skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually I'd use a combination of my Mint records (which had convenient totals for each online merchant, of which I really only used 5 or 6 in a typical year) and the Massachusetts safe harbor law (which essentially allowed me to assume that I spent 1% of my AGI on untaxed purchases less than $1000, and pay use tax based on that number). If I bought anything online or out-of-state that cost more than $1000, I'd add that in separately, but that happened rarely enough that it was pretty hard to forget how much I spent on those items.

What we have right now is a situation where some stores collect taxes in some states. As a consumer, I would prefer it if all stores collected taxes for all states, for three reasons. First, I wouldn't have to figure out which stores already collected taxes, so it would save me time. Second, because I like seeing how much I'm going to pay for something, taxes included, at the time of purchase. And third, because I believe that taxes should be levied fairly and consistently, and that would put online stores on the same footing as brick-and-mortar stores, and honest taxpayers on the same footing as people who are inclined to see what they can get away with.

As a startup founder, however, I'm less enthusiastic. The process of filing taxes in all 50 states would be a huge burden. If a national sales-tax clearinghouse existed, it would be a different story, but under the status quo, it's just too much paperwork for a small company to handle.
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Who exactly is unwilling to work as domestic help? Most poor people i know would be more than willing to do that. I've done that sort of work. Transportation costs are high and a lot of time is spent on the bus as you travel from job to job for just a few hours of work, but its doable.

Its the same problem as with lots of other jobs though. Clients want to hire people with experience, not just anyone. Cleaning services get most of the work, since they can often pay to replace belongings that might get broken or ruined.

You're not just discovering a new area of possible employment. The people who can afford to pay to have their houses cleaned, their errands run, their yardwork done, have long done so. If you aren't currently employing anyone and are bringing in a nice income, you're the exception.
After working a while with animal behavior and neuro-research, I tend to ask myself if there is proof an animal can't do something rather than if they can. They usually learn slower than humans, depending on animal and task, but they can learn complex tasks. What they fail at usually tends to be due to physical limitations such as visual acuity. I don't think we have found the limits of what many animals can do but we are raising the bar slowly. It takes a lot of thought and work to design an experiment with a complex task correctly.

Of Note: Pigeons can classify a Picasso from a Monet at an expert level and peck their answer within 300ms: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/. They were tested on assembly lines to pick out defective parts. They did better than humans but were not used due to decreased moral of other humans on the line. This was done in the early 60's I believe. Here is an article on it in the New Scientist (1962) http://books.google.com/books?id=HxU-9UeDCI0C&pg=PA498&#...
I think Google search is close to a monopoly, and so was Google Reader. Search is pretty much synonymous with Google. Apparently Google has 67% market share, but I'd guess that most people not using Google just use Bing or Yahoo! because that's the default in whatever browser they have. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2244472/Google-Once-Aga...
An "association" of (aspiring) monopolistic rent seekers is == Cartel. Ie, they are seeking to control supply side economics through limited distribution. etc.

[1] Obviously, Copyrights are legally granted monopolies.
Ask HN: Is it me or there aren't many jobsites for freelancers?
After quitting my job I found that being a freelancer is not a easy thing. I got a lot of emails and call phones from employers, but only 1 email from a client that wanted some freelancing work on a project that I wasn't too fond of. I see a lot of good job postings, but for freelancers I don't see so many opportunities if you do not market yourself and do not start looking for projects and sacrifice a lot of time ,that you could be coding, on marketing yourself. Elance from my point of view is really bad for good developers and for developers that want to work on interesting stuff. Also the payment is low on that site and it is a bidding war with developers that work for 10-15$/h. Am I missing something or this is the truth that if you want to be a successful freelancer you need to work hard on your marketing plan?
Are there better websites than Elance where good freelancers can find projects? I am really thinking of making a platform for good freelancers where they can be matched with interesting projects and high paying clients. Not sure tho if this hasn't been done or if it is a good idea.
No, it wasn't intended ironically! I resonated because the other day I spoke with an academician in business studies, who was researching how corporations can make more money...

I argue that consumerist systems of ideas are essentially against human nature, fundamentally flawed. Because they focus locally, history-wise; "me, now, need that. yes, good. more. thank you."

In the mean time, humans are a uniquely interdependent species, in that they are interdependent not just in space, but also in time – through the techno-ideological legacies that are being passed on to next generations (and research is at the heart of all that). So, any endeavour that does not start as a concern for the future, and for the next generations, is against our very human nature... You know, somebody put it well: "for the most part, what we are surrounded by is not the dead work of the living, it is the living work of the dead." :)

Also, I believe that with the advent of computers, it has never been a better time in human history to do science (then, again, I also believe the statement could have been made at any point in human history. See above.) The computational power, the software, and Google – the great minds of our past would have surely looked at those and believe they are the holy grail of humanity. And the most amazing part is, that they empower anybody to conduct research.

In sciences, I find meaning and sanity. And people behave like gentlemen. Yes, that is pleasurable and deeply satisfying; but it is also preferable to the materialistic hysterias, which created so many socio-economic problems – proof of their lack of human ecology.

I hope I made a strong argument :)

I saw somebody say this in a Youtube video: "Stay human. Stay curious. And let the entire world know that you are."
I mostly agree with you, but organizing a bunch of stories that mention certain keywords is innovative and useful. And there is a big problem with the way the current system works: Meltwater is supposed to go negotiate some deal with the AP, even when providing content to clients who are themselves licensed to access the AP content. I think you'd see much more indie content of the mash-up variety if there were an efficient way to handle the licensing.
Daniel Garza: It Would be Un-American if Immigration Reform Were Again to Fail
A blacklist that can be added to anonymously and unaccountably is not something you want affecting search results.
‘Cat Signal’ to Appear Worldwide
I firmly believe the opposite. To me, he is the one made Google focusing on what really matters for the future of the company. You need to make tough decisions sometimes and I think he was correct in "almost" all of them. (I have no affiliations with the company)
I can't get this to work? I scanned the code but the page I get doesn't work on my phone.

I am using Firefox 22 on PC, Firefox browser on phone.
Tiny Tiny RSS attempts something like newsreader-style scoring: http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki/Scoring
This man speaks the truth.

Particularly running the optimise & test routine on chunks of past data to test for robustness & over-fitting.
Linus on Oregon HB 2748 and US education in general
The Swan Metaphor
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Social Dark Matter: On Seeing and Being Seen
I beg your pardon? http://i.imgur.com/gMb1t7H.png
It's certainly not "illegal", it's merely undefined. This may be a pedantic difference but we're talking about an area where being technically correct _really_ is the best kind of correct.

I bring up VM behavior because, particularly given the timeframe, it's important to consider that there once was a time when VM did not exist, and SEGV meant an actual _segmentation_ fault.
Thanks for your comment pifflesnort. Quite a few points mentioned, so will break it up.

i) CNC - 1951 - Not new at all - However its price point is completely new dropping 10X in price since my university paid $250,000 for theirs, now $20,000. Also skills are increasing rapidly no longer limited to several schools, but being taught everywhere.

ii) There will always be costs. Given the drop in costs above to use CNC on-demand means the costs are reasonable to get this started. Ten years ago would have been impossible.

iii) Can the end-user/maker finish the stool (paint/varnish)

iv) Working with raw wood which has its market. It's not everyone, but I believe large enough to get this started. Other options are available later, melamine would be easiest and ot expand this system into solid woods.

v) With the right designs none of the additional labour you mention is needed. http://creativecncdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cnc-...
I maintain a small ad-free directory of job boards[1], and you can also browse Reddit ForHire[2].

[1] http://careers.sh
[2] http://reddit.com/r/forhire
Its worse than that. If you go over a certain threshold you might no longer qualify for certain types of assistance that are worth a lot more than that threshold, healthcare especially.
The benefit in changing the port is that if you do reporting/logging of these things, the potentially-harmful scans aren't hidden under a morass of benign dictionary attacks.
If you added a build process that actually pulled in the source files for a bundled production file you might have something similar to RequireJS for templates.

Cool stuff.
So like chrome does, they're implementing their own notification method, and not integrating with the host OS's notification method?

that's a little disappointing.
if a basic income is $10000 a year, i doubt that many people are going to be falling over themselves to stop working and try to scrape by on just that.
I can only guess that it comes from the fact that it's legal to have a pointer that points on element past the end of the array. That is, this is legal:

int array[16];
int *ptr = array + 16;

But it's not legal to actually dereference this pointer.

The distinction is confusing to a lot of programmers, used to modern architectures where pointers and integers share registers and you can do crazy things with your pointer variables with no consequences. However, some architectures will crash just for having a bad pointer value. That is, this is not legal:

int array[16];
int *ptr = array + 17;

Even if you never dereference ptr, this code is still illegal, and the compiler is within its rights to generate code that crashes or makes demons fly out of your nose when it encounters this source. The first case is an exception made to make it easier to iterate over an array. So there's a spot in the C standard that says, essentially, "It is OK to have a pointer that points one element past the end of an array." This is probably not too hard to misread as "It is OK to read one element past the end of an array." Although that is definitely wrong.
On Linux, I guess there is always GWorkspace:
http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html
I think it's a good movement that people start to think that their work is worth something. (Hell, I even might consider contributing some non trivial features to open source projects if I get paid for it.)
That was more or less my point. Krugman provides no evidence that the Google Reader follows that model. It is an opinion article entitled 'The Economics of Evil Google.' After the first paragraph there is no reference to Google only 'Monopolist' Compare that to the longer Economist article which is actually all about Google and somehow fails to include either the words 'Monopolist' or 'Evil'. I guess I just don't like opinion pieces.
You might want to reconsider making uncompromising italicized statements about investing until you're more familiar common industry practices like pension funds and 401ks.
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The entire college/university ecosystem is poised for collapse over the next couple of decades. After centuries of monopoly in the collection and dissemination of knowledge, they are being challenged by higher value free market alternatives on the internet, and they have absolutely no cultural or instinctive capability to react to it.

I'm not sure where Research will end up, but I don't think academic institutions as we know them today will be around a whole lot longer.
Doesn't require.js include plugins that will pull in compiled templates for you for the major templating libraries already? (underscore, mustache etc)?
The code in question is not valid C code. It just happens not to require an error to be raised, but I think "illegal" sums it up just fine. That's not really a specific term in this situation.

As for VM and not-VM, I don't really see why it matters. It would be perfectly valid for a C compiler to generate code that does bounds checking on every array access, for example. And there were far weirder ways to do memory hardware than the standard MMU with 4kB pages that we have today, and the legacy of that can be found throughout the C standard. For example, the fact that it's illegal to store many values in a pointer, not dereference but merely store, comes from systems that really would check that stuff and crash your app if you had a bad pointer value in the wrong place, even if you didn't try to load what it pointed to.
Just to chime in with that Fred said, very sorry for the delays. We added a blog post here: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/45976220890/pending-transactio...

Several pieces of the site scaled up about 10x in the past month or two, and this exposed some lingering performance problems. Somebody told us an analogy one time of rebuilding a car while trying to drive it down the freeway at 60MPH. That is a good approximation of what we're doing right now - in short, we are doing so carefully and with the help of great test coverage to make sure nothing breaks along the way.

Thank you your bearing with us. I wish I could say this is the last time we'll experience scaling problems in the next year, but it seems unlikely with the growth of bitcoin right now. If this seems like something interesting to work on, we are also hiring: https://coinbase.com/jobs

We'll post updates to Twitter as we come closer to a resolution. Thank you!
Neither "rent seeking" nor "cartel" nor "monopolistic" means what you seem to think it means.

Rent seeking is defined as trying to profit from activity that would've happened anyway without you. Since Meltwater is excerpting articles written by AP affiliates, the AP cannot be rent seeking in this case because without them the articles in question would not exist.

"Monopolistic" usually refers to entities that have a monopoly on a particular kind of good. AP affiliates have no monopoly on news. Their copyright over their original content is a "legally granted monopoly" but in the sense that any property right is a legally granted monopoly. I'm not engaging in "monopolistic" practices because the government grants me a legal monopoly over my back yard. You're essentially punning on the word "monopoly." E.g. AMD has a monopoly on "Opteron" processors but is not a "monopoly" because it doesn't control the supply of processors.

"Cartel" is an organization of companies who control the supply of a type of good colluding to fix prices for that good. AP does not control the supply of news and hence cannot be a cartel.
That's being tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=852648
Qwerty keyboards: Time for a rethink?
Right, that's what he's saying. He believes that a certain good makes society better off. And yet, the pricing mechanism, the fundamental underpinning of capitalism, shows otherwise. (I'm speaking obliquely about Reader, but more broadly about nearly everything technocrats love that people aren't willing to pay the full cost of.)

You can argue that this reasoning is flawed (people aren't rational!), but the results are hard to argue with. The market does a fabulous job of allocating resources. Individuals, no matter how smart, don't.
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Martians? How recent discoveries raise that possibility.
Back to the source! An excellent reference point.
Failure is the best Medicine
The reward structure we live by is oriented towards extrinsic motivation even when work produced by intrinsic motivation is known to be of higher quality.

There goes a story that Edison was taught this lesson when he tried to sell his very first voting machine. He was told, "we don't want it if we can't mess with it". That's when he is suppose to have decided to only work on projects that people wanted.

Then there is Tesla - worked on projects without much regard to their social or economic relevancy.

Do not make this into a debate about Edison vs. Tesla, this is just to show how fucked up is this world we live in. I think all of us, hackers, hustlers, and designers, have made a similar choice at one time or another when we've decided to do it for the x or be true to yourself.
Those aren't Julian dates. Julian dates are just a count of days since some epoch, so the day after 9365 would be 9366, then 9367, etc.
I know it fucking is! Which is why I am seeing Experts Exchange (a tall claim), ahead of Stackoverflow!
>> Ember works perfectly well without Ember Data!

I think that the reason why people may not have realized that was because the code example on the emberjs home page used to use ember data.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130109131701/http://emberjs.com...
What's a credit worth, anyways? Unless its from a top university, it's worth a steaming pile of non-dischargeable student loans and a McJob.
Note that you can continue to use the Chrome extension to block sites, which I believe we rolled out before this feature. Get it at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

And here's the blog post we did about the Chrome extension: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-...
Please link me to a study or web article. That's amazing.

EDIT: I see the links now! Thanks!
As I said, I'm to lazy too delve into the C89 spec (and too young to have actually programmed in the pre-VM days), but my (only slightly) educated guess is that on the type of machine/OS C89 would have been targeted at, any exceptions thrown by reading past the end of an array could be solved by adding more memory; the same solution as would be required if the array was increased in size.
You're a brave person to use "tongue in cheek" on this thread.
Never underestimate the power of social networking and and old geezer
Just for shits and giggles, startup folks.... Don't you think it's worth more than $5 for me to show up? No? I barely covered my bus fare to get over there! I may BE 43, but that doesn't mean that I can't pull an ace or two out of my sleeve. After all, I remember punch-cards, 10½ inch floppy drives, TASM, MASM, and shit that you don't have to learn about in your higher level languages. I CAN FIND your glitches. I CAN HELP your startup. I CAN CODE to an extent. Isn't that worth more than $5? SHOW ME, DON'T TELL ME.
And I think you make some great points, I see them as challenges, not impassable gates.

I see complexity such as this http://www.dezeen.com/2008/10/27/joints-by-nathan-wierink/ going mass market.

Also there are many things this model can do that IKEA cannot do and cannot switch their model to doing, most obviously the long tail of design.
Then you agree that savings (especially BTC savings, which are effectively dead cash) are irrelevant to investment. Awesome.
What is "human nature?" Anyone making the claim that "X" is part of human nature, but "Y" is not part of human nature, needs to be very careful. Because the fact that humans do both X and Y is already evidence that both are a part of human nature. The fact that humans are consumerists that focus locally proves that consumerism is a part of human nature, by definition.

Sure, you could point to the influence of the media and how it shapes our behavior. But then again, the media is a social construct, something we humans have created and directed at ourselves. Thus, once again, the construction of mass media is also a part of human nature. All this would prove is that human nature is highly malleable.

How can you even begin to argue that something is "against our very human nature?" The fact that humans do that behavior is evidence it is in our human nature. You see, making such a claim relies on some inherently non-human standard of determining human nature and morality (since it seems your argument has to do with morality).

I think you made an exceedingly weak argument, by relying on such hand-wavy and self-defined notions as "human nature."
Someone should buy w3schools just to be able to remove it completely from the web. I bet we could set up a successful kickstarter around this.
Link to the study about pigeons' discrimination between Picasso and Monet paintings:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1334394/pdf/jeab...

Still looking for a source for the assembly lines tests.
> iii) Can the end-user/maker finish the stool (paint/varnish)

Given the cost of one-off production runs + shipping, why wouldn't I buy a stool that's already finished?

> iv) Working with raw wood which has its market. It's not everyone, but I believe large enough to get this started. Other options are available later, melamine would be easiest and ot expand this system into solid woods.

> v) With the right designs none of the additional labour you mention is needed.

Why would a consumer choose raw wood or a design like that (especially if they have to build it themselves) over a flat-pack Ikea or CB2 chair that will be better finished, possibly steal from an existing designer style, and be about the same price, if not cheaper?
He just did?
Sure it is, obviously you don't take any small amount of blocks as a signal. By getting a significant amount though and looking at each persons block list to normalize there blocks I think it would be useful.
This article is wholly devoid of motivation and characterization.
I read the typo as "gen[d]er privacy".
5 years? Would that be enough? Or do you like using services for life? Especially ones of such little value and little tie-in as a note app. Most people would rather get bored with it and try something new than be upset about Google killing Keep in 5 years.
I just noticed w3schools appearing again in my search results.. well this is the cause.
It's not only about Google Reader.

Did you see this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5374625 ?
Does that make her pointing him out -- she obviously did; some people think he's you -- better?

Worse, in my book. If you differ: Why?