skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quora is being indexed by search engines. From googling around the date was around August 6th it happened.
You could just use a meta tag or link tag with rel="author". Both are hidden from users and, unlike this proposal, are also de facto standards for including author information in web pages.
A geek's shady can be a normal's valuable. I've met more than one fitness minded person who told me I should sign up for the livestrong newsletter. Apparently it really hits the spot for a certain demographic. Nothing wrong with that.

Never underestimate how far you are from the mainstream.
Wow, a mandatory minimum wage for professionals. I estimate that this will last for about ten more minutes.
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LLC
On my opinion LLC is way to go for starts-up! <a href="http://www.llcde.com/">LLC in DE</a>
Actually it is included in Python 3:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/antigravity.py?v...
In the UK personal taxes are generally automatically handled by the employer. You just get the post-tax income transferred into your bank every month, and a payslip showing the deductions that were made.

(Outsourced PAYE administration costs about £20 per month for a very small company.)

It gets more complicated when you can't do taxes through PAYE for any reason - unearned income, dividends, directorships etc.

My own taxes as a director of two firms subject partially to mandatory PAYE on some of my income are a US-level nightmare and once you are out of the 'simple system' getting back into it takes years.
Java has had this since Java 1.1, I believe.
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hmm, this smells kind of familiar. Some of it is almost a direct quote from page 110 of "4-hour workweek". Good advice for sure, but I question the originality.
I think the Jargon File (http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html) puts it nicely.. there are several definitions, most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems and overcoming limits.
A large sales tax is an unfair tax on the poor. Why should people making $20,000 a year pay the same tax on their groceries as someone making $1,000,000 a year?
Well, you could use the same argument against any feature at all! Besides, I can point at zillions of Java applications that are not written by huge mystery corporations with legions of slaving programmers. There's no point holding back on improving a language just because you think some people might refuse to use your improvement.
Even with that, I've known clients come back a while later (disclaimer - I was the grunt coder, not the boss) and insist there had been verbal agreement to put in large extra features, or that the feature they'd spent some time engaging with you to specify clearly wasn't anywhere near correct adn needed completely replacing..... In one of those cases I knew exactly where the person concerned lived. Tempation.......

A lot of clients are just fine, do what they're supposed to and pay for it. A percentage will try to scam you even with an agreement if they sense an opportunity - even with what you thought was a detailed bill of work - because they realise you need them more than vice versa, they've screwed up and need the extra to cover themselves, or because they're just plain crooks. Shouldn't happen but it does; deal with it and move on.
Can you give any information or share any scripts about how you generated and converted these ?
While it's true that anonymous inner classes implement a form of closures, among the folks talking about the next version of Java, "closures" has become the shorthand for the various proposals to improve the syntax for callbacks and/or add true anonymous functions.
Unlikely, courts tend to take a dim view on religions that aren't several hundreds if not thousands of years old.

It is a legal hack to prevent situations like the one you described.
Fantastic!

It would be interesting to combine pipelines into something that branches off into various categories. For e.g., you could split the lines of access-log file into IP addresses and size of requests and fork off separate processing threads: one for obtaining unique set of IP addresses and another for summing up.

It seems like all that is needed for describing a pipeline is:

(a) a queue for input
(b) a processing program that's connected to the queue
(c) (possibly multiple) queues for output
(d) a topology connecting the processing programs
(e) a job scheduler.

At the face of it, it looks similar to Apple's Automator and Matt Welsh's PhD thesis on SEDA:

* http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/seda/
* Paper: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf

EDIT: Formatting
How much would you like to wager? I'm game. Most people I've witnessed interacting with Wikipedia went there to use it as a quick reference, or to learn about something they heard somewhere and wanted to learn about. In the first group, speed is key--they're squeezing the learning process into a very brief window of curiosity. Qwiki is a time drain, and it's not competitively entertaining compared to something like television, which it somewhat mimics. In the latter group, Qwiki is also too slow and these users jump around the Wikipedia page looking for the details and specific sections instead of the general idea.

