skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great idea! I am curious how you are able to sustain the server fees by just charging one off fees.

My thought is that your server have to continuously check for tweets from user timeline and send any mentions to their email everyday / 2-day/ week. There is a daily cost for each user and it will only increase as more user uses your service.
The US litterally labels Iran a terrorist state. They are on the state sponsors of terrorism list.
No, Stripe doesn't support this unfortunately. Pin does though (an Australian Stripe competitor).
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/23/the-new-national-debate-is-i...

Spencer is a white-supremacist shitbag, yes. His ideology, however, is very different from Hitler's, and he has never publicly advocated violence.

Again, my scenario is not hypothetical. See http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/oppose-terror-youre-a-nazi/

">The context you are referring to has repeatedly born out that American law allows private citizens to say or express anything, no matter how hateful, as long as it's not an incitement to violence nor slanders a specific party.

This is still very ambiguous. There are MANY situations where the above statement is not true."

Show me one.
> One would think that the married filing jointly tax rates would simply be double what the individual rates were, right?

Certainly not, why would I expect that? That's mean that if there's a family of two paying individual rates, they pay X% of the income, but if they file MFJ, they pay 2X% of the same income, or twice as much. How would it make sense?

> The joint rates were about 1.8x the individual rates.

Do you mean the tax brackets and not rates?

> Someone was 100%, someone was 80%.

That is a weird conclusion - why not each one 90%, or one 110% and one 80%, or one 180% and one 0%? Having MFJ rate does not imply any distribution of income, not that I can see it at least.

> This being 1948, the woman in the dual income family was 80%

What you mean "was"? Do you mean average married woman's income was 80% of average man's income in 1948? Maybe (I have no idea, didn't check) but what this has to do with tax rates? If it was so, it was certainly not because of the tax rates.

> Married filing jointly is silly

No it's not. The fact is our society is organized around families. It's not everybody, but mostly that is how it works (and MFJ is optional of course, so if you don't like the model, you can stay away from it). Taxing family - or household - as one unit makes a lot of sense, because that's how the actual households commonly work, the income and the expenses are shared. Just as taxing a company as a unit makes sense, instead of taxing each employee's production individually, so does it make sense for a household.

> It should be a sum of the family income, divided by two, then mapped to the individual rates.

That's another question. Maybe specific tax brackets need to be adjusted, maybe not - at least this link suggests that MFJ has actually lower brackets (and thus higher taxes) than two individual incomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_penalty

But: all that explanation failed to show where does it say "women make no money". It is true that in 1948 a lot of women did not make any money as employees, and instead were providing services to their families which weren't remunerated monetarily, but I see how having (optionally) the household as taxpaying unit implies "women make no money". It still makes no sense to me.
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Don't tell that to my Vim- and Sublime-loving coworkers...they'll look at you like you're some idiot who must not be able to program very well.
Schizoid people essentially don't feel anneed for social anything and don't feel emotions. They're usually not diagnosed because you can function just fine. Most schizoids I know function alright except they're bothered by the need to fake social norms for others.
People in Russia have memories of living on very little. Sure, the state provided you with essential sustenance but that was it. Russians throughout history are pretty used to having very little --having nothing is really nothing new to them, it'd be a return to what they know --which is probably one of the reasons sanctions don't work with Russia, what's tightening the belt one more time when you're used to living lean.
I don't read code just to learn in general, but I read it to find specific undocumented details or to figure out how someone solved a particular problem. Of course, you've got to read a ton of code if you're working in a large project.

It is a great way to find new ways of doing things, and to gain experience-based opinions, but I certainly wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have a very specific goal in mind.
I've had a Facebook account for 9 years now. When I first joined all my friends were on there if you wanted to go out for drinks you'd create an event. Party this weekend? Create an event.

Sometime around when I turned 30 people just stopped posting anything. Nowadays my feed is people I once knew in high school posting photos of their kids and my teenage cousin posting memes.

I can go weeks without checking the feed and miss nothing. I'm not going to shut down my account, a huge part of my 20's are stored there (holiday photos from multiple overseas trips etc) but I'm a very infrequent user nowadays.
> The only way around it is to shadow-ban: - Send blackholed orders to an approval page. - Send blackholed orders an approval email. Train your customer service to know which orders were banned, which weren't.

I wonder if this is why a friend of mine had to call in over and over about an order that kept disappearing.

That or the company really didn't want to fulfill their black friday sales.
About three quarters of a million people die each year just from HAI's... never mind all of the other problems, pain, expense, and poor outcomes. Lawyers do a lot of harm, but doctors are have unique access, and it would seem, shitty hygiene.
Set up your Linux laptop's filesystems to use LVM and LUKS encryption, and just encrypt the whole darn thing. Works with hybernation, too. Here's Slackware's simple guide: http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/README...

If you want to be super paranoid, add a keychain usb stick as a required key to decrypt the filesystem so you get 2-factor authentication.
I mean, that basically happened.

Agriculture was 83% of US employment in 1800

Now it's 2%

It just happened that most found other jobs over the slow 60 years it took to drop from 80-50%. Questionable how quickly people will adapt now.

[1] http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=11&...
No no, an "EMP bomb".
In general, I'd say no. Make a note of the actual title, and contact a mod to update it (via the Contact link in the footer).
I do. With them, I buy civilization.
I'd love some citations for that claim.
American chestnut poised for return to America's forests
Why? They are just examples I made off the top of my head.
Amazon does aggressively monitor and shut down accounts that store pirated content, but I've yet to hear any reports of Amazon cracking down on the amount of storage used.

There are plenty of people who are storing absurd amounts of data [1]. If Amazon were cracking down on this, you'd hear it in /r/DataHoarder first.

The ToS [2] don't mention any size limitations. In fact, it says you can store pretty much any file as long as the data doesn't violate any laws, including copyright.

The only really worrying part is this:

3.2 Usage Restrictions and Limits. The Services are offered
in the United States. We may restrict access from
other locations. There may be limits on the types of
content you can store and share using the Services,
such as file types we do not support, and on the
number or type of devices you can use to access the
Services. We may impose other restrictions on use
of the Services.

[1] E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/54bci8/anyone_..., https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3zhowv/amazon_...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
Clicking on the news url should open in new browser tap window
tired of clicking on the yc news, and then opening it up at same browser window, then need to press back button to come back to YC news. is it possible to by default open news url in new browser tab ?
They do that for reasons that have nothing to do with not paying their taxes... still, if you need an even ore obvious example...
http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/tax-evasion-cost/
> So at the end of the day it doesn't matter if you provide something to TurboTax and they forward to IRS, or IRS will have it directly from you by adding this information to your online tax form on Gov site.

Ah, in this scenario it indeed wouldn't matter - but this scenario means that there's a government-run clone of TurboTax. I doubt the government will do better job and be cheaper than Intuit, which have a lot of experience and knowledge in doing this.
NK propaganda on HN? I'm impressed by the scope of their efforts.
A counter viewpoint - maybe the system has to be complicated to provide all the various incentives that voters want taxes to do, and to patch all the loopholes that would otherwise be open. Maybe such a system is too complicated for a lay person to understand so they delegate the understanding to private enterprises which can compete to provide the cheapest or easiest interface to the complicated system. If it wasn't the taxpayers paying for the complexity directly, it would be the government which would charge everyone via those same taxes to implement their own clunky government computer system that people would hate even more.

Countries with simple tax rules don't get to micromanage their economy so much.
Most novelists are bad. Most devs are bad. No one seems to know how to tell they are a bad one, but I think we have a good filter: do you voraciously read other people's work?

Code in books is dumb. The real code to read is other code you use or interact with. eg reading the jquery source or the Rails source or code reviewing a colleague.

Almost always one does this while answering a question about this source. Trying to understand what a library call is doing or tracing a bug.

You learn a lot this way including coding tricks and style points.
At the top of https://github.com/darius/code-canon I collected a list of other places people have answered this quesion. (The rest of the page is mostly a list of books with worthwhile code, because I'd already written it and because it's harder to think of code outside of books that I can recommend as easily.)
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How about if I'm already at the store? I can't check then. Things happen, and I don't always plan ahead with groceries. I feel like this shouldn't be a difficult concept...

And no, I'm not willing to buy into the IoT. Your talking about two different things. I'd love that on my network. Where I can control everything and use APIs to check myself. I'd never install something that had to go to the public internet.

I appreciate your condescension, but just because you don't have a use for something, or can't see how it can be done safely and well, doesn't mean nobody does.
Bullshit, I have been to a public Chinese hospital and all I got before paying was a tech hooking me up to an EKG to verify I wasn't actively having a heart attack.

Before I could see a doctor, I had to pay cash. I had to pay again to do the blood tests ordered by the doctor.
I really like Unicorn[1]. It's a very well-architected webserver with a nicely structured codebase. Reading the code has taught me about some neat tricks, e.g. self-pipe trick, and a lot about `fork`.

