skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without more details the whole story sounds iffy. Since he did not give us more details but still shared his story I will speculate that he took advantage of what he thought were some clever tax loopholes in MA. Remember that hid did state very passingly that he has a presence in MA. Specifically this:

>>Again, I hadn't lived there or worked there since 2003, but I did own part of a business that was headquartered in MA, and the state was using this fact to harass me for income tax money<<

So in essence, he probably took advantage of some iffy tax loop hole which the state now probably disagrees with and is asking for whatever it thinks it is owed.
Grew up in St. Louis. A good friend of mine was a MO State Rep a few years ago, and he rented a 2-bedroom apartment near the capitol in Jefferson City for $275/month. It's insane.
Heidegger posited that our society's anxiety over death was artificial. Not the instinctive fear of death, but the constant worrying. This also leads to massive denial of the reality of death in popular culture (at least your own death; death is something that happens to "other people"). He proposed that people would be happier if they stopped denying their own mortality and also stopped being afraid of it.

So maybe the LSD and psilocybin just cut through the socialized anxiety crap and give people a more natural or normal view of death, among other things.
They've got to work within the law, and the law hasn't caught up yet. I'm sure this sort of thing will be sorted out eventually, but in the meantime a lot of small businesses will still get hurt or destroyed.
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Exactly.

I had made a converter that used XSLT and produced actual selectable and copy-able (?) markdown text; didn't gain much traction; I'll post it again to see if anyone's interested.
You don't (for the most part). You'd actually sell it to one of about a dozen small firms around the beltway who purchase vulnerabilities (who in turn either license "exploit-packs" to the government, or who work on specific tactical campaigns using said exploits).
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What someone with my situation shall decide and do?

Here I mention that because of ASK HN limitation of 2000 words I will use first comment space to give you enough information and base to come up with most accurate ideas and responses.
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20mg is an awful high dose. The usual dosage is between 75-1000 micrograms. 1000 still being awful high. (and 20 milligrams, is a _lot_ more than that!) Wonder if its a typo, of it they are just going balls out.
Surely if they can find a lawyer who honestly thinks they have a case, they could get a loan for that amount.
Author here (btw, like you I am not a part of the world of academia either). These watermarks include your name, institution, and ip address on every page. This is a huge privacy violation, especially when sharing research with colleagues.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Authorized+licensed+u...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Redistribution+subject+t...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Redistribution+subject+t...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Downloaded+from+http%3A%...

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Downloaded+*+*+2001..201...

More details: https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front/bro...

Even more details: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/diybio/o6irBNeCmrE/pqGJXMlQY...

Also, Google seems to have deals with academic publishers based on ip address. You can sometimes see Google in the watermarks in their own search index:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=filetype:pdf+google-inde...

Even stranger, Google Docs Viewer seems to remove watermarks from some pdfs, but I have no idea why. Did they write their own watermark removal library?

evidence: https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front/t/a...
The problem is that the entire legal system is a protection racket. If you don't have deep pockets, you are 100% subject to the whims if whatever kind of troll that comes knocking.

But why should this be surprising when the people who pass the laws are mostly members of the group that gets rich either way.
This happened to my dad recently. All accounts frozen. For $22 in unpaid taxes due to a discrepancy.

The funny part is that you can't write them a check for $22 when all of your accounts are frozen. #recursion

To everyone who is alarmed by this it actually happens a lot and is not necessarily Chase's fault. A lot of banks do this. Blame the IRS, our large government, and their incessant need to take everything from everyone in order to pay for all the social programs we don't need. Okay I didn't really need to add that last bit .. don't want to start a big war on HN with my political viewpoint.
Either you have been lucky, or my coworkers and I have been unlucky. YMMV.

Fortunately, most all the DBAs I've worked with do in fact value data integrity, but, don't seem to care about other development practices like automated DB version migrations or reducing repetition.
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+1 for a focused app. There must be several apps that will accomplish each of those individual things, wishlists, google drive, count less to-do apps....but what this does is bring together these generic functionalities for a single purpose. I feel there's lot of potential for more such focused, simple applications.
> We don't understand the point of heavily-glued batteries. This kind of planned obsolesce is completely unnecessary.

