skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if that's what society decides

So if 50 percent of people are ok with it, then "that's what society decides" so it's ok for everybody ?
Ask HN: Would you use a service that automates accounting for SaaS companies?
I've just started a company with Stripe Atlas, which was really streamlined and easy. I was a little surprised to learn that I'll need to pay an accountant thousands of dollars to file my corporate income taxes. I knew I would need help from attorneys and accountants, but it feels like most of this should have been automated by now. And if I use Bench [1], I'll also need to spend $115 per month for bookkeeping.

I'm running a pretty simple SaaS app [2]. I take payments via Stripe, spend money on Heroku and AWS, and... not much else. I feel like it shouldn't be that hard to automate my bookkeeping and automatically file IRS Form 1120 (and Form 5472.)

I'm thinking about building a service that does this for small SaaS startups, and companies that make money from mobile apps. I've put up a landing page: https://www.nanobooks.co

I need to validate the idea before I start writing any code or working with accountants. Please leave a comment (or sign up for the mailing list) if this is something you need, or would have used in the past. I'd also love to hear any feedback, or advice about how I could validate the idea.

Thanks very much!

[1] https://bench.co

[2] https://formapi.io
Probably not hard for the elite or upper class, if you have access to the internet and an interactive brokers account.
How should sites design things like news feeds? Just go with their best guess as to how it should work, and then never change that?
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

I hear you on this, but having years of experience using other sync platforms and having to work within their unique solutions has proven to us that to have the best experience it's best to have a solution designed for your application.

Every sync solution has their own gotchas and dealing with it in 1Password is incredibly tricky. I get the feeling that many people think sync is this easy thing that takes a week and you're done. We are still fixing bugs in our various sync solutions and they've been released to users for years.

Want an example of how each solution is weird for us?

Lets take Master Password changes as an example. If you want grittier details, our blog post on the topic here gives a really nice overview:

https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/04/28/how-1password-syncs-ch...

But because of how Dropbox works, we have to:

1. Change the Master Password on one device, let it sync

2. Unlock the other device, let it sync, lock, then unlock again

With iCloud,

1. Is the same as above: Change the Master Password on one device, let it sync

2. Unlock the other device with the new Master Password.

Very different behaviors and that's just two sync solutions. Adding additional sync solutions would result in similar oddities between them.

This type of inconsistent behavior is very difficult to explain to users when things go wrong. They don't want to know these details. They pay us to not know these details.

We can't provide a consistent experience with other sync solutions. But we can if we provide our own. Things work the way users expect because we can design the solution to work like that because we control the entire solution.

This is just coming from a developer who has been doing support with AgileBits for nearly 6 years. I was the last line of defense between our customers and our users when they wrote in. I seen all the messy stuff that users can find their ways into when things do not work how they expect.

I happily welcome our new solution because we can design 1Password in a way that makes sense and is actually incredibly secure as well.

That said, if you don't like our hosted solution... have you tried it? If not well... don't knock something you haven't tried. But if you have tried it and don't like it I'd love to hear your feedback. Seriously. I welcome your feedback if you have any after trying it. We love talking with our users and finding ways to make 1Password better. We wouldn't be where we are without our users.

Anyway, if you don't like our hosted solution we offer standalone licenses and version 7 for Mac and version 7 for Windows will both be available as standalone licensed versions with standalone vaults just like you're used to. Nothing changes for users like yourself if they wish to continue using that variation of options.

Kyle

AgileBits
> The health benefits of a whole food plant based diet are astonishing

No. The health benefits of a balanced diet is astonishing. Vegan diets are just as bad for humans as meatatarian diets.

> and the whole missing vitamin mineral thing is trivially taken care of.

It isn't.

> Becoming vegan will lead to immediate and long term health benefits.

No it won't. Having a balanced diet will. That's why all the oldest people are omnivores.

Humans are built to be omnivores.

A vegan diet is a terrible diet for humans. That's why it has to be augmented so much. The cult of veganism has to be countered just like any other cult.
Chilax you little sucker
Bitrix?
I believe that lisper is saying that he would prefer not to have his cake.
His joke is that Zimbabwean dollars are toilet paper.
That's just how the US Bureau of Labor defines it, allowing elected officials to make the economy seem better than it is.
Possibly using your phone for payment which has been long popular in Asia as well as Africa.
People who are irresponsible can be counselled or, in extreme cases, assigned a legal guardian. UBI doesn't change much in that case.
I do the same thing in Trello. Trello is amazing for GTD lists, and i use an eisenhower matrix on them. It's amazing how little I actually do and am happy, and I don't have to look at "not urgent, not important" since it is on a different board. I also do not use "urgent, not important", those go into the calendar and I do them or lose them. They aren't important.
> such tales as Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908), where food denotes cosiness and plenty.

