skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any sensible income tax law will allow you to offset losses against gains.

Yes, but losses, gains, revenue, and expenses are not necessarily well-defined. (Heck - even whom is incurring those things is also variable.)

And then there's the big problem - the US govt likes to encourage (and discourage) things via the tax code. GE takes advantage of that as well.
Some people might take away from this the idea that you can just build a cool little prototype and Google will come along and snatch you up.

I'd bet this acquisition happened almost entirely due to relationships and salesmanship. Most hackers who don't already know the right people (e.g. former Googlers) would have no chance of pulling this kind of thing off.

Do not try this at home folks. The only real chance of an exit for most startups is one based on actual success in the marketplace.
If you know the ip range assigned to a host it would be easy to write a script that listened for new IPs coming up and to perform a dictionary attack on those IPs. Security around provisioning new servers is often ugly with plain text passwords sent in the clear and iptables disabled. Shared keys and disabling plain text passwords in OpenSSH is an obvious solution but for non-technical customers this can be a huge support overhead. Does anyone solve this pattern elegantly?

I do see some responsibility on a customer securing a box as soon as it is provisioned though, unless it is a managed service.
I learned last week my wife is pregnant. I was excited already, but after reading this post I'm impatient to be a father. Thanks for sharing.
I just did a quick dig to see if browsers now allow the user to specify a preferred cipher but it looks like things have not progressed. Chrome for instance has marked a request as WONTFIX.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=58833
It couldn't have anything to do with being a PHP page on a Rails-centric company's site, I'm sure.
Happybuy is not a replacement for SparkBuy.
The filters don't work as good.

Still you have a good change of outperform Google Product Search team. They shot themselves in a foot by closing working project (SparkBuy).
What's the algorithm? You list the factors you use to decide, but I'm confused as to how those combine. How much do you weight Modem Whistling Skills versus Blog Posts versus years of experience?
Downvoters should probably know that she's the one who wrote the article.
> Pick one and see what can be done.

Pick both - we already know what can be done.

If you're going to argue that this time will be different, you need to explain why. Heck, it would be nice if you understand, deeply, how things work now, what's been tried, and so on.

None of the existing problems are easy to solve.
Kids have a right to ask for help in a store like anyone else.

This is America, the kid's money's just as green. (OK that was a little crass I admit :-)
Just a bit of history: I was the one that prodded Igor to add this.

I had been checking things out in nginx and noticed that DH was not implemented. One quick email to Igor and he got it done the same day along with getting this into the next version of nginx. Dude is bad ass.

Now if only someone can convince him or provide a patch to add SPDY support to nginx...
Looking at the choices my peers made, a substantial proportion of Harvard/Stanford/Yale grads will opt for the most foolproof, lucrative career available. It used to be investment banking, consulting, or law school, but with those industries under pressure their seems to be a turn towards rolling the die in an entrepreneurial setting.

I certainly don't think most students these days consider an elite education carries an obligation to make the world a better place.
About half the demos worked for me. I'm running Chrome for Mac, with the Developer Channel. Will Canary Build (only available on Windows) run them all?
Can somebody link me a quick explanation of what the comma operator does in C?
Ask HN: how to solve the psychology issues in a hacker's way
1. i saw many people complaining a lot for their life that some seems to have psychology issues;
2. in china,especially, many woman do not know how to live with their mother in law after married; but most of the time they have to live together after a child;
in the forums i can see a lot of discussions on this;

anyone have any suggestions on helping people solve such issues in a hacker's way?
any good examples on this?thx.
I would love to find a book that has plans to buiid various things/designs using plain lego sets. Any suggestions?

My son loves to build complex sets, but I hate investing in the one time use, specialized sets, and the fancy specialized sets always gets him (and my wife) more excited than just opening a box of generic legos and building.
I'm just going to take this opportunity to shake my fist at Internet Explorer, because much of this stuff is useless on production websites (some things are usable with Javascript hacks).
Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the grammar bed.

