skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another one I saw recently: "Oh, you've worked from that alternate location for too many days this year, so your travel expenses are no longer a business expense. The company will still pay them, but now they are taxable benefits. So the company will actually pay you extra in payroll to offset the taxes you will now have to pay."

Oy.
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That's not completely true though; most of those analyses take the conclusion way past the point where it's accurate.

You cannot definitively produce a single canonical parse tree for every valid Perl 5 program without executing code in some cases, but you can produce a coherent and accurate parse tree without executing code if you allow nodes in the parse tree which express the two types of ambiguity (undeclared bareword interpretation and unknown arity).

Most of the time this doesn't come up.
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I'm lucky enough to attend a high school where freshman are required to take the equivalent of AP Computer Science, and those who wish to can go on to take CS classes taught by teachers with PhDs from MIT and Yale - you'd be hard pressed to find a better curriculum.

Despite the environment, there are very few students with a "hacker" mentality- maybe ten or so, a number not drastically higher than what you'd expect to find anywhere else. Plenty of kids choose to take the upper level (from a high school perspective) classes, and have no trouble understanding recursion, pointers, or any of the traditional hangups, but it's a much smaller number who would ever consider working on a project that wasn't assigned by a teacher. For everyone else, even among these incredibly bright students, programming is seen as the work you have to sludge through in order to guarantee a cushy $120k job.

For this small percentage of self-motivated students, the free time proposed in the original post would be a godsend, used more productively than any sort of schoolwork. For most everyone else, however, regardless of intelligence, CS education, or resources available, this time would be thrown away to TV or video games, with a net productivity less than an hour spent doing the most menial busywork under the dullest of teachers. I think many of us on Hacker News, surrounded by peers who are the sort of people that start businesses, tend to forget that while students might spend lectures wishing they were elsewhere, that elsewhere is rarely 80x24.

Admittedly, I don't have a solution. Increased STEM funding helps, no doubt, but not in the exponential way many of us envision. Resources in the form of state of the art equipment or funding for student projects only serves to empower those who are already driven, and this drive seems to be something determined long before students enter high school.
... and this is probably why some tools or some methodologies work in Enterprise but might not work in commercial software.
It pains me that from what he said he took the gigantic leap to "we need to make it more obvious that it's illegal" rather than the tiny one to "we need to find a way to make it easier to get legally".
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For national companies, state level reporting requirements are a huge burden. For instance, payment made to doctors by healthcare companies. You just hope that they pick fairly common requirements, instead of each state reinventing the wheel.
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I'm not sure if this is a difference in regional terminology or just a deficiency in my vocabulary, but what on earth does "craft item" mean in this context? As I understand the phrase, it means something like "a thing made out of yarn." But I don't think Illustrator is much use in building those.

EDIT: OK, getting upvotes, so at least I know I'm not simply thick.

EDIT 2: It finally occurred to me to check out euroclydon's profile, so I see he's talking about http://www.makecupcakewrappers.com/. I get it now.
You’re joking, right? Who would you propose is more qualified to draft the word of the actual laws than lawyers? What lawyers are at their essence are experts in law—the word ‘lawyer’ even has the word ‘law’ in it.

It's like asking a team of developers to get together and vote on whether a problem is best solved by writing more code or doing nothing.

Who would you ask whether code needs to be written, then? The lawyers who aren’t dealing in law? Housewives? Veterinarians?

It’s the same thing with lobbyists—they end up getting hired by government because they are experts in what they are talking about. You’re going to be very hard-pressed to find an expert that doesn’t have some vested interest somewhere in what they’re talking about.

Consider the conflict of interest that exists…

A common tactic I see when people argue about politics is that because someone could be doing something corrupt then it means that they then therefore are doing it. I could certainly go walk outside and push someone in front of a bus right now, but assuming I’m a murderer just because I could is not a good assumption. Conflicts of interest certainly raise the possibility of wrongdoing and should be scrutinized, but the simple existence of a conflict of interest is not proof of wrongdoing; for that you need not aspersions but, well, proof.

I am staunchly against SOPA being enacted without industry input, and I think it’s misguided to try to prop up dying content businesses that aren’t innovating, but spouting conspiracy theories about the politicians passing it for their own benefit isn’t going to help.
Sorry for not attributing all these...exchange is between a Rep whose nameplate isn't vieible and multiple witnesses, primarily Ms. Oyama.

"We have harshly criticized governments whose service providers monitor and censor the actions of their users. [...] How would this legislation affect our diplomacy with nations like Iran, for example?"

"When there are realtime events, it's important that content services allow for infrastructure to support realtime public response to those events."

"This bill hurts both large and small content intermediaries severely, but in different ways."

"We've seen Libyan officials trying to take rivals' YouTube channels out of their national internet stream."

"The Justice Department has new responsibilities under SOPA while at the same time we've been talking about downsizing government. Are we creating an unmeetable burden for U.S. Gov as well as content intermediaries?"
elance was the best, where you could find a good employers, but they decreased a minimal rate for projects. also now there alot of India and South Africa employers.

Elance want to become India freelance site. Im sorry. Continue to looking a good employers everywhere where i can. Sorry Elance.
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There's a slight chance that the government doesn't care about the bigger issue. I guess this would be like nailing a mobster for tax evasion.
The scenario you're describing is actually not the one WiDi is targeting. WiDi targets the computer-to-tv scenario. The idea is that you sit on the couch with your laptop or tablet and the audio and video seamlessly transmit to the TV. I think this (or some equivalent scenario) is eventually going to be ubiquitous, whether it's Intel's implementation or not.

The desktop scenario might arrive later, and it might even be doable now, but it's not the target yet.
I look at them. I just think they accomplish something useful. It sounds like you don't.
The only thing I can get from this article is that he created a study tool that wasn't a set of papers or a document but actually a computer program. I don't see how this has any significance other than he created a computer program. I wish there was more information to this article other than fluff.
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Before SO it was google groups/dejanews for me. I suppose it does make us a little lazier, but I don't ever take the answers on SO as fact. I always try them out and usually end up changing them around to fit my specific situation.
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I already have and use Instapaper. What reasons are there to start using Readability instead?
Doesn't retrevo do this?

http://www.retrevo.com/samples/index.html
Okay, I feel much better for you now. ;)

But I managed to simultaneously enjoy school a lot and learn to self-educate. These things aren't mutually exclusive by any means. All good education is self-education, and a good school is one that operates with this principle in mind: The teachers and the environment should amplify your self-educational tendencies, not thwart them.

Mind you, you'll never find a whole school, of any size, that works that well. (Especially in high school, and especially these days, when my understanding is that school is more regimented than ever.) You have to find the special corners.

You should take classes that help you. One rule is simply to study any subject that has a good teacher, no matter what it is: Ask around, find the teachers that are any good, and learn from them. Another rule, which I suggest often around here, is to take classes that incorporate resources that you won't find on your own. Guitars are easy to find on your own. Entire student symphony orchestras or choirs are harder to find, and fully-equipped semiconductor wafer fabs are the hardest of all to assemble in your garage, unless you're Bill Gates.
Chair: "I came to this meeting undecided on this bill, and hoping to make up my mind during this discussion, but this discussion is bringing up concerns (e.g. interference with DNSSec) that seem highly problematic. Can the panelists comment on whether this bill would dis-incentivize adoption of more secure standards like DNSSec?"

"We disagree." - big content shill

Chair: "If you believe these concerns are unfounded, please submit written responses to that specific question explaining why you believe that."..."I'm very concerned that these [DNSSec] experts are not part of this hearing!"

Yes bro!
If you want to make a series on "The Valley", why don't you just do it? Looks like you already have the cameras, audio and editing equipment. Putting it up as a web series would be pretty cheap/free. If it's good, you'll attract an audience and you can make money on it.

Asking for $25,000 on Kickstarter doesn't compute with me. If you were really scrappy, you'd already be doing it.
The information is in the second video, I figured, why transcript Craig's description when he did a succinct job of it himself?

To be honest, there's little information other than what he divulged out there on the net, as it was a private tool. If I find more i'll write a followup, it's pretty fascinating.
Spending the first 20 mins watching this talk is well worth the time for any programmer. The talk is about how your head and your gut react and function differently; and how it impacts you writing code.
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I am not sure if I could support/let go my team member like you. Very classy on your part. And Good luck to Dessy on her interview.
>> Look no further than the War on Drugs. It's been clear for decades that by every objective measure it's a (barbaric, costly) accelerant for exactly the kinds of social problems it was conceived to fight. But it's still deeply unpopular to say that.

I think you're right about the War on Drugs being a failure but wrong about this being an unpopular viewpoint.

A Zogby poll referenced here shows 76% of respondents think the War on Drugs is a failure:
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/drugpolicy/p/War-on-Drugs-F...
You're right that I'm judging it prematurely. I haven't tried the app out yet (apparently it's not in the AppStore). But from the screenshots, and having used Instapaper - it definitely looks like a good contender.
This article is flawed in so many ways.

