skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks!

You're absolutely right.

Many other self-serve payroll services that your CFO might be referring to place the burden on the employer to ensure they are compliant. These companies might only send you an email reminder to pay your taxes along with the amount to pay. If you forget or don't have the money, then you're out of luck and can face hefty government fines, just as your CFO says.

We've built our system to ensure that the employer is 100% compliant. One way we do this is we actually impound all the taxes from the employer and pay the tax agencies ourselves on the employers behalf. We also file all forms on the employers behalf (after getting the necessary authorization to do so).

Hope that clarifies a little bit how we are able to claim the same amount of service/compliance as more expensive options out there!
How are you setup to deal with eye strain?
I have two 24" Lenovo monitors that I use daily to code. I am not sure if I can adjust my position to them or adjust some settings on the monitors themselves, but I tend to develop some pretty bad eye strain by the end of the day. I also have some pretty bad fluorescent lights above my work space with plenty of light.

I would appreciate any advice from other coders that have to deal with monitors all day long like myself.

Thanks
If it costs 1 more sysadmin to support it, then it isn't worth it.
Well on a cost basis you can use this formula to compare the cost to a gallon of gas: ((kwh electricity cost)/(charging efficiency percentage))*34.02 . Then on a real cost basis you can compare the cost of an 'electric gallon' and an electric cars MPGe to your 'gas gallon' and your gas car's MPG.

In the bay area, ironically enough, with residential electricity being around ~0.30/kwh, an 'electric gallon' is around the price of a 'gas gallon'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_per_gallon_gasoline_equi...
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It's a lot of standing on the shoulders of giants. People take a new framework or library that abstracts things at such a high level like making a chart just by doing chart ((0.1, 0.2, 0.3), (1, 2, 3)). This work has been done by someone else awhile ago, and they can fit them together like LEGO to create something cool in a relatively short period of time
As noted by jrajav, since Vista, the Windows taskbar features a single-color version of this, inferred from application icon.

Additionally, the New Tab page in Chrome has exhibited this (inferred from favicon) for as long as I can remember.
Modern sports or performance cars (audi, porsche, etc..) get around 20 city and 27 highway these days. Though, the Tesla is still much more cost efficient.
I'd love to see more regional ISPs on this list. Kinda annoying to see Google under "Major ISPs" when they only serve a single city currently
I can see this buying spare parts for things you do not have.
Thanks for your comment.

There are a fair few differences:

- We have native apps all under our brand for iOS, Mac and Windows 8.

- UI Themes

- Text styling support

- Distraction free full screen mode for Mac

- Starring notes to pin them to the top of your list

- Anchor the Mac app to the top of your screen - great for copy/pasting during research
The appropriate car to compare the Model S to is probably a BMW M5, so yeah, in the 17-22 mpg neighborhood.
Is anybody really surprised by this? I mean, Google has some of the best and brightest engineers working for them, a substantial budget, a purpose other than profitable retail of their service, and a tiny town outside of major populations to work with. I would be hard pressed to find a reason why they wouldn't be faster than anyone else out there. Shoot, I bet you could find similarly sized cities were Verizon/Comcast/Charter handily beat Google Fiber. Don't get me wrong, I love that they are doing this, but everything breaks at scale

EDIT: Misread the part about it being Kansas City vs. a city in Kansas. I feel my point about scale still stands, as Kansas City in total (Missouri and Kansas) is in the 6-700,000 person range, and is still a fraction of total user base of the other ISPs mentioned
I don't really have much experience in datetimes I guess. What is this really good for? Can someone provide some use cases where this library might be helpful?

Thanks
Some pictures would have helped too, considering not everyone has iTunes, and it's an article about a visual feature. OP could have tried out the new Gist to display code too

Edit: I meant pictures of the existing Apple implementation to see what they were on about. I see the pictures of their algorithm but it makes no sense to talk about the comparison when there's nothing to compare to
But what if I want non-rectangular images!
I kid, this is useful stuff for prototyping.
For the 60 kwh model, 60 kwh would go 171 miles, so that's 1.75¢ per mile. (Although Tesla claims a range of 300 miles at 55 mph.)

I didn't know off-peak rates were so cheap.
If that's a hurdle for you, then you should not use Lisp. Lesson No. 1: Extend the language. Lesson No. 2: develop taste how to best extend the language.

Here are the five missing lines which made you not use Lisp:

(defun init-hash-table (data &key (test #'eql))
(let ((hash-table (make-hash-table :test test)))
(loop for (key value) in data
do (setf (gethash key hash-table) value))
hash-table))

'why should I have to reprogram my brain to fit the language'

That's wrong. Lisp is for those who want to reprogram the language to enhance the brain. If you feel uncomfortable with that mode, then Lisp is not for you.
After using pacman and presto, I really don't like debian commandline package management system.
I know nothing about Instacart, but are they selling the items themselves or are they just a delivery service?

From the article:

"Instacart employees pick up the groceries from a local Safeway and bring them to a user’s door. But that’s where compliance becomes an issue. According to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, all transactions of alcoholic beverages must be made directly through the vendor that holds the liquor license – in this case, Safeway. An Instacart shopper is not allowed to simply buy alcohol off the shelves and sell it like any other grocery item. So, instead of a customer paying Instacart when buying booze, the money should go to Safeway, and then from Safeway to Instacart."
Thank you for the suggestion and for the heads up about spam. The latter is a royal pain.
I use a managed www.knownhost.com VPS that starts at $25 a month. They also have an unmanged VPS that starts at $10.
I saw this coming, especially with their "Send beer to your friend in San Francisco" promo a few weeks ago. There are just too many regulations on alcohol.
I've used InstaCart a few times and the employee told me they stop by Safeways to pick up the groceries. If Safeway doesn't have something you ordered, the InstaCart person texts you asking if you want a refund on that item or a similar item.
It's about time. I've been waiting for Github to overhaul the Gists functionality, I've been ever-increasingly relying on it to store my snippets as well as posting code in blog posts, and being able to search through your own Gists is a MASSIVE addition.

I've really been loving all of these Github updates the past year, they've been killing it and it's good to see they've finally given Gist some love.
Cool. It would be interesting to see an estimate of the savings from software license purchases they no longer have to make, and what they plan to do with the savings.
That's really cool! Has this been featured on HN before?
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Thank you for the bug report. Using a url shortening service as a workaround? Sorry about this.
Way to ignore every other part of my comment.

Disclosure: My company has developed a CC gateway server, and has processed as much as $80M a year in transactions for a single client.
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Fortunately, Swig! (http://swigme.com) is still 100% legal and open for business.

Swig! is an instant beer & alcohol delivery service that partners directly with licensed brick & mortar retailers to enable online ordering and one-hour delivery. Unlike Instacart however, we did our homework and engaged liquor licensing attorneys to vet our model.

Disclosure: I'm the founder of Swig! When Instacart was still selling booze, we competed with them.
Agreed. No idea how to entice them to review sites though.
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>He speculated that some of the weight was in the form of actual weights.

If true, that would appear to suggest an obvious after-market performance mod.
Fair enough, though with my usage patterns most of the charging would be done in my garage. ;)
Weird, I have the exact opposite impression, I always thought the common HN hivemind mentality was EXTREMELY pro piracy, usually rationalized with one of the following justifications:

1. "I wasn't going to buy it anyway so the author isn't losing a sale"

2. Zero incremental cost!

3. "If I like it I'll eventually maybe buy it" (if only I could use that defense after stealing a Porsche)

4. Paul Graham's oddball (in my opinion at least) "stealing the smells" re-imagining of property.
[http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html]
Will think about it for the next release. Thank you so much.
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And that's much of how API hackathons work. You have all these really fleshed out LEGO blocks. You just need people to come up with interesting ideas. So you give the people API access. And see what they come up with in 24 hours. And a lot of the stuff is just proof-of-concept. It's not like, let me polish this hack and unittest the hell out of it before I release. It's all make and break and testing the waters to see if other people are interested in it too.
I had bad experience with Rackspace Cloud.

With Servint and Mediatemple DV for the past couple of years and didn't have any major issues to complain.
Tidings of serendipitous code, eh? Feliz Navidad!
Thanks, will be taken care of soon!
Ubuntu is becoming more and more a cheap advertising billboard. No longer my Linux. Can't recommend it anymore in good conscience.
>Tiny Town!?

There's 2 million people in the Kansas City metro area. (I'm from Kansas City. Grumble.. grumble...)
Hi! I'm not from OpenERP S.A., but we're a partner company.

Sorry you have problems with it. Can you tell me what browser did you use? I ask you because OpenERP 7.0 doesn't support IE 8 or lower, unless they have the Chrome Frame installed.
Reader macros are there to extend s-expressions. Lisp developers who think in s-expressions use reader macros to implement new data structure syntax (sets, tables, JSON, ...), new code syntax (infix, SQL, Objective-C, ...), ...
From the mention of a "variety of encodes" affecting their numbers, my interpretation of this figure is the average bandwidth used to stream a video to a subscriber, and in that case 2.55MBps sounds shockingly high for an online streaming video bitrate. 2.55MBps would put it a bit above over-the-air broadcast MPEG2 HD rates, whereas not everything on Netflix is HD, and I would assume they're using more efficient codecs than MPEG2. Especially since, from my past experience, I know that they have HD streams that are playable on sub-6Mbps connections.

EDIT: and as tedchs points out, the other provider numbers definitely reinforce the interpretation of it being Mbps: I don't think I've ever seen AT&T advertise a non-Uverse DSL speed of above 6Mbps, which wouldn't let it hit 1.5MBps.
Email probably in spam, esp. if you use Gmail. I counted 5 reviews for the site. Have they been useful? If not, feel free to email me (martinb __at criticue __dot com).
So less on vague questions that need some thought and more on concrete details that can be easily checked/fixed.

Yeah, the questions on unbounce are a bit too wordy.
I agree absolutely it is more likely. And I read The Selfish Gene. But how could you disprove that theory? it is sort of too obviously true, if you see what I mean. Which is why I brought up the homosexuality counterexample. So I don't think it should be taken as undeniable, even though it is plausible.
Manchurian Candidate!
It's great but I wish they added the ability to comment on a line.
> Citation Please!

My company has developed a CC gateway server, and has processed as much as $80M a year in transactions for a single client. This is a business I've spent a lot of time in.

Also note that digital goods and physical goods are different categories. A full service provider of "digital goods only" processing for clients without merchant accounts charges much more than a company like Paypal, Braintree, or Stripe, which process for physical goods as well.
Thank you for your support despite the site's shortcomings.
"Get review" on your account page.
Thanks, I'll take your advice. Kinda frustrating.
Actually, my read of it is megabits-per-second is correct, when you consider that the mobile connections at the bottom are going to get approx. 700 kilobits per second (kbps) consistently. Google's performance here is representative of the fact that most people do not have gigabit connections all the way to their Netflix-streaming devices, for example if they are using Wi-Fi.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, the rating thing will be fixed soon.
Could you post the name of the domain here?
Doh! I just bought Evercode!

I don't see a way to post gists directly from an editor like Sublime, but I'll be all over that when I find it.
Can you put a mod_rewrite rule "^/(20[01][0-9]/.*) => /wordpress/$1" in a .htaccess somewhere?
For anyone reading: http://unbounce.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/themes/un...
Linux is suffering from a lack of a good debugging API. There is a decent progress in the kernel debugging and profiling tools, but for userspace no changes were made for a long time.

"ptrace" is the main userspace debugging API, used behind tools like "strace" or "gdb", but it's old and clumsy. Quite new "perf" tool, on the other hand, allows user to get various CPU/Kernel stats mostly useful for profiling. Before "perf" you could only try to emulate your program using "valgrind" to get, say cache misses.

The command "perf trace", seems to move "perf" more into the "ptrace" domain. This is indeed exciting.
"Instant install without Unity"
It's niche enough to not justify the hundreds of millions of dollars such a project would require and the high risks.

OSX "just works" because it has a full suite of software that comes loaded on it and "just works" very well and makes a lot of Windows programs jealous (except for some Office products). If people want customization and general freedom, they already have Linux for free.

I think it is safe to say that the market for people unhappy enough with both OSX and Linux, and willing to pay for that, enough to justify years and years of expensive and risky development, is _relatively_ small.
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I've found that Skala Preview is also a very solid app for live previewing. Somewhat different to others, it integrates with Photoshop for live retina previews. I've no association, its just a great app.

http://bjango.com/mac/skalapreview/
A million Stanford undergrads cried out in fear.
You can go ahead and send that open letter, but why not just fork it and go ahead and add the things you want until he accepts it? Adding contributions to the code and then telling him, "Hey, I added a bunch of things, fixed a bunch of bugs, etc. Can you give me push access?" is better than "Hey, you haven't been putting in much work into this project. Why don't you let other people work on this?". Who should he give access to? Why?

Give reasons. Not requests.
"they provide freedom that is literally unavailable in any other"

There have been lots of arguments on LtU about this. You can go very, very far with either laziness or lightweight closures. Laziness didn't go all the way with Haskell, whence Template Haskell; I don't know enough about Smalltalk to know if they've managed to get by with extremely (syntactically) lightweight closures.
If I consider myself, I've never spent even half of the 120€ a year on music as I now do with Spotify. I'm fairly sure that my case isn't that uncommon with others of my generation, born in 80s or later. A big part of this generation has never gotten into buying music and it seems Spotify is a way to get at least some revenue from us. Nobody outside Spotify and the labels owning it knows the exact details of their finances, but I doubt they're going to disappear, at least not the business model. Otherwise our generation just goes back to pirating.
Really great! This is would be a serious alternative to grooveshark if you could mashup some music database to be able to group the songs by album (and then make my session playlist be the album I choose). Adding songs to custom build my playlist would also be nice. And lastly can you make it able to filter only html5 youtube videos? I'm sometimes on a machine without flash and grooveshark doesn't run without it.
It's kind of funny you mention this. Without making a serious claim that Ruby has metaprogrammability comparable to Lisp --- again, this is I hope clearly not a serious argument --- I built essentially the exact same project as part of a programmable debugger a bunch of years ago, in Ruby. Here's a snippet:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377468

The "advantage" (if you are crazy enough to call it that) Ruby has over Lisp is that your assembly opcodes are all sexprs (I guess you could implement the reader macros to get past that). The hackery required to pervert Ruby syntax so that it accepts most basic x86 assembly is... well whatever.

Incidentally, assemblers written in high level languages? Surprisingly useful.
Here are the five missing lines which made you not use Lisp

Yes, I know the init-hash-table function is easy to write. I didn't mean to imply that the function was complicated, or that writing it was a "hurdle", or that not having the function was what made me not use Lisp. I wasn't talking about one particular function; I was talking about the general fact that, for the programs that I've been writing, the advantages of Lisp did not, for me, outweigh the disadvantages. Your mileage may vary, of course.

Lisp is for those who want to reprogram the language to enhance the brain.

This is a valid point. I try to use Python this way as well, and so far I haven't run up against a specific case where its limitations compared to Lisp were enough to push me over the edge. If I were to change my mind at some point, it would be because of some way that I wanted to reprogram Python but couldn't.
On top of the obvious (resize to largest dimension, crop smallest) I'm guessing they set an anchor point on the image rather than use the center.

For example, the pig's face isn't centered. So rather than returning the center of the image, they crop the sides proportionally to the anchor point on the pig's face.

Edit: Nup. They just crop it down the middle. If you're the developer feel free to steal the above.
Right, I don't think being interrupted constantly is an awesome thing either, and agree that there are some great technology solutions to cut down on these sorts of interruptions. But I still believe that proximity is a useful feature of open plan layouts.

Having an "open plan" for a smaller team - say under 10 - is probably a good way to go. That way each team can develop rules like this 'Library Rules' idea, or a more interruptive one if thats the way they feel they get more work done.
There is a lot of research that supports the remark you are rebutting. In some countries, women get maternity leave, a cash gift to help with expenses when the baby is born, etc. They get these things regardless of marital status. In such countries, marriage is not actively discouraged if you are poor. In the U.S., marriage is actively discouraged if you are poor because benefits disappear if you get married.

The American welfare system was originally envisioned as a means to help "poor, single moms". It was framed that way at a time when having a baby out of wedlock was a huge taboo, so most poor, single moms were "the deserving poor": Widows. The framing changed the social contract and actively grew the population of poor, single mothers (by actively encouraging out-of-wedlock births) and actively discourages poor couples from marrying.

Some of the entrenched problems you see in the U.S. would improve if family support was provided independent of income level or marital status. Requiring someone to be "poor" in order to get help actively rewards failure and actively encourages people to remain broken enough to qualify. The system puts up significant barriers to escaping poverty. In many cases, marginally improving your income would cost you so much in lost benefits as to worsen your situation, not improve it. Most people cannot suddenly and drastically increase their income. Thus, punishing them for moderate improvements in the short run de facto bars some people from ever escaping poverty.

In an environment which does not actively punish poor, married couples, marriage is a very longstanding proven means to give people stability and buffer them against problems. Improved stability and buffering against problems does help reduce poverty in real terms. Pro-marriage policies have a very long track record of being good for both society and individuals. It is unfortunate that America has so many anti-marriage policies and attitudes.
The Sublime GitHub plugin for Sublime handles this nicely:

https://github.com/bgreenlee/sublime-github
We're Zen Payroll users and have had a terrific experience with them. Their support is amazing. I have no doubt they can and will take on the big players successfully.
Isn't the ORM a core part of your system? Why are tests for it in /addons/? http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-server/trunk... doesn't seem to have a /base/ subdirectory either.

Here's what I can find:

5000+ lines of ORM code: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-server/trunk...

300 lines of tests:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openobject-server/trunk...

The ORM code is fairly shocking - really hard to follow, hundred line methods/functions and multiple one and two character variables.
Most people in a position of hiring want to hire someone "like me."
Heads up, opening a Gist to edit/view from my list in a new tab (CTRL + clicking) doesn't work in Chrome 21.0.1180.75. The Stylesheet doesn't seem to load, not sure if this is an individual issue on my system.
Doesn't really do much more than https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp already does
Stuff.js: smart, sandboxed, and reprogrammable iframes.
I'm 85 and I Learned To Code. You Should Too.
> According to the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, all transactions of alcoholic beverages must be made directly through the vendor that holds the liquor license – in this case, Safeway. An Instacart shopper is not allowed to simply buy alcohol off the shelves and sell it like any other grocery item. So, instead of a customer paying Instacart when buying booze, the money should go to Safeway, and then from Safeway to Instacart.

How do you comply with this?
Very neat. I haven't spent much time with Ruby, but in my estimation it's Lispier than Python and Matz is less actively hostile to such comparisons than GVR. :D
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How do you annoy a web developer?
dxRoulette uses an non automated, but similar approach. Although you have to manually buy, it still very fun to sort the item wait for it to arrive in a random date since the product comes from china.
http://www.dxroulette.com/
I'm getting "OAuth Failure" trying to sign-in [1]

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