skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality of your data dictates the probability of getting an accurate, audit defensible credit calculated. More detail makes it easier to defend. We can work with "R&D work" level of detail, but it is less defensible and it will cost more to have us (an accounting or consulting firm) calculate the credit for you. It also makes it much harder to calculate in-house or using paid self-help software tools.

Particularly because IRS rules require that the wage costs be allocable to a "business component." Business component is a technical term of art specific to the R&D credit, but roughly it corresponds to projects, and more specifically to a (1) new or improved (2) product, process, technique, formula, or invention. It must be one and only one of those, no mixing of new and improved or product and process. So if you have a new product and a corresponding new production process, they must be separated in the reporting of qualified research expenditures, even if you as a taxpayer have classified the two BCs as a single project.

So when you have time tracking, it is best when it allows us to tie specific hours worked to specific projects and tasks. We can then work out from the project list how to combine or split up your projects into business components and map the costs that way. From your activity codes, we can set a very specific and defensible qualified percentage to each employee's time, without having to disrupt your business by surveying your employees (plus the IRS does not respect self-reported, non-contemporaneous survey data much if at all).

As an example, I walked into a software dev client's offices a few weeks ago to sit down with the CFO, comptroller, and their head of development. I walked out with highly detailed project tracking data and spent four hours processing it using our internal software tools, calculating a $2m benefit with a high degree of accuracy. At other firms with lower quality data, it can take hundreds of man hours to achieve the same benefit. So we gave the software client a massive break on our fee (and actually still profited more than we would have with a less prepared client) and everyone walked away happy.
I got excited, then I saw prices. Then I saw the keyboard isn't even included and costs $160. Ouch.

This will be $1800+ after tax, why not just get a really solid laptop at that point? Hell you could buy two solid desktops
Yeah, I'd like if there were a straightforward way to access the same content via the API, and perhaps this is possible. I was unsuccessful. I'd made an attempt to grab all photos I've ever been tagged in, which I was able to accomplish using the approach I described in my last comment, solely through the API, but was only able to access those photos currently on my timeline (a much smaller set).

My suspicion is that services like digi.me similarly won't have access to anything beyond the timeline. Have you used digi.me?
Your game needs some serious work. Maybe if your developers had 4 GB RAM on their computers the constraint would benefit them.
You mean the infinite subliminal billboard of our generation?
giving up on something is very hard. what helps is to think in micro economic conceps such as sunk cost and opportunity cost. if you could do anything more fun with your time you have to weight that in.
Their state of the art approach hybridizes MCTS with deep neural networks. I'd be interesting indeed if they manage to get better performance without MCTS all together, although they did achieve very impressive performance without MCTS.
It wouldn't be the first time the UK has stood alone against a Europe united.

It would be interesting to see the UK build a closer relationship with the Commonwealth, instead of doing so with the EU.
I've been waiting for this for a while (despite being a Mac user for years and years). And it doesn't quite compute (ba dum tss). Two reasons really.

1. No USB-C.
2. If I want 16 gigs of RAM, I need to opt for an i7 and half a terabyte of SSD.

I wish I could just go for an i5 with 256 gigs of storage and 16 gigs of RAM. That would be sweet (and not as expensive).

Too bad, let's see what others come up with.
Alright, now that this is out: what should I get?

Most of my heavy-duty work is done via SSH into a remote VM. I watch movies, but mostly browse the web. Most of my actual work is programming intensive. I like pretty screens. Larger is usually better. I want to be able to take it on a plane without hassle when I travel.

New surface? HP Elite x360 15"? Wait for Surface Book refresh? Yoga?
If google builds 90 of these, then they sort of have the first Exoflop supercomputer.
The supercomputer rankings are based on how fast they can run some standard matrix math tests. TPU may not be general purpose enough to run these tests.
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3MB of TCP overhead?
We currently have 26 five day old chicks in a cardboard box in our mud room. We are raising them to lay and, eventually, brood so hopefully I'll be able to answer this question in about 9-12 months or so.

This is the first time I've ever raised layers though 20 years ago as a teenager, my brother and I raised 100 birds every spring for the family freezer.