Additionally, I've on occasion consulted the Linux kernel and PostgreSQL repos. Would recommend, although I'm definitely either lying or very ignorant if I said I was familiar with them.

1: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn
> It's very hard for me to imagine how a company can have a large number of customers, each with 1TB of highly redundant data with high service uptime and immediate support, for $12/month.

Some of them (I remember Tarsnap's page about this) outsource the storage itself to AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

$12 per TB per month would give a slight profit margin on the S3 Standard - Infrequent Access class (currently, a profit of about $2.20 per TB per month) and a significant profit margin on Glacier (about $10.90), with an appreciable loss (about $6.50) if the average customer block exceeded the Infrequent Access restrictions. It might be possible to make the client optimize accesses in some way that makes it less likely that many blocks will exceed Infrequent Access rules, and maybe even to try to keep the typical block in Glacier instead?

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#sia_anchor

It seems like an interesting challenge. (Yes, support and administrative costs need to come out of that profit margin.)

Also, Amazon apparently offers "lifecycle policies" to try to do this automatically instead of explicitly. It seems like those policies try to migrate blocks into a cheaper tier that assumes less frequent access if the blocks have not, in fact, been accessed on a certain schedule. A cloud storage vendor using AWS as its backend could then try to optimize manually at the per-user level, or just let AWS do it itself empirically, which wouldn't save quite as much money as correct guesses about what particular users will do with particular data, but would require minimal engineering effort on the vendor's part.

Edit: It seems like it will be hard to compete with the AWS/S3 backend for this kind of service! Now I wonder if there are providers who are known not to use S3.
A few weeks ago, I spent some time in reading O'Reilly's Beautiful Code (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510046.do). The book is essentially a collection of essays from various programmers describing what they think of as beautiful code.

I particularly liked Brian Kernighan's description and implementation of a regex matcher, and Travis Oliphant's discourse about multidimensional iterators in NumPy.

Worth a read.
I've been told by several people that they look to Flask as well written, well designed code that everyone can learn from.
It's amazing that this is still highly debatable in our industry. Always write to make debugging easier. Always. There's so many people that worship cleverness over readability.
It's a little strange and seemingly lacking in self awareness that you say don't take medical advice online but then explain things about why the foot pain is the way it is, and what to do about it, in great detail.
Yeah, a couple of wars for one thing, but not fixing dams, that's for sure.
The IRS mostly just trusts what you tell them for a lot of stuff (like charitable donation amounts). This is why audits are a thing.
> what evidence do we have to believe that we haven't made some of the same mistakes in classifying pseudoscience in the present?

None. I just think that when we suspect something might be pseudoscientific, we ought to read and study it really carefully, explore the arguments, and discredit it by formulating and publicizing well-reasoned counterarguments. And since the demographics that traditionally practice this sort of thing have some gaping blindspots, we ought to be actively recruiting a broader set of perspectives into this pursuit, so that we can generate more good ideas and discredit more of the bad ones.

We don't need to throw out science to deal with bad ideas put forth by scientists. Science itself has the mechanisms for this. We just need to do it better.

Not scream at the author's speaking engagements until he leaves the room.

To be clear, the side I'm on is the liberal/academic/technocratic orthodoxy, where smart people engage seriously with ideas, arguments, and data (including devil's-advocating positions they don't agree with) to discover the truth, and formulate policy prescriptions based on the truth, i.e. what's romanticized on The West Wing. I do believe in reality's well-known liberal bias and on most policy questions I am pretty much indistinguishable from an "SJW." As far as getting to those policy positions, though, it was clear I would not have been welcome in my campus's left-leaning political scene.
I am in India and tax filing here is as simple as 1 2 3. We have the Form16, which has the data to be entered in an excel sheet that you can download from the govt website, punch in the numbers and voilà, they tell you tax you owe! Pay via net banking and you are done.
That's a good blog indeed. Markdown led me there ages ago, and I've been a regular since. BTW, probably the word you were looking for is systemic, not systematic.
Fake news from a right-wing propagandist. Discrimination at the border did not exist before Jan 20 2017.
I'm sure this will get a few down votes, for this beautiful poem. (The real problem is the last line, but this isn't an economics forum...)

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Taxation is theft,
and Inflation is too.
> This stuff about "reading code" is basically bullshit and nobody does it.

Some guy says in an interview it's bullshit, so it is?

You never read other people's code? Not when the documentation's lacking? Not when the documentation's fine, for a framework say, but you need to see an example of how it's actually used in the context of a real application?
You were forced to immigrate to this country?! Otherwise... the "force" part here is more like, "I was forced to pay for the meal I decided to eat at the restaurant! How dare they!"

