skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you are wrong.

From the law:
(1) The term "qualified small business" means any domestic
corporation (as defined in Section 7701(a)(4) of the Internal Revenue
Code) which is a C corporation if all of the following apply:

Because the act explicitly qualifies that the exemption applies only if ALL conditions are met there is no question of legislative intent or judicial remedy that could be applied. There is no possibility of "revised terms" because that would mean essentially rewriting the statute to make some conditions
optional, which was not the intent of the law.

Thus the entire statute(18152.5) is unworkable as explained by the FTB:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/law/Qualified_Small_Business_Stock_an...
...in the sense that it is:

query is term1(person) & term2(person) & term3(person) ...

i.e.

query :- term1(p), term2(p), term3(p)
They say it like its a bad thing...?
After being in Central and South America for two years, the biggest shock upon retuning to North America was the amount of stuff people have, and how easy it is to buy.

It blows my mind that most houses I drive past every day have two cars, a boat, an RV, a snow machine (or two), a quad, skis & snowboards and that's just what I can see when they have their garage door open in spring.

Not only do people have lots of stuff, they have so much they have to pay people to store it for them (self-storage). I had completely forgotten about those, because they simply don't exist in places where people don't have excess stuff.

I highly recommend getting out of the developed world for a while to get perspective on how much stuff everyone has.
Right now search for people that aren't in your friends-of-friends network is generally broken. When I try to find someone by name/school, name/city etc it returns that no-one exists. I suspect it's some kind of sharding issue and FB search right now isn't global.

To that extent, this is a pretty big thing for them to pull off. I could certainly see it helping their growth if you are finally able to search for people in a more fine-grained way and connect with them.

Some say this may be unwanted -- that's exactly why FB has been testing having people pay to send messages. They know this will be a problem and are searching for solutions.
What do Fab and GroupOn have in common?
Applying "the Radiohead model" to a faceless bank seems odd. I feel like people would be more willing to choose to pay more in the case of artists.
I never said I believed what Swartz did merited decades in prison. I personally think it merited a misdemeanor conviction and a suspended sentence, and I think it's a problem that the law doesn't create clear distinctions between "felony network intrusion" and "misdemeanor network intrusion." That's my personal politics.

However, it's one thing to think this intrusion is a "digital misdemeanor" and another thing to act like you can't fathom why anyone would see it otherwise. You have your perspective, but the police and the prosecutor and evidently at least some people at MIT: 1) had no idea who Swartz was or what his agenda was; 2) didn't share his politics; 3) weren't familiar with the "hacker culture"; and 4) were rattled by the target being an institution like MIT. You seem to completely ignore that aspects of Swartz's activities seem similar, to an outsider, to someone with much more nefarious intentions, and you seem completely unwilling to explore how outsiders to the situation might have, in good faith, a different perception of it than yourself.

Also, I presume the "hacker" in Hacker News is used in the same sense as in Paul Graham's essays--hacking on code. I fail to see what that has to do with one's politics re: information security.
I don't understand why people can't just spell out the word "localization" instead of relying on what must be the worst abbreviation ever invented. (l18n)
Constructive criticism: I am not sure yet another "how to hire a hacker" article is really all that necessary because there is no shortage of similar advice and I think all the characteristics typically listed in those articles how to identify and pick that one über-hacker with pinpoint accuracy are not really that much better than the pre-dotcom-bubble myth of selecting the one with the geekiest tshirt, simply because there is too much you do not and cannot know or predict or foresee in that situation. So common sense should dictate you are much better off relying on qualified recommendations from your people because they know more about the person they recommended, maybe they have even worked or studied with them - this gives them much more insight than you could possibly hope to get in your first encounter with that person, no matter how smart and elaborate your "detection mechanism" is. And this saves you a lot of time and money.

But on focusing on cultural fit, we certainly agree.

- another nameless derp
That might win the prize for most ignorant comment ever on HN. While you can level a number of criticisms at Chomsky, lack of mathematical rigor is not one of them. I would assume people here were If anything, Chomsky is guilty of over-reliance on mathematical formalism in his linguistics.
Different Word Processors, Different Word Counts
Probably were no longer making any money when people could translate (safely) all from within Google Chrome!
Yes. But in Aaron case there were NO victims and NO ONE tried to recover anything lost from Aaron's actions, besides prosecution of course.
Balanced (YC W11) Hires Former Eventbrite Exec To Handle Operations
That works with a pair of highly-logical people, but for anyone else it would seem extremely offputting and awkward. Even when I go out of my way to not bullshit people, "sorry but I'm just not feeling this" without at least a reasonable conversation first (even just half an hour) would be tough.