An interesting thing about the young chicks, even at 3 days old they were acting exactly like adult birds- making dust baths, establishing a pecking order and even attempting to roost though the only thing elevated in their box is their feeder.
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So buy a f*cking laptop! I'm only half-kidding - but criticizing an integral part of a product, when there are multiple alternatives with exact the feature your desire is ... silly.
Typespecs are mostly for static analysis. They describe the types of inputs and expected outputs.
How many devices, with similar form-factors offer expandable ram beyond 16GB?
To the contrary, I'd say the ability to pick up a product in an unfamiliar tech stack and be productive relatively quickly is one factor that would make you more deserving of the "senior" qualification.
Unless you have millions of dollars to park, in which case a single security is a liquidity risk (which has nothing to do with diversity risk) and you take the obvious path of manually diversifying. Same treatment, different problem.

The point was that you can't "diversify" Bitcoin holdings like this. It's inherently illiquid on these scales.
If I were doing all of the latter, I think I would just ssh into a real server. But, I get it is to each his own.
https://github.com/jes/hardbin/issues/1

You don't exactly need clairvoyance to predict this outcome.
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I'm on my second Samsung. First was a very annoying pre-capacitive touch that never worked well. This current one is an old Galaxy S5. It is better, but it likes to restart periodically (fortunately Android handles that well). Battery life is crap and it gets sluggish easily.

Before I had a Motorola. It was much better. I will not buy another Samsung.
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Very true! I'm still on FB, but I do like how Instagram doesn't force you to show your current online status, or how it doesn't rat out your likes or comments...
Or, in my opinion much more likely, uses it as an excuse for denying resources to classes of people.
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> competition for mindshare and organisational resources.

This is how I interpreted it as well.

The First World seems to be concerned right now with the apparent rise of Russian power. In the previous order (during the Cold War), NATO was the counterbalance to Russia's empire. If NATO is divided in two by the creation of the EU, then a reinvigorated Russia would be able to act against each entity separately, giving them a great advantage in international diplomacy.
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I picked those numbers to make the math easy. No one should or will spend anywhere near an hour entering time into a time tracking system, unless it is horribly designed.

>People will often start to wonder why they work so hard if the company doesn't take their time seriously.

This is a failure of communication. People tend to get frustrated with paperwork when they do not understand its purpose or importance. Those employees who are discouraged by hours tracking paperwork don't realize that the company is being paid by the government to have them fill out that paperwork. Management needs to communicate to employees that there is a very significant impact on the bottom line from them properly filling out that paperwork. That impact increases their wages and the company's ability to survive and thus to provide them continuing, stable employment.

Now, if you think its pointless that the IRS requires them to fill out this paperwork, well that's another discussion, but I can offer you arguments in favor of verifying R&D activities before granting public subsidies for them and in favor of the subsidies themselves.
Look I'm a fan but until I see it running some real heavy artillery (Ableton Live 9 Suite, Massive, AmpliTube, and a half-dozen VSTs) in real-time vs. the competition, then it's just another hollow claim. Sure, hardware and performance are getting better. Sure, the Surface Dial is a massive game changer in the long term.

But, look, the problem with marketing to creative people is that they take it sort of as a challenge to prove you wrong. It's like ingrained. Kind of a bad habit, but, hey, it is what it is and I will happily admit I want one of these new devices and would consider it a major upgrade from my current gear.
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> They're unproven, not believed to be unprovable.

A decidable language (let's say Ld) is less powerful than a Turing-complete language (Lt). This means that there are some computations that can be expressed in Lt but not in Ld, and that there are some problems that can be solved in Lt but not in Ld. These are theorems of theoretical computer science. I don't believe anyone has a clear idea of the practical implications of this limitation, and how many of the algorithms in current use are only possible in Lt.

My guess is that the complexity of the software in use nowadays vastly exceeds our ability to do such an analysis, but maybe you know something I don't. Otherwise, while it is true that they are not believed to be unprovable, it is also true that they are not believed to be provable.

> This is meaningless woo.

I'm not sure I should reply to this, because it is just name calling, but for other people reading this (and you, if you're still interested): people who study artificial creativity and related fields such as Artificial Life take these ideas seriously and have interesting philosophical definitions and mathematical formalisms to address them. I have been to conferences sponsored by serious universities and other organisations such as ACM and IEEE where ideas such as the generative power of the Mandelbrot set are seriously discussed. There are several attempts to quantify creativity and to connect the idea of creativity with computer science.

It is important to not have a mind so open that the brain falls off, but I suggest that you may be going too far in the opposite direction.
What ever happened to using servers for a lot of this?
> Working on something for 6 years with no users is a problem

You seem to think that the only purpose of writing programs is for people to use them. Sometimes the act of constructing something is more interesting that the result, and would only be interesting to one person.
There's a theory about the M4 that it wasn't really any more reliable than any other tank of the period. But it's ease of repair meant that the operational readiness was pretty close to 100%.

https://youtu.be/udnEpV160zU?t=7m10s
> I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job as they are, without first getting more education.

