skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my thought too. If I buy a car, do I have to send the dealership a 1099? Worse yet, if I spend $601 on gas at the same gas station in $30 chunks, do I have to keep track of the receipts at the end of the year and send them a 1099? What if it's at three different gas stations all owned by the same company. How do I know? Ask for their EIN every time I pay? This would be a complete disaster. Surely this isn't what the bill actually requires?
While CNN is abysmal most of the time, I do have to question the site's use of the Chinese media as a comparison point.

I like the idea of criticizing our media, but let's not allow superficial headline pages determine that an outlet is good.

Sure, China Daily might have a headline about a bombing in Afghanistan while CNN is reporting on American Idol, but China's media is terrible on so many fundamental levels.
Ok - step by step then. What's wrong with faxes:

- dealing with attachments (no high quality images via fax)

- attachment filetype (speed negotiation)

- clean paper underflowing

- fax machine runs out of memory and rejects a too large fax without confirmation on the other side

- phone line administration

- takes a phone line / number

- spam (also exists via fax)

- spam false positives (if you have enough people in the office, someone will file your message into the bin by accident one day)

- if you really really care, you can actually call the recipient of your email, which will work the same way the fax does

- recipient must print the fax even if it's spam, one sentence, or something that has to be typed in again and forwarded by email

Both emails and faxes "just work" most of the time. They're really quite similar after all.
Perhaps I was a bit too terse, but I was essentially making the same point as you. You and I are in violent agreement. I'm not at all surprised courier isn't going anywhere. The leaks were all about trying to assure pundits and tech decision makers that Microsoft is "on the job" so just waits little for their solution. The tech press dutifully lapped up the story. Whether or not anyone actually believes it is another matter.
How will this be different from StumbleUpon?
Could we maybe have a less partisan analysis? I mean, FTA (no joke):

For what purpose? So the spendthrift Congress can shake a few extra bucks out of private industry? The business sector is the generator of America’s high living standards, but most federal legislators just see it as a kitty to be raided or a cow to be milked dry.
There was another post on hn a while back where some investor justified charging a fee. basically he said you can either be flooded with applications and not have enough time to give each applicant a thorough evaluation, or charge a fee guarantee them their proposal is evaluated properly.

I thought it was a good point. But I guess it depends on how easy it is for a good idea to be found amongst all the noise.
I work for a company that does a large volume of business with small, independent trucking companies. This requires sending load confirmation and bill of lading documents that they must have with them in the truck.

Many of these barely have a working fax machine, much less email. We email documents directly whenever we can, and have abstracted faxing away using a print-to-fax server, and incoming faxes to emails.
Things have changed quite a bit in the past few years; I would estimate we have close to 50% email adoption among independent truckers. Even still, our systems send hundreds of faxes a day at peak time.
What is truly missing is: "Opt me out of all open graph APIs - make me invisible"
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All I can think of right now is the Chinese room thought problem for artificial intelligence.

Even if you make people laugh following these guidelines to the letter, would you have a sense of humor?
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Its an brilliant model if it works. See 10 companies, put 15k into one of them. Basically investing for free!
This nails exactly what wrong with the tax system. In the history of civilization, the ebb and flow of empires has always consisted of tax disputes wedging factions into alliances who fight for more control. Taxes cause this process! It doesn't matter what the tax is, who pays, or who is paid, just that there's all this extra drain on the natural activity of flowing capital.

The logic is Microecon 101: Taxes are the equivalent to the a transaction+holding cost of using Uncle Sam's currency. Use gold, well,
then you're paying to store and transport it. If Uncle Sam was smart about his paper, he would make the Federal Reserve into Federal PayPal, having the Federal Gov't charge, oh say, a 0.001% transaction fee on any exchange of US currency. Same difference, amirite?
Because scanner innovation has sucked.
Spot on. When was the last time you felt represented?
The value-prop isn't different. Stumbleupon has verified a market, but IMO they've failed to grow it to its full potential (along with google reader and netnewswire). They've stagnated. They're failing to provide the most personalized experience possible.

The readwarp solution is different from stumbleUpon. More textual analysis, more tight UI research, more integration with current recommendation sources like twitter and facebook. Less reliance on following random users based on a few links.

I'm going after stumbleUpon. But this prototype isn't there yet.
You could try thumb superimposed on a star to give thumbs-up + bookmark.
The point here is that service providers (lawyers, etc...) have money and will profit from connections with entrepreneurs. The startups are trying to raise money so charging them for the privilege is wrong. The organizers of these conferences that charge are exploiting people who desperately want to fulfil their dreams.
IIRC in his Mixergy interview Aaron Wall suggested Calacanis could be doing this simply to rake in "crusader" points because those will come in real handy should Google or anyone else try to step on Jason's controversial business.

