skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never knew this kind of behavior had a name. Very interesting.
I wonder if this means they didn't get enough interest to bother making a larger run of the device. (I assume they're not giving away millions of dev units to the existing preorders.)
You may not be able to write a free one if the proprietary version has patents you'd infringe upon. The existence of the proprietary version can preclude other options being legal.
"Non-inventory sales result in taxable gain if the sale price exceeds the seller's "adjusted basis" (i.e., tax-adjusted cost) in the item sold."

The assumption here is that the OP was selling inventory. The FB ad said "I used to be a record dealer selling" and he is selling the inventory. We don't know if he had wound down the business or not. Hence my attempt to be circumspect about this.

"April 2012 is the due date to settle up all income taxes for the entire 2012 tax year."

I'm talking strictly about when the return is due. Not whether you have paid in estimated taxes. If you underpay, sure you will get hit with a penalty and interest potentially.

The interest is actually quite reasonable.

"For personal property that isn't subject to depreciation (basically, stuff you would sell at a garage sale), the seller's adjusted basis usually exceeds the sale price, so the seller recognizes a loss on the sale."

These are typically de-minimis transactions that fly under the radar and people typically avoid paying taxes on because the chance of getting caught is low and the penalty is also low. If for arguments sake you buy 10 iphones and manage to resell them for higher than what you paid and make some money yes technically you owe taxes. Otoh if you are operating and doing this on a larger scale you have a different problem. And unless you are doing this on a grand scale you aren't getting any jail time and that's assuming you get caught. I'm not advocating any particular behavior. Just pointing out what actually happens (which explains why people cheat as well).

Also keep in mind that the amount of risk an attorney (such as yourself) should be taking and how squeaky clean you need to be (to avoid losing your law license) is not the same as some guy selling stuff on ebay or by FB ads would do.

"The self-employed and contractors must deal with this timing issue, which can result in penalty interest rates on taxes not timely paid."

There are of course safe harbors [1] with all of this

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=110413,00....

as anyone who has gotten whipped sawed by their income varying greatly from year to year knows. (Make money one year and you have to meet the safe harbor in order to not have a problem the next year).

[1] "if they paid at least 90% of the tax for the current year, or 100% of the tax shown on the return for the prior year, whichever is smaller."
Can somebody enlighten me about something. Samsung manufactures a lot (a lot) of Apple's hardware (not just the iPhone). So the way I see it they are both dependent on each other quite a lot. OK so my question is: why are they doing this "dick measuring contest"?!
The replication stream is about 20-25 Mbps for the current throughput of 25K-30K req/s, our peak to valley ratio is low.

It seems that we have found this unusual conditions you mention :-) Before compression our replication was often lagging (when below the required bandwidth), which is very dangerous, even if after a minute bandwidth goes well above the threshold.

The case of replication is kind of worst case, it's no good to have an average of 30 Mbps if it stays a substantial fraction of the time below the threshold. For every hours at 75% memory grew 2GB, but even one minute below the threshold is bad... if the replication queue builds up and there is a crash, consistency goes out of the window. So better to over-dimension capacity.

We even did a quick test with Hetzner instead of Rackspace, it was worse. The average over 4 hours was about 15 Mbps.
What feeds are you talking about?
I would want to see how this stacks up with things like deliberately un-interesting and generic ads that at a glance still look like a normal product, or even ads designed to look like part of the page's background.

For all we know, they got a bunch of extra clicks just for looking different. (Remember the story about the banner ad made in MS-paint?)
You are welcome. Glad it helped.
"well intentioned"

That's the problem. I'm not sure how a reasonable person can read the outright venom displayed in comment after comment all over the internet and then with a straight face say that it is somehow well intentioned. I don't know why so many people hate anything different that threatens the status quo. I guess it's just human nature. The phenomenon seems to manifest itself particularly in the consumer tech space though. The incumbents get praise heaped on them for doing little more than tweaking and renaming their e-mail service but let a group of people throw some pocket change at a video game console that isn't backed by a multi-billion dollar corporation and all hell breaks loose. I hope the Ouya succeeds if for no other reason than for the haters to have to wipe the egg from their faces. But who am I kidding? They'll just find some other underdog to kick.
Just remove the stupid amplifier. Or release one without and one with. God knows why someone thought including an amplifier was a good idea.
Almost no business charges strictly by commodity packet, because it would be disastrous for their long-term future: their margins, their ability to learn from their customers, and their ability to dynamically improve over time.

So any criticism of differentiated pricing based solely on the idea that "a packet is a packet and it costs the same to route" may be astute in the static, technical dimension -- but naive in the ultimately more-important dynamic economic and business dimensions.
See, there's evidence and everything!
>> Gmail was perfect.

