skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice. I've had the same exact question about quarterly estimated tax payments.

Could you add links to the sources where you got this information such as the IRS? I'd like to investigate some of the topics further.

Where did you learn about this information? From your fight with the IRS? Do you know of any book or guide on taxes for small businesses?
There were some poor judgment on display and I generally don't condone breaking the law but it would be a shame to lose Aaron's epic productivity and ingenuity for any period of time.
I think you're misunderstanding the article. Google webmaster tools allows the website owner to request links to their own sites be removed. The poster has discovered that this form can be used to request any url be removed, and Google will think it's being submitted by the owner of that URL.

This has nothing to do with users complaining about a URL.
I use Pinbord.in (and before that, delicious). It won't help you organize them but will let you tag and find them easily later. I wrote my own chrome extension to easily add bookmarks to pinboard and sync them locally so I can easily search through them in my browser.
Same here, when I downloaded the app today I had "huddles" waiting, where people had been chatting.

I like that they did it this way. If you don't know you're missing out, you don't really care... then when you finally get it and jump in, you're excited about all the content and chats happening.
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Anyone else think this was going to be about the janitorial staff at the Google Science Fair based on the title?
Would it be ok if you proxied the process for your users?

What if you created the Google Checkout account for them? could you act like a gate keeper for his e-wallet? is that possible/legal?
I agree with you, but Watson has some pretty hefty hardware requirements:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/what-makes-ibms-watson...

Bringing Watson to a large audience would be an immense technical undertaking. The real "next Googles" will probably be the hardware companies that make the mass deployment of a Watson-type system possible.

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Its interesting that an FBI bust comes the day after News International had its DNS servers knocked down taking out every News International website.

Given that Rupert Murdoch and his businesses are already under suspicion for bribing police and government officials (and possibly had a whistle blower murdered), why does it feel like one of Murdochs cronies must have a director at the FBI on a leash.

It could be coincidence, but IMO when you have billions of dollars, there's no such thing as coincidence.
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The two points that grabbed my attn:

* Make scripting accessible to Java developers

* Open source is TBD

And what of groovy? Really I just see this as some more rah rah talk. As a professional Java and NodeJS developer I'm just not excited...

It will help if Oracle opened sourced it 100%. Buuuut you know, wheres the money in that?
With a COW fork() I bet it's smaller. I smell a test coming on, but alas it's late here and I'm going to bed.

I'm also guessing that 4k was chosen because a malloc() of 1 page is faster than a malloc() of >1 page. Of course that's with the assumption that the systems use a 4k page size.
http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
Sorry I'm not sure what happened - it seems like screen died?
That's a pretty disingenuous thing to say since Google, HTC, LG and Samsung are being sued, they're not doing the suing. Also, that graph is outdated, Apple is now also suing Samsung and Motorola... their other big smartphone competitors.
the ~$100k not living in the USA tax deduction that the US gives you

Could you provide more details? I tried Googling for it, and I could only find:

You can also claim an additional exclusion from your U.S. taxes in excess of the $91,500, if the rent, utilities, etc. you pay on your residence abroad and other living expenses exceed a standard amount (which is currently approx $13,300 per year) established by the IRS. This exclusion only comes into play when your earnings are in excess of the $91,500 foreign income exclusion.

Is this it?
More versions of the story and many others: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp
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I'm sure Myhrvold is cackling with joy that patent trolling is now getting more mainstream..
The article delivers. Why is this linkbait?
I tried using Delicious but it did not fit the bill well. I now use Firefox Sync, which seamlessly syncs all my bookmarks. I use 'Read it Later' (FF addon) to keep track of my to-read list and Google Reader for about 40-50 RSS feeds. I think the downside is not being able to sync with other browsers (may be there is a Chrome extension for FF Sync??, I am not sure). And I really did not dig the whole social bookmarking thing, I just tweet any interesting link I find.

As for using specific tools, the problem is one cannot be sure if it is going to be supported continuously. Though every tool provides a way to export data if it ever is discontinued, the overhead of finding a new tool and getting used to it is tiresome. So I find it better to stick to the default browser provided tools.
Actually, while the write itself is generally atomic, most systems don't guarantee that the entire increment operation is (for performance reasons).

And since abort still needs to work even without locks and on every platform...
I use the IRS as an example, not the totality of Federal law. To the extent it is illegal to transfer dollars to an online casino, it either is or will be illegal to transfer anything else with market value. BitCoin won't resolve the murkiness one bit.

