had the option to only allow friends (which of course I have control over).

I agree- for the people signing up from this point forward, they're opting into it and should educate themselves enough to know what they're opting in to (though I would argue they get duped anyway, but such is life and was, for instance, MySpace before). But what about all the current users, that aren't even going to realize that all their data is no longer private and they no longer have control over it?
You're right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence
WTF are you on about? The page doesn't say any of that. They acknowledge that C++ is not perfect but give specific reasons why it's a good fit for this domain: performance, access to cutting edge tech (e.g. GPUs, iPhone, iPad) and access to native OS facilities. The only other language that fits that description is C, and you're damn right that "speed" and "abstraction" do not sum to zero: C++ is C with more abstractive power.
Under subcategory 'who still uses Hotmail?'
> At the same time I don't know why CNN and other American network report junk. Don't they simply report what American public wants to see and hear? Isn't that a commentary on the quality of American viewers? They are in the business of selling the audience to the advertisers.

That's the problem journalism is facing - funding. Maybe more fundamentally, the divide between the social value of journalism and the monetary value.

I think everyone understands the first part of the problem - without money, a lot of journalism just goes away. You can't afford investigations, foreign bureaus, thorough research, etc. Even simple beat reporting gets worse when there aren't enough beat reporters to go around.

What worries me is the relatively unacknowledged second part of the problem: Journalists end up doing MORE of the things that cost less money, or are more profitable, even if they aren't really good journalism. Talking heads, sensationalist stories, reprinted press releases, etc. There's also the more subtle corruption of PR agencies and political operatives that want to "help" journalists "understand" what just happened - even if the journalist is savvy enough to fight back, it still takes time (which is money!) to do that. The less resources the journalist has, the easier they are to manipulate.

The social value of journalism is accurate information. But ever since Craigslist punched a hole in the bottom of the classifieds market and let out all the profit, journalists can only make MONEY by getting a lot of eyeballs in a short time. And everyone who's compared Reddit with HN knows what happens when information delivery turns into a short-term popularity contest for the public at large.
It's going to be very interesting to see how Adobe handles Flash on all these different platforms. There's a lot to consider: Various screen resolutions, CPU/GPU speeds, memory capacities, browsers, touch vs. non-touch devices, etc. This covers about half a dozen major platforms and probably hundreds of different handset models. It seems like a monumental task to take on. Can they keep up with frequent platform updates?
windows is not a fine replacement for either :)

in fact i run ubuntu on a mac mini (in addition to lots of generic pc hardware). i like mac hardware. some of it is overpriced, but some of it is fine.
Only Working When You Feel Like It?
Others have already pointed out the N900.

On a more historical note, mobile Flash did exist in 2007. I was using it to watch Youtube on my Nokia N800. It was slow -- the device didn't have enough CPU power to simultaneously download and playback, so you had to pause the video and let it cache completely first. But it most definitely did exist, and I am convinced that implementation would have worked well on 2009 hardware. The N800 wasn't exactly a breakthrough device, nor was it super popular. Yet Adobe somehow managed to deliver for Nokia.

The N800 was introduced in early 2007. Its predecessor, the 770, was introduced in late 2005, with Flash out of the box. I never owned one so I cannot comment on the performance.

I would also challenge your statements regarding Apple delivering HTML video for mobile devices -- mostly the HTML years ago part. Also, H.264, which Apple is pushing, is by no means an open standard, which some of their competitors have issues with.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3590/text?version=enr&...

The first blockquote from Thomson-Reuters Ria refers to the reconciliation bill section that I linked to via OpenCongress. For tax purposes, RIA is a very good source and is certainly independent. Unfortunately, it appears like you can't read the report for free. However, reading the bill text it does look like the they are saying 1099's are no longer for wages alone.

(Bias note: I once worked for Cato.)
That depends on the locality and given the spate of e-signature legislation in the early 2000s, I would say that's no longer true for the majority of U.S. states. I can't speak for Canada.

I can say on good authority, as I paid lawyers good money for the legislation ( http://tinyurl.com/3xwvf5a ) and pertinent case-law research, that (commercially) emails with e-sigs in VA are just as good, in some cases, MUCH better than faxes due to the header meta-information.

What constitutes an "e-sig" under the Commercial Code of Virginia can also be very simple (nothing more than a "/s/ <full name> <title> <date>" line in documents) provided that both parties agree apriori that "sufficient notice" can be given over email.

Given the pace of business these days, to a first-order approximation, we simply won't do any kind of volume work with a client, vendor, or partner that doesn't support electronic document authorization. Faxes really are dinosaurs. We still maintain a dedicated fax line, but to my knowledge, it's not be utilized for over 4 years.
A sales tax doesn't have to be regressive. If you tax luxury items while not taxing essentials you'd probably get an even more progressive system than we have now.
thanks! and I'm not a bro, but I appreciate the sentiment! :D