I dropped my iPhone 5 on a tile floor recently. Looked fine apart from a small scuff on the bevel, but the home button wasn't working. Desperately hoping it was a software problem, I powered off the phone— and then noticed that not only was it not a software problem, but the screen and all of the attached internals had actually popped out of the case and were protruding from one long edge by like half a centimeter.

Don't ask me how I missed that on a first inspection.

I carefully pressed everything back into place, turned on the phone, and it's been working fine ever since. But yeah... I could deal with some more glue.
I found that the best way to do this is to use the RPostgreSQL/R*SQL driver and plot the graph through R.

Heres a little more on it:

http://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/11/really-cool-thin...
Oh "Honey Do List" is a very funny and sweet choice of name.
Sigh. I understand the angst, tax organizations are the worst. However, a piece of advice.

If you file a tax return in a state, and then you leave. Make sure you file a tax return the next year as well but put down zero taxable income.

What I have seen states do, is take the last year you filed a return "presume" you made that much in the next year but just "forgot" to file, and then charge you for back taxes. You counter this behavior by filing a $0 tax return so that the last year on the books you made $0 and when they use the last year you filed to compute your 'expected' return for the current year they will start with $0. A CPA friend suggested that you continue this for three years as that was the 'average' over which they might make a computation.

Either way, its a pain. But filing a state return with $0 on it is pretty straight forward thing these days with efiling.
difference ensure competition and variety of point of views.
The problem with monoculture is that it _enforces_ the lack of difference. So if the guys in control of the monoculture stop progressing, or progress in a direction that you do not agree with, you're basically fucked and it takes enormous effort and time to change it.

It happens so many times and with so many things (not even software related) that I'm amazed it's not the first thing that comes to mind.
If it's valuable enough to bribe datacenter guards, it's probably valuable enough to break into your office/home.
This is going to sound like an insult, but it truly isn't:

In my mind, you obviously don't want to a put a lot of research into it -- as if you did, you'd just read everything you could, and get an MVP going -- instead of posting this. Don't worry, I'm often the same way. I suppose it's a sense of urgency.

So you might look into DevBootCamp (http://devbootcamp.com/). It doesn't mean you have to be an RoR programmer forever, but you gain coding skills and contacts in a relatively short amount of time. You have the cash and time.
And a question related to it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13295855/plotting-multipl...
Bitcoin.

I don't underestimate the difficulty of Bitcoin becoming a viable tool to transact daily life, but this is something that could not happen with Bitcoin. If nothing else, the fact that Bitcoin provides a fundamentally different way to transfer value, independent from state or corporate interference shows that there are potential alternatives.
Step 3 needs more explanation. It's not really "For each of the base colours from the previous step, make one darker color and use it to add shadows where needed.".
I don't know, it kind of sounds like without glue a lot of the kinetic energy from the fall was dropped into popping the phone apart. Were it not able to fail in a reversible fashion like that, there is a chance it could have broken in a worse way.

It has always seemed to me that phones with removable batteries that go flying when the phone gets dropped are likely inherently more robust for that reason. Crumple-zones for phones.
Personally I think to add an icon (using an icon font or possibly a data uri) is a great (and proper) use-case for displaying content with either the :before or :after selector.
Awesome! I've been hoping someone would make something like this! Great work.
If you can get approval to possess a Schedule I substance from the DEA, you can purchase drugs such as LSD and psilocybin from companies that manufacture them. They also come with certificates of analysis describing their purity.

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/etc/medialib/docs/Sigma/General_...
Startup opportunity: patent troll insurance.

This is a disgusting abuse of the legal system and current patent laws. It puts innovation in jeopardy by way of stagnation - small businesses won't offer WiFi as much if they know they can be sued by a company that has no practical connection to the technology. And if it isn't used as much by as many entities, how will it improve?

I think it's a joke that Innovatio bluffed not attacking home Wi-Fi as if it's an intentional "strategic position" like that. As if a single obscure company with flimsy title deeds on technology could really take away something so integrated from the public. They would have a reaction akin to SOPA.
I am happy with you with all that mathy stuff and I agree that it is cool - but it does not address my point which was that functions are black boxes. Once you have 'f' you can compose it whatever you want - but you cannot change its parts - ala universal design pattern (yet another too long Yegge rant: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pat...).

Sure composing can somehow work for these case, just like a Turing Machine would work, after all it is all equivalent - but we really tend to think about reality in terms of prototypes - a pony is like a horse only small, a goose is like a duck only bigger and white, etc. - this is what makes this inheritance and overriding so convenient. And if you argue that it is not as clean as pure function composition, that it can quickly get into a tangled mass where pure functions are pure and easy to reason about (but it is all equivalent - so you can actually write the same tangled mess code in a pure functional language - by carrying the state around like the burlaks on Volga) - then yeah I agree - engineering is always about trade-offs. I am only trying to explain one of the sides of that trade off.
> but a tree of partially aggregated memoizations works more often in general; its easier to do with minimal effort on behalf of the programmer.

Yes, that's exactly what you get if you do not implement a custom traceable data type (their terminology for a data type that supports repair) provided you write your code in such a way that the memoization is effective. Note that traceable data types do not necessarily need to be compound data structures, it can be e.g. an integer as well. E.g. summing a list of integers to an integer, now if one of the integers in that list gets changed, you do not need to recompute the entire sum, or even a logarithmically sized part of it: you can just subtract the original int and add the new int back in.

Here is also an article that does something related but in an imperative context rather than a functional one: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/150180/oopsla065-burckhar...
That one leaped out at me too.

I don't believe the author is cheating though, he just hasn't fully explained what he did in the step.

From what I can deduce, and my own experience, he more accurately means: "one [slightly] darker color [and one slightly lighter color]", "add shadows [and highlights] where needed", and "repeat with progressively darker and lighter colours at deeper shadows and higher highlights until you are happy".
Yeah,

It sounds like the "problem entity" is the state government of Massachusetts. Given the power the US government, as a whole, has arrogated to itself lately, one just shouldn't expect that having the letter of the law on your side will protect you in any meaningful way once the state decides it wants your stuff. Just staying out of its way may be the best policy if this is at all practical.

I had a similarly insane bill from another state tax board and I count my lucky stars it never came to a full dispute. Fortunately all I had to do was call them and explain the situation. I wouldn't expect that would work for everyone.
Wish I could give you all of my karma for this comment.
Usually these guarantees mean credits toward future billing. Cloudflare's enterprise plan offers 2500% uptime guarantee, which means if they are down 10% of the time, customers are credited 2.5 months.

It sounds a lot nicer than it is, much like "we never charge for bandwidth".
Omg. You made an extremely good point. I need to rethink about my goals based on what you said.
Most people on this site will read something that comes from a source and, if they are not experts in the field being discussed, will tend to accept it, unless another expert from that field offers a contrarian comment explaining what is wrong with it

THAT'S what I love about HN.
My favorite interview question is asking presenters to predict a flip of the coin.

You would be amazed that half the candidates cannot accomplish this task. I'm talking about people with doctorates from Harvard, open source projects a mile long, they still can't do it.

The remaining half are the ones who will truly shine on their job.
As well as the Kindle Fire (8/10)
Here's a very good pixel art tutorial that I found either on HN or on reddit a while ago: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/tsugumo/
Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion
> Okay I didn't really need to add that last bit

Damn right you didn't. The vast majority of tax revenue in the US is spent on the military. Is that your idea of a "social program"?
I meant regarding the image, but I looked at the code and realized you didn't include it at all. Sorry about the confusion.
Fair enough, I had missed it.
Even if you're not an Emacs guy you may want to consider using it with the sqlplus.el module. It adds a nice table formatter and other features to make SQL*Plus more palatable.
For most web professionals it doesn't mean anything, which is why Opera switched.
I see pair programming as a fantastic way to learn - from what I've experienced, though, it's not an ideal way to work through a project in its entirety.
Yes, he is highly motivated to wish his problems away. He has a lot of work to do to repay his self inflicted debt to society.
I was with you up until the last sentence.

I don't intend to be mean, but you should really try to avoid seemingly partison statements like that unless you make them less vague, more relevant and add citations. It's not simply that your statement isn't true (you didn't specify enough for it to be one way or another), it's that it amounts to just spouting cynical minutia.

It gives people an excuse not to listen to your point if you tag a bland political statement on to an otherwise substantial point.
That's excellent advice, thank you!

If however this is a commonly expected thing to do, shouldn't a CPA (such as the one the author hired) be expected to advise you of that?
Ignore it. They send thousands of letters for the same reasons e-mail spammers do, they anticipate a huge percentage of people to ignore them, lose the letter, have no money, etc. Be a part of that group.

