skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, we only support California at the moment. However, we'll be rolling our more states in Q1, and will have full 50 state support in Q2.

For California (and for all other states we will support in the future), we handle all the tax deposits and forms for you, including all tax table updates throughout the year. We'll even take care of payroll compliance for you, such as filing new hire reports to the state.

Our goal is to really abstract all the complexities of payroll into a really simple, and easy-to-use web-app. Part of that is making sensible assumptions about things (like paper paystubs), while making sure the employer is always 100% compliant.

p.s. We love payroll consultants, as we have several of our own to navigate all the intricacies of payroll!
Yes! Plus I get an unreasonable amount of satisfaction out of that server I last imaged in 1998 running the latest version of Debian. So awesome -- it might outlive me, and if it does, it'll be up to date!
Intel-built SATA 6Gbps Solid-State Drive DC S3700
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... and if you have enough control over your environment to replace Windows Server as a domain controller, why would you be using the AD stack to begin with?
That had nothing at all to do with the submission. Why the hell did you feel inspired to write this? I don’t get it. It seems like a fairly detailed description of your fairly niche needs that are hard to generalize in any real way. Neither useful nor really interesting.
You're recalling iTunes Match, the service which allows you to upload/match your iTunes library and access it across multiple devices. This service is $25/year.

However, you can have iTunes download album art (even for albums you've imported and haven't bought through iTunes) for free. You can just select every song in your library and the right-click and choose "Get Album Artwork" or something like that. It works decently for music you have somewhat accurately tagged (at least a correct artist and album name). Again, this fails for a lot of electronic music though.
Totally agree, international shipping just came out at $80~ dollars for me. It certainly killed my excitement pretty quickly but still went ahead with the order considering it was still less than £120 which is pretty much what I decided was my max limit.

I suppose it's half justified as pointed out in the FAQ/Forum the samples regular get stopped and fines levied because they think its hazardous

https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262316-do-you-tak...
RHEL 7 is planned for 2013. If it's released in late 2013 it could get in
+1. You win this one. At least, we haven't shown that we have the machinery to build a useful credentialing system for software quality.

I think the pain of what we do in the software industry, from the low respect to the bad code, goes back to the fact that our work is extremely difficult to measure, although the importance of quality could not be higher. Corporations have traditionally responded with a 3-4 year bug-fixing evaluative spell, but that's now leading to adverse selection because people like us (as you noted) won't stand for it.
Open up a terminal on Linux, OSX, or heck even Cygwin or MinGW on Windows. I'm willing to bet that awk is already pre-installed, even on a base or fresh install. Awk, like grep, sed and all the rest are pretty standard and very powerful. Not knocking Python, shell programming is just another paradigm, and the tools are pretty universally available.
Pentagon betting on new invisibility cloak for soldiers
Video: Android Binder Inter Process Communication Framework
I used to run a free webmail service back in '99-2000. It was the first system of that kind of scale I'd worked on (about 1.5 million user accounts - large by the standards of the day - today I have more storage in my home fileserver; heck, I've got almost as much storage in my laptop), and though I wasn't in charge of ordering hardware I was equally oblivious to this problem as the guy who did.

I learned in a way that ensures this advice is burned into my memory forever:

It was when IBM had one of their worst ever manufacturing problems for one of their drive ranges.

While the IBM distributor we dealt with was very fast at turning around replacement drives, we had some nerve-wrecking weeks when the second drive in one of our arrays failed only something like 6-9 months after we went live, and we found out about the problem.

They all failed one after the other within a week or two of each other. Every drive in our main user mailbox storage array...

Thankfully for us, the gap was long enough between each failure that the array was rebuilt and then some in between each failure, but we spent a disproportionate amount of time babysitting backups and working on contingency plans because we'd made that stupid mistake.

(And I'll never ever build out a single large array, or any number of other thing - it made me spend a lot of time thinking about and reading up on redundancy and disaster recovery strategies, as it scared the hell out of me; it was mostly luck that prevented us from losing a substantial amount of data)
If you're asking social engineering questions, you're already pretty well equipped for poker.

My picks in this realm were Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth (which seems to be out of fashion now as it dictates a pretty tight game) and also Mike Caro's Poker Tells book is quite good about the most common types of tell behavior you will see at tables and tourneys. It's up to you to determine if they're real or if someone is putting on a show.

I wish I could learn all over again :)
Hold on to your seats.. this is just the beginning ;-)
mysql_* functions will still work, they will simply be marked as deprecated from 5.5 forward:

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation

As of 5.4, mysql_* were officially discouraged via the docs.