First of all, the author has an incorrect interpretation of the guidelines. It's not 'Never, ever, ever use tables', it's 'Never use tables for layout'. And it's not stick ZOMG-EVERYTHING above the fold, it's make sure your most important stuff is above fold.

The main piece of "evidence", the 37-signals site, is bunk. Their site doesn't "give the fold the finger". I embraces it. What does 37-signals sell? They sell their SaaS products. When you visit their site, what do you see above the fold? Their major Saas products. Oh, you can click on them and get more information. This is precisely following the above-the-fold guideline.

The other piece of "evidence" the author submits - that "even if it goes even further down the page, way below the fold. You're still reading." is also bunk. I read the article because I clicked through from HN. I was already invested in reading the article. People that intend to read your content WILL read your content.

You can put content anywhere, and your mother will read it. But that's because she's your mother. You don't design a site for your mother, you design your site for potential customers/consumers. The above-the-fold guideline is to make a design appropriate for people unfamiliar with what's to come, to give them direction.
Or they procrastinate and take it easy because there is an upper limit to compensation per unit of time & effort. If I am truly 10x more productive, that means I should be able to keep a steady paycheck rolling in with 4 hours a week!
That's what I was going to ask. Many papers I find sifting through looking for evidence supporting this, actually refute this claim. So I'm curious what sources this poster is using.
My unibody MBP uses regular cross-head screws.

EDIT: I've missed the torx screws on the actual drive. See child comment.
Here's a citation arguing that pirated content has no impact on DVD sales "With respect to the
impact of piracy on sales, we use the television broadcast as an exogenous demand shock and find that the availability of pirated content at the time of broadcast has no effect on post broadcast DVD sales gains.":

http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~rtelang/SmithTelang.pdf

These guys say that pre-release pirated movies result in a 15% decline in box office revenue "We estimate that the net effect of pre-release piracy is approximately a 15% reduction in box office sales.":

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1782924
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There's a video of Roger Craig explaining the web app he created: http://vimeo.com/29001512
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(from Jakob Nielsen)

"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html

The article includes the results of an eyetracking study, and a few examples of viewing patterns where people did spend a lot of time below the fold.
When I hear "job board" I think full-time positions or contract work. I don't think "projects."

Something to consider.
For what it's worth, GMail proposes a lab feature that enable asynchronous email sending (i.e. `Send` is clicked, and you go back immediately to the last location, while the email is sent in background).
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Hi Everyone,

My team and I (Bizmey) are having a dilemma and are looking for some advice or feedback.
We have developed a mobile app click-exchange network. My question is: Should we absorb the cost of Paypal / Credit Card payments when advertisers pay for our Ad services or have them pay for it?

Cheers!
Nice to see people testing out <script> tags in the demo. Also glad to see the tags instead of being navigated away from the page.

Surprised a little to see the demo is actually being edited by multiple people, presumably from yc.
This is why corporations give smart phones away at no cost. People pay for the phone many times over by giving away most all of their data and privacy to the corporation that gave them the phone. Most people just don't realize this.
> If we can manage to recycle something worth $50, surely we can recycle something that is more valuable.

That doesn't follow.

Lead-acid car batteries are profitable to recycle because of the chemistry costs, not the unit cost of the battery.

So, what are the costs of recycling these batteries? (Note that the answer is in terms of $/pound.) How does that compare to the cost of using new materials? (Again, the answer is in terms of $/pound.)
it's amazing how such a small slice of time can have such huge impact. definitely excited by this and other approaches to increase perceived speed!
Reps now bitching that Google's senior management is not in the room. FUCK YOU, SENATOR. Those people deliver more value per day than you will deliver in your entire career as a public servant.

Oh god: "Why not hire some whiz kids?"

What a goddamned fool.

"We have the brainpower in this country [to design a machine to distinguish copyrighted works from non-copyrighted works]."

Actually, no, we don't. Fair use is a thing, holmes.
Actually this is an established theory. Here's Dr Clifford Winston, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution chatting to Prof. Russ Roberts of George Mason University about the conflict of interest when lawyers make our laws. They also cover the bar system maintaining artificial scarcity among lawyers, thereby inflating legal fees.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2011/09/winston_on_lawy.htm...
I bought a generic one, pretty much the first hit on Amazon, and it works fine on the Air. It never occurred to me that this was a difficult requirement to meet anymore.

They come with those dual-headed connectors, but I've never encountered any situation where you had to use both.

Also, the Air's USB ports put out the higher current that the iPad needs to charge faster, hence are even more likely to be able to handle this.
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> I'm guessing chollida1 was talking generalities

I was yes.
Alcohol makes up for the boring early years?
What would you suggest as an alternative? I would like to convey the focus on projects more, but "project board" doesn't have the same ring? Any suggestions?
Microsoft's pro-PROTECT IP [1], though I don't think they've made a statement on SOPA yet. They are, though, as pointed out, a member of the BSA, which is very pro-SOPA.

1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2...
If you imagine the problem as something to solve in a general sense, you can narrow the problems to fit into models. But, if you treat every requirement as a modification to an excel macro (:-D), then you are in trouble.

Wow, a new person's first comment hits the bulletin board!

You're batting 1.000, gbvb. Welcome aboard.
No, that only works against blocking traffic. SOPA would remove the DNS entry from the .COM domain. It's an attack at the DNS level so using a proxy won't work. You'd need something like the MAFIAFire plugin to keep a "shadow" DNS going.
The only thing an account number gives access to is sending cash to it.

I fail to see what negative consequences that have.
They who? Congress? If that's the case I'm not terribly surprised.

I haven't been able to get the stream to start all morning.
The stream is a great HN submission. Thanks.
It's bullshit?

Shipping is number 1 for a start.

And anyone who says 'Architecture' in the same article as developer, well, lets just say the two are kinda mutually exclusive. One's a person who codes, the other's a person who talks about code but can't do it.

Also, go to their website homepage. Look at the splash screen crying 'we just starting doing mobile!'. Sooooooooo..... They only just got their own perfect coders or something?

Realize this article is a total waste of our time.
Nice post. I'd like to briefly respond to the bit about the difference between Spine, which generates pseudo-GUIDs for models created on the client, later overwriting them if the server responds with a real id; and Backbone, which has a "cid" (client ID) for every model regardless of the canonical server ID.

The reason why Backbone provides a persistent client id for the duration of every application session is so that if you need to reference model ids in your generated HTML, you always have something to hang your hat on. If I have '<article data-cid="c530">' ... I can always look up that article, regardless of if the Ajax request to create it on the server has finished or not. With Spine's approach: '<article data-id="D6FD9261-A603-43F7-A1B2-5879E8C7926B">' ... I'm not sure if that id is a real one, or if it's temporary, and can't be used to communicate with the server.

Optimistically (asynchronously, in Alex's terms) doing client-side model logic is tricky enough in the first place, without having to worry about creating an association based off a model's temporary id. I think that having a clear line between a client-only ID and the model's canonical ID is a nice distinction to have.
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I've spoken with a lot of people about this, and the most compelling thing for me about going the Kickstarter route is that you can really test out the audience for your idea, and hopefully create a group of people who have a vested interest in seeing it succeed. There are so many stories of guys who quit their day jobs to produce a web series - which believe me costs much more to produce than you'd think - and end up way out of pocket with something that doesn't rate and/or can't be sold. I actually really want to tell these stories and I can certainly do it in an efficient way, but I'd definitely like to break even!
And then cutting off the answer when it's exactly what he doesn't want to hear.

Certainly frustrating.
Sounds like Linux/Windows. Apple is supposed to have one, consistent way to do something.

I think it's pretty clear someone dropped the ball when they decided that "drag the disk to the trash" was the best metaphor. Even if it reassures you that you know what you're doing at the last second as you hold the disc over the trash can.
The ability to do this has always been - to me - the obvious advantage of Android over iOS, but this is the first time I've seen anyone bring it up.
but the database is often a red-headed stepchild that doesn't get the attention it deserves

On my last three major projects, I have committed to devoting the proper level of attention to the database, with automatically building databases in some environments, scripted scheme changes and seed data loading as part of the mainline code base, etc. and I have found the difference to be immense in practical terms. I can move more quickly, more safely, and have a better quality of life as a developer.

One of the best returns on (effort) invested I have ever seen.
"We have the brainpower to take this on."

We do? As a non-technical senator, you can make that engineering claim with confidence?
Nice idea, definately not new. There is one major problem with this approach - you save document, request processing, you navigate away from page, start new work, after 30 secs your request failed. Now the code complexity for you to handle this situation is high. Multithreaded/asynchronous systems are always hard.
She clearly explained why it was not do-able, and then he goes on to saying that it is. Hire those "wiz kids" I'm sure they can do it!
Wow. This is a far more thorough approach than the experience-focused app I made in 2007, but then again Roger Craig is also a lot better at Jeopardy! than I am.

http://zachbaker.com/how-to-win-on-jeopardy-with-ruby-on-rai...