In other words it's very handy to be wrapped into a flag, especially when it doesn't cost you all that much.
From the FAQ:

>First, when it comes to power and performance, C++ is still the language to beat.

Oh really?
Yeah, it looks like him: http://github.com/kevinrose
haha you know I get that feedback almost daily, but then people stick it out and thank me later for making them get all 101. I'm open to making the number smaller it people get -really- turned off by it, but for now I think it's kind of fun! And hopefully once I fix up the Explore page, coming up with 101 won't be as difficult!
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Hopefully this means Apple and AdMob will finally have to send me a 1099 for my iPhone app payments. I'm really sick of gathering the numbers by hand, reporting them as individual income, and then praying I don't get audited and have to provide copies of... CSV files from iTunes Connect that aren't even in local currencies?
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It's really strange to see the articles that are getting 200, 300, or even 600 points, considering just a short time back, 100 points was remarkable. I'd be curious to see how many users we have who vote on a daily basis -- just to see if there was a sudden influx in the last few months.
How so? This provision requires the reporting of a payment; it doesn't say anything about the instrument(s) used to make that payment.
I -completely- agree. Unfortunately building an API is slightly out of my technical skill set, but it's very high on my list of things to do! If you have any tips for how to go about developing one, I'm all ears (err...eyes?)!
1. a benefit of web standards is to developers/content producers. You can deliver 1 piece of content, warm and fuzzy in the knowledge that anyone can view it and get a reasonably similar representation (eg, lynx vs iphone vs firefox vs ie)

2. a benefit to consumers that you can view content from the command line, a GUI, a desktop, a laptop, a mobile device. It's not about a given consumer switching, although it's nice that they can, it's about entire segments of the interweb using public having different platforms.

3. there is plenty of room for innovation and differentiation in areas other than how the html is rendered.

I'm not surprised to see fragmentation occurring in the market though -- there's been a period of consolidation and now it looks like a period of diversification.
especially considering all they could do with the empty time. remember the news hour? does a show like that exist anymore?
Hasn't this been done with WhatsApp for iPhone and BB? Or am I missing something here?
>But this prototype isn't there yet.

Ah, of course. I just wanted to see what you'd say in response. (-:
Not to mention all the start-up related events in Tokyo.

I don't enjoy the hard-sell BS, and some of the projects are awful (the Todai professor who shocked us at Tokyo 2.0 once with "Pop in" advertisements in 2009), but there are always interesting characters trying new things.
Only if it's a company car.

And, yeah, this would get into quite a mess. If your company was large enough and paying for the gas, they'd pretty much have make you use a card that would allow them to consolidate the payments with all the other company cars to know if they have to send 1099s.
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As an entrepreneur who can start his business in many countries around the world, I'm wondering why on earth, literally, I would want to start another one in the U.S.

I don't go into business to fill out paperwork and keep track of ridiculous crap like this. I go into business to generate revenue and make the lives of my customers and others around me better. This kind of law makes my life worse. Perhaps they want fewer businesses to compete with their big corporate donors.

This year, on the IRS tax form, where it says, "I attest under penalty of law that this information is true and correct [or whatever]." Well.. I can't actually sign that because it's impossible for me to know what I can deduct, what I can't, what I should report, etc... If the IRS wants my money, let them come and get it. I just refuse to put up with this crap anymore. It's absurd.

This is why civilizations crumble.
The real WTF is... why can't mail die?

I'm not objecting to packages, etc. But why do people still send me letters? If the IRS, employers, clients, etc., moved to fax I'd be happy. Fax has been around for 30-40 years and for some reason I keep mailing letters to people.
After I became aware that it was a highly secret prototype or before?

Before I would leave word at the bar, on the theory you would backtrack.

After I became aware it was a highly sought after prototype I'd extend that to the local police and I'd try to contact HTC but probably fail because they don't want Joe Consumer calling them.
I'm quite fond of "I hope your head falls off"

(origin: http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/blog/2008/05/30/the-letter...)
If you want to consume less and work a shorter work week, then do it. Save money and buy store brands rather than advertised brands, don't buy as much, etc.
It looks more like someone having a bit of fun with global find and replace and a picture they found on the internet of Kevin.
What I mean is that in most cases, corporations do not have to receive a 1099-MISC from you, no matter how much you pay them. see http://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1099msc/ar02.html
"The world will continue getting dumber."

on same topic: recommend you see the movie Idiocracy
There were also related exactions like forcing people to continue the carrer of their father, because of course that type of job was heavily taxed.