Maybe in > 5.5.* mysql_* functions will be officially removed from core?
Most certainly. Would love to push the statistics further. Working on integrating some econometrics tools in the next version.
Thanks, that's really interesting! I'll check it out next time. Do you see any advantage with this over, e.g., Python w/NumPy?
I nearly killed myself playing with tubes in the early 90s. The 6.3v heater circuit got a short in the transformer winding and delivered a rather painful 220v between one hand and the other, through the table to earth. Was in hospital for 3 days with arythmia after being knocked out cold for about 5 minutes.

Still they are one of the coolest devices ever :) I just have a lot more respect for them and mains now.
At the moment:

1. Large Monitor -- I wish I had seen this article before I bought the one I have: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/the-ips-lcd-revolut...

2. Grado sr80i headphones

3. Laptop

4. Kitchen chair

5. IKEA desk

I'm probably going to add a better chair and mechanical keyboard to the mix.
Not updating a package is the best way preventing security flaws to get fixed
We currently use paychex and hoping to switch to ZenPayroll as soon as you guys allow us :). The biggest attraction is the API which will make managing all our workforce sooooo easy!
I don't think writing extensions to the language is necessarily bad, nor is that necessarily limited to a single developer goofing around with the code. Let's put it this way: if your program needs to do a bit of linear algebra, would you rather have an embedded language for that, or have a bunch of classes and functions flying around that perform those operations? There is a certain threshold beyond which an extension to the language makes code more maintainable, not less, even when a new member is added to the team.
> for more than 15 years.

Much longer than that. It was old news when I started grad school (1989).

As for what's new: The link to extreme tech is (as usual) useless. If you hit the linked original article: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/tiny-compound-semiconduct...

you will find more info, but it's quite sketchy. The press-release say MOSFET, but I'd be quite surprised if they didn't really mean MODFET (oxides of III-V are a royal PITA). My guess is that this is a proof of concept for lateral 22nm devices, ie what would be state of the art litho for the silicon world.

Edit: Dear mods - it would make sense to repoint the OP to my link above. Extremetech confuses the PR and does not enhance the original info.
If you are measuring the current hurd kernel's age as starting from 1990, then the BSD kernels are far older, not younger. The initial release was in 1977, and obviously development started before that.

That said, hurd is essentially abandoned at this point. Even RMS has accepted that it will never be completed, and has said that it really doesn't matter since there's already a free kernel available (linux).
If you're only an app.

If you're app-independent website that also has an app, that's not true.
You should be able to put flows into categories and make subflows.
University of California Brand Guidelines
Cool. You could use this to set up a "Random Amazon Purchase of the Month Club" and have a decent side business.
It can be abused, but I've seen controller heavy systems abused the same way. It depends on your goals. Some people prefer to write controllers, and the framework also contains a controller pattern for those cases. For example, you could write this...

# controllers/BlogController.php
class BlogController extends AppController
{
function index ()
{
$this->entries = get("/channels/blogs/entries");
}
}

# templates/blog/index.html
{foreach $entries as $blog}
...
{/foreach}

Or, as in my example, this...

# templates/blog.html
{get $entries from "/channels/blogs/entries"}
{foreach $entries as $blog}
...
{/foreach}

I've written substantial apps both ways, and so far I have found that powerful templates are actually easier to write, read, and maintain, perhaps because the entire request flow happens in a single file.
>"we definitely aren't taking other payroll companies lightly, and providing amazing customer support for both big and small companies is one of our core-tenants."

Good stuff. I'm going to keep my eye on this. Having gone through it, it's an interesting space. I think it can be done better than the incumbents, and that's key, right?

My point was that there's a bit too much "shoot-for-the-stars" mentality when great start-ups are on the rise. Players like ADP are slow because they are large. But they got large because, at the end of the day, they offer a good product (maybe a tad pricey). $30BB in market cap ain't easy to achieve.

Anyway, I believe there's a big hole ZP can fill, especially if you can market to businesses that can't justify spending thousands per year on payroll. It didn't make sense for us for a long time. It's nice to see a relateable problem being solved. Congrats on the round, and good luck.
I wish they'd put some serious resources into dealing with comment spam. I realize it'll always be an issue, but they could at least:

1) not make comments enabled out of box with no anti-spam measures (moderating isn't anti-spam in my opinion: technical solutions should come before man-power)

2) not make me rely on third-party plugins to combat it
Sounds coo but as a small business owner who uses online payroll I could care less whether this is "cloud based" - what will this do better than Intuit online?
Am I the only person who likes our new branding guidelines?
It's great. We got unicorns and Series As for everyone!
Might be better to have the keys rotated after a certain number of TFO cookies are generated rather than on a time-based schedule. This will prevent attackers from trying to make a huge number of requests in a set period of time.
Except that somewhere isn't implicitly in the vicinity of the new development. That somewhere could be in the suburbs, another city, a dorm room, a room in a parent's house, or any other options which doesn't have any real impact in the availability of housing in an area.
If you're looking for a long form version of this, check out the companion Heroku Dev Center article: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ios-core-data-buildpac...

I wanted to keep the pace snappy, since dead air and typing isn't too exciting. You may not get everything the first play through, but since it's a video, you can always pause and rewind and needed :)
I went through a period of having my CV in XML and using XSL to format it it.

Then I recovered.

Sometimes it's better if ideals are replaced with pragmatism - I achieve a lot more than I used to.
The percentages I've heard are all over the place, but a decent number of children are actually not genetically related to their fathers. (I've heard anywhere between 3% and 30%.)

One theory that's been postulated is that women have affairs to increase the genetic diversity of the sperm that compete for her egg, thereby increasing the chances that her children will have good genes.
Congrats to ZenPayroll. We've been using them at Swiftype since early this year and they really do provide an excellent service. We love the fact that it's easy to use and inexpensive, but more than anything else, they've saved us countless hours by automating so many of the tedious details required to process our payroll. As a young company that is already time constrained, that has been huge for us.
Why Lisp?

It's fun to play with when I need a break from work or projects. In the real world work environment I need to write mundane code maintainable by coworkers and clients, so it's not there. In my hobby, C and assembly rule the tight memory spaces of embedded hardware, so Lisp exists in a shared dream-state with Smalltalk and Oberon...
You said it better than I could have. Forcing template developers to maintain separate controller code prevents a lot of good work from getting done in my experience. If the project expands and the combined templates become a problem (usually due to the make up of skills in the team, i.e. heavy on back-end developers), separating them is pretty straight forward.
Thanks for the correction; I had the article in mind, talking about it replacing Si transistors, and can't really imagine MBE being used to produce millions of chips, though I'd be happy to be wrong about that.
A healthy industry will support people who create music but who do not necessarily perform it in public performances.

That's your opinion, and you're certainly entitled to it, but it doesn't make it true. While I don't want to discourage anyone composing/songwriting, keep in mind that separate singers and songwriters are what gave us Britney Spears, and the sheet music guild is at least as bad as RIAA (charging non-profit performing charities per performance for sheet music they've already paid for).
"The variable delta between rent and purchase price/mortgage cost doesn't break the premise that purchasing a house is a hedge against future requirements."

But it does break the premise "but so does the cost of shelter." There is an advantage to sell while it's a seller's market and rent, while doing the opposite while it's a buyer's market. That's leverage that breaks this premise.

"You might do better renting but you don't have the future right to occupy that house at any cost."

This thinking is one of the key reasons why it's possible to systematically make money off of real estate. It's pervasive crowd-think, at least in the more impacted markets. It seems sound and logical, but it's fear based and irrational. There is clearly an upwards trend in real estate, yes that is true. But there are peaks and valleys along that mean.

"Steve Keen (http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/) describes investment in assets where the profit won't cover the interest as 'Ponzi' investment as you are hoping to pay it off from rising asset prices and points out that these are unsustainable in the long term, someone is going to get caught out. "

Yes, that's speculative action at work - as I mentioned in my original post with actual examples toward the end with my theory of how to detect the switchover. It's fun to talk about and how to solve it but it doesn't change that it actually occurs. The recent housing bubble exacerbated it but it is a phenomena of active markets during boom/bust cycles.
Math paper retracted because some of it makes “no sense mathematically”
Similarly Windows 8 can change the desktop theme's colour to match the wallpaper.
This. I can't believe how many conversations I have had to have in my (short) career trying to convince people that catch(...) { /* ignore */ } is not an error-handling strategy, it is an error-ignoring strategy and opens you up for hilarious ROFLExploits, heisenbugs, and all manner of fun things. As a user an app crash sucks (I know that well, all apps I use have crashed before), but in order to fix it the developers generally need either a repro (almost no one provides these, at lest not reasonable ones, this case was an exception as the repro was trivial) or a crash-dump (less helpful as not all the info you need is always there). If you have a catch-all you have neither of these, at best you have vague reports that sometimes, when users do X, Y and Z and have been using your product for 18 hours then 'weird shit' starts happening. This is NOT the kind of bug you want to investigate if you value your sanity.
correction: tl;dr get better developers. If your app can't support 6 visitors per second without caching / cdn you're doing something very wrong.
I create websites in my spare time, and one of my websites was generating a lot of traffic in people looking for payroll services.

I approached all of the major payroll companies looking for a partnership and got nothing but static. Their partnership models look like they were created sometime around 2005. Intuit, in particular, was looking for partners that were accountants. The thought that a social/content site would generate legitimate payroll leads didn't seem to track with them, even after I was showing them hard numbers of dozens of sales per month.

I even thought about coding up a payroll solution on my own, but the legal overhead looked like a bitch.

So I finally gave up. I did not find the major players to be innovative.

Best of luck, guys. I hope we can work together sometime. To me it looks like a field ripe for innovation. There are a lot of things you can do to really kick butt here. Look forward to seeing some cool apps (and trying them).
I'm surprisingly intrigued by this. It sounds really fun!
Yeah, boilerplate isn't the greatest. Hopefully the instructions on this Dev Center article clear up a few things: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ios-core-data-buildpac...
I can't really comment on that actually. For some reason, of all the programming languages I know, I never bothered to learn Python. If you need to make sure your results are 100% accurate then I would recommend a library that has been designed and tested by others, so NumPy would probably be better than creating your own routines. I do really like the clean syntax and support for functional(-ish) programming that CoffeeScript provides though.
Ecommerce startup One Kings Lane raises $50M
Gokogiri – the best way to parse XML in Go
Would you use for a 200-page product manual?
At least it still leans the right way! I think a big part of their pitch was fuel efficiency too, in theory you can get the weight pretty low, although you'll still be in goldwing territory. Also, hard luggage helps a bit on the bike too, but I still spend all winter getting dressed.
Ha-- yeah, swear I used to think this, too... but now am convinced that the time I put into my master planner pays off later in spades thanks to structure & organization. At least that's what I keep telling myself. :)

Also for what it's worth, I have a moleskine I keep too. That's mostly for writing down stuff more visually-- but there are some things I definitely prefer writing on paper as well.
Backwards compatibility with their existing ecosystem, really. There are a lot of people who make a lot of money building and supporting themes, and breaking all of that would be a massive change that could lose them a lot of community support.
Metallica is now streaming on Spotify
For personal use, sure. For anything else, language choice requires bottom-up campaigning or top-down mandates--Lisp never even enters the conversation, at least in any serious way. Language choice is also heavily dependent on mature third-party libraries, which are in abundance in many languages but not as much with Lisp dialects (unfortunately).

Ruby and JavaScript have adopted enough Lisp concepts and in a lot of organizations enjoy enough support that pushing for real Lisp is a touch quixotic.
Rsyslog is way beyond Windows Event Logger. Audit trails should still work but I don't know if your GPO maps to server configuration automatically. It's easy to test, though. If you want to get started with Samba quickly, you can use Zentyal.
Gods and simulators are very equal in my book. The key isn't that I don't believe in either (though it's true that I do not), it that both constructs (god and simulators) being completely absent from any interactions with the human life in any recognizable way, simply are irrelevant. Both are not falsifiable, nor are either provable. It would be akin to me wondering if dragons exist on a planet that orbits V12 of NCG 4203.

Though to be honest, I would give better odds that there are dragons on a planet orbiting V12 of NCG 4203 than either of the above existing.
Thank you for all the useful suggestions, esp. about the 3 sections.
World's Mighty Giants Dying off at Alarming Rate
GitHubs complete gist redesign.
A high-side requires chopping the throttle, maintaining lean angle and speed let the bike slide around the outside, and it won't regain traction until the rear is back in line. You can watch the pros drift corners all the time like that.
That makes sense. Ideally it would be nice to have one common elegant language which can do it all. But I doubt that any one language can do everything elegantly. The syntax of some languages make them much more elegant for certain purposes. For example compare XML and JSON. JSON is great as a lightweight way to represent simple objects, but XML is better for representing entire HTML documents. Likewise you can do all your CSS stuff by manipulating DOM properties in JavaScript, but pure CSS is a cleaner and more readable way to do things because it only does styling statements. (Unless you go out of your way to put logic into your CSS.)

The bigger the project is the more you have to favor readability and maintainability first, and using multiple specialized languages to accomplish different specific tasks is an effective way to keep the codebase readable and maintainable.
Welcome to a New Gist
Cloudflare is awesome. I remember them from Disrupt what seems like eons ago. Always been impressed by the company and the quality of their content.
Well that's the point of a bug, isn't it? Chrome didn't handle malformed input appropriately and crashed because of it.

It wasn't a command that shut down Chrome, it was just poor handling of an edge-case which resulted in unexpected behavior (crash).

It's a sad truth that most programs will explode if you fling garbage at them. When push comes to shove, many development timelines don't have room to bulletproof against everything
No tmux?
Note to any potential readers: I was barely a vertebrate when I wrote this (edit: that must have been 6-8 years ago). I did so because I had selected TinyScheme for a project that I was doing at work and a bunch of people who had never heard of scheme or lisp wanted to know why. I briefly got tired of talking about it (which is rather unusual, to those who know me), and wrote this.

I still think that lisp is a great language to learn (although forth is even lighter-weight and about equally powerful), and like clojure a lot for practical work nowadays.