skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty impressive. Makes him sound a bit like Richard Feynman, actually.
In the UK, hardly anyone who has gone through puberty uses "super" or "wicked" as a superlative.
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No, YC have never to my knowledge published or recorded video of the pitches. I doubt they would either - it would increase the stress on the participants, and often the investor pitches include commercially sensitive information.
I watched Beyond 2000 all the time growing up in the U.S. It was a great show that really spurred on the imagination. I always got a kick out of how they said "aluminum" in Australia.
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Someone with one watch always knows the time, but someone with two watches is never quite sure…
Taxes are prefilled in Estonia also, you can see all of the information on the webpage, and in case of a home loan or investments, you can send that information to the tax form from a bank site with one click. If you're married you can file joint tax. And thats it.

The whole process takes about 10 minutes, the deductibles are calculated and returned quite quickly, this year I was returned about 100euros, mostly because of my daughters dance lessons that are exempt of tax.

I dont see the reason people try to defend TurboTax here, yes, taxes are more complicated in US, but still, government does the same calculations anyway, have the same data anyway. Why not do this automatically. And if government wants to screw you, well, then I dont belive that turbotax or alternatives could help you anyway.
Was truly surprised to see that they do in fact NOT offer a course on scam-emails.
thank god! hopefully mac os x will update the included ruby from 1.8.7
#2 - "we paid some kid $30m!" Why on earth would that be used for 'recruiting'? Getting me to come be your full time employee by telling me how much you pay outsiders (sometimes for lame tech)?

If Yahoo wants to increase their recruiting power, start rewarding - publicly - internal teams that innovate. Start a $50m innovation fund, and reward internal teams for demonstrating initiative, problem solving, innovative solutions, bold new idea, etc.
I am a salaried employee and receive W2s
I am a contractor and receive 1099s
I get K1s or other forms from entities where not all of the revenue and expenses are reported to IRS by counterparties
Yes. I increasingly get the feeling that I'm stuck in .NET-land because that's the only thing that recruiters feeding off of LinkedIn seem to care about when they "network" at me.
Also unlike other countries from what I remember you mail your federal and state tax forms and you don't even get a receipt or acknowledgement notification, just hoping the envelope won't be lost.

A simple official paper stating your basic tax figures (gross/net income) can also be used as a simple way to verify low income when asking for scholarships and other financial aids right?
"Click “Advanced” and select your database options. A MySQL DB will be way faster than a SQLite DB."

Do you really think you can really notice the microsecond that MySQL will be faster than SQLite? We are talking about a database that is going to host what, maybe 5 megabytes worth of data?

We are talking about calendars and contacts here, this is not stuff that you will sync every second, and will not contain large amounts of records.

Hosting this stuff in an SQLite database makes things like backup and security a whole lot easier. You don't really need a complicated database server just to store your phone numbers...
These are the problems you face when dealing with any kind of miserable person. It isn't unique to the unemployed.

You can't relate, but you sympathize. That's seen as condescending. You feel compelled to offer to help, and that's seen as insensitive and condescending.

Eventually the walking on eggshells around this person starts to make you miserable, too. But it's misery of a different kind, so it doesn't love the company.
OMG big business is trying to ruin my life!

The government are not incentivized to do a good job preparing your taxes. I'm not a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist. I don't think the US government wants to institute a program to systematically defraud the population. But I do believe that governmental inefficiency and incompetence is nigh-limitless, and the very people who may need their tax returns the most could end up being cheated out of them, not by malice but by indifference or stupidity.

(And there are many opportunities for the poor and underserved to have their taxes prepared for free. Many credit unions will do it, for example, and they are incentivized to do a good job because the tax returns will likely pass through their hands).

I realize the counter-argument is "but you can just opt-out if you don't trust the government". Sure. I can also choose to drive if I don't want my civil liberties violated by the TSA (and I do, except when traveling internationally). If the easiest and most convenient option also involves giving away rights, most people will take it. And then when later it turns out that it's being abused, there will be insufficient infrastructure in place for many people to choose an alternative.

I hope this is just paranoid ranting.
Frankly, anyone who does trust any government hasn't had very much experience with them. At best, governments are inefficient and incompetent. At worst, they are run by politicians absorbed with self-interest.