This is also thought to be the start of European feudalism. As things broke down and Rome's ability to enforce its will waned, becoming the vassal of a local boss was a way to escape this mess.
Extension of that... why can't I have a permanent address?

Why can't I have something that, when provided to USPS, FedEx, UPS, whatever, resolves to wherever I'm currently living? Every time I move I have to change a million different addresses with a million different people, invariably forgetting some along the way.

My email address never changes - why can't my physical address be like it.
Then why do nearly none of them do it? Probably because they can't judge when they will stutter and lag - so many layers of web indirection.
The fact is, most web apps only a mother could love. The rest of us are sitting stunned and silent when someone shows off their latest "jewel" which stutters, lags, has buttons that don't react when pressed, takes 3-5 seconds to put up/take down a dialog based on a server database query...
Maybe it's intended as a subsidy for the Postal Service.
The author of that page is obviously a "Level 4: Expert" in humor.
I think this was based on Inkskein, which is not vaporware. I don't see why such a thing isn't possible. The iPad could support such an interface. Just divide the screen in two in landscape. This is what I'd want Evernote to become.
They have the right to control their platform. We as consumers can decide to buy or not to buy those products.
Jason Calcanis is rude to someone he doesn't like. In other news, the sun rose today.
Looks nice- more cross platform batteries for C++. I'm sort of sad they don't support Linux though.
$1500 seems like a lot to charge to filter an application. Let's say it takes an hour to read one application (which seems high to me on average, I suspect the bad ones only take a few minutes to weed out), that's a pretty steep rate!
Is <canvas> part of an accepted W3C standard? I know its in the HTML5 draft, but I didn't think it was yet a standard.

The license he quoted says Apple would provide a royalty-free patent once <canvas> becomes part of an official W3C recommendation. I believe its at least done that, so perhaps this is moot?
Fortunately, as a nerd, I am immune to their ministrations.
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Free == dead?
The format does make sense. Let someone like Arianna Huffington or the Memeorandum people curate CNN.
If, walking down the street, I found the keys to a Porsche 911, picked them up, and sold them to someone I knew would later steal the car, all I'd be is a car thief. It takes creative stupidity to do the amount of damage these guys did with their crime.
What are the penalties of non-compliance? If you just don't bother with the 1099's, what happens? Fines? More taxes? That's really what we need to know. If there are no penalties, there is no law.
At a certain point, if you execute so much better than the competition and set yourself up differently (controlling and innovating in hardware too) and you maintain total control of your platform, you can dominate in the market to such an extent that you have a virtual monopoly.
This should have been tagged [NSFW], to avoid problems for those of us who work in restrictive environments.
Similarly, if you get selected for the DEMO conference, the price is 18.5K

http://demo.com/launch/whylaunch.html
Good call, and done. :)
Apple's method (re: iPhone/iPad) seems to be to design software that doesn't invite learning

Could you clarify this, perhaps by comparison to something else? Everything in my experience strongly supports the notion that Apple's general approach leads to much greater levels of competency and independence than anything else out there right now.
Do you like giving hand jobs? Do you like getting hand jobs?

That makes you a hypocrite too.
I can't tell you how many times that I was at work and did the oold python + command/enter!! :O
It even sounded like they are dropping flash on Apple. They probably meant for Apple Mobile Devices, but who knows?

If they really meant dropping Apple completely, IMO that is a bad idea, time will tell.
It's not really the long term future that I find alarming, it's the near-term transitions. It seems like globally we're finally bumping up against a load of fixed environmental, resource and population buffers almost all at once. Bumpy road ahead, possibly.
"This can get sloppy."

Indeed it can. I am a fan of flow-js however. It has really helped me to avoid getting sloppy in Node.js.

http://github.com/willconant/flow-js
Goodness. Today I was surfing CNN.com and it had my friend's updates embedded into the sidebar. I was like, WTF? Seriously Facebook?
I started watching Al Jazeera a few years back because they were the only news network with a live web broadcast ( http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/# ) when I didn't have cable. I pretty much fell in love with it for everything the article points out.

Great journalism, and journalists every where, actual journalists instead of celebrity talking heads. Debates are two people debating instead of yelling. They also don't have that Fox/CNN approach of going out of their way to portray both sides of every story as equal.

The documentaries are top notch too.

I wish I had more to add to the article, other than to say that I hope it does make good inroads to NA without changing.
Seller of iPhone prototype identified
In some places - but not everywhere.

Fax is still immensely important when dealing with credit applications, leases, etc.

Also in many places documents you print with an inkjet printer are not technically legal.

The laws regarding the technologies are mostly really dumb but that is what you usually get when law and technology meet.
And that's the point.

