skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my Estonian tax return last year, I had to declare overseas income too, and was impressed that it even did the exchange rate calculations at the relevant dates for me.
Doesn't work on IE10
>Born at Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Brahmin family of Thenkalai Iyengar sect[2][3][4] Ramanujan's introduction to formal mathematics began at age 10.

"Brahmin" are the elite hindu upper class.

I would credit you with contradicting me but you haven't.

However, that's a pretty interesting link. Thanks for sharing.
> That's what FOX news tells you

Downvoted for egregious politicking. Let's skip the drive-by attacks on FOX and MSNBC, dailykos and drudgereport ... unless they're relevant.
To me, it seems you're attacking a strawman sauced up in government-is-evil hyperbole.

The tax system in Denmark is 100% automatic for almost everything. Most people don't have to do anything at all. Once a year, you get a letter or email asking you to check the numbers, you can then go in and add extra information if needed, and that's it. If you discover an error back in time, you can fix that too and get money back or use a credit card to pay if it's in the other direction.

Despite this level of automation, the Danish government manages to change the tax rules almost every year.
You might be able to look at your country's company registration office and look at the annual reports they file. They might claim to have been profitable and cash flow positive for years, but their annual reports might show something different.
No.

I'm saying is maybe increase high end income taxes, maybe look into the viability of higher capital gains taxes, maybe find and create some kind of disincentive for companies to be bailing out VCs.

Find some way to even the playing field. I'm sorry, but you don't need to have come from Stanford to be smart enough to work at Yahoo! or Google or etc.
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Thank you -- very well written. It would be incredibly interesting to have employees write their own withholding cheque to the government every month, as opposed to having the employers do it automatically. There is absolutely a need for us to be more aware of our relationship to the government and the power dynamics involved.
My attitude about the "greatest weakness" question is to treat it as a softball for whatever I would like to most be accommodated on in the workplace. Here are some random example answers to demonstrate. (For each one, I have known someone who that example fits.)

"I live a ways away, and to avoid rush hour won't ever be at the office before 11 AM."

"I can come in to work early, but I always have to leave by 4 PM to be home in time to pick up my children."

"I am an observant Jew and have to leave early on Fridays."

"I have life threatening condition X (asthma, diabetes, whatever) and will need accommodation Y."

And so on.

I originally got this idea from a secretary whose issue was that she was very talkative, she needs to have people she can talk to throughout the day. So she started answering the weakness question that way, and found that her bosses wouldn't complain about her talkativeness because she had already told them that up front.
If the population size is 140 then a "sample" of 140 gives you a complete description. If the population size is 1.4e10 then a non-random sample of 140 is going to give very low confidence.

For the topics in between you're going to have to look up Wikipedia pages on statistics to see how sample size and population size relate, how that changes with the methodology used to select your sample, etc.

If you know statistics already and you have a point to make then just make it. "20 Questions" might work on Jabber or IRC but it doesn't on a forum like this.
Nope - having been there as a contractor, it's still done on paper believe it or not.
I use Douban myself, so I can see where you are coming from, though I think Douban is very much an outlier in today's Chinese cyberspace, given its main demographic group comprises mainly of 20 to early 30s young adults (the so-called Wenyi Qingnian).

Douban is nowhere near as large or influential as, say, Weibo. Sensational topics discussed on Douban may spread, but their spheres of influence are restricted to the cyberspace, or remain within the confines of its demographic group, the young men and women who generally do not have a voice in a society defined by filial piety.

Popular social networking site like Weibo, on the other hand, has a very tight grasp on what can and cannot be posted on its pages. Weibo's users consists of people from all walks of life, from corporate CEOs to devote followers to the new party chairman. Unlike Douban, sensational topics posted on Weibo can sway public opinions and cause social tensions, and sometimes even press for policy changes in local governments, which is why it is being utilized by CCTV as part of its campaign against Apple in the first place.

And it's not just the government taking control of the Chinese Internet, it's that sites self-censor heavily, or else they risk of being shut down by the government without any prior notice (see the whole Yanhuang Chunqiu debacle from earlier this year). Publishing houses do the same - they are not directly forced by the government to censor stuff, but they have to do it themselves or they get shut down. (though I hear the self-censorship's been loosening up a bit - the new book written by Ezra Feivel Vogel about Deng Xiaoping's policies was recently released in mainland China and in it some passages about the Tiananmen Square incident remained intact, though still heavily-edited.)

Douban also suffers from self-censorship. Brad Pitt's Seven Years in Tibet does not have an entry on the site; Richard Gere's Red Corner used to have an entry, but it did not allow comments, and was recently removed; Lou Ye's Summer Palace also used to have an entry and got removed. (I'm just bitter that I can't add all the movies I've seen to my collection on Douban, because of the permanently-missing entries.)
There's the SF Django meetup, which has meetings in both SF and Oakland: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Django-Meetup-Group/...
> The "winner" (for a particular user/client) is the one who (a) has the best reputation of not getting you audited, and (b) who gets you the best price:deduction ratio.

As a tiny nitpick, I think that, in this case, it is the absolute difference `deduction - price`, not the relative difference, that matters: given that I have the money available, I'm happier to spend $2000 to get back $2100 than I am to spend $10 to get back $11.
Is there supposed to be a link for [1] ?
"The network is the computer." - John Gage of Sun Microsystems.

This looks like a newer version of a thin client. See the Sun Ray from '99:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray
But sometimes you might get a straight answer.

"Do you allow remote working?" "Yes, someone on our team currently works remotely, it's fine"

A non-straight answer is still an answer and still tells you something.
Yes, usually.
maybe wefunder can get in on the YCVC program :) all they need is ~$1m
It just looks as if people have been storing their info insecurely. Sometimes people will only learn if they get burned.
The argument seems to be that Americans don't sufficiently resent paying taxes already because it's too efficient, so we have to make their lives even more inconvenient. The amount of complaining about taxes I hear on a day to day basis I think entirely discredits the premise of the argument.
Java 7 Bytecode Verifier: Huge backward step for the JVM
"you're too dumb or unaware of your surroundings"
Five Complainer-Customer Personas and the Role of Social Media
Personally I'm against any business lobbying to change laws to give itself a competitive advantage. However, so that I don't have to pay more than my fair share in taxes, I have to itemize deductions: business expenses and those that I am entitled to. Until we can implement something more libertarian like the Fair Tax plan, a lot of us are stuck with long tax forms unfortunately. An online EZ form or a tax form that the Government fills out "on my behalf" won't cut it. The Government will screw you as much as these scumbag businesses.
Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible...

No, our patent system isn't broken at all. Whereas the patent system was made to ensure knowledge was transferred, now the people getting the patents don't even have to know how to build something.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your issue with entitlement is in the presentation and phrasing of the questions, and not having them at all, correct? I have never been to an interview where I wasn't asked if I had questions for them, and with the exception of the last one (which I believe is gleaned from the interview itself), these all seem reasonable when phrased in a mild, non-aggressive way.
I don't think you are asking the wrong questions, but I also don't think you will get the answers you want.

"-I worked at a place for 4.5 years without a single raise."

Did this place have solid revenues? They very well may not have earned a penny, in which case the backers wouldn't necessarily OK a raise.

"-I worked at a place that blocked every port other than 80, and that blocked most websites that used post operations, all email websites, and all personal file transfer apps (like dropbox)."

Were you in a regulated company? (I know you said high-tech but even within that area there are companies bound by various regulations like HIPAA)

"-I worked at a place that literally did not allow working remotely"

See above

"-I worked at a place that only gave you three sick days per year. After that you were expected to either use your vacation days or accept unpaid days."

How many vacation days did they give you? I've seen some companies give more vacation days but force you to take vacation days when you are sick. All in all, I think I would prefer 4 weeks vacation and no sick days versus 2 weeks vacation and 2 weeks sick days.

"-I worked at a place that required 60 hours per week as a bare minimum, but in reality, expected more like 80+"

I'm reminded of the office space scene with the flair. Especially when you are joining an early-stage company, you should expect to work long hours initially (which should taper off as the business settles.
Antique desks don't have cable holes or filing drawers, but they're still desirable for their robustness and elegance. A similar statement could be made for UNIX utilities.
I learned this method with the book JavaScript the Good Parts, though it was a while ago and I can't remember the specific reasoning behind the books' recommendation.

From the other commenter's SO link, I found this link to go more in depth into the differences of declaring functions, and it seems to come down to having stricter control on the order of events with no surprises.

http://javascriptweblog.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/function-de...

And here's an example of one of the surprises you'll run into if you don't declare your functions in this way:
http://www.adequatelygood.com/JavaScript-Scoping-and-Hoistin...
Here's a somewhat amusing (not quite verbatim) transcript from an interview I once had:

Interviewer: "So, why're you looking to leave your current employer?"

Me: "Well, we were acquired a couple of years ago, and the change in culture has frustrated me a bit. I'd like to work somewhere more dynamic where there's not so much red tape and so many stakeholders to talk to about everything."

Interviewer: "OK, so do you have any questions for me?"

Me: "What's the worst thing about working here?"

Interviewer: "Well, sometimes it can feel like there's too much red tape, lots of stakeholders to consult. It would be nice to be more dynamic".

I didn't get that job.
We use stashboard, http://www.stashboard.org/, which was developed by Twilio and open sourced for the public to use.
I agree, however it is important to consider how we pick the people we choose to hold up as examples and who we are holding them up to.

With the traditional bigCo job market in the tank there is a push right now to get young people interested in entrepreneurship so stories like these make excellent narrative supporting that.

So you hear stuff like "bootstrap your company!" , "Be your own boss!" , "Be a risk taker!" and this message is being pushed to everyone, including those on the lower rungs of society.

I know a few people who bootstrapped reasonably successful businesses and have been asked to give talks on how anybody can do it and how they started with no investment and nothing more than $50 in their bank account etc.

Problem is that most of these guys had backgrounds that allowed for risk taking. They had families who were not necessarily uber wealthy but were quite happy to subsidise them for often over a year for things like living expenses and keeping their car on the road. The narratives often don't mention these sorts of factors.
So we've gone full circle to mainframe computing.
Lol, first time I've heard a libertarian arguing for more paperwork and government programs.
Because there is a fact mentioned that is out of the ordinary compared to other acquisitions, that makes it jealousy?
It would be fun to get ~all of the YC companies to do video clips for Startup School or something, though.
thanks a lot to everyone who replied! Sounds like the 3d printer that i have no use for may come before the laser cutter i have no use for :/
> The shitheads in our community who would stoop to death threats do not threaten everyone equally.

What do you have that demonstrates that they're even in our community?

> Internet geeks have weird and sadistic ways of dispensing "justice." That's unfortunate, but even worse is what they decide to point their magnifying glass at.

Not "Internet geeks". Anonymous mobs of dubious maturity and intelligence have weird and sadistic ways of dispensing "justice", on and off the internet.

This is not unique to technology, it's not unique to women, it's not unique to issues of sexism, and it's not unique to Twitter.

As I've noted numerous times in this thread, Olivia Wilde, an actress, received similarly hateful and disgusting Twitter messages for daring to insult Justin Beiber, a pop musician whose primary fanbase seems to be pre-teens and teens.

Something tells me that the people that were offended enough to send hate mail and treets were not angry "internet geeks".
Go 1.1 RC due next month; Go 1.1 Release Notes:
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"look at the annual reports they file"

only applicable for public companies or those with enough shareholders that they have to issue public reports. For small startups it doesn't apply.

FYI: Just did the biannual report for NY state (for a small partnership) -- they don't ask for income; they just want a statement of ownership
Or maybe something you don't want invented. Patent it, then, when it is invented, charge licensing royalties so high that it can't reasonably be created.

Maybe that's the route to global peace: just imagine weapons, start patenting them, and charge trillions for licensing.
It might be something like that but with less malice. First, Summly and the entrepreneur are far from worthless. But to your point, a bunch of decent angel investors just got a pretty nice check from Yahoo. The "deal guy" builds some reputation but unlikely benefits monetarily in any nefarious way.

I think the OP sentiment and many comments here are mostly classic HN resentment of success.
Calendaring is a big issue in enterprises, especially when you have Apple, Google and Microsoft devices with all separate calendar apps.

Many organizations, very large ones in fact, are interested in moving away from exchange as their mail platform and going with Gmail. However, the gripe is that calendaring with Gmail is simply utterly broken. iOS devices dont get updates, creating resources is a complete joke (if anyone at google reads this; whomever designed the method for implementing resources in gmail/ical should be fired, and stripped of their ability to code ANYTHING).

At the same time - companies are looking for greater integration with their calendars and resources and devices etc...

What would be ideal - is a standard calendar blob which any view can access via an agreed protocol (maybe caldav is supposed to be this - but from the way resources are created/accessible/scheduled, its broken).

The next layer that everyone I have been working with over the last two years is looking for is "my location as it relates to the resources I am attempting to use"

Things like wayfinding, occupancy, meeting-start-based-on-presence, issue reporting etc... are just some of the features people are looking to add to the calendar systems.

None of this will be possible if Google is willy-nilly changing what they do, support, implement etc..

The sad thing is that for core business services Google seems to be running away terrified - and I suspect this is due to their inability to understand customer support.
Sorry, yes there was. Edited it to place it in the post.
Likewise. The bulk of America's workforce spends a majority of their waking hours on "what they do," so it's a perfectly valid introductory topic that expresses interest in communication.
awesome - thanks for doing the legwork! I'll definitely take a look.
> Richards got someone fired.

No she absolutely did not. It was the employer who fired the employee, good or bad, right or wrong, not Richards. Maybe the employer had good reason and maybe they didn't, but Richards did not make that decision and is not responsible for it.
I just recently went to my DMV in sunny CA to get my DL renewed (I made an appointment as without one it's literally half a day in lines). I had slated 2hrs of non-billable time on my calendar, but I was out in 15m - with the to/fro latency, it was 45m total.

Good government service.
>> No one pays penalties for simple mistakes. That's what FOX news tells you, but it's not true.

Citation needed.
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Yes, it works fairly well, but unfortunately has crushed the capitalist Ubermenschen who never had a chance to build TurboTax Australia under the government's boot heel.

I've actually had my return automatically amended a couple of times to give me more money back based on tax rulings on deductions.
This is very cool. Thank you for sharing!
From the discussion in one of the replies:

Named function expressions demystified
http://kangax.github.com/nfe/
>the greatest, most fair time in human history //

I think that's far from truthful.

The fairest time would be before [mass] land ownership, when anyone could stay with their tribal group or, should they choose, set off on their own and find land a-plenty to hunt/develop/farm as they see fit.

Hard times, sure; but that sort of situation seems most fair to me.
I mean, I hate to say it, but yes? "Being Cool" at its core is mass imitation of good design.

Think of the in-crowd in high school, they looked great, but one wouldn't come close to calling them unique.
Why 6 seconds specifically? Is it because that's about how far a Youtube video can play without pausing to buffer? Thus everyone's attention span has been trained on 6 seconds?
Maybe the difference is not needing to pay someone for those six months when he might just be training still?
We've become a nation of men instead of a nation of laws.
Naturally, but that's covered in "content types". Also you could always use LINK headers with whatever @rel, depending on what you're linking or how.
My goodness, where and when did you grow up?

For me, it was Joplin, Missouri (SW corner of the state, not considered to be a cosmopolitan part of the country), in the '70s (graduated from high school in '79). I had no access to TV beyond the network affiliates of the big 3 (ABC, CBS, and NBC). Yet somehow I was able to get interested in Japanese culture from the Kurosawa samurai movies one or more showed late at night.
That's kind of an interesting idea, but I'd honestly be surprised that it wasn't taken already.

...and if I thought of this before Amazon, I would've patented it too!
So taxes are morally equivalent to stealing? I think taxes are ok, so stealing must be ok too. I'll be over at your house to take your stuff in a jiffy!
Wireless terminals?

Logical conclusion: If you can patent a vision, without actually inventing it, then anyone can manufacture it afterwards, provided he/she doesn't envision it in the process.
I don't think progress towards big goals have stopped completely, but a lot of work is being done in areas that will indirectly help accomplish the big goals. Stuff like tiny computers, 3D printing, battery technology etc. Those technologies can make bigger goals possible and more easily obtainable without spending billions of dollars.
I won't name the source but I never intended to bring "harm and distrust" to the Go community (I really like Go). I can't edit my OP but thanks for clarifying the statement.
local postal service for each resp. country + the usuals - ups, dhl, and some benelux/german carriers.
Eclipse survival is an interesting question. I like it and use it all the time, but I kind of figure it is so integrated to its environment that it will go extinct quickly when another environment becomes dominant.
I think switchblades fall prey to a particular stereotype, hence their "bad" nature. But, ask any diver/hunter/tactical knife wearer - they are strapped to the lower leg/calf in a holster, easily concealed under a pant leg.

And what respectable criminal wears shorts?!
Ask HN: Is it time for a new Facebook?
I feel that Facebook is too boring now. Too many memes, businesses, stuff I don't care about, etc.
Facebook used to be all about the individual user and as an avid Facebook user, I've gotten "bored" of Facebook. Does anyone else feel the same way?2
True, but it is worth pointing out because this discussion is about 1.1 and people might not realize those are 1.0.3 benchmarks.
If this is such a problem, why aren't news sites delivering executive summary like articles for mobile customers? A 400 character summary written by the article's author would be easier and more accurate than this.
I'm a hiring manager. Almost by definition, I expect a good candidate to be someone who is asking me as many questions as I am asking them.
The supposition is that a more expressive language lets you do more with a single line of code on average than a less expressive language. The second supposition is that commits tend to be done to gather code expressing a single chunk of functionality in a program, so that on the average commits have the same utility in terms of what they contribute to the source project.

It's clear from this, I would think, why therefore length-of-commit is supposed to be a good proxy for measuring expressiveness.

To be clear -- the reason that it is obvious that I and the author disagree with you on the first case is because your objection was a) an elementary one and a consideration important to all such investigations, therefore it would be considered by anyone doing such an investigation or analyzing one and b) we were disagreeing with you anyway.
Considering that Go doesn't support shared libraries, it could make for really inefficient use of device RAM. Android's already a little heavy in that regard.
How do Unix linkers work with archive libraries
Interesting that claim 1 appears to have been cancelled for some reason, perhaps due to being insufficiently clear. That's generally the broadest claim so clearly the USPTO saw fit to narrow the patent down to an extent, just not as greatly as would seem appropriate, at least from the other comments on this thread.

It's also a continuation and claims priority from two existing applications, although unfortunately, documents are not available for those applications, at least from the system I use which is generally fairly comprehensive[1]

[1]http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDo...