skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In Australia I think they can go back 7 years. No idea what it is in the US.

It's 3 years. And fairly easy to look up:

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...

Those records generally should be kept for three years from the date the tax return was filed.

>Yes by all means send me to prison for failing to mention a $24,000 retirement account in Australia I can't touch until I'm 65 instead. Great use of resources.

The IRS doesn't put anyone in prison for making a mistake. You have to willfully try to cheat on your taxes, multiple times, before you're even close to the position of facing jail time.
You should add a button to a demo on the homepage. It would be nice to see what a Postach.io blog looks without having to register.
The people that connect people, things (i.e. capital), and ideas are not naturally less valuable than the people that come up with ideas or who have things. If you have someone who is able to whip together existing technologies into something that's tractable they very well can be more valuable than someone who invents new technologies all day. There is more information needed beyond "that's glue, it's worthless".
I think that his point is that glue is only as valuable as the product in which it's used.

In the case of finance, it's the fact that they operate as the middleman, getting money from one place to another. The product isn't just getting people together, it's providing a smooth way to move money around.

The other examples have a product where individual technologies were melded together to produce that specific product. They did much more than just take a few technologies, then bolt them together.

On the other hand, Summly seems like the technology should be the product. NLP is a very hot research topic, and when I first saw that the product went for $30 mil, I thought that they had some brand new NLP technique or algorithm that Yahoo was snapping up. In fact, several articles, like this NY Times article(http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/business/media/nick-dalois... ) supported that view.

However, the truth is that they just took a pre-existing tech, and bolted it onto an iOS application. I can't comment about the app, since it's been pulled from the iOS store, but it does sound like they attempted to do something new with the interface, but that's about it. So Yahoo basically bought 2 engineers and a Siri NLP engine license, the later of which will undoubtedly become more expensive when the contract is renegotiated.
infinite, but bounded by some function of the input, so all you need to do is keep supplying it with extra tape. there we go, from impossible to merely insurmountable :D
Microsoft accessibility page not very accessible
The developer doesn't need to do anything to enable steam updates. Steam just does a binary diff vs the master copy.

For 2 & 3, that's great, but to be honest there is a huge burden of proof - frankly, I don't really expect any random startup that doesn't even have a .com domain to be around in 5 years.
You, and the parent comment are right. But the main difference in cost between a smartphone and a tablet is miniaturization of hardware.
They made Alter Ego and are doing this to try to get uptake versus Duo and other vendors.
"You are conflating the 'thought vs. glue' ratio with the 'past thought vs. currently generating thought' ratio."

Glue takes thought, so the dichotomy is a bit rickety out of the door. I'm taking it as network value versus technical value. Both take present thought.
Seems like it doesn't work if you signed up for a paid Prime subscription through Amazon Student. :(
OK, so I can either sit for 12 minutes and listen, or read the transcript in about 90 seconds. Which do you think I'll do? It's interesting, but 12 minutes worth?

(... zip ...)
It's easy to troll behind a fake account. Use your real account next time.
My dream is live in Switzerland!
So...
A Chinese Coder...
You should write to McDonalds and get them to change their menus, lest the people of Hamburg become offended.
Babbage's machine was really a glorified calculator. Turing's conceptual machine is a way of representing what computation fundamentally is.
Ask HN: Thoughts on the growth of socially conscious startups
Hi everyone, I've been a long time reader and first time poster, so please forgive me if I'm nervous. I'm one of the cofounders of a startup, GetCharitable, so not only am I obsessed with startups, but I also love socially conscious companies.

I wanted to get some thoughts from everyone on investment in socially conscious startups.

There is a lot of news today highlighting and glorifying how fast a startup can exit. While I love startups of all kinds, I've realized that our startup is never going to be the hot exit story that the business world loves. I don't believe a socially conscious startup can really follow the path of a Summly or Instagram and obviously wouldn't shoot a Facebook type IPO.

