skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 5-digit PIN from the previous year's e-filing that's required if you want to expediently e-file this year is enough. Most people aren't going to remember that detail, but the e-filing service you used last year never forgot and they'll gladly auto-fill that block for you as a repeat customer.

I was not asked for such a thing, and used a different preparer this year. I was asked to set a PIN for 2018, but I have never had to use a PIN I previously set. I have always been asked for the prior year's AGI for verification. What software asked you for a prior year's PIN to file this year?
that 4) holds is not so clear to me, being auditable was one of the design goals.
I've heard the same for law studies at several German universities. Sometimes a few pages are ripped out or important paragraphs blackened. The intention is to put your fellow students at a disadvantage in the exams.
And that's great for sites who can ignore a significant part of their visitors or simply don't have IE visitors.
Yes I am! Thanks!
There's also the site (can't find it anymore, anyone got a link?) that offered a different metric for how bloated your site is: divide the total page weight by the same page's contents rendered into a jpeg.
The mobile app has some early proof-of-concept drawings and code, but that part hasn't been built yet. Right now its just core library in go with a simplified CLI interface and the ability for the code to compile to gomobile. The plan is for the mobile app to be reactNative + go (gomobile) with the ability to compile and sideload on iOS and Android. I plan to submit to the app stores, but using that depends on your risk model.
I confess that I do this quite often, if there isn't enough room on the tiny coffee shop table to keep the drink and the laptop far away from each other. What else can you do?

At least the phone is water-resistant.
Very interesting point. My thoughts were along the lines of "underlined links look bad". I did not realise this could be an accessibility problem.
Hardly anyone is writing their styles to set the body text to Times New Roman. Aside from serif typefaces not actually being so bad, if you're seeing Times New Roman on sites like these, it's because you haven't set your default font and your browser is falling back to it on your system.

Fixing this in Firefox is as easy as opening about:preferences in a new window and selecting your preferred sans font. Dan's site will instantly be transformed, and every other site like his (e.g. http://cr.yp.to/ https://motherfuckingwebsite.com etc) will be rendered similarly for all future visits.
This has nothing to do with her being a woman (other that that's the only notable thing about her hence she gets a lot of press over it). When was the last time you saw HN say something nice about Terry Semel? She was the final failed CEO of a failing tech company and she executed some really awful policies along the way. That matched with her outsized support from the press explains 100% of the ire toward her you see here.
I find the Dutch way (slightly) crazy, as someone from NZ for the most part, you just don't file taxes and it works out. If you have a more complicated situation you might need to, but otherwise there's no point. Everything is withheld correctly.

At least the Dutch ones tend to just be click-click-check-done, so it's not too bad. But it was sad moving to filing annual tax returns from a much simpler system.
I've heard at tech conferences like CCC instead of using a few big powerful AP's at central and high locations, they put lower power units in between the audience's seats. Humans, as water bags, are good at dampening signals. So you end up with a lot of small networks cells with high throughput, that don't interfere with each other. Compared to the few big central cells where thousands of devices are fighting for the same frequency slots.
Getting your startup covered by the media
Basically, we wouldn't have to go through the process of filing taxes every year, and we wouldn't have to worry about the potential bill and penalties if we didn't have enough money withheld from our paychecks in the last year.
I loved reading this . Thank you
That is a super important piece of information to put this in perspective. Nice catch.
That's a good thing, isn't it?

Do we really want everything locked down and centralised or do we want a portfolio of tools, marketplaces and such adding up to an educational platform.
Hmm, not sure how I missed that. Good eye though.
One of the VOC's innovations was permanent capitalization. Prior to them, spice trading enterprises to the Indies were literally venture capital. Money was put up at the the start of the voyage and all assets were liquidated at the return. The enterprise lasted only as long as the voyage there and back. Some traders started putting together packages of voyages, again always with the stipulation that assets would be liquidated at a certain point. The bold innovation of the VOC was allow shares to be tradable, with claims on profits, and thus the enterprise could be permanently capitalized.
I love this perspective and will adopt it into my own.
Yay! Glad I could help! Doing taxes in subsequent years is where it really shines, it remembers your previous year stuff so it goes much faster. It also shows you a side-by-side summary of this year vs last year which I find really helpful.

Perhaps you can let them know about the IRA thing for next year?
Social security contributions are a tax, just one earmarked for a specific budget rather than the general fund.
Github flavor spec specifies it is a strict superset of that. But you are right to mention this.
>The VOC’s stocks pushed the company’s worth to a massive 78 million Dutch guilders, which is a pretty solid business even today, but translates to a whopping $7,9 trillion dollar worth today… Yes, really, trillion. That’s 7,900 billion – or 79,000 million!

The math doesn't seem right.
How is this advantageous over gluing?
Graphene Project: Golem, Intel, ITL, UNC, and Texas a&M University
Since when is cleaning the streets the responsibility of private companies?
I checked several math books out of the library over the summer, and they were sitting on my desk when the library emailed me saying they were 'missing', and I was being charged to replace them. I took them back to the library and they aren't missing anymore. Using the methods of this paper, in the interim period while they were declared missing but before I took them back, they were considered 'stolen', even though my account was charged a standard book replacement fee which was well above the cost to replace each book.

So 'missing' is quite often the same as 'extra overdue'. (in most university libraries you end up paying to replace any book you don't return anyway, so I doubt any ethicist would consider it stealing, but that isn't relevant to my point)

If ethicists just check out a lot of books, and they need them for longer than other people use other books, or else ethics books are in short supply so people often request them (so that they can't be renewed and end up being overdue and thus missing more quickly than other books), you would recreate this same data while all of the ethics books could still make their way back to the library in the end.

Here is another possibility: Students check out books from the library so they can avoid buying that books for a class. This would seem to be more common in philosophy than in other subjects because philosophy (or english literature say) tends to require original texts while other subjects have dedicated textbooks, and dedicated textbooks aren't generally held by libraries. If a student takes out a book but it is then put on hold by a professor, it generally is either recalled to the library or can't be renewed. The student just holds the book until the end of the semester, but it is marked missing by the time it is returned at the end of the semester since the hold accelerated the date it was due. Since the data was collected between "October 17 and December 13, 2006,", it is unclear what the data would look like if you did the sampling between say June and August.
That's assuming they ever existed.
This is what Marx calls "alienation from the product of your labor".
>I think people on HN generally have a good understanding of what A/B testing is

Not only do I not believe this, as most people on HN tend to have a very superficial understanding of whatever tech is being discussed, there is always a dismissal of any social consequences that may happen as a result of using any kind of technology.

>I have trouble imagining a realistic scenario in which the act of running a comparison test makes it unethical.

I can't tell if you're being serious or not. You don't need any kind of testing framework for a few famous examples to satisfy your "realistic" qualification. I see a lot of bland contrarian stuff on HN, but I'm kind of speechless right now.
Walmart it's putting to work thousands of robots in its stores
Org-mode does fill the primary use-case for Markdown that I’ve seen, since GitHub will render it just like they do Markdown.

The small slice of Org-mode demonstrated in this article might look like just a Markdown clone, but within Emacs you can do things like a Jupypter notebook with Org-Babel, which GitHub renders statically. Granted, it’s possible to do these things without Emacs (or a watered down plugin for another editor).
Free to the student perhaps, but generally the average cost (to whoever pays) of a year in college (masters/cs courses may be more) tends to be in the €10k-€15k range.
I think you have made several incorrect statements.

I love Markdown, but Org does a lot more, because:

* It supports a variety of timestamps, which is critical for implementing task management workflows. In fact, I think Org has more users for it's time management features than for anything else.

* It supports tables with spreadsheet-like formulas. So you can include data in your documents and perform computations. This opens the door to accounting, billing and part lists when doing project management, etc.

* It extends Emacs outline-mode, so it has a really consistent hierarchical structure, properties, tags and whatnot. Very important in a number of use cases.

* It supports literate programming, which I don't use, but can reasonably replace Jupyter-like notebooks.

* It defines a number of link types, which can be extended. Out of the box, it does support DOI for example. Which is important for many people doing reference management.
I am not a collector myself, but my grandfather was a "stamp collector". I heard all through my childhood about the stamps he had collected since the 1950's, how big and presumably valuable his collection was. He passed almost 20 years ago, and when we finally went through his (admittedly large) collection about 5 years ago, we discovered that everything he collected was the type of stamp you describe - made to be "collectible", not actually particularly interesting or rare. Essentially worthless in terms of monetary value.

However, he enjoyed his lifelong hobby, so, who can say?
I wanted to help Google make AI more responsible but was treated with hostility
Hmm, but you can't say that many people hadn't had great experiences with it.
From the article:

> At the moment, equipment and products that involve glass and metal are often held together by adhesives, which are messy to apply and parts can gradually creep, or move. Outgassing is also an issue - organic chemicals from the adhesive can be gradually released and can lead to reduced product lifetime.
Google's Next Big Money Maker Could Be the Maps on Your Phone
As others have said, speak for yourself. Sure, there are plenty of "coders" who just bolt together stuff written by others, but somebody has to create the pieces and that takes at least a little bit of real creativity. The problem is that we don't distinguish between specialties and roles. In medicine the division is clear between various surgical and non-surgical specialties, or between physicians vs. assistants vs. nurses. In law nobody confuses contract and criminal law, or attorneys (sometimes even barristers vs. solicitors) and paralegals. But we don't do that. You're slightly right in that there are people who call themselves coders who don't really create code, but real coders aren't fantasy.
Then the conclusion is the same: no reason not to let the IRS provide their own tax filing service.
adhesives break down, outgas, and leach degradation components into their environments when heated above their safe operating range.

presumably this is going to be very handy for high temperature applications.
People may want to look at the "Criticism" section of that article, as the commons wasn't as big of a tragedy as people think it was when Garrett Hardin popularized the notion:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Critici...