Speak for yourself, cowboy. It's ironic, considering how affectionate HN claims to be towards "disruption" and the many of us who have learned by doing, that this comment exists here. We should not make arbitrary judgements as to what someone else deserves, especially in regards to feeding his or her family, by applying our own sensibilities so broadly.
> In 2013 a CCC member broke TouchID access within a few hours after release of the IPhone.

It's actually the same guy as with the S8, aka Starbug.
According to the old paper (AlphaGo has seen significant improvement in efficiency and algorithm so this might be outdated), the distributed version with 1900 CPUs and 280 GPUs defeated the version with 48 CPU and 8 GPUs 81% of the time.

Non-distributed Alpha Go won 99% of the time versus just the value network and policy network with no rollouts. That AI was estimated as having a 2177 Elo rating, which is not very strong and much weaker than Sedol.

Even with a TPU, a human is more efficient. That neural net pair used 8 GPUs. At a generous 200 watt per GPU that's 1.6 kW, 10% of which is 160 watts. A human brain does all higher level reasoning and uses ~20 Watts. A human is not devoting 100% of its computational power on Go. It is likely just a fraction of that.

But if we look at Chess, Chess engines that run on mobile phones are possibly about or maybe slightly more efficient.
There's also a Haskell-based one called Nomyx.
He doesn't say when he did the trade, or in return for what he received the bitcoins.
Live and let die Mr Bond, you were one of the best.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14396055
I'm writing that from a position of having given up my Facebook account in 2012.

Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account.

That's absolutely true, but you know what? I really don't give a fuck! If your service is only available via Facebook login. Tough luck. You just lost me as a customer.

I'd even extend that thought to the current craze of US border control agents allegedly requiring your social media credentials for allowing you into the country.

Assuming that Facebook is a requirement to be allowed into the US, well, there's a host of other wonderful places to visit.

A world where you are required to do Twitter, Facebook or Instagram is a sad place, indeed.
Instagram does rat out your likes, comments and follows. Check the "Following" tab on the notifications view to see them for those you're following.

It's just down to chance whether the people following you see it, based on how many they're following and how much recent activity there has been with their followings.
Sure, but even if the surface pro came with 32gb of RAM (all other specs identical), would you consider trading your XPS 15 for a surface pro? We're really talking about two different market segments here.
I was at FoxNews.com during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. It created a monster
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I've become convinced all social media is detrimental to mental health. I've stopped using any of it and am feeling a lot better, with no real downsides. My Twitter account is the only one I haven't deleted yet only because I have a four letter username on there which you can't get anymore, but I think I will probably delete it anyway soon.
Wow, that means they really jacked up the price this year. My SP4 was pen included. $1060 for the m3 model with a pen and type cover.
If you are worried about the possibility of losing your job and having to do without a salary, then you should start looking now. But from the way you asked your question, it seems like you are aware of this possibility and you are more worried about how this will affect your long-term career. My 2 cents is that in future interviews, it's very unlikely anyone will ask or care about the success of the project. They care about your technical skills and it sounds like this job is good from that aspect. You should be able to spin this in a positive light.
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Guess it's a clear case why diversity of backup formats is a good thing.

"If we could, we’d make backup copies of our valuable data on clay tablets" https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/data-integrity....
Apparently the surface connector can do usb-c through a dongle: http://m.windowscentral.com/why-no-usb-type-c-new-surface-pr...

Which, honestly, I might prefer right now since I still use mostly usb 2&3 devices.
> “Gaps” in the Bundeswehr is an understatement. In 1989, the West German government spent 2.7 percent of GDP on defense, but by 2000 spending had dropped to 1.4 percent

One man's gap is another's peace dividend. 0% should be the standard to judge against, and the unfortunate necessity to go above that shouldn't be mistaken for anything but a giant drain of productivity that could be spent on almost anything else with better results.

I also don't get how military spending is indexed to GDP. Surely what matters first is the actual power of an alliance's militaries compared to realistic threats. Only then could GDP be a useful yardstick to distribute the burdens among the members of that alliance.

In the specific case, it's a completely rational decision to lower investments in Europe considering the US continues to fund its military at levels that can only be explained by some sort of chauvinist fascination with guns, bombs, and golden toilet seats. It's even beneficial for the US if Europe instead invests in soft-power resources, something that has actually happened since 1990.
Does this mean that at $1 million amounts, bitcoin is more liquid than cash?
>> Is it terrible for my resume to work for years on a project that never sees the light of day?

