skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pirate it every year because fuck Intuit. I also got rid of my Mint account.

I always print and mail in my state taxes.

I always save both in the proprietary format and to PDF and sync to my Dropbox. This way any irreversible problems are versioned and possible to reverse.

I will NEVER EVER use their website. I'd rather schlep to an accountant and have an actual person to talk to.

For those asking... how does that work? Well the normal CD version of Turbotax just assumes as long as it's installed and on your computer that it was obtained legally so there's no need for a crack or anything like that. You simply can't E-File the state taxes without paying a fee. Easy to avoid by simply printing it out, signing, and sticking a stamp on an envelope.

I've been doing this for 8 years and I've never paid a dime to Intuit. And I never will.

Any Congress critter that actually makes it easier to vote using only federal software and which takes care of complex situations like stocks and other capital gains will have my vote for life.
No, Amazon confirmed my card wasn't even being used for Prime at all. They just charged my card with the name 'Amazon Prime', and were withdrawing money from it.
Yes there is a screen for mpg/remaining but oil life is always displayed by default. If it were me I would have maybe implemented a timer on oil life so maybe you see it at startup but then it rolls to fuel stat later. But ask me why I can’t see the bottom of the analog fuel gauge... that’s where my wife stacks a bunch of crap. So it’s a combo of user error and rigid design! :)
Not for me, since moving to a different state within the year is apparently too complicated for them.

I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, though.
Is it a more reliable predictor of mental incapacity than an arbitrary number of revolutions of a planet against a star, the one we use for driving, voting, drinking, and even straight up confinement as with schools?
Wow. Recursive CTEs are awesome. :)
This author is a voice we really need as a counterpoint to the current train of thought running through American politics. I will definitely check out his books.

As a side-note, I couldn't help but think of Kayne declaring that 'he's not black, he's Kanye' as an attempt to get across what Williams is talking about here. Of course, it tremendously backfired. I'm also reminded of some of Moran Freeman interviews, in which he cooly refuses to be pigeonholed.
Sounds like you could benefit from a REPL!

Edit:

> awkward and ill-documented APIs

As someone else mentioned, that sounds more like a work environment problem. If using a debugger allows crap like that to persist, maybe it's better for everyone if we tone down how much we use debuggers.
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https://www.google.fi/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/20...

Just one example. This issue in ML has been on the surface for few years now.
It just goes to show that people DO associate their worth with their salary. I talk about my salary with my friends because we realize that it's all kind of a crapshoot and/or a matter of choosing whether or not to sell your soul.
Women have definitely reclaimed "bitch" to an extent.
Or use the browser's built-in form state management: https://medium.com/@everdimension/how-to-handle-forms-with-j...

Bonus: it's almost certainly more accessible than custom solutions.
This is currently being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715450
Once you go down the path, it's easy to start adding more and more, and it's easy to forget about them. They sometimes blend in well with patches you generate, since it's just a 'print()' and nothing obvious like 'import pdb; pdb.set_trace()'
I agree the map is understating the spread. However, natural predators are not long gone. Coyotes are spreading like crazy and bears are another huge deer predation species. Hunting may be limited in Massachusetts, etc. but I assure that is not true in NY or PA. In PA, schools are closed for the first day of deer season and ~500K people head off to the woods trying to find a deer.
If it's a fair service then they should be able to be obvious and upfront about the difference between the two options.
Looks like the link is down. Is there a mirror?
> Amazon has literally won everywhere else in the world

I've mentioned it in another comment, too, but Amazon is not present in my Eastern European country (Romania), where Alibaba beats them by a large margin (even though they're also not officially launched here). I've just done a quick search and it seems Amazon is not winning it in Russia either, nor in Ukraine, to say nothing of India. As such, to say that they are winning "everywhere else in the world" is not really true, they're only winning in North America and some Western European countries (too lazy to search what really happens in South America or Africa).
I'm pretty sure I would have been fine driving a car as soon as I could reach the pedals, and school was a waste of time after 5th grade; why did they restrict my freedom when in the latter case I'd at most harm myself? There were obvious and severe problems with that.
Somehow we decided that after a certain age you can do whatever you want (more or less) and the constraints that arise from the fact that you are incapable, and dependent on care, stop applying.
THAT is a completely arbitrary standard.

The only argument I can think in favor of this is that arbitrary age-based standard is much harder to abuse. But that is a (valid) implementation problem, not a moral one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
Just for fun. If it's too long watch from 2:30.
Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190422150111/https://smartcar....

(And a reminder to donate to archive.org if you can!)
I thought we all decided APIs shouldn't/couldn't be copyrighted because that was evil when Oracle and Microsoft tried to do it?

I guess literally copy-pasting the docs is a flagrant violation, but it seems like that's the least of their problems. Presumably BigCorp will now get a cleanroom team to re-document the re-implemented API.
I was seriously considering running ads for FreeTaxUSA out of disgust for TurboTax, it is sad that information flows so slowly through the world :/
Congratulations on the launch, Rich! It's looking like we're really starting to approach the form and function of what "a language to build the web" ought to be.

One small question about some of the pragmatic choices in Svelte 3: What was the decision process behind choosing to smuggle the new reactive features under a "standard" JavaScript skin? ($:, export let, etc.) Is it just to avoid needing to rewrite all existing JS tooling — parsing, syntax highlighting, linting — or is there something deeper going on?
https://web.archive.org/web/20190422133544/https://smartcar....
Ask HN: Day-by-day plan for starting gym
I have never stepped inside a gym and would like some help (day-by-day plan/curated lists) for first timers.

Bonus points if it includes nutrition/dietary guidelines too.
A 40-80% rate per week!

If it's just regular filing, that's something like $70, and the IRS pays the refund in about a week. TurboTax claims they vouche for the validity of the filing, so there's little risk of it not coming through, and even if it does, they can just say, "oops, we can't file for you until you do XYZ" and boom, they didn't finish providing the service.

So, that's a $40 loan on $70 of principle, or 57% for that week. Annualized -- to make it commensurate with other interest rates -- that's (1.57)^52 = a f---ing lot.
Yet the us does not have mandatory maternity leave. Money is choices. That people must sacrifice it in order to do things like raise children is evidence that our society does not value homemaking.
Your taxes should come out the same no matter where you fill them out. If you get different numbers between services, you're missing something on one of them.
I am not sure what makes me angrier, the abuse of civil forfeiture, or the initial breaking down a door and use of a flash bang as initial contact.

Now, this is only off of one source, but I am of the opinion that the use of a explosive designed to cause hearing and vision damage on a civilian (without any other interaction) was blatant overuse of force, and needlessly endangering the nearby public, as well as the risk of fire.

The civil forfeiture abuse is bad enough, but using an explosive device on a civilian, while flashbangs are, in almost all cases, nonlethal, the do produce sound levels that cause instant and permanent hearing damage, and can sill cause burns as well as other injuries.

I still don't understand how task forces like this can start with this kind of interaction, where a normal warrant has to be served like any other legal demand. I assume there is some special provision that is meant for use when some level of danger is expected during the interaction, and is used to "skip-past" the usual formalities used for executing warrants, that was meant to be used where extreme expedience was needed, or the persons being served were assumed to be actively hostile...
I can't say much due to contract. But I can point you to a good source to get started:

https://v1.probmods.org/learning-as-conditional-inference.ht...
> Do you think corporations like the New York Times should not have freedom of speech?

I will admit i have not thought long and hard on this. But on the surface it seems like the answer is "Yes".

But the individuals working in those corporations do. So when a journalist submits an article their free speech is protected as an individual rights extended through the corporation. Similarly for property rights...

I think the idea i'm trying to get at is that these corporations shouldnt have influence beyond the voting power they represent, ie the people.

Speaking of ideals, for example a hypothetical single employee business w/ billions in wealth should have 1 unit of political power, whereas a public interest group with a few thousand of dollars but 100 people should have 100 units of political power.

Edit: Corrected my "No" --> "Yes" because the question sentence was confusing
Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling majority of student debt
It's shocking how FAANGS have not utterly dominated what should be a utility market by now. Shame on them - not for 'not doing a good job' but for arguably getting in everyone else's way with crap. I'm thinking of you Skype. It really goes to show how inefficient things can be when there is not product focus, and tons of money coming in from some other division.
> I don’t understand why we can’t celebrate our differences instead of expecting women to fit in to men sized roles.

Who's asking you to "expect" anything? I think if you assess people's abilities individually everybody's happy.
gLinux is Google's internal Linux distribution, based on Debian.
Right, especially since it's so counterintuitive -- paying with a credit card usually costs them more so you don't expect that paying out of the refund would be the more expensive option.

In fairness, I may have missed something more obvious in the UX.
What about adversarial patches to make the camera ID a different targeted person? Could be used to frame someone.
I'm not so sure if human being should have the attribute of "worth" (I formulate it like this because "have no worth" has a different meaning). If they do, you can make ugly calculations: It's worth to kill 300 PAX to save 1000s in the skyscraper the plane is going to fly into. It's worth to kill one prisoner in interrogation because he knows where his partner might have the hostage (or two?).
As a Bulgarian, that's very surprising to read!

What is the average delivery in days when shopping from Alibaba? Do you get huge delivery fees akin to Amazon and eBay?

I'm pretty unhappy with Amazon and eBay for shopping in Bulgaria and I'm considering alternatives.
Ask HN: Code Review as due-diligence before possible acquisition
Hi everyone,

Throwaway account because protection of the innocents.

I have a small SaaS app in a niche market that might be acquired by a bigger player (team will also part of the deal) and one of the things that will happen in case an agreement is reached is a code-review done by a 3rd-party under NDA (which could break the deal, as I understood)

From what I understood they want to assess the "quality" of the code (they've already asked us questions like how much tests are there
size of codebase, etc) so that they're not getting a big ball of mud.

I was wondering what could I expect in such a situation and what red flags might arise in such a situation, if anyone has ever been in such a situation.

Might be able to improve somethings before the situation happens :)
They were presumably a fair bit harder to track in 1972.
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I'm sure all the Hungarian / German scientists who powered the Manhattan project (and were fundamental in making USA the scientific superpower they are now), and the current grad school population of Asians are all causing American society to end in tears.
I had similar thoughts, but then I started realizing that investing in fighting malaria or cheap ultrasound scanners will matter little if in 30-50 years much of our planet becomes uninhabitable, which is now nearly certain unless we take immediate action.

These days I think almost all resources should be thrown into inventing and developing carbon capture technologies.

I don't mean to belittle the achievement or sound harsh, but when thinking of priorities one has to consider what will happen if something is not done.
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I Invest in Cryptocurrencies as a Sixteen-Year-Old
Remember when we used to worry only about countries like China, Kazakhstan and Turkey abusing the DNS system for censorship? Those were the good days!
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Detecting Russian Bots on Reddit
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124: Five Abstractions Make an Inception and More
"Does depend on number of donkeys vs number of coyotes though. They're ornery, not magic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8044508
Works fine on safari private mode with content blockers enabled
Where did you get this "Java failed" idea? Java is one of the most widely used languages in the whole world...
Why is street parking free? I think there is the root of your problem: street parking isn't properly charged.
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.”

Equity, not equality.
or even better, let's just say "American cities" if that's what we mean, no sense using dated and confusing terminology.
This is what I did at a previous company where the main product was a messaging app with daily active users in the millions. Deletions were bit flips that were then cleaned up later by a cron job.
> we use Google for one person meetings

Ah, Hangouts works splendid for one person meetings! Anything with two or more people I'd rather use something else ;)
Having lived in both China and US/Canada, I would say jd and taobao is far ahead of American Amazon. Some key differentiators include delivery speed, UI/UX, product offerings and the ability to chat with merchants instantly.
All your of your comment is intentionally stripping things of context in a pathetic attempt disarm a fair argument without addressing the actual substance of it.

Saying “kowtow”, “bruh”, “what’s good”. Not a problem.

Someone who never says “bruh” or “what’s good” suddenly talking like they’re extras in a Migos music video to their black coworker is not cool.

Saying kowtow, but only in reference to Asians and always using “appease” in other contexts, is not cool.

Yeah I know HN is mostly white guys who squirm at the idea of race and think “I don’t see color” is an ok thing to say, but if you’re not going to at least try and take someone's arguments for full value, even if you don’t agree, don’t even respond, it’s insulting otherwise.
And just to show how complicated science in general is, your thinking is another example of bias. Requiring a higher burden of proof for findings that someone might be uncomfortable with is bad science. The burden of proof must be equally high for everyone.

The real problem here isn't the science, is the pseudo-science and the journalism. It's pretty common for people to take single studies out of context and act as if their cherry picked study is the final word. Science journalists are supposed to bridge the gap between experts and laymen, but there seems to be very few good science journalists, and there seems to be lots of hacks and conmen.
The Ninja Brain: Humans Can Prioritise Meaningful Sounds Even While Asleep
I’d argue that Mac OS (9/X) hit peak usability in the mid to late 2000s, when they were still trying to dethrone Windows.
> How do women think about things? I mean- according to your mom. You report her saying and seem to agree with it. Do you know what she means?

I don't believe I ever argued that I understood women?

I Merely stated that on average women differ from men and that it's no less valuable- I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that I believe that I know how women think.

It's genuinely impossible to know how all women think just like it's impossible to know how all _people_ think.
> The whole point of object orientation to put data and behavior together

May I politely disagree based on my long-ago experience with dylan, which has multi-methods (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimethods>). This allowed the action on the data (the methods) to be defined separate from the data. I strongly feel that it was OO done right, and it felt right.
You can read about it on the wiki link but it likely won't click until you play with it.