Garrett Hardin was a (neo)Malthusian:

>Hardin blamed the welfare state for allowing the tragedy of the commons; where the state provides for children and supports over-breeding as a fundamental human right, Malthusian catastrophe is inevitable. Hardin stated in his analysis of the tragedy of the commons that "Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all."[1]:1244 Environmental historians Joachim Radkau, Alfred Thomas Grove and Oliver Rackham criticized Hardin "as an American with no notion at all how Commons actually work".[8]

>In addition, Hardin's pessimistic outlook was subsequently contradicted by Elinor Ostrom's later work on success of co-operative structures like the management of common land,[9] for which she shared the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Oliver E. Williamson. In contrast to Hardin, they stated neither commons or "Allmende" in the generic nor classical meaning are bound to fail; to the contrary "the wealth of the commons" has gained renewed interest in the scientific community.[10] Hardin's work was also criticized[11] as historically inaccurate in failing to account for the demographic transition, and for failing to distinguish between common property and open access resources.[12][13]

>Despite the criticisms, the theory has nonetheless been influential.[14]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Hardin
I actually liked it. Often text logos can compete with the main text and headings in an article. Especially on mobile. Keeping the top nav all icons made the text of the article pop a bit more.
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Livestream, First Pictures of Sagittarius A and black hole
The easier and more "automatic" any tax is, the easier it is to hide, and the less people understand that they're paying it. And as they become less aware of what they're paying, it becomes easier to take more.

OP is acknowledging the inverse is also true, and that if "automatic" aspects of the system were removed, people would become much more aware of what taxes they are paying, which would lead to public support for reducing the amount.
Akzidenz Grotesk is one of my favorites right up there along with suisse intl.
I used something similar, along with a few additions to add timestamp as a column on the left etc.

I've since switched over to org-mode though, I find that the agenda integration and a couple of org-journal plugins make for easy task management. I'd really like an alternative that lets me handle this on mobile, so far I've tried termux and the github edit file interface, and neither are as satisfactory.
David Beckham 'speaks' 9 languages for new campaign to end malaria
#TorchedByElonCultOnHN
The big win for me, and the reason I use Netlify, is that it gives you atomic deploys without any effort. `aws s3 sync` works fine in most cases, but its not atomic, so if you want to make sure what you're deploying is going to work for 100% of users all the time you end up having to build something more complex - at the simplest that involves adding a hash to all your files, making sure they're deployed, and only then pushing index.html (and any other entrypoints).

With Netlify I can just hook it up to Github and they'll handle running any build scripts, and then smoothly flip from the previous version to the new one in single action.
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Yup another person here who just discovered that they probably have this.

My experience is that I only see black, but I can still think/reason about things.

In the interest of cataloging other cognitive functions:

1) Sense of direction - Terrible. I get lost very easily - I do better if I am really focusing hard on the path I take, but that is never the case and I frequently find myself lost without a maps app, even after only a couple turns.

2) General Memory - Very poor. Was below average at
spelling. Terrible at trivia.

3) Forward Digit span - Well above average. 9 digits.

4) Ability to rotate 3d objects - Above average. Took a spacial rotation test in university and scored in the top few percent out of several hundred participants.

5) Ability to slice 3d objects on a plane - Well above average. Aced a test in university(300 participants, only 1 other individual aced it).
So how long till transparent aluminium?
Yeah, I have had similar experiences. Besides just "making physical objects", there's also the camaraderie of working with others directly. Working directly with other people I was laughing, talking, listening all day and those were really fulfilling relationships.
Sounds really interesting. The only potential downside I see is that metal and glass generally expand differently under heat and have different tensile strengths etc. I wonder how they plan to deal with that.
Maybe we can't comprehend it, the same way that I can't comprehend, say prostituting myself for money. If I consider the prospect, it would have to be for ridiculous sums. Yet everyday people are selling themselves for - from my point of view - a pittance.

I guess, if you're in the business of selling your principles (corrupt politician), you're suddenly competing with a wide pool of equally corrupt people, probably with cutthroat tendencies, who are willing to go cheaper than you and take your place?
Could be that driven, principled, smart people are hard to find, but people willing to be corrupt politicians are dime a dozen and replaceable.
Thanks. I'm absolutely not a salesperson, nor any kind of CEO material. After I outgrew my childhood innocence sales boldness, I'm clearly better-suited to be a startup technical co-founder/contributor (maybe also providing a bit of not-totally-naive business sounding board to the startup CEO), developer, researcher, and maybe also startup dev leading.
Sometimes I wish some of those markdown viewers would come with such an effective CSS. For example, the KDE document viewer Okular can display markdown files but they look just awful.

Once I tried finding the source of the Okular style but ended up creating a custom script to convert Markdown files to PDF files with a custom CSS (via Chromium...).
I'm pretty late on this response, so I'm not sure you'll ever see it, but after your recommendation I downloaded Typora. It's excellent. I'd tried it a couple times in the past and was not impressed, but I am now. It's fast, it works predictably well, and the documentation is really good.

I wish they had a means of adding plug-ins (or if it were open-source, so I could figure out how to add my own).

Thanks for the recommendation!

As for vscode, I may try it at some point as vscode is pretty impressive, although I tend to live in the Jetbrains world, and happily so. That said, I haven't really been a fan of any Markdown plugin on Jetbrains apps.
You can no longer apply, they did away with that last year.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309121
Tooling is definitely at least part of why I don't use org, and I use emacs as my primary editor. I love the concept of org, but getting it synced and using it on mobile were not trivial, and features that I'd expect from any similar solution were all painfully manual. I wanted to love org, but I just haven't found a way to make it work for me, and tooling is certainly part of the problem.
The fingerprinting list includes Stripe, why?

https://github.com/mozilla-services/shavar-prod-lists/blob/7...
Any insight on whether this will make up for the falling Q1 sales in the US?
The anti-tax group wants to make paying taxes as painful and inconvenient as possible based on the assumption that if taxes suck, more people will be more actively in favor of reducing taxes (as opposed to, you know, making the process not suck).

It's not about reducing liability at all right now, it's about making more people anti-tax.
Interesting. I wonder if an architect/civil engineer could explain what the implications would be of the application of this technology in the field of construction?
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I see the same thing happening with almost all "most valuable" type awards or badges. Every big tech company that has it now uses it almost exclusively as a PR campaign. The MV% roster of some companies looks more like a list of social media influencers than a list of truly most valuable professionals, with the latter losing ground year after year.
For me it was poll() due to it's simple and intuitive API. Also, it's much faster then select() when you have a large number of file descriptors being monitored.
I think that rules out all mainstream politicians
Not referring to any artificial limbs.
> to backend , many frameworks for each langauge,

As somebody who develops storage systems, I'll bet that what you consider "back end" is still multiple layers "front" of where I sit.

> server but as OP said thats on amazon

You do realize that Amazon employs thousands of coders to create that platform, right? And "borrows" code written by even more thousands, from firmware and kernels up to databases and similar? I'm sure they're still far outnumbered by the front end glue-writers, but there are still enough to create a culture worth writing about.
Not true.

The first Model 3 arrived in Switzerland in the 3rd week of February (2019-02-16). Tesla already sold 316 in February 2019 (+754% YoY).

How much of an exceptional month March will be for the year, we'll see after the April data is released. The number of preorders for Model 3 in Switzerland should be easily 1 order of magnitude higher than what they delivered in March.
> When America invades with the intent to steal a country, let me know.

Sure:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Point 2 is after-the-fact rationalization so they don't have to admit point 1 in public.
Yeah I don't really see law or medicine as any different in this regard.

People all have a basic idea of what makes you ill, what various diseases, treatments etc. are. But most people don't understand the intricacies of the endocrine system.

People all have a basic understanding of the law, what kind of sentences to expect for what crimes, how court works etc. But most people don't understand <INSERT_COMPLICATED_ASPECT_OF_LAW>.

You see where I am going with this..

People all have a basic idea of how the internet works (you connect to the network and data is returned to your computer), the difference between 4G and Wi-fi etc. But most people won't be able to explain the difference between RSA cryptogrpahy and eliptic curve cryptography.
> And, the other 1% is usually cases where pthread should have been used instead.

Ummmm. No. Threads are a much harder API to get right. They can work in this area, but that's not the same as saying they're right for all/most cases in this area.

I think a sizable part of that remaining 1% (if it is that low) are programs that leverage fork as the very powerful right tool for the job. Many of those also happen to be widely-used programs crucial for the operation of web services and large-data-set processing.
It’s my understanding that adhering steel to glass has not been an issue for some time. The issue is that they expand differently with heat. Which is why you have a rubber/flexible seal.