Having said that, I still signed up. What do I have to lose - an hour on HN, and three bucks on coffee? If it's awkward it's awkward; everyone could do with getting better at handling awkward situations.
Green Dot bought a failing commercial bank to sidestep all the hurdles.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111208006460/en/Gree...
USAA has been doing most of this stuff for long time too (ATM fee refunds, mobile deposit, etc)
Russia Headed Back To The Moon In 2015
Of course he can. Didn't you ever go to high school or work in a gossipy office? It doesn't take too many people saying, "She's a slut/ice queen/crazy bitch/diva" before it becomes conventional wisdom in a social group.
The things you own come to own you. --Tyler Durden
I'll make the obligatory comment mentioning the Hacker News custom of titling the submissions of older content with the date, generally like so:

Stuff [2007]
I hate that I can't search my own tracks that I've uploaded anymore. I tag/title my tracks such that I can find them later. Well, the new interface killed that - now I have to search the entire site to find my own damn tracks. It's silly.

I love that I can embed SC on most any forum.
I'm not seeing much to remove Heymann or Garland. There's another petition for Heymann, but that's not getting near as much traction as the Ortiz one, even when I've seen numerous commenters claim he was the one behind the case.

What's going on with these petitions is exactly the tactic politicians use to calm the populace down when they're screaming for something to be done after a scandal or catastrophe. Removing Ortiz would give everyone the vengeance they desire but it wouldn't do a damn thing because the people qualified to replace her are all just like her.
Sorry, this is off-topic but surely hatred is much worse a motivation than anything.

Honestly, I'm not advocating money as a good motivator. I go to work and I buy things and I'm happy with capitalism but really, I just spent the last few months working on something I like with absolutely no money in it (and it's GPLed). Money is just there so I can get by and enjoy the really fun things. Just realised how much of a hippy I must sound, but it's true.
If anyone can grasp that the interactions of not-inherently-wrong-nor-malicious behaviors can lead to unintended but harmful consequences it ought to be programmers.
This is entirely wrong. North Carolina and later Pennsylvania were nailed years ago for similarly unconstitutional schemes favoring in-state companies and had to similarly solve them with retroactive taxes on their own citizens. The only options acceptable to the feds when a state is found to have systematically screwed over the citizens of the other 49 states like this are retroactive correction in one direction or the other - there is no option to stop doing it now and keep the ill-gotten gains from the past.
Hack Design - Design Lessons for Programmers
I seem to recall that many moons ago, I set up my privacy settings to prevent others from tagging me in photos.

Revisiting it just now, the options in that section of Privacy are now fairly byzantine, but I think I still have it locked down :-)
The trouble is that it's both. The law should never have allowed a sentence that ridiculous for the act Swartz allegedly committed, but prosecutors also choose what to charge. So we do need to fix the laws to prevent excessively aggressive prosecutors from having anything that outrageous to charge minor offenders with. I would even admit that that is the more important achievement.

But we still need to do something about excessively aggressive prosecutors too, because they can still do plenty of damage with knives and guns even after we take away their nuclear weapons.
If they're allowed to retroactively change how much they taxed you, can you refile your financial statements?

Yeah, didn't think so...
I don't know how it would work for non-heterosexuals. But I guess they don't have the same problems than heterosexuals.

From what I have seen, online dating sucks for men because it is very hard to get noticed. It sucks for women because they get too many choices.
Steak Drop
Facebook Graph Search - The Monetization Theory
It is exceedingly easy to find other examples to counter. In fact, one of the easier ways is by looking at software where their license is of a specific type. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AGPL_web_applications
I think the reasoning for "Graph" is that social "network" and "search" have been used and abused too much. They don't want you thinking graph theory algorithms, but they will borrow from graph theory to have a new word.
Music startups: product vision vs economic innovation
I rather like iptables...I have to check the man page whenever I use it, but I'm always able to do what I want pretty quickly.
There's no way 'pacman -Ss mp3 | grep rip' and 'pacman -S ripperx' would ever be considered easier than searching in Google and clicking 'install'
Exactly. Unless you make notes (most) books are instantly replaceable. I have one shelf of my absolute favourite books & dvds (so I can loan them out). Plus a kindle for everything else.

The reality is knowledge is even cheaper than food these days, and books are backbreaking whenever you move. A rational cost/benefit analysis will tell you to rid yourself of books before clothes. A favourite shirt is nearly irreplaceable, a favourite book can be replaced in a day.
It's amazing how much stuff you can accumulate when you're not paying attention. I had so much stuff and it didn't help me at all. It only prevented me from moving when I wanted. So I recently sold all my stuff, threw out all the rest and moved country.

I live a just as luxurious life as I did before. I just find solutions to stuff that doesn't require owning the physical goods. Keep in mind half of this stuff is only possible because i'm living in the US now. And the rest is pretty obvious. eg.

- Rent a furnished apartment.

- Use car sharing services

- Buy ebooks instead of physical books

- Use Netflix/Hulu instead of owning a tv

- Use pdf digital signing software instead of owning a printer/scanner/fax

And really the only physical things I need now are some clothes and my laptop.
One sure fire way to cure stuff-itis is to move house a lot. I have moved at least every 2 years since I was 16 (I moved a lot before that, too but I wasn't in charge so I didn't really notice).

EDIT: I'm 32 now

In some cases I would live somewhere only 6 months, so I've moved a LOT.

I am now completely allergic to stuff. I throw things out wantonly and refuse gifts. I buy things only when they are something I critically need, and even then I wait a while.

There is not only the mental cost of stuff that PG mentions, but the cost of transportation, storage and disposal (a cost which has become much more significant - garbage tip costs in Australia seem to have gone up several orders of magnitude faster than everything else since I was a kid).

I'm not sure if you can achieve a cure vicariously or if you actually have to go through the mentally scarring process of moving the same 12 old PCs that you'll freecycle one of these days through 8 houses, but try asking yourself "If I buy this now ... How would I feel about moving it?"

EDIT: several typos (after moving off my mobile keyboard)
I am really curious about the DMCA takedowns and subpoenas.

For the record I like the site and it ran wonderfully for me, although that seems to not be the case universally reading other comments.
Ah tools. Tools are not stuff. Well, not if you use them, and they are good quality.
Seems like they're trying to keep an extremely casual image, although perhaps they went a bit too far. I did find myself basically squinting at things.

What I'm really confused about is the mechanics. Does someone have to select me, or is this some algorithmic match-up? It gives the impression that a computer will say "hey, you both said Thursday night and look reasonably compatible, you two kids have fun" but then also gives you the option to browse and select dates as well.
David Brooks Columns Are Required Reading for the Course Taught by David Brooks
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

That applies here.
No, and notice the small "Skip all offers" text just below the checkboxes, it's kind of hidden between everything and difficult to see. It took me a while to figure that one out, average users have no chance!
> At first it seems like you're a crazy person talking at others. But after a minute (though it'll feel like a little longer) most people will happily talk to you.

Yes - but if you watch very carefully you'll notice their eyes darting nervously about, trying to find the nearest exit, and a small frown appear as they attempt to calculate the whether staying in the line is worth it, and the likelihood of you attempting to sell them something or attempt violence if you make your excuses.

In other words - if some random guy starts talking to you in a line, you will tend to make small-talk in return. Whether you like it or not.
Sony Sound Forge Pro 10.0e Build 507 - Portable - (2013) - Rus
Hopefully others will follow through by demonstrating their frustration by doing more than just clicking a button on an online petition. It may not be as good as rioting in the streets, but it's better than an email!
Those in CA thinking about implementing such a policy will need to be careful. IANAL, but having been CFO of two CA start ups now, you will need to give CA employees at least 1 day per month worked that will need to be paid upon termination. You can cap the amount of accrued vacation a 10 or more days, but once they've earned a day they can never loose it.
Do you use tables at all? What effect does this have on cells, rows, etc?
I can't be the only one that would prefer selinux were fired into the sun.
Funny this was posted, I just came to this realization myself recently. I've always known it, but I didn't really /realize/ it until about two weeks ago. So, I've begun selling things on craigslist. I've made $147 so far, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it's probably the $147 I'll be most proud of earning this year.

Stuff is generally like lines of code in software: writing it (acquiring it) is fun, but the real fun starts when you figure out how to delete it. A good refactoring with a net negative number of lines brings me great joy, just as getting rid of this stuff on craigslist has.

In fact, it brings me so much joy that for the forseeable future, I have a new rule: if I buy something, I must figure out how to sell/recycle/trash something of equal or more mass. This will force me to physically reduce the amount of stuff in my life. Obviously, mass isn't a fantastic approximation, but neither is the number of lines of code.
And from anecdotal evidence, I've heard of single people bringing non-single friends (from both male and female sides) on Grouper. Those aren't so fun when the match-ups don't go in your own favor.
Wouldn't he investigate BEFORE investing in such a dodgy, scammy looking company?
But can you a force the lawyers to enforce your rights in this case a company with deep pockets can drag out a law case for a long and costly time.

Decades in some cases the long running section A pension case went on for well over a decade in the UK conveniently for the employer that meant that the people effected by the decision started dieing off reducing the cost.
Because internationalization and localization are not the same thing and they're really long words :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
I agree. Compartmentalizing things is key. I'm ok with having a toolbox with 50 tools in it. I'm not ok with having 50 tools scattered around my apartment.
There's a greasemonkey script called google result privacy (several actually), which very simply turn off the url dickery so you can right click and so forth as expected.
Storing and querying RDF data with Redis
The amount of stuff you have is the difference between the amount of stuff you acquire and the amount of stuff you sell or discard. This essay does a pretty good job of covering the former, but the only mention of the latter is the following:

And yet when I got back I didn't discard so much as a box of it.
Throw away a perfectly good rotary telephone? I might need that
one day.

I wish this idea was expanded upon more. One of the contributing factors as to why poorer people tend to have more stuff is because the cost of discarding or selling and subsequently replacing stuff is higher than simply storing it. If you have a well-paying job or are otherwise independently wealthy, it's easy to throw away a $20 rotary phone because you know you can just go out and buy a new one without inconvenience.

There's also the compunction against discarding something that still works or is still useful. For example, I know quite a few people that have old computers gathering dust because their owner has subsequently replaced them with faster machines, but hasn't discarded the old ones because they're still operable and might be useful for a side project or something.

I'm not really sure what the solution to either of those things is. Perhaps we need some sort of market where stuff is more of a liquid commodity than it is now - if there's less of a financial penalty to selling and repurchasing, and if it's easier for perfectly good items to be sold for another's use, it might enable people to have the option to have less stuff.
How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for creationists
Driving a Car with a Helium Balloon: Physics
I wonder if searching for "Single friends of friends" would work. Optionally with "who like x".
Fair enough - as someone else pointed out in the blog comments, there's not a lot of "actionable" items in this post short of seeing if people work on side projects, which in itself isn't an indication of someone you should hire.

Word of mouth however is a pretty reliable way of finding solid developers provided you start with a good developer or two to begin with, and is a great way to build your team and culture - odds are if your team is recommending someone, they'll fit in with and extend the culture your company is going for. We saw an example of this when we opened our Vancouver office - after a few key hires we were able to attract a lot of talented developers who fit in nicely.
The author does not use plain text as a baseline. Appellate court rules (what prompted his article) treat typeset briefs differently than printed briefs. So how does LaTex compare?
Can anyone comment on or point me to a resource describing what will break when using jQuery 2.0 in an older IE? I assume pages will still render and most basic jQuery functions will still work, but it would be good to know exactly what the degraded behavior will be.
Please stop using simple tools to exploit our outrageously insecure ethernet setup!
HPMOR is amazing. I have an up-to-date ebook version at http://www.leanpub.com/hpmor.
Depends how long ago you were here, but we've been seeing tax rates fall pretty consistently for a decade.
> Imagine if "attractive people" walked around with body-guards who only let other "attractive people" with body-guards come up and talk to them.

So what you're saying is you've never been to, say, a particularly hip bar or club in a big city.

Yes, the attractive women do have people who keep losers (like, say, the typical HN nerd) away. That's exactly how the real world works.
Jack Ma's Retirement Might Mean a 2013 Alibaba IPO for Yahoo Shareholders
I'm just getting a blank page - is that what others are seeing?
Yeah with some peer review and either ad supported, state supported or community supported. Simple fee is too much for something I already paid for. I think paying 5 cents for the bandwidth is perhaps all it could and should ever cost.
There's a difference between international and domestic security policy.
Handcrafting digitally designed wedding rings.
Actually, it looks like the automatic deposits/$1000 minimum are for a investment account without the checking account.
> Backbone's only hard dependency is either Underscore.js ( >= 1.4.3) or Lo-Dash

First I'm hearing of Lo-Dash. How long has this been in the Backbone.org docs?

Appears there was a fair bit of tension in it's dev history. Eg: https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/commit/4e4bc194c...
It is a shame that the petition to pardon Swartz has 1/10th of the signatures that the petition to fire Ortiz has. Let's advocate for a government that forgives (alleged) crimes as strongly as we advocate for a government that punishes people like Ortiz.

http://twitpic.com/bvjjvz
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/posthumously-pardo...
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British Dialect PHP Interpreter
Disagree with this article. I think the no 1 way to hire a great hacker is to see them code (either in real life through pair coding or through a coding test or through seeing what they have personally achieved).

Cultural fit is important also but it's a very vague notion. It's so easy to say that someone is a good cultural fit if you like them. That does not make them a great developer. That makes them likeable. Not denying that this is important, but it's down the list, it's not the number one factor to consider when hiring someone.
Yeah books are like kryptonite to a frequent mover. I got rid of all my books about 5 years ago except for 5 engineering and maths textbooks that I would like to have around if I ever have to try and rebuild society after the apocalypse :)
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How Facebook’s Graph Search Just Replaced A Major Chunk Of Google
Mirror: http://pastebin.com/TesKihYZ
New York Assembly Passes Gun Legislation
(I'm guessing that) since opacity is a "postprocessing operation"[1] it has to 'redraw' the entire div which causes it to fall back to it's parent order in the stack.

But I'm not sure if this is a fair assessment, as you're applying opacity to the div instead of the span.red, the element where the rule was applied. When adding opacity to the span the z-index stays intact

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparency