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Actually last time I was in NZ I ended up doing remote work for companies in the UK/Europe, it was a big factor in why I returned to London. It's a couple years later and while things are comfy here I do kick myself sometimes for not giving NZ a proper go re. a software dev job while I was on my WHV (working holiday visa). I think if I moved to NZ, I would have to work for an NZ company in order to possibly eventually qualify for residence, as I don't have any other ties to the country. Otherwise, I would definitely consider remoting for a foreign company.

I would've thought NZ would more attract people who are more interested in work/life balance and an outdoorsy lifestyle than people who are more interested in interesting tech/projects, for that you need to go to California or to metropolises like Melbourne/London/Berlin. At least this is what my stereotyped view has been.

EDIT: I misread that you were from Australia but in NZ, but actually you're in Aus.
There is something weirdly satisfying about doing something purely for the sake of doing it. So many people start projects hoping they can turn it into a business or gain stars in Github - you see less and less people hacking stuff together just for personal enjoyment.

I think we need more of that too. Everyone seems to be on a quest for perfection: perfect code, 3D printed casing, everything intellectualised to the nth degree. There's a lot to be said for the "rough and ready" approach of experimentation. However to do that you really need to be on a pursuit for personal gratification because the internet is a harsh bitch for pointing out ones mistakes.
so beautiful. thanks for sharing
Is distributing free tax filing software illegal? i.e. some web app similar to Intuit that help you fill forms but not filing for you. For general public that do not have many special deduction items I think this would not be very hard to do. For special deductions, I guess the app can just point the user to possible forms they should look at.
Are you referring to VAT? If so, how does this necessitate "constantly re-tag merchandise"?
In Denmark the VAT is the same for all goods, and was last changed in 1992 [0].

[0] https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moms
Possibly, depends on what the fee was.
There goes my free time this weekend…
I don't understand why Go offers any advantages here for C extensions: either you're reimplementing the C code in Go, which is a different ballgame (the reason you're not reimplementing the C code in Python is rarely speed), or you're using cgo which has the same problems.
The mortgage interest deduction is all but gone now for most people. Since the new tax code gets rid of dependent exemptions, and replaces it with a larger standard deduction (24K for married filing jointly), combined with the cap on SALT taxes, most people won't have a large enough mortgage interest (plus max 10k property taxes + state income tax) deductions to exceeded the standard deduction.

The net result is that there wasn't much movement up or down in taxes for typical homeowners (married, children, middle class home). Which means that with fewer people benefiting from the mortgage interest deduction, there may be hope that it goes away in the future. Either that, or it will stick around since it is a benefit for wealthier Americans (who have more political control).
I used to like him. A few years ago though he said some things about Sam harris that were sensationalist and untrue.

Its a little tedious to compare his assertions to actual positions or rebuttals, but it left me feeling pretty disappointed in Greenwald for the carefulness of his thought (I'm assuming he wasn't being deliberately obtuse to be dramatic)
Okay, sure. But wouldn’t it be great if for some portion of the population, they really don’t have to do a thing (because they think the government got it right)? Isn’t that better than everyone having to spend at least 10-15 minutes?
The worst form of blackmail in the US is probably the plea bargain. I guess there are literally thousands of innocent people serving jail time because they did not have a decent legal counsel to stop them from signing a bad deal.
He's a really nice guy though. 9front didn't do itself any favors with the arrogance and RTFM mentality so I didnt feel comfortable asking questions. But mycroftiv really makes hubchat pleasant and welcoming along with the others. I felt comfortable asking questions that I felt were dumb, e.g. why does 9fs 9fat fail in a drawterm session? "Oh you just have to `bind -a '#S' /dev` to get the serial ata controller in your shells namespace" Cool people.
Yeah I only found out today that Xero was a .NET shop, actually that was a bit disappointing. Same for TradeMe. So was hoping there was a startup scene using something more interesting, Python or even Go perhaps.

I actually don't mind Java at all, perhaps Java skills are better to focus on then in terms of it being more useful in moving to New Zealand :)
My point with mentioning Plan 9 was that even with luminaries such as Rob Pike, success is not guaranteed. Having a huge organization backing you doesn’t hurt. (Ok, granted, plan 9 had bell labs but I posit a research arm is altogether different from the commercial entity that is google.)
I've lived in California my entire life and have never seen "minimum wage surcharge" on a menu or receipt.
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This article seems to be in some conflict to how YC operates, which is designed around the demo day auction frenzy, where you might see valuation caps rise overnight on a rolling basis (I've seen some almost comical leaps in valuation in this regard), not to mention starting at prices in the $10-15M range. The ones that clear at those prices, on average, don't have the traction to justify it, which means the capital they get is often either second tier or first-tier call options. The net result is the best companies in the batch do just fine and because their prices, on average, were higher, YC and the company benefit from reduced dilution. The rest of the batch is then left with an inflated effective post-money that makes it harder for new capital to finance, especially if it follows an average growth curve.

New money doesn't particularly care you raised post demo-day at $15M if they think you're worth for example, at best, $12M now. It's a difficult conversation to have with founders and it can result in completely unnecessary pain around morale and optics. The worst loss is perversely invisible, as smart money might de-prioritize pursuing these companies knowing they have to work around the earlier mis-price. This is an opportunity cost that might not be apparent to most.

This is all complicated by the fact that demo day is in fact, not the first shot investors get at the companies in a batch. You might find that some of the most exciting companies in a given batch have been almost fully subscribed by the time demo day rolls around, as top tier firms don't wait till the actual demo day. Obviously, YC can't nor should they proscribe meeting with investors ahead of demo day, but this simply means access isn't as equally distributed as the notion of demo day might suggest. It looks to some degree like a second pass for folks without the network or access of a top-tier firm.

All this works great for YC, which, like every other fund in this world, makes money off power law returns, but it comes at a cost.

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If everything was predetermined, you'd simply be predetermined to feel justified in the belief that free will exists. So we would all agree to it, even if it were false.

Personally, I don't see any reason it isn't a figment of the mind. Nobody is debating whether love exists. Our ability to model counterfactuals in our mind doesn't have any broader philosophical implications, so I don't see why free will would, when that may as well be all that it is.
I'm doing very much the same thing as you. Only started actually calorie counting a month or two ago, but I do notice a major difference when I stay on track versus when I fall off (weight-wise).

I'm actually using an app that connects to Apple HealthKit (I also have an Apple Watch I specifically bought to keep me on track with my exercise). All of those things working in concert is great and they've been working for me.

How much I was eating (and moreso—what I was eating) surprised me, but it made everything make sense after I'd been working out relatively intensely for years. The strength was there, but I wasn't losing body fat the way I wanted.

Since taking up watching more closely, I've been able to start making a real dent.

Also: Being a Scots-Irish Canadian, I naturally love my beer and whisky. Thankfully I also grew up loving vegetables by product of my mother growing them and often offering only those as snacks. By counting my calories I can ascribe value to what I eat (or drink) throughout the day so that I don't have to ever really: a) give up drink for more than a month or two at a time, depending and b) I can let myself eat as many fresh vegetables as I like as long as I watch it with the olive oil.
I concur, the food is just not very good. Anyone that thinks it is clearly needs to broaden their culinary horizons.
You should have noted the conversation with your manager in the ticket at the time the conversation took place, with an @mention so she would get notified. That said, depending on how technical your boss is, she may not be the appropriate person to ask about language choice. If she is the CTO, obviously yes, but if you report to a Director of Product maybe not. And it is always a good idea to check with your team before picking a new language.
You can already file for free if you make under $66k: https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

Edit: I don't think I addressed your question, sorry!I agree that a simple tool could be a great help if it doesn't already exist!
Technically may be easy but tax returns have very sensitive private data. Need to do a lot of work to convince people. Its is still possible though.
You don't seem to understand my previous comment. Tarballs are better. Complex commit-graphs are not a reason to avoid git for small projects, they are a reason why I can't avoid git for large projects. The revision history is complex or not regardless of what software I'm using to slog through it.
This brings a whole new meaning to culturing cheese.
That surprises me too - it's very unlike Google to contract out tech like this.
If I'm not mistaken, YC gets pro-rata as preferred shareholders, so their dilution is not any different from everyone else in that class.
Wouldn't this just mean that they are putting their employees lives in danger more than the average restaurant? It's got to be hard to choose between following a suggested evacuation and losing your job.
> That majority of people could fill out the 1040EZ in 10 minutes and call it done.

How long does it take to understand that it's all you have to do?

> There's no way for the government to know what your work expenses were

What? That makes no sense.

> what you donated to charity

Same. This makes no sense.

> it took me an hour and a half to do my taxes and cost me under $20 on freetaxusa

wow. I guess you are used to filling your taxes so you're fast.
A distraction to who? You're not supposed to take people away from your core product to do this.