There are already scads of people trusting too much to other entities rather than figuring it out on their own. These people leave their tax withholdings at default levels, then walk down to the local Wal-Mart and trust the Jackson-Hewitt crooks to do their taxes. Jackson-Hewitt files a 1040EZ for them, charges $300 bucks and they leave happy because it will be automatically be taken out of their $10,000 refund. They feel rich for about two weeks.

The solution is not more government nanny-state ideas. The solution is to find ways to require people to be MORE accountable for their own well-being.

How about requiring every person who receives 10% or more of their yearly salary back in a refund to attend classes on how to maximize their tax benefits? It would be paid for out of their refund. After they go once, they don't have to go again for 5 years.

If you're too dumb or unaware of your surroundings to know that you can file your taxes for free with a little bit of effort, you need education.
My DMV provides excellent customer service. You sign in and get a number and are routed quickly and appropriately.
The reason why I don't use virtualenvwrapper is mainly to have the virtualenv within the project, e.g. in case I want to get rid of it. I always only have the virtualenvs that I use around.
Why the wording wasn't great, it is a valid concern. If you already have a server running Postgres, then maintaining a separate MySQL install really is a pain, especially when it comes to being up to date on security.
The YC Demo Day is a private gathering. From descriptions I've read,
it's essentially just the founders of the given batch and "accredited
investors" (in US legal parlance, I believe "accredited investor" means
having a net worth greater than 1 million or a yearly income in excess
of 250K, but I'm not a lawyer so I might be wrong). On past Demo Days,
at least there was one, trusted, member of the "press" from techcrunch
at the event. One of the problems with Demo Day is not all of the
companies are publicly announced when it happens and they want to keep
working in "stealth mode" while raising capital. Said trusted person
from the press is told which companies they can and can't write about.

Though the world could probably learn a lot from videos of the pitches
on Demo Day, I sincerely doubt they will ever be released to the public.
cross platform c++, or just cross platform via LUA? I would imagine it would need to be somewhat bulky (like QT) to support cross-platform C++.
How easy is it to switch a production environment (millions of users, TBs of data) from MySQL to MariaDB?
Good to know. Well I never had problems with the calender or the bookmarks up till now (6 months going).

But I do not use it for files. So good to know, that there might be a problem.

Did it "loose" the files, deleting the files from the server, or just the "link" to the files?
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SimpleTax is protected by 256-bit secure connections, twice what's normal in online banking

Sold!
Google gets "unGoogleable" removed from the Swedish language
Ah, you're right about the commercially sensitive information.
>And the company is betting big time on Go, more than 50% of their codebase will be (re)written in Go in a couple of years. Source: core dev on the golang team.

They have been known to oversell the language.

No way is the quote accurate.
> And please, please stop with the cultural fit! Some people do not want to have to go for beers every other night or play Xbox tournaments all Friday!

But that is cultural fit. If the culture is not doing those things.
In one of my projects, two of my team mates were in their mid forties. One of them was a mother of two (pointing this out because she didn't have lots of free time to learn new stuff). She didn't know Java, but she was probably a million times smarter than the rest of the team (4 more people, all in their early to mid twenties) combined. She didn't go to college, while the rest of the team came from pretty good schools, with good grades etc. Yet, she picked up things faster than any of us.

So yeah, some people are just sharp by nature - just like some people are cute, strong etc (not saying others can't develop, but it does give the "naturals" an advantage)
Sure, you are perfectly right. The reason why I point it out is that, even though I was familiar with the story, reading that gave me the impression that Adria was the first to be fired. I had to re-check the facts to make sure I was not mistaken.

Is that relevant? You bet! The way Adria handled this issue was the main reason why she was fired: having a person loose his job over a sexist remark is overreaction (even Adria admitted this). But having a developer-relations person loose her job because developers are very angry at her is maybe not that surprising.

Is that confusion intended by the article author? I think so!
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About the Finnish system, you can find an example of the tax return form here:

http://www.vero.fi/download/noname/{302EA05D-2530-4021-8931-...

And instructions here:

http://www.vero.fi/en-US/Precise_information/Forms/Tax_retur...
Thank you for bringing some sanity to these comments. Assumptions are abound, and they aren't going to benefit anyone trying to understand the machinations of this purchase. Stockholders will demand an answer if they are skeptical. This blog post may be an indication of one stockholder who wants more info, but a lot more traction will be necessary before anyone at Yahoo feels the need to explain themselves.
Amen to the first question.

I also ask/try to figure out in a very small startup "Can you fire people?" Because many people are bad at this and the only thing worse than a bad hire is not dealing with it in a timely fashion.

For that matter, your interview will implicitly tell you how good they might be at hiring good people.
This looks really cool. Have you gotten anybody using it already, and what's the feedback been like so far?
Nginx-1.3.15 development version released, featuring experimental SPDY module
The wide majority of us have been unemployed at one point or another.

Was it annoying to hear my parents suggest I should just take a job at the supermarket when I was unemployed? Yes. Was it equally annoying when I'd be connected by a friend to someone who had a job but in an area I had no interest in? Absolutely!

When I was unemployed, what got me out of it were chance conversations with people. I doubt I would have gone past the small-talk stage had I lashed out or fumed about the annoyance of being unemployed.

In the end of my six-month unemployment stint, I sent out nearly 120 copies of my resume to various places. Yes, I counted out of curiosity as well as to keep track of status and follow-ups. Toward the end, I had two offers both out of chance/networking encounters because I rolled with these small-talk punches.

In short, unemployed folk, be patient and kind. Very kind. And don't listen to this drivel.
In the UK they sell a range of mobile phones with big buttons, particularly for the elderly. Basic features on it only of course, but that's probably all they will use anyway.

http://easiphone.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1
You are looking at a group of a small percentage of that (at most a few million people) who make enough that they are not eligible for 1040A/1040EZ (the 1040A cutoff is roughly 100K) yet don't have particularly complicated tax situations. That pales in comparison to the people who can be catered by the free tax systems.
> I believe Google is mostly using Java and Python.

Google uses C++ for most compute-intensive code.
I'm just wondering...will France ban pupils from wearing these shoes in schools? ;)
I'm not sure how terrible paper+accountant is/was, but TurboTax is just so damn convenient. I can do file my taxes on my lunch hour, at 3:00am, or while I'm on a webex at work.

They're instantly submitted (or at least they appear to be) and combined with direct deposit I get my refund within days. In the old days I had to either drop my paperwork off at an accountant and wait, do them myself and mail them in, or make an appointment with a preparer.
Well, except for the line where they hint at multiple contributing factors beyond the jokes.

"We value and protect the privacy of our employees, both past and present, and we will not comment on all the factors that contributed to our parting ways."

And also where they declined to punish the other employee involved. I'm pretty sure that anyone with basic reading comprehension would read that statement as a very clear one that the company already had issues with developer X.

Do we even know the name of this martyr? I don't believe it has been published.
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Instant Search on CrunchBase
> The aesthetic of the web site doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about the quality of the tools being promoted.

Have you ever fired any of Oracle Corp setup/installers?
frankly I don't understand the benefits of that, but whatever suits you.

btw aliases are not zsh specific. basically, the only thing that you mention that is specific to zsh there is the ohmyzsh theme :)
Thanks! I will keep working on this project. It was kind of a weekend project that spilled over.
Let me guess, we should trust corporations?
Seeing these acquisitions, it always seemed like that what's very often happening is the folks who make the Buy decisions (NOT the owners of the buying company) are basically stealing from then owners to hand money to their friends)

Or, when the bizdev team is told to spend a billion dollars this year, (1) is is easier for them to like in extra money into each deal than to find more smaller deal, and (2) they don't get bonuses for only spending 500million and saying there is nothing else worth buying.
If you don't mind me asking what were your stats? I suspect a 176 LSAT would've netted you a better-than-50% scholarship at the top 15s. Did you have a low GPA?
"When you make an appointment for a car to get serviced, the service history is all there. Since the IRS already has all that info anyway, it's not a big challenge to put it in a format where we could see it,"

Say What?
What is over-engineering for a toy example is good coding for some problems.
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Yeah I agree. I plan on implementing a brush system at some point. I will also make it capable of dot drawing.
Questions I have learned to ask (the hard way):

-Do you do performance evaluations / raises?

-Do you block any part of the internet?

-Do you allow working remotely?

-Do you have a sane sick day policy?

