skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you are asking. Yes, if my company sends an employee somewhere, we deduct the full expense (if we are paying it) on our tax return. And yes, Delta in that example has a taxable income of $10BB. If the IRS ruled that the travel tax applied, then taxable income would be $7BB due to the additional $3BB in excise tax from $40BB of baggage fees (ignoring the question of whether the cost would be passed on.)

The Hipmunk graphic suggested that, by your example, Delta would have $110BB of income, $100BB of expenses and a $40BB deduction (if baggage fees were not taxable.) This would be a $30BB loss for tax purposes. Even using real numbers this would be outrageous...but it is not the case.
Starting a "Why we choose X" post with weak token "here's why W, Y, and Z are inappropriate" blurbs can't be chalked up to anything but flamebait.
Measure Your Facebook Page Like a Ninja
For those who say that this will never reach the ears of anyone that matter in Sony, it isn't their ears that matter. This has brought to light something that provides negative publicity to sony in the hacker community, and will make recruiting more difficult for them.

Basically, whether they know it or not, they are effectively being punished for their actions. The failure to recruit a few talented candidates that will read about this will harm their long term business success.
I see it uses <head> and <body>, which, in fact, are not required. Pages without them pass W3C validation without warnings.
If a developer is so much more productive, why shouldn't you pay a premium for their skills?

Remember in business there is no "cheap" or "expensive". There's only "worth the money" and "not".
Does this really need to be posted /again/ only days after it's first posting?
It makes me wonder what kinds of underserved markets there might be for apps for women, because "gals hate to do X." Wait, that probably wouldn't go over very well. :)
This is great -

Southwest still doesn't charge baggage fees (not until your third checked bag anyway).

I've heard industry analysts criticize Southwest for not charging fees and 'leaving that money on the table' (including explicitly calling for shareholders to demand they start charging).

Last time I checked though Southwest continues to be a highly profitable company - something most major airlines cannot claim.

How many times has Delta been in bankruptcy in the last 20 years?
A very cool starting point for anything going into a web browser. Thank you.
My point isn't that they can't do x or y if not by age z, but that if we see an income-based disparity on whether someone studies CS or starts a startup, it probably has a lot to do with being in an income bracket where your parents could afford to give you your own PC and the time to play with it. Not to mention being able to get into a decent CS program.

Perhaps this isn't much of an issue today where PCs are commodities, but if you grew up in the 1980s, like I did, then it probably was an issue. An Apple //e or a //c in the mid eighties was around $1500. That's over $3000 in today's money. Having parents with disposable income matters.
That and by default you have the classpath so each setup has exactly which version of the various jars you specify in your project.clj file, without needing external tools like virtualenv.
>this is a very, very high-revenue, low-margin business.

this is why any additional fee increases profit disproportionally
Ask HN: How much should we worry about competition?
In the past 4 weeks there's suddenly a rush of apps similar to Radbox looking to market themselves as "Instapaper for videos". While we work on the iPad version, we're going to see a number of closely-timed similar apps launching next month.

If you're a two-person bootstrapping startup with a bit of traction, and find yourself in a similar situation, how do you deal with it?
Previous discussion for reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405698
That's simply not true, BizSpark makes the cost of Windows into a rounding error.
Yeah, that's a great addition, I'll have to start using it. I'm manually replacing the script tags in my code between deployment because I want to keep all the files separate for debugging and then minify after. It's a pain.
Exodus International's 'Gay Cure' App Failed to Turn Me Straight
Thanks for some very spot on points. I do mention multiple processes in the blog: "Fortunately not all problems require concurrent solutions as they are either IO-bound or can be scaled by forking multiple processes." And this can be a solution to many of the scaling needs. Some of the challenges I'm facing are however more CPU oriented and it gives me a warm feeling to have a concurrency model like STM to lean on.

I totally agree with you on the point regarding worrying about delivering a product instead of rewiting the work. That's why the services already written will remain in place and I'll there fore be running Python alongside the Clojure/JVM stack.
Not the first time US gov has violated US Constitution to spy on citizens..

People forget that the US President that first set a policy for this type of illegal behavior was Roosevelt leading up to WWII. Cable/Wireless companies were pressured by US Gov to record and copy cables sent by US citizens and to send those copies to the US government.

Did not stop terrorism than will not stop it now..and yet 70 years later and no one has learned.
Making Kinect work on the PS3
It almost seems like the message is do you incubation on iOS / Android then you can talk to Nintendo. I think his band analogy works against his point.
I welcome sites like this. By spreading the answers to these largely contrived questions, perhaps we can get employers to move to methods which actually reveal one's ability to get stuff done and create value.
Food+Tech Bytes: Japan, VC Investments, IBM, IdeaCOMM at SXSW, & More…
It's interesting that the needs of the business don't seem to factor into his analysis at all.

I'll concede that sometimes there are specific cases on which you need to use a new or non-mainstream language or environment. (I'm 99% certain that this business is not one of those cases.) I'll concede, too, that being on the cutting edge is pretty cool and gets you lots of hacker cred.

But if you want your business to survive the departure of the founding team, you need to consider whether you can solve the problem with a mainstream environment. If you don't, don't expect your invention (at least in its current form) to carry any legacy.

Case in point:

People may think Paul Graham is a fucking genius for selling Viaweb to Yahoo!, despite being written in Lisp, but I assure you none of his code still lives on there, not even a fork. His brilliance is as a businessman for getting Yahoo! to fork over $<lots> to him, not for the technical merits of Viaweb itself.
I too have seen this before, but I believe the point that the author was making was an observation of the hand signal's simplicity.

It's an unabiguous indicator of the physical situation he's observing, and doesn't involve any added complication of an ad-hoc signalling system (like waving for "come on" or "slow down" or "left/right", which are often somewhat ambiguous or at least require a second or two's thought).

A fleshy progress bar, if you will!
I use another startup called http://hendrickspark.com/ to solve most of those issues for myself.

You have a "style expert" who you meet with over Skype video. They send you a box of clothes to try on and review with your expert over Skype video. Any items you don't like or don't fit you put back in the box and send back. They include the return shipping label in the box so you just have to put the label on tape up the box and have FedEx pick it up. You only pay for the items you keep (no shipping charges or extra fees). They try to make the process as painless as possible.

Over time as you meet with your style expert, it's always the same person, and get to know each other they get a better sense for what you like and don't like as well as keeping track of things such as sizes and fits. They also recommend what things work well together so you know what things to wear together, etc. They have definitely pushed me out of my t-shirt and jeans comfort zone, without going to fashionista or anything.

The primary drawback is my clothes budget is definitely higher than it use to be, as most of the clothes are significantly more expensive (no $20 dollar jeans) as they tend to come from more boutique and small manufacturers.

While that probably sounds an awful lot like an advertisement I have no connection with Hendricks Park other than as a happy customer.
Pretend your Android phone runs Windows Phone 7 with Launcher 7
(defproject leiningen "1.5.0-RC1"
:description "A build tool designed not to set your hair on fire."
:url "https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen"
:license {:name "Eclipse Public License"}
:dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.2.0"]
[org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.2.0"]
[lancet "1.0.0"]
[jline "0.9.94"]
[robert/hooke "1.1.0"]
[org.apache.maven/maven-ant-tasks "2.0.10" :exclusions [ant]]]
:disable-implicit-clean true
:eval-in-leiningen true)
Their everything unlimited plan is $99. That's still a lot from median/average perspective.
Of course capitalism is a must for building up a welfare, it provides the technical and economical foundation for a working socialist state, I´m not going to argue about that.

How ever as a Swede I have seen the direct changes in the community due to the parliament shift, not all bad of course. But when a country that used to take care about its own, all of a sudden points the middle finger to those who is in need I feel angry and disappointed and somewhat alienated from my own country. I was brought up being told that tax money was going to hospitals, schools, Unemployment benefits etc etc. because everyone has the right to these things, and everyone has the duty to finance it. Now what is happening is that we have the same tax rate as before, except if you are wealthy, then the taxes have dropped or even disappeared, and more and more of the things that where a right in Sweden is becoming a privilege for the people who don´t need it and financed by the lower portion in the social ladder.

Oh, and now we have something called RUT-Avdrag. Its basically a thing where the state pays 50% if you employ a maid or call in someone to clean your house. It was to "create more work" and "to help ordinary stressed career people". As it turned out it haven't created so many new jobs. And the average middle class stressed career person would save more money by taking 4 hours of work to clean by him/her-self than to rent a cleaning person for 4 hours. This was one of the first things Alliansen did for Sweden after they took over the parliament. Oh yeah, and wealth tax was quickly gone too.

Sure, there are some things that should be privatizationed, the railroad to name one(it doesn't work, at all) but you don´t fuck with the health care and the school system and the unemployment benefits to name a few(That made Sweden the awesome country it was) to finance stuff such as RUT-Avdrag and getting rid of wealth tax, and then tell the world "Hey! Look at us and our marvelous economic model"

Also, the person who wrote the blogpost is a party member of Moderaterna witch is responsible for all these changes, so its his view.
>my teacher friends, and many immediately thought this was supposed to be their replacement.

what a poor state of the profession if practicing professionals can be scared that easy into thinking that they are that easily replaceable.

That is especially interesting considering the anecdotal evidence i see how private tutoring market is growing. People more and more feel the need to have their children provided with additional instruction at least in the areas they feel most important for the children to not fail at, usually math/science subjects.
You need to pay attention to the competition to see where you stand, and how you can differentiate your app from theirs, but don't lose sleep over it.