If you can't find anyone to even handle the hiring, let me stay far away from this company that teeters the verge of collapse when someone gets sick.
Not at all. For example:

https://www.creditkarma.com/tax
I thought this was basically what Tesla had to do with the add on tent manufacturing the 3’s.
This is absolutely my favorite programming rant, of all time.

It gets me through the day. When management asks something nonsensical, or I'm forced to push a hack to prod to fix things.
The definition of anti-GG that I used was basically people who celebrated John Bane and justified it by claiming john bane supported GG.

Not that John bane did that, as can be heard in the linked source in the above article, where he even address the same thing you say in that there were not an organized anti-gg. He describe basically three loose groups, those that harass which he think should be frozen out of the conversation, those reacted to those and "fed the trolls", and the third small category of people who simply wanted to discuss game ethics.

To be fair the discussion of game ethics was drowned out, through I think the same thing he said said back then is still very relevant today. We still have game reviewers that get punished by publishers and put on "black lists" if they give a game a bad review, or worse get takedown notices. We also got PC game reviewer like ACG using the ethical dilemma as the premise why patreon supported game reviews are better than those that get "sponsored" by the industry, which he start and finish every single video with...

But to go back, yes. There wasn't an organized "anti-GG" side. If I had remembered that part of the discussion I would had avoided using the word and instead spelled out what I meant.
Thanks for giving me more reasons to vote for him, I find creative writing to be an interesting form of art.
IPR registration pending... (/s)
This year for my taxes I used a little DSL I hacked up in TXR Lisp, where I you can declare each line on a tax form, along with its description and its value (or else how it is calculated from other lines). A bit like cells in a spreadsheet: reactive programming, basically.

There is a function to produces a report of all the lines and their values, grouped by form, sorted by line.

If I change a value, as in (set (line 42) 123.32), then re-run the report, it will indicate all the lines that have changed, showing the old and new value side by side.

I have some nice things in there, like handling groups of conditional lines that vary by tax bracket and such.

All of the data is in a nice text file that is just (load ...)-ed, together with the module that provides the logic, and that file is checked into git.

If the government did these calculations, I'd still want the option to do it myself; I wouldn't want to be forced into dealing with entering numbers into some web crap.
C maybe, but translating from (or even to) C++ is a genuinely company-sized effort.
I've been using Credit Karma tax this year and so far it's been good
The market is still hot. You don't want to go IPO at say $50 and no trades. When the market crash everything will crash along with it. Some investors are probably very eager to cash out now than later.
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It’s not all of California. It’s just in the places with their own higher minimum wage like SF or LA. I’ve seen it a bunch of times, mostly at small family owned restaurants.
thank you! keep in touch, we might end up solving this problem for all your pantry needs!
Big Cos don't have to copy. Startup can validate and they can swallow them if they care.
How much taxpayer money will be spent compiling taxes for all working adults in the U.S.? I'm guessing this is more work than it's worth. I don't think filling out a simple form once a year is that much to ask, even if it takes as long as a few hours to do.

Edit: Not sure why I have negative points here, I was just saying that the process of implementing a system to actually get people their taxes and accommodating all the edge cases and ensuring everything is perfect enough that people literally don't have to do anything is probably not worth it compared to doing a check of submissions against the IRS own findings. Feel free to tell me why I'm wrong, I'm all ears and not super knowledgeable on the system (obviously)

EDIT2: Also, not implying that it can't be done, just that it's not worth it to the IRS to do something like that. Seems like otherwise it already would have been done?
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We've created the world's first marketplace for residential proxy bandwidth.

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With PacketStream, endpoints can't see that traffic is being relayed through a middleman. We're big fans of privacy products like Tor and VPNs but we've experienced the pains of trying to use them on a day-to-day basis. Constant captchas & access restrictions make current anonymization products very inconvenient. We believe users shouldn't be punished for trying to anonymize their browsing and opt out of data-collection.

Our competitors resell bandwidth from questionable sources. Packeters on our platform are fully opt-in and understand the business model. We've tested similar offerings from competitors in the past and felt very uncomfortable about indirectly purchasing blackhat botnets and using household internet connections without the knowledge of their owners.

Residential relays are fascinating to us and we've built a model that's ethical and benefits both sides.

We'd love to hear what HackerNews thinks about our service & this industry as a whole.
This might work to maximize price but it won't necessarily land you with the best partners. The smartest, best money knows it and they make you pay for their investment. Moreover, approaching fundraising as a transactional auction in a quick sprint carries with it a bunch of "relationship debt." You're signing on to someone (your investor) you can't fire for the duration of your company's existence. Rushing into that might end up costing your company far more than the marginal gain from a bidding war. Just my two cents.
I'm glad you get it. Thanks for the kind words.
Slow is more likely to preserve the feel I think. The team helping open doors more likely to be part of keeping it real. But given time I think it would bifurcate in a mason-dixon line way. (I rarely get to the south east but now have a new goal to unlock)
Thanks for this feedback ndarilek, I appreciate you taking the time to call it out. Candidly, you're absolutely right—this is an area that we need to be more considerate of as we continue to scale and I apologize that it lead to a less than ideal first experience for you.

We've started down the path of completing an accessibility audit, and are hoping to use those findings to drive highest priority areas of improvement moving forward. While I'm not certain on timelines , I definitely think there could be an opportunity to engage moving forward and would be happy to keep you involved if you're interested.

If you'd like, you can reach me directly aaron@zenhub.com
It's becoming more and more common, at least in the Bay Area. I know several places in downtown Palo Alto that do this.
Would they matter? If representatives ignore the good of their citizens (in preference of lobbyists providing campaign contributions), you might have to find alternative methods to bring about positive change.
That he was an edgy teenager? Yeah.

Image files back in the 80s weren't super common because everybody was on slow dialup and had crappy CGA graphics. There was a fair bit of risque ANSI crawls from groups like ACID and ICE, but they were usually too artistic to be considered just porn.
I've instrumented my place and used rrdtool to graph temperature in several places.

I found that the built-in forced-air heat (and a/c) seems to show up like a sawtooth wave, with an amplitude of about 3-4 degrees.

In the room with my computer desk, I've found that by turning off the forced air heat and using a vornado heater I end up with a very comfortable space with absolutely flat temperature graphs.

I use the one with the dial, not the LED controls, and it seems to have very good air circulation with well-tuned PID temperature controls.
Maybe an over simplified analogy better describes my point. It feels like there use to be three "neighborhoods" for people. The rich neighborhood for people that were wildly successful, the middle class neighborhood for those that did alright, and the poor neighborhood for those just getting their start or starting over.

Nowadays it feels like the rich still get their rich neighborhood, but now the middle-class neighborhood is for the children/families of the rich, and the poor neighborhood is for the middle class, and the poor just get to live in an RV on the streets.

I guess what's weird is that the rich weren't a middle class problem when they were off doing rich people things, but now that the rich are going after what little the middle class have, it's a problem.
Stand by for record bushfires next season
actually there is one Desal plant in Carlsbad, San Diego county https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_"Bud"_Lewis_Carlsbad_De...
Note the source is in SystemVerilog and not Verilog.
As a consumer, I only buy from the operator of the site (Amazon, Walmart, Newegg, etc). The only exception is certain specific vendors on the market place that are the company of the product itself (Anker). I've found it hard to get support/help otherwise.
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Unmentioned in comments so far: Waffle had the ability to consolidate issues from several Github repos at once.

We used one view that made issues from four repos appear as one.

This is a feature I'll really miss.

What other product does this? Looking for something.
100% agreed with this. The 24 hour news cycle, the obsession with trends, the need for social media shares and the focus on 'get it out quick' over 'research the story well' has annihilated the quality of the media in general, and is responsible for about 80% of the problems facing journalism today.
As we gather more information, the free will argument seems to be looking less viable, but it'll be interesting to see how things pan out as ANNs start to guess our next moves. It might be something like picking the next word using a string of past words.

Perhaps such a system could predict our actions and intervene when some poor outcome is predicted and direct us toward more positive outcomes?
I've used h&r block, some irs.gov-recommended online fillable forms, and some other free tax software in the last 5 years (I've only had to file taxes for 5 years now). On average it takes me about 30 minutes, and one year i did pay $20, not realizing i could've done it for free.
Yes, Kindle was my point - it applies the same rules to everything even if the text says something to the effect of the publisher has released this free of DRM. You still can not copy and paste a passage of text, even though the publisher and fair use allow it.
I just find it unseemly to give so much headspace to whatever he said in his memo. Consider not allowing his irrelevant arguments influence how and why you are disconcerted.
This is how it works in my country, although it's done through a website. I usually have to make one or two edits for deductions I can claim and I'm done in 5-10 mins.