When a socially conscious startup is trying to work for a good cause first and foremost, I'm starting to think that crowdfunding to raise money is the way to go. While obviously not all alike, many private investors want early financial returns whether they say it or not, yet we want to be backed by people who care and want to see good in the world first.

These thoughts and this discussion is what has brought us around to starting an Indiegogo campaign and stop worrying about private investment. The shameless plugs to our campaign and website are right here at http://igg.me/at/getcharitable/x/2584022 and http://getcharitable.com if you would like to check out more. More importantly...

MY QUESTION: What are your thoughts on the growth of socially conscious companies when comparing private investment versus crowdfunding. The bonus question is if you see any other options for growth that might be tailored more towards socially conscious startups in general, when they are not looking for a quick exit?

Thanks!
I have the same problem... even though I now pay for a full membership. I submitted a ticket.
It used to be only in the same household. It now reads "or up to four coworkers." Which means you can share it with anyone you know.

Me and the wife weren't even sharing her Prime because we live at different addresses and didn't want her account to get frozen... Now we can!
I just wanted to note that I am incredibly, profoundly amazed by how near-flawlessly Chrome translated this article.
I was hoping someone would advocate for a particular one. (tool, not language)

Maybe not the right article for that.
A male (or female) role model is an important part of the development of kids. Children spend a significant amount of time and energy developing mental models of how they should behave based on how their role models behave.

That said, in the absence of a father figure for instance, kids will look for role models in anyone, like their preferred uncle, a teacher, the Clint-Eastwood-from-Gran-Torino-next-door, superheroes, etc.

So whether the kids are raised by a female couple, a male couple, 3 people, 2 wolves, it's not really a problem as long as the kids can interact with a multitude of people. What you definitely do not want is radical parents and an homogenous environment.
There aren't a ton of hurdles left before we start offering "live trading" on Quantopian. We have all the pieces, we just need to stitch them together. A couple more months, I think.

In the beginning, at least, it will be leveraged through your existing brokerage account. You're going to integrate Quantopian with your brokerage, and Quantopian will place orders for you with your brokerage.

If we're as successful as we hope to be that will mean we're driving a lot of trading volume. If you start driving enough trading volume, the exchanges start to pay you rather than the other way around. It would be a pretty sweet day if we can offer trading for free to our members and fund the company on the exchange fees.
This is a pricing model where Android devices will start gaining serious ground. When the average consumer compares a Nexus 4 ($309) to an iPhone5 ($600) and starts looking at closely at the specs, the brand loyalty will quickly start eroding. Competition will be based less on marketing and more on the devices specs and pricing.
"i walk in at 9.08am and you're going to moan at me for it"

If they have a formal written policy that on paper you're fired after being documented as arriving late 3 times, and traffic / weather / commute / home life means you'll be late about once a quarter that means you'll only get to work there 9 months before the sword of Damocles is permanently hanging over you. This can be kind of a hint about what the workplace environment is really like.

Another hilarious one is "can I work from home" "no" "oh cool no pager duty or on call" "well wait a second, I just meant you can't work from home 9-5". If your boss does trust you to work at 2am but not at 2pm when at home, its just kinda weird.
Agreed. A demo would be nice.
OK, cool :) I'll try to do something better than just installing curl!

You're right, the docs are indeed poor.
Have a happy Holiday(TM)....
Why not use Thinatra?
Heh, we try to... it's difficult. (And the military isn't exactly all roses either).
Thanks! I'm surprised I hadn't heard of that.
You're forgetting his loaded and well-connected parents.
"The IRS doesn't put anyone in prison for making a mistake. You have to willfully try to cheat on your taxes, multiple times, before you're even close to the position of facing jail time."

You only really face jail time if you do something else on top of tax evasion (like money laundering for a drug cartel).
You could also just buy the unlocked phone directly from Apple.