Don't like it? Don't eat.
> What do you want to help them with, precisely?

Primarily ensuring license compliance, but also things like trademarks or patents as needed. Really, whatever moves the broader cause of Free/Open Source Software forward.

> Actually, watching and participating in the politics of GCC did that long before i ever joined google :P.

Fair point. :|

Thanks for taking the time to address my thoughts and concerns. It truly is appreciated.
> you can file it for free online if you make under a certain amount.

Plus, tons of third-parties will file returns for free, even ones more complicated than 1040ez.
> This is not a remote system

For you. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be for everybody else.

> What... is the benefit of any of this?

Has that not already been made clear? People have listed useful examples that you are ignoring
Traction [1] is the book I can unreservedly recommend as it both lays out more channels than you were probably aware of, it also has a nice crisp framework for trying a few at a time and folding that knowledge back into your operations.

It's also very applicable for people where we're at (fellow one person SAAS founder here), which many other marketing books are decidedly not. This is important as now is not the time to be worrying about the proper branding position of your superbowl ad, etc.

One last thing: there have a Slideshare[2] that moves through most of the book content which is a great resource as well.

1 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TY3ZOMS/

2 - https://www.slideshare.net/jwmares/traction-trumps-everythin...
One could argue that by subsidizing home ownership you redistribute profit from people that rent out housing to those that would have been renting that housing.
From Appendix A of 800-63B:

"Research has shown, however, that users respond in very predictable ways to the requirements imposed by composition rules."

I'm not disputing this statement, but there is no reference to the supporting research either. I get that this isn't an academic paper, but I'd be curious to see the research they're referring to nonetheless. Does anyone here happen to know what they may have relied on for that claim?
Me too, I intentionally don't undertake the tax saving procedures, let them take an extra $$ it will help in Nation building (hopefully).
Ask HN: Is no management training at a large startup normal?
I've asked for management training before and been turned down with statements that the best way to train up a manager is trial by fire / on the job training, rather than formal management training. Is this normal at large startups (300+ employees)?
Do you really not understand the difference between a noun and a verb?
Agreed. This idea that we have an issue with misinformation is ridiculous. The problem isn't the signal to noise ratio, it's learning how to find the signal in the noise.
Alphabet’s Moonshot Projects Are Starting to Crater – Fortune.com
TensorFlow stripped naked: the bare bottom examples
Yes, and by the same logic, subsidizing buying Apple shares redistributes profit from people that make iPhones to people that buy them. Why don't we do that instead?
Agreed. I've tried nearly a dozen readers (online) during the frenzied Google Reader shutdown frenzy. Felt like the smoothest transition, fullest feature set and fairly straightforward. To the point that I've been a paid subscriber since the moment I chose it as my RSS solution.
Thanks a lot for the response, it's nice to hear from you and it sounds like you've done a lot to improve, just from the numbers.

> I think perhaps you might mean 2015 instead of 2016.

Looking back, yeah, you're right. Sorry about that.

> If I've found the correct case, we did at least suspend billing when the issue started and eventually issued a full refund.

Yep, that sounds like me.

> If for some reason you would ever like to try SpiderOak again on me, you're welcome to contact me directly, or write to support@spideroak.com where these days we do a pretty good job of taking care of everyone.

I've downloaded the latest client and I'm running it on OS X right now. There doesn't appear to be any change. The client just sits for long stretches of time doing absolutely nothing, just like it used to (no disk activity, no CPU, no network activity). The UI shows a bunch of pending "actions" which the logs show the server has already confirmed. I'll gather some more details and email you the results tomorrow at some point.

EDIT: I've tested with a dedicated server with a gigabit Hurricane Electric pipe (notably, HE peers with WANSecurity, the AS that announces SpiderOak's IPs) and I'm able to get 80Mb/s. On my 30Mbit Comcast connection at home, I'm able to get around half speed (though I'm able to saturate it to other services). I've emailed you more details but this is more for the benefit of others.

While I'd prefer the ability to saturate my pipe completely, this is good enough that it's no longer a huge problem for me.
Jquery source is great, how i learned a lot of javascript. Not a rubyist but I'm sure the RoR source is good too!
Lobbying only works because voters don't care about what they're voting for. You can always vote against the candidates who were lobbied into doing something you don't like, or lobbied at all. But the majority of voters can't do that - they insist on voting for the candidates with the most expensive advertising and forget about where that money comes from.
Why would anyone build a data center to host tax software?

This is almost the cononcial / text book example of when you would opt to host on a cloud provider.
Code is not literature (2014)