This. Grahame’s account of the animals' Christmas meal is my favourite secular evocation in literature of the 'goodwill to all' spirit of Christmas. If I remember, I find this book and re-read this passage sometime over the xmas period.
Google Docs are offline
Don't seem to be able to load it at all.

Edit: Seems it's able to load the main page (docs.google.com) but no documents (yet).

Edit 2: Seems to be super sporadic whether it loads or not, no word from Google yet.

Edit 3: Docs seem to be able to load very slowly, so service is returning to normal. Unable to print/download docs at this time.

Edit 4: Should mention I'm in NA, Aus seems to be most affected at the moment according to comments.

Edit 5 (1:26PM PST): Will start adding timestamps to edits as things progress. Seems it has gone completely offline in NA again.

Edit 6 (1:29PM PST): Google Docs Twitter has tweeted they are looking into the issue https://twitter.com/googledocs/status/930910008941756416

Edit 7 (1:33PM PST): Google has added the incident to their status page https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=5&iid=256bb31e589f5037731d2bdc83b66bb8, report will be updated at 2:30PM according to them.
I've used notebooks for decades. I buy a kind that is pre-numbered, and in which the pages larger than 8.5x11 inches, so I can tape in graphs and printouts of US letter size.

During my PhD, when I was scared of losing things, I made photocopies of my books when I completed them, and kept the copies in a separate location ... now I can scan them.

I have a simple cross-reference scheme. To refer to a result on page N of book M, I write [M.N]. If it's a certain figure or equation on that page, I just write e.g. [M.N.f3] or [N.M.e5].

So far, I think this is all quite conventional. But I do one more thing that's simple but has proved to be very helpful. I write forward references in the top margin of pages. So, if book 10 page 3 refers to book 2 page 9, I write <10.3> in the top margin of page [2.9]. This simple scheme makes it really easy to take care of ripple effects of errors.

Oh, and you've got to use pen, and you've got to use clean cross-outs when you find errors. Otherwise you'll get hopelessly lost.
Counterpoint: WhatsApp and WeChat are huge despite not having much of an American presence.
Marketplace Expansion: The Secrets to Success
I used to read r/politics multiple times a day before it went south right around the time of the Democrat's California primary when the DNC nomination was sealed (on a day when no voters voted and the nomination was determined by poll calls to anonymous super delegates mind you) and the money started flowing https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transaction... (the FEC site is kinda crap so you'll have to fidget a lot with it). It's anecdotal but I don't think there are any general tone changes from today to since ~June last year.

There's a distinct shift in the tone of r/politics. There's a pre-DNC nomination / pre-CTR, pro-Jill Stein, pro-Gary Johnson, pro-Bernie Sanders, anti-Hillary, no-body-cares-about-any-Republicans-because-they're-irrelevant, Democrats-still-nominally-should-represent-working-labor, generally pro grassroots anti hegemonic aristocracy sentiment. A single dimensional left-right axis does huge disservice to clear political discourse but I guess you can say Reddit used to still be representative of the general coastal progressive crowd and it's left-leaning. That is, economically more left-socialistic than a center-right Obama, socially more progressive than a left-leaning Obama, very right-conservative than a very left-interventionist Obama foreign policy, very left-high-social-mobility vs a right-establishment Obama's balance of power.

Then there's a hard shift to a pro-Hillary/establishment or you're a sexist/racist/bigot/redneck/Russian spy/religious zealot/white/rural/non college educated strawman dichotomy. I definitely wouldn't say r/politics is left-leaning. See how far you'll get if you want to talk about leftist topics like DAPL opposition, Yemen bombing opposition, Keith Ellison support, Tulsi Gabbard support, single payer support, military budget increase opposition etc.

> efforts appeared to be focused on motivating the Republican base to vote for Trump, and to drive Clinton voters to apathy or complacency. Neither of these would be achieved by trying to convince Clinton's fervent supporters on r/politics.

Sounds like you're referring to something other than r/politics. What are you referring to?
I mostly agree. I used to buy into the narrative of human progress over the course of 10,000 years of civilization. Now I see human knowledge/achievement much more as an ebb and flow with some momentum retained across time and societies. I see our current state of progress as a kind of happy accident. Some combination of Secularism, Legalism, Bureaucracy, Entrepreneurship, Socialsim and Education has created the imperfect but better world (mostly better for humans) we inhabit today. Which means to me that none of us really know what's created this progress and we can't be entirely sure what has arrested it at times. There isn't an arrow of human progress but a churning jumble that right now has come out with a relative lull in human suffering and a corresponding bump in personal convenience.

The upside of this is that if we can maintain this cocktail of traits while curbing the more obviously dangerous ones, we may be able to surpass greatly what we've accomplished so far. I hope anyway.
Thanks for the links!