Something I think you may need to understand is that this isn't a remotely new idea. BitCoin may not have existed before, but casino chips, again, literal physical casino chips, to use just one example from a richly populated field, have been around forever, and Federal law does not watch someone trading around chips and just shrug its shoulders and go "Well, golly, I guess those aren't dollars, I'll just walk away I guess." It does something more like "Well, golly, I guess we'll just slap some money laundering charges on too."
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Ask HN: Is the sun in the bay area unusually bright today?
I noticed the sun today seems ridiculously brighter than usual. Is there some atmospheric phenomenon going on that someone here could clue me into?
That was so obvious. I feel rather ridiculous. A bit like the time I realised what insert did in a word document. Thanks.
Many people are having trouble location the app by using the obvious search terms.

However, if you search for the words "google huddle" it should come right up.
I didn't say stop improving on solutions that miss the mark. I just think there is a lot of unexplored territory for software developers. People like to solve problems they have and understand. To do list apps are the classic example for developers. I'm just saying there's a lot of opportunity out there if you step outside your comfort zone.

All I know about this app is that it's a web based todo app. I was clear on this so to pick me up on it is a bit out of line. A better response would be to point out how it improves on what's already available.
How would a BitCoin bank work?
Who would issue a C&D in this case?
if JSTOR serves 7000 institutions around the world, having that number effectively jump to 7100

I understand what you're thinking, but that's not what happened. He downloaded a hundred times MIT, not a hundred times the average institution. You're assuming that MIT is close to average, but there is no reason to think that. I strongly suspect that MIT is a bigger user than (for example) Rye Neck High School or the Scottish Agricultural College.

http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/participants
Oh, thanks. The earlier version of the man page had output stream in the description(if my memory isn't failing me).

I searched for fflush C99 and based on absence of any credible link, I assumed nothing has changed in C99(and nothing really has changed as far as standards go).
Yeah, I've thought about signing up for pinboard before. Have you released the extension anywhere?
Yes that was what we were discussing.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/iu93n/fbi_raided_...
"Google+" worked for me, so all good in Australia at least.
What didn't you like about Delicious?
Christmas Day?
In which case, I think I have too.
What? If the malware can do that it would easier for them just redirect them with javascript to any site.
Yeah, I kind of got excited about WA after using it for a few things, but I run across results like yours enough that I now use WA only for new variations of things I've successfully searched for before. It rocks when it rocks, but the rest of the time the coffee cup sounds well before TDC.
It's true that too many people these days don't fully understand this.
Which got bought by Bing...
Google says the algorithms have taught it valuable lessons...(start-ups located far from the venture capitalist’s office are more likely to be successful, probably because the firm has to go out of its way to finance the start-up.)

Disagree.

Try this: Google's analysis of the venture capital industry shows that companies do better when it's difficult for their investors to meddle in their business on a day to day basis.
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> Anybody knows how much of this fee is pure profit for them?
> Sounds like an arbitrary number far from their actual costs

Before you begrudge Google for making a profit, perhaps you could elaborate on what you sell or plan to sell online and how much pure profit you intend to make.
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Hello,

I am currently on F1 Student Visa working in a small startup company . We are group of 4 ppl in this startup where 2 are on F1, one is having greencard, other is a US Citizen. We are planning to start a company. Can anyone help me in getting answers to the following questions

- Whether 2 ppl who r on F1 can get H1b sponsered with the new company they co founding
- Can they get ownership or Equity in the company.
- Would they be allowed to work in the new company.
- How should the company get incoporated as a C-Corp or S-Corp

It would really be of great help.

Thanks
Someone asked him that on Twitter: "let me guess, one of the plagiarists claiming copyright infringement of their answers?"

He replies: "You will laugh but yes. Claiming 'violation of privacy' and misappropriation of content generated with specific intent."
He just doesn't like them. Get over it. People have different tastes. You don't really need to write essays about why he is "wrong".

I think the blurryfonts in the 3 imgur urls you've provided are way worse than what I see in Windows 7 and Mac OS X every day. They're somewhat misshapen and smudged-looking.
Are you using a proxy or tor?
Just wanted to say thanks for providing this - it's already been helpful
The next Google is an outlier, you can't infer them from rules that give you few winners.
Simple. They pay accountants a substantial portion of the taxes not paid.

The actual amount any country can tax it citizens and corporations is a complex relationship between its own tax laws, every other country in the world's tax laws, and the cost of the tax lawyers that figure out how to shuffle funds around to minimize their tax liability.

When politicians say "we will close this loophole and collect $xxx MM more in taxes" my BS meter pegs. There is not going to be a 1:1 relationship between a loophole's current deduction and collected taxes if that loophole is closed. There will be some increase in collected taxes (presumably), but people will minimize their taxes using different "loopholes" so the "recovered taxes" will never be as much as the politicians sell it as.
(8) the term “damage” means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information;

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_0...
Realistically, when OS X gets resolution independence Steve likes. So, not until the next OS after Lion at the earliest.
> This bug could have been exploited for millions of dollars.

Quite possibly exploited for non-savvy website owners. Savvy owners would be checking their ranking regularly and noticing it disappear one day.

Anyone who ranks highly for lucrative keywords and does not check their ranking is asking to lose it, whether ethically or otherwise.

So I don't think it would have been exploited for the millions you think, but possibly a good bit of money.
The workflow with delicious was not smooth. I had installed the FF addon. (Do remember it was a while ago) When you click on the delicious button a new window opens, which I don't really need and there was no way to turn it off or atleast I cudn't find one. I like the star icon in the FF address bar, one-click and done. Double-click to add tags, very intuitive and maintains the flow.

The delicious website was a drag, bad UI and navigation, just seemed too much work for just bookmarking. I really liked their social sharing features though, but that was not my priority.
Not, as it happens, on plan 9 systems where the kernel marks that area as not accessible. This could fail, conceivably, but then you're in much deeper stuff.
How about Rube Goldberg Virtual Machine of the web? I don't see what people are so happy about.

It looks a bit like the thing that happened with XML. In years 2000-2005 developers got really, really excited about XML, and started to use it for everything. Everything, including things that it was never meant for. And yes, the resulting technologies worked (kind of), but they caused more problems than they solved. SOAP/WSDL. XSLT. All that XML-to-SQL-query stuff.

Right now people are really excited about JavaScript and begin to use it for things that are less and less appropriate for it. Yes, you can compile languages into JS, just like you can use XML to generate an SQL query. But is it really a good idea?
I think it's git vs. mercurial and git is a lot more popular at the moment.

Some people seem to like Gitorious.org which is apparently cheaper (free?)

Clickable: http://gitorious.org/
Also, HN discussion of the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254
Supporting iPod is trivial. If you're using the camera but not checking to make sure one exists first, you're being lazy and sloppy (Apple's docs say this much, though in nicer terms).

Location Services will still work without a GPS, though the accuracy will be reduced since it's relying on WiFi APs.

G+ doesn't use the compass.

On G+ for Android, they allow you to call people from their profile page if a phone # is provided; I assume they have the same feature on the iOS version. Yes, it's an extra few lines of code to determine if the device is a phone and can make calls, but again: lack of this is just laziness.

The iPad is, of course, a different beast, and often calls for a very different UI. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if the G+ website works better in iPad Safari than a native app would, at this point.

But there's no excuse for no iPod Touch support.
Which is why, as I mentioned, you don't store the biometrics. You don't even send them to the remote service.

Hash + Salt on the client, submit the result. Unique salt for each remote service, and you can change it for a particular remote service if it turns out they do stupid shit with it.
We found out about it and started to look for alternatives to XML eventually. Hopefully, if the world does come to believe that compiling to JS is an unnecessary layer of abstraction, we'll have enough force of change from browser vendors to actually implement a lower-level change. At least with XML, we were free to change whenever... in-browser technologies isn't going to change without a concerted effort from just about everyone involved in browsers.
For the record, I received a text message related to Huddles, so it might not involve e-mail (but might in fact be even more annoying for some people).
> But effort expended to build a private repository consisting of copies of things you don't own doesn't give you ownership of the result

Surprisingly, it sometimes does in the EU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
Perhaps it was TurnItIn, the product he used to identify the cheaters? I'm curious what the C&D letter claims was illegal about the content of the post; was it the screenshots of the application?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2154950
Startup Quote: Dennis Crowley, Co-founder, Foursquare
Do what you love and the rest will come.

- Dennis Crowley (@dens)

http://startupquote.com/post/7829232439
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I don't think it's fair to blame developers for UI redesigns like this ("tiner with a perfectly usable UI" sounds like some developer decided to change it because he/she was bored). I am sure that Netflix has product managers/UI designers like every place else that originate these type of changes.
On the other hand, I don't understand why someone would alienate users of certain countries unless they had a reason to do so. I like to give companies benefit of the doubt when there's no hint of a conspiratorial political agenda.
We have a few million objects stored in S3 and our average object size is only ~40k.

Plenty of people use cloudfront as a streaming CDN, though. Those assets would be far larger, obviously.
I immediately thought of that book as well. As Silverglate frequently points out, the federal attorney is using extreme penalties to force a plea deal in this case. It's de facto denial of a fair trial when the Sword of Damocles (i.e. 35 years in prison) is hanging over your head.
Open. http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/
Even if presented with billions of dollars, the FBI is not efficient enough for this to have anything to do with news corp.

