skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CRA at their info sessions will tell you that they don't understand why more people don't just write their own claims.

I think people looking at it from the outside, or for the first time, easily feel intimidated ("its the taxman!").

The reality is that CRA does want to work with you -- e.g. if you go to the info sessions, you can talk directly to the actual people running the SR&ED program, and they genuinely want to reward innovation and help you maximize the money you can get out, while ensuring that taxpayers (who are footing the bill) are looked after.

For example:

- besides the salaries paid for eligible work, you can also also claim the proportion of certain overhead expenses related to that work. Or, you can just choose to use the "proxy method" where they basically take the eligible salaries and tack on another 65%. This can be huge, and people do ask the question: "that extra 65% may end up being way more than my actual overheads". CRA's response: the law allows you to pick either, so pick the one that provides the most benefit to your business.

- a CRA officer once mentioned to me that they were extremely frustrated by being unable to approve a particular claim where the work seemed good, but there was insufficient documentary proof. After many months of continually going back and asking "are you sure you cannot dig up any documentation", someone at the company happened to mention that there had been an internal email conversation thread about the work -- and this ended up providing all the documentation the CRA needed to approve the claim.
Ron Paul's Plane Briefly Detained by TSA
Hacer cumplir la ley sobre los efectos nocivos de las torres  móviles
Thanks for trolling by.
It is a grammatical error.
Ok, and now the answer to that question is, "No, actuarially, we cannot offer you a merchant account backed only by your corporation." Like I said before. Your response is... what? No merchant account for you?
“We are working with Tutorspree to market our weekend development workshops. These workshops give absolute beginners the ability to create an Instagram-like app by the end of the second day: hands on, project focused learning. Maximum 12 students, 2 teachers, 1 assistant”. If you’re interested in the workshop, drop us a line at workshops@tutorspree.com."

Call me a cynic, but it's one thing to argue from a technical skills background, but there's no way anyone could bootstrap 'an instagram'.
Google patent application: Dynamic pricing of electronic content
Calligra 2.5.1 Released
Thanks for the link. I've added it to my watch list. IMHO, you can't get much better than BBC documentaries. Especially when it comes to my favorite - Sir David Attenborough.
Apparently the auto-kill filtering is source-, rather than pattern-based. For example this article seems to have made it through:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4487658

Even though its title also mentions the Unnameable Politician.
I thought that NAFTA had clauses for IT workers (of course this only applies to US citizens).
Hey thanks for the example, I think your phrasing was a little unclear but clearly you know what you're talking about, so I reversed my downvote into an upvote. [edit: crap now I can't do that the buttons gone]

I also tried to look into the behavior and it turns out what we're running into here is a 'gap lock' necessary to support ranges in statement based replication (the default). You can change the behavior if you're using row based replication its just not the default.

For instance if the second transaction in your example was "BETWEEN 7 and 10" then both transactions would run concurrently no problem, its acting like row+1 level locking.

Here's a much more detailed explanation: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/03/27/innodbs-gap-l...
And for an example of this look no further than Nintendo - selling a hardware platform (Wii, DS) on razor thin margins, but selling the games at a significant markup. Their inability to compete with the low priced smartphone apps is a big challenge to them.
Code With Me - A Coding Workshop for Journalists
What's interesting is that the senior leaders of Singapore were often trained in engineering, and some have attributed their technocratic and unpopulist approaches to the engineering mindset. For them, it's all about making things that work, but the secondary/knock-on effects sometimes don't get considered or noticed until it's too late.

Funnily enough, in our media it was reported that of late, students receiving top-level government scholarships to the US/UK/elsewhere hardly ever choose engineering any more, but study economics instead (probably influenced by the dominance of the financial industry). So the next generation of Singapore leaders may very well be dominated by economics trainees - I wonder what sort of government we'll get, then? Certainly a more diverse one, but also one lacking in engineers and scientists.
Clojure Performance Tuning
Failure modes are defined by the two-phase commit protocol, the standard way of managing distributed database changes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol
Neal Stephenson: The Salon Interview (2004)
Or probably there is.

Because we make some assumptions about what and how life should be. The question 'what is life?' is itself is unanswered. There fore to imagine earth like planets with earth like intelligent humans is sort of a wrong assumption to start with. As per Stephen Hawking, there might be life in stars too! A kind of life which we don't understand. They might argue, earth like planets to be too cold to survive or water to be dangerous to life.

What we know so far is a lot, but even that lot- is more or less like a drop of water in all oceans in the world.

Sometimes people unsuccessfully try to solve problems the traditional way. But somebody comes along and totally changes the paradigm of thought and presents solutions to problem in ways and directions unimaginable before. Those solutions look like a 'bolt from the blue' taking people totally by surprise. Like how Marian Rejewski surprised everybody else by cracking the German Enigma cipher. Such solutions are likely to give us deep insights in the future.

But for the moment 'impossible' should be banned word for stuff like this.
This interview is part of his just-published collection, Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing, which isn't bad, but most of its contents are highly and easily accessible online—most notably, "Mother Earth Mother Board": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html , which is as good a reason to have a Kindle and Instapaper as anything I've ever seen.
The weird thing is they could use JS to fire an analytics event to avoid the redirect.
Extreme expressiveness makes a data-format harder to understand at a glance; and data is generally dumb enough not to need it.

Examples are helpful. An example of an example: http://www.sinatrarb.com/
In consumer apps, you're competing with everybody.
I agree, yet I have never heard this technique to describe other auctions. For instance, any time a ridiculous item is for sale on Ebay, the news stories describe the top bid and the number of bidders.

Perhaps the actual sum of the max bids for all 88 developers would be less misleading.
Are you talking about the results with little people icons, Search Plus Your World, that match pages in your circles? You can turn off that feature in settings, or at least you once could.
Don't Be Happy. Be Interesting.
The Griefer Future
And the collection of similar pages when the result is a forum.
"DeveloperAuction.com is currently open only to employees of Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Zynga, and Google as well as Stanford & MIT graduates"

Wow. I guess I'll take my lowly UC Berkeley degree and startup VPE experience somewhere else. What a crock of elitist bullshit.
Mobile phones are $30 at your nearest bodega.
Haskell and SML both have sufficiently expressive type systems that I do not ever find myself writing correct code that fails to typecheck. If the code fails to typecheck, I have done something wrong.

(If the code does typecheck, then I have guaranteed a lot of static properties of my code, but it may still be incorrect in terms of dynamic semantics.)
The only one Bing one at was when they suppressed Google Shopping but showed Bing Shopping. I get that they think it is fair to hide ads, but Google ads are highly competitive with organic Bing.

They also suppressed the Knowledge Graph box.
It really isn't. It's only "zero" because you're greatly overestimating the cost of intercepting the traffic at all.

To do dragnet surveillance you need an optical tap, an expensive phy, and a fairly modest number of gates to apply a stateless filter purely from onchip memory to capture 100% of interesting flows and grab some small fraction of all other traffic, and some modest switch fabric to carry captured data to a modest amount of storage and processing to deal with it. Programmed correctly commodity network processors for switches have all the right logic already, we're talking in the <$200 per 10G port parts-cost level. Detailed analysis of the sample data and the known-interesting data gives tells you about new hosts you should be matching for detailed inspection (and you update the can filter with 50ms latencies or so). The cost of maintaining a cheap military aircraft gets your terabits of sampling capacity.

Adding a MITM attack on top of the model used for dragnet surveillance currently, which involves intercepting 100% of the potentially interesting traffic at all times, performing a costly public key operation per every single connection, and then reencrypting the results is insanely expensive by comparison. Before you even get killed by the crypto costs you've long since run out of memory bandwidth.
Actually we do. Apple supports 26 cities. Google supports 13.
It may not be the case that services are the end game, but rather that there is a trade-off due to organizational structure and capital investments needed to sustain a product-focused company vs. a service one. As revenues from one type of model dry up (e.g., majority of people have your product), the investments needed to sustain that type of company structure have less marginal value or may even be a drain. Simply put, there are always diminishing returns to any strategy and there may exist a middle ground that maximizes revenue.

Related to topic, Professor Cusumano at MIT wrote a good paper covering this exact topic back in 2008 which covers additional historical cases dating back to the 90's. A lot of what is happening now follows logically from that analysis.

I couldn't find a direct link since it was an IEEE paper (pay to access), but found a copy here (if bored, skip to page 6 on the pdf): http://www.iae.univ-lille1.fr/SitesProjets/bmcommunity/Resea...
This is disappointing from a user perspective. I always loved to use svpply to find well done and niche products. I'm not sure what eBay is going to do with it, but I expect it to go downhill from here.
Looks like you get what you pay for.....
Note that you don't really need to confirm everyone who participates, only people who win. You should make it clear that should someone win you will go full forensic on them. Providing you've saved enough data you can go back and correlate their activity with similar activity to see if cheating appears to happened. You can do investigation with humans which makes attacks harder, and also scales (you only need to investigate the limited number of winners rather than all participants).

As 0xEA mentioned you can go network effect on them too. For example you can require that winners had Facebooked/Tweeted something at the time of their entry. When someone wins you can go back an check that which means that someone cheating would have to do so with lots of dummy accounts. And of course the messages form advertising for your contests.

You can also make them nominate FB/Twitter friends to share their prizes should they win at entry time. Again this makes life a lot harder to cheat as it gives your win investigations more to work with.
GameStop to sell Wikipad gaming tablet on October 31st for $499
Unfortunately Wikipedia chose to go with a separate cluster for SSL. If they ran SSL on their normal front end then it would already scale up to this: The public key crypto is free on hyperthreaded cpus because it can run currently with memory accesses for other requests, and modern CPUs have harware accel for the symmetric crypto that make it ~free.
I'm not referring to the battery life, rather the slip-of-tongue wrt the name of the device.
Judge Koh Denies Apple Request to File Motion for Reconsideration
Not backlit, it's "front-lit" http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Resolution-Display-B...

They say it's "25% better contrast", but is this with the display lit or unlit? It's easy to increase contrast by adding more light, but not great on the eyes.
Exec is hiring an Android developer [SF]
I am a (youngish) Singaporean, born in the mid-80s. To be fair, I'd say the Chinese here generally don't consider dialect groups to be major divisions any more - it's more a point of curiosity, a minor variation for most people. Among the older generation, perhaps, but the time of actual conflict and distrust between the groups is essentially long gone, steamrolled by government language policy. It was hard enough for me to learn to speak Hokkien, because my circles are English-dominated.

This is all to say that it could be argued that Singapore is a Chinese-majority nation, but it doesn't take away from the fact that there are many Malays and Indians here, and many foreigners of all stripes (Indians, Europeans, Americans). Foreigners make up 2m of our 5.2m people (38%), which is pretty shocking really (500k of them have become permanent residents, though).

I'd say that in the context of primary schools here, diversity isn't at a true melting-pot level. Furthermore, education among Chinese families is pursued in the same aggressive way as in other East Asian nations - the majority of students have supplementary tutoring, sometimes from the early grades. The culture of academic emphasis among parents is in line with the government's pedadogical efforts, which results in high achievement levels.

This is not to take away from the success of the Singaporean mathematics curriculum, which is quite outstanding by most measures - probably because it was designed by mathematicians and teachers in tandem, drawing on the best practices in the world known at the time (the late 70s/early 80s). Though even that is changing with our new emphasis on knowledge by construction, collaboration and discovery.
fixed it, should work now. sorry it took me a while :O
Introducing Chrome's next-generation Linux sandbox
Currently wasting time trying to get Crowd to work with eDirectory.
Apple Screws Foxconn Workers to Churn out iPhone 5
Totally agree. Even our assumptions on the concept of time are debatable. Sure, we could say the our planet is n years old, but we assume time is something linear, inflexible. When it comes to the unknown, we can't say some things are impossible. And kudos for the Marjan Rejewski reference! I'm into cryptography lately, and it's (another) amazing story.
He means to ask if you can turn off text justification and have a ragged edge. The answer is no, at least on my Kindle Keyboard 3G running v3.3 of the Kindle Firmware.
I've seen it used before, which is why I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that it's possibly an evolutionary branch of the language. Being a grammatical error is the obvious answer, but not always the correct one.
Isn't the only way to get a job at Facebook or Google to be a developer fresh out of college/university with a degree in CS or equivalent anyway? I have a friend who got a job working at Google Australia in Sydney and he had a CS degree, I doubt he would have been hired, let alone got through their strenuous interview process without his education papers in tow.

Not that there is anything wrong with wanting to undertake some kind of degree, I respect that. It's when having a degree is considered the only real entry into Facebook or Google, or any large Internet company which in turn gets you into a service like this, the gaps start to widen. Unless you work for a company that gets acquired by one of these big companies, you need a degree, no ifs or buts.

I don't mind not being a part of the service myself, it's a great idea. I would just love to get in on it though, I think I am a decent developer with a decent list of Github repositories and code contributions to other projects as well as years of experience.
Maybe I would have written some sort of general platform for building them

There's still time for that. The current solutions leave much to be desired (although they're slowly moving in the right direction).
Ask HN: Why Is There No Development Karma On The Internet?
I have bought only 3 books for my Kindle over Amazon -

I use calibre to convert all kinds of e-book-formats to mobi/azw on Fedora, then a USB-cable to transfer them over (I think WLAN works, too). 3G is never on. Calibre also has a plugin to remove DRM from Amazon-books so that the few ones I bought are actually mine.

You can also install alternative OSes like Duokan for even more control, haven't really tried that out - deinstalled an old version after a short bit of trying when the book was displayed "smudgy".
Quirky Lands $68M From Andreessen, Kleiner To Build Community For Inventors
Distraction free writing in Sublime Text
Yes. Every penny ($90/mo). We've been using them at $SMALL_ISP since September 2010. The scheduling, reporting, and flexible alerting has been well worth it to us.

Before PagerDuty we were using Nagios with a modem dialing out to pagers. Later we went to Nagios with email to SMS gateways. We had "problems" with email to SMS delivery and no way to tell if it was a bad employee or flaky cellco gateway. We also had problems with scheduling on call rotation & overrides for vacation.

The escalation/accountability & reporting let us weed out a bad employee that was ignoring pages. We suspected it but phone call delivery with confirmation in Pagerduty ensured there weren't any plausible excuses.

Most importantly it makes scheduling oncall rotations painless.

Yes, you can do all this in plain old Nagios with enough time or hackery. We reached a point where we couldn't waste time on that kind of hackery (changing alert schedules & escalation every time someone went on vacation, google calendar to nagios config scripts) and needed it to just work.

These APIs are just icing on top. I have two projects that will benefit immediately:
1. Our customer service manager has been asking for a easy way to tell who is on call and we didn't want to give her a pager duty login. Now I can make a simple "who is on call?" dashboard so the call center knows who to call if there's a problem monitoring missed.
2. With the Integration Triggers we can open Jira tickets for incidents. This will streamline workflow.
As a developer from Guatemala, I must say I am proud.
Systems Management Dilemma: How Much Is Too Much?
> Question: Can the kindle be rooted?

Oh yes :-)

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150
> Is it really better? Or is the one people chose because it favors inertia and doesn't force them to think?

There's never been a system tried that forced people to think any more than democracy does. All the other systems actively discourage some kind of thought, in fact, usually at gunpoint.
Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 1 Released
Hollerith,
I actually agree with you, but the problem with motivation is it is fleeting. how many people do you know have been motivated to do something and started, but then gave up when they hit an obstacle or it got tough.

So many people bust themselves up because they think they need more motivation, but what they really need to do is transform that initial motivation into creating habits of discipline that are driven by their motivations. Then, when their motivations wane, they can keep on going.
I'll bite.

While it is true that there are less companies you would expect would pay Bay Area size salaries, things have changed in Canada.

potatolicious told me to write this for the public good.

I work for Mozilla.

New grads, admittedly with co-op experience, get paid at least 90k+ with the same 30% bonus as all Mozilla employees, putting them in the 6-digit range mentioned in the thread.

Amazon recently opened an engineering office in Toronto, and Zynga has been here for a while, Google is in Kitchener, 1 hour away from Toronto.

A friend running a startup was complaining about the war for talent going on and was willing to pay salaries well in the NYC/Bay area range.

Food for thought?

While its true that employees tend to be less promiscuous as they can be in the peninsula, it is not true that developers do not have interesting work to do in Canada or that they won't be well paid.

While Mozilla has offices in Vancouver, I do not know enough about the city to talk about the situation there.

edit: missed part of a sentence. oops
you can pin domains yourself in your own Chrome/chromium as well at chrome://net-internals/#hsts
Man, Foxconn is pretty evil.
I wouldn't say "six pack abs" are "heroic", but they are good motivation for getting back into fitness. Some people use marathons to do that, some people do six pack abs.

I've done both (and training for an ultramarathon now) and of the two, six pack abs actually took a lot less time/week than the marathon training did (by a long shot).
Because as a startup hacker, I always want to work where I will earn the most.
I'd upgrade to the Paperwhite just for the built-in light. I backpack a lot, and reading my Kindle with a headlamp is really annoying...
Despite my previous attempts to moonlight as a Brit, I'm an American. As such, I find the stereotypical British aversion to driving long distances amusing. I know I would be upset at driving 20 minutes out of the way if my journey was shorter than an hour, but I (and many other Americans) frequently drive hundreds of miles in one journey every week/month/multiple times per year.

I moderated a subreddit once upon a time with two Brits who lived about an hour apart. I mentioned to them that I had just attended a meeting with a company that was directly in between their towns, and said "I was just in your neighborhood". They vehemently denied that their neighborhood stretched for a half-hour journey. Meanwhile in America, our stomping grounds can sometimes cover a hundred miles in each direction.

Sorry for going off-topic >_> As an American I don't get a chance to talk to foreigners often.
YC is billed like the yankees, but singles more likely, how did the Seattle Mariners do with Ichiro all these years?
This is what I like about Android forks! Who wants that boring dull stock Android lockscreen? Let's have some ads in there.
FYI,

Here in Australia, my bank told me they were obligated to have a chargeback process resolved within 90 days.

Not sure if its a legal thing or just their own internal policy (Westpac).
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When you fund a Kickstarter project, you're investing in the project.

If it does not fully fund, you receive a refund from Kickstarter.

If it does, your funds go to the project, who are on their best effort to successfully launch the project.

You are NOT, however, directly purchasing a reward. You receive a reward as a gift for helping to fund at a given level.
Eh? http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/python2.7
Many companies pay referrals of $5-10k. So you could be making a lot of money if it's really that easy :)
The teeth backing up that TOS is that if you violate it, you'll probably find it hard to get a new kickstarter project accepted. But that doesn't mean there's a legal obligation to fulfill rewards.
I have met recruiters that ask for 33% of first year salary. And I'm guessing that many settle for 15-25%.