skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can expense PART of your rent and utilities, completely legitimately, if you have a home office and use your home office solely for your business. You just calculate how much % of your home is dedicated toward your work, and deduct as appropriate.

You can expense your car if it is a business-only vehicle. You can also deduct business-related meals.

All of those things are completely within the bounds of the law.
When they separate they are no longer flying straight up, they are moving toward a more orbital trajectory.
The velocity counter means airspeed. The reason you aren't seeing the results you expect is that the shuttle launches in a ballistic arc to enter orbit. The boosters also follow that same trajectory, but lack orbital velocity. So what you see is them losing speed until they reach the peak of that arc, then gaining speed as they are drawn back towards the earth.

This gives you an idea of the arc:

http://media.tcpalm.com/media/img/photos/2010/04/05/0406_LOC...
The shuttle isn't going straight upward at separation. It's actually going mostly eastward, so when the boosters separate they retain most of their speed, and even regain a bit as they drop through the ultra-thin upper atmosphere.

You're right about the rest -- a decrease to terminal velocity and then a big decrease as the chutes take effect.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle#Launch
being "liberal in what you accept" is a discredited software practice.

What? When did that get discredited?
Foxconn's suicide rate is significantly lower than many places in the US and lower than the Chinese average. This bugs me because these are simple stats to look up (never mind ignoring the problem places here at home).
Medicare efficient enough for you?
The rocket engine was still running after separation and we could not see when it stopped propelling the rocket so it is difficult to really understand its motion by just using its interaction with gravity and the athmosphere as our only variables affecting its behavior.
The 150-fold figure might apply if they actually took divergent paths back to Earth by a degree or two, but that doesn't seem to be the case--they took very nearly parallel tracks, with a few meteres of random jostling one way or the other. I'm not sure how much effect the explosive detachment from the shuttle+main tank has though / which way those forces are directed.

Interesting reading here on the details of the booster rockets: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/s...
You can only see 50 on the front page as a regular user and 100 if you pay for reddit gold they update every 30 minutes. This is the main reason I removed reddits like r/thewire, r/archlinux and /r/bookclub because they so infrequently get posts its not worth having them clogging up one of my 50 spots.
You've actually just highlighted another problem with Google there as well ;)

Google doesn't really know what you're searching for, it doesn't understand the context which is why you see shopping results when you're just looking for information. Yahoo actually tried to solve this with a slider with an option for more shopping/info results but it didn't catch on as users don't want to click anything, they just want to type words in to the box and get the perfect answer - be it an ad or an actual result. If you make a user do anything else then you've already lost the game.

This is another reason why I don't think Google will fix this SEO problem it has any time soon, and I definitely don't think this current 'fix' will solve it either
I am not a lawyer, but I tried to read some of this. I don't see how it's targeted to anything I would call a startup.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3606&...

First off, it defines an "emerging growth company" as anything with less than $1 billion gross yearly revenue. You all have heard of Netgear? Emerging growth company.

And then it exempts such a company from reporting requirements, shareholder approval of executive compensation, shareholder approval of severance packages, certain auditing requirements, and even conflict-of-interest provisions.

In my non-expert opinion it looks more like it's trying to make the first dotcom bubble look like a period of sanity and sobriety.
It was something like three years before reddit had subreddits.

Hardly a day 1 problem.
In the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein, which is a fantastic science fiction book about colonizing Luna and the politics of an anarchistic government, he mentions the creation of a Rocket Sled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_sled_launch) which seems to never get mentioned when people talk about earth side technology for improving our ability to leave earth.

Does anyone know if there is some reason why this technology seems to get ignored? According to wikipedia it seems like a big win. Why aren't we doing this right now?
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I didn't get a chance to see this at PyCon, but wow, this video really helped me understand some of the fundamentals of PyPy. (For example, I had no idea it didn't have a parser, and instead only acts on the intermediate representation of Python bytecode.)

Also, David Beazley has a great way of making difficult concepts approachable.
Agreed on the audio track - it does an excellent job of reflecting the extremely inhospitable conditions to which the boosters are subjected. I'm also curious about the cameras, although I wish they had been running at fixed sensitivity rather than constantly trying to balance between black space and a very reflective Earth.
BBS's also functioned in a similar way before Usenet did.

That said, Napster made it all really easy. They also came along when CD drives were finally commonplace, and Winamp had seeded the ground by having people build up a library of MP3s beforehand.
Unfortunately I don't have any studies to back up my intuition here. But I would bet that my definition of complexity, aka "interaction space", would correlate much stronger to error rate than LOC does.