Please don't post conspiracy theories unless you have some sort of evidence to back them up.
Every hotshot thinks they don't need tests until they try writing tests for a while, then they usually become evangelists.

My shock and amazement comes from the 24 hours to restart your payments system? Whaaaaat? If that is correct you guys have far, far more issues than not having tests.
That's a linear extrapolation from the last two data points on the graph, but it seems to be growing super-linearly.
Yes, in 0.20 square miles making it the 28th most population-dense city.
Hyundai has a larger market share than Audi. Coors has a larger market share than Guinness. Does that mean they won?

Which has bigger share doesn't matter, as long as each grows and has enough critical mass to sustain their ecosystems and developers. There's room for both. Isn't it the Android fans that bring up choice all the time?
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If you hadn't made any changes your life would have been exactly the same. And if you had made changes at a later point hen it would have been similar to ones your making now.

I think people underestimate how much work/effort/time it takes to change ones perspective.
Ask HN: How can you achieve the mental energy and stamina to do great things? 
I'm a 17 year old self-taught programmer, and I'm very interested in creating a start up when I'm older. My problem is that I seem to alternate between two states of mind. Some days, I'm very passionate about programming and excited to build new things and come up with new ideas. Other days, I am only interested in satisfying myself in the present and fall back to useless pastimes like video games. When I look at HN, I see people that are able to maintain the passionate and dedicated mindset that allows them to put in as much work as is required to do things like create an impressive startup or build an interesting webapp in a weekend.

I believe that the distinguishing factor between a lazy mindset and a proactive mindset is simply mental energy. If you're tired or lazy you're not going to get stuff done. So far Adderall has been successful at consistently inducing this proactive mindset, but I don't want to rely on it because it is not sustainable for a number of reasons.

Seeing as I have a mathematical mind, I view the solution to this problem as a game of in and out. If I alter a routine in my life, then my mental energy will increase/decrease. What are your examples, big picture or specific, of how you maintain a proactive mindset?

I assume most people will say eat well, sleep well, and exercise regularly, so unless you have specific insight or past examples of these, please try to give other answers.
No idea, but my friends were just saying exactly the same thing at dinner today.
I guess it is not a coincidence, but just in case that you don't know it already, patio11 is giving a talk at a presentation group we have here called "Design Matters", at the Osaka Shinsaibashi Apple Store. It will be great.
Check out http://designmatters.jp/

This group was initiated by Garr Raynolds of http://www.presentationzen.com/ but Garr became very busy, so since last year, together with another guy we run the show.
Why would you need bitpal? I thought the transfer of bitcoins is already part of the design.
And a bitbank with interest won't work due to the (eventual) fixed money supply. A bank will go broke.
I love the ease of UI. I like a graphical way to look through logs and diffs and Github does this better than anyone else. Beyond that, if I want a nice web based alternative, I would have to maintain it which I hate doing. Really, $7 is not a bad deal for letting them be the sys admins.

All that said, I am a cheap bastard. I have all public projects on a free Github account and a couple nonfree ones on my hosting account. I don't have a pretty front end, just the default gitweb. It is ugly, not as easy to use, but it works for my personal projects. If I ever needed it for a non-personal project, Github is much better since I will need to code, not maintain my own repos.
Synced bookmarks in Google Chrome.
What powerful drugs they're using to produce such great distortion of reality? ^_^

JS could be called something like In-Browser Java (and it is heading to be the same bloated failure) or something. But assembly.. ^_^

Reality distortion is very common think among Java fan-boys. Some of them, for example, believe that a VM implemented as user level C++ program which uses its own unrelated to CPU base data-types and several layers of abstractions to interact with an OS, will run faster and more efficient than other c++ program linked directly with core OS libraries.

Now JS fan-boys thinks that if there are things like V8 or such as artificial as popular things like Nodejs, everything must be written in JS. That reminds me the very same slogan from Java's best days.

To dear down-voters: Think for a moment what is v8 or Spidermonkey and count how many code you should pile up to get access to something as simple as data stored in a MySQL table (or any other data behind its own socket-based protocol). ^_^ (yes, reality-checks are always painful)
Personally, I would be more concerned if someone with malicious intent and the ability to keep silent about what they have done had found & exploited this. [0]

Advertise: remove your competitor from Google's search results for a day! If I didn't think it was illegal, I'd probably pay for that, were I in such a situation.

[0] If, of course, it even existed in the first place. It seems plausible enough to me, even if I think it unlikely.
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