skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I see your point. But those notices are where a plaintiff has already filed suit, a class has already been certified, and a settlement offered. You are being notified as a possible party to the settlement of your right to accept the settlement terms or opt out and bring a lawsuit of your own.

In keeping with the Star Wars example, suppose David Prowse sued on behalf of himself and all other costume-actors in Return of the Jedi - by 'costume actors' I mean people who appear on the screen but don't speak any lines. Darth Vader's lines are all spoken by James Earl Jones because David Prowse has a goofy accent that's not appropriate to the character; the Screen Actor's Guild mandates quite different royalty payments for actors who talk as against actors who merely appear. If a court agrees that 'costumed actors' constitutes a viable class of identifiable persons who are similarly situated (they probably would; they're listed in the credits, and many actors appear without having any lines to speak) then it may certify a class on the basis that it's more reasonable to wrap multiple plaintiff's claims into a single suit. A lot would depend on whether the court considered the suit to have any merit, which would require looking at industry employment agreements of the time. I don't know much about labor law so I couldn't tell you how likely that is. My gut feeling is 'not very' because these compensation practices are widespread. Anyway, say Prowse does a good enough case that he either wins, or Lucasfilm fears that defending the case will cost more than paying out and offers a settlement. Then everyone who played an Ewok/Stormtrooper/whatever but didn't have any lines will get a letter advising about rights arising from a class action.

Basically, if you are ever invited to appear in a big-budget film or TV show you need to remember three things: do you have a line (otherwise it's low-paid day labor with free lunch and some celebrity-spotting fun), SAG minimum (get hired in accordance with the Screen Actor's Guild deal, or Actor's Equity on a TV program), Taft-Hartley (in case the producer says you need to already be a member of the actor's union). If you have a line and come under an industry agreement, you get a residual payment every time the film/tv show/commercial is rebroadcast. This can add up to a tidy sum if you are lucky enough to work on something that becomes a hit. If you get hired as an extra, you can try talking during the scene you're in to get a speaking credit, but you'd better add enough value to the scene that the director is willing to stick up for you when a producer objects. That's the basic difference between acting and just having a particular look. David Prowse can't act, sad to say; he's what people in the industry call a 'movable prop.'
I chose Mongo because I wanted to use mapreduce and I had never heard of any alternatives. I'm not particularly proud of that reasoning but it has worked out well for me (log analysis: I'm uploading files to GridFS, processing them into line documents, and mapreducing them). I am willing to bet the majority of user fall in the same boat.
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Start a blog. Add unique content.

Ask nicely from other sites like yours. 'Resource' or 'Links' pages are your friend.

Ask your friends to link from their blogs. If your friends are tech folks, they probably have more than one blog or site they can add your site too.

If you post your site I'll give you some specific strategies and examples.
Too casual puts me off (HP has a person who makes me never want to buy from them again), but if I don't get a sense of "real person" from you, I think you are lying to me.

Social media is about people interacting, even when those people work for huge companies. Talking with the same stilted, jargony crap that shows up on the web site is worse than not communicating at all. And that's what corporate standards tend to breed.
Saipan claims ComputerLand founder owes taxes
You take a look at your life, identify that hour here and half-hour there that aren't getting you closer to where you want to be, and use them for nights-and-weekends hacking. Then you start a long slog of little-by-little improvement. Eventually, the business eclipses the day job, and you quit. If you feel like it, you can then start another slog.

I have a very modestly successful small business, built over the last five years and change. At all points over that interval, I had sufficient income to maintain a wife and children to a standard of living commonly accepted among middle class folks where I live.

There are other options, such as "Transition from full-time salaried employment to contracting/consulting/etc, make a lot more money than you do right now, buy time with money."
This level of intrigue is honestly kind of exciting. Kind of makes me want to try out EVE.
Isn't the different architecture more of an "if you want to meaningfully use more transistors, you will have to do it something differently" than of an "we can do faster if we do things differently?"

I would expect that any micro-architecture effects would be relatively marginal, relative to the rough number Moore's law gives.

So, I think, at the resolution of Moore's law, "number of transistors double"' and "processing power doubles" are equivalent.

Another related 'law' is "CPUs gain a bit every 18 months". That metric predicts 6 years between outgrowing 4 bits and outgrowing 8bit CPUs, 12 years before needing 16 bits, 24 for needing 64 bits, and indicates we will not need a 128bits CPU on the desktop before 2050 or so (of course, all if we manage to stretch Moore's law that far)

I think that is in the right ballpark.
Darpa & TopCoder Launch a CS/STEM Gaming Site for Kids
The IRS is very picky about what constitutes an independent contractor. This has long been abused by companies trying to skirt employment law and avoid payroll taxes. They have a litmus test of sorts to determine whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor (tl;dr: if you treat them like an employee, they're an employee). And of course, there are significant penalties for getting this classification wrong.