Comments about perfect technology keep popping up on hn. I would think that claiming any technology is "perfect" is a little self-defeating coming from a tech startup news site? The very core of what we all stand for here is advancing mankind (or making the world a better place) through whatever means we are capable (most often technology). Viewing existing technologies as "perfect" closes the mind to the possibilities of better solutions.

I wonder how many times throughout history someone has claimed some piece of technology is perfect, and the same person 10 years later chuckles at the thought of having actually used the now-antiquated and clearly-inferior technology.
>I'm assuming you'd approve of the use of "only" in that case?

Absolutely not. A 34% active user rate is huge.
Does being older than 2 months really make something archaic?
Cost of Goods Sold = original price of goods + marketing costs + labor cost + facilities costs.

Its nitpicky but this isn't how you calculate COGS. Marketing and Facilities don't count in COGS and labor costs are only the costs of producing the product which in this case isn't anything.
Can't resist re-sharing this for those who haven't seen it: http://youtu.be/hMM_T_PJ0Rs
Uh, don't they blog precisely because they cannot code?
nice work :)
Definitely a very good point. I'm obviously quite biased toward mindfulness, since it's such an easy thing to get started with, since it has experimentally validated therapeutic value quite apart from any New Age-y "Eastern" philosophy, since it's been so valuable to me personally, and since I strongly believe it's something every human being should be practiced in, but I'll readily grant it's not the only thing the word "meditation" is used to describe. (And given my experiences with mindfulness, I'm quite willing to believe other conceptions of meditation may have value as well.)
The twist everyone has ignored about Gay Marriage
This is a no-brainer. As others have pointed out, this is a wholly artificial fee. You still have to pay for the data. They're just charging you for how you access the data.

Basically it's extortion.

Here's something that congress should do. Telecom companies are government-granted monopolies. Why not acknowledge that it's already not a free market situation and cap the profit margin that these companies are allowed to operate at (like they're doing with health insurance now)?

It's insane that 5GB bandwidth/month is $50. It's insane that text messages are so expensive. It's insane that the fee to enter into a new 2-year discounted phone contract isn't proportional to the amount of money the company has recouped on the original phone.
Yeah. Said he downloaded it from a site that I don't remember.
When I try to activate tethering on my Verizon Android, it's still telling me it wants the $30/month. I suppose it's a little soon for this change to already be implemented, but I'm sure ready!
This. I just went to try outlook and ran into this with my existing hotmail account, which uses a passphrase and naturally is longer than 16 chars.

Horribly disappointed.
I understand how you feel, as I feel the same way about Gmail (and about Twitter too). If there is one bad thing about using someone else's platform, it's that they can change it whenever they want.
The true value of programs like this won't be as evident in the short term. I think we'll see alumni of these programs fostering communities and developing innovative ideas with each other for a long time to come. I moved to NYC after a hackNY internship and have no plans to leave any time soon. I see some of the people I interned with on a daily basis and almost all of them on a monthly basis.
The saddest part is that it looks like Apple is successfully killing HTC. At least Samsung has been able to fight back.
The under 13 thing, as has been discussed before, is due to COPPA. Google doesn't offer anything like hotmail's family account (where the child's account is managed by a proven parent's account), so if they find out that you're under 13, they have to close your account and they aren't allowed to warn you that they will do so (or let you go back and change your birthdate).

As for the pseudonym thing, that never occurred. People lost their google+ accounts, but the rest was just forum posts saying things like, "I remember reading about someone..." without providing the actual citation.
>I'm on the fence on this one because it doesn't prevent going up on all data plans.

It doesn't, but simple economics will prevent the price going up on all data plans as much as Verizon was charging for tethering.
Puppy Interiors
This seems brilliant. Are there any downsides?
I am surprised Peter Watts' story wasn't mentioned yet. The story gets its name from this condition.

http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
This is a bit embarrassing for Google. They have always released a product that have stayed in Beta long after it has launched. That probably works for a software product but not for hardware.
[The issue of trade dress is] why, as Williams reports, the Samsung attorney is telling the jury that people know when they are buying a Samsung tablet or phone that isn't an Apple product. They are not confused, even if the tablet is a rectangle with rounded corners. People are not that easily confused. If folks are buying Samsung phones or tablets thinking they are Apple iPhones or iPads, then Samsung has a problem. That is what is at issue.

One wonders if the current TV ad campaign featuring a hapless consumer who has just bought a computer that he thinks is "basically a Mac" and who is put right by an Apple 'genius' is just a coincidence.
yeah, but this is more general than qm - it's amusing to ask (other) physicists how fast electrons move in typical wires (a purely classical number, but most won't have a clue).
But as the video shows, the MERs did have a similar system - after the parachute phase, the rover in its cocoon was lowered from the aeroshell at the end of a tether. Then, the retrorockets in the aeroshell fired, bringing the whole thing to a full stop some tens of meters above the ground. After that, the airbags inflated, the tether was severed, and the rover dropped the rest of the way to the surface.
Well, this does seem to fit in well with the "Customer Development" phase of startups, doesn't it? After all, they demoed a prototype, received (negative) feedback, and are now iterating the product to make it better tailored to the customer's needs.

It's easy to snap-criticize, but as a start-up community, maybe HN'ers can look at this in a positive light.
This sounds a lot like what I started reading at LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/

One line that particularly stuck with me is:
"Dragging a modern-day student through all this may be a historically realistic approach to the subject matter, but it also ensures the historically realistic outcome of total bewilderment. Talking to aspiring young physicists about 'wave/particle duality' is like starting chemistry students on the Four Elements."
I love how the keyboard is (by design) at perfect keyboard height and the monitor is likewise at a pretty ideal viewing height, since the spot it's in was designed to be looked at while using a keyboard.
speaking of, it says on their FAQ that they will be able to call python function from excel mid-july. Update? Or maybe we're talking a different year, not 2012?
Well, that would be a bit like the opposite of blindsight, being forced to do something consciously that most of us do unconsciously.

I'm not sure which regions subserve facial expression recognition (probably amygdala, FFA and others), but it could be a deficit in those regions. Alternatively, if you think you have Asperger's/ASD, they tend to have general deficits in emotion-reading and theory-of-mind-type tasks.
Are you me?

It's doubtful ;). One of my parents was a coach when I was young, always complaining about hypochondriac players who were "faking" their injuries just to avoid playing. This same parent still refuses to get treatment for an easily treatable ailment after years of low-level pain and annoyance.

As a result, I have an instinct to avoid doctors, and don't really know what requires a doctor and what doesn't. Despite my conscious awareness of this, I still have difficulty overriding the instinct.
The most important reason why this is a no-brainer is because of the 700Mhz spectrum auction. The open device restriction (or lack of restrictions really) was a key provision that google pushed for.

I'm sure some people are going to say the government is overstepping their authority, but in fact, they aren't. Verizon was overstepping their authority in this case.

Everybody has google to thank for this.
Considering FF3 is available for download both on the iOS and the Android app stores I'd say it is extremely unlikely that most of the people who pitched in on kickstarter and actually care about Squenix games think it is exclusive. You're nitpicking marketing literature and there aren't even any real nits to pick. To use an analogy you don't expect Nissan to be sure to point out that Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge have better towing capacity than the next Titan. That's not their job and it isn't misleading at all.
However, I'm not advocating price controls.

If what you're implying is that you believe in the ability of the free market to solve the problem, then first we would need free the wireless phone market.
Please let the final "consumer" version be much, much cheaper.
Yes, there is that factor, too. It's especially an issue when you're striving to be ramen profitable in a bootstrapped company. $150 buys a lot of ramen.
What stands? If the purchase doesn't originate within an app then Apple doesn't get a cut. They have put rules in place basically saying that the private relationship must have formed outside the app (no linking to buy pages), but that is different than what you're complaining about.
Now your bill will add another mystery fee.
Why not? Kickstarter trends certainly seem to be showing otherwise
I'm still hunkered down with 10.6.8 but I'm feeling more and more like its time to try 10.8 by the day.
No, I haven't, because its illegal.
This works! See our docs: http://ironspread.com/docs.html#udf

The FAQ is updated - thanks for pointing it out.
Nor can I, but I presume gamers could come up with a few.
I personally think integrating an amplifier is a good idea, although I don't think the Q is a great implementation.

I would think that - at a given price point - a combined box would offer better quality and better feature integration (e.g. volume control, balance etc). Physically, I also don't want a separate amplifier box - can you explain what benefits a separate amplifier box offers vs the integrated approach?
I much prefer the headline "Google redesigns Nexus Q, refunds every pre-order and promises to ship a free one to everyone who preordered" since it seems more accurate and less like random Google bashing.

Feedback from previewers meant they needed another cycle. That's good, since the same detractors tend to be the ones who accuse Google of shipping half-baked products.
I'm guessing it's related to one of the following: Google Fiber, the Kickstarter Android game consoles (and/or hackers getting games running on the Nexus Q "dev units"), the high availability of cheap media-pc-on-a-usb-stick Android devices.

(I presume they really are improving, didn't mean to imply they were running or anything).
AFAIR, registering your other email addresses with gmail ("Send as") works fine to prevent this behavior.
India's power grid collapses completely
Of note... Verizon could theoretically still charge a tethering fee so long as no data was routed through the 700Mhz spectrum.
Exactly. I'm a huge free market proponent, but the problem is that the wireless spectrum is a public good/utility. As such, we the public should put stipulations on companies who want to use that public resource.
Defining DevOps
Hey, you show me a performance problem, I show you a solution. Preferably one involving finite state machines.
What about the other carriers like Spring and AT&T?
That's the only one I thought was bad - I really dislike Apple picking on the small guy (the sleazy looking guy who apparently sold fake goods), and the ad doesn't end up on a positive note.

The other ones (the airplane one especially) aren't bad, and make a point - you can do things pretty effectively on a Mac. They still don't have the elegance or panache of some of the other Mac ads, but let's not kid ourselves - some of those Mac vs. PC ads were pretty horrible.
didn't break down

I hardly think that reliability is an invention.
>> Telecom companies are government-granted monopolies. Why not acknowledge that it's already not a free market situation and cap the profit margin

Why not remove the monopoly?
Leiningen's problem with version ranges
Tethering charges came out of corporate and at the time tethering often significantly increased the data usage of the device.

And no you didn't always pay for data per KB plans often included tethering while "unlimited" plans charged extra.
Indeed. Sentiment analysis is a problem. I think there are some companies working.

It is a real phenomenon, but just hard to access empirical quantified data at the moment.

As a quick measure I use things like Google Insights, compete.com, Github presence / stats etc.
How Green are The 2012 London Olympics?
It's as much an individual preference thing as anything else, but I much prefer high-quality discrete components that I've selected myself. Digital amps have come along a lot recently (see nu-force), but if it were me, I've already got a really good system that I could be tempted to augment with the Nexus Q - so that rules out me and others like me. Then there's the college student argument, but they've probably got a pair of logitech or similar powered computer speakers or an HT-in-a-box system which are more than enough for a party in a flat/hall of residence.

At the end of that, I can't really imagine too many people willing to pay all that money for a box which they still have to go and buy a pair of passive speakers for - particularly because the people in the market for passive stereo speakers wouldn't event glance sideways at the nexus q as a serious amp choice.
Simpler: it's more limited than the two existing devices closest to it: the Sonos and Apple TV (in the context of Apple's ecosystem), and three times the price of the latter. A third-party API of some kind would go a long way towards making that price tag much easier to swallow.
Plus computers actually remember things. I think anyone here can see that a computerized method of gathering data isn't interesting for the method per se but the ease of keeping and analyzing said data over a period of time.
I meant failed in the sense of a commercial failure, not a project failure.
api:
> How do we design a system that is anonymous and un-censorable where users can opt out of being relays for certain types of data?

So not necessarily following any of the specifications of the system in the article.

I read his specification to mean that users are anonymous, they can post data and it can not be tracked to them. I do not see this necessarily requiring the data be filtered in a encrypted state only that it can not be tracked back to a submitter who took reasonable precautions.
For those of us who wanted a Nexus Q for what it was, this is a fantastic outcome. I still get a Nexus Q but I get my $300 back.
This may be due to the inefficiency of my wifi setup, but watching home photos/videos on the ATV2 is slow as hell - no pre-buffering or caching of content means lots of delays.

Otherwise I completely agree.
True, but if the aircraft carrier is heading in a direction that makes its presence a bit pointless then it needs to be turned, and the captain is probably the one to set that in motion.
Still abusing it, too:

"Microsoft Files Motion in Apple v. Samsung to Hide Patent License Agreement Terms ~pj"
As explained in the accompanying declaration of Tanya Moore, Microsoft's General Manager of Outbound Licensing, Exhibits 3A and 3B to the Teece Report contain sensitive confidential and proprietary business information from the Confidential Agreement between Microsoft and Samsung. The Teece Report summarizes sensitive portions of the Confidential Agreement, including the licensed technology, term of the license, royalty rates, and payment information, among other things. (Moore Decl. at ¶¶ 3-4).

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120727084323510
Yes. I only check it on nights, and never for more than eight hours, and never until past 4am, except occasionally at work, but only when I don't have high priority stuff to do, and ... crap.
This really isn't surprising at all. They basically came out and said "We wanted to launch this at I/O, but it's not really done. We'll release it to the general public when it's done."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_allocation
They didn't "demo a prototype" - they launched a product, took pre-orders, and then bailed before shipping. Makes you wonder about their product development process.
The amplifier is one of the reasons I want it, though!
One small step for man...

The next would be to somehow abolish the per-device data fee structure. We have seven iOS devices. Only three are actively online. Even at that, when at home, office or near wifi cellular data does not get used much if a all. Still, we have to pay 3x the cellular data monthly fee, which is insanity. I do understand the technical and business issues here, but this cuts both ways: I know that we are not using these connections anywhere near capacity. And, I also know that ATT is double charging us because our DSL services (office and home) are with them...yet we don't get a discount when the iOS devices use the network for data as opposed to cellular. In other words, they get to charge us for something that we don't use or, seen another way, we pay twice for the same data capacity.

Not sure what the solution might look like, but today's plans are starting to smell bad.