I'd like to give an example but it's too long ago and I don't have any to hand, sorry.
Because this is the “I don’t see color” crowd and it makes them uncomfortable to talk about anything racial, so they’d rather bury your comments about it and not have to look.

As if to prove a point, both this comment and another were downvoted literally before the page finished refreshing after submission

There is no way someone could have read both in the time it took my page to refresh, but it’s not nice to acknowledge race exists for these people so that’s that...
There are zero material consequences for a well-funded startup to pull shenanigans like this. Why should we be surprised this is happening?
Other articles in this NYT series describe how location data is used for similar types of inference. Many of these systems are nearly impossible to opt out of, since they rely on deep rooted tech, like cell carrier chipsets, credit purchase history (tied to retail addresses), or even psychographic & demographic profiles tied to people in your neighborhood (essentially block level aggregates of commute & purchase data). Your strategy of spending time generating fake data online is not enough to really opt out of these systems, and many would argue that the burden of generating consistent dummy personas is already immense. To really opt out of your data being sold or used to target you, you would need to be ready to not travel with a cell phone, not use any electronic payments like credit/debit cards, or even conceal your place of residence from public sources through complex legal obfuscation. Obviously there are different levels of obscurity that can be had, but much of this technology uses dragnets with few practical ways to entirely hide.
Long-Lasting Consequences of Gun Violence and Mass Shootings
No coyotes and wolves around?
The important part is the configs, other than that is just another distro. a very small niche group serviced this distro, and it seems to be derelict. The useful part of BZ mesh is USB bootup. so any machine can become and unbecome a node.
sometimes something is finished and nothing further is done then a new way pops up. the advantage to porteus is its pared down for rapid boot up, to reestablish a node while walking about on the fly.

" Major changes include:
Kernel 4.16.3
Core is based on Slackware current
7 desktop options to choose from!
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.porteus.org/"

i believe its OLSR you may like.https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Mesh_Networking_with_...
'why inheritance sucks' is a good topic
How job ad could be useful even when you are not looking for jobs?
Interesting that you mention this as this is a topic I learned today in Numerical Linear Algebra: Krylov subspace methods.
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I suggest you give Brave New World, which i mentioned in the previous comment, a look. Huxley solves this problem with communal child rearing. Basically it's public school, but from child birth without the nuclear family model. The idea that you need a mom and dad (or even 2 parents) to love and raise a child is becoming obsolete.
I never said I didn’t trust his explanation. As I recall it seemed like he had no intention of ever making it widely available so was just surprised to see it show up all of the sudden. This is sort of funny, I’m actually a big fan of his work and yet everyone seems to think my question is a knock on him.
So basically mostly the same thing MobX does in React and Vue does out of the box?

That's not a bad thing - that's the "good" kind of Reactivity and how most UI should be written IMO - it involves significantly less boilerplate.
Joe passed away last week.
Could there possibly be reasonable explanation for this? With big name investors involved it's likely that respectable and legitimate reporters wouldn't be interested in digging up the truth.
The point is that for most cases I'm dealing with things that are not extremely performance sensitive (ie every ms doesn't count), but which should handle arbitrary user input without grinding to a halt.

If I need a combination, I can always check for small N and call a different implementation.
Well you don't know why they haven't been able to execute quickly. Maybe that approval they need to start a service wasn't given? Maybe the partnership they needed from the local delivery channel was delayed? Maybe the sellers were restricted to sell only on domestic companies?
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How much training do you need though: A one day class can cover "this is is normal, this is where you need help". Of course these are animals: farmers are willing to make economic decisions here. The risk/cost of a rare disease going undetected vs time to learn how to accurately diagnose it (or pay someone who has the training) is something that can be talked about.
SimpleNativeHooks – Java library for global keyboard and mouse listeners
Worth doesn't have to be absolute nor quantifiable. To use a mathematics analogy, you can have an ordered set without addition and subtraction, and it could even be roughly ordered so you can't tell the difference between two adjacent elements.
Thanks Jeremy! As I've expressed elsewhere, observablehq.com provided important inspiration. I've also been influenced by your own comments in the past about a language for building web apps.

It's exactly that — there's so much tooling in the JS ecosystem that we can lean on, and by inventing new syntax we'd be throwing all that away. It'd be great if we could do `prop answer = 42` and `a <= b`, but it's just not worth it — once you get used to `export let` and `$: a = b` it quickly becomes second nature, we've found.
Actually Angular does this with Zones which is a different Reactivity system.

This is actually quite similar to what PostSharp did with WPF where it injected INotifyPropertyChanged and WPF compiling its getters and setters.

Then it's also similar to KnockoutJS (inspired by WPF), MobX (inspired by Knockout) and Vue (also inspired by Knockout)