As a former recruiter turned engineer, I can say that you shouldn't worry too much about it. If there were a surplus of great engineers fighting for table scraps, I might offer different advice. You may find it mildly harder to break into gigs that want more experience working on a fast paced agile team, but the reality is that you'll always have a mildly harder problem breaking into something that asks for experience you haven't been practicing recently.

What I'd be more concerned about is working on tech that is too crusty. If you're programming in MUMPS, using flat files as a relational database, and hosting everything on Windows 3.0 being emulated on OS/2, you may wish to revisit your tech stack. If you can't throw any not-stale tech into the keyword soup on your resume, it'll look like you haven't been motivated enough to keep your skills sharp. Disregard this advice if you have plenty of people trying to recruit you and/or you know people who'd hire you if they could.
How is changing the label from "quirk of psychology" to "mental illness" changing anything? It still exists.
Are you saying that as people get smarter they're less likely to think satisfaction in life comes from being someone who makes the world better? That they're more likely to think that satisfaction in life comes from getting more stuff than the next guy?
"People don't buy products, they buy better versions of themselves."

There's a sibling thread about this on HN right now.
CBC mode isn't exactly a saving grace here, since it's unauthenticated.
Either ssh into a real server, or use (or ssh into) that clunky behemoth gaming desktop I have sitting under a desk, which I sadly use way more for work than for gaming.
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How does Guix relate to Flatpak?
Whenever I read this argument being made, I cannot help but think "didn't you read the fineprint?" :)
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-com...

> ONS’s new internationally-comparable “health accounts“1 show that the UK’s total healthcare spending in 2014 was £179 billion, or 9.9% of GDP.

> As a percentage of GDP, the UK spent less on healthcare than USA, Japan, France and Germany and a similar percentage to Canada. The USA spent the most on healthcare as a percentage of GDP at 16.6%.

And it's not all private insurance for the US. In 2014 the US government spent more than 8% GDP, compared to UKs just under 8%.

> Despite less than half of the USA’s total healthcare expenditure coming from government expenditure or compulsory insurance schemes, it still spends more per person on these financing schemes than the UK- £3,111 in the USA in 2014, compared with £2,210 in the UK. In the USA spending on privately-funded healthcare is over five times more per person than in the UK.

The US government spends more per person on healthcare than the UK, Canada, Italy, or the OECD average, and gets worse outcomes across a range of measures.
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This is a part of a rather disturbing trend to ship frequent and not-well-teated updates. Another example of this is 1Password.
Oh, bah. Can't believe I never came across that.

Guess I'm a very basic user...

Thanks.
fantastic math and well reasoned. thanks for sharing.
One could argue with one, people would buy more of the other. Now that most rent, a car will be the biggest single financial decision most people make in their lives. Kinda weird, but preparing people for it would help it happen more. I know people who feel they are too poor to even aspire to a car these days. Its not true, but it is the best of their knowledge. Surely there is wide reaching opprotunity to be had here.
wow, that's crazy customer unfriendly.
Which dock and what has your experience been with them? Seems there are very few out there..
I agree. But but being, "progressively aligned" isn't proof or evidence. Google _should_ have released both the raw numbers and analysis to the DoL with a full explanation so the same analysis, if fair, should be applied to other companies as well.
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I see this error so often on hn. You say, "we don't need x, we need y." When in reality we need neither, and both would be highly beneficial.
I dunno, I do all that with 16gb of RAM, and have for years.
You have succeeded in your creation and are suffering because maintaining a product does not require the same set of skills. Maybe you should designate another leader for that. IMHO, creative mindset is not good for maintenance because you want to start too many changes at the same time. For maintenance, you need a more accounting mindset. Write how you plan the evolution of your product and gives this plan to someone else.
Yes I'm saying it's not enough. It's the same RAM that was available 4 years ago on Macbook Pro (and still not available any higher on MBP either).

It's common to run several types of server in production, these all need to be run on localhost for development purposes. Also virtual environments so server architecture can easily be scripted.

16GB works for me, but is far from ideal. I was hoping MS would one-up Apple here, but not yet.
Sure. But perhaps it should be something you have that isn't the device you're trying to get into.
It turns out people with schizophrenia are more likely to smoke because they feel that it helps their symptoms.
These are general consumer devices and there are trade offs. The most sophisticated hacker the vast majority of users must defeat is a prying family member or friend.
I think that's kind of expected though. The game you're likely working on isn't meant to really run on a Surface either.