Qwiki looks cool because it resembles something that looks like entertainment, perhaps a documentary, but if you release that as a Wikipedia replacement instead of a learning device for the younger crowd, I doubt its competitive potential.
i just realized the both of us need to start an american-expat-tech-entrepreneur-tax forum. a few other people are in the same boat and email me based on my profile from time to time. I find i know much more about IRS tax code regarding form 2555 than most US accountants because they just don't deal with it much, OR, the ones that have charge way more than I can afford to help me with my questions - but i haven't found a place to discuss these type of issues online. perhaps a google group?
Don't tax groceries as is already the case in many states.
I have found over the last couple of months that Google Scholar is very good at finding alternative locations for the PDF.
I do wish that US prisons would decide whether they're in the business of punishment or rehabilitation. You see a lot of talk about rehabilitation, of course, but so much of what goes on in there seems to have no purpose but to punish people. (e.g. broad societal tolerance of prison-rape, or petty tyrannies such as those described in the article)

I'd prefer that they came down on the side of rehabilitation, of course... but I'd settle for /honesty/ about their goals.
Ask HN: Best intro to programming (heavy on algorithm design/mathy stuff)?
My girlfriend wants to get into programming. She's a math whiz, and wants to find an intro to programming from a perspective that assumes you know nothing and would then allow her to look at stuff like algorithm design and statistical analysis.

I suggested the Try Ruby tutorial but it was being really buggy, and I don't know anything else good.

Any suggestions?
Ask HN: When did you 1st start programming and why?
I'm not a programmer, but I've started taking an interest in learning how. But I can't help but notice just how intimidating the barriers to entry are. I'm making my way through the RoR tutorial on railstutorial.org and liking the progress I'm making so far. So, any suggestions? Stories? Warnings?
I do agree with you here, trying to consume and digest everything that comes out in one's field of interrest is not only pretty hard but also extensively time consuming.

I guess the point of the article is more to, induce people into considering more academic papers when they do research -- that is, either for their own non-academic or academic research.

I always find it interesting to read those, when they're closely related to what I'm trying to do or what I am currently doing / researching.

And as far, as trying to catch-up with a whole field of interest, often enough, there are books -- written by the same researchers that wrote the papers you missed -- that presents you the latest advancement in the field over the past years ; all the while presenting you the way of thought that accompanies these discoveries... A good example of that would be "Burst" by A.-L. Barabási, a personal favorite :)
When is the best time to start a company?
I'd like to clarify the issue. Personally, I think that the CPA in question in the article is an idiot for a number for reasons. (1) He's an accountant so he should've known that playing this game with the IRS as a CPA is begging the IRS to slam you. (2) Litigating a losing position like this so publicly is going to kill your reputation and put you on the IRS' top 10 favs list for life.

This is a very clear issue actually and I'm not sure why there is so much confusion and I'd disagree with calling this tax plan a "trick."

It is a legally sound tax plan with a justified theory. You are allowed to exempt a portion of your income from payroll taxes because they are "corporation distributions." Corporate distributions or dividends are not taxed as earned income because they are considered passive investment income. An S-Corp is a corporation that abides under a specific subset of rules within the IRC's Corporation Regulations, thus it is for all legal purposes a regular corporation with certain special rules.

A reasonable salary is a fairly straight forward question. The IRS won't nitpick with you on silly numbers as long as you fit within the range. Obviously, for every position there is a high and low salary range, so as long as you fit within that range the IRS will leave you alone.

The CPA is an idiot because he underpaid himself below market rates to the point where he couldn't justify his position under any reasonable defense.

If you were developer, then you would be paid anywhere from 40k to 250k+ depending on your company, position and experience. Thus, you could potentially pay yourself 40k in reasonable salaries if you owned an S-Corp and take the rest as a dividend. As long as you are able to provide "comps or comparable salaries" to positions with equitable responsibilities and experience in your local region.

The important thing to remember is to be reasonable.

I'm a full-time tax accountant, so this is coming from years of experience in the field with direct contact with auditors from the federal and state levels. They won't come knocking unless you were being a greedy idiot because like the article states it's expensive for the government to audit someone, so when they do audit you it has to be a profitable venture (thus, they usually audit the sure-thing losers).
If PayPal is as good at keeping your money safe as they profess, it shouldn't make a difference, right?

You're making a utilitarian argument, but it seems predicated on some kind of zero sum, that the only way of protecting the world from Nigerian scams is to prevent consumers in Nigeria from being able to buy things from elsewhere. I question that assumption.
I used to think that blogging couldn't hurt your career. Then I read this post.

From the sidebar:

This post is authored by Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney of Kinney Recruiting, sponsor of the Asia Chronicles. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past four years.

Then we have the following professional-sounding quotes:

I used to play Dungeons & Dragons in high school. Just as predictably, I didn’t lose my virginity until I stopped.

any D&D “gang” member would find themselves tossing salads faster than you can say

I stopped reading at about this point. If you are going to do a legal analysis on your bullshit placement firm's blog, try to err on the side of being too professional. If you are going to make jokes, try to at least be funny.
I've been meaning to check out "Start Small, Stay Small" for a while, glad you recommend it. Two more books to add as well:

4. "How to Get Rich" (Dennis) http://amzn.to/5s0Z02 - Not your typical get-rich-quick book. This book is all about the hard work and sacrifice it takes to accomplish your goal.

5. "Do More Faster" (Feld & Cohen) http://amzn.to/culsRy - Was recommended by a friend, this is probably the next best thing to doing TechStars or YC without actually being there.
yes they are

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-and-the-business-...
So all poor people are allowed to do is eat? That's worked really so far...
How are you at marketing? If you can do marketing for a Saas app, let me know. We might be able to work something out.
Book called learn Python the hard way, loved it back in the day, you need to know nothing to follow it!
Fair point, and I'd agree. My career goals aren't particularly amenable to most startups, and with a child I have little interest in the risk/reward profile of startups. Further, I have little interest in mixing my personal and professional relationships - that seems like a needless complication for little gain.

That said, my point still stands. $2000 isn't worth it for me to do my company's dirty work and knowingly save them $18000 in the process.
>I do wish that US prisons would decide whether they're in the business...

They have decided. They are in the business of BUSINESS -- it is a profitable system where they harvest their crop through a corrupt system of laws - even outright bribing judges to send them new meat (like the case with the juvenile judges back east -- http://boingboing.net/2009/02/02/judges-jailed-for-ta.html)

Honesty about their goals == PROFIT
Sigh, another language war troll that don't know that table is for Perl 6 and not for Perl 5... :-(

Can't you guys at least vary your garbage? (Assuming it isn't one guy with multiple accounts everywhere.)
This article is speculative at best, but I can't say my heart didn't skip a beat at the prospect of never seeing experts-exchange.com in my search results ever again.
Many companies don't recognize the individual talent of programmers - they merely see them as replaceable cogs in a machine. This is typically the case for corps where developing software isn't their main business, or if management themselves come from a non-technical background.

Why work for someone who doesn't understand your value?
What? Nobody that uses 5.6 also knows about the CPAN.

I would draw the line at 5.10 for "serious production stuff" and 5.12 for anything else. If you can't use the second oldest version, you can write your own code.
Startup in 7 days
I've been fortunate enough to work for companies that recognized programmer talent. If you're working for a big corporation, there are plenty of HR restrictions that prevent dramatic salary adjustments. But even then, I've seen 2-3x pay differences - usually coupled with promotions.

In the startup world, a very talented developer can usually get equity even as an employee if they join early on, which can increase the multiple way beyond 10x if the company is successful. And if you are capable of being a technical co-founder, obviously there's the shot of a lot more.
Put "use 5.010" in your Makefile.PL and you won't see the failures from older Perl installs.
I'm from Switzerland. My OS X is English though. So is Chrome. Did I do something "wrong" by accident to make that happen?
12 years old ; Fascinated by computer viruses, and hacking :)

But nowadays, what I really think amazed be, and still does, is the way we are able to go from a thought to its implementation through the use of a programming languages in about no time.

Think of any other field other than software engineer where you can go from hypothesis to modelling and then testing in about a few hours or days ? There ain't many. (On a side note that's why its becoming more and more prevalent to use programming to model and study real world situation ; e.g. economics, standing-ovations, etc ).
Really? Even 5.8.8 has some major bugs.

I would only aim to support 5.8.9, 5.10.1, and 5.12.2, and at this point I don't know of anyone still using 5.8, so I just stick with the two most modern versions.

When 5.14 is released, it will really be time to kiss 5.8 goodbye.
There's this fellow who posts by the name "gnosis" on the interwebs, and I'm pretty sure he's the real killer of JFK. The DNA evidence for his innonence is . . . wait for it . . . NONEXISTENT !!!11!!! OMFG CALL NANCY GRACE NOW !!!
Thanks for your feedback. What would make it more useful for you? Finding teas that contain ginger isn't too useful, but apple and cinnamon-flavored teas that help improve digestion would be useful for me, at least. I get the health benefit with my favorite flavors.
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I'd actually suggest, any good tutorial on the net ; pretty everything that you need is there, just need to google it there.

You'd be surprised at how much resources there is online.

Honestly, buying books as introductions seems useless to me besides the fact of that buying the book might actually push you more into the actual programming act.

But for her to start, the best would really be to pick tutorials that not only relates to her future use of the program but also to what interrest her. Because, after all, she probably won't be programming websites or wordpress themes.

Quick googling for "math related python tutorial" got me this :) http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?id=101

seems pretty cool intro.
How did you get into it? Read any books? Asked someone?

I agree that the field is fascinating and I am having a hard time focusing on my classes as a side effect.

I've read a lot of blogs that directed me towards certain books and tutorials. However, I'm curious about how people start from 0.
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No, because it compiles to Python. I suppose I could finagle some way to manage it for self-calls, by putting the whole function in a loop.

Although that would bind the function name earlier than usual for Python. In Python, you can (in theory) do this:

def fact(n,sofar):
if n<2:
return sofar
else:
return fact(n-1,n*sofar)

f=fact
fact=lambda n,sofar: 3

...whereupon f(7,1)==3. I suppose I wouldn't really mind if Adder broke that consistently, but I don't think I like the idea of breaking it only for functions that do self-tail-calls.
>It's actually high value ... Low quality, high value. Spam is something else entirely

It's not high value from a monetary perspective either. It's low value, high volume. And anything low-value and untargetted enough IS spam.

I would quantify value of an informational chunk by viewing it as a signal and measuring the degree of data compression present. For example, a Groupon listing has extremely high value as it compresses all of the economic data in an entire city to a single very best coupon at a rate of one per day.

The only difference between spam, ads, and content is the probability that the degree of compression or informational value they offer is greater than the attentional resources required to absorb it. The threshold values between categories vary person to person of course.
Can't you already just use -site:example.com if they're spamming you? I usually only get spam results when I'm searching for something that doesn't actually exist, in which case spam is the only thing around for it to show me.
Dereks post are invariably excellent..

Im sure Im not the only person expecting him to publish a physical book with all these articles in one place.

Title?
Do you really rewrite working and tested code just to use new or more convenient features of the language? I don't see that being a good option, nor one that most developers would take.
1- Choose a goal/project

Try to think short term here since you probably won't be full time on that, and so it won't replace your job in the short term -- i.e. get a goal that is both easy and fun to you

2- Choose a prog lang

Depending on what u want to do in the future with your skills, you'll choose another language.

For that, either ask around or here in HN I guess.

3- Google [language] tutorial

4- then Google [language] [goal/project] tutorial

glhf !
Not in the case of "New and notable". This particular list is, to the best of my knowledge, autogenerated (as opposed to "Staff picks", which is put together manually). There's a sliding time window and if your app generates some significant number of downloads/reviews while in that window, it will appear in the list. Reviews, to the best of my knowledge, worth more than pure downloads.
http://appsendr.com
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While Calibre is a brilliant application for basic document management and conversion it should be mentioned that it is highly unlikely that it will convert a PDF eBook perfectly. I've got a bunch of free CS books I've collected over the years and outside of plain-text books it's struggled to convert everything.
This is awesome. I think I finally understand generators, and I just thought of a couple use cases in the code I'm working on now. This is great. Fantastic submission.
Mashing the resources together would surely destroy the speed boost of a CDN?
That's why nobody would set it up that way. The government (in this scenario) could afford to send cash money to all households to cover the tax cost of food and minimal living expenses such that the only taxes paid are for expenses beyond that minimum. A large sales tax would actually work out very well and be rid of the complexities of the IRS completely. I'd encourage anyone curious about how this would work (regardless of your initial reaction to the idea) to check out the reading material on http://www.fairtax.org/ .
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Fraud prevention. All the payment processors are in the same boat.
Of course, this might just make the spammers buy up more domains ...
This looks like #5 on pg's Request for Startups: http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
What do people use for viewing .mobi files on linux?
Sure, but they don't let you block dozens of sites and it's annoying to have see your queries cluttered up with -site:ehow.com. It's not just classical spam that I want to see blocked in my SERPs, but widely low quality content like eHow, Yahoo! Answers, Cha Cha, Mahalo, HubPages, Experts Exchange, Associated Content, Examiner, etc etc.
He made it pretty clear it was self-depreciative humour. If this blog post actually offended you, instead of merely making you think that others might be offended, then I suggest that you lighten up a bit.
> The iPad didn’t really generate interest in tablets, it generated interest in iPads.

True, yet it is amazing how many companies are willing to exploit the gullibility of some people to buy a shiny new device not because of its superior functionality, but simply because it looks just like that i-Whatever everybody is talking about, and because of their belief they are getting a "deal" by not getting the original.

Basically, whenever there is a tremendously successful product, there is going to be a swarm of imitator products -- only barely successful, but successful enough to make their makers a pocketful of change. What amazes me though is the unashamed attitude of these makers when they set about directly imitating somebody else.
Rehabilitation is actually bad for business, since rehabilitated inmates won't be returning "customers". It's just so wrong that prisons are run by private companies...
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How to make site popular without any finance? Is it even possible?
I am at high school right now. I like programming. And I have no money. I assume that's enough for my introduction.

So, today I was just having a nap and a new idea just came into my head. I googled about it and found nothing similar to my idea.

I can implement it by myself. But how can I advertise my website without any funds? Where to start? I really believe it can be useful website for a lot of people including me.

Thank you very much.