In addition to the yet unsolved waste disposal problem you mentioned, there is the problem of mining the nuclear fuel. This can be quite dangerous to the miners, especially in countries with lax security standards. I would expect the most deaths due to nuclear power happen there.
While you're technically correct in saying that PUBG isn't the first game of its kind, PlayerUnknown (creative lead) is the creator of the Arma mod DayZ, which to my knowledge is the origin of this genre.
I agree that she does sound like a bellend. Perhaps your honor is even threatened. I would consider some retribution.
It's not a fad. Veganism is like a cult. Vegans are starving their infants to death for their "religion".

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/wjqbem/judge-convicts...

Plant-only diet is terrible for humans just like a meat-only diet. The best diet for humans is a balanced diet.
Which is a simple thing to look at when you're in a first world country with a functioning Unemployment Insurance office you can query to count such things. When you try to map that into different cultures and economic development statuses, it gets far fuzzier.
Bitcoin is too big for a few "whales" to have a sizable effect on major price trends -- even if significant groups of them were somehow coordinated. This explanation is commonly used in general cryptocurrency forums and even some trading forums, but it really comes down to not understanding how markets work and trying to assign some meaning (not so different from religion). Whales are not gods.
No, I wasn't joking. I was asking sincerely, if you're reason for holding bitcoin is that you want to be able to buy goods next week without worrying about inflation, why not just buy the goods now and avoid the risk of owning bitcoin.
For many for who it is just a diet, often it's just a fad. But for those who stick to it, it is very important to them and it most certainly isn't a fad. So veganism is certainly not a fad, but that doesn't stop some people treating it as such. But those people who try it are welcome to, at the very least it will bring them some perspective on a life of eating meat.
The C programming language, classical guitar, Olympic weightlifting, music theory, and how to play Overwatch better.

I'm thinking I should try to pare this down a bit, but I feel awful when I have free time that I could be using to learn something.
...how do you define "seek a job" in a place where the concept of full-time employment is alien?

Therein lies the rub. If you dig into the stats, the 10% unemployment rate quoted in official government statistics - and measured accordingly to the methodology economists usually use, excluding people who have "given up on searching for a job - is based on a definition of "job" where they have worked (in cash or in kind) for at least one hour in the past week. By those stats, 50% of the country was not in the labor force, 45% was "employed" (for at least one hour a week), 5% was actively unemployed.

But then when you dig further, 75% of those classified as "employed" didn't receive any payment for their work. They bartered. So now we're looking at 12.5% employment. And 84% of those employed worked in the informal sector, i.e. maybe they did a couple hours of labor for another villager. Considering the large overlap between the bartering & informal sectors, we're at around 5% full-time employment in the country.

That shows the difficulty in applying models built for an industrial economy to regions that still primarily function on an agrarian economy. The definitions they use are nonsensical - they don't apply to how people qualitatively work. (There're similar difficulties applying models made for industrial economies to post-industrial economies - how do you classify someone who drives for Uber & Lyft at the same time while AirBnBing out their house, doing Instacart runs, running an Amazon import-export business over the Internet, trading in Bitcoin, and selling stuff on Etsy? Is that 0, 1, or 7 jobs? Are they a financier or taxicab driver?)
You're probably correct in how it will turn out, but laws can change. One precedent does not mean nothing will ever break it. It does make it harder, though.
New method developed to 3D print fully functional electronic circuits
Mozilla has never sponsored the Pwn2Own contest.
Disclosure: I work for AgileBits, makers of 1Password

I'm sorry you feel that way.

What makes you think we're pushing you aside?

We are still introducing features in 1Password 6 for Mac, and 1Password 7 for iOS that work for both our hosted solution and our standalone users.

We are able to offer a lot of newer features to our 1Password.com membership users because that solution opens a lot of new possibilities. But we certainly haven't forgotten about users like yourself.

1Password 6.9 for iOS introduced Drag and Drop for iPad users

1Password 7 for iOS introduced Face ID, a new favorites screen, Quick Copy, and a host of other smaller features and improvements

We're not stopping there either and have even more great new features lined up that will work for both our standalone users and our 1Password.com users.

1Password 7 was also a free upgrade for any iOS user, including those that had Premium features purchased.

I'd love to hear how you think we're pushing you aside though because it'll help me understand how we can try to improve our language in various release notes and announcements to make it clear we aren't leaving you behind.

Thanks!

Kyle

AgileBits
These articles always read like someone attacking a strawman.

No college degree will make you rich. What a college degree offers is a change in how competitive you are for higher paying jobs.

No one really gets wealthy working in STEM careers, but technical ability is one of the most direct routes to having at least a middle class life.

The choice of school matters, the choice of major matters, but not in predictable ways and it's important to weigh the costs and benefits together. Yeah, private schools have better alumni networks, but do you want to spend 4x on your undergrad to access those? To what extent can you substitute hard work for buying access?

When I was in high school, I seriously considered becoming a doctor. However, I ran the numbers - becoming a doctor vs. going into business and working as hard as I'd have to work to become a doctor. Becoming a doctor probably pays off, but not until you're in your 40s. However, you can put away a lot more money in your 20s and 30s working rather than studying medicine so the break even point is very sensitive to the ROI. But the point is the same choose your own adventure, but at least weigh the options.
Bit-slice processor is where the hardware blocks are partitioned along bit boundaries. For example combine 4 chips of 4-bit wide data path to form a 16-bit processor. This was from when chips were not dense enough to fit a whole processor into one die.
> I think it's high time that we stopped being afraid of these words

There's a good talk on that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa18UJVKr5s (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ZJ_g59Bqg (Part 2)

It's about 12 minutes total.
Agreed. It's odd to hear people boast about housing prices being high, considering that shelter is a basic need just like food. You don't hear praise being thrown about when milk, eggs, and bread reach unaffordable prices as they are in northern Canada.

Perhaps basic human needs shouldn't be subject to the same market forces as caviar and champagne are...
I must say I am thoroughly impressed by your patience. You're repeatedly explaining what seems to me like a pretty simple calculation to lots of different people who only gets it after a lengthy explanation.

It's a first-world problem, but as you say, it's still a problem. Unless you're okay with taking the loss, or just moving somewhere far away because the market decided that this area has now become too expensive to allow existing homeowners to downsize.
> The higher prices go, the higher the actual cost of moving goes

Sans CA taxes, this is relative to the increase of wealth you've accumulated. So yes in the absolute it's higher, but relatively speaking you've still are earning more money in liquidity during the transaction.

> This has to do with the actual cost of a move, that is, the difference in your net worth at the end of the day once all the dust settles.

I think I finally understand your position now. The cost isn't prohibitive, it's the negative impact on your wealth. Which is true. The reason I and others are reacting strongly to your position is because your conflating transactional costs (expenses, fees, etc) with wealth (accumulation of assets). Two very different things that use a common medium to interact (i.e. currency).

Here's the predicament. Your implying that you can transfer assets (wealth) without any transactional costs. This is just not how the market for any asset transfer works (stocks, cash, etc), because someone or some system has to be setup to broker the transaction. What your essentially complaining about is why you have to pay fees to complete an asset transfer. I know very few markets were transferring assets doesn't incur a fee. I don't know what to tell you other than this is basically economics 101.

CA taxes on the other hand - that's something to complain about. CA taxes inadvertently nudge people to hold on to property longer, reducing supply and thus driving overall prices up.
My Life as a Tech Transfer Monad by Erik Meijer (KotlinConf)
Yeah, I'd love to get a couple of ARM servers for home use.
You don’t need evolution to make your aliens, cultural separation would immediately begin and do it for you.

To clarify, I believe that within a generation or two, people on another planet will hardly relate to their originating culture and will see it as an other. This change will at first be benign, merely based on differences of day-to-day life on a developing colony, but later, after initial material support largely dissipates, would see it as something to cast off or, should they not openly revolt or request a plebiscite, will treat it diplomatically as if it were another country, or as it is in this case, as literally another world.

Consider that when traveling between a host and colony settlement takes literal weeks, months, or years, sending information would likely also similarly be costly and would take prohibitively long times for many real time applications: latency up to several hours or days to arrive could be expected for even small downloads. This borderline resets communication the era of writing letters, if I may be a bit dramatic, because this absolutely neuters a huge amount of modern culture.

Cultural products made on earth would be costly and difficult to ship, so we’d find that earth films, games, internet, are mostly not going to bridge the gap. Even after infrastructure for communication improves, the latency problem of “space is big” isn’t going to go away. For example, would you read 15 HN pages if each page, no images, no modifications, took 15 minutes to load? I suspect not, and you’d fill that time with something else that an earthling software engineer might not.

It’s all elements of culture. The earth news cycle? Almost wholly irrelevant, besides economics and space-related news, which impacts what is sent and relations with home.

Celebrities? People will find it hard to care about celebrities who will never visit them, and who have works they’re not hearing until weeks, months, or years after they stopped being relevant on Earth.

To fill this gap, people on the colonies will be making their own, and however bad the gap is earth -> space culture wise, due to the difficulty that limited resources will impose, culture from space -> earth will likely be rather rare.

So, culture is going to start diverging, relatively hard and rapidly. Separated from leaders, most current cultural information, old national borders, credible risk of counterattack from earth for anything short of armed revolution (space war or military pacification against one’s own people would likely be an economic and political Vietnam, and you definitely can’t launch a surprise attack when people can see the weapons or troops launching), people will mostly stop giving a shit about their home world and will become naturalized on their new ones.

Two or three more generations like that and you’ll eventually be talking about people on Mars, for example, as if they were from Australia.
You say this as if tech is currently a meritocracy.