This doesn't help the societal problem, but unless you're a well known company and/or have very deep pockets, your best bet is to just ignore the letters.
And a lot of people who are searching may not have the flu at all. It's possible that they have a bad cold and are trying to determine whether they have a cold or the flu by searching for information on flu symptoms. It's also possible that they just want to be prepared in case they do get the flu.
He's talking about a dose of psilocybin not lsd.
That dose is referring to psilocybin, I believe. 20,000µg would be a psychosis-inducing dose of LSD.
Interesting; I finished A Handmaid's Tale last week, and the same thing had happened to the main character's family. Everybody had stopped keeping cash, and without their bank card working they were powerless.
Yes but that takes more time. It's an interesting system, but we can't pretend it doesn't have its own drawbacks.
It's really about the daily commuters who drive in from outside the city.

See, I was lumping myself in with that group. Park and ride schemes should, ideally, be attractive to commuters in the outer suburbs (many of the smaller British cities do a good job with this - Oxford, especially - just not any of the big ones I can think of).
Why does the author keep hounding on "Again, I have not lived in MA or earned income in that state since 2003"? It sounds like MA isn't after anything to do with residency or wage income.
That's awesome! Thanks for explaining this.

It might be cool if you could expand the readme to include this information. "Why?" was the first question that came to mind, perhaps only because I don't have the necessary context or background to understand the utility of this utility at first glance.
This is a really cool comment. Is there anywhere I can read more about the UI innovations Chrome took from Opera (or web browser UI innovations in general)?
Sure, which you can use the following ways:

* C: function pointer

* Pascal/Delphi: procedural type

* JavaScript: function/expression as r-value (weakly typed)

* C#: delegate

* Java: er, ah, well, I guess you're screwed, as there is no way to pass that function around to other functions. Maybe in Java version N+1! (or Scala or Groovy) -- that is, a static function is even worse than a "virtual" function, since you cannot even pass an object/class/interface as a way to call that function (method).
It's refreshing to see that some people have an ounce of sense when it comes to interviewing :)
Thanks! I built the application for myself. I had just bought a new house and really wanted a simple application that accomplished these three features. I figured I could use various applications to accomplish these things but I feel like Furnace brings it all together and a single house supports multiple users so I can collaborate with my wife.
Just north of the border.
Web standarts and browser prefix history
The fact that it is impossible to fire bad teachers does not really prove tests do not produce some positive effects on these teachers, forcing them to at least teach something to the test, instead of teaching nothing at all. Again, you seem to be comparing "how teachers would teach if they had no tests and were excellent teachers" to "how teachers have to teach with tests". However, the sad reality is the excellent teachers are rare, and without tests nothing prevents a teacher from spending a year of math class discussing how they students feel when they look at numbers and why math is inherently sexist, while teaching no actual math at all.

It is long known that throwing money at a problem is not solving the problem of poor performance of schools. Poorly performing schools spend the same money per pupil as best private schools and still remain poorly performing. The solution, if it exists, appears to be more complex than pouring more money into it. Maybe solving the problem with the unions is a part of it.

>>>> I do, in fact, believe that we'd be better off with no tests than with what we currently have.

Could you explain why? I.e. if we now abolished all testing, how the situation would improve in average case?
Whoever downvoted this either doesn't know how cyclists actually act in the real world, or does know and doesn't want to admit it.
Someone wise said, "People can endure all the suffering in the world if they find the experience meaningful."

Psychedelics often situate the experience of death in a deeply meaningful context.
Not necessarily. If you amend the way in which patents are granted, tighten the criteria for a grantable patent, and change the ways patents are enforced, you have a chance to reform the system.

What you say could be true, but don't throw the baby out with the bath water until you've tried other ways first.

EDIT: This is also a technology issue. If patent offices had a better understanding of Wi-Fi and practical applications of public internet, a patent wouldn't be granted to Innovatio that would give them a legal position, and this circumstance wouldn't arise.

Keep the patent system, but educate the system on rapid technology advances. It's stale, but amendable.
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KF is a charity. They should have their tax deductible nonprofit status revoked for funneling money like this.
1. Nuuton is a search engine.

2. Because this feature ties in with others that I cannot talk about. Its optional, and meant for optimizing for Nuuton.
Ah, thanks. Mis-read that part of the article.