It’s $70 more but it’s unlocked immediately – instead of after you paid it off – meaning you can switch plans at any time. (Though currently that doesn’t make all that much sense in the US.)
Hey, you could be accidentally famous ;)
I didn't mean it in that sense, my parent are both pretty old but have no idea about tech. For them this phone was perfect, since all they wanted to do was make calls, a green button to make the call and a red button to finish the call.

With a phone like this, there has to be a compromise somewhere. By basic features I meant by today's smartphone standard, you are never going to get that to that level with an LCD screen and button taking up all the phone real estate. It is really only going to be possible for calls and SMS messages.

Of course, if they need a smartphone with big "buttons" and a big screen then you could always buy them the Samsung Galaxy Fucking Note

http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/26/behold-the-best-samsung-gal...
I totally agree - we're working on that right now :) Thanks!
I'm waiting for the 'Show HN: Curated Newsletter of "Curated Show HN Newsletters"'

joke aside, I remember seeing quite a few of these recently
Well, I'd say any reader with some kind of categorization support (tags, folders, etc) lets you do that.

I have folders in Tiny Tiny RSS that never accumulate more than a couple of unread items, and I have a folder with 22000 unread items, it works just fine.
Do some HNers have another recommendation of an already open source software to build a custom social site - a la Facebook? I checked Elgg (http://elgg.org/) and it looks good at first sight, but still looking for other recommendations.
I agree that we should improve philosophy and education but I think you are mistaken about incorporating math and technology into 'doing the right thing' being scary. What we have now is what's scary -- a game with no automatic enforcement of rules and very few rules to begin with, where everything is up to the discretion of what amounts to a bunch of dungeon masters. Only in this 'game' the dungeon master only likes say 1 out of 10 players, he gives them all of the breaks, and the rest are working with rigged dice. I'm suggesting that even though World of Warcraft can have a lot of loopholes and corruption, its more fair than Dungeons and Dragons, or Monopoly.
Confirmed. I have no idea what it's doing, maybe this is preliminary support for tabs. You have more terminals to log out from after ctrl+shift+t.
With your logic, the same argument could be applied to PHP.

The problem is that Go simply doesn't solve anything new. If Go contains your favorite language features but not mine, then why should I bother to use or hype it?

If you want lightweight concurrency with GC you could have gone with Scala, Erlang, or Haskell.
Easily, 50% of the coding I do mindless website building which really doesn't need my full attention. The rest of the time I tune it out and end up listening to it again later.
What two factors are supposed to be correlated? I don't think the usage of "red state" and "blue state" is meant to imply that liberalism/conservatism is correlated with OS choice. They just co-opted a visualization commonly used for political leanings to show mobile OS choice.
I'm working on a blog post right now about YC-funded charity and philanthropy companies. Watsi is the only official non-profit, but YC has funded at least 5 companies that focus on social good. Charity is giving. Philanthropy is doing.

http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies?market=charity+a...
I think you make an extremely important point. I largely agree with you, yet I don't think it's entirely cynical of me to think that if your primary source of data for making informed decisions is coming from television, you're (and we're all) still probably better off without it.
"He [pg] said that this time around, YC looked at 'predictors of failure,' not just 'predictors of success.' For example, he said that in the past YC might have chosen a company that had great founders (a predictor of success), but this time it might have filtered that same company out because those founders, while great individually, all hate each other (a predictor of failure)."

The given example implies that YC has chosen founders who don't like each other in the past. Seems remarkably odd and hard to believe IMO. It may have meant to say that the founders seemed LIKELY TO hate each other eventually but if they even disliked each other at the interview, I can't imagine the YC partners being ok with this.
Why Summly Matters: Software Will Become Your Research Assistant
> The 2nd one threw a connection error not when I issued the dial function, but when I tried a query on a fake IP.

That's not the drivers fault: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4804
I also have the same problem
Thank you for bringing that up, you are absolutely correct.

It helps if I clarify my approach to painting and photography, as both I do without much mental involvement, and with mindfulness.

My painting is highly abstract and very repetitive, so I am free to meditate through most of the process.

The meditative state of my photography is mostly in relation to being present in the moment, before or after my gear is set up, and I can be quite mindful while pressing the shutter release.

The final result is a distilled meditation on the moment.

I agree that any complex task makes meditation difficult.
And society irrationally overpaid for Facebook stock.
I think this is a testament to raw hard work. I can only imagine the grit and determination he had to keep going every single day with getting little to nothing back for so long. Great share.
Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool
Yahoo is a media not a technology company. Can you recall something Yahoo has done innovative?
1. I wear my ATH-M50s. They work for my needs.

2. No speakers for me.

3. I like listening to glitch hop and instrumental rock.

4. I have a collaborative one at http://open.spotify.com/user/zachlatta/playlist/4KuyJRu62zSh.... Feel free to contribute!
WordPress App Themes to Make Your Website More Interactive
I know that many of you haven't actually heard of WordPress app themes. These are unique type of themes that help you build an interactive community such as Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia or a crowdfunding website like Kickstarter.

Now, thanks to these brilliant themes you can build sites like that without having to know how to code.
Good point. I will pay close attention to that next year.

(I just verified that the bag I used last time suggests it is not for food storage. Erk.)
transcript ftw!
Did you explain to her the $40 a month difference? And did she get's it?
Also, make sure to try 'docker history'. It preserves the graph of which command created which image....

For example, this is the image I use to automatically update docker's binary downloads:

$ docker pull shykes/dockerbuilder # Be patient, it's a big one

$ docker history shykes/dockerbuilder

$ docker run -i -t shykes/dockerbuilder /usr/local/bin/dockerbuilder $REVISION $S3_ID $S3_KEY
I wish I had more karma so I could downvote him too. :(
It's not necessarily "wrong". It's just the way this machine operates.

In fact I think it will be beneficial for Yahoo's future, but not for the reasons PR and news stories are hyping it.

The problem for Yahoo now is to explain it to investors who takes it all at face value.
Filling Text Background with an Image
how to fill a text's background with a picture, using Html, Css and Svg
Who needs a blogging platform? With Evernote's lovely security practices your data is likely public anyway.
I wonder if this is more of a way to delay when paying out a bonus?
Hi Everyone,

This is a domain availability checking tool with a simple clean design, a website preview for taken domains and a price comparison for the available ones.

Some details about the used technologies are in my blog post at http://floreskul.name/post/introducing-instantname-me.
I would appreciate any feedback. :)

Thanks
Library journal board resigns after death of Aaron Swartz
Well, I guess that explains my hunch for:

"..and for some reason the press is all over it"
Maybe God exists. When Scalia rules against the police, it's time for a drink, or whatever.
1. At least there is some restriction placed on drug dogs.

2. Why is this on HN?
I've loved messing around with docker so far.

Do you guys have any plans to offer an image library? Pre-built versions of common open source tools like official .amis or the vmware virtual appliance directory?

I understand it doesn't exactly match your primary goal, but i think there is a large untapped demand for lightweight appliances for use at home or inside the firewall that juju really isn't set up to satisfy. I love the similar feature on my synology nas, although those are really just packages. There is often a large gulf between knowing how to set something up and being willing to do it.
My (largely non-techy, for this population) friends are exiting it. Not "publicly", but through ever decreasing presence. A minority remain and fill up my news feed (along with the ads), but it and/or their posts are a decreasingly interesting subset. (And, lately, non-personal pictures and graphics... ever more of these.)

These are largely the "next older" generation, after the ten and twenty-somethings that, per all the recent reporting, have moved on to Twitter, Tumblr, or... I guess, the next "T".

So... I have no objective evaluation, but it's certainly becoming a less interesting place to me, even to keep up with "non-technical friends".

Also... I'm increasingly hesitant to comment on public posts. People who "market" themselves with public posts, further discourage my participation. (NOT that I want the post security setting indicator taken away. It's the only thing that, when not public, prompts me to comment at all.)
Welcome to the magic stratification of Apple's pricing. The next "upgrade" is always $30-$50 away, which makes the upsell so tempting.
Could we have an RSS feed of those?
Does computer code need a new, universal language?
The push/pull mechanism for images seems like it adds a rather large centralised component to an otherwise very standalone piece of kit.

Is this "docker registry server" the final thought on how people will "ship" their containers? ... I'd much rather have the docker cli be able to be able to be configured to use some private repository of images. Maybe I missed something.
Unity and Facebook are now in a Relationship... and it’s Awesome
Interest was just $65-$70 or so on the $500 'loan'. $3k was in accountant, tax attorney, paperwork fees. We also had to pay her school to send notarized transcripts to IRS because they wanted proof that she even went to school. And since the IRS letter arrived just 2 days before their deadline, we had to pay extra to the school to get it delivered overnight. Most annoying part is that Sallie Mae was the one that gave out the loan directly to her school.

I'm not saying the citizenship was IRS fault. I said a $500 'loan' that I never asked for, had no intention of 'stealing', had no way to know was pending, ended up causing months of paperwork, hassles, and undue stress. It is appalling that people expect me to treat this like a wonderful tax refund instead of what it was - absolute waste of productive time.

All of this could've been avoided by a single rule in IRS tax processing system that auto-sends a letter or email saying 'Our records show X yrs of Y lifetime credit have already been claimed. Please refile.' And I'm certain that I'm not the only person who had to go through a similar thing.
ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Store Data on File-Sharers, Court Rules
Am jealous. Why the fuck didn't i think of this before. Am from Africa. Everyone needs help up in this bitch. Guess what? I got caught up with these 30 under 30 posts and how i made n amount of $$ in n amount of years. Thank you Watsi. I don't i have to make a profit to a make difference. Thank you.
2. Is the subject of Republic Lost by Larry Lessig. I could not recommend that book enough.

http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress/...
Amazon wouldn't have frozen her account. Speaking from personal experience, they don't seem to care even if the family member moves 3000 miles away from the Prime subscriber.
Very easy to use. Great idea. Published my first blog post already.
Ask HN: How to meet and connect with successful people?
I have always been obsessed with successful people and learning about their life and the things that they did to get where they are today. May be it is nuts but i always feel that there is a pattern to successful people. Yes some things are no-brainers like hard work, passion etc. etc. but those are too abstract. How can we learn more about them ? Obviously, we can find books on the ultra-successful such as Warren Buffet, Bill Gates etc. What about the Tier-2 people who may not be as popular but are definitely out there. How can we find them ? How do we approach them and even ask to be mentored possibly ? Wondering if any of you has been able to find such people, approach them and were able to spend some time.

I am not asking for a secret formula to become successful. I just want to hopefully observe/study/learn from them. Crazy thought i guess?
arXiv preprints at [0,1]. While interesting results, this is by no means groundbreaking work, and as long as we don’t understand the relation between gravity and quantum mechanics, it is impossible to draw conclusions regarding the sort-of-obvious FTL travel lurking here.

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6165

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3923
Google Authenticator is also used by Amazon for AWS and LastPass.
To be precise, there is some censorship on HN. Nevertheless, so far ve is just getting downvoted.
If you follow that rationale your going to enter a spiral of reinventing wheels ad infinitum.

Just make sure that whatever you rely on can be substituted for another system and you're good to go. You depend on that service but on the off chance that it's discontinued your business is not at risk.
Dynamic jQuery Image Avatar Cropping Effect
Does shykes/dockerbuilder in this command map transparently to your github 'dockerbuilder'? Do the images come from github too, or the docker community server?

I did not get all of this from your first reply, I guess I should have been wondering, where the images are hosted, what's stopping other people from publishing images as yebyen, etc...