-What kind of basic hours per week do you expect?
Don't believe anything without a credible source citation. Not everything someone writes on the internet is true.
Right now, somewhere in the world, there is a person who has an empty bank account (or no bank account!), and is perfectly content.
It's only about work with strings. Not very interesting - far from real web-applications.
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I don't think they were fighting against online access to IRS data. I think they fought against pre-filled 1040 forms becoming default return without you actually having to do almost anything. The former is innocent and useful, the latter may be a bit more controversial, since the incentive of the IRS is to maximize the taxes, having IRS create the returns may not provide the best option for the people who use it.
The "cultural fit" stuff is a sore spot with me. If you have any kind of life outside of work (or want one), this can be a real stumbling block. Maybe I want to take a walk during lunch, and relax, and not be forced to talk about work during communal lunches. I might want to go see non-work friends or family once the day's work is done, and not go to the bar and show everyone that I like the same microbrews that the office likes. And Friday evenings? Forget about me wanting to stick around the office.
The patent is about breaking peers out into small sub-swarms to look after each other. The more healthy peers in each group focusing to keep their's groups healthy while also keeping up with the larger swarm. The greater BitTorrent protocol doesn't do this and, judging by the patent filing, other p2p streaming applications don't either, hence why they fall down upon high demand.
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You can be a good cultural fit for a job even if you don't fraternize outside of work hours.
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> They have been known to oversell the language.

There's a lot of hype about Go, but I am not aware of cases where Google is overselling the language. Can you give examples?
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It is only worth attention if that attention becomes productive action. So yeah, criticize, only if you think someone influential is listening.
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Property tax encourages those who aren't using a property to sell it.

Real Estate ownership is already tracked (you can argue it shouldn't be, but that would upend the real estate system). And unlike cash sitting in a bank account, it's already fairly common to tax real estate. If someone wants to keep 5 houses and leave 4 of them empty at any given time, as a status symbol, shouldn't they be taxed punitively? Real estate is not an unlimited resource. Occupation of any sort would disqualify the taxation; this could be verified easily in most cases by data from utility companies.

Pure libertarians tend to argue that rational individuals will not let assets go unused. I think rationality as a model for human behavior has been thoroughly debunked. And if they don't let their real estate go unused, if they invest, lend, rent their property to others, taxes under the described system wouldn't apply.

Some of these arguments can be applied to hoarding other assets (like cash), but it would be an uphill battle to tax cash (not cash inflows -- as in the income tax -- but static cash). One place to start might be cash held by public corporations, which have no privacy interest.
Interesting Morris Worm connection! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
It was last update in 2004....
sent!

spread the word on bitcoins :)
I have, but only the one for locals. That always seems fine to me.
These are great questions to ask! Especially, the second one. Understanding how and where the company is going is important because it says a lot about how your role might change over time.

However, I disagree about "cultural fit". I feel like being on board with the values and practices of a company are important. Beers and ping-pong aren't all there is to company culture.
What does "unemployed stand-up comic" even mean?

Does it mean that your job search consists of looking for "stand up comic" positions?
Does it mean that you have experience in stand up comedy and you are now unemployed but considering other positions?
Does it mean that you are practising stand-up comedy whilst you are unemployed but not making enough income for it to count as "employment"?

I have friends who identify themselves as "musicians" because that is what they see as their profession (they went to music college etc) but their actual income comes from elsewhere.
I totally forgot what we're talking about anyway.
Why many sites are more bloated than ever is totally another story.

Because it isn't as important. If there were all the time in the world, we'd all be able to make our web sites as small as possible, but in reality, it's just not necessary. Yes, there are minorities of users that need it, and depending on what market you're in it could be important. But for most people it isn't.
For more info on the implementation, check out http://blog.algolia.com/instant-search-on-crunchbase/
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Has anybody used these? As a programmer, my experience with App Maker's in general has been pretty terrible.

Not to say something like this couldn't be awesome. When I was into making Games, I used to use Game Maker all the time and it worked really well. Really simple and straightforward, but I have yet to see something comparable for apps.
True, Maybe I should add more information about ohmyzsh - specifically all the plugins.
One hopes selfishness and legacy, and in some cases, idealism, overcome genetics, and those billionaires give their money to others instead of their spawn.
I wonder why pythonbrew gets no love - http://stacktoheap.com/blog/2013/03/11/why-use-virtualenv-wh...

For me, pythonbrew + autoenv ( https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv ) is must for development.
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She complained about someone's behavior; PyCon staff talked to everyone involved for a few minutes in the hall; everyone went back to their seats and watched the rest of the presentation. No one was expelled or punished in any way whatsoever.

In what way is that some sort of "zero tolerance" punishment that "exacerbated" the situation? Isn't that pretty much what any conference on any subject would do anywhere in the world if they received a complaint about attendee behavior?