I'm glad he went the whole nine yards with his explanation; too bad you swallowed that one phrase hook, line, and sinker.
Just going through A Random Walk Through Wall Street right now, and there's no doubt that, by the tone of that book (and specifically Robert Shiller's quote of a "positive feedback loop), we are in a bubble.

The questions really ought to be:

1 When will it burst

2 How hard will it burst (I think this'll be the main difference with the dotcom bubble)

3 Which companies will come out of it
More interesting than the split vote on this test are the arguments in the comments. What actually is the correct behavior? C99 is better than K&R C, but as the article says, it's vague enough that it's not an chip agnostic assembler.
I'm sure it's presumably the usual Google continuity scenario, as made famous by Writely, GrandCentral, JotSpot, and many others.

The site goes dark, there's a series of huge planning and strategy sessions, the project gets staffed up and there's a lot of back-end work done. Then, just about the time everyone forgets about the original company completely (not long in the startup world), Google announces a product that takes the original startup's product to a scope and scale well beyond the original. However, it may leave out features that made the product quirky or popular within certain niches. Then a bazillion people start using it and everyone takes it for granted.
Yeah, it must have been targeted at Chrome. I got the same blank page in Safari 5.0.5, and an error dialog in Firefox 5.

Edit: It's meant for Chrome 14.
So when do you think Google Product Search team would deliver similar features?

I'd say in a couple of years.

And that would not really work as good.
With 2 day shipping through the prime service, they pretty much emulate a local retailer. The prices are awesome but I can see how their tax advantages give them an unfair advantage on local competition.
I did not take issue with his grammar. Nor am I going to rise to your trollish second paragraph.
hacking is not needed to fly over, free or paid service is everywhere in china
Because the user that is receiving the item is tax dodging Amazon should be punished?
Yes agree, thats why I said to wait a few months. We currently have a broader range of products but we don't do search filtering as well - that will change.
Kids are a great excuse!
We are even going to Legoland in CA.
Its for the kids, honey!
Yeah, I thought people on here would be able to point me in the right direction. I really wanted to find and read the original manifesto.
Thanks for the solid advice.

I'm confident in my vision (and that is one of the reasons I'm leaving my current job -- their lack of a vision and a dearth of leadership).

The like-minded people... I have maybe 4 or 5 amazingly talented people in my community, a mix of ex-pats and Japanese who are just as fed up with the malaise of the current generation of Japanese as I am.

Bringing a product to the table is something that I know is going to be key to bringing Japan into a data-centric mindset for Saas. However, there are so many wonderful solutions currently available in the west, that I feel that reinventing the wheel will simply drain time away from my consulting evangelism.

Especially at first, I think that bringing a pre-made solution wrapped in a consulting service is a better use of my resources than re-creating mixpanel and crazy-egg for the Japanese market.

Thanks again for the great advice.
You've really given me a lot to think about.
Element.classList is a bit of an odd addition. No doubt it'll be useful, but wouldn't something more generic have served us better? Class isn't the only attribute that takes space-delimited values. (Or is there also Element.relList?)
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Not punished, just asked that they collect sales tax instead of relying on customers to pay use tax.
Experience = Full Time Work Experience.

That's the only measure that they accept (and this is a formula dammit! We cannot go against that!).

This seems to me to be a complete lack of understanding about what makes a good programmer (Assumption: We pay people according to merit.). I have a friend who was in another industry for several years. She taught herself Ruby and Rails and became very, very good at doing so. It was all done as a personal project. She never was fully employed as a "Full Time Developer" until last year. At the point of her being hired last year, she could write web applications better than most seasoned programmers.

Yes, yes. Anecdote does not make data. But they are proposing that they have come up with The Algorithm with How to Pay Programmers. If that was true, then they could handle this situation. Instead, they would have to come up with a 'special exception' for this particular person and compensate them correctly.

If you get down to every little hole I could poke in this algorithm, you'd find out that almost everyone has a special circumstance and that throwing them into an inhuman algorithmic compensation experiment is Wrong(tm). Instead, you need people that can understand the nuances of Jim, Joe and Sally's situation and can do their best to serve their interests as well as the company's interests.

