skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer guys are so cute, what with their naivety about the speed of progress in non-computer engineering fields. The article might as well be about terraforming Mars.
Of course they need income to keep running; the question is what they'll monetize besides the software itself. It could be an open base platform with closed premium bits, or fully open with contracts for support, for just two examples.
People everywhere grow up with western pop culture, so it's not strange and foreign the way PSY is to Americans. It can get a little strange though, when pop culture and fashion travels across the world but the social context behind it is lost on the way.
Is it really hard to believe? I personally have seen Gangnam Style more often than the zapruder shots or the moon landing. Heck, i've seen the clip "Aaliyah - are you that somebody" more often. This is not about the number of unique viewers but rather total views. Gangnam Style is easily the most viewed videoclip ever. Overall i think it can only be outclassed by long running commercials and tv show intro's.
FYI, the last four digits of your SSN are the only ones that are difficult to guess. The first five digits can be guessed pretty accurately based on your date and location of birth.

http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ssnstudy/
I have learnt the true value of humility: it gets you nowhere.
It is based on neuroscience, just like exercise routines are based on bioscience. It may be low tech, but that doesn't make it wrong. "lifting with your knees, not back" is utterly simple, but it is back by sound biokinematics.
Docverter - Open Source document conversion server with an HTTP interface.
Quote, "The problem is now fixed, but not without significant impact to the domain in question and no explanation from GOogle as to how an “internal issue” can disable a business for over a week."
It makes you realize how bad the synthesized instruments they used for it were... also not arranged for an orchestra. You can't just simply take the original note for note and play it on different instruments.
I really hope that posting this link is allowed but I have read the FAQ and couldn't find anything against it.

I am trying to hire my first employee and am really struggling to find a young adult that is passionate and willing to learn.
I'd recommend the FTB Launcher, which is somewhat easier to use, is much more up-to-date, and actually got permission from all the mod developers. http://feed-the-beast.com/
This is very cool. It's amazing how "simple" something can be and still be Turing-complete.

Also slightly shorter:

while word[S:]: pIndex, word = (pIndex + 1) % len(C), word[1:] + C[pIndex] * (word[0] == "1")

Or, even shorter,

while word[S:]: pIndex, word = (pIndex + 1) % len(C), word[1:] + C[pIndex] * int(word[0])

And obviously one can just use one letter variable names/remove whitespace.
"in the coming weeks" doesn't soon enough to save their business. Couldn't they just revert to their previous version in the apple store since it is already approved?
Game of Life in 42 lines of NetLogo code for the Global Day of Coderetreat 2012
Very nice to hear that one. Most stories about people involved in media, music and entertainment seem to highlight that they don't have any those obviously redeeming qualities
Of course. Because people would go absolutely crazy if they knew about that data collection -- which is quite silly, since you can just browse those sites you don't want anybody to know about in private (porn) browsing mode.

Of course, you can't do that if you don't know about them.
At what income number does S-Corp save you money over a Sole Proprietorship
Situation

Have formed a LLC in NYC. It is single member. Sole purpose is to sell mobile apps. Running business part time. From home.

Questions

1.	At what income number do I pay less tax as a s-corp over a sole proprietorship Right now I believe it's very close to $133K in revenue. This is from following all the way through to after income taxes are applied.
2.	What time period each tax year can I switch tax elections from S-Corp to Sole Prop or vice versa in future?
3.	How often can I switch status?
4.	If your selling software via the app store, but do all the development at home in NYC, does that constitute all sales from NYC?

My Models

Say for net income of $100,000

They key levers seems to be a) what I deem a reasonable salary for s-corp b) what of my income is deemed to be generated from outside of NYC

Filing as a Sole Proprietorship (which is what the IRS treats a single member)

•	Self Employment Taxes = 13.3% (realize this rate would drop if earning over the $110,100 due to limit on SS tax)(as of 2012) (also realize that I can deduct 1/2 of SE tax against my income tax)
•	UBT (Unincorporated Business Tax) = 4% of net income over $35K
•	Filing Fee =$25

Social Security Tax (part of SE) $10,400
Medicare (part of SE) $2,900
UBT Tax $2,600
Filing Fee $25
Sole Propetiership: Net Income after filing + SE tax, but not before income taxes $84,075 rate of 15.93%

Filing as a S-Corp (which in NYC they treat as a corporation)

•	NYC Corporate Tax - 8.85% of NYC net income or 8.85% of salaries + 15% of 30% of net income
•	SE Tax on "reasonable salary" - I'm using a number of $75K number, not sure if this is right.
•	Biennial Statement $4.50

Reasonable Salary $75,000
NYC Corporate Tax $6,969
SE Tax on Income $9,975
Biennial Statement $4.50
Claim none outside $83,051 rate of 16.95%
Chief of technology and Partner - Signatys.com
Signatys.com is operational since beginning of November and has already lots of demand. The office and the 2 signatys cofounders are in Geneva. The technological part has been outsourced in Poland until now.
We really want to become big quickly and this is why we are looking for a partner and tech leader (CTO) in order to be part of the direction. He will have to manage a small team and live for Signatys every day to be sure that server will not crashed and continue to develop the website in order to make signatys a big success.
We are looking for someone very motivated and who will have a big role to play in our company and will have lots of responsabilities. Of course shares will be discuss.

Skills we are looking for :

- PHP expert

- Very good experience in maintenance of a small size server on GNU / Linux (3 years minimum, certifications desired)

- Experience in front-end development (HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript, portfolio more)

- Experience in developing back-end (PHP and MySQL, among others)

Interested ? Shoot a note over to contact@signatys.com with why you’d be perfect for this role.
Caller ID is easily spoofed and the telco's have no intention of fixing that.
Like MacOS infamous "it feels snappier" and "rebuild permissions" after each OS update.
It depends, it can also just be a crappy adaptation. I personally like this piano version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd-h0debytI&list=UUl3iv3e...
It is that hard to believe. I've watched Gangnam Style twice, maybe three times, and I know lots of people who have never seen it at all. I've seen the moon landing footage dozens of times, and I don't know anyone over the age of 10 who hasn't seen it at least once.
Yes, check out my comment here :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825846
Generally not. Google tries to put teams that are working on the same project into offices of about 3-5.
My 66yo father, who once asked incredulously, "who is this 'Lady Goo Goo'?" recently told me how he got the airline to bump him to 1st class for free. He then wryly remarked "Oppa Gangnam style".

That, right there, is what I call global penetration.
I blame the insane culture springing up around inaccurate and ill-conceived interpretations of the lean startup methodology. Many young entrepreneurs and early-stage startups seem entrenched in a mindset that they must be pivoting or iterating or using all their runway or sumsuch similar nonsense.

The word "pivot" should be banned from tech startup lexicon.
News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)
> When in history has this not been a problem for Americans?

When unions gave you good health insurance and a trip to the ER didn't cost a years salary.

>You could also have attended a vocational school, and become a plumber, electrician, carpenter, HVAC technician, medical/dental assistant, administrative assistant, hospitality manager...

Housing bubble burst all those jobs are worthless these days. Medical field is also swamped with entry level workers. I know this because I have friends that have done all of these things and yes all of them require school unless your dad owns the company.

> Most school districts in the US have taxpayer funded vocational schools. You wouldn't even have had to call a 1-800 number.

Community college used to be free and UC schools were $100 a year. Now UC schools are 30k a year and CC is definitely not free.

> It is not society's responsibility to ensure that you have an equal opportunity to become the next Shakespeare.

Who the hell is talking about being the next Shakespeare? Unless you are comfortable staring at a computer all day, which even though we do should not be that shocking that most humans aren't, it really is very very difficult to find a good paying job right now even with college or even in the medical industry. Maybe not in Silicon Valley but in most of the country it is tough times.
Hi FarmerLiao,

Dropped out of college 3 times due to family reasons and disagreements - just find it hard to talk to them or look at them in the face. Also worried for my future because i have no degree and no particularly strong skill set / car / not a lot of money. Am thinking of looking for a telesales job in a startup while picking up programming to work with a friend on a project. But not sure how promising the startup industry is where I am from (Singapore)

GY
It reached 1 Billion views without any support from the 4th largest market for music[1].

Germany has a market share of 7–8% for albums and 9–12% for singles. In 2005 market value was 887.7 million USD. And yet no one in Germany has ever watched Gangnam Style on Youtube.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry
Yeah, seriously. Anybody who's worked a "real" web design job in the last 2 years has had to use these technologies and practices.
The deadpan Chomsky cameo really makes this one for me.
Another one: Ohio 110 marching band plays Gangnam style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDficEfonAE
I agree with some of what you are saying (healthcare, educational arms race..) but you live in one of the most expensive areas in the US (the world?). That is a personal choice.

(also buying a car thats ~5 years old is much more cost efficient than buying new)
I love that video. It's like the ultimate "blame the victim" of all time.

Flying should be the ultimate fun thing ever to do!

That's great!

I randomly take flights somewhere and back just for that fun!
Was talking about leveraging a suitable, existing library that follows a MV* pattern, not about creating your mygreatnextjsmv*.

About implementation - definitely depends on use cases. Anyway, learning them won't hurt anyway.
What stingraycharles said. It depends on the adaptions. I liked this one by the Ohio marching band 110 Gangnam style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDficEfonAE
This is really cool! I wish I had a reason to use it; my "brands" aren't quite there yet.

As far as the pricing goes, how is a "campaign" counted? Does that correspond 1:1 with Twitter accounts? I bet you could charge way more for established brands, even if they only want to monitor a single account... maybe you could price by number of mentions or something similar?
Congratulations on the launch Dave!
It's clear that you're a follower of patio11 as I can see his influence throughout the site. I'm working on something similar: http://livelystocks.com - I bought it and I'm now redeveloping it to provide realtime stock news.

I would love to see a 'conversion post' on how you did at that price point on the front page. Well done on launching!
I have been a paying GAFYD user for ~ two years and wasn't even aware there was an 'account PIN'! I fear for most people this simple solution may come with the benefit of hindsight.
Every web designer blog post ever.
Yes, just like it's illegal to walk out of a store (with stolen merchandise.)
aka horney bastards!
Author of the blog post here.

I think interfacing functional code from object-oriented code is usually pretty easy. You just wrap the functions to an object instance.

However, if your 'outer layer' is functional, and try to integrate OO pieces inside it, it can be troublesome to to wrap your OO code in such a way that it's natural to use in a functional context.

OO paradigm is in some sense more restricting, in that it limits the client of the code to using OO-like patterns.

Does this make any sense to you?
Of course the reward for that is 20 minute hold times packed with obnoxious ads with varying volume designed to constantly steal the users attention.
You beat me to it. Ditto. Perhaps I should've pivoted my reply! Yes, that was just as meaningless.
Wow UK has antiquated hardware.
That seems like an odd way to run a phone system. Couldn't I keep someone from making any outgoing calls just by calling them once, and leaving my phone off the hook?
This article was probably written before jetstrap (http://jetstrap.com) was released. It should be on the list
"Limits" in terms of advertising are relative and often moving targets. As a new product or service, it's hard to get noticed without testing where a certain limit may be. GoDaddy -- loathed by many, but not by most -- would not be the large firm it is now without having tested those limits. For better or worse, it worked, and some nice people have jobs (their campus is less than 2 miles from us).

I serve on the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) mobile committee. As a newish member, we don't have much influence... but I can confirm lots of "limit testing" is on the way. It's hard to monetize mobile, and ad delivery/targeting firms are in a panic.
NPR did a podcast on exactly that.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/10/12/162740623/gangnam-...
This is what is so great about remixing other people's ideas Agree 100% with that sentiment.

Indeed, that's one more reason to like this guy, PSY

"According to The Guardian, PSY has waived his copyright to the music video. Although this has not been officially confirmed, Arwa Mahdawi of The Guardian reported it was likely that PSY had simply refrained from taking legal action against parodies of his video. "Gangnam Style" is therefore a video that is "born to spawn"" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnam_Style
But, knowing that the same product was 100% off mere hours ago will certainly disgruntled potential buyers. I think this model is more likely to alienate customers than it is to entice them.
RFID is a broad spectrum, not necessarily one technology. Some are more secure than others. Even with the most basic, though, it's pretty easy to clone a key or a keycode as well. Keys can't be revoked if you don't know where they are, and keycode changes require everyone to learn the new keycode. It's a game of give and take.
Just for my own personal curiosity, has any company made a reasonable attempt at competing with Google apps core services? I know Microsoft offers similar services, but it's not that well "put together" the last time I looked.

You're probably not going to be able to compete with Google Drive integration, but if someone put together a well designed integration of inbox, calendar, and contacts with an API, they would do well.
Agreed. As developers we should also avoid turning everything into another Bill and Ted adventure. Awesome!
BTW, just an additional note after reading through some of the mailing lists.

Flash sockets don't necessarily require port 843 to work - there are ways around that and it works quite well in the latest engine.io source. We use port 10000 in our setup and the client doesn't even attempt to connect to 843. We also use HAProxy to serve the flash policy file directly, which is extremely fast.

I don't necessarily think that the Flash transport is bad myself, but I can definitely understand why you wouldn't want to implement it.
I typically do one of two things if I don't feel like calling them back.

1. Give them a wrong piece of contact information, like the wrong house address on the correct street. A scammer without this information would probably accept it; a company that already has this information will point out that that it's wrong.

2. Only give them a part of the information, like the last digit of my house number, and ask them to supply the rest - this assures both of us that we're the person we're expecting to talk to.
This kind of comment feels like it's becoming the new "I don't even own a tv". Just like before, the only people who didn't have tvs that I took seriously were the ones who would never feel the need to go out of their way to tell you about it.
That works fine to an extent, but sometimes you want your menus integrated with your game and have consistent graphics and animations and so on. I used dom elements for snaketron, but in hindsight I think it felt tacky (it might partly have been because I used Bootstrap). For most games, which are more complicated, I can imagine it would be a pain to maintain dom menus.
Show HN: (15 mins hack to) Like youre own/anyone's Facebook Timeline in a flash
Out of curiosity, is there any usability study which demonstrate this?
I recently saw a report by the World Bank regarding climate change and how it will likely change our future.

That could be one reason.
Filed under Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
> In the UK you could get a TV and washing machine off craigslist for not very much. You could fly to continental europe and back for less than £100 pp. You can pick up a car for maybe £2000 or so.

Then £145/year for a TV license, £200/year for road tax and MOT costs, £500/year for car insurance, £500-1000/year for petrol, etc. A £2000 car is going to be a maintenance nightmare, probably add £500/year to cover costs.

Don't even get me started on the cost of owning or renting a place to live, which will make all these costs pale in comparison...
"I'm especially curious about whether anyone disagrees with any of the factual points of view I have expressed here, and particularly if anyone has any authoritative source to prove me wrong about anything I have said here."

Perhaps the down votes are because you're quoting a study that samples 20 year increments when marriage is supposed to be a lifetime event.

Many marriages stay together, rather unhappily, until the last child is out of the household. This study pretty much ignores that segment of the issue. And issues beyond that. That it's almost 50% within 20 years actually makes the issue seem worse.
It gets better, even if you change the MX entries, there is no guarantee that GMail will deliver mail to those new servers because the domain may still exist in their system. So you may remian cut off from a significant number of people.
There's no way to know that, is there?

And with impression-based advertising, if you're blocking ads on sites you visit, you're blocking the income needed to pay the bills.
Since the standard of living for the 'society of producers' has risen by a good measure since the time 'someone' said that, I guess 'someone' has been proven wrong by a good measure.
What else could she do? At least she prevented future variations of misuse of the card.
Yet another great example proving google's bad customer support.
What is google trying to prove by such pathetic customer service? I have heard complain about almost every google service: admob, adsense, google app ....
The DOM is indeed too low-level. We need higher-level components, and the ability to develop custom components. We also need a way to firewall segments of a page, so we can reason about it at a higher level of abstraction. This technology is coming, it's called shadow dom ( http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/ ).

I've been developing a 100.000 line single page javascript app for the past few years. You can't build an app like that if you code at the level of dom elements. Encapsulation and abstraction is essential. Because the shadow dom didn't exist i used extjs as a crude alternative (extjs's component framework is really nice, but the dom structure it produces is ugly). However, with shadow dom I can imagine a way of writing javascript in the large without needing the heavy abstraction layer that extjs provides.
> In 2005 market value was USD 887.7.

Are you missing "million" or "billion"?
Related:

"Gangnam Style Link Spurs DI Surge"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/-gangnam-style-link...

"How Much Did It Cost YouTube To Stream Gangnam Style?"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/10/29/how-much-did-it...

Psy only made $32,000 USD from domestic online sales of “Gangnam Style”?
http://www.allkpop.com/2012/10/psy-only-made-32000-usd-from-...
Not being a part of the Google ecosystem is always a good thing for business.
I grief with the author for the loss, and really encourage to use Rackspace, which has more than enough human support options.
Well, my point was about how economic value is relative, which elaborates on Chris's point.

I agree, it's not the same as Chris's point.
Well, it's sort of a personal choice. I was born and raised in metro-Boston, my family is here, my dad was born and raised here, etc, So when I'm comparing standards of living I am comparing against that of my family before me.
Google is like graduate school whereas Facebook would be like undergraduate sophomore level. Pick your poison
Currently running a Tekkit server, but I'm watching FTB. I'm waiting for them to add Redpowder/Thaumcraft first. Shame the worlds aren't compatible.
Dropbox is moving that way. Apple tried and failed.
Am I reading this wrong, or does it basically say that half of all first marriages end within 20 years?
Hi Charlie, thanks for the kind words - and funny you should mention patio11, I met him last month - great guy! And yep, learnt a ton from his blog posts, newsletter and podcast - still loads of things I want to add in.

Good luck with LivelyStocks, if you need a beta tester - give me a shout: dave@recon.io.
Would you use an "API of Me" to control which data you share?
Letterpress Deconstructed
So, when I joined Google, I had a choice between it and being employee #1 at a YC startup. Both were tempting, but I'd done the startup dance before (twice, plus once as a founder) and I was curious if I was prematurely disqualifying what could be a good thing. The last time I'd worked in a big company was an internship in high school; in college I was absolutely certain I never wanted to work for a company with >50 employees.

No regrets. The YC startup went out of business 8 months later, and I've had a chance to work on some really cool stuff at the Googleplex.
Imagine an events services company (like the one I am working for) which is 100% dependent in business operations from email and website availability during the event or marketing phase. It would be an assassination for us, and I thank the author for the warning. We shall not use Google Apps as a company for this reason.
Probably meaning it is not illegal in the criminal sense but violates the terms of the license (which is a civil/contract law issue).
If only. There is no option to revert. The best they can do is submit an update and hope to get an expedited review approved. Generally Apple says no when you reason I made a dumb update.
Good. The more this happens, the more people will realise that contracting out your critical services to a company with virtually no support and a false reputation isn't a good idea. It also undermines "the cloud" which is a good thing IMHO.

Sorry but I have little sympathy and I don't want to hear the "well it works for me excuses" and the financial advantage crap.
Yeah buy a file server and office. Seriously.
The Next Step for GNOME 3: Content applications