You should be the leaders and not the followers (IE: they are copying your good features rather than the other way around).
Because I use OS X.

/shrugs
Not just for compiler developers
Well, Jane Street Capital uses OCaml. According to "Caml trading"[1], hiring got easier when using OCaml:

"Personnel is one area in which OCaml has been an unmitigated success for us. Most importantly, using OCaml helps us ﬁnd, hire, and retain great programmers."

1: http://www.janestreet.com/minsky_weeks-jfp_18.pdf
What's so bad about a monopoly in a free market?

Doesn't that just create opportunity for some other carrier, perhaps a currently small regional company, to step up and fill that hole?

If the pain is big enough, there will be competition. If we mandate competition, it's not a FREE market.
Couldn't part of this be mitigated by having the user input their exact measurements? That's the first thing that happens when you visit a custom clothier. Having this input, it would be possible (not necessarily easy) to match this with the clothing. The harder problems to solve like this are the better ones to go after, b/c they are hard to replicate, and indicate a willingness to go the long mile to make the service more useful.
Harvard MBAs Go Back to Wall Street (depressing)
I like OpenBSD for my server needs and use OS X on the desktop. I might start using Dragonfly BSD for some server stuff since I am very curious about how the HAMMER file system works in practice.
What is the 'mutable' keyword do

Do people actually ask this. I can't understand if it should be, "What the the mutable keyboard 'do'". I'm not sure of any mutable keywords by the name of "do". Or did you mean "What does the 'mutable' keyword do". Again, I'm not familiar with any popular programming languages with the keyword mutable. If they are just asking for the definition of mutability, that seems a strange question for a technical interview.

From my experience most of these interviews at these big tech companies have these kind of questions. And they suffer from having inexperienced engineers conducting the interviews. I think this is a big, untalked about problem with regard to why tech companies have such a lack of talent.
> I'll there fore be running Python alongside the Clojure/JVM stack.

Yikes, really? That sounds even worse than a clean break. You don't shed your perceived problems with Python and instead get to manage two codebases and stacks. Your operations team will absolutely love you in the future.

Based upon a casual read of what your service does, I'm really stressing to think of a CPU-bound situation that can't be pooled into a multiprocessing pool. All of the heavy work I can think of your service doing -- particularly crawling -- is going to end up network or I/O-bound, isn't it? I'm coming up empty and working with a theory. Perhaps you can share what your CPU-bound process is?
I have never had any issues. When I call people, I get them and can talk as long as I want. When I text people, they get my message. I receive calls and texts regularly and never hear, "hey, why didn't you reply to my voicemail / text". So I assume it works.

The only problem I have is that I get two Android notifications for each text. One from the SMS app, and one from Google Voice. Not sure how to fix that.
Don't even try reading this without running it through Readability. Grey text on a very busy background...
You always have to pay to send someone money. And a giftcard for a store or restaurant also requires your friend to go there.
Mozilla does have an incremental update system called MAR (Mozilla ARchive):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR
What more info do you need? If it wasn't obvious, you are supposed to open your site in the Opera browser, making sure Javascript is turned on. You'll see how it just can't load.
Both Verizon and AT&T are using LTE for 4G, though, so Sprint will become the odd one out in that situation.
A writable API competition for O'Reilly
How much radiation is being released by Japan’s runaway reactors?
Facebook "Is Truly A Dream Come True For The CIA" [video]
The lesson is when your girlfriend says "Your closet needs updading" give up immediately and go to the mall with her because she will win.
Encryption in itself does little good without a certification authority model. Without a mathematically robust CA chain, you never know if you're sending your encrypted traffic to your intended target or to a man-in-the-middle attacker pretending to be your target. Encryption protects against a passive sniffer but not a party capable of intercepting messages.
Firefox 4 Final Downloads Available though its not officially launched
Would it be smarter to wait and see what they have, in case we need to tweak stuff (to differentiate)?
From https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/wiki/Teams :

"He will go around shaking his tin cup with potential sponsors, with right of first refusal going to our generous sponsor from past contests, Google"
How do you know if they are productive before hiring them?
Simply because it's Microsoft. That was partly tongue in cheek. :)
Now you have an excellent opportunity, AT&T wants to merge with T-Mobile. Start a campaign saying that the merger will expose T-Mobile customers to NSA wiretapping. Buy some facebook ads and start something.
This quote is interesting, perhaps why so many are looking for a tech cofounder?

According to the Education Department, the top majors for the class of 2008 were business, health sciences and social sciences and history. About nine times as many people majored in business in the class of 2008 as majored in computer science.
I believe paypal doesn't charge you anything when you send your money to your friend on a non-business issue.
Gift cards have lots of costs...some hidden (expired cards, lost cards), some more explicit (shipping costs, service fees)

These dont expire. I think it's pretty cool.
Yeah. And without organizers and managers the complex system is likely to collapse, and without truck drivers and rail workers food can't get to people choose to live. Don't me wrong - I appreciate the complexity of society as much as the next guy, but there's so many people involved that calling everything necessary for people not to starve "super powers" causes the term to completely wash out.

Everyone's special. Which is another way of saying no one is.
While there are enough programmers that know PHP (which is clearly a plus) there’s just not enough sex going on here.

wat
It's just a 20 page review of the iPad 2. I missed the extra pages, first time.

The title is implying only that no iPad 2 review could be as complete as this one, so other reviews are redundant and not worth reading.
Why the job space is a bad neighborhood
Because I use OS X, which has decent Unix tools along with a nice user interface.
This site severely needs a way to rate other people's answers or something. Even just to comment on them. Otherwise it's just silly.

Case in point: http://xorswap.com/questions/85-what-is-a-hash-table-how-wou...

No offense to ankur, but his hash function is the silliest hash function ever. It looks intelligent and reasonable and is the kind of answer I would trust if I didn't know better. But what kind of hash function is injective? If I wanted to store arbitrary doubles into his hash table I would need a zettabyte (that is a billion terabytes) of memory. Ooops. I should be able to warn people about that somehow.
No. This isn't Reddit.
It's not any more ridiculous than facebook virtual gifts that cost money:

"So I can pay facebook $1 to send my friend a virtual beer that he can't drink?"

Both are arguably ridiculous to any (hyper)rational person, but people are not rational.
Always always do the front end UI first. Work with someone to build prototypes - either just on paper or in something like balsamiq - and then walk through those prototypes with potential customers/users.

Then you can get designs built from the prototypes - then send the designs off to a developer who will knock it out. (and love you for having it all ready)
that ! now pair with breakupnotifier ! and create giftonbreakup. It's like URL programming of life events.
Just checking - have you seen TrunkClub.com? I've not used them, but some of what you're doing seems to be similar to their offering.
Entrepreneurship is about both things. Typically the second route is one that is going to take longer, cost more, and require a lot more explaining. As such it is generally a bit riskier (ideas 'ahead of their time' can take years to mature).

If you don't have a outside responsibilities like a family, you should leave your job to pursue your idea. Entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risk of leaving their job to follow their dream send a bad signal to investors-- you should be passionate enough and believe enough in your idea that you're certain it will succeed.
Using Google Maps to highlight cities producing top scientific articles
Ask HN: Any hackers that are also runners?
If you're a runner, I'm curious to see what you think about our new app that we've built for destination endurance events. The site is http://xlrun.com. I'm the developer and my co-founder is the runner. She competes in races all over the country and was frustrated because she always had to print out all of the information, directions, etc. before she left home.

We've built an affordable and fast way for race directors to have a mobile app created specifically for their race. It has a lot of cool and useful features, with more already in development.

If you run or have friends that run and do these kinds of events, would you find it useful to have this information in the palm of your hand? Would you be willing to pay $1-3 for the convenience? We'd love to hear your feedback.
Also related to the GIL -- the "processing" module in Python takes care of any sharing scenarios you might have and it is mostly API-compatible with the threading API in Python.

And if that's too heavy, there's always stuff like GEvent. Asynchronous I/O and multiprocessing solves 80% of all problems you may have.

I do wish that Python / Ruby would be GIL-free, but for my startup I choose these platforms because they've got no parallel when it comes to rapid-development of web applications, because no matter how cool this and that language is, nothing beats the productivity gained by robust, battle-tested web frameworks (not to mention other stuff, like NLTK or SciPy).

As an early-adopter myself I might try out a couple of projects in Clojure, but I wouldn't bet my business on it unless I saw a clear need that Clojure satisfies and that dwarfs all other disadvantages, like platform immaturity.
It's no more ridiculous than a normal gift card: "Wait, you paid $25 so I can have $25 that can only be spent in one location?"

That's a cost right there...if flexibility had a price I'd bet it'd be >5%.
I think the idea of NOT letting the recipient opt out of the gifted money is much better. GiftRocket, get on that!
Kinect hacked to work with PlayStation 3
Is it safe to assume that if you don't have a facebook account, you automatically get dev/nulled in your application?
I had only heard of Treatful in this space. They said a common use case they didn't expect was buying a gift card for someone on the other side of the country. A lot of times people wanted to get a friend a gift for a local joint in NYC but obviously couldn't pick it up. Makes sense.
OS X is prettier, less annoying, and generally just works. I'm not interested in system administration; I just want to get things done.

I do use Linux on servers and on my netbook.
Lacks Steam support.

Requires activities I am unwilling to engage in as a user of a system.

Less useful than competitors.

Uglier than competitors. Lack of uniformity in UIs. Large number of UIs that only a mother could love.