The limited information mostly points to a person under extreme duress and clearly offended by his management. How is it not a personal attack to conjecture in public about mental illness? Because it's apparently unintended as a personal attack? Hmmm, I'll just swing this club around in a crowded room, hope I don't accidentally hit someone.

In these circumstances questioning mental stability essentially questions a persons entire ability to reason and reasonably rationalize.

Is it that under duress and in a perfect storm of personality conflict, someone must be mentally ill to break down or behave in a way that appears irrational? I guess it could be, and damn, if someone doesn't agree with me, that's a pretty good sign too ;-)
It simply comes down to convenience. It may not be technically illegal to make cash payments for services or goods, but this would mean that you have to track all such payments and who the payee was, in case you paid more than $600 to a given entity. At which point there's enough paperwork already that cutting a check, or authorizing a funds transfer is easier.

So while it wouldn't necessarily make cash transactions illegal, it would make them stand out more and be scrutinized more carefully.
Adobe is basically saying that Flash will be available on competitor's phones and the market will decide; which is exactly the right response. I wish most tech bloggers would take this view and just shut up with the endless "analysis" of Flash and Apple. Flamewars don't decide anything, the market does.
Holier than Adobe - this is not a very high bar!
You'll need way more karma points before you can become dictator.
I think it's pretty average. Some are better. Some are worse. The USA PATRIOT act wasn't even available to read, even for the Congressmen themselves, before the voting.
The balloon driver, as others have pointed out, is used in an overcommit scenario as a way for the hypervisor to reclaim memory from a guest OS. There's a balloon driver loaded in to the guest which can communicate with the hypervisor. When the hypervisor needs more physical memory, it can ask a guest's balloon driver to inflate and start allocating physical memory pages. That will cause the guest to start reclaiming unused memory using it's native techniques; a Linux guest, for example, might destroy unused file buffer caches. The balloon driver can then release all the memory it's allocated and the guest won't bother reclaiming anything until it needs it.
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Sure, but it's hard for a novice to recognise if this is an HTC model they don't recognise or a prototype.

Since Apple only has 3 models identifying an Apple phone which is not one of those models is much easier and strongly suggests it's a prototype particularly since Apple is based near the bar in question.

HTC isn't they are based in Taiwan (which most people on the street probably wouldn't know).
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Yeah this was a clearly worded and classy response, definitely better than I expected.
Does this sentence make zero sense to anyone else?

We feel confident that were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
What do you find controversial about that statement?

You can certainly argue over which languages are most powerful, but there's really only one other general purpose language that rivals C++ in terms of performance and that's C. C++ being nearly a strict superset of C is almost by definition more powerful.
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Are you kidding?

There response was brilliant, and it is right on the money. Steve Jobs arguments are contradictory and largely asinine, and they aren't worth retort. Adobe has essentially wiped their hands and said "Whatever, troll" which is truly brilliant.

Jobs must be seething.
Yes. The realization of this fact drives some of us to become anarchists.
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mouse hovering will be funny on these platforms.
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You would have had me if you didn't do this:

> Replace Flash with closed, as a catchall for Apple's myriad of closed technology

That turns an otherwise well-put argument into an unfair comparison. Swap "Adobe Flash" with "Apple iPhone" and your point works, with less bias.
It parses okay for me, though a comma between "work together" and "as we are" might help.

"If Apple worked with us, as a number of other partners do, we could provide..."
I makes total sense. Shall I reword it slightly for you?

Were Apple and Adobe to work together, as we are with a number of other partners, we feel confident that we could provide a terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
This is going to be interesting, because if they do manage to put flash and Air on a broad range of other platforms then we will see Jobs's assertion about cross platform frameworks slowing down progress be put to the test.
4) Would probably be considered publishing trade secrets which is a felony.
Hmmm. Fusion. Even if sustainable ignition is made to work, and a perfectly functioning fusion reactor can be built - it's still completely unknown if it can be used as a useful power station:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fusions-fal...

Anyone interested in fusion power really ought to read that article. The main thrust of the article is: a) even if you build the reactor, how do you capture the energy - which is mostly emitted in the form of neutrons - and b) where are you going to get the tritium from. Currently the answer to both questions is 'don't know'.
Always with the mouse hover. You know that the DOM/HTML(5) includes mouse hover, right? I guess the web just doesn't work.
Ugh. Their.
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Maybe it's working :)
I launched this website today. Wappalyzer started out as a simple Firefox add-on that detects software used on websites, later I decided to keep track of these applications and make the statistics publicly available. Feedback is more then welcome.
I've heard discussion that it wouldn't be publishing trade secrets since the phone was left (albeit inadvertantly) in a public place.