For more details, go to the source: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.h...
Unfortunately there are still returns to scale. To stay on top of everything in your field|industry|organization might take 20 hours a week so some jobs aren't manageable on a part time basis.
Which language is best suited for communication with computer systems and AI
You can get cheap voiceovers of pretty good quality at fiverr.com
I just had flashbacks to COM+, IUnknown and broken models from lazy programmers.
I think it's unfair to expect C++11 support when they are still working on C99 support.
HTC confirms it is considering buying a mobile operating system
The reason is because the world is full of people who believe they have a billion dollar idea, and all they need is to "find an engineer to build it". By contrast, there is not a single engineer running around offering to pay $10,000 for a killer idea so they can use it to execute their way to a billion-dollar business.
here is a link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/12/messag...
Couch is definitely a lot more honest about their limitations than mongo or riak, but my experiences make me hesitant to recommend it to anyone not intimately familiar with those limitations.
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US plan fires up gigabit application development for ultrafast networks
It takes time to get it right, and I think Gowalla and Foursquare are both on track to do just that. I also think Josh is a great product guy and will eventually find a working solution. I think this is great proof that they aren't just waiting for it to come to them by chance.
The Madoff case is a little different because Madoff himself had a tremendous reputation. People weren't throwing their money at some shady anonymous figure, he was supposed to be incredibly successful.

Still unwise of course, but a little more understandable.
Words can't describe such devastation. EVE sounds like an awesome game to try out.
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Kids grow up really fast, and there are no do-overs.
New Boston Globe website design
they don't expect the work to be done solely by volunteers, and are going to ask for donations on their website. it's laid out in the first paragraphs:

The task is huge and it's unlikely that it will be
completed shortly based only on volunteer work, so we
came up with the following proposal, which splits the
work into several steps and sub-steps, togheter with an
estimate of how much money is needed to complete each
one.
Maybe we could define a new kind of organization that combined the efforts of individuals without requiring them to be interchangeable. Arguably a market is such a form of organization, though it may be more accurate to describe a market as a degenerate case—as what you get by default when organization isn't possible.

It's interesting to read this as I'm reading Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid, a tactical history of soccer. One of the great divides is between teams that adapt their players to a tactical system and teams that adapt their tactical system to the strengths of their players. One of the interesting paradoxes is that the Dutch tactic of "Total Football" relied upon the players on the field literally interchanging positions from front to back, and yet it was designed in order to suit the mentality and talents of Johan Cruijff.
Resize the window to see how gracefully the site accomodates a wide range of window sizes (from a phone to a desktop monitor).

[edit: After further reflection, I'm stunned by how well they pulled this off. Huge leap forward.]
You have my attention. Does this project have any kind of Twitter or mailing list yet?
I downvoted you because, although I am sort of interested in potential government support for entrepreneurs, I have zero interest in reading an argument about whether countries have a right to tax their citizens. This is HN, not prisonplanet.com.
I think one of the companies that uses social media well and without that 'oh too cool' casual style is mediatemple. I find their tweets and video posts to be professional and personable. Even when other twitterers are screaming at them when one of their shared servers goes down.

There is an immediate drop in creditability when a business is too friendly or too casual. I don't think you need to be cold and formal to portray a sense of responsibility and professionalism. It's about striking a balance between the extremes and reflecting the type of business you are.
I remember ComputerLand stores. Sounds like he was a hard working guy who earned his success.

Saipan is one of the most corrupt backwards places on earth. As a US trust territory, for many years they had slave plantations that produced clothing for chinese companies which was labelled "Made in USA". Many workers were kept under brutal conditions, raped, beaten and killed. The Saipanese are mostly incredibly lazy and loved this system as it allowed them to have houses full of slave servants and great wealth without ever having to work for it. It all collapsed a few years ago, but there's a close to 100% chance that they are the ones running the scam in this current case.

edit: Keep downvoting this, monkeys! I have no doubt I am one of a small handful of people on HN that has intimate experience of how Saipan works and how corrupt this place is. My post gives true insight to what is going on there. Imagine the worst fundamentalist christian ignorant half retarded hillbilly sex fiend town straight out of the movie Deliverance, but then give them dictatorial control over outsiders, a total lack of desire to work and a strong desire to dominate control and cheat others and you have Saipan. It's like a stereotypical town thought to exist in the backwoods of Arkansas, but it's real, slavery is still legal, and it's part of the US. Absolutely anything involving Saipanese officials that has a money angle for them is a total scam. Since their slave factories collapsed, they have been in desperate straits to steal what they can. I totally believe the CEOs explanation that they backdated their tax code specifically to target him, and then never served him of any real notice of it until now, after they've gotten a bunch of judgements against him in which he had no chance to represent himself because he didn't even know there was a case about this. That is exactly how they work. They are incredibly conniving and will work every system to get what they want. Typical small town american fundamentalist hillbillies, but in a pacific island trust territory. These comments apply to the people in control there. There's also the regular people who hate what has been done to their island over the years, many are ostensibly good people. It's the corrupt people in power that are the troublemakers, and dealing with them is exactly exactly like Southern Bible Thumping Fundamentalist - which the Saipanese basically are. The fundamentalist missionaries infected them with the peculiar sort of madness, entitlement, laziness and corruption that comes with that belief system. And if you had no idea about the slavery and corruption and you are downvoting this you are only proving how mentally you are exactly like them. This post tells you the truth about Saipan, a place that until just now you probably never heard of. Ignorant fools.
To be fair, the category topped by the MacBook Pro is not "gaming" but "performance and gaming".

The MBP is known to be a good match for many "performance"-tasks such as video editing and graphical work.
Previous to TestFlight, life was ridiculously painful for an iPhone developer to beta test apps. I wish they'd charge me, it's that good. I'd probably pay at least $100 a month.
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ReactOS "ready approximately for 80% of real world usage"
I really wish Google would support PyPy. It'd be such a small amount of money for them to fund development. Given the PyPy team's demonstrable success and Google's otherwise strong commitment to Python I can't understand why they don't.
The page is basically blank if JavaScript isn't available. Turning it on shows that it is only being used to populate the main content pane.

This is a bad design decision since (a) not everyone with JavaScript off will bother to enable it if they haven't already seen something interesting, (b) not everyone with JavaScript off can enable it, and (c) you're giving yourself this problem in exchange for no apparent benefit.

Your main pitch should always, always, always be visible in the broadest compatibility case - even if that means falling back on a static mockup.
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100 Adventurous Places For You to Explore
Aeroviewr button borders look ugly in Chrome and on Samsung Galaxy S also arrow on play button is of center.

Dragging on SGS shows circular dragged object as if dragged by left top corner of bounding box.
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Well I hope you took the time to downvote this entire thread then.

What is a citizen anyway though?

Edit: I just looked up prisonplanet.com. Interesting how extreme left-wing positions (I am an anarchist) can be easily mistaken for extreme right-wing positions, such as those of Alex Jones.
For something like developer testing against frozen snapshots of data, you don't have the CRUD aspects, so turn fsync off (fsync = off in postgresql.conf). You'll note a large speed increase when you're not waiting on the disk to confirm transactions.
Warms my heart to read a solid confirmation that PyPy as a project is committed to implementing Python 3 support. For some time now I've been lamenting the dilemma that is having to choose between PyPy and CPython 3.x, plus it's always left a bit of a bitter after-taste that any rise in the popularity of PyPy would serve to prolong the transition pains as long as there wasn't a clear and public plan toward Python 3 support.
You can bet that I downvoted the majority of it. (Although I upvoted your comment below about American exceptionalism regarding taxing the assets of expatriates, since afaik it's accurate and it's informative.)
Do you live in SFBA or NYC? Do you have familiarity with a programming language? Can you build a simple standalone web or mobile app on your own, start to finish? Can you work in a team?
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Tweet shortener Feathr.it launched
I launched a "weekend project" web app that is a tweet shortening service to help you reduce the number of characters in your tweets to help you stay within the limitation of 140 characters. Just write (or paste) your tweet into the text box and feathr.it will help you find synonyms, short hand, and symbols to help reduce the total number of characters.

Its got some fun "wiki-like" features, a bookmarlet, and an API as well.

Enjoy!

@feathrit
Isn't it okay to make general statements? I mean, if you grabbed 100 random 20 year olds and 100 random 40 year olds, wouldn't the 40 year old folks have more financial obligations?

Certainly you can find counter-examples-- older folks who are financially secure and young people with bad attitudes or bad burn rates... But I don't think if you say, "Tall people are better at dunking basketballs" that you're really being unfair to all of the shorter people who are great at dunking, are you?
Authors' Guild sues universities over book digitization project
That Unladden Swallow seems to have died a quiet death in the end sure doesn't support the idea that Google is easy to truely commit to such efforts, though.
How about whole galaxy cluster made of antimatter?

Isn't the void separating clusters really really empty?

And what if roughly half of the galaxy clusters are made of matter and half of antimatter? Would the annihilation radiation be detectable from the background? How do you detect if gamma rays are normal or additional if space might be filled with such matter-antimatter boundaries?
"Allow me to give some backgrou..." "NOOO we don't have time! Just tell me who is the user."
Copyright Troll Righthaven Says It’s Nearing Bankruptcy
This is a phenomenal implementation fluid layout. I've never seen it done so gracefully. Congratulations to your team.

[edit: there might be a lot more than fluid layout involved with the redesign, but that is the most striking aspect for me so far)
If I earn $1.00 and owe 20 cents in taxes, I’ve earned my success in the amount of eighty cents’ worth of financial prosperity.

If I keep the entire dollar, I have earned my eighty cents AND I owe 20 cents in unpaid taxes.

This gentleman has not been convicted of any crime, but it is certainly possible that he has “earned his success” AND that he owes money for unpaid taxes.
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gracefully is subjective. media queries feel abrupt, even on my 'fast' machine.
More transistors on a die is frequently a result of an improved process. Moving to a smaller process means you can run your clock at a higher rate (generally speaking), which often (not always) translates to faster operations.
This is brilliant. I hope it stays spam-free. Thanks for building it.

Can we have a way to go back and re-edit our entries as I'd like to add a website link to one of mine?
One of us is misunderstanding something. What I'm imagining is, you adjust the value by dragging it, and then the CAS solves for the red value. There's no requirement for monotonicity or anything, if the CAS can solve for a unique red value to satisfy the equation, you're good.
Abrupt in what browser? Chrome doesn't feel abrupt.
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Thanks for the comment. Nothing has changed with how you can use Posterous for Sites or Groups. It's simpler, cleaner, better designed, more user focused, better mobile app, and a strong social layer.

We found our users loved having more control over how they share online. So instead of having 2 products, we simplified into one to rule them all.
I've just played with Backbone.js myself, though I have shared your frustration with getting the hang of it, and the quality of available tutorials and examples.

I've learned to mostly get the hang of it after repeated references to the official docs and the todo app. I think part of the difficulty is its lack of rigidity -- Backbone.js leaves quite a bit up to conventions, or the developer.
My impression is that's because it was a failure technically, not because Google didn't support its goals.
Not quite what I was expecting but still neat. Instead of replacing some characters and leaving out some vowels, I thought it was going to try and analyze the grammar, etc, of my Tweet and rewrite it. For example, I thought it might take something like

Hi, how are you doing today? I'm fine.

and shorten it to:

I'm good, you?
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Er....no. It was not free before; section 877 of the Internal Revenue Code was amended in 2004, and even before that reflected the assumption that any expatriation from the US was for purposes of tax avoidance. All US income for 10 years after expatriation was subject to US income tax for 10 years, and if you spent more than 30 days of any given year within the US, you were treated as a resident and liable for full US taxes on all income worldwide. Now you can spend up to 120 days in the US per annum after expatriating.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,... has detailed explanation of the different tax regimes since 2008, from 2004-2008, and prior to 2004.

They don't take 50% of your net worth; they take progressive amounts on assets above the inflation-indexed $600k exemption up to a top rate of 35% (same as the estate tax). The 50% thing is a special case for future deferred income from a US asset; you pay 30% up front and 30% on distribution, which comes out at 51%. The idea here is that you should pay more because you are trying to have your cake (live outside the US and not pay US income tax) and eat it too (enjoy the fruits of the US economy and enforce any future income claims in a US court if required). If you really don't want that, then you can sell the asset, giving up any deferred income, and take the 30% hit.

I am not a tax lawyer, or any other kind of lawyer right now. Nor do I have a very strong opinion on whether this tax is good or bad; I'm just pointing out that there are factual errors in your statements above.
Can you explain how they're not related? I'm not poking you to start a fight, I'm genuinely curious.
There seems to be some inconsistencies across the site including support for IE6. The demo page (http://demos.kendoui.com/) says it does while the overview page (http://www.kendoui.com/kendo-ui.aspx) says IE7+.

Weird.
The article says nothing about what a Higgsless universe means for science, but at the end links to Wikipedia's list of "Higgsless models": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgsless_model
It is worth checking out. Really neat how well it does go from big to small. Was this done with Javascript/jQuery?
For a little more of an in depth view of this situation, have a look at this from peter woit: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3960

also, this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1180
Nice pictures.. but I think you lost me when you placed Calabria in a list of "Adventurous" places, sorry
Ahhh, well, good luck on it!
Additional discussion on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/kd38b/pypys_python_3...
The only way to get SEO these days is great inbound links or great unique content. If you don't have really great inbound content, then you better have a ton of really high profile sites linking to you.
Downvoted purely for "Keep downvoting this, monkeys!". HN would be better off without that sort of nonsense.
Looking forward to seeing this!