I'm not saying that the status quo is great, but this 'perfect solution' is anything but.
I wasn't aware anyone actually declared their Amazon purchases at tax time.
The existence of a reasonable 'free' product may also deter the entrance of multiple competitors who would have advanced the state of the art. Clearly this is bad for society.

That's not clear at all. If you can't beat a "good enough" free alternative in the market, that's a signal that society would benefit more if you spent your efforts elsewhere.

I'm arguing against the dogma that free software is always automatically good.

As a first approximation, it pretty much is. Would you care to name specific free software that we'd be better off without?
What is true for getting acquired is about as true for acquiring customers. If people don't know about you or haven't heard of your product from other means, you have to break through a wall of indifference.

This is the real value of coverage in the industry press and why I think Steve Blank's fretting over people jockeying for TechCrunch articles, which I initially agreed with, is a little too idealized. Companies get a lot of mileage from being featured in startup industry press outlets. I know it doesn't get them many customers, but it puts them in position to get them. It really helps grow partnerships, boost stature at industry events and frankly increase interest in the founders' future endeavors.
Look at this not in terms of a big company like Amazon, but a start up or mom and pop web retailer which would be required to collect and distribute taxes to 50 different states. What a nightmare. The "no physical presence" exemption makes sense, and is very important.
I wonder if they'll drop the ball on the prior art on that one?
nptl (read, any modern kernel) Linux processes are cheap, they share an implementation with threads in fact. Note that this only means they can be quite cheap, if you dirty a large amount of memory you lose CoW of course.
The algorithm was invented to match residents with hospitals. Before it was standardized in the 1950s, a far worse method had been widely used, so from that vantage point it cannot be entirely obvious. Often what makes a solution seem trivial in retrospect is that the problem has been whittled down to its crystalline essence and placed in its proper context. As Alan Kay likes to say, point of view is worth 80 IQ points.
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Getting tech press works largely based on relationships. If you have those relationships then of course you should exploit them.

For everyone else the only safe bet is to follow Steve Martin's advice and "be so good they can't ignore you"

Reddit didn't get a TechCrunch article until they were acquired.
@ChuckMcMm @sendos great points. i've been in sf for 5 years and can vouch for how much energy, resources, and passion is in this city. i've never seen so many happy people working away at their jobs, living the life as a san franciscan; paying crazy rent but living in a great city enjoying the pleasures it has to offer. i know this because i'm doing the same thing. it seems no matter where you go everyone is connected with their mobile devices, talking about the next start-up, using the next groupon clone's deal, eating/drinking at the local hip spots, etc.. etc.. the locals use the local goods. seems like it does not stop there. im connected to all the people + their followers, friends, etc. online, while im at work! people here get things done, and enjoy it too. PG recent article comes to mind..

the author forgets that silicon valley has connected people in a way that one cannot even begin to imagine. i think people are happier with their web apps, sharing tools, social networks, etc.. i feel the article makes good points, but to say the problem is with silicon valley is rubbish. its with humans. silicon valley has done nothing but changed peoples lives and continues to be the hub for new ideas.
The comma operator evaluates its left argument, introduces a sequence point, then evaluates its right argument. The result has the same type and value as the right argument. It is useful in cases like:

while (update_thing(&foo), foo != 0) {

}
I wonder if I can create a trillion on my own and if that would help.
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It's initialised to 0 because it has static storage duration (in this case, it has static storage duration because it's declared at file scope, but there are other ways to get static storage duration too).
Actually, worse.

I've been involved in a project where we have actually had to change the direction of technology as well as deployment schedule to avoid incurring a massive (think over $100 million) license upcharge.
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I found this quote hilarious:

“I don’t think we want to send the message that companies can fund a political campaign for a referendum and maybe your customers won’t be subject to sales tax.”

Because it's not like some companies funded political campaigns to get this measure passed in the first place. (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870439650457620...)

Heaven forbid another big company ask what the citizenry thinks...
I thought the salary matrix on the old joel on software was more insightful - it showed how the different factors summed up.
It's really patently unfair for purchases from Amazon.com not to require sales taxes while purchases from BarnesAndNoble.com do require sales taxes. That's what this all boils down to. Amazon is not, on some level, competing directly with your local friendly indy bookshop (if you still have one), and that's not the right direction to look for a comparison... but they are competing with other online booksellers, who have to pay sales tax on their online book sales if and only if they also have a bricks-and-mortar business. That's dumb.
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there's an awful lot of developers out there writing code for products used internally

Exactly. I consider that to be more on the "services" side because the ultimate goal is for Bob to get his TPS reports, not to produce a J2EE reporting framework.

A better way of expressing my point would be that most developers aren't in competition with open source; it's much more likely that open source software allows their jobs to exist.
Search any sentence from the linked screenshot, quoted, in Google, for interesting results. For instance: "many of our competitors require a call back".
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Sure, and they rely on many other things. Why act like one is more important than the other?
What probability would you put on this?
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True, but Amazon probably makes close to a billion in annual revenue in CA, I feel like that must account for some kind of taxable "presence."
If your subdomains consist of letters and numbers, there are over a trillion possible 8-character subdomains.
I hesitate to recommend the Steve Martin line to non-performers.

I've known several entrepreneurs who have sunk a year or years of their lives into codebases and eternally-half-built products instead of businesses. Including myself at 20! It's actually a common affliction among game developers looking to become entrepreneurs. They have an artistic vision, no concept of hustle, and just want to put their head down until they get something amazing. It's the artistic E-myth, The Thief and the Cobbler syndrome.

It's an important message because a lot of people today are probably still in this mode of thinking. I really need to write a blog post about it.
Very Gibsonian quote: "We're not beholden to a nation," Chien said. "We're a multinational, private company protecting customers."
Yeah, let the trillion sub-domains bloom for this season. The next animal that will come around (panda?) will then decide their fate.
Maybe this will force companies to build an audience with more legit methods like word of mouth.
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On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.

It's useful shorthand in a few specific cases, but I would argue that this sort of code is bad style and if I was in charge (which I am not) it would be in the "never do this" section.

That this edge case apparently took decades to find implies (to me) that the comma operator is not to be used in production code. I'll always choose a few extra lines of code over ambiguity, because someday other will people have to read my code when there's some kind of a problem with it, and I'd rather make the problems obvious, not subtle. :)
Sorry, not feeling much sympathy for SEO types. Their purpose is directly opposite that of the average web user.
Did anyone else read a lot of anger/frustation in this piece?

From Matt's quote, I just got the impression that sub-domains are an option and that GBot treats them as logically cohesive groupings of information, I didn't see anywhere that he said subdirectories were suddenly bad.

Then the author went on about best practices and getting burned for them -- he'd know better than I would if that has been true over the longer term -- I just didn't interpret Matt's comment to imply all that.

Some people must have benefited from Panda... I still find plenty of junk in my search results, but it makes me sick to think that if they hadn't rolled it out how impossible it would be to find good content at all.

I wonder what the logical conclusion of search engines/SEO and all this jazz will be in 10 years. If history is any indicator, we'll all swing back to some AOL-esque, walled garden, ad-driven existence where "Search" means nothing more than "find applicable ads"... I suppose that is somewhat true now.
Another article hopping on the cyberwar 2011 bandwagon. [1]

Even NPR ran a similar story that was just as sensationalist and vague.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659501
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I'd guess they've outgrown the capacity (or desire) to keep answering support emails themselves, for one thing.
Nope. ;)

I'm a middle of the road Japanese salary-man, so I really don't have the means to start funding startups, especially when I don't know if I'll be able to feed myself and my family next month. ;)

I did get the offer of seed money from one of my current customers to start my own company, but I really don't feel that I'm at the point in my life where I want to be responsible for employees.
God forbid people actually put useful content on their sites instead. :T
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