Intuition is often surprisingly wrong - lesswrong.com shows a lot of examples. That doesn't mean it's wrong in this case, but now you have code which is hidden so the interaction space is limited, so there could be:

1) Now you have to add complexity to get information into and out of this interaction space. Similar to how it's easier to walk onto a field than it is to walk into a castle - if the walls protect the contents, they also contort your path around them.

2) Leaky abstractions. It might be the case that your protected code is needed elsewhere. Now you have to duplicate it, or break around the protection/expose a new way through, all of which would not be necessary for a free function. At the very least you have overhead considering this. All of a sudden your neatly wrapped class is two classes, one in use in two places where you could again change code and have an effect far away if you're not careful.

3) In a language such as Python, you don't have your code inside a class protected by anything except convention. So it seems that you either must: a) accept that what protects groups of code is programmer attentive care, not the system of classes itself, and thus that any other programmer paying the right kind of attention could have the same benefits and less code, or b) declare languages like Python to be excluded from the benefits of classes by not implementing them properly. Do you agree?
Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on search. These opinions are my own and based only on the linked article.

I took a beating on the SEO blogs for calling SEO a bug a few months ago, but I'm glad the rest of the world is finally realizing that I'm right :)

Ultimately, Google is trying to rank you highly for providing the best content; you shouldn't be spending your time trying to figure out how to game Google by making superficial changes to the presentation of your content. Want to rank better? Write better!

The whole problem is rooted in the fact that Google is a leaky abstraction. It tries to be an omniscient Sherpa, guiding the wary Web traveler with its infinite understanding of the Web and the individual user's needs. The reality, though, is that Google is actually just a computer program. So there is a gap between the user's mental model of Google and what Google actually does, and it's this gap that SEO exploits for its own profit.

An infinite amount of exploitation would mean that Google would just return results randomly, and so it makes a lot of sense to detect signs of SEO and penalize the behavior before it further broadens the perfection/reality gap. Gaming the system is currently profitable, since the worst thing that can happen to you is nothing, but the best thing is that you get more traffic. A penalty aligns the risk/reward spectrum to favor "write better content" rather than with "spam a bunch of wikis".
Earlier today, on Clojure West, the founder of GetPrismatic[1] made a very interesting presentation. He is trying to solve this problem. Real time machine learning is a hard problem.

Hopefully it will be something people want, because I want it as well. But if it is not, I'd rather he pivoted into something where he can succeed than taking his startup to the ground because of me. A startup that fails helps nobody.

[1] http://getprismatic.com/
The syntax schemes just either never have the number of unique keyword(-types) available or I assume since it's the case for every language I use... it's not possible with vim. If it is, then I lament the inferior set of default syntax highliting.

And yeah, I use gvim for the greater color palette. I'd take a screenshot, but my current tether is on 3G and my server is taking too long to launch Gvim over X
Understanding Women
Good news for all men – The book “Understanding Women” Part-1 (By: Habibies) has finally arrived in book stores. Part-2, Part-3, Part-4 and Part-5 will be published soon…
I'm new to the details of Bitcoin, but I found these explanations to be illuminating:

Bitcoin relies on agreement among peers on a single unbroken chain of blocks: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_chain

It takes computation work (searching for a header that produces a hard-to-find hash value) to generate the next block. Therefore, the block chain can be taken over by someone with 51% of all the hashing power on the network because the peers agree on whatever chain reflects the most work: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_bitcoin_works#Double_spending

In order for a bitcoin transaction to be consummated, it must be encoded in a new block. The entity that generates the block chooses which transactions to include in the new block, and the 15% entity that is the subject of this article is not including any transactions. Instead, it is only awarding itself the standard bounty for discovering a new block.
Norms are in a rapid state of flux on this. I was told by people I consider extraordinarily credible that in the last two years their best companies, whose angel rounds would have resembled Series A a few years back, offered founders salaries roughly approximating market value of eqivalently skilled engineers employed in the area. (i.e. $120k not $40k, in the Bay area.)

I will also report this observation: "You'll think this is crazy. I thought it was crazy. But the last REDACTED deals I did included a partial cash-out for the founders." (I.e. rather than selling 10% of the company for $800k deposited in the corporate account the deal was $600k for the Corp and a $100k check for each founder.)
I worked 3 years at my last startup paying myself the absolute minimum possible. When the startup failed, this meant I didn't have any savings and immediately had to dive into consulting work. Part of the reason you take investors is to share the risk of the startup. In retrospect, I wish I'd paid myself more and hedged my bets a little better. Most startups fail leaving the founders burned out and broke. Now, I agree you shouldn't be making a fortune, but you don't want your personal finances to ever be a distraction from your business. You should be figuring out how to make your business successful, not worrying about finding money to eat or pay rent. You'll have plenty enough to stress over at work.
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Foxconn's suicide rate is significantly lower than many places in the US and lower than the Chinese average

This --repeated constantly-- doesn't say much. Statistics are very tricky to get right.

How does it relate with the average Chinese "suicide IN THE WORKPLACE" rate? It's one thing to kill yourself at home, and another to kill yourself at work.

Second, do they also count the suicide rate of Foxconn employees that choose to kill themselves OUTSIDE of the company buildings/campus? Or are just workplace suicides counted? Because then, the comparison to the "chinese average" is also skewed.

Third. How does the suicide rate of Foxconn workers compare to EMPLOYED chinese suicide rate? Because if the majority of chinese killing themselves are unemployed, poor, with financial difficulties etc, then Foxconn numbers could be above that average.
Yes, the suicide rate of Foxconn employees is about 10% of the suicide rate of China's general population:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
The psychological literature on expertise and mastery is nothing to do with "igon value"[0] Gladwell. If any one person were to be associated with deliberate practice it should be K. Anders Ericsson[1].

Gladwell is an excellent storyteller; that is the extent of his talents.

And a goal as vague as "a successful startup" is extremely unlikely to get you anywhere. You need a great deal more specificity and short time periods so you can tell if you're going right or wrong.

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html...

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1897

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson

http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson.dp.html
I'm pretty excited for it. Their new windows phones are pretty nice devices.
I understand it would be frustrating to some people some of the time. And HN is definitely a place with above average posting qualities. But I just can't help to think that even here (not to mention most other forums) a significant portion of visitors read something (on a superficial level), assume a bunch of things, then write down some comment/rant based on their assumptions. And the OP content may be lost, misinterpreted or discarded due to this sort of commentary.

I'm not married to the idea of a delay mechanism, but the idea of making conversation real-time has a down side that I don't think I've heard anyone mention as being part of the problem.
Tagging is still highly underleveraged.
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Sublime Text 2 works perfectly for me. It has TextMate compatibility for syntax bundles, so now my LESS files display pretty in the editor.

I've been using TextMate not long ago, but there is no port on Windows. ST 2 has windows and OSX version.
I am also a student at Devbootcamp. The intensity of the program combined with the amazing dedication of the other students has realistically quadrupled my learning speed. The program as a whole (starting 2 months before the first day of class when you get your pre-class homework) can take you from a complete newbie to hirable. One of the biggest indicators of its merit is that you can see most of us who are going through the program have become somewhat of evangelists. If anyone is considering the program, I really recommend reaching out to one of the students who are currently in the program and learning more about it. You can also check out my blog at newbietoruby.com
It’s a simple recipe for happiness.
It’s a simple recipe for happiness. Eliminate all negative emotions, anything that creates bad feelings and distracts from the project at hand. Clear it all away, and what’s left? The space for creativity pure and simple. That’s happiness for Hitch.
Really depends on how big your angel round is. If you've raised 200k and you've got 3 founders who all require 60k salaries each you'll get a year of runway which isn't very long and that's not even taking into account the possibility or need for taking on more employees.

I recognised early on that 'end of runway' anxiety is very real for me, as it creeps up it really affects your decision making on product direction and how you spend your time.

I would prefer to work backwards and do whatever it takes to make the angel round cash last at least 24 months without sizeable revenue with the salary capped at somewhere between 60-70k if the angel round was big.

If that cuts your salary from 60k to 30k so be it, make the necessary adjustments, it might even include taking a part-time gig consulting/designing/selling or whatever it is your skillset allows you do. In the same vein that the cash you spend now is 'expensive', any cash you earn on the side is should be viewed as a necessary investment of time to help you reap the returns later if your startup salary can't stretch to cover all your costs.
Could you elaborate a bit about how public key cryptography removes the need for a password?
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I would guess that just getting from the ground into space requires more fuel than traveling by plane 180 degrees around the world (the longest possible great circle route for air travel). And it's not just a maturer of waiting for improved efficiency. Reaching a given altitude will always require energy proportional to mass and desired altitude (until we build a space elevator and can offset that by dropping a counterweight down shaft number 2).
Thanks for the link! I didn't know an official TED channel had been released.

Note that most of the comments on that Roku blog post describe the same audio sync and video freezing problems I experienced (and that have been reported in the Roku forums since early 2011).

Here is a (May 2011) Roku forum post from Dylan Doxey, the developer of the unofficial TED channel. And I was mistaken: he is neither a Roku nor TED employee.

http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=39328&st...

The previous TED channel was based on the TED RSS feed and assumed that all the
videos would be Roku compatible. Sadly, starting some time in April 2011 TED
stopped publishing videos in Roku friendly encoding. After being flooded with
support requests, the TED people contacted me and asked me to make it clear on
the channel description that the TEDTalks Roku channel is not built or
supported by TED. They also said, "We're working on the encoding issues that
are causing the poor performance on Roku; this platform just wasn't on our
radar when we built our encoder."*

Just to be clear, TED is no longer publishing videos in a Roku friendly format.
If some long period of time goes by, I may consider downloading the videos,
re-encoding them, and re-hosting them. However, I'm not sure my humble server
will support hosting video files for some 55K+ channel subscribers. The TED
servers are much more capable of handling that kind of demand.*
Maybe this would be a good question for a poll. We pay ourselves each 40k/year.
Pretty ballsy either way.
Same here at picplum. Enough to not have to worry so much about personal finances that it distracts you from building a company. My cofounder once said (half-jokingly), if you are a founder paying yourself enough that you can save money each month, you're doing it wrong. I'll have my out-of-state student loans forever..

As an other extreme - for my first startup, I raised $15k and only used up $13k over a year and a half. Though at that time my blog was a small stream of passive income.
It described anonymous. Not the ENTIRE spectrum on the community...

nytimes...propaganda.

:-\
If I read the bill correctly, it only reduces oversight when there are 2000 or so investors: quite easily not enough to really enable the Kickstarter-startup vision.
Once they hit the atmosphere, their lateral motion (groundspeed) is probably greatly reduced by air resistance, while theory downward motion is maintained by gravity. So shortly after reentry, they probably mostly stop diverging.

Still, though, I feel like I would be hard-pressed to throw two objects from space and have them land within sight of each other.
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public-key cryptography only solves computer-computer interactions. It does nothing to help me authenticate with my computer.
Just for another POV -- I love the fact that I can apt-get a version of practically any FOSS project of note, and within a minute or two, I have something that works with the rest of my system. If I need bleeding-edge, I go to the project page and download a later binary or source, but 90% of the time that's not necessary.

For me, it's a perfect combination of a vetted ecosystem (ok, somewhat closed but closed in the way I like -- no crapware, all legit source distros and mostly mature projects) with the ability to go outside that system at any time, at my own risk.

Anyone can set up a repository to add to/compete with Canonical's, and of course they do. So with my willow garage repo's, I can keep up with their concept of what's stable, etc. It works nearly perfectly, IMSHO.
The fact that Windows tries valiantly to offer backwards compatibility (actually is forced to by their own business model) I have to assume is at least partially responsible for the overall huge suckage that is working on Windows.

OSX/iOS are much more like Ubuntu -- practically any cutting-edge app requires something near to the latest OS release.

Android is suffering precisely because there is low OS upgrade adoption, as I've heard recently right here on HN.
You know what...

Make it a brainwave pattern identifier already...

Alpha, Beta, Delta...

That's unique, right?

neural interface authentication

Makes me cringe @ what you'd have to do to crack that...

:-\
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Google's claim on this subject is that they not only use PR or popularity of pages that link to you but also their authority (or domain relevance). So a link from Stack Overflow would count more for a search term like "learn to code" than say, a link from Howcast.
>It's one thing to kill yourself at home, and another to kill yourself at work.

And on the other hand they have huge dorms for workers which could skew the statistics in the other direction (off work counted as work). If the suicide rate is 10% of the general population rate then it's fair to say that it would take a lot of "skewing" for it to be significantly higher than the average. And that's sort of the point - when you hire 1 million low skilled employees you are bound to hire mentally unstable people - the kind that commits suicide over a relationship breakup, an argument, etc. So while it's possible that work conditions "triggered" the suicide they likely weren't "normal" individuals and it doesn't say much about working conditions at Foxconn - the suicide rate would have to be much higher than the average to claim that Foxconn is a